indiePub Entertainment, Inc. (formerly Zoo Entertainment, Inc.) was a publisher of video games based in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States.

History
Zoo Games was a wholly owned subsidiary of Zoo Entertainment originally known as DFTW Merger Sub, Inc. In March 2007, DFTW merged with Green Screen Interactive Software, LLC to become Green Screen Interactive Software. Following the merger, Green Screen acquired SuperVillain Studios in June 2007, Destination Software in December 2007 and Zoo Digital Publishing in April 2008. In August 2008, Green Screen was renamed Zoo Games, Inc., and Destination Software was renamed Zoo Publishing, Inc., with Zoo Publishing becoming a wholly owned subsidiary of Zoo Games. SuperVillain Studios was sold back to the original owners in September 2008 and six months following the acquisition of Zoo Digital Publishing it was sold back to the original owners in order for the company to refocus on their Zoo Publishing operations.

On May 7, 2009 it was announced by Zoo Publishing that the company had acquired the rights from New World IP to publish and distribute Empire Interactive's entire catalog which includes titles such as Big Mutha Truckers and Flatout Head On. The rights were acquired from New World IP who had recently purchased Empire's intellectual property as the company went into administration. In June 2009, Zoo Games created a wholly owned subsidiary, Zoo Entertainment Europe Ltd., in order to move into the European market however, operations were discontinued in December 2009.

September 28, 2011, indiePub announced that it was a year into development of an indies-only game and application (apps) distribution or publishing platform. Developers will be able to create a "Pub" (online storefront) to sell their games and apps. The following week (October 7, 2011) indiePub revealed that it would give indie developers 75% of the revenues from their games sold through the service and that it would support games and other apps made for PC (Windows), Macintosh (OS X), Linux and Android devices (phones and tablets). iOS games, can be linked from a Pub. It will also use distributed sales tools which have not yet been detailed.

May 15, 2012, Zoo Entertainment, Inc., officially became indiePub Entertainment, Inc.

indiePub closed in 2013.

indiePub Games
Zoo Publishing is also the sponsor of indiePub Games, a community of independent video game developers. Zoo originally launched indiePub as 2Bee Games in 2009 but changed to indiePub in 2010 and periodically holds indie game development competitions with cash prizes for the best games.

Mid 2010, indiePub held its 3rd Independent Game Developers' Competition when indiePub launched. (The first two developer competitions were under 2Bee Games). Winners were announced October 8, 2010, at the Game Developers Conference (GDC) Online in Austin, Texas (USA). The winners were:
 Grand Prize: Dustforce! by Hitbox Team developers Woodley Nye, Matthew Bush and Alexander Dostal in Brisbane, Australia.
 Technical Excellence: Hazard: The Journey of Life by Alexander Bruce.
 Best Art: The Dream Machine created by Cockroach Inc. developers Anders Gustafsson and Erik Zaring from Denmark and Sweden.
 Best Audio: Coma by Thomas Brush.
 Best Design: Vanessa Saint-Pierre Delacroix and Her Nightmare by Bad Pilcrow.
 Staff Pick: Catapult for Hire by developer Tyrone Henrie of PixelMega.

Mid to late 2010, indiePub held a Mobile Game Competition. The winners were announced December 15, 2011:
 Grand Prize: SteamBirds for Android (Spry Fox and Radial Games)
 Art: PLEXXR for iOS (Tactile Media)
 Audio: Spark It Up for iOS(sumiguchi)
 Design: SKWER for iOS (Alebrije Studios)
 Technical Excellence: Hero Mages for Android (D20Studios)

Early 2011 indiePub held an indie game developer competition called the Independent Propeller Awards and featured $150,000 in prizes, an award sponsored by Unity Technologies and an award sponsored by Intel AppUp developer program. Winners were announced on March 13, 2011, at the ScreenBurn Arcade, the gaming portion of the 2011 South by Southwest event in Austin, Texas (USA). The winners were:
 Grand Prize: GLiD (Glid) by Spiderling Game Studios
 Best Art: The Uncanny Fish Hunt by Uncanny Games
 Best Audio: Skinny by Thomas Brush
 Best Design: Chewy by Happy Candy Co.
 Technical Excellence: Creo by Turtle Sandbox
 Intel Innovation Award: Deep Sea by Robin Arnott of WRAUGHK Audio Design
 Unity Development Award: Tiny and Big: Grandpa's Leftovers by Black Pants Game Studio

Late in 2011 indiePub started their fifth indie game developer competition called the 2012 Independent Propeller Awards and featured $50,000 in prizes. Winners were announced on April 18, 2012.

The winners were:

 Grand Prize: Deity by DigiPen's Double++ (Ryan Chew, Caroline Sugianto, Michael Travaglione, Christopher Mingus, Ying Liu, Matt Frederick, Aariel Hall and Ryan Hickman)
 Best Art: The Bridge by Ty Taylor and Mario Castaneda
 Best Audio: The Red Solstice by IronWard (Hrvoje Horvatek, Daniel Mandić, Marko Pintera, Vjeko Koščević, Danijel Ribić and Marko Kovačić with audio by Andy Mack, Cory Richards, Žarko Dragojević and Dominik Zorić)
 Best Design: FYI by Digital Dreams (Geert Nellen, Thijmen Bink and Roy van de Mortel)
 Technical Excellence: Nitronic Rush by DigiPen's Team Nitronic (Kyle Holdwick, Andy Kibler, Chris Barrett, Andrew "Angrew" Nollan, Jason Nollan, Laura Borgen, Eddie Peters, Ariel Gitomer, Nathan Aldrich, Jordan Hemenway and M.J. "The Quiggles" Quigley)
 Mobile Game: CreaVures by MuseGames (Howard Tsao and Conrad Kreyling)

In 2013, indiePub Games closed with all the subsidiaries of indiePub.

indiePub Mobile

February 1, 2011, Zoo Entertainment, Inc., announced that it launched indiePub Mobile to develop mobile games for iOS and Android. EA Mobile's former Development Director, Rob Cassidy, was named indiePub Mobile Director. Initially announced mobile games were: Fractal, Blocks: The Devilish Delivery Game (renamed Kona's Crate), Paper Venture, Totem Destroyer Deluxe (HD) and Cargo Delivery. According to the company, this was the first time an indie game publisher has expanded with a designated mobile division.

In 2013, indiePub Mobile closed with all the subsidiaries of indiePub.

Games
This is a list of games published under the Zoo Games label and, further below, under indiePub. For the games published by Destination Software before it was acquired; see List of Destination Software games.

Released (Zoo Publishing)

2008
Army Men: Soldiers of Misfortune (2008) Nintendo DS, PlayStation 2, Wii
Bigfoot: Collision Course (2008) Nintendo DS, Wii, Windows
Calvin Tucker's Redneck Jamboree (2008) Wii, Windows
Chrysler Classic Racing (2008) Nintendo DS, Windows
M&M's Adventure (2008) Nintendo DS, PlayStation 2, Wii
Margot's Word Brain (2008) Nintendo DS, PlayStation 2, Wii, Windows
NARC (2008) Windows
Order Up! (2008) Wii
Puzzler Collection (2008) Nintendo DS, Wii
Skate City Heroes (2008) Wii
Story Hour: Adventures (2008) Wii
Story Hour: Fairy Tales (2008) Wii
Twin Strike: Operation Thunder (2008) Wii
Wordmaster (2008) Nintendo DS

2009
Animal Paradise Wild (2009) Nintendo DS
Arcade Shooting Gallery (2009) Wii
ATV Quad Kings (2009) Wii
Build 'n Race (2009) Wii
Chrysler Classic Racing (2009) Nintendo DS, Wii
Chicken Blaster (2009) Nintendo DS, Wii
Deal or No Deal (2009) Wii
Diner Dash: Flo on the Go (2009) Nintendo DS
Dodge Racing: Charger vs. Challenger (2009) Nintendo DS, Wii
Dream Dance & Cheer (2009) Wii
Dream Dancer (2009) Nintendo DS
Dream Salon (2009) Nintendo DS
Glacier 2 (2009) Wii
Groovin' Blocks (2009) iPhone, Wii
Hello Kitty: Big City Dreams (2009) Nintendo DS
Jelly Belly: Ballistic Beans (2009) Nintendo DS, PlayStation 2, Wii
Love Is... In Bloom (2009) Nintendo DS
Margot's Bepuzzled! (2009) Nintendo DS
M&M's Beach Party (2009) Wii
Monster Trucks Mayhem (2009) Wii
Pacific Liberator (2009) Wii
Puzzle Kingdoms (2009) Nintendo DS, Wii
Smiley World Island Challenge (2009) Nintendo DS, Wii
Ultimate Duck Hunting (2009) Wii
Wedding Dash (2009) Nintendo DS

2010
Boot Camp Academy (2010) Wii
Chocolatier (2010) Nintendo DS
Color Cross (2010) Nintendo DS
Dream Chronicles (2010) Nintendo DS
The Garfield Show: Threat of the Space Lasagna (2010) Wii
Glacier 3: The Meltdown (2010) Wii
Martian Panic (2010) Wii
Hello Kitty: Birthday Adventures (2010) Nintendo DS
Hall of Fame: Ultimate Hoops Challenge (2010) Wii
Jane's Hotel (2010) Nintendo DS
Let's Paint (2010) Wii
Monster Frenzy (2010) Nintendo DS
Speed (2010) Wii
Minute to Win It (2010) Wii
Shawn Johnson Gymnastics (2010) Wii
Mathews Bowhunt (2010) Wii
Hello Kitty Seasons (2010) Wii
Kevin VanDam's Big Bass Challenge (2010) Wii
Silly Bandz (2010) Nintendo DS

2011
Dino Strike (February 2011) Wii
Mayhem 3D (March 2011) Xbox 360
Mayhem 3D (March 2011) PS3
Photo Phantasy (February 2011) DS
ZombieZ Seeker (February 2011) DS
Minute to Win It for Kinect (October 18, 2011) Xbox 360

Released (indiePub & indiePub Mobile & indiePub Entertainment)

2010Silly Bandz (December 21, 2010) iPhone, iPad

2011Kona's Crate (June 23, 2011) iOS (iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad), Windows, MacFractal (August 18, 2011) iPadTotem Destroyer Deluxe (October 2011) Windows, Mac

2012Vessel (March 1, 2012) WindowsFireburst (April 25, 2012) WindowsDiamond Trust of London (July 2012) DSPictago (October 26, 2012, Canada) iOSPictago (December 21, 2012, US) iOSTurkey Stuffin' (November 9–15, 2012) iOS, Android

2013Auditorium (January 9, 2013) PlayStation NetworkCapsized+ (February 28, 2013) iOS (iPad)Pictago (February 13, 2013) iOSHungry Gows (March 7, 2013) iOSKona's Crate (March 7, 2013) AndroidBad Bots (May 17, 2013) Windows, MacStorm (June 14, 2013) Xbox LiveFireburst (June 14, 2013) Xbox LiveStorm (June 18, 2013) PlayStation Network (US)Storm (June 27, 2013) WindowsCapsized (July 5, 2013) Xbox Live

2014Vessel (March 12, 2014) PlayStation Network

Announced - Cancelled gamesStorm (2013) iOSCatapult for Hire (video game) (2013) WindowsBad Bots'' (2013) iOS, Android

References

Video game publishers
Defunct companies based in Cincinnati
Defunct video game companies of the United States
Video game companies established in 2007
Video game companies disestablished in 2013


The Miss Dominican Republic (Spanish: Miss República Dominicana) is a national  beauty pageant in the Dominican Republic.

History

Miss Dominican Republic Organization has been in operation since 1927. In 1956, the pageant was officially restarted after crowning models from 1952 until 1955. In 1956, Olga Fiallo from Santiago won, making the Dominican Republic's first representative to Miss Universe. In 1966, the Concurso Nacional de Belleza Dominicana lost its Miss Universe rights for only one year but on that same year it gained their Miss World franchise sending the winner of that year, Jeanette Dotel from San Juan as their first representative. In 1967, the organization officially decided that the Winner would go to Miss Universe, First Runner-up would enter Miss World and Second Runner-up to a Festival of Latin Beauties in South America. The MRD organization had acquired the Miss International rights, but the organization would only send a representative if the budget allowed them. It wasn't until 1980, when they decided that the Second Runner-up would enter either in Miss International, Reinado Nacional del Café or Miss América Latina. In 1989 until 2000, the official Second Runner-up would enter Miss International, the Third Runner-up would enter Reinado Nacional del Café and the Fourth Runner-up would enter Miss América Latina. This has been the same until 2003 when the organization separated into two separate organizations.

Miss República Dominicana Universo Organization
The Miss República Dominicana Universo Organization was created in 2003 by Belkys Reyes, and was taken over by Magali Febles in 2004. Since 2003, the representatives of Dominican Republic for one out of the four major international pageants have been selected by this organization. This organization is in charge of sending representatives to Miss Universe. Miss República Dominicana Universo competes in Miss Universe. Also, this organization has 15 franchises in other international competitions and sends representatives to these competitions every year such as Reina Hispanoamericana and Miss Continentes Unidos.

Reina Nacional de Belleza Dominicana Organization
The organization of Reina Nacional de Belleza Dominicana was created in 2003 by Diany Mota, and is still run by her today. Since 2003, the representatives of Dominican Republic for three out of the four major international pageants have been selected by this organization, until in 2015 when they lost the Miss Earth franchise. This organization is in charge of sending representatives to Miss World and Miss International. Miss Mundo Dominicana competes in Miss World and Miss Internacional Dominicana competes in Miss International.

Provincial Pageants
In 2009, there has been a huge involvement of the organization in regional pageants. There is right now 6 regional pageants.

For the first time, Miss Dominican Republic organization, will have auditions / contests in all the provinces except the province of Santo Domingo, because of its huge population, the 3 metropolitan municipalities have auditions / contests.
The pageants are:

Miss Azua
Miss Bahoruco
Miss Barahona
Miss Dajabón
Miss Distrito Nacional
Miss Duarte
Miss El Seibo
Miss Elías Piña
Miss Espaillat
Miss Guerra-Boca Chica
Miss Hato Mayor
Miss Hermanas Mirabal
Miss Independencia
Miss La Altagracia
Miss La Romana
Miss La Vega
Miss Los Alcarrizos
Miss María Trinidad Sánchez
Miss Monseñor Nouel
Miss Monte Cristi
Miss Monte Plata
Miss Pedernales
Miss Pedro Brand
Miss Peravia
Miss Puerto Plata
Miss Samaná
Miss San Cristóbal
Miss San José de Ocoa
Miss San Juan
Miss San Pedro de Macorís
Miss Sánchez Ramírez
Miss Santiago
Miss Santiago Rodríguez
Miss Santo Domingo Este
Miss Santo Domingo Norte
Miss Santo Domingo Oeste
Miss Valverde
Dominican Communities Abroad
Miss Comunidad Dominicana en Estados Unidos
Miss Comunidad Dominicana en México
Miss Comunidad Dominicana en Puerto Rico
Miss Comunidad Dominicana en Venezuela
Miss Comunidad Dominicana en Italia

Miss República Dominicana Universo

The following is a list of winners. From 2002 to Present.

Province rankings

 *As Old Santo Domingo Province
 ** As Trujillo Province
 *** As San Rafael Province
 **** Won handpicked
 ***** As Salcedo Province
 ****** Crowned as new titleholder

Miss Mundo DominicanaMiss Mundo Dominicana (Miss World Dominican Republic) is a pageant that was made 2003. Since 1956 they crowned Miss Dominican Republic, Miss Dominican World and Reina Nacional de Belleza Miss República Dominicana together. Then they split up in 2003. In 2011, the Miss World Dominican Republic was given to Dominican designer Diany Mota, along with Miss International Dominican Republic. The following is a list of winners. From 2003 to Present.Province rankings

 *Was prepared to go to Miss World but had an issues in attending and withdrew before going.
 ** As Salcedo Province

Miss República Dominicana InternacionalReina Nacional de Belleza Miss República Dominicana is a pageant that was made 2003. Since 1962 they crowned Miss Dominican Republic, Miss Dominican World and Reina Nacional de Belleza Miss República Dominicana together. Then they split up in 2003 until 2013. In 1991 Miss Dominican Republic International 1991 Rafaela Suarez didn't wanted to enter in Miss International 1991, so Melissa Vargas took over. In the Miss Dominican Republic pageant 1995 and Miss Dominican Republic 1996, the winners would enter both Miss Universe and Miss International. In 2003, the first winner, Aura Ramos could enter Miss International 2003 due to visa problems at last minute. It had various names during its history. They were Señorita República Dominicana Internacional, Miss RD Internacional and Reina Nacional de Belleza. The following is a list of winners. From 2003 to Present.Province rankings

Miss Tierra República DominicanaThe Dominican Republic Earth, also known as Miss Tierra República Dominicana, used to be crowned together with the Miss Dominican Republic Universe, Miss Dominica World, and Reina Nacional de Belleza Miss República Dominicana from 2001 to 2003. In 2003, the four beauty pageant titles were split until 2013. The Miss Tierra República Dominicana national pageant is held annually. The winner is expected to participate in the international Miss Earth beauty pageant, an annual international beauty pageant promoting environmental awareness. The Miss Earth winner serves as the spokesperson for the Miss Earth Foundation, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and other environmental organizations. The following is a list of winners. From 2001 to Present.''

 *Cheryl Ortega was originally set to compete at Miss Earth 2014 but withdrew due to her studies. Mayte Brito who was originally set to compete the following year will step in her place.

Province rankings

See also
Mister Dominican Republic

References

External links
Official site

Dominican Republic
1956 establishments in the Dominican Republic
Recurring events established in 1927
Dominican Republic awards


St Peter's Church of England Aided School is one of Exeter's five state sector high schools.

The school was awarded language college status in 2002. The current headteacher of the school is Phil Randall.

The old school building was knocked down (September 2006). Since then, a new building managed by Carillion has been in use. Carillion was then taken over by Sodexo in 2015 for a 5-year contract.

The school was formed by the amalgamation of Hele's School and Bishop Blackall School in 1983.

Notable former pupils
Ben Aldridge (born 1985) -  actor
Matt Grimes (born 1995) -  footballer
Joe Talbot (born 1984) - lead singer of Idles

References

External links
Official website

Schools in Exeter
Secondary schools in Devon
Church of England secondary schools in the Diocese of Exeter
Voluntary aided schools in England


Esther Danilovna Epstein (born May 10, 1954) is a United States chess player and systems manager, who has won the U.S. Women's Chess Champion in 1991 and 1997. She holds a Woman International Master title.

Still in the USSR, Epstein was the USSR Women's Vice-Champion in 1976. She has played for the U.S. Women's Olympiad team four times.

She is married to chess grandmaster Alexander Ivanov.

References

External links
Another page on Esther Epstein at the US Chess Federation.

Epstein page at the US Chess Federation
Interview With Esther Epstein

American chess players
Jewish chess players
Chess Woman International Masters
1954 births
Living people
American sportswomen
21st-century American women


Manuel Orantes was the defending champion, but did not participate this year.

Rolf Gehring won the title, defeating Christophe Freyss 6–2, 0–6, 6–2, 6–2 in the final.

Seeds

  Víctor Pecci (second round)
  Wojtek Fibak (first round)
  Markus Günthardt (second round)
  Terry Moor (quarterfinals)
  Tom Okker (first round)
  Rolf Gehring (champion)
  Thomaz Koch (first round)
  Chris Lewis (second round)

Draw

Final

Section 1

Section 2

External links
 1980 Bavarian Tennis Championships Singles draw

Singles


Athlinks is a free-of-charge  social networking website aimed at competitive endurance athletes. It primarily presents race results for running, swimming, cycling, mountain biking, triathlon, and adventure racing. It is also represented as tool for athletes to connect with other competitors and enthusiasts locally.

About
Athlinks claims to have the "most comprehensive database of endurance race results and events anywhere in the world".  Users can mark their own race results, and build a thorough list of their race history.

The website also has a "rivals" feature, where a user can compare themselves to athletes with similar results. Like other social network websites, a user maintains a group of "friends".  In addition, users may keep a training log, list their gear items, upload photos, and present a schedule of future events.

In February 2013, ChronoTrack, a provider of timing, race management and live race services, announced that it had acquired Athlinks.

References

External links

American social networking websites
Running mass media
Adventure racing
Triathlon
Cycling websites


Venus in Furs (, ) is a 1969 Italian supernatural erotic thriller film directed by Jesús Franco and starring James Darren.

The film (also known as Paroxismus and Black Angel) bears only a superficial resemblance to the 1870 novel Venus in Furs by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch. The title and character names in Franco's original script were changed to the novel's for commercial reasons. Franco's film is a surreal supernatural erotic thriller about unattainable love and how far one is willing to go for the person they desire.  It is not a study in masochism as the novel is.

Premise
James Darren plays a jazz musician who becomes obsessed to the point of madness with the mysterious fur-clad Wanda, then finds her dead body washed up on the beach.

Cast
 James Darren as Jimmy Logan
 Barbara McNair as Rita
 Maria Rohm as Wanda Reed
 Klaus Kinski as Ahmed Kortobawi
 Dennis Price as Percival Kapp
 Margaret Lee as Olga
 Adolfo Lastretti as Insp. Kaplan (as Aldo Lastretti)
 Jesús Franco as jazz musician (uncredited)
 Manfred Mann as jazz musician (uncredited)
 Paul Muller as Hermann (uncredited)

Music
British avantgarde fusion band Manfred Mann Chapter Three wrote and recorded the soundtrack for Venus in Furs. The band had just formed at the time. Excerpts were released in 2019 as part of the album Radio Days, Vol. 3: Manfred Mann Chapter Three (Live Sessions & Studio Rarities). One of the tracks, entitled "At the Party" on the soundtrack, later ended up on Manfred Mann Chapter Three Volume Two as "Jump Before You Think".

Reception
The New York Times gave Venus in Furs a negative review on its initial release, saying that the film "features much inept fancy moviemaking (including echoes of "La Dolce Vita" and even "Vertigo"), some semi-nudity, and virtually endless confusion". Glenn Erickson was more positive.

See also
 Klaus Kinski filmography

References

External links

1969 films
1960s erotic thriller films
1960s English-language films
Italian erotic thriller films
German erotic thriller films
West German films
English-language German films
English-language Italian films
1960s Italian-language films
Films directed by Jesús Franco
Supernatural thriller films
Erotic fantasy films
Films set in Rio de Janeiro (city)
Films set in Turkey
Films about music and musicians
Films about interracial romance
Films scored by Stu Phillips
1960s Italian films
1960s German films


The Upper Hessian Railway Company (Oberhessische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft) was a private concern whose aim was to build and run railway lines in the province of Upper Hesse in the Grand Duchy of Hesse, a state within the German Empire in the 19th and early 20th centuries.

Whilst the Main-Weser railway had linked Wetterau, a town in the western part of the province of Upper Hesse, to the new mode of transport as early as 1850–1852, much of the area, around the Vogelsberg, remained without any railway connexions for years. Not until 1868/69 was the Upper Hessian Railway Company founded with assistance from the Frankfurt banking house, Erlanger & Söhne, and with the financial support of the state of Hesse.

It contracted a Belgian company to build routes from the railway hub of Giessen to Gelnhausen (Lahn–Kinzig Railway) and Fulda (Vogelsberg Railway). On 29 December 1869 services were opened from Giessen to Hungen, on 29 June 1870 to Nidda and on 30 October 1870 to Büdingen. The entire route of the Lahn-Kinzig Railway to Gelnhausen, that comprised a link line of 70 km length along the western perimeter of the Vogelsberg to the Kinzig Valley Railway, was completed on 30 November 1870.

The 106 km long link from Giessen to Fulda ran through the northern foothills of the Vogelsberg, the first section of which was opened to traffic as far as Grünberg on 29 December 1869. But further construction on the railway was delayed by the Franco-Prussian War so that Alsfeld was not reached until 29 July 1870, Lauterbach until 30 October 1870 and Bad Salzschlirf by the end of the same year. The remainder of the Vogelsberg Railway was not completed until 31 July 1871. Twenty-eight kilometres of the two routes lay in Prussian territory.

The demand for services turned out to be below expectations for both passenger and goods traffic. As a result, the company reached an agreement with the Grand Duchy of Hesse whereby the state became the owner of the railway from 1 January 1876. The state set up a railway division for the Upper Hessian Railways in the provincial capital of Giessen. This formed the cornerstone for the subsequent Grand Duchy of Hesse State Railways.

Literature
 Arthur von Mayer: Geschichte und Geographie der Deutschen Eisenbahnen, Berlin 1894

See also
 Grand Duchy of Hesse
 Grand Duchy of Hesse State Railways
 History of rail transport in Germany
 Prussian state railways

Grand Duchy of Hesse
Transport in Hesse
Defunct railway companies of Germany
1868 establishments in the Grand Duchy of Hesse
German companies established in 1868
Railway companies established in 1868


CT Connect is a software product that allows computer applications to monitor and control telephone calls. This monitoring and control is called computer-telephone integration, or CTI. CT Connect implements CTI by providing  server software that supports the CTI link protocols used by a range of telephone systems, and client software that provides an application programming interface (API) for telephony functions.

CT Connect is used most frequently in call center applications. Large call centers must handle huge volumes of calls, and the coordination of calls with business applications is essential.

Software Function and Structure
CT Connect software is not a CTI application in itself; rather, it is a software component that communicates with telephone systems, converts telephone call status and control information to a standardized form, and presents that information to third-party applications. This component approach contrasts with that of integrated offerings such as those from Genesys Telecommunications Laboratories that combine the low-level telephone interface function with higher-level application logic such as retrieving and displaying information from a data base.

Software developers seeking to include telephone-related functions in their applications incorporate CT Connect software modules into their projects. The CT Connect server module must be installed on a computer that has a special CTI communication link to the telephone system. The CT Connect client module is installed on the same computer as the developer's application software. The client module presents an API for application telephone functions such as dialing a new call or generating an alert for an incoming call. The client module executes these requests by signaling them to the server module, which in turn requests the function from the telephone system. The client-server structure allows multiple applications running on multiple computers to share access to a single telephone system.

CTI Standards
The principal standards specification for CTI is ECMA Computer-supported Telecommunications Applications or CSTA. The CSTA standard specifies a call model (that is, how parties participate in a call and the steps a call goes through as it proceeds) and a set of messages that can be exchanged between a telephone system and a computer system. When both telephone systems and computer systems implement the CSTA standard, a customer can choose freely among competing products with confidence that they will interoperate.

As described more fully below, the CT Connect development team participated in the definition of CSTA. CT Connect and its predecessor, Digital Equipment's Computer Integrated Telephony product line, implement the CSTA call model and support the relevant CSTA protocol standards. Several telecommunications equipment vendors have used CT Connect as a laboratory CSTA reference to test their own products' compliance with the standard.

Environment Independence
CTI servers like CT Connect must operate in a heterogeneous computing environment and must interoperate with other system components chosen by application developers and users. CT Connect takes an "open" stance towards other system components, interoperating with a wider range of components than other CTI servers. This open stance is undoubtedly one reason that CT Connect has survived for 20 years while other competitors such as IBM CallPath and Novell Telephony Services have been discontinued.

For CTI servers, important dimensions of interoperation are:

Telephone System Independence
Many telephone switch manufacturers have implemented CTI links for their products. Some of these are proprietary protocols and some are implementations of the ECMA CSTA standard. Some of these manufacturers also offer their own CTI servers (such as Nortel's Contact Center Manager Server), but those servers generally operate only with that single manufacturer's telephone system. By contrast, the companies that have owned and marketed CT Connect over the years (see the CT Connect history below) have made arrangements with most major PBX manufacturers to get access to their protocol specifications and implement their CTI link protocols.

API Independence
Computer-telephone APIs have proliferated. Microsoft introduced TAPI, Novell introduced TSAPI, Sun Microsystems introduced JTAPI, and a group of vendors formed the Versit Consortium to better integrate the existing protocol standards and APIs. Some manufacturers have attempted to use CTI API specifications to restrict users to their other products. For example, the Microsoft TAPI specification can be implemented only on the Microsoft Windows family of operating systems, and the Novel Telephony Services CTI server (now discontinued) could be used only on Novell networks. By contrast, CT Connect's client-server architecture permits client modules that offer various CTI APIs, and all client modules can interoperate with a common CTI server module.

Operating System Independence
Like CTI APIs (see above), most CTI servers operate under only one operating system. By contrast, CT Connect has historically included client and server modules that operate under a range of popular operating systems including the Unix and Microsoft Windows families.

History
CT Connect has had a significant role in the conception and evolution of the CTI concept and its implementation. The product has been owned and marketed by three companies over its 20-year lifetime.

Digital Equipment Corporation
The software that eventually became CT Connect was originally developed in the late 1980s at Digital Equipment Corporation. During the 1980s, telephony was evolving from analog to digital technology. The international telecommunications standards body CCITT (now the ITU) published specifications for the Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN). The ISDN specifications define digital interfaces between a subscriber and the network that can simultaneously support multiple telephone calls and packet data transmission.

In the 1980s Digital Equipment was a leader in computer networking with its DECnet software. Digital Equipment studied the ISDN specifications and concluded that the ISDN interface lacked the ability to coordinate a voice call with related data. The Digital Equipment team named this capability computer integrated telephony (or CIT) and evangelized the concept among vendors and customers. (The acronym for the original Digital Equipment product line, CIT, is frequently confused with the industry acronym for any form of computer-telephone integration, CTI. The latter term was adopted by members of the MultiMedia Telecommunications Association (MMTA), a prominent US industry association. The MMTA was incorporated into a larger trade association, TIA, in 2000.)

(See and for early expositions of the CTI concept by Digital Equipment.)

Digital Equipment needed the commercial cooperation of telecommunications equipment manufacturers because their telephone switching systems had to be modified to report telephone call information via new CTI data links. Two Canadian private branch exchange (PBX) manufacturers that were interested in the idea: Northern Telecom (now Nortel) and Mitel, which at that time was controlled  by British Telecom. Digital Equipment worked with both of these companies – one in Canada and one in the United Kingdom – to design and implement CTI data links between their respective products. Both efforts were successful, and systems using PBXs from both companies were shown at the quadrennial CCITT exhibition in Geneva in the fall of 1987. Digital Equipment released its first CTI software products, operating with the Mitel SX-20 and Northern Telecom SL-1 PBXs, the following year.

Between 1988 and 1992, the Digital Equipment team approached more telecommunications equipment manufacturers (including Siemens ROLM and the former AT&T, whose Definity PBX product line is now owned by Avaya) and implemented the additional protocols needed to interoperate with their telephone systems. However, it quickly became clear that the number of proprietary protocols was becoming unmanageable. Call models differed between telephone systems, making it difficult to write CTI-enabled application software. The need for a standardized cross-vendor CTI call model and supporting protocol was becoming apparent.

A group of computer and telecommunications equipment vendors interested in this problem approached the European Computer Manufacturers’ Association (now simply known as ECMA) with a proposal to undertake this standardization. The proposal was accepted and Robert Roden, an architect from the Digital Equipment technical team, was chosen as convenor (chairperson) for the standards work. Phase I (the first edition) of CSTA was released in 1992. The CSTA standard has since progressed through several editions, incorporating technologies such as voice response and XML. Each Phase of the CSTA standard includes both a call model as well as a recommended set of communication protocols.

See  for more information about the early work on CTI standards.

The initial CTI software from Digital Equipment supported only VAX computers running the VMS operating system both as the server providing the telephone system interconnection and as application clients. Support for Digital's ULTRIX operating system was later added. But during the early 1990s, personal desktop computers became more pervasive in corporate computing environments. Digital Equipment responded to this trend by releasing Pathworks, a networking suite that allowed IBM-compatible PCs and Apple Macintosh computers to participate in a DECnet network. The Digital Equipment CIT team built on this platform and released a PC-based version of the CIT client that supported applications written for the Microsoft Windows operating system. The Windows desktop environment offered easier integration between business applications and telephone functions via the Microsoft Dynamic Data Exchange (DDE) mechanism, since many off-the-shelf PC applications and development platforms supported the DDE interface.

Dialogic Acquires Digital's Technology and Team
In 1995, Digital Equipment sold the CIT product line to Dialogic Corporation, which was then the leader in server-scale telephone interfaces for the PC form factor. Digital's CIT management staff and most of the development team moved to Dialogic with the sale, forming a new 'CT Division' within Dialogic and maintaining the product’s momentum. Dialogic converted the product from its original proprietary Digital Equipment hardware and software platform to an industry standard platform based on personal computer hardware and the Microsoft Windows family of operating systems. The resulting product, rechristened CT-Connect, was released by Dialogic in August, 1995. (The hyphen was dropped from the name in later releases.)

Dialogic Acquired by Intel
In 1999, Intel acquired Dialogic and all of its hardware and software product lines including CT Connect. As with the transition from Digital Equipment to Dialogic, most of the CT Connect business and technical team remained after the acquisition and product development and sales continued. CT Connect was renamed Intel NetMerge Call Processing Software to conform to Intel product naming conventions but remained the same product under the skin.

The late 1990s saw the rising popularity of Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) telephony. Realizing that CTI would be as important with VoIP as it had with traditional telephony, the CT Connect team enhanced CT Connect to support application control of VoIP voice calls. Intel was issued 11 US patents related to this work.

CT Connect Acquired By Envox Worldwide
Intel sold the product line to Envox Worldwide in 2005. As before, much of the technical team continued with the product during the transition. Envox restored the product name to CT Connect and continues to market it.

Syntellect, Inc. acquires Envox

On October 20, 2008, Envox was acquired by Syntellect, Inc. Syntellect is a call center focused software company headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona.

References

For a detailed explanation of client-server CTI technology and CTI software including the role of CT Connect, see Margulies, E., (1997). Client Server Computer Telephony. Lawrence: CMP Books. .
For another detailed explanation of CT Connect's client-server architecture and its ability to support multiple CTI APIs, see Carden, C., (1997). Understanding Computer Telephony: How To Voice Enable Databases From PCs to LANs to Mainframes, New York: Flatiron Publishing (now Elsevier Science Ltd.). .
Grigonis, Richard, (2000). Computer Telephony Encyclopedia, Gilroy, CA: CMP Books. .
Newton, Harry, (2008). Newton's Telecom Dictionary, New York: Flatiron Publishing. .

Telephone service enhanced features


Ricardo Torres Balaguer (Llíria, Valencia Province, 13 February 1955) is a Spanish politician and former deputy who belongs to the governing Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE).

After qualifying in law and economic science, Torres served as Mayor of his hometown of Llíria from 1991 to 1995. In 2004 he was elected to the Congress of Deputies as a deputy for Valencia region and served as Economic and Manufacturing spokesman for the PSOE group. During his time as deputy he was criticised   for possible conflict of interest. He did not stand at the 2008 election.

External links
 Biography at Spanish Congress website

1955 births
Living people
People from Camp de Túria
Members of the 8th Congress of Deputies (Spain)
Politicians from the Valencian Community
Spanish Socialist Workers' Party politicians


The China-EU School of Law (CESL; ) at the China University of Political Science and Law is an international law school primarily located in Beijing, China. CESL was founded on the basis of an agreement between the European Community and the government of the People’s Republic of China. It is the only Sino-foreign law school accredited in China. The current Co-Deans are Liu Fei, Bengt Lundell and Monty Silley.

History
The precursor to CESL was the "EU-China Legal and Judicial Cooperation Programme", which ran from 2000 to 2005. The former Chinese Minister of Justice, Zhang Fusen, first talked about the idea of creating a Sino-European law school in 2003. The head of the Delegation of the European Commission to China, Serge Abou, also promoted this idea to the European Community. In 2007 Chinese Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxing, Chinese Vice Minister of Commerce and current Deputy Director General of the WTO, Yi Xiaozhun, and EU Commissioner for External Relations Benita Ferrero-Waldner signed a financing agreement on behalf of both the European Commission and the Chinese government to create a Sino-European law school. This law school was "meant to improve their understanding of each other's legal systems."

"CESL attracted a lot of attention even before its formal inauguration." Prior to CESL’s establishment, Premier Wen Jiabao expressed that "CESL will educate a great many talented legal professionals with knowledge of both Chinese and Western laws." The European Commission stated that CESL "will address Governance Capacity-building by improving the knowledge, skills and performance of the Chinese legal profession in relation to European and international law" and will "contribute to rule of law in China by offering to the entire range of legal professionals high quality legal education in EU and international law and practical legal skills."

The inauguration ceremony of the China-EU School of Law was held on October 23, 2008, and attended by then Chinese Vice Premier, now Premier, Li Keqiang and European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso. The Asia Times stated that CESL’s establishment was a sign of "the degree of China's openness".

The UK House of Lords considered that "the creation of the China-EU School of Law (CESL) in 2008 was the first attempt to institutionalise legal cooperation" between China and the West. CESL was the first law school in China approved by the Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China under the Sino-foreign jointly administered schools agreement.

CESL’s purpose is to create a platform for European scholars and students to understand Chinese law, for Chinese legal scholars and students to understand the European and international legal systems, as well as to support the Chinese Government in its effort to develop a society based on the rule of law. European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso stated "of course there are hundreds of law schools in China. But this one has a special mission. It will be international and European, and it is committed to the pursuit of excellence through the quality of its students and its professors."

Consortium
CESL is based on a Sino-European consortium, consisting of thirteen European universities, two Chinese Universities, and the Chinese National Prosecutors College. "China-EU School of Law partners belong to the best universities worldwide." These include: the China University of Political Science and Law (China), the University of Hamburg (Germany), Tsinghua University (China), KU Leuven (Belgium), Maastricht University (Netherlands), Trinity College Dublin (Ireland), the Autonomous University of Madrid (Spain), the University of Bologna (Italy), Lund University (Sweden), Central European University (Hungary), Jagiellonian University (Poland), the University of Manchester (UK), the University of Strasbourg (France), the Vienna University of Economics and Business (Austria), Eötvös Loránd University (Hungary), and the National Prosecutors College (China).

These partners provide teaching staff and co-financing. The consortium is co-ordinated by the University of Hamburg. CESL also has the official status of a department or school of the China University of Political Science and Law, itself "one of China's highest-ranking universities in the field of law."

Reputation
Considered one of the best law schools in Asia, and perhaps the best in China, CESL is very well regarded. It is the leading institution to study European and international law in China, as well as to learn Chinese law in English. The Asian Correspondent recognized the School as being "geared to educate the best of legal minds that practice within the framework of Sino-European relations." Nicolas Chapuis, Ambassador of the European Union to China said "CESL has proven to be a center of excellence in legal education. It also has created a unique platform for exchange between Chinese and European students, scholars and legal practitioners."

Since CESL "attracts the best talent from China and Europe" it has been called "a rising star in China's legal education" and rankings confirm "CESL is a top School in Asia." The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation called CESL "one of the country's best universities providing legal training."

CESL's underlying partnership is composed of many top law schools in both Europe and China. "Eleven belong to the best universities in the world according to the 2018 QS World University Ranking." It is also integrated as one of the graduate schools of the China University of Political Science and Law (CUPL), which is "one of the most highly rated academic legal institutions in China."  Graduates of CESL's Chinese law masters and doctorate programmes are conferred a degree by the CUPL which "especially in the field of law, [is] among the best universities in China" and in 2018 was ranked number 1 for law studies in China by CUCAS, the official Chinese University and College Admission System, as well as other rankings. Monika Auweter-Kurtz, President of the University of Hamburg, noted that CESL has an "unrivalled position in the global sphere of higher education."

With strong support from both the European Community and the People's Republic of China, "the China-EU School of Law is regarded as one of the biggest EU educational projects in China." The EU Ambassador to China, Nicolas Chapuis, stated that "the China-EU School of Law is the flagship of European-Chinese cooperation." European Commission President, José Manuel Barroso, has also identified CESL as the "flagship of our strategic partnership" between China and the EU. He recognised "this law school is committed to the pursuit of excellence through the quality of its students and its professors." He also compared CESL with the top-ranked China Europe International Business School and said CESL "should aim to be the best". The German Minister of Justice, Brigitte Zypries, said "the founding of the China-Europe School of Law represents a project of enormous importance to Germany."

Professional training programmes
CESL is a "a law school for Chinese and European jurists at all stages of their professional life." It provides professional training programmes for Chinese judges and prosecutors, Chinese and European lawyers, and other legal professionals. CESL works with the Chinese National Judges College and the Chinese National Prosecutors College to train judges and prosecutors respectively. Lawyers training is organized either wholly by CESL or in cooperation with lawyers associations. Over 9,000 professionals have participated in 90 different training courses offered so far.

Research and consultancy
The objectives of research and consultancy at CESL are to contribute to the legal transformation process in China and the research efforts of the Sino-European academic community. CESL supports research in all areas related to China-European legal matters. This includes legal and administrative transformation in China, China and Europe in a globalizing world, comparative business and commercial law, as well as legal theory, law and culture. CESL is very active in bringing legal scholars and practitioners together to analyze legal developments, exchange ideas, and advise policymakers on best practices. The School has organised over 50 conferences and workshops. In addition, over 150 scholars have been involved in 35 specific research projects. In total, over 1,400 scholars have participated in CESL workshops, conferences and special projects.

In 2011, CESL also created the Institute for Legal Philosophy and Interdisciplinary Research of Law (LPI). This is led by Prof. Zheng Yongliu, ranked by China Today as one of "China’s 100 most influential legal scholars."

Employment statistics
CESL surveys the employment statistics for each year's graduates. The School has maintained very high post-graduate employment, with virtually all graduates securing job offers by graduation. The employment statistics of every class year has exceeded 90%. "In the past five years, between 93 and 100% of the China-EU School of Law's graduates found employment in the legal sector or pursued further study within three months after graduating."

Basically "all graduates find work – mostly in law firms". The latest employment statistics showed that within 3 months of graduation over 95% of CESL graduates were either working as lawyers or doing further masters/PhD studies. The majority of graduates join large law firms (41%), followed by jobs in the public sector (27%), in the legal department of financial institutions (13%), or as in-house counsel for other types of companies (6%), and the remaining (8%) pursue further studies.

It has been said that "China-EU School of Law students have a big advantage. With their international education, they already have their foot in the door of international law firms or law firms practicing international legal matters." Michael Westhagemann, the past CEO of Siemens AG, said "graduates of CESL who have learned to structurally analyse both Chinese and EU legal issues meet our demands excellently." The Delegation of the EU to China has found that "all of [the graduates of the master programmes are] now working in elevated legal positions in China and Europe."  Multiple CESL alumni are included amongst China’s "leading legal talents" including two being listed in China's "Top 30 under 30".

Notable professors
Florence Benoît-Rohmer – Professor at the University of Strasbourg, past Dean of the Faculty of Law at Robert Schuman University, human rights expert and past Secretary General of the European Inter-University Centre for Human Rights and Democratisation
Ninon Colneric – Former Co-Dean of CESL and former judge at the European Court of Justice
Stéphanie Balme – Dean of Sciences Po and expert in Sino-European comparative law
Matthias Storme – Professor at University of Leuven and the University of Antwerp, lawyer and conservative philosopher
Geert Van Calster – Belgian legal scholar and Professor at KU Leuven
Csongor István Nagy – Hungarian legal scholar and Head of the Department of Private International Law at the University of Szeged
Attila Menyhárd – Hungarian legal scholar and Head of the Faculty of Law at Eötvös Loránd University
Peter Van den Bossche – Appellate Judge of the WTO and Professor at Maastricht University

Publications

The China-EU Law Journal
CESL has produced 18 books and over 75 articles have been published in the China-EU Law Journal.

References

Further reading

External links
Official website

China University of Political Science and Law
Law schools in China
Universities and colleges in Beijing
Educational institutions established in 2008
2008 establishments in China


not to be confused with the Ben Jonson play Volpone.

Volponi (foaled 1998 in Kentucky) is an American Thoroughbred racehorse. Bred by trainer Philip G. Johnson's family operation, Amherst Stable, he was sired by Florida Derby winner  Cryptoclearance. His dam, Prom Knight, was a daughter of the 1987 Irish Derby winner Sir Harry Lewis, who was a son of the great French runner Alleged, who won back-to-back editions of the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe.

In 2002, Volponi earned the most important win of his career when he won the Breeders' Cup Classic by 6½ lengths, the largest margin in the race's history at the time. In winning the Classic, Volponi overcame odds of 44-to-1 to beat an outstanding field that included runner-up Medaglia d'Oro, Milwaukee Brew, Evening Attire, Macho Uno, Hawk Wing, War Emblem, and Harlan's Holiday, among others. His longshot victory inadvertently exposed the largest betting scandal in the United States in a century.

At age five, Volponi made eight starts in 2003 without a win but had five seconds and two third-place finishes. Retired to stud duty, his offspring have met with limited success in racing. At the end of 2005, he was sent to KRA Jeju Stud Farm in South Korea. To date, his best runner in terms of career earnings is daughter Clearly Foxy, who won the 2007 Grade III Natalma Stakes.

Pedigree

References
 Volponi's pedigree and partial racing stats
 Volponi's complete race record
 Volponi at the Thoroughbred Times Interactive Stallion Directory

1998 racehorse births
Racehorses bred in Kentucky
Racehorses trained in the United States
Breeders' Cup Classic winners
Thoroughbred family 16-f


A diffusion-limited enzyme catalyses a reaction so efficiently that the rate limiting step is that of substrate diffusion into the active site, or product diffusion out. This is also known as kinetic perfection or catalytic perfection. Since the rate of catalysis of such enzymes is set by the diffusion-controlled reaction, it therefore represents an intrinsic, physical constraint on evolution (a maximum peak height in the fitness landscape). Diffusion limited perfect enzymes are very rare.  Most enzymes catalyse their reactions to a rate that is 1,000-10,000 times slower than this limit. This is due to both the chemical limitations of difficult reactions, and the evolutionary limitations that such high reaction rates do not confer any extra fitness.

History

The theory of diffusion-controlled reaction was originally utilized by R.A. Alberty, Gordon Hammes, and Manfred Eigen to estimate the upper limit of enzyme-substrate reaction. According to their estimation, the upper limit of enzyme-substrate reaction was 109 M−1 s−1.

In 1972, it was observed that in the dehydration of H2CO3 catalyzed by carbonic anhydrase, the second-order rate constant obtained experimentally was about 1.5 × 1010 M−1 s−1, which was one order of magnitude higher than the upper limit estimated  by Alberty, Hammes, and Eigen based on a simplified model.

To address such a paradox, Kuo-Chen Chou and his co-workers proposed a model by taking into account the spatial factor and force field factor between the enzyme and its substrate and found that the upper limit could reach 1010 M−1 s−1, and can be used to explain some surprisingly high reaction rates in molecular biology.

The new upper limit found by Chou et al. for enzyme-substrate reaction was further discussed and analyzed by a series of follow-up studies.

A detailed comparison between the simplified Alberty-Hammes-Eigen's model (a) and the Chou's model (b) in calculating the diffusion-controlled reaction rate of enzyme with its substrate, or the upper limit of enzyme-substrate reaction, was elaborated in the paper.

Mechanism
Kinetically perfect enzymes have a specificity constant, kcat/Km, on the order of 108 to 109 M−1 s−1. The rate of the enzyme-catalysed reaction is limited by diffusion and so the enzyme 'processes' the substrate well before it encounters another molecule.

Some enzymes operate with kinetics which are faster than diffusion rates, which would seem to be impossible. Several mechanisms have been invoked to explain this phenomenon. Some proteins are believed to accelerate catalysis by drawing their substrate in and preorienting them by using dipolar electric fields. Some invoke a quantum-mechanical tunneling explanation whereby a proton or an electron can tunnel through activation barriers. If the proton tunneling theory remained a controversial idea, it has been proven to be the only possible mechanism in the case of the soybean lipoxygenase.

Evolution
It is worth noting that there are not many kinetically perfect enzymes. This can be explained in terms of natural selection. An increase in catalytic speed may be favoured as it could confer some advantage to the organism. However, when the catalytic speed outstrips diffusion speed (i.e. substrates entering and leaving the active site, and also encountering substrates) there is no more advantage to increase the speed even further. The diffusion limit represents an absolute physical constraint on evolution. Increasing the catalytic speed past the diffusion speed will not aid the organism in any way and so represents a global maximum in a fitness landscape. Therefore, these perfect enzymes must have come about by 'lucky' random mutation which happened to spread, or because the faster speed was once useful as part of a different reaction in the enzyme's ancestry.

Examples
Acetylcholinesterase
β-lactamase
Catalase
Carbonic anhydrase
Carbon monoxide dehydrogenase
Cytochrome c peroxidase
Fumarase
Superoxide dismutase
Triosephosphate isomerase

See also
 Diffusion-controlled reaction
 Enzyme
 Enzyme catalysis
 Enzyme kinetics
 Enzyme engineering

References

Catalysis
Enzyme kinetics
Chemical reaction engineering


Peter Anthony Drobach, Sr. (November 23, 1890 – November 24, 1947)  was an American track cyclist who was a professional rider between 1908 and 1922. Especially in the 1910s, he enjoyed many successes in six-day racing.

Major victories

1910
Six Days of Buffalo (with Alfred Hill)
1913
Six Days of Buffalo (with Paddy Hehir)
Six Days of Newark (with Paddy Hehir)
Six Days of Indianapolis (with Paddy Hehir)

External links
Peter Drobach's palmares at cyclingwebsite.net

References

1890 births
1947 deaths
American male cyclists
American track cyclists


Blackmailers Rekord Orkestr is a Russian rhythm and blues band from Vladimir.

History
The band was created in 1997 by Aleksey Baryshev, a Russian guitar player. At first it was a classical “guitar hero” blues band with an undiluted blues-rock repertoire. In 2005 they released their debut album, Zlatno Zrno Blues. The band’s second album, Paradise Fanfare Blues, was released in 2007.

Discography

Russian musical groups


Länsikylä () is a village in the municipality of Pyhtää, Kymenlaakso, Southern Finland province, Finland.

Munasuo national park is located in Länsikylä region. Munasuo has been renowned as a place for birdwatchers to gather, as it houses a variety of rare birds.

Pyhtää
Villages in Finland


Bearsville is a hamlet in Ulster County, New York, United States, in the town of Woodstock. It is located along New York State Route 212, within Catskill State Park and just to the west of the hamlet of Woodstock.

Bearsville was named not for the numerous local black bears, but for German peddler and storekeeper Christian Baehr, who built a store on the Sawkill Creek in 1839.

Places of interest in Bearsville, or named for it, include Bearsville Records and Bearsville Studios, and The Bearsville Theater and restaurant complex.

The highest known temperature in Bearsville was , which occurred in 1995. The lowest temperature was , recorded in 1994.

References

Woodstock, New York
Hamlets in Ulster County, New York


Scott Fox (born December 28, 1963 in Knoxville, Tennessee died June 16, 2015 Nashville, Tennessee) was a professional American football linebacker in the National Football League. He was a replacement player for the Houston Oilers during the players strike in the 1987 NFL season. He played football at Clinton Senior High School in Clinton, Tennessee, graduating in 1981.  He played college football at Austin Peay State. He was 6'2" and weighed 222 lbs. in his playing time.

External links
NFL.com player page
player stats
Obituary

References

1963 births
Living people
Players of American football from Knoxville, Tennessee
American football linebackers
Houston Oilers players
National Football League replacement players


Gurnam Singh  (August 16, 1931 in Punjab, India – December 7, 2006 in Jakarta, Indonesia) was a former Indonesian track and field athlete who won a bronze medal in the 10000 meters run event during  the fourth Asian Games in 1962 in Jakarta. Rusli Lutan described him as "remembered as a unique runner who ran bare-footed."

References

1931 births
Indonesian male long-distance runners
Indonesian Sikhs
Sportspeople from Medan
Indian emigrants to Indonesia
Indonesian people of Indian descent
Asian Games medalists in athletics (track and field)
Athletes (track and field) at the 1962 Asian Games
Indonesian people of Punjabi descent
Asian Games bronze medalists for Indonesia
Medalists at the 1962 Asian Games
20th-century Indonesian people
21st-century Indonesian people
2006 deaths


Triangle Marsh is a wetland of the San Francisco Bay, situated at the base of Ring Mountain at the north end of the Tiburon Peninsula in Marin County, California.

Archaeological Pecked curvilinear nucleated petroglyphs, and recovery on Ring Mountain, hold significant evidence of Native American habitation and likely proof that early Miwok peoples exploited marine resources from Triangle Marsh.

The  property is owned by the Marin branch of the National Audubon Society who restored upland and wetland habitats there with funding from a variety of sources. Federal endangered species, including the clapper rail and salt marsh harvest mouse, live in the Marsh.

See also
 Strawberry Spit
 Class of 1918 Marsh

References

External links
 Chuck Morton and Michael Galloway (2006) Tidal marsh restoration at Triangle marsh, Marin County, John Muir Research Institute
 C. Michael Hogan (2008) Ring Mountain, The Megalithic Portal, ed. A. Burnham
 Marin Audubon Society Restoration Page

Marshes of California
Landforms of Marin County, California
Wetlands of the San Francisco Bay Area
Miwok
Archaeological sites in California
Natural history of Marin County, California
Nature reserves in California
Protected areas of Marin County, California
Tiburon, California


How Did a Nice Girl Like You Get Into This Business? ( (also: ) and also known as The Naughty Cheerleader) is a 1970 West German comedy film directed by Will Tremper and starring Barbi Benton. It is based on the novel of the same title, written by Lynn Keefe.

Cast
 Barbi Benton as Lynn Keefe (as Barbara Benton)
 Hampton Fancher as Gino
 Jeff Cooper as Bob Greene
 Broderick Crawford as B.J Hankins
 Marc De Vries as Ronnie
 Claude Farell as Mrs. Epstein
 Hugh Hefner as Himself
 Klaus Kinski as Juan José Ignatio Rodriguez de Calderon, 'Sam'
 Lisa Lesco
 Bruce Low as Ist Smirna brother
 Paul Muller as The Director
 Roman Murray as Frank
 Max Nosseck as 2nd Smirna brother
 Massimo Serato as Capitano
 Lionel Stander as The Admiral
 Clyde Ventura as Nick
 José Luis de Vilallonga as Mr. Epstein
 Horst Wendlandt as Reporter with cigar behind the hotel in Miami Beach (uncredited)
 Christian Anders (minor role)

References

External links

1970 films
1970 comedy films
German comedy films
Italian comedy films
West German films
1970s English-language films
English-language German films
English-language Italian films
Films directed by Will Tremper
Films set in the United States
Films set in Italy
Films produced by Horst Wendlandt
Films scored by Klaus Doldinger
Films based on American novels
Films about prostitution in the United States
Teensploitation
1970s German films
1970s Italian films
English-language comedy films


The Sneffels Range, regionally conterminous with San Juans, is a young, prominent, and rugged range of mountains in southwestern Colorado of the San Juan Mountains. The Sneffels range form the southern border of Ouray County and run west to east.

Prominence
The Sneffels Range can be viewed from as far as the La Sal Mountains in eastern Utah and is very prominent from most vantage points of the Uncompahgre Valley. The most prominent peak of the Sneffels Range is Mount Sneffels reaching .

Mount Sneffels 14,158 ft
Teakettle Mountain 13,819 ft
Dallas Peak 13,809 ft
Potosi Peak 13,786 ft
Gilpin Peak 13,694 ft
Cirque Mountain 13,686 ft
Mount Emma 13,581 ft
Mears Peak 13,496 ft
Whitehouse Mountain 13,492 ft
Mount Ridgway 13,468 ft
Chicago Peak 13,385 ft
Campbell Peak 13,213 ft
United States Mountain 13,036 ft
Hayden Peak 12,987 ft
Stony Mountain 12,698 ft

See also

Cimarron Ridge

References

External links

San Juan Mountains (Colorado)
Mountain ranges of Ouray County, Colorado


Dennis Mims (born October 15, 1980) is an American professional basketball player. He assumes Turkish citizenship. He joined Beşiktaş Cola Turka for 2008-09 season. Played in Eurocup, Baltic cup, Asian and Balkan cup competitions.

References

External links
TBLStat.net Profile
Legadue Profile

1980 births
Living people
African-American basketball players
American expatriate basketball people in China
American expatriate basketball people in Colombia
American expatriate basketball people in Estonia
American expatriate basketball people in Finland
American expatriate basketball people in Germany
American expatriate basketball people in Italy
American expatriate basketball people in Lithuania
American expatriate basketball people in Poland
American expatriate basketball people in Qatar
Astoria Bydgoszcz players
OGM Ormanspor players
American expatriate basketball people in Turkey
Basketball players from South Carolina
BC Tallinn Kalev players
KB Trepça players
Beşiktaş men's basketball players
Dakota Wizards (CBA) players
İstanbul Teknik Üniversitesi B.K. players
Tampereen Pyrintö players
IUP Crimson Hawks men's basketball players
TED Ankara Kolejliler players
Virginia Tech Hokies men's basketball players
American men's basketball players
Power forwards (basketball)
21st-century African-American sportspeople
20th-century African-American people


The Cochetopa Hills are a ridge of uplands on the Continental Divide in Saguache County, southern Colorado, United States.

Geography
The Cochetopa Hills ridge bridges the southern terminus of the Sawatch Range to the northern terminus of the La Garita Mountains of the San Juan Mountains System. The Cochetopa Hills are characterized by rolling terrain with peaks between  and noteworthy volcanic geology. The Sawatch Range to the northeast and the La Garita Mountains to the south are characterized by higher peaks.

On USGS topographic maps, the area labeled Cochetopa Hills is roughly bounded by  Antora Peak, the town of Sargents, the drainage of Cochetopa Creek, and the town of Saguache. North Pass on State Highway 114 and the backcountry Cochetopa Pass allow travel on Colorado State Highway 114 from the upper Rio Grande drainage on the east to the upper Gunnison River drainage on the west.

The practice of naming mid-elevation upland areas in central and southern Colorado using the word hills is also illustrated by the naming of the similar uplands the Arkansas Hills, between the upper Arkansas Valley and South Park.

See also

References

External links

Ridges of Colorado
Mountains of Saguache County, Colorado
Ranges of the Rocky Mountains
San Juan Mountains (Colorado)
Volcanoes of Colorado


The 2002 FIFA World Cup qualification UEFA Group 2 was a UEFA qualifying group for the 2002 FIFA World Cup. The group comprised Andorra, Cyprus, Estonia, the Netherlands, Portugal and the Republic of Ireland.

The group was won by Portugal, who qualified for the 2002 FIFA World Cup. The runners-up Republic of Ireland entered the UEFA–AFC play-off as the group's play-off berth was randomly drawn by FIFA for the intercontinental play-off against an AFC team not one from its own confederation. Portugal, Ireland, and the Netherlands were clearly the top sides in the group, each handing out six beatings to the three other minnows. Between the top three, four of the matches were drawn, but the Netherlands lost one match each to Portugal and Ireland and had to settle for third place. In the end, Portugal only topped the group ahead of Ireland by virtue of superior goal difference.

Standings

Matches

Goalscorers

8 goals

 Pauleta

7 goals

 Nuno Gomes

6 goals

 Michalis Konstantinou
 Ruud Van Nistelrooy
 Luís Figo

5 goals

 Patrick Kluivert

4 goals

 Roy Keane
 Sérgio Conceição

3 goals

 Ioannis Okkas
 Andres Oper
 Ian Harte
 Matt Holland
 Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink
 Clarence Seedorf
 Mark Van Bommel
 Pierre Van Hooijdonk
 João Vieira Pinto

2 goals

 Ildefons Lima
 Marios Agathokleous
 Martin Reim
 Indrek Zelinski
 Richard Dunne
 Kevin Kilbane
 Mark Kinsella
 Jason McAteer
 Marc Overmars
 Pedro Barbosa

1 goal

 Emiliano González Arqués
 Roberto Jonas
 Justo Ruiz
 Marios Christodoulou
 Milenko Špoljarić
 Marko Kristal
 Jevgeni Novikov
 Raio Piiroja
 Gary Breen
 David Connolly
 Robbie Keane
 Gary Kelly
 Niall Quinn
 Phillip Cocu
 Jeffrey Talan
 Giovanni van Bronckhorst
 Boudewijn Zenden
 Rui Jorge
 Manuel Rui Costa
 Ricardo Sá Pinto

1 own goal

 Raio Piiroja (playing against the Netherlands)

External links
FIFA official page
RSSSF - 2002 World Cup Qualification
Allworldcup

2
2000–01 in Republic of Ireland association football
Qual
2000 in Estonian football
2001 in Estonian football
2000–01 in Dutch football
Qual
2000–01 in Portuguese football
qual
2000–01 in Cypriot football
2001–02 in Cypriot football
2000–01 in Andorran football
2001–02 in Andorran football


Cumwhinton railway station was a railway station serving the village of Cumwhinton in Cumbria, England. The station was located on the Settle and Carlisle Line and was closed in 1956. The station is still intact, including platforms, and the station buildings are now grade II listed structures.

History
The station was designed by John Holloway Sanders, who designed many of the other stations on the Settle–Carlisle line. It was listed as being a small (or minor) station in the original Midland Railway plans. It was opened with the rest of the on the initial opening of the line in May 1876 and had its station buildings on the down line (towards ). The station is  south east of Carlisle and  north of  railway station in London, via  and . The station was afforded a three-road goods shed on the down side and a signal box just north of the station which closed in 1957.

The main station building is made of red sandstone with a slate roof, is privately owned & occupied and is now a grade II listed structure. Additionally, the Midland Railway provided four railway cottages for workers besides the traditional stationmaster's house.

There have been petitions and public appeals to re-open the station to passenger traffic.

Stationmasters
The first station master John Lambert was arrested in 1877 on a charge of conspiring with Edwin Westerman, superintendent of the permanent way, Thomas Errick, inspector of the permanent way, and George Mason Tickle, brick manufacturer, in the theft of 4,000 bricks, the property of the Midland Railway Company. The case was heard at the Manchester Assizes before Mr. Justice Lush. John Lambert was allowed by the Midland Railway to combine his position as stationmaster at Cumwhinton with that of coal merchant. The charge against him was that instead of sending his coal by the money-earning trains of the company, he sent them by the ballast train, which earned the railway company no revenue. The jury found that the station master, who had been guilty of irregularities, had not they thought committed a punishable offence and he was discharged.

John Lambert 1876 - 1877 (taken into custody 3/10/77)
William J. Stowell 1878 - 1886 (formerly station master at Crosby Garrett)
G. Barker 1886 - 1891 (formerly station master at Little Salkeld, afterwards station master at Melbourne)
Isaac Scott 1891 - 1915
W.S. Balfour from 1915
J.H. Ashton from 1945 (formerly station master at Willaston)

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Disused railway stations in Cumbria
Former Midland Railway stations
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1876
Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1956
John Holloway Sanders railway stations
Wetheral


Hiram Denio (May 21, 1799 – November 5, 1871) was an American lawyer and politician from New York. He was Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals from 1856 to 1857; and from 1862 to 1865.

Life
He was born on May 21, 1799, in Rome, Oneida County, New York.

He was District Attorney of Oneida County from 1825 to 1834; Judge of the Fifth Circuit Court from 1834 to 1838; and a New York State Bank Commissioner from 1838 to 1840.

He was a clerk of the New York Supreme Court from 1845 to 1847, and published 31 volumes of law reports:
Reports in Supreme Court and Court of Errors (from May 1845 to May 1847; 5 vol.)
Cases in the Court of Errors (from 1840 to 1846, appeals; 12 vol.)
Cases in the Court of Errors (from 1830 to 1846, writs of error; 14 vol.)

On June 23, 1853, he was appointed by Governor Horatio Seymour as a judge of the New York Court of Appeals, to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Freeborn G. Jewett. At the New York state election, 1853, he was elected to fill the unexpired term of Jewett until 1857. At the New York state election, 1857, he was re-elected to a full eight-year term, and remained on the bench until the end of 1865. He was Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals from 1856 to 1857; and, after the resignation of Samuel L. Selden, from July 1862 until the end of his term.

He died on November 5, 1871, in Utica, New York; and was buried at the Forest Hill Cemetery there.

Sources
Albany Law Journal (Weed, Parsons & Co., 1871)
The New York Civil List compiled by Franklin Benjamin Hough (pages 39, 346, 348, 356 and 377; Weed, Parsons and Co., 1858)

1799 births
1871 deaths
Politicians from Utica, New York
Chief Judges of the New York Court of Appeals
Members of the New York State Assembly
County district attorneys in New York (state)
Politicians from Rome, New York
19th-century American politicians
19th-century American judges


Abu Nour bin Abi Qara al-Ifrani (; 1014–1058) was a Berber king of the Taifa of Ronda. He built the most important sites in Ronda.

Life
Abu Nour belonged to the Banu Ifran. The Banu Ifran were part of the Taifa of Malaga until the death of Yahya ibn Ali ibn Hammud al-Mu'tali.  After that Abu Nour established a new kingdom, the Taifa of Ronda in 1039.  Abu Nour established alliances with the surrounding tribes.  When  deposed his uncle, , from the throne of the Taifa of Malaga in 1046, Abu Nour helped Idris regain the throne.

In 1053, Abbad II al-Mu'tadid invited Abu Nour along with Muhammad bin Noh al-Darimi of Morón and Abadoun bin Khazaroun of Arcos to Seville.  Al-Mu'tadid killed Muhammad and Abadoun and imprisoned Abu Nour. Abu Nour's son  succeeded him as king of Ronda until 1057, when al-Mu'tadid released Abu Nour.  Abu Nour returned to Ronda, put his son to death for misrule, and died shortly afterward, leaving the kingdom to his second son, .

Notes

Ifranid dynasty
11th-century people from al-Andalus
11th-century monarchs in Africa
Berber monarchs


William Headline (December 24, 1931 – October 20, 2008) served as Washington bureau chief for 12 years during the formative years of CNN and headed the Voter News Service during the United States 2000 presidential election. Given his name and his profession, Wolf Blitzer described Headline as having "the best name in news".

Early life
William Headline was born in Cleveland, Ohio, and grew up in East Aurora, New York. The family surname had been Americanized by his Swedish immigrant ancestors. Headline attended Ohio Wesleyan University where he majored in geology. He was an intelligence officer in the United States Navy prior to his career in journalism.

Career in journalism
He worked for Louis Harris and Associates in New York gathering polling information. CBS News in New York hired him to work on coverage of the 1964 presidential election. Headline was promoted to senior vice president and later moved to Washington in 1974 as the network's assistant bureau chief. In his years at CBS News, Headline supervised the network's coverage of political conventions, overseas presidential trips and papal visits, and was the network pool producer during President Richard Nixon's resignation.

Headline was hired by CNN in 1983, and was appointed as the network's bureau chief in Washington, D.C., filling a position that had been occupied by six different individuals in the three years before he was hired. As bureau chief, Headline oversaw the growth of CNN Washington bureau from 80 to 350 staff members. He remained as bureau chief until 1996, when CNN named him to serve as the vice president managing special projects and pool assignments.

He served as the chairman of the Washington-based Radio and Television Correspondents' Association.

Headline left CNN in 1998 and became the executive director of the Voter News Service, a consortium of television networks and newspapers that used exit polling and vote tallies to project election winners. The organization faced criticism after the United States 2000 presidential election, when it incorrectly projected that Vice President Al Gore had won the election. Headline was quoted in 2001 stating that "We were aware some of the computer hardware we have was antiquated", but that "it was actually a good night" when the number of races it projected correctly are considered. The Voter News Service was shut down in January 2003 after it was unable to fix its problems; Headline stated that two years "was much too ambitious" a timeframe for the organization to solve its issues.

Death
Headline died on October 20, 2008, at age 76 after falling in his home in Bethesda, Maryland.

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1931 births
2008 deaths
CNN people
American television journalists
Ohio Wesleyan University alumni
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Accidental deaths from falls
Accidental deaths in Maryland
American people of Swedish descent
People from East Aurora, New York
American male journalists


Kenneth George Mills (January 25, 1923 – October 8, 2004) was a Canadian metaphysical/philosophical speaker and author. An exponent of the oral tradition, he gave spontaneous lectures and poetry for over 37 years. At the same time, he became noted for his accomplishments in music, particularly as the conductor of the choral ensemble The Star-Scape Singers. He excelled at composing, painting and design and has been described by some as a New Age man, a man for all seasons, and a Renaissance man.

Life
Mills was born in St. Stephen, New Brunswick in January 1923. He attended Mount Allison University in Sackville, New Brunswick. Trained from the age of 7 in music, he became a concert pianist, with debuts in Toronto in 1952 and New York City in 1961. Though he chose to end his career as a concert pianist in 1963, he concentrated on teaching piano and adjudicating young musicians for another ten years. Living in Toronto, he began speaking spontaneously to those who requested that he do so, ultimately offering many thousands of hours of metaphysical/philosophical lectures and meetings over his lifetime.

Mills extended his musical interests in 1976 when he formed the a cappella vocal ensemble The Star-Scape Singers. He and his singers would eventually give concerts throughout Eastern and Western Europe and the United States. Mills also engaged in musical composition, creating both choral and orchestral works. In addition, he explored various types of designing, and in 1993 created a line of haute couture fashions. His interest in painting yielded more than 200 large canvases. He was recognized for mentoring and sponsorship of artists in all these disciplines, and he continued his mentoring and spontaneous speaking until shortly before his death in October 2004.

Spontaneous lectures
In 1964, Mills decided to speak about his inner experiences, but only if asked to do so. He made this agreement after he received the same message from two different sources: "You must learn to speak the Word again." Then, people began seeking him out - sometimes arriving unexpectedly on his doorstep - asking about their deepest questions and concerns. Mills found himself speaking spontaneously to these seekers. When their number became too large to speak with individually, Mills began giving lectures. He defined his spontaneous speaking, which he called Unfoldment, as "an impromptu performance under the impelling of divine ideas. It is a projection from another dimension or plane of consciousness, causing those prepared to hear to awaken to the higher or greater possibilities of living beyond the limits of three dimensions and translating what seems to be the ordinary into another level of consideration." He also often spoke in poetry, offering some 3,000 extemporaneous poems during his lifetime.

Many of Mills’ spontaneous lectures were recorded and transcribed. Ultimately, a number of them were gathered together and published as books or as spoken word recordings, described by one reviewer as offering metaphysical ideas which are "provocative and deeply inspiring." A reviewer of one of his poetry books observed that Mills’ universal themes "revolve around wonder, light and love," while an endorsement on another of his books described Mills as having fun with the language and the sounds of words. It has also been pointed out that Mills’ lectures and books "give a universal, metaphysical perspective on some of the most perplexing problems faced by men and women today."

In 1989, the Earth-Stage Actors, a New York City–based ensemble, began to dramatize excerpts from Mills’ publications. Critics have called these dramatizations "a theatre of philosophy" and "modern-day Shakespeare."

Music

Mills’ philosophy always possessed for him strong musical implications. "The purpose of Music is to reveal to man his innate at-one-ment with a harmonic state of Being", he said. When three singers (from the vocal group The Free Design) asked him for help with their voices in 1976, Mills soon found himself re-engaging the world of concertizing. Within a short time, the three singers were joined by seven others, and the a cappella vocal ensemble he called The Star-Scape Singers was formed. These singers were ultimately acclaimed in the United States and abroad as creators of a renaissance in choral art.

Star-Scape made their American debut at Carnegie Hall in 1981, ultimately performing seven different concerts there between 1981 and 1986. New York City critics described them as "an instrument of bright and extraordinary varied capacity" and "a vocal ensemble of rare distinction." In 1983, the Singers embarked upon their first tour to Europe, performing at several large choral festivals, and on subsequent tours at many of the great halls and cathedrals of both Western and Eastern Europe. One critic in Munich described their work with Mills as "phenomenal, artistic, one-of-a-kind vocal art." Mills and the ensemble made a total of seven lengthy European and Soviet tours. While on tour in 1984, they were asked to make a recording for broadcast on Radio Vatican, inaugurating the World Year of Music in 1985. One of their performances of The Fire Mass, considered the ensemble’s major work, at Roy Thomson Hall in Toronto was broadcast nationwide by the (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) in 1988. On their tour to the then-USSR in 1991, Mills and the Singers led the first non-military Victory Day Parade down Gorky Street in Moscow.

Mills co-composed or arranged over 150 pieces for the Star-Scape repertoire in collaboration with composer Christopher Dedrick. In 1996, Mills began composing spontaneous orchestral works, using four MIDI keyboards plus foot pedals to capture his instantaneous compositions. Critics have credited him with bridging the classical and new age genres. His goal was to approximate the sounds of real instruments as closely as possible with the keyboards, and in 2002 a CD of several of his orchestral compositions, titled Majestic Tonescape, was released, performed by musicians from the Toronto Symphony Orchestra.

Other endeavors
In February 1993, Mills began to draw and paint for the first time. He soon became a prolific painter of large canvasses, creating more than 200 in less than three years. Most of his paintings depict huge flowers or otherworldly landscapes, and they have been recognized for the bold use of color and their energy. The paintings have been exhibited in both Canada and the U.S., and some are found in private collections.

Mills also ventured into the realm of fashion design. Ultimately, he created an elegant line of haute couture fashions, Moulins Originales, many of which were debuted in a fashion show titled The Integrity of Elegance. This showing was captured on a pioneering high-definition television recording at New York City’s Ed Sullivan Theater in February 1993. Another showing of Mills’ designs occurred at the Design Exchange in Toronto during the PRIME Mentors’ 10th Anniversary Celebration, in 1997.

Recognition
At the gala banquet of the MedArt International 1992 World Congress, a gathering of physicians and artists who specialize in bringing the arts to medicine, Mills was presented with a Special Recognition Award "for the outstanding healing power of his art" (i.e. his music).

A lifelong supporter of the arts, Mills founded Patrons of Wisdom in 1980, a non-profit organization that supported and encouraged young classical musicians and artists. In recognition of his continuous support of deserving individuals and "for being an exemplary mentor and for serving as a role model par excellence whom society could look up to for inspiration and guidance," he was chosen Honorary PRIME Mentor of Canada in April 1997.

In 1998, Mills was awarded an honorary doctorate of Humanities from Wolfe’s University. That same year, the Senate of Canada recognized Mills with their Award of Excellence "for outstanding achievement in humanity, education, philosophy and arts."

Works

Lectures

Books
 Question and Answer Encounters with Kenneth G. Mills (2008)
 The Candy Maker's Son: the memoirs of Kenneth G. Mills (2007)
 The Cornucopia of Substance (2004)
 Change Your Standpoint ~ Change Your World (1996)
 Tyranny of Love (1995)
 The Key: Identity (1994)
 The Golden Nail (1993)
 A Word Fitly Spoken (1980)
 The New Land! Conscious Experience Beyond Horizons (1978)
 Given to Praise! An Array of Provocative Metaphysical-Philosophical Utterances (1976)

Recordings
 Renaissance Man Kenneth G. Mills (2009)
 The Key: Identity (2006–  )
 The Golden Nail (2003–2005)
 Change Your Standpoint ~ Change Your World (2001–2003)
 The New Land! (2001)
 Freedom Is Found (1991)
 The Quickening Spirit of  Radiance (1990)
 Near to the Fire (1979)
 The Seal of Approval (1979)
 The Newness of the Unchanging (1978)
 The Beauty Unfoldment (1977)
 Given to Praise! (1976)

Aphorisms

 Food for No Thought, Vols. I and II (1999, 2000) ,

Poetry

 Words of Adjustment (1998)
 The Tonal Garment of the Word (recording) (1995, 2002)
 Embellishments (1986)
 Anticipations (1980)
 Surprises (1980)
 Flame on the Hearth (recording) (1978, 2001)
 Given to Praise: The Spontaneous Poetry of Kenneth G. Mills (recording) (1976)

Music

Instrumental compositions
 Majestic ToneScape (2002)
 Promethean Fire (2000)
 Arrival of the Unexpected (1998)
 Let Robots Melt (1997)

Choral recordings conducting The Star-Scape Singers

 Greatest Hits, Vols. 1 and 2 (2001, 2003)
 Tonal Persuasions, Vols. I and II (1993, 1994)
 The Song – The Heart of Christmas (1990)
 The Fire Mass (1990)
 A Sound Voyage (1986)
 The Heraldic Message (1985)
 Rapture of Freedom (1984)
 Rhapsody of Song (1984)
 Star-Scape Over Europe, Vols. 1, 2, and 3 (1983)
 The Sound of a Star (1982)
 Love Clothes the Jungle (1981)
 Sing Unto Me a New Song (1980)
 Watch! (1980)
 Sing Those Wonderful Words (1979)
 Alive at Ontanaka! (1978)
 On This Rock! (1977)

Dianne Forsyth
 Lady on the Landing (1982)

Drama (Earth-Stage Actors)

 Coat of Many Colors (1996)
 What If You Decided to Be Real? (1989)

Documentaries

 The Rapture of Being (1997)
 Did You Feel It? (1993)

References

External links
 The Kenneth G. Mills Foundation website

1923 births
2004 deaths
20th-century Canadian poets
Canadian male poets
Writers from New Brunswick
Canadian designers
Artists from New Brunswick
People from St. Stephen, New Brunswick
Mount Allison University alumni
20th-century Canadian painters
Canadian male painters
20th-century Canadian male writers
Canadian male non-fiction writers
20th-century Canadian philosophers
20th-century Canadian male artists


Big Indian is a hamlet within the Town of Shandaken in Ulster County, New York, United States. It is located along State Route 28, within the Catskill Park,  west of Woodstock. The Esopus Creek flows through the area, as Birch Creek feeds in from the north. Big Indian Hollow is located slightly to the west, while Big Indian Mountain sits to the southwest.

Origin of name
Once a Munsee Native American man named Winneesook (the name means "snowfall") lived near Marbletown, New York; because of his height of about seven feet, he was also called Big Indian. He was in love with a local woman, Gertrude Molyneux, who eventually loved him as well; because her parents opposed the match, they arranged a marriage with one Joseph Bundy. Disliking Bundy, Gertrude eloped with Winneesook into the wilderness. Some years later, a party of people searching for a missing cow was led by Bundy; still seeking revenge, he accused "that big Indian" of stealing the cow. When they finally found Winneesook, Bundy shot him with his rifle and injured him severely; after being left alone, Winneesook crawled to a pine tree where Gertrude found him later, dying. After Winneesook's death and burial, Gertrude and her children moved to the site; the hamlet of Big Indian later developed at that location. Local lore holds that the pine tree stood until the railroad through Big Indian was built in the 1880s.

Climate
This climatic region is typified by large seasonal temperature differences, with warm to hot (and often humid) summers and cold (sometimes severely cold) winters. According to the Köppen Climate Classification system, Big Indian has a humid continental climate, abbreviated "Dfb" on climate maps.

Notable people
Alexander Chee, author
Lhasa de Sela, singer
Dean Gitter, entrepreneur
Albert Rudolph, spiritual teacher

References

Hamlets in Ulster County, New York


Shweli River (; ) is a river in China and Myanmar (Burma). Also known as Nam Mao (; ) in Shan or Dai, and Ruili River or Longchuan River (龙川江) in Chinese, it forms 26 km of the boundary between Burma and China. It is one of the tributaries of the Myanmar's chief river, the Ayeyarwady, and arises in Yunnan Province of China. It flows through northern Shan state and Sagaing Division, and enters the Ayeyarwady at Inywa,  north of Tagaung and south of Katha.

History
Dai people, known as Shan in Burma, migrated from Yunnan into Burma along the Shweli. Maw Shans from Mong Mao settled in the Shweli valley, and raided and invaded the Bamar heartlands down the Shweli, some people believe that King Anawrahta of Bagan (1044–1077) reduced Mong Mao to a vassal state. But the event is that when the Anawrahta visited Nanzhao in quest of the Buddha's tooth while returning, married Sao-Môn-la, a daughter of the Mong Mao king. But there is nothing to show that the Mong Mao king ever had to acknowledge the overlordship of the Pagan monarch. The fall of the kingdom of Bagan in the 13th century, however, saw a resurgence of Shan power, although King Bayinnaung (1551–1581) of the Taungoo Dynasty succeeded in pacifying them to establish Burmese suzerainty once and for all. King Hsinbyushin (1763–1776) of the Konbaung Dynasty also successfully resisted Chinese army in Sino-Burmese War (1765-9) that advanced down the Shweli and Myitnge river valleys.

The territory south of the Shweli, about , north of Namtu and from Namkham to the west, was under the control of the Communist Party of Burma (CPB) from 1968 to 1986. The Kachin Independence Army (KIA) controlled the area north of the Shweli, and the Shan State Army (SSA) and the Palaung State Liberation Army (PSLA) farther south. The Shweli river valley and the hills around Momeik (Mong Mit) and Mogok with its ruby mines had been old CPB strongholds since the 1950s. Momeik itself was captured by the Communists in 1977. The Burmese Army recaptured the territory in early 1987, and subsequently opened up border trade with China.

Population
The region is inhabited mainly by Shan people, some Kachin and Palaung and a few Chinese.

Flora and fauna
There are extensive marshes on both banks of the Shweli at the confluence with the Ayeyarwady. Hills are covered with broad-leaved species of Terminalia and Shorea trees. Rhododendron edgeworthii, of the finest foliage and flowers ranging in colour from white to white flushed pink or pink, sometimes with a yellow blotch, was part of a collection made in 1997 on the Shweli - Salween divide on the Yunnan border with Burma.

White-winged wood duck (Cairina scutulata), an endangered species of forest duck, and the sarus crane (Grus antigone) are native to the Shweli river. The gharial (Gavialis gangeticus), a crocodilian, was last spotted in 1927. The Irrawaddy dolphin has been known to reach the upper tributaries of the Ayeyarwady including the Shweli.

Based on the survey in 2003 and 2006, a total of 49 species of fish were collected in Shweli river and tributaries in China. By the combination of the investigated species and specimens in the museum of Kunming Institute of Zoology, there are a total of 60 species belonging to 8 orders, 19 families, and 44 genera in Shweli river drainage, among which 16 species are endemic to Irrawaddy drainage and 9 species are alien species. On composition, the species of Cyprinidae are dominant, which have 26 species accounting for 43.3% of the total number of species. In the next place, Sisoridae has 11 species, accounting for 18.3% of the total.

Towns
Ruili (Shweli)
Muse
Namhkam
Momeik
Mabein

Trade and commerce
Muse is connected to Ruili on the Chinese side, and a roaring trade in goods and services was engaged in across the "Gun Bridge", so called because of the armaments transported from China to the military government of Burma. The old bridge was replaced by a new wider one in 2005. Gems especially jade and produce, and illicit heroin,  are exported in exchange for cheap motorcycles and household goods from China.

More recently, Chinese hybrid rice called sinn shweli has been introduced by the military authorities to the local farmers as part of the opium eradication drive, most of the crop to be exported back to China.

The Shweli I Dam was put into operation on the river in 2008. It is the first of three planned dams on the main stem in Myanmar. The river upper in China has abundant hydropower reserves, there are 18 hydroelectric power stations has been built, mostly in Tengchong. And the biggest one in China is Longjiang Dam at Zhefang, Mangshi which operates in 2010.

Notes

External links

Shweli River Google map GeoNames
Shan State map R4 = Shweli River Asterism
Sagaing Division map R3 = Shweli River Asterism
3rd Destruction of Narcotic Drugs Ceremony, 26 November 1999 myanmar-narcotic.net

Rivers of Myanmar
Rivers of Yunnan
China–Myanmar border
International rivers of Asia
Geography of Dehong Dai and Jingpo Autonomous Prefecture
Geography of Baoshan, Yunnan


“True Blue” was the debut single from the indiepop band Tullycraft.

Track listing
 True Blue (3:03)
 Skyway (1:39)
 Superboy & Supergirl (3:02)

Personnel
 Sean Tollefson – vocals, bass
 Jeff Fell – drums
 Gary Miklusek – guitar, backing vocals
 Pat Maley – production, audio engineering, keyboards
 Aaron Gorseth – production assistance

References

 Strong, M. C. (2003). The Great Indie Discography (2nd Edition) pg. 1041. Published by Canon Books Ltd. (US/CAN) .
 Discogs . True Blue. Retrieved on November 14, 2008.

1995 singles
1995 songs


Portrait is a 1982 album by pop group, The Nolans. It featured the UK top 20 singles "Chemistry" and "Don't Love Me Too Hard" and reached No.7 in the album charts. It was released earlier as Don't Love Me Too Hard in Japan with a slightly different track-listing, where it became one of the first 50 albums to be released on Compact disc.

Background

By early 1982, The Nolans had had a run of success in the UK which included three UK top 20 albums and seven top 20 singles as well as achieving major success in Japan. Many of the tracks for this album had been recorded in 1981, but their touring schedule was preventing them from finishing it. With just one day before the deadline, the record company urged the group to work through the night to complete vocals for the remaining tracks. With a cheque for £25,000 to each of them, they did so and Portrait was released in March 1982. Featuring the top 20 hits "Chemistry" and "Don't Love Me Too Hard", the album itself was a success also by reaching No.7 in the album charts. This however signalled the end of their peak, as a third single, "Crashing Down" proved to be aptly titled. The song not only became their first to fail to enter the top 20 this decade, but failed to make the charts at all. Somewhat curiously (and uniquely) it featured on the 'Bubbling Under' section of the chart for five consecutive weeks, without ever entering the top 75. Portrait finished as one of the top 100 selling albums of 1982 in the UK and was certified gold by the BPI.

The album, like its predecessor, was produced by Ben Findon and Nicky Graham separately. Both producers were now giving the songs a heavy disco sound such as "Don't Let it Go By" (by Findon) and "Chemistry" (by Graham). For this album, a third producer was added, Robin Smith, who was Coleen's boyfriend at the time. Two of the songs were co-written by member and lead-singer Bernie Nolan ("Are You Thinking of Me" and "Every Little Thing"), while closing track "Amy" was written for (former member) Anne's daughter, to whom the album was also dedicated. The album was a hit also in their biggest market, Japan, where it had been released as Don't Love Me Too Hard some months prior to the UK. A fourth single was released there also; "How Do I Survive" (which had been a big hit for Amy Holland in 1980 from her self-titled debut album). The album was significant in that it became one of the first 50 pop albums ever to be released on Compact disc, when it was released on the format in Japan in October 1982.

The album was later re-released on CD with bonus tracks in September 2010 by Cherry Red Records.

Track listing

Chart performance

References

External links

The Nolans albums
1982 albums
Epic Records albums


Uncial 0140 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), is a Greek uncial manuscript of the New Testament, dated paleographically to the 10th century.

Description

The codex contains a small part of the Acts of the Apostles 5:34-38, on one parchment leaf (14.5 cm by 12 cm). It is written in one column per page, 18 lines per page, in uncial letters.

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

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

The codex now is located in Saint Catherine's Monastery (Sinai Harris App. 41).

See also
 List of New Testament uncials
 Biblical manuscript
 Textual criticism

References

Further reading

 Agnes Smith Lewis, Catalogue of the Syriac MSS. in the Convent of S. Catharine on Mount Sinai. Studia Sinaitica I (London, 1894), p. 116.

Greek New Testament uncials
10th-century biblical manuscripts