Carl Porter Duncan (December 27, 1921 – August 9, 1999) was a professor of experimental psychology at Northwestern University.

Carl P. Duncan was born on December 27, 1921, in Presque Isle, Maine.

His father, Henry Beecher Duncan, was a farmer and his mother Vivian Howlett Duncan, a schoolteacher.

Duncan received his BA degree from University of Maine. He also received an MA degree (1944) and a PhD degree (1947) in experimental psychology at Brown University, both under the direction of Harold Schlosberg. His PhD thesis, The Effect of Electroshock Convulsions on Learning and Retention in The Rat is regarded as seminal, a classic study in cognitive neuroscience.

Duncan met his wife, Marie Castaldi, while at Brown University, and they were married in 1948. She received her doctor of medicine degree in 1951, and practiced in adolescent psychiatry. They had no children.

Professor Duncan, after getting his PhDs at Brown, began working at Northwestern University in 1947. In 1966 he was elected president of the Midwestern Psychological Association. In the American Psychological Association (APA), Professor Duncan was a fellow of Division 3, a member of its executive committee from 1962 to 1964, and one of its representatives to the APA Council of Representatives from 1966 to 1968. He served as the secretary-treasurer to the Society of Experimental Psychologists from 1970 to 1973. He was also chair of the Section on Psychology of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1973. From 1972 to 1985, he served as a  book review editor for the American Journal of Psychology.

Duncan retired with the title of professor emeritus in 1987, after a 40-year career at Northwestern University and stayed in the Chicago area (specifically, in Libertyville, Illinois) for the rest of his life.

Duncan suffered a fatal fall on August 9, 1999, while trimming a tree.

References

 http://content.apa.org/journals/amp/56/4/364.html
 HighBeam

External links
 A collection of his papers at the Archives of the History of American Psychology

1921 births
1999 deaths
20th-century American psychologists
People from Presque Isle, Maine
University of Maine alumni
People from Libertyville, Illinois
Brown University alumni
Northwestern University faculty


The MV Porto was a Portuguese-owned cruise ship. She had operated by Portuscale Cruises until sold for scrap in 2017.

The ship was built in 1965, as the Istra. She was purchased by Arcadia Shipping Company, Lisbon in 2000 and was completely reconstructed from the hull up, being renamed Arion. She was put in service with Classic International Cruises

On 17 September 2012 reports announced that she was detained in Montenegro for failure to pay fuel costs. Fellow ships Athena and Princess Danae were detained for similar issues.

Following the liquidation of Classic International Cruises, Arion was purchased by a Portuguese entrepreneur and remained flagged under the Portuguese flag. The ship was renamed Porto in 2013, and operated by the Portuguese cruise company Portuscale Cruises.

In 2017, the ship was sold for €1.05 million for scrapping  and broken up on 5 November 2018 at Aliaga.

References

External links
 Details
 MS Arion cruise|
 Original photos of Istra

1964 ships
Cruise ships of Portugal
Ships built in Croatia


Leucozona glaucia, the Pale-saddled Leucozona is a Palearctic hoverfly. Larvae feed on ground layer aphids. Adults are usually seen visiting flowers.

Description
External images
For terms see Morphology of Diptera
Wing length 8-11·25 mm. Scutellum yellow. Tergite 2 has large silverish-white to yellowish- white marks (often merged). Tergites 3 and 4 have narrow or absent markings.
The male genitalia are figured by Dusek and Laska (1967) . The larva is figured by (Dusek and Laska (1962)
See references for determination

Distribution
The species has a Palearctic distribution from Fennoscandia south to the Pyrenees, from Ireland east through central Europe into Turkey and European Russia, Russian Far East and Siberia and the Pacific coast (Kuril Islands and Japan).

Biology
The species' habitat includes Quercus and Fagus forest, riverine gallery forest of Fraxinus and Salix, beside streams, in clearings and along tracks.
Flowers visited include white umbellifers, Filipendula, Sambucus and Senecio. The flight period is May to September, with the peak in July and August. The larvae feed on aphids.

References

Diptera of Europe
Syrphini
Flies described in 1758
Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus


Steve Moore is an American, New York–based multi-instrumentalist/producer/film composer, best known for his synthesizer and bass guitar work with Zombi.

Moore also plays bass guitar for Brooklyn progressive rock band Titan, and has worked with Microwaves, Red Sparowes, Lair of the Minotaur, Ghost, Goblin, Maserati, Municipal Waste, Sally Shapiro and Panthers. Moore releases solo material as well, occasionally adopting pseudonyms (such as dance/pop alter-ego Lovelock). His solo work also includes film scores, predominantly low-budget horror films, and remixes for a wide range of artists including Washed Out, Lower Dens, Voivod and The Melvins.

In 2019, he had a collaborative relationship with Emel Mathlouthi: he worked on her album Everywhere We Looked Was Burning and in return she made the leading vocals on the opener "Your Sentries Will Be Met with Force" on his Beloved Exile album.

He has written soundtracks for low budget films including Gutterballs and Star Vehicle under the name Gianni Rossi.

Discography and filmography
The Henge (Relapse Records, 2007)
Vaalbara (2008)
Fever Dream (Mexican Summer, 2009)
Primitive Neural Pathways (Static Caravan, 2010)
Light Echoes (Cuneiform Records, 2012)
"Signal II" remix on Long Distance Poison's Gliese Translations (2013)
Pangaea Ultima (2013)
The Mind's Eye (2016 film)
Beloved Exile (2019)
VFW (2019 film)
Bliss (2020)
Liminal Migration (Steve Moore & Bluetech, 2021)
 Suitable Flesh (2023 film)

As Gianni Rossi
Gutterballs Original Soundtrack (Permanent Vacation, 2008)
Star Vehicle Original Soundtrack (Permanent Vacation, 2010)

References

External links

Living people
Musicians from Pittsburgh
American multi-instrumentalists
Record producers from Pennsylvania
American film score composers
American male film score composers
Year of birth missing (living people)
Temporary Residence Limited artists


Munangabum (? - 1846) was an influential clan head of the Liarga balug and Spiritual Leader or neyerneyemeet of the Dja Dja Wurrung people in central Victoria, Australia.

He was influential in shaping his peoples response to invasion and European settlement in the 1830s and 1840s. He was gaoled in 1840 for sheep-stealing which resulted in Dja Dja Wurrung people traveling to Melbourne to plead for his release. Woiwurrung and Djadja wurrung people feared that unless Munangabum was released, he would move Bunjil to release the Mindye causing a plague to black and white.

Munangabum was released from gaol in August 1840. On 7 February 1841 Munangabum was shot and wounded in the shoulder above the shoulder blade  by settlers while his companion Gondiurmin died at Far Creek Station, west of Maryborough. Three settlers were later apprehended and tried on 18 May 1841 for the murder of Gondiurmin but were acquitted for want of evidence, as aborigines could not give evidence in courts of law.

In 1841 he acted as an envoy for Assistant Protector of Aborigines Edward Stone Parker, and almost died from lack of water for three days on an expedition to the Mallee.

Munangabum was murdered in 1846 by a rival clan-head from the south.

References

1846 deaths
1846 murders in Australia
People murdered in Australia
Indigenous Australian people
History of Victoria (state)
Dja Dja Wurrung
Year of birth unknown


Darius Behzad "Dari" Nowkhah (born June 23, 1976) is the lead anchor at SEC Network, an American sports television network. On August 21, 2014, The SEC Network began airing, and Nowkhah was chosen to be the head anchor. Nowkhah hosts extensive college football and college basketball programming for the collegiate network.  Nowkhah also provides play-by-play for the network's college basketball and college baseball coverage.

Nowkhah's move to ESPNU's Charlotte, NC headquarters came after seven years in Bristol, CT where he hosted a variety of shows for ESPN.  Among the shows Nowkhah hosted were SportsCenter, Baseball Tonight and College Football Live.

He fills in as a host on a variety of other ESPN Radio programs. Before working at ESPN, Nowkhah worked at KCFW-TV in Kalispell, Montana as well as KLKN-TV in Lincoln, Nebraska and KOTV in Tulsa.

Nowkhah graduated from Union High School in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and then from the University of Oklahoma in 1998 with a degree in broadcast journalism.

Personal life
Nowkhah and wife Jenn have four children. On Tuesday, September 20, 2011, Dari announced his infant son, Hayden, died from complications arising from myocarditis, a viral infection that compromised the heart.  Nowkhah and his wife have since set up Hayden's Hope, a foundation dedicated to helping families cover expenses due to their children's organ transplants.

Nowkhah is the son of Cy Nowkhah, a 1975 University of Tulsa graduate who immigrated to the United States from Iran in 1969.

References

External links
ESPN Bio

Living people
1976 births
American television sports anchors
College basketball announcers in the United States
College football announcers
American people of Iranian descent
Sportspeople from Tulsa, Oklahoma
College baseball announcers in the United States


Claude Auguste Lamy (; 15 June 1820 – 20 March 1878) was a French chemist who discovered the element thallium independently from William Crookes in 1862.

Life
Lamy was born in the commune of Ney in the department of Jura, France in 1820. He studied at the École Normale Supérieure, Paris. After he graduated from University in 1842 he became a teacher at Lille then at Limoges and again in Lille. In 1851 he received his Ph.D. In 1854 he became a professor at the faculty of sciences of Lille (Université Lille Nord de France). He taught at École des arts industriels et des mines (École centrale de Lille). In 1866 he changed to the École Centrale des Arts et Manufactures (École centrale de Paris). Lamy died in 1878.

References

1820 births
1878 deaths
Discoverers of chemical elements
Academic staff of the Lille University of Science and Technology
19th-century  French physicists
19th-century  French chemists
Thallium


Gastone Pierini (27 September 1899 – 17 September 1967) was an Italian lightweight weightlifter. He competed in the 1924, 1928, 1932 and 1936 Summer Olympics and won a bronze medal in 1932. He was born in Italy, but lived most of his life in Egypt, and spent five years in a war camp near El-Fayid during World War II. After that he immigrated to Brazil, where he died in 1967.

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External links

1899 births
1967 deaths
Italian male weightlifters
Olympic weightlifters for Italy
Weightlifters at the 1924 Summer Olympics
Weightlifters at the 1928 Summer Olympics
Weightlifters at the 1932 Summer Olympics
Weightlifters at the 1936 Summer Olympics
Olympic bronze medalists for Italy
Olympic medalists in weightlifting
Medalists at the 1932 Summer Olympics
20th-century Italian people
Sportspeople from Ancona


The weighted-average loan age (WALA) is measure used in pools of mortgage-backed securities that defines the average number of months since the date of note origination of all the loans in a pool weighted by remaining principal balance.  In the calculation each loan's size is in proportion to its aggregate total of the pool.

The measure are often used by organisations buying or selling securitized mortgages, like Fannie Mae in the United States.  It helps investors estimate the amount of time before the whole pool is repaid.  This number will fluctuate as mortgages in the pool are paid off.  The main counterpart to the weighted-average loan age is the Weighted Average Maturity rate.

References

Loans


The E3 International Agency Network is a well established and successful network of independent marketing communications agencies around the world, with a focus on business marketing. Founded in 1978, E3 now includes agencies in 17 countries across four continent, comprising over 1,200 professionals. E3 headquarters are located in Belgium.

History
The network gets its name from the former European motorway Route E3 (part of the International E-road network), which connected Stockholm to Lisbon until the road numbers were reassigned in 1974. Similarly, the E3 network connects member agencies through collaboration and inroads to marketing innovation.

Governance
A management committee of five to seven officers elected every two years meets monthly to make operational decisions for E3. The network holds an Annual General Meeting (AGM) and Extraordinary General Meeting (EGM) and Conference each year.

Activities
E3 offers ongoing educational programs, information exchange through online and in-person meetings, and services to help members stay up-to-date on the latest marketing techniques and technologies from digital branding to social marketing. The network also provides an opportunity for intercultural exchange and job sharing. Members frequently collaborate in order to expand their range of services to clients.

Membership is by invitation only and new agencies must be approved by a consensus vote of the management committee.

Member agencies
 BB&B / France
 BBC / Belgium
 BDB / UK
 Bernstein / Germany
 Brand Bar / Hungary
 Brandigo China / China
 Brandigo USA / USA
 BTL Africa / Ghana
 C&COM Advertising / Czech Republic
 Cordovan / Sweden
 EDesign / Saudi Arabia
 Happy / Denmark
 Huble Digital / UK
 Innovation Protocol / USA
 Lemm En Ten Haaf / Netherlands
 OZ Global B2B / Israel
 Preferendum / France
 SPS Marketing / Austria
 Schindler Parent / Germany
 The Marketing Practice / UK
 Valve / Finland
 Wisse Kommunikatie / Netherlands
 zuk / Germany
 ZurMarke / Switzerland

Mission
E3’s goal is to make its members more successful by expanding their knowledge, extending their geographical reach and empowering them to take on new opportunities. These are the three E's of E3.

External links
 Official web site

References

Brand management
Marketing organizations
Advertising organizations


Escor Toys was a British toy manufacturer, based in Bournemouth, Dorset, England, best known for its brightly painted wooden toys manufactured by people with disabilities.

History
Escor Toys was formed in 1938 to manufacture wooden children's toys. Edward Seaton Corner of Bransgore, Dorset, visited the British Industries Fair in 1936 and was struck by the lack of British-made toys. He ‘felt there must be a market for something original’ and in 1937 exhibited the wooden toys he had been making in the garage at his home, under the name ESCOR, taken from his own name E.S. Cor(ner). The buyer for Hamleys, London  was taken by what he had made and gave him his first order. Toy making was suspended during World War II, when the factory made wooden pieces for trainer aeroplanes. By 1947, Escor was based at Purewell, Christchurch. Corner's nephew, Edward Corner, and later Edward's son, William joined the business.
In 1972 ownership of Escor Toys Ltd. passed to Mark, the Earl of Ronaldshay, who already owned and ran three toy shops in the U.K.  The Corners remained as directors.  Peter Thorne became managing director of Escor by 1974, and in 1985, when the Earl of Ronaldshay ceased his involvement, Thorne took on responsibility for all aspects of the business. In the late 1980s, Thorne went into partnership with Bournemouth Borough Council. Escor began to provide work for people with disabilities, and gained Department for Work and Pensions accreditation. In the mid 1990s, the council took on full ownership, and it was merged with Dorset Enterprises, known for its deck chairs. It closed when Bournemouth council ceased funding for the business in 2013.

Products
Escor Toys produced brightly painted wooden toys, often with a transport or fairground theme. Their pullalong toys were recommended by experts in the importance of play in child development not only for their bright finish, but also because of the educational advantage of their three play functions (pullalong, fitting and representational), important at different stages of development. They were also recommended for disabled children, for grasping and fitting practice and for imaginative games. The rowing boat with movable figures has been used for hearing tests by hospitals and health authorities across the UK since the 1980s. By the 2000s, Escor Toys was using FSC-certified wood.
 Cars
 Rowing Boat
 Merry-go-round / Carousel
 Charabanc
 Roundabout
 Maypole
 Swings

Awards
 2005 - Practical Pre-School Awards, Bronze for the Merry-Go-Round
 November 2006 - voted ‘Best Buy’ in the Ethical Consumer Buyers Guide to Toys.

References

External links
 Escor Toys in the V&A Collection
 Escor Toys in the National Trust Museum of Childhood Collection
 Dorset Enterprises on archive.org
 Escor Toys on archive.org

Companies based in Bournemouth
Toy companies of the United Kingdom


Darkhouse is a 2005 mystery-detective novel written by Irish author Alex Barclay and published by HarperCollins in the United Kingdom, and later in the USA, France and many other markets. It is the debut novel of pseudonymous former journalist Barclay and was both a Sunday Times and international best-seller.

Plot summary
The novel kicks off in New York City with the abduction of a wealthy couple's young daughter. The girl's mother Elise Gray is being tailed by Detective Joe Lucchesi, his partner Danny Markey and two FBI agents. The kidnapper Donnie Riggs calls Elise and directs her to a park. He lets the girl, Hayley, out of his car and she runs to her mother. Elise discovers that Hayley is strapped with explosives as she embraces her, but she is too late as Riggs presses the detonator, killing them both. Joe pursues the kidnapper and guns him down. Two days later, in a Nevada prison, inmate Duke Rawlins is distraught to learn of the death of Donnie, his childhood friend.

One year passes and Joe Lucchesi has relocated to a small town in Ireland called Mountcannon with his interior designer wife Anna and sixteen-year-old son Shaun. Joe has taken temporary retirement from the force, Anna is renovating an old lighthouse and Shaun is dating a local girl called Katie Lawson. At first it seems that their family life is idyllic but Anna has a dark secret. She had a secret affair with local drunk John Miller, a man now embittered at his wife having moved to Australia with his children. Joe's turbulent relationship with his father, Giulio, is highlighted as he travels over to the States to attend his second marriage. Giulio clashes with Joe over his career choice and moving his family to Ireland. To make matters worse, Katie disappears from the area leaving Shaun deeply upset. Meanwhile, in a parallel subplot, Duke Rawlins has been travelling around Ireland and has reached Mountcannon.

An investigation is launched in Mountcannon into Katie's mysterious disappearance. Her devastated mother Martha insists that her daughter was a happy-go-lucky teenager with many friends and a caring boyfriend; she had no reason to go missing. Shaun comes under suspicion as he was the last person to see her; Joe himself cannot help but think that his son is hiding something and even looks for some sort of clues in his bedroom. Shaun becomes indignant at his father taking on the role of investigator and suspecting him of withholding information. Joe finds himself seeing red herrings everywhere in the community. He questions Shaun's friend Robert Harrington about a scratch on his hand, much to Shaun's annoyance. He also sees John Miller as a possible suspect. Anna in the meantime has to deal with Joe asking her awkward questions about her involvement with Miller.

The locals conduct a search of the surrounding area to no avail. Local Sergeant Frank Deegan, hotshot D.I. Myles O' Connor and fiery garda Richie Bates question Mae Miller, the elderly mother of John Miller and mentally challenged school caretaker Petey Grant amongst others but come no closer to the truth. Joe does his own investigating, retracing routes that Katie may have taken and asks questions, however, his theories are dismissed by Richie who tells him to stay out of the case.

After a number of weeks, Katie's decomposing body is discovered in the forest near Shore's Rock, the lighthouse where the Lucchesis live. The post mortem results reveal that Katie had been strangled and beaten with a blunt instrument. With the community baffled by the brutal murder of such a popular teenager, the Lucchesi family begin to fall apart. Shaun is inconsolable over his girlfriend's death and Anna becomes increasingly paranoid about what Joe knows. She confesses to him that she had been seeing John Miller while they were engaged which makes Joe furious. Meanwhile, the authorities are told to pay particular attention to Shaun and also to Joe who had been seen removing evidence from the murder scene. The night after Katie's funeral, one of the locals has an altercation with Duke Rawlins outside the bar and finds a hawk gold pin after Duke flees. He shows it to a shocked Joe who recognises it as being the same pin that Donnie Riggs had in his hand when he shot him.

Flashbacks to Donnie and Duke's childhood in Texas run concurrent to the main murder plot. They both grow up in Stinger's Creek and are inseparable. Duke is very close to his kindly Uncle Bill but has to deal with a lot of hardship in his life in the form of a drug addicted, promiscuous mother and the unwanted attentions of a paedophile. Donnie also has domestic strife as his father is a negligent alcoholic, while Duke's negative surroundings are moulding him into a deeply disturbed boy with a penchant for violence. At the age of fifteen the two boys make a chilling blood pact to remain loyal to one another until the end, a precursor to their later dastardly actions.

With Joe now convinced that Duke Rawlins is after him with revenge on his mind, he once again clashes with Richie Bates when he takes Petey Grant in for questioning over the murder. However, Petey reveals that he met Katie on the night of her death and that she had had a fight with Shaun, something which Shaun had earlier disputed. When he is interrogated by Richie and Frank Deegan he admits that a failed attempt at sexual intercourse had caused Katie to become upset and run away from him. Frank is shocked to discover, in the meantime, that his phone number was the last that Katie had dialled on the fateful night.

While researching Duke Rawlins, Joe discovers that Ogden Parnum, a former Police Chief from Stinger's Creek has committed suicide. Joe is intrigued to find that he was head of the unsolved Crosscut Killer investigation, an infamous serial killer who raped and murdered nine young women in Texas.

Across the Atlantic, Danny Markey questions the cellmate of Duke Rawlins, who reveals that Donnie was getting the ransom money for Duke upon his release from jail. Back in Mountbatton, Joe is now convinced that Duke and Donnie are connected to the Crosscut Killer mystery and is liaising with American Detective Victor Nicotero on the theory. Anna is horrified as she discovers that Joe is planning on being reinstated with the force, while Joe clashes with his father again as he has bought Shaun a ticket to New York to stay with him. Anna is subsequently kidnapped by Duke when he poses as a replacement gardener for a photoshoot she is doing. Joe saves a desperate Shaun from a drunken suicide attempt, only to then discover that Anna is missing...

Additional flashback sequences to Texas, show how Duke and Donnie embarked upon their sadistic rampage of rape and murder as they callously slayed a succession of innocent young women, proving that they were behind the Crosscut killings.

State pathologist Lara McClatchie contacts Frank Deegan telling him that were no similarities in the deaths of the Crosscut victims to Katie's murder but the recent murder of a young Limerick woman bear the same hallmarks. Frank now realises that Joe's theory about Duke Rawlins being in Ireland is true.

Still in under the belief that Anna has walked out on him and Shaun, Joe receives a call from Duke who is holding Anna in a remote cottage. He threatens to kill her unless Joe complies with his wishes. He discovers that Duke has a missing Tipperary woman, Siobhan Fallon, in his clutches too. As Duke taunts him on the phone about Anna, Joe turns the tables on the kidnapper by telling Duke about how his wife, Sammi, has been unfaithful to him. He informs Duke that she had been having an affair with Donnie while he was in prison and that she has gone to the police in Stinger's Creek confessing that her husband is the Crosscut Killer. The ransom money hadn't been for Duke, it was for Donnie and Sammi to have a fresh start with. While Joe is on the phone to Duke, Shaun overhears and is furious that Joe won't go to the Gardaí.

Meanwhile, in Texas, Victor Nicotero visits Ogden Parnum's widow on the pretense of investigating her husband's suicide. She tells Victor that Marcy Winbaum, a DA, who worked with Ogden some years previously came to visit him shortly before his death. Parnum's widow was suspicious over a heated conversation that Marcy had with her husband. It is revealed in a flashback to 1992, that Marcy had uncovered evidence linking Duke Rawlins to the Crosscut murders. Ogden questions Duke, who blackmails his interrogator as he was the paedophile who abused him as a child. Ogden provided Duke with an alibi, which allowed him to get away with his heinous crimes.

Duke brutally murders Siobhan in front of captive Anna who then tries to escape. Joe discovers Siobhan's body before finding a badly wounded Anna, who Duke had fired an arrow at. Duke then grabs Shaun and holds him over the edge of the lighthouse balcony in a precarious stand-off with Joe. With both Shaun and Anna's lives in jeopardy, Joe is issued with an ultimatum, call 999 for medical assistance for Anna or Shaun plummets to his death. Joe chooses to save Shaun and Duke escapes as an ambulance arrives at the lighthouse for Anna. Richie and Joe pursue Duke but lose him. In a fresh twist, a drug dealer reveals that Richie had murdered Katie as she had witnessed him tipping off the criminal. Richie is arrested for Katie's murder while Duke escapes the country.

In the novel's epilogue, Joe and Shaun are back in New York with Giulio with a traumatised Anna recuperating in her native Paris. It seems that the Lucchesis' marriage has broken down until Shaun receives a call from Anna saying that she is coming home to them.

Characters in Darkhouse
Detective Joe Lucchesi A family man dedicated to his wife and son, he is also a troubled soul haunted by the Hayley Gray kidnapping case. His turbulent relationship with his father Giulio forces him to confront more emotional turmoil from his past. He cannot hang up the title of law enforcer and finds himself embroiled in the Katie Lawson murder case. He will do all in his power to protect his beloved family.
Duke Rawlins A dark and disturbing childhood moulds Duke into a dangerous psychopath with a penchant for sadistic violence. Loyalty to his best friend Donnie is first and foremost on his warped mind. He initiates acts of pain and has had a hold over Donnie since their childhood. He is driven by fury and thoughts of revenge upon hearing of Donnie's demise at the hands of Joe Lucchesi and strives towards destruction.
Anna Lucchesi Joe's wife and mother to Shaun, she loves her career as an interior designer and has an affinity with the village of Mountsomething. However, her marriage to Joe is far from perfect as she is tormented by a guilty secret that could jeopardise her relationship with Joe.
Shaun Lucchesi A happy-go-lucky sixteen-year-old who is madly in love with his girlfriend Katie until his world is turned upside down by her death. He becomes a suspect in her killing much to his devastation and embarks on a downward spiral as he clashes with Joe and those around him.
Frank Deegan Frank is the local Sergeant, nearing retirement, who is shocked that a murder has occurred in the previously peaceful and idyllic village. He has the ability to empathise with human emotions but at times his professional competency is called into question by his younger colleagues.
Richie Bates A fiery young Garda who also trains the local football team. He is highly disgruntled at Joe Lucchesi's sleuthing and clashes with him. His past is a tragic one as he witnessed the drowning of a close friend when he was a child.
Donnie Riggs His impressionable nature proves precarious as he finds himself an accomplice in Duke's harrowing crimes. Duke's influence turns him into someone who eventually will betray and pay the price.
Katie Lawson A vivacious, kind and popular teenager in a relationship with Shaun. Her brutal murder leaves the community baffled and devastated.

Critical response
Mark Timlin heralded the novel as "...a terrific debut by an exciting new writer". Powell's Books said of Darkhouse, "In this electrifying thriller—a bestseller in Great Britain and Ireland—Alex Barclay creates a stunning array of contrasts—from the violence of a cop's world to the fragility of an embattled marriage, from the danger of New York's gritty streets to the quiet of a seaside Irish village. With brilliance and subtlety, Barclay delivers a nerve-wracking tale of a troubled family, facing a brutal danger rushing relentlessly out of the past". Sharon Wheeler in her review of the novel criticised the lack of character depth, "...Joe is forgettable, selfish interior designer Anna is hideous, and the teenage son Shaun apprentice hideous. There's a fairly bland cast of locals, including the archetypal good cop, bad cop".

References

2005 Irish novels
Thriller novels
Irish mystery novels
Irish crime novels
HarperCollins books
2005 debut novels


Romania was represented by Mădălina & Andrada at the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2008 with the song "Salvaţi planeta!", a song about saving the planet. "Salvaţi planeta!" was the winner of the Romanian national final Selecţia Naţională Eurovision Junior 2008, held on 1 June 2008.

Before Eurovision

Selecţia Naţională Eurovision Junior 2008
The final took place on 1 June 2008, hosted by Alina Sorescu and Iulia Ciobanu. 12 songs took part and the winner was determined by a 50/50 combination of votes from a jury panel and a public televote. The winner was "Salvaţi planeta!" performed by Mădălina & Andrada.

As there was a tie at the end of the voting, the results of the jury vote took precedence.

Revamp of the song
The melody of the song has changed slightly from the version sang at the National Final (which can be heard here). The revised version can be heard here.

At Eurovision
On 14 October 2008 the running order for Junior Eurovision took place, and the Romanian song was given the spot to perform first. At Junior Eurovision, the Romanian performers wore dresses symbolising the four seasons and water. The presentation was very similar to that of the national final. Behind the dancers was a giant globe. The song placed in 9th position with 58 points. The entry also received points from every country, the most being eight points from Cyprus and Macedonia.

Voting

Notes

References

External links
 Official Romanian Junior Eurovision Site of 2008

Junior Eurovision Song Contest
Romania
Junior


Wojciech Rychlik is a biologist and photographer, born in Poland and living in the USA since 1980. Rychlik received his Ph.D. in 1980 from the Polish Academy of Sciences. Currently, he is a president of Molecular Biology Insights, Inc. located in Cascade, Colorado.

The main focus of Rychlik's research was PCR primer design. He is known for developing the OLIGO Primer Analysis Software., the first software optimizing conditions for PCR.  Before moving to the industry sector in 1991, he was instrumental in discovery of human protein synthesis initiation factor eIF-4 mRNA working as Assistant Res. Professor at the University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky.

Rychlik is a nature photographer, member of the Photographic Society of America.  In 2007 and 2008 he was the top-ranked exhibitor in  PSA stereo electronic section.  As a photographer he is better known as Wojtek Rychlik, who published books about Colorado Mountains. His first book was a 230-page atlas of mountain lakes in Colorado's Sangre de Cristo Mountains, "Lakes of the Sangres", and the most significant was a catalog of Front Range Mountains, a 572-page atlas "Eagle’s View of the Front Range". Some others are included in the References section.

References

External links
 Oligo Primer Analysis Software by Molecular Biology Insights
 Nature photography by Wojciech Rychlik

Polish molecular biologists
Polish photographers
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Polish emigrants to the United States


Pouy () is a commune in Ou Chum District in north-east Cambodia. It contains Chan, Kan Saeung, Kreh, Ta Ngach, Svay, Khmaeng, Krala, Kang Kuy villages and has a population of 1,696.  In the 2007 commune council elections, all five seats went to members of the Cambodian People's Party. The land alienation rate in Pouy was low as of January 2006. (See Ratanakiri Province for background information on land alienation.)

Villages

References

Communes of Ratanakiri province


Attilio Bescapè (2 September 1910 – 1975) was an Italian weightlifter. He competed at the 1932 and 1936 Olympics in the featherweight class (−60 kg) and finished in fifth and sixth place, respectively. He won a silver medal at the 1938 World Weightlifting Championships.

References

1910 births
1975 deaths
Italian male weightlifters
Olympic weightlifters for Italy
People associated with physical culture
Weightlifters at the 1932 Summer Olympics
Weightlifters at the 1936 Summer Olympics
20th-century Italian people


Hugo House is a non-profit community writing center in Seattle, Washington.

About
Hugo House was founded in 1997 by Linda Jaech, Frances McCue, and Andrea Lewis. These three writers believed Seattle needed a center for local writers and readers to find a community and create new work. In 1999, Laura Hirschfield described the nonprofit organization: "Richard Hugo House is a two-year-old literary arts center in Seattle named after the Seattle-born poet and creative writing teacher Richard Hugo who wrote squarely and poignantly about people and places often overlooked."

Several new programs were created at Hugo House during the 2000s by Program Director Brian McGuigan, including Cheap Wine and Poetry (in 2005) Cheap Beer and Prose (in 2008), and the Made at Hugo House fellowship. McGuigan left Hugo House in 2014.

Tree Swenson was the executive director of Hugo House from 2012 to 2020. The current Interim Executive Director is Rob Arnold.

House

Hugo House first occupied a  Victorian house originally built in 1902. Previous occupants of the building included New City Theater and before that the Bonney-Watson mortuary and funeral home.

In addition to administrative offices, the House included:
 an 88/150 theater
 a cabaret stage and cafe
 three multipurpose rooms
 a conference room
 an art gallery
 private meeting spaces

In June 2016, the organization moved to a temporary space adjacent to the Frye Art Museum on First Hill when the original house on Capitol Hill was razed. The property was redeveloped with a six-story mixed-use building which, starting in September 2018, serves as the permanent home for Hugo House.

Programs
Hugo House presents a number of programs, including:
 Hugo Writing Classes
 Hugo Classes for Youth
 Stage Fright Teen Open Mic
 Hugo Works in Progress
 Hugo Literary Series
 Word Works: Writers on Writing
 Writers-in-Residence
 Made at Hugo House Fellowship
 Zine Archive and Publishing Project (formerly a program of Hugo House, now independent)

Articles
 A Study in Social Entrepreneurship: Richard Hugo House, Laura Hirschfield, Grantmakers in the Arts Newsletter, Volume 10, Number 2, Autumn 1999
 All eyes on a timely topic at Hugo House, John Marshall, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 10/4/2002,
 Open House, Christopher Frizzelle, The Stranger, 7/24/2003,
 Making Things Better, Frances McCue, Community Arts, 10/2004
 Not With a Bang, But a Whimper, Paul Constant, The Stranger, 9/16/2008
 Hugo House names interim director, John Marshall, Seattle PI, 10/23/2008

References

External links

Houses completed in 1902
Non-profit organizations based in Seattle
Libraries in Seattle
Organizations established in 1997
1997 establishments in Washington (state)


The Vlach Quartet () is the name of two consecutive classical string quartet musical ensembles, based in Prague, both of which were founded by members of the Vlach family. The original Vlach Quartet was founded by  in 1950 and wound up in 1975. In 1982 the New Vlach Quartet () was founded by his daughter Jana Vlachova, with guidance her father, and came to be known as the Vlach Quartet of Prague (), and is still active as a musical ensemble.

Vlach Quartet
Josef Vlach (Ratměřice, 8 June 1923 - Linköping, 17 October 1988) was a violinist, conductor and teacher in Prague. He shared the principal violin desk of the Czech Chamber Orchestra (as it existed under Václav Talich), with Jiri Novak, leader of the Smetana Quartet. In 1950 he founded the Vlach Quartet with members of the Orchestra. Over the next 25 years they produced interpretations of classical and Czech literature for string quartet, both in concerts and in recording, for which they had a contract with Supraphon Records. The original Vlach Quartet recordings include Beethoven op. 131, op. 18 nos. 1 & 6, op. 59 no. 1. In 1957 Josef Vlach also re-formed the Czech Chamber Orchestra.

Personnel
The personnel of the original Vlach Quartet in the period 1950-1975 were:

1st violin -
2nd violin - Václav Snítil
Viola
Soběslav Soukup (1948–1952)
Jaroslav Motlík (1952–1954)
Josef Koďousek (1954–1975)
Jiří Hanzl (from 1970)
Cello - Viktor Moučka

The New Vlach Quartet/Vlach Quartet Prague
The New Vlach Quartet was founded in 1982 by Jana Vlachová, Josef's daughter, who had played in a string quartet from childhood under her father's guidance and won first prize in the Concertino Praga international competition aged 14. She graduated from studies with Marie Hlounová at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (AMU), chose to concentrate on chamber music, and formed a duo with the Swedish cellist Mikael Ericsson in 1977. Ericsson had studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen, attended master-classes by Guy Fallot and Gregor Piatigorsky, and studied at the AMU in Prague with Josef Chuchro and Josef Vlach. He also has a recording career as a soloist. Karel Stadtherr, violinist, had performed with the Suk Chamber Orchestra (in contact with Josef Vlach) and was Concertmaster of the Prague Chamber Orchestra without Conductor. Petr Verner studied solo viola at the Prague Conservatory and at the AMU in Prague with Jiří Zika, Lubomír Malý, Milan Škampa and Jan Pěruška.

They received guidance and mentoring from Josef Vlach, imparting an interpretative tradition from the school of Václav Talich, and underwent a course of training by the Melos Quartet of Stuttgart. They expanded the range of the repertoire of the earlier Quartet, both in international scope and in the time-frame represented. They won the prize for best interpretation of a contemporary Czech work at the Czech String Quartet Competition in Kroměříž in 1983. Their performance and broadcasts focused both on the classics and on the Czech repertoire, including the works of Antonín Dvořák, Bedřich Smetana, Leoš Janáček, and Bohuslav Martinů. Beginning in 1995, they recorded all of Dvořák's string quartets for the Naxos label. Other recordings include works by Schubert, Haydn, John Fernström, and others, on the Naxos, Marco Polo, Bohemia Music and Panton labels.

The Quartet has performed throughout Europe, including Germany, Sweden, Denmark, Greece, and Luxembourg, and many of their concerts have been broadcast, for instance by the Bayerischer Rundfunk, the Südwestrundfunk, Danmarks Radio and Radio France. Czech Television has broadcast documentaries on both the old and the new Vlach Quartets. They have also toured the United States, with an opening concert in New York City in July 2004. They had a Residency in 1997 in Gifu, Japan, and were broadcast by NHK, Japan's principal station. In 2000 they led courses in interpretation at the conservatory in Ingesund, Sweden. In 2004 the Vlach Quartet Prague was Quartet-in-Residence in Schengen, Luxembourg.

The Quartet's main collaborations are with Maria Kliegel (cello), Jenö Jandó and Ivan Klánský (pianists), Eduard Brunner and Dieter Klöcker (clarinet) and Maximilian Mangold (guitar).

The quartet has received a number of prizes, including: an award for the best string quartet among the European competition at the International String Quartet Competition in Portsmouth, England, in 1985; the prize of the Czech Chamber Music Association in 1991; and the prize of the Czech Music Fund for a CD containing string quartets by Bedřich Smetana ("From My Life") and Leoš Janáček ("Intimate Letters") in 1992. In October 2000, they also won a Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik for a cpo recording of Esquisses Hébraïques: Clarinet Quintets on Jewish Themes, with Dieter Klöcker.

Personnel
1st violin - Jana Vlachová
2nd violin
Ondřej Kukal (with New Vlach Quartet in recordings of Arriaga quartets 1–3)
Karel Stadtherr
Viola
Peter Verner (1985–2005)
Georg Haag (2006–2009 or 2010)
Jiří Kabát (since 2010)
Cello - Mikael Ericsson

Notes and references

External links
 The Vlach Quartet Prague web site (Internet Archive)
 The Vlach Quartet Prague's biography and discography on the Naxos web site

Czech classical musicians
Czech string quartets
Musical groups established in 1950
1950 establishments in Czechoslovakia


Helmut Schäfer (October 22, 1908 – July 30, 1994) was a German weightlifter who competed in the 1932 Summer Olympics. He was born in Stuttgart. In 1932 he finished fourth in the featherweight class.

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1908 births
1994 deaths
Sportspeople from Stuttgart
German male weightlifters
Olympic weightlifters for Germany
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People from the Free People's State of Württemberg


Everything Picture was the debut album by the English indie rock band Ultrasound.  It was released on Nude Records, the label of Suede and Geneva, in April 1999 and reached #23 in the UK albums chart.  It was released over two compact discs due to its extraordinary length; the final song alone lasted over 39 minutes.

The album spawned three singles; "Same Band", "Stay Young" and "Floodlit World". A fourth single, "Aire & Calder", was announced but was not released.

In October 2011, NME placed "Stay Young" at number 109 on its list "150 Best Tracks of the Past 15 Years".

Track listing

CD1

CD2

References

1999 debut albums


Henry Harrison Diddlebock (June 27, 1854 – February 5, 1900) was a sportswriter and Major League Baseball manager. Formerly a head sportswriter for two Philadelphia newspapers, Diddlebock managed 17 games with the St. Louis Browns in the 1896 season. He had a 7–10 record (a .412 winning percentage).

Early career
Prior to assuming the managerial job with the Browns, Diddlebock had never played or managed in the major leagues. He was the head sportswriter for The Philadelphia Times for eleven years and held the same position at The Philadelphia Inquirer for six years. He was the longtime president of an organization known as the Scorer's Association, and he was a horse racing official. He also covered the famed 1892 fight between boxers John L. Sullivan and James J. Corbett.

Within baseball, Diddlebock variously served as president, secretary and treasurer for the Eastern League, a minor league that served as one of the precursors to the International League. He later held financial interest in a team in the Pennsylvania State League, which became a rival of the Eastern League.

Managerial stint
In December 1895, he was hired as the manager of the St. Louis Browns for the 1896 season by the team's owner, Chris von der Ahe. The Browns and their owner were held in low regard at the time. Sportswriter Alfred Henry Spink wrote that "Mr. Diddlebock's mission will be to repair the damage Von der Ahe has done the game and the St. Louis club." Newspapers in St. Louis were initially supportive of Diddlebock, but before he took the field, the team was embroiled in controversy when it was announced that they would spend $30,000 to bring in five star players from Philadelphia. The Browns did not have the money to finance such a deal, and von der Ahe blamed Diddlebock for the story that had gotten out.

Sources differ as to the exact sequence of events that led to Diddlebock's firing as manager. At least one source notes that Diddlebock came to the ballpark with bruising and swelling about his face, claiming to have been attacked by a band of six men. The source says he was sent home by von der Ahe and that a private detective found he had fallen asleep at a drinking establishment and sustained a fall off of a barstool. Another version holds that Diddlebock had been found by police officers on the streets very early one morning and that it was discovered that he took a drunken fall off of a streetcar. In either case, von der Ahe fired Diddlebock three weeks into his only season as manager. Diddlebock finished the stint with a 7–10 win–loss record.

Later life
After his time as manager, Diddlebock returned to the staff of the Inquirer to write about horse racing. In early 1900, he developed what was thought to be a bad cold. He was later diagnosed with erysipelas. The infection affected Diddlebock's heart and he died on February 5, 1900. Diddlebock was survived by his two sons; his wife had died two years earlier. He is buried in West Laurel Hill Cemetery in Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania.

See also
List of St. Louis Cardinals managers

Notes

References

1854 births
1900 deaths
Sportspeople from Philadelphia
St. Louis Cardinals managers
Sportswriters from Pennsylvania


ISO 24517-1:2008 is an ISO Standard published in 2008.

 Document management—Engineering document format using PDF—Part 1: Use of PDF 1.6 (PDF/E-1)

This standard defines a format (PDF/E) for the creation of documents used in geospatial, construction and manufacturing workflows and is based on the PDF Reference version 1.6 from Adobe Systems. The specification also supports interactive media, including animation and 3D.

PDF/E is a subset of PDF, designed to be an open and neutral exchange format for engineering and technical documentation.

Description

The PDF/E Standard specifies how the Portable Document Format (PDF) should be used for the creation of documents in engineering workflows.

Key benefits of PDF/E include:
 Reduces requirements for expensive & proprietary software
 Lower storage and exchange costs (vs. paper)
 Trustworthy exchange across multiple applications and platforms
 Self-contained
 Cost-effective and accurate means of capturing markups
 Developed and maintained by the PDF/E ISO committee

The Standard does not define a method for the creation or conversion from paper or electronic documents to the PDF/E format.

The Committee managing ISO 24517 (PDF/E) needs subject-matter experts to assist in the development of Part 2 of the Standard.

ISO 24517 (PDF/E) was created to meet the needs of organizations who need to reliably create, exchange and review engineering documentation, however, the first part of the standard does not address 3D, video or other dynamic content, nor does it address integrated source data.

See also
 PDF
 PDF/A
 PDF/UA
 PDF/VT
 PDF/X

References

External links
AIIM's PDF/E Page
PDF/E Draft Standard Speeds Toward ISO
PDF ISO Standards
PDF/E Competence Center
Adobe And Industry Standards
PDF To Get An Engineering Edit

ISO standards
Engineering
Page description languages
Computer file formats
PDF standards


Kreh may refer to:
Kreh, a village in Chan commune, Cambodia
KREH, a radio station in Texas, United States


The Office of Radio and Television of Niger (fr: Office de radiodiffusion et Télévision du Niger), or ORTN, is the state broadcaster of the West African nation of Niger. ORTN operates the Télé Sahel terrestrial television station (1964), Radio Voix du Sahel radio network (1960), and the TAL TV satellite station (2001). ORTN is overseen and funded by the Ministry of Culture, Arts & Communication.

History
Radio & TV operations merged on 11 February 1967.

In April 2000 the broadcasting sector was completely liberalized and as a result several private television stations were established in Niger. The ORTN reacted to this development by creating a second television program: Tal TV has been broadcasting since 2001. The ORTN has delegated two of the seven members to the Conseil de Presse (Press Council) since it was founded in March 2007. This self-regulatory institution of the Nigerien media has set itself the task of monitoring media ethical standards and is responsible for issuing press cards.

The official statement of the 2023 military coup by General Abdourahamane Tchiani was declared at ORTN Télé Sahel.

ORTN is member of African Union of Broadcasting (AUB).

References

External links

African Development Info Database: ORTN.

Broadcasting companies of Niger
Radio in Niger
Nigerien television
Publicly funded broadcasters
Television channels and stations established in 1964
State media
Office of Radio and Television of Niger
1964 establishments in Niger


Georg Liebsch (5 April 1911 – 10 November 1998) was a German featherweight weightlifter who won the world title in 1937 and 1938 and placed fifth at the 1936 Summer Olympics. He set two ratified world records in the press, in 1935 and 1937.

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1911 births
1998 deaths
Sportspeople from Düsseldorf
German male weightlifters
Olympic weightlifters for Germany
Weightlifters at the 1936 Summer Olympics
World record setters in weightlifting
World Weightlifting Championships medalists
20th-century German people
Sportspeople from the Rhine Province


Chris Shinn (born August 1, 1974) is an American singer, songwriter and musician. From March 2012 to December 2016, he was the lead singer of the band Live. He was previously the lead singer of the band Unified Theory. He is the son of former Charlotte Hornets owner, George Shinn.

Unified Theory

Beginnings

Unified Theory began to form in early 1998. After the initial idea to continue Blind Melon with a new lead vocalist did not work out, Smith and Thorn decided to start a new band. Thorn discovered Shinn on a scouting mission in Los Angeles.

Unified Theory was originally called Luma, they issued a four-track CD through their website in 1999. After they were signed to Universal Records later that year, they changed their name to Unified Theory after the theory Albert Einstein was working on when he died.

Debut and demise
In August 2000 the band issued their self-titled debut album. While working on tracks for a second album, delays set the band back, and Krusen grew somewhat frustrated and left to join Nickelback's first major North American tour as a touring musician, leading to Unified Theory's eventual breakup.

Brief reformation
The band have since announced plans to release a new album consisting of the recorded material for the second album (some of which has never been heard) as well as songs from the Luma period. No timetable has been set for this release. Unified Theory has recently filmed a music video for the song "15 Hits", a song set to be released on their upcoming album. The group played a reunion show on August 4, 2010, at the King King in Hollywood.

Live
On March 12, 2012, it was revealed that Chris would be the new lead singer of the rock band Live. He played the band's dress rehearsal show to a hometown crowd at the Strand-Capitol Theater in York, PA, on March 12, 2012. He toured with the band and performed on the band's 2014 album The Turn.

On December 12, 2016, Live announced that original lead singer Ed Kowalczyk had returned to the band, though no reference was made to Shinn in the announcement. All references to his tenure in the band have been removed from the band's website and The Turn is absent from the discography.

Discography

Singles

References

External links

American rock singers
Living people
1974 births
Live (band) members
Alternative rock singers
Place of birth missing (living people)
21st-century American singers


Götgatan (Original Swedish Göthegatan for "Gothia Street") is the name of one of the longest streets in central Stockholm on the Southern Isle (Södermalm) of the city. The street itself has existed since the 12th century, and has had its name since the 1640s, the name based on it being a part of the old Göta highway.

At its northern end behind Stockholm City Museum it connects to Södermalm Square at Slussen, and it runs due south from there to the former toll  position of Skanstull and a high bridge (Skanstullsbron) leading over to Globe Arena and mainland suburbs.

Götgatan passes spacious Citizen Square (Medborgarplatsen) and one of Stockholm's first skyscrapers popularly called Skatteskrapan (the Tax Scraper) because until recently it housed Sweden's tax authority. In a country known for high tax rates, the term Barescraper has also been used for the building, and for decades taxpayers would traipse along Götgatan and line up ceremoniously to file their income tax forms on the day they were due.

Greta Garbo was born a block west of Götgatan, and there is a bust of her on the (newer) building. A square named for her is located a few blocks east along park-like Katarina Bangata. Also a block away in either direction are the Roman Catholic Cathedral and the Stockholm Mosque.

There are three underground railway stations along the street with two entrances for each.

The northernmost stretch of Götgatan runs southward up a steep slope from intersecting Hornsgatan (another long street that also begins there) and then descends to level off before Citizen Square. That portion is pedestrian, called Götgatsbacken ("Goth Street Slope") and has become increasingly trendy in recent years. The Royal Dutch Embassy is located there.

Otherwise Götgatan and all of the Southern Isle have long been known as a less pretentious and more relaxed – and so less fashionable – area than other parts of Stockholm. The area has been home to many struggling artists and artisans, and working-class residents. One of the areas oldest restaurants, Den gröne Jägaren, opened in 1866 in a block still owned by the Catholic Church.

See also
 Geography of Stockholm

References

External links

Streets in Stockholm
Shopping districts and streets in Sweden


BEEEEEEST is the final compilation album from the Japanese rock band HIGH and MIGHTY COLOR to feature Mākii, the lead female vocalist of the group.

Overview
BEEEEEEST is the second "Best" album from the band, coming less than a year after their previous compilation album. The track list for the album was specifically chosen by fans through online voting. The album contains the a special DVD with the PVs for Amazing, Flashback, HOT LIMIT, and Remember, previously uncollected PVs. It will also feature the final concert to be held with Mākii in its entirety.

Track listing
 OVER ~LIVE@OKINAWA MUSIC TOWN~
 Ichirin no Hana
 Dive into Yourself
 PRIDE
 Energy
 Here I Am
 Oxalis
 Remember
 Enrai (Tooku ni Aru Akari)
 NOTICE
 Humming bird
 Amazing
 Mirror
 For Dear...
 TOXIC

Personnel

 Makii - vocals
 Yūsuke - vocals
 Kazuto - lead guitar
 Meg – rhythm guitar
 Mackaz) – bass
 Sassy – drums

Charts

References

2008 greatest hits albums


Armenia selected their Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2008 entry by a national final with two quarter-finals, one semi-final and a final. The winner was Monika Manchuarova with "Im Ergy Hnchyune", which represented Armenia in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2008 on 22 November 2008.

Before Junior Eurovision

National final
A submission period for artists was held until 5 May 2008. 200 applications were received, and 36 entries were chosen for the national final.

Quarter-final 1
The first quarter-final was held on 30 June 2008, hosted by Felix and Emmy. Eighteen songs competed and an "expert" jury chose 10 songs to qualify for the semi-final.

Quarter-final 2
The second quarter-final was held on 1 July 2008, hosted by Felix and Emmy. Eighteen songs competed and an "expert" jury chose 10 songs to qualify for the semi-final.

Semi-final
The semi-final was held on 6 July 2008, hosted by Felix and Emmy. The eighteen songs which qualified from the two quarter-finals competed and an "expert" jury chose 10 songs to qualify for the final.

Final
The final was held on 11 July 2008, hosted by Felix and Emmy. The ten songs which qualified from the two quarter-finals competed and the winner was chosen by a combination of televoting and the votes from an "expert" jury.

At Junior Eurovision

Since the song was performed in the national final, the lyrics have been changed, as well as the melody. The song title was changed from "Im Ergy Hnchuny" to "Im Ergy Hnchyune". Armenia was drawn to perform in spot two. As well as the singer on stage, like in the national final, there were two dancers and two backing singers; one of them was the songwriter. The animation on the screen behind them also appeared in the preview video. The song placed in the 8th position with 59 points, which were received from Belgium, Netherlands, Cyprus, Romania, Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Bulgaria and Georgia.

Voting

Notes

References

External links
 Official Armenian Junior Eurovision Site of 2008

Junior Eurovision Song Contest
Armenia
2008


General Sir John Antony Jervis Read,  (10 September 1913 – 22 September 2000) was a senior British Army officer who served as Quartermaster-General to the Forces from 1969 to 1973. He was awarded the Military Cross (MC) for gallantry during the campaign against the Italian Army in East Africa in 1941 and the Distinguished Service Order (DSO) for his leadership and gallantry whilst in command of 1 Gambia Regiment in Burma in March 1945, during the Second World War.

Military career
Born on 10 September 1913 in London, and educated at Sandroyd School and Winchester College, Read attended the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, from where he was commissioned into the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry of the British Army on 1 February 1934. He was seconded to the Gold Coast Regiment, part of the Royal West African Frontier Force, in 1936. He saw active service in the Second World War and was awarded the Military Cross (MC) during the campaign against the Italians in East Africa in 1941. He became commanding officer (CO) of the Reconnaissance Regiment of the 81st (West Africa) Division in 1943. In 1944 he took command of 1 Gambia Regiment that was deployed to the Arakan in Burma: he was awarded the Distinguished Service Order (DSO) for his service in Burma in March 1945.

Read became Deputy Assistant Military Secretary at the War Office in 1947 and a Company commander at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst in 1949. He served as Assistant Adjutant and Quartermaster General at 11 Armoured Division from 1953. Read became Commanding Officer of the 1st Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry at Osnabrück in 1955. The Regiment then deployed to Cyprus for a tour from 1956 to 1959.

In 1957 Read was promoted to brigadier and took over command of 3rd Infantry Brigade in Cyprus. In 1959 he was appointed Commandant of the School of Infantry at Warminster and in 1962 he became General Officer Commanding 50th (Northumbrian) Division/District of the Territorial Army. In 1964 he was appointed Vice-Quartermaster General at the Ministry of Defence and in 1966 he became General Officer Commanding-in-Chief of Western Command. Read was appointed Quartermaster General in 1969 and served to 1973. He was Commandant of the Royal College of Defence Studies in 1973.

Read was Colonel Commandant of the Light Division from 1968 to 1973. He was also ADC General to the Queen from 1971 to 1973.

Read was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath in 1965, a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath in 1967 and a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath in 1972. He was also awarded an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in 1957 and a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1959.

Retirement
Read was Governor of the Royal Hospital Chelsea from 1975 to 1981. He lived in Caversfield, near Bicester in Oxfordshire where Oxfordshire (RGJ) Battalion Army Cadet Force located and named their Cadet Training Center 'Read House' in his honour.

Read married Sheila Morris in 1947 with whom he was to have three daughters. Read died on 22 September 2000.

References

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1913 births
2000 deaths
British military personnel of the Cyprus Emergency
British Army generals
British Army personnel of World War II
Commanders of the Order of the British Empire
Companions of the Distinguished Service Order
Graduates of the Royal Military College, Sandhurst
Knights Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath
Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry officers
People educated at Sandroyd School
People educated at Winchester College
Recipients of the Military Cross
Royal West African Frontier Force officers
Military history of the Gambia
Academics of the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst
Military personnel from London


Max Walter (January 30, 1905 – December 30, 1987) was a German weightlifter who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics. He was born in Metz, France and died in Duisburg. In 1936 he finished eighth in the featherweight class.

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1905 births
1987 deaths
Sportspeople from Metz
German male weightlifters
Olympic weightlifters for Germany
Weightlifters at the 1936 Summer Olympics
World record setters in weightlifting
Sportspeople from Saarbrücken
Sportspeople from Alsace-Lorraine


Bob Spear (February 21, 1920 – October 19, 2014) was an American naturalist, birdwatcher and master woodcarver who was the founding director of the Birds of Vermont Museum (BOVM), he was influential in the birding and environmental communities, having co-founded Vermont's first chapter of the National Audubon Society and having created more than 470 biologically accurate bird carvings on display at the BOVM. He was also the author of the book, The Birds of Vermont, published in 1969 by the Green Mountain Audubon Society. He resided in Huntington, Vermont United States.

The first half century
Bob Spear was born in 1920 into a Vermont farming family. During his youth his family moved to Westfield, Massachusetts because his mother, who was a teacher, could not get a teaching job in Vermont (married women could not be employed as teachers at that time). Spear credits his mother with inspiring his interest in birds, nature, and art. Following her death, the family moved back to Vermont and settled on a farm in Colchester. In 1938, a stray parakeet flew into their barn, moving Spear to create his first bird carving using only a penknife. This early carving is now on display at the Birds of Vermont Museum.

During World War II, Spear served in the US Navy as a radar technician. After his release from military service, he returned to Vermont and went to work at the General Electric (GE) plant in Burlington. He also enrolled in courses at the University of Vermont. While at GE, most of his lunch hours were spent birding on Blodgett Beach on Lake Champlain. During this time, Spear married, raised a family, served as a boy scout troop leader, carved several guitars, and honed his wood carving skills.

Birds and nature
Spear left GE in 1972. He had already started to forge a career in the birding world and by 1974 he had started an Environmental Day. In 1979 he started creating a collection of bird carvings in hopes of someday establishing a location where people could come to see them and learn about birds. In the late 1970s, he was active in establishing the Green Mountain Audubon Center in Huntington and served as its first director for seven years.

In 1987, the Birds of Vermont Museum opened. In addition to creating all the bird carvings and their display cases, Spear also helped design and build the museum itself. At the time of the opening, the museum housed only 231 bird carvings. Spear continued to carve more species of birds and the museum's collection has since swelled to more than 498 carvings. (The collection now includes a few carvings from Spear's apprentice, fellow carver, and former curator Ingrid Brown, and 4 from fellow carver and board member Richard Allen.) The length of time required for Spear to complete a carving varies widely, depending on the size of the bird. Small birds can take as little as 40 hours to carve and paint. Prior to completing a wild turkey carving, which required 1,230 hours, Spear's carving of a California condor had held the honor of having required the most hours to complete (500 hours).

Awards and recognition
1979 – Science Educators Award for Outstanding Contribution
1986 – National Wildlife Federation Wildlife Conservation Award
2004 – Birds of Vermont Museum, along with Green Mountain Audubon Center, recognized as an Important Bird Area
2007 – Governor's Heritage Award for Traditional Arts

See also
Birds of Vermont Museum
 Wood carving
 National Audubon Society
 Vermont Institute of Natural Science
 Birding
 American Birding Association
 List of birdwatchers

References

Sources
The Valley Voice. 10 May 2000, 5 December 2001
Burlington Free Press. 2 August 2003, 26 June 2004
Vermont Maturity. April 2005
Business Profile Vermont. February 2007
Vermont Sunday Magazine. 8 April 2007
the Times Ink. July 2011

External links
 Interview with Bob Spear on WCAX (local television station)
 Vermont, Vital Records, 1760–2003

1920 births
2014 deaths
Museum founders
American woodcarvers
American bird artists
Birdwatchers
20th-century American philanthropists
United States Navy personnel of World War II


Jack Hirsh  (born January 7, 1935) is a Canadian clinician and scientist specializing in anticoagulant therapy and thrombosis.

Born in Melbourne, Australia, Hirsh is a graduate of the University of Melbourne Medical School. He studied hematology at Washington University in St. Louis, the London Postgraduate Medical School and the University of Toronto. In 1973 he joined the Faculty of Medicine of McMaster University. He is also the Director of the Hamilton Civic Hospital Research Centre.

In 1999, he was made a Member of the Order of Canada in recognition for being "one of the best in his field" and "a renowned medical researcher as well as a teacher and administrator". In 2000, he was awarded the International Gairdner Research Award "in recognition of his pioneering contributions to our understanding of the diagnosis, prevention and treatment of thromboembolic disorders." In 2000, he was inducted into the Canadian Medical Hall of Fame. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.

References

1935 births
Living people
Canadian medical researchers

Australian emigrants to Canada
Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada
Members of the Order of Canada
Academic staff of McMaster University
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Belarus selected their Junior Eurovision entry for 2008 through Song For Eurovision, a national final consisting of 20 songs which had to qualify through a semi final to get to the final. The winners were Dasha, Alina & Karina with the song Sertse Belarusi.

Before Junior Eurovision

Song for Eurovision

Semi-final
The semi-final was pre-recorded on 27 May 2008, then broadcast on 1 June 2008. A jury decided the 10 songs that would go through to the final.

Final
The final was broadcast live on 12 September 2008. The winning song was decided by 50% Televoting and 50% Jury, however only televoting results were announced, which was won by trio Dasha, Alina and Karina with Diana Gromova finishing 2nd.

At Eurovision
On 14 October 2008 it was revealed that the Belarusian entry had been allocated spot 3 to perform in the final. At the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2008 which took place on 22 November 2008, the performers wore dresses identical to the ones they wore at the national final. There were also three dancers which were also featured in the performance at the national final.

Voting

Notes

References

External links
 Belarusian broadcaster's JESC 2008 website

Junior Eurovision Song Contest
Belarus
2008


General Henry Edward Fox (4 March 1755 – 18 July 1811) was a British Army officer and colonial administrator who served as the governor of Minorca and governor of Gibraltar.

Family
He was a son of Henry Fox, 1st Baron Holland and Lady Caroline Lennox (1723–1774), and a younger brother of the politician Charles James Fox (1749–1806). His mother's father was Charles Lennox, 2nd Duke of Richmond (1701–1750), an illegitimate grandson of King Charles II.

Life
He attended Westminster School before being commissioned as a cornet in the 1st dragoon guards in 1770. Soon after that he spent 1 year's leave at the military academy at Strasbourg. After his return he rose to lieutenant (1773) then captain (1774).

American War of Independence
In 1773 he moved to the 38th Regiment of Foot, stationed at Boston, and fought in the American War of Independence (spending 1778–79 on leave in England). By the end of the war he had risen to colonel and king's aide-de-camp, and he then moved to command the forces in Nova Scotia (1783–89), where he was influential in the creation of the new colony of New Brunswick, and then the Chatham Barracks (1789–93).

Later career
Next he was quartermaster-general on the duke of York's staff in Flanders to replace the recently killed James Moncrieff (1793–95) and fought in the Netherlands theatre of the French Revolutionary Wars. He then served as Inspector-General of the recruiting service (1795–99), Colonel of the 10th (North Lincolnshire) Regiment (1795–1811), Lieutenant-governor of Minorca (1799–1801) following its capture from the French, commander in chief of all British Mediterranean forces outside Gibraltar (1801–03, replacing General Sir Ralph Abercromby fatally wounded at the battle of Alexandria) and finally Commander-in-Chief, Ireland (1803). In Ireland he was caught off-guard by Robert Emmet's Dublin uprising (23 July 1803) and was quickly replaced by Lieutenant-General Cathcart, whose appointment was gazetted on 20 October.

Fox moved to be commander of the London district (1803), Lieutenant-Governor of Gibraltar (1804–06), Commander-in-Chief in the Mediterranean (1806–07) and minister to Sicily. With his health weakening, Fox passed active command of the force to his deputy, Lieutenant-General Sir John Moore. The smallness of his force (made yet smaller when Major-General Mackenzie Fraser was sent to occupy Alexandria) meant he refused the repeated requests from the Sicilian court and William Drummond, British minister at the Sicilian court, for land operations on the Italian mainland. Fox and Moore also opposed the naval commander William Sidney Smith's political machinations at the Sicilian court, contrary as they were to the army's tactics for the Italian theatre, until Fox's ill health finally led to his being recalled by the British government and replaced by Moore. Fox was promoted full general on 25 April 1808, appointed governor of Portsmouth in 1810 and died the following year.

Marriage and issue
On 14 November 1786 he married Marianne Clayton, daughter of William Clayton, MP, of Harleyford Manor, and sister of William Clayton, 4th Baronet and Catherine, Lady Howard de Walden. They had 3 children:
Louisa Amelia Fox (d. 1828), later wife of Major-General Sir Henry Bunbury
Caroline Amelia Fox (d. 1860), who married Major-General William Napier
Henry Stephen Fox (1791–1846), later the UK's envoy-extraordinary and minister-plenipotentiary to the United States of America

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Umberto Brizzi (10 January 1908 – 28 August 1991) was an Italian weightlifter. In the 1936 Summer Olympics, he finished ninth in the featherweight class.

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The 78th Fighter Group (78 FG) is an inactive United States Air Force unit. It was last assigned to the 78th Fighter Wing, at Hamilton Air Force Base, California. It was inactivated on 1 February 1961.

During World War II the group was an Eighth Air Force fighter unit stationed in England assigned primarily to RAF Duxford.  It claimed 338 air-to-air and 358 air-to-ground aircraft destroyed.  It flew its last mission on 13 April 1945.

History

World War II
The 78th Fighter Group was activated at Baer Field, IN as the 78th Pursuit Group in January 1942, receiving its cadre from the 14th Fighter Group. and re-designated as a fighter group four months later. It initially trained for combat with P-38s and served as part of the west coast air defense organization. It moved to England in November 1942 and was assigned to Eighth Air Force. The group lost its P-38s, and most of its pilots, in February 1943 when they were assigned to the Twelfth Air Force for service in the North African campaign.

The group was reassigned to Duxford airfield in April 1943 and reequipped with Republic P-47 Thunderbolts. Aircraft of the group were identified by a black/white chequerboard pattern.--

The group consisted of the following squadrons:
 82d Fighter Squadron (MX)
 83d Fighter Squadron (HL)
 84th Fighter Squadron (WZ)

From Duxford, the 78th flew many missions to escort Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress and Consolidated B-24 Liberator bombers that attacked industries, submarine yards and docks, V-weapon sites, and other targets on the Continent. In 1943, the group had the first American ace in Eighth Air Force. The group also claimed a victory over a German Messerschmitt Me 262 jet fighter. The unit also engaged in counter-air activities and on numerous occasions strafed and dive-bombed airfields, trains, vehicles, barges, tugs, canal locks, barracks, and troops.

In addition to other operations, the 78th participated in the intensive campaign against the German Air Force and aircraft industry during Big Week, 20–25 February 1944 and helped to prepare the way for the invasion of France. The group supported the landings in Normandy in June 1944 and contributed to the breakthrough at Saint-Lô in July.

The group converted to North American P-51 Mustangs in December 1944 and participated in the Battle of the Bulge, from December 1944 to January 1945.  It also supported the airborne assault across the Rhine in March.

The 78th Fighter Group received a Distinguished Unit Citation (DUC) for activities connected with the Operation Market-Garden combined ground and airborne attack through on the Netherlands in September 1944 when the group covered troop carrier and bombardment operations and carried out strafing and dive-bombing missions. It suffered its heaviest casualties of the war in this operation. The group received a second DUC for destroying numerous aircraft on five airfields near Prague and Pilsen on 16 April 1945.

The 78th Fighter Group returned to Camp Kilmer New Jersey and October 1945 and was inactivated on 18 October.

Cold War
Occupation of Germany

The 78th FG was reactivated in Germany on 20 August 1946, replacing the 368th Fighter Group (which was inactivated, redesignated the 136th Fighter Group, and allotted to the National Guard) at AAF Station Straubing, Germany and flew the former 368th's P-47 Thunderbolts from the airfield.  The group was reactivated due to the Air Force's policy of retaining only low-numbered groups on active duty after the war.

In Germany the group was assigned to the United States Air Forces in Europe's XII Tactical Air Command for duty with the occupation force. The group was assigned to AAF Station Straubing, The group was transferred, without personnel and equipment, to Mitchel Field, New York in June 1947.

Air Defense of the United States

At Mitchel, the group remained active and was assigned to Air Defense Command (ADC). The group was manned with a small cadre of personnel, being equipped with a few P-51D Mustangs. On 16 November 1948, the 78th was reassigned to Hamilton AFB, California where it was assigned to ADC's Fourth Air Force. At that time the 78th Fighter Wing was established under Hobson Plan, and the 78th Fighter Group became the operational component of the wing, controlling its flying resources.

On 1 March 1949, the 78th Fighter Group received the first of the new production F-84 Thunderjets, with these aircraft going to the 82d, 83d and 84th Fighter Squadrons. The F-84s became problematic with cracks appearing in wing spars or skin beginning in September. The group lost four jets in accidents by the end of the year.

On 1 July 1949, Air Defense Command was inactivated as a major command, and Continental Air Command (ConAC) assumed the air defense mission. In January 1950 the wing and group were redesignated as the 78th Fighter-Interceptor Wing and 78th Fighter-Interceptor Group and the squadrons became Fighter-Interceptor Squadrons (FIS).

With the outbreak of the Korean War in June 1950, the 78th Fighter Group was the only remaining ConAC F-84 unit with an air defense commitment.  The group lost many personnel which were reassigned to Far East Air Force units engaging in combat with deployed units. The personnel losses were replaced with less-experienced federalized Air Force Reserve or Air National Guard personnel. At the same time, ConAC placed the 78th Fighter Group on 24/7 air defense alert status, with the three squadrons rotating among themselves for one day on and two days off alert periods.

Throughout this period, the F-84s remained problematic with wing integrity, the group having only 50 of its authorized 70 aircraft operational, as a third of its aircraft had been sent to Republic Aircraft or Air Materiel Command depots for repairs. This led to excess hours being put on the remaining aircraft, reducing their designed operational life. By the first quarter of 1951, the number of operational aircraft on station was reduced to 44, with only 34 actually being combat ready. The manpower shortage was worse, with only seven of the forty combat-rated pilots being available, the remainder being assigned Europe or combat duty in Korea.

In June 1951, the 78th Fighter-Interceptor Group received the first four F-89B Scorpions, as a replacement for the F-84 Thunderjets. The Scorpions were assigned to the 83d and 84th FIS, while the 82d FIS retained the best of the groups remaining F-84s, while the remainder were either shipped as replacement aircraft to South Korea or sent to Republic for refurbishing.

By the end of 1951, the 82d FIS stood alert during daylight hours while the other two squadrons rotated night and foul weather duties. The F-89s, however, were rushed into service too rapidly. There were not enough trained pilots and radar operators, and there were not enough maintenance personnel who knew the intricacies of the complex and troublesome Hughes E-1 fire control system. The in-service rate of the F-89B was appallingly low, and crashes were all too frequently.

The 78th Fighter-Interceptor Group was inactivated along with the wing on 6 February 1952 along with its parent wing as part of a major ADC reorganization, which replaced fighter wings organized under the Hobson Plan with regional defense wings. Its operational units were transferred to the 4702d Defense Wing and Hamilton was placed under the 566th Air Base Group. Two of the inactivated 78th's squadrons moved as ADC dispersed its fighter force. The 82d FIS moved to Larson AFB, Washington and was reassigned to the 4703d Defense Wing; the 83d FIS to Paine AFB, Washington and transferred to the 4704th Defense Wing.  Only the 84th remained at Hamilton AFB.

The unit was reactivated in 1955 by replacing the 566th Air Defense Group at Hamilton AFB as part of ADC's Project Arrow, which reactivated fighter units that had achieved distinction in the two-word wars. The 84th FIS, already at Hamilton was assigned to it and the Its 83d FIS returned without personnel or equipment to Hamilton and was reassigned to the group, taking over the personnel and equipment of the 325th FIS, which moved without personnel or equipment to Truax Field, Wisconsin. The group also became the host for Hamilton AFB and was assigned a number of support organizations to fulfil this mission.  On 18 October 1956, the 78th Fighter Wing was once again activated and the group transferred its maintenance and support functions to the wing.  The group flew numerous interceptors for West Coast air defense until its inactivation on 1 February 1961 when group components were assigned directly to the 78th Fighter Wing as the 78th converted to the dual deputy organization.

Lineage
 Constituted as the 78th Pursuit Group (Interceptor) on 13 January 1942
 Activated on 9 February 1942
 Redesignated 78th Fighter Group (Twin Engine) on 15 May 1942
 Redesignated 78th Fighter Group, ca. 1 March 1943
 Redesignated 78th Fighter Group, Single Engine, ca. 21 August 1944
 Inactivated on 18 October 1945.
 Activated on 20 August 1946
 Redesignated 78th Fighter Group, Jet ca. 16 November 1948
 Redesignated 78 Fighter-Interceptor Group on 20 January 1950
 Inactivated on 6 February 1952
 Redesignated 78th Fighter Group (Air Defense), and activated 18 August 1955
 Inactivated on 1 February 1961

Assignments
 IV Fighter Command, 9 February 1942
 VIII Fighter Command, 29 November 1942.
 4th Air Defense Wing, 30 June 1943
 65th Fighter Wing, 7 August 1943.
 66th Fighter Wing, 18 August 1943.
 Attached to: 3d Bombardment (later Air) Division, 5 September 1944 – 10 October 1945
 XII Tactical Air Command, 20 August 1946 – 15 June 1947
 Fourth Air Force, 30 June 1947
 78th Fighter Wing (later 78th Fighter-Interceptor Wing), 16 November 1948 – 6 February 1952
 28th Air Division, 18 August 1955 – 18 October 1956
 78th Fighter Wing (Air Defense), 18 October 1956 – 1 February 1961

Components

Operational Squadrons
 82d Pursuit (later Fighter, Fighter-Interceptor) Squadron: 9 February 1942 – 18 October 1945; 20 August 1946 – 6 February 1952; attached 18 October 1956 – 1 July 1960
 83d Pursuit (later Fighter, Fighter-Interceptor) Squadron: 9 February 1942 – 18 October 1945; 20 August 1946 – 6 February 1952; 18 August 1955 – 1 February 1961
 84th Pursuit (later Fighter, Fighter-Interceptor) Squadron: 9 February 1942 – 18 October 1945; 20 August 1946 – 6 February 1952; 18 August 1955 – 1 February 1961

Support Units
 78th USAF Hospital, 18 August 1955 – 18 October 1956
 78th Air Base Squadron 18 August 1955 – 18 October 1956
 78th Air Police Squadron, 18 August 1955 – 18 October 1956
 78th Food Service Squadron, 18 August 1955 – 18 October 1956
 78th Field Maintenance Squadron, 18 August 1955 – 19 October 1956
 78th Installations Squadron, 18 August 1955 – 18 October 1956
 78th Motor Vehicle Squadron, 18 August 1955
 78th Operations Squadron, 18 August 1955 – 18 October 1956
 78th Supply Squadron, 18 August 1955 – 18 October 1956

Stations
 Baer Field, Indiana 9 February 1942
 Muroc Army Air Field, California 30 April 1942
 Hamilton Field, California May–November 1942
 RAF Goxhill (USAAF Station 345), England December 1942
 RAF Duxford (USAAF Station 357), England April 1943 – October 1945
 Camp Kilmer, New Jersey, 16–18 October 1945
 AAF Station Straubing, Germany, 20 August 1946 – June 1947
 Mitchel Field, New York June 1947
 Hamilton Air Force Base, California November 1948 – 6 February 1952; 18 August 1955 – 1 February 1961

Awards and campaigns

Aircraft

 Lockheed P-38 Lightning (1942–43)
 Republic P-47 Thunderbolt (1943–44, 1946)
 North American P-51 Mustang (1944–45, 1946–1947, 1949–52)
 Republic F-84 Thunderjet (1949–52)
 Northrop F-89 Scorpion (1951–52, 1956–59)
 North American F-86 Sabre (1956–58)
 Convair F-102 Delta Dagger (1957–60)
 Lockheed F-104 Starfighter (1958–60)
 McDonnell F-101 Voodoo (1959–61)
 Convair F-106 Delta Dart (1959–60)

See also
 Aerospace Defense Command Fighter Squadrons

References

Notes

Citations

Bibliography

 Buss, Lydus H.(ed), Sturm, Thomas A., Volan, Denys, and McMullen, Richard F., History of Continental Air Defense Command and Air Defense Command July to December 1955, Directorate of Historical Services, Air Defense Command, Ent AFB, CO, 1956

 Freeman, Roger A. (1978) Airfields of the Eighth: Then and Now. After the Battle

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The Netherlands selected their Junior Eurovision Song Contest entry for 2008 through Junior Songfestival 2008, a national final consisting of 10 songs spread out into two semi-finals and a final. The final winner was Marissa with the song "1 Dag".

Before Junior Eurovision

Junior Songfestival 2008
AVRO held a national final to select the Dutch entry for the contest. The contest consisted of two semi-finals and one final. Each semi-final had 5 songs, with 2 advancing to the final: one more entry was then granted access to the final as a wildcard entry, allowing 5 songs to compete in the final.

The three voting groups were awarded as follows to the competing entries:
Kids jury - A jury of children aged under 16 years
Jury - A jury of adults aged 16 or over
Televoting

Competing entries
Over 1000 songs were submitted to AVRO for the competition. 73 of the artists submitted were asked to attend live auditions, which took place on 28 and 29 April 2008 in Rhenen. 17 entries were selected to go through to the next stage, where a further seven entries were rejected, leaving the final 10 entries that competed in the live shows.

Semi-final 1

Semi-final 2

Final

Marissa's accident
Marissa was later involved in a car accident on 4 November 2008, just over two weeks away from the Contest in Limassol, when she and her sister collided with a car on a scooter. Marissa's leg was placed in plaster after being sprained, however this did not deter her from competing in the contest, with Marissa stating that she would try as much as she can to get to Junior Eurovision, even if she was in a wheelchair. Fortunately it did not come to this, and Marissa was able to perform as normal.

At Eurovision
Marissa performed 11th at the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2008, performing after Malta and before Ukraine. Marissa received 27 points and finished 13th.

Voting

Notes

References

External links
  AVRO website

Netherlands
Junior Eurovision Song Contest
2008


Giuseppe Conca (10 March 1904 – 3 October 1972) was an Italian weightlifter who competed in the 1924 Summer Olympics and in the 1928 Summer Olympics. In 1924 he finished 18th in the featherweight class. Four years later he finished fourth in the featherweight class at the Amsterdam Games.

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David Owen Brown (born 8 December 1982 in Burnley, Lancashire) is an English first-class cricketer. He is a right-handed batsman and right-armed medium bowler.

Early life
Brown was born in Burnley, Lancashire, attending Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School in neighbouring Blackburn. Like many of his family, he began playing cricket for Burnley Cricket Club.
His older brother, Michael, played for Surrey.

Career
Brown played for Gloucestershire County Cricket Club from 2006 until 2009. At the end of the 2009 season Brown joined Glamorgan County Cricket Club. He has also represented Durham UCCE, British Universities and Lancashire 2nd XI.

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Jetion Holdings Limited (AIM: JHL) is a designer, manufacturer and supplier of solar cells and modules. The holdings holds the factory Jiangyin Jetion Science and Technology Co Ltd which is located at Jiangyin (a county-level city of Wuxi), Jiangsu, China. During the year ended 2007, the company had a cell manufacturing capacity of 50 megawatts, and a module capacity of 40 megawatts. The company's output of solar cells for 2007 was 35.2 megawatts. In October 2007, it established a European joint venture, Jetion Europe. In March 2008, Jetion announced that it had entered into an agreement with a Japanese company to purchase 100 megawatts of solar polycrystalline silicon feedstock with immediate effect through until 2011.

Finance
For the six months ended 30 June 2008, Jetion Holdings Limited's revenues totaled $100.7M, up from $38.6M. Net income totaled $9.7M, up from $2.8M. Revenues reflect an increase in income from cells and modules segment. Net income reflects the presence of other income, lower research & development expenses, increased finance income and the presence of share of profits less losses of joint controlled entity.

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Jetion website

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Resistance is a series of first-person shooter and third-person shooter video games developed by Insomniac Games and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation 3, PlayStation Portable and PlayStation Vita video game consoles. The series takes place in an alternate history 1950s, in which an alien civilization known as the Chimera have invaded and conquered Earth, expanding their armies by capturing humans and transforming them into monster-like super soldiers to fight for them. The player takes the role of one of the remaining human armed forces as they fight against the Chimera invasion. The series is noted for its use of both conventional and futuristic weaponry, reflecting Insomniac's previous work on the Ratchet & Clank series.

Games

Main series

Resistance: Fall of Man (2006)

Resistance: Fall of Man is the first installment in the Resistance trilogy and was released on the PlayStation 3 in 2006 as a launch title for the system. The game is about the Americans and the British who join forces to stop an extraterrestrial species known as the Chimera from taking over the United Kingdom in 1951.

Resistance 2 (2008)

Resistance 2 is the second installment in the Resistance trilogy and was released on the PlayStation 3 in November 2008. The game's protagonist is Nathan Hale. It is set in 1953, shortly after the events of the first game.  The Chimera have managed to cross over into North America and threaten to take over the continent.

Resistance 3 (2011)

Resistance 3 is the third and final installment in the Resistance trilogy and was released on the PlayStation 3 on September 6, 2011. The protagonist is Joseph Capelli, a character that was introduced in the previous game. It is set in 1957 and again takes place in the United States in cities like New York City and St. Louis, Missouri. It also drops the military aspect of the previous games and is post-apocalyptic instead. This is also the last Resistance game to be made by Insomniac Games, as confirmed by its CEO Ted Price.

Other games

Resistance: Retribution (2009)

Resistance: Retribution was released on the PlayStation Portable on March 17, 2009. Set after the events of Fall of Man, the game follows James Grayson, a British Royal Marine first mentioned in Resistance 2, as he helps the human resistance force in Europe to retake the continent from the Chimera in 1951.

Resistance: Burning Skies (2012)

Resistance: Burning Skies was released on the PlayStation Vita on May 29, 2012. The game follows the story of Tom Riley, a firefighter who sets out to find his family while fighting the Chimera, who have now taken over the American east coast.

Future
According to Resistance 3 creative director Marcus Smith, the studio has a number of franchises it wants to pursue and that Resistance is not one of them. Insomniac CEO Ted Price said that Insomniac "won't be making any more Resistance games". All online features of the Resistance games have been discontinued in March 2014. In August 2018, Insomniac's community director James Stevenson called chances of a Resistance 4 "a longshot" revealing that neither the developer, nor Sony who owns the IP, were talking about a sequel.
In June 2021, game developer and former IGN PlayStation editor Colin Moriarty revealed his contacts at Insomniac had pitched a sequel to Sony, but it was rejected due to the number of post-apocalyptic games in development, including The Last of Us and Days Gone.
The series was celebrated with numerous other PlayStation franchises in the PlayStation 5 game Astro's Playroom.

Setting
The alternate history of the Resistance series diverges from current history primarily at the end of World War I, leading to the formation of the European Trade Organization, a continental peacekeeping alliance, and worldwide peace, preventing the Great Depression, the rise of the Nazi Germany, and World War II, but also leading to Franklin Delano Roosevelt losing the 1940 presidential election to Montana Senator Noah Grace who leads the U.S into a semi-totalitarian isolationist state, as well as the rise of an isolationist Russian Empire, as before his abdication, Nicholas II appointed his youngest brother Grand Duke Mikhail as Tsar, who crushed the Russian Revolution.

A new menace arises from Siberia, with the epicenter corresponding to the time and location of the Tunguska Event of 1908. In 1921, Russia initiated a communications blackout with the rest of the world and built a wall against its European border called the "Red Curtain." Word spreads of small towns, villages, and eventually cities in Russia and Eastern Europe that are destroyed within a single night. A strange cold front also develops over Russia and spreads outwards. European intelligence agencies attempt to listen in on Russian radio stations, only to hear a single message repeated over and over: "Brotherhood, Strength, and Fortitude ... in the face of the angry night".

In December 1949, the Red Curtain is suddenly breached by numerous Chimeran forces. The Chimera overrun continental Europe in just two months, leaving very few survivors. The Chimera then proceed to dig underneath the English Channel, invading Britain in late 1950. The bulk of the British forces is wiped out, with the rest fleeing to scattered bases in the northern parts of England.

Sometime after the invasion of England, the SRPA (Special Research Projects Administration) begins experimenting with the virus, supposedly to find a cure. It is never revealed whether they are attempting to find a cure for the virus or simply attempting to create a group of superhumans. This project is known as Project Abraham.

There are only two known locations where Project Abraham took place. One was an unspecified military facility in Alaska, and another in Bryce Canyon, Utah. Out of the viral website, it is known that the only survivors are Joseph Capelli and Nathan Hale, and they are both later transferred to Sentinel Squad Echo.

After the events of Project Abraham, the soldiers who were infected with the Chimeran virus were formed into an elite squad known as Sentinels.

Gameplay
The Resistance games play similarly to most first-person shooters, and feature a variety of weapons. The weapons include both conventional weapons for the setting of the game, weapons created by the Chimera that possess unique features, and human weapons that have been modified to take advantage of the Chimera technology. Each weapon features two modes of fire which work in conjunction with each other. The human assault rifles include grenade launchers, while the Chimera "Bullseye" has a secondary mode that fires a marker, such that all bullets shot in the primary mode will strike the marked target for a short time.

The main trilogy on PlayStation 3 featured large-scale multiplayer modes with support for up to 60 players in Resistance 2 and up to 40 players in Resistance: Fall of Man. Gameplay was reduced to smaller matches in Resistance 3. All three console games offer extensive stat tracking for online combat, and Resistance 2 even requires online play to unlock some of its trophies.

Other media
Resistance: The Gathering Storm, a novel by William C. Dietz, was released in April 2009. It details what happened to Nathan Hale during the two years between the events that unfolded in Iceland, after his extraction from Great Britain, and later in San Francisco and where the Chimera launch the invasion of the United States.

Resistance: A Hole in the Sky, an indirect sequel to The Gathering Storm, was written by William C. Dietz. It is set before the events of Resistance 3.

Resistance, a six-issue comic book limited series, began in January 2009. The first issue, "Resistance #0" (which was available as part of the Resistance 2 Collector's Edition), details the early history of Private Jordan Adam Shepherd, the seemingly innocent soldier who volunteered to be a test subject in Project Abraham, and, due to the machinations of Doctor Fyodor Malikov, would transform into "Daedalus", the Leader of the Chimera. Another comic issue released was called "Metastasis", telling the tale of a Nathan Hale mission and how he is to retrieve an antidote to the chimera virus.

References

External links
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