Sir John Menzies Low, CBE, CEng, FRSA (born 1 July 1953) is an international civil society leader, with a commercial background in science, technology and engineering.  From 2007 to 2020, he was group chief executive of the Charities Aid Foundation (CAF). He was previously the chief executive of the Royal National Institute for Deaf People (RNID).

Early life and education
Low was born in Aberdeen on 1 July 1953 and he was educated at Northfield Secondary School and Aberdeen Academy.  He studied Electronic Engineering at Robert Gordon’s Institute of Technology, graduating Bachelor of Science (BSc) in 1975. Low undertook postgraduate research in Medical Physics at the University of Aberdeen between 1975 and 1979, examining auditory feedback and its effects on speech fluency, leading to Master of Science (MSc) and Doctor of Philosophy (PhD). He was education in business management at Templeton College, University of Oxford (AMP) and National School of Government, Cabinet Office (TMP).

Career
His early commercial career was in research and development with specialist engineering and technology businesses. In 1984 he was appointed Technical Director at William McGeoch & Co, before taking up the role of R&D Director at Sortex Ltd in 1988, a specialist division within the Swiss technology group Bühler AG.  Sortex was an innovator in machine vision and automated sorting systems.  Bühler’s website states, “Two billion people each day enjoy foods produced on Bühler equipment.”

After 20 years in the technology industry, Low moved to the voluntary sector in 1999, initially as Executive Director of Research at the Royal National Institute for Deaf People (RNID), appointed Chief Executive in 2002.  RNID is the largest charity for the UK’s 9 million deaf and hard of hearing people.

In 2007 Low was appointed group Chief Executive of the Charities Aid Foundation (CAF).  In notes published by the Cabinet Office to accompany his Knighthood in 2017, Low is credited as having, “overseen a significant increase in the funds raised from donors and distributed to charities; developed a vehicle to provide charities with early stage capital; restructured and recapitalised the Charity Bank; created an extensive research wing; and made the Foundation the core co-ordinating voice for the charity sector as a whole.” He left CAF and retired from executive management in 2020.

Low has also been Chair of the Association of Chief Executives of Voluntary Organisations (ACEVO); director of Charity Bank Ltd; a founder and President of Euclid Network - the European network of social entrepreneurs and civil society leaders; served on the House of Lords Appointment Commission and as a member of Council at City University of London.

He is currently Chair of the Potanin Foundation. and Secretary of Hertford Baptist Church. From 2018 to 2022 Chair of the BBC Appeals Advisory Committee,

Honours
Low was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the Queen's Birthday Honours 2008 for services to the voluntary sector and to deaf people.

In the Queen's Birthday Honours 2017, Low was appointed Knight Bachelor for charitable services.

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Siege of Riga by the Russian Army under Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich was the main event of the Russo-Swedish War. The fortifications of Riga consisted of a wall with ditch and 5 bastions around the old town. In 1652 Swedes had started construction of a new wall with 12 bastions around suburbs, but by 1656 the work had not been completed. The Russian vanguard consisting of the Vladimir v. Vizin reiters, Daniel Krafert infantry and Iunkmann dragoons approached Riga on August 20 and threw back the Swedes under count of Pärnu, Heinrich von Thurn into the city. Von Thurn was either killed, or captured in the action. The Swedes evacuated the suburbs and withdrew to the old town. A few days later, the main army under Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich arrived on the ships on the Duna River, and laid siege to Riga. The Russian army occupied three camps, two on the east bank of the Duna in Riga's suburbs, and a Corps under Ordyn-Nashokin on the west bank of the Duna, opposite the Kobrun entrenchment.

As Russia had no full-fledged navy to intercept reinforcements coming to the Swedish garrison across the Baltic, Riga managed to hold out until October, when foreign officers commanding a small Russian flotilla defected to the other side and the Russians had to lift the siege. In the aftermath of this reverse, the Swedes recaptured much of Ingria, took the Pskov Monastery of the Caves and inflicted a heavy defeat on the Russian general Matvey Sheremetev in  battle of Walk in 1657.

The events of the siege were recorded in an engraving by Adam Perelli that was first published in 1697 in Samuel Puffendorf's work, Konung Carl X Gustafs Bragder.

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Cornelio Da Montalcino was a Franciscan friar who had embraced Judaism, and was burned alive on the Campo dei Fiori in Rome, Italy, in 1554.

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Frank Hübner (born 16 October 1950) is a German sailor and Olympic champion. He won a gold medal in the 470 Class with Harro Bode at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal He was also a producer for the 2002 Film Whale Rider.

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The Sino-Steel Tower () is a  tall skyscraper on hold in Tianjin, China.  Construction started in 2008 and was originally expected to be complete in 2014. In March 2012, the plaza construction went on hold after the construction commenced, construction was then resumed in 2017.

The building, when completed, will contain offices and a hotel on 80 floors.  The design by MAD Studio, Beijing, is for the building to be clad in white and pierced by recessed hexagonal windows.  Some of the window surrounds will be crimson in colour, causing the building's appearance to alter with the changing light.

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North Hastings High School (NHHS) is a high school located in Bancroft, Ontario, Canada serving students in the northern portion of Hastings County and part of the Hastings and Prince Edward District School Board. NHHS offers specialized 4-credit courses which allow students to learn principles of resource management and environmental studies, which help them to gain employment in resource-based careers.

See also
List of high schools in Ontario

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School Profile at the Hastings and Prince Edward District School Board web site
Profile at the Education Quality and Accountability Office (EQAO) web site

High schools in Hastings County
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USS Whitfield County (LST-1169), previously USS LST-1169, was a United States Navy landing ship tank (LST) in commission from 1954 to 1973 which saw service in the Atlantic, Caribbean, and Pacific and saw action in the Vietnam War.

Early career
USS LST-1169 was designed under project SCB 9A and laid down on 26 November 1952 at Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin, by the Christy Corporation. She was launched on 22 August 1953, sponsored by Mrs. John L. Clarkson of Lake Forest, Illinois, and commissioned on 14 September 1954.

After shakedown training in the Gulf of Mexico, LST-1169 departed New Orleans, Louisiana, on 13 October 1954, bound for her home port, Naval Amphibious Base Little Creek at Virginia Beach, Virginia Upon arrival in the Tidewater, Virginia, area, she entered the Norfolk Naval Shipyard in Portsmouth, Virginia, for an availability that lasted from 25 October 1954 to 4 November 1954. She then joined Landing Ship Tank Division 44, Squadron 4, Flotilla 2, Amphibious Force, United States Atlantic Fleet. For the remainder of 1954, LST-1169 operated locally in the Chesapeake Bay.

Following a short availability at Norfolk Navy Yard between 5 January 1955 and 22 January 1955, LST-1169 made a run to Havana, Cuba, and, upon her return, reentered the shipyard for further work. She cleared Norfolk, Virginia, on 11 April 1955, bound for the Caribbean, and took part in amphibious warfare exercises at Vieques Island, Puerto Rico, with a reconnaissance team embarked. During that deployment, LST-1169 visited Charlotte Amalie on St. Thomas in the United States Virgin Islands before heading home on 29 April 1955 with units of the 3rd Battalion of the United States Marine Corps's 10th Marine Regiment embarked. After debarking the Marines at Morehead City, North Carolina, LST-1169 pressed northward, reaching Norfolk on 6 May 1955. Except for a brief cruise to Boston, Massachusetts, between 14 June 1955 and 23 June 1955, LST-1169 remained at Little Creek well into the summer of 1955.

Renamed USS Whitfield County (LST-1169) on 1 July 1955, she remained engaged in local operations into 1956, a year in which she underwent an overhaul at Norfolk Navy Yard between 21 January 1956 and 23 May 1956. She then operated in the Chesapeake Bay and off the Virginia Capes until 13 August 1956, when she got underway for the United States West Coast. After skirting a Caribbean hurricane, she transited the Panama Canal on 20 August 1956. Shortly after leaving Rodman Naval Station, Panama Canal Zone, Whitfield County suffered an explosion and fire. The repairs necessitated by that accident delayed her arrival at her new home port, San Diego, California, until 5 September 1956.

Upon arrival at San Diego, Whitfield County became flagship for Landing Ship Tank Division 12, an assignment that soon changed when she was transferred to Landing Ship Tank Division 11. She soon commenced a regular slate of divisional and squadron exercises out of San Diego that stretched into August 1957.

Whitfield County departed San Diego on 13 August 1957 to begin her first deployment to the Western Pacific (WestPac). She called at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, between 24 August 1957 and 4 September 1957 and reached Yokosuka, Japan, on 16 September 1957. A little over a week later, she proceeded to Camp McGill to load vehicles and embark troops for the first of several amphibious exercises. After maneuvers at Okinawa, Whitfield County returned her passengers and cargo to Fukuoka, Japan, before she visited Sasebo, Japan, en route to Yokosuka, where she arrived on 11 October 1957.

On 14 October 1957, Whitfield County sailed to Iwakuni, Japan, to pick up troops for additional landing exercises at Okinawa, returning to Yokosuka on 31 October 1957. She departed Japanese waters on 3 November 1957 and reached Son Gap To, South Korea, soon thereafter, beaching on 7 November 1957 and 8 November 1957 to load cargo that she returned to Yokosuka on 12 November 1957. On 18 November 1957, after again loading troops and vehicles, Whitfield County sailed for Okinawa, offloading her cargo upon arrival and taking on board units of the 12th Marine Regiment, 3rd Marine Division.

Whitfield County arrived at Dingalan Bay, Luzon, the Philippines, on 30 November 1957 and served as the base for a reconnaissance team during amphibious exercises that lasted until 10 December 1957. She then joined elements of the United States Seventh Fleet at sea for exercises which kept her busy until she arrived at Subic Bay, the Philippines, on 26 December 1957.

Whitfield County remained there into 1958 before steaming to Naha, Okinawa, on 4 February 1958, for the first of two voyages lifting Marines and their vehicles. She arrived back at Dingalan Bay on 26 February 1958 for exercises in which she acted as receiving ship for simulated battle casualties. On 8 March 1958, Whitfield County headed for the U.S. West Coast and reached San Diego on 31 March 1958.

Between 14 April 1958 and 3 May 1958, Whitfield County underwent an overhaul at the National Steel and Shipbuilding Corporation, San Diego. She then operated off the southern California coast into the summer. Her routine was broken late in July 1958 during the crisis in Lebanon, when American armed forces went on alert for a global posture of readiness. During that time, she cruised to Pearl Harbor between 25 July 1958 and 20 August 1958, after which time she resumed her regular routine out of San Diego.

Shifting to San Francisco and later to Mare Island Navy Yard at Vallejo, California, and Alameda, California, Whitfield County underwent an overhaul at the Todd Shipyards Corporation in preparation for the ship's second Western Pacific deployment. She sailed for the Far East on 23 April 1959, called at Pearl Harbor en route, and reached Yokosuka on 22 May 1959. She then visited Hong Kong between 9 June 1959 and 16 June 1959 and returned to Sasebo on 21 June 1959, via Naha, Okinawa. She then lifted landing vehicles tracked (LVTs) to Chinhae, South Korea, between 22 June 1959 and 28 June 1959 before returning to Sasebo.

Subsequently, loading elements of the 3rd Marine Division at Naha on 6 July 1959, Whitfield County transported the Marines to Numazu, Japan, arriving there a week later. Shifting to Yokosuka shortly thereafter, Whitfield County remained there into August 1959, undergoing needed upkeep and conducting local operations.

Underway for Inchon, South Korea, on 5 August 1959, Whitfield County rendezvoused with other units of Landing Ship Squadron 1 and took part in Operation Seahorse, a full-scale joint amphibious exercise with embarked units of the United States Army's 7th Cavalry Regiment. En route to the maneuver site, Whitfield County evaded Typhoon Ellen. Embarking the elements of the 7th Cavalry at Inchon soon after her arrival on 12 August 1959, Whitfield County sortied for Pohang Dong, on the coast of South Korea, to take part in Operation Seahorse. Whitfield County proved to be the only landing ship tank involved, because the other units of Landing Ship Squadron 1 had been unable to reach the area due to typhoon evasion maneuvers.

Visiting Otaru and Hakodate, Japan, at the end of August 1959 as part of President Dwight D. Eisenhower's People-to-People Program, Whitfield County was en route to Buckner Bay, Okinawa, for routine training evolutions with amphibious tractor units of the 3rd Marine Division when she was diverted for contingency loading at Naha, Okinawa. She received those orders in light of a developing crisis in the landlocked kingdom of Laos.

Whitfield County remained in a high state of readiness in the Okinawa area from 7 September 1959 to 12 October 1959. She steamed between Naha and Buckner Bay during that time and also conducted routine training evolutions, making one transit of the Taiwan Strait and evading five typhoons. During that period, the ship earned a well-done from Commander, Amphibious Squadron 1, for her contributions to relief efforts for Japanese victims of Typhoon Vera.

Ordered to Sasebo on 12 October 1959, Whitfield County underwent voyage repairs there. She cleared that port on 2 November 1959, bound for the U.S. West Coast, and reached San Diego on 24 November 1959. She then remained at her home port in leave and upkeep status for the remainder of 1959.

Following local operations out of her home port into the summer of 1960, including participation in Operation Swandive, held off Camp Pendleton on 8 February 1960 and 9 February 1960, and Operation Bigtop, held between 2 May 1960 and 10 May 1960, Whitfield County got underway for her third Western Pacific tour. After stopping briefly at Pearl Harbor between 22 June 1960 and 26 June 1960, she joined Landing Ship Squadron 9 in Japan on 1 July 1960.

Home-ported then at Yokosuka, Japan, Whitfield County would remain in the Far East until 1973. Her operating schedule reflected the growing American involvement in the affairs of Southeast Asia, particularly in Vietnam.

Whitfield County spent the better part of August 1960 conducting independent ship exercises and transporting Marines between Naha and Numazu and back. She also engaged in the usual typhoon evasions common to operations in that area of the world. In September 1960, she departed Yokosuka for a six-week cruise that was slated to take her to Okinawa, Hong Kong, and Subic Bay, but, soon after leaving Okinawa, she received word to report to Subic Bay. There, she rendezvoused with landing ship tank  and set out for Singapore in the Federated Malay States, on 26 September 1960.

Reaching Singapore on 30 September 1960, the two landing ships tank embarked 600 Malayan troops and their gear, part of a United Nations (UN) force assigned peacekeeping duties in the turbulent Belgian Congo.

Departing Singapore on 3 October 1960, Whitfield County and Windham County tarried briefly at Port Swettenham, Federation of Malaya, to complete the loading and embarkation process begun at Singapore. On 4 October 1960, the two amphibious ships departed Port Swettenham, bound for the port of Matadi, located on the Congo River.

The ships steamed for 27 consecutive days, crossing the Indian Ocean, rounding the Cape of Good Hope on 22 October 1960, and reaching the mouth of the Congo River on 31 October 1960. They then ascended the river some  to Matadi. After disembarking the 600 troops and their equipment, the two ships departed Matadi on 2 November 1960. They arrived at Cape Town, South Africa, on 11 November 1960. They then visited Singapore and Hong Kong before returning to Yokosuka on 20 December 1960. Whitfield County spent the remainder of 1960 in port there.

From 1961 through mid-1964, Whitfield County continued her operations out of Sasebo and ranged from Okinawa to Japan, with port visits at Japanese ports, and to Hong Kong. She also operated upon occasion at Subic Bay.

Vietnam War
In mid-1964, the tempo of operations for the tank landing ship began to change, reflecting the increased role that the United States was playing in Vietnam. On 22 July 1964, Whitfield County departed Yokosuka for a routine trip to Okinawa, but was called away for duty off the coast of Vietnam. She remained at sea for 41 days with Marines embarked, on station off the coast of South Vietnam and ready for contingencies. During that time, the Tonkin Gulf Incident occurred early in August 1964 and further escalated tensions between the United States and North Vietnam.

Whitfield County returned to Yokosuka early in October 1964 for much-needed leave and upkeep. She next conducted type training, made a troop lift from Numazu to Okinawa, and underwent more upkeep in November and December 1964, before rounding out the year in readiness to operate in South Vietnamese waters once more if the situation demanded it.

With a logistical support load on board, Whitfield County departed Okinawa, bound for South Vietnam. She arrived at Da Nang on 5 January 1965 and offloaded part of the cargo before shifting to Chu Lai to discharge the remainder. She sailed for Subic Bay on 6 January 1965, as part of the Subic-South Vietnam shuttle force. Arriving at Subic Bay on 9 January, she took on a load of cargo earmarked for Vietnamese ports and sailed for Da Nang on 16 January with another logistical support load on board.

After unloading that cargo at Da Nang, Whitfield County shifted to Cam Ranh Bay, to load cargo for transport to Phan Rang and Saigon. Ultimately reaching Saigon on 28 January and unloading the remaining cargo, she took on board cargo to be lifted to Qui Nhơn, South Vietnam. Subsequently, routed onward to Okinawa after loading cargo at Da Nang, she reached Okinawa on 10 February.

Taking on board elements of the U.S. Army's 4th Cavalry Regiment, Whitfield County proceeded to Saigon, reaching that port on 20 February. After returning to Okinawa, via Da Nang and Keelung, Taiwan, Whitfield County subsequently steamed back to Vietnamese waters with elements of the 1st Marine Division embarked and put the Marines ashore at Chu Lai. She continued her busy pace of operations, carrying return cargo from Da Nang to Okinawa, arriving at Okinawa on 2 April, before she embarked U.S. Marine Corps elements for maneuvers at Numazu. Reaching her destination on 6 April, she immediately disembarked the Marines and returned to Yokosuka for overhaul.

Following that yard work and the ensuing refresher training, Whitfield County remained at Yokosuka through much of the summer before sailing for Iwakuni, Japan, and arriving there on 27 August to load equipment and embark men of Marine Aircraft Group (MAG) 13 for transfer to South Vietnam. Underway on 29 August, Whitfield County reached Chu Lai on 6 September. She then returned to Japan and made a second trip from Iwakuni to Chu Lai, bringing in the second element of MAG-13.

Whitfield County proceeded thence to Da Nang to embark elements of Marine Battalion Landing Team (BLT) 1st Battalion, 9th Marines for passage to Okinawa. She then proceeded to Naha, where she took on board the men and equipment of the Army's 526th Engineering Detachment. Offloading at Qui Nhơn, the ship shifted to Chu Lai and Da Nang, where she loaded return equipment and sailed for Okinawa. Upon delivering her equipment to Okinawa, she pushed on for Japan and reached Yokosuka on 24 October.

Whitfield Countys upkeep period in Japan lasted into November, when she headed for Hong Kong and six days of rest and recreation. Departing on 23 November, Whitfield County proceeded to Kaohsiung, Taiwan, where she loaded 600 tons of cement slated for transport to South Vietnam. Reaching Phan Rang on 30 November, she offloaded her cargo and departed on 1 December, bound for Da Nang. The normally short trip became a four-day voyage after she ran into heavy weather soon after leaving Phan Rang, but she finally reached Da Nang on 5 December, and took on board equipment for lift to Okinawa. After first offloading the retrograde cargo at Naha, Whitfield County reached her home port of Yokosuka on 15 December, and remained there into late December.

1967
Whitfield County sailed for Vietnamese waters on 29 December, bound for Vũng Tàu and her first deployment with riverine forces. Slated to join River Assault Flotilla 1, Whitfield County arrived at Vũng Tàu on 7 January 1967, embarked a river pilot and one River Assault Flotilla liaison officer and proceeded up the muddy Long Tau River to Saigon. She subsequently beached at Newport South Ramp that evening and remained there until 10 January 1967, embarking men and equipment of River Assault Flotilla I.

Departing Saigon on 10 January 1967, Whitfield County arrived at Vũng Tàu late that same evening. The next day she began providing messing, berthing, and logistical support for the men of the river assault force and the 1,800 troops from the U.S. Army's 9th Division, who were training with the riverine forces. On 26 February 1967, Whitfield County weighed anchor and headed for Yokosuka, arriving there on 9 March 1967. On 5 April 1967, she got underway for Okinawa to load cargo for South Vietnam. A port visit slated for 11 April 1967 at Keelung, Taiwan, was cancelled due to the urgent need for landing ships tank for the impending Operation Oregon. Whitfield County sped to Chu Lai, reached that port on 15 April 1967, and discharged her cargo upon arrival. She then took on board 92 tons of vehicles, 200 officers and men, and the cargo of a Marine Corps headquarters battalion; and proceeded to Da Nang, where she arrived on 16 April 1967.

Offloading upon her arrival, Whitfield County came under the operational control of Naval Support Activities (NavSuppAct) Da Nang to support Operation Oregon and remained in that status until 23 April 1967. During that time, she conducted two beachings at Chu Lai and transported a total of 1,300 tons of general cargo, munitions, and vehicles.

Released from Operation Oregon on 23 April 1967, Whitfield County departed Chu Lai and headed toward the Philippines for type training and a visit to Manila. En route, however, dhr was ordered to proceed at "all best speed" to Subic Bay. Upon arrival there on 25 April 1967, she loaded cargo from attack cargo ship . Then, after picking up additional ammunition, Whitfield County got underway on 27 April 1967, bound for South Vietnam.

On the morning of 30 April 1967, Whitfield County rendezvoused with Amphibious Ready Group (ARG) Alfa, consisting of amphibious assault ship , attack transport  and landing ship dock , which was then conducting Operation Beaver Cage. The operation, an over-the-beach landing in quest of one battalion and three companies of local Viet Cong (VC) guerrillas and at least one People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) battalion, had begun on 28 April 1967.

Assigned an operational area after transferring men and mail brought out from Subic Bay, Whitfield County steamed in the amphibious objective area until 10 May 1967, when she embarked 100 patients and 100 empty oxygen bottles from hospital ship  for transportation to Da Nang. Reaching Da Nang on 11 May 1967, Whitfield County returned to Amphibious Ready Group "Alfa" on the morning of 13 May 1967, again landed passengers and delivered mail, refilled oxygen bottles, ice cream and other dairy products to Sanctuary. Upon the termination of Operation Beaver Cage that afternoon, the enemy having fled, Whitfield County''' proceeded to a holding area at sea northeast of Da Nang and rendezvoused with the other ships of the amphibious ready group that evening.

On 16 May 1967, in a commanders' conference on board Okinawa, the commander of Amphibious Squadron 9 revealed the next operation, Operation Beau Charger. On the morning of 17 May 1967, the task group rendezvoused with stores ship  for replenishment and, during the early evening hours, began its approach to the Vietnamese Demilitarized Zone (DMZ).

The largest concentration of naval gunfire support ships since the Korean War (1950–1953) softened the DMZ prior to Amphibious Ready Group Alpha's assault, which was aimed at destroying enemy forces and supplies and evacuating non-combatants. At 08:00, Operation Beau Charger commenced as destroyers quickly moved in and blasted the enemy guns. Resistance at the beach was confined to sniper fire and shells from quickly silenced North Vietnamese shore batteries. Pronounced resistance came at helicopter landing zones, but despite that, the helicopter-landed Marines linked up with tank units and initiated search and destroy operations that lasted through the next week. Whitfield County operated in support of Operation Beau Charger until 25 May 1967, conducting replenishment via landing craft and boats of supplies needed ashore with craft from USS Point Defiance.

Proceeding to Da Nang on 25 May 1967, Whitfield County reached Da Nang on 26 May 1967 and, after offloading, was detached from Amphibious Ready Group Alfa. She subsequently transported a load of bombs from Da Nang to Chu Lai, loading vehicles there for transportation to Naha, before she returned to Da Nang to load equipment and embark men of Amphibious Construction Battalion 1, Detachment "B." She departed Vietnamese waters on the morning of 3 June 1967 and reached Naha on 9 June 1967. Offloading the vehicles and backloading deadlined generators, Whitfield County arrived at Yokosuka on 14 June 1967.Whitfield County returned to Vietnamese waters in the summer of 1967 to resume her support operations for riverine activities in the Mekong Delta region of South Vietnam, basing again at Vũng Tàu. She departed Yokosuka on 28 July 1967 and reached Vũng Tàu, after a stop at Hong Kong, on 17 August 1967. Relieving landing ship tank  of Task Force 117 support duties on 18 August 1967, Whitfield County got underway on 20 August 1967 for the confluence of the Vam Co River and Soirap River to rendezvous with the Mobile Riverine Base (MRB).

From 20 August 1967 to 5 September 1967, Whitfield County provided "housekeeping" services and support for River Division III, "C" Company, 2nd Brigade, 9th Infantry Division, and "A" Company, 9th Battalion. She supplied ammunition, water, and rations to the troops in the field, was the focal point of helicopter support operations, served as combat store warehouse, and provided mortuary services for the killed in action periodically brought to the ship.

Toward the end of that period, on 3 September 1967, the Mobile Riverine Base shifted its base of operations from the Soirap-Vam Co area back to Vũng Tàu to support projected riverine strikes into the Rung Sat Special Zone. On 11 September 1967, the Mobile Riverine Base proceeded to the Mekong River entrance, escorted by various units of the Riverine Division, who provided minesweeping, close fire support, and reconnaissance when needed. Subsequently, while located in the Dong Tam Base Camp area, Whitfield County assisted search and destroy operations in the Cam Son secret zone, Dinh Tuong Province, Kien Hoa Province and in the Giong Troms district.

On 28 September 1967, the Mobile Riverine Base shifted again, this time to the confluence of the Cua Tien River and the Cua Dai River, to facilitate strike operations into Kien Hoa Province. Whitfield County worked in that locale until 1 October 1967, when the Mobile Riverine Base was shifted back to Dong Tam to support projected strikes into the Western Ben Zong secret zone, Dinh Troung Province, to destroy PAVN/VC forces in that area.Whitfield County subsequently supported mobile riverine operations at Vũng Tàu and back at the junction of the Soirap and Vam Co Rivers into late October 1967. While in the latter locale, elements of the riverine forces provided the necessary security during the lower house elections for South Vietnam's parliament. Returning to Vũng Tàu on 24 October 1967, Whitfield County was relieved by landing ship tank  and returned to Japan.Whitfield County underwent a period of upkeep back at Yokosuka before she returned to Vietnamese waters at the end of November 1967. She operated between Da Nang and Chu Lai through early December 1967, transporting vehicles and other cargo, before she steamed back to Yokosuka. She arrived at Yokosuka on 22 December 1967 and remained in port until late in January 1968.

 1968
Underway on 22 January 1968 with a cargo of two pontoon causeway sections, the vehicles and men of BMU-1, and a CH-46 helicopter, with its accompanying Sea Van — an experimental housing seeing its first operational test and evaluation aboard Whitfield County — the ship headed for Vietnam. Touching at Naha en route, Whitfield County reached Da Nang on 31 January 1968, transferred the Sea Van to USS Vernon County, and relieved Vernon County as support landing ship tank for Amphibious Ready Group Bravo. With the relief and transfer of the Marines and equipment completed, Whitfield County took on board the men and mail to be transported to Amphibious Ready Group Bravo and got underway on 2 February 1968

Over the ensuing month and a half, Whitfield County operated with Amphibious Ready Group Bravo within various operating areas off the DMZ, occasionally returning to Da Nang for mail, fleet freight, and passengers for delivery to the other units of the ready group. Whitfield County also sailed to Subic Bay as part of the task force for upkeep between 21 February 1968 and 28 February 1968 before she returned to Vietnamese waters. Landing ship tank  relieved Whitfield County as support LST at Da Nang on 14 March 1968.

After a subsequent port call at Hong Kong and a quick run to Yokosuka for restricted availability, Whitfield County returned to Vietnamese waters for a resumption of operations with the Mobile Riverine Force in mid-July 1968 at Dong Tam, again relieving Vernon County. During her deployment with Task Force 117 in ensuing months, Whitfield County operated on a nearly non-stop, 24-hour-a-day basis, supporting the U.S. Army's 4th Battalion, 47th Infantry Regiment), 9th Infantry Division, and three helicopters of a U.S. Army aviation detachment, as well as the boats and men of River Assault Division 92. By the time landing ship tank Westchester County relieved Whitfield County on 23 September 1968, Whitfield County had travelled over 900 nautical miles (1,667 kilometers) within the Mekong Delta, processed over 25,000 hot rations, and handled roughly 4,000 tons of cargo.

Subsequently, visiting Bangkok, Thailand, for rest and recreation, Whitfield County then headed for Da Nang, where she side-loaded two causeway sections for transportation to Okinawa. She then returned to Yokosuka for repairs before again heading for Vietnam toward the end of November 1968. Touching at Subic Bay en route, she reputedly became the first landing ship tank to use water-filled causeway sections to serve as armor along the thinly-armored sides of the ship. The causeway sections were intended provide a water-filled barrier against recoilless rifle projectiles and rockets.

After relieving landing ship tank  at Dong Tam on 30 November 1968, Whitfield County spent the rest of 1968 as support landing ship tank for Mobile Riverine Group Alfa, Task Group 117.1, one of the two task groups that made up Mobile Riverine Flotilla 1. Other ships of Mobile Riverine Group Alfa were the barracks ships  and , the landing craft repair ship  and the barracks craft  and . Embarked in Whitfield County were elements of the Army's 9th Infantry Division and a Cyclops aviation detachment, equipped with OH-6 Cayuse helicopters. The ship herself performed a fivefold role: (1) maintaining a round-the-clock, air- and water-mobile resupply readiness to provide field units with ammunition, rations, fresh water, and fuel; (2) serving as a mobile base for helicopter operations; (3) providing harassment and on-call gunfire support when necessary; (4) supplying boat service among the ships of the Mobile Riverine Group; and (5) providing subsistence, berthing, and services for embarked personnel.

 1969
At 23:30 on 9 January 1969, the Mobile Riverine Group base at Dong Tam came under enemy rocket and mortar attack. Whitfield County went to general quarters and participated in counterbattery fire, hurling 16 rounds of 3-inch (76.2-millimeter) projectiles in the direction of the hostile fire. Although securing at midnight, Whitfield County manned her guns a half-hour later, at 00:30, lobbing three rounds of call fire.Whitfield County subsequently shifted from Bến Tre to the Song Ham Loung anchorage and returned to Dong Tam at 11:00 on 20 January 1969 to commence turnover to Vernon County, her relief in Task Group 117.1. That night, communist forces attacked the Mobile Riverine Group and the base at Dong Tam with rockets and mortars; Whitfield County went to general quarters at 21:59 and, between 22:50 and 23:00, expended 12 rounds against the enemy artillerymen. Between 1 January 1969 and 22 January 1969, Whitfield Countys gunners loosed a total of 78 rounds of call-fire, and the ship held flight quarters for the recovery of Cayuse and UH-lB Huey helicopters 306 times, without mishap. At 23:00 on 23 January 1969, Whitfield Countys turnover to Vernon County was complete.

However, there was more work for Whitfield County before she could clear the muddy Vietnamese waters. At 23:21 she headed for Vũng Tàu. There, she took over from landing ship tank , which had recently been damaged in a VC rocket attack while beached at the Vũng Tàu ramps, in supporting and resupplying Task Group 117.2, Mobile Riverine Group Bravo.

Late on 24 January 1969, after loading a tank deck cargo of palletized ammunition and C rations and a main-deck load of crated supplies, spare parts, stores, and fresh provisions, Whitfield County got underway for the mouth of the Bassac River (Cua Tranh De). On the morning of 26 January 1969, Whitfield County, escorted by two river patrol boats (PBRs), transited the Bassac River without incident and over the ensuing days resupplied and provisioned the ships of Task Group 117.2, landing craft repair ship  and barracks ships  and . Whitfield County then returned to Vũng Tàu, where she was relieved as support landing ship tank for Task Group 117.2 by  on 30 January 1969. At noon that day, Whitfield County headed for Hong Kong.Whitfield County spent six days at Hong Kong before she sailed for Okinawa to pick up cargo earmarked for shipment to Yokosuka. After loading vehicles and nine men from Beachmaster Unit 1, Western Pacific Detachment, at Red Beach 1, Chin Wan, Okinawa, Whitfield County proceeded on to Yokosuka, reaching that port on the morning of 17 February 1969.

After upkeep at Yokosuka in late February 1969, Whitfield County acted as observer at the Republic of Korea Navy amphibious exercise Phiblex 1-69 at Chinhae, South Korea, between 28 March 1969 and 2 April 1969. During that time, she also trained South Korean naval personnel. Whitfield County subsequently returned to Yokosuka for more upkeep before she sailed, via Subic Bay, for Vietnamese waters where she loaded side-protection causeway sections.

Arriving at Dong Tam on 8 May 1969, she there relieved Windham County as support landing ship tank for River Assault Flotilla 1, Task Force 117. As before, she operated alternately at Dong Tam, Song Ham Loung (Bến Tre), and Mỹ Tho. At 02:05 on 6 June 1969, while Whitfield County was at Dong Tam, four rounds of hostile fire landed between 50 and 300 yards (46 and 274 meters) from the ships of the Mobile Riverine Force. Whitfield County immediately set general quarters; and, in the next 35 minutes, her guns hurled some 140 rounds of 3-inch (76.2-millimeter) counterbattery fire at the enemy artillery. The riverine force again came under enemy fire that morning; Whitfield County again blasted the enemy positions with 170 more 3-inch (76.2-millimeter) projectiles.Whitfield County subsequently shifted to Bến Tre but returned to Dong Tam by 13 June 1969. While she lay anchored there, Storekeeper 3rd Class L. E. Smith, assigned as roving sentry on the port side of the ship, spotted a swimmer in the water at 01:00 on 15 June 1969. Since VC sappers were known to have been active in that area, Storekeeper Smith promptly opened fire. Within a short time, the water around the ship was thoroughly grenaded. Later that morning, a Vietnamese body that had been shot was found floating nearby. For his prompt action, Storekeeper Smith received the recommendation for the Navy Commendation Medal for "effectively thwarting an attempt to mine the ship."

Three days later, rocket fire landed within  of the ship at 14:05 on 18 June 1969. Unable to return the fire because of the presence of friendly forces in the area, Whitfield County shifted her anchorage to avoid being hit. Later that afternoon, the riverine force shifted its anchorage back to Mỹ Tho.Whitfield County was relieved by landing ship tank USS Tom Green County on 4 July 1969. Between 8 May 1969 and 4 July 1969, Whitfield County had expended some 2,982 rounds of 3-inch (76.2-millimeter) projectiles on call-fire and counterbattery fire, conducted some 850 helicopter landings, and travelled  within the Mekong Delta. She had also witnessed the gradual turnover of all River Assault Flotilla 1 assets to the Republic of Vietnam Navy, the beginning of the redeployment of the 9th Infantry Division from the Mekong Delta, and the gradual disbanding of Task Force 117. When she sailed on 5 July 1969, she left the Mekong Delta region for the last time.

Returning to Yokosuka via Keelung, Taiwan, Whitfield County soon commenced a badly needed overhaul, one that lasted into the autumn of 1969. For the remainder of the 1969, she operated locally in Japanese waters.

 1970–1972
Until 1972, Whitfield County worked out of Yokosuka, touching occasionally at Okinawa in the course of amphibious maneuvers and exercises and at Subic Bay in the Philippines. She served three tours with Amphibious Ready Group Bravo in 1970.

During 1971, Whitfield County served two tours as support landing ship tank for Operation Market Time interdiction operations out of Vũng Tàu. A highlight of her 1971 operations were her support activities for stores ship Regulus, which had been forced aground on the rocks in the western harbor of Hong Kong when Typhoon Rose struck China on 16 August 1971; Whitfield County provided berthing and messing facilities for Reguluss crew.Whitfield County served one tour with Amphibious Ready Group Alfa and one with Operation Market Time forces in 1972.

 Decommissioning and Greek service Whitfield County arrived at Yokosuka on 23 December 1972 after exercising with U.S. Marine Corps units at Okinawa. She remained there until she was decommissioned on 15 March 1973. She was stricken from the Navy List on 15 August 1976.Whitfield County was sold to Greece on 1 March 1977 under the Security Assistance Program. Commissioned into the Hellenic Navy, she was renamed Kos (L116). Kos had a long career, not being decommissioned until 1 June 2000.Kos was sunk as a target on 24 June 2004 during the Hellenic Navy exercise Thiela III by Penguin missiles fired by the Greek fast attack craft missile (FACMs)  and  and torpedoes from the Greek torpedo boats  and .

 Awards Whitfield County'' performed services of signal importance during the Vietnam War, services that were important but, due to their nature, largely unsung in the public eye. Nonetheless, she was awarded the Presidential Unit Citation for her operations with Task Force 117 from 8 May 1969 to 5 July 1969, three Navy Unit Commendations, three Meritorious Unit Commendations, and 11 battle stars. The battle stars were for:

Vietnam Defense 4 July 1965, 6 July 1965 – 14 July 1965, 14 August 1965 – 19 August 1965, 3 September 1965 – 12 September 1965, 12 November 1965 – 16 November 1965, and 2 December 1965 – 10 December 1965
Vietnamese Counteroffensive 4 January 1966 – 6 January 1966, 18 January 1966 – 4 February 1966, 20 February 1966 – 7 March 1966, and 25 March 1966 – 27 March 1966
Vietnamese Counteroffensive Phase II 5 September 1966 – 7 September 1966, 24 September 1966 – 28 September 1966, 11 October 1966 – 14 October 1966, 29 November 1966 – 6 December 1966 7 January 1967 – 27 February 1967, 15 April 1967 – 24 April 1967 and 29 April 1967 – 31 May 1967
Vietnamese Counteroffensive Phase III 1 June 1967 – 3 June 1967, 17 August 1967 – 29 October 1967, and 28 November 1967 – 13 December 1967
Tet Counteroffensive 30 January 1968 – 17 February 1968 and 1 March 1968 – 13 March 1968
Vietnamese Counteroffensive Phase IV 11 May 1968 – 13 May 1968
Vietnamese Counteroffensive Phase V 15 July 1968 – 23 September 1968 and 5 October 1968 – 9 October 1968
Vietnam Winter–Spring 1970 30 November 1968 – 4 February 1969, 6 May 1969 – 6 July 1969, and 8 February 1970 – 10 February 1970
Vietnamese Counteroffensive Phase VII 28 December 1970 – 2 January 1971 and 7 May 1971 – 25 June 1971
Consolidation II 1 January 1972 – 29 January 1972
Vietnam Ceasefire 8 July 1972 – 1 August 1972 and 8 August 1972 – 17 September 1972

Notes

References

External links
NavSource Online: Amphibious Photo Archive: USS Whitfield County (LST-1169) ex USS LST-1169 (1954–1955)

Terrebonne Parish-class tank landing ships
Ships built in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin
1953 ships
Cold War amphibious warfare vessels of the United States
Vietnam War amphibious warfare vessels of the United States
USS Terrell County (LST-1157)
Kos
Ships sunk as targets


The Prussian Class G 7.1 engines of the Prussian state railways were German eight-coupled, goods train, steam locomotives.

History
They were first built in 1893 by the firm of Stettiner Maschinenbau AG Vulcan, but later by the other larger Prussian locomotive manufacturers as well. The boiler was the same as that of the G 5.1.

The locomotives were intended for heavy goods duties especially on hilly routes. As a result, most of the engines went to the western German and Silesian railway divisions. By 1909, 1,002 examples had been delivered to the Prussian state railways. During the First World War simple and robust locomotives were required for military use. As a result, in 1916/1917 a further 200 G 7.1s were built. From 1916, the k.u.k. Heeresbahn in Austria had 35 units of the Class G 7.1 which it named the Class 274. They were intended for use on the broad gauge Russian Railways. The  Lübeck-Büchen Railway also bought three G 7.1s, which had been manufactured in 1898 by Schwartzkopff. Another seven engines went to the Gutehoffnungshütte. Even the Palatinate Railway placed 27 of its G 4' in service; the design of these was based on the Prussian G 7.1.

In 1923 the Deutsche Reichsbahn took over no less than 680 from the Prussian state railways into its renumbering plan; in 1925 they listed locomotive numbers 55 001–660. In 1935, 14 more came from the Saar railways Reichsbahn fleet as 55 661 to 55 674; this included one locomotive that the Saar Railways had acquired from Alsace-Lorraine for border services. The three G 7.1s with the Lübeck-Büchen Railway were given numbers 55 681–683 in 1938.

In the Second World War 105 G 7.1s were taken over from Poland into the Reichsbahn's inventory. They were given the numbers of engines already retired. In addition, G 7.1 engines from Lithuania were added as numbers 55 274 and 55 691-694.

After the Second World War, the locomotives that ended up in the Deutsche Bundesbahn were mainly used in shunting duties and were retired by 1957. In the Deutsche Reichsbahn in East Germany the last G 7.1 was not retired until 1966, including number 55 642.

Preserved locomotives

Locomotive 55 669 was retired in 1964 and has been displayed since in the Dresden Transport Museum in Dresden. Photograph of the 55 669

Locomotives 55 196, 393, 400, 493 and 553 were left in Austrian territory after the Second World War. Apart from 55 553, which had been taken over by 1950, the ÖBB incorporated them into their ÖBB Class 655, retaining their serial numbers. The last one, 655.393, was withdrawn in 1957. Its task had been shunting at Stadlau station.

The vehicles were equipped with tenders of classes pr 3 T 12 and pr 3 T 16.5 (built 1916/17).

See also
Prussian state railways
List of Prussian locomotives and railcars

Notes

References

Further reading

Railway locomotives introduced in 1893
G 07.1
0-8-0 locomotives
Freight locomotives
Standard gauge locomotives of Germany
Standard gauge locomotives of Italy
D n2 locomotives
AG Vulcan Stettin locomotives
Hanomag locomotives
Schichau-Werke locomotives
Linke-Hofmann locomotives
Sächsische Maschinenfabrik locomotives
Berliner locomotives
Henschel locomotives
Hohenzollern locomotives
Orenstein & Koppel locomotives
Borsig locomotives
Arnold Jung locomotives


Beast was a Canadian electronic music duo based out of Montreal. Its members were vocalist and lyricist Béatrice Bonifassi and composer/producer Jean-Philippe Goncalves. Bonifassi was the main songwriter for the band and the music was composed and produced by Goncalves.

Beast was described as "an experimental hip hop project filled with psychedelic trip hop-style electronica, aggressive guitars and loud drum beats," or (as Bonifassi describes it) "trip rock".

History
Bonifassi and Goncalves, both originally from France, were active members in the Montreal music scene, and had each been making music for about 20 years by the time they began collaborating musically. Bonifassi had previously worked with such local musicians as composer and saxophonist, François D'Amours, DJ/techno musician Champion, and yet another French expat rock musician, Deweare. Jean-Phi Goncalves, a percussionist and record producer, had produced albums for Quebec musicians such as Pierre Lapointe, Jean-Pierre Ferland, Ariane Moffatt and Daniel Bélanger as well as American recording artist Lauryn Hill.  He also played percussion for the singer Dumas and for Montreal bands Afrodizz and Plaster.

The pair first worked together in 2006 on a project for the video game company Ubisoft in 2006. The resulting sound was angrier than either artist was used to: "The angry message is about letting the beast out that's inside, because in society you're not allowed to be emotive or sensitive. The feelings of the moment when we were writing were mostly sadness and anger," said Bonifassi in an interview with Canadian music news magazine, Chart.

Their first performance was on March 1, 2008, at the after-party for the Montreal International Music Initiative Awards, or MIMI Awards.  They also performed at two separate venues during the 2008 NXNE festival in Toronto; the Canadian news magazine Chart gave Beast "highest marks" for their performances at the festival. In late 2008 the duo toured with British Columbia dance-punk band You Say Party! We Say Die!

Beast's self-titled debut album was made available internationally on iTunes on November 4, 2008, and their first single, "Mr. Hurricane", was offered for free on iTunes as the Single of the Week in 6 major markets including the US, the UK, France and Australia. Bonifassi's vocal stylings on the album leaned towards rap and spoken-word.  Canadian singer-songwriter Simon Wilcox also assisted Bonifassi (whose native language is French) with Beast'''s lyrics, which are all performed in English. "Simon really understood my dark side and the sadness of the moment," says Bonifassi. "I really wanted to sing something lyrically rich and powerful."

In 2010, the video for the single "Mr. Hurricane" was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Music Video but lost to The Black Eyed Peas.Aikman, Jennifer, "2010 Grammy Nominated Video: Beast's "Mr Hurricane"", CBC Radio 3, Jan 28, 2009  Retrieved Feb 1, 2010

In 2010, the song "Satan" played during the closing credits of an episode of the HBO show Hung. In 2011, the song "Mr. Hurricane" was used in the closing credits of "In Sickness", an episode of the television series The Good Wife. "Satan" was used in two episodes of The Good Wife in 2013.

Dissolution
At the end of 2010 Bonifassi and Goncalves announced that they would be taking an indefinite break from the Beast project. Goncalves stated that the split was not due to any sort of quarrel, but due to lagging album sales, frustration with the record industry, the tiresome effects of touring, and family commitments.Léveillée, Antoine. "À la prochaine, si Dieu le veut", Voir, Dec 9, 2010 (French text) Retrieved May 6, 2011

Goncalves returned to Plaster. In 2011 Bonifassi performed at the Festival Montréal en lumière'' in February, and she held two performances at the 2011 Les FrancoFolies de Montréal music festival on June 17 and 18.

Discography

Albums

Singles

References

External links
 MySpace profile
 Beast on iTunes

Canadian electronic music groups
Electronic music duos
Musical groups from Montreal
Musical groups established in 2006
Canadian musical duos
2006 establishments in Quebec
Male–female musical duos


Achimota ( ), is a town in the Accra Metropolitan District, a district of the Greater Accra Region of Ghana.  Achimota means "speak no name" in the Ga language. In pre-colonial Ghana, its forbidden forest was a "silent" refuge for runaway slaves.

Education
Achimota is known for the eponymous Achimota School, as well as the St. John's Grammar School. Achimota is located on the Accra highway just after Tesano and has well laid buildings, bars and a good nightlife.

Healthcare
Achimota Hospital, located near the Achimota Golf Course, is the primary healthcare institution in Achimota.

Transport
Achimota is served by a station on the Ghana Railways.

Facilities

 Achimota Police Station
 Achimota Golf Course
 Achimota Forest

See also
 Achimota Transport Terminal
 Railway stations in Ghana

References

External links
 Achimota - Google Map

Populated places in the Greater Accra Region


Paul Robinson (born 28 May 1984 in Newcastle upon Tyne) is an English professional footballer who plays as a forward for North Shields.

He notably played in the Football League for Grimsby Town, where he was on loan from Tranmere Rovers. He left Rovers in 2004 having failed to make an appearance and went on to feature for Vauxhall Motors, York City, Bedlington Terriers, Newcastle Blue Star and Whitley Bay.

Career

Robinson was associated with his home-town club Newcastle United as a schoolboy, then moved to Tranmere Rovers as a 16-year-old. He turned professional in 2002, spent time on loan to Vauxhall Motors of the Northern Premier League, and scored well in youth and reserve team football, but in August 2003 was allowed to join Football League Two club York City on a two-game trial with a view to a possible loan or permanent move. An ankle injury cut short the trial and the player returned to Prenton Park.

In September 2004, Grimsby Town manager Russell Slade signed Robinson on a one-month loan. Slade also signed Jon Daly and Chris Williams from Stockport County. As all three players were forwards, this meant the club had six forwards under contract. Robinson got his chance at Blundell Park; he made his full professional debut on 11 September 2004, playing the whole of a 3–1 defeat against Macclesfield Town. He played twice more for the Mariners, each time finishing on the losing side, and then returned to Tranmere.

Unable to hold down a place in Tranmere's reserves, Robinson returned to York City, by then a Conference club, on trial in November 2004. While the trial continued, Tranmere released the player, who then signed a short-term contract with York City. York City's squad already contained the former Newcastle United striker Paul Robinson, who was listed as Paul D Robinson to avoid confusion.

Robinson was released at the end of the season and returned to his native north-east of England, where he joined Bedlington Terriers of the Northern League, the club for which his brother Michael was playing. In the 2006 close season he signed for Northern League champions Newcastle Blue Star, and a year later moved on to Whitley Bay of Northern League Division One. In 2009, he was part of the team that beat Glossop North End in the final of the FA Vase at Wembley, having lost at the semi-final stage the previous year. Robinson returned to Wembley the following season having scored a dramatic last minute winning goal in the semi-final against Barwell, and scored the 5th goal in a 6–1 rout of Wroxham. Robinson ended the season winning the BBC Radio Newcastle player of the year award, and also added Goal of the Season, Fans player of the Season, Players player of the Season and Player of the year at the annual Whitley Bay presentation evening, to his ever-growing list of individual trophies, this as well as finishing runner up in the Northern League Player of the year awards. In 2012 it was announced that Robinson would captain the side in 2012–2013 season. He joined Darlington 1883 in May 2013, and Blyth Spartans in November 2013.

Robinson has since gone on to have two spells with Blyth Spartans sandwiching a second spell with Whitley before moving on to Morpeth Town and North Shields.

References

External links
  (up to 2003–04 season)
  (2004–05 season)

Living people
1984 births
Footballers from Newcastle upon Tyne
English men's footballers
Men's association football forwards
Tranmere Rovers F.C. players
Vauxhall Motors F.C. players
Grimsby Town F.C. players
York City F.C. players
Bedlington Terriers F.C. players
Newcastle Blue Star F.C. players
Whitley Bay F.C. players
Darlington F.C. players
English Football League players
National League (English football) players
Blyth Spartans A.F.C. players


And They Call It Democracy is a radio program which ran from June 2005 to November 2008 on KPOV-LP in Bend, Oregon, United States, hosted by Timoteo Jeffries. And They Call It Democracy'''s tagline is "news and analysis from a leftist, socialist, and environmentalist perspective".

Production

Format
Broadcasts generally consisted of coverage of current events, especially related to politics, media, and US relations with Latin America, using a range of English and Spanish news sources were used. Analysis and opinion was provided by Jeffries and often focused on the fundamental differences in the reporting of the issues by mainstream US and alternative or Latin American sources. Each section of the show (except for some of the earliest broadcasts) was read by Jeffries in both English and Spanish. Some broadcasts featured Jeffries' wife (a native Spanish speaker) providing the Spanish translation.

Air times
During the November 5, 2008, broadcast Jeffries announced that he would be going on sabbatical. New shows are not currently being produced.

The latest shows of And They Call It Democracy'' were broadcast on every other Wednesday at 5pm on KPOV-LP. The KPOV website hosts the latest broadcasts of their shows available for download.  the show's website has started to provide archived audio and transcripts from past broadcasts.

References

External links
Official website
KPOV Bend Community Radio

2005 radio programme debuts
2008 radio programme endings
American news radio programs
Alternative radio programs


Revolution Prep is an American based company that offers test preparation courses, including group classes, private tutoring, and online courses for the SAT and ACT standardized achievement tests.

History
Revolution Prep, based in Santa Monica, California, began in 2002 after founders Ramit Varma and Jake Neuberg met at UCLA's Anderson School of Business. After years of teaching for Kaplan and The Princeton Review, Neuberg and Varma started a company with the goal of improving traditional educational tools and creating new and innovative solutions to academic problems. They created their own SAT Reasoning Test* curriculum along with a program that offers scholarships to students who otherwise could not afford their services. The firm's products and services now address a range of academic areas, including ACT, GRE, high-stakes No Child Left Behind testing, and online education.

In 2010, the firm worked with the Partnership for LA Schools to offer free SAT classes to students at the Santee Educational Complex in Los Angeles, California and was commended in an open letter by Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa.

Revolution Prep does not offer face-to-face individual tutoring, instead providing online SAT and ACT preparation. Additionally, Revolution Prep offers classes on a contract basis. These are held on campus and include fully proctored and timed practice exams.

In June 2010, the firm acquired test prep and admissions consulting company Ivy Insiders.

Revolution Prep has an office in Los Angeles.

References

External links
 Official website

Standardized tests in the United States
Test preparation companies
Software companies based in California
Educational technology companies of the United States
Virtual learning environments
Companies based in Los Angeles
Education companies established in 2002
2002 establishments in California
Software companies of the United States


The women's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay was a swimming event held as part of the swimming at the 1932 Summer Olympics programme. It was the fifth appearance of the event, which was established in 1912. The competition was held on Friday, August 12, 1932.

Twenty swimmers from five nations competed.

Medalists

Records
These were the standing world and Olympic records (in minutes) prior to the 1928 Summer Olympics.

The United States set a new world record with 4:38.0 minutes.

Results

As there were only five nation who competed in this event only a final was held.

Final

References

External links
Olympic Report

Swimming at the 1932 Summer Olympics
1932 in women's swimming
Women's events at the 1932 Summer Olympics


This is a list of banking crises. A banking crisis is a financial crisis that affects banking activity. Banking crises include bank runs, which affect single banks; banking panics, which affect many banks; and systemic banking crises, in which a country experiences many defaults and financial institutions and corporations face great difficulties repaying contracts. A banking crisis is marked by bank runs that lead to the demise of financial institutions, or by the demise of a financial institution that starts a string of similar demises.

Bank runs

A bank run occurs when many bank customers withdraw their deposits because they believe the bank might fail. There have been many runs on individual banks throughout history; for example, some of the 2008–2009 bank failures in the United States were associated with bank runs.

Banking panics and systemic banking crises

18th century
Crisis of 1763, started in Amsterdam, begun by the collapse of Johann Ernst Gotzkowsky and Leendert Pieter de Neufville's bank, spread to Germany and Scandinavia
British credit crisis of 1772-1773 in London and Amsterdam, begun by the collapse of the bankers Neal, James, Fordyce and Down.
Panic of 1792, New York
Panic of 1796–1797, Britain and United States

19th century
Panic of 1819, a U.S. recession with bank failures; culmination of U.S.'s first boom-to-bust economic cycle
Panic of 1825, a pervasive British recession in which many banks failed, nearly including the Bank of England
Panic of 1837, a U.S. recession with bank failures, followed by a 5-year depression
Panic of 1847, United Kingdom
Panic of 1857, a U.S. recession with bank failures
Panic of 1866, Europe
Panic of 1873, a U.S. recession with bank failures, followed by a 4-year depression
Panic of 1884, United States and Europe
Panic of 1890, mainly affecting the United Kingdom and Argentina
Panic of 1893, a U.S. recession with bank failures
Australian banking crisis of 1893
Panic of 1896, acute U.S. recession

20th century
Panic of 1901, a U.S. economic recession that started a fight for financial control of the Northern Pacific Railway
Panic of 1907, a U.S. economic recession with bank failures
Shōwa Financial Crisis, a 1927 Japanese financial panic that resulted in mass bank failures across the Empire of Japan.
Great Depression, the worst systemic banking crisis of the 20th century
Secondary banking crisis of 1973–1975 in the UK
Japanese asset price bubble (1986–2003)
Savings and loan crisis of the 1980s and 1990s in the U.S.
1988–1992 Norwegian banking crisis
Finnish banking crisis of 1990s
Sweden financial crisis 1990–1994
Rhode Island banking crisis
Peruvian banking crisis of 1992
Venezuelan banking crisis of 1994
1997 Asian financial crisis
 Enping financial crisis
1998 collapse of Long-Term Capital Management
1998 Russian financial crisis
1998–2002 Argentine great depression
1998–1999 Ecuador economic crisis

21st century
2002 Uruguay banking crisis
2003 Myanmar banking crisis
Financial crisis of 2007–2008, including:
Subprime mortgage crisis in the U.S. starting in 2007
2008 United Kingdom bank rescue package
2009 United Kingdom bank rescue package
2008–2009 Belgian financial crisis
2008–2011 Icelandic financial crisis
Great Recession in Russia
2008–2009 Ukrainian financial crisis
2008–2014 Spanish financial crisis
Post-2008 Irish banking crisis
Venezuelan banking crisis of 2009–2010
Ghana banking crisis of 2017–2018
2023 global banking crisis

See also
List of economic crises
List of bank runs

References

Taylor, Alan M. The great leveraging. NBER 18290

Notes

Finance lists

crises


Version 7.0: The Street Scriptures is the fifth studio album by American hip hop recording artist Guru formerly of the group Gang Starr.

Doo Wop, Styles P, Jaguar Wright, Jean Grae, Talib Kweli and B-Real appear on this album. The Greek version features verses from the Greek rapper Εισβολέας (Invader) for 33⅓ Entertainment.
The track "Cave In" was featured in the 2005 racing video game Juiced.

Track listing
 "No Time" – 3:12
 "False Prophets" – 3:07
 "Step in the Arena 2 (I'm Sayin’)" (featuring Doo Wop) – 2:35
 "Don Status" (featuring Styles P) – 2:52
 "Hood Dreamin" – 2:16
 "Cave In" – 1:58
 "Surviving the Game" – 2:33
 "Hall of Fame" – 3:51
 "Talk to Me" (featuring Jaguar Wright) – 4:11
 "Too Dark See" – 3:09
 "Power, Money and Influence" (featuring Jean Grae and Talib Kweli) – 4:12
 "Kingpin" – 3:07
 "Fa Keeps" – 3:26
 "Real Life" (featuring B-Real) – 2:47
 "Feed the Hungry" – 3:04
 "Talkin' Loud and Frontin'" – 2:53
 "Open House" – 3:04
 "I Gotta..." – 2:47
 "What's My Life Like?" – 4:27

Production
All tracks produced by Solar and Guru.

Charts

References

2005 albums
Guru (rapper) albums
Albums produced by Guru


Harro Bode (born 20 February 1951, in Sobernheim) is a German sailor and Olympic champion. He won a gold medal in the 470 Class with Frank Hübner at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal.

Bode studied civil engineering and later became CEO of , a large water utility in the west of Germany. He was appointed honorary professor at the University of Hanover and published many papers about water science and water politics.

Honours
 1976: Award of silver laurel leaf by German Bundespräsident Walter Scheel
 1987: Karl-Imhoff-Prize of the German Association for Water, Wastewater and Waste (DWA) (formerly ATV)
 2014: IWA-Award for "Outstanding Contribution to Water Management and Science"
 2015: Golden Badge of Honor of the German Association for Water, Wastewater and Waste (DWA)

References

External links

 Literature from and about Harro Bode in the catalogue of the German national library
 Ruhrverband

1951 births
Living people
German male sailors (sport)
Olympic sailors for West Germany
Olympic gold medalists for West Germany
Olympic medalists in sailing
Sailors at the 1976 Summer Olympics – 470
Medalists at the 1976 Summer Olympics


Hans Schinz (6 December 1858 – 30 October 1941) was a Swiss explorer and botanist who was a native of Zürich.

In 1884 he participated in an exploratory expedition to German Southwest Africa that was organized by German merchant Adolf Lüderitz (1834–1886). For the next few years Schinz undertook extensive scientific studies of the northern parts of the colony. As a result of the expedition, he published Deutsch-Südwestafrika, Forschungsreisen durch die deutschen Schutzgebiete Groß- Nama- und Hereroland, nach dem Kunene, dem Ngamisee und Kalahari 1884-1887 (German South West Africa: Research Expedition of Herero and Nama Country, the Kunene Region, Lake Ngami and the Kalahari; 1884–1887). This work was an important scientific, geographic and ethnographic study of the colony, and was one of the first comprehensive works on the Ovamboland region. It was during this expedition that he made the acquaintance of the Finnish missionary Martti Rautanen (1845–1926) at Olukonda, and named the tree Ricinodendron rautanenii after him.

In 1889 he received his habilitation at Zürich, where in 1895 he became a professor and director of the botanical gardens.
With Robert Keller (1854–1939), he was the author of Flora der Schweiz, a work on Swiss flora that published over several editions from 1900 to 1923.

Several taxa have been named in his honour;
In 1889, Swiss botanist Victor Fayod published Schinzinia, which is a fungal genus in the family Agaricaceae. Also in 1889, Melioschinzia (in the Meliaceae family), was published by K.Schum., this genus is now a synonym of Chisocheton. Schinzafra (in Bruniaceae family) was published by Kuntze in 1891, this genus is now a synonym of Thamnea. Then in 1895, botanist Ernst Friedrich Gilg published Schinziella, a monotypic genus of flowering plants from Africa, belonging to the family Gentianaceae. Lastly, from the Euphorbiaceae family, Schinziophyton was published in Kew Bull. 45: 157 (in 1990) by Hutch. ex Radcl.Sm.

See also
 Johann Christian Friedrich Heidmann

Notes

References

Biographies of Namibian Personalities by Klaus Dierks

External links

Swiss explorers
Swiss taxonomists
1858 births
1941 deaths
Academic staff of the University of Zurich
Swiss Protestants
19th-century Swiss botanists
20th-century Swiss botanists


GNTI may refer to:

 5'-Guanidinonaltrindole
 6'-Guanidinonaltrindole
 A-1,3-mannosyl-glycoprotein 2-b-N-acetylglucosaminyltransferase, an enzyme


The Shenyang International Finance Center () is a late-modernist supertall skyscraper proposed for construction in Shenyang, China. The office tower is set to rise  and contain 89 floors, plus three basement levels. Construction of the -glass and steel building was expected to be complete in 2012.

References

Skyscrapers in Shenyang
Skyscraper office buildings in China


Victor "Deacon" Delmore (October 21, 1915 – June 10, 1960) was a baseball umpire who worked in the National League from 1956 to 1959. He is perhaps best known for his involvement in an incident during a 1959 game where two baseballs were in play at the same time.

Career
From 1935 to 1942, Delmore pitched in the minor leagues, most notably with the Hopkinsville Hoppers in 1937. His professional umpiring career began in 1948 in the KITTY League. He worked in the Southern Association from 1949 to 1955.  Following his promotion to the National League in 1956, he worked a total of 618 games through the 1959 season. During those four seasons, he issued 14 ejections, including Cincinnati Reds manager Birdie Tebbetts three times.

Incident
Delmore was involved in one of the most bizarre plays in baseball history, which happened during a game between the St. Louis Cardinals and Chicago Cubs at Wrigley Field on June 30, 1959. With the Cardinals leading 2–1 in the top of the fourth inning, Stan Musial came to bat with one out and no one on base. On a count of 3–1, Cubs' pitcher Bob Anderson's next pitch was errant, evading catcher Sammy Taylor and rolling all the way to the backstop. Delmore called ball four, but Anderson and Taylor contended that Musial foul tipped the ball. Because the ball was still in play, and because Delmore was embroiled in an argument with the catcher and pitcher, Musial took it upon himself to try for second base.

Seeing that Musial was trying for second, third baseman Alvin Dark ran to the backstop to retrieve the ball. The ball wound up in the hands of field announcer Pat Pieper, but Dark ended up getting it back. Meanwhile, Delmore pulled out a new ball and gave it to Sammy Taylor. Anderson, noticing that Musial was trying for second, took the new ball and threw it towards second baseman Tony Taylor, but the throw was high and went into the outfield. Dark, at the same time that Anderson threw the new ball, threw the original ball to shortstop Ernie Banks.

Musial did not see Dark's throw (the original ball) and only noticed Anderson's throw (the new ball) fly over the second baseman's head, so he tried to go to third base. On his way there, he was tagged by Banks. After a delay and arguments from the managers, Musial was eventually ruled out. The Cardinals filed a protest, which became moot when they won the game 4–1, and thus the play stood. This was the first known occurrence in Major League Baseball history in which two balls were in play simultaneously.

Aftermath
Delmore's umpiring contract was not renewed for the 1960 season by the National League, despite a "deluge" of telegrams from fans who considered his termination unjust. Less than a year after the incident, Delmore died at age 44. He was buried in Mount Carmel Cemetery in his hometown.  He was survived by his mother Catherine, and by his wife of six months, Sonja Bochmann, a former secretary who had worked at the National League offices.

Alvin Dark, involved in the infamous play, recalled years later, "It was a mess and I really felt sorry for Vic Delmore. ... I don't remember everything about it but I do remember everyone laughed at Vic Delmore.  That play ruined him, and he was a great fellow and a good umpire."

See also
 List of Major League Baseball umpires

References

Further reading

External links
 Career statistics and umpire information from Retrosheet

 Photo via Getty Images

1915 births
1960 deaths
People from Dunmore, Pennsylvania
Major League Baseball umpires
National League umpires
Sportspeople from Pennsylvania


Radojko Obradović (born 1966) is a Vice-President of the Serbian National Assembly. He was appointed to this position in 2007. He is a long-standing MP for the Democratic Party of Serbia (DSS) and represents the DSS in coalition with New Serbia. He is also the President of the Political Committee of the DSS. In the Government of Serbia (2001-2004) he was the Deputy Minister for Construction and Urban Planning. He has a degree in construction engineering.

References

1966 births
Living people
Democratic Party of Serbia politicians
Members of the National Assembly (Serbia)
Government ministers of Serbia


Qurbān-ʻAlī Khālidī (; , 1846-1913) was a Kazakh historian, focusing mainly on the history of the eastern Kazakh steppe. His works are important sources for the history of Kazakhstan and Xinjiang.

Khālidī was born in Ayagoz, Kazakhstan, to a Chala Kazakh family, though he referred to himself as a "Noghay" - a Volga-Ural Muslim, or Tartar, as his father was a native of the Kazan area. His mother was a native of Ayagoz. He studied in several madrasas, first in his hometown of Ayagoz, then in Semipalatinsk, Lepsi, and Bukhara. By 1871 he attained the rank of imam, and by 1874 was the imam of a mosque in Tacheng.

Khālidī's writings utilize several Turkic languages, including Tatar, Ottoman Turkish, Chagatai, and vernacular Kazakh. As such, studying and translating his works can be difficult for even experienced scholars.

Published works
 Tārīkh-i jarīda-yi jadīda, (New Historical Records). Kazan, 1889.
 Tawārīkh-i khamsa-yi sharqī (Essays on the History of Five Eastern Peoples). Kazan, 1910.  Now republished in abridged and modernized form in Kazakh as Tauarikh khamsa: bes tarikh by Kūrbanghali Khalid.
 An Islamic Biographical Dictionary of the Eastern Kazakh Steppe, 1770-1912. Brill's Inner Asian library, v. 12. Leiden: Brill, 2004.
 Materials for the Islamic history of Semipalatinsk: two manuscripts by Aḥmad-Walī al-Qazā and Qurbānʻali Khālidī. Berlin: Das Arabische Buch, 2001.

Notes

References
 Karmysheva, Dzh. Kh. "Kazakhstanskii istorik-kraeved i etnograf Kurbangali Khalidi." Sovetskaia Etnografiia 1 (1971): 100-110.
 Khālidī, Qurbanʻali, Allen J. Frank, and Mirkasym Abdulakhatovich Usmanov. An Islamic Biographical Dictionary of the Eastern Kazakh Steppe, 1770-1912. Brill's Inner Asian library, v. 12. Leiden: Brill, 2004.

History of Kazakhstan
Historians of Central Asia
Ethnographers
1846 births
1913 deaths
Kazakhstani orientalists


Mario Kopić (born 13 March 1965) is a philosopher, author and translator. His main areas of interest include: the history of ideas, the philosophy of art, the philosophy of culture, phenomenology and the philosophy of religion.

Kopić is influenced by and writes extensively on Friedrich Nietzsche, Martin Heidegger, Hannah Arendt, Jacques Derrida, Gianni Vattimo, Reiner Schürmann and Dušan Pirjevec. He also translated works by Nietzsche (Thus Spoke Zarathustra, On the Genealogy of Morality), Giorgio Agamben, Gianni Vattimo, Jacques Derrida, Emmanuel Levinas and Dušan Pirjevec into Croatian.

Life and work
Mario Kopić was born in Dubrovnik, Croatia, former Yugoslavia. He studied philosophy and comparative literature at the University of Zagreb; phenomenology and anthropology at the University of Ljubljana; the history of ideas at the Institute Friedrich Meinecke at the Free University of Berlin (under the mentorship of Ernst Nolte); and comparative religion and anthropology of religion at the Sapienza University of Rome (under the mentorship of Ida Magli).

Mario Kopić's philosophical work is under the influence of the Italian philosophical approach known as pensiero debole or "weak thought", the political thought of Arendt, and the ethical-political thought of late Derrida.

In his latest works The Unhealable Wound of the World, The Challenges of the Post-metaphysics, Sextant and The Beats of the Other Kopić developed a kind of onto-politics of liberal-conservative postmodernism and the post-anthropocentric humanism. For him the world is the space of being as event, and only then the arena of national and social or political conflict. The world, or existence, is our ontological responsibility, which precedes political, judicial and moral responsibility.

Kopić appears in Igor Ivanov Izi's 1995 film N.E.P.

Published books
 Art and Philosophy: An Anthology (Filozofija i umjetnost - Antologija), Delo 11-12 /1990, Belgrade 1990.
 Experiencing the Margins of the Sense (Iskušavanje rubova smisla: pabirci iz estetike), Dubrovnik 1991.
 With Nietzsche on Europe (S Nietzscheom o Europi), Zagreb 2001.
 Nietzsche and Evola: The Thought as Destiny (Nietzsche e Evola: il pensiero come destino), Rome 2001.
 A Trial to the West (Proces Zapadu), Dubrovnik 2003.
 The Challenges of the Post-Metaphysics (Izazovi post-metafizike), Sremski Karlovci - Novi Sad 2007.
 The Unhealable Wound of the World (Nezacjeljiva rana svijeta), Zagreb 2007.
 Gianni Vattimo Reader (Ed.),(Gianni Vattimo: Čitanka (Ur.)), Zagreb 2008.
 Dušan Pirjevec, Death and Nothing (ed.), (Smrt i niština, (Ur.)) Zagreb 2009.
 Sextant: The Outlines of the Spiritual Foundations of the World (Sekstant: Skice o duhovnim temeljima svijeta), Belgrade 2010.
 The Beats of the Other (Otkucaji drugoga), Belgrade 2013.
 The Windows: Essays on Art and Literature (Prozori: Ogledi o umjetnosti), Dubrovnik 2015.
 Darkness in the Pupil of the Sun: Philosophical Essays (Tama u zjenici sunca: Filozofski ogledi), Dubrovnik 2018
 Desire and Striving (Žudnja i stremljenje), Zagreb 2018
 Against the Obvious (Protiv samorazumljivosti), With Vedran Salvia, Dubrovnik 2020.
 The Otherworld according to Dante Alighieri (Prekogroblje po Danteu), Zagreb 2021.
 The Incurable Sight of Words (Neizlječivi pogled riječi), Dubrovnik 2023.

See also
Continental philosophy
Postmodern Christianity
Ontotheology
Phenomenology (philosophy)
Phenomenology of religion

References

Sources
Interview with Mario Kopić, Zarez, 2008
Interview with Mario Kopić, Danas, 2010
Interview with Mario Kopić, Dubrovački list, 2011
Interview with Mario Kopić, Dubrovački list, 2015
Nezacjeljiva rana svijeta
2011 article by Mario Kopić about Hannah Arendt
2012 article by Mario Kopić about Heidegger
2013 article by Mario Kopić about Derrida
2015 article by Mario Kopić about Reiner Schürmann

External links
Comments on Jacques Derrida's Les Spectres de Marx  by Mario Kopić
Kafka and Nationalism by Mario Kopić
M. Kopić Heideggers Wiederholungsverständnis 2013.
M. Kopić Le peuple, la nation et l'(im)pouvoir 2012.
M. Kopić Paul Ricoeur – filozof čitanja 2005.

1965 births
Living people
People from Dubrovnik
20th-century Croatian philosophers
21st-century Croatian philosophers
Existentialists
Phenomenologists
Heidegger scholars
University of Ljubljana alumni
University of Zagreb alumni
Free University of Berlin alumni
Sapienza University of Rome alumni
Nietzsche scholars
Translators of Friedrich Nietzsche


Severe Tropical Storm Maysak, known in the Philippines as Tropical Storm Quinta-Siony, was recognised as the 19th tropical storm by the Japan Meteorological Agency. It was also recognised as the 24th tropical depression and the 22nd tropical storm by the Joint Typhoon Warning Center of the 2008 Pacific typhoon season.

Meteorological history

On November 5, 2008, a tropical disturbance formed in the Philippine Sea to the northeast of Zamboanga in the Philippines. Later that day whilst the disturbance moved towards the north-west, the Joint Typhoon Warning Center assessed the disturbances chances of forming into a significant tropical cyclone within 24 hours as "Poor". Early the next day as the disturbance was moving closer to the Philippines, PAGASA designated the disturbance as Tropical Depression Quinta. Later that day the JTWC upgraded the disturbances chances of becoming a significant tropical cyclone to "Fair" and then to "Good" as they released a Tropical Cyclone Formation Alert on the developing disturbance. The Japan Meteorological Agency then designated the disturbance as a minor tropical depression, at the same time the JTWC designated the tropical depression as 24W.

On November 7 after the JMA had designated the minor tropical depression as a full tropical depression, the JTWC and the JMA upgraded the depression to a tropical storm with the JMA assigning the name Maysak. The next day PAGASA released their final advisory on tropical storm Quinta (Maysak) as it had moved out of PAGASA's area of responsibility, this came as both the JTWC and the JMA reported that Maysak had reached its peak wind speeds of 60 mph (95 km/h) 10-Min sustained & 70 mph (110 km/h) 1-Min sustained. This meant that the JMA considered Maysak to be a severe tropical storm at its peak whilst on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale Maysak was considered to be a tropical storm.

Later that day Maysak recurved and started moving towards the south towards PAGASA's area of responsibility. The next day before Maysak re-entered PAGASA's area of responsibility, the JMA reported that Maysak had weakened into a tropical storm and then into a tropical depression, and released their final full advisory on Maysak. However the JTWC were reporting at this time that Maysak was still a tropical storm. Maysak then moved back into PAGASA's area of responsibility later that day, at this time PAGASA thought that Maysak was still a tropical storm. The JTWC downgraded Maysak to a tropical depression and released their final advisory early on November 10. PAGASA also downgraded Maysak to a tropical depression at this time however they kept issuing warnings until early the next afternoon when they released their final advisory on Quinta.

On November 12, PAGASA started to reissue advisories on Quinta, and renamed the system Siony. The JMA were also still monitoring Siony as a minor tropical depression at this time, whilst the JTWC assessed Maysak's remnants chances of regenerating into a significant tropical cyclone as fair. Later that day the JTWC upgraded the remnants chances of regenerating as good and released a tropical cyclone formation alert. Later that day PAGASA released their final advisory on tropical depression Siony as it had moved out of their area of responsibility and was moving towards Vietnam in the west. Late the next day the JTWC cancelled the tropical cyclone formation alert as they had reassessed Maysak chances of forming into a significant tropical cyclone within 24 hours as poor. Early the next day the JMA released their final advisory on tropical depression Maysak whilst later that morning the JTWC declared that Maysak had dissipated.

Preparations and Impact

Philippines
As PAGASA declared that Tropical Depression Quinta had formed, they put Public Storm warning signal No.1 up for parts of Luzon, Visayas, Mindanao. This meant that wind speeds of 30–60 km/h were expected within 36 hours. Later that day PAGASA put some more areas of Luzon under Signal 1 and cancelled the signal over parts of Mindanao Later on November 6 PAGASA kept revising the areas under Signal No.1 in Visayas & Luzon. PAGASA then cancelled all signals for Visayas Later that day as Quinta moved away from the Philippines. Early the next day PAGASA cancelled all off the signals for Luzon as they released their first final advisory on Qunita.

On November 12, the Philippine National Disaster Coordinating Council (NDCC) reported that over 4800 people were affected by tropical storm Maysak. The NDCC reported that a total of 92 homes were either partially or totally destroyed in the Philippines. Sixteen of the municipalities in the Philippines reported power interruptions from November 6 until November 7. In total 19 people were killed by Maysak and 14 people injured.

Vietnam
The remnants of Maysak lead to flooding rains in Vietnam which left at least 11 people dead. Flood waters in Ho Chi Minh City were estimated to be at least a metre (3 ft) deep.

See also

Other tropical cyclones named Maysak
Other tropical cyclones named Quinta
Other tropical cyclones named Siony
Typhoon Xangsane (a.k.a  Milenyo in the Philippines) – passed over the Philippines in 2006, killing about 312 people.
Typhoon Wutip (2013) (a.k.a. Paolo in the Philippines – a major typhoon that formed in the South China Sea.
Tropical Storm Podul (2013) (a.k.a. Zoraida in the Philippines) – brought more misery to the Philippines after Typhoon Haiyan.
Severe Tropical Storm Tapah (2019) – another storm given two names by PAGASA (Marilyn and Nimfa).

References

External links

JMA General Information of Severe Tropical Storm Maysak (0819) from Digital Typhoon
JMA Best Track Data of Severe Tropical Storm Maysak (0819)
JTWC Best Track Data of Tropical Storm 24W (Maysak)
24W.MAYSAK from the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory

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The St. Charles Air Line Bridge is a Strauss Trunnion bascule bridge which spans the Chicago River in Chicago, Illinois.

Built as part of the St. Charles Air Line Railroad by the American Bridge Company in 1919, the bridge originally had a span of . This bridge held the world record for longest bascule-type span until 1930, when it was shortened to  during a relocation as a result of straightening the river channel. The chief design engineer of the original bridge was Leonard O. Hopkins.

Photo gallery

See also
The adjacent B&OCT Bascule Bridge, with more information about the history of both bridges
List of bridges documented by the Historic American Engineering Record in Illinois

Further reading

External links

Historic Bridges of Michigan and Elsewhere

Bridges completed in 1919
Bascule bridges in Illinois
Bridges in Chicago
Historic American Engineering Record in Chicago
Railroad bridges in Illinois
Canadian National Railway bridges in the United States
Chicago Landmarks


The Umingmuktogmiut are a geographically defined Copper Inuit band in the northern Canadian territory of Nunavut, Kitikmeot Region. They were located on the western coast of Kiillinnguyaq (Kent Peninsula), and also further south in eastern Bathurst Inlet around Everitt Point by the Barry Islands.  Umingmuktogmiut were notable amongst other Copper Inuit as they had a permanent community, Umingmuktog. They could hunt and fish for Arctic char, Arctic fox, barren-ground caribou, fur seals, and muskox prevalent in the area.

In 1964, a Hudson's Bay Company post moved into the area then referred to as Bay Chimo, but now known as Umingmaktok (Inuinnaqtun, "place of many muskoxen"), but, eventually, the post closed. The Umingmuktogmiut population of Umingmaktok declined in recent years with the 2006 census reporting zero population, though some families may have returned to the community.

References

External links
 Photo, 1916, Umingmuktogmiut man wearing sunglasses made of bone

Copper Inuit
Inuit groups


Littleworth is a hamlet in Burnham civil parish, in the South Bucks district of Buckinghamshire, England.

There are some cottages and houses around Littleworth Common, a Site of Special Scientific Interest that covers . There are two pubs (The Blackwood Arms and the Jolly Woodman) and Dropmore Infant School. To the west are the fenced off grounds of Dropmore House which was built in about 1792 for William Wyndham and a gatehouse to it called Oak Lodge.

Parish church
The Church of England parish church of Saint Anne, Dropmore is a brick and flint Gothic Revival building designed by William Butterfield and built in 1866. The south aisle was added in 1877, probably also designed by Butterfield. The building is Grade II* listed.

References

Hamlets in Buckinghamshire
Burnham, Buckinghamshire


The Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway (L&YR) Class 7 was a class of Atlantic passenger steam locomotives to the design of John Aspinall.  Forty were built between 1899 and 1902.  They were known as "High-Flyers" as a result of having a high-pitched boiler that was supposed to increase stability at speed.  All passed into London, Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS) ownership on the grouping of 1923, becoming the LMS's only Atlantic tender engine class.  The LMS gave them the power classification 2P.  Withdrawals started in 1926, and the last was withdrawn in 1934.  None were preserved.

These were free-running engines capable of high speeds. It was claimed that No. 1392 attained a speed of over 100 mph on 15 July 1899 during a trial run with five bogie coaches on the Liverpool Exchange to Southport line. Less credence is given to an alleged 117 mph by No. 1417 near Kirkby on the route from Liverpool Exchange to Manchester Victoria.

Design
Aspinall and Henry Ivatt, now at the Great Northern Railway (GNR) and a former colleague from Inchicore, were by 1897 discussing their needs for larger engines that their railways existing  and  locomotives.  Comparing notes they both selected the  arrangement as able to accommodate a larger boiler while giving options to easily alter the design of the firebox if necessary.  Ivatt, whose need was more urgent, introduced his class C1 in June 1898 which did not incorporate a large boiler.  Aspinall viewed Ivatt's locomotive and made some minor improvements to the Class 7 cab such as fitting seats.  When the Aspinall engine appeared in 1899 it leveraged the capability of the  to hold a larger boiler.  The length of the boiler increasing from  in his previous  design while the heating area increased from  to .

Numbering
The locomotives were built in two batches of 20 at Horwich Works. The first batch, turned out in 1899, were numbered 1400, 1392–9, 1401–4, 700, 702, 708, 711, 718, 735, 737; the second batch of 1902 were numbered 1405–24. Those numbered in the 700s took the numbers of older locomotives which had been withdrawn; the others were given numbers at the end of the L&YR list which were as yet unused. Under the LMS, they were allocated the numbers 10300–39 in order of construction, but several were withdrawn before these numbers could be applied.

Details
No. 737, the last locomotive of the first batch, is believed by John Marshall to have been the first British superheated locomotive. The front tubeplate of the boiler was recessed, creating a cylindrical space into which the superheater was mounted. This consisted of a drum  long through which were a number of tubes for the hot gases to pass through. It offered only a low degree of superheat –  above the normal steam temperature. The last five locomotives of the 1902 batch - Nos. 1420–4 - were given the same apparatus when new, but it was removed from all six by 1917.

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Sources

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4-4-2 locomotives
Railway locomotives introduced in 1899
Scrapped locomotives
Standard gauge steam locomotives of Great Britain


The Evil Within is a 2014 video game.

The Evil Within may also refer to:
 The Evil Within (1970 film), an Indian film
 The Evil Within (2017 film), an American film
 The Evil Within, a 2006 episode from Blade: The Series
 The Evil Within, the U.S. title for the 1990 film Baby Blood

See also
The Devil Within (disambiguation)


Spring Creek Elementary School may refer to:
Spring Creek Elementary School - Rockford Public School District 205 - Rockford, Illinois
Spring Creek Elementary School - Elko County School District - Spring Creek, Nevada
Spring Creek Elementary School - Deer Creek School District - Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Spring Creek Elementary School - Hamilton County Department of Education - Chattanooga, Tennessee
Spring Creek Elementary School - Garland Independent School District - Garland, Texas
Spring Creek Elementary School - Richardson Independent School District - Dallas, Texas
Spring Creek Elementary School - Albany County School District 1 - Laramie, Wyoming


Guangzhou Science City (GSC; ) is a technology center developed with support from the Guangzhou government. It has emerged from the first-ever use of strategic urban planning in China. It integrates industrial, urban residential and commercial areas, forming one of the sub-urban centres within the polycentric metropolis of Guangzhou.

The Guangzhou municipal government continues to invest in the city and advocates R&D in IT sector and outsourcing industry.

Location
GSC is located in the west of Huangpu District of Guangzhou, right above Guangzhou High-tech Industrial Development Zone.

History
The reasons for the establishment of GSC go back all to way to the 1990s. During this time, China's political system became more decentralized, giving its cities more room to manoeuvre and engage in detailed decision making. Since local officials were evaluated on indicators such as economic growth, cities began to grow more competitive. Initiatives for developing urban centres explicitly designed as environments suitable to technology-intensive companies sprung up all over the country. Although the first national-level High-Tech Industrial Development Zone was started in Guangzhou in 1991, high-tech output remained insufficient throughout the 1990s. In an effort to draw in human capital and more advanced technologies, plans for the Guangzhou Science City were formally announced in the year 2000.

These plans for the GSC were part of the larger "Concept Plan" for Guangzhou. As the old modus operandi of urban master planning became increasingly unattractive and regarded as inefficient, strategic urban planning became the model of choice for the Guangzhou government. With its focus on spatial planning and city marketing, the approach appeared more suited to solve the challenges of rapid urban growth and inter-city competition.

Although the "Concept Plan" was announced in 2000, the idea for the GSC had been in the making much longer. First conceived by the municipal government in 1992, the State  Scientific and Technological Commission only approved the project in 1995. While the first plan focused on mostly industrial areas, the second and third plans (1998 and 2000) emphasised the integration of living, commerce and business incubation areas. Construction began in 2000, but the municipal government adjusted the plan almost annually. In 2010, the emphasis had shifted mainly towards innovation and dynamic synergies between cluster members. Since then, the focus of the GSC has been on electronic information, biological, pharmaceutical and environmental industries.

References

Buildings and structures in Guangzhou
Science parks in China


The National Liberation Committee (, CLN) was a political umbrella organization and the main representative of the Italian resistance movement fighting against Nazi Germany's forces during the German occupation of Italy in the aftermath of the armistice of Cassibile, while simultaneously fighting against Italian fascists during the Italian Civil War. It coordinated and directed the Italian resistance and was subdivided into the Central Committee for National Liberation (CCLN), which was based in Rome, and the later National Liberation Committee for Northern Italy (CLNAI), which was based in Milan. The CNL was a multi-party entity, whose members were united by their anti-fascism.

History
The CLN was formed on 8 September 1943, following Italy's armistice and Germany's invasion of the country. The member parties were the Italian Communist Party, the Italian Socialist Party, the Action Party, the Christian Democracy, the Labour Democratic Party, and the Italian Liberal Party. With the backing of the Kingdom of Italy and the Allies of World War II, the CLN gained official recognition as the representative of the Italian resistance movement, and had several leaders operating underground in German-occupied Italy.

The partisan formations controlled by the CLN were primarily divided between three main groups, Communist Garibaldi Brigades, the Action Party's Giustizia e Libertà Brigades, and Socialist Matteotti Brigades. Smaller groups included Catholic and monarchist partisans. There were partisan units not represented in the CLN, including the Maiella Brigades and anarchist, republican, and Trotskyist formations.

The CLN led the governments of Italy from the liberation of Rome in June 1944 until the 1946 Italian general election, which was the first post-war general election. After being deprived of all its functions ahead of the 1946 elections, they were disbanded in 1947.

Composition

Seats

Notes

References

Bibliography

1943 establishments in Italy
1944 in Italy
1945 in Italy
Anti-fascism in Italy
Anti-fascist organisations in Italy
Defunct political party alliances in Italy
World War II resistance movements


FlyMex, legally FlyMex, Servicios Integrales de Aviacion S.A. de C.V., is a charter airline based in Toluca, Mexico.

Fleet
The airline's fleet included the following aircraft ():
Agusta A109
Embraer 135
Embraer 145
Hawker 800XP
Learjet 45
Learjet 31
M7-420 Amphibian

Gallery

References

External links

 Official website

Charter airlines of Mexico
Airlines of Mexico


Luis Lopez (born October 5, 1973 in Brooklyn, New York) is a former Major League Baseball third baseman and first baseman. He played parts of two seasons in the major leagues: 2001 for the Toronto Blue Jays and 2004 for the Montreal Expos. In 2005, he played in Nippon Professional Baseball for the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles. He last played for the Bridgeport Bluefish of the Atlantic League in 2013.

Career
Lopez began his professional career in 1995 with the independent St. Paul Saints, then playing in the Northern League. He was signed by the Blue Jays the following year. Since 2005, Lopez has played in various independent leagues as well as in the Mexican League.

He now coaches baseball as head coach of the New York Nighthawks 12U and 16U teams and as the assistant coach for The Harvey School.

References

External links

1973 births
Living people
Acereros de Monclova players
American expatriate baseball players in Canada
American expatriate baseball players in Japan
American expatriate baseball players in Mexico
Baseball players from New York (state)
Bridgeport Bluefish players
Cafeteros de Córdoba players
Camden Riversharks players
Coastal Carolina Chanticleers baseball players
Edmonton Trappers players
Hagerstown Suns players
Knoxville Smokies players
Leones de Yucatán players
Lincoln Saltdogs players
Major League Baseball first basemen
Major League Baseball third basemen
Montreal Expos players
Mexican League baseball first basemen
Mexican League baseball third basemen
Nippon Professional Baseball first basemen
Nippon Professional Baseball third basemen
North Shore Spirit players
Ogden Raptors players
Petroleros de Minatitlán players
Richmond Braves players
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Syracuse SkyChiefs players
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