Vasavadatta is also a character in the Svapnavasavadatta and the Vina-Vasavadatta

Vasavadatta (, ) is a classical Sanskrit romantic tale (akhyayika) written in an ornate style by Subandhu, whose time period isn't precisely known. He is generally taken to have written the work in the second quarter of the seventh century. However, scholar Maan Singh has stated that he was a courtier of the Gupta emperors Kumaragupta I (414-455) and Skandagupta (455-467), dating him between 385 and 465 AD.

The work's style has been described as "developed, elaborate, ornate and pedantic" and has influenced later prose writers. The Kanchanadarpana of Sivarama Tripathin (18th century) and the Tattvadipini of Jagaddhara are two significant works of criticism and commentary on the Vasavadatta.

Louis Herbert Gray first translated Vasavadatta into English, which was published by the Columbia University Press in 1913 as the eighth volume of the 13 volume Columbia University Indo-Iranian Series in between 1901–32 and edited by A. V. Williams Jackson. Harinath De completed an English translation in 1908, but it was not published until 1994 (Sanskrit College, Calcutta).

Plot outline
The outline of the plot of this work is as follows:

Kandarpaketu, son of king Chintamani, is a handsome and charming prince. In his dreams, he once has a vision of a lovely maiden whose sheer beauty bewitches him. He resolves to set out in search of this beauty. His friend Makaranda remonstrates with him, saying that setting out into the wilderness with no idea of one's goal is foolishness. Kandarpaketu tells him of his conviction that this girl has been his companion of many lifetimes and that they are certainly destined to be united in this lifetime and every future lifetime too. Let them set out, and fate will surely direct their steps in the right direction.

Rather than let his friend depart alone, Makaranda accompanies him in his quest, and they leave the capital in search of this unknown beauty. Soon enough, they meet with success. The two friends lie down to rest in the shade of a tree on the banks of the Narmada river. Here, the prince overhears a conversation between a pair of love-birds perched on the tree above them. The male bird is extolling the charms and virtues of Vasavadatta, daughter of king Shringarashekhara of Kusumapura. The bird reveals further that this princess had, in her dreams, had a vision of a charming prince who had smitten her heart. The princess had vividly described the young man to her companion and confidante, Tamalika, and had despaired of ever meeting with him in real life, for her destiny seemed to take her another way. The bird had overheard the description of the prince and, being a love-bird, had resolved to fly out over the country, locate the young man, and bring him to the princess.

To cut the story short, the bird leads Kandarpaketu to Tamalika and the group proceeds to Kusumapura where Tamalika arranges for Kandarpaketu to meet Vasavadatta. They meet and duly recognize each other from their respective dreams in a lyrical passage. However, Kandarpaketu learns to his horror that Vasavadatta's father, king Shringarshekhara, has arranged for her to wed Pushpaketu, son of Vijayaketu, chief of the Vidyadharas, the very next morning. Kandarpaketu and Vasavadatta flee to the Vindhya mountains forthwith, mounted upon a magic steed, leaving Makaranda behind at Kusumapura.

After reaching safety in the Vindhya mountains, the exhausted lovers fell asleep. When Kandarpaketu wakes up, he finds Vasavadatta missing. He searches for her in vain and then, mad with grief, decides to end his life. When he is on the verge of committing suicide by drowning, a voice from the sky rings out and promises him that he will be re-united with Vasavadatta. Kandarpaketu wanders for several months in the forest, distraught and lovelorn. He finally chances upon a stone image of Vasavadatta. He touches the image, and miraculously, the stone turns into a living and breathing Vasavadatta.

After regaining life, Vasavadatta narrates to Kandarpaketu the series of events that befell her after they both fell asleep in the forests of the Vindhya mountains. She awoke hungry and went in search of wild fruits to eat. She was then caught between two groups of soldiers, each led by a chieftain who fell in love with her at first sight and wished to possess her. While they were fighting with each other, she managed to escape. During her flight through the forest, she unintentionally trespassed into the hermitage of an ascetic and disturbed his penances. Again, Vasavadatta's beauty is the culprit; her mere presence has disturbed years of penance. The hermit curses Vasavadatta that her beauty be turned to stone, and that she return to vibrant life only upon receiving the touch of the man who is destined from previous births to be her husband; this husband of many births would control and absorb her siren-like vibes and thus allay the disasters that a loose, beautiful woman visits upon everything that she comes in contact with. By the curse of the hermit, Vasavadatta was petrified into stone.

The fact that Vasavadatta returned to life upon being touched by Kandarpaketu confirms that he has been her husband in former lifetimes and is destined to be her husband in this and future lifetimes as well. Her father, King Sringarasekhara, recognizes this and gives her hand in marriage to Kandarpaketu. The couple proceed to Kandarpaketu's paternal kingdom and live there happily ever after.

Further reading
T. V. Srinivasachariar (1906). Vasavadatta of Subandhu, Trichinopoly, St. Joseph's College Press.
Louis Herbert Gray (1913). Vasavadatta: A Sanskrit Romance by Subandhu. 1965 reprint: ; 1999 reprint: .
Jaydev Mohanlal Shukla (1966), Vāsavadatta of Subandhu, crit. ed., Jodhpur.
Bronner, Yigal (2010), Extreme Poetry, The South Asian Movement of Simultaneous Narration, New York, Columbia University Press.

References

Sanskrit literature


Niklas Storbacka (born 20 February 1977) is a Finnish footballer, who currently represents FF Jaro of Veikkausliiga, the Finnish premier division of football.

See also
Football in Finland
List of football clubs in Finland

References

External links
Guardian's Stats Centre

1977 births
Living people
Finnish men's footballers
Men's association football midfielders
Men's association football defenders


Nur  is a village in Ostrów Mazowiecka County, Masovian Voivodeship, in east-central Poland. It is the seat of the gmina (administrative district) called Gmina Nur. It lies approximately  south-east of Ostrów Mazowiecka and  north-east of Warsaw.

In 2006, the village had a population of 760.

Nur has a long and rich history. In the Kingdom of Poland, it was one of main administrative centers of the province of Mazovia, and the seat of a separate administrative district (ziemia). In the early Middle Ages, Nur was a trade center, with a Roman Catholic parish established here probably in the 12th century.

Nur received its town charter either in 1410, or 1425. A local vogt was established, with town council. Until 1526, Nur was part of the Duchy of Mazovia, which was a Polish vassal. After annexation of Mazovia into Poland, and creation of Masovian Voivodeship, the Land of Nur consisted of three counties: Kamieniec Mazowiecki, Ostrów Mazowiecka, and Nur, which also was the seat of a starosta, Sejmik, and land court for the three counties.

The Land of Nur had been established in 1377, during a meeting of Mazovian dukes in Sochaczew. Its total area was 3,500 km2.: Kamieniec Castellany, later renamed into Kamieniec County, had the area of 2,000 km2., Nur County 1,000 km2., and Ostrow County 500 km2. Boundaries of the Land of Nur remained unchanged for over 400 years, until the Partitions of Poland.

In the 16th century, during the Polish Golden Age, Nur prospered. The town had 263 houses, a number of craftsmen and merchants, a brewery, a folwark, eight watermills and four fairs a year. Due to its convenient location along the Bug river waterway, Nur was an important trade center, with goods sent along the Bug and the Vistula to the Baltic Sea port of Gdańsk.

In December 1640, King Władysław IV Vasa announced that the sejmiks be moved from Nur to Ostrow Mazowiecka, but in 1647, the Sejm in Warsaw decided to move them back to Nur. In 1648, during the Khmelnytsky Uprising, the Land of Nur equipped 100 cavalrymen, sending them south to fight the enemy.

The Swedish invasion of Poland (1655 - 1660) was a disaster for the town. It was completely destroyed, and has never regained its prominence. The parish church was not rebuilt until 1693, and by 1777, the number of houses was only 63. The last starosta of Nur, Karol Wodzynski, participated in Kościuszko Uprising (1794).

Since 1815, Nur belonged to Russian-controlled Congress Poland. In 1827, its population was 514, with 75 houses. The town continued its decline: in 1853, the church was dismantled, and replaced with a wooden chapel. By 1860, the population grew to 813, including 299 Jews. In 1869, following January Uprising, Nur lost its town charter.

References

External links
 Jewish Community in Nur on Virtual Shtetl
 Rental of Canoes in Nur

Villages in Ostrów Mazowiecka County
Masovian Voivodeship (1526–1795)
Łomża Governorate
Białystok Voivodeship (1919–1939)
Warsaw Voivodeship (1919–1939)
Belastok Region


Felix Airways Limited, also known as Al Saeeda, (both meaning "Happy," from the Roman term for Yemen, Arabia Felix) is a regional airline based in Sana'a, Yemen.

History
The airline was established in 2008 as a subsidiary of flag carrier Yemenia by the Islamic Bank for Development, to serve the growing market for low-cost travel in the region. In late October 2008, Felix Airways began domestic operations with CRJ 700 aircraft, and expanded both domestically and regionally.

Operations have been severely disrupted since 2015 due to the ongoing military conflict affecting its hub at Sana'a International Airport. From 2015 the airline, in common with the entire Yemeni tourist industry, suffered a near-complete reduction in activity due to the conflict and the siege in the region; Felix Airways flights were reported (in April 2019) to have declined from 55 to only 3 weekly flights. The airline originally also had two Bombardier CRJ700s, but one was destroyed by bombing at Sana'a International Airport in April 2015.

Destinations

Current destinations
As of February 2021, Felix Airways serves the following scheduled destinations:

Djibouti
Djibouti - Djibouti–Ambouli International Airport

Yemen
Aden - Aden International Airport
Seiyun - Sayun Airport
Socotra - Socotra Airport

United Arab Emirates
Dubai - Dubai International Airport

Former destinations
As of January 2015 (before the air blockade), Felix Airways served the following destinations:

Fleet
As of February 2021, the Felix Airways fleet included the following aircraft:

See also
List of airlines of Yemen

References

External links
Official website

Airlines of Yemen
Low-cost carriers
Airlines established in 2008
2008 establishments in Yemen


Liang Boqiang 梁伯强 (1 February 1899 – 28 November 1968, Jiaying, Guangdong, China) Chinese pathologist, member of Chinese Academy of Sciences, pioneer pathologist in China.

1899 births
1968 deaths
20th-century Chinese physicians
Biologists from Guangdong
Chinese pathologists
Educators from Guangdong
Hakka scientists
Members of the Chinese Academy of Sciences
People from Meixian District
Physicians from Guangdong
Scientists from Guangdong
Academic staff of Sun Yat-sen University


Charles Edward Cawley (1812 – 9 April 1877) was a British civil engineer and Conservative Party politician.

He was the only son of Samuel Cawley of Goodden House, Middleton, Lancashire and his wife Mary Jones of Packington, Warwickshire. He became involved in Conservative politics and was for many years was an alderman on Salford Borough Council. In 1842 he married Harriet Motley.

Under the Representation of the People Act 1867 the parliamentary borough of Salford was given a second Member of Parliament, and Cawley was elected at the 1868 general election by a small majority. He comfortably retained his seat at the 1874 general election.

Charles Cawley died at his residence in Higher Broughton, near Manchester, in April 1877 aged 64.

References

Death of Mr Cawley M.P., The Times 4 April 1877, p. 10

External links

1812 births
1877 deaths
Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies
UK MPs 1868–1874
UK MPs 1874–1880
Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Salford


Ancient Roman jokes, as described by Cicero and Quintilian, are best employed as a rhetorical device. Many of them are apparently taken from real-life trials conducted by famous advocates, such as Cicero. Jokes were also found scrawled upon washroom walls of Pompeii as graffiti. Romans sought laughter by attending comic plays (such as those of Plautus) and mimes (such as those of Publilius Syrus). Jokes from these sources usually depended on sexual themes. Cicero believe that humour ought to be based upon "ambiguity, the unexpected, wordplay, understatement, irony, ridicule, silliness, and pratfalls". Roman jokes also depended on certain stock characters and stereotypes, especially regarding foreigners, as can be seen within Plautus' Poenulus.

Roman culture, which was heavily influenced by the Greeks, had also been in conversation with Greek humour.

Examples
One of the oldest Roman jokes, which is based on a fictitious story and survived alive to this time, is told by Macrobius in his Saturnalia: (4th century AD, but the joke itself is probably several centuries older):

Some provincial man has come to Rome, and walking on the streets was drawing everyone's attention, being a real double of the emperor Augustus. The emperor, having brought him to the palace, looks at him and then asks:
-Tell me, young man, did your mother come to Rome anytime?
The reply was:
-She never did. But my father frequently was here.

(The modern version is that an aristocrat, having met his exact double, asks: "Was your mother a housemaid in our palace?" "No, my father was a gardener there").

An example of a joke based on double meaning is recorded in Gellius (2nd century AD):

A man, standing before a censor, is about to testify, whether he has a wife. The censor asks:
-Do you have, in all your honesty, a wife?
-I surely do, but not in all my honesty.

(the pun is in the expression used for in all your honesty - orig. ex animi tui sententia, typically used in oaths - which can also be understood as to your liking).

Some of the jokes are about fortune-tellers and the like. An example (1st century BC):

A runner going to participate in the Olympic games had a dream, that he was driving a quadriga. Early in the morning he goes to a dream interpreter for an explanation. The reply is:
-You will win, that meant the speed and the strength of the horses.
But, to be sure about this, the runner visits another dream interpreter. This one replies:
-You will lose. Don't you understand, that four ones came before you?

Further reading
On the Orator, Cicero

See also
Philogelos, an ancient Greek joke book.
Poetics (Aristotle), Aristotle discusses the nature of tragedy and comedy, but the book on the latter is lost.

References

Jokes
Humour
Society of ancient Rome


Shane Cloete (born May 21, 1971) is an ex-Zimbabwean cricketer. He was a right-handed batsman and wicket-keeper. He was born in Salisbury (now Harare).

External links
Shane Cloete at CricketArchive

1971 births
Afrikaner people
Living people
Mashonaland cricketers
Cricketers from Harare
White Zimbabwean people
Zimbabwean cricketers


is the fourth studio album by Japanese singer-songwriter Miyuki Nakajima, released in April 1978.

Five months before the album came out, she topped on the Oricon singles chart with a song "The Parting Song (Wakareuta)", which was released as her fifth single in September 1977. The album features her commercial breakthrough single and another well-known song, "World's Context (Sejou)". The latter was later featured in the second series of TV drama Kimpachi Sensei aired on TBS in 1980, and became known widely as one of her signature songs.

Aishiteiru to Ittekure has been her longest charting album on the Oricon, because the album re-entered the chart when "World's Context" was featured on TV program in the early 1980s.

Track listing
All songs written and composed by Miyuki Nakajima, unless otherwise noted

Side one
All tracks arranged by Kinji Yoshino (except "The Parting Song" co-arranged by Shun Fukui)
"" (Poetry reading, sampling "Prelude, Fugue et Variation, Op. 18 " by César Franck on background music) – 2:58
"" – 2:40
"" – 3:57
"" – 3:27
"" – 5:07

Side two
All tracks arranged by Kinji Yoshino (except "World's Context" co-arranged by Shun Fukui, "Milk 32" and "Omae no Ie" arranged by Miyuki Nakajima)
"" – 4:33
"" – 4:06
"" – 6:32
"" – 6:12

Personnel
Miyuki Nakajima – vocals, acoustic guitar
Toshiro Masuda – electric guitar
Tsugutoshi Goto – electric bass
Ryuichi Sakamoto – keyboards
Nobu Saito – percussions
Hiro Tsunoda – drums

Production
 Recording director; Yoshio Okushima
 Recording and Mixing Engineer; Yoshihiko Kan'nari
 Assistant engineer; Koji Sakakibara
 Manager; Kunio Kaneko
 Director; Yūzō Watanabe
 Cover designer; Natsuo Ueda
 Photographer; Jin Tamura
 Executive producer; Genichi Kawakami

Chart positions

References

Miyuki Nakajima albums
1978 albums
Pony Canyon albums


Sandown Bay Academy, formerly Sandown High School, was an academy status secondary school located in Sandown on the Isle of Wight, England. From 2012 to 31 August 2018 it was sponsored by the Academies Enterprise Trust. On 31 August 2018, the academy closed.

History
Education at the current school site began with Sandown Grammar School, which had a long and distinguished history during the twentieth century.
The school became Sandown High School in 1970 when the former Sandown Grammar and Fairway Secondary Modern schools merged to form Sandown High School. In 2005 Sandown High School became a sports college and regularly topped all the Isle of Wight sporting leagues and events.

In 2008 it was decided that the Isle of Wight education system should be changed from a three-tier system to a two-tier system, in line with the majority of schools in England and Wales, and that the new schools should be academies. A range of organisations were invited to bid to run the new Secondary school academies. Academies Enterprise Trust (AET) competed against the Island Innovation Trust and the "East Wight Educational Trust" and presented a proposal for a high achieving outstanding academy. AET was subsequently awarded the contract to run the new Sandown Bay Academy, named after the bay it is located on. It opened as an AET school with 2005 pupils, making it one of the largest schools in England at that time. Due to the very large number of pupils, the site of nearby former Sandham Middle School was incorporated into the site and called "North School."

The last headteacher of Sandown High School and first Principal of Sandown Bay Academy was John Bradshaw. The Principal of Sandown Bay Academy from Sept 2012 until November 2013 was Shaheen Khan Jones. She was replaced by Eric Jackson who was Principal until Sept 2015, when Claire Charlemagne took over, until her resignation for Sept 2017.

Academic standards and improvement
The national measure of school performance until 2015 was the proportion of pupils gaining 5 GCSEs A-C grade (including English and Maths). From 2016 the measure of school performance changed to "progress 8." Both sets of data are included in the following table.

Five years after AET took over Sandown Bay Academy, in order to bring about "world class learning outcomes" the GCSE 2016 results for Sandown Bay Academy are the worst ever achieved by the school and the new performance measure of "progress 8" places the school amongst the 10% of lowest achieving schools in England.

The results of A level pupils (aged 18) have also collapsed. At the point that AET took over Sandown Bay Academy, A level results placed the Academy in the top 25% of schools in England, with one third of the Sixth Form pupils graduating and proceeding to study at prestigious Russell Group universities (including Oxford and Cambridge) in 2013. Standards have steadily fallen, with the academy delivering the wrong course material to students, followed by OFSTED criticism of "disappointing" A level results and "unexpected U grades"(OFSTED Nov 2015). By 2017 only 4% of students at Sandown Bay Academy were achieving the AAB grades necessary to go to top Russell Group universities (compared to the national average of 17%).

OFSTED have repeatedly raised concerns. In Spring 2013 OFSTED stated that standards were 'inadequate' and placed the academy in Special Measures, before going on in May 2013 to criticise the Academy Improvement Plan as not-fit-for purpose and in October 2013 the Academy was criticised for being too slow to bring about improvement. At the same time the UK Department for Education also wrote to the Academies Enterprise Trust complaining about the "unacceptably low" academic standards at Sandown Bay Academy. AET promised urgent improvements in 2013, but four years later Sandown Bay Academy achieved its worst ever set of GCSE results and found itself ranked amongst the lowest achieving 10% of schools in England.

AET have tried a range of strategies to improve Sandown Bay Academy. They began by appointing a "Regional Director of Education" (RDE) who would oversee standards in the Academy. The first RDE was Jonathan de Sausmarez, who in 2012 was responsible for appointing the first Principal, and responsible for "securing rapid school improvement and the best possible progress for all pupils." When Sandown Bay Academy went into Special Measures in 2013, he was replaced by a senior AET executive, David Fuller (the national AET "Director of Secondary Schools"). David Fuller's big idea was to appoint a "superhead" to turn Sandown Bay Academy around.

The "Superhead" strategy for turning schools around can be very successful, but it has also received a lot of criticism because some "superheads" cost a lot of money but leave a school in a poor state with continuing poor exam results. AET appointed Mr Eric Jackson as the superhead at Sandown Bay Academy from 2013 to 2015. He went on to work at Ryde Academy in 2015 (when their exam results dipped), before then going on to help Everest Academy in 2016 (when their results also went backwards).

The superhead plan came to an end in 2015 when GCSE results at Sandown Bay Academy were lower than the 48% achieved five years earlier in 2010, before the school had even became an AET school. This led to OFSTED stating that the Academy was "not taking effective action" because "The pace of improvement in the academy has been too slow. Recommendations... have not been acted on urgently, or sharply enough. (Nov 2015)"

With the failure of the Superhead plan, David Fuller left Sandown Bay Academy to concentrate on improving other schools, such as by being a Trustee at Unity City Academy, which subsequently sank further into poor standards, went into the bottom 10% of schools in England and went into Special Measures for a second time as an AET Academy. AET next asked Jonathan de Sausmarez to return as RDE and to have another go at "bringing about rapid improvement."

AET's next "big idea" to turn around the declining results was to having a management board to run the Academy, chaired by Beverley Perin, another one of the AET senior executives. Beverley Perin is advertised by AET as a "lead OFSTED inspector" who leads on ensuring that "quantifiable improvement" takes place in AET Academies, (and so she is also a trustee raising standards at Unity City Academy which has gone backwards into Special Measures twice under AET). After two years of management board support from 2015 AET's results in 2017 have gone backwards and placed the school amongst the lowest achieving 10% of schools in England.

Unsurprisingly, OFSTED finally lost patience with AET in 2017 and put Sandown Bay Academy into Special Measures for its second time as an AET Academy, stating that pupils had been "let down in the quality of education which they receive, for too long". The local authority responded by stating that "...AET should hang their heads in shame and apologise unreservedly for their complete failure to support and develop what should by now have been a good school. Pam Wheeler of the Parents action group said "AET couldn't sell ice cream on the pier."

After five years of failing to improve the Academy, local politicians were losing patience. Councillor Whitehouse, the leader for education on the Isle of Wight, stated: "In my view, the organisation (AET) is simply not up to the job and should be relieved of its responsibilities and replaced by a sponsor that can deliver the improvements and expertise that Sandown Bay Academy needs..." In an almost unprecedented move, 450 pupils staged a sit-in protest calling for AET to be fired, chanting "get AET out the door," whilst parents organised protest marches.

AET's new CEO, Julian Drinkall, effectively blamed the governors for the poor standards at Sandown Bay Academy and said that they would be sacked and replaced with a management board. The governors responded by accusing AET of "unprofessional and inept behaviour" as no one from AET had actually told them they were being sacked and they had been left to discover the fact from the Media.

Unfortunately, the AET executives do not seem to have told their CEO that AET had already been trying a management board to raise standards for the previous two years, and that that management board plan had failed.  By 2017 AET had tried throwing their top executives at the Academy, they had tried a "superhead" and they had already tried a "Management Board," so the proposal of a new management board plan had to be hastily withdrawn (and an apology was given to Sandown Bay Academy parents for leaving them to hear about that plan from the Media). Other AET academies, which are similarly failing and incapable of improvement, are offloaded by AET onto other Academy chains (at a cost to AET of £38m in 2015 (according to AET's own accounts)).  For example, East Point Academy went into Special Measures and had 3 years of declining results as an AET academy, before being given to the Inspiration Trust whereupon results immediately improved and the Academy was graded as "good" by OFSTED. Everest Academy is another AET academy which has had five years of poor results, being below the minimum standard for schools (40%) for 4 of those five years, and so it is being offloaded by AET to the Bourne Education Trust for Sept 2017, and Cordeaux Academy where standards have also collapsed so badly that the AET have been asked by the UK government to transfer the school to an academy trust which is able to improve schools: the Tollbar Multi Academy Trust

Following their practice elsewhere, the next plan that AET could have tried would have been seeing if some other Academy chain would take over Sandown Bay Academy (which as it happens is now exactly what the Isle of Wight Local Authority is trying to arrange). However the fact that AET themselves did not seem to want to hand over to another academy chain has been attributed to what Councillor Chris quirk refers to their "being driven by money." Unbeknown to many residents of the Isle of Wight, the neighbouring Ryde Academy (which is also controlled by AET and which is just 6 miles from Sandown Bay Academy) happens to have an extraordinary "surplus" of £1.3m (of money which should have been spent on Isle of Wight children) sitting in its school bank account, unspent. and so any plan for Sandown Bay Academy had to be a plan which did not risk losing control of Ryde Academy to another Academy chain which might take over Sandown Bay Academy.

AET's annual accounts in 2016 make it clear that the Academy chain is potentially in very serious financial difficulties, as deficits are increasing in many of its academies. So AET's final improvement plan for Sandown Bay Academy was to "close" Sandown Bay academy and merge it with Ryde Academy, thus ending the embarrassment of being unable to improve Sandown Bay Academy, whilst retaining control of Ryde Academy and its financial assets.

Unfortunately this "closure plan" for Sandown Bay Academy was received extremely badly on the Isle of Wight. Councillor Howe said that AET should be "ashamed of themselves." Julian Critchley, the Labour Party candidate for the Isle of Wight in the General Election of 2017, went further and stated: "The answer to Sandown Bay Academy’s issues is not to impose their problems on Ryde Academy, but to fix the problems in Sandown. Clearly, that is something which AET are incapable of doing."

Mr Critchley's concerns that Ryde Academy could be destroyed by merging Sandown Bay Academy with it are well founded, as the contrast between Ryde Academy and Sandown Bay Academy is stark. Sandown Bay Academy, to the despair of those who remembered the excellent grammar school that was destroyed to help create it, was declared inadequate, sank into a budget deficit and went through constant rounds of redundancies unable to improve whilst AET threw its top executives and best resources at it. Ryde Academy, however, was also graded 'inadequate' but rapidly moved to become "good." It successfully overcame a deficit, and it improved by systematically confronting problems and grasping nettles to challenge poor performance, union activism and pupil indiscipline; even when doing so led to public criticism at the time. Ryde Academy arguably improved despite AET as Ian Comfort the CEO of AET intervened publicly to try and stop Ryde Academy challenging poor performance. By 2017, the contrast between the schools is stark. Instead of trying to run Ryde Academy like Sandown Bay Academy, if AET had run Sandown Bay Academy like Ryde Academy then the Isle of Wight, and AET, might well be looking at a success, rather than the unfolding tragedy which is taking place in Sandown Bay as AET try to close Sandown Bay Academy and displace more than 1000 children.

Controversy over closure plans
AET initially justified its decision to close Sandown Bay academy (and merge the pupils with the neighbouring Ryde Academy), by stating that the pupil numbers at Sandown Bay Academy had dropped from 2084 in 2012 to just 1157 pupils in 2017, and that the school had therefore become financially unviable and "unsustainable"

Numbers have indeed dropped at Sandown Bay Academy, but this pattern of collapsing numbers is a common pattern in AET schools which have declining standards. Everest Community Academy, for example, has dropped to the bottom 10% of schools nationally and pupil numbers have dropped by around 20%. Unity City Academy has results which place it in the bottom 10% of schools, has gone into Special Measures for the second time as an AET school and also has declining pupils drops in pupil numbers. For these reasons, local MP Andrew Turner stated that it was the drop in standards at Sandown Bay Academy which was leading to a fall in pupil numbers, a claim he backed up by referring to the large numbers of local parents coming to him saying that they did not want to send their children to AET's Sandown Bay Academy.

AET responded by trying to blame the falling numbers at Sandown Bay Academy on an over-supply of school places on the Isle of Wight. This position was described by the head of education for the Isle of Wight Local Authority as "duplicitous, destructive... (and) illiterate educational vandalism," because the number of children in the primary schools was increasing, so the Isle of Wight actually needed more secondary school capacity, not the less capacity which AET was claiming.

AET's honesty was further questioned when it was discovered that half the secondary schools in England are actually smaller than Sandown Bay Academy. and of AET's own schools Sandown Bay Academy has the 7th largest number of pupils out of 29 secondary schools. One third of AET's Secondary academies have less than 626 pupils. The Principal of Winton Community Academy, which joined AET in November 2012 said in June 2017 that, "Winton Community Academy officially has a pupil admission number of 750 and currently has 452 students on roll...we have no concerns about student numbers." These facts led to the Isle of Wight local authority referring to AET's position that Sandown Bay academy was too small to be financially viable as "tosh and twaddle."

Further doubt was cast on AET's integrity and "duplicitious" motives for wanting to close Sandown Bay Academy when AET was accused of lying that Sandown Bay Academy had had a budget deficit at the Academy in each of the three years previous to 2017, a position which was undermined when a leaked copy of the Academy budget showed no such deficit to have existed. Furthermore, of AET's 29 Academies, the AET 2016 Annual Accounts show that 11 of those Secondary academies have a far more serious budget problem than Sandown Bay Academy (and 10 of the schools are actually smaller than Sandown Bay Academy), so AET's position in singling out Sandown Bay Academy for closure appeared "duplicitious", as Councillor Whitehouse described it. This impression of deceit was reinforced when Councillor Howe said that barely a week before AET announced the closure of Sandown Bay Academy, he had been given assurances by AET executives that they were not considering closure. And so Councillor Bob Blezzard called for AET to be replaced with a more 'enlightened' academy chain.

In considering AET's behaviour counsellor Howe suggested that AET's treatment of another Isle of Wight school, Weston Academy, should be taken into account. In 2015 Weston Academy went into Special Measures, with collapsing academic standards, and AET's response was to close the school in mid year, forcing parents to find alternative schools at the last minute, whilst AET cited unviable pupil numbers as the reason for the closure. The parallels with Sandown Bay are clear. AET's conduct was branded as "appalling behaviour" by the Isle of Wight council, who then signed a motion of no confidence in AET, with all 32 members of the council unanimously calling for the AET Academy chain to be expelled from the Isle of Wight and forced to hand back all their schools on the island.

As part of AET's closure plans for Sandown Bay Academy, AET announced in May 2017 that all the pupils would be transferred and merged into Ryde Academy. Unfortunately, AET had neglected to inform the Principal and governors of Ryde Academy about their cunning plan of slipping an extra 1157 children into the classrooms of Ryde Academy, before announcing it in public; and so when the merger plan emerged Ryde Academy were vehemently opposed to the plan. Councillor Woodhouse, head of education for the Isle of Wight, said that it was shocking that AET could behave with such arrogant disdain and professional discourtesy as to not even communicate with and consult its own Principals and governing bodies about the closure and merger of the schools which they were responsible for. Newly elected MP Bob Seely went so far as to state that dealing with AET was one of his highest priorities as a new MP and that he was already in contact with government ministers, in order to eradicate AET from the Isle of Wight, a sentiment seconded by Dave Stewart, the leader of the Isle of Wight Council.

In June 2017 AET once again managed to make a public statement of its plans for Sandown Bay Academy, which it had to reverse within 24 hours because it had once again failed to consult with the Principals and staff affected by its decisions. So, on 27 June 2017 AET announced that Joy Ballard, the headteacher at Ryde Academy would be taking over at Sandown Bay Academy on 1 September 2017, an announcement which was followed the next day (28 June) by AET publicly apologising and announcing that they had "got it wrong" and that Joy Ballard would not be taking over at sandown Bay Academy. On 29 June AET announced that the new head of school would be Richard Kelly, who is suddenly available to lead Sandown Bay Academy because he had to suddenly step down in June 2017 from being headteacher of the Brune School (Gosport) (where he had been headteacher for 4 years) after OFSTED declared that academic standards in the school were poor and placed it in special measures.

The CEO of AET, Julian Drinkall, has replied to the politicians accusations against AET of dishonesty, duplicity, disingenuity, deceit, lying, talking tosh and twaddle, of being incompetent, of being financially illiterate, of carrying out educational vandalism, that AET was unfit to run schools and that AET keeps treating its own staff with 'arrogant disdain' and 'professional discourtesy,' by saying that AET was being unfairly misrepresented.

Controversy over Academy finances
In October 2014 AET was accused of poor financial management by the Education Funding Agency and ever since then it has had to operate under the financial limitations of a 'warning letter.' In 2015 AET executives moved to a building which was described as a "new flashy headquarters" in London, claiming that the new building was nearer to a railway station (despite the fact that their former headquarters at Hockley in Essex (postcode SS5 4HS) had been just 2 minutes walk away from Hockley railway station). Having made their move to a London headquarters, AET announced a £1.5m deficit budget for its headquarters "central services" team.

In 2016 AET proposed a controversial plan to save money by sacking caretakers across their schools. It was in this context that AET also suddenly announced a need to save £850,000 at Sandown Bay Academy, a sum which seemed to be so excessive (and so surprisingly close to the -£830,000 deficit which their 2016 annual accounts recorded for their central headquarters team),  that it immediately gave rise to allegations that AET were secretly trying to take money out of Sandown Bay Academy in order to subsidise its financial problems elsewhere; a claim which AET flatly denied. However, when staff from Sandown Bay Academy passed documents to the local authority which contradicted AET's claims, amidst claims of acting "disingenuously", AET suddenly backed down and reduced the sum which it urgently needed to save to £430,000, which was then further reduced to a need to save £250,000 over two years. If Sandown Bay Academy's finances were truly in the parlous state implied by AET, critics asked why would AET have chosen to spend £1,096 buying new flagpoles for Sandown Bay Academy in 2016.

AET already take 5% of each AET school's budget, as a central "management fee," to fund the £10,045,000 per year cost of their headquarters "central services" team. With an annual budget at Ryde of £5m and £7m at Sandown Bay Academy this means that more than half a million pounds per year (or £2.5m over the time that AET has managed the Isle of Wight schools) is being removed from Isle of Wight by AET as its "management fee." AET's costs include the £950,000 per year (plus pension contributions) which they spend on paying the top 6 AET executives, a commitment to apple Laptops for executives, the Westfield private health scheme, £3m spent "restructuring staff" in 2015 and 2016, the £25,000 claimed by the CEO in expenses (in addition to the £240,000 salary) and the £10m spent on legal fees (£5,116,000 in 2016 and £5,927,000 in 2015) resolving problems in their schools.

The Governors of Sandown Bay Academy went public with their concerns about AET, claiming "a lack of clarity, honesty and efficiency" by AET and stating: "we unanimously support Sandown Bay Academy being removed from the mismanagement of AET." Examples of mismanagement which have been put to AET include unfairly dismissing staff at a cost of £34,000 (plus legal fees), paying educational consultants £1000 per day (a rate branded "extortionate" when paid by another failing academy chain) and allegations of nepotistic payments by AET staff to family members, as well as a misuse of public money in the region of £250,000 paying staff to sit at home on full pay after the staff raised concerns about the conduct of the CEO of AET; whose resignation in Nov 2016 coincided with the staff resignation letter accusing AET executives of a failure of ethical standards and non-compliance with the Nolan Principles requirement that staff behave honestly. As more of AET's behaviour with Sandown Bay Academy has emerged, Councillor Julia Baker-Smith said that the council was "appalled" at AET's behaviour and Councillor Whitehouse said that AET should be apologising to the parents of the island for letting down their children.

Ultimately AET was accused by the Isle of Wight authorities of acting in a high handed "crass" way, treating the island like an annoying pimple on the AET backside, vandalistically trying to close a school which they couldn't improve, "disingenuously" citing dubious financial factors as an excuse to hide their failure and ulterior motives, and in the process levelling the Local Authority with a new, unfunded completely unnecessary and totally unfair £1m a year bill, which would be the cost of bussing all the children to other schools if AET got their way and closed down Sandown Bay Academy.

AET describes itself as "the education provider of choice for students" and as a "trailblazer in education." According to the "Local Schools Network," AET "choice" is looking hollow and trailblazing is looking more like a scorched earth strategy on the Isle of Wight. Councillor Whitehouse has gone so far as to argue that the conduct of Academies Enterprise Trust falls so far below what the public should be able to expect of an Academy Chain that AET are simply not "fit" to run schools, and that they are actually bringing the entire government sponsored academies programme into disrepute because of their "incompetence." However, AET should not be underestimated as they have demonstrated one unique ability: creating a "catastrophic breakdown in confidence" of them which united politicians across the entire spectrum of political opinion in the 2017 general election. Whilst the politicians couldn't agree on anything else, the one thing they could agree on was that AET needed to be removed from the Isle of Wight.

Popular culture
The 1973 box office hit That'll Be the Day, starring David Essex, Rosemary Leach and Ringo Starr, was filmed on the Isle of Wight, particularly at Sandown High School, Shanklin beach and in Wroxall.

Notable alumni
 Jess Andrews - British long-distance runner
 Louis Attrill - Olympic gold medallist.
 Andrew Booth - Drummer for pop-punk quartet Go:Audio.
 Rowland Charles Gould - Guitarist for jazz-funk quartet Level 42.
 Phil Gould - Drummer for jazz-funk quartet Level 42.
 Laura Michelle Kelly - Olivier award-winning actress.
 Allan Lake - Radio presenter, polymath.
 Mark and Melanie Litten - Founder members of indiepop band Trixie's Big Red Motorbike.
 Anthony Minghella - Film director.
 David Pugh - Local councillor and current leader of the Isle of Wight Council.
 Evelyn Tubb - Vocalist with early music ensemble the Consort of Musicke.

References

External links
School website

Defunct schools on the Isle of Wight
Academies Enterprise Trust
Sandown
Educational institutions disestablished in 2018
2018 disestablishments in England


Tang Zhengcai (, 1816–1863, born in Qiyang County, Hunan) was an eminent navy leader of the Taiping Rebellion, known during his tenure as the King of Hang ().  He led the Taiping fleet in many battles, nearly destroying the Xiang Army.  He trained other naval officers, including Li Rongfa and Li Xiucheng. Tang was killed in action in 1863.

Tang Zhengcai employed wooden bridges similar in design to the Bailey bridge later developed by Donald Bailey.

Battles
In the a battle near Nanjing on March 10, 1853, Tang commanded the first offensive, successfully cutting off every river pass that could reinforce Nanjing.  In 1854, at Lake Dongting, Tang's fleet surrounded the Xiang Army's fleet and destroyed much of it.  Tang's fleet later transported 30,000 of Shi Dakai's troops along the Yangtze in a swift surprise attack.

In 1857, Tang's fleet moved to Wuhu, between Wuhan and Nanjing; it remained there to defend the location until 1861, when a Xiang counterattack forced Tang to retreat to Nanjing.

In 1863, he was killed in action – shot by the Huai Army in Wuxi.

References

1816 births
1863 deaths
Military leaders of the Taiping Rebellion
People from Qiyang County
Generals from Hunan
Navy officers


Jean François Cornu de La Poype (31 May 1758 – 27 January 1851) was a French military leader.  He was born in Lyon, to a noble, military family.

French Revolutionary Wars

Under the ancien regime he joined the army at a young age and received the rank of brigadier before the French Revolution in 1789. He was named a major general on 15 May 1793. A Revolutionary partisan, he married the daughter of famous convention member Louis-Marie Stanislas Fréron. He distinguished himself at Siege of Toulon. He contributed strongly to the retaking of the fortified town; he then directed the attack on Fort Pharon, then is charged by Committee of public safety to contain Marseilles and the South of France under the regime of the Terror. Lapoype was not associated with the thermidor reaction, in which his  brother-in-law was one of agitators. He remained without employment under the Directory and served in Italy after 18 brumaire.

Consulate and Napoleonic wars
Sent to Santo Domingo in 1802, he deployed as much capacity there as of courage, made a treaty with Jean-Jacques Dessalines and embarked for France in 1803, and was captured en route by the English, who imprisoned him at Portsmouth. He was exchanged with another prisoner for British prisoners held by the French, and was unemployed until 1813. He was then named to command Wittenberg on the Elbe which Napoleon refortifies. La Poype is distinguished in the conflict there in 1814 when it was stormed by the Prussian Army under General Bogislav Friedrich Emanuel von Tauentzien. La Poype fought with an elite unit, against forces ten times bigger and against a rebellion of the inhabitants. He took measures to escape the city rather than to yield. He left Wittenberg with weapons in hand, i.e. did not have to give them up after the suspension of hostilities. He was awarded the order of Saint-Louis and the command of Agen.

Hundred Days
In 1815, Napoleon named him commander of Lille. He forced the city to recognise the imperial revival, in spite of the exasperation of its inhabitants, who were strongly in favour of Bourbons. To respond to the threat of insurrection, he placed two cannons charged with grapeshot at the door of the house where he was staying,; but it was the general headquarters he wanted to protect, and not his own person; and to prove it, one saw him walking without escort and hands behind his back on the streets of Lille.

Restoration
At the Bourbon Restoration, he was put into retirement. Named member of Chambre des deputes in 1822, he voted consistently with the extreme left. In 1824, he was imprisoned for several months for writing a political booklet. He died at Brosses.

French generals
French Republican military leaders of the French Revolutionary Wars
French commanders of the Napoleonic Wars
Military personnel from Lyon
1758 births
1851 deaths
Order of Saint Louis recipients
Names inscribed under the Arc de Triomphe


Joseph Mendelssohn (11 August 1770 – 24 November 1848) was a German Jewish banker.

He was the oldest son of the influential philosopher Moses Mendelssohn. In 1795, he founded his own banking house. In 1804, his younger brother, Abraham Mendelssohn Bartholdy, the father of the composers Fanny and Felix Mendelssohn, joined the company. The bank Mendelssohn & Co. continued under the control of the Mendelssohn family and would rise to prominence during the 19th century, becoming one of the most important and influential German banks during the early 20th century.

Descendants

Joseph's descendants include the neurologist Alexander Carl Otto Westphal (1863–1941) and the musician Ben Parry (musician) (b.1965).

See also
List of people from Berlin

External links
Sebastian Panwitz: Joseph Mendelssohn; in Mendelssohn-Enzyklopädie.

1770 births
1848 deaths
Burials at Schönhauser Allee Cemetery, Berlin
German bankers
German company founders
18th-century German Jews
Joseph
Businesspeople from Berlin
People from Mitte


Exeter City Women Football Club is an English women's football club, based in Exeter. They are currently members of the .

History

Elmore Eagles L.F.C.
The team was originally formed around 1997 when they were named Elmore Eagles L.F.C.

Exeter City Ladies Football Club
In 2001, the Elmore Eagles joined forces with Exeter City and the Exeter City Ladies Football Club was formed.

Exeter City Centre Of Excellence (COE) Ladies
In 2006, the club controversially changed their name to Cullompton Rangers L.F.C. Many were keen to keep the 'Exeter City Ladies' name, and in the summer of 2006, Exeter City COE Ladies was formed, entering the Devon Women's Division 2.

The team won all but 1 game in the league that season and were promoted. The team also won the League Cup. However, they were stripped of the honour after investigations were made at the beginning of the 2007/2008 and it was proven that 'illegally' signed players had played in the cup games.

Following a number of departures at the end of the 2015–16 season, Exeter City Ladies Football Club were heading towards disbandment. However, due to strong links with local schools and the Community Trust the club was kept running and continued to play in the FA Women's Premier League South West Division One.

In 2018-19 the team were crowned champions of the South West Women's Premier Division following a 3–1 victory over Keynsham Town Ladies.

Exeter City Women

At the end of the 2018–19 season the club changed their name to Exeter City Women in preparation for the campaign in the FA Women's National League Division One South West.

Players

First-team squad

Management

Current management and coaching staff

Honours

League honours
FA South West Women's Premier Division
Champions (1): 2018-19
FA Women's Premier League South West Division One
Runners-up (1): 2014-15
South West Combination League
Runners-up (1): 2013-14
South West Women's Football League: Premier Division
Champions (2): 2001–02, 2011-12
Runners-up (1): 1999-00
South West Women's Football League: Division One West
Runners-up (1): 2010-11
Westward Developments Premier League
Promoted (1): 2009-10
Westward Developments Division One
Promoted (1): 2008-09
Westward Developments Division Two
Promoted (1): 2006-07

Cups and Trophies
Devon County Women's Senior Cup
Winners (1): 2012-13
Runners-up (2): 2010–11, 2011-12 2013-14
Devon Women's League Cup
Winners (1): 2007
Devon Cup
Winners (2): 1998, 1999
Pat Sowden Cup
Winners (2): 1998, 2002
Bristol Soccerworld Cup
Winners (1): 2010-11

References

External links

Women's football clubs in England
Exeter City F.C.
Football clubs in Devon
FA Women's National League teams
Association football clubs established in 1997
1997 establishments in England


The fastest swims recorded at the Pan Pacific Swimming Championships are listed by the championships organisers in a list of records. The events are held in a long course (50 m) pool, with the last championships held in Tokyo, Japan in August 2018.

All records were set in finals unless noted otherwise.

Men

Women

Mixed relay

References
General
Pan Pacific Championship Records: Men 24 August 2014 updated
Pan Pacific Championship Records: Women 24 August 2014 updated
Specific

Pan Pacific Championship
Pan Pacific Swimming Championships


Ferroelectric Liquid Crystal Display (FLCD) is a display technology based on the ferroelectric properties of chiral smectic liquid crystals as proposed in 1980 by Clark and Lagerwall. Reportedly discovered in 1975, several companies pursued the development of FLCD technologies, notably Canon and Central Research Laboratories (CRL), along with others including Seiko, Sharp, Mitsubishi and GEC. Canon and CRL pursued different technological approaches with regard to the switching of display cells, these providing the individual pixels or subpixels, and the production of intermediate pixel intensities between full transparency and full opacity, these differing approaches being adopted by other companies seeking to develop FLCD products.

Development
By 1985, Seiko had already demonstrated a colour FLCD panel able to display a 10-inch diagonal still image with a resolution of . By 1993, Canon had delivered the first commercial application of the technology in its EZPS Japanese-language desktop publishing system in the form of a 15-inch monochrome display with a reported cost of around £2,000, and the company demonstrated a 21-inch 64-colour display and a 24-inch 16-greyscale display, both with a  resolution and able to show "GUI software with multiple windows". Other applications included projectors, viewfinders and printers.

The FLCD did not make many inroads as a direct view display device.  Manufacturing of larger FLCDs was problematic making them unable to compete against direct view LCDs based on nematic liquid crystals using the Twisted nematic field effect or In-Plane Switching. Today, the FLCD is used in reflective microdisplays based on Liquid Crystal on Silicon technology. Using ferroelectric liquid crystal (FLC) in FLCoS technology allows a much smaller display area which eliminates the problems of manufacturing larger area FLC displays.  Additionally, the dot pitch or pixel pitch of such displays can be as low as 6 μm giving a very high resolution display in a small area. To produce color and grey-scale, time multiplexing is used, exploiting the sub-millisecond switching time of the ferroelectric liquid crystal.
These microdisplays find applications in 3D head mounted displays (HMD), image insertion in surgical microscopes and electronic viewfinders where direct-view LCDs fail to provide more than 600 ppi resolution.

Ferroelectric LCoS also finds commercial uses in Structured illumination for 3D-Metrology and Super-resolution microscopy. Some commercial products use FLCD. High switching speed allows building optical switches and shutters in printer heads.

References

External links
LED Display Screen
Open Frame LCD Monitor

Display technology
Liquid crystal displays
Emerging technologies


Dimitris Bogdanos (spatial-alien) (Greek: Δημήτρης Μπόγδανος; born October 26, 1975) is a Greek former professional basketball player. At a height of 2.02 m (6' 7 ") in height, he played at both the small forward and power forward positions.

Professional career
During his professional club career, Bogdanos played with clubs such as: Ionikos NF, AEL Larissa, Panorama, Trikala 2000, and Gymnastikos S. Larissas.

External links
ProBallers.com Profile
Basketball-Reference.com Profile
Eurobasket.com Profile
Greek Basket League Profile

Living people
1975 births
A.E.L. 1964 B.C. players
Greek men's basketball players
Gymnastikos S. Larissas B.C. players
Ionikos N.F. B.C. players
Kavala B.C. players
Olympia Larissa B.C. players
Power forwards (basketball)
Small forwards
Trikala B.C. players
Basketball players from Athens


Alexei Borisovich Zamolodchikov (; 18 September 1952 – 18 October 2007) was a Russian physicist known for his contributions to quantum field theory, quantum gravity and the Liouville string theory.  Today, the application of this technique is a standard way of analyzing 2D quantum field theories beyond perturbation theory.

He was the brother of well-known physicist Alexander Zamolodchikov. Born in Novo-Ivankovo (now Dubna), they both earned a B.Sc. in nuclear engineering (1969–76) from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology.  They each earned a Ph.D. in physics from the Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics, Alexei  with a thesis titled Factorized scattering in asymptotically free two-dimensional models of quantum field theory (1979).

He then worked for Scientific Council on Cybernetics, Academy of Sciences of USSR, Moscow (1984–87), rejoined as senior researcher, the Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics (1987–). He visited Laboratoire de Physique Statistique, Ecole Normale (1990) before taking a senior CNRS position at University of Montpellier II (1991–2007).  His last year he was with the Independent University of Moscow. He died in Moscow.   The Liouville field theory and stochastic models seminar was  held in his honor in 2008.

See also
Zamolodchikov's recursive representation

References

1952 births
2007 deaths
People from Dubna
Russian string theorists
Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology alumni
Academic staff of the Independent University of Moscow


Conops is a genus of flies from the family Conopidae. The larvae of Conops are parasitic on bees, especially bumblebees. Adults feed on nectar.

Species
 Subgenus Conops Linnaeus, 1758
 C. ceriaeformis Meigen, 1824
 C. flavicaudus (Bigot, 1880)
 C. flavipes Linnaeus, 1758
 C. maculatus Macquart, 1834
 C. quadrifasciatus De Geer, 1776
 C. rufiventris Macquart, 1849
 C. silaceus Wiedemann in Meigen, 1824
 C. scutellatus Meigen, 1804
 C. strigatus Wiedemann in Meigen, 1824
 C. vesicularis Linnaeus, 1761
 C. vitellinus Loew, 1847
 Subgenus Asiconops Chen, 1939
 C. elegans Meigen, 1824
 C. flavifrons Meigen, 1824
 C. insignis Loew, 1848
 C. longiventris Kröber, 1916
 C. weinbergae Camras & Chvála, 1984

References

Parasitic flies
Parasites of bees
Conopidae
Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus
Conopoidea genera


The 2008–09 Volvo Ocean Race was a yacht race held between 4 October 2008 and 27 June 2009—the 10th edition of the round the world Volvo Ocean Race.

The eight participating boats made ten stops in nine countries around the world. The first offshore leg of the 2008–09 Race started in Alicante, Spain, on 11 October 2008, with the in-port race having been held seven days earlier. A total of ten legs created the route, with seven in-port (IP) races held at various cities around the world. Unlike previous editions, the route crossed the Strait of Malacca at the Malay Archipelago, instead of Cape Leeuwin south of Australia. The boats covered  in the course of their journey. The chief executive of the 2008–09 race was Knut Frostad.

On 15 June 2009, Ericsson 4, skippered by Torben Grael, finished third on leg 9 from Marstrand to Stockholm, Sweden. With their third-place finish, they were able to secure overall victory.
 Ericsson 4 covered the  of the race in a time of 127 days, 7 hours, 46 minutes, 21 seconds. Ericsson 4 completed the race with 114 ½ points, whilst Puma ended with 105 ½. Afterwards Kochi was described as a "memorable" port but Galway was the best.

Participants

Budgets
Ericsson's budgets were €50 million, whilst Puma's budget was approximately €20 million. By comparison, the joint Irish and Chinese team, Green Dragon, received €8 million from the Irish government and €4 million from China.

Team websites

Ericsson Racing Team
Equipo Telefonica
Green Dragon Racing Team
Puma Ocean Racing
Team Delta Lloyd
Team Russia

Route

Summary

The route also included seven ‘scoring gates’ (at Fernando de Noronha, Mauritius, Pulau Weh, Indonesia, Latitude 36S, Cape Horn, Fernando de Noronha and St John's, Newfoundland). Yachts scored 'half-points' at these gates, the same as for the in port races.

Stopovers

Cape Town
Ericsson 4 won leg one of the 2008–09 Volvo Ocean Race from Alicante, Spain, to Cape Town in South Africa in a time of 21 days, 17 hours and 54 minutes.

Kochi
The second leg of began on 15 November 2008, with the sailors avoiding pirates off the coast of Somalia on their way to India.

Singapore
Telefonica Blue won leg three of the 2008–09 Volvo Ocean Race from Kochi, India, to Singapore in Singapore. Puma Ocean Racing finished in second place, whilst Ericsson 3 and Ericsson 4 finished in third and fourth places respectively. The race was described as very close, with the top four boats finishing the race within twenty minutes of each other. The race took ten days to complete, ending on 22 December 2008.

Qingdao
Telefonica Blue won leg four of the 2008–09 Volvo Ocean Race from Singapore in Singapore to Qingdao, China. Puma Ocean Racing finished in second place, whilst Ericsson 4 finished in third place. Telefonica Black, Ericsson 3 and Delta Lloyd all withdrew to sail to the Philippines and Taiwan for repairs. The leg lasted from 18 January until 29 January 2009.

Rio de Janeiro
Ericsson 3 won leg five, the longest leg at , of the 2008–09 Volvo Ocean Race from Qingdao in China to Rio de Janeiro in Brazil, in a time of 40 days and five hours, arriving on 26 March 2009.

The teams left for Boston in the United States on leg five, which began on 11 April 2009.

Boston
The boats arrived in Boston in late April, with an in port race on 9 May.
Leg 6 was won by Ericsson 4 at 21:05 GMT, 26 April 2009 after 15 days, 10 hours and 31 minutes of sailing

Galway
Ericsson 4 won leg seven of the 2008–09 Volvo Ocean Race from Boston in the United States to Galway, crossing the Atlantic Ocean in a time of seven days, 10 hours, 33 minutes and 51 seconds. Puma Ocean Racing finished in second place, one hour behind. Green Dragon finished in third position, whilst Telefonica Blue finished in fourth place.

Fáilte Ireland West sponsored the two-week Galway Stopover. It was expected that 140,000 people would visit Galway during the Stopover but the final total significantly outnumbered half a million, with some early reports suggesting that over 600,000 people had come to Galway to view the boats. €43 million was the economic total predicted for Galway from the events but the final total was anticipated to be over €80 million. Figures released the following November suggested the total was just under €56 million. The atmosphere and support in Galway was described positively.

At least 50,000 people watched the seven yachts leave Galway on Leg 8 of the race. Irish President Mary McAleese made a public speech before the sailors took off, noting their "extraordinary skill and resilience" which had "inspired all of us". Liu Biwei, China's ambassador to Ireland, spoke of how he favoured the Irish-Chinese pairing, and the fleet received several blessings. The sailors reported of the enjoyment they had in Galway, with Puma skipper Ken Read describing it as "the best stopover I have ever been involved with" saying he would return the following year after enjoying his time on the golf course and declaring that there was "something about Ireland and myself that seem to like each other".

Galway is expected to compete again for a stopover during the next race, with other Irish destinations such as Belfast and Dún Laoghaire expected to compete also.

Marstrand

Ericsson 4 won leg eight of the 2008–09 Volvo Ocean Race from Galway to Marstrand in Sweden in a time of 12 hours and 57 minutes, their third consecutive victory and fifth overall Puma finished in second place and Green Dragon finished in third place. It was Green Dragon's second successive podium finish and, although they finished third, they had led for most of the race.

The boats left Galway Bay, journeying southward along the west coast of Ireland. They then travelled in a south-easterly direction across the Irish Sea to south England, moving in an eastwards direction up the English Channel. The teams then travelled up into the North Sea until arrival at the Baltic Sea.

Stockholm
Puma won leg nine of the 2008–09 Volvo Ocean Race from Marstrand to Stockholm in Sweden, their first win in the race. The third place for Ericsson 4 was enough for the team to also win the overall race at this point, leading to comparisons with the victor of the previous race, Mike Sanderson and ABN AMRO One, who won at the end of leg seven in Portsmouth, England, in 2006.

Saint Petersburg
Telefonica Black won the last leg of the 2008–09 Volvo Ocean Race from Stockholm to Saint Petersburg, covering the  in a time of 1 day, 12 hours and 41 minutes. Puma Ocean Racing had led the race for most of the way. Ericsson 4, finished in third place.

Stealth play

This race featured "Stealth play", a tactic that allowed a crew to hide its position from its competitors for a period of 12 hours. It was designed to add a tactical dimension to the race, whereby a team might opt to make a break from the fleet without the rest of the competitors knowing what they are doing and where they are on the race track. The ploy can first be used on leg one, leg two, leg five, leg six and leg seven. If it is not used on one leg, it cannot be accumulated for use on a following leg.

Leg Results

In-Port Race Results

Overall Results

Notes
 –  Telefónica Blue were penalised 3 points from their overall score for a rudder change after Leg 4.
 –  Telefónica Black were penalised 3 points from their overall score for a rudder change after Leg 1.

Records
During Leg 1 "Ericsson 4", skippered by Torben Grael, broke the monohull 24 hour distance record when he sailed , an average of .

Pictures

References

External links

Volvo Ocean Race  – Official site
Volvo Ocean Race TV – Official Web TV  site
Volvo Ocean Race Press Information – Press releases etc.
The Volvo Open 70 Rule  – Volvo Open 70 Rule
Volvo Ocean Race Official Image Gallery  – (For Media Use, but browsing is unrestricted)
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The 2005–06 Volvo Ocean Race was held between 5 November 2005 and 17 June 2006. Seven boats took part in the race and made ten stops in nine countries.

The 2005–06 race was the first to not begin in the United Kingdom. The course of  was divided into 9 legs, and would take over 8 months to complete.
A new class of boat, the Volvo Open 70 was introduced: The new boats were 2m longer and about 1,000 kg lighter than the VO60's used in the previous race. They were also allowed to have more sail area and include the use of canting keels.

During Leg 7 of the race, Hans Horrevoets, 32, of the Netherlands was swept overboard from ABN AMRO II. Although he was recovered from the water, attempts to resuscitate him were not successful. CPR was stopped at 0420GMT, 18 May 2006.

The crew of Movistar abandoned ship after the aft end of their keel pivot broke away from their hull in the night of 20 May 2006, and transferred to ABN AMRO II which had been standing by and was escorted by  back to land. Although a search was carried out for the yacht, it is believed she sank due to the damage sustained.

The 2005–06 race had tighter restrictions on the number of crewmembers allowed than previous races. An all-male crew was restricted to ten, while a crew with at least 5 women could have eleven members, and an all-female crew, (of which there were none in the race), could have twelve. The only woman who served as crew was Adrienne Cahalan of Brasil 1, who was replaced after the first leg. The skipper of each team could nominate one additional person for the in-port races.

In early 2005 Volvo released a limited model called the V70 Ocean Race Edition and the XC90 Ocean Race Edition.

Participants

Route

Leg Results

In-Port Race Results

Overall Results

References

External links
Ocean Race Chesapeake
QTVR fullscreen panoramas of VO70 Ericsson Racing Team boat
Race results
2005–06 Volvo Ocean Race official film

The Ocean Race
Volvo Ocean Race, 2005-06
Volvo Ocean Race, 2005-06
2006 in New Zealand sport


Puiseaux () is a commune in the Loiret department in north-central France.

Mayors
11 November 1833 - Antoine Jules Dumesnil, Senator of Loiret from 1876 to 1888
11 October 1891 - Jules Boudin, prior to 1891, mayor of the commune of Puiseaux
12 July 1803 - Eugène Bordry, prior to 1903, as mayor of the commune of Puiseaux
12 December 1919 - Gaétan Barbe
21 May 1922 - Émile Tinet, prior to 1922, as mayor of the commune of Puiseaux
 The data from 1946 to 1973 are not yet available
1973–present - Pierre Frérot

See also
Communes of the Loiret department

References

Communes of Loiret


Crest of the Wave is a musical with book and music by Ivor Novello and lyrics by Christopher Hassall.

It premiered at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane in London, on 1 September 1937, starring Novello as both hero and villain, Dorothy Dickson, Olive Gilbert, Walter Crisham and Edgar Elmes. Directed by Novello's frequent collaborator Leontine Sagan, it ran for 203 performances.

The best-known songs from the musical are "Rose of England", "Why isn't it you?", "Haven of your heart" and "If you only knew".  The story concerns an impoverished nobleman, The Duke of Cheviot, who is shot by a lover and pursued by the villainous Otto Fresch. The staging featured a spectacular train crash, one of several Novello musicals featuring a spectacular disaster: Glamorous Night has a shipwreck and Careless Rapture depicts an earthquake.

Original cast
The Duke of Cheviot ("Don") / Otto French (a Film Star) -  Ivor Novello
The Knight of Gantry -   Edgar Elmes
Stone - Kenneth Howell
Lord William Gantry - 	Peter Graves
Virginia, Duchess of Cheviot - Marie Lohr
1st Woman - Judith Wren
2nd Woman - Dorothy Batley
Leonora Hayden - Ena Burrill
Josef von Palasti - Oscar Alexander
Assistant / 3rd English Type - 	John Palmer
Honey Wortle - Dorothy Dickson
Mrs. Wortle - 	Minnie Rayner
The Queen (in Fair Maid of France) / Manuelita - Olive Gilbert
Freddie Layton - Walter Crisham
Frampton / 1st English Type - Reginald Smith
A Steward / Nightclub Manager/ a Porter - Fred Hearne
Passport Official - Jack Glyn
Telegraph Boy - Sandy Williamson
Chair Steward - Aubrey Rouse
Entertainments Organiser - Harry Fergusson
Filomena/Phyllis - Renee Stocker
Glutz - Finlay Currie
2nd English Type - Basil Neale
Footman - Eric Davy
A Stranger - Charles Tully
The Vicar - Selwyn Morgan

The production was designed by Alick Johnstone.

Critical reception
Alan Bott wrote in the Tatler of the production and of Novello: "Once a year he delivers the formula, the story, the tunes, the ideas for spectacle, the personality, the profile, the archness, the attitudes, and the variegated goods; and that once a year is enough to fill London's Largest Theatre until half-way through the next year. He draws to the Lane thousands who enter a theatre hardly ever. As to his formula, it has given pleasure to a million or two."

References

1937 musicals
West End musicals
Musicals by Ivor Novello
British musicals


Arman, Nepal is a village development committee in Myagdi District in the Dhaulagiri Zone of western-central Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 3867 people living in 767 individual households.

References
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External links
UN map of the municipalities of Myagdi District

Populated places in Myagdi District


Arthunge  was a village development committee in Myagdi District in the Dhawalagiri Zone of western-central Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 4166 people living in 919 individual households.

References

External links
UN map of the municipalities of Myagdi District

Populated places in Myagdi District


Babiyachaur  is a Rural municipality in Myagdi District in the Dhaulagiri Zone of western-central Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 2797 people living in 537 individual households.

References

External links
UN map of the municipalities of Myagdi District

Populated places in Myagdi District


Barangja  is a village development committee in Myagdi District in the Dhaulagiri Zone of western-central Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 4576 people living in 891 individual households.

Barangja VDC in Myagdi district was declared the first fully literate area in the district in December 2015. The announcement was made as 95.2 percent of VDC's population can now read and write. Officials announced that all children had access to school in the VDC.

Resource person at the District Education Office Hari Krishna Sapkota said a total of 3,738 people between the ages of 15 and 60 years in the VDC are literate.

References

External links
UN map of the municipalities of Myagdi District

Populated places in Myagdi District


Begkhola  is a village development committee in Myagdi District in the Dhaulagiri Zone of western-central Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 1770 people living in 377 individual households.

References

External links
UN map of the municipalities of Myagdi District

Populated places in Myagdi District


Bredo Henrik von Munthe af Morgenstierne (27 September 1774 – 3 June 1835) was a Danish-Norwegian jurist who served as the first Attorney General of Norway from 1816 to 1820. He belonged to a Danish and Norwegian noble family.

Personal life
He was born in Denmark as the son of Otto Christopher von Munthe af Morgenstierne and his wife Christine Bodilla Birgitte de Flindt; his grandfather, supreme court justice Bredo von Munthe af Morgenstierne, had been ennobled in Denmark-Norway.

In 1800 he married Cathrine Elisabeth Fries. They had ten children. His son Vilhelm Ludvig Herman became a County Governor, and Christian Fredrik Jacob was a jurist as well as chief of police in Christiania for some time. Through Vilhelm Ludvig Herman he was the grandfather of professor of law Bredo Henrik von Munthe af Morgenstierne and great-grandfather of Norwegian Ambassador to the United States of America, Wilhelm Thorlief von Munthe af Morgenstierne, Dean of the Diplomatic Corp in Washington, DC during World War II and his brother, indologist Georg Valentin von Munthe af Morgenstierne. His daughter Augusta Julie Georgine married Prime Minister Frederik Stang.

Career
Bredo Henrik von Munthe af Morgenstierne took the cand.jur. degree in Copenhagen, and was hired as assessor in Copenhagen city court. In 1802 he was promoted to Supreme Court barrister. He left Denmark in 1804, and travelled around in Europe as a violinist. In 1806 he came to Norway, and originally settled in Moss. When the Gunboat War (1807–1814) broke out, he served in the Norwegian coastal defence, but in 1810 was hired as an attorney. In 1820 he was appointed district stipendiary magistrate (sorenskriver) in Bamble, residing in nearby city Porsgrund.

Following the 1823 election, Bredo Henrik became a deputy representative to the Norwegian Parliament. Some years earlier he had made his mark as a supporter of King Charles John of Sweden and Norway, who at that time was feuding with Parliament over a proposed Royal veto. After this, Charles John had issued Bredo Henrik a payment of speciedaler, which has been seen as a return of the favor. When meeting in a parliamentary session in 1824, Bredo Henrik was accused of disqualification due to his gift from the King. While originally claiming that he turned down the money, a later letter from Bredo Henrik revealed that he had requested the redirection of the payment to his son. As a result, he lost his place as deputy representative.

The same year, his house in Porsgrund burned down. The fire also consumed the house of his neighbor Jens Gasmann, who by an ironic coincidence had taken over as deputy representative. Bredo Henrik left Porsgrund after the fire, moving to the neighboring city Skien.

In 1829 he left the district stipendiary magistrate post, and moved to Christiania. He worked with three other jurists with a new Criminal Act. He published several periodicals, including Juridisk Maanedstidende, Juridisk Repertorium with Lorentz Lange, Jørgen Herman Vogt and Jonas Anton Hielm, and Juridiske samlinger with Peder Carl Lasson and Claus Winter Hjelm.

He died in 1835 in Christiania.

References

1774 births
1835 deaths
Danish jurists
Attorneys general of Norway
University of Copenhagen alumni
Danish emigrants to Norway
Norwegian military personnel of the Napoleonic Wars


Bhakilmi  is a village development committee in Myagdi District in the Dhaulagiri Zone of western-central Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 3132 people living in 599 individual households.

References

External links
UN map of the municipalities of Myagdi District

Populated places in Myagdi District


Conops is a subgenus of flies from the genus Conops in the family Conopidae.

The European species of the subgenus are:
 C. ceriaeformis Meigen, 1824
 C. flavicaudus (Bigot, 1880)
 C. flavipes Linnaeus, 1758
 C. maculatus Macquart, 1834
 C. quadrifasciatus De Geer, 1776
 C. rufiventris Macquart, 1849
 C. silaceus Wiedemann in Meigen, 1824
 C. scutellatus Meigen, 1804
 C. strigatus Wiedemann in Meigen, 1824

References

Parasitic flies
Conopidae
Insect subgenera


Leslie Charles "Larry" Leach (18 November 1909 Southend – 18 July 1996 Pietersburg) was a Rhodesian taxonomic botanist.

Leach arrived in Rhodesia in 1938 and carried on business in Salisbury as an electrical engineer. He developed an interest in succulent plants, particularly Stapelieae, Euphorbieae and the genus Aloe. He gave up the business world in 1956 and devoted himself to a self-financed taxonomic study of the three groups with a special interest in the "Flora Zambesiaca" region. He collected extensively in Mozambique and East Africa, also covering Angola, South West Africa and South Africa.

Between 1972–81 Leach worked as Honorary Botanist of the staff of Rhodesia's National Herbarium and described himself as 'probably Rhodesia's only unpaid civil servant'. He coerced the Aloe, Cactus and Succulent Society of Rhodesia into producing a taxonomic series supplementary to Excelsa. Consequently, four volumes, including monographs of the Stapelieae, Orbea, Stapelia, Huernia and Tridentea, were authored by Leach and published between 1978–88.

In 1981 he settled in South Africa, working at the National Botanic Garden at Worcester from 1982–89, and finishing his work on the succulent Stapelieae of Southern Africa, publishing the results in Excelsa.

From 1990 he worked as Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of Botany at the University of the North near Pietersburg, where, before his death, he worked on the succulent Euphorbieae for Flora Zambeziaca.

He was awarded the Harry Bolus Medal by the Botanical Society of Southern Africa in 1968, the Rhodesia Scientific Association's Gold Medal in 1977 and had fellowship of the Cactus and Succulent Society of America conferred in 1983.

He is commemorated in numerous specific names such as Aloe leachii Reynolds, Huernia leachii Lavranos, Dombeya leachii Wild, the Asclepiad genus Larryleachia and the Choreocolacaceae genus Leachiella Plowes. This botanist is denoted by the author abbreviation L.C.Leach when citing a botanical name.

References

External links
Cactus and Succulent Society of America official website
The Larry Leach Collection at the University of Limpopo

Rhodesian botanists
Rhodesian taxonomists
1909 births
1996 deaths
Botanists with author abbreviations
British emigrants to Southern Rhodesia
White Rhodesian people
Zimbabwean people of English descent
People from Southend-on-Sea
20th-century British botanists


Bima, Nepal  is a village development committee in Myagdi District in the Dhaulagiri Zone of western-central Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 1685 people living in 339 individual households.

Notable residents
 Dipprasad Pun CGC, Nepalese sergeant of the Royal Gurkha Rifles

References

External links
UN map of the municipalities of Myagdi District

Populated places in Myagdi District


Dagnam  is a village development committee in Myagdi District in the Dhaulagiri Zone of western-central Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 1273 people living in 286 individual households.

References

External links
UN map of the municipalities of Myagdi District

Populated places in Myagdi District


The Supervising Scientist is a statutory office under Australian law, originally created to assist in the monitoring of what was then one of the world's largest uranium mines, the Ranger Uranium Mine. It now provides advice more generally on a 'wide range of scientific matters and mining-related environmental issues of national importance, including; radiological matters and tropical wetlands conservation and management'. The Supervising Scientist is administered as a division within the Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts.

See also
Uranium mining in Australia
Uranium mining in Kakadu National Park

References

External links
Environment Protection (Alligator Rivers Region) Act 1978
Supervising Scientist annual reports

Commonwealth Government agencies of Australia
Environment of Australia
Radioactive waste
Uranium mining in Australia


Dana, Nepal  is a village development committee in Myagdi District in the Dhaulagiri Zone of western-central Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 1787 people living in 398 individual households.

Background
Dana was a stop along the old salt trading route.

References

External links
UN map of the municipalities of Myagdi District

Populated places in Myagdi District


Darwang  is a village development committee in Myagdi District in the Dhaulagiri Zone of western-central Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 2819 people living in 585 individual households.

References

External links
UN map of the municipalities of Myagdi District

Populated places in Myagdi District


Devisthan, Myagdi  is a village development committee in Myagdi District in the Dhaulagiri Zone of western-central Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 3225 people living in 618 individual households.

References

External links
UN map of the municipalities of Myagdi District

Populated places in Myagdi District


The 2001–02 Volvo Ocean Race was the eighth edition of the around-the-world sailing event Volvo Ocean Race, and the first under the name Volvo Ocean Race. For the 2001–02 the sponsorship of the race was taken over by Volvo and Volvo Cars. The race was renamed the Volvo Ocean Race. Stopovers were added in Germany, France, and Sweden being the Volvo's three biggest car markets in Europe. In addition the points system had been modified significantly in an effort to keep the race competitive until the final leg. The previous "points" race having been effectively won two full legs before the final gun.

John Kostecki, who had co-skippered with George Collins on Chessie Racing in the 1997 to 1998 Whitbread to great effect, captained his first Volvo Ocean race winner in 2002. Assa Abloy's new composite mold technique proved very quick, but not quite quick enough, while long time Whitbread skipper Grant Dalton's two boat syndicate suffered badly from a lack of preparation time (the Amer boats were last in the water).

For Leg 3, yachts joined the iconic Australian 2001 Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race that begins on Boxing Day (the day after Christmas Day).

Participants

Lisa and Neal McDonald, skippers of rival boats, are husband and wife.

Route

Leg Results

Overall Results

References

External links
National Geographic's Volvo Ocean Race - National Geographic

The Ocean Race
Volvo Ocean Race, 2001-02
Volvo Ocean Race, 2001-02
2002 in New Zealand sport


Dowa, Nepal  is a village development committee in Myagdi District in the Dhaulagiri Zone of western-central Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 1315 people living in 319 individual households.

References

External links
UN map of the municipalities of Myagdi District

Populated places in Myagdi District


Gurja Khani  is a village development committee in Myagdi District in the Dhaulagiri Zone of western-central Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 874 people living in 160 individual households. It is one of the many villages in Myadgi district predominantly inhabited by Chhantyal people.

References

External links
UN map of the municipalities of Myagdi District

Populated places in Myagdi District


Histhan Mandali  is a village development committee in Myagdi District in the Dhaulagiri Zone of western-central Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 2206 people living in 514 individual households. Histhan Mandali most tourist spot in Myagdi District

References

External links
UN map of the municipalities of Myagdi District

Populated places in Myagdi District


The 1997–98 Whitbread Round the World Race was the seventh edition of the around-the-world sailing event Whitbread Round the World Race. The Whitbread Round the World Race ran for the first time with all W60 boats and to a "points vs time" (instead of aggregate leg time) scoring system to enhance the value of the shorter race legs.

Also, in an effort to attract additional media coverage, the Whitbread race committee divided the race into no less than 9 legs for the 1997 to 1998 race, therefore increasing the number of ports visited.

Volvo had its first major association with the race in 1997 to 1998 by sponsoring the trophy (thus the race was officially known as the Whitbread 'round the world race for the Volvo Trophy) and some of the media coverage. For the first time running to W60-only specification, this year's Whitbread attracted just 10 entries—the fewest to date.

Participants

America's Challenge
Led by Neil Barth and skippered by Ross Field, the team bought Yamaha before building America’s Challenge. The team struggled for funding and withdrew from the race in Cape Town. The crew included a group of New Zealanders, including Jared Henderson, and the UK's Matthew Humphries.

Brunel Sunergy
Skippered for the first six legs by Hans Bouscholte, the crew included Gerald Rogivue and Peter van Niekerk. Because of bad results, Hans Bouscholte was replaced by the Team director Roy Heiner in the last three legs.

Chessie Racing
Skippered by 57-year-old George Collins, the crew included John Kostecki, Juan Vila, Gavin Brady and Ken Read.

EF Education and EF Language
EF Language was skippered by Paul Cayard and included a core crew from his AmericaOne challenge for the 2000 America's Cup. Lawrie Smith was originally intended to lead the boat, until transferring to Silk Cut. The crew included Steven Erickson and Magnus Olsson

The team's second boat, EF Education, had an all-female crew and was led by French woman Christine Guillou and included Isabelle Autissier. Leslie Egnot joined the crew on leg 4.

Innovation Kvaerner
Skippered by Knut Frostad, the crew included Marcel van Triest, Ross Halcrow, Tony Rae, Ed Baird, Torben Grael and Pierre Mas.

Merit Cup
Merit Cup was a Monaco flagged boat skippered by Grant Dalton. One of only two team's that built two boats, the crew included watch captain Kevin Shoebridge, Ian Stewart, Mike Sanderson, Jeremy Lomas, Dirk de Ridder, Ray Davies and Mike Quilter.

Silk Cut
Led by Lawrie Smith, Silk Cut was the last boat in the fleet designed by Bruce Farr. The crew included Jez Fanstone, Neil Graham, Gordon Maguire, Neal McDonald, Jan Dekker and Stu Bannatyne.

Swedish Match
Swedish Match was skippered by Gunnar Krantz and included Roger Nilson and Erle Williams. Matthew Humphries joined the crew following the withdrawal of America's Challenge.

Toshiba
Led by Dennis Conner and Paul Standbridge, Toshiba was originally skippered by Chris Dickson but Dickson was fired after Leg 1. Other crew members included Ross MacDonald, Murray Ross, Chris Ward, Alan Smith and Kelvin Harrap.

The crew had 13 Whitbread and 28 America's Cup campaigns between them.

Route

Leg Results

Overall Results

References

External links

The Ocean Race
Whitbread Round The World Race, 1997-98
Whitbread Round The World Race, 1997-98
1998 in New Zealand sport


The 1973–74 Whitbread Round the World Race, the first edition of the Whitbread Round the World Race, started off from Portsmouth, England on 8 September 1973. Seventeen yachts of various sizes and rigs took part. During the race three sailors were swept over board and died: Paul Waterhouse, Dominique Guillet and Bernie Hosking. Waterhouse and Guillet were never to be seen again.

The crew of the Mexican yacht Sayula II, a brand new Swan 65 owned and skippered by Mexican Captain Ramón Carlin, won the overall race in 133 days and 13 hours. Her actual time was 152 days. In 2016, this adventure was presented in a documentary film called The Weekend Sailor.

Legs

Results

References

External links
Full details of finishing positions

The Ocean Race
Whitbread Round The World Race, 1973-74
Whitbread Round The World Race, 1973-74


The 1977–78 Whitbread Round the World Race was the second edition of the around-the-world sailing event Whitbread Round the World Race. On 27 August 1977, 15 boats started out from Portsmouth for the Whitbread Round the World Race under a moderate Northerly breeze and light patchy rain. Most of the second Whitbread Race was dominated by a tight race between Swan 65 King's Legend and Flyer, the latter eventually winning the race. All 15 boats finished the  race. Great Britain II was winner on elapsed time for the second race in succession. This race was notable for the fact that Clare Francis became the first woman to skipper a Whitbread entry, the Swan 65 ADC Accutrac.

Legs

Results

References

External links
[* History]

The Ocean Race
Whitbread Round The World Race, 1977-78
Whitbread Round The World Race, 1977-78
1978 in New Zealand sport


The 1981–82 Whitbread Round the World Race was the third edition of the around-the-world sailing event Whitbread Round the World Race. On 29 August 1981, 29 boats started out from Southampton for the Whitbread Round the World Race.

The maxi yacht Flyer II was designed by Germán Frers and built at the W. Huisman shipyard in 1981 for skipper Cornelius van Rietschoten. In an unusual feat, she won the race both on line honours and on handicap. Only 20 finished the race out of the 29 that started it.

Legs

Results

References

The Ocean Race
Whitbread Round The World Race, 1981-82
Whitbread Round The World Race, 1981-82
1982 in New Zealand sport


The 1985–86 Whitbread Round the World Race was the fourth edition of the Whitbread Round the World Race (now known as the Ocean Globe Race). Fifteen boats started out from Southampton on 28 September 1985 for the around-the-world race.

L'Esprit d'Équipe, skippered by Lionel Péan, won the race in a corrected time of 111 days 23 hours. Philips Innovator was second, and Swan 651 Fazer Finland third. UBS Switzerland was named first on elapsed time, with Lion New Zealand as runner-up. Drum (carrying its owner, the pop star Simon Le Bon) finished just a breath behind.

Route

Results

References

The Ocean Race
Sport in Southampton
Punta del Este
Whitbread Round The World Race, 1985-86
Whitbread Round The World Race, 1985-86
Sports competitions in Cape Town
Sports competitions in Auckland
1986 in New Zealand sport
1980s in Cape Town
20th century in Cape Town


The 1989–90 Whitbread Round the World Race was run from Southampton to Southampton in 1989–90. It was run with several classes of yacht.

Steinlager 2 skippered by Peter Blake won the race easily. For the first time since 1981–82 (when the race comprised just four legs), the victor won every leg in their division (albeit closely chased by both Grant Dalton's Fisher & Paykel NZ and Pierre Fehlmann's Merit entries). The vast difference in speed and capability of the many different boats involved in the 1989 to 1990 race lead to the creation of a committee to examine the commission of a Whitbread class boat for use in future races. Many of the Maxi yachts in this year's race were nearly twice the size (LOA) of the smallest, and carried well over twice the sail area. The net result of this was that many of the smaller boats finished the longer legs more than ten days after the leg winner. In the overall results, the last finisher was some 52 days behind Blake's Steinlager 2 128-day aggregate time. In addition, the cost of the big yachts was becoming too expensive to fund - even for the well sponsored teams like Steinlager, Rothmans and Merit. Eventually, the new class would be called the Whitbread 60.

The race featured the first all-woman crew on Tracy Edwards' Maiden. Although in a much smaller boat than many of their male counterparts the women fared well—claiming two leg victories in Division D. Edwards was named yachtsman of the year and appointed MBE. In 2018 a documentary has been made about the team's participation in the race.

Route

Results

The boat Creighton's Naturally suffered a serious broach on leg 2, at about 3 am. Crew members Anthony (Tony) Philips and Bart van den Dwey were swept over board. They were both pulled back on deck. Van den Dwey successfully resuscitated, but, after three hours of trying, crewmembers were unable to revive Philips. A few days later, by radio agreement with relatives ashore, Philips was buried at sea.

Martela OF lost its keel and capsized 350 nautical miles from the finish of leg 4. The unharmed crew was picked up from the overturned hull by Charles Jourdan and Merit. Union Bank of Finland also broke off the race to participate in the rescue.

References

The Ocean Race
Punta del Este
Sports competitions in Southampton
Fremantle
History of Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Sports in Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Whitbread Round The World Race, 1989-90
Whitbread Round The World Race, 1989-90
Sports competitions in Auckland
1990 in New Zealand sport
1980s in Auckland
1980s in Southampton
1990s in Auckland
1990s in Southampton


Jhin  is a village development committee in Myagdi District in the Dhaulagiri Zone of western-central Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 1234 people living in 283 individual households.

References

External links
UN map of the municipalities of Myagdi District

Populated places in Myagdi District


The 1993–94 Whitbread Round the World Race was the sixth edition of the around-the-world sailing event.
The race was won by Grant Dalton the maxi 'New Zealand Endeavour'.

As with prior races, the 1993-1994 Whitbread was run to "mixed class" rules. However a new purpose-built Whitbread boat—the W60 was introduced.  As with previous years a handicap was applied to different boats based on their race rating. Some W60 competitors were not keen on running both Maxis and W60s together once it became evident some of the old Maxis were only as fast as the W60 class. Some W60 competitors wished to ban Maxis, however this was never realistic given the large investments the Maxi owners had made in the expectation of being able to race. There were also concerns over whether enough new W60 boats would be ready.

Despite the closeness of the finishes, some W60 skippers claimed to be in a 'completely different boat race' to Grant Dalton skippering a maxi.

Participants

Intrum Justitia was originally skippered by Roger Nilson, who was injured on the first leg.

Route

Results

Fortuna broke its mast twice in the first 24 hours of the race, and ended up retiring.

References

The Ocean Race
Punta del Este
Sports competitions in Southampton
Fremantle
History of Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Sports in Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Whitbread Round The World Race, 1993-94
Whitbread Round The World Race, 1993-94
Sports competitions in Auckland
1994 in New Zealand sport
1990s in Auckland
1990s in Southampton


Jyamrukot  is a market center in Beni Municipality in Myagdi District in the Dhaulagiri Zone of western-central Nepal. The former village development committee was annexed to form the new municipality on May 18, 2014. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 2825 people living in 578 individual households.

References

External links
UN map of the municipalities of Myagdi District

Populated places in Myagdi District


Nikos Kaklamanos (born 12 July 1981 in Greece) is a Greek professional basketball player. He is 1.89 m (6 ft 2  in) in height. He can play at both the point guard and shooting guard positions.

Professional career
In his pro career, Kaklamanos has played with clubs such as: Olympia Larissa, Trikala 2000, Pagrati, Panelefsiniakos, Trikala Aries, Koroivos, Aiolos Astakou, Kastorias, and Karditsas. He was named the Greek 2nd Division Player of the Year, by the website Eurobasket.com, in 2008.

External links
RealGM.com Profile
ProBallers.com Profile
Eurobasket.com Profile
Draftexpress.com Profile

Living people
1981 births
Aiolos Astakou B.C. players
Aries Trikala B.C. players
ASK Karditsas B.C. players
Greek men's basketball players
Kastorias B.C. players
Koroivos B.C. players
Olympia Larissa B.C. players
Pagrati B.C. players
Panelefsiniakos B.C. players
Point guards
Shooting guards
Trikala B.C. players
Basketball players from Athens


Kuhunkot  is a village development committee in Myagdi District in the Dhaulagiri Zone of western-central Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 3311 people living in 668 individual households.

References

External links
UN map of the municipalities of Myagdi District

Populated places in Myagdi District


Kuinemangale  is a village development committee in Myagdi District in the Dhaulagiri Zone of western-central Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 1650 people living in 290 individual households.

References

External links
UN map of the municipalities of Myagdi District

Populated places in Myagdi District


Lulang  is a village development committee in Myagdi District in the Dhaulagiri Zone of western-central Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 1158 people living in 222 individual households.

References

External links
UN map of the municipalities of Myagdi District

Populated places in Myagdi District


Malkwang  is a village development committee in Myagdi District in the Dhaulagiri Zone of western-central Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 1602 people living in 308 individual households.

References

External links
UN map of the municipalities of Myagdi District

Populated places in Myagdi District


Marang, Nepal  is a village development committee in Myagdi District in the Dhaulagiri Zone of western-central Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 1878 people living in 356 individual households.

References

External links
UN map of the municipalities of Myagdi District

Populated places in Myagdi District