The Astarita Stakes was an American Thoroughbred horse race run between 1946 and 2005 at New York's Aqueduct Racetrack in South Ozone Park, Queens and at Belmont Park in Elmont. Open to two-year-old fillies, it was a sprint race contested on dirt over a distance of six and a half furlongs. It offered a purse of $100,000.

The Astarita was given Grade III stakes status in 1973 when a grading system was instituted at all racetracks in North America. In 1981 it was elevated to a Grade II event before being downgraded in 2004 to its original Grade III which was maintained until the race was dropped from the schedule in 2006.

In 1955 the Greater New York Association took over management of Belmont Park, Aqueduct Racetrack, Jamaica Race Course and the Saratoga Race Course. Massive renovations led to the subsequent closure of Aqueduct Racetrack for four years and there was no Astarita Stakes run for the three years between 1958 and 1960.

The race was named for Astarita, John Follansbee's filly who won the 1902 inaugural running of the Astoria Stakes at the now defunct Gravesend Race Track on Coney Island, New York City.  The Astarita Stakes was run at:
 Aqueduct Racetrack: 1946–1955, 1962–1966, 1993–1994, 1997
 Belmont Park: 1956–1957, 1961

It was contested at various distances:
 6 furlongs : 1946–1956
 6.5 furlongs : 1972–1994, 1997–2005
 7 furlongs : 1957–1971, 1996
 8 furlongs : 1995

The Astarita was run in two divisions in 1965, 1968 and 1972.

Historical notes
The first running of the Astarita Stakes took place at Aqueduct on September 21, 1946. It was won by Keynote, a strawberry roan filly owned by the Wheatley Stable and ridden by future Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame inductee Hedley Woodhouse.

USN Rear-Admiral Howard Adams Flanigan won the 1954 running of the Astarita with his good filly Two Stars. On the same racecard, future U. S. Racing Hall of Fame jockey Ted Atkinson reached a milestone in his career with his 3,000th win aboard the Greentree Stable colt Devastation.

In 1955 Cosmah captured the Astarita Stakes and in 1963 her daughter Tosmah, a future U.S. Racing Hall of Fame inductee, also won it.

The 1961 edition was won by Cicada, Christopher Chenery's three-time National Champion and U.S. Racing Hall of Fame inductee.

In 1964 Queen Empress won by a nose but was disqualified to second for interference giving the win to runner-up I Deceive.

In 2000 Extra Heat's win extended her career unbeaten streak to six. She would be voted the 2001 American Champion Three-Year-Old Filly and in 2015 would be inducted into the U.S. Racing Hall of Fame.

The final running of the Astarita Stakes took place on October 2, 2005. It was won by Sensation with Eibar Coa aboard for owner Gary and Betty Biszantz's Cobra Farm and their partner, the Castletop Stable owned by Morton and Bobbi Topfer.

Records
Speed record:
 110.00 @ 6 furlongs – Alanesian (1956)
 1:16.40 @ 6.5 furlongs – Stulcer (1974)
 1:22.60 @ 7 furlongs – Syrian Sea (1967)

Most wins by a jockey:
 4 – Ron Turcotte (1965, 1968, 1970, 1973)

Most wins by a trainer:
 2 – Casey Hayes (1961, 1967)
 2 – Charles P. Sanborn (1964, 1982)
 2 – Del W. Carroll (1970, 1980)
 2 – James A. Jerkens (1997, 1999)

Most wins by an owner:
 2 – Wheatley Stable (1946, 1966)
 2 – Pin Oak Stable (1953, 1992)
 2 – Meadow Stable (1961, 1967)
 2 – Harbor View Farm (1965, 1973)

Winners

 † In 1964 Queen Empress won by a nose but was disqualified to second for interference.
 † In 1962 Smart Deb won what would have been her eighth straight win had she not been disqualified for interference.
 † In 1955 Dark Charger won but was disqualified to last.

External links
 Belmont Park at the NYRA

References

Discontinued horse races in New York (state)
Belmont Park
Aqueduct Racetrack
Flat horse races for two-year-old fillies
Graded stakes races in the United States
1946 establishments in New York City
2005 disestablishments in New York (state)
Recurring sporting events established in 1946
Recurring sporting events disestablished in 2005


The Child Alert Foundation (CAF) is a private, 501c(3) non-profit organization that was established in the state of Pennsylvania in 1998. Operating strictly from donations and fund raising, CAF is dedicated to assisting federal and local law enforcement agencies in the recovery of missing and abducted children and elderly individuals.  The Child Alert Foundation helps law enforcement notify their surrounding communities with their copyrighted Abduction Central Alert (ACA) community alert notification system.

The Child Alert Foundation was the first organization to ever create a fully automated implementation of the Amber Plan outlined in 1997 in Dallas, Texas, which has since become the AMBER Alert.  The original Amber Plan (1997) was a faxed based procedure where law enforcement agencies were required to prepare information for public distribution and then fax that information to a list of designated primary radio stations.  This was a manual procedure and time-consuming process.

The ACA system created by Child Alert is a totally automated procedure that was designed from the very beginning to exceed the original Amber Plan requirements. Rather than limit the alert to radio, CAF expanded coverage to include television and news organizations as well as other law enforcement agencies for notification.  In addition to sending faxes as the original plan required, the ACA system sends emails, alert pagers, send text messaging, build automatic web pages, posters, and more. The ACA system also provides full circle notifications by issuing closure alerts when an incident is terminated.

Since its original implementation in 1998, the ACA system has been further expanded to assist law enforcement with notifying the community when a Silver Alert is issued for missing elderly individuals.

History
The Child Alert Foundation (CAF) was founded in 1998 by Col. Vincent A. Albers Jr.(USMC Retired), Nancy T. Albers, Vincent A. Albers III and Marlene R. Slater to help law enforcement agencies across the nation immediately notify their surrounding communities of missing and abducted children.

With their collective backgrounds in computer technology, applications development and telecommunications, they collaborated and created a new Alert Notification System (ANS) that was called Abduction Central Alert (ACA) in honor of all missing children across the nation.

With the ACA system, an alert area of one hundred (100) miles is centered around the initial abduction location and establishes a "zone of influence" for the notification area. Since the first hour of any abduction is critical and an abduction vehicle can travel over 60 miles an hour, one minute can equal a mile and this was the reason why the 100 mile radius distance was selected.  The alert "zone of influence" represents a virtual net that can cross state and local boundaries and provides law enforcement with a greater advantage of apprehending a perpetrator in that first hour.

This system can immediately notify a variety of agencies and organizations of missing and/or abducted individuals in a matter of seconds of being activated.

In May 2001, the Child Alert Foundation released their infrared digital fingerprinting services program called the ACA Child Identification Poster System (ACA CHIPS).  This program automated the old Polaroid photograph and ink fingerprint concept of providing child identification services and stored information digitally on disk that could easily be retrieved and imported into the automated Abduction Central Alert (ACA) community alert notification system.

The CHIPS program interfaces with a digital video camera to take real time video snapshots and an infrared fingerprint scanner to capture digital impressions of a child's fingerprints. This information is saved in various digital formats on a disk or flash drive and given only to parents and guardians to access in case of an emergency.  In the unfortunate event that a child is reported missing and/or abducted, the digital information can immediately be reloaded into an alert notification system (ANS) program like Abduction Central Alert so that an Amber Alert can be immediately activated by law enforcement.

Law enforcement could use ACA CHIPS to provide parents and guardians with child identification disks as a community service.  Parents in turn could provide the CHIPS disks back to law enforcement in the case of an emergency so that an expedited Amber Alert could be activated using the ACA system to notify their surrounding community of a missing child.

See also
 AMBER Alert
 Masonic Child Identification Programs
 Silver Alert

References
 Pervasive Software News Alert
 CAF Case Study By Pegasus Imaging
 Amber Alert: 10 Years Old, 400 Successful Child Recoveries
 National Silver Alert: Securing Our Seniors

External links
 Child Alert Foundation

Non-profit organizations based in Pennsylvania
Foundations based in the United States
Children's charities based in the United States
Organizations established in 1998


The de Roquefeuil-Blanquefort family previously named de Blanquefort is a French noble family from Aquitaine and Rouergue whose proven filiation began in 1393 when Jean of Blanquefort married Catherine de Roquefeuil-Anduze. Their son Antoine took his mother's name. The Roquefeuil-Blanquefort family gave several branches. The remaining two branches are Roquefeuil Monpeyroux and Roquefeuil Cahuzac. The Roquefeuil-Blanquefort family is a member of the Society of the Cincinnati.

Origin
The proven filiation began of the Roquefeuil-Blanquefort family in 1393 when Jean of Blanquefort married Catherine de Roquefeuil-Anduze

La Chesnaye-Desbois writes in the 18th century that according to an ancient memoir Jean de Blanquefort could descend from the youngest member of the family de Roquefeuil who received the lordship of Blanquefort, but there is no evidence for this.

Louis de La Roque writes in Bulletin de la Société héraldique et généalogique de France (1879): In Guyenne there tere were three lordships whose names were Blanquefort, one in Médoc, one in Agenais and the third one near l'Isle-Jourdain. Each could have given its name to a family and it is difficult to know which one was the origin of the de Blanquefort family.

Branches
Eldest branch (extinct):
Antoine I de Roquefeuil, son of Jean de Blanquefort and Catherine de Roquefeui married Delphine d'Arpajon, he inherited of the baronies of Roquefeuil and Blanquefort.
Jean II de Roquefeuil and his brother Antoine (author of the Padiès branch) took part in the League of the Public Weal but received Louis XI's pardon in February 1478.
Bérenger de Roquefeuil (1448-1530) built Bonaguil, the last and largest castle erected in France. Its construction took place in Saint-Front-sur-Lémance and lasted over 40 years. Bérenger married Anne de Tournel.
Charles de Roquefeuil married Blanche of Montpezat sister of Antoine, Marechal of France
Antoine II married Claude de Peyre in 1555.
Antoine III de Roquefeuil became knight of the Order of Saint Michael in 1570 and the barony of Roquefeuil was erected as marquisate in 1618
Antoine-Alexandre de Roquefeuil died without male descendance.

Branches of Padiès, Bousquet and Montpeyroux:

This cadet branch was created by Antoine de Roquefeuil, brother of Jean II de Roquefeuil and became the main branch after Antoine-Alexandre de Roquefeuil's death. Settled in Montpeyroux the branch owned the castle du Bousquet and included several officers and sailors.
Jacques Aymar de Roquefeuil du Bousquet was hereditary governor of Rodez and lieutenant general of the French Navy
Aymar Joseph de Roquefeuil du Bousquet was governor of Brest, and later vice-Admiral of France in charge of the Levant Fleet
Innocent de Roquefeuil was colonel of the Roquefeuil regiment and took part in the Armée des émigrés

Pierre de Roquefeuil-Montpeyroux took part in the American Revolutionary War through the battle of Ushant and the battle of the Saintes. He was member of the Society of the Cincinnati with two of his cousins.

Branch of Cahuzac :
 Camille of Roquefeuil was a navy officer and a marine governor in the Reunion island. He retired from navy to accomplish the first world circumnavigation after the French Revolution.

Ancestry from Roquefeuil to the Rockefeller family are suggested, via Goddard Rockenfeller (born 1590)

References

Bibliography
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See also
 House of Roquefeuil-Anduze
 Bonaguil
 Society of the Cincinnati

History of Occitania (administrative region)
Roquefeuil-Blanquefort


Arne Nielsson (born May 11, 1962) is a Danish sprint canoer who competed from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won a silver medal in the C-2 1000 m event at Barcelona in 1992.

Nielsson also won eight medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with six golds (C-2 1000 m: 1989, 1993; C-2 10000 m: 1987, 1989, 1990, 1993), one silver (C-2 500 m: 1993), and one bronze (C-2 10000 m: 1986).

Since his retirement from elite sports, Arne Nielsson has worked as a professional coach and he has been writing several books about cognitive coaching and mental training with hint to sportspeople as well as business people.

References

1962 births
Canoeists at the 1988 Summer Olympics
Canoeists at the 1992 Summer Olympics
Canoeists at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Danish male canoeists
Living people
Olympic canoeists for Denmark
Olympic silver medalists for Denmark
Olympic medalists in canoeing
ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships medalists in Canadian
Medalists at the 1992 Summer Olympics


Leipzig Homicide (SOKO Leipzig) is a German crime drama television series first broadcast on 31 January 2001 on ZDF. More than 400 episodes have been screened since. On 12 November 2008, the first of a two-part crossover between SOKO Leipzig and British police procedural The Bill, titled "Proof of Life", was aired, with the same version being shown on both ZDF and British television network ITV. Soko Leipzig is the second offshoot of SOKO München, launched in 1978 under the name SOKO 5113. "SOKO" is an abbreviation of the German word Sonderkommission, which means "special investigative team".

Synopsis
The series details the investigative work done by the special commission of the Leipzig police. The team, consisting of Hajo Trautzschke, Jan Maybach, Ina Zimmermann, and Tom Kowalski, mostly investigates crimes such as murder and manslaughter. They are supported by team assistant Olivia Fareedi, coroners Sabine Rossi and Mara Stein, as well as laboratory assistant Lorenz Rettig and prosecutor Alexander Binz. In cases concerning sexual offenses, Dagmar Schnee is also on the team.

Crossovers
On 3 April 2013, five SOKO teams were brought together for a five-part special titled SOKO – Der Prozess. In it, the teams from Munich, Cologne, Leipzig, Stuttgart, and Wismar have to solve the murder of a police officer. The five episodes were shown across Germany from 30 September to 4 October 2013.

A crossover episode with SOKO Donau, titled "Der vierte Mann", was broadcast on ORF on 2 November 2019 and ZDF on 8 November 2019. The screenplay was based on a true story related to the Viennese political activist Rudolfine Steindling.

Cast and characters

Current

Former

Episodes

Gallery
Shooting locations and sets

Special

In April 2013, a five-part crossover between five ZDF SOKO series, titled SOKO – Der Prozess, began filming. The teams included in the show are 5113, Cologne, Leipzig, Stuttgart, and Wismar.

See also
 List of German television series

References

External links
 Leipzig Homicide at ZDF
 Leipzig Homicide at UFA
 Leipzig Homicide at fernsehserien.de

German drama television series
2001 German television series debuts
2010s German television series
German crime television series
2000s German police procedural television series
2010s German police procedural television series
2020s German police procedural television series
German-language television shows
German television spin-offs
ZDF original programming


Dagmar of Bohemia (also known as Margaret, ;  1186 – 24 May 1212 in Ribe) was Queen of Denmark as the first spouse of King Valdemar II. She was the daughter of King Ottokar I of Bohemia and his first wife, Adelaide of Meissen.

Early life
Margaret's father, Ottokar I, became Duke of Bohemia in 1192, but in 1193 was deposed. He then left Bohemia with his family. His wife, Adelaide, and their children found a new home at the court of her brother Albert I, Margrave of Meissen. Ottokar became a mercenary for German rulers. In 1197, Ottokar became the Duke of Bohemia for a second time. He repudiated Adelaide and divorced her in 1199 on the grounds of consanguinity. He married Constance of Hungary later the same year. This step, together with other maneuvers, helped him later to obtain the hereditary elevation of his title to king.

Adelaide did not waive her rights. In 1205, she returned to Prague temporarily. At that time, Ottokar decided to marry their daughter, Margaret, to Valdemar II of Denmark. His new wife Constance gave birth to a son, later King Wenceslaus I of Bohemia, the same year. Adelaide left Bohemia soon and died a few years later.

Queen
Before his first marriage, Valdemar had been betrothed to Richeza of Bavaria, daughter of the Duke of Saxony. When that engagement fell through, he married Margaret, now known as Dagmar, in 1205 at Lübeck. According to the records of Annales Ryenses (Rydårbogen), in 1206 Queen Dagmar influenced Valdemar to release one of his most fervent enemies, Valdemar, Bishop of Schleswig, who had been held in captivity since 1193.

In 1209, Queen Dagmar gave birth to Valdemar the Young (c. 1209–1231). Queen Dagmar died on 24 May 1212 while giving birth to her second son, who did not survive. Valdemar II elevated Valdemar the Young as co-king at Schleswig in 1218. However, Valdemar was accidentally shot with an arrow while hunting at Refsnæs in North Jutland during 1231.

Not many things are known about Dagmar as a person. Most of the image of Dagmar comes from later folksongs, myths and legends, designed to present her as an ideal Christian queen; mild, patient and universally loved, in contrast to her unpopular successor, Queen Berengaria. Old folk ballads say that on her deathbed she begged Valdemar to marry Kirsten, the daughter of Karl von Rise, and not the "beautiful flower" Berengária of Portugal. In other words, she predicted a struggle for the Danish throne between the sons of Berengaria.

After Dagmar's death, in order to build good relations with Flanders (a commercially important territory to the west of Denmark's hostile southern neighbours), Valdemar married Berengária of Portugal in 1214. Queen Dagmar is buried in St. Bendt's Church in Ringsted, on one side of Valdemar II, with Queen Berengária buried on the other side of the King.

Dagmar Cross

A pectoral cross now well known as the Dagmar Cross (Dagmarkorset) was found lying on the breast of Queen Dagmar’s remains when the tomb was opened in 1683.  In 1695 the cross was donated to the National Gallery of Denmark. The jewel of Byzantine design and workmanship, is of gold, enamelled, having on one side a crucifix, and on the other side portraits of Christ in the center, St Basil, St John Chrysostom, Mary the Virgin and St John the Apostle-Evangelist. In 1863, King Frederik VII of Denmark donated a replica of the cross to  Princess Alexandra of Denmark, daughter of the later King Christian IX of Denmark when she married the Prince of Wales, later King Edward VII of England.

In the modern era, the Dagmar Cross   "is worn by Danish girls for their confirmation into the Lutheran Church, and is also given to children as a baptismal gift." In the  Lutheran Church of Sweden, "the cross is now delivered to the new bishop, on his installation in office, by the Archbishop of Uppsala, together with the mitre and crozier."

Gallery

References

Sources

External links
  Dansk Kvindebiografisk Leksikon (In Danish)

1180s births
1210s deaths
Bohemian princesses
Danish royal consorts
Přemyslid dynasty
Burials at St. Bendt's Church, Ringsted
Year of birth uncertain
Deaths in childbirth
12th-century Danish people
12th-century people from Bohemia.
13th-century Danish nobility
13th-century people from Bohemia.
12th-century Danish women
12th-century women from Bohemia
13th-century Danish women
13th-century women from Bohemia
Daughters of kings


Olivier Boivin (born June 6, 1965) is a French sprint canoer.

Career
Boivin competed from the late 1980s to the mid-1990s.

He won a bronze medal in the C-2 1000 m event at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona. He also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with four silvers (C-2 1000 m: 1989, 1991, 1993; C-2 10000 m: 1989) and three bronzes (C-2 200 m: 1994, C-2 500 m: 1991, C-4 200 m: 1995).

References

Sports-reference.com profile

1965 births
Canoeists at the 1992 Summer Olympics
French male canoeists
Living people
Olympic canoeists for France
Olympic bronze medalists for France
Olympic medalists in canoeing
ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships medalists in Canadian
Medalists at the 1992 Summer Olympics
Mediterranean Games medalists in canoeing
Mediterranean Games gold medalists for France
Competitors at the 1991 Mediterranean Games


Thévenard is a French surname. Notable people with the surname include:

André Thévenard (1898–1952), French physician, known for Thevenard syndrome
Antoine-Jean-Marie Thévenard (1733–1815), French politician and vice admiral
Antoine-René Thévenard (1766–1798), French Navy officer
Gabriel-Vincent Thévenard (1669–1741), French opera singer
Patrice Thévenard (born 1954), French cyclist

See also
Thevenard, South Australia
Thevenard syndrome

French-language surnames


Modern pentathlon was one of the many sports which was held at the 2002 Asian Games in Changwon International Shooting Range, Changwon Evergreen Hall, Changwon Swimming Pool, Busan Equestrian Grounds and Samnak Riverside Athletic Park in Changwon and Busan, South Korea between 10 and 13 October 2002.

The host nation South Korea finished first in medal table with four gold medals.

Schedule

Medalists

Men

Women

Medal table

Participating nations
A total of 48 athletes from 8 nations competed in modern pentathlon at the 2002 Asian Games:

References

2002 Asian Games Official Report, Pages 488–514

External links
 Official website

2002 Asian Games events
2002
Asian Games
2002 Asian Games


François-Louis-Edme-Gabriel, Comte du Maitz de Goimpy Feuquières  was a French Navy officer.

Career
Goimpy joined the Navy as a Garde-Marine in 1746. He was promoted to Lieutenant in 1757, to Captain in 1772.

He fought in the Battle of Martinique (1780), and commanded the 74 gun Destin at the 1781 Battle of the Chesapeake. He was also an active lecturer at the Académie de Marine.

In 1782, he was promoted to Brigadier, and to Chef d'escadre in 1784.

Citations and references
Citations

References

French Navy officers
18th-century French people


Ectopic calcification is a pathologic deposition of calcium salts in tissues or bone growth in soft tissues. This can be a symptom of hyperphosphatemia. Formation of osseous tissue in soft tissues such as the lungs, eyes, arteries, or other organs is known as ectopic calcification, dystrophic calcification, or ectopic ossification.

Causes

Absorption of calcium salts normally occurs in bony tissues and is facilitated by parathyroid hormone and vitamin D. However, increased amounts of parathyroid hormone in the blood result in the deposit of calcium in soft tissues. This can be an indication of hyperparathyroidism, arteriosclerosis, or trauma to tissues.

Calcification of muscle can occur after traumatic injury and is known as myositis ossificans. It can be recognized by muscle tenderness and loss of stretch in the affected area. To reduce the risk of calcification after an injury, initiate what is commonly known as "RICE" (rest, ice, compression, and elevation).

Diagnosis
Typically, the diagnosis of extra-skeletal ectopic calcification is quite straightforward. A physical examination of a suspected area with calcified deposits palpates as hard and rough. To confirm, the calcified tissues can be seen on an x-ray.

Prognosis

Ectopic ossification of the heart valves is an indicator of future heart problems, hyperparathyroidism, and necrosis of tissues.

See also
 Subepidermal calcified nodule

References

Inborn errors of metal metabolism


The Chamangá River is a river in Uruguay.

Location

It is situated in northern Flores Department.

Fluvial system

The river is a tributary of the arroyo Maciel, itself flowing into the Yí River. The Yí River is a tributary of the westward draining Río Negro. The Chamangá River rises in a range of hills known as the Cuchilla Grande, and it generally runs from south to north in the Flores Department.

Disambiguation

The settlement of Chamangá is situated nearby.

Chamangá and Ferrizo: Stories of a Vibrant Past

Chamangá, now a peaceful place, keeps within it the echoes of a town called Ferrizo that was once bustling and active. Today, its landscape is marked by the Santa Elena Rural School No. 20, a bastion of knowledge in the midst of rural calm. An old warehouse also persists, refusing to yield to the passage of time and still serving the community with vitality.

Nearby, there are two or three small towns, each with its own essence and character. One of them is Rincón de Chamangá, which is home to the prominent humanitarian organization, Dreamsseller. This corner of Uruguay has become the epicenter of altruistic work that touches lives and leaves a lasting mark on the community.

This place is much more than hills and fields. Chamangá and its surroundings are witnesses of stories that are intertwined with nature and the commitment of its inhabitants. Each corner tells a story of struggle, community and resilience against the onslaught of time. In these places, the past merges with the present to create a legacy that will last through generations.

References

 :es:Flores (departamento)#Hidrografía

See also
 Localidad Rupestre de Chamangá
 Chamangá#Disambiguation
 Yi River#Fluvial system
 Geography of Uruguay#Topography and hydrography

Rivers of Uruguay
Tributaries of the Uruguay River
Rivers of Flores Department


The Mating Game may refer to:

The Mating Game (album), an album and its title track by Bitter:Sweet
The Mating Game (film), a 1959 film starring Debbie Reynolds and Tony Randall
"The Mating Game" (D:TNG episode), an episode of U.S. TV series Degrassi: The Next Generation


Songs from the Closet is a compilation album of early demo recordings by King's X bassist / vocalist Doug Pinnick. It contains two previously unreleased songs and an audio commentary track by Pinnick.

Track listing
The World Around Me
Wars (previously unreleased)
I'll Never Get Tired of You
Fine Art of Friendship
Power of Love
The Big Picture
Ooh Song
Sometime
A Box
Human Behavior
Trash in Heaven (previously unreleased)
What I Know About Love
We Were Born to Be Loved
Faith Hope Love
Audio commentary track

2006 compilation albums
Doug Pinnick albums
King's X albums


Jean-Jacques de Marguerie (12 April 1742, Mondeville – 6 July 1779, Grenada) was a French naval officer and mathematician.

Life
He began his studies at the collège at Caen, discovering Euclid's Elements aged around 18 and soon moving to study mathematics alone. He made such progress in this area that the geometer Alexis Fontaine, whom he met in Paris, offered to become his patron. They edited several papers for the Académie des sciences.

Bibliography
Mémoire sur la résolution des équations en général, et particulièrement sur l’équation du cinquième degré, 1769
Mémoire sur le système du monde, 1770
Mémoire sur une opération d’algèbre appelée l’élimination des inconnues, 1770
Établissement d’une nouvelle théorie de la résistance des fluides, 1770
Dissertation sur le roulis, 1771
Dissertation sur le moyen de trouver les centres de gravité, 1771
Mémoire sur la résolution des équations du cinquième degré, 1771
Mémoire sur la construction, 1772
Mémoire sur la statique des vaisseaux, 1772

1742 births
1779 deaths
French Navy officers
18th-century French mathematicians
18th-century French military personnel


Switzerland was present at the Eurovision Song Contest 1986, held in Bergen, Norway.

Before Eurovision

National final
The Swiss national final to select their entry, Concours Eurovision '86, was held on 25 January 1986 at the Schweizer Radio DRS Studios in Zürich, and was hosted by singer Paola del Medico, who had represented Switzerland in 1969 and 1980. Five juries selected the winner: one jury each from the German, French and Italian cantons of Switzerland, one jury made up of radio, television and newspaper journalists, and one jury composed of "music experts."

The winning entry was "Pas pour moi", performed by Daniela Simmons and composed by Atilla Şereftuğ, with lyrics written by Nella Martinetti.

French, German and Italian were represented equally in the national final, with three songs in each language. One of the three German songs, "Verschänk doch dini Liebi", was sung in the Swiss German dialect. The song "Lily Lilas" was sung partially in German and partially in French. For the first time, Romansh was represented in the national selection with the song "Tragnölin".

At Eurovision
Simmons performed tenth on the night of the Contest, following Spain and preceding Israel. At the close of the voting the song had received 140 points, placing 2nd in a field of 20 competing countries. It would become Switzerland's third (and final) second-placing song.

The Swiss conductor at the contest was the composer of the song, Atilla Şereftuğ.

Voting

References

External links
Swiss National Final 1986

1986
Countries in the Eurovision Song Contest 1986
Eurovision


Independent Australian Scouts, previously known as Scouts of Australia (1992 to 2001), is a Scouting organisation operating as a central umbrella organisation for independent local scout clubs or associations. Independent Australian Scouts is a member of the Order of World Scouts and became an affiliate and a successor to British Boy Scouts and British Girl Scouts Association in Australia.

Programme

Independent Australian Scouts emphasises scouting as a simple, experiential, outdoor activity emulating frontier scouts in being self-reliant, thrifty and resourceful and useful and helpful. The association views the Scout Movement as part of the wider Woodcraft Movement. The association eschews the cult-like idolisation of Robert Baden-Powell, "family scouting", the unnecessary connection of scouting with later, ever more juvenile programs (such as Wolf Cubs, Beavers, Joeys, Keas and Squirrels), the over-involvement of adults, adult over-organisation of scouting, adults using scouting as a social outlet and the monopolisation and manipulation of scouting as a commercial product.

History

Independent Australian Scouts began as the Independent Scouts of Australia in 1986.  The founding members were all former Queen's Scouts, with years of experience as scout leaders who were dissatisfied with the direction, costs and claims of The Scout Association of Australia. The association registered the name 'Independent Scouts of Australia Incorporated' in 1988. After contact in 1991 with the British Boy Scouts and British Girl Scouts Association, Scouts of Australia joined the Order of World Scouts.

In 1992, the organisation was incorporated nationally and renamed Scouts of Australia. Scouts of Australia successfully defended legal claims by The Scout Association of Australia to the exclusive right to use the name 'scout' and the fleur-de-lis scout emblem. The organisation's corporate name was changed to the present title in 2001.

Independent Australian Scouts operated under the name 'Scouts of Australia' from 1992 and registered the business name 'Scouts of Australia'.

Independent Australian Scouts adopted a logo consisting of a fleur-de-lis with a five-star southern cross constellation above the word 'Scouts' and applied for registration of a trademark 'Scout' in 1993, which was later withdrawn in the same year.

Independent Australian Scouts offers a very simple organisational structure.

External links
 Scouts of Australia

References

Non-aligned Scouting organizations
Scouting and Guiding in Australia
Organizations established in 1986
1986 establishments in Australia


Alexis Fontaine, known as Alexis Fontaine des Bertins (13 August 1704 – 21 August 1771) was a French mathematician. He was a patron and teacher of Jean-Jacques de Marguerie.

Life
Fontaine was born in Claveyson.  He first got a taste for maths by reading the Géométrie de l'infini of Fontenelle and gave solutions to the problems of the tautochrone curve, the brachistochrone curve and orthogonal trajectories.
He was elected a member of the Académie des sciences in 1733.  He died, aged 67, in Cuiseaux.

Publications
Mémoires donnés à l'Académie royale des sciences, non imprimés dans leur temps (1764)
Traité de calcul différentiel et intégral, par M. Fontaine, de l'Académie royale des sciences, pour servir de suite aux mémoires de la même Académie (1770)

Sources

External links
Biography and bibliography
R Taton, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).
J M C de Condorcet, Eloge de M Fontaine, Histoire de l'Académie royale des sciences 1771 (Paris, 1774), 105-116.J L Greenberg, Alexis Fontaine's route to the calculus of several variables, Historia Math. 11 (1) (1984), 22-38.
J L Greenberg, Alexis Fontaine's integration of ordinary differential equations and the origins of the calculus of several variables, Ann. of Sci. 39 (1) (1982), 1-36.
J L Greenberg, Alexis Fontaine's 'fluxio- differential method' and the origins of the calculus of several variables, Ann. of Sci. 38 (3) (1981), 251-290.

1704 births
1771 deaths
18th-century French mathematicians
Members of the French Academy of Sciences


Naihan Li (born 5 January 1981) is a Chinese designer architect. She currently lives and works in Beijing in the Caochangdi Art District.

Biography
After graduating from Bartlett School of Architecture (UCL), Li returned to Beijing where she first collaborated with Ai Weiwei as coordinator for the Jinhua Architectural Park development. She later worked as independent architect and designer for architectural and graphic design projects of different scales. Her finished constructions include Keruo Space, a space for practices in Caochangdi, and the Royal Kitchen restaurant and shop inside the Forbidden City.

After the establishment of BAO Atelier Hong Kong Ltd.), as a director of the company, she led graphic and catalogue design projects such as  "Aftershock- Contemporary British Art"  for the British Council; "ALLLOOKSAME-China, Japan and Korea art", and "China Business Guide" for Santander Bank. Additionally, she worked on the exhibition design of Seduction-Borderline Moving Image and NIKE Golden 08 Beijing Olympic Creative research project.

Other positions include project coordinator and designer of the UBS Art Collection Show in Shanghai Art Museum, "Memories for Tomorrow"; Beijing National Art Museum of China's "Moving Horizons", and the Guangdong Art Museum show, "Fact and Fiction."; participation in the Goethe Institution's 20th Anniversary project in Beijing, "Goethe Night" as an artist, where her installation "Brandenburg Gate" was collected by the institution; and featured designer and exhibition designer at China Design Market exhibition during Milan Design Week in 2010 and 2011.

In 2009, Naihan was a featured artist and exhibition designer for the E-Art Festival, New Media Archaeology Exhibition in Shanghai and exhibition Emporium in Milan, Italy.

In 2010, she started her own furniture design studio that includes the furniture series, The Crates, which has been nominated for Design of the Year Award 2012 by the Design Museum in London.

In 2011, she participated as exhibition designer to the Gwangju Design Biennale Un-Named section, curated by Ai Weiwei, and developed a new series of furniture called FOLD for the exhibition display. Also in 2011, she participated in Beijing Design Week as a featured designer where she showcased her collection of mobile pop-up furniture CRATES,
 and was nominated for the W Hotel Designer of the Future Award, Design Miami 2012.

She initiated RAWR Design Laboratory and organized Beijing Design Week Design Hub Caochangdi Community, working with Chinese contemporary artists Ai Wei Wei in 2012 and Liu Wei in 2013 to create the CCD Pavilion installation. In 2013, she organized A Taste of Guizhou exhibition featuring contemporary design in crossover with Chinese traditional craftsmanship from the Miao ethnic group. In the same year, she participated as a featured designer in the Digital Crystal Exhibition by Swarovski in Beijing with her work, Crystal Puzzle.

In 2014, Li's CCTV wardrobe from the I Am a Monument Series was featured in the Curio Section of the 10th Design Miami. During this time, she was the Featured Designer of Design Shanghai 2014. She also worked with department store chain Lane Crawford on their 2014 A/W Collection launch project in Hong Kong, Shanghai, and Beijing with her metal crate Hydroponic Garden Wardrobe collection. She started her collaboration with Sino Crane Huahe Group on a brand new collection of domestic furniture.

In 2015, she designed YUZ Museum Shanghai's Museum Cafe, participated as one of the featured designers in Lane Crawford 165 Celebration project in conjunction with Swarovski. She is currently launching her own lifestyle product line, Bored to Death, a digital publication: Unfollow, and an unconventional event brand called The Party in Shanghai.

In 2016, her CCTV Wardrobe and Birmingham Library Drawer from I am a Monument series were featured in the exhibition Alarmark! at the XXI Triennale di Milano, and her original crates series were featured in the Expended Housing exhibition of the triennale. CCTV Wardrobe has been officially acquired by the  M+ Museum, Hong Kong and was featured at their design department's inaugurating exhibition.

In 2017, Li participated in Superbenches, a development project aimed at revitalizing Stockholm's Jarfalla suburb. Li also contributed a virtual reality installation to the Himalayan Museum in Shanghai, as a response to Leonardo da Vinci's series of deluge sketches.

In 2018, she showcased a new body of work with Amy Li Gallery in Beijing, including the "Leaning Mountain Sofa", part of the third installment of the I Am a Monument series, which is inspired by Chinese mythology and the Dunhuang Cave Paintings. She also contributed production design for Jiang Wen's film, Hidden Man.

External links
 Official Website

References

Chinese women architects
Chinese women artists
Chinese furniture designers
Living people
1981 births
Artists from Harbin
Alumni of The Bartlett


Pray IV Reign is the fourth studio album by American hip hop rapper Jim Jones, released on March 24, 2009, under E1, Columbia and Sony Music Entertainment. The album, his first not to be released under Diplomat Records, also serves as his first under a major record label. The album includes production from Ron Browz, Chink Santana, No I.D., Ryan Leslie, Michael Crawford, Triple-A and Young Seph. Jones' fourth album also features guest appearances from Ron Browz, Juelz Santana, NOE, Mel Matrix, Rell, Ludacris, Ryan Leslie, Chink Santana, Bree-Beauty, Starr, Rowana and Oshy.

Background
The album, originally titled Back 2 Back, was his first album with Columbia Records. The album cover was photographed by Thi Chien. There are several different album covers. The first version is the original cover, the second, third and fourth are all the original cover, but with different colored backgrounds, such as red, green and blue. The fifth cover is the Deluxe Edition with a close up of Jim Jones' face.

Music
In a 2008 listening session, a few tracks were revealed. The "Intro" was originally titled "Across 110th Street" and "How to Be a Boss" was originally titled "Follow this Blueprint". On the sixth track, titled "Frienemies", Jones' addresses his strained relationships with Cam'ron and Max B. "My My My" is a song he recorded  his deceased friend Stack Bundles. Jim Jones says he likes to call this track "Emotionless Pt. 2", referring to a previous single of his taken from his third album Hustler's P.O.M.E. (2006). According to Jim Jones, "My My My" is one of the hardest songs for him perform because of his emotions. The passing of friend and fellow American rapper Stack Bundles, was one of the main inspirations for the album Pray IV Reign.

A track that was rumored to be on the album was the remix to MGMT's "Electric Feel":

Release and promotion
On July 8, 2008, Jones' released a song titled "The Good Shit", featuring production from Ron Browz and a guest appearance from fellow ByrdGang member NOE. It was intended to be the album's first single when it was titled Back 2 Back, but was instead used for promotional purposes.

"Pop Champagne", a song Jones recorded with Ron Browz and Dipset cohort Juelz Santana, was leaked online in the summer of 2008. It quickly became a club banger and hit single, peaking at #22 on the Billboard Hot 100. The song was released as the album's lead single on September 4, 2008. The song proved to be Jones' second most successful single to date, behind his 2006 hit "We Fly High".

In October 2008, Jim Jones released a promotional video for the album, rapping his verse on his remix to Kid Cudi's "Day 'n' Nite". Jim Jones initially wanted to release the album on December 9, which was coincidentally the same date Jay-Z was going to release The Blueprint 3 and 50 Cent was going to release Before I Self Destruct.

To promote the album, Jones worked with Damon Dash and director J. Kyle Manzay to stage the play Hip-Hop Monologues: Inside the Life and Mind of Jim Jones. The “Hip-Hop Monologues” is a musical theatrical experience, co-written by Jim Jones, using the music from Pray IV Reign, as the platform. An ensemble of professional actors portray various characters from Jones’ past, while Jones performed his new songs in the context of a scripted story. The two-day only play pulled in a packed audience of fans, media, and celebrities. Infused with a live band the performance "Gives you that live instrumentation feel — more like a real Broadway type of feel as opposed to just seeing a hip-hop track. So, you’ll get to hear both the real music from off of the album and then the band comes in and it takes over and it gives you that really funky feeling" said Jones of the play.

On January 1, 2009 a song titled "Na Na Nana Na Na" was premiered and on February 17, was released to iTunes. It serves as the album's second single and features up-and-coming singer Brittney Taylor AKA Bree-Beauty. Jim Jones also teamed up with BET, to promote the album as well. On March 2, 2009, Jim Jones appeared on BET's 106 & Park to premiere the music video for "Na Na Nana Na Na". Later on in the show he announced that from March 2 to March 24, he would be announcing a new item out of his "Swag Bag". The goal for the fans was to keep track of all the items announced each day and once you've collected all the items, you had to log on to BET.com/JimJones on Friday, March 20 to enter the contest for a chance to win Jim Jones’ "Swag Bag". Who ever entered all 24 items correctly won the "Swag Bag" and its items.

Jones partnered with iTunes, which had a "Countdown to Jim Jones Pray IV Reign". On February 17, they released the second single "Na Na Nana Na Na". On March 3, they released "Precious" featuring vocals and production from Ryan Leslie, on March 17, the song titled "Frenemies" was released, and on March 24, the entire album was released. The lead single from Pray IV Reign, "Pop Champagne", which spent two weeks as America's #1 urban single, was also incorporated into the countdown and was already available for sale.

Reception

Critical response

XXL gave the album a 4/5, stating that the album is an extreme improvement with many heartfelt tracks, but many disappointments. XXL complimented the lead single, "Pop Champagne", "My My My", and the promo singles "Precious" and "Frenemies", but disliked the second single "Na Na Nana Na Na", "Pop Off" and "This Is the Life".

Alex Thornton of HopHopDX liked the songs "How to Be a Boss" with Ludacris saying it stole the show, "Precious" with Ryan Leslie and "My My My". He also liked the lead single "Pop Champagne" but like most critics he hated the second single "Na Na Nana Na Na"

Commercial Performance
The album debuted at #9 on the Billboard 200 with 42,982 copies sold in its first week released.

Track listing

Notes
 "Intro" contains interpolations from the composition "Sunday and Sister Jones" written by Gene McDaniels and performed by Roberta Flack on Quiet Fire.
 "Frienemies" contains interpolations from the composition "Ballad for the Fallen Soldier" performed by The Isley Brothers.
 The instrumental for "This Is the Life" was originally used by Yung Berg & Ray J on a song titled "Exotic".
 "Jackin' Swagga from Us" contains samples elements from "Paper Planes", as performed by M.I.A., and is an alternative version of "Swagga Like Us", a collaborative song of T.I. and Jay-Z, featuring Lil Wayne & Kanye West, from T.I.'s album Paper Trail.

Chart positions

Pray IV Reign: The Mixtape

Jim Jones released a mixtape, titled Pray IV Reign: The Mixtape, on March 3, 2009 to promote the album. Most of the songs on the mixtape are tracks that failed to make the album's final track listing.

Track listing

Charts

References

2009 albums
Jim Jones (rapper) albums
E1 Music albums
Columbia Records albums
Albums produced by Chink Santana
Albums produced by Ron Browz
Albums produced by Ryan Leslie
Albums produced by No I.D.


Robert Hunt is a U.S. stage actor who appeared in the 2008 production of Jerry Springer the Opera at Carnegie Hall and in the first Broadway revival of Les Misérables as Courfeyrac/Champmathieu/Factory Foreman and later Javert. Off-Broadway, Hunt led the original cast of the hit Boobs! The Musical. Hunt played opposite Kelli O’Hara, in the 2007 Oklahoma state centennial production of Oklahoma!.

He was also in the original Broadway production of Les Misérables as Combeferre/Factory Foreman and other ensemble roles, he also understudied Javert.

Hunt's regional credits include Jekyll and Hyde in Jekyll & Hyde, Whizzer in Falsettos, Joe Hardy in Damn Yankees, Perchik in Fiddler on the Roof, Freddy Eynsford-Hill in My Fair Lady and Smudge in Forever Plaid.

References

External links

Living people
American male musical theatre actors
Year of birth missing (living people)


Joshua Alan Hall (born December 16, 1980, in Lynchburg, Virginia) is an American former Major League Baseball starting pitcher. He has played in Major League Baseball for the Cincinnati Reds in 2003.

Hall was drafted by the Cincinnati Reds in the 7th round of the 1998 Major League Baseball draft. His best minor league season was in  with the Single-A Dayton Dragons. He went 11–5 with a 2.66 ERA and 122 strikeouts. He made his major league debut against the San Francisco Giants on August 2, 2003, as a spot starter going 5 innings, giving up 2 earned runs, and getting a no-decision. Hall missed the entire  season due to an injury and began  back in the minors. First at High-A Sarasota, he was then promoted to Double-A Chattanooga where he had a 3.53 ERA. He played mostly with Chattanooga again in , but also some with Triple-A Louisville.

Hall became a free agent after the  season and signed with the Washington Nationals on November 6, 2006. In 2007, Hall was mostly a relief pitcher for Double-A Harrisburg, but in , again with Harrisburg, he was a starter. After 7 games, he was released by the Nationals and signed a minor league contract with the Colorado Rockies. With Colorado, he split the rest of the season with Double-A Tulsa and Triple-A Colorado Springs. He became a free agent at the end of the season and re-signed with the Rockies in January . Hall was released by the Colorado Rockies at the end of Spring training. On May 11,  Hall agreed to a minor league deal with the Mariners. He declared free agency in November of that year.

References

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1980 births
Living people
Cincinnati Reds players
Baseball players from Virginia
Major League Baseball pitchers
Dayton Dragons players
Stockton Ports players
Chattanooga Lookouts players
Louisville Bats players
Harrisburg Senators players
Columbus Clippers players
Tulsa Drillers players
Colorado Springs Sky Sox players
Arizona League Mariners players
Tacoma Rainiers players
Lancaster Barnstormers players
Sportspeople from Lynchburg, Virginia


Railway equipment includes electric multiple units (EMUs), locomotives and railway freight cars, in terms of the Chinese railway planning, that large railway freight car and bullet train is the direction of development of China's railway equipment manufacturing industry. The gap of locomotive manufacturing industry between China and developed countries is relatively large, especially in high-power electric locomotive and EMUs. After technology acquisition, China has acquired high-power electric locomotives, diesel locomotives and 200 km/h EMUs. Presently, the localization rate of parts and components of electric locomotive and EMUs reaches 70 per cent and 75 per cent respectively, and China has developed 300 km/h EMUs based on digesting and absorbing overseas' new technologies.

International manufacturers

In terms of the international railway equipment market that global railway equipment industry is on a more monopoly competitive circumstance. The merger of locomotives and railway car plants has restructured global railway equipment market that global railway equipment giant dominated more market share. Presently, there are three global giant of global locomotive and railway car plants—Germany's Siemens, France's Alstom and Canada's Bombardier, they hold 55 per cent of total global market share (each 14%, 18% and 23%) and advanced technology and higher market concentration. Bombardier holds the largest market share of global railway equipment technology and sales market and Alstom remains advantage on EMUs and ordinary single-decker and double-decker electric locomotive market.

Chinese manufacturers
Although the number of China's railway equipment manufacturers is quite large and products is relatively various, but the weakness is that they produce the speed of below 200 km/h general train's low-end products and the production capacity is surplus and price competition is in chaos; and the lack of design and production capacity of advanced technology of railway equipment which can not meet the demands of high-end products. In order to adapt to the demand of current railway development, the Chinese government took a measure to pay huge amounts of money through international cooperation with international leading manufacturers to introduce high-end products, digesting and absorbing advanced manufacturing technology to upgrading Chinese railway equipment's technology level.

High-speed rail
The high-speed railway equipment manufacturing industry is the priority fields that supporting by governmental policy. In terms of the current circumstance of China's railway equipment manufacturing industry, is in a low level of technology, therefore, government policies are encouraging localization and the introduction of advanced technology then digestion and absorption, the Chinese government spent 10 billion yuan to buy advanced international technology for state-owned enterprises to upgrade their technology capability and offered huge amounts of orders.

Investment
The total railway fixed assets investment of China's Eleventh Five-Year Plan period was 1.5 trillion yuan, of which the purchase of rolling stock and the investment of technological transformation is 250 billion yuan. It is estimated that by 2010, the amount of China's locomotives will reach around 19,000 units, EMUs will reach around 1000, railway carriages about 45,000 units and railway freight car will reach 700,000 units.

Development
The great development of the Chinese railway equipment manufacturing industry has benefited by the growth of railway investment, which has promoted railway equipment enterprises' competitive advantage, such as those manufacturers who have the technology of high-end products will be the main beneficiaries, in addition, due to the higher standard of high-speed railway technology, therefore, however expecting that the Chinese railway equipment parts suppliers still need a certain period of time to enter the high-speed railway equipment market.

See also
Rail transport in China

References

https://archive.today/20130124215923/http://www.gxbaogao.com/html/yanjiubaogao/jiaotongbaogao/otherbaogao/200906/24-19055.html
https://web.archive.org/web/20110707015915/http://www.icinet.com.cn/ReadNews.asp?NewsID=29453
http://www.zikoo.com/reports/4ecxan558.html

External links
China Railway Procurement Network
China Railway Materials

Industry in China


F.A.M.E. (Future American Magical Entertainers) was a pioneering organization in the magic field for adolescents and teenagers that existed in New York City, United States from the early 1940s until the early 1980s. Initially it had been called the Peter Pan Magic Club until the name change of F.A.M.E. in the early 1950s. After overseer Abraham "Abe" Hurwitz died in 1981, the remnants of the club became the Society of Young Magicians, which was started by F.A.M.E alum Dick Brooks.

Many early F.A.M.E. members would go on to become famous American magicians, magic consultants, puppeteers, and motion picture and television personalities. Most notably, Shari Lewis (daughter of overseer "Abe" Hurwitz) would gain major recognition in the Emmy and Peabody award-winning children's TV series Lamb Chop on PBS; Stan Burns would principally star with Madonna in Desperately Seeking Susan (1985) and in Woody Allen's Radio Days (1987), both as a New York ventriloquist; George Schindler would write for many Billboard magic/comedy columns (1950s-1960s), publish at least 8 magic books, do TV commercial voice acting, star as a magician in Woody Allen's New York Stories (1989)  and hold title as spokesman, president and dean of the Society of American Magicians; and Dick Brooks would open the Magic Towne House (now closed) in Manhattan and the Houdini Museum, the Only Building in the World Dedicated to Houdini, in Scranton, Pennsylvania with collaborator Dorothy Dietrich.

Founder

Dr. Abraham Hurwitz, known as "Peter Pan the Magic Man", originally headed the club. Hurwitz was a Yeshiva University education professor who was so reputed in the American magic scene that he was named New York City's "official magician" by then-Mayor Fiorello La Guardia.

Hurwitz was a city recreation director when Mayor La Guardia gave him the official magician title during the Depression. For 18 years, he took his magic show to schools and recreation centers and put on annual magic shows in parks in every NYC borough. For years after he left the department he continued his magic shows as a volunteer. Among his protégés was his daughter, television star Shari Lewis, the world-famous ventriloquist and developer of Lamb Chop.

Hurwitz was born in Lithuania in 1905. He graduated from City College of New York, obtained his master's degree from Columbia University and his Ph.D. in educational guidance from New York University. He began mixing magic with teaching as a guidance counselor at the Brooklyn Hebrew Orphanage. He retired from Yeshiva in 1974 and died on September 29, 1981.

Early members

A few earlier members of the Peter Pan Magic Club before it changed its name to F.A.M.E. included George Schindler, Stan Burns, George Gilbert (Lott), Albert Goshman, Ken Krenzel, Jack London (Harry Rifas), Danny O'Brien (Blackwood), George Sands, Vic Sendax, Len Cooper, Sonny Sklar, Jerry Bergman, Howie Schwarzman and Shari Lewis.

Name change to F.A.M.E.

In the 1950s, the then members decided the name of the club was childish and changed it to FAME Future American Magical Entertainers and included Dick Brooks, Ken Silverman (who became a Pulitzer Prize winning author and wrote a biography of Houdini), John Hope, Robert A. Olson, (Hope and Olson later wrote a column on coin magic in Hugard's Magic Monthly), Richard Bangs, Al Callus, David Levy, Burt Kaplan, Jeff Spiller, Dan Ritchard, Mike Eberton, Melvin Kelger, Sheldon Weiner, Mike Goldstein, Leonard Heller, Kichi Iamoto, Hank Lifson, Jerry Goldstein and many others. (see official 1952 roster) At that time it was run by Antoinette Deutch, Bob White, and Lou Dick. The acronym FAME came about when the members decided the Peter Pan name was a bit childish, especially after a comment from comedy magician Carl Ballantine, "I love your peanut butter". The FAME acronym was suggested by Dick Brooks (entertainer). Among later magicians who joined included Jeff Spiller, Diane Zalph, Jeff Silverstein, Debbie Leifer, Jeff Sheridan, Robin Lane, and others.

Society of American Magicians

In the early 1960s the S.A.M. sponsored a club for young magicians known as the I.M.P.S. (Independent Magical Performers Society).  This club had its original branch in New York City under the direction of veteran magician (and inventor of magical apparatus)  Arnold Belais, who was in his late 70's; at most meetings, Belais was assisted by Marshall Johnson, a  magic enthusiast who was employed as a television producer/director at the CBS studios on 57th St.

During its peak, the I.M.P.S. met once a month in Manhattan at the West Side YMCA on West 63rd St; here, in addition to giving the young members a chance to perform and polish their technique,  adult performers/lecturers would often take part in the proceedings by offering guidance, advice, and  impromptu performances for the young magicians and ventriloquists that comprised the club.  Several times in the mid and late 1960s, the group was even visited by talent scout Mark Letti (who was well known in NY entertainment circles as a 'talent spotter' for  Ed Sullivan's popular Sunday night television variety show).

In addition to their I.M.P.S. sponsorship, the S.A.M. awarded "scholarships" to qualifying IMPS when they became old enough to apply for SAM membership. A North Jersey branch was established in the late 1960s that met in Tenafly as well as another New Jersey branch which met several times a year in Perth Amboy (until the late 1960s).  The New York I.M.P.S. club remained active  into the 1970s (although meeting less frequently) and for a brief time survived the passing of its founding leader, Arnold Belais. Currently, young people can join a new organization, SYM Society of Young Magicians, which is a branch of the Society of American Magicians.  SYM was conceived in 1981 and founded in 1984 by 6 members of the S.A.M.  Dan Rodriguez, Edward Schuman, Ray-Mond, Wendel Gibson, Dick Laneau and Donald Lea.

Sources

 Thanks to magician and Dean and former SAM President George Schindler for his help in accumulating and checking the accuracy of much of the information on this page.
 The Who's Who in Magic
 Obituary: Abraham Hurwitz Dead at 76

References

Defunct organizations based in New York City
Organizations established in the 1940s
Magic clubs
Organizations disestablished in the 1980s


Charles Gabriel Morel d'Escures (3 January 1751, Alençon – 13 July 1786, Baie des Français, Lituya, Alaska) was a French navigator and explorer and a member of the La Pérouse expedition (1 August 1785 to 13 July 1786) and of the Académie de Marine.

Life
Training at the Ecole royale de Marine (1773–1775), he fought in several campaigns from 1776 to 1783 and held his last command on the  la Dorade (decommissioned in 1783).

Lieutenant de vaisseau from 14 April 1781, he received the ordre de Saint-Louis on 1 June 1783. On 13 May 1785, the comte d'Hector chose Morel d'Escures, to oversee the works on and arming of the Portefaix (later the Boussole), and would embark on that ship as ensign. He died trying to negotiate the passage of the bay of Lituya.

Notes
Genealogy on geneanet samlap

1751 births
1786 deaths
French Navy officers
French explorers
People from Alençon
People who died at sea


Honno is a Welsh women's press, based in Aberystwyth, which is run as an independent co-operative. The press concentrates solely on publishing writing by the women of Wales, with the twin aims of increasing publication opportunities for Welsh women and expanding the audience for Welsh women's writing. In 2006, Dai Smith, chair of the Arts Council of Wales, praised Honno's "terrific work in bringing women’s literature back into print". Luned Meredith, one of the founders, claimed in the press's 21st anniversary year of 2008 that Honno had made "a significant contribution to the changing social conscience which has given prominence to the woman's voice".

The press was started in 1986 by a group of volunteers, and had 400 shareholders within six months of its establishment. Honno has received financial support from the Welsh Books Council and the European Union. The name Honno is the Welsh feminine form of "that".

Publications
The majority of titles are novels, autobiographies and short story anthologies in English; Honno also publishes some poetry, books for children and teenagers, and books in Welsh. The press's 450 authors include Lindsay Ashford, Anne Beale, Brenda Chamberlain, Gillian Clarke, Carol Ann Courtney, Amy Dillwyn, Dorothy Edwards, Menna Gallie, Mererid Hopwood, Siân James, Anne Lewis, Eiluned Lewis, Gwyneth Lewis, Catherine Merriman, Lynette Roberts, Kitty Sewell and Hilda Vaughan. The Honno's Classics series republishes books which have been out of print for many years.

Awards
Awards won by Honno titles include the 1989 Wales Book of the Year for Morphine and Dolly Mixtures by Carol Ann Courtney, which was later made into a film for television. Luminous and Forlorn (1994), Honno's first short story anthology, won the Raymond Williams Prize of the Arts Council England. Who's Afraid of the Bwgan-wood? by Anne Lewis won the Welsh Books Council's Tir na n-Og Award for Best Children's Title in English in 1996. Not Singing Exactly by Siân James won the 1997 Wales Book of the Year. Honno books have also reached the shortlists of several recent awards, including the Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award 2006 for Lindsay Ashford's Strange Blood; and the Wales Book of the Year 2006 and Crime Writers' Association New Blood Dagger 2006 for Kitty Sewell's Ice Trap.

References

External links

Aberystwyth
Publishing companies of Wales
Publishing companies established in 1986
1986 establishments in Wales
Companies based in Ceredigion


The M114 bomb was a four-pound U.S. anti-personnel bomb and biological cluster bomb sub-munition. The M114 was used in the M33 cluster bomb.

History
The M114 was a sub-munition for the M33 cluster bomb, as such, it was the first standardized U.S. biological weapon in 1952. The M114 was an improved version of a British World War II-era bomblet that was designed to disperse anthrax.

Specifications
The M114 was similar to a pipe bomb: it had a  tube with a diameter of . 108 M114s were clustered into the M33 cluster bomb; each had its own detonator and was ejected from the M33 while the bomb was still aloft. Each M114 held 320 milliliters of Brucella suis.

References

Biological weapon delivery systems
Submunitions
Military equipment introduced in the 1950s


The word Honno can refer to several things, including:

Honno (publisher), Welsh women's press, established in 1986
Honnō  (Ringo Sheena song), a 1999 single by the Japanese singer Ringo Sheena
Lost Sex (Honno), a 1966 Japanese film

See also
 Honnō (disambiguation)


Lorie Tarshis (22 March 1911 – 4 October 1993) was a Canadian economist who taught mostly at Stanford University.  He is credited with writing the first introductory textbook that brought Keynesian thinking into American university classrooms, the 1947 Elements of Economics. The work swiftly lost popularity after it was charged with excessive sympathy to communism by McCarthyist activists. Instead, the 1948 Economics by Paul Samuelson brought the Keynesian revolution to the United States.

Early life and education
Tarshis was born in Toronto and received a bachelor's degree from the University of Toronto and master's and doctoral degrees in economics from Trinity College, Cambridge.

Career

Private sector
He came to the United States in 1936 as an instructor at Tufts University near Boston. He worked for the War Production Board in World War II and then became an operations analyst for the United States Army Air Forces at bomber commands in Libya, Tunisia and Italy.

Teaching
He began teaching at Stanford in 1946, rising from assistant to associate to full professor.

Tarshis headed the department of economics at Stanford intermittently from 1950 to 1970. He then joined the faculty of Scarborough College, part of the University of Toronto system, and remained there until 1978 as a professor of economics. Until 1988 he was a professor and acting chairman of the department of economics at Glendon College, York University in Ontario.

McCarthyite attack

In The Vital Center (1949), author Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. describes the attack on Tarshis:

Death
He died in a Toronto nursing home of Parkinson's disease at the age of 82.

Selected bibliography
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References

1911 births
1993 deaths
University of Toronto alumni
Stanford University Department of Economics faculty
Academic staff of the University of Toronto
Academics from Toronto
Keynesians
20th-century Canadian economists
Academic staff of Glendon College
20th-century American economists


Juan José Asenjo Pelegrina (born 15 October 1945) is a Spanish prelate of the Catholic Church who was the Archbishop of Seville from 5 November 2009 until his retirement on 17 April 2021.

Biography
Juan José Asenjo Pelegrina was born in Sigüenza on 15 October 1945. He entered the seminary and studied theology and philosophy. He was ordained a priest on 21 September 1969. In 1971 he received a licentiate in theology at the Theological Faculty of Burgos. From 1977 to 1979 he attended courses for a doctorate in Church history at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome. He also holds a Diploma in Archives and Library Science at the Vatican Library and archiving the Vatican Secret Archives.

He served as professor of ecclesiology and history of the Church at the seminary of Sigüenza from 1971 to 1974. He also held the positions of vice-rector of the seminary (1974–1977), director of the university residence "Ntra. Sra. De la Estrella" on Sigüenza (1979–1988), director of the diocesan archive (1979–1981), diocesan director for education (1980–1982), canon in charge of the artistic heritage (1985–1997), diocesan director for cultural heritage 1985-1993), vice rector of the sanctuary of "Nuestra Señora de la Salud" of Barbatona (1994–1997). From 1993 to 1997 he was undersecretary of the Episcopal Conference. In 1986 he founded and directed the magazine Abside and is the author of several publications.

On 27 February 1997, Pope John Paul II appointed him Titular Bishop of Iziriana and Auxiliary Bishop of Toledo. He received episcopal consecration on 20 April that year. From 1998 to 2003, he was Secretary General of the Spanish Episcopal Conference.

Pope John Paul appointed him Bishop of Córdoba on 28 July 2003.

Pope Benedict XVI named him Coadjutor Archbishop of Seville on 13 November 2008, and he became Archbishop of Seville on 5 November 2009, when Pope Benedict accepted the resignation of his predecessor, Cardinal Carlos Amigo Vallejo.

Pope Francis accepted his resignation on 17 April 2021.

References

External links

Living people
1945 births
People from the Province of Guadalajara
21st-century Roman Catholic archbishops in Spain
Roman Catholic archbishops of Seville
Pontifical Gregorian University alumni
Spanish expatriates in Italy


"Tonight" is a single by British R&B artist Jay Sean. The single was released on 18 January 2009 (iTunes) and 26 January 2009 (CD single), but the music video for the single was released much earlier, on 17 November 2008. The single is the fourth and final single from his second album My Own Way.

History
On 15 October 2008, Jay Sean announced that he had signed with American Hip-Hop label Cash Money Records, on the back scene at MOBO Awards. Jay explained "It’s always been a dream for me to sign to an American label. And it’s great to be accepted by the best in the game".

The single includes a remix featuring rapper Lil Wayne, as Cash Money Records is releasing a remix in order to introduce Jay Sean to the American market. However the remix was canceled, and Sean recorded a new single for the American market called "Down" featuring Lil' Wayne.

My Own Way: Deluxe Edition was released on 16 February 2009 in the U.K. was set for release in the U.S., however the idea has been shelved and Jay Sean is working on a new album for the American market. The lead single is "Tonight" which was released on 26 January 2009. The album also has 2 additional songs, "Never Been in Love" and "I'm Gone", and 4 additional remixes.

On 21 April 2009, Harj D released a remix for "Tonight", called "Tonight (XS-Bass Remix)". The remix is the first exclusive remix after XS-BASS latest album Amplified which came out in 2008.

Formats and track listings

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

External links
Jay Sean - 'Tonight' - *EXCLUSIVE* (Official Musicvideo)

References

2009 singles
Jay Sean songs
Songs written by Jay Sean
Songs written by Claude Kelly
2008 songs
2Point9 Records singles


Dungan may refer to:

 Dungan people, a group of Muslim people of Hui origin
 Dungan language
 Dungan, sometimes used to refer to Hui Chinese people generally
 Dungan Mountains in Sibi District, Pakistan
 Donegan, an Irish surname, sometimes spelled Dungan

See also

 Dongan (disambiguation)
 Dungan revolt (disambiguation)
 Battle of Dungan's Hill, Ireland, 1647


Robert Hough is a Canadian author. Hough graduated from Queen's University at Kingston in 1985. Following a career as a free-lance magazine journalist, Hough published his first novel titled The Final Confession of Mabel Stark, in 2001.

Published works

 The Final Confession of Mabel Stark (2001). Toronto: Random House of Canada. . A novel about female-tiger trainer Mabel Stark, it was published in fifteen countries in a dozen languages. It was nominated for the Commonwealth Writer's Prize and The Trillium Award.
 The Stowaway (2004). Toronto: Random House of Canada. . Published internationally, it was listed on The Boston Globe'''s Top Ten Books of the Year and was nominated for the International Dublin Literary Award.
  The Culprits (2007). Toronto: Random House of Canada. . A satire about global warfare, the novel was nominated for the Commonwealth Writer's Prize, Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize and The Trillium Award.
  Dr. Brinkley's Tower (2012) Toronto: House of Anansi. . The story of a charlatan's construction of a million-watt radio tower in a small Mexican community, the novel functions as a satire on imperialism and American intervention. It was nominated for the Governor General's Award, and long-listed for the Giller Prize.
 The Man Who Saved Henry Morgan'' (2015) Toronto: House of Anansi.  An illiterate board game hustler forms an unlikely friendship with the famous privateer, Henry Morgan. It was nominated for the Trillium Award.

References

External links
 Robert Hough's official website
 Random House Canada publishers

Living people
Canadian male novelists
21st-century Canadian novelists
21st-century Canadian male writers
Year of birth missing (living people)


This is a list of governors and administrators of Edo State, Nigeria, which was formed on 27 August 1991 when the former Bendel State was divided into Edo State and Delta State.

See also
List of governors of Abia State
States of Nigeria
List of state governors of Nigeria

References

Edo
Main


Chechen State University (Russian: Чеченский государственный университет) is a university located in Grozny, Chechnya, Russia. The school is home to the North Caucasian Centre of Pedagogics. The university traces its roots back to 1938.

History

Soviet period
Chechen State University, formerly Grozney University, saw a surge of development between 1970 and 1980.

After the Chechen War
Military activity in the Chechen Republic during the Second Chechen War interrupted the development of Grozny University and destroyed several buildings. The university began restoration soon after the end of military operations and classes resumed in April 2000.

Over 800 instructors currently work at the school's campus. Chechen State University is a scientific and educational centre for the Chechen Republic.

Notable alumni
 Magomed Bibulatov (Law Faculty) -  professional MMA contender for the UFC

References

External links
  Chechen State University official website

Education in Chechnya
Universities in Russia
Public universities and colleges in Russia
Universities and colleges established in 1938
Buildings and structures in Grozny
1938 establishments in the Soviet Union


Pierre Sabbagh (18 July 1918 – 30 September 1994) was a major personality in French television, as a journalist, producer and director.

Pierre Alain Sabbagh was born in Lannion (Côtes-d'Armor) and died in Paris.  He was the younger son of the artist Georges Hanna Sabbagh and the art historian and resistance heroine Agnès Humbert. His brother was naval officer Jean Sabbagh.

Television

Pierre Sabbagh became a war correspondent in the hope of finding his mother Agnès in World War II.  He had visited her in Fresnes Prison and the Prison de la Santé in 1942, a few days before she was deported by the Nazis, sentenced to slave labour in Germany.  In 1944, he travelled into Germany behind the advancing American army, but did not find her until he returned to Paris in 1945.

Pierre Sabbagh presented and directed the first television news in the world on 29 June 1949.

His greatest success was the creation, in 1966, of the programme "Au théâtre ce soir" ("The Theatre Tonight") following a strike on French television and the success of a Belgian television comedy called "La Bonne planque", which provoked the appetite of the public for this kind of programme: over 300 plays were produced in the series.  To his credit also is the first audiovisual game which reunited France of the 1960s in front of the black-and-white screen:  "L'Homme du XXe siècle" ("20th Century Man"), a game of general cultural questions which went on for many years and which finished with the final "Super homme du XXe siècle" ("20th Century Superman") which brought together all the previous winners of whom the comedian, Robert Manuel, beat a professor of complementary medicine, Georges Rivault.

He was Director-General of the television network Antenne 2 between September 1971 and July 1972.

His wife was the French television presenter and actress Catherine Langeais.

Publications

Pierre Sabbagh, Antoine Graziani, Fanina, paperback, Pan Macmillan, 1965
Pierre Sabbagh, Antoine Graziani (tr. Ellen Hart and Cornelia Brookfield), Fanina, 1966
Pierre Sabbagh, Antoine Graziani (tr. Marguerite Barnett), Fanina, Child of Rome, hardback, London, Pan Macmillan 1969,  (also New York, Bantam, 1968)
Pierre Sabbagh, Le guide de la Pipe et du Tabac, Paris, Stock, 1973
Pierre Sabbagh, Le guide Marabout de la pipe et du tabac, Paris, Editions Marabout, 1973
Jean Sabbagh and Pierre Sabbagh, Georges Sabbagh, Paris, J. Sabbagh, 1981
Pierre Sabbagh, Encore vous, Sabbagh!, Paris, Stock, 1984

Filmography

Le second souffle, 1959, film, actor (directed by Yannick Bellon)
Monsieur Vernet, 1988, television film, director
La pomme, 1991, television film, director
Le Noir te va bien, 1991, television film, director
L'amour fou, 1991, television film, director

References

Humbert, Agnès (tr. Barbara Mellor), Résistance: Memoirs of Occupied France, London, Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 2008  (American title: Resistance: A Frenchwoman's Journal of the War, Bloomsbury, USA, 2008)
Sabbagh, Pierre, Encore vous, Sabbagh!, Paris, Stock, 1984

External links
 Site de l'INA

1918 births
1994 deaths
People from Lannion
French male journalists
French television journalists
French television producers
French television directors


The Porongos River is a river in Uruguay.

Location

It is situated in Flores Department.

The city of Trinidad, Uruguay is close by. On Route 14, circa 8 km from Trinidad, the 'Don Ricardo' bathing area  on the banks of the Porongos River has amenities maintained by the local municipality.

Fluvial system
The Porongos River is a tributary of the Yi River. Rising in a range of hills known as the Cuchilla Grande, the river mainly runs from south to north, for a distance of 67 km.

Name
The river has given its name to a local football club, based in Trinidad, Uruguay, given the city's proximity.

See also

 Geography of Uruguay#Topography and hydrography
 Yi River#Fluvial system

References

 :es:Arroyo Porongos
 :es:Centro Recreativo Porongos Fútbol Club

Rivers of Uruguay
Tributaries of the Uruguay River
Rivers of Flores Department


Isle of Man Air Services Ltd (IoMAS) was a small airline, based at Ronaldsway Airport Isle of Man, which operated scheduled flights to the English and Scottish mainland between formation in September 1937 and nationalisation in January 1947.

History
Railway Air Services (RAS) had operated scheduled services to the Isle of Man from 20 August 1934. From 15 April 1935, the operating name used for RAS services to the island was "The Manx Airway". Olley Air Services, founded by Captain Gordon P.Olley, had formed a company named "Isle of Man Air Services Ltd" on 21 January 1935 with a share capital of £1,000. In September 1937, IoMAS was reconstructed and enlarged and the capital increased to £75,000. The three companies involved each contributed £25,000: Olley Air Services Ltd, the London Midland & Scottish Railway and the Isle of Man Steam Packet Company.

Prewar operations

The newly created airline began scheduled operations on 26 September 1937 using an ex-RAS fleet of six De Havilland Dragon Rapides and one De Havilland Dragon. The initial frequency was two return services each weekday over the Manchester-Liverpool-Blackpool-Isle of Man route, plus one daily return service Liverpool-Isle of Man-Belfast. IoMAS flights to Manchester initially served Manchester (Barton) Aerodrome.

Following the completion of the larger and better laid-out Manchester (Ringway) Airport, IoMAS services switched to the new airport from 26 July 1938. Scheduled services by Isle of Man Air Services ceased temporarily at the outbreak of war.

Operations in World War Two
IoMAS were permitted to resume a limited schedule of flights from 20 November 1939 serving the Isle of Man-Liverpool and Isle of Man-Belfast routes.  However, the Belfast flights were soon suspended as a result of government orders prohibiting civil air traffic between the IoM and Northern Ireland.  The Associated Airways Joint Committee (AAJC) was set up on 5 May 1940 to co-ordinate the air services of the seven UK internal airlines involved, including IoMAS.  Services were suspended during the Dunkirk evacuation in mid/late May, but the civil aircraft were not used to repatriate troops because of the vulnerability of the unarmed aircraft.  The limited services to the IoM were resumed on 3 June.  On these and other UK services, government and military passengers had priority over normal traffic.

Postwar operations
IoMAS services gradually returned to a more normal pattern during 1946, and from 15 April, the airline's fleet of four Dragon Rapides operated seven return flights to Liverpool on weekdays.  During the peak summer period, the airline also operated two return services each weekday from Ronaldsway to each of Blackpool, Carlisle, Glasgow and Manchester. The Belfast route was resumed on 12 November.

The Civil Aviation Act 1946 created a nationally owned British European Airways (BEA) on 1 August 1946.  The AAJC companies, including IoMAS were permitted to continue operating their UK routes until 1 February 1947, when BEA took over the aircraft, staff and routes of the four remaining airlines, including IoMAS, which then ceased to exist.

Fleet
 de Havilland Dragon (1) (1937–1940)
 de Havilland Dragon Rapide (10) (1937–1947)

See also
 List of defunct airlines of the United Kingdom

References
 Notes

Bibliography

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Defunct airlines of the Isle of Man
Transport in the Isle of Man
Airlines established in 1937
Airlines disestablished in 1947
Defunct airlines of the United Kingdom


Belgium was represented by Sandra Kim with the song "J'aime la vie" at the Eurovision Song Contest 1986, held in Bergen, Norway.

For 1986 (like in other even-numbered years), the Walloon broadcaster in Belgium, Radio télévision belge de la communauté française (RTBF), took responsibility for Eurovision song selection. As a result, all of the competing songs for 1986 were sung in French.

Before Eurovision

Eurovision '86
The Belgian national final to select their entry, Eurovision '86, was held on 2 March at the RTBF-TV Studios in Brussels, and was hosted by Patrick Duhamel. The winning song was decided by the following formula: 50% of the final tabulation would come from 12 "music experts" and 50% would come from 500 random Belgians polled to make up a fair segment of the Belgian population. The winning entry was "J'aime la vie", performed by Sandra Kim, composed by Jean-Paul Furnémont and Angelo Crisci, with lyrics written by Rosario Marino Atria.

At Eurovision
Sandra Kim performed thirteenth on the night of the Contest, following Ireland and preceding Germany. At the close of the voting the song had received 176 points, placing 1st in a field of 20 competing countries. It was the first win for Belgium in the Contest, something they have not been able to replicate since.

Belgium scored an absolute record at the time, with Sandra Kim earning a never seen before number of 176 points (that record remained until 1993, with Ireland scoring 187 points), an average of 9.26 points per voting nation. Kim received 77.2% of the maximum possible score, which, as of 2023, still ranks 8th among all Eurovision winners.

Voting

References

External links
Belgian National Final 1986

1986
Countries in the Eurovision Song Contest 1986
Eurovision


Gerald "Jerry" Mercer (born April 27, 1939) is a Canadian drummer, best known for his work with the rock groups Mashmakhan and April Wine.

Personal life
Mercer was born in Newfoundland. Prior to becoming a full-time musician, Mercer worked both as a cattle farmer and as an IBM computer programmer.

Career
Mercer's start in the music industry was as a singer, but quickly moved to drums while still a teenager.  He played several different styles in his early years, including Latin and jazz, Jerry Mercer was the drummer for Trevor Payne and The Soul Brothers in the early 60s in Montreal. With the  departure of Trevor Payne the group became known as The Triangle, who later changed their name to Mashmakhan upon obtaining a record deal in Toronto.  Mercer's work can be heard on the band's most successful single "As the Years Go By".  As part of Mashmakhan, Mercer played on the Festival Express tour and was interviewed for the 2003 documentary.

Following Mashmakhan's dissolution in the early 1970s, Mercer played for Roy Buchanan, and then The Wackers, before joining April Wine, who were in the process of changing their line-up following the departure of two founding members in 1973.  His first public performance with the band was as an opening slot for T. Rex and Three Dog Night at Toronto's Exhibition Stadium.  Shortly thereafter, he completed his first album with the band, Electric Jewels, which contained the hit "Weeping Widow".  Mercer remained with the band consistently since joining, and played on all their subsequent albums and tours.  In November 2008, he stated that he was retiring at the end of the year. He was replaced by Blair Mackay in January 2009. In May 2010, Mercer became the first Canadian to receive a Legends Award at the 10th annual Cape Breton International Drum Festival.

In his live shows, Mercer was known for lengthy drum solos (often during April Wine's cover of King Crimson's "21st Century Schizoid Man") which frequently include a strobe light show.

In addition to performing, Mercer was also involved in manufacturing drums with a company he co-founded with Bill Hibbs called Monolith Drums.  Briefly assuming the brand name "Solstice Drums", now back to Monolith and about to celebrate 20 years of drum making.  Mercer is no longer involved with Monolith Drums.

Health
In 1997, Mercer was diagnosed with prostate cancer, but finished treatment for it the following year.

See also
 April Wine
 Mashmakhan

References

External links
 Official website

April Wine members
Mashmakhan members
The Wackers members
Canadian rock drummers
Canadian male drummers
Living people
People from Newfoundland (island)
1939 births
20th-century Canadian drummers


Claus Sendlinger (born 1963) is the founder and former CEO of Design Hotels AG (Börse München: LBA) and co-founder of Slow. Until 2018, Sendlinger was the CEO & president of Design Hotels, a publicly traded hospitality services company representing a network of more than 170 independently owned hotels in 40 countries and with offices in London, Barcelona, New York City, Singapore, Bali, Tokyo and Perth in addition to its headquarters in Berlin. After leading Design Hotels for 25 years, Sendlinger stepped down and now continues to serve as advisor and mentor to the Executive Board of Design Hotels.

Biography
Born in Augsburg, Germany, in 1963, Sendlinger began his career in event planning and PR for hotels and clubs. In 1987, he founded CO-ORDINATES GmbH, an incentives and events agency. This formed the basis for the foundation of lebensart global networks AG as a marketing and technology provider for the hospitality industry based in Germany.

In 2002, Condé Nast Traveler named Sendlinger in their Top 50 list of world tourism experts, in the category of most creative and innovative international tourism entrepreneurs.

See also

 Design Hotels AG
Slow

References

External links
“Is travel really the enemy?” by Claire Wrathall, Financial Times, 14 September 2007“Claus Sendlinger: Trendspotting” by Ruth Elkins, The Independent UK, 20 August 2005
 “Fast Talk: Claus Sendlinger” by Hillary Geronemus, Travel + Leisure, January 2004
 “Audio Interview With Claus Sendlinger, CEO of Lebensart Global Networks - Sharing His Views On Lifestyle Hospitality And The L-Community”, Hospitalitynet.org, 29 May 2002

German chief executives
Living people
1963 births


Aleksei Konstantinovich Maklakov (; born 6 January 1962 in Novosibirsk) is a Soviet and Russian actor and singer. Well known in Russia for his starring role as Praporshchik Shmatko on the REN TV series Soldiers.

Filmography

References

External links

1962 births
Living people
Actors from Novosibirsk
Soviet male actors
Soviet male stage actors
Russian male film actors
Russian male television actors
Russian male stage actors
20th-century Russian male actors
21st-century Russian male actors


Maximum Medical Improvement (MMI) occurs when an injured person reaches a state where their condition cannot be improved any further or when a treatment plateau in a person’s healing process is reached. It can mean that the patient has fully recovered from the injury or that the patient’s medical condition has stabilized to the point that no major medical or emotional change can be expected in the person's condition.  At that point, no further healing or improvement is deemed possible and this occurs despite continuing medical treatment or rehabilitative programs the injured person partakes in. MMI is relevant in multiple contexts, including personal injury cases and workers' compensation cases. When a worker who is receiving Workers' Compensation benefits reaches maximum medical improvement, his or her condition is assessed and a degree of permanent or partial impairment is determined. This degree will impact the amount of benefits the worker is able to receive.

Maximum medical improvement means that treatment options have been exhausted. Temporary disability payments are terminated and a settlement is worked out regarding the condition of the worker at this point.

References

External links
 Workerscompensation.com, Worker's Compensation resource website
 https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/should-i-wait-until-i-reach-mmi-before-accepting-a-car-accident-settlement-offer.html, personal injury resource website

Labour law
personal injury
Health insurance


Sarpani Garpa  is a village development committee in Salyan District in the Rapti Zone of western-central Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 3721 people living in 647 individual households.

References

External links
UN map of the municipalities of Salyan District

Populated places in Salyan District, Nepal


The Convention of Aguascalientes was a major meeting that took place during the Mexican Revolution between the factions in the Mexican Revolution that had defeated Victoriano Huerta's Federal Army and forced his resignation and exile in July 1914.

The call for the convention was issued on 1 October 1914 by Venustiano Carranza, head of the Constitutional Army, who described it as the Gran Convención de Jefes militares con mando de fuerzas y gobernadores de los Estados ("Great Convention of Commanding Military Chiefs and State Governors") and seen as "the last attempt to create unity among the revolutionaries."

Its first sessions were held in the Chamber of Deputies in Mexico City, but were later transferred to the city of Aguascalientes, whence its name came, where it met from 10 October to 9 November 1914.

Background
General Victoriano Huerta, who had usurped the presidency in a coup d'état in February 1913, resigned the office in July 1914 on account of revolutionary pressures, and left the country. He was replaced by Venustiano Carranza, who wished to discuss his government's policies with the other revolutionary leaders, and thus called for the convention to take place. However, faced with the absence of the Zapatistas (who did not recognise Carranza's authority) and the refusal of Pancho Villa to attend a meeting in Mexico City, it was agreed to relocate the convention to Aguascalientes.

Convention

The convention was intended to settle the differences between the "big four" warlords who played the biggest roles in overthrowing Huerta: Pancho Villa, Emiliano Zapata, Venustiano Carranza and Álvaro Obregón.

The various factions had to settle, in advance of the convention, the question of whether participants would only be revolutionary military men, or could include civilians as well. Carranza had a large and strong civilian backing, and argued for their inclusion, but lost.

Tensions were already high between Carranza and Villa, his former ally. Although Zapata had not openly sided with Villa initially, he was hostile to Carranza, with Carranza returning the feeling. According to Charles C. Cumberland, "The southerners had never liked Carranza and his pretensions, and Carranza despised the Zapatistas as ignorant, narrow-minded troublemakers."

From the onset, however, the convention was dominated by the Villistas, who imposed their points of view on the other delegates. The supporters of Zapata did not arrive until 26 October (a delegation of 26, led by Paulino Martínez and Antonio Díaz Soto y Gama).

When the Convention first met on October 10, 1914, it declared itself sovereign, which meant that it was a deliberative assembly, not a consultative one. Carranza rejected the notion of sovereignty, and did not himself attend the convention or send representatives. Zapata had not yet arrived, and the delegates made the decision to not conclude any major business until he and his advisers attended. Zapata arrived with an entourage of men with military titles, "but most of them [were] in fact civilians who had never led troops in any form."

There was a plan to merge revolutionary armies into a single military, which would have structurally taken the place of the Federal Army that ceased to exist with the fall of the Huerta regime. There was some support for this idea in theory, but the revolutionary armies had formed and fought under the command of particular leaders (such as Villa, Obregón, Zapata and Abraham González) and so in the current circumstances it was impossible to implement.

The convention elected General Eulalio Gutiérrez Ortiz as President of the Republic for the limited term of 20 days. It appointed Villa commander of the Conventionalist Army, which then took up arms against Carranza's Constitutionalist Army.

After the meeting, the newly reconciled Villa and Zapata entered Mexico City on 6 December, at the head of an army of 60,000 men. Carranza and his supporters consequently retreated to Veracruz. Subsequently, Zapata returned to his stronghold in Morelos, so that the alliance with Villa was largely in principle only.

References
Specific

General

 A collection of original documents from the Convention of Aguascalientes can be found at Documentos de la Convención de Aguascalientes on Wikisource

Mexican Revolution
History of Aguascalientes
1914 in Mexico
1914 conferences


Sibaratha  is a village development committee in Salyan District in the Rapti Zone of western-central Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 4372 people living in 749 individual households.

References

External links
UN map of the municipalities of Salyan District

Populated places in Salyan District, Nepal


Siddheswar  is a village development committee in Salyan District in the Rapti Zone of western-central Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 3715 people living in 604 individual households.

References

External links
UN map of the municipalities of Salyan District

Populated places in Salyan District, Nepal


André Gusperti (born 14 October 1973) is an Italian former swimmer. He was a world class butterfly swimmer during the 1990s.

Biography
He began swimming in Rari Nantes Trento and later joined Fiamme Gialle (the Athletic Team of Guardia di Finanza). During the nineties Gusperti competed in several international events. He swam in the winning 4 × 100 m medley relay at the 1997 Mediterranean Games (Merisi, Fioravanti, A. Gusperti, Rosolino). He participated to the world swimming championship in Perth 1998. He is the brother of René Gusperti, another renowned former Italian swimmer.

References

1973 births
Living people
People from Schlanders
Italian male butterfly swimmers
Swimmers at the 1997 Mediterranean Games
Mediterranean Games gold medalists for Italy
Mediterranean Games medalists in swimming
Sportspeople from South Tyrol
20th-century Italian people
21st-century Italian people


Sinwang  is a village development committee in Salyan District in the Rapti Zone of western-central Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 3012 people living in 538 individual households.

References

External links
UN map of the municipalities of Salyan District

Populated places in Salyan District, Nepal


Suikot  is a village development committee in Salyan District in the Rapti Zone of western-central Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 4,384 people living in 773 individual households.

References

External links
UN map of the municipalities of Salyan District

Populated places in Salyan District, Nepal


The Towers School and Sixth Form Centre is a secondary school (Academy) in Ashford, Kent. The school was first established in 1967 and was named after the nearby towers standing at the entrance to Eastwell Park.

The school has over 1400 pupils, of which 170 are in the Sixth Form.

The principal is Mr Richard Billings who has been in the role since January 2014.

History
The school was formed in 1967 and officially opened by Lady Brabourne who accompanied the first head teacher, Geoffrey Foster, to the ceremony. The first year saw a total of 90 pupils attend the school. The school was named when one of the councillors on the board of governors looked out of the window and upon seeing the towers of Eastwell Park, suggested naming the school after them.

The school became an academy convertor in April 2011.

References

External links
The Towers School

Secondary schools in Kent
Academies in Kent
Ashford, Kent


Syanikhal  is market center in Sharada Municipality in Salyan District in the Rapti Zone of western-central Nepal. The place formerly existing as Village Development Committee was annexed to form a new municipality since 18 May 2014. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 3711 people living in 680 individual households.

References

External links
UN map of the municipalities of Salyan District

Populated places in Salyan District, Nepal


Tharmare  is a village development committee in Salyan District in the Rapti Zone of western-central Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 5998 people living in 994 individual households.

References

External links
UN map of the municipalities of Salyan District

Populated places in Salyan District, Nepal


Triveni is a rural municipality in Salyan District in the Karnali Province of western-central Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 3789 people living in 710 individual households.

Demographics
At the time of the 2011 Nepal census, Triveni Rural Municipality had a population of 16,647. Of these, 99.4% spoke Nepali, 0.3% Magar, 0.2% Urdu, 0.1% Newar and 0.1% other languages as their first language.

In terms of ethnicity/caste, 54.7% were Chhetri, 26.7% Magar, 7.8% Kami, 3.3% Sanyasi/Dasnami, 2.1% Sarki, 2.0% Damai/Dholi,  1.3% Hill Brahmin, 0.9% Newar, 0.5% Thakuri, 0.4% Musalman, 0.2% Badi, 0.1% Tharu and 0.1% others.

In terms of religion, 97.3% were Hindu, 1.8% Christian, 0.5% Buddhist and 0.4% Muslim.

In terms of literacy, 65.1% could read and write, 3.0% could only read and 31.8% could neither read nor write.

References

External links
UN map of the municipalities of Salyan District

Populated places in Salyan District, Nepal
Rural municipalities of Nepal established in 2017
Rural municipalities in Karnali Province


Arnold Green may refer to:
Arnold Green (politician) (1920–2011), Estonian Soviet politician and Olympic organizer
Arnold Green (rugby league) (1930s–2016), New Zealand rugby league international
Arnold H. Green (1940–2019), BYU professor and historian who specializes in Tunisia


Baraha may refer to:

Baraha, word processing software for Indian languages
Baraha, Bheri, a village in western-central Nepal
Baraha, Sagarmatha, a village in south-eastern Nepal
Saadat-e-Bara or Baraha, a community of Sayyids in Uttar Pradesh, India