The FC Penzberg is a German association football club from the city of Penzberg, Bavaria.

The club briefly managed to reach the second division of German league football, spending the 1955–56 season in the 2nd Oberliga Süd.

History

1920 to 1945
The FC Penzberg was formed on 14 March 1920 but was actually a continuation of the local gymnastics clubs football department which had existed before the First World War. The club struggled to find a suitable playing field in its early days and eventually had to do with a local swamp. This was converted to a football field through back filling with ash. The local coalmine supplied technical support for this. The new ground was opened on 30 July 1921.

The FCP had the opportunity to take part in a promotion round to the local A-Klasse in 1922 but was not strong enough to succeed. In the 1922–23 and 1923–24 seasons, the team won the local championship and earned promotion to the A-Klasse in 1924. The club found it hard to compete with the stronger clubs from Munich there and was immediately relegated.

This relegation was followed by a decline in performance and interest in the club and it took until 1927 to win another local championship and return to the A-Klasse. Initially, the team struggled again in this league but a good second half of the season saw it secure its position in it. The next season, the club was better equipped to hold the league, thanks to a merger with the football department of the sports club at Kochel. The club managed to remain in the A-Klasse until 1932, when it was relegated once more.

Mostly unaffected by the rise of the Nazis in 1933, the FCP remained a top-team in the local competition, commonly then called the Würmgau or Zugspitze regional league, after its geographic location. More titles in this league followed in 1935 and 1937. The later saw the team move up a league once more but again it could not maintain this level. Back in local play, it won its sixth title in 1939. After this, the outbreak of the Second World War made league football in the region very difficult.

1945 to 1963
Upon the end of the war, the club properly reformed on 17 February 1946, when a new chairman was elected. In 1949, the club celebrated another championship, winning the southern division of the Oberbayern league, and earned the right to take part in the promotion round to the Landesliga Bayern, then the second tier of the German football league system. The FCP came second, on equal points to the ASV Cham but then lost a necessary decider 0–1 aet. It did however have a second chance, playing the VfL Ingolstadt-Ringsee for one more place in the Landesliga, but lost this game, too, 0–2.

In 1953, the club got another chance to earn promotion to Bavarias highest league, now called the Amateurliga Bayern and only the third tier of the league system since 1950, when the 2nd Oberliga was introduced.

The FCP won its group of six teams and finally earned promotion but this turned out to be an unnecessary achievement as the Bavarian FA decided on 7 July 1953 to split its highest league into a northern and a southern division and all six teams from the round were admitted.

In the Amateurliga Südbayern in 1953–54, the club came seventh out of fifteen teams. The season after, the team surprised everybody and won the league by three points. After a special meeting it was decided to take part in the promotion round to the 2nd Oberliga Süd. Here, the FCP faced the SSV Ulm and FC Rastatt 04 and came out on top, earning a surprise promotion to the second division.

For the small-town club FC Penzberg, in a league with FC Bayern Munich, Hessen Kassel and Waldhof Mannheim, the season became a struggle, but also a unique experience, playing Bayern Munich at home in front of 7,000 and then in Munich in front of 20,000. The club came second-last, only the VfR Heilbronn ended up behind them and had to return to the Amateurliga.

Not discouraged, the club won the Amateurliga for a second time but lost both Bavarian championship games against 1. FC Bamberg and missed out on the promotion round, where Bamberg failed, too. The year after, 1957–58, the club was not in contention for the championship, coming only seventh. From there, the club rapidly declined, finishing fifteenth in 1959 and being relegated to the 2nd Amateurliga. In 1961, the team dropped further, back to the A-Klasse (V) but managed to break the fall and return to the 2nd Amateurliga for 1962–63.

1963–present
The introduction of the Bundesliga was only one change of many in the German league system in 1963. In Bavaria, the 2. Amateurliga was replaced by the Landesligas and for southern Bavaria, the Landesliga Bayern-Süd was put in place. However, the FCP could not qualify for it and would from now on remain within the leagues of the Bezirk Oberbayern.

Instead, Penzberg dropped all the way to the A-Klasse, now the sixth tier but won the championship there straight away and earned promotion to the Bezirksliga Oberbayern-Süd. From 1964 to 1973, the club belonged to this league before dropping back down to the A-Klasse. This time, it could not rebound straight away but did return to the Bezirksliga eventually

The club became one of the founding members of the Bezirksoberliga Oberbayern (V) in 1988 and belonged to this league until 1992, when a thirteenth place meant relegation. The team was handed straight through the Bezirksliga in 1992–93 and had to return to the A-Klasse (now Kreisliga) once more. It was to be the club's last stint in the Bezirksliga as of 2008.

In 2004, the club even dropped down to the Kreisklasse for a season but recovered and returned to the Kreisliga. This league is the equivalent of the old A-Klasse it once started in the 1920s. The club eventually suffered another relegation, back to the Kreisklasse Zugspitze for 2011–12. From there, in 2013, it dropped to the A-Klasse after coming last in its league. In this league it took out the championship without a loss all season and was promoted back up to the Kreisklasse in 2014. a league championship the following year took the club back to the Kreisliga, followed by promotion to the Bezirksliga in 2016.

Honours
The club's honours:

League
 Amateurliga Südbayern (III)
 Champions: (2) 1955, 1957
 Southern Oberbayern championship (III)
 Champions: 1949
 2. Amateurliga Oberbayern B (IV)
 Champions: 1953
 Würmgau championship
 Champions: (6) 1923, 1924, 1927, 1935, 1937, 1939
 Kreisliga Zugspitze
 Champions: 2016

Recent seasons
The recent season-by-season performance of the club:

With the introduction of the Bezirksoberligas in 1988 as the new fifth tier, below the Landesligas, all leagues below dropped one tier. With the introduction of the Regionalligas in 1994 and the 3. Liga in 2008 as the new third tier, below the 2. Bundesliga, all leagues below dropped one tier. With the establishment of the Regionalliga Bayern as the new fourth tier in Bavaria in 2012 the Bayernliga was split into a northern and a southern division, the number of Landesligas expanded from three to five and the Bezirksoberligas abolished. All leagues from the Bezirksligas onwards were elevated one tier.

References

External links
Official team site
Das deutsche Fußball-Archiv historical German domestic league tables
Manfreds Fussball Archiv Historical tables and results from the Bavarian amateur leagues

Football clubs in Germany
Football clubs in Bavaria
Association football clubs established in 1920
Football in Upper Bavaria
1920 establishments in Germany


Xiamen Foreign Language School () is a secondary and senior high school in Xiamen, Fujian, China,

Facilities
The school has two campuses that cover 112,707 m2 with four buildings of 65,222 m2. The school hosts three classroom buildings, two laboratory buildings, an education technology center, two administrative office buildings, a library, an art center, a gym building, three dormitories, two dining halls, a teachers dormitory and two apartment buildings for foreign teachers. The school  has 12 physics laboratories, 12 chemistry laboratories and 9 biology laboratories.

The multifunction building offers language laboratories, audio-visual education classrooms, labor and technique education classrooms, computer classrooms, music and art education classrooms, and three lecture theaters. A kilometer school network includes about 500 terminals.

The school libraries harbor 105,000 volumes.

On the playground are 200m and 400m plastic cement track rings, an indoor track area, eight basketball courts, six volleyball courts and two football fields.

The school has 62 classes (including English medium classes) with about 3000 students and 240 teachers including 37 senior teachers, 86 Rank-one teachers and 36 staffers.

Purpose
The school provides three years for junior high school and three for senior high school. It enrolls students competitively. It enrolls new students for Junior One (初一 chū-yī) on the basis of competitive selection from across the city. After they finish the junior level, most continue their study except those who are not suitable for further development as foreign language students.

The school emphasizes the English language. Therefore:
 it carries out the unified teaching plans of foreign language schools throughout the country. In addition, it uses original edition foreign textbooks as well as textbooks compiled and published by the Chinese Ministry of Education,
 English classes are conducted in small units of about 20 students,
 Foreign teachers teach in the school,
 An English-practising course promotes the development of listening, speaking, reading and writing abilities.

The average total score, excellence rate and the assessment index for teaching quality came out at the top in the city's Junior Secondary School Graduation Examination. The school's excellence rate in the Provincial Senior Secondary School Graduation Examination matched  first-rate

Since 1988, the average proportion of students entering universities or colleges has been above 85%. From 1996 to 2004, it was 99.05% (100% for 1996, 1999, 2003 and 2004). A graduate in 2000 got first place in the college-entrance examination instituted for students of liberal arts in Fujian Province.

School honours include:

 civilized unit and a civilized school awards both in Xiamen and Fujian Province
 advanced unit award in Fujian Province for the work done in passing on knowledge and enlightening people,
 advanced unit recognition for the achievements of young teachers and for audio-visual teaching.
 advanced unit in Fujian Province for the comprehensive measures for maintaining law and order in the primary and secondary schools,
 another honour for supporting the People's Liberation Army and giving preferential treatment to military families and supporting the government and cherishing the people
 keeping work files in good order
 nationwide audio\visual teaching work.
 good school environment in the school (standing committee of the Fujjan Provincial People's Congress).
 Party General Branch was selected as an advanced party organization at basic level in Xiamen.

Sister School
Hangzhou Foreign Language School

International Cooperation
Xiamen Foreign Language School has established international cooperation with these educational institutions:
 Columbia International College
 Atlanta International School
 Linden High School NJ
 Alfrink College Zoetermeer

References

Education in Xiamen
High schools in Fujian
High Schools in Xiamen


Metropolitan Athanasius (1923–2000) was the Coptic Orthodox bishop of Beni Suef and El-Bahnasa in Egypt from 1962 until his death in 2000. Like Pope Shenouda III, Bishop Athanasius had his roots in the Sunday School movement, a reform movement in the Coptic Orthodox Church of Egypt.

Life

Early life
He was born in El-Mahalla al-Kubra on May 2, 1923, with the name Abdelmasih Bishara. His family was known by the name qassis (meaning "priest") because of the large number of Coptic clergy it had produced over at least six generations. Most famously, Bishara's uncle was Pope Macarius III who had served as the 114th Patriarch of the Coptic Church from 1944 to 1945.

After completing high school, he studied at the American University in Cairo, earning a Licenciate in English Literature (1944) and a Bachelor of Education and Psychology (1952), while also working as an English teacher in Aswan and lecturing on the New Testament in the Coptic Theological Seminary in Cairo.

Monastic life
On September 7, 1958, he joined the Syrian Monastery, taking the monastic name of Macarius al-Suryani.

Bishop of Beni Suef and El-Bahnasa
On July 22, 1962, the previous Metropolitan of Beni Suef (also named Athanasius) passed away. On September 9 of the same year, Pope Kyrillos VI ordained Macarius al-Suryani as the new bishop of Beni Suef and added El-Bahnasa to this bishopric, giving him the name of his predecessor. Thus, he is sometimes referred to as Athanasius II of Beni Suef.

The bishop started his own Sunday School branch in Faggala, Cairo, then became a monk and became the first reform monk to be consecrated as a diocesan bishop (Beni Suef) in 1962.

In the 1960s, Bishop Athanasius founded The Daughters of Saint Mary in Beni Suef, an order of serving nuns who played a role in various social projects in the community. Bishop Athanasius actively sought dialogue with Muslims in the 1970s and 80s and alongside Bishop Samuel, represented the Coptic Orthodox Church outside of Egypt.

Dr. Maurice Assad, former Secretary-General of the Middle-East Council of Churches, wrote "Bishop Athanasius was known for his weekly Bible study meetings in Beni Suef which were always attended by hundreds of people. Whenever he went on a pastoral visit in his diocese, he did not confine himself to the rich but also visited the poorest of the poor. In fact he made it a point to visit every family at least once a year in his diocese, the poor before the rich. Only in the last few years could he no longer do this because of health reasons, and he had to limit himself to visits of each church in the towns and villages of his diocese."

Relations with Pope Shenouda
When President Sadat placed Coptic leader Pope Shenouda under house arrest in 1981, confining him to the Monastery of St Bishoy, a papal committee of five bishops was formed to take over the duties of the pope, and one of the appointed bishops was Bishop Athanasius. The papal committee left only the spiritual authority to Pope Shenouda III, but not the rule of the church.

Pope Shenouda's rule of the church was restored with his return to Cairo with Coptic Christmas, January 1985. Pope Shenouda had difficulties in reconciling with former members of the papal committee. The decisions that they had taken in this interim period (1981–1985) were annulled. From this moment on Pope Shenouda made sure he was representing the church on an international level. In 1994 Pope Shenouda III became one of the presidents of the World Council of Churches (WCC).

It took years for Pope Shenouda to reconcile with Bishop Athanasius. In 1992 and 1994 the bishop was absent from patriarchal anniversaries, but during the Christmas celebration in January 1999 he was welcomed by Pope Shenouda in the Coptic Orthodox Cathedral in Cairo and received from the church goers a standing ovation.

Man of dialogue
Bishop Athanasius advocated Christian unity, ecumenical relations and active dialogue between churches. Bishop Athanasius did not agree with Pope Shenouda's policy of asking Christians from other churches who want to join the Coptic Orthodox Church to be re-baptized. The bishop however, also stated he would abide by the rulings of his church.

Bishop Athanasius was also a man of Muslim-Christian dialogue. He made it explicitly clear he didn't believe in a theological dialogue with Islam, but that for him dialogue meant finding ways of living together in peace. He argued that having a Christian house of worship is more important than a church tower which at times was more a symbol of pride than a symbol of Christian humility. He was willing to sacrifice the tower, or to shorten it, if this would help him to obtain a permit for the building. His attitude may have been an important factor in the tremendous increase in number of churches in his diocese: from about 60 in 1962 to about 130 in the year 2000.

Bishop Athanasius was able to handle difficult cases of conversions of Christians to Islam, seeking to protect his Christian community while at the same time making great efforts to avoid relations with Muslims turning sour. One way of doing so was to avoid foreign publicity in order to expose problems.
He would ask Muslims seeking the conversion of Christian minors to abide by the law that prohibits conversions of minors and would seek the support of higher authorities if lower government authorities were not implementing the law.

See also
The Holy Synod of the Coptic Orthodox Church
Coptic Orthodox Church
The Daughters of St. Mary
List of Copts

References

External links

 Metropolitan Athanasius of Beni Suef (Maged Kamel) - ACCOT
 Works by Metropolitan Athansius of Beni Suef - ACCOT, St Cyril's Coptic Orthodox Theological College

Coptic Orthodox Christians from Egypt
Coptic Orthodox bishops
Beni Suef
1923 births
2000 deaths
People from El Mahalla El Kubra
20th-century Oriental Orthodox bishops


Ayot was a railway station serving  Ayot St Peter near Welwyn Garden City in Hertfordshire, England.  It was on the branch line to Dunstable.

History
Opened by the Great Northern Railway, it became part of the London and North Eastern Railway during the Grouping of 1923. The station then passed on to British Railways on nationalisation in 1948 but was closed by  British Railways that year when the station was destroyed by fire and never rebuilt.

The site today
The trackbed is now part of a local rail trail called Ayot Greenway.

References

External links
 Ayot station on navigable O. S. map
 Ayot station on disused-stations.org.uk

Disused railway stations in Hertfordshire
Former Great Northern Railway stations
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1877
Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1948


The Forth Road Bridge is a 1965 British documentary film directed by Gordon Lang about the Forth Road Bridge. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. The author Warren Tute wrote the treatment, with Vincent Mulchrone writing the commentary.

References

External links

Watch The Forth Road Bridge at BP Video Library
Watch The Forth Road Bridge at the National Library of Scotland Moving Image Archive

1965 films
1965 documentary films
British documentary films
Documentary films about transport
Films shot in Edinburgh
Films shot in Fife
1960s English-language films
1960s British films


Johann Heinrich Walch (1776–1855), was a German conductor, chamber musician and choral master for both the Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg as well as of the Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, in Gotha in the current German state of Thüringen. He was also the composer of many well-known marches.

Napoleon's war took on its final end, when the allies of Austria, Prussia and Russia marched into Paris on 31 March 1814 to the tune of the "Pariser Einzugsmarsch". This tune was also used as the climax of the 1940 Victory parade of the Germans through Paris. Although attributed initially to Beethoven, Walch is the composer.

Another march by Walch is the famous "Beethoven Funeral March Number 1" played at the funeral of King Edward VII and also at the National Service of Remembrance in London on Remembrance Sunday each year on the Sunday nearest to 11 November. It is played after the playing of the Last Post, and during the Wreath Laying Ceremony. It is also announced as "Beethoven's Funeral March" on the BBC Television commentary. For a long time, the march was wrongly attributed to Beethoven, and catalogued as WoO (work without opus number), Anh. 13. The march was played during the processions to the lying in state at Westminster of Queen Elizabeth II, her husband Prince Philip Duke of Edinburgh and Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, at the procession to St Paul's Cathedral at the funeral of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher on 17 April 2013, and during the procession to St George's Chapel at the funeral of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh on 17 April 2021. On 25 March 2015, this same march was also played by the Singapore Armed Forces Band during the foot procession from the Istana to the lying in state of Lee Kuan Yew, Singapore's first Prime Minister, at the Parliament House of Singapore.

The march was also played during the funeral procession from the Capitol to the White House at the state funeral of President Kennedy on November 25, 1963.

Many marches supposedly written for several cavalry regiments by Queen Victoria's consort Prince Albert, who was also the Prince of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha and the Duke of Saxony, are actually by Walch, including the British regiment march, the Regimental quick march of the Somerset Light Infantry.

References

Sources
 Werner Probst: Johann Heinrich Walch komponierte den bekannten Trauermarsch von Beethoven. in: Mitteilungsblatt des "Arbeitskreises Militärmusik" der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Heereskunde, 21. Jahrgang, Nr. 2, Juni 1998, p. 98–105.

External links

German composers
Military music composers
German conductors (music)
German male conductors (music)
1776 births
1855 deaths


The Hydrometeorological Centre of Russia (, Gidrometcentr Rossii) is the national meteorological service in Russia, part of the Federal Service for Hydrometeorology and Environmental Monitoring.

History
It was founded in 1921 as the Meteorological Service of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic. In 1929 it joined the Hydrometeorological Centre of the USSR. In accordance with Government Decree on the establishment of a single hydrometeorological service of January 1, 1930 was organized by the Central Weather Bureau, converted in 1936 into the Central Weather Institute (since 1943 - Central Institute of Forecasting). In 1965, the Central Institute of forecasts and the Joint Centre of the Academy of Sciences and the Main Directorate of Hydrometeorological Service were merged into one institution: Hydrometeorological Research Center of the USSR.

From 1992 it is called Hydrometeorological Centre of Russia.  An important event, largely determined the fate of research at the Hydrometeorological Center of Russia, was giving it the Government Decree №1167 of October 14, 1994 the status of the State Scientific Center of Russian Federation. In January 2007, by decision of the Government of Russia, this status has been saved.

Duties and functions
In the system of the World Weather Watch of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) Hydrometeorological Centre of Russia provides the fulfillment of international obligations of the Russian Federation on the international exchange of information and data forecasting meteorological observations, and functions as:
World Meteorological Centre (WMC-Moscow);
Regional Specialized Meteorological Centre in the European region;
National Centre for weather forecasts.

The main tasks of Russian Hydrometeorological Center are:
Obtaining new knowledge about the processes of weather in the system "atmosphere-ocean-land".
Operational support of the country, state and economic structures of hydro-meteorological information, including warnings of adverse weather and dangerous phenomena.

References

External links

 Hydrometeorological Centre of Russia
 Federal Service for Hydrometeorology and Environmental Monitoring

Governmental meteorological agencies in Russia
Science and technology in Russia
Meteorology in the Soviet Union
Research institutes in the Soviet Union
Meteorological research institutes


Jeppe may refer to several articles.

Places
 Jeppe, Johannesburg, South Africa, named after Julius Jeppe; see:
 Jeppestown, Gauteng
 Jeppestown South, Gauteng
 Jeppe High School for Girls
 Jeppe High School for Boys

People
Jeppe (name)

Fiction
 Jeppe of the Hill (da. Jeppe paa Bierget), a play by Ludvig Holberg, 1722.
 Jeppe på bjerget (a film version of the play)
 Jeppe: The Cruel Comedy (an opera based on the play)


The Blizzard of January 1881 (17–20 January 1881) was one of the most severe blizzards ever to hit the southern parts of the United Kingdom.

On 17 January 1881, a low pressure system rapidly developed in the English Channel. The snowfalls began on the 17th in the southwest and as the system deepened as it moved through the Channel, a gale force easterly developed over southern parts with heavy blizzards and drifting snow. The blizzard paralysed all transport, communication, trade and industries. Hundreds of miles of rail track were blocked by drifting snow, dozens of feet high in places. Even in central London, there were 3-foot drifts in places. Around 100 people are believed to have died as a result of the blizzard. The storm was accompanied by extreme cold. Comparisons are drawn to the Great Blizzard of 1899 which affected the United States.

Temperatures
The severity of the frosts was remarkable and they were probably second only to those that occurred during February 1895 in intensity and length. The Central England temperature for the period of 8th to 27th was -4.4C.

Note that, due to non-standard exposures, many of the contemporary reported temperatures are no longer accepted by the Meteorological Office.
Other low minima.

At Orleton, the maximum never got above -7.0C on the 25th. Rivers in the area had frozen over by the 15th.

Boston: 15 days the mean temp was -6.1C, 6.5 inches thick ice on river.

Haverfordwest: River Cleddan frozen over. A maximum of -7.8C on the 20th.

Killaloe: Large part of Lough Derg frozen over.

An aurora was widely seen over the UK on the 31st.

Reports from counties of snow depths

From the Wirral to just north of Flamborough Head northwards, no snow fell from this storm although there was a deep cover of snow over a wide area. For instance, parts of the Lancashire plain had a general cover of 6 inches.

Specific towns and cities reports

References

Symons's Meteorological Magazine of 1881

1881 in England
1881 natural disasters
1881 disasters in the United Kingdom
Blizzards
Weather events in the United Kingdom
1881 meteorology
1881 in Wales
January 1881 events
European windstorms


Tecomán  is a municipality in the Mexican state of Colima.
The municipal seat lies at Tecomán. The municipality covers an area of 834.77 km².

As of 2005, the municipality had a total population of 98,150.

Government

Mayors and municipal presidents

See also
Madrid, Colima

References

Municipalities of Colima


Jharana Thapa () (born as Kamala Raj Bhandari on March 28, 1980) is a Nepalese film actress, film producer and film director. She was one of the top star actress of late 90s and 2010s. Thapa made her Kollywood debut in Daijo (1996) opposite star actor Bhuwan K.C. She received critical acclaim for her breakout role in the 1998 movie Dharam Sankat.

After working in Nepali cinema for 20 years, she turned into a film director. Her debut directorial movie A Mero Hajur 2 was released in September 2017.

Early life
Jharana Thapa was born on 28 March 1980 in Pyuthan, Nepal.

Filmography

Actress

Awards

References

External links

1970 births
Living people
Nepalese film actresses
20th-century Nepalese actresses
21st-century Nepalese actresses
People from Pyuthan District
Nepalese women film directors
Actresses in Nepali cinema

Nepali Congress politicians from Lumbini Province


Villa de Álvarez () is a municipality in the Mexican state of Colima.
The municipal seat lies at Villa de Álvarez.

The municipality covers an area of 428.4 km², and, in 2005, reported a total population of 100,121.

References

Municipalities of Colima


Marko Myyry (born 15 November 1967) is a Finnish former footballer who played as a midfielder.

Career
Myyry joined 2. Bundesliga side SV Meppen in 1987. He would appear for the club in nearly 400 matches (175 matches in the 2. Bundesliga) over two spells from 1987 to 2001.

Myyry made several appearances in the Finland national football team.

References

External links

 Finland – International Player Records
 Profile & stats - Lokeren

1967 births
Living people
Finnish men's footballers
Finnish expatriate men's footballers
Finland men's international footballers
FC Haka players
K.S.C. Lokeren Oost-Vlaanderen players
SV Meppen players
2. Bundesliga players
Mestaruussarja players
Men's association football midfielders
Expatriate men's footballers in Germany
Expatriate men's footballers in Belgium
People from Kerava
Footballers from Uusimaa


The 2009 Medibank International Sydney was a tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the 117th edition of the event known that year as the Medibank International Sydney, and was part of the ATP World Tour 250 series of the 2009 ATP World Tour, and of the WTA Premier tournaments of the 2009 WTA Tour. Both the men's and the women's events took place at the NSW Tennis Centre in Sydney, Australia, from 11 through 17 January 2009.

The men's singles line up was headlined by Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) No. 3, reigning Australian Open and Indian Wells Masters champion, recent Tennis Masters Cup winner Novak Djokovic, 2008 Australian Open runner-up, Bangkok and Paris Masters titlist, Sydney doubles defending champion Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, and Madrid Masters finalist, Casablanca, Indianapolis and Bucharest champion Gilles Simon. Other top seeds competing were Buenos Aires and Stockholm champion David Nalbandian, Gstaad and Umag finalist Igor Andreev, Richard Gasquet, Tomáš Berdych, Tommy Robredo and Dmitry Tursunov.

The women's draw was led by Women's Tennis Association (WTA) No. 2, Wimbledon finalist and US Open champion, Bangalore, Miami and Charleston winner Serena Williams, French Open runner-up, Beijing Olympics silver medalist, Berlin, Los Angeles, Montreal and Tokyo titlist Dinara Safina, and Beijing Olympics gold medalist, Dubai and Luxembourg winner Elena Dementieva. Other players present were WTA Tour Championships runner-up, Prague and Guangzhou titlist Vera Zvonareva, French Open semifinalist Svetlana Kuznetsova, Agnieszka Radwańska, Nadia Petrova and Caroline Wozniacki.

Finals

Men's singles

 David Nalbandian defeated  Jarkko Nieminen, 6–3, 6–7(9–11), 6–2
It was Nalbandian's 1st title of the year and 10th overall.

Women's singles

 Elena Dementieva defeated  Dinara Safina, 6–3, 2–6, 6–1
It was Dementieva's 2nd title of the year and 13th of her career.

Men's doubles

 Bob Bryan /  Mike Bryan defeated  Daniel Nestor /  Nenad Zimonjić, 6–1, 7–6(7–3)

Women's doubles

 Hsieh Su-wei /  Peng Shuai defeated  Nathalie Dechy /  Casey Dellacqua, 6–0, 6–1

External links
Official website

Medibank International, 2009

cs:Medibank International Sydney 2009 - muži
fr:Tournoi de Sydney 2009 (ATP)


Let My People Go: The Story of Israel is a 1965 American documentary film directed by Marshall Flaum. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature in 1965 and won the United Nations Award in 1961 from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts. Flaum also produced and wrote the documentary.

Overview
With narration by Richard Basehart and an original score by Israeli composer Marc Lavry, Let My People Go depicts the story of the efforts to create a homeland for the Jewish people, interweaving archival footage of such individuals and events reaching back to Theodor Herzl in 1897 at the First Zionist Congress in Basel, Switzerland. The film shows World Zionist Organization president Chaim Weizmann meeting with Arthur Balfour, who authored the Balfour Declaration, which stated that "His Majesty's government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people".

The documentary showed Jewish refugees on ships barred from entry into the Mandate Palestine following the White Paper of 1939 that restricted Jewish immigration and included film taken during the Holocaust that had not previously been seen depicting Jewish life in the Warsaw Ghetto and a young woman carrying her unmoving child, as well as the "illegals", displaced persons who had attempted to evade the British blockade after World War II who were detained in British DP camps in Cyprus. After showing people listening to a shortwave broadcast of the proceedings in 1947 at the United Nations approving the partition plan that led to the creation of the State of Israel on May 15, 1948, the film ends with men and women planting trees in memory of the six million victims of the Holocaust.

The film was broadcast in the United States in April 1965 on a nationwide network of independent stations, with the sponsorship of the Xerox Corporation.

Critical reception
Let My People Go was described by critic Donald Kirkley of The Baltimore Sun as being "one of those rare programs which remind us of the heights to which television can soar when it is at its best." Television critic Jack Gould of The New York Times called the film "A documentary of remorseless realism... that seared the viewer's consciousness with the tireless nobility and animal barbarity of the human race".

See also
List of American films of 1965

References

External links

Let My People Go: The Story of Israel at David L. Wolper Productions

1965 films
1965 documentary films
American documentary films
Israeli documentary films
BAFTA winners (films)
Documentary films about refugees
Documentary films about Israel
Films directed by Marshall Flaum
1960s English-language films
1960s American films
English-language documentary films
Arthur Balfour


Papyrus 86 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), designated by siglum 𝔓86, is an early copy of the New Testament in Greek. It is a papyrus manuscript of the Gospel of Matthew. The manuscript palaeographically has been assigned to the 4th century.

The surviving texts of Matthew are verses 5:13-16, 22-25.

 Text
The Greek text of this codex is a representative of the Alexandrian text-type. Aland placed it in Category II, it means, it has some alien readings.

 Location
It is currently housed at the Institut für Altertumskunde in University of Cologne (P. Col. theol. 5516) in Cologne.

See also

 List of New Testament papyri

References

Further reading

 C. Charalambakis, D. Hagedorn, D. Kaimakis, and L. Thüngen, Vier literarische Papyri der Kölner Sammlung, no. 4, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 14 (Barcelona: 1974), pp. 37–40.
 B. Kramer and D. Hagedorn, Papyrologica Coloniensia VII, 2 (Cologne, 1978), pp. 88–89.

Images
 Leaf from 𝔓86 recto
 Leaf from 𝔓86 verso

New Testament papyri
4th-century biblical manuscripts
Gospel of Matthew papyri


Flavius Abundantius (floruit 375400) was a politician of the Eastern Roman Empire.

Of Scythian origin, he entered the Roman army under emperor Gratian (367-375) and climbed up its ranks until, around 392 and under emperor Theodosius I (378-395), he became magister utriusque militiae. The next year, in 393, he also held the consulate.

The powerful eunuch and courtier Eutropius, who had been introduced by Abundantius into the court, caused his downfall, because he longed for Abundantius' properties: in 396 Eutropius had the new emperor Arcadius exile Abundantius at Pityus on the Black Sea (current Pitsunda in Abkhazia, Georgia) and give all his properties to Eutropius himself. When Eutropius died (399), Abundantius succeeded in being transferred to the more comfortable Sidon, where he was still alive in 400.

References
 Otto Seeck, "Abundantius 1", Paulys Realencyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft

4th-century Romans
4th-century Roman consuls
Imperial Roman consuls
Scythian people


Sapphire Chrystalla Elia (born 15 April 1987) is an English actress, model and singer best known for her roles in musical drama Britannia High and the soap opera Emmerdale.

Early and personal life
Sapphire Chrystalla Elia was born on 15 April 1987 in London. Elia is of Greek-Cypriot heritage.
She is 3/4 Greek and 1/4 English.

Career
Elia modelled for brands such as Dolce & Gabbana, Selfridges and Debenhams from the age of three. She later went on to appear in a number of adverts. In 1996, Elia began attending the Sylvia Young Theatre School. She was cast in the role of a young Cosette in Trevor Nunn's theatre production of Les Misérables at the Palace Theatre.

In 1998, Elia became an entertainer on ITV's Fun Song Factory for one series. Two years later she became a presenter on Discovery Kids, which led to a two-hour reality show called Blast Off, where she attended the NASA Astronaut Training Camp for children. In 2002, Elia played Isabelle in the educational series, Energy for Pearson Education. The following year, she graduated from Sylvia Young.

In 2006, the actress was cast as Gemma Craig in the television drama series Dream Team. Elia played two Polly Delwar and Kerry in two separate stints in The Bill.

In 2008, Elia successfully auditioned for the musical drama series Britannia High. A year later, Elia played Snow White in a Christmas pantomime at the Richmond Theatre. In 2010, the actress played the role of Amber in the movie Black Forest for the Syfy channel. In September of that year, Elia joined the cast of Emmerdale as Mia Macey. In May 2011, Elia confirmed her departure from Emmerdale.

Sapphire appeared on second cover to Image 34 magazine in June 2012.

 In July 2020 Sapphire and her Partner Matthew set up a Consulting Agency called "alterniq inspired growth" with the Slogan, "We aim to help companies uncover talent within their workforce through a range of specialised programmes".

Filmography

Theatre

References

External links

Sapphire Elia on Twitter
Sapphire Elia on Facebook
alterniq inspired growth Website

1987 births
Living people
Alumni of the Sylvia Young Theatre School
British television actresses
British people of Greek Cypriot descent


Totaled!, known in Europe as Crashed for the PlayStation 2 version, and Crash for the Xbox version, is a vehicular combat game released in 2002 for the Xbox and the PlayStation 2. It was developed by British video game developer Rage Software. The object of the game is to smash each other's cars till they are "totaled".

Reception

The Xbox version of Totaled! received "mixed" reviews according to the review aggregation website Metacritic.

References

External links

2002 video games
Cancelled GameCube games
PlayStation 2 games
Vehicular combat games
Xbox games
Rage Games games
Majesco Entertainment games
Video games developed in the United Kingdom
Multiplayer and single-player video games


The  Drakensberg Pumped Storage Scheme is an energy storage facility built in the South African provinces of Free State and KwaZulu-Natal starting in 1974 and completed by 1981.

Four dams are involved in the scheme; the Driekloof Dam (joined to the Sterkfontein Dam), the Kilburn Dam, the Woodstock Dam and the Driel Barrage. Electricity generation equipment is located between Driekloof Dam and Kilburn Dam. Since the Driekloof Dam/Sterkfontein Dam also forms part of the Tugela-Vaal Water Project some of the water pumped to Driekloof Dam might end up flowing to the Vaal Dam and not be available for return to the Kilburn Dam. The Woodstock Dam and Driel Barrage are used to supply this additional water to Kilburn Dam when required.

The scheme provides for up to  of electricity storage in the form of  of water. The water is pumped to Driekloof during times of low national power consumption (generally over weekends) and released back into Kilburn through four  turbine generators in times of high electricity demand.

See also

 Pumped-storage hydroelectricity
 List of power stations in South Africa
 List of energy storage projects

References

External links
 Drakensberg Pumped Storage Scheme on the Eskom-Website

Energy infrastructure completed in 1981
Pumped-storage hydroelectric power stations in South Africa
Tugela River
Vaal River
Water supply infrastructure in South Africa
Economy of the Free State (province)
Economy of KwaZulu-Natal
1981 establishments in South Africa
20th-century architecture in South Africa


An inflation swap is an agreement between two counterparties to swap fixed rate payments on a notional principal amount for floating rate payments linked to an inflation index, such as the consumer price index.

An inflation swap is the linear form of an inflation derivative, and used to transfer inflation risk from one counterparty to another.

Example
An investor takes out a 5 year loan that is repaid at LIBOR+1%.  He considers this rate as the sum of real LIBOR plus a credit spread (1%) plus a floating inflation component.  He would like to pay real LIBOR, the credit spread, and a fixed rate.  So he enters into an inflation swap agreement where for the next 5 years he is paying a fixed rate on his loan's principal while receiving  year-on-year inflation on the same amount.

See also
Year-on-Year Inflation-Indexed Swap
Zero-Coupon Inflation-Indexed Swap

References

Inflation
Derivatives (finance)
Swaps (finance)


The Regent String Quartet are a British string quartet,

The Regent String Quartet was formed in the mid-1990s. Their original lineup was Helen Godbolt, Sarah Turner, Caryn Cohen and Emma Martin (see the Members section for more details).

They were formed at the Royal Academy of Music where they were all trained as classical players.

There is also an Australian string quartet of the same name based in Melbourne, Victoria.

Members

Current lineup
 Caryn Cohen (First Violin)
 Emma Martin (Second Violin)
 Sarah Turner (Viola)
 Helen Godbolt (Cello)

Appearances

Artists whom they have supported
KanYe West, McFly, Vanessa Mae, Gabrielle, Mostly Autumn, Nigel Kennedy, Julian Lloyd Webber,
Luciano Pavarotti, Russell Watson, The Opera Babes.

TV
Too Good To Be True (ITV, 2003),
Comic Relief 2005, supporting McFly,
Brit Awards (several years) - accompanying strings,
Top Of The Pops (several appearances) - accompanying strings.

Film
The Lord of the Rings soundtrack

DVD
 The V Shows (DVD 2004, CD 2005)

External links
The official Regent Quartet homepage
Alive Network profile of the quartet
BC Review of The V Shows DVD

The Australian Regent String Quartet webpage

English string quartets
Musical groups established in 1996


Zhang Wen (died 5 November 191), courtesy name Boshen, was a Chinese official and military general of the Eastern Han dynasty. Zhang held prime ministerial office during the reign of Emperor Ling of Han, serving as Grand Excellency of Works from 184 to 185 and Grand Commandant from 186 to 187. Zhang oversaw the dynasty's military response to the Liang Province Rebellion from 185 to 186, supervising the future warlords Dong Zhuo and Sun Jian. After Dong seized control of the Eastern Han court in 189 and relocated it from Luoyang to Chang'an, Zhang continued to serve in ministerial office while conspiring against Dong. He was executed in November 191 at Dong's order.

Life
Zhang's family was based in Nanyang Commandery. He had at least one brother, Zhang Chang, who held commandery office under Emperor Huan and in the offices of General-in-Chief Dou Wu in 168 (De Crespigny, 1036). Zhang Wen was a protégé of the influential court eunuch Cao Teng and served in the Imperial Secretariat during Emperor Huan's reign. In 164, Zhang accompanied Emperor Huan on a progress to the Yangtze River, an event memorialized by an anecdote about an old man who piqued Zhang's curiosity by ignoring the passing imperial entourage. When Zhang approached him, the old man criticized the emperor's luxurious lifestyle and the accordant burdens placed on the populace, allegedly prompting Zhang to feel ashamed.

Zhang later served as Administrator of Yingchuan Commandery. By 184, he was Minister of Finance, and was promoted in the same year to the prime ministerial office of Grand Excellency of Works. Although Zhang was considered a competent official and well-qualified for the post, he was compelled to pay a bribe to secure his appointment, pursuant to a much-criticized practice introduced by the reigning Emperor Ling. Zhang was serving as Grand Excellency at the time of the Yellow Turban Rebellion and persuaded the emperor not to dismiss the military commander Zhu Jun, who ultimately achieved success in his campaign against Yellow Turbans in Nanyang Commandery.

In 185, following the failure of the general Huangfu Song to suppress a multiethnic rebellion in Liang Province, Zhang was appointed General of Chariots and Cavalry and assigned to lead a 100,000-strong army against the rebels. Zhang experienced difficulty in managing his subordinate general Dong Zhuo, who reportedly treated Zhang with disdain. Nevertheless, recognizing Dong's popularity among the soldiery, Zhang allegedly rejected the urgings of his military advisor Sun Jian that Dong be executed. Zhang's campaign was inconclusive, despite a victory scored by Dong in the winter of 185-186, and although he was appointed Grand Commandant in 186, he resigned in the following year due to the continued unrest (1078).

In 188, Zhang returned to office as Colonel-Director of Retainers, which, while not a prime ministerial office, was a highly influential position that reported directly to the emperor. While serving in this role, he recommended that Emperor Ling assign He Xun, who at the time was plotting a coup against the eunuch faction, as intendant of Jingzhao Commandery. Although Emperor Ling, who favored He, was reluctant to follow Zhang's recommendation, the eunuch Jian Shi persuaded him to do so and He was duly assigned to Jingzhao. In the following year, Emperor Ling died and the court came under the control of Dong Zhuo, by now a preeminent western warlord. Establishing himself as a de facto regent, Dong deposed Emperor Ling's heir Emperor Shao and installed Emperor Ling's younger son, Emperor Xian, on the throne before moving the court west, from Luoyang to Chang'an, in the face of coalescing military opposition from the eastern aristocracy.

Zhang accompanied the court to Chang'an and was appointed Minister of the Guards by 191. Displeased with Dong's harsh rule, Zhang conspired against him with Wang Yun, the Grand Excellency Over the Masses and Prefect of the Masters of Writing. Before these efforts could bear fruit, Dong was advised by the court astronomer of a prophecy foretelling the death of a prominent minister and ordered Zhang's execution as a means of satisfying the prophecy, accusing him of communicating with the eastern coalition. Zhang was executed on 5 November 191 by being flogged to death in the Chang'an marketplace.

In Romance of the Three Kingdoms
In the 14th-century historical novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Zhang Wen is murdered by Lü Bu at a dinner party with many officials present. Lü Bu is the foster son of the tyrannical warlord Dong Zhuo, who orders him to take Zhang Wen away from the assembly, cut off his head, and bring it back on a silver platter to show the other guests. Dong Zhuo then announces to the other officials that a letter has been discovered from Zhang Wen to Yuan Shu, one of Dong Zhuo's rival warlords, in which Zhang Wen had been collaborating against him. Dong Zhuo tells the rest of the assembly not to worry as none of them are implicated in the letter.

See also
 Lists of people of the Three Kingdoms

References

 Fan, Ye (5th century). Book of the Later Han (Houhanshu).
 Luo, Guanzhong (14th century). Romance of the Three Kingdoms (Sanguo Yanyi).

Year of birth unknown
191 deaths
2nd-century Chinese military personnel
Politicians from Nanyang, Henan
Han dynasty generals


Charlotte Ashton is a British television presenter. She presented Revealed... on BBC Switch alongside Anthony Baxter.

Career
Ashton started her career at BBC Radio 4 and has written for The Guardian newspaper.

Radio 1's Surgery with Kelly Osbourne
On Sunday 30 November 2008, Ashton hosted Radio 1's first surgery debate show with presenter Aled Haydn-Jones. The second debate show was on Sunday 18 January 2009, which Ashton hosted with Haydn-Jones and fellow Revealed... presenter Anthony Baxter.

Personal life
Ashton was born in Birmingham and now lives in London.

References

External links
Revealed... website

British television presenters
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)


Grapevine moth or Grape moth may refer to:

 Geina periscelidactyla (the grape plume moth), a moth found in eastern North America
 Lobesia botrana (the European grapevine moth), a tortrix moth
 Nokona regalis (the Japanese grapevine moth), a moth found in Japan
 Phalaenoides glycinae (the Australian grapevine moth), a noctuid moth
 Paralobesia viteana (the grape berry moth), a moth found in Eastern North America and western Colorado
 Oxyptilus regulus (the grape boring plume moth), a moth found in Australia
 Vitacea scepsiformis (the lesser grape root borer moth), a moth found in North America

See also
 Eupoecilia ambiguella, the vine moth, a moth found in Europe and Asia

Animal common name disambiguation pages


Esa Pekonen (born 4 November 1961) is a Finnish former footballer and manager.

External links and references

 Finland – International Player Records

1961 births
Living people
Finnish men's footballers
Finland men's international footballers
Finnish expatriate men's footballers
Expatriate men's footballers in Sweden
FC Lahti players
AIK Fotboll players
Myllykosken Pallo −47 players
Veikkausliiga players
Allsvenskan players
Finnish football managers
FC Lahti managers
Kuopion Palloseura managers
Men's association football defenders
Footballers from Lahti


To Die in Madrid () is a 1963 French documentary film about the Spanish Civil War, directed by Frédéric Rossif. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.

Background
In 1936, the Popular Front won the elections in Spain and thus provoked a rise in discontent on the part of the right: monarchists, fascists, conservatives and others nostalgic for the pre-republic, for "eternal, Catholic and imperial Spain", attempted to overthrow the current government in Madrid with a putsch that took place on 17 and 18 July 1936. Although it failed, this coup d'état was the trigger for a bloody civil war that Frédéric Rossif documents in To Die in Madrid.

Production and release
The film is a formidable piece of archival research on the Spanish Civil War, drawing on documents from the Soviet Union, the United States, France, Germany and Spain. Rossif is not a historian, but he teaches us the essential fact that the war was won thanks to the massive support of the Germans and Italians. The commentary is by Madeleine Chapsal, for the most part said by Jean Vilar and Suzanne Flon. The music is by Maurice Jarre. The producer is Nicole Stéphane.

This film was not easy to make and was much attacked at its release by both the extreme right and the extreme left. The French government, in order to please the Spanish dictator Franco, delayed the release of the film for more than a month and asked to cut some scenes. According to Nicole Stéphane's testimony in 2006, the Spanish government asked for twenty-five cuts and the French censors finally made six.

Cast
 John Gielgud as Narrator (voice)
 Irene Worth as Co-Narrator
 Suzanne Flon as Récitante / Narrator (French version) (voice)
 Roger Mollien as Récitant / Narrator (French version) (voice)
 Germaine Montero as Récitante / Narrator (French version) (voice)
 Pierre Vaneck as Récitant / Narrator (French version) (voice)
 Jean Vilar as Récitant / Narrator (French version) (voice)

Awards
 Prix Jean-Vigo (1963)
 Prix du Chevalier de la Barre (1963)
BAFTA Award for Best Documentary (1968)
 Nomination: Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature (1966)

References

External links

1963 films
1963 documentary films
1960s French-language films
French documentary films
French black-and-white films
Films directed by Frédéric Rossif
Documentary films about the Spanish Civil War
1960s French films


The 1999 Japanese motorcycle Grand Prix was the second round of the 1999 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It took place on 25 April 1999 at the Twin Ring Motegi.

This race would be the final 500cc podium for 5-time world champion Mick Doohan.

500 cc classification

250 cc classification

125 cc classification

Championship standings after the race (500cc)

Below are the standings for the top five riders and constructors after round two has concluded.

Riders' Championship standings

Constructors' Championship standings

 Note: Only the top five positions are included for both sets of standings.

References

Japanese motorcycle Grand Prix
Japanese
Motorcycle Grand Prix


Karen Gillece (born 1974 in Dublin) is an Irish writer. She studied law at University College Dublin and worked for several years in the telecommunications industry before turning to writing full-time. She has written four novels and her short stories have been widely published in literary journals and magazines. She has been described by The Irish Times as "an emerging force to be reckoned with", and by the Irish Independent as "the queen of emerging Irish writers", and her work as being "clever and compelling". She lives in Dublin.

Awards and honors
2009: European Union Prize for Literature, Longshore Drift
2001: Hennessy New Irish Writing Award, shortlist

Bibliography

Seven Nights in Zaragoza (2005)
Longshore Drift (2006)
My Glass Heart (2007)
The Absent Wife (2008)
The Boy That Never Was (2014) as Karen Perry in collaboration with Paul Perry.

References

External links
Karen Gillece in Irish Writers Online
Karen Gillece's Website

Irish writers
1974 births
Living people


Gweilo: Memoirs of a Hong Kong Childhood is an autobiography by author Martin Booth. It was published in 2004 shortly before he died.

The book discusses the author's childhood in Hong Kong. The term "gweilo" literally means "ghost man" in Cantonese, but has been applied as a racial epithet for Caucasians (as in white ghosts). The book is rich with vivid descriptions of the author's explorations of Kowloon and Hong Kong, his learning of Cantonese and his numerous interactions with Chinese people in Hong Kong. In the United States, the book was marketed under the title Golden Boy.

The book appeared in the Reader's Digest Condensed Books series.

References

Notes

2004 non-fiction books
Travel autobiographies
British travel books
English non-fiction books
British autobiographies


Egoleech is the third studio album by German goregrind band Cock and Ball Torture. This album shows a shift in the group's style from its trademark pornogrind sound to groove-laden death metal.

Track listing

References

External links

2004 albums
Cock and Ball Torture (band) albums


The 1999 Spanish motorcycle Grand Prix was the third round of the 1999 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It took place on 9 May 1999 at the Circuito Permanente de Jerez. The event is notable for being the last round that 5-time 500cc and reigning World Champion Mick Doohan participated in. Doohan did not start the race due to crashing in the wet qualifying session, resulting in career-ending leg injuries.

500 cc classification

250 cc classification

125 cc classification

Championship standings after the race (500cc)

Below are the standings for the top five riders and constructors after round three has concluded.

Riders' Championship standings

Constructors' Championship standings

 Note: Only the top five positions are included for both sets of standings.

Notes

References

Spanish motorcycle Grand Prix
Spanish
Motorcycle Grand Prix


The 1999 French motorcycle Grand Prix was the fourth round of the 1999 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It took place on 23 May 1999 at Le Castellet.

500 cc classification

250 cc classification

125 cc classification

Championship standings after the race (500cc)

Below are the standings for the top five riders and constructors after round four has concluded.

Riders' Championship standings

Constructors' Championship standings

 Note: Only the top five positions are included for both sets of standings.

Notes

References

French motorcycle Grand Prix
French
Motorcycle Grand Prix


Defending champion Jim Courier defeated Goran Ivanišević in the final, 6–1, 6–2, 6–2 to win the men's singles tennis title at the 1993 Italian Open.

Seeds

  Pete Sampras (semifinals)
  Jim Courier (champion)
  Boris Becker (third round)
  Goran Ivanišević (finals)
  Ivan Lendl (first round)
  Michael Chang (semifinals)
  Sergi Bruguera (quarterfinals)
  Andrei Medvedev (third round)
  Richard Krajicek (first round)
  Karel Nováček (third round)
  Wayne Ferreira (first round)
  MaliVai Washington (first round)
  Thomas Muster (second round)
  Cédric Pioline (second round)
  Carlos Costa (second round)
  Fabrice Santoro (third round)

Draw

Finals

Top half

Section 1

Section 2

Bottom half

Section 3

Section 4

References

Men's Singles


The 1947 Hobart Carnival was the tenth edition of the Australian National Football Carnival, an Australian football interstate competition. It was held from the July 30 to August 9 and was the second time (first being 1924) to be held in Hobart with North Hobart Oval once again being the host stadium throughout the carnival.

The carnival was expanded to seven teams from the three that played in the previous edition which meant for the first time since 1908, the competition saw two sections. Section A being South Australia, VFL and Western Australia while Tasmania, New South Wales, Queensland and Canberra took part in Section B.

Western Australia caused an upset with a 4-point win over the VFL, the first time the Victorians had lost at a carnival since 1921. The VFL however claimed the Championship on percentage after easily accounting for South Australia by 76 points. Tasmania topped the Section B ladder to gain promotion to the top flight in the 1950 Brisbane Carnival.

Summary
The 1947 carnival began with the opening ceremony which 14,082 people attended in what The Mercury described as a holiday with few people out on the Hobart streets after the luncheon hour. The opening ceremony featured each captain carrying the state pennant around North Hobart with the governor of Tasmania, Hugh Binney, formally announcing the carnival beginning. The opening match of the 1947 carnival was between New South Wales and Canberra with New South Wales cruising to an 80 point victory over the team from Canberra after scoring eight goals in the first quarter to the Canberrans two goals with the final score being 18.12 (130) to 7.8 (50). The second match of the double-header was much the same with the Tasmanian team giving systematic football to the home ground as Lance Collins scored nine goals in the team's 114 points thrashing over Queensland with an eight goal term in the second quarter sealing a comfortable victory.

After a one day break, the second round of Section B started on the 1 August with Tasmania taking on New South Wales. A crowd of 5,785 people attended the match which saw Tasmania defeat New South Wales by 10 points. This was after scores were level with the swing of the match in favor of New South Wales. But Tasmania found an extra gear with a goal to Terry Cashion from a dazzling run through the half-forward. Dave Challender later scored the last goal of the match to seal the victory. The following day saw inaccurate kicking from Canberra with poor position play and lack of cohesion but stayed in the match with Queensland giving opportunities away. It would not be until the final quarter where Queensland, 15 points down at three quarter time would play their best football with four goals giving Queensland an 11 point lead but was then wiped away with two goals from H. Madigan gave Canberra hope but it was not to be with Queensland getting a 10 point victory.

The second match of the day saw the first match of Section A between South Australia and Western Australia. With an almost record crowd of 14,867, the South Australians dominated Western Australia across the centre with the only period of play being in the third quarter where the Western Australians attacked vigorously. South Australia won the match by 36 points with the final scores being 20.18 (138) to 15.12 (102). The following day, Victoria played their first game of the Hobart Carnival, with Lindsay White kicking 11 goals in the Victorian demolition of Queensland with the final margin being 214 points with Queensland not scoring a single goal in the second half. The following match saw Tasmania take on Western Australia with the winner of the match staying in the A-division and be able to take on Victoria on Wednesday. For almost three quarters of the match, the Tasmanian's stayed close to Western Australia with them only being behind by 13 points at one stage of the final quarter. Western Australia though had the superior team which with the steadiness in attack lead them to a 44 point victory and staying in Division A.

Two more matches were played on the Wednesday, after South Australia defeated New South Wales by 71 points in the last inter-section game of the carnival, Western Australia and Victoria played in the second match of Section A. In what The Mercury described as worthy of the highest traditions of the game, the two teams battled throughout the match with Western Australia holding a five point lead after the bell. Fred Fanning has the chance to win the game for Victoria but his shot went wide as WA won by four points. The Friday matches saw convincing wins from New South Wales and Tasmania who defeated Queensland and Canberra by 58 and 78 points respectively. This also meant Tasmania won the Division B title and would compete in Division A in the following carnival.

Before the final match of the carnival between Victoria and South Australia was played, a closing parade was arranged with the Tasmanians leading the teams out with Victoria and South Australia being the last ones out. A record crowd of 18,354 people who paid £2860 saw Victoria dominate the game with most of the interest being evapulated after half time as the South Australians had no answer to the Victorians who went on to win by 76 points.

Results

Section B

Section A

Inter-Section Matches

Tassie Medal

Squads

Section A

Section B

References

External links
1947 Hobart Carnival page on Full Points Footy

Australian rules interstate football
Hobart Carnival, 1947


Korolevo (; ; ; ) is an urban type settlement on the Tisza River in Berehove Raion, Zakarpattia Oblast, Ukraine. Population:

History
During the reign of Saint Stephen, King of Hungary, a German settlement existed on the site. A royal hunting lodge was built on the hill, and the town was named for it: Királyháza, its original Hungarian name that was later translated to the Slavic Korolev, literally means "king's house". In the 14th century a stone castle named Nyalab was built on the site of the hunting lodge. In 1672 the castle was destroyed.

In 1910, the village in Ugocsa County of the  Kingdom of Hungary had 3,167 inhabitants, of whom 2,224 were Hungarians and 932 Ruthenians. In 1918 it joined the then newly formed Czechoslovakia (as part of Subcarpathian Ruthenia). In 1944, close to the end of World War II, it ended up in the Ukrainian SSR, then part of the USSR. In 1947 the village was given the status of an urban type settlement. Since 1991 it has been in independent Ukraine.

References

External links

 Települések - Verbőc (Verbovec) - Nagyszőlősi járás
 Photos
 Királyháza anno
 Szent Ferenc Óvoda
 Облікова картка на сайті ВР України

Urban-type settlements in Berehove Raion


The 2005 St. Petersburg Open was a tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts. It was the 11th edition of the St. Petersburg Open, and was part of the International Series of the 2005 ATP Tour. It took place at the Petersburg Sports and Concert Complex in Saint Petersburg, Russia, from October 24 through October 30, 2005.

The singles draw was headlined by ATP No. 8, Australian Open quarterfinalist, French Open semifinalist, St. Pölten winner Nikolay Davydenko, Wimbledon semifinalist, 1997 St. Petersburg champion Thomas Johansson, and Memphis and Nottingham titlist Max Mirnyi. Also competing were Cincinnati Masters quarterfinalist Mikhail Youzhny, Moscow runner-up Nicolas Kiefer, Jarkko Nieminen, Greg Rusedski and Fernando Verdasco.

Finals

Singles

 Thomas Johansson defeated  Nicolas Kiefer, 6–4, 6–2
It was Thomas Johansson's 1st title of the year, and his 9th overall. It was his 2nd win at the event.

Doubles

 Julian Knowle /  Jürgen Melzer defeated  Jonas Björkman /  Max Mirnyi, 4–6, 7–5, 7–5

External links
Official website
Singles Draw
Doubles Draw
Qualifying Singles Draw

2005
St. Petersburg Open
St. Petersburg Open
St. Petersburg Open


Chili Weather is a 1963 Warner Bros. Merrie Melodies cartoon directed by Friz Freleng. The short was released on August 17, 1963, and stars Speedy Gonzales and Sylvester.

Plot
Some Mexican mice see the Guadalajara Food Processing Plant and try to enter but are prevented by Sylvester guarding the place. The hungry mice summon Speedy Gonzales to help them get food. Speedy steals some cheese, but when he goes back, Sylvester starts chasing him. They end up on a conveyor belt, where Sylvester gets shaved by some chopping blades. Speedy spreads some grease on a platform, and Sylvester skids into a vat of Tabasco Sauce. He melts a block of ice to recover. On another conveyor belt, Sylvester gets a bottle cap pressed onto his head. He pries it off with a bottle opener, but Speedy "yee-ha's" him into the ceiling where it gets stuck again, and Speedy hides his bottle opener. Sylvester wanders off, trying to club Speedy but unable to because of his lack of sight, and his aimless wandering lands him in a dehydrator. He emerges from the dehydrator in a miniature size (finally able to remove the bottle cap), but then Speedy, who is now larger than the cat, greets him prompting the tiny Sylvester to run away in fright.

Crew
Story: John Dunn
Animation: Gerry Chiniquy, Virgil Ross, Bob Matz, Lee Halpern, Art Leonardi
Layout: Hawley Pratt
Backgrounds: Tom O'Loughlin
Film Editor: Lee Gunther
Voice Characterizations: Mel Blanc
Music: Bill Lava
Produced by: David H. DePatie
Directed by: Friz Freleng

Home media
DVD- Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 4

References

External links

1963 films
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Hannu Turunen (born 24 June 1956) is a Finnish former footballer. Turunen played for Koparit and KuPS during his club career, also making 66 appearances for the Finland national football team, scoring 3 goals.

External links and references

 Finland – International Player Records

1956 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Savonlinna
Finnish men's footballers
Finland men's international footballers
Footballers at the 1980 Summer Olympics
Olympic footballers for Finland
Men's association football defenders
Men's association football midfielders


The 1999 Italian motorcycle Grand Prix was the fifth race of the 1999 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It took place on 6 June 1999 at the Mugello Circuit.

500 cc classification

250 cc classification
Loris Capirossi was black-flagged for causing Marcellino Lucchi's crash at the start of the race; in addition, as he did not return to the pits within one lap after having been shown the flag, he was banned from the following event.

125 cc classification

Championship standings after the race (500cc)

Below are the standings for the top five riders and constructors after round five has concluded.

Riders' Championship standings

Constructors' Championship standings

 Note: Only the top five positions are included for both sets of standings.

References

Italian motorcycle Grand Prix
Italian
Motorcycle Grand Prix


The 1999 Catalan motorcycle Grand Prix was the sixth round of the 1999 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It took place on 20 June 1999 at the Circuit de Catalunya.

500 cc classification

250 cc classification

125 cc classification

Championship standings after the race (500cc)

Below are the standings for the top five riders and constructors after round six has concluded.

Riders' Championship standings

Constructors' Championship standings

 Note: Only the top five positions are included for both sets of standings.

References

Catalan motorcycle Grand Prix
Catalan
Catalan Motorcycle Grand Prix
motorcycle


Churchill's People is a series of 26 historical dramas produced by the BBC, based on Winston Churchill's A History of the English-Speaking Peoples. They were first broadcast on BBC1 in 1974 and 1975. It was produced to mark the centenary of Churchill's birth.

The series was considered misconceived for multiple reasons, such as the studio-bound production which offered little in the way of realism and the lack of available funding. Each episode dealt with a particular period in British history, and the quality was consequently variable. Much of the acting was criticised, despite the involvement of Richard Johnson, Robert Hardy, Alan Howard, Colin Blakely, Anna Massey, Gemma Jones, and Edward Fox, amongst others.  The series was reviewed at some length in the programme TV Hell, which revealed that viewing figures had plummeted from 2 million at the series' launch to less than half a million by the fifth episode. The programme was swiftly buried in a later time-slot for the remainder of its run.

Nancy Banks-Smith in The Guardian described it as having "little to offer us but blood, horsehair and history. Though a hell of a lot of each."

Episodes

References

External links

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Winston Churchill
BBC television dramas
1970s British drama television series
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The 1999 Dutch TT was the seventh round of the 1999 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It took place on 26 June 1999 at the TT Circuit Assen located in Assen, Netherlands.

500 cc classification

250 cc classification

125 cc classification

Championship standings after the race (500cc)

Below are the standings for the top five riders and constructors after round seven has concluded.

Riders' Championship standings

Constructors' Championship standings

 Note: Only the top five positions are included for both sets of standings.

References

Dutch TT
Dutch
Tourist Trophy


Coquimatlán is a city and seat of the municipality of Coquimatlán, in the Mexican state of Colima. As of 2005, it had a population of 11,374.

Geography

Climate

References

Populated places in Colima


The 1999 British motorcycle Grand Prix was the eighth round of the 1999 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It took place on 4 July 1999 at Donington Park.

500 cc classification

250 cc classification

125 cc classification

Championship standings after the race (500cc)

Below are the standings for the top five riders and constructors after round eight has concluded.

Riders' Championship standings

Constructors' Championship standings

 Note: Only the top five positions are included for both sets of standings.

References

1999
1999 MotoGP race reports
1999 in British motorsport
July 1999 sports events in the United Kingdom


Virius Nicomachus Flavianus (334–394 AD) was a grammarian, a historian and a politician of the Roman Empire.

A pagan and close friend of Quintus Aurelius Symmachus, he was Praetorian prefect of Italy in 390–392. Under the usurper Eugenius (392–394), Flavianus was again praetorian prefect (393–394) and consul (394, recognized only within Eugenius' territory). After the death of Eugenius in the battle of the Frigidus, Flavianus killed himself.

Biography

Nicomachus Flavianus was born in 334, and belonged to the Nicomachi, an influential family of senatorial rank. His father was Volusius Venustus, and from his wife, a pagan herself, he had a son also called Nicomachus Flavianus and maybe another son called Venustus; he was also grandfather of Appius Nicomachus Dexter and of Galla.

His career can be reconstructed from two inscriptions: one (CIL, VI, 1782) put up by his granddaughter's husband Quintus Fabius Memmius Symmachus and probably inscribed in 394, the other (CIL, VI, 1783) coming from the basis of a statue erected in 431 in Trajan's Forum by his nephew Appius Nicomachus Dexter, to celebrate his grandfather's memory after its restoration by the ruling emperors. Flavianus' cursus honorum included the following offices:
 quaestor,
 praetor,
 pontifex maior,
 consular of Sicilia (364/365),
 vicarius of Africa (376/377),
 quaestor sacri palatii,
 praetorian prefect of Illyricum and Italia (390–392),
 praetorian prefect of Illyricum and Italia for the second time (393–394),
 consul without a colleague (394).

During his office as vicarius Africae he received a law against Donatism; however it seems he somehow sided with the Donatists, if in 405 Augustine of Hippo misbelieved him a Donatist. In this office he, together with Decimius Hilarianus Hesperius, was in charge of the investigations around a scandal involving the city of Leptis Magna, but his conclusions, included in a report, had the citizens cleared of the charges; afterwards the citizens of Leptis Magna erected him a statue.

In 392 Flavianus had been praetorian prefect of Illyricum and Africa for two years, when the emperor of the western part of the Roman Empire, Valentinian II, died, either killed or committing suicide (15 May); his general Arbogast, with whom he had had a long conflict, was suspected of being involved in his death. As soon as he heard of Valentinian's death, eastern emperor Theodosius I nominated another praetorian prefect for Illyricum, Apodemius, who received also the praetorian prefecture of Africa in late 392/early 393. Arbogast, foreseeing an attack from Theodosius, put up a usurper, Eugenius, as emperor of the western part. As soon as Eugenius entered Italy (his crowning had been in Lyon on 22 August 393), Flavianus went to him and was appointed praetorian prefect for the second time; his key role within Eugenius' administration was confirmed with Flavianus' election to the consulate of 394 without a colleague (this office was recognized only within Eugenius' territory).

There is another important aspect of Flavianus' activity under Eugenius, the one often referred to as the "pagan revival". Eugenius was a Christian, but chose several pagans within the aristocracy as his allies. Flavianus took the opportunity and renewed the public ceremonies of the Roman religion, without the opposition of Eugenius, who was, for this reason, scolded by Ambrose, bishop of Milan. Theodosian propaganda first and Christian sources later presented the fight between Theodosius and Eugenius as a struggle of Christian faith against a last-standing Paganism: for this reason the religious acts of Flavianus have been interpreted as a pagan revival supported, or at least allowed, by Eugenius; a typical example is the episode of the Vita Ambrosii by Paulinus the Deacon, in which Flavianus and Arbogast, leaving Milan to clash into Theodosius' army, promise to destroy the city basilica and to enlist the Christian clergy into the army after their victorious return. Modern historians believe that there was not such a "pagan revival", but that Flavianus took the chance of a power vacuum (both in politics and in religion, as there was not, at the time, a powerful Christian figure) to support Roman religion, but without any plan by Eugenius.

Flavianus encouraged Eugenius in his struggle against Theodosius claiming that sacrifices had indicated victory in the forthcoming war. However, Eugenius and Arbogast were killed in the decisive battle of the Frigidus against the army of Theodosius (5 September 394); a few days later, Flavianus killed himself at the age of sixty.

Pagan circle of Flavianus

Flavianus belonged to the pagan circle which included also Vettius Agorius Praetextatus and Quintus Aurelius Symmachus. This circle was at the centre of the pagan movement of the late 4th century and, in particular through the work of the  Nicomachi and Symmachi families, has been credited with preserving into modern times the works of several pagan authors, such as Livy, Martial and Apuleius.

The relationship between the Nicomachi and the Symmachi was strengthened through weddings: in 393/394 the son of Flavianus, Nicomachus Flavianus, married Galla, the daughter of Quintus Aurelius Symmachus, whose son, Quintus Fabius Memmius Symmachus, married in 401 a daughter or a nephew of Flavianus. The bond between the two families was celebrated, either in occasion of one of the two weddings or at the time of a joint endorsement of religious offices, with the issue of a diptych, the valves of which are entitled Nicomachorum and Symmachorum.

Praetextatus, Symmachus and Flavianus are the main characters of Macrobius Ambrosius Theodosius' Saturnalia, written in the 5th century but set in the summer holidays of 384; the author describes the leaders of the pagan movement who host in turn different pagan intellectuals to discuss philosophical and religious matters.

Flavianus also has a connection with Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius via Quintus Aurelius Memmius Symmachus, adoptive father of Boethius. Symmachus named one of his daughters after the daughter of Flavianus. This is used to demonstrate the strong pagan influence on the household to which Boethius owed his loyalty.

Flavianus' role in literature

In the inscription on the base of the statue he dedicated to his father-in-law, Quintus Fabius Memmius Symmachus calls Flavianus historicus disertissimus. In fact, Flavianus wrote a history of Rome entitled Annales ("Annals"), now lost; it was dedicated to Theodosius (probably when Flavianus was quaestor sacri palatii in the 380s) and written in annalist form. As the title suggests, it might have been a continuation of the Annals by Tacitus: in fact, the often unreliable Historia Augusta, in the book devoted to the life of the Emperor Aurelian (270–275), includes a letter from Aurelian to Queen Zenobia that the author claims to have been reported by a Nicomachus; it is therefore possible that Nicomachus' work was a continuation of Tacitus' until at least Aurelian. Flavianus' Annals was maybe used by Ammianus Marcellinus as a source.

Flavianus translated also from the Greek Philostratus' Life of Apollonius of Tyana, about a man whose life was seen as very close to that of Jesus and whose biography therefore was considered akin to a pagan Gospel in the 4th century.

Flavianus has been identified with the object of the Christian work known as Carmen adversus Flavianum. He is one of the main characters, together with other members of his pagan club, of Macrobius' Saturnalia, a work written in the 430s, where he is depicted as a man of huge erudition. In his Ecclesiastical History, Tyrannius Rufinus depicts the pagan Flavianus, rather than the Christian Eugenius, as the true opponent defeated by the Christian Theodosius at the battle of the Frigidus; according to Rufinus, Flavianus killed himself because he realized his own religion was false. Scholars are unanimous in the belief that Rufinus invented this claim to advance the cause of the religion for which he so zealously apologised.

Notes

References

 Herbert Bloch: The Pagan Revival in the West at the End of the Fourth Century. In: Arnaldo Momigliano (Hrsg.): The Conflict Between Paganism and Christianity in the Fourth Century. Oxford 1963, pp. 193–218.
 Robert Malcolm Errington: The Praetorian Prefectures of Virius Nicomachus Flavianus. In: Historia. Vol. 41, 1992, pp. 439–461.
 Thomas Grünewald: Der letzte Kampf des Heidentums in Rom? Zur posthumen Rehabilitation des Virius Nicomachus Flavianus. In: Historia 41, 1992, pp. 462–487.
 Charles W. Hedrick Jr.: History and Silence: The Purge and Rehabilitation of Memory in Late Antiquity. Austin 2000, .
 Tony Honoré, John Matthews: Virius Nicomachus Flavianus. Konstanz 1989.
 James J. O’Donnell: The Career of Virius Nicomachus Flavianus. In: Phoenix. Vol. 32, 1978, pp. 129–143 (online).
 Jelle Wytzes: Der letzte Kampf des Heidentums in Rom. Brill, Leiden 1977.

On Flavianus' Annals:
 Bruno Bleckmann: Bemerkungen zu den Annales des Nicomachus Flavianus. In: Historia. Volume 44, 1995, pp. 83–99.
 J. Schlumberger: Die verlorenen Annalen des Nicomachus Flavianus: ein Werk über Geschichte der römischen Republik oder Kaiserzeit?. In: HAC 1982/83, Bonn 1985, pp. 309–325.

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394 deaths
4th-century historians
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4th-century Roman consuls
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Praetorian prefects of Italy
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Ancient Roman politicians who died by suicide
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The Face of a Genius is a 1966 American documentary film about Eugene O’Neill, produced by Alfred R. Kelman for WBZ-TV Boston. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature, the first time that a film originally produced for television was recognized by the Academy as a nominee for Best Documentary Feature.

See also
List of American films of 1966

References

External links

1966 films
1960s English-language films
American documentary films
1966 documentary films
Documentary films about playwrights
Films about Nobel laureates
1960s American films


"Pilat" () is an episode of the Filipino drama anthology series Maalaala Mo Kaya (MMK). It stars Angel Locsin and Sam Milby and it aired on ABS-CBN in the Philippines on October 19, 2007.

Plot
Abandoned by their mother, and burdened with an ailing father, Melody (Angel Locsin) has to put aside her dreams and act as both mother and father to her family. She works as an assistant for a wealthy doctor. Melody experiences humiliation from her employer's family, who suspect her enthusiasm for her work.

Cast

Main
Angel Locsin as Melody
Sam Milby as Jeffrey

Supporting
Ronnie Lazaro as Noel (Melody's father)
Chanda Romero as Estella (Jeffrey's stepmother)
Juan Rodrigo as Dr. Sanchez (Jeffrey's father)
Janus Del Prado as Mayong (Melody's older brother)
Raquel Monteza as Esmeralda (Melody's mother)
Cheska Billiones as Luisa (Melody's sister)

Awards
24th Star Awards for Television - Angel Locsin Winner for Best Single Performance by an Actress.

References

External links

Maalaala Mo Kaya episodes
2007 Philippine television episodes


Tony Sperandeo (born 8 May 1953) is an Italian actor of cinema and television. Sperandeo is notable for frequently playing the roles of tough characters from his native region, Sicily. As of 2011, he was working on La Nuova Squadra, a police drama televised by Rai Tre, as the Superintendent Salvatore Sciacca.

Career
He was born Gaetano Sperandeo in Palermo.

In 1983, his acting career began with a small part in the film Kaos, directed by the Taviani brothers. In 1985, he landed a role in a cinematographic film Pizza Connection, by Damiano Damiani. He also acted in four of the sequels of the popular television drama, "La piovra", which is about the Mafia and had a little role in The Sicilian of Michael Cimino. He has appeared in many other Italian films, the most notable being La scorta ("The escort") by Ricky Tognazzi, as well as "Ragazzi fuori" and "Mery per sempre", the latter two set in his home town of Palermo. They are both directed by Marco Risi.

Since 2004, he has appeared regularly on television in the role of Superintendent Salvatore Sciacca, first in the police drama La Squadra (2004–2007), and its sequel, La Nuova Squadra (2008–2009, 2011).

In 2001, Sperandeo won the David di Donatello award for Best Supporting Actor in "I cento passi" ("One Hundred Steps"), directed by Marco Tullio Giordana, about the story of Peppino Impastato in which he played the role of Mafia boss Tano Badalamenti.

Personal life
He was married to actress Rita Barbanera (1968–2001), by whom he has two children, Tony and Priscilla. Sperandeo met her on the set of Mery per sempre, the film in which he was working at the time. They performed together in one film, La discesa di Aclà a Floristella in 1992. Rita was primarily a stage actress.

On April 27, 2001, Rita Barbanera committed suicide by jumping off the balcony at their home in Palermo. She was thirty two years old.

Filmography

Film

 Kaos (1984)
 Pizza Connection (1985) - Vincenzo
 The Repenter (1985) - Lercara's Henchman (uncredited)
 The Sicilian (1987) - Barracks Policeman #1
 Mery per sempre (1989) - Turris, Guardia Carceraria
 Tre colonne in cronaca (1990) - Il commissario Trapani
 Il sole anche di notte (1990) - Gesuino
 Ragazzi fuori (1990) - Turris (uncredited)
 Una storia semplice (1991) - Policeman
 Il muro di gomma (1991) - Sottufficiale Areonautica
 Piedipiatti (1991) - Agente Buoncostume
 Johnny Stecchino (1991) - Picciotto in auto
 Caldo soffocante (1991) - Aiutante Giuliano
 Briganti (1991)
 Acla's Descent into Floristella (1992) - Caramazza
 La scorta (1993) - Raffaele Frasca
 Uomo di rispetto (1993, TV Movie)
 Quattro bravi ragazzi (1993) - Franchini
 Nel continente nero (1993) - Don Secondino
 The Heroes (1994) - Tonino
 Miracolo italiano (1994) - Onorevole Locafò
 Briganti: Amore e libertà (1994) - Malacarne
 Segreto di stato (1995) - Gangster
 The Star Maker (1995) - 1st Baldalamenti
 Palermo - Milan One Way (1995) - Marinnà
 Vesna va veloce (1996) - Il camionista
 Altri uomini (1997) - Salvatore Marinello
 The Room of the Scirocco (1998) - Sollima
 Volare! (1999) - Don Ciccio
 Una sola debole voce (1998, TV Movie)
 Excellent Cadavers (1999, TV Movie) - Stefano Bontade
 L'uomo della fortuna (2000) - Salvatore
 One Hundred Steps (2000) - Gaetano Badalamenti
 Un giudice di rispetto (2000) - Giudice Francesco Di Nardo
 Arresti domiciliari (2000) - Boss mafia
 E adesso sesso (2001) - Don Calogero
 Tra due mondi (2001)
 Il testimone (2001, TV Movie)
 Il latitante (2003) - Ispettore Sarnataro
 Miracle in Palermo! (2003) - Sparagna
 Eccezziunale... Veramente - Capitolo secondo... me (2006) - Don Pippo Calì
 Il 7 e l'8 (2007) - Gino La Monica
 L'uomo di vetro (2007) - Zio Titta
 A Beautiful Wife (2007) - Don Pierino
 Il sangue dei vinti (2008) - Salustri
 Volevo gli occhi blu (2008) - Pazzo filosofo
 Baaria (2009) - Breeder
 Pochi giorni per capire (2009) - Sacerdote
 I Picciuli (2009) - Giudice
 Un neomelodico presidente (2010) - Il Professore
 Backward (2010) - Gaetano il bastardo
 Prigionero di un segreto (2010) - Don Alfredo
 Dreamland: La terra dei sogni (2011) - Don Nicola
 Pagate fratelli (2012)
 Il ragioniere della mafia (2013) - Capo dei capi
 La moglie del sarto (2014)
 La corona spezzata (2014) - Don Vito Romano
 La settima onda (2015) - Michele Manni
 Il ragazzo della Giudecca (2016) - Procuratore
 Quel bravo ragazzo (2016) - Vito Mancuso
 Amo la tempesta (2016)
 Mò Vi Mento - Lira di Achille (2017)
 L'ora legale (2017) - Gaetano Patanè
 Il mondo di mezzo (2017) - Gaetano Mariotti
 Amare Amaro (2018) - Marcello
 A Breath of Fresh Air (2022) - Nunzio

Television

 La piovra,  (1985, TV Mini-Series) - Ravanusa's Manservant
 Felipe ha gli occhi azzurri (1991)
 La piovra,  (1992, TV Mini-Series) - Santino Rocchi
 A che punto è la notte (1995, TV Movie) - Cagliusco
 Non parla più (1995, TV Movie)
 La piovra,  (1997, TV Movie) - Turi Mondello
 Mia Padre e Innocente (1997, TV Movie) - Augusto Malinverni
 La piovra,  (1998, TV Movie) - Turi Mondello
 Fine secolo (1999, TV Mini-Series) - Corti
 Cronaca di un ricatto (1999, TV Movie)
 Don Matteo (first series, episode "Stato di Ebbrezza", 2000)
 L'attentatuni (2001, TV Movie) - Antonino No&
 Distretto di Polizia (2001) - Vito Tonnara
 Il sequestro Soffrantini (2002, TV Movie) - Giovanni Farina, Anonima Sarda
 Soldati di pace (2003)
 Blindati (2003, TV Movie) - Brando Massari
 Ultimo - L'infiltrato (2003, TV Movie) - Nicola De Rosa
 La Squadra (2005–2007) - Sovrintendente Salvatore Sciacca
 Framed! A Sicilian Murder Mystery (2022-)

Awards and nominations

References

 Italian Wikipedia
 Viva Cinema, Interview with Tony Sperandeo, 28 October 2008 (retrieved on 10 November 2008)

1953 births
Living people
Male actors from Palermo
Italian male film actors
Italian male television actors
Italian comedy musicians
David di Donatello winners
Ciak d'oro winners


Take Me Where the Good Times Are is a novel by Robert Cormier. First published in 1965, it is Cormier's third novel.

Plot
This story features Tommy Bartin, a 70-year-old resident at the Dorchester County, Maryland poorhouse. When another resident leaves Tommy some cash, he sees his opportunity to go back to the area he grew up in. However, Tommy finds that his old town has changed substantially over time, and he hopes to find a way to be useful again, and to regain his self-respect.

Themes
Themes in this story include the quality of denial and facing reality even if it is undesirable.

References

1965 American novels
Novels by Robert Cormier
Novels set in Maryland
Dorchester County, Maryland
Macmillan Publishers books


The Fall-Down Artist is a crime novel by the American writer Thomas Lipinski set in 1980s Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

It tells the story of Pittsburgh private detective Carroll Dorsey, whose personal life is in disarray, and who investigates a series of militant grassroots organizations dedicated to preserving the steel industry and finds violence, insurance fraud, and murder.

The novel is the first in a series of four Carroll Dorsey mysteries.

Sources
Contemporary Authors Online. The Gale Group, 2006.

External links
  Book Page @ Amazon.com

1994 American novels
American crime novels
Novels set in Pittsburgh
Fiction set in the 1980s
St. Martin's Press books


Frank Murphy (born May 1944) is an Irish Gaelic games administrator and former referee. He was secretary of the Cork County Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association 1972 to 2018 and has served on numerous Gaelic games committees at national level.

Murphy is seen as the most powerful figure in Gaelic games in Cork. At times he has been viewed as a divisive figure due to his central involvement in all three strikes by the Cork senior hurling team and Cork senior football team between 2002 and 2009.

Murphy previously served as a referee at the highest levels, taking charge of numerous All-Ireland deciders, while he was also a selector at all levels with various Cork Gaelic football and hurling teams.

References

1944 births
Living people
All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final referees
Blackrock National Hurling Club hurlers
Gaelic games administrators
Hurling referees
Hurling selectors


Carmel was an ancient Israelite town in Judea, lying about  from Hebron, on the southeastern frontier of Mount Hebron.

In the Hebrew Bible
There are several references to Carmel in the Bible. Carmel is mentioned as a city of Judah in the Books of Samuel and also in . It is mentioned as the place where Saul erects a monument after the expedition against the Amalekites ().  Carmel is mentioned in  as the place of Nabal's possessions, who was the husband of Abigail.

Beside the agricultural importance of the site, Carmel had also a strategic importance because of it containing the only reliable natural spring of water in the immediate area, which waters are collected in a man-made pool. Carmel, in relation to Maon, lies directly to its north, within close proximity.

Roman and Byzantine period

Mentioned in Eusebius' Onomasticon as a village "10 milestones east  of Hebron," the village housed a Roman garrison after the Bar Kochba revolt. The Jewish settlement is thought to have prospered until the Persian army of Chosroes forced the Roman garrison of Heraclius' army to leave Palestine. With a lack of market for their wine, the Jewish settlement declined, with the synagogue finally being abandoned in the 9th century.

In the Byzantine era, around the 6th or 7th century CE, a church was built here, on the western side of the remains. Outlines of a further two churches were uncovered to the immediate north and south.

The abandoned synagogue, which still stands in the Palestinian town now known as al-Karmil, is one of the best preserved ancient synagogues in the West Bank.

Crusader period
During the period of the Crusades in the 12-century CE, a castle was built at Carmel under the command of Renaud of Châtillon. William of Tyre mentions Carmel as the camp of King Amalric in 1172.

References

Bibliography

 Kuhnen, H-P., Studien zur Chronologie und Siedlungsarchaologie des Karmel (Israel) zwischen Hellenismus und Spatantike (Wiesbaden, 1989).
 Lozovyy, Joseph. (2006). Saul, Doeg, Nabal and the "Son of Jesse": Readings in 1 Samuel 16-25. Ph.D. Thesis at the University of Edinburgh

External links
Survey of Western Palestine, Map 21:    IAA, Wikimedia commons (el-Kurmul shown on bottom part of map)

Hebrew Bible cities
District of Hebron
Judea (Roman province)
Ancient Jewish settlements of Judaea
Crusade places
Biblical geography
Ancient villages in Israel
Ancient Jewish history
Saul


Helicopter Canada (aka Hélicoptère Canada) is a 1966 Canadian documentary film  produced by the National Film Board of Canada and directed by Eugene Boyko. The film features aerial photography of all ten of Canada's provinces. Helicopter Canada, sponsored by the Canada's Centennial Commission, was produced for international distribution in both French and English language versions for Canada's 100th anniversary.

Synopsis
The short documentary offers a narrated tour from a helicopter of the Canadian provinces in 1966. The bird's-eye view showed both familiar and little-known aspects of the Canadian landscape. Among the featured film locations are: the Badlands, Alberta; Oak Island, Nova Scotia; Ottawa; Montréal; Québec City; Niagara Falls; Thousand Islands of the Saint Lawrence River; Toronto; Vancouver and Winnipeg.

Cast
 The Beatles (cameo)
 Lester B. Pearson

Production
Filmed in Panavision, Helicopter Canada took 18 months to produce and required cinematographer Eugene Boyko to spend 540 hours aloft in a specially outfitted Alouette II helicopter.

Helicopter Canada was made for international distribution during the Canadian centennial. Columbia Pictures bought the rights for a 22-minute version that was distributed internationally, including the USSR, USA, China and Italy. Besides French, the film was translated into 12 languages.

Reception
Although now considered dated, Helicopter Canada, during its initial release, received positive reviews. Joan Fox wrote in The Globe and Mail, "If this film doesn’t stir your Canadian blood, nothing will."

Awards
 19th Canadian Film Awards, Toronto: Best Film, General Information, 1967
 19th Canadian Film Awards, Toronto: Special Prize: “For providing a superbly appropriate and inspiring opportunity for Canadians to view their country in the Centennial Year”, 1967
 Canadian Travel Film Awards, Toronto: First Prize, 1967
 International Travel Documentary Film Festival, New Delhi: Special Prize, 1967
Adelaide International Film Festival, Adelaide: Diploma, 1969
 39th Academy Awards, Los Angeles: Nominee: Best Documentary Feature, 1967

References

Notes

Bibliography

 Wise, Wyndham. "Helicopter Canada." Take One's Essential Guide to Canadian Film. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2001. .

External links

1966 films
1966 documentary films
Canadian aviation films
Canadian documentary films
Canadian Centennial
Aerial photography
Documentary films about aviation
Documentary films about Canada
English-language Canadian films
Films shot in Canada
Canadian Screen Award-winning films
National Film Board of Canada documentaries
Travelogues
Films produced by Tom Daly
1960s English-language films
1960s Canadian films


Romano Dazzi (10 February 1905 – 16 August 1976) was an Italian artist. He was born in Rome, son of sculptor and painter Arturo Dazzi who taught himself to draw. He was recognized for his artistic prowess at the age of thirteen, drawing war scenes after watching movies. In 1926 he decorated the Aula Magna of the Accademia di Educazione Fisica in Rome. In 1936 he won a silver medal in the art competitions of the Olympic Games for his "Quattro bozzetti per affreschi" ("Four Sketches for Frescoes").

References

External links
 Romano Dazzi's profile at Sports Reference.com

1905 births
1976 deaths
Italian artists
Olympic silver medalists in art competitions
Medalists at the 1936 Summer Olympics
Olympic competitors in art competitions