The International Inbound Travel Association, formerly known as the Receptive Services Association of America, is a 501(c)6 trade association of major North American–based receptive tour operator companies and suppliers (hotels, restaurants, attractions, destination marketing organizations, etc.).  Based in Lexington, Kentucky, IITA is the only association focused solely on international inbound travel to the United States.

The association has several membership categories for various travel and tourism industry sectors:

Inbound Tour Operators are travel organizations (for example, receptive tour operators, destination management companies, or incentive management companies) with offices in the United States deriving more than 75% of their annual revenue from inbound tourism services to the United States.

Tour Operators are domestic or international companies with packaged product to the United States promoted via brochure, website or other electronic means. These companies do not currently meet the requirement of 75% of revenue coming from international business.

Associate Members are destination marketing and management organizations (including international, national or subnational bodies, state or provincial tourism offices, convention and visitors bureaus, and chambers of commerce). They promote cities, regions, states, or the whole United States as a travel destination. They provide travel services (transportation, restaurants, attractions), link to other organizations engaged in selling products and services to Inbound Tour Operator Members, and other organizations with an interest in international inbound travel, like government agencies, educational institutions, travel trade associations, and travel trade media.

Industry Service Providers provide non-travel goods and services used by Inbound Tour Operator or Associate Members in conducting normal business activities. These goods and services may include accounting, legal printing, insurance, advertising, technical, and similar other goods and services.

Sustaining Members are leading tour suppliers (Associate Members) that comprise the Advisory Board, which provides advice and input to the association's elected Board of Directors.

History

Beginning as RSA in 1991, RSAA formed to associate major receptive tour operators and suppliers in the New York and New Jersey region. As a result of continuing interest and growth from across the country, RSA grew into a national organization.

RSA joined forces with ITSA, the International Travel Services Association to form RSAA in September, 2004. ITSA was formed and founded in 1993, by receptive tour operators and destination management companies to create a united voice to address issues of importance, educational opportunities, and networking with new business partners.

In 2012, RSAA became the first travel association to enter into a strategic partnership with the U.S. Commercial Service. This partnership helped RSAA and the U.S. Commercial Service promote travel to the United States and enable international operators to form relationships with U.S. receptive operators.

Today, IITA is involved in a wide range of industry activities, focusing on working with suppliers, regulatory agencies and travel promotion bureaus to improve the quality of travel related services for foreign visitors. IITA also addresses economic and public policy issues affecting tourism at local, state, and federal levels.

Furthermore, international tour operators, as well as international entities that promote travel to the United States, are eligible for membership in IITA. More than ever, IITA serves as the bridge to international inbound business and is committed to serving the needs of its members and to advancing the industry as a whole.

Events

The largest annual event is the IITA Summit. IITA inbound tour operators, suppliers and industry service providers from across the country gather in a new location each year for the opportunity to learn about current happenings in the industry, strategically plan for the year, and network.

In addition to Summit membership events are held quarterly in various destinations. These events are open to members and those interested in learning more about the association.

Inbound International Travel

The international inbound travel industry brings in 75 million visitors with $175 billion in spending annually.

IITA represents the major inbound operators in the United States who inbound package tour business in the United States.

IITA also addresses economic and public policy issues affecting tourism at local, state, and federal levels. It is interested in building awareness of the unique role receptives play in linking suppliers from all parts of the United States with the global travel industry.

Governance

The chairman of the association is Gary Schluter of Rocky Mountain Holiday Tours and the executive director is Lisa Simon, former president of the National Tour Association.  IITA offices are located in Lexington, Kentucky.  The association is governed by a board of directors that consists of 16 members, supported by an Advisory Board currently consisting of 16 suppliers.  The association is managed by Associations International.

On August 22, 2011, RSAA announced that it had formed a strategic partnership with VISIT USA - Europe.

On April 12, 2012, the association changed its bylaws to create an international membership class.

In February 2016, RSAA re-branded as the International Inbound Travel Association (IITA) and launched their new website inboundtravel.org.

References

External links
http://inboundtravel.org

Trade associations based in the United States
Traveling business organizations


Dekernes ( ) is a town in the center of the Dakahlia Governorate of Egypt. It is situated about 20 km east of Mansoura, the capital of Dakahlia.

Etymology
The town's name is pre-Arabic, but the exact etymology is unknown. Czapkiewicz suggests that it is derived from a Hellenised version of  through .

Education
The town is home to one of the oldest High schools in Egypt, Ali Mubarak School, which was built in 1911.

Climate

Dekernes is classified by Köppen-Geiger climate classification system as hot desert (BWh).

Villages

Dekernes is the main city in markaz Dekernes. It is surrounded by many small villages which form a part of markaz Dekernes such as:

Local unit of Demouh:
 Demouh
 El Qibab El Kubra
 El Qibab El Sughra
 Kafr El Qibab
 El Gazeera
 Meit Dhafer
 El Mersaah
 Kafr Abdel Mo'men

Local unit of Demeshalt:
 Demeshalt
 Meit El Nahhal
 Kafr El Baz

Local unit of Negeir:
 Negeir
 El Qalyubiya
 El Azazna
 Kafr Abu Nasser

Others:
 El Mahmoudiya
 Manshat Abdel-Rahman
 Ashmun El Rumman (According to Gauthier, the original village name was "Chemoun Erman", a Coptic name, from which today's name is derived)
 Mit Tareif
 Mit Sudan
 Mit Sewiyd
 Mit Sharaf
 Mit Fares

Notable people
, an actor and producer.

Projects
In 2018 money was earmarked by the Egyptian Government for infrastructure projects in Dekernes.

References

Populated places in Dakahlia Governorate


Electric Church was a term used by Jimi Hendrix to represent an informal cooperative of musicians performing more exploratory music in nontraditional settings. This is represented by various Hendrix jam sessions, the additional musicians with whom he recorded Electric Ladyland (1968), and the group who accompanied Hendrix at Woodstock, informally dubbed Gypsy Sun and Rainbows.

Electric Church may also refer to:

"Electric Church" (1968) a jam recorded by Hendrix with Noel Redding, Mitch Mitchell, Lee Michaels, and Buddy Miles
"Electric Church Red House" (1968) a song released on Blues (1994), which is a composite of the "Electric Church" jam and the Hendrix composition "Red House"
Electric Church (1968) an album by the Buddy Miles Express, one half of which was produced by Hendrix
Jimi Hendrix: Electric Church (2005) a documentary film about Hendrix's performance at the Atlanta International Pop Festival (1970)


GameCity is an independent organisation based in Nottingham, UK, which has worked since 2006 with the support of Nottingham Trent University to bring videogames to the widest possible audiences.  This has been done through an annual GameCity Festival, described as the "Sundance of the video games world", the GameCity Prize since 2011, and the National Videogame Arcade since 2015. Each year, GameCity hosts talks and presentations from individuals and companies working in the games industry.

GameCity Festivals
The GameCity Festival has run annually in Nottingham since 2006.

Gamecity 3 was held over Halloween 2008. To coincide with this, GameCity arranged a successful world record attempt at the largest number of people to dress as zombies in one place. The record was set to 1227 people, although even more 'unregistered zombies' were present at the attempt. Also during the 2008 event, the National Videogame Archive for the UK was launched with the Save the Videogame campaign. This was led by the recording of the first public Director Commentary event, with Martin Hollis and David Doak playing Goldeneye 64 live.

GameCity Squared took place from the 27th to 31 October 2009. Events in 2009 included: Brickstock (a LEGO Rock Band celebration); Elite: Paper Universe - which celebrated 25 years of Elite by bringing together David Braben, Ian Bell, Robert Holdstock and others involved in its creation; Crysis: LIVE - a large scale re-enactment of Crysis; and various industry talks from Jagex and Masaya Matsuura. The final location of the Keita Takahashi-designed playground was also revealed as being Woodthorpe Grange Park in Nottingham.

GameCity 7 took place in Nottingham from the 20th to 27 October 2012. There were several events held over the 8 day festival, including keynotes from Leigh Alexander, Phil Fish, Adam Saltsman, Ed Stern and many more. The festival also had the first UK showing of the LEGO: Lord of the Rings game, demonstrated by LEGO's Creative Director Jonathan Smith. A World Record was broken on the final day of the festival, as GameCity attempted to host the World's Largest Practical Science experiment. 292 people participated in the event, succeeding the previous record of 276.

GameCity Prize

The GameCity Prize was announced on 15 September 2011. As part of the annual GameCity Festival it is awarded for a game's "accomplishments and contribution to popular culture". Minecraft won the first GameCity Prize in 2011.

National Videogame Arcade
In March 2015, GameCity opened the UK's first permanent cultural centre for videogames. Located in the centre of Nottingham, the National Videogame Arcade is "a place where the whole family can discover videogames, play videogames and make videogames". Spread across five floors, the NVA has three floors of playable galleries showcasing games both old and new, and exploring videogame culture through unique interactive exhibits. Alongside this, the NVA further features a floor dedicated to education and the National Curriculum, allowing students a hands-on experience of game-making through a variety of workshops.

In 2016, the NVA in Nottingham fell into cash flow difficulties. An eleventh hour investment by a director-led consortium, led by director Iain Simons, saved all 40 jobs. The destination was being taken into administration in August 2016.

In 2018, the NVA closed down in Nottingham. The same team has since launched the UK National Videogame Museum in Sheffield.

References

External links
 National Videogame Arcade - GameCity

2006 establishments in the United Kingdom
Organisations based in Nottingham
Recurring events established in 2006
Video game festivals
Video gaming in the United Kingdom
Video game museums


"Twelve Angry Men" is a 1954 teleplay directed by Franklin J. Schaffner and written by Reginald Rose for the American anthology television series Studio One. It follows the titular twelve members of a jury as they deliberate a supposedly clear-cut murder trial, and details the tension among them when one juror argues that the defendant might not be guilty. Initially staged as a CBS live production on September 20, 1954, the drama was later rewritten for the stage in 1955 under the same title, and as a feature film in 1957 titled 12 Angry Men. The episode garnered three Emmy Awards for writer Rose, director Schaffner, and Robert Cummings as Best Actor.

Plot

Act I
The program opens as a judge instructs the jury in a murder case that their verdict must be unanimous. In the jury room, an initial vote is 11 to 1 in favor of guilty. Juror #8 (Robert Cummings) is the holdout voting not guilty. Juror #3 (Franchot Tone) criticizes Juror #8 as being "out in left field." They go once around the table, each juror having an opportunity to express his point of view. Juror #10 (Edward Arnold) focuses on the neighbor who testified that she saw the defendant stab his father. Juror #7 (Paul Hartman) focuses on the defendant's record – reform school at age 15 for stealing a car, arrested for knife fighting, and he comes from slums that are breeding grounds for criminals. Juror #5 (Lee Phillips) takes offense and points out that he's lived in a slum his whole life – "maybe it still smells on me."

Juror #8 asks for the alleged murder weapon, a switchblade, to be brought into the jury room. Juror #4 points out that the shopkeeper where the defendant purchased the knife testified that it was the only one he had in stock and that it is a very strange knife. When the knife is brought into the jury room, Juror #8 pulls an identical knife from his pocket, and reveals he bought one from a junk shop around the corner from the defendant's house, suggesting it is less "strange" than what the shopkeeper thought.

Juror #8 asks for a secret ballot. If there are still 11 guilty votes, Juror #8 will go along. The votes are handed in.

Act II
There are now only 10 guilty votes. Juror #9 (Joseph Sweeney) admits that he was the one who changed his vote.

Juror #8 focuses on the noise from the elevated train that passed by as the murder took place. One of the witnesses, an old man, claimed that he heard the defendant say, "I'm going to kill you," and then heard the body drop one second later. He questions how the witness could have heard these things, at a distance, with the train roaring by. Juror #5 changes his vote to not guilty. The vote is now 9–3.

Juror #8 next questions how the old man who's had a stroke and walks with two canes could have gotten up out of bed and run through his apartment to see the defendant running down the stairs. The old man testified this happened only 15 seconds after the murder. Juror #3 notes the old man was confused during the trial and suggests he may not have been precise when he stated it was 15 seconds. Juror #3 and the others pause, reacting to the import of Juror #3's question. Juror #8 performs a reenactment to show that the old man could not have gotten up and walked that distance in 15 seconds. Juror #3 complains about Juror #8's dishonesty and insists the defendant must face punishment. When Juror #8 calls Juror #3 a sadist, Juror #3 lunges and threatens to kill him.

Act III
A new vote is taken. It is now 6–6. Juror #2 (John Beal) is troubled by the angle of the stab wound. Juror #5 has experience with switch blades and says they are typically used with an underhand motion, but the wound here was from an overhand motion. Another vote is taken, and it's 9–3 in favor of acquittal. Jurors 3, 4 and 10 are now the holdouts.

Juror #10 focuses on race, insisting the defendant must be guilty because, among other assumptions, "There isn't one of them that's got any good in them." The other jurors react in shock at Juror #10's tirade, and Juror #4 threatens Juror #10 to not speak again for the rest of the deliberation.

Juror #4 is still persuaded by the old lady who said she saw the defendant stab his father. One of the jurors recalls that the old lady wore glasses. She wouldn't have been wearing her glasses in bed, which is where she said she was, tossing and turning. Juror #8 says that all the old lady could have seen, without her glasses and through the train windows, was a blur. Juror #3 is left as the only guilty vote, but he finally gives in. The defendant is found not guilty.

Cast
The cast included performances by:

 Robert Cummings as Juror #8
 Franchot Tone as Juror #3
 Edward Arnold as Juror #10
 Paul Hartman as Juror #7
 John Beal as Juror #2
 Walter Abel as Juror #4
 George Voskovec as Juror #11
 Joseph Sweeney as Juror #9
 Bart Burns as Juror #6
 Norman Fell as Foreman
 Lee Phillips as Juror #5
 Will West as Juror # 12

Uncredited cast
 Vincent Gardenia as Bailiff

Betty Furness presents Westinghouse appliances in breaks after each of the acts.

Production
The production was staged in New York City and aired live on September 20, 1954, as the first episode in the seventh season of the program, Studio One.  A kinescope recording was made for rebroadcast later on the west coast.

It was written by Reginald Rose especially for Studio One. Felix Jackson was the producer and Franklin Schaffner the director. Wes Laws was the set decorator, and Willard Levitas provided the settings.

The production won three Emmy Awards: for Rose's writing, Schaffner's direction, and for Robert Cummings as Best Actor.

Reception
The performance received generally positive reviews. In 1997, Steve Rhodes wrote: "Cummings gives the best of several outstanding performances."

References

Sources
  Revised link to article retrieved April 23, 2017.
 Rose, Reginald, Twelve Angry Men, teleplay

External links

Black-and-white television episodes
Television courtroom dramas
1954 television plays
Television anthology episodes
Juries in fiction
Television shows written by Reginald Rose
Emmy Award-winning programs
Twelve Angry Men
Studio One (American TV series)
1954 American television episodes


Cape Baring is a Canadian Arctic headland in the Northwest Territories. The most westerly point of the Wollaston Peninsula, it is located on Victoria Island, protruding into the Amundsen Gulf.

The cape is the ancestral home of Kangiryuarmiut, a Copper Inuit subgroup.

It is named in honor of Francis Baring, 1st Baron Northbrook, First Lord of the Admiralty. ⋅

References

Peninsulas of the Northwest Territories
Geography of the Inuvialuit Settlement Region


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}}Aswarby and Scredington railway station''' was a station close to Scredington, Lincolnshire on the Great Northern Railway Bourne and Sleaford railway. It opened in 1872 and closed in 1930. It was originally shown on maps as Aswarby Station, but by 1905 it was shown as Aswarby and Scredington Station.

History

Opened by the Great Northern Railway (Great Britain), it became part of the London and North Eastern Railway during the Grouping of 1923, and was then closed by that company.

References

Notes

Sources

External links
 Aswarby and Scredington Station on navigable OS map
; Aswarby station on 1891 OS map.

Disused railway stations in Lincolnshire
Former Great Northern Railway stations
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1872
Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1930
1872 establishments in England
1930 disestablishments in England


"The Time Is Now" is a song by Irish-English electronica-pop duo Moloko, released as the lead single from their third album, Things to Make and Do (2000). Members Mark Brydon and Róisín Murphy conceived the song as an acoustic dance recording, not wanting to turn it into a loud, drum-heavy track, unlike much of their earlier work. Characterised as a "disco anthem", "The Time Is Now" has been described as one of Moloko's least electronic efforts and a musical standout of the 3rd millennium's outset, receiving positive reviews from music critics. The song's multiple cover artworks were designed by Lizzie Finn and photographed by Barnaby & Scott.

"The Time Is Now" was released on 20 March 2000 and charted at number two on the UK Singles Chart the same month, outpeaking the band's previous single, "Sing It Back", which reached number four. In May 2000, the song was certified silver by the British Phonographic Industry for shipments greater than 200,000. It found success in several other European countries as well, becoming a top-20 hit in four of them. It received a nomination for the "Best British Single" at the 2001 BRIT Awards, as did its music video for "Best British Video".

Background and release
Moloko producer Mark Brydon recalled, "It's probably the closest we've come to sitting down with a guitar and writing a song. We thought we'd try and make a track with the same structure as a dance record but keep it acoustic. There was this temptation to put on a big snare or something, but every time we did that it upset the balance. Being constrained by budget, we couldn't really afford the full-on disco strings, so it's not exactly Love Unlimited Orchestra. We got this quartet in to do more of a Curtis Mayfield thing. We think of them as 'street' strings." Echo Records released "The Time Is Now" in the United Kingdom on 20 March 2000 as the lead single from Things to Make and Do across three formats: two CD singles and a 12-inch vinyl single.

Composition
"The Time Is Now" had been described as a "disco anthem", containing a varied blend of string instruments, an acoustic guitar that opens the song, and high-pitched vocals similar to the Bee Gees. The track ends with a fade, accompanied a looping, "chilling" piano. According to the digital sheet music published at Musicnotes, the record is set in common time with a key of C major and a tempo of 124 beats per minute.

Critical reception
"The Time Is Now" received favourable reviews from music critics. Andy Hinds of AllMusic, in a review for Things to Make and Do, said "check out the nylon-string guitar in the flamenco-flavored 'The Time Is Now,' which faintly recalls Basement Jaxx's 'Rendez-Vu' and it adds a timeless quality to the music overall". Swiss radio station director Sacha Horovitz lauded, "'The Time Is Now' is the best song we have at the moment! ... They love it and we love it, so everyone's happy!" Jo Heuston of Liverpool radio station Juice 107.7 also praised the song, calling Moloko an "exciting" band. James Keith of Complex UK referred to "The Time Is Now" as "beyond ubiquitous", going on to say that it has become a paragon of the new millennium. Pop culture website Freaky Trigger compared the "shimmering" acoustic intro of the song to Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel's 1975 single "Make Me Smile (Come Up and See Me)" and called the string arrangement "perfect", referring to the track as "one of the most emotionally affecting Top 10 hits for years".

The song was nominated for "Best British Single" at the 2001 BRIT Awards but lost to Robbie Williams's "Rock DJ". The same circumstance occurred with its music video, which was nominated for "Best British Video" but also lost out to "Rock DJ"'s clip.

Commercial performance
In the duo's native United Kingdom, "The Time Is Now" debuted at number two on the UK Singles Chart on 26 March 2000, unable to outsell Melanie C's debut collaboration with Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes, "Never Be the Same Again". To date, it is Moloko's highest-charting single in the UK, as well as their joint-longest-charting single alongside "Sing It Back", spending 13 weeks in the top 100. On 19 May 2000, the British Phonographic Industry awarded the song a silver disc for shipping over 200,000 units; it was the 73rd-highest-selling song of the UK in 2000. In Ireland, the single first appeared on the Irish Singles Chart at number 43 on 23 March 2000, climbing to its peak of number 10 three weeks later. Like in the UK, it spent a total of 13 weeks on the Irish chart. At the end of 2000, the song was ranked at number 84 on Ireland's year-end chart.

In mainland Europe, the song reached number three in Greece. It was a top-20 success in the Flanders region of Belgium and in Finland, achieving peaks of number 15 and number 12, respectively. It entered the top 40 Iceland and Italy, falling shy of the mark in Switzerland, where it settled at number 41. It found moderate chart success in Germany and the Netherlands, peaking within the top 50, and it also appeared on Ultratip Bubbling Under listing of Belgium's Wallonia region. Overall, it peaked at number 14 on the Eurochart Hot 100. In Australia, "The Time Is Now" debuted at number 50 on 21 May 2000 and climbed to number 36, its highest position, two weeks later, staying three more weeks in the top 50 before dropping out.

Track listings

 UK CD and cassette single
 "The Time Is Now" (edit) – 4:32
 "The Time Is Now" (Can 7 Soulfood mix) – 3:59
 "The Time Is Now" (Francois K vocal edit) – 9:00

 UK and Dutch 12-inch single
A1. "The Time Is Now" (Francois K vocal mix) – 8:58
B1. "The Time Is Now" (Can 7 Jungle Boogie) – 7:15
B2. "The Time Is Now" (Matt Darey vocal edit) – 3:55

 Dutch CD single
 "The Time Is Now" (edit) – 3:44
 "The Time Is Now" (Can 7 Soulfood mix) – 3:58

 Dutch maxi-CD single
 "The Time Is Now (edit) – 3:44
 "The Time Is Now (Can 7 Soulfood mix) – 4:00
 "The Time Is Now (Francois K Main vocal mix) – 9:03
 "The Time Is Now (full length) – 5:21

 Australian and New Zealand CD single
 "The Time Is Now" (radio edit)
 "The Time Is Now" (DJ Plankton mix)
 "The Time Is Now" (François K main vocal)
 "The Time Is Now" (Matt Darey vocal)
 "The Time Is Now" (full length)
 "The Time Is Now" (Can 7 Soulfood edit)

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Certifications

In popular culture
In 2014, the song was featured in the Enhanced Version of Grand Theft Auto V'''s Non-Stop-Pop radio station. It was also featured on Sky Sports' Saturday night Premier League highlights show, Football First'', since 2004.

References

External links

2000 singles
2000 songs
British disco songs
The Echo Label singles
Electronic songs
Moloko songs
Mushroom Records singles
Roadrunner Records singles
Songs written by Róisín Murphy
UK Independent Singles Chart number-one singles
Songs written by Mark Brydon


Hilversum Sportpark is a railway station in Hilversum, Netherlands. It lies  south of Hilversum town centre. The station was opened in 1874 and is on the Hilversum - Utrecht railway line. The station was previously called Amersfoortsche Straatweg (1874-1919), and Soestdijker Straatweg (1919-1965). The station is heavily used during weekdays because an important branch of the ROC (a community college) is located next to the station.

Train services

Bus services

References

External links
NS website
Dutch Public Transport journey planner

Railway stations in North Holland
Hilversum
Railway stations opened in 1874
Railway stations in the Netherlands opened in the 1870s


Nelson Head is a Canadian Arctic hypsographic cape in the Northwest Territories. The most southerly point of Banks Island, it protrudes into the Amundsen Gulf.

It is the ancestral home of Kangiryuarmiut, a Copper Inuit subgroup.

Naming

The cape was named Nelson's Head by Captain Robert McClure on September 7, 1850 during his western search for Franklin's lost expedition in honor of Lord Nelson, whose profile may have been suggested by the 'strikingly grand and imposing' features of the cape.  Nelson had not been previously honored by Arctic explorers.

Appearance

Described by Alexander Armstrong, ship's surgeon aboard HMS Investigator, the cape reaches over 1000 feet almost vertically from the water's edge:

'It is of limestone formation, the lower third of dark brown stratification, above which is assumed a lighter colour of reddish yellow, such as a ferruginous coating might impart.  This was surmounted by a dark grey columnar formation, much resembling irregularly formed basaltic columns, with joints or fissures similar to what is usually observed in that formation; the whole capped by a covering of soil.

References

Peninsulas of the Northwest Territories


Trivest Partners, L.P. is the oldest private equity firm in the Southeast U.S., founded in 1981, and focuses exclusively on founder and family-owned businesses. Trivest is headquartered in Miami, Florida with regional offices in Charlotte, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York and Toronto. Trivest has provided "Private Equity for Founders" in the lower middle market through its flexibility in transaction structuring and related "Just Say No" program, which eliminates the typical pain points faced by founders looking to outside investment. The firm is largely industry-agnostic, but focuses on investments in the consumer, business services, healthcare, value-added distribution and niche manufacturing sectors.

Overview
The Trivest team is led by Managing Partner Troy D. Templeton. Troy joined the firm in 1989 and plays a key leadership role in Trivest's buyout activities, investment sourcing, resource allocation, portfolio oversight and firm administration. Jamie Elias, David Gershman, Jorge Gross Jr., Forest Wester, Russ Wilson and Steve Reynolds are also Partners of Trivest.

Trivest was an early entrant to the leveraged buyout space in the early 1980s and has completed investments in over 350 companies representing roughly $7 billion in value since its founding. Since its inception in 1981, Trivest has raised six institutional private equity funds, with total investor commitments of over $2.5 billion, dedicated to leveraged buyout investments in founder and family-owned middle market companies. Trivest is currently actively investing from Trivest Fund VI, raised in August 2018 with commitments of $630 million. In addition, in 2017 Trivest launched the Trivest Growth Investment Fund ("TGIF"), a $225 million fund committed to making non-control and growth investments in founder and family-owned businesses. Two new funds were raised at the end of 2019, closing in early 2020: Trivest Growth Investment Fund II ("TGIF II"), a $435 million non-control fund; and Trivest Discovery Fund, a $235 million control fund, currently investing in smaller businesses within fragmented industries.

In 36 months from 2019 through 2021, Trivest closed 137 total investments, making it one of the most active firms of its size in the country.

The firm currently has 39 portfolio companies, accounting for roughly $2.5 billion in aggregate sales and more than 8,500 employees portfolio-wide.

Among the firm’s most notable prior investments are Turnpoint Services, Jon-Don, Oil Changers, Big Truck Rental, Lamark Media, AM Conservation, Ellery Homestyles, Endeavor Telecom, Group III International, Hazmasters, National Auto Care, Onepath Systems, Pelican Water Systems, National Carwash Solutions, Take 5 Oil Change, Wise Company, HandStands, North Star Seafood, ATX Networks, Directed Electronics, Twinstar International, Herbal Magic, Aero Products International (makers of the Aerobed) and Sun Pharmaceuticals (Banana Boat brand).

In August 2023 it was announced Trivest had acquired the Buffalo, New York-based commercial debt collection company, ABC-Amega for an undisclosed amount.

Awards
 2019 Inc Magazine "PE50" list of the Top 50 Founder-Friendly Private Equity Firms (Inaugural list)
 2019 Buyouts Magazine Small-Market Deal of the Year for Pelican Water Systems
 2020 Inc Magazine "PE50" list of the Top 50 Founder-Friendly Private Equity Firms (One of only 18 firms on the list both years)
 2020 Buyouts Magazine Middle-Market Deal of the Year for Turnpoint Services
 2020 RCP Advisors Deal of the Year for Turnpoint Services
 2021 Grady Campbell "Elite 10"
 2021 Inc Magazine Founder-Friendly Investors
 2022 Grady Campbell "Elite 10"

References

 2020 Small Market Deal of the Year: Trivest Partners / Buyouts Magazine, April 8, 2020
 Trivest Closes New Private Equity Funds / Business Wire, January 31, 2020
 The 50 Best Private Equity Firms for Entrepreneurs / Inc Magazine, July/August 2019
 How This Florida PE Firm Helped a Solar Business Grow Revenue More Than 15X / Inc Magazine, November 2021

External links
 Trivest (company website)

Private equity firms of the United States
Financial services companies established in 1981
Companies based in Miami


Major General Amy S. Courter (born 1961) is the former National Commander of the Civil Air Patrol. She was elected by a unanimous decision of CAP's National Board on August 7, 2008.

Education
Amy Courter graduated from Kalamazoo College in 1983 with a bachelor's degree in psychology and education, minoring in computer science and mathematics. She also earned secondary school teaching certifications in psychology, computer science and mathematics.  Courter played basketball and field hockey as a Kalamazoo Hornet, and studied abroad in France at the Université de Strasbourg.

Career
Courter served as Vice President of Information Technology and Telecom at Valassis, a marketing company in Michigan. Courter began as a mid-level manager at Valassis, accepting increasingly more strategic roles, overseeing all IT efforts globally for the last 14 of her 20 years there. Valassis is a publicly traded $2.3 billion company (NYSE:VCI). In 2005, she planned her departure from Valassis to enable her to work in other industries – notably health care and manufacturing.

Civil Air Patrol
Courter joined Civil Air Patrol as a senior in high school. She served as Michigan Wing Commander from 1999 to 2002. She also served as the female senior advisor to CAP's National Cadet Advisory Council.

Courter has received the Garber, Loening, Yeager and Wilson awards; as well as the Distinguished Service Award with two clasps, National Commander’s Commendations and Exceptional Service, Meritorious Service and Commanders Commendation awards.

While serving as wing commander, Courter played a pivotal role in creating a new National Cadet Special Activity, the Civic Leadership Academy. This gives cadets an in depth view of the United States Government.

Courter was the first female member of CAP to attain the ranks of brigadier general and major general. In 2007, Courter became the Civil Air Patrol's acting National Commander. She was elected to a regular three-year term as National Commander in 2008. On August 7, 2008, during the 2008 Civil Air Patrol National Board and Annual Conference, Courter was elected to remain as Civil Air Patrol's National Commander. She was promoted two days later at the conclusion of the conference.

References

1961 births
Living people
National Commanders of the Civil Air Patrol
Female generals and flag officers of the United States
Businesspeople from Michigan
Kalamazoo College alumni
21st-century American women


The Minerva Initiative is a research program sponsored by the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) that provides grants to sustain university-based, social science studies on areas of strategic importance to U.S. national security policy.  The program looks to tap into the community of area specialists and other university researchers, particularly those who work on Islam, Iraq, China, and related areas.  Since its establishment in 2008, the Department of Defense has awarded over 70 grants to private researchers.   Grants are awarded on an annual basis for research projects that typically last three years.

In 2011 the DoD hosted the first annual Minerva Conference.  The event has since become an annual gathering in September for Minerva researchers, DoD keynote speakers, and scholars to highlight the most relevant research conducted through the program's support.

History
In 2008, the project was provided $50 million by the United States Department of Defense to fund research on five separate themes.  When the program began in 2008 project funding was split between DoD and the National Science Foundation.  Since that time, all projects have been funded solely by the DoD.  The goal was to create improved relations between the Department of Defense and the universities and to develop knowledge that the military can benefit from in the long term.

Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates commissioned the Minerva Initiative under the vision of "... a consortia [sic] of universities that will promote research in specific areas."   Originally, Secretary Gates proposed four principal focus areas:  1) Chinese Military and Technology Studies 2) Iraqi and Terrorist Perspective Projects 3) Religious and Ideological Studies, and 4) New Disciplines Project and 5) Open Category.  Since its establishment, the Minerva Initiative has expanded the breadth of sponsored research to include a wide range of academic disciplines and topics [see Ongoing Research].  The program continues to fund research on the most important social science topics for universities like Arizona State University, which recently received a grant to support research on terrorists' use of social media.

Purpose
The stated goal of the Minerva Initiative "is to improve DoD's basic understanding of the social, cultural, behavioral, and political forces that shape regions of the world of strategic importance to the U.S."  The program seeks to achieve this by sponsoring research designed to bring together universities, research institutions, and individual scholars.  Three key priorities reflect the objectives of the Secretary of Defense for the Minerva Initiative:"1) Leverage and focus the resources of the Nation's top universities.

2) Seek to define and develop foundational knowledge about sources of present and future conflict with an eye toward better understanding of the political trajectories of key regions of the world.
 3) Improve the ability of DoD to develop cutting-edge social science research, foreign area and interdisciplinary studies that is developed and vetted by the best scholars in these fields."

Ongoing research
As of 2015 the Minerva Initiative's priority research areas fall within four categories:
I.  Identity, Influence, and Mobilization

II. Contributors to Societal Resilience and Change

III. Power and Deterrence

IV. Innovations in National Security, Conflict, and Cooperation

A list of all research awards made since the start of the Minerva Initiative are listed at the program's site: https://web.archive.org/web/20091212104216/http://minerva.dtic.mil/funded.html.  In 2015, the Minerva Steering Committee received over 300 applications (297 white papers and 46 full proposals).

Controversy

The program's funding of social science research for national security purposes has proven controversial.    Although many scholars support Minerva, at the program's start a number of academic researchers sounded public alarm about the prospect of Defense Department funding for research. In 2008 the American Anthropological Association sent a public letter suggesting that the funding be transferred to a different body, such as the National Science Foundation (NSF). Hugh Gusterson, a prominent anthropologist at George Mason University, wrote a series of articles in a variety of venues that have attracted significant attention,

The journalist Nafeez Ahmed has expressed concern that Minerva research, in its effort to understand mass mobilization, may be targeting peaceful activists, NGOs and protest movements. Others believe social science should continue to emphasize security issues but worry that DoD funding will bias findings. One article notes:

See also
Human Terrain System
Project Camelot

References

External links

 "Pentagon preparing for mass civil breakdown"

United States Department of Defense
Research projects


The Battle off the coast of Jaffna – a naval battle fought between the Navy of Sri Lanka and Tamil Tiger ships. According to Sri Lankan sources, it took place on Saturday 1 November 2008 in the northern territorial waters of Sri Lanka off the coast of Jaffna during the Sri Lankan Civil War. A Sri Lankan government customs officer, D.K.P. Dassangayake, reported that the battle begun as the Navy met the rebel ships and exchanged fire.

Jaffna
Jaffna
November 2008 events in Asia
2008 in Sri Lanka
2008 in military history


Heemstede-Aerdenhout () is a railway station in Heemstede and Aerdenhout, Netherlands. The station opened on 1 October 1891 and is located on the site of the old Toll house for the Leidsevaart canal, which still flows next to the station from Haarlem to Leiden. This canal still follows the Oude Lijn (Amsterdam - Rotterdam) closely. The train soon became the favored method of travel after the station opened, and the canal has gone out of use since the end of the second world war. The current station building was opened in 1958 and was one of the first Dutch viaduct stations.

Train services

, the following train services call at this station:

Bus services

3: IJmuiden - Haarlem - Schalkwijk
4: Heemstede De Glip - Heemstede-Aerdenhout station
80: Amsterdam - Haarlem - Zandvoort
90: Haarlem - Noordwijk - Den Haag

References

External links

NS website
Dutch Public Transport journey planner
Connexxion website

Railway stations in North Holland
Railway stations opened in 1891
Railway stations on the Oude Lijn
Bloemendaal
Heemstede
Railway stations in the Netherlands opened in the 1890s


Celestina Stefania Popa-Toma (born 12 July 1970) is a retired Romanian artistic gymnast, who competed internationally between 1985 and 1988. She is an Olympic silver medalist and a world gold and silver medalist with the team. She is best known for her eponymous straddle pike jump with full turn on floor as well as for her flexibility and style.

Career
In 1984 Popa placed second at the Romanian Junior Nationals and she became a member of the national team. In 1985 she was a member of the silver medal-winning team at the 1985 World Championships. Also in 1985, she was the all around champion, vault and beam gold medalist at the International Chunichi Cup in Japan.

Together with Aurelia Dobre, Camelia Voinea, Eugenia Golea, Daniela Silivaș and Ecaterina Szabo, Popa was a member of the gold medal-winning team at the 1987 World Championships in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. In 1988 she won the silver medal with the team at the Olympics and placed tenth all around in the preliminaries.

Eponymous skill
Popa has one eponymous skill listed in the Code of Points.

Post retirement
After retiring from competitions in 1989 she studied at a sport school in Bucharest until 1991, and in 1994 graduated from university with a degree in physical education. She hold the National Romanian Coaching Certification Level III. Popa has been coaching since 1991, and since 1994 she has been a recreational coach at Flicka Gymnastics in North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. She is married to fellow former Romanian gymnast Flaviu Toma, who was a longtime head coach and technical director at Flicka. In 2009, she opened her own gym "Celestina Popa Gymnastics" in Maple Ridge, British Columbia, Canada.

References

External links

 List of competitive results at gymn-forum.net
 Celestina Popa Gymnastics

1970 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Ploiești
Romanian female artistic gymnasts
Gymnasts at the 1988 Summer Olympics
Olympic gymnasts for Romania
Olympic silver medalists for Romania
Olympic medalists in gymnastics
Medalists at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships
Originators of elements in artistic gymnastics
Romanian gymnastics coaches
Medalists at the 1988 Summer Olympics


The men's 52 kg powerlifting event at the 2008 Summer Paralympics was contested on 10 September at the Beihang University Gymnasium in Beijing, China. This event was the second-lightest of the men's powerlifting weight classes, limiting competitors to a maximum of  of body mass. Powerlifters were divided into two groups, A and B, with group B beginning their lifts at 16:30 and group A at 17:15.

As with all Paralympic powerlifting events, lifters competed in the bench press. Each athlete was allowed three attempts to bench press as much weight as possible. Athletes attempting to break a record were allowed a fourth attempt. For the attempt to be valid, the competitor must have lowered the weighted bar to his chest, held it motionless for a moment, then pressed the bar upwards until his arms were fully extended. If the competitor failed to meet these requirements or any other rule infraction was committed, the attempt was declared invalid by a team of three referees and the result struck from the record.

Results

Key: NMR=No marks recorded

References

Men's 052 kg


OLIGO Primer Analysis Software is a software for DNA primer design. The first paper describing this software was published in 1989. The program is a real time PCR primer and probe search and analysis tool, in addition to siRNA and molecular beacon searches, open reading frame, restriction enzyme analysis. It was created and maintained by Wojciech Rychlik and Piotr Rychlik.

OLIGO Primer Analysis Software has been used for: real time PCR, apoptosis studies, antigen typing, species identification, studies on species evolution,  measuring mRNA expression levels, oligonucleotide-based array hybridization studies, degenerate primer studies, microsatellite analysis, DNA microarray detection, inverse PCR, genome walking, nucleotide polymorphisms studies, detection of microorganisms or viruses, genotyping,  cloning, vector (gene) construction, genome sequencing, detection of mutants or intraspecific variability, genetic disease studies, siRNA and gene silencing, FISH analysis (single cell expression study), scorpion probes, and development of new DNA amplification methods.

References

Oligo Primer Analysis Software by Molecular Biology Insights

Other Primer Design Software
 FastPCR
 Gene Designer
 Geneious
 MacVector
 Netprimer
 Primer Premier
 UGENE
 Vector NTI

Bioinformatics software


Fanny may refer to:

Given name
 Fanny (name), a feminine given name or a nickname, often for Frances

In slang
 A term for the vulva, in Britain and many other parts of the English-speaking world
 A term for the buttocks, in the United States

Plays and films
 Fanny (play), a 1931 play by Marcel Pagnol
 Fanny (1932 film), a French adaptation
 Fanny (1933 film), an Italian production
 Fanny (musical), a 1954 Broadway musical based on the Pagnol plays Marius, Fanny and César
 Fanny (1961 film), an American non-musical film based on the 1954 musical
 Fanny (2013 film), a French adaptation by Daniel Auteuil
 Fanny: The Right to Rock, a 2021 Canadian documentary film directed by Bobbi Jo Hart profiling Fanny (band)

Music
 Fanny (band), an American all-female band active in the early 1970s
 Fanny (album), 1970 self-titled debut album by the band
 Fanny (singer) (born 1979), French singer
 Fanny J (born 1987), French singer from Guiana
 "Fanny (Be Tender with My Love)", a 1975 song by the Bee Gees from Main Course
 "Fanny", a song by Argentine singer Leo Dan
 "Fanny", a song by Spratleys Japs from Pony

Places
 Fanny Township, Polk County, Minnesota
 Fanny, West Virginia, an unincorporated community
 821 Fanny, an asteroid

Other uses
 List of ships named Fanny
 Fanny Award, a fan voted award for the adult entertainment industry
 Fanny's, a restaurant in Evanston, Illinois
 "Fanny", a poem by Edgar Allan Poe

See also
 Fanny pack, a pouch bag worn with straps that secure around the waist
 Fanny von Stratzing, the German name for the Venus of Galgenberg, a prehistoric statuette
 Fannie, a given name (including a list of people with the name)
 Fanni (disambiguation)
 FANY (disambiguation)


The Cryptonemiales is a defunct algal order; it is synonymous with the Halymeniales and has significant overlap with the Nemastomatales.

References

Red algae orders
Obsolete eukaryote taxa


"Against the Wind" is Máire Brennan's first solo single, taken from her 1992 album Máire. Two covers were made available, one with a sand pattern and the title of the single, the other with a photograph by Tim Jarvis, of Máire and three dancers, superimposed on the sand pattern. A promotional video directed by the Douglas Brothers was made to accompany the single.

The song also appears on Moya Brennan's 2005 live album Óró - A Live Session and on 2008's Heart Strings.

Track listing
7" Vinyl & Cassette
"Against the Wind" (edit)
"She Moved Through the Fair"

Compact Disc
"Against the Wind" (edit)
"She Moved Through the Fair"
"Against the Wind" (album version)

References

1992 debut singles
1992 songs
RCA Records singles


Sickle-gloss, or sickle sheen, is a silica residue found on blades such as sickles and scythes suggesting that they have been used to cut the silica-rich stems of cereals and forming an indirect proof for incipient agriculture. The gloss occurs from the abrasive action of silica in both wild and cultivated stems of cereal grasses, meaning the occurrence of reaping tools with sickle gloss doesn't necessarily imply agriculture. The first documented appearance of sickle-gloss is found on flint knapped blades in the Natufian culture (12,500 to 9500 BC) in the Middle East, primarily in Israel.

How sickle-gloss forms
Sickle-gloss has been recognized as a characteristic of reaping grasses since the 1930s, at least. There is a general consensus that sickle-gloss occurs after the reaping of grasses and it may form in as little as a few hours of work. However, it may require more time to accumulate enough sickle-gloss for archaeological preservation. It is also speculated that the gloss may accumulate from cutting canes or reeds, woodworking or perhaps even hoeing or digging. It may be possible to distinguish between different types of glosses on a macro or microscopic level.

Gloss lines
Direction of the gloss lines are relative to the work edge of a sickle. Gloss lines rarely penetrate more than 5 mm on the face of the segment. Later period sickles were more likely to show gloss patterns that were parallel or near parallel to working edges.

Importance of context
At sites with sickle-gloss, it is reasonable to assume that there were sickles used for varying lengths of time. Sickles that lack gloss may be assumed to be unused or unfinished (since flint sickles only require a few hours to accumulate sickle-gloss.)

Controversy
According to Lithics After the Stone Age: A Handbook of Stone Tools from the Levant, there is much debate over the actual formation of sickle-gloss, focusing on whether the gloss results from abrasive polishing of silica in the flint artifact or whether a silica coating is added from silica in the grasses that are harvested. According to "Cutting Graminae Tools and 'Sickle Gloss' Formation", there are at least four main concepts that have been invoked to try to explain the origins of sickle-gloss:
 Gloss is a result from working with plant materials in which the tool used forms a silica gel. Small plant fragments are incorporated in the gel.
 Gloss is also a result of working with plant materials in which the tool used forms a silica gel. However, the plant material is separate from the gel.
 There is a purely mechanical or chemical and mechanical character to the sickle gloss.
 Sickle gloss forms as a result of many different factors and tries to include the aforementioned ideas.

There is also debate on the meaning of the sickle-gloss, especially in understanding the rise of agriculture and the use of sickles as indicators of reaping grasses in Epipaleolithic and early Neolithic societies. This problem doesn't apply in late Neolithic societies because of their documentation of the use of sickles for agriculture.

References

Bar-Yosef, Ofer (1998), "The Natufian Culture in the Levant, Threshold to the Origins of Agriculture", Evolutionary Anthropology 6(5): 159–177, , http://www.columbia.edu/itc/anthropology/v1007/baryo.pdf

Silicon dioxide
History of agriculture
Natufian culture


Lake Nedlouc is the lake on the top plateau of Ungava Peninsula, Quebec, Canada. Nedlouc (on different maps and publications spelled also Nedluc or Nedluk) is Inuktitut word meaning part of the leg around the knee. Why the lake was named like that is unknown. It is known also by two other Inuktitut names, Nallualuk (meaning unknown) and Tasirtuuq (meaning: many lakes).

Lake is the source of two rivers, Charpentier River on the north-west and Nedlouc River on the north-east. It consists of two major lakes, one on south-east and one of north-west, connected by series of shallow rapids of Charpentier River and smaller lakes. The area is arctic tundra with few stunted trees.

References

Lakes of Nord-du-Québec


Nemastomatales is an order of red algae. It includes some members of the defunct order Cryptonemiales.

References

Red algae orders
Florideophyceae


Evert van Linge (19 November 1895 – 6 December 1964) was a Dutch footballer who earned 13 caps for the Dutch national side between 1919 and 1926, scoring three goals. He also participated at the 1924 Summer Olympics. He played for Be Quick 1887 and SC Veendam.

He was an architect and designed football club Be Quick 1887's Stadion Esserberg.

References

External links
 Player profile at VoetbalStats.nl

1895 births
1964 deaths
Dutch men's footballers
Netherlands men's international footballers
Olympic footballers for the Netherlands
Footballers at the 1920 Summer Olympics
Footballers at the 1924 Summer Olympics
Olympic medalists in football
Olympic bronze medalists for the Netherlands
People from Veendam
SC Veendam players
Be Quick 1887 players
Men's association football midfielders
Medalists at the 1920 Summer Olympics
Footballers from Groningen (province)


Huddersfield Town's 1938–39 campaign was the last full season of football before the start of World War II. Town would finish 19th in Division 1, but they had another brilliant FA Cup run, following from the previous season's runner-up spot, by reaching the semi-finals, before losing to Portsmouth.

Squad at the start of the season

Review
Town continued their downward spiral, which saw Town fighting in a relegation battle for a major part of the season, but luckily most of the season was highlighted by Town's successes in the FA Cup, following their 5th final appearance the previous season. They reached the semi-final against Portsmouth. They lost the match 2–1 at Highbury. This to date, is their last ever FA Cup semi-final appearance. Town's final league placing was 19th just ahead of Chelsea, Birmingham and Leicester City.

Squad at the end of the season

Results

Division One

FA Cup

Appearances and goals

1938–39
English football clubs 1938–39 season


The Boy in Blue ( and also known as Emerald of Death) is a 1919 silent German drama film directed by F. W. Murnau. It was Murnau's directorial debut. The film is now considered to be a lost film, though the Deutsche Kinemathek film archive possesses 35 small fragments ranging from two to eleven frames in length.

Thomas Gainsborough's painting The Blue Boy and Oscar Wilde's novel The Picture of Dorian Gray were  inspirations for Murnau to create this film.

Plot
Thomas von Weerth (Ernst Hofmann) is a poverty-stricken aristocrat who lives in his broken-down castle with a single old servant (Karl Platen). His sole expensive remaining possession is a painting of an ancestor (similar to Thomas Gainsborough's painting The Blue Boy), which depicts the ancestor wearing a gigantic emerald. According to family myth, the emerald is cursed, and the son of the ancestor hid the jewel somewhere in the castle to stop the curse. Weerth has been searching for it for years.

One night, Weerth dreams that his ancestor steps out of the painting and shows him where the emerald is. The next morning, Weerth goes to the spot and indeed finds the emerald. The servant pleads with him to throw it away, but he refuses.

That night, a roving band of gypsies comes to the castle. They sing, dance and put on skits for von Weerth, who falls instantly in love with a blonde gypsy girl (Blandine Ebinger). As she forces von Weerth to dance attendance on her, the rest of the gypsies steal the emerald and everything else in the castle and set fire to the building. The gypsy girl laughs as she and her comrades flee.

Von Weerth falls seriously ill. A young gypsy actress (Margit Barnay), however, fell in love with von Weerth. She now returns, nurses him back to health, and they fall in love.

Cast

See also
 List of lost films

References

External links

1919 films
1919 drama films
1919 directorial debut films
1919 lost films
Films of the Weimar Republic
German silent feature films
German black-and-white films
Silent German drama films
Films directed by F. W. Murnau
Lost German films
Lost drama films
1910s German films
1910s German-language films


The Boy in Blue or The Boys in Blue may refer to:

The Boy in Blue (1919 film), a lost film directed by F. W. Murnau
The Boy in Blue (1986 film), a film starring Nicolas Cage
The Boys in Blue, a 1982 British comedy film

See also
Boy Blue (disambiguation)
Blue Boy (disambiguation)
Girl in Blue (disambiguation)


Raymond Hull (1919–1985) was a Canadian playwright, television screenwriter, and lecturer. He also wrote many non-fiction books, numerous magazine articles, short stories, and poetry. He is best known as the co-author of the book The Peter Principle with Laurence J. Peter. He is also known for the saying "He who trims himself to suit everyone will soon whittle himself away."

He studied creative writing at the University of British Columbia at the age 30 after discovering he had an aptitude for the craft. After graduation, he eventually began writing television screenplays for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. He later branched into writing for the stage and in time formed The Gastown Players.

Works

Plays
The Drunkard (1967)
Wedded to a Villain (1967)
Son of the Drunkard (a.k.a. The Drunkard's Revenge, 1982)

Books
Profitable Playwriting (1968)
How To Get What You Want (1969)
Writing for Money in Canada (1969)
Effective Public Speaking (1971)
The Peter Principle (co-author)
Gastown's Gassy Jack (co-author)

1919 births
1985 deaths
20th-century Canadian dramatists and playwrights
Canadian non-fiction writers
Canadian male dramatists and playwrights
20th-century Canadian male writers
Canadian male non-fiction writers
20th-century Canadian screenwriters
20th-century Canadian non-fiction writers


Noud van Melis (10 February 1924 – 8 August 2001) was a Dutch footballer, who played as a centre forward.

Club career
Van Melis was born in Eindhoven and started playing football at local third-level club RKVV Tongelre. In 1946, he moved to EVV Eindhoven. Over time, a team was built around the proficient goalscorer Van Melis. During the early 1950s, this team was among the best in the Netherlands, culminating in the 1953–54 season, in which they became national champions.

After the 1953–54 season, professional football was introduced in the Netherlands, and Van Melis took the opportunity to get paid by moving to Rapid JC. In the 1955–56 season, he was an important part of the Rapid JC squad which became Dutch champions.

In 1958, he returned to EVV Eindhoven, who by then had descended to the Eerste Divisie. After two seasons, he retired at the age of 36.

A stand at the Jan Louwers Stadion, home stadium of FC Eindhoven (as EVV Eindhoven is now known), is named after him.

International career
Van Melis earned 13 caps for the Netherlands between 1950 and 1957. He scored in each of his first eight international appearances, netting twelve goals. In total, he scored 15 times. In 1952, he was selected for the Dutch squad at the Summer Olympics, but did not make an appearance.

Style of play
Van Melis was known as a very productive goalscorer who was adept at positioning. Despite being positioned on the pitch as a traditional centre forward, he also possessed qualities associated with more modern forwards, due to his pace, technique, and insight.

Career statistics

Scores and results list the Netherlands goal tally first, score column indicates score after each van Melis goal.

Honours
EVV Eindhoven
Netherlands Football League Championship: 1953–54
Rapid JC
Netherlands Football League Championship: 1955–56

References

External links

1924 births
2001 deaths
Footballers from Eindhoven
Men's association football forwards
Dutch men's footballers
Netherlands men's international footballers
Olympic footballers for the Netherlands
Footballers at the 1952 Summer Olympics
Eredivisie players
Eerste Divisie players
Roda JC Kerkrade players
FC Eindhoven players


Daniel of Moscopole or Daniil of Moscopole (1754–1825;  or ; ), also known as Mihali Adami Hagi (), was an Aromanian scholar from Moscopole and student of Theodoros Kavalliotis, an 18th/19th-century professor and director of New Academy of Moscopole.

Works
Daniel was an Aromanian, and has been described as Hellenized. In this period, Moscopole was an important Balkan city, the cultural and commercial center of the Aromanians and the site of the first printing press working in the Balkans.

Despite promoting the Greek language, Aromanian was Daniel's mother tongue. Furthermore, according to the Bulgarian scholar Aleksandăr Ničev, he did not know Greek very well.

By looking at the correspondence between Pop Stefan and Daniel Moscopolites, it is known that they were close friends and that Pop Stefan translated the text of the Lexicon Tetraglosson. Daniel's first letter is dated April 13, 1793. The printing of the Lexicon Tetraglosson took place the following year. Here is what the letter says:

Who Dimitrius is, is learned from the second letter dated April 30, 1793:

His full name was Dimitrius of Ioannou from Moscopole. By the correspondence it is known that Dimitrius was a student in Ohrid under the wing of Pop Stefania. Afterwards he went to Magarevo and became a priest there.

It is known that Pop Stefan was so fond of his pupil that he welcomed him into his family and Dimitrius married Pop Stefan's granddaughter of his oldest son, Nikola Pop Stefania. They had a daughter together. Her name was Sultana and she was the mother of Dimitar and Konstantin, the famous Miladinov brothers who were poets and activists from Struga.

Pop Stefan and Daniel Moscopolites remained good friends. He said about the Sakellarios that "his golden mouth gathered what the muses gave". They met on the market of Struga where Daniel, later in life, lived until his death in 1825.

Lexicon Tetraglosson
Lexicon Tetraglosson (), (), was a dictionary of four languages as part of the Εισαγωγική Διδασκαλία (Romanised: Eisagogiki Didaskalia; ) created by Moscopolites.

The tetraglosson is a combined dictionary of Greek (Romaika), Aromanian (Vlachika), Bulgarian (Vulgarika) and Albanian (Alvanitika) to motivate non-Greek speakers with this dictionary to learn the Greek language:

The book was printed in 1794 in Venice. Many authors published his works in Greek and in Aromanian in the Greek alphabet. With his lexicographic work, Daniel hoped to persuade the Albanians, Aromanians and Bulgarians to abandon their "barbaric" tongues and learn Greek, the "mother of knowledge".

The Albanian, Aromanian and Bulgarian translations were written in the Greek alphabet. The Bulgarian part of the dictionary is regarded as the earliest dictionary of Bulgarian. Modern Macedonian authors see the Bulgarian part of the dictionary as the Macedonian language. This part was provided and translated by Pop Stefan, an 18th-century sakellarios living in the city of Ohrid who was a friend of Daniel and of Aromanian descent as well. Pop Stefan is the progenitor of the current notable Ohrid family Pop Stefanija who reside in that city to this day.

The book was republished in 1802 in Dubrovnik, or Venice. and in Bulgaria in 1841.

Notes

References

External links
 Εισαγωγική Διδασκαλία (Introductory instruction), 1802

1725 births
1825 deaths
Aromanian people
People from Moscopole
Aromanians from the Ottoman Empire
Pro-Greek Aromanians
Aromanian academics


William Edward Elsey was an Anglican bishop in the first half of the 20th century.

Early life
Elsey was born into a sporting family on 4 July 1880 in Horncastle, Lincolnshire, England, and educated at King Edward VI Grammar School, Louth and Lincoln College, Oxford.

Religious life
Ordained in 1905 Elsey was initially a curate at St Faith's Stepney and then its Priest in charge. In 1914 he began a long period of service overseas, firstly as a member of the Bush Brotherhood of St Boniface in the Anglican Diocese of Bunbury, Western Australia, then its Warden, following which he was elevated to the episcopate as Bishop of Kalgoorlie. During World War II, he was a chaplain to the Australian Armed Forces

Later life
Elsey retired in 1950 and died in Perth, Western Australia on 25 September 1966.

References

1880 births
1966 deaths
People educated at King Edward VI Grammar School, Louth
Alumni of Lincoln College, Oxford
Alumni of Ripon College Cuddesdon
20th-century Anglican bishops in Australia
Anglican bishops of Kalgoorlie
Australian military chaplains
World War II chaplains
Bush Brotherhood priests


The Aargletschers, literally "Aare-Glaciers", are a system of glaciers located at the sources of the Aare river in the Bernese Alps, Switzerland. In the original German the name is "Aargletscher" both in singular and plural, as in German the plural of "gletscher" is only marked by a change of the article: der Gletscher (one glacier), die Gletscher (many glaciers). The Aargletschers are constituted by two distinct partial glacier systems:
Unteraargletscher: composed by the converging Lauteraargletscher and Finsteraargletscher, between the Lauteraarhorn, Finsteraarhorn () and Grimselsee ().
Oberaargletscher: between Oberaarhorn () and Oberaarsee ().
Grimselsee and Oberaarsee are recent reserve lakes. The "...-Aar-Horns" are summits of more than 3600 metres above sea level, two of them even above 4000 metres.

See also
 Rhône Glacier

Sources
 Swisstopo (CH 3084 Wabern): Landeskarte der Schweiz 1:100 000
 No. 37 Brünigpass
 No. 42 Oberwallis

Glaciers of Switzerland
Glaciers of the Alps
Glaciers of the canton of Bern
Aare
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This Comp Kills Fascists Vol. 1 is a compilation album released by Relapse Records focusing on grindcore and powerviolence bands. The LP was released by Deep Six Records. A limited edition box set of 7 7" records was released in January 2009. The album features 14 bands, 51 tracks and has a total running time of 57 minutes and 4 seconds. The album was compiled by Scott Hull of Pig Destroyer/Agoraphobic Nosebleed fame.

Many song titles and lyrics are politically charged (including the album title), mainly speaking against capitalism and fascism, some claiming that America is a fascist country. The CD artwork features a picture of George W. Bush's head with four L-shaped penises coming from his ears, mouth and top of his head that form to resemble a swastika.

Track listing
Agents of Satan - "Joe Ryder (Doomryder)"
Agents of Satan - "Rape 'em All and let God Sort 'em Out
Agents of Satan - "Skrote Skin Mask"
Agents of Satan - "Kill for Baloff"
Weekend Nachos - "Prioritize"
Weekend Nachos - "If You Come Near"
Weekend Nachos - "Scars"
Weekend Nachos - "Worthless Words"
Kill The Client - "False Flag Attack"
Kill The Client - "Triple Six Bastard"
Kill The Client - "Shithouse Lawyer"
Spoonful Of Vicodin - "Totally Brutal News Exposure"
Spoonful Of Vicodin - "Designer Track Marks"
Spoonful Of Vicodin - "I Don't Lift Weights or Drive an SUV (Because I'm Comfy with My Genitalia)"
Spoonful Of Vicodin - "Put That in Your Pipe and Smoke It"
Spoonful Of Vicodin - "Our Explanations are Longer than Our Songs"
Spoonful Of Vicodin - "Confession Booth Gloryhole"
Maruta - "Behind the Steel Curtain"
Maruta - "Chemical Tomb"
Insect Warfare - "Information Economy"
Insect Warfare - "Cellgraft"
Insect Warfare - "Disassembler"
Insect Warfare - "Cancer of Oppression"
Shitstorm - "Paranoid Existence"
Shitstorm - "Burning Alive"
Shitstorm - "Brainwashed"
Shitstorm - "Victim"
Shitstorm - "Controlling"
Shitstorm - "Mince Meat Human"
Man Will Destroy Himself - "Fuse"
Man Will Destroy Himself - "Empty"
Total Fucking Destruction - "Human is the Bastard"
Total Fucking Destruction - "In the Process of Connecting Thinking Errors"
Total Fucking Destruction - "Welcome to the Fascist Corporate Wastelands of America Part One"
Chainsaw to the Face - "Hating Life"
Chainsaw to the Face - "Skewered"
Chainsaw to the Face - "Burnt to Death"
Chainsaw to the Face - "Ripped in Half"
Magrudergrind - "Inevitable Progression"
Magrudergrind - "Heavy Bombing"
Magrudergrind - "Burden"
Brutal Truth - "Forever in a Daze"
Brutal Truth - "You Should Know Better"
Brutal Truth - "Dogs of War"
Brutal Truth - "Turmoil"
A.S.R.A - "Chytridiomycosis"
A.S.R.A - "Cancer"
A.S.R.A - "Pig Squealer"
Wasteoid - "Drink in Hand"
Wasteoid - "Bangover"
Wasteoid - "Hancuffed and Fucked"

References

External links
Information page at Relapse Records website
Information page at Amazon.co.uk
Full CD track listing

2008 compilation albums


Iowa Highway 934 (Iowa 934) was an unsigned state highway in Cedar Falls and Waterloo, Iowa.  It was created in 1998 after University Avenue was vacated by U.S. Highway 218 (US 218), which had recently moved to a new freeway a few miles north.  Iowa 934 extended from the Iowa 27 / Iowa 58 freeway in Cedar Falls, which was constructed at the same time as the US 218 freeway, to US 63 (Sergeant Road).

Route description
Iowa 934 began along University Avenue at an interchange with Iowa Highway 27 and Iowa Highway 58 in Cedar Falls.  It traveled east past College Square Mall and the restaurants which surrounded it before turned to the southeast at Waterloo Road.  It passed through a residential neighborhood followed by a commercial area dotted with auto dealerships and restaurants.

Just  into Waterloo, University Avenue met Greenhill Road at an unusual partial cloverleaf interchange.  From Greenhill Road, it continued southeast, passing many restaurants which served as a buffer from the road.  Just before Ansborough Avenue, Iowa 934 turned to the east, straightening out for the rest of the trip.   from its eastern end, University Avenue crossed Black Hawk Creek, a tributary of the Cedar River.  The highway ended at an intersection with Sergeant Road, which carries US 63.  The intersection with US 63 was less than  away from US 63's interchange with US 218.

History
Prior to the creation of Iowa 934, US 218 followed University Avenue.  As the Leo P. Rooff Expressway was being built, US 218 was gradually rerouted off of University.  US 218 had been completely removed from University Avenue by 1997.  In 1998, the Iowa Department of Transportation took over the segment of University Avenue from the Iowa 58 expressway to US 63, designating it Iowa 934.

On May 12, 2014, the Cedar Falls city council accepted an agreement with the Iowa DOT to transfer control of Iowa 934 within the city limits.  The DOT paid the City of Cedar Falls $20 million to complete the transfer on July 21.  A similar agreement in Waterloo is expected later in 2014.

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Arnold Horween (originally Arnold Horwitz; also known as A. McMahon; July 7, 1898 – August 5, 1985) was an American college and professional American football player and coach.  He played and coached both for Harvard University and in the National Football League (NFL).

Horween played left halfback, right halfback, fullback, and center for the unbeaten Harvard Crimson football teams of 1919, which won the 1920 Rose Bowl, and 1920.  He was voted an All-American.

Horween also played four seasons in the NFL, as a fullback, halfback, and blocking back (quarterback) for the Racine Cardinals and the Chicago Cardinals.  He was a player-coach for the Cardinals.  Later, he was Harvard's head football coach, from 1925 to 1930.

His brother Ralph Horween was also an All-American football player for Harvard, and also played and coached in the NFL for the Cardinals.  They were the last Jewish brothers to play in the NFL until Geoff Schwartz and Mitchell Schwartz, in the 2000s.  After retiring from football, Horween and his brother inherited and ran the family leather tannery business, Horween Leather Company.

Early and personal life

Horween's parents, Isidore and Rose (Rabinoff), immigrated to Chicago from Ukraine in the Russian Empire in 1892.  During his youth the  family changed its name to Horween from its original name, which was either Horwitz or Horowitz.

Horween was Jewish, and was born in Chicago, Illinois.  He was the brother of Ralph Horween, who was two years older.  They were the last Jewish brothers to play in the NFL until offensive tackles Geoff Schwartz and Mitchell Schwartz in the 2000s.

He played high school football at center and fullback for four years at Francis W. Parker School.  He was captain of the football team in his senior year.

Horween was 5' 11.5" (1.82 m), and weighed 206 pounds (93 kg).  In 1928, he married Marion Eisendrath, daughter of leather tycoon William Eisendrath.

College and Navy career
Horween followed his older brother to Harvard University, where they played together on the Harvard Crimson football team, in 1916.  In his freshman year, he played both football (as a fullback) and baseball (as a pitcher), and was a member of the track team as a shotputter.

The next year, he enlisted in the United States Navy during World War I, in April 1917.  He was promoted to ensign in October 1917, eventually reaching the rank of lieutenant. He served on a destroyer in the Atlantic and was discharged in 1919, when he returned to Harvard.

Horween played left halfback, right halfback, fullback, and center for the Harvard Crimson, and was a First-team All-American, from 1919 to 1920.  In both 1919 and 1920 Harvard was undefeated (9–0–1 and 8–0–1, respectively).  In 1919, Donald Grant Herring ranked him the Second-team fullback on the Princeton-Yale-Harvard composite team.

Horween was unanimously elected the Harvard Crimson's first Jewish captain in 1920.  That year, he kicked a  field goal against Yale in a 9–0 victory, and a  field goal against the Centre Colonels.  He was part of the unbeaten 1919 team that won the 1920 Rose Bowl against the Oregon, 7–6, as he kicked the extra point that decided the game, and Harvard relied in part on his running game. It remains the only bowl game appearance in Harvard history.

The New York Times wrote: "The way he smashed through the line was considerable...  there were even some protests that this dark-haired, sturdily built Crimson fullback was a little too rough."

In 1920 he was chosen Walter Camp third-team All-American and selected by a number of newspapers to the All-America first-team.  He graduated from Harvard in 1921.

NFL career
Horween played fullback, tailback, and blocking back (quarterback) in the National Football League for four years, in 32 games, for the Racine Cardinals (in the American Professional Football Association, the predecessor to the NFL) in 1921 and the Chicago Cardinals (as the Cardinals changed their name) from 1922 to 1924. He was a player–coach for the Cardinals from 1923 to 1924.

In 1922–23, Horween appeared in all 11 games and scored 4 rushing touchdowns as the Cardinals were 8–3–0. In 1923–24, the team was 8–4–0.  On October 7, 1923, he and his brother both scored in the same game, as he kicked two extra points and his brother ran for a touchdown as the Cardinals beat the Rochester Jeffersons 60–0 at Normal Park in Chicago.  On November 12, 1922, he made a long pass to Paddy Driscoll for the game's only touchdown, in a 7–0 victory over the Akron Pros.  On December 2, 1923, he kicked a  field goal and his brother ran for a touchdown as the Cardinals beat the Oorang Indians, 22–19.

His brother Ralph Horween also played for the Chicago Cardinals. Horween and his brother played for the Cardinals under the alias McMahon (he played as A. McMahon) to protect their family's social status.  He kept that name until 1923.

Coaching career at Harvard
Horween returned to Harvard as the school's head football coach from 1925 to 1930, compiling a record of 21–17–3.  The New York Sun reported: The boys are for him unreservedly. It is no, secret, however, that Horween's appointment didn't please the Beacon Street–Park Avenue element among the grads. The clique that supported the old regime would prefer to see a Cabot or a Wendell, we use the names as symbols, in the saddle...

Charlie Devens, who later played baseball for the New York Yankees, played football under Horween at Harvard. He recalled that anti-Semitic posters aimed at Coach Horween were displayed at a game in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Horween married Marion Eisendrath in November 1928. The couple had a long engagement, as they had agreed to postpone the wedding until the Harvard football team defeated Yale. The requisite victory took place on Saturday, November 24, and the wedding on the following Thursday.  He resigned following the 1930 season.

Horween Leather Company
After retiring from football, Horween returned to Chicago in 1930, and he and his brother inherited the family leather tannery business, Horween Leather Company, which had been founded by their father in Chicago in 1905. He operated the business, a successful company that supplied (and still supplies) the leather for Wilson's NFL official football, from 1949–84.

In 1945, he coached the football team of his former high school, Francis Parker.

In 1952, he was vice president of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.  He also served as a trustee of the Chicago Symphony, and on the Harvard University board of overseers.

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See also
 List of select Jewish football players

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Norman Christopher Barry (December 25, 1897 – October 13, 1988) was an American judge, politician, and football coach.

Political and judicial career
Barry was born in Chicago, Illinois. He went to the Chicago public schools and then went to the Notre Dame preparatory school for thirteen years, from grade school to law school. He then received his law degree from the Notre Dame Law School and was admitted to the Illinois bar in 1928. Barry was involved with the Democratic Party in Chicago. Barry served in the Illinois Senate from 1943 until 1953. He then served as an Illinois circuit court judge for Cook County, Illinois from 1953 until his retirement in 1978. He then resumed practicing law in Chicago. He died on October 13, 1988, at Northwestern Memorial Hospital after suffering a heart attack while at his law office.

Football career
He was the head coach for the National Football League's Chicago Cardinals from 1925 to 1926. With Norman Barry as head coach the Cardinals outdistanced a field of 20 teams to win their first NFL championship in 1925 by virtue of the league's best record. In two seasons, he compiled a record of 16–8–2. Prior to his coaching career, he played in the early NFL for the Cardinals, Green Bay Packers and Milwaukee Badgers. Barry was George Gipp's teammate at the University of Notre Dame.

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Wanda R. Smith High School, formerly Keene High School (KHS), is a public high school located in Keene, Texas and classified as a 3A school by the UIL.  It is part of the Keene Independent School District located in central Johnson County.  In 2015, the school was rated "Met Standard" by the Texas Education Agency. The school has been given a bronze rating from U.S. News & World Report, who ranked it as one of the best schools in Texas.

History
Students in Keene were served by Cleburne High School prior to the establishment of
Keene High School, which saw its first graduating class in 1991. The school was later renamed  in honor of Wanda R. Smith, former superintendent of Keene ISD.

Campus
Wanda R. Smith High School is part of the district campus which includes the elementary, intermediate, and junior high schools. The high school facilities include 20 classrooms, a library, a gymnasium, a cross country course, and a field where a track is built.  Currently new facilities are being built to expand the size of the campus.

Athletics
The Keene Smith Chargers compete in these sports -

Football, Volleyball, Cross Country, Basketball, Soccer, Golf, Tennis, Track, Baseball & Softball

Extracurricular activities
Student groups and activities include Beta Club, FCCLA, National Honor Society, and student council.

References

External links
Keene ISD

Schools in Johnson County, Texas
Public high schools in Texas
Educational institutions established in 1989
1989 establishments in Texas