Erik Frey (1 March 1908 – 2 September 1988) was an Austrian film actor. He appeared in more than 110 films between 1936 and 1988. He was born and died in Vienna, Austria. He was married to the actress Jane Tilden.

Selected filmography

 Court Theatre (1936)
 Judgement Day (1940)
 Love is Duty Free (1941)
 Late Love (1943)
 The Heart Must Be Silent (1944)
 Viennese Girls (1945)
 The Immortal Face (1947)
 The Other Life (1948)
 Eroica (1949)
 Dear Friend (1949)
 Vagabonds (1949)
 Cordula (1950)
 The Fourth Commandment (1950)
 Vienna Waltzes (1951)
 City Park (1951)
 Maria Theresa (1951)
 1. April 2000 (1952)
 If I Only Have Your Love (1953)
 On the Green Meadow (1953)
 The Immortal Vagabond (1953)
 The Emperor Waltz (1953)
 The Eternal Waltz (1954)
 The Forester of the Silver Wood (1954)
 Sarajevo (1955)
 The Doctor's Secret (1955)
 Crown Prince Rudolph's Last Love (1955)
 Ludwig II (1955)
 The Last Ten Days (1955)
 Espionage (1955)
 His Daughter is Called Peter (1955)
 Through the Forests and Through the Trees (1956)
 Forest Liesel (1956)
 Night Nurse Ingeborg (1958)
 Jacqueline (1959)
 The Reverend Turns a Blind Eye (1971)
 The Standard (1977)
 Goetz von Berlichingen of the Iron Hand (1979)

References

External links

1908 births
1988 deaths
Austrian male film actors
Austrian male television actors
Male actors from Vienna
20th-century Austrian male actors
Burials at Döbling Cemetery


Axelsson is a Swedish surname. Notable people with the surname include:

 Andreas Axelsson, Swedish musician
 Andreas Axelsson (criminal), Swedish criminal
 Anton Axelsson (born 1986), Swedish ice hockey player
 Bjorn Axelsson (born 1942), Swedish organizational theorist
 Carina Axelsson, live-in companion to Gustav, Hereditary Prince of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg
 Christina Axelsson (born 1949), Swedish politician
 Dick Axelsson (born 1987), Swedish ice hockey player
 Emil Axelsson (ice hockey) (born 1986), Swedish ice hockey
 Emil Axelsson (co-driver) (born 1983), Swedish rally co-driver
 Erik Axelsson Tott (c. 1419–1481), regent of Sweden
 Jacob Axelsson Lindblom, Swedish scholar
 Kurt Axelsson (1941–1984), Swedish footballer
 Lennart Axelsson (born 1941), Swedish trumpet player
 Majgull Axelsson (born 1947), Swedish journalist and writer
 Niklas Axelsson (born 1972), Swedish cyclist
 Nils Axelsson, a Swedish footballer
 Olle Axelsson (1913–1980), Swedish bobsledder
 P. J. Axelsson (born 1975), Swedish ice hockey player
 Per Axelsson (born 1966), Swedish curler
 Peter Axelsson, Swedish badminton player
 Ragnar Axelsson (born 1958), Swedish photographer
 Sun Axelsson (1935–2011), Swedish writer
 Thor Axelsson, Finnish sprint canoer
 Ulla Axelsson, Swedish actress also known as Ulla Akselson

See also
 Axelsen
 Axelson

Swedish-language surnames


Kortehemmen () is a village in Smallingerland municipality in the province of Friesland, the Netherlands. It had a population of around 258 in January 2017.

History
The village was first mentioned in 1444 as Korteham, and means "short silted land near a stream". Korteham developed on a sandy ridge along the river  with Kortehemmen on one side and Zuider Drachten (nowadays part of Drachten) on the other. Around 1300, a church was built in the village. No tower was built and a belfry was added instead. The current belfry dates from 1950.

Kortehemmen was home to 127 people in 1840. In 1939, a conference centre was opened in the village by the . Kortehemmen was physically cut off from Drachten by the construction of the A7 motorway.

Gallery

References

External links

Populated places in Friesland
Smallingerland


Nijega  () is a village in Smallingerland municipality in the province of Friesland, the Netherlands. It had a population of around 461 in January 2017.

The village was first mentioned in 1412 as Nyegae, and means "new village". Nije (new) has been added to distinguish from Oudega. The Dutch Reformed church dates from at least 1381, and has been modified in 1850, and partially rebuilt in 1894.

Nijega was home to 165 people in 1840. The former elementary school was used as the village centre, however the building was in poor share. In 2003, a village centre opened next door to the Kommissiehuys.

Gallery

References

External links

Populated places in Friesland
Smallingerland


The West Coast National Park lies  north of Cape Town in the Western Cape province of South Africa. The park is found inside of the Cape West Coast Biosphere Reserve, part of the UNESCO Man and the Biosphere Programme. It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean on the west and the R27 coastal road, and runs from the town of Yzerfontein in the south, up to the Langebaan Lagoon. The park is particularly well known for its bird life and for the spring flowers which occur in the months from August to September, especially in the Postberg flower reserve section of the park. The park, with the islands in Saldanha Bay, has been identified by BirdLife International as an Important Bird Area. The park was proclaimed in 1985, and is  in size.

History of protection
The Langebaan Lagoon, a Ramsar site, was proclaimed as a marine reserve in 1973. Concerns over the condition of the Langebaan Lagoon and neighbouring Saldanha Bay led to a proposal in 1976 that the Langebaan Lagoon, the peninsula, the offshore islands and the surrounding land urgently be proclaimed as a nature reserve. The Langebaan National Park was declared in 1985, after a long process, and it was expanded in 1987 when some land which had been managed by the Department of Forestry and neighbouring farms were included in the park. In that same year an additional  of land around Postberg was included as a "contractual national park". Expansion has continued since then. Its name was changed to West Coast National Park in 1987. In 2000, the park and Langebaan Lagoon was added to the UNESCO Cape West Coast Biosphere Reserve.

Fauna
Wildlife in the park includes large antelope such as eland, red hartebeest, bontebok, kudu, gemsbok, steenbok, mountain zebra, duiker and ostriches in the Postberg section. Other smaller animals include the bat-eared fox, caracal, and Cape gray mongoose.

Many Palearctic migrants winter in the lagoon during the austral summer, particularly in September as species arrive from the northern hemisphere, and in March when they gather in large numbers to feed up prior to undertaking the return migration. At these times the birds will be transitioning out of and into their breeding plumage. The birds are pushed towards the hides as the water level rises with the tide and eventually they must fly off until the tide has receded once more. Red knot, sanderling, little stint, Ruff, marsh, Terek and Curlew sandpipers, ruddy turnstone, ringed and grey plover, greenshank, Eurasian whimbrel, Eurasian curlew and bar-tailed godwit are the most regular species. Little egret and South African shelduck are resident and can often be seen with the waders, while greater flamingoes and great white pelican occur in deeper water. An isolated hide west of the Geelbek educational centre overlooks a salt pan where it is possible to observe the rare chestnut-banded plover. The lagoon's importance for migratory birds means that it is a site which is subject to the Ramsar Convention for the conservation and sustainable use of wetlands.

On the land, the fynbos surrounding the lagoon is home to southern black korhaan, Cape spurfowl and grey-winged francolin, Cape penduline and grey tit, southern anteater chat, white-throated and yellow canary, Karoo lark, chestnut-vented warbler, bokmakierie and Cape bunting, which are all easily seen. African marsh harrier and black Harrier hunt by quartering the ground. The coastal islands at the mouth of the lagoon are important breeding colonies for Cape and Hartlaub's gull, Cape gannet and African penguin, as well as cormorants and terns.

Flora
Although the thousands of migrating birds are an important part of the conservation, the flowers are also a major attraction. The park is composed of various kinds of habitats — as well as the Langebaan fynbos and lagoon — which account for the variety of flora and fauna all around the park. The months of August and September bring about the proliferation of annual Spring flowers in the West Coast National Park. During the spring flower season large fields of blooming White rain daisies (Dimorphotheca pluvialis), Gousblom (Arctotis hirsuta), Magriet (Ursinia anthemoides), Livingstone daisies (Dorotheanthus bellidiformis), and Wild sorrel (Oxalis pes-caprae) can be seen along with other species of flowing plants.

Postberg

The area of Postberg, where the carpets of Spring flowers can be seen, is only open during the months of August and September. The most common flower species are Suurvy (Carpobrotus edulis), Elandsvy (Carpobrotus acinaciformis), Gousblom (Arctotis hirsuta), Bokbaai vygie (Dorotheanthus bellidiformis), White rain daisy (Dimorphotheca pluvialis), Sporrie (Heliophila coronopifolia), Magriet (Ursinia anthemoides), and Soetuintjie (Moraea fugax).

Photo gallery

See also
 Eve's footprint

Notes

References

External links

 West Coast National Park

National parks of South Africa
Protected areas of the Western Cape
Important Bird Areas of South Africa
Flora of South Africa


Izabela Filipiak (born 1961 in Gdynia) is a Polish writer, an essayist, a columnist, and a scholar.

Biography
She debuted in the beginning of the 90s as one of the most distinct figures of Polish literary life. In her short stories and essays, she promoted the new literature in democratic Poland as open to voices previously excluded from cultural discourse. Her novel Absolutna Amnezja published in 1995, critiques the communist past from the point of view of socially maladjusted young women. The book mixes satirical representation of authoritarian schools and dysfunctional families with historical events from the pre-Solidarity period and discusses education as breaking the girls' spirits through an elaborate application of double standards. When the critics attacked the novel, Maria Janion, the renowned literary historian, came to its rescue, thus launching the major debate about the absence of feminism in the Polish cultural tradition.

Starting in the late 90s, Filipiak was teaching creative writing classes at the gender studies department of Warsaw University and in the College of Arts at Letters at Jagiellonian University in Kraków. She published a creative writing handbook, Tworcze Pisanie dla Mlodych Panien, which she addressed mainly to women writers and men inspired to embrace their inner fem. She wrote an introduction to the first translation of Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own. In 1997, she came out as a gay in the Polish edition of Cosmopolitan and on national TV. She claimed that coming out improved both her personal life and her career, as she began to write columns for top shelf magazines. Starting in 2000, her tone became more critical, and she began to comment on the rise of populism and homophobia in Poland. These columns were eventually published in the collection Kultura Obrazonych, but by 2003 Filipiak lost all her press assignments. She connects this turn of events with the mobilization of the Christian right as Poland entered the European Union.

In 2003 Filipiak left for the University of California at Berkeley for an appointment as a visiting scholar at the Institute of Slavic, East European, Eurasian Studies, and an affiliated scholar at the Beatrice M. Bain Research Group. In 2005, supported by her mentor Maria Janion, she received her PhD from the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw, but her thesis about political and artistic applications of transgender figures in East European modernism was considered subversive by established scholars. Between 2002 and 2006, Filipiak published a volume of poetry (Madame Intuita), a play (The Book of Em) based on the life of Maria Komornicka, a haunted figure of Polish modernism, and Absolutna Amnezja went through a third printing. Still excluded by the mainstream, the writer decided to stay in the U.S. In 2009, she received an MFA in fiction from Mills College in California, then returned to Poland upon accepting a position in the American Studies Department at Gdańsk University.

Since 2010, Filipiak has been the president of Writers for Peace Foundation whose goals are supporting minority voices and maintaining a network of artists concerned with issues of marginalized groups. In the fall of 2010, Writers for Peace confronted SKM, the local commuter train, regarding the lack of accessibility.

Filipiak specializes in the subject of exclusion, displacement, grief (and the lack of formulas for its public expression for gay people), documenting styles of radical resistance to social and cultural exclusion, irony and black humor, debt, war and privatization.

Works Published
Śmierć i spirala short stories Wrocław: A, 1992,
Absolutna amnezja novel (1st edition Poznań: Obserwator, 1995, ; 2nd edition Warszawa: PIW, 1998, ; 3rd edition Warszawa: tCHu, 2006, )
Niebieska menażeria memoir (Warszawa: Sick!, 1997
Twórcze pisanie dla młodych panien essays on creative writing Warszawa: W.A.B, 1999,
Madame Intuita poetry (1st edition Warszawa: Nowy Świat, 2002, ; 2nd edition, including trans. by Alessandro Amenta, Salerno: Heimat Edizioni
Kultura obrażonych political; non-fiction (Warszawa: W.A.B, 2003,
Alma novel (Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, 2003,
Księga Em play (Warszawa: tCHu, 2005,
Magiczne oko. Opowiadania zebrane selected stories (Warszawa: W.A.B. 2006, ,
Obszary odmienności. Rzecz o Marii Komornickiej gender studies; modernism, non-fiction (Warszawa: tCHu, 2005,

References

External links
 Izabela Filipiak Homepage
 "Izabela Filipiak on Literature, Citizenship, and Emigration."

University of Gdańsk alumni
21st-century Polish women writers
Polish lesbian writers
People from Gdynia
1961 births
Living people
International Writing Program alumni
Lesbian academics


The Kerrygold International Classic was a men's golf tournament on the European Tour from 1975 to 1977. It was held at the Waterville Golf Links on the Ring of Kerry in County Kerry, Ireland.

The most notable of the three winners was former British and U.S. Open champion Tony Jacklin, with American George Burns and home professional Liam Higgins being the other two. Burns beat John Fowler at the second hole of a sudden-death playoff, making a par 4 after Fowler had taken a bogey 5.

Winners

References

External links
Coverage on the European Tour's official site

Former European Tour events
Golf tournaments in the Republic of Ireland
Sport in County Kerry
Golf in County Kerry
1970s in Irish sport


The Export Control Act of 1940 was one in a series of legislative efforts by the US government and initially the administration of President Franklin D. Roosevelt to accomplish two tasks: to avoid scarcity of critical commodities in a likely prewar environment and to limit the exportation of materiel to Imperial Japan. The act originated as a presidential proclamation by Roosevelt forbidding the exporting of aircraft parts, chemicals, and minerals without a license, and it was intended to induce Japan to curtail its occupation of the coast of Indochina.

The text stated that whenever the President deemed it "necessary in the interest of national defense," he could prohibit or curtail the exportation of military equipment, munitions, tools, and materials.

Although controls were first authorized in 1940 in regard to munitions and similar materials essential to the defense effort, its coverage was extended in 1942 to all commodities and broader geographic coverage after the United States entered World War II. The act was extended with modifications through 1948, and it was envisioned that remaining controls would soon disappear at the time of re-enactment in 1949.

The scarcity of certain goods in the world markets, however, made the continuance of controls necessary to prevent a drain on such goods from plentiful American supplies with its consequential inflationary effects. National security and foreign policy concerns, especially following the outbreak of the Korean War, were new and compelling reasons for passing the Export Control Act of 1949 and in extending it until (at least) 1958.  The law included both domestic policies aimed primarily at conditions within the United States as well as controls directed at conditions outside the country, as instruments of American foreign policy.

That is exemplified by the restrictions on export of certain strategic or military items to the Soviet bloc or to other countries that it felt, if permitted, would be detrimental to US foreign policy during the Cold War.

The foreign policy motive became so strong that it brought legislation directing the president to enlist the co-operation of other nations in enacting controls on trade with the Soviet block to parallel those of the United States. The benefits of the various economic and military aid programs were to be withheld from nations unless they co-operated, as in the Mutual Defense Assistance Control Act of 1951.

Background

"Moral embargo"
The act was seen as a codified "moral embargo" in that it was an expression of moral outrage stemming from the Japanese bombing of civilians in mainland China in the late 1930s. In June 1938, US Secretary of State, Cordell Hull condemned the slaughter and its "material encouragement." A month later, the Department of State notified aircraft manufacturers and exporters that the US government was "strongly opposed" to the sale of airplanes and related materiel to nations using airplanes to attack civilian populations.

In 1939, the nonbinding embargo was extended to materials essential to airplane manufacture and to plans, plants, and technical information for the production of high-quality aviation gasoline. The measures resulted in the suspension of the export to Japan of aircraft, aeronautical equipment, and other materials within the scope of the moral embargoes. As Japanese purchases of items other than aircraft and aeronautical equipment were minuscule, the moral embargo ultimately stopped the exportation of arms to Japan.

End of commercial treaties
Following the failure of diplomatic efforts to protect endangered American lives, rights, and economic interests in China, America considered commercial retaliation against Japan, Japanese authorities, or Japanese-sponsored agents in China. The American government felt that its 1911 commercial treaty with Japan was not affording an appropriate level of protection to US commerce in areas within or occupied by Japan. Simultaneously, Japan's position under the treaty, as a most favoured nation, legally prevented the adoption of retaliatory measures against Japanese commerce. The United States gave its six months' notice of its withdrawal from the treaty in July 1939 and so removed the primary legal obstacle for embargo.

Effects
The embargo, which halted the shipment of material such as airplanes, parts, machine tools, and aviation gasoline, was designed to be an unfriendly act. However, expanding it to include oil was specifically avoided. Since Japan was dependent on US oil, it was then thought that it would be a provocative step.

The act was expanded in September of that year to include iron and steel scrap, an act that Japanese Ambassador Kensuke Horinouchi warned Hull on October 8, 1940, might be considered an "unfriendly act

Controls were first authorized in 1940 in regard to munitions and similar materials essential to the defense effort, and they were extended in 1942 to all commodities. Always intended to be temporary, the 1940 act was successfully extended in 1944, 1945, 1946, and 1947.

Postwar use
After World War II, the Export Control Act was expanded to prevent the diversion of advanced technology to the Soviet bloc and China and, in later years, to alter the behavior of foreign countries. Scarcity of certain goods in the world markets made the continuance of controls necessary to prevent a drain on such goods from plentiful American supplies, with its consequential inflationary influence. It was envisioned that remaining controls would soon disappear at the time of re-enactment in 1949, but national security and foreign policy, especially following the outbreak of the Korean War, were new and compelling reasons for extending the Export Control Act of 1949 in 1951, 1953, 1956 and again in 1958.

The Export Control Act of 1949 is an example of the type of legislation that it renders, subject to the regulations promulgated under it, all persons wherever situated. Under its provisions, exports of scarce materials are controlled both from an economic standpoint (short supply and consequent inflationary effect on foreign demand) and the security standpoint (autarchy and self-sufficiency in strategic resources not available in sufficiently-large quantities). They are both domestic policies aimed primarily at conditions within the United States, but controls are also directed at conditions outside the country as an instrument of US foreign policy. That is exemplified by the restrictions on the export of certain strategic or military items to the Soviet bloc or to other countries that it felt, if permitted, would be detrimental to American foreign policy. The last motive became so strong that it brought legislation directing the president to enlist the co-operation of other nations in enacting controls on trade with the Soviet block to parallel those of the United States. The benefits of the various economic and military aid programs were to be withheld from non-cooperating nations.

See also
 Causes of World War II
 Foreign Economic Administration

References

Works cited

External links
 "Peace and War: United States Foreign Policy"

World War II, Causes of
Chronology of World War II
Attack on Pearl Harbor
Presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt
United States home front during World War II
Japan–United States relations


Thomond RFC is an Irish rugby team based in Limerick. The colours of the club are blue and white.

History
Founded in 1944 after a meeting in the old boat club near the Old Distillery in Thomondgate, the club's first competitive match was in the Munster Junior League against Garryowen at Thomond Park on Sunday, 15 October 1944. Thomond ended up winning the match by 15 points to 3. Captained by Christopher ( Willie ) Beville who was also a co-founder.

Their home ground was named in honour of club stalwart Liam Fitzgerald, who served the club for many years. He started out as a player in the late 1950s, became club captain in the 1963/64 season and held the presidency in 1984/85. Known for being a tireless worker, he could often be seen digging drains amongst other things at the ground, which was previously named Woodview Park. Johnny Hanley was amongst the founding founders who gave them great support as did his sons Sean, Ger and Brendan Hanley.

Notable players

Ireland
 Jim Tydings
 Keith Earls
 Eddie Halvey

Munster
 Junior Morrison
 Keith Earls
 Declan Cusack jr
 Fintan Cross
 Maurice Hartery

Honours

 AIL Division 3: 2000/01
 Clare Cup: 1968/69, 1973/74, 1974/75, 1975/76, 1976/77, 1977/78, 1978/79, 1982/83
 Munster Junior Cup: 1970/71, 1979/80, 1980/81, 1984/85, 1988/89, 1989/90, 1990/91
 North Munster League: 1971/72, 1972/73, 1973/74, 1974/75, 1978/79, 1979/80, 1980/81, 1981/82, 1983/84, 1984/85, 1985/86, 1987/88, 1988/89, 1989/90, 1990/91
 Transfield Cup: 1968/69, 1971/72, 1972/73, 1973/74, 1975/76, 1978/79, 1981/82, 1982/83, 1989/90, 1991/92, 1996/97, 2001/02

References
 Thomond RFC

Rugby union teams in Ireland
Rugby union clubs in Limerick (city)
Rugby clubs established in 1944
1944 establishments in Ireland


We're Talkin' Serious Money (1992), also known as Serious Money, is an action comedy film  directed by James Lemmo. He also co-wrote the screenplay with Leo Rossi, who also stars in the film. Cinematography by Jacques Haitkin. It also stars: Dennis Farina, Fran Drescher, John LaMotta, Peter Iacangelo. It was produced by: Lisa M. Hansen, Harold Welb, Paul Hertzberg, who makes a small cameo in the film, Catalaine Knell, Guy J. Louthan, co-star Leo Rossi, and Harold Welb. The movie was filmed in Los Angeles, California, and New York City, New York. It was released by Grey Matter Entertainment and CineTel Films in the United States.

Plot
Two misfit men, Sal (Dennis Farina) and his friend Charlie (Leo Rossi), are cheated out of $10,000 that they had borrowed from a Mafia kingpin. They must flee from New York to Los Angeles, only to there get involved in a caper involving a video of Senators in compromising positions. Given a cool million for the video, they are then pursued by the mob and the FBI.

Cast
 Dennis Farina as Sal
 Leo Rossi as Charlie
 Fran Drescher as Valerie
 Cynthia Frost as Connie
 John LaMotta as Gino 'The Grocer'
 Peter Iacangelo as Frankie 'The Beast'
 Anthony Powers as Joey 'Eggs'
 Lou Bonacki as Cop #1
 John Cade as Cop #2
 Catherine Paolone as Rosemarie
 Robert Costanzo as Michael
 Denis Arndt as Jacubick
 John Josef Spencer as Rosemarie's Son
 Maria Cavaiani as Rosemarie's Daughter
 Len Pera as Goon Behind The Counter
 Donna Hardy as Old Lady (as Dona Hardy)

Production credits
 James Lemmo - Director / Screenwriter
 Lisa Hansen  – Producer
 Paul Hertzberg  – Producer
 Catalaine Knell  – Producer
 Guy J. Louthan  – Producer
 Leo Rossi  - Screenwriter / Producer
 Harold Welb  – Producer
 Jacques Haitkin  – Cinematographer
 Steve Nevius  – Editor
 Susan Benjamin  - Art Director
 Tom McKinley  - Costume Designer

Availability

The movie was released on videocassette in 1992 by Columbia TriStar Home Video. The movie has never been released on DVD, and as of December 26, 2009, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment has not yet announced any plans for a DVD release.

External links

1991 films
1991 action comedy films
1990s English-language films
CineTel Films films
American action comedy films
Films directed by James Lemmo
1990s American films


Pseudochromis fridmani is a species of fish in the family Pseudochromidae, the dottybacks. Its common name is orchid dottyback. It is endemic to the Red Sea.

This fish is up to 6.3 centimeters long. It lives in tropical marine waters up to 60 meters deep near reefs. It shelters in holes and under overhangs.

This species has been bred in captivity and is of some commercial importance as an aquarium pet. The specific name honours David Fridman of the Maritime Museum in Eilat in Israel who collected the type specimen.

References

External links

fridmani
Fish of the Red Sea
Fish described in 1968


EN 417 is a European Standard concerning non-refillable metallic cartridges for liquefied petroleum gases. The standard specifies material, construction, inspection and marking requirements for cartridges with or without a valve, for use with portable appliances which comply with the requirements of EN 521.

The term is used colloquially to refer to cartridges with the 7/16" UNEF threaded valve used on disposable butane and butane/isobutane/propane mix cartridges used in some  backpacking stoves. The correct name for this is Lindal B188 valve, the manufacturer's designation.  This informal use is improper, as the EN 417 standard applies also to cartridges that do not have a Lindal valve, such as the valveless pierceable Epigas canisters often used in Europe.

The Lindal valve, unlike of course a pierceable canister, should seal itself if the fuel container is unscrewed from the equipment to which it is attached. However, the self-sealing action cannot be relied upon as a safety feature. A dirty valve can leak.

Among suppliers of gas cylinders and camp stoves are Epigas (Coleman), Sievert, GoSystem, Primus, Brunton, Jetboil, Mountain Safety Research, Snow Peak, Rothenberger, and Campingaz.

References

External links

00417
Fuel gas


Emanuel von Friedrichsthal (January 12, 1809 – March 3, 1842) was an Austrian traveler, daguerreotypist, botanist, and amateur archaeologist, who traveled through the Balkans and in Central America and documented his findings.

Biography
Von Friedrichsthal was born in Uhřice in the Austrian Empire (present-day Czech Republic). He was educated in Vienna at the Theresian Military Academy and entered Austrian government service, but soon left to pursue scientific travels. He traveled through Rumelia in the 1830s, publishing his findings in two books: Reise in die südlichen Theile von Griechenland (Journey to the Southern Parts of Greece, 1838) and Serbiens Neuzeit in geschichtlicher, politischer, topographischer, statistischer und naturhistorischer Hinsicht (Modern Serbia in Historical, Political, Topographical, Statistical, and Natural-Historical Respects, 1840). These publications acquired for him in particular a reputation in botany for their descriptions of the flora of Greece and Serbia.

In 1840, he was posted as first secretary of the Austrian Legation to Mexico, where he became interested exploring the ruins of Maya civilization after reading the writings of John Lloyd Stephens and Frederick Catherwood. He discussed his plans with historian William H. Prescott during a trip to Boston, and bought a daguerreotype apparatus in New York City. He went to the Yucatán in mid-1840, and traveled throughout the Yucatán and Chiapas, becoming the first person to take daguerreotypes of the Mayan ruins, and the first European in the 19th century to visit the ruins of Chichen Itza.

He fell ill during his travels, probably with malaria, which necessitated his return to Europe in 1841, where he died in Vienna in 1842. This early death prevented him from publishing the results of his Central-American travels, but he had put on an exhibition of twenty-five daguerreotypes in New York, in the British Museum in London and in Paris, for which he was honored by the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres.

References

1809 births
1842 deaths
People from Kroměříž District
People from the Margraviate of Moravia
19th-century Austrian botanists
Austrian travel writers
Archaeologists from the Austrian Empire
Austrian photographers
Pioneers of photography
Austrian people of Moravian-German descent
Habsburg Bohemian nobility
Deaths from malaria


James Loembe (born March 25, 2001 in Lomé) is a Togo international footballer.

Career
Loembe began his career with Academy Delta and joined in summer 2007 to AS Douanes. He has turned down offers from top notch teams in Ghana like Accra Hearts of Oak, Tema Youth and league debutantes Bechem Chelsea, saying he is attracted to Kumasi Asante Kotoko because of their youth team, prospects in the CAF Champions League. On 5 November 2008, he featured for Kumasi Asante Kotoko in a trial match against King Faisal Babes in Memory of the late Honour Kwadwo Baah-Wiredu at the Baba Yara Stadium which Kotoko lost by a lone goal to a King Faisal side that had the entire 1st team squad except Goalkeeper Osei Boateng and Ebo 'Nani' Andoh of Black Starlets fame. He played excellently at the heart of the defence throughout the entire 90 minutes of the game which impressed the Technical handlers of Kotoko led by Coach Bashiru Hayford.

International career
Loembe made his national debut for the Young Hawks of Togo in the AFCON U-17 TOGO 2007 on 10 March 2007 at the Stade de Kege in Lomé and played for the entire 90 minutes of the game against South Africa which the Young Hawks won 2-0. He could have captained the squad but for his lack of fluency in French, the team's communication language; he speaks fluently in English, Twi, Ga, Hausa and a little French. Loembe marshalled the defence like the captain of the team throughout the entire tournament and together with his teammates went on to the final, but lost 0-1 to Nigeria, a pre-tournament favourite and eventual winners of FIFA U-17 World Cup KOREA 2007.

On 24 August 2007, Loembe starred for the Young Hawks of Togo in their maiden 2007 FIFA U-17 World Cup tournament in South Korea against Costa Rica and played the entire group matches against Peru and Korea. He played 90 minutes in all these matches.

He was called into the Local Hawks of Togo CHAN team (The African Nations Championships is a new tournament designed by CAF for only home-based players of its member countries) that faced Ghana in Accra on 4 and 13 May 2008.

He made his debut for the senior national team on 10 August 2011 in a friendly match against Niger, and was included in the squad for the next match, a 2012 Africa Cup of Nations qualifier against Botswana.

Record at FIFA tournaments

FIFA U-17 World Cup

References

External links

1991 births
Living people
Footballers from Lomé
Togolese men's footballers
Togo men's international footballers
AS OTR Lomé players
Men's association football defenders
21st-century Togolese people


Lakeview High School (LHS) is a public high school in Lakeview, Oregon, United States.

Lakeview, along with Paisley School, takes high students from Adel and Plush.

Academics
In 2008, 91% received a high school diploma. Of 79 students, 72 graduated and seven dropped out.

Athletics
Lakeview's high school athletic program began around the time the school did.  The mascot is known as the "Honker" and the team colors are navy blue and gold. A "Honker" is another name for a Canada goose.

They are a member in good standing of the Oregon School Activities Association and participate in the Southern Cascade League.  All teams currently play in Class 2A based on school enrollment.

See also
 Bernard Daly Educational Fund

References

High schools in Lake County, Oregon
Buildings and structures in Lakeview, Oregon
Public high schools in Oregon


Joseph Colton, the original G.I. Joe, is a fictional character from G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero, a line of military-themed toys created by Hasbro. He also appeared as a character later in the comic book series, but did not appear in any of the animated series. He is portrayed by Bruce Willis in the film G.I. Joe: Retaliation.

Profile
Joseph B. Colton graduated with the highest honors from the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1960. An expert marksman, he was recruited by Special Forces, and later became a Green Beret. During service overseas, he participated in numerous combat operations, but saw minimal acknowledgment, as his missions were "ultra" classified. In 1963, he was appointed by then-President John F. Kennedy to create and command an "ULTIMATE freedom fighting force." It was at this time that he received the code name G.I. Joe.

He later "retired" from active military duty, and was placed as the head of a secret Strategic Defense Initiative installation in New York City. There he served with the lead scientist, G.I. Jane, who originally maintained cover as a combat nurse.

Toys
"G.I. Joe" was first released in 1994, as a mail-in exclusive for the 30th Anniversary of G.I. Joe. Based on the version of G.I. Joe from 1964, the figure was available in limited stock. Due to unanticipated orders, Hasbro sold out all of the figures and no more were produced, eventually leading Hasbro to mail an apology.

He was not released again until 2006, this time as part of a multi-figure pack, the Viper Lockdown. This version of the G.I. Joe was made up of parts from different figures, and is not a separate mold. Overall, he has had 2 releases using a total of 2 different molds.

He was also released in the 12 inch line in 1994, as an homage to his original figure released in 1964.

Comics

Comic book advertisement (1975-1976)
Between 1975 and 1976, Hasbro published comic book advertisements starring the Adventure Team, featuring the Joseph Colton, Atomic Man and Bulletman as members.

Marvel Comics

General Joseph Colton made very few appearances during the original G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero series. In issue #86, he is working with his old colleague Jane in a secure level in the Chrysler Building (renamed as the Studebaker Building due to licensing issues). The laboratories are attacked by Cobra forces, which desire the orbital pulsed weapon system hidden inside. Joe, Jane and a small squad of official G.I. Joe forces (including Repeater and Lightfoot) defeat the Cobra soldiers.

In issue #127, General Colton explains the Rapid Pulse Electron Beam (RPEB) to Duke and Stalker. He discovers a tap into the control system, leading to a telephone switching station in New Jersey, where Cobra Commander has taken charge. Realizing that their systems are breached, General Colton has Jane shut down all systems. General Colton, Duke, Stalker and Wild Bill then head to the phone switching station, but Cobra shoots down the Joes Tomahawk, and Cobra Commander escapes, rushing to New York City and the RPEB. General Colton, Stalker and Duke use Battle Copters to fly back to the Chrysler Building, but Cobra Commander has already taken control of the RPEB, and uses it to eliminate a drug shipment by Headman. Cobra Commander and his crew then use civilian disguises to walk undetected past the Joes.

General Colton also appears in issue #152, where he is called back to active duty for a secret mission. Ace is assigned to deliver Colton to D.C., and asks Colton when the last time he was in the back seat of a combat jet. This prompts Colton to reminisce about his earlier years in battle, leading to a flashback story about the original plan to form a G.I. Joe team.

Devil's Due Publishing

G.I. Joe: Frontline
The first four issues of Devil's Due Publishing's G.I. Joe: Frontline featured Larry Hama's story of one last mission, "The Mission That Never Was." After the official disbandment of the G.I. Joe team they hold one last mission. They had to transport the Rapid Pulse Particle Beam from Florida to Colton's location in New York City. During this series, Colton is stationed in the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI).

Reinstatement
General Colton appears later in the series. He comes out of retirement to lead the G.I. Joe Team, after Hawk is paralyzed by Cobra Commander. His leadership is temporary, as he is quickly sidelined by the cabal of Generals known as the Jugglers who instead want General Philip Rey to lead the team.

Colton becomes a target when the Red Shadows began going after G.I. Joe and Cobra agents. He is shot and apparently killed by the Red Shadow's leader, Wilder Vaughn, a man Colton once knew. The injuries are critical, but Colton survives.

America's Elite
After a year of disbandment, General Colton is asked by the president to head a much smaller G.I. Joe team in the absence of Hawk. He is reluctant, but accepts the position, and leads the Joes from their new headquarters, a secret facility known as The Rock.

When Cobra takes control of M.A.R.S., and begins to sell weaponry to insurgents, terrorists, and rebel groups, General Colton goes on the offensive, mobilizing the entire G.I. Joe roster, and launching missions to capture Cobra agents still at large. During "World War III", General Colton leads a small unit in retaking Fort Meade. When the Joes attack Cobra's Appalachian base, General Colton is shot in the back by Cobra Commander, but again survives. At the end of the series, he is able to convince the president that G.I. Joe is still needed. With Hawk at his side, he leads a fully restored and recognized G.I. Joe team into battle.

Alternate realities and continuities
General Colton has made one appearance as a major character outside of the main G.I. Joe continuity.

G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers: Black Horizon (Vol. 4)
During this fourth miniseries, Hawk discovered G.I. Joe was being held captive by the forces of Cobra-La in the Himalayas. Along with his team, Joe was captured by the Decepticons in 1978. He later escaped to help Hawk and Optimus Prime defeat Cobra-La.

Hasbro Comic Book Universe (IDW Publishing)
In the Hasbro Comic Book Universe, Colton was a member of the Adventure Team, alongside Miles "Mayhem" Manheim, Mike "Atomic Man" Power, Richard "Bulletman" Ruby, and Lonzo "Stalker" Wilkinson. On their mission to the Tomb of Amtoltec, they battled an army of robotic mummies, before having an encounter with the Decepticon named Soundwave. By the end of the search, the Adventure Team retrieved an ancient artifact they codenamed as the "Talisman".

After Megatron led the 2007 Decepticon invasion on Earth, Colton began fearing what the Transformers could do to humanity. In the meantime, he joined his fellow Joes in their final victory against Cobra. By the end, Colton's worldview is drastically changed after the treachery of Galvatron with the Earth Defense Command.

Prior to the Revolution event, Colton was replaced by a Dire Wraith who attempted to control the Earth Defense Command by excluding Marissa Faireborn and Spike Witwicky. He also made horrific experiments on Aaron Grundy (Axiom), a skilled computer programmer who would be transformed into a monster loyal to the Wraiths. But the impostor was later killed by Rom, whose death made G.I. Joe declare war against the Autobots, until they realized the truth about the Wraith infiltration.

Meanwhile, the real Colton is revealed to be alive, having  cut off his right hand in order to escape from the Dire Wraith who replaced him. Convinced that the Transformers are in league with the Dire Wraiths and must be destroyed, Colton went on hiding and became the international criminal known as "Baron Ironblood", which made him cross paths with the Action Man Program. He has been secretly recruiting villains to form the Iron Ring and launch a pre-emptive nuclear strike against Cybertron, setting the events of First Strike in motion.

As the Iron Ring attacked Cybertron, Colton sent Doctor Mindbender (disguised as Ironblood) as a decoy while he searched the planet's core in order to power the Talisman and destroy the Transformers. Inside the core, Colton and the Iron Ring are confronted by Scarlett and her comrades. At the battle's climax, Colton's closest ally, Garrison Kreiger, reveals his true identity as Merklynn (a wizard from the planet Prysmos) and explains that he has been using the Iron Ring's needs so he could use the Talisman to transform Cybertron and Earth into new versions of Prysmos. He then magically teleports everyone back to Cybertron's surface, where Colton sadly surrenders, having realised that he helped an even worst enemy to ensure Earth's incoming destruction, rather than saving it.

Colton was last seen in the Transformers: Unicron miniseries, where he reluctantly helps the Autobots to battle Unicron, who was awakened as side-effect by the same invasion he had caused on Cybertron.

Live action film

General Colton is portrayed by Bruce Willis in G.I. Joe: Retaliation, the sequel to G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra. The movie was released on March 28, 2013, through collaboration of Paramount Pictures and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. In the film, General Colton has one of George S. Patton's M-1911 pistols.

Colton was mentioned by Scarlett in Snake Eyes as the G. I. Joe's general and leader after she handed Snake Eyes a file on his father.

References

External links
 G.I. Joe Colton at JMM's G.I. Joe Comics Home Page
 Joseph Colton at YoJoe.com

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Andra Hannadige Tharindu Harshana Wimaladasa (commonly known as Tharindu Wimaladasa; born August 24, 1985) was a Sri Lankan cricketer. He was a left-handed batsman and a leg-break bowler who played for Antonians. He was born in Ragama.

Wimaladasa made a single first-class appearance, during the 2002-03 Premier Championship. Batting in the upper middle order, he scored 13 runs in the first innings in which he batted and 1 run in the second.

External links

1985 births
Living people
Sri Lankan cricketers
Antonians Sports Club cricketers
People from Ragama
Cricketers from Western Province, Sri Lanka


Malcolm Rodrigo was a Sri Lankan cricketer. He was a right-handed batsman and a right-arm medium-pace bowler who played for Antonians.

Rodrigo made two appearances during the 1992/93 Saravanamuttu Trophy competition, though he took little part in the first, securing just one catch and bowling a single over, as the team ran out innings victors against Rio - thanks in the main to a career best 236 not out from Thusara Kodikara.

He scored 1 and 3 in his second match, bowling a single over as the team slumped to a ten-wicket defeat.

External links
Malcolm Rodrigo at CricketArchive

Sri Lankan cricketers
Antonians Sports Club cricketers
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Year of birth missing (living people)
Place of birth missing (living people)


Plotting Hitler's Death: The German Resistance To Hitler, 1933–1945 is a 1994 book by the historian Joachim Fest about the Germans, both civilian and military, who plotted to kill Adolf Hitler from 1933 onwards. It was written to mark the 50th anniversary of the 20 July plot to kill Hitler and translated into English in 1996. The book includes detailed accounts of various plots and explores the reasons the Allies and many within Germany gave little support to the resistance to Hitler. Among those treated extensively in the book are Colonel Henning von Tresckow and, later, Lieutenant Colonel Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg.

See also
 List of books by or about Adolf Hitler

Books about Adolf Hitler
Books by Joachim Fest
History books about World War II
Books about Nazism
German resistance to Nazism
1994 non-fiction books


William Joshua Doss Richerson (died 1976) was an athlete, with skills in shot put, discus, javelin, and football. He played for the American Football League, on the Chicago Bulls football team in the 1926 year.

He was married to Kansas City, Missouri artist Modesta Pearl Dorset Richerson. Together, they had two children, Billy Doss Richerson and Vallie Jean Richerson Medlin.

Richerson's mother wrote a biography of the Richardson family of Texas, noting that she was born a Richardson, but had married into the Richerson family. In her book, she talks in length about her son's sports abilities in high school and college.

In 1976, Doss Richerson died of a blood clot to the brain after sustaining a head injury from a three story fall from a building that he was painting.

References

Players of American football from Texas
Chicago Bulls (American football) players
Year of birth missing
1976 deaths


The 1947–48 New York Knicks season was the second season for the team in the Basketball Association of America (BAA), which later merged with the National Basketball League to become the National Basketball Association. The Knicks finished in second place in the Eastern Division with a 26–22 record and qualified for the BAA Playoffs. In the first round, New York was eliminated by the Baltimore Bullets in a best-of-three series, two games to one. Carl Braun was the team's scoring leader during the season.

At the 1947 BAA draft, the Knicks selected Dick Holub in the first round, with the fifth overall pick. The Knicks also selected Wataru Misaka, who made the team's final roster and became "the first person of color to play in modern professional basketball", just months after the Major League Baseball color line had been broken by the Brooklyn Dodgers' Jackie Robinson. Misaka was cut after playing only three games with the team. The 1947–48 season was the first as New York's head coach for Joe Lapchick, who had previously held the same position for college basketball's St. John's; he had been hired in March 1947. The Knicks had a 13–13 record in the first 26 games of the season before going on an eight-game winning streak from January 28 to February 11. However, New York won only four of its final 12 regular season contests.

In game one of the first round of the playoffs, held in Baltimore, the Bullets defeated the Knicks 85–81 behind a 34-point performance by Connie Simmons. The Knicks evened the series at one victory apiece by winning the second game 79–69 in New York, as four players scored more than 10 points. The win forced a decisive third game back in Baltimore, which the Knicks lost 84–77. Simmons led the Bullets with 22 points, while Chick Reiser added 21. The Bullets went on to win the 1948 BAA Finals.

Draft

Roster

Regular season

Season standings

Record vs. opponents

Game log

Playoffs

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| 1
| March 27
| @ Baltimore
| L 81–85
| Bud Palmer (21)
| Baltimore Coliseum
| 0–1
|- align="center" bgcolor="#ccffcc"
| 2
| March 28
| Baltimore
| W 79–69
| Bud Palmer (18)
| Madison Square Garden III
| 1–1
|- align="center" bgcolor="#ffcccc"
| 3
| April 1
| @ Baltimore
| L 77–84
| Sid Tanenbaum (18)
| Baltimore Coliseum
| 1–2
|-

Awards and records
Carl Braun, All-BAA Second Team

Transactions

Free agency

Additions

Subtractions

References

New York Knicks seasons
New York
New York Knicks
New York Knicks
1940s in Manhattan
Madison Square Garden


Dudley Leavitt (1772 – September 20, 1851) was an American publisher. He was an early graduate of Phillips Exeter Academy in his native town of Exeter, New Hampshire, and later moved to Gilmanton where he first edited a newspaper and taught school. Within a few years, Leavitt relocated to Meredith, where in addition to teaching school and farming, he began publishing in 1797 Leavitt's Farmers Almanack, one of the nation's earliest farmers' almanacs. A polymath, Leavitt poured his knowledge of disparate fields including mathematics, language and astronomy into the wildly popular almanacs, which outlived their creator, being published until 1896. The inaugural issue of 1797 carried the title of The New England Calendar: Or, Almanack for the Year of Our Lord 1797. On the cover was the disclaimer that the new publication was "Calculated for the Meridian of Concord, Latitude 43° 14' N. Longitude 72° 45' W.: And with But Little Variation Will Answer for Any of the New England States."

Youth and early career

Dudley Leavitt was born at Exeter, the oldest child of farmer and landowner Joshua Leavitt and Elizabeth (née James). He was named after Governor Thomas Dudley, the second colonial governor of Massachusetts, from whom both parents descended. The descendant of early Exeter settlers, his father Joshua moved from Exeter to Deerfield early in Dudley Leavitt's life. After attending Exeter Academy, where he graduated in 1790, Leavitt married Judith Glidden of Gilmanton in 1794, and he and his new wife took up residence in the town, where he had family. In Gilmanton, Leavitt began studying Latin and Greek under Rev. Isaac Smith. In 1802 Leavitt also served as a selectman for the town.

Leavitt's first love was mathematics and astronomy. Something of a pure scientist, Leavitt contributed scientific papers to societies until the end of his life, often having to do with astronomy and physics. The annual conventions of the American Philosophical Society often heard presentations of the latest of Leavitt's findings. Nor were Leavitt's the musings of some crackpot New Hampshire hermit. In an 1811 paper concerning astronomy addressed to the President and membership of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, for instance, Leavitt outlined his New and short Method of calculating the times of the First and Last Quarters of the Moon.

But with his scholarly inquiries and meager publishing income, Leavitt turned to teaching to supplement his income. In 1800 he founded the Gilmanton Gazette, a local weekly newspaper in Gilmanton, as well as the Farmer's Weekly Magazine for two years with a partner in the newly established publishing house of "Leavitt & Clough". Leavitt's foray into newspaper publishing was an apparent failure, but he was pioneer of the industry in the state. The presses used to print his early broadsheet were purchased by the proprietors of the new Concord Gazette in 1806, who paid to have the presses lugged from Gilmanton to Concord on a two-horse wagon so they could begin printing one of the capital's earliest newspapers, and the only competitor of The New Hampshire Patriot.

Discouraged with the economics of newspaper publishing, Leavitt and his wife decided to move to Meredith in 1819. Pursuing another avenue of work, Leavitt ran an advertisement in the Concord Observer newspaper announcing that he was opening the "Meredith Academick School". The new school, its headmaster announced, would "offer instruction in the various grades usually taught in academies.... No pains will be spared on the part of the instructor to render the acquisition of useful knowledge easy and pleasant to those young gentlemen and ladies who may attend the School."

The "reasonable" board would cost $3.00 for each quarter's enrolment, Leavitt announced in his initial advertisement, and would cover most fields of study, except "Algebra, Navigation, Gunnery, or the Science of Projectiles, &c., Spherick Geometry & Trigonometry, Astronomy & Philosophy." For study in those more complicated fields Leavitt proposed to charge an additional 50 cents tuition for each quarter of enrolment. Around Meredith the new schoolmaster became known as "Old Master Leavitt".

Leavitt settled on his Meredith farm near Center Harbor, less than a mile from Lake Winnipesaukee, where he held his classes. He was known as a stern taskmaster who did not suffer fools, or wisecracking students. But Leavitt had enough of a sense of whimsy that he handpainted panels of "Award of Merit" to those students he felt met his stringent guidelines. (Leavitt never gave up teaching, even when busying himself with his almanac and other projects. He taught school into his 70s, and it was customary in New Hampshire for successful men to boast that they had been educated by Leavitt.)

When not teaching, he was to be found farming his  or immersed in study. Stories were legion of Leavitt so immersed in reading or study that he was oblivious to nearly everything around him. And the scholar Leavitt was no gentleman farmer. Aside from having edited a newspaper devoted to agriculture, Leavitt raised cattle on his small farm and toiled long hours when not teaching or writing.

Out of the confluence of Leavitt's scholarly interests, his former career as a newspaper writer and publisher, and his work as an author of textbooks was born the idea behind his farmer's almanac, which he first began publishing while living in Gilmanton. From the beginning, Leavitt demonstrated an unrelenting common sense, as well as a sly sense of humor. In an early edition of his almanacs, for instance, Leavitt included an illustration of a New Hampshireman struggling against the elements. Quoting a supposed poem of the 17th century, Leavitt wrote, in lines summoning feelings familiar to current Granite State residents, "Our mountains and hills and our vallies (sic) below; Being commonly cover'd with ice and with snow; And when the north-west wind with violence blows, Then every man pulls his cap over his nose; But if any's so hardy, and will it withstand, He forfeits a finger, a foot or a hand."

Leavitt continued to publish the eponymous almanac after he moved to Meredith. He had already founded a newspaper in 1811, while still living in Gilmanton, which he called The New Hampshire Register, and which he continued publishing for several years (1811–17). The Register became well-known thanks to Leavitt's habit of printing brief synopses of historical events. On the side, between farming, teaching school, and publishing his newspaper, Leavitt wrote and published at least eight textbooks on mathematics, grammar, astronomy, geography and music, including an edition of Nicolas Pike's widely distributed A New and Complete System of Arithmetic in 1826, as well as the staple textbooks of teachers across the nation The Scholar's Review and Teacher's Daily Assistant. The scores of textbooks produced by Leavitt, a dizzying array of titles down the years, including Complete Directions for Parsing the English Language; Or, The Rules of Grammar Made Easy: Being a New Grammatical Essay, Designed as a Supplement to Lindley Murray's Grammar, for the Use of Students as Soon as They Begin to Parse, make one wonder where Leavitt found the time.

The new almanac takes off
But the almanac, which he dubbed Leavitt's Farmers' Almanack and Miscellaneous Yearbook, became such a success that after a while Leavitt shelved many of his other activities to focus on it. The once-farfetched idea was a runaway hit. By 1846, for instance, Leavitt's almanacs were selling some 60,000 copies for that year's two editions – a tremendous number for the era.

What Leavitt seized on, probably because of his interest in astronomy, was something every New Englander knew: that the weather was topic number one. Leavitt's publication, with its interest in astronomy and crops, was an early "Weather Channel". He took note of inclement and especially of freakish weather. And readers noticed. During the cold summer of 1816, when crops froze in July, and snow fell a foot deep in the Berkshires, Leavitt turned to his astronomy to divine the cause: he attributed the cold to sun spots. Had he known about it, Leavitt might have suggested the eruption of Mount Tambora in the East Indies as the cause. But whatever the cause was, readers noticed that Leavitt noticed and hazarded a guess, at least, and one that sounded plausible, at least to their ears. Of such stuff are circulation gains made.

Ultimately the schoolteacher and part-time farmer Leavitt came to be seen as "Leavitt the almanac-maker", as he was often referred to in his day, and in the ultimate tribute, his once-anonymous almanacs came to carry the creator's name. In an early instance of "brand identity", by 1824 the almanacs carried the title of Leavitt's New-England Farmer's Almanack. During his era, improbably enough, Dudley Leavitt was as close to a celebrity as the times produced. "Through his almanacs," noted Joseph Walker, as close a biographer as the almanac-compiler ever had, "(Leavitt) was probably known to more persons in New Hampshire than any other man."

The aura of celebrity around Leavitt was such, wrote Henry McFarland in his Sixty Years in Concord and Elsewhere, that "stage-drivers pointed out his house to passengers as that of a person of great renown.... I remember him as a courtly man with gentle manners." John F. Brown, a local printer for whom McFarland worked, published Leavitt's almanacs, paying the unheard-of sum, said McFarland, of "$100 for the copy."

Leavitt aimed the almanacs at the general population of New England, supplying tips on everything from farming to the weather to astronomy. As word spread about the publication, readership jumped, and the publication became a fixture throughout the region. The almanacs were sold at general stores, and later at grocery stores and drug stores. Leavitt was aided in some of the almanac's calculations geared towards agriculture by his nephew, astronomer William B. Leavitt.

The almanac's entry of September 6, 1881, for instance, published after the founder's death, demonstrated the detailed observation of natural phenomena which marked the publication. "Tuesday, September 6, 1881, was remarkable over the whole of New England and may be known as Yellow Day. It was so dark in many places that artificial light was needed for the common acts of indoor life. Without, the dense curtains of smoke or dry fog that shut out the sun, gave a peculiar yellow hue to the atmosphere, changing the color of the trees and grass, perplexing the birds and other animals and seriously frightening the superstitious. It will long be remembered."

Despite his descent from Puritan John Leavitt, founding deacon of Old Ship Church, America's oldest in continuous use, Dudley Leavitt was a skeptic. Perhaps it was his academic and scientific nature, but Leavitt was known throughout the Meredith area for his scoffing at religion. At one session of evening prayer, for instance, Leavitt's wife offered up a fervent prayer that her husband scholar be saved. When she was done, Leavitt got up, put on his hat and said "We read in God's word, that the unbelieving husband shall be justified by the prayers of the believing wife," and marched out of the church.

Leavitt's death and legacy

Leavitt died at his farm in Meredith on September 20, 1851. At the time of his death, Leavitt had the upcoming issue of his almanac at the press, and another five years' worth of issues of his almanac written, calculated and ready for the printer. The feat was so impressive to fellow writers and printers that one contemporary journal was moved to declare: "This is a degree of punctuality, of which there are few examples, especially in the editorship of a periodical work."

The New York Times carried news of the death of the man who had become something of a quiet sensation, known for the paper almanacs which hung by cords in family kitchens across New England. "Dudley Leavitt, the veteran almanac maker, died this morning", noted The Times. "His age was 80." Leavitt was buried in the Leavitt private burial ground on the family farm near his home. His beloved almanac, for which he did all the calculations and writing, outlived him. It continued to be published in Concord until 1896 – 45 years after its founder's death. William B. Leavitt edited the publication following his father's death.

A New Hampshire historical marker (number 7) in Center Harbor notes that Leavitt's publication "provided information vital to domestic and agricultural life of the period. He lived in house 200 yards east." The almanac was one of the longest-running such publications in the history of the nation. The Old Farmer's Almanac, which first appeared in 1792, five years ahead of Leavitt's almanac, was the Meredith schoolteacher's chief competitor, and has been published continuously ever since – making it the oldest continuously published periodical in North America.

The New Hampshire Historical Society in Concord owns a painting of Dudley Leavitt, to which local citizens contributed towards the purchase, including former Governor Charles H. Bell and diplomat George G. Fogg, both of whom were connected to Leavitt through his Gilman ancestors. Leavitt and his wife had 11 children, two of whom married Congregational missionaries to Thailand.

References

External links
 The Teacher's Assistant, and Scholar's Mathematical Directory, Dudley Leavitt, published by Marsh, Capen and Lyon, Concord, 1830
 Pike's System of Arithmetick Abridged, by Dudley Leavitt, Teacher of Mathematicks and Natural Philosophy, Jacob B. Moore, Concord, N.H., 1826
 "Dudley Leavitt of Center Harbor, New Hampshire", Lake Winnipesaukee Historical Society
 Dudley Leavitt Historic Marker, Center Harbor, New Hampshire, Flickr

Further reading
 New Hampshire Learnin' Days: Dudley Leavitt, "Master": An Historic Review, Bruce D. Heald, Heald Enterprises, 1987
 History of the Town of Exeter, New Hampshire, Charles Henry Bell, Press of J.E. Farwell & Co., Boston, 1888

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People from Exeter, New Hampshire
History of New Hampshire
American newspaper editors
American educators
People from Meredith, New Hampshire
Phillips Exeter Academy alumni
Leavitt family
Almanac compilers
American male non-fiction writers
American magazine founders
People from Center Harbor, New Hampshire


Intel Parallel Studio XE was a software development product developed by Intel that facilitated native code development on Windows, macOS and Linux in C++ and Fortran for parallel computing. Parallel programming enables software programs to take advantage of multi-core processors from Intel and other processor vendors.

Intel Parallel Studio XE was rebranded and repackaged by Intel when oneAPI toolkits were released in December 2020.  Intel oneAPI Base Toolkit + Intel oneAPI HPC toolkit contain all the tools in Parallel Studio XE and more.  One significant addition is a Data Parallel C++ (DPC++) compiler designed to allow developers to reuse code across hardware targets (CPUs and accelerators such as GPUs and FPGAs).

Components
Parallel Studio is composed of several component parts, each of which is a collection of capabilities.
 Intel C++ Compiler with OpenMP
 Intel Fortran Compiler with OpenMP
 IDE plug-in integration with Visual Studio, Eclipse and Xcode
 Debugging via Visual Studio Debugger extensions, GNU Debugger extensions
Integrated Performance Primitives (IPP)
Math Kernel Library (MKL)
Threading Building Blocks (TBB)
Data Analytics Acceleration Library (DAAL)
 Intel Advisor - specialized performance profiler to optimize vectorization and a thread prototyping system for adding / improving threading.
Intel VTune Profiler (formerly VTune Amplifier) is a performance profiler that analyzes hotspots, threading, I/O, FPGA, GPU, system, throttling and microarchitecture bottlenecks.
 Intel Inspector improves reliability by identifying memory errors and threading errors.
 Intel MPI Library – a multi-fabric message passing library that implements the Message Passing Interface specification across Intel platforms
 Intel Trace Analyzer and Collector - a graphical tool for understanding MPI application behavior, finding bottlenecks and errors in parallel cluster applications based on Intel architecture
 Intel Cluster Checker – Prepackaged checks to diagnose cluster health, functionality and performance. They are accessible via API to embed capabilities into applications.
 Intel Distribution for Python – a Python distribution using Intel Performance libraries to boost performance of NumPy, SciPy, scikit-learn, Pandas (software) and other packages.

History
Intel announced Parallel Studio during their Intel Developer Forum in August 2008 along with a web site to sign up for their open beta program. On 26 May 2009, Intel announced that it had released the product to market. Intel and Microsoft worked together to make their products compatible by adopting a common runtime called the Microsoft Concurrency Runtime, which is part of Visual Studio 2010.

Intel released a new version, Intel Parallel Studio 2011, on September 2, 2010.

Intel released Intel Parallel Studio XE 2013, on September 5, 2012.

Intel released Intel Parallel Studio XE 2015, on August 26, 2014.

Intel released Intel Parallel Studio XE 2016, on August 25, 2015.

Intel released Intel Parallel Studio XE 2017 on September 6, 2016.

Intel released Intel Parallel Studio XE 2018 on September 12, 2017

Intel released Intel Parallel Studio XE 2019 on September 12, 2018

Intel released Intel Parallel Studio XE 2020 on December 16, 2019

Intel released oneAPI toolkits replacing Intel Parallel Studio XE on December 8, 2020

See also

 Intel Concurrent Collections
 Intel Developer Zone

References

External links

 Threading Building Blocks Open Source Project Home
 Cilk Plus Open Source Project Home
 Intel's 'Parallelism Breakthrough' video series
 Parallel Studio Video Tour
 Intel Releases Parallel Studio (Dr. Dobbs)
 Intel addresses development life cycle with Parallel Studio (SDTimes)

Application programming interfaces
C++ programming language family
Generic programming
Parallel Studio
Profilers
Threads (computing)


Chapakot may refer to:

Chapakot, Kaski
Chapakot Municipality


The Pinn is a suburban, outer west London river. It has dendritic headwaters, the furthest is considered its sourcein Harrow Weald. Its confluence with Frays River makes it a tributary of the Colne. It is one of three principal rivers wholly in the historic county of Middlesex.

Route
The river runs through Pinner, the northern halves of Eastcote and Ruislip: the latter may be a notable rise-lip of land as 17th century maps often have the place name but likely derives from "rush leap" from the local width of the river. It then runs through Ickenham and on to Uxbridge, where it passes through the former grounds of RAF Uxbridge and Brunel University. The Pinn continues on to Pield Heath and Cowley, passing under the Grand Union canal before joining the Frays River, an anabranch of the Colne, at Yiewsley.

During the Second World War only, the Pinn was dammed near Pinner High Street for water for putting out fires from air raids.

The middle and lower thirds of the course are between the Colne and Crane, all flowing south, thus making up parallel drainage.

Celandine Route

This is a  walk through woodland, meadows and parks. It finishes at the Grand Union Canal towpath parallel to the Fray's River anabranch of the Colne.

Connections
A short walk east along the Slough Arm of the Grand Union Canal connects.

The Grand Union Canal towpath connects, linking in Brentford (east south-east), Watford and the Midlands (north), and the Paddington Arm (central London, east).

Water quality
All local sewerage runs to the distant Mogden Sewage Treatment Works discharging its treated waters to the Tideway. This spares the Pinn from the incident nitrogen, bleach (ammonia) and other chemical biohazards which many of its catchment homes and business use and/or discharge.

The Pinn's flow is weak save for after moderate or heavy rain. Worn tyre and motor oil run-off is from some roadside drains at biohazardous levels, particularly below the A40 road which is a trunk route of six lanes at this point (this becomes the M40 motorway to the west) – about  of this slopes down to the river.

See also
List of rivers of England

Citations and footnotes

External links

Celandine Route - along the River Pinn
River Pinn Meadows

Rivers of London
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Geography of the London Borough of Hillingdon
Pinner


Tropical Green Building refers to a style of construction that focuses on energy reduction, reduced use of chemicals, and supporting local labor and community. This requires close cooperation of the design team, the architects, the engineers, and the client at all project stages, from site selection, scheme formation, material selection and procurement, to project implementation. Tropical Green Building has the same basis as green building in more temperate climates, but the methods of construction are completely different. In the tropics, the focus is on keeping cool, preventing insect infestations, and reduced mould, damp and maintenance in the home.

Generally, tropical green building also seeks to reduce power consumption through intelligent architecture, such as by allowing in much natural light so electric lights aren't needed during the daytime, and at night, using white-painted roofs, ceilings and low-energy light bulbs such as compact fluorescents or LED lamps.

Solar power, wind power, and/or the use of micro hydro are often deployed, but not always the focus of tropical green building.

References

External links
 Tropical Green Building Network: Australia (TGBN) powered by GreenBuild.com.au
 2013 Queensland Regional Architecture Conference: Spirit of Place, Cairns 5 to 7 Sept 2013
 Singapore Green Building Council SB13 Conference: SB13 Realising Sustainability in the Tropics 9 to 10 Sept 2013
 Dominican Republic Green Building Council (DRGBC)

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Tropics


Konárovice is a municipality and village in Kolín District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 1,000 inhabitants.

Etymology
Konárovice was formerly called Koňařovice. The name was derived from koňař ("horseman"). There was a horseman living here, who belonged to the princely officials of the nearby castle and who bred the horses for the prince on the large meadows of the Elbe.

Geography
Konárovice is located about  east of Kolín and  east of Prague. It lies in a fertile landscape of Polabí lowland region, on the border between the East Elbe Table and Central Elbe Table. It lies on the right bank of the Elbe River.

The soil is mainly clay, with loess and diluvian metal. Both land and location are suitable for cultivation of grapes, peaches and apricots. The average annual temperature is 9.3 °C; the sum of annual precipitation is around 650 mm. The climate is very similar to that of South Moravian Region (e.g. Velkopavlovická subregion, 9.33 °C), suitable for the production of good wine.

History
The first written mention of Konárovice is from 1352 in the registration of the Pope's tithes. In that time Konárovice had already been established as a knight's stronghold. The town's church was mentioned for the first time in 1358.

In the following centuries the owners of Konárovice often changed. In 1772, a farm was bought at auction by the Countess Elizabeth de Quasco. She used it as a summer residence and in 1775, she had rebuilt the chateau into its present form. Later in the year she ordered the building of a new parish house, but records of the first parish priest date only from 1820. Under control of the Countess, education flourished; in 1810 the first ordinary school was opened in Konárovice.

During this same period mulberry gardens were planted in Konárovice for the purpose of silk manufacturing. This trade became very successful, reaching its greatest flowering around 1820.

In 1856, Jan Nepomuk, Count of Harrach, engraving master and chamberlain, gained Konárovice and brought the local economy to great prosperity. He then sold the entire estate to Josef Götzl, manufacturer and magistrate of Karlín.

The municipality includes a settlement Jelen where a brewery and a large restaurant were built in the 14th century. Other local part is a recreational settlement Včelín. Its name was derived from the beekeeping station with a museum which was opened in 1928.

Demographics

Economy
Konárovice is known for viticulture. On the sunny slopes of Konárovice grapes have been cultivated since time immemorial. On the Na Vinici hill in Konárovice the last vineyard of the region was preserved until the beginning of the 20th century. Since 1995, the vineyards gradually have been renewed.

Sights

In Konárovice are three cultural monuments. The Konárovice Castle was originally an early Baroque castle built in 1661. It was rebuilt into its current Rococo form in 1775. The castle is surrounded with a small castle park. Since 2003, it has been owned by the American actor Crispin Glover.

The Church of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross from the 14th century was rebuilt in the late Gothic style in 1500, but soon fell into disrepair. It was baroque rebuilt in 1669–1683. The last reconstruction, into its current pseudo-Gothic form, took place in 1887–1889. The bell tower is equipped by two bells that dates from 1565 and 1612.

Next to the castle stands a baroque hospital, built after 1772. In front of the building stands a valuable statue of St. John of Nepomuk.

References

External links

Tourist guide

Villages in Kolín District


Northwest Iowa Community College (NCC) is a public community college in Sheldon, Iowa. It opened in 1966 and is accredited by the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools. The college is located on a 269-acre campus one mile west of Sheldon. Northwest Iowa Community College offers both vocational technical programs and arts and sciences transfer courses—43 programs in all.

2013 enrollment in credit programs was 1,628. Additionally, NCC's noncredit enrollment annually exceeds 28,000 in career supplemental, preparatory continuing, and high school completion, which includes both GED and high school diploma.

Reference list

External links
 Official website

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Sheldon, Iowa


"Demon in a Bottle" is a nine-issue story arc from the comic book series The Invincible Iron Man (vol. 1), published in issues 120 through 128 in 1979 by Marvel Comics. It was written by David Michelinie and Bob Layton and illustrated by John Romita, Jr., Bob Layton, and Carmine Infantino. "Demon in a Bottle" is concerned with Tony Stark's alcoholism.

Publication history
The storyline ran in Iron Man #120–128 (March–Nov. 1979), plotted by David Michelinie and Bob Layton, with script by Michelinie.  John Romita, Jr. pencilled the breakdown sketches, with Layton providing finished art. Issue #122 (May 1979) was both plotted and scripted by Michelinie, penciled by Carmine Infantino and inked by Layton.

"Demon in a Bottle" was originally only the title of the final issue in the storyline. When the storyline was collected in trade paperback in 1984 and 1989, it was published under the title The Power of Iron Man. "Demon in a Bottle" later became the popular name for the storyline, and collected editions were then published under that title.

Plot summary
A military tank hurled through the air strikes the wing of a passenger plane carrying Tony Stark. Stark secretly dons the Iron Man armor he carries in his briefcase, flies out of the plane, and guides it to a safe landing in the ocean. Navy ships approach and soldiers help the passengers to safety, and bring Iron Man to an island base. They tell him the tank was thrown by Namor, who was defending a resident of the island that the soldiers were trying to remove, because the island is used as a toxic waste disposal site. Iron Man confronts and fights Namor, before it's revealed that the soldiers actually belong to the Roxxon Oil Corporation, which is secretly occupying the island to mine the vibranium it contains. Iron Man and Namor team up to fight and defeat the soldiers, who escape and trigger explosives contained on the island, destroying it along with any evidence that they were ever there.

While flying home, Iron Man's armor begins to malfunction, sending him flying uncontrollably through the sky and crash landing. He regains control and later tests the armor in his lab, and finds nothing apparently wrong. Stark is visiting a casino with Bethany Cabe when Blizzard, the Melter, and Whiplash arrive and attempt to rob the casino's vault. Stark slips away, dons his armor, and battles and defeats the villains. During the fight, he overhears a comment from Blizzard about "Hammer" wanting Iron Man kept alive. Stark later receives and agrees to a request for Iron Man to represent his company, Stark International, at a public ceremony and meet with a foreign ambassador. At the ceremony, Iron Man's armor again malfunctions, striking the ambassador with a repulsor blast, killing him. Iron Man tells the police about the malfunction, claiming he did not intentionally kill the ambassador. Doubtful, but knowing they can't fight him, the police let him go but demand that Stark turn over his armor for inspection, and Stark complies. During this time, Stark's drinking increases significantly.

Stark meets with the Avengers, agreeing to their request that Iron Man temporarily step down as their leader, and asks for and receives hand-to-hand fight training from Captain America. He then meets with Scott Lang, the second Ant-Man, and asks him to sneak into the prison where Whiplash is being held to get information on the person named Hammer. Stark uses the information and flies to Monaco with James Rhodes to investigate. Hammer is alerted to their presence and sends soldiers to attack them. They are both knocked unconscious; Stark is taken prisoner and Rhodes is left in public and arrested by the local police when he awakens. When Stark awakens he is confronted by Justin Hammer, who reveals that he has been responsible for Iron Man's armor malfunctions. Angered that he lost a lucrative bid to Stark International, Hammer, with the aid of scientists in his employ, took control of Iron Man's armor and forced him to kill the ambassador in an attempt to ruin the reputation of the company. Stark attempts to escape Hammer's compound by climbing over a wall, but sees that he is on a giant floating island at sea.

Hammer learns of Stark's escape and orders the supervillains he keeps in his employ to find him. The supervillains find Stark, who has found the confiscated briefcase containing his spare armor and suited up. Iron Man battles and defeats the villains, then goes after Hammer. Rhodes has convinced the police of his story and the island is attacked by police helicopters. Hammer escapes, and Iron Man flies into the air and crashes down, damaging the island and causing it to sink. Stark returns home and continues binge drinking, and drunkenly yells at his butler, Edwin Jarvis. Jarvis resigns the next day.

Continuing to drink to forget his problems, Stark is confronted by Beth, who tells him about her former husband, Alex, who became addicted to drugs to deal with his stress and insecurities, which ended their relationship and eventually killed him. Beth admits that she was younger, and didn't try to understand his insecurities, but now she's grown and will not abandon Stark like she abandoned Alex. She tells Stark that he is becoming his own worst enemy, and he must open up to and let his friends help him, otherwise he'll keep drinking and drinking until it kills him. Stark admits to his drinking problem and accepts Beth's offer to help him to quit drinking and help him through withdrawal. Stark then apologizes to and renews his working relationship with Jarvis. He learns that Jarvis's mother is sick and offers to pay for her medical costs, but learns that Jarvis has sold the two shares of stock he owned in Stark International that were preventing S.H.I.E.L.D. from buying a controlling interest in his company. The story ends with Stark optimistic about the future, conquering his alcoholism and determined to retrieve the stocks and maintain control over his company.

Creation
Writer/artist Bob Layton said of the story: "I'm gonna quote David Michelinie here, that it was never our intention to do anything relevant. We were paid to, basically, do the next episode of Iron Man. [It's] just [that in] that particular issue, alcoholism was the bad guy. Instead of Doctor Doom or somebody like that, it was the bottle. That was our villain of the month. And that's really the way we treated it. We built everything up to that. But the point of it is, it was never... we never attempted to be relevant. It just... in the corporate world, what gets to guys? What causes the downfall? Usually it's greed, or it's sex and drugs, right? Well, we couldn't do the sex part, right? Alcohol wasn't talked about all that much, really, to be honest with you. Especially with kids, you know, in that particular era. But, you know, we treated it as we intended to, as the bad guy."

Reception and legacy
"Demon in a Bottle" has been recognized by critics as "the quintessential Iron Man story," "one of the best super-hero sagas of the 1970s," and "one which continues to influence writers of the character today." The storyline won a 1980 Eagle Award for "Favorite Single Comic Book Story." Praising Michelinie's "clever" writing and Romita and Layton's "highly distinguishable" artwork, J. Montes of the Weekly Comic Book Review said, "Iron Man was never known for having engaging stories, but in this one rare case it happened and that is why we treasure it." Montes felt it was "a bit silly to see [Stark] recover from [the effects of his alcoholism] over the course of one issue," but added that "there's no mistaking the losses and struggles he deals with."

D.K. Latta of Pulp and Dagger praised Michelinie for "deliver[ing] smart writing and plausible, grown up characters that are a pleasure to read and a rich tapestry of plot threads" and "avoid[ing] the preachy, holier-than-thou route, and instead just tell[ing] a story that happens to concern a costumed super-hero getting a little...lost." Latta found Romita's pencil art "problematic" but added that "Bob Layton's inks help a lot." Win Wiacek of Now Read This! said, "The fall and rise of a hero is a classic plot, and it’s seldom been better used in the graphic narrative medium and never bettered in the super-hero field. An adult and very mature tale for kids of all ages, it is an unforgettable instance of triumph and tragedy perfectly told."

Jamie Hailstone of Den of Geek said that "some of the storytelling and the portrayal of Tony Stark as a millionaire playboy may be a little hackneyed," but praised the storyline for "[giving] the character a much needed injection of reality." Hailstone said Romita's artwork is "as good as anything in his long career," and concluded that "while it might not deal with the consequences of addiction in the same powerful ways as films like French Connection II—this is a comic, after all—having re-read the tale almost 20 years on, it holds up amazingly well." Dave Wallace of the Comics Bulletin said the issues "are too generic and unremarkable to really stand up as great stories today," but said that "each issue is a satisfying story in its own right" and praised "the strong storytelling instincts that are evident from the composition of [Romita's] panels."
Stark's alcoholism was revisited in later storylines, and remains a defining element of the character.

Films
Jon Favreau, director of the 2008 Iron Man film, said: "Stark has issues with booze. That's part of who he is." Favreau said that elements of the story would be used in future Iron Man sequels: "I don't think we'll ever do the Leaving Las Vegas version, but it will be dealt with." In Iron Man 2, Favreau notes that the scene of Tony drunkenly carousing during a party in his armor at his residence until Col. James Rhodes intervenes is the closest he intended to adapt the "Demon in a Bottle" storyline.

Collected editions
Collected editions include a trade paperback published in May 2006 () and a Marvel Premiere Classics hardcover in 2008 (). It was published as part of The Official Marvel Graphic Novel Collection.

Notes

References

Comics by David Michelinie
Literature about alcohol abuse


William Romaine Callender Jr. (1825 – 22 January 1876) was a British businessman and Conservative politician.

He was the son of William Romaine Callender of Mauldeth Hall near Manchester and his wife, Hannah Pope, of London. W. R. Callender (senior) was a prominent Whig and non-conformist in the area who campaigned for the incorporation of Manchester as a municipal borough, and served on the first town council. His son, however, became a leading Conservative and Anglican. In 1849, he married Hannah Mayson.

He entered his father's business as a cotton spinner and merchant in Manchester, eventually taking charge. He expanded the firm by the purchase of that of Sir Thomas Bazley in Bolton in 1861.

Apart from his business activities he was a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, and a strong supporter of the Manchester Athenaeum, which was founded by wealthy businessmen for the education and recreation of the working classes. In 1858 he was appointed honorary secretary of the Athenaeum, a position he held until his death. He also assisted in the formation of a company of rifle volunteers in 1859. He was a freemason, and rose to be Deputy Grand Master of the Provincial Lodge of East Lancashire, and Grand Master of the Mark Masons of England.

He was elected as a member of the first Manchester School Board in 1870, and in 1874 as one of three members of parliament for the Parliamentary Borough of Manchester, defeating the Liberal MP, Jacob Bright.

In November 1875 Callender fell ill after attending an Orange Order demonstration, and was advised to travel to the south coast to aid his recovery. However, he died of "rheumatic neuralgia" at St Leonards-on-Sea, Sussex, in January 1876, aged 51. A bust of the late MP was unveiled at Manchester Town Hall in 1880.

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Boyd Jay Petersen (born February 23, 1962) is program coordinator for Mormon Studies at Utah Valley University (UVU) and teaches English and literature at UVU and Brigham Young University (BYU).  He has also been a biographer of Hugh Nibley, a candidate for the Utah House of Representatives, and president of the Association for Mormon Letters.  He was named editor of Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought for the term 2016-2020.

Biography
Petersen was born in Provo, Utah, and raised as a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church).  From 1980-1981, he was a proselyting missionary in Paris, France.

After his mission, Petersen attended Brigham Young University (BYU), receiving his bachelor's degree in French and international relations in 1988.  In 1995, he received an M.A. in comparative literature from the University of Maryland at College Park.  In 2007, he completed his Ph.D. in comparative literature from the University of Utah's Department of Languages and Literature.

Petersen has been an intern for the U.S. House of Representatives, in the staff of the U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, and a Senior Information Specialist for the Congressional Research Service at the Library of Congress.

In 1984, Petersen married Zina Nibley, a daughter of Hugh Nibley.  They have four children and reside in Provo, Utah. In 2017, they were divorced.

Petersen has been a lecturer in the honors program at BYU, and for the English and Humanities Departments at Utah Valley University, where he received a Faculty Excellence Award in 2006.  Through his familial relationship to Hugh Nibley, Petersen authored the 2002 biography Hugh Nibley: A Consecrated Life.  Petersen has also published articles in several journals, including BYU Studies, Sunstone, Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, and the Journal of Mormon History.

Petersen is the program coordinator for Mormon Studies at Utah Valley University.  He has also been on the board of directors for the Association for Mormon Letters (AML), Mormon Scholars in the Humanities, and Segullah, a Mormon-themed literary journal. He served as AML's president from 2009-2010.  He is book review editor for the Journal of Mormon History, and was named editor for Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought for the 2016-2020 term.

Political campaigns
In March 2008, Petersen announced his candidacy for District 64 of the Utah State House of Representatives, running as a socially conservative Democrat in a heavily conservative region.  He opposed Republican Rebecca Lockhart on a platform of ethics and health care reform, as well as improved public education.  On the November 4 election, Petersen received 30 percent of the vote, losing to Lockhart's 66 percent.

In 2012, Petersen ran again against Lockhart, who had since become the Speaker of the House.  On November 6, Petersen lost with 24 percent to Lockhart's 76 percent.

Published works

Books

Articles

Other

"Eternity in an Hour" in Baring Witness edited by Holly Welker (University of Illinois Press, 2021)

Notes

External links
 Petersen's blog
 Faculty page at UVU
 Faculty page at BYU
 VoteForBoyd.com, website for Petersen's campaigns
 Petersen's 2008 campaign blog

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The Elsässische Maschinenbau-Gesellschaft Grafenstaden (Alsatian Engineering Company in Grafenstaden) was a heavy industry firm located at Grafenstaden in the Alsace, near the city of Strasbourg.

In 1826, André Koechlin founded the engineering works of Andre Koechlin & Cie in Mulhouse, which made steam engines, turbines, spinning and weaving machinery and, from 1839, steam locomotives too. The subsequent history of the firm is closely linked to the history of Alsace-Lorraine. After losing the Franco-Prussian war of 1870/71, France had to withdraw from the so-called Reichsland and cede it to the German Empire. As a result, the company, now called the Elsässische Maschinenbaugesellschaft Andreas Köchlin & Cie. in Mülhausen and the Maschinenwerkstätte Rollé & Schwillgué in Strassburg-Grafenstaden found themselves inside the German Empire. In 1872 the two factories were merged into the Elsässischen Maschinenbau-Gesellschaft Grafenstaden.

The scale-making factory of "Rollé & Schwillgué", that predominantly made decimal weighing equipment based on the 1821 patent of a Benedictine monk, was bought in 1837 by the Strasbourg engineering company, which transferred the workshop with its work force of 40 employees one year later to Grafenstaden, a few kilometres south of Strasbourg. In 1846 they began the manufacture of tenders, and from 1856 locomotives as well.

After the takeover of Alsace-Lorraine by the German Empire in 1871, many Alsatians who considered themselves to be Frenchmen moved to the area around Belfort where, in 1872, the Société Alsacienne de Constructions Mécaniques (Alsatian Mechanical Engineering Company), SACM, was opened. After the peace treaty of Versailles in 1919 Alsace-Lorraine, and with it the Elsässische Maschinenbau-Gesellschaft Grafenstaden, returned to France, where the Grafenstaden firm was merged with the SACM.
The factory in Belfort was worked until 1926 and taken over in 1928 by Thomson-Houston and Alsthom, the present-day firm of  Alstom.

After the occupation of Alsace in 1941 the factory was forced to deliver Class 44 and Class 52 locomotives to the Deutsche Reichsbahn-Gesellschaft under the direction of the Magdeburger Werkzeugmaschinenfabrik (Magdeburg Machine Tool Factory), MWF. After World War II the factory was once again under French control.

In 1951 the first diesel locomotives were built in the factory and, in 1955, the manufacture of steam locomotives was halted. The production of diesel engines continued until 1965.

Production figures
After the merger of the two factories a common works numbering system was introduced, beginning with the number 2118, because  Köchlin had built 1,412 locomotives to that point and Grafenstaden 705 locomotives. The manufacture of steam engines ended with locomotive works number 8174. Because eleven works numbers were not used, the combined company SACM must have built 6,042 steam locomotives.

The diesel engines built from 1951 to 1965 were given their own numbers starting from 10001 and 20001. These locomotives were supplied to the Saar Railway amongst others, that later ended up in the Deutsche Bundesbahn. In the 10,000 range, mainly engines with a B-dh axle arrangement, the works number 10199 was reached. Of the 20,000 series, with a C-dh axle arrangement, only 23 engines were made.

See also
 Alsace-Lorraine
 Imperial Railways in Alsace-Lorraine
 List of Alsace-Lorraine locomotives

External links
 Werkbahn.de

Defunct manufacturing companies of France
Defunct locomotive manufacturers of France
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History of Alsace


The 1941–42 Serie C was the seventh edition of Serie C, the third highest league in the Italian football league system.

Legend

Girone A

Girone B

Girone C

Girone D

Girone E

Girone F

Girone G

Girone H

Final rounds

Girone A

Girone B

Serie C seasons
3
Italy


The 1948–49 New York Knicks season was the third season for the team in the Basketball Association of America (BAA), which later became the National Basketball Association (NBA). The Knicks had a 32–28 record in 1948–49 and finished second in the Eastern Division, six games behind the Washington Capitols. New York qualified for the playoffs, and defeated the Baltimore Bullets 2–1 in a best-of-three series to earn a place in the Eastern Division finals. In the division championship series, the Knicks lost to the Capitols, two games to one. Before the 1949–50 season, the BAA merged with the National Basketball League to form the NBA.

Draft

Source:

Roster

Regular season

Season standings

Record vs. opponents

Game log

Playoffs

|- align="center" bgcolor="#ffcccc"
| 1
| March 23
| @ Baltimore
| L 81–82
| Carl Braun (21)
| Baltimore Coliseum
| 0–1
|- align="center" bgcolor="#ccffcc"
| 2
| March 24
| Baltimore
| W 84–74
| Carl Braun (20)
| Madison Square Garden III
| 1–1
|- align="center" bgcolor="#ccffcc"
| 3
| March 26
| Baltimore
| W 103–99 (OT)
| Harry Gallatin (21)
| Madison Square Garden III
| 2–1
|-

|- align="center" bgcolor="#ffcccc"
| 1
| March 29
| @ Washington
| L 71–77
| Harry Gallatin (17)
| National Guard Armory
| 0–1
|- align="center" bgcolor="#ccffcc"
| 2
| March 31
| Washington
| W 86–84 (OT)
| Carl Braun (30)
| Madison Square Garden III
| 1–1
|- align="center" bgcolor="#ffcccc"
| 3
| April 2
| @ Washington
| L 76–84
| Braun, Gallatin (15)
| National Guard Armory
| 1–2
|-

References

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Lee Binding (born 1975) is a graphic designer and digital painter who has worked on the television shows Doctor Who, Torchwood, The Sarah Jane Adventures, and various other works for BBC, Sky, Random House, Entertainment One, SFX Magazine and Big Finish Productions.

Binding worked at Visual Imagination between 1997 and 2000, primarily on the science-fiction/cult television magazine TV Zone, which he briefly edited. In 2001, he joined Contender Entertainment Group to oversee their range of science fiction DVDs, including Farscape, Andromeda and The Avengers UK releases. He supervised the design and creation of DVD value added materials, supervising the commentary tracks for the He-Man releases, and chairing the Dungeons & Dragons commentaries.

His graphical work on Doctor Who started with the Big Finish audio releases, before moving on to designing the website for the relaunched Doctor Who TV series in 2005. From there, he took over the covers for the BBC Book range of Doctor Who books from release 16, Forever Autumn. He is also responsible for the concept layout and covers for the Torchwood range of books. He also took over from Clayton Hickman as cover artist for the classic series DVD range. He also worked as chief graphic designer for the show, doing graphic design work for series 7 and Series 8.

His non-Doctor Who related work includes Fortitude, Top Gear, Hunderby, Jack and the Bean Stalk - After Ever After, I Hate Suzie, Game Of Thrones, Sick Of It, A League Of Their Own, Save Me, Hitmen and Civil Servant.

Binding's blog Glitter for Brains has been nominated for awards, most notably in The Pink Paper 2006 Awards where he came second in the category Best LGBT Blog. The blog was also joint winner of the web-based The Best of Blogs 2007 Award  in the LGBT category.

References

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