Benjamin "Benny" Snyder or Schneider (fl. 1900–1915) was an American criminal, union organizer and thug for hire during the turn of the century. A veteran gunman for New York labor racketeer Joseph "Joe the Greaser" Rosenzweig, his murder of Rosenzweig's rival Philip "Pinchy" Paul ended the first of the so-called "Labor Slugger Wars", which would continue on and off for well over a decade.

Snyder's eventual arrest for Paul's murder would result in his turning state's evidence and revealing to police the existence of "labor sluggers" used by businesses and unions alike during the early 1900s. His testimony would lead not only to the conviction Rosenzweig but of virtually every major labor racketeer in Manhattan's Lower East Side and eliminated "labor slugging" in the city for over two years.

This was one of the first instances of a criminal figure providing information on organized crime during the early 20th century. Similar cases would include Abe "Kid Twist" Reles, a former hitman for Murder, Inc., whose testimony resulted in the conviction (and later execution) of Louis Buchalter in 1941, and Genovese crime family mobster Joe Valachi, who appeared before the McClelland Committee in 1963 to expose the modern-day Cosa Nostra.

Biography

Early career
A well-known "starker" or strong arm man, Snyder was employed by labor racketeer Joseph "Joe the Greaser" Rosenzweig who controlled what was then known as "labor slugging" with Benjamin "Dopey Benny" Fein prior to the Labor Slugger War. Snyder recalled being recruited as a union organizer for the "Bakers' Union",

Snyder was hired out to various racketeers over the next decade. He later claimed that he received $10 for every man he hired to assault strikebreakers, paying each man $7.50 and pocketing the rest for himself. By early 1914, he had become Rosenzweig's main "starker" for the "Furriers' Union". He later committed a serious assault for Rosenzweig, knifing a man by the name of Jewbach at Rivington and Norfolk Street, slashing him twice before being arrested. According to one account, Rosenzweig and half a dozen henchmen found Jewbach before the trial and had his men hold him down while the gang leader cut out a large piece of his lower lip. When the victim failed to appear at the Essex Market Court, Snyder was acquitted.

Murder of Pinchy Paul
In May 1914, he was called by Rosenzweig to kill a rival labor racketeer and one of his former associates Philip "Pinchy" Paul. Paul had recently been opposing Rosenzweig and threatened to unite various independent sluggers in an effort to break the Rosenzweig–Fein monopoly. Snyder, who apparently blamed Paul for taking his job as a "starker" at the Bakers' Union, agreed to kill Paul for the sum of $5 and immediately carried out the order gunning down Paul on Norfolk Street. Committed in full view of half a dozen witnesses, Snyder was quickly arrested for the shooting. He pleaded guilty to first degree murder and was sentenced to life imprisonment. He continued to be on Rosenzweig's payroll while a convict and, in a visit from Rosenzweig, he was paid the $5 he was owed. Although authorities believed that he had been hired to kill Paul, Snyder maintained that he had acted alone. Held at The Tombs for several months, Snyder eventually agreed to talk to the District Attorney's office.

At a meeting with Assistant District Attorney Royal H. Weller, which was arranged by reform lawyer William Travers Jerome, Snyder made a full and remarkably detailed confession of both his criminal career and outlined labor racketeering activities in a series of conferences taking place during late 1914. Snyder described these activities in a crude but straightforward manner of "beating up scabs" which included, but not limited to, knifing or "bumping him over the head with a pipe". He reportedly even handed the $5 bill he received from Rosenzweig as further proof of his claims.

Not long after, Rosenzweig was arrested with his lieutenants "Little Hymie" Bernstein and "Tough Jake" Heiseman for the murder of Philip Paul. Like Snyder, both Bernstein and Heaiseman agreed to testify against their former boss. As a result of his cooperation, Snyder's sentence was reduced to second degree manslaughter for which he would serve twenty years. District Attorney Charles A. Perkins preferred this rather than putting Snyder on the stand as his only witness. Rosenzweig pleaded guilty to manslaughter and was sentenced to ten years imprisonment. Rosenzweig's conviction would lead to a number of other labor racketeers being imprisoned, most notably Rosenzweig's partner and sometimes rival Benjamin Fein, and temporarily bringing the practice of "labor slugging" to halt.

Prison assault
On the morning of June 24, 1915, Snyder was attacked by three convicts from Italian Harlem while prison guards were serving breakfast. When the guards momentarily unlocked the cell in order to serve breakfast, the inmates in the adjoining cell entered Snyder's cell and attacked him using the heavy serving bowls. Snyder's attackers, according to prison guards, called him a "rat", "squealer" and "District Attorney's friend" during the assault. By the time the guards managed to stop the attack, Snyder was unconscious and had suffered serious injuries. The prison doctor later stated that had the guards arrived a minute later, Snyder may not have survived.

The three men, all of whom imprisoned on murder charges, were immediately tried and convicted of first degree assault. Frank Maestry had previously been found guilty of manslaughter for the murder of his brother-in-law while the other two, Joseph Bianco and Frank Faroli, were awaiting trial for the murder of Luigi Cardenzo. An investigation held by Weller and Chief Clerk Lucian S. Breckinridge resulted in their clearing Rosenzweig, then a convict at Sing Sing, of any involvement. Instead, they believed that an unknown individual suspected that Snyder was supplying Weller with information gathered from conversations with other convicts.

On the day of the assault, Snyder had been scheduled to appear before the Criminal Term of the Supreme Court for sentencing of the plea of manslaughter for the murder of Paul Philip. He remained in serious condition for several weeks before being transferred to the West 44th Street Prison.

References

American Jews
American people convicted of manslaughter
American people who died in prison custody
Criminals from New York City
Criminals from Manhattan
Prisoners who died in New York (state) detention
Year of birth missing
Year of death missing


USS Chicolar has been the name of one United States Navy ship, and may refer to:

 , a proposed submarine cancelled in 1944.

Fiction

A fictional World War II U.S. Navy submarine named USS Chicolar appears in Edward L. Beach, Jr.'s novel Dust on the Sea


Review with Myles Barlow is an Australian satirical black comedy television series which screened on Thursday nights on ABC2 and Friday nights on ABC 1. The series began screening on 16 October 2008. It is co-written and directed by Trent O'Donnell and also co-written by Phil Lloyd. It is produced by Starchild Productions (Dean Bates and Reuben Field). The first series comprised six half-hour episodes and the second series a further six half-hour episodes. Episodes were made available for download on the ABC website. Series 1 episodes have been available to watch on-demand on YouTube. Series 2 began airing on ABC2 on 22 July 2010 and finished on 26 August 2010. A Christmas special was broadcast on ABC1 on 22 December 2010.

Synopsis
Myles Barlow is a critic who reviews life experiences in response to viewer questions. Barlow reviews real-life experiences such as being a murderer and a drug-mule, the rush of pleasure as he pays for sex and the bleakness of living on the streets.

Regular segments include "Letter of the Week" along with a summary of the show at the beginning and highlights of the next episode which do not actually reflect the actual episode contents.

Myles uses often unnecessarily complex metaphors to conclude each segment, choosing an abstract notion or object and then comparing his experience to it.

Each episode ends with a faux-"Next Time" segment.

List of episodes
Note: Bolded reviews are primary review segments, unbolded reviews are short "breaker" reviews.

Series One (2008)

Episode 1 (16 October)
Stealing:
Running out your partner:
Dickheads:
Bushranging:
Risk:

Episode 2 (23 October)
Murder:
Fishing without bait:
Self Belief:
Lying:
Divorce:

Episode 3 (30 October)
Voyeurism:
Budget Airlines:
Vanity:
Being a rock star:
Heroism:

Episode 4 (6 November)
Criticism:
Open heart surgery:
Inter-generational Romance:
Losing one's train of thought:
Betrayal:

Episode 5 (13 November)
Paying for Sex:
Sex with a Male Prostitute:
Regret:
Freeloading:
Meeting Your Ex-Wife's New Partner:
Destitution:

Episode 6 (20 November)
Stress:
Disappointing Others:
Testing Loyalty:
Bare-knuckle Boxing:
Reconciliation: Unable to be reviewed

Logie Awards of 2009
Logies:
Presented as a segment as part of the telecast of the Logies.

Series Two (2010)

Episode 1 (22 July)
 Wanderlust:
 The Pill:
 Addiction:
 Saint Bernard Rescue Dogs:
 Starting Your Own Cult:

Episode 2 (29 July)
 B-Grade Celebrity:
 Cockblocking:
 Bucks Parties:
 9/11 Jokes:
 Loss:
 Dancing with the Stars:

Episode 3 (5 August)
 Killing Kyle Sandilands:
 Abbey Road Re-enactments:
 Fear:
 Meeting Your Doppleganger:
 Racism:

Episode 4 (12 August)
 Imitation:
 Being Molested by a professional rugby league footballer:
 Hatred:
 Pet Llamas:
 Justice:

Episode 5 (19 August)
 Treechange:
 Throwing a Pair of Shoes over a Power Line:
 Art:
 French Restaurant Runners:
 Sympathy:

Episode 6 (26 August)
 Happiness:
 Office Cricket:
 Escapism:
Road Kill Sandwich:
 Acceptance:

The Christmas Special
 Summer Hosts:
 Giving:
 Competitive Christmas Lights:
 Indulgence:
 Re-gifting:
 Christmas Spirit:

Cast

Main
 Phil Lloyd as Myles Barlow

Guests

 Margot Robbie as Kelly (Series 1, Episode 1)
 Catherine Jermanus as Kelly (Series 1, Episode 3)
 Amanda Bishop as Catherine Barlow (Series 1, Episode 2)
 David Stratton as himself (Series 1, Episode 4 Criticism segment)
 George Negus as himself (Series 1, Episode 3 Heroism segment)
 Emma Leonard as Ivy (Series 1, Episode 3)
 Brendan Cowell as himself (Series 1, Episode 3)
 Josh Lawson as himself (Series 1, Episode 3 and Series 2, Episode 2)
 Steven O'Donnell as Judge 1 (Series 2, Episode 2)
 Barry Crocker as himself (Series 2, Episode 2 and The Christmas Special)
 Chas Licciardello as himself (Series 2, Episode 4)
 Tony Jones as himself (The Christmas Special)
 Andrew O'Keefe as himself (The Christmas Special)
 Heath Franklin as himself/chopper (Series 2, Episode 3)
 Malcolm Kennard as Tony (1 episode)

Controversy
On 6 August 2010, the sketch "Killing Kyle Sandilands" caused controversy after it aired. Parts of the sketch, including stabbing a picture and burning an effigy of Kyle Sandilands, were received with negative views. A Current Affair did a story on the sketch, commenting that it was far too graphic and potentially dangerous. Sandilands himself did not comment on the segment.

Adaptation

A Dutch adaptation premiered in the Netherlands.

An American television adaptation, titled Review, premiered in March 2014 on Comedy Central. On the series' final episode, Phil Lloyd appeared, playing a viewer asking what would be the last question of the program.

References

External links
Review with Myles Barlow on ABC's website
Starchild Productions website

2008 Australian television series debuts
2010 Australian television series endings
2000s Australian comedy television series
Australian Broadcasting Corporation original programming


John D. Weston, (born April 19, 1958) is a former Canadian politician, who was a Member of Parliament from 2008 to 2015, representing the electoral district of West Vancouver—Sunshine Coast—Sea to Sky Country. He is a member of the Conservative Party.

Weston studied International Relations at Harvard University, law at Osgoode Hall Law School, and is able to speak Mandarin as well as French and English. He then worked as a lawyer in Canada and in Taiwan. He is a founder of Pan Pacific Law Corporation and Access Law Group, as well as the Canadian Constitution Foundation.

Weston ran in the 2006 Canadian federal election but was defeated, by Blair Wilson. Weston lost by 1.5%, or 976 votes.

During the 40th Parliament, he served as a member of the Aboriginal Affairs, Fisheries, and Library of Parliament Standing Committees, and as the Government Liaison to the Persian and Iranian Community, and as the Vice Chair of the Conservative Community Relations Committee.

After being re-elected in the 2011 Canadian federal election, Weston has served on the Citizenship and Immigration Committee and as a member of the Official Languages Committee.

Weston introduced bill C-475, which amended the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act, to make it illegal to possess, produce, sell or import chemicals with the knowledge they will be used to create street drugs, though it was later tabled.

Weston created a National Health and Fitness Day bill, commenting: "On a personal level I just saw when I reached Ottawa how unhealthy was the lifestyle that MPs lead — so much time on airplanes and in committees and sitting in Parliament. I just resolved that if I was going to remain productive and useful to the people who voted me in, I needed to work at staying healthy."

In his column in The Tyee, political commentator Rafe Mair has been extremely critical of Weston's approach to environmental issues and his role as a Member of Parliament. Mair has repeatedly accused Weston of blindly adhering to Conservative Party policy on all issues. In an article dated January 19, 2015, Mair alleged that in Weston's time as an MP he had "never uttered a single word of criticism of any statement or action by the [Conservative] government". Weston and Mair are former colleagues from Mair's time as a BC MLA, and his role as minister responsible for constitutional reform during that period. Weston has responded to Mair by claiming that he carefully considers his position on environmental issues and comes to his own decision. In a responding letter to the editor, Weston also stated that Mair's critique had ignored the role of the democratic process and denigrated MPs' role in it.

In the 2015 federal election, he was defeated by Liberal candidate Pamela Goldsmith-Jones.

In the 2021 Canadian federal election, he was once again defeated, this time by incumbent Liberal MP Patrick Weiler

Electoral record

|-
|-

|Liberal
|Blair Wilson
|align="right"|23,867
|align="right"|37.50
|align="right"| +4.99
|align="right"|$82,304

|New Democratic Party
|Judith Wilson
|align="right"|12,766
|align="right"|20.06
|align="right"| -1.66
|align="right"|$50,621

|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Total valid votes
!align="right"|63,635
!align="right"|100.00
!align="right"|
!align="right"|
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Total rejected ballots
!align="right"|144
!align="right"|0.23
!align="right"|0.0
!align="right"|
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Turnout
!align="right"|63,635
!align="right"|68.6
!align="right"|+2.6
!align="right"|

|align="left" colspan=2|Liberal gain from Conservative
|align="right"|Swing
|align="right"| +2.2
|align="right"|

References

External links
Official Website
Parliamentary Website

1958 births
Living people
Canadian Baptists
Canadian expatriates in Taiwan
Conservative Party of Canada MPs
Lawyers in British Columbia
Members of the House of Commons of Canada from British Columbia
Osgoode Hall Law School alumni
Harvard College alumni
People from West Vancouver
Politicians from Vancouver
21st-century Canadian politicians


Philip J. Lampi (born 1944 in Fitchburg, Worcester County, Massachusetts) is a scholar and historian currently employed as a researcher at the American Antiquarian Society (AAS) in Worcester, Massachusetts; he has spent much of his career reassembling records of early American election returns. "That effort has now led to A New Nation Votes, a digital record of Lampi's work sponsored by the AAS, Tufts University, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. To the delight of graduate students, professional historians, and dabblers alike, the site makes public and searchable what, until now, could only be found in Lampi's loose-leaf notebooks: a comprehensive record of early American election returns from 1787 to 1825."

Most of the early results in US elections were only published in local newspapers; there was no centralized US national record-keeping effort tallying the returns in US national elections. The only way to obtain the records was by physically travelling to the various state libraries and scouring their collections of locally-published early American newspapers; these papers were either archived originals or kept on microfilm; there was no way to make copies of the archives other than by photography (which required special permission) or by taking notes by hand. Making digital copies of the microfilm records was not possible at most US libraries until the late 1990s. So, "[f]or decades, at times supporting himself by working as a night watchman, Lampi made lists of election returns on notepads. He drove all over the country, scouring the archives by day, sleeping in his car by night. He eventually transcribed the returns of some sixty thousand elections."

References

https://web.archive.org/web/20120301131959/http://www.neh.gov:80/news/humanities/2008-01/TheOrphanScholar.html

External links
 A New Nation Votes
 Boston Globe article
 Common-Place blog
 New Yorker article

1944 births
Living people
21st-century American historians
21st-century American male writers
People from Fitchburg, Massachusetts
Historians from Massachusetts
American male non-fiction writers


Ludwig Phillip Heinrich Becker (5 or 9 September 1808 – 27 April 1861)  was a German artist, explorer and naturalist. He was born in Rödelheim near Frankfurt am Main. He moved to Australia in 1850, and was a member of the ill-fated Burke and Wills expedition. He died at the expedition's camp on the western bank of Koorliatto Waterhole, Bulloo River in 1861.

Early years
Becker was born at Rödelheim near Frankfurt am Main, Germany, in 1808 to Ernst Friedrich Becker (1750–1826) and Amöne Eleonore Weber (1782–1819). Becker was the eldest of five children from this marriage. After his mother's death, Becker's father married Johanette Christiane Weber, a younger sister of his first wife. They had three more children.

Becker left Germany in 1850. As was common practice at the time, he was referred to as Dr. Becker, but had not studied at a university.

Australia

After some time in England he travelled from Liverpool in November 1850 on the ship Hannah via Pernambuco, Brazil, and arrived in Launceston, Van Diemen's Land, in early 1851. He was described by Lady Denison as "one of those universal geniuses who can do anything ... a very good naturalist, geologist ... draws and plays and sings, conjures and ventriloquises and imitates the notes of birds so accurately". From 1852 until 1854, while mining for gold in Bendigo, Becker made meteorological observations and produced sketches which he exhibited in Melbourne in April 1854. He became a council member of the Victorian Society of Fine Arts in 1856 and of the Philosophical Institute of Victoria in 1859, and was a leading member of the German Club. He corresponded with ornithologist and zoologist John Gould, known as the father of bird study in Australia, on the lyrebird, and was one of the first to try to raise a lyrebird chick and sent sketches of the egg to ornithologists in Germany and France.

He illustrated botanical works for Ferdinand von Mueller including Fragmenta phytographiae Australiae (1858–82) and The Plants Indigenous to the Colony of Victoria (1860–65).

Burke and Wills expedition
His scientific knowledge and artistic ability qualified him for selection as a member of the Victorian Exploring Expedition in 1860–61, which has since become known as the Burke and Wills expedition.

Becker, as artist, naturalist and geologist on a salary of £300, received lengthy instructions from Doctor John Macadam, honorary secretary of the Exploration Committee, which stipulated that he should collect specimens, keep a diary and produce daily maps with illustrations and sections. He sent his first dispatches from Swan Hill, and from Menindee sent a number of specimens. He became despondent when these were not acknowledged.

Burke became impatient with the time lost in making scientific investigations and ordered Becker to cease his investigations and work like the rest of the men and walk instead of ride. In a report to the Exploration Committee, George James Landells, Burke's second-in-command, wrote that Burke requested him not to allow Becker to ride and had observed that if Becker accompanied the expedition, and got through, people would say that it would not be difficult to cross to the Gulf of Carpentaria, and that he was to be walked until he gave in. At one stage Becker did not eat for three days and became faint. He had to wait until everyone was asleep to do his writing and sketching.

Frustrated by the lack of communication from the Exploration Committee, Becker no longer wrote his daily reports and concentrated instead on sketching. He became aware of the possible failure of the expedition, but his letter to the committee about the delays was ignored.

By February 1861, Becker and others were suffering from scurvy and the effects of bad water. Towards the end of April, Becker became unconscious and died on 27 April. He was buried near the graves of William Purcell and Charles Stone who had died a few days earlier. The Commission of Enquiry into the causes of the deaths of Burke and Wills also found from the expedition's surgeon, Dr Hermann Beckler's  evidence, that Becker died of dysentery and the exhaustion consequent upon it; of course with some peculiar symptoms, which were principally owing to the scurvy. After his burial, Becker's clothes, bedding and tent were burned and his other effects were placed in a pack for conveyance to Melbourne.

Becker had made meteorological observations daily until a month before he died. His death was lamented in newspapers and journals both in the Australian colonies and in Germany, and he was mourned by colleagues at the Royal Society. Governor Barkly paid tribute to "one of the earliest and most indefatigable contributors ... the name of Ludwig Becker will ... rank with those of Cunningham, Kennedy and Leichhardt and the rest of that noble band who have sacrificed their lives in the cause of science." The City of Ballarat commemorated the expedition with a clock tower in 1863 referring to the deaths of "The Victorian Explorers Burke, Wills, Gray and Becker". The small Queensland parish of Becker in Bulloo Downs perpetuates his name and some timber posts mark his grave.

Legacy
This expedition paved the way for settlement in the area, with the first recorded settlement being Bulloo Downs taken up by Jones, Sullivan and Molesworth Green in 1864.

Dr Ludwig Becker's Grave is listed on the Queensland Heritage Register.

References

Further reading

External links

 "Ludwig Becker" material at Trove
 "Dr Ludwig Phillip Heinrich Becker", burkeandwills.net.au

1808 births
1861 deaths
Explorers of Australia
Australian naturalists
Deaths by starvation
Australian people of German descent


Marcin Jałocha  (born 17 March 1971 in Kraków) is a Polish football manager and former professional player.

Playing career

National team
He represented his native country at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona. There he won the silver medal with the national squad.

Jałocha made 18 appearances for the Poland national football team, scoring one goal.

Coaching career
He was the manager of Resovia Rzeszów.

Career statistics

International goals
Scores and results list. Poland's goal tally first.

Personal life
His uncle Jan is a former football player and Polish international.

References

External links

 Profile at 90Minut.pl

1971 births
Living people
Footballers from Kraków
Polish men's footballers
Poland men's international footballers
Wisła Kraków players
Legia Warsaw players
Polonia Warsaw players
Ceramika Opoczno players
Hutnik Kraków players
Proszowianka Proszowice players
Bruk-Bet Termalica Nieciecza managers
Olympic footballers for Poland
Footballers at the 1992 Summer Olympics
Olympic silver medalists for Poland
Polish expatriate men's footballers
Expatriate men's footballers in Belgium
Polish expatriate sportspeople in Belgium
Olympic medalists in football
Medalists at the 1992 Summer Olympics
Men's association football defenders
Polish football managers
Radomiak Radom managers
Kmita Zabierzów managers
Sandecja Nowy Sącz managers
I liga managers
II liga managers


The Barcolana () is a historic international sailing regatta organized by the Sailing Club of Barcola and Grignano (Società Velica di Barcola e Grignano). It takes place every year in the Gulf of Trieste on the second Sunday of October. The Barcolana is one of the most crowded regattas in the world. The Barcolana became the Guinness World Record holder in February 2019 when it was named "the greatest sailing race" with its 2,689 boats and over 16,000 sailors on the starting line.

Thanks to its particular formula, the Barcolana is a unique event on the international sailing stage: on the same starting line expert sailors and sailing lovers race side by side on boats of different sizes divided into several divisions according to their overall length.

History
The Barcolana was founded in 1969 thanks to the initiative of the yacht club Società Velica di Barcola e Grignano in Trieste. It has always taken place on the second Sunday of October to end the season of the yacht club, and therefore its full name is Barcolana Autumn Cup Regatta. During the first edition of the regatta, only 51 sailing boats from yacht clubs of Trieste took part in the race. Year after year the Barcolana has become more and more popular attracting international crews and world-famous sailors.

The course
The race takes place on a 15-mile four-sided, fixed mark course. The starting line is between the Miramare Castle and the seat of the Società Velica di Barcola e Grignano and for the first time in 2014 the finish line will be in the waters just off Piazza Unità d'Italia. Over the years the route has undergone several changes and for many years one buoy has floated in Slovenian waters.

Participation
The Barcolana is not an event for sailors only, but it involves the whole city of Trieste attracting tourists from abroad. Every year about 25,000 sailors take part in the race and more than 250,000 spectators watch the Barcolana from the Trieste seafront, known as the Rive, and from the Karst highland. Thanks to the particular conformation of the territory around the Gulf of Trieste, spectators can enjoy the race from numerous observation points as if sitting in a natural “sailing stadium”.

Side events
The Barcolana is not only the regatta on Sunday morning, but includes several events involving the sea and the city for ten days. In recent years several races and side events have taken place:
Land Rover Extreme 40: for the first time in 2014, the catamarans Extreme 40 of the Extreme Sailing Series will race for several days in the Gulf of Trieste;
Barcolana Young: a race on Optimist Class Boats dedicated to athletes aged between 8 and 15;
Barcolana Classic: a race for vintage and classic boats;
Barcolana by Night: the Ufo 28 one-design class boats will race by night just off Piazza Unità d'Italia;
Barcolana FUN: kitesurfers and windsurfers will race in the Bacino San Giusto, just off Piazza Unità d'Italia.

The Barcolana also includes several events on land:
Barcolanda Village: a village of stands along the Rive of Trieste offering food and wine areas, areas dedicated to the sponsors and exhibitions of technical equipment;
Barcolana in Music: several night concerts before the Barcolana;
FuoriRegata: local businesses organize events and activities including tastings, cultural and commercial events.

Cups and trophies
Several prizes are awarded during the prize-giving ceremony which usually takes place at the end of November. The spirit of many prizes goes beyond the mere sporting result and enhances sporting values and the origin of the event.
Barcolana Trophy (permanent trophy): to the overall winner;
President of the Republic Trophy: to the overall winner;
Generali Trophy: to the winner in the Cruiser Class, the trophy is not awarded to race boats but only to “cruisers”;
Cups: to the first, the second and the third in each category; to the first, the second and the third in each Cruiser Class; to the first monotype boat belonging to a class with over 10 participants;
Fondazione CRTRIESTE Trophy: to the skipper of the first boat of the Trieste Province;
Port of Trieste Trophy: to the Italian boat that beats the highest number of boats in its category;
Italo-Austrian Friendship Trophy: to the first Austrian boat in the overall ranking;
City of Trieste Trophy: to the sailing club within the zone 13 with the highest number of entrants (excluding SVBG);
Fulvio Molinari Trophy: to the first boat owner in the overall ranking who participated in at least 20 Barcolana regattas;
IYFR Trophy (International Yachting Fellowship of Rotarians): to the first boat with a crew consisting of a Rotary member and at least one disabled member of a Paralympic Federation;
Giovanni Sigovich Trophy: to the first boat of the IX category (up to 6.45 m in length);
Fair Play Barcolana Trophy: to the boatowner who during the Barcolana distinguished himself/herself for fair play actions which best express the seafaring spirit of the event;
“Rose in the Wind” Trophy: to the first helmswoman of a boat with a mixed crew;
Boatowner of the Italian Navy League: to the first boat of the Italian Navy League.

Walk of Fame

See also
Miramare Biosphere Reserve and Marine Reserve

References

External links
 Official site
 https://web.archive.org/web/20081015102108/http://in.ibtimes.com/articles/20081012/sailing-race-gulf-trieste-barcolana-regatta-italy.htm
 http://www.triest.it/en/node/20
 Regatta Images

Single-day sailing competitions
Sports competitions in Italy
Recurring sporting events established in 1969
Sport in Trieste
Italian traditions


The National Association for the Visual Arts (NAVA) is the national peak body for the visual arts, craft and design in Australia. It advocates for the sector as well as undertaking research and policy development and providing direct services to its members. It publishes its research.

It was founded in 1983. Since then, it has brought about policy and legislative change to encourage the growth and development of the sector, re-established the Artists' Benevolent Fund, lobbied for the sector during the COVID-19 pandemic in Australia, written submissions to government and inquiries, and much more.

In March 2018 it undertook a gender equity campaign, and in August of that year organised a two-day event called "Future/Forward", aimed at getting input on its code of practice, and discuss ways and means of supporting artists, their rights, and their incomes.

In 2017-2020 the executive director of NAVA was Esther Anatolitis.  Penelope Benton holds the position.

It published a quarterly journal, NAVA Quarterly, between 2004 and 2013. One of its publications is a guide to awards, prizes and professional development opportunities for artists. Since 2017 NAVA produces a series of podcasts.

References

External links

Arts organisations based in Australia
Arts organizations established in 1983


Route 705 and Route 706 are Light Rail loop services of the MTR system in Tin Shui Wai in the northwestern New Territories, Hong Kong. Route 705 operates in an anticlockwise direction (i.e. the inner loop), and commenced service on 22 August 2004. Route 706 serves the clockwise direction (i.e. the outer loop), and began running on 9 April 2004. The two routes are marked as Tin Shui Wai Circular on station signage.

The line is a loop, starting at Tin Shui Wai, an interchange with the West Rail line Tin Shui Wai station. It then runs along Tin Shing Road, continues between the Tin Fu and Tin Ching public housing estates and along Wetland Park Road, reaching the northern tip of the town. It returns along Grandeur Terrace into Tin Shui Road, passing Tin Wah Road and the Tin Shui Wai Park and finally arrives back to Tin Shui Wai stop.

Stops

Route 705 (Anti-clockwise)

 Tin Shui Wai  (Tin Shui Wai station)
 Tin Tsz
 Tin Wu
 Ginza
 Tin Wing
 Tin Yuet
 Tin Sau
 Wetland Park
 Tin Heng
 Tin Yat
 Tin Fu
 Chung Fu
 Tin Shui
 Locwood
 Tin Yiu
 Tin Shui Wai  (Tin Shui Wai station)

Route 706 (Clockwise)

 Tin Shui Wai  (Tin Shui Wai station)
 Tin Yiu
 Locwood
 Tin Shui
 Chung Fu
 Tin Fu
 Tin Yat
 Tin Heng
 Wetland Park
 Tin Sau
 Tin Yuet
 Tin Wing
 Ginza
 Tin Wu
 Tin Tsz
 Tin Shui Wai  (Tin Shui Wai station)

705
Railway loop lines
Tin Shui Wai
Railway services introduced in 2004
2004 establishments in Hong Kong


The Oil Creek and Allegheny River Railway was an American railroad company that was located in western Pennsylvania.

History and notable features
Initially incorporated under a special act of Pennsylvania on April 17, 1861 as the Warren and Tidioute Railway, this railroad changed its name to the Warren and Franklin Railway on March 31, 1864, and then to the Oil Creek and Allegheny River Railway on February 26, 1868, when it was consolidated with the Oil Creek Railroad, the Farmers Railroad, and the Oil City and Pithole Railroad.

In 1869, John Pitcairn was appointed its General Manager.

The company was sold at foreclosure on December 29, 1875, and was acquired on February 8, 1876 by the Pittsburgh, Titusville and Buffalo Railway, which eventually became part of the Western New York and Pennsylvania Railway and the Pennsylvania Railroad.

During the period just prior to foreclosure, from 1874 to 1875, the company's president was John Scott and its treasurer was H. A. Phillips.

See also
 Oil Creek Railroad

Gallery

References

External links
History of the Oil Creek Railroad Company

Predecessors of the Pennsylvania Railroad
Defunct Pennsylvania railroads
Railway companies established in 1868
Railway companies disestablished in 1875
American companies established in 1868
American companies disestablished in 1875
1868 establishments in Pennsylvania
1875 disestablishments in Pennsylvania


Super Balita sa Tanghali Nationwide () is the noontime newscast of AM station DZBB premiered on May 12, 2008, originally anchored by Gani Oro and Melo del Prado. Lala Roque and Orly Trinidad currently serve as the anchors. The radio program is streaming online on Super Radyo DZBB's Facebook page and is also simulcast on all GMA Super Radyo stations in the country. From March 23, 2020 to September 18, 2020, the newscast had its simulcast under Dobol B sa News TV block on GMA News TV as a provisional programming measure due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Anchors
 Orly Trinidad (2017–present)
 Lala Roque (2019–present)
 Weng dela Peña (substitute for Trinidad; 2019–present)
 Kaye Morales (substitute for Roque; 2020-present) (also on Super Balita sa Tanghali Saturday and Sunday edition)
 Zen Obanil (substitute for Roque; 2020–present)
 Ralph Obina (substitute for Trinidad; 2021–present)
 Shirley Escalante (substitute for Roque; 2021–present)
 Sam Nielsen (substitute for Trinidad; 2022–present) (also on Super Balita sa Tanghali Saturday and Sunday edition)
 Glen Juego (substitute for Trinidad; 2022–present)

Former anchors
 Melo del Prado (2008–2018)
 Gani Oro (2008–2013)
 Benjie Alejandro (2013–2017; 2018–2019)
 Julee Ann Mae Cabrera-Cera (2019–2021)

Awards
 Winner, Special Citation Award for News Program - 39th Catholic Mass Media Awards (2017)

See also
GMA News and Public Affairs
Super Radyo DZBB
Super Balita sa Umaga Nationwide

References

Philippine radio programs
2008 radio programme debuts
GMA Integrated News and Public Affairs shows


Konstantin Pavlov () (April 2, 1933 – September 28, 2008) was a Bulgarian screenwriter, author and poet. Pavlov became a prominent intellectual during Bulgaria's Communist era, even though he faced censorship and a ten-year-long publishing ban by the government.

Pavlov was born on April 2, 1933, in the former village of Vitoshko, near the capital Sofia. He was among the few Bulgarian authors and intellectuals who dared to act autonomously and defy the Bulgarian Communist government, which ruled the country from 1945 until 1989. Government censors began a ten-year-long publishing ban against his work beginning in 1966. Bulgarians began illegally publishing and reading Pavlov's poems during the censorship against his work.

Pavlov received numerous awards in literature and poetry. He was "granted" the Grand Prix at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in 1980 for his screenplay of the film, Illusion. His works were translated in numerous European languages.

Some of Pavlov's most popular works of poetry included Sweet Agony, published in 1991; The Murder of the Sleeping Man in 1992; and the A Long Time Ago ... in 1998.

Konstantin Pavlov died in Sofia, on September 28, 2008, at the age of 75. He was survived by his wife, Maria, and their daughter, Donka. His death was announced by the Union of Bulgarian Film Makers.

References

External links
 Konstantin Pavlov, Bulgarian Poet and Screenwriter, dies at 75

1933 births
2008 deaths
Bulgarian male poets
Bulgarian screenwriters
Male screenwriters
Bulgarian anti-communists
People from Pernik Province
20th-century Bulgarian poets
20th-century screenwriters


Utricularia subramanyamii is a terrestrial carnivorous plant that belongs to the genus Utricularia. It is endemic to the Pathanamthitta district in southern India. U. subramanyamii grows in marshy areas. It was originally collected by C. N. Mohanan in 1978 and was formally described by M. K. Janarthanam and Ambrose Nathaniel Henry in 1990 as Utricularia subramanii, later corrected to its current form. The species epithet honors Dr. K. Subramanyam, who was the director of the Botanical Survey of India.

See also
 List of Utricularia species

References

Carnivorous plants of Asia
Flora of India (region)
Plants described in 1990
subramanyamii


Benjamin Harper (1817–1887) was an American businessman and politician.

Life and career
Harper was born February 12, 1817, in Philadelphia. He was the son of the mariner Peter Harper and lived in Ohio and Missouri before he settling in Illinois in 1850.

From 1854 until 1855 Harper was Mayor of Rock Island, Illinois. He was a Republican. A wealthy hotel owner, he was the builder of the Harper House (1871) and Harper′s Theatre (1878). The Harper House “has been described in superlatives, such as the ‘finest hotel between Chicago and the Pacific coast’” (George W. Wickstrom). The hotel occupied the site of the former Rodman House that burned down on October 22, 1869. It is not to be confused with his private home also known as “Harper House”.

Besides real estate, Harper was involved in the Coal Valley mines, Rock Island Gas Works and the Rock Island & Moline Railway Company. Ben Harper died April 3, 1887, in the city of Rock Island. He is buried at Chippiannock Cemetery.

One of his sons Ben Harper, Jr. (1861–1884) was a prominent building contractor in Illinois. In 1907 another son, Stuart Harper (1872–1910), build a prairie style mansion with stucco covered walls at a cost of $35,000. This building is part of “Rock Island's 100 Most Significant Unprotected Structures.”

Sources
 George W. Wickstrom: The Town Crier. Rock Island, IL: J. W. Potter, 1948. (p. 84-87)
 Historic Rock Island County. Rock Island, IL: Kramer & Co., 1908. (p. 85-87)

References

External links

American hoteliers
Mayors of places in Illinois
Politicians from Rock Island, Illinois
1817 births
1887 deaths
Illinois Republicans
19th-century American politicians
19th-century American businesspeople


Jeronim Mileta (April 17, 1871 in Šibenik – November 23, 1947 in Šibenik) was a Roman Catholic friar who became the bishop of the Diocese of Šibenik in 1922. He served until his death in 1947.

After Mileta's death, the Diocese of Šibenik had no permanent bishop until 1951 due to tensions between the Catholic Church and communist-run Yugoslavia.

See also
Catholic Church in Croatia

References
60th anniversary of the death of Jeronim Mileta

1871 births
1947 deaths
People from the Kingdom of Dalmatia
Bishops of Šibenik
Roman Catholic bishops in Yugoslavia


David Azulai (; 5 May 1954 – 30 October 2018) was an Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset for Shas for over 20 years from 1996 and 2018. He was also Minister of Religious Services from 2015 until his death in 2018.

Biography
David Azulai was born in Meknes in Morocco, and immigrated to Israel in 1963. From 1973 to 1993, he worked as a teacher and vice principal.

Political career
From 1978 to 1993, he was a member of Acre's local council and served in the municipality's committees. In 1993, he was elected to Nahal Iron Regional Council, serving as deputy mayor of the council and later as its mayor. He resigned following his election to the Knesset in 1996. He served as Chairman of the Internal Affairs and Environment Committee (2000–2001) and as Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs (2001–2003). In the latter post, he was assigned to head of commission regarding the status of the Falasha.

Following the 2015 elections, he was appointed Minister of Religious Services in the new government. He gave up his Knesset seat in March 2018 under the Norwegian Law due to an illness, and was replaced by his son Yinon.

Controversy
In a meeting with MK Ayelet Shaked about Women of the Wall, an Israeli group fighting for the right of Jewish women to pray at the Kotel in their fashion, Azulai referred to them as "provocateurs", and claimed that Reform Judaism is "a disaster for the nation of Israel". Women of the Wall then voiced a protest: "We expect Ayelet Shaked, like her predecessor, to announce unequivocally that as a woman and a justice minister, she will not sign discriminatory regulations, and will not be a part of exclusion of women from the Western Wall or from any other place. The court has already ruled that these regulations are discriminatory and illegal." Azulai's comments were also condemned by Rabbi Gilad Kariv, executive director of the Reform movement in Israel, who noted, "If Minister Azoulay cannot function as minister for all the citizens of Israel, then he should resign."

A month later, in July 2015, Azulai stated “The moment a Reform Jew stops following the religion of Israel... I cannot allow myself to call such a person a Jew.”

Death
On 30 October 2018, Azulai died after a long-term battle with cancer. The illness had also forced him to resign from the Knesset early in the year. His son Yinon, who succeeded him in Knesset, is among those rumored to be candidates to take Azulai's place as the Israeli Religious Affairs Minister.

References

External links

1954 births
2018 deaths
Deputy ministers of Israel
Ministers of Religious affairs of Israel
Israeli Orthodox Jews
Israeli schoolteachers
Deaths from cancer in Israel
Mayors of regional councils in Israel
Members of the 14th Knesset (1996–1999)
Members of the 15th Knesset (1999–2003)
Members of the 16th Knesset (2003–2006)
Members of the 17th Knesset (2006–2009)
Members of the 18th Knesset (2009–2013)
Members of the 19th Knesset (2013–2015)
Members of the 20th Knesset (2015–2019)
Moroccan emigrants to Israel
20th-century Moroccan Jews
People from Acre, Israel
People from Meknes
Shas politicians


The City Temple is a Nonconformist church on Holborn Viaduct in London. The current minister is Rodney Woods. The church is part of the Thames North Synod of the United Reformed Church and is a member of the Evangelical Alliance.

The City Temple is most famous as the preaching place of the 20th century liberal theologian Leslie Weatherhead. Other notable preachers have included R. J. Campbell, Joseph Fort Newton, Thomas Goodwin and Joseph Parker.

The first church building on the present site was built in 1874. The congregation was founded much earlier; the traditional date is 1640 but some evidence suggests it was founded as early as the 1560s by Puritans. Destroyed by bombing during the Second World War, it was rebuilt and reopened in 1958.

Early history

The City Temple is widely believed to have been founded by Thomas Goodwin. The exact date of its foundation is unknown, but it is believed to have been around 1640. It is the oldest Nonconformist congregation in the City of London. Its first meeting-house was located in Anchor Lane. The second minister of the Church was Thomas Harrison, who succeeded Goodwin in 1650, at which time the Church moved to a meeting-house in Lime Street. Harrison's ministry only lasted until 1655. A successor was not appointed until 1658, when Thomas Mallory was called to pastor the Church. Mallory led the Church during the difficult period that followed the Restoration of the Monarchy in 1660. The Church moved several times  but after a number of moves it found a more permanent home in the Poultry, Cheapside in 1819.

Following the resignation of James Spence from the pastorate in 1867, the office-bearers of the Poultry Chapel approached Joseph Parker, then pastor at Cavendish Street Chapel, Manchester, with a view to calling him to the pastorate. The first call, in March 1868, he declined but in June 1869 he accepted. At the same time the Church was looking to relocate from its site in Poultry. The site was sold for 50,000GBP. The Church was then faced with the question of a new site. Parker insisted that the new site would have to be within the City of London, and ultimately the present site on Holborn Viaduct was secured. The Poultry Chapel was closed on 16 June 1872, and until the new church was ready, the congregation met in the great hall of Cannon Street Hotel in the morning, in Exeter Hall in the evening, and in the Presbyterian Church, London Wall, for mid-day services on Thursdays.

The Memorial Stone of the new building, to be called the City Temple, was laid by Thomas Binney on 19 May 1873. The Corporation of the City of London presented a spectacular marble pulpit to the Church. The building was dedicated on 19 May 1874. The building, from its location and size, began to assume the character of a Nonconformist cathedral, and became the most important Congregational pulpit in Britain. Much of this was due to Joseph Parker.

As age began to tell on Parker, Reginald John Campbell, a Congregational minister in Brighton, was called in 1902 to act as his assistant. Shortly after his agreeing to this arrangement, Parker died suddenly. Parker had made it clear that it was his wish for Campbell to be his successor, and so Campbell was called.

While Parker was theologically conservative, publishing an anonymous reply to John Robert Seeley's Ecce Homo under the truculent title Ecce Deus, Campbell was emphatically not. A socialist politically, his theology proved as radical as his politics. Campbell's pastorate began in May 1903 and ended in October 1915. Questions began to be raised about the way that Campbell introduced Biblical criticism into his preaching, questioning the traditional ascription of books, and the origins of the text. As his sermons were published, this brought them to the notice of readers throughout the nation, and beyond.

The theology held by Campbell and a number of his friends came to be known as 'The New Theology'. Campbell decided to answer his critics by issuing a volume entitled simply The New Theology, which laid out his position. Looking back on it, he felt that he had gone too far. "It was much too hastily written, was crude and uncompromising in statement, polemical in spirit, and gave a totally wrong impression of the sermons delivered week by week in the City Temple Pulpit". Campbell himself came to a crisis of faith when several New Theologians began to question the doctrine of the deity, and even the historicity, of Christ.

In October 1915 Campbell preached his last sermon at the City Temple and resigned from the Congregational church; a few days later he was received into the Church of England by Bishop Gore and in October 1916 he was ordained as an Anglican priest. On joining the Church of England, and at the request of some old Congregational friends, with whom he remained on good terms, he wrote an account of the development of his thought in A Spiritual Pilgrimage (1916).

Later years

Campbell's successor was theologically almost as radical as he had been. Though Joseph Fort Newton had been educated at Louisville's Southern Baptist Seminary, he was a theological liberal. Newton had been asked to the City Temple at first as a stop-gap after Campbell's resignation. What was controversial about Newton was not his theology, or even the fact that he was of a Baptist background but the fact that he was an American. As he remarked, it seemed that the view of many was that "It was perfectly right for an English preacher to go to an American Church, but absurd for an American preacher to go to an English Church". While the congregation decided to call Newton, the deacons opposed him, an action that finally led to the deacons being abolished  and Newton going to London.

Newton found the burden of the City Temple too much for one man, and he asked for an assistant. Surprisingly the assistant finally called was a woman, Miss A. Maude Royden. She was an Anglican, but was prohibited from preaching by the Church of England. In the free atmosphere on the City Temple, however, she was welcomed by the Church, if not by the press.

Newton ministered at the City Temple through the First World War, returning to America in 1919. He was succeeded by F. W. Norwood, an Australian Baptist.

When Norwood left the City Temple in 1935, there was some uncertainty over where the next pastor should come from. Some argued that, since the Congregational Church had not had a Congregationalist pastor since 1915, when Campbell left, they should call a minister from within their own denomination. In the event, the man called was a Methodist minister, then stationed in Leeds, Leslie Weatherhead. He served there from 1936 until his retirement in 1960.

During The Blitz, the City Temple was "gutted by fire from incendiary bombs dropped from enemy aeroplanes". Weatherhead was able to continue his ministry thanks to the nearby Anglican St Sepulchre-without-Newgate church. After the war, Weatherhead raised the funds to rebuild the City Temple, largely from John D. Rockefeller Jr.  The rebuilt City Temple was opened in the presence of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother in 1958. Weatherhead retired in 1960.

References

Bibliography
 William Adamson: The Life of the Rev. Joseph Parker, D.D. (London, Cassell and Co., 1902)
 R. J. Campbell, A Spiritual Pilgrimage (London, Williams and Norgate, 1917)
 Campbell, The New Theology (London, Chapman and Hall, 1907)
 Joseph Fort Newton: River of Years (Philadelphia and New York, J.B. Lippincott, 1946)
 Joseph Parker: A Preacher's Life (London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1903)
 John Travell: Doctor of Souls (Cambridge, Lutterworth, 1999)

External links

1874 establishments in England
Churches in the City of London
United Reformed churches in London
Nonconformism
Grade II listed churches in London
Churches bombed by the Luftwaffe in London


The McIlwraith Range is a rugged, dissected granite plateau on Cape York Peninsula of Far North Queensland, Australia.  Part of the Great Dividing Range, the McIlwraith Range covers about  and lies about  east of the town of Coen, and  north of Cairns.  The Archer and Stewart Rivers rise in the range, with the Archer draining the range's western slopes into the Gulf of Carpentaria and the Stewart draining east into the Coral Sea.   The range receives an annual rainfall of about .

History
Kaanju (also known as Kaanju and Kandju) is a language of Cape York. The Kaanju language region includes the landscape within the local government boundaries of the Cook Shire Council.

Environment
The McIlwraith Range has been protected since its gazettal as the Kulla (McIlwraith Range) National Park.  It is also listed on Australia's Register of the National Estate.  It was named after Sir Thomas McIlwraith (1835–1900), three time Premier of Queensland 1879–1883, 1888, and 1893.

With most of the range being about  , and with a high point of , just north-east of Coen. The major peaks are Mount Carter, Mount White, Mount Newberry, and Mount Walsh. The range is largely vegetated with a variety of rainforest types, forming the southernmost limit of the ranges of many plants and animals characteristic of New Guinea. These include the spotted cuscus, green tree python and palm cockatoo.  An endemic species is the McIlwraith leaf-tailed gecko (Orraya occultus).

Birds
The range is part of the  McIlwraith and Iron Ranges Important Bird Area (IBA), identified as such by BirdLife International because it is one of the few known sites for the endangered buff-breasted buttonquail.  The IBA also supports an isolated population of southern cassowaries as well as populations of lovely fairywrens, silver-crowned friarbirds, yellow, yellow-spotted, white-streaked and banded honeyeaters, and white-browed robins.

References

Further reading

Mountain ranges of Queensland
Landforms of Far North Queensland
Plateaus of Australia
Important Bird Areas of Queensland
2008 establishments in Australia


The 1983 Australian Touring Car Championship was a CAMS sanctioned motor racing title for drivers of Group C Touring Cars. The title, which was the 24th Australian Touring Car Championship, was contested over a series which began on 6 February 1983 at Calder Park Raceway and ended on 19 June at Lakeside International Raceway after eight rounds.

The championship was won by Allan Moffat driving a Mazda RX-7.

Season summary
The championship was won by Allan Moffat, his fourth and final Australian Touring Car Championship and a first for Mazda, who were helping to fund Moffat's team and it was also the first ATCC win for a Japanese manufacturer. Moffat himself dominated the racing, taking four out of the eight race wins, but a beneficial points structure for smaller capacity cars allowed George Fury (driving a turbocharged version of the Nissan Bluebird) to push Moffat all the way to the title, despite not actually winning a race. The folly in the point system was exposed at the first round at Calder when Moffat won the race from Fury, but Fury actually led the championship by finishing second outright in a smaller capacity car (Moffat scored 25 for winning while Fury scored 27 for finishing second). When Fury took the lead for a brief time at Calder, it was the first time that a turbo powered car had led an ATCC race.

Peter Brock in his Marlboro Holden Dealer Team VH Commodore SS finished third in the championship. Brock's early season form and some uncharacteristic reliability problems saw him lagging in ninth place at the midway point in the championship after failing to finish at Calder and Symmons Plains thanks to gearbox failure both times, while finishing third at Sandown and ninth at Wanneroo after spinning out of the lead in a dice with Moffat and Fury (Moffat's win at Wanneroo caused a sensation due to his Formula One style mid-race pit stop for fuel). Brock's championship got back on track with an all-the-way win in Adelaide where he won by the length of the Commodore's bumper bar from Moffat who actually got his Mazda in front 50 metres from the flag but lost out to the power of the V8 Commodore. From there he finished with two seconds and a win to round out the series.

Brock's win in the final round at Lakeside was easily one of the drives of the series. In difficult, wet conditions that actually suited the smaller RX-7's rather than the heavier Commodores and Falcons, he lapped the entire field in the 35 laps after taking the lead on lap 2. His race almost ended coming out of the Karrasell on the first lap when the left rear tyre of his Commodore got out into the mud and pitched the car sideways, almost into the path of Gregg Hansford in the second Allan Moffat Racing Mazda RX-7. Brock recovered still in 3rd place and soon past an ailing Dick Johnson whose Falcon had suffered a power steering pump failure on the grid which would cause his early retirement as he could not steer the car properly. Brock then passed early leader Moffat on lap 2 and proceeded to run away from the field. Hansford also overtook Moffat who was wisely driving with an eye on the title, but Brock lapped the #31 Mazda through the back section of the circuit on the last lap.

Moffat, Brock and Allan Grice (who won rounds 2 and 3 at Sandown and Symmons Plains in his new Roadways Racing Commodore before fading later in the series) were the only race winners in the 1983 ATCC. Defending champion Dick Johnson battled season long with an ill-handling Ford XE Falcon and could only manage two distant 3rd placings at both Sandown and Wanneroo (where he led for the only time in the series) to finish a disappointing 6th in the championship, 94 points behind Moffat. Johnson's 351cui, 5.8L V8 Falcon had the power, but not the handling to be a serious contender for the crown. It was only discovered before the final round at Lakeside that the problem with the Falcon's handling had been both a lack of rear tyres as well as the front suspension of the car.

Whilst Nissan driver George Fury, helped by consistent performances, led the series (uncorrected points) going into the final round at Lakeside, Fury was essentially 5 points behind Moffat in the points system corrected for the top 7 races, therefore Fury needed to finish ahead of Moffat or Moffat finish in 6th place or worse to claim the title. As Moffat had finished well ahead of Fury in all but the one race were the Mazda broke its axle, team manager Howard Marsden decided the team would skip the round as they were not in major contention to win the title (officially to further develop the car before Bathurst). Moffat finished the final race in 3rd position, behind Brock and teammate Gregg Hansford, claiming the 1983 ATCC 6 points ahead of Fury in second place.

Controversy also reigned throughout the series with some teams such as the MHDT (Brock) and STP Roadways (Grice) claiming that Moffat was foxing during the championship and not racing as fast as he could in an effort to 'hoodwink' CAMS into believing the RX-7's, which ran the 1.2 Litre 12A rotary engine in the championship, needed the larger and more powerful (by some ) 1.3 Litre 13B engine to be competitive against the V8's at Bathurst. Ultimately CAMS approved the larger 13B engine for the RX-7's (as well as a late approval for fuel injection), but also granted concessions to the Commodores and Falcons which ended up giving the bigger cars a speed advantage on the Mountain.

Controversially CAMS announced the concessions for the post-ATCC 1 August homologation during the race of Round 7 at Oran Park via the ABC's telecast of the race, with ABC commentators Will Hagon and John Smailes making the announcement mid-race. In a TV interview with Smailes immediately following his 2nd placing to Moffat, Peter Brock was informed of the new homologations and expressed his displeasure with CAMS for announcing it on television during the race and not letting those who the decision affected (the teams) know first. The fallout from CAMS decision led to both the Nissan and Roadways teams boycotting the final race of the series at Lakeside, though the official reason given by Nissan team manager Howard Marsden was that the Bluebirds needed further development for the upcoming 1983 Australian Endurance Championship which included both blue ribbon events, the Sandown 400 and the James Hardie 1000 at Bathurst.

Nissan's boycott of the last round also meant that series leader George Fury virtually forfeited his closest chance of winning an Australian Touring Car Championship and becoming the only driver other than Colin Bond to win both the ATCC and the Australian Rally Championship with Fury previously having won the Rally title in both 1977 and 1980. Despite this it was generally felt that the championship went to the right driver as Moffat and his RX-7 were usually the fastest combination and the expat Canadian was regarded as the man to beat. Moffat only failed to finish once at Sandown (broken axle) and finished every other race on the podium, including four wins, four pole positions and five fastest laps resulting in new lap records at Sandown, Symmons Plains, Wanneroo, Surfers (shared with Brock) and Oran Park, while Fury's best were two seconds (Calder and Wanneroo) and one third at Symmons Plains. Also in each race that both Moffat and Fury finished, the Mazda finished ahead of the Nissan, making it fairly unlikely Fury would win the championship in the last round, unless Moffat suffered a breakdown or was involved in an accident, which if either occurred would've meant the Nissan driver would win the championship in any case, hence a rather pragmatic decision was made by the Nissan team not to compete at the last event.

One outcome from this series was that in the future turbocharged cars had their engine capacities multiplied for the purposes of class point score weightings, meaning that in the 1984 Australian Touring Car Championship, the Bluebirds would compete on an equal footing with the other outright class competitors (this actually took effect prior to the start of the 1983 Endurance Championship which started two months after the ATCC concluded). Despite this meaning that the Nissan would score equal points as the RX-7's, Commodores and Falcons, Nissan team boss Howard Marsden raised no objections to the change as the 1.8 litre turbo had proven that it was able to match the speed of the outright class cars. Indeed, later in the year Fury would showcase the speed of the car, qualifying the Bluebird on the front row of the grid at Bathurst, traditionally the sole domain of the more powerful V8 powered cars.

Entrants and drivers
The following entrants and drivers competed in the 1983 Australian Touring Car Championship.

Race calendar
The 1983 Australian Touring Car Championship was contested over an eight-round series across six states with one race per round.

Classes
Car competed in two classes,
 Up to and including 3000cc
 3001-6000cc

The "Up to and including 3000cc class" consisted of Alfa Romeo Alfetta, Datsun Bluebird turbo, Ford Capri, Ford Escort, Isuzu Gemini, Mazda 626, Mazda RX-3, Toyota Celica and Triumph Dolomite Sprint.
The "3001-6000cc class" consisted of Chevrolet Camaro, Ford Falcon, Holden Commodore and Mazda RX-7.

Points system
Championship points were awarded on a two tier system to the top twenty outright finishers in each round.

Only the best seven round results could be counted by each driver.

Results

References

External links
 Official V8 Supercar site Contains historical ATCC information.

Australian Touring Car Championship seasons
Touring Cars


The Hook Bill or Dutch Hookbill ( or ) is a breed of domestic duck characterised by an unusual down-curved beak. It is an ancient breed, and has been documented since the seventeenth century. Speculation that it originated in Asia, or is related to the Indian Runner, is apparently unsubstantiated.

History

The origins of the Hook Bill are unknown. The earliest published illustration and description appear to be those in the Ornithologiæ Libri Tres of Francis Willughby, published in 1676. Willughby's book is in Latin; when it was re-published by John Ray in English in 1678, the description of the Hook-billed Duck was:

Around 100 years ago there were many, as duck eggs were more sold than chicken eggs, but now its worldwide population in captivity is estimated to be no more than 800 individual egg-laying females. It is now considered an endangered duck breed.

Some were taken to the United States in 2000; the breed is not among those listed in the Standard of Perfection of the American Poultry Association.

In 2007 the conservation status of the Hook Bill was listed by the FAO as "endangered" at European level. In 2020 it was reported to DAD-IS as "at risk", while the Dutch  classified it as "critical", as did the Livestock Conservancy in the United States. It was not on the rare breed watchlist of the Rare Breeds Survival Trust in the United Kingdom.

Characteristics

The Hook Bill is a light duck, with an average weight of approximately  Three colour variants are recognised in France, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom: the dusky mallard has a black head and rump with green lustre, the body in shades of grey with no white neck-ring, and a slate-grey beak; the white-bibbed dusky mallard is similarly coloured, but with a distinct white chest-bib and white-tipped wing primaries; the white has pure white plumage, blue eyes, bright orange legs and a flesh-pink bill. A further seventeen colours are listed for Germany by the Entente Européenne, but are not accepted in the European standard.

Use

The Hook Bill may be kept for ornament or for exhibition, but is also a good layer: ducks may give between 100 and 225 white or greenish-blue eggs per year.

References

Duck breeds originating in the Netherlands


The Little Schuylkill Navigation, Railroad and Coal Company (LSRR) was a railway company in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania in the 19th century. The main line ran from Port Clinton to Tamaqua, for a total of .

History
The railroad received a charter from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania on February 28, 1826. Construction began in 1830. The tracks were constructed with strap iron on wood rails. Beginning with horse-drawn cars in 1831, the LSRR operated between Tamaqua, located at the end of the coal-rich Panther Creek Valley and the Port Clinton terminus of the Schuylkill Canal. It later made a rail junction with the Philadelphia and Reading Railway Company.

In 1833, the railroad acquired two steam locomotives, built in Liverpool, but the wooden tracks did not support the engines, requiring a resumption of animal-powered operations. This over-extended investment nearly bankrupted the young company. Only in 1845 did iron "T" rails replace the wooden rails, allowing the costly English locomotives to return to regular service.

In 1854, the LSRR completed a junction with the Catawissa Railroad at Tamanend (also called Little Schuylkill Junction). In 1857, it built a roundhouse in Tamaqua, housing 21 locomotives and a turntable.

In 1863, the company was leased by the Reading Railroad for 93 years. It formally merged with the Reading in 1952.

See also

 List of Pennsylvania railroads

References

Defunct Pennsylvania railroads
Transportation in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania
Predecessors of the Reading Company
Railway companies established in 1826
Railway lines opened in 1831
Railway companies disestablished in 1952
1826 establishments in Pennsylvania
American companies established in 1826
American companies disestablished in 1952


Robert Bruce Crane (1857 – October 29, 1937) was an American painter. He joined the Lyme Art Colony in the early 1900s. His most active period, though, came after 1920, when for more than a decade he did oil sketches of woods, meadows, and hills. He developed into a Tonalist painter under the influence of Jean-Charles Cazin at Grez-sur-Loing. Crane's mature works were nearly always fall and winter scenes. He usually painted in his studio in Bronxville, New York, where like many of the Tonalists he relied mostly on memories of his outdoor sketching experiences. Selected work can be found at the Florence Griswold Museum and the Newark Museum. He is a descendant of the Continental Congressman Stephen Crane.

Early artistic work
Bruce Crane's father, Solomon Crane, was an amateur artist himself and interested his son in the New York art scene from a young age. However, it was a summer trip to the Adirondacks that piqued Bruce's interest in painting after witnessing “a lot of young lady amateur (artists.)” At the age of seventeen around 1874 he moved with his family to Elizabeth, New Jersey where he worked as a draftsman for an architect. In hopes of starting a career in this field, he approached the famous artist Alexander Wyant and asked to start an apprenticeship with him. Wyant asked to see some of Crane's work, but Bruce did not believe that his skills were adequate enough to impress Wyant. Therefore, he declined the request and spent the next year improving his skills before he showed his work to Wyant and began to work with him. They remained friends until Wyant's death.

Fame

Bruce Crane began to then study at New York's Arts Student League and in 1876 he was featured for the first time in an exhibit at the National academy of design, submitting his painting called "Old Swedish Church, Philadelphia."

In his promotional book A Souvenir of Cranford (1894), the architect and artist Frank Townsend Lent discusses Crane's depictions of the Rahway River in Cranford, New Jersey:The first the writer ever heard of Cranford was back in 1880, when his artist friend Bruce Crane told him that he was packing up his sketching apparatus and impedimentia preparatory to going to sketch in the neighborhood of Cranford, which he considered one of the most delightfully picturesque sections of country anywhere around or near New York City. The National Academy of Design, as well as other metropolitan art exhibitions, have contained many charming landscapes by such men as Bruce Crane and Hugh Bolton Jones, the material for which was gathered in Union County."

Crane soon began to paint locations of East Hampton and Long Island, which brought him praise and critical approval (as well as a steady income.) One unnamed critic stated:

Crane had [by 1885] proved to the satisfaction of the art public that he handled one kind of landscape with as much ability as another. (His paintings) were treated as skillfully as his (other works) with numerous variations of the leading motive of tone and color.

He then left New York to study in France with Jean-Charles Cazin, a well known French painter of the 19th century. He experienced success there but things were about to change.

Family crisis
Bruce Crane's first wife Jeanne Buchard Brainerd was institutionalized in an asylum, though it was never made clear if this was for an actual mental disease or a case of alcoholism, as Ann Crane (her daughter from a previous marriage) suggested. Jeanne began to publicly accuse Bruce Crane of adultery with his step-daughter Ann but the case was dropped and the divorce finalized in 1902. Bruce married Ann Brainered two years later, despite a 25-year age gap. They had a daughter, also named Ann.

Return to fame

This period of time caused many critics to believe that he had lost his touch and his skills. Though it was his return to the Adirondacks that caused his work to mature as he began to focus on the basics of nature.

In 1909 he won a bronze medal at the Carnegie Institute exhibition for his work November Hills, showing that he was still a force to be reckoned with. Throughout the first two decades of the 20th century, Crane won at least 10 major national and international awards. This included the Inness Gold Medal (1901), Gold metal at the St. Louis Exposition (1904), The Saltus Medal (1912), and the silver medal at the Panama-Pacific Exhibition (1915). From 1929 to 1933, Bruce Crane was the President of the famed Salmagundi Club of New York City (founded 1871) and its artist of the year in 1902. He was also associated with the Grand Central Art Galleries, participating in its 1933 members' drawing. In 1897, he was elected into the National Academy of Design as an Associate Academician, and became a full Academician in 1901.

Later life
Crane grew frail after breaking both of his hips in a fall in 1935, nearly immobilizing him. He spent the remainder of his years in Bronxville before passing on October 29, 1937. He is buried in Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn. Descendants of Bruce Crane can be found living in Virginia and California.

References

Further reading

External links

 New York Times obituary
 December Morn by Bruce Crane at Florence Griswold Museum

1857 births
1937 deaths
19th-century American painters
American male painters
20th-century American painters
American landscape painters
Burials at Green-Wood Cemetery
Tonalism
Place of birth missing
19th-century male artists
Crane family of New Jersey


70/30 may refer to:
 70/30 Productions
 A form of insulin therapy, consisting of 70% intermediate-acting, and 30% fast-acting insulin.


The second USS Yucca (IX-214) was a tanker that served in the United States Navy from 1945 to 1946.

Yucca was constructed in 1920 by the Bethlehem Steel Company at Alameda, California, as the commercial tanker SS Utacarbon. The U.S. Navy acquired her from the War Shipping Administration for World War II service in February 1945, renamed her Yucca on 9 March 1945, converted her to naval use at San Francisco, California, and placed her in commission as USS Yucca (IX-214) on 9 July 1945.

Yucca arrived at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, in late August 1945, just after the end of World War II, and departed that port on her way to duty in the Central Pacific on 3 September 1945. She stopped at Ulithi Atoll in the western Caroline Islands on 22 September 1945 but continued her voyage that same day, arriving at Buckner Bay, Okinawa, on 29 September 1945. She arrived in Nagoya, Japan on 6 October 1945, but returned to the Ryukyu Islands later that month.

On 11 November 1945, the tanker began her voyage back to the United States. Steaming via Eniwetok in the Marshall Islands and Pearl Harbor, she arrived in the Panama Canal Zone on January 6, 1946, transited the Panama Canal, and departed the canal's eastern terminus on 8 January 1946. She arrived in Mobile, Alabama, on 15 January 1946 and changed operational control to the Commandant, 8th Naval District, for inactivation preparations.

Yucca was decommissioned at Mobile on 19 February 1946 and returned to the War Shipping Administration for disposal. Her name was struck from the Navy List on 12 March 1946, and she was sold on 24 January 1947 to the Pinto Island Metals Company for scrapping.

Notes

References

Ships built in Los Angeles
1919 ships
World War II auxiliary ships of the United States
Unique oilers and tankers of the United States Navy


Century Casino Caruthersville, formerly Lady Luck Casino Caruthersville, is a  riverboat casino and hotel in Caruthersville, Missouri. It is owned by Vici Properties and operated by Century Casinos. The riverboat is named City of Caruthersville and is permanently docked at a  site that also contains an enclosed pavilion that is used to host various events.

In 2005, the casino generated $28 million in revenue and $7 million in profits.

History
The casino opened on April 28, 1995 as Casino Aztar. It was built by Aztar Corp. at a cost of $55 million.

Aztar was acquired by Columbia Sussex in January 2007. Columbia Sussex, unable to obtain a casino license in the state, immediately put the property up for sale and threatened to close it down in order to preserve the takeover deal with Aztar.

In 2007, Isle of Capri Casinos purchased the casino from Columbia Sussex for about $45 million. Casino Aztar Caruthersville was re-branded Lady Luck Casino Caruthersville on June 10, 2008. Isle of Capri was acquired by Eldorado Resorts in 2017.

In 2019, Eldorado sold the casino, along with two other properties, to Century Casinos and Vici Properties. Century bought the casino's operating business for $12 million, while Vici bought the land and buildings for $67 million and leased them to Century. Century stated that the casino would be renamed as Century Casino Caruthersville.

Century purchased a neighboring two-story hotel building in 2021. The hotel was renovated and reopened in 2022 as The Farmstead, with 36 rooms.

See also
List of casinos in Missouri

References

External links

Casinos in Missouri
Riverboat casinos
Buildings and structures in Pemiscot County, Missouri
Tourist attractions in Pemiscot County, Missouri
Casinos completed in 1995
1995 establishments in Missouri


A venomoid is a venomous snake that has undergone a surgical procedure to remove or inhibit its production of venom. This procedure has been used for venomous snakes kept as pets or used in public demonstrations in order to remove the risk of injury or death when handled. The removal of venom glands or fangs of exhibited animals may be by surgery or simple mutilation; some or all of these procedures have been considered illegal and unethical. Removal of fangs is uncommon, as snakes frequently regenerate teeth, and the more invasive procedure of removing the underlying maxillary bone would be fatal. Most venomoid procedures consist of either removing the venom gland itself, or severing the duct between the gland and the fang. However, the duct and gland have been known to regenerate, and supposedly "safe" snakes have killed mice and successfully envenomated humans.

Advocates of this procedure state that it is done for safety reasons and have published methods for this surgery.  However, this procedure is highly controversial among herpetologists, and is considered animal cruelty by many experts on venomous snakes, particularly in reference to the procedure being performed by unlicensed hobbyists with inadequate analgesia. For instance, a veterinarian review on reptile surgery published in 2006 stated that "such practices should be discouraged" due to both ethical and animal welfare concerns.

Legality in Australia
Legal questions have been raised about amateur venomoid surgeries in Australia. The Australian 1986 Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act states that animals must be anesthetized for the duration of an operation. In 2007, the Victoria state government amended the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act 1986 to ban the removal of venom glands from snakes unless performed for a therapeutic reason by a registered veterinarian. In addition, in a case involving the reptile showman and self-styled herpetologist Raymond Hoser, a 2008 tribunal ruled that venomoid snakes cannot be handled by members of the public in Victoria, due to the risk of the venom glands regrowing.

See also
Snake charming
Docking (animal)
Onychectomy
Veterinary ethics

References

Snakes
Cruelty to animals
Animal welfare


The 1992 Scottish Cup final was played between Rangers and Airdrieonians, at Hampden Park, Glasgow, on 9 May 1992.

Rangers won the match 2–1. They opened the scoring with a goal by Mark Hateley in the 30th minute, a finish from six yards after a low cross from the left. Ally McCoist made it 2–0 with a half-volley, before Andy Smith scored a consolation goal from outside the box.

Rangers' route to the final was unusual in that they faced Scottish Premier Division opposition in every round, beating 1990 winners Aberdeen, 1991 winners Motherwell, St Johnstone and 1989 winners Celtic before facing Airdrie. McCoist scored the only goal of the semi-final win over Celtic at Hampden, the first goal his club had scored in an Old Firm fixture in the competition since 1973.

Match details

References

1992
Cup Final
Scottish Cup Final 1992
Scottish Cup Final 1992
1990s in Glasgow
May 1992 sports events in the United Kingdom


The Milu Park, or Milu Yuan (), is a large public park located in southern Beijing, China named after its captive breeding herd of milu or Père David's Deer. It was once called the Nanyuan Garden or Nanhaizi Garden, which was the imperial hunting grounds for Ming and Qing emperors.  The gardens, palaces, forests, rivers, marshes and grasslands used to be enclosed by walls
and gates.

Milu Yuan is now a public park and an ecological research center that serves as a natural park for animals in Beijing. Among the attractions are the Père David's Deer or milu a deer that became extinct in China toward the end of the 19th century during the Qing Dynasty. The deer was re-introduced to Beijing from Britain in the 1980s.

External links
About the Milu Yuan
Official Park Site (Site is in Chinese)

2000 establishments in China
Parks in Beijing
Protected areas established in 2000


Paul Ramsey may refer to:

Paul Ramsey (politician), Canadian politician
Paul Ramsey (footballer) (born 1962), Northern Irish footballer
Paul Ramsey (ethicist) (1913–1988), American ethicist
Paul Ramsey (musician) (born 1966), American drummer
Paul Ray Ramsey (born 1963), American YouTube personality and public speaker
Paul H. Ramsey,  United States Navy naval aviator


WFLO could refer to:

WFLO (AM), a radio station (870 AM) licensed to Farmville, Virginia, United States
WFLO-FM, a radio station (95.7 FM) licensed to Farmville, Virginia, United States


Archery at the 1976 Summer Paralympics consisted of eighteen events.

Medal table

Participating nations

Medal summary

Men's events

Women's events

References

1976 Summer Paralympics events
1976
Paralympics


The 49th Pennsylvania House of Representatives District in southwest Pennsylvania has been represented by Ismail Smith-Wade-El since 2023.

District profile
Following 2022 redistricting, the 49th District is located in Lancaster County and includes the following areas:

 Lancaster (part)
Ward 02 (part)
Division 02
Ward 03
Ward 04
Ward 06 (part)
Division 08
Ward 07
Ward 08
Lancaster Township
Millersville

Representatives

Recent election results

References

External links
District map from the United States Census Bureau
Pennsylvania House Legislative District Maps from the Pennsylvania Redistricting Commission.
Population Data for District 49 from the Pennsylvania Redistricting Commission.

Government of Fayette County, Pennsylvania
Government of Washington County, Pennsylvania
49


The 1994 Scottish Cup final was the final match of the 1993–94 Scottish Cup competition, the 109th edition of the most important cup competition in Scottish football. It was played between Dundee United and Rangers at Hampden Park, Glasgow, on 21 May 1994.

Dundee United won the game 1–0, with a goal by Craig Brewster. Following a mix-up between Rangers' goalkeeper Ally Maxwell and Dave McPherson, United's Christian Dailly rolled a cross-shot across goal. The ball bounced off the post but Brewster was there to tap in.

It was Dundee United's first Scottish Cup victory, having previously played in six finals, but losing all of them. Dundee United manager Ivan Golac was the first manager from outside the United Kingdom to win the Scottish Cup.

Background
Rangers were seeking to complete what was described as "a Double Treble" having won all three domestic trophies in 1992-1993 and having already won the League Cup and the Premier Division. United on the other hand had failed to win the Scottish Cup despite reaching six finals, and had lost four finals within the previous ten years. Moreover the side had only finished 2 points clear of being relegated from the Premier Division. Consequently Rangers were heavy favourites for the match, although, as Dundee United player Craig Brewster would note, United had beaten Rangers 3-0 at Ibrox a few months earlier.

Match

Summary

Both sides fielded attacking line-ups and had scoring opportunities in the first half, and Dundee United had a penalty claim turned down in the 11th minute, but the match remained goalless at halftime. The only goal of the game eventually came two minutes into the second half.  Rangers' goalkeeper Ally Maxwell saw his attempt at a clearance come off Dundee United's Christian Dailly who was then able to shoot towards the goal. His shot hit the post, but his team mate Craig Brewster was on hand to score. Rangers strove for an equalizer, their closest effort being an Alexei Mikhailichenko shot that was superbly saved by United's Guido van de Kamp, but they were ultimately unable to break down Dundee United's defence.

Details

Teams

Attendance
At the time of the match Hampden Park was undergoing major reconstruction work. As this was only partly completed its capacity was reduced. Consequently, only 38,000 tickets for the final were available (with Rangers being given 19,000 and Dundee United being allocated 12,000 and the rest going to sponsors and other clubs). The match was a sell-out, and ultimately 37,450 people attended the final. Authors Mike Watson and Matthew Watson suggested that the bulk of the apparent 550 non-attenders were probably drawn from tickets issued to sponsors.

References

External links
1994 Final

1994
Cup Final
Scottish Cup Final 1994
Scottish Cup Final 1994
20th century in Glasgow
May 1994 sports events in the United Kingdom


Dana Hall (born March 13, 1969) is an American jazz drummer, percussionist, composer, bandleader, and ethnomusicologist. After spending the first few years of his life in Brooklyn, New York (his birthplace), he relocated with his family to his mother's hometown of Philadelphia. There, Hall was exposed to jazz and soul music at an early age through the recordings of his mother Diane, his uncle Earl Harris, and his large extended family. His family's interest in creative music, and their “open door” policy toward Philadelphia jazz musicians of the era sparked Hall's curiosity, passion and ultimately career in music.

Biography

Early life
At the age of 12, Hall moved from Philadelphia to Voorhees Township, New Jersey and began studying drums under renowned drum instructor Vincent “Jim” Hurley at Voorhees Middle School, followed by study with award-winning educator and bassoonist Dennis MacMullin at Eastern Regional High School in Voorhees Township. Hall also began playing the oboe in high school, an instrument he continued to play throughout college.

Hall attended Iowa State University and double majored in aerospace engineering and percussion. At ISU, Hall cultivated his interest in music, studying marimba and vibes, timpani, hand percussion, and drumset under Professors John Harris and Michael Geary.

Education and influences
After completing his education in aerospace engineering at Iowa State University, Hall received his Bachelor of Music degree from William Paterson College in Wayne, New Jersey and his master's degree in Composition and Arranging from DePaul University in Chicago, Illinois. He is presently a distinguished Special Trustees Fellow pursuing his Doctorate in Ethnomusicology at the University of Chicago.

As a jazz drummer, Hall is primarily influenced by the work of Art Blakey, Elvin Jones, ‘Philly’ Joe Jones, Max Roach, and Roy Haynes, with whom he shares a birth date. He is also directly influenced by the work of Jeff ‘Tain’ Watts, Ralph Peterson, Jr., and Kenny Washington, among many others.

As an ethnomusicologist, Hall is principally interested in issues of ethnicity, identity, and temporality; popular musics of the world; music as protest and resistance; and musics of both the African continent and the African Diaspora. His dissertation is a historical ethnography of Philly Soul during the Black Power Movement.

Career
The list of artists that Hall has performed, toured, and/or recorded with reflects the diverse, varied approaches of his music-making in the fields of jazz and popular music and include Branford Marsalis, Ray Charles, Roy Hargrove, Joshua Redman, Pedro Latães Horace Silver, Michael Brecker, Nicolas Payton, Kurt Elling, Benny Green, Frank Wess, Ken Peplowski, Wycliffe Gordon, Russell Malone, Frank Foster, George Coleman, Lin Halliday, Betty Carter, Jimmy Heath, Benny Golson, Bobby Latães, Wallace Roney, Diana Krall, Harold Mabern, Renee Rosnes, Clark Terry, the Mingus Big Band, Steve Lacy, Muhal Richard Abrams, Jim Snidero, Eric Alexander, James Spaulding, Buster Williams, Gary Bartz, Dick Oatts, Melvin Rhyne, Ira Sullivan, David Murray, Bobby Broom, Lester Bowie, Slide Hampton, Charles Davis, James Moody, David Hazeltine, Henry Butler, Shirley Scott, Sonny Fortune, Joe Williams, Dr. Lonnie Smith, Billy Harper, Brian Lynch, Rick Margitza, Tim Hagans, John Swana, Ralph Bowen, Orrin Evans, Bud Shank, Phil Woods, Von Freeman, Ron Bridgewater, Kenny Barron, Maria Schneider, Jackie McLean, Mulgrew Miller, Marcus Belgrave, Hamiet Bluiett, the Woody Herman Orchestra, Patricia Barber, Joe Henderson, Curtis Fuller, Charles McPherson, Oliver Lake, and Steve Wilson, among others.

Additionally, Hall is both a member of the Terell Stafford Quintet and the Music Director of the Chicago Jazz Ensemble. He is also a former regular member of the prestigious Grammy-nominated Carnegie Hall Jazz Band under the musical and artistic direction of trumpeter, and Dizzy Gillespie protégé, Jon Faddis, and has served as an extra in the percussion sections of the Des Moines and the Cedar Rapids Symphonies.

In 2012, Hall joined the faculty of the DePaul University School of Music where he is the Director of Jazz Studies. He has served as a faculty member at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, the University of Chicago and at Columbia College Chicago, and is a member of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Band Director's Academy and Essentially Ellington faculties. Hall also taught in the Ravinia Festival's Jazz in the Schools Mentoring Program, the Merit School of Music in Chicago, and is currently an educator and mentor in the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz's Jazz in America Program and the Jazz Institute of Chicago's Artists Residency Program.

Equipment
Drums: Yamaha Absolute Hybrid Maple
Cymbals: Zildjian K Constantinople | Kerope | K Custom
Drumsticks: Vic Firth Drumsticks and Accessories
Drumheads: Remo Drumheads and Accessories

Selected discography

As a Leader
Into the Light, 2009 Origin Records

As sideman
With Ralph Bowen
Five (Criss Cross Jazz, 2008)
With Geof Bradfield
Our Roots (Origin, 2015)
Birdhoused (Cellar Live, 2017)
Yes, and...Music for Nine Improvisers (Delmark, 2018)
With the Chicago Jazz Ensemble
The Chicago Jazz Ensemble (Chase Music, 1997)
With Clark Sommers
The Ba(SH) Trio (Origin, 2015)
With Terell Stafford
New Beginnings  (Maxjazz, 2004)
Taking Chances: Live at The Dakota (Maxjazz, 2007)
This Side of Strayhorn (Maxjazz, 2011)
Brotherlee Love (Capri, 2015)
With Malachi Thompson
47th Street (Delmark, 1997)
Freebop Now! (Delmark, 1998)
Rising Daystar (Delmark, 1998)
With Woody Goss
A Very Vulfy Christmas (Woody Goss, 2019)

Footnotes

Sources
Anne Mischakoff Heiles (Winter, 2006). From Rockets to Rackets. Sonorities: The News Magazine of the University of Illinois School of Music. Page 28–32.
Kevin Whitehead (12-19-2002). Golson finds the perfect groove. Chicago Sun-Times.
Kevin Whitehead (2-14-2004). Chicago Jazz Ensemble swings hard under Lovano's skillful direction. Chicago Sun-Times.
Ed Hazell (1-10-2002). Review of Bobby Broom's Stand! The Portland Phoenix.
Howard Reich (5-21-2004). Herbie's Blues. The Chicago Tribune Magazine.
Matthew Lurie (1-26-2006). Hall or Nothing. Time Out Chicago.

External links
Official website
DePaul University Faculty Page
Yamaha Drums
Zildjian Cymbals
Vic Firth Drumsticks, Brushes, and Accessories
Remo Drumheads and Accessories

1969 births
American bandleaders
American jazz composers
American jazz drummers
American jazz percussionists
DePaul University alumni
American ethnomusicologists
Women ethnomusicologists
Iowa State University alumni
Living people
Musicians from Brooklyn
Jazz musicians from New York City
Musicians from Philadelphia
People from Voorhees Township, New Jersey
DePaul University faculty
William Paterson University alumni
20th-century American drummers
American male drummers
Jazz musicians from New Jersey
Jazz musicians from Pennsylvania
American male jazz composers
20th-century American male musicians


Škvorec is a market town in Prague-East District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 2,200 inhabitants.

Administrative parts
The village of Třebohostice is an administrative part of Škvorec.

Geography
Škvorec is located about  east of Prague. It lies on the border between the Prague Plateau and Benešov Uplands. The highest point is the hill Na Plachtě at  above sea level.

History

The first written mention of Škvorec is from 1279. In 1497, during the rule of Jan Škvorecký of Klinštejn, Škvorec was promoted to a market town by King Vladislaus II. The market town was acquired by Albrecht von Wallenstein in 1621, but he sold it to Karl I, Prince of Liechtenstein a year later. Karl I joined it to the Kostelec estate. Škvorec was owned by the House of Liechtenstein until the establishment of a sovereign municipality in 1848.

Sights
Škvorec Castle, also known as Savoia Castle, is the main landmark of Škvorec. Today it is privately owned and used as a hotel and restaurant.

References

External links

Market towns in the Czech Republic


The Khorchin (, Horchin;  Qorčin; ) are a subgroup of the Mongols that speak the Khorchin dialect of Mongolian and predominantly live in northeastern Inner Mongolia of China.

History

The Ming dynasty gave Borjigin princes (descended from Genghis Khan's brothers) command of the Taining Guard, one of the Three Guards established in 1389. In 1446-48 most of the guards fled in the wake of Esen Tayisi's invasions. However, the Fuyu Guard, another of the Three Guards, remained along the Nen and Onon rivers. Said to have been the descendants of Khasar, a brother of Genghis Khan, they became the direct ancestors of the Khorchin Mongols.

Adai Khan of the Khorchin challenged the power of the Four Oirats and the Ming court in the succession struggle of Northern Yuan dynasty. However, he was killed by them in Ejene in 1438 and his tribe was forced to flee southward. The Khorchin appeared again in Mongolian chronicles with the rise of Unebolad wang in the late 15th century. The Khorchins allied with Dayan Khan and defeated the Uriyangkhai at the battle of Dalan Terqin in 1510.

In 1624, Nurhaci received the submission of Khorchins who roamed east of Khingan mountains and west of the Sungari. They were the first Mongol tribe that submitted to Qing dynasty. The Khorchins were responsible for production of fermented mare's milk for Manchu emperors. The later emperors of the Manchu Qing dynasty rewarded the Khorchin nobles highly for this early loyalty. Notable Empresses of the Qing dynasty, such as Empress Xiaozhuangwen (1613–88) and Empress Xiaohuizhang (1641–1717), were the Khorchin-Borjigins. The Khorchins were further divided into two wings (north and south), each with
three Banners.

Due to the anti-Mongol rebellion among ethnic Han Jindandao followers in 1891, many thousands of Kharchin Mongols fled to the Khorchin. After 1900 both Chinese education and Chinese influence spread among them. When the Japanese Empire occupied parts of Inner Mongolia and all of Manchuria in 1931, the Khorchins leaders became the puppets of the Japanese Empire. After World War II rural class struggle and the civil war of 1946–48 were very bloody and divisive. Since then they have been a powerful faction within Inner Mongolia's Chinese Communist Party apparatus.

Popular culture
Korchin is a playable nation in the grand strategy game Europa Universalis IV.

Khorchin is a playable nation in the grand strategy game Age of History 2, where its capital is Baicheng.

References
 Great Mongolia 800-

Notes

Sources

See also
Khorchin (redirect page)

Mongols
Mongol peoples
Southern Mongols
Ethnic groups in Mongolia


Lau Ka-ho (, born 22 July 1953) is a Hong Kong producer. In March 2012 he left TVB to sign for Now TV.

Filmography

TVB series

References

TVB producers
Living people
1953 births


The 1995 Scottish Cup Final was played between Celtic and Airdrieonians at Hampden Park on 27 May 1995.

Celtic won the match 1–0, with a goal by Pierre van Hooijdonk who headed in after a cross from the left by Tosh McKinlay.  This would prove to be the last occasion that the original Airdrieonians reached the final, with the club folding in 2002. Celtic's victory secured the club's first major trophy in six years - the last honour having been won in the 1989 Scottish Cup Final against Rangers - and ended one of the most unsuccessful periods in their history.

Match

Details

References

External links
1995 Final

1995
Cup Final
Scottish Cup Final 1995
Scottish Cup Final 1995
20th century in Glasgow