William Arnold Jefferson (November 28, 1951 – November 19, 1995) was an American librarian and United Nations employee who was killed while serving in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Jefferson was found shot to death near Banovići, Bosnia and Herzegovina. He was a New Jersey native, who would have turned 44 a week after the day his body was found near Banovići, in northeast Bosnia and Herzegovina, not far from where the NATO peace mission and U.S. military headquarters was established. He is survived by a son and a brother. His killing was described as a criminal act, with his car and all of his valuables stolen.

Volunteer U.N. engagement and death
Jefferson was from Camden, New Jersey. He started working for the U.N. in its Dag Hammarskjöld Library in 1982. In 1992 he volunteered to serve on overseas U.N. missions, first serving in Somalia. He then moved to serve as the U.N. volunteer worker in Bosnia and Herzegovina, after the peace agreement was signed and Nato troops deployed.

Jefferson was shot twice to the head and his body found near town of Banovići, in the northeast Bosnia and Herzegovina, not far from where the NATO peace mission and U.S. military headquarters was established. He was 43 and would have turned 44 a week after he was found. His killing was described as a criminal act, with his car and all of his valuables stolen. Joe Sills, a U.N. spokesperson stated: "There was every reason to believe that the motives were criminal and not political. Mr. Jefferson's car was stolen, and his personal belongings were missing." A week later the New York Times reported that "United Nations officials strongly suspect that he was killed by the mujahedeen, who may have mistaken him for a British citizen." Suspicion were later raised that the person responsible for the murder was Saudi Arabian Ahmed Zaid Salim Zuhair, who will later be detained at Guantanamo under unrelated terrorism charges. Reason for the suspicion was Jefferson's watch found in Zuhair's possession.

Zuhair's attorneys have pointed out that Zuhair was never charged in connection with the killing, despite extensive investigations by the UN, FBI, and Bosnian authorities. Bosnian authorities issued an arrest warrant for Fa'iz al-Shanbari in 1998 in relation to the shooting. The U.N.'s 200-page investigation made no mention of Zuhair. Zuhair was cleared for release by the Bush administration and finally repatriated to Saudi Arabia on June 12, 2009.

During a hearing of the Senate Judiciary Committee on June 17, 2009, Attorney General Eric Holder publicly admitted that Zuhair had been cleared for transfer from Guantanamo by both administrations because "there was no sufficient proof" linking him to the Jefferson killing.

References

1951 births
1995 deaths
American librarians
People from Camden, New Jersey
American officials of the United Nations
Deaths by firearm in Bosnia and Herzegovina
American people murdered abroad
People murdered in Bosnia and Herzegovina
1995 crimes in Bosnia and Herzegovina
1995 murders in Europe
1990s murders in Bosnia and Herzegovina


Face to Face is the second studio album by Trevor Rabin released in 1979. Rabin composed the songs except for two written by his manager, Pete Smith.

Track listing
All tracks composed and arranged by Trevor Rabin; except where indicated

Personnel
  Trevor Rabin - vocals, guitar, bass, keyboards, backing vocals
  Kevin Kruger - drums
  Dave Mattacks - drums
  Rene Arnell - backing vocals
Technical
 Jon Kelly, Jon Walls - engineers
 Geoff Emerick, Hennie Hartmann - recording

References

1979 albums
Trevor Rabin albums
Albums produced by Trevor Rabin
Chrysalis Records albums


William James Jackson (27 January 1876 – 25 March 1954) was a Welsh footballer. His regular position was as an inside forward. He was born in Flint, Flintshire. He played for Flint, Rhyl, St Helens Recs, Newton Heath, Barrow, Burnley, Wigan County and Chester, where he made his début in an 8–0 win over Rhyl in October 1905. He won one cap for the Welsh national team in March 1899.

References

External links
MUFCInfo.com profile

1876 births
1954 deaths
Men's association football forwards
Barrow A.F.C. players
Burnley F.C. players
Chester City F.C. players
Flint Town United F.C. players
Manchester United F.C. players
People from Flint, Flintshire
Footballers from Flintshire
Rhyl F.C. players
St Helens Recreation RLFC players
English Football League players
Wales men's international footballers
Welsh men's footballers
Wigan County F.C. players


"Asphodel, That Greeny Flower" is a poem by American poet William Carlos Williams. It was published in 1955 as part of Williams's anthology Journey to Love.

Notes

Poetry by William Carlos Williams
1955 poems


Tony Currenti (born 26 June 1951) is an Australian drummer of Italian descent, best known as a session drummer for Australian hard rock band AC/DC (1975 debut album High Voltage, the "High Voltage" single, and 1984 album '74 Jailbreak) and various Vanda & Young projects – including Stevie Wright (international hit "Evie") and John Paul Young (hit singles "Yesterday's Hero" and "I Hate the Music").

Early life
Currenti originally comes from the Italian island of Sicily, where he was born on 26 June 1951. He migrated to Australia with his parents, brother and sister in 1967 at the age of 16 with no knowledge of English. After two years, his parents got homesick and went back to Italy. Currenti, at that time 18 years old, played in a band around Sydney and thought he had a future in music, so he decided to stay.

When Currenti was five years old, his dad bought him a piano accordion. He learnt to play drums by bashing his accordion and whatever chairs he could find with spoons. Currenti bought his first set of drums after he got his first pay packet in Australia. It was a second-hand Premier drum kit. Currenti later purchased a white Ludwig drum kit with which he did all the session work in the 70s.

Early career

First bands
In 1968, while walking down King St. in Newtown, Currenti noticed a band rehearsing in a hall near a church. They had no drummer, so he "played drums" on the chairs and thereafter was asked to join the band. After a few weeks of playing in the church band, Currenti joined another band, Tin Soldiers, which performed on the TV program New Faces. After the performance on New Faces, guitarist Norm Group and Currenti formed a new band called Inheritance.

Inheritance and the first recording contract
After working in and around Sydney (they scored a residence at The Groove Room, which lasted for circa 12 months), record label EMI signed Inheritance to a recording contract. In 1969, Inheritance recorded their first single called "Kookie".

The band was later joined by two female musicians and changed their name to Grapevine, which had a six-month residence at Jonathan's nightclub in Sydney. After that residency ended, the two female members parted ways with the band and a name change was forced on them after they found out another group had it registered. Around 1971, the band met with Harry Vanda and George Young who suggested the band's handsome Greek-born singer assume the name "Jackie Christian".

In 1972, they recorded a cover version of The Who's "Join Together", which was released as Grapevine featuring Jackie Christian with B-side called "That's Life".

Jackie Christian & Flight
The band adopted the new name Jackie Christian & Flight. The first single, recorded under the Jackie Christian handle, was "Rosy" (with "You Chose a Fine Time" as a B-side) and released in 1972. In 1974, the band released two songs penned and produced by Vanda & Young, namely "Love" and "The Last Time I Go to Baltimore". "Love" was chosen as an A-side and a single was released on the Alberts label. Polydor released it under the name Jackie Christian & Target in Canada.

Flight also recorded another Vanda & Young song called "Love Fever", but the producers did not like Jackie Christian's vocals and eventually gave the song to Ray Burgess, who recorded verses over Jackie Christian & Flight's track (which included backing vocals). The single was released by Burgess in July 1975 and reached the Australian Kent Music Report top 30.

Session work for Vanda & Young

AC/DC

It was during this time in early 1974 that George Young approached Currenti and asked if he would record with his two younger brothers in a band called AC/DC. The album was called High Voltage and Tony played drums on all tracks but one ("Baby, Please Don't Go" was recorded by Peter Clack), including the later single "High Voltage" (which appeared on the T.N.T. album and the international release of High Voltage). After recording the album, Currenti was asked to join the group but declined for two reasons; one, Currenti was loyal to his current band Jackie Christian & Flight, and two, he was an Italian citizen with an Italian passport which did not allow him to tour freely in England or Europe with the band without being called up for military service.

Stevie Wright
Several months later, Jackie Christian & Flight split up and Currenti stayed on with Vanda & Young as a session musician, which included working with Stevie Wright on an album called Black Eyed Bruiser in 1975 (Tony was drummer on all but two tracks) and even his international number one hit "Evie" (specifically Part Three "I'm Losing You") released the previous year.

John Paul Young
For the following 12 to 18 months, Currenti worked for bands such as The 69ers and a little known band called Winter. He recorded tracks for John Paul Young including hit singles "Yesterday's Hero" (1975) and "I Hate the Music" (1976). It has been rumoured he played on Young's biggest hit, "Love Is In The Air", though this has not been confirmed or denied by Currenti.

Compilations
"Love" by Jackie Christian & Flight features on two compilations: The Vanda & Young Story Volume 1 (Albert Productions/Drum, 1976) and Their Music Goes 'Round Our Heads (Columbia, 1992). Currenti's drumming on Ray Burgess's "Love Fever" also appears on the latter album as well as "Whopper" (Polydor, 1976). Currenti's drumming on John Paul Young's "Yesterday's Hero" appears on the compilation Sharpies: 14 Aggro Aussie Anthems From 1972 To 1979 (Sharps Rock Records, 2013).

Other Recordings
Currenti has made guest appearances on albums by Stinger (Germany) and Simon Chainsaw (Australia).

Life outside the music business
In early 1979, after getting married, Currenti decided to leave the music industry and open his own pizzeria in Hurlstone Park, Sydney. He now runs Tonino's Penshurst Pizzeria in Penshurst, Sydney.

Currenti was rediscovered by Australian writer Jesse Fink who interviewed him for his book The Youngs: The Brothers Who Built AC/DC. Since the release of the book, Currenti has started playing the drums again and enjoys an increasing popularity among AC/DC fans. Since 2014, Currenti has completed two tours of the UK and Europe with various AC/DC tribute bands and received civic honours in his hometown of Fiumefreddo di Sicilia in Sicily. Currenti typically plays all the songs he recorded with AC/DC but has recently added Bon Scott-era songs "Gimme a Bullet", "Highway to Hell" and "It's a Long Way to the Top" to sets.

In May 2016, Currenti was a special guest for the unveiling of a fan-funded statue of Bon Scott at the 10th Annual Bonfest in Kirriemuir, Scotland, alongside former AC/DC bassist Mark Evans and Bon Scott friend and author Mary Renshaw.
 Currenti had known Scott before he joined AC/DC.

In July 2015, he announced on his Facebook page a maiden tour of Italy with tribute band Overdose74. In Italy, he also performed with tribute bands Bon Scott Experience, Black Ice and Back In Hell. While in Europe, Currenti visited Germany and made a guest appearance on the album Disadvantaged by Stinger. Currenti was a special guest performer in the Bon But Not Forgotten series of concerts in Sydney and Melbourne in July 2017 to celebrate the 71st birthday of Bon Scott. The 2017 touring show, a tribute to Bon Scott, featured Currenti, James Morley, Mark Evans, Filippo Olivieri, Skenie and Simon Wright. Currenti, Morley and Wright backed up for the 2018 reprise but Evans, Olivieri and Skenie did not. Their places were taken by other musicians.

In 2021. Currenti stepped back from touring commitments due to pandemic travel restrictions but continues to play concerts in Sydney, Australia.

References

External links
Tony Currenti's community FB page

AC/DC members
Living people
Australian rock drummers
Male drummers
People of Sicilian descent
1951 births
Australian heavy metal drummers
Australian session musicians
Italian emigrants to Australia


Nikolay Ostrovsky's Yekaterinburg children railway (; other names - MSZHD, DSZHD, Sverdlovsk children railway) is a children's railway in the city of Yekaterinburg, Russia.

The track with a gauge of 750 mm (29,5 inches) has so far a length of 2.8 km (1.7 miles). It has four stations. The round trip lasts 27 min.

It was opened for passengers on 9 July 1960.

It has three locomotives (TU7А, TU10 and TU2 type) and several all-metallic Polish passenger wagons «Pafawag».

Yekaterinburg
Tourist attractions in Sverdlovsk Oblast


Mayakovskaya () is a station on the Nevsko–Vasileostrovskaya Line of Saint Petersburg Metro, opened on November 3, 1967, and named after Russian poet Vladimir Mayakovsky. The main surface vestibule is situated on Nevsky Prospekt. Mayakovskaya is connected to the station Ploshchad Vosstaniya of the Kirovsko-Vyborgskaya Line via a transfer corridor and a set of escalators. The transfer corridor also links both stations to Moskovsky Rail Terminal.

External links

Saint Petersburg Metro stations
Nevsky Prospekt
Railway stations in Russia opened in 1967
Railway stations located underground in Russia


Eduardo Egüez (born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1959) is a lutenist, theorbist, and guitarist acclaimed for his interpretations of music by J.S.Bach.

Egüez began by first studying guitar with Miguel Angel Girollet and Eduardo Fernández. He then studied composition at the Catholic Argentine University. In 1995 he obtained his diploma in lute performance from the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis under the tutelage of Hopkinson Smith. Eduardo Egüez teaches lute and basso continuo at the Zürich Conservatory (Switzerland).

Performances
Eduardo Egüez has given many solo recitals in South America, Europe, Australia, and Japan. He received awards from Promociones Musicales in Buenos Aires, 1984; Círculo Guitarrístico Argentino in Buenos Aires, 1984; Concours International de Guitare in Paris (Radio France), 1986; V Concurso Internacional de Guitarra (Jacinto and Inocencio Guerrero Foundation) in Madrid, 1989.

He has also performed as a basso continuo player, as a member of such ensembles as Elyma, Hesperion XXI, Ensemble Baroque de Limoges, La Grande Écurie et la Chambre du Roy, Aurora, Concerto Italiano, Labyrinto, The Rare Fruits Council, Café Zimmermann, Les Sacqueboutiers, Ricercar Consort, „Stylus Phantasticus“ and his own ensemble La Chimera. Furthermore, he has also accompanied artists such as Furio Zanasi, Emma Kirkby, María Cristina Kiehr, Rolf Lislevand, Victor Torres inter alia.

Recordings
Eduardo Egüez has recorded for many labels: Astrée Auvidis, Astrée Naïve, Arcana, Glossa Music, K617, Opus 111, Alia Vox, E Lucevan le Stelle, Stradivarius, Symphonia, Alpha Records, Ambroisie, Naxos Records, Flora, Mirare, Accent Records, Harmonia Mundi France. As a soloist he has recorded “Tombeau” with works by Silvius Leopold Weiss (E Lucevan le Stelle), the complete lute works by J. S. Bach (M.A. recordings) and “Le Maître du Roi” with works by Robert de Visée (also M.A. recordings).

With his own Ensemble La Chimera, he has recorded for the label M.A. recordings “Buenos Aires Madrigal” (fusion of early Italian madrigals and Argentine tango) and “Tonos y Tonadas” (fusion of early Spanish “tonos humanos” and folk music from Latin America).

Selected discography
 Amarante Céline Scheen, soprano; Philippe Pierlot, viola da gamba; Eduardo Egüez, lute. Flora 2010
 Odisea Negra - music of slaves in the 17th century.  Ablaye Cissoko (griot, Senegal), Ivan García (tenor, Venezuela). Compositions by Martínez Compañón, Gaspar Fernandes (1565-1629), Miguel Matamoros, Carmito Gamboa, Gilberto Valdés. Readings of poems by Nicolás Guillén (Cuba) and Manuel del Cabral (Dominican Republic). Naïve Records November 2011

References

Lutenists
Argentine performers of early music
Living people
1959 births
Theorbists
Musicians from Buenos Aires


National Route 124 is a national highway of Japan connecting between Chōshi, Chiba and Mito, Ibaraki in Japan, with total length has 88.1 km (54.74 mi).

See also

References

External links

124
Roads in Chiba Prefecture
Roads in Ibaraki Prefecture


Conversation Piece may refer to:

Conversation Piece (Jewellery and Object) by Beatrice Brovia and Nicolas Cheng (since 2011-)
conversation piece, an informal group portrait in painting
Conversation Piece (musical) by Noël Coward (1934)
"Conversation Piece" (song), by David Bowie (1970)
Conversation Piece (box set), by David Bowie (2019)
Conversation Piece (film), by Luchino Visconti (1974)
Conversation Piece, an album by the post-hardcore band A Lot Like Birds (2011)


Blue on blue may refer to:

Music
 "Blue on Blue" (song), a 1963 hit song recorded by Bobby Vinton
 Blue on Blue (Bobby Vinton album), 1963
 Blue on Blue (Leigh Nash album), 2006
 "Blue on Blue", a song by James Blunt from Moon Landing
 "Blue on Blue", a song by the Pet Shop Boys on the "Minimal" DVD

Television
 "Blue on Blue" (Ugly Betty), an episode of Ugly Betty
 "Blue on Blue" (Under the Dome), an episode of Under the Dome

Other
Blue on Blue: An Insider's Story of Good Cops Catching Bad Cops, 2017
Friendly fire (inadvertent firing toward friendly forces), called "blue on blue" in NATO terminology


The fruitcrows are several species of birds in the Cotinga family:

 Genus Gymnoderus.
 Bare-necked fruitcrow (Gymnoderus foetidus).
 Genus Haematoderus.
 Crimson fruitcrow (Haematoderus militaris).
 Genus Querula.
 Purple-throated fruitcrow (Querula purpurata).
 Genus Pyroderus.
 Red-ruffed fruitcrow (Pyroderus scutatus).

Animal common name disambiguation pages


Jennifer Gaylor Rignold (born 22 September 1935) is an English television announcer and ballerina who was an on-screen BBC Children's TV continuity announcer for the BBC Television Service (later to become BBC One, but then the only British television channel) between 1949 and 1953.

Early life
Jennifer Gay was born Jennifer Gaylor Rignold, to actress Molly Gay and composer Hugo Rignold. She was educated at St Margaret's School Hampstead and the Royal Academy of Dancing, the latter on a five-year scholarship that she won when she was nine years old and completed by 1950. Gay resumed her training at another ballet school in London for another three years before leaving to join the Royal Ballet School and then The Royal Ballet at Covent Garden one year later. She used a shortened version of her middle name for her professional career.

Television career

Gay was given an on-screen trial of holding paintings by the BBC television producer and Far Eastern affairs specialist Peter Thompson after being introduced to him at his wedding, and was primed by Cecil Madden, the head of BBC children's television. Gay began introducing children's programmes in June 1949, and aged 14 became the "first schoolgirl in the world to announce TV programmes as a regular job". For the next three years, she grew up on screen, her name intrinsically linked with early 1950s children's television.

Introducing herself by name as "one of the Children's Hour announcers", Gay appeared most days at 5pm to introduce that afternoon's hour of programming, which included such favourites as Muffin the Mule, Mr. Turnip, and Hank and Prudence. Andrew Martin a BBC Archives expert described Gay as "the accepted way of presenting children to themselves".

Her final on-screen appearance as an announcer was in May 1953, after which Gay left the BBC to continue the ballet training she had pursued throughout her television career. She made her television debut as a ballerina in the feature Shop Window in November 1952. Gay toured the United States for three months with the Sadler's Wells Ballet Company (of which she was a member) starting from 4 September 1955. When Gay was 25 years old, she decided to retire from The Royal Ballet after being persuaded to do so by her father so she could help him, working as his secretary. Gay returned to television at ATV in the Midlands during the early 1960s, and was one of the launch team of reporters for the nightly news magazine programme ATV Today. She had been suggested the job by television broadcaster Leslie Dunn and she received a one-month trial following an audition at ATV.

Career highlights
In December 1949, Gay "announced the first children's programmes transmitted from the Sutton Coldfield transmitter", while the 1953 Television Annual described Gay's "most frightening afternoon", as the occasion upon which "she had to partner Mrs. Attlee in the programme which opened the Lime Grove Studios," just five months later in May, 1950.

Also in 1950, she battled sea-sickness after journeying to France to "take part in TV's first-ever cross-Channel hook-up", which included scenes of "Jennifer... going through Customs and being shown round the Port of Calais". That same year saw Gay be presented with the Television Society's Silver Medal.

See also
Continuity announcers in the United Kingdom

References

External links
A visual introduction to the early programmes and the bits in between...
"Jennifer Gay Leaves the BBC" at Whirligig
"The Continuity Booth" at the TV Room

1935 births
Radio and television announcers
British television presenters
Living people


Auk/Blood (Inuktitut syllabics: ) is an album by Tanya Tagaq, released in 2008 by Ipecac Recordings.

Track listing
All tracks written by Tagaq.

 "Fox - Tiriganiak" – 3:45
 "Fire - Ikuma" – 5:07
 "Growth" – 5:27
 "Gentle" – 4:52
 "Tategak" – 5:41
 "Force" – 3:22
 "Growl" – 2:27
 "Want" – 3:11
 "Hunger" – 6:33
 "Burst" – 3:25
 "Blood - Auk" – 3:23
 "Construction" – 2:10
 "Sinialuk" – 2:50

See also
ᐃᑯᒪ, transliterates to "Ikuma" or "fire".

References

2008 albums
Ipecac Recordings albums
Tanya Tagaq albums


Louis  Dorfsman (April 24, 1918 – October 22, 2008) was an American graphic designer who oversaw almost every aspect of the advertising and corporate identity for the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) in his 40 years with the network.

Biography

Early life and education
Dorfsman was born in 1918 on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, and moved as a child to the Bronx. His parents were Jewish immigrants from Poland. Dorfsman attended Theodore Roosevelt High School, graduating in 1935. Dorfsman had wanted to attend New York University and study bacteriology there, but was unable to afford the tuition. He chose to attend Cooper Union, where he received a four-year scholarship  and graduated in 1939. Dorfsman served on Cooper Union's board of directors for many years.

Early career
After graduation, his design jobs included making displays for the 1939 New York World's Fair.

World War II
Dorfsman served in the United States Army during World War II, using his design skills.

With CBS
Dorfsman was hired in 1946 as art director for the CBS Radio Network. Dorfsman's designs were described by The New York Times as featuring "clear typography, simple slogans and smart illustration". He commissioned work from portraitist Feliks Topolski and painter Ben Shahn. After William Golden died in 1959, Dorfsman was named creative director of CBS Television. By 1964, he was selected as the director of design for all of CBS and was later promoted to senior vice president and creative director for marketing communications and design in 1968. In this role he maintained creative control over the network's use of the CBS Eye logo to its proprietary CBS Didot typeface. The Times credited the "cleverness and subtle beauty of his advertisements" with drawing viewers to the network's news and entertainment programs.

The print advertising Dorfsman created for CBS created a sense of urgency for the network's news and public affairs programming. A full-page newspaper ad for the series Of Black America showed a black man in black and white, with half his face painted with the stars and stripes of the United States flag. A newspaper ad for The Warren Report: A CBS News Inquiry in Four Parts showed a hand holding the John F. Kennedy assassination's "magic bullet" with a headline stating that "This is the bullet that hit both President Kennedy and Governor Connally. Or did it?" Advertising of CBS News coverage of the 1972 presidential election described CBS News anchorman Walter Cronkite as having been "Re-elected the Most Trusted Man in America".

Dorfsman oversaw design of annual reports for CBS and created promotional commemorative volumes, including a 1969 limited-edition book with a cover embossed to resemble the lunar surface, after the first crewed Moon landing. He designed sets for Walter Cronkite's CBS Evening News and for the CBS Morning News.

In Eero Saarinen's CBS Building on 52nd Street and Sixth Avenue, Dorfsman was responsible for all of the building's graphics, designating the type, design and spacing for wall clocks, elevator buttons, and elevator inspection stickers. He designed a ,  design called Gastrotypographicalassemblage for the building's cafeteria that listed all of the foods offered to patrons in hand-milled wood type. Dorfsman considered this work to be "his magnum opus, his gift to the world". The work has now been installed in a building on the Hyde Park campus of the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, New York.

Dorfman retired from CBS in November 1987 to establish his own studio. The responsibilities for advertising, which had previously been handled in-house under Dorfsman's supervision, were transferred to Backer, Spielvogel, Bates.

Dorfsman died at age 90 on October 22, 2008, in Roslyn, New York of congestive heart failure.

Honors and recognition
In 1978, Dorfsman was recognized as a medalist by the AIGA, "awarded to individuals in recognition of their exceptional achievements, services or other contributions to the field of design and visual communication". He was awarded the TDC Medal by the Type Directors Club in 1995.

The 1988 book Dorfsman & CBS by Dick Hess and Marion Muller covered his more than 40 years with the network.

References

1918 births
2008 deaths
American graphic designers
AIGA medalists
CBS people
People from the Lower East Side
People from the Bronx
Cooper Union alumni
American people of Polish-Jewish descent
United States Army personnel of World War II


Back from the Dead may refer to:

Back from the Dead (Adler album), 2012
Back from the Dead (film), a 1957 feature film with Arthur Franz and Marsha Hunt
Back from the Dead (Halestorm album), 2022
Back from the Dead (Obituary album), 1997
Back from the Dead (Spinal Tap album), 2009
Back from the Dead (Zombie Girl EP), 2006
Back from the Dead (Last Dinosaurs EP), 2010
"Back from the Dead" (Kid Rock song)
Back from the Dead (mixtape), Chief Keef mixtape

See also
Resurrection, refers to the literal coming back to life of the biologically dead


The Curtatone class were a group of destroyers built for the Royal Italian Navy.

They were the first destroyers to be built in Italy after the end of World War I, and were the first ships of this type to use twin rather than single mountings.

The ships were originally ordered at the same time as the Palestro-class destroyers, but were postponed due to steel shortages. The opportunity was taken to modify the design to incorporate experience and lengthen the ships by .

The ships were later modernized for escort duties with the twin guns being replaced by singles and the triple  torpedo tubes replaced by twin  torpedo tubes. Extra light anti-aircraft guns were also fitted and the /40 caliber guns removed.

Ships

All four ships were built by Orlando yard in Livorno.

References

Bibliography

External links
 Curtatone Marina Militare website

Destroyer classes
Destroyers of the Regia Marina


Sir Herbert James Huntington-Whiteley, 1st Baronet (8 December 1857 – 22 January 1936) was a British Conservative politician.

He was born as Herbert James Whiteley, and was the younger son of George Whiteley of Blackburn, Lancashire. His elder brother, George, was a prominent Conservative, later Liberal politician, and was later created Baron Marchamley. Herbert, however, remained a Conservative in politics. He became a member of Blackburn town council, and in 1892 was mayor of the borough.

In 1895 he married Florence Kate Huntington, eldest daughter of William Balle Huntington of Darwen, Lancashire. They had two sons.

In 1895 he was elected as Member of Parliament for Ashton-under-Lyne, and held the seat for eleven years until defeated in the  Liberal landslide election in 1906.

Whiteley moved to Thorngrove, near Worcester, and in 1913 was High Sheriff of the county. In 1916 he returned to The Commons at by-election for Droitwich.

In March 1918 Whiteley was granted a royal licence allowing him to add the surname and coat of arms of his late father in law to his own. In the same month he was created a baronet, "of Grimley in the County of Worcester". The Droitwich constituency was abolished by the Representation of the People Act 1918, and Huntington Whiteley retired from parliament.

He died at his Worcestershire home in January 1936, aged 78.

He is the great-great grandfather of model Rosie Huntington-Whiteley. His grandson, Herbert Oliver ("Peter") Huntington-Whiteley, was a Captain in Ian Fleming's famed 30 Assault Unit during World War II. The latter's maternal grandfather was Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, whose mother Louisa (née Macdonald) was aunt of the poet Rudyard Kipling and sister-in-law of painters Sir Edward Burne-Jones and Sir Edward Poynter.

References

 Obituary: Sir H. J. Huntington Whiteley, The Times, 23 January 1936, p. 12

External links

1857 births
1936 deaths
Baronets in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom
Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies
UK MPs 1895–1900
UK MPs 1900–1906
UK MPs 1910–1918
Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Droitwich
Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Ashton-under-Lyne
Herbert
High Sheriffs of Worcestershire


The  is a cantaloupe cultivar farmed in greenhouses in Yūbari, Hokkaido, a small city close to Sapporo.

The Yubari King is a hybrid of two other cantaloupe cultivars: Earl's Favourite and Burpee's "Spicy" Cantaloupe. The hybrid's scientific name is Cucumis melo L. var. reticulatus Naud. cv. Yubari King.

A top-grade melon is to be perfectly round and have an exceptionally smooth rind. A portion of the stem, which is snipped with scissors, is left on top for aesthetic appeal. Some Japanese people present Yubari King melons as gifts during .

At a Japanese auction in 2008, two Yubari King melons sold together for ¥2.5million. In 2016, Konishi Seika, a fruit and vegetable market in Amagasaki, bought a pair of Yubari King melons at auction with a winning bid of ¥3million. In 2019 Tokyo-based Pokka Sapporo Food & Beverage Ltd bought a pair of Yubari melons at auction for the highest recorded price of ¥5million.

References

Further reading

Melons
Yūbari, Hokkaido
Japanese fruit


The Orée-du-Parc District (District 9) is a municipal district in the city of Gatineau, Quebec. It is currently served on Gatineau City Council by Isabelle N. Miron of Action Gatineau.

The district is located in the Hull sector of the city. The district includes the northern part of Hull, including the neighbourhoods of Mont-Blue, Ironside and part of Parc de la Montagne. The name of the district translates to "the edge of the park", referring to Gatineau Park which it is adjacent.

Councillors
Louise Poirier (2001–2006)
Claude Millette (2006–2009)
Mireille Apollon, (2009-2017), Action Gatineau (from 2013)
Isabelle N. Miron, Action Gatineau (2017–present)

Election results

2001

2005

2008 by-election
An election was held on October 26 to fill the seat vacated by Ms. Poirier.

2009

2013

2017

2021

References

Districts of Gatineau


The Fontas River, originally Fantasque's River, after the name of a chief of the Sekani people, is a river in northeastern British Columbia, Canada, having its origin in northwestern Alberta, Canada.  It joins the Sikanni Chief River southeast of the town of Fort Nelson, British Columbia, forming the Fort Nelson River.

"Fontas River...drains a large extent of country, roughly 3600 square miles. Its water, mainly derived from surface water and swamps, is dark in colour, and at its mouth forms a deep contrast to the white silty water of the Sikanni Chief.... The Fort Nelson River is formed by the junction of the Sikanni Chief and Fontas Rivers, at which point it is from 400 to 500 feet wide...." (extracts from the report of G.B. Milligan, surveyor, 14 December 1914)

See also
List of rivers of Alberta
List of rivers of British Columbia

References

Northern Interior of British Columbia
Rivers of British Columbia
Rivers of Alberta


Livonia High School may refer to:

Livonia High School (Louisiana) in Livonia, Louisiana
Livonia High School (Michigan) in Livonia, Michigan
Livonia High School (New York) in Livonia, New York


Heinz Starke (27 February 1911 – 31 January 2001) was a German politician. He was born in Schweidnitz, Silesia. He was Minister of Finance of the Federal Republic of Germany from 1961–62. He was a member of the Bundestag from 1953 to 1980 representing the district of Hof from 1953 to 1957 and Bayreuth from 1976 to 1980.

References
 Heinz Starke

1911 births
2001 deaths
Finance ministers of Germany
People from Świdnica
Politicians from the Province of Silesia
Commanders Crosses of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
Nazi Party members


Pantosaurus ("all lizard") is an extinct genus of plesiosaur from the Late Jurassic (Oxfordian) of what is now Wyoming. It lived in what used to be the Sundance Sea. It was originally named Parasaurus ("near lizard") by Othniel Charles Marsh in reference to Plesiosaurus, but that name was preoccupied, and Marsh changed it. The species Muraenosaurus reedii is in fact a junior synonym of Pantosaurus. The holotype YPM 543 is a partial articulated skeleton, partially prepared to yield a distal humerus, four articulated carpals, a fragment of the coracoid, and several isolated cervical vertebrae from the Upper Member of the Sundance Formation. Other material includes USNM 536963, USNM 536965, UW 3, UW 5544 and UW 15938.

Description
Pantosaurus possesses between 35 and 40 cervical vertebrae, which are very similar in proportion and morphology to those of Muraenosaurus leedsii from the Oxford Clay Formation (Callovian, Middle Jurassic) of England. The forelimb of Pantosaurus however can be differentiated from that of Muraenosaurus, such as the relatively large size of the radius and the corresponding humerus-radius articulation. No Pantosaurus cranial material has yet been discovered.

Palaeobiology
The discovery of an partially digested embryonic ichthyosaur (probably Baptanodon) inside of a fossil referable to Pantosaurus striatus was the first evidence of the consumption of ichthyosaurs by plesiosaurs.

See also

 List of plesiosaur genera
 Timeline of plesiosaur research

References

Cryptoclidids
Sauropterygian genera
Late Jurassic plesiosaurs
Late Jurassic reptiles of North America
Jurassic plesiosaurs of North America
Fossil taxa described in 1893
Taxa named by Othniel Charles Marsh


Franco Squillari was the defending champion.

Squillari successfully defended his title, defeating Tommy Haas 6–4, 6–4 in the final.

Seeds

  Thomas Enqvist (semifinals)
  Younes El Aynaoui (quarterfinals)
  Tommy Haas (final)
  Mariano Zabaleta (first round)
  Andrei Medvedev (first round)
  Fernando Meligeni (quarterfinals)
  Franco Squillari (champion)
  Slava Doseděl (second round)

Draw

Finals

Top half

Bottom half

External links
 2000 BMW Open Singles draw

Singles


The 1971–72 New York Knicks season was the 26th season for the team in the National Basketball Association (NBA). The Knicks compiled a 48–34 record in the regular season to finish second in the Atlantic Division and earn a berth in the NBA Playoffs for the sixth consecutive year. New York had acquired Earl Monroe in a trade with the Baltimore Bullets in November 1971.

In the first round of the playoffs, New York faced the Baltimore Bullets, who had defeated the Knicks in the Eastern Conference Finals the previous year. The Knicks won the series in six games and advanced to the conference finals, where they faced the Boston Celtics. With a 4–1 series victory, New York made the NBA Finals for the second time in three seasons. In the Finals, the Knicks were opposed by the Los Angeles Lakers, whom they had beaten in the 1970 NBA Finals. After winning Game 1 of the Finals 114–92 in Los Angeles, the Knicks lost the next four games and the series. Willis Reed only played 11 games in the regular season and missed the entirety of the playoffs with a knee injury.

Draft picks

Roster

Regular season

Season standings

z – clinched division title
y – clinched division title
x – clinched playoff spot

Record vs. opponents

Game log

Playoffs

|- align="center" bgcolor="#ffcccc"
| 1
| March 31
| @ Baltimore
| L 105–108 (OT)
| Walt Frazier (31)
| Jerry Lucas (14)
| Walt Frazier (6)
| Baltimore Civic Center12,289
| 0–1
|- align="center" bgcolor="#ccffcc"
| 2
| April 2
| Baltimore
| W 110–88
| Walt Frazier (30)
| Dave DeBusschere (14)
| Walt Frazier (9)
| Madison Square Garden19,588
| 1–1
|- align="center" bgcolor="#ffcccc"
| 3
| April 4
| @ Baltimore
| L 103–104
| Earl Monroe (28)
| Jerry Lucas (12)
| Bill Bradley (5)
| Baltimore Civic Center12,289
| 1–2
|- align="center" bgcolor="#ccffcc"
| 4
| April 6
| Baltimore
| W 104–98
| Bill Bradley (25)
| Dave DeBusschere (13)
| Walt Frazier (8)
| Madison Square Garden19,588
| 2–2
|- align="center" bgcolor="#ccffcc"
| 5
| April 9
| @ Baltimore
| W 106–82
| Lucas, Monroe (20)
| Jerry Lucas (16)
| Jerry Lucas (6)
| Baltimore Civic Center10,244
| 3–2
|- align="center" bgcolor="#ccffcc"
| 6
| April 11
| Baltimore
| W 107–101
| Lucas, Frazier (22)
| Jerry Lucas (12)
| Frazier, Monroe (5)
| Madison Square Garden19,588
| 4–2
|-

|- align="center" bgcolor="#ccffcc"
| 1
| April 13
| @ Boston
| W 116–94
| Walt Frazier (36)
| Jerry Lucas (11)
| Jerry Lucas (8)
| Boston Garden14,292
| 1–0
|- align="center" bgcolor="#ccffcc"
| 2
| April 16
| Boston
| W 106–105
| Dave DeBusschere (24)
| Dave DeBusschere (17)
| three players tied (4)
| Madison Square Garden19,588
| 2–0
|- align="center" bgcolor="#ffcccc"
| 3
| April 19
| @ Boston
| L 109–115
| Bill Bradley (29)
| Dave DeBusschere (12)
| Dave DeBusschere (6)
| Boston Garden15,315
| 2–1
|- align="center" bgcolor="#ccffcc"
| 4
| April 21
| Boston
| W 116–98
| Earl Monroe (26)
| Dave DeBusschere (16)
| Jerry Lucas (7)
| Madison Square Garden19,588
| 3–1
|- align="center" bgcolor="#ccffcc"
| 5
| April 23
| @ Boston
| W 111–103
| Dave DeBusschere (24)
| Frazier, DeBusschere (11)
| Walt Frazier (7)
| Boston Garden15,315
| 4–1
|-

|- align="center" bgcolor="#ccffcc"
| 1
| April 26
| @ Los Angeles
| W 114–92
| Bill Bradley (29)
| Dave DeBusschere (18)
| Walt Frazier (11)
| The Forum17,505
| 1–0
|- align="center" bgcolor="#ffcccc"
| 2
| April 30
| @ Los Angeles
| L 92–106
| Walt Frazier (21)
| Lucas, Jackson (11)
| Walt Frazier (7)
| The Forum17,505
| 1–1
|- align="center" bgcolor="#ffcccc"
| 3
| May 3
| Los Angeles
| L 96–107
| Walt Frazier (25)
| Jerry Lucas (14)
| Jerry Lucas (6)
| Madison Square Garden19,588
| 1–2
|- align="center" bgcolor="#ffcccc"
| 4
| May 5
| Los Angeles
| L 111–116 (OT)
| Bill Bradley (26)
| Dave DeBusschere (13)
| Jerry Lucas (11)
| Madison Square Garden19,588
| 1–3
|- align="center" bgcolor="#ffcccc"
| 5
| May 7
| @ Los Angeles
| L 100–114
| Walt Frazier (31)
| Dave DeBusschere (14)
| Walt Frazier (10)
| The Forum17,505
| 1–4
|-

Awards and records
Walt Frazier, All-NBA First Team
Walt Frazier, NBA All-Defensive First Team
Dave DeBusschere, NBA All-Defensive First Team

References

Bibliography

External links
 Knicks on Basketball Reference
 1972 NBA Playoff Summary

New York
New York Knicks seasons
Eastern Conference (NBA) championship seasons
New York Knicks
New York Knicks
1970s in Manhattan
Madison Square Garden


The Convention of the Left (CL) is an annual conference of British left, socialist, progressive and green parties and organisations, first held in Manchester in September 2008.  The format of the conference was that it 'shadowed' the Labour Party's 2008 Annual Conference, also being held in the city.  A 'recall' event was held in the city in January 2009.

Aims and values
The 'Statement of Intent' for the Convention was that it aimed to "explicitly challenge Labour's programme of warmongering, neoliberal privatisation and failure to tackle environmental destruction." The statement was signed by:

Tony Benn
Alice Mahon
Ken Loach
John McDonnell MP (Labour Representation Committee)
Robert Griffiths (General Secretary, Communist Party of Britain)
John Haylett (Editor, Morning Star)
Liz Davies
Derek Wall (former Principal Male Speaker, Green Party of England and Wales)
George Galloway (Respect politician)
Salma Yaqoob
Prof. Gregor Gall (Labour movement academic)
Chris Bambery (former editor, Socialist Worker)
Lindsey German (Counterfire)

Membership
While the CL had managed to attract the support of both Respect Renewal and the Socialist Workers' Party (at that point engaged in a protracted dispute over the demerger of the Respect – The Unity Coalition), the Communist Party of Great Britain (PCC) dismissed the event as a "talking shop" (it supporting the Campaign for a Marxist Party against "broad fronts" and for deeper discussion on differences on the Left),  however the CPGB (PCC) and its autonomous student group Communist Students signed up as supporters of the convention.  The Socialist Party did not sponsor the event as it has its own Campaign for a New Workers' Party and invited the organisers to join their campaign.

The full list of supporting party organisations is as follows:

Alliance for Green Socialism
Alliance for Workers' Liberty
A World to Win
Campaign for a New Workers' Party
Communist Students
Communist Party of Britain
Communist Party of Great Britain
European Left Party Network
Green Left
Labour Representation Committee
Left Alternative
Permanent Revolution
Respect – The Unity Coalition
Scottish Socialist Party
Socialist Alliance
Socialist Resistance
Socialist Workers' Party
Solidarity
Workers Power

It was also supported by Morning Star, Red Pepper, Labour Briefing and Socialist Worker.

References

External links
Official site
Official blog
commentisfree Guardian article

Socialism in the United Kingdom


Hutysche (, , also known as Huta Oleska or Huta Olejska) is a village in Zolochiv Raion, Lviv Oblast, Ukraine. It belongs to Zolochiv urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. Hutysche is located on the road to Zolochiv. In 2001, it had 114 residents.

Before the Nazi German and Soviet invasions of Poland, it was located in Second Polish Republic. The village was a site of massacres of Poles in Volhynia by the Ukrainian OUN-UPA between 1942 and 1945. In October 1944 and in December 1944 Christmas Eve raids, Zygmunt Konopka and Józef Gabinski were executed there.

Polish villagers of Hucisko have been noted for harboring Jews trying to escape the Nazi German Holocaust.

References

External links
  Władysław Kubów,   Terroryzm na Podolu  Warsaw, 2003
   Naczelna Dyrekcja Archiwow Panstwowych

Villages in Zolochiv Raion, Lviv Oblast
Holocaust locations in Ukraine


Eugene Joseph McNamara (1930 in Oak Park, IL – September 17, 2016 in Windsor, Ontario) was a poet, author and teacher, and a Professor Emeritus in the Department of English at the University of Windsor in Windsor, Ontario. He founded and edited the University of Windsor Review from 1965 to 1987.

McNamara attended Northwestern University in Illinois where he received his Ph.D. in 1964. He taught American literature and Creative Writing at the University of Windsor. He received the City of Windsor Mayor's Award for Excellence in the Literary Arts in 1998.

In 2008, the Eugene McNamara Creative Writing Scholarship was established.  It is awarded annually to a 3rd or 4th year student in the Creative Writing Programme.

He has published in the genres of poetry, short stories and novels. Four of his short stories were selected for inclusion in the annual Best Canadian Stories. One of these stories appeared in Best American Short Stories in 1975.

Among his published works are:
 Salt: short stories (1975)
 Screens (1977)
 Spectral Evidence (1986), a set of short stories
 The Moving Light (1986)
 "Laura" as Novel Film and Myth (1992)
 Fox Trot (1994), a set of short stories
 Keeping in Touch: New and Selected Poems (1998)
 Falling in place (2000)
 Grace notes (2004)
 Irving's Coat: Windsor's Literary Renaissance (2006)
 Dreaming of Lost America (2012)

References

1930 births
2016 deaths
Academic staff of University of Windsor
Canadian male short story writers
20th-century Canadian short story writers
21st-century Canadian short story writers
20th-century Canadian male writers
21st-century Canadian male writers


The Ukrainian National Youth Competition () is Ukrainian organization of the Ukrainian Association of Football that conducts association football competitions among youth teams in four (4) age categories (under-14, U-15, U-16, and U-17) and originally consisted of two tiers the Supreme and the First Leagues. The Supreme Leagues consists out of four regional groups and the First have eight. In 2020 there was introduced the Elite League (top tier). The competition's oldest age group has the teenagers who are no older than 17 years old and the youngest - the teenagers no older than 14.

Along with the Professional Football League of Ukraine starting in 2016 the Youth League is also co-organizer of separate Under-19 competitions.

Composition
The league is composed of teams with players between ages under 14 through under 17. The league features teams of various association football and sports school and in addition to them each club of the Ukrainian Premier League is obligated to field four of its junior teams in the league.
 Football academies of Premier league clubs
 sports schools (Soviet children-youth sports school network, DUSSh)
 sports schools of Olympic reserve (Soviet children-youth sports schools of Olympic reserve network, SDUShOR)
 youth football clubs (Children-youth football clubs, DUFC)
 colleges of physical culture (UFK)
 colleges of Olympic reserve (UOR)

Competitions
The youth competitions started in 1998, yet the youth league was established not until 2001. In 2000 there was established a separate football competition among students of universities.

In 2002 the Professional Football League of Ukraine (PFL Ukraine) established experimental under-19 competitions among junior teams of the PFL clubs which however was discontinued four seasons later. With the PFL u-19 competitions ongoing in 2004, PFL Ukraine established separate competition among reserves (doubles) for club of the Top League (Vyshcha Liha), the precursor of the Ukrainian Premier League. The Top league teams that competed in the PFL u-19 competitions were moved to the new competitions. Introduction of the new Top League reserve competitions led to withdrawal of some reserve teams or the second teams (so called dvushki) that competed at Ukrainian Second League and in the way clearing the football "pyramid" of farm teams.

Earlier youth competition
List of best finishers for youth competitions before establishment of the actual Ukrainian Youth Football League.

Ukrainian Youth Football League (Top League)

Top League winners

Teams under-17

Notes:

Teams under-16

Notes:

Teams under-15

Notes:

Teams under-14

Notes:

References

External links
 Official webpage at the Football Federation of Ukraine website
 Official website
 Gold Talant (goldtalant.com.ua). Ukrainian football talents

Youth
Youth football in Ukraine
Ukrainian Association of Football


Lu Qi (盧杞), courtesy name Ziliang (子良), was a Chinese politician during the Tang dynasty, serving as a chancellor during the reign of Emperor Dezong.  He was characterized as treacherous and selfish in traditional histories, and traditional historians blamed him for provoking the rebellions of Zhu Ci and Li Huaiguang, which greatly weakened the Tang state.

Background and early career
It is not known when Lu Qi was born.  His grandfather Lu Huaishen was a chancellor early in the reign of Emperor Xuanzong.  His father Lu Yi (盧奕) served as an imperial official as well, and was one of the officials in charge of the eastern capital Luoyang when the general An Lushan rebelled at Fanyang in 755, toward the end of Emperor Xuanzong's reign.  An quickly advanced to Luoyang, and Lu Yi, while sending his wife and sons away, remained in Luoyang himself, seeing it as his responsibility to do so.  When Luoyang fell, Lu Yi remained faithful to the Tang cause and continued to curse the rebels even as he was under threat of execution, and he was executed.

Because how his father had died in imperial service, Lu Qi became an official early in his life.  He was said to be ugly in appearance, such that he was compared to a ghost; however, he was also said to be frugal, and he gained a good reputation and was compared to his grandfather Lu Huaishen.  While the major general Pugu Huai'en served as the military governor (Jiedushi) of Shuofang Circuit (朔方, headquartered in modern Yinchuan, Ningxia), he invited Lu to serve as a secretary for him.  He was later removed on account of illness.  Later, he successively served as the deputy minister of vassal affairs (鴻臚丞, Honglu Cheng), imperial censor (殿中侍御史, Dianzhong Shiyushi), and Shangbu Yuanwailang (膳部員外郎), a low-level official at the ministry of rites (禮部, Libu).  He later was set to serve as the prefect of Zhong Prefecture (忠州, in modern Chongqing), but when he went to visit his superior Wei Boyu (衛伯玉), the military governor of Jingnan Circuit (荊南, headquartered in modern Jingzhou, Hubei), he displeased Wei, and subsequently, he resigned under excuse of illness and returned to the capital Chang'an.  He later successively served as Xingbu Yuanwailang (刑部員外郎), a low-level official at the ministry of justice (刑部, Xingbu); Jinbu Langzhong (金部郎中), a mid-level official at the ministry of census (戶部, Hubu); and Libu Langzhong (吏部郎中, Libu Langzhong), a mid-level official at the ministry of civil service affairs (吏部, Libu).  He later served as the prefect of Guo Prefecture (虢州, in modern Sanmenxia, Henan).  Early in the Jianzhong era (780-783) of Emperor Xuanzong's great-grandson Emperor Dezong, he was recalled to Chang'an to serve as deputy chief imperial censor (御史中丞, Yushi Zhongcheng).  On one occasion, when he was meeting the senior general Guo Ziyi at Guo's mansion, Guo personally greeted him and sent his concubines and servants away — contrary to Guo's typical custom of having the concubines and servants greet the guests.  When later asked why, Guo responded, "Lu Qi is ugly and treacherous.  If I let the women see him, they would surely laugh at him.  If he later become powerful, my household would be wiped out."

As chancellor

Before Zhu Ci's rebellion
In 781, Lu Qi, who had gained Emperor Dezong's favor because of his ability to speak well, was promoted to be the governor (觀察使, Guanchashi) of Jingji Circuit (京畿, i.e., the Chang'an region).  By that point, Yang Yan, who had been the sole chancellor, had drawn secret anger from Emperor Dezong for informing regional governors that Emperor Dezong's own enmity for the senior official Liu Yan was responsible for Liu's death in 780.  Later in 781, Emperor Dezong promoted Lu to be Menxia Shilang (門下侍郎), the deputy head of the examination bureau of government (門下省, Menxia Sheng) and gave him the designation Tong Zhongshu Menxia Pingzhangshi (同中書門下平章事), making him a chancellor de facto, to divert power from Yang.  As Lu lacked literary talent, Yang looked down on him, and while it was customary for chancellors to have lunch together, Yang often found excuses to avoid meeting with Lu, drawing Lu's resentment.  As chancellor, Lu was said to be petty and using treacherous tactics against those who dared not associate with him.

Meanwhile, Emperor Dezong, who had ambitions to wipe out warlordism and reassert imperial authority throughout the realm, had put Li Xilie the military governor of Huaixi Circuit (淮西, headquartered in modern Zhumadian, Henan), in charge of a campaign against Liang Chongyi, the military governor of Shannan East Circuit (山南東道, headquartered in modern Xiangfan, Hubei), who had ruled Shannan East semi-independently from the imperial regime and had an alliance with several other regional warlords, Tian Yue (who ruled Weibo Circuit (魏博, headquartered in modern Handan, Hebei)), Li Weiyue (who ruled Chengde Circuit (成德, headquartered in modern Shijiazhuang, Hebei)), and Li Na (who ruled Pinglu Circuit (平盧, headquartered in modern Tai'an, Shandong)).  Emperor Dezong's commissioning of Li Xilie was over Yang's strenuous objection, as Yang felt that Li Xilie could not be trusted.  When Li Xilie's army was not launched for sometime due to rain, Lu secretly suggested to Emperor Dezong that it was actually because Li Xilie was resentful of Yang and that Emperor Dezong should remove Yang to placate Li Xilie.  Emperor Dezong agreed, and in fall 781, he made Yang Zuo Pushe (左僕射), one of the heads of the executive bureau, but no longer chancellor.  Subsequently, Lu falsely accused Yang of treason, and Yang was exiled and then executed.

Later in 781, Li Wei (李洧), the cousin to Li Na's father and predecessor Li Zhengji, whom Li Zhengji had made the prefect of Xu Prefecture (徐州, in modern Xuzhou, Jiangsu), contacted and offered to submit to the imperial government.  He sent his assistant Cui Cheng (崔程) to Chang'an and suggested that if he were made the governor of a new circuit containing Xu Prefecture and two other prefectures belonging to Pinglu — Hai (海州, in modern Lianyungang, Jiangsu) and Yi (沂州, in modern Linyi, Shandong) Prefectures — those prefectures would turn against Li Na and submit to the imperial government as well.  When Cui arrived at Chang'an, however, he made the mistake of first meeting Lu's chancellor colleague Zhang Yi rather than Lu.  Lu, viewing this as a snub, refused.  Subsequently, although the Li Wei still submitted, and the imperial government was able to take Xu Prefecture, they were not able to take the other two prefectures.  Meanwhile, wanting to eliminate Zhang as a competitor for power, he pretended to be willing to become the military governor of the important Fengxiang Circuit (鳳翔, headquartered in modern Baoji, Shaanxi), a key defensive position against Tufan, and then making comments that induced Emperor Dezong to make Zhang the military governor of Fengxiang instead.  It was said that early in Emperor Dezong's reign, when Cui Youfu was the main chancellor, Cui had led him to be lenient, and therefore Emperor Dezong was compared by the people to his well-regarded ancestor Emperor Taizong, but after Lu became chancellor, he led Emperor Dezong to be strict, harsh, and suspicious, causing disappointment throughout the realm.

The imperial campaigns, meanwhile, appeared to be bearing fruit, as Li Xilie defeated Liang and Liang committed suicide, bringing Shannan East into the imperial fold; Li Weiyue's subordinate Wang Wujun killed Li Weiyue and submitted to the imperial government; and both Tian and Li Na were under siege by imperial forces.  However, Emperor Dezong then angered both Wang and Zhu Tao the acting military governor of Lulong Circuit (盧龍, headquartered in modern Beijing), whose victories against Chengde forces had been instrumental in causing Wang's mutiny against Li Weiyue, by not rewarding them in accordance of what they believed they deserved.  They therefore turned against the imperial government and allied with Tian, defeating imperial forces sieging Tian at Weibo's capital Wei Prefecture.  As the campaigns continued, the imperial treasury was being drained, and Emperor Dezong, under suggestion from the imperial scholars Wei Dubin (韋都賓) and Chen Jing (陳京), issued an edict forcing merchants to make mandatory loans to the government.  On one occasion, merchants, burdened by these "loans", surrounded Lu on the streets of Chang'an and begged him to intercede on their behalf, he was scared by the display and comforted them, but once he was able to get away from the crowd did not make any actual proposals to help them.

Around this time, in addition to Zhang Yi, several officials were also said to be victims of Lu's treachery:

 Yuan Xiu (源休), who had just gone on a difficult diplomatic mission to Huige, was ostensibly promoted to be the minister of palace supplies (光祿卿, Guanglu Qing) to avoid his being promoted yet higher by Emperor Dezong.
 Yan Zhenqing, a senior official whom Lu already disliked and who then further embarrassed Lu by reminding him that Yan had publicly mourned Lu's father Lu Yi when Lu Yi's head was passed through his territory during the Anshi Rebellion, was sent on a dangerous and futile mission to persuade Li Xilie, who had begun to undertake imperial pretensions and would eventually declare himself emperor, to resubmit to Emperor Dezong; Yan was eventually executed by Li Xilie.
 Li Kui, a former chancellor who was old in age but whom Lu feared because of his senior status and abilities, was sent as an emissary to Tufan, a mission that Li Kui tried to beg off due to his old age, claiming he might not survive such a mission; Li Kui was eventually able to make the mission but died on his return journey.

During Zhu Ci's rebellion
In fall 783, soldiers from Jingyuan Circuit (涇原, headquartered in modern Pingliang, Gansu), at Chang'an to await deployment to the east, mutinied after not receiving awards that they believed they deserved.  Emperor Dezong fled to Fengtian (奉天, in modern Xianyang, Shaanxi), initially taking only his family members and a small group of eunuchs and imperial guards with him.  Lu and fellow chancellor Guan Bo, in the confusion, had to jump over the walls of the office of chancellors, located at the legislative bureau (中書省, Zhongshu Sheng), to catch up with Emperor Dezong.

Emperor Dezong issued emergency edicts seeking aid from the nearby circuits.  Meanwhile, the Jingyuan soldiers supported Zhu Tao's brother Zhu Ci, who had been removed from his command in 782 due to Zhu Tao's rebellion, as their leader.  Zhu Ci initially claimed that he was merely calming the situation at Chang'an and was ready to welcome Emperor Dezong back to Chang'an, but soon there were rumors that Zhu was planning to claim imperial title himself and attack Emperor Dezong at Fengtian.  In light of this, some officials who had fled to Fengtian suggested that Fengtian's defenses be shored up, but Lu, misjudging the situation, argued to Emperor Dezong that Zhu would surely remain faithful to Tang and advocated taking no precautions at all and stopping the incoming aid troops, although at Jiang Gongfu's advice Emperor Dezong continued to receive the aid troops into Fengtian.  At suggestion of Lu and Bai Zhizhen (白志貞) the commander of the imperial guards, Emperor Dezong sent his granduncle Wu Xu (吳漵) (Emperor Daizong's mother's brother) to Chang'an to communicate with Zhu.  Zhu initially welcomed Wu as an honored imperial emissary, but soon put Wu to death.  He declared himself emperor of a new state of Qin.

Meanwhile, the official Cui Ning arrived at Fengtian several days after Emperor Dezong did.  Emperor Dezong was pleased, but Lu heard that, on the way to Fengtian, Cui had made comments that Lu was responsible for misleading the emperor into this disaster.  Lu feared that Cui would accuse him of causing the calamity, and therefore secretly plotted with an official who had arrived at Fengitan with Cui, Wang Hong (王翃).  He had Wang make a secret report to Emperor Dezong that on the way to Fengtian, Cui had frequently stopped to defecate or urinate and appeared to be waiting for Zhu's soldiers.  Lu and Wang also forced Cui's secretary Kang Dan (康湛) into forging a letter from Cui to Zhu, offering to betray Fengtian to him.  Lu, presenting the forgery to Emperor Dezong, thus falsely accused Cui of treason.  Emperor Dezong believed Lu's accusations and executed Cui.

Zhu soon put Fengtian under siege.  A Tang aid force, commanded by the generals Du Xiquan (杜希全), Dai Xiuyan (戴休顏), Shi Changchun (時常春), and Li Jianhui (李建徽), was approaching Fengtian and requesting imperial instructions on which way to advance into the city.  Guan and the general Hun Jian suggested having the aid force march over Qianling — the hill containing the tomb of Emperor Dezong's ancestor Emperor Gaozong — so that they would have better tactical position.  Lu, arguing that doing so was disrespectful, suggested having the aid force march through a valley, despite Hun's protestations that doing so would expose the aid force to catapult attacks by Qin forces.  Emperor Dezong agreed with Lu, and subsequently, the aid force was ambushed and, after suffering heavy losses, was forced to withdraw without ever reaching Fengtian.  This incident drew a comment from the Song Dynasty/Yuan Dynasty historian Hu Sanxing (the commentator of the Zizhi Tongjian):

Soon, Fengtian was in a desperate state, but was saved when Li Huaiguang the military governor of Shuofang Circuit (朔方, headquartered in modern Yinchuan, Ningxia), who had been fighting Tian Yue in the east, arrived in haste and forced Zhu to withdraw back to Chang'an.  Meanwhile, though, it had become common knowledge that Li Huaiguang despised Lu, Bai, and Zhao Zan (趙贊) — and that he would recommend to Emperor Dezong that those officials be removed.  When Lu heard this, he believed that he had to prevent a meeting between Emperor Dezong and Li Huaiguang at all costs, and therefore suggested to Emperor Dezong order Li Huaiguang to attack Chang'an at once.  Emperor Dezong agreed, and ordered Li Huaiguang to rendezvous with Li Sheng, Li Jianhui, and Yang Huiyuan (楊惠元) to attack Chang'an.  Li Huaiguang, angry that he was not even able to meet the emperor, began to resent Emperor Dezong.  He stopped his army's movement and submitted petitions accusing Lu and the others of crimes and further accusing them of being responsible for the Jingyuan mutiny.  Li Huaiguang's accusations were joined by those from many other officials.  Around the new year 784, Emperor Dezong was forced to demote and exile Lu, Bai, and Zhao — in Lu's case, to be the military advisor to the prefect of Xin Prefecture (新洲, in modern Yunfu, Guangdong).  (Due to this incident, however, Li Huaiguang's relationship with Emperor Dezong was permanently damaged, and Li Huaiguang would rebel himself later in 784; his rebellion would not be suppressed until 785.)

After demotion
Despite his being forced to exile Lu Qi, however, Emperor Dezong continued to miss him, and thereafter, the imperial scholar Lu Zhi, whose opinions Emperor Dezong otherwise greatly respected, was said to be not promoted partly because Lu Zhi was continuing to attack Lu Qi in his advice.

In 785, after a general pardon, Lu Qi was promoted to be the secretary general of Ji Prefecture (吉州, in modern Ji'an, Jiangxi).  He made the comment, "Surely, I will soon return to the capital."  Soon thereafter, Emperor Dezong ordered the imperial attendant Yuan Gao (袁高) to draft an edict further promoting Lu to be the prefect of Rao Prefecture (饒州, in modern Shangrao, Jiangxi).  Yuan, seeing this as a sign that, despite all Lu had done, Emperor Dezong was planning to eventually recall him, and he, alarmed, approached the chancellors Lu Han and Liu Congyi and requested that they advise Emperor Dezong against the promotion.  Lu Han and Liu did not dare to, and they had another imperial attendant draft the edict instead.  When the edict was set to be issued, Yuan held it and refused to issue it; he was joined in this by his colleagues Chen Jing (陳京) and Zhao Xu (趙需), drawing great anger from Emperor Dezong — but eventually, with the chancellor Li Mian also pointing out that promoting Lu Qi would disappoint the people, Emperor Dezong relented.  Instead, Lu Qi was only made the secretary general of Li Prefecture (澧州, in modern Changde, Hunan).  He eventually died there without ever returning to Chang'an, although the year of his death was not recorded in history.  Emperor Dezong still missed Lu Qi, however, and eventually, he made Lu Qi's son Lu Yuanfu (盧元輔) an imperial official.  Lu Yuanfu was effective as an imperial official, and it was said that he was not tainted by his father's ill reputation.

Notes and references

 Old Book of Tang, vol. 135.
 New Book of Tang, vol. 223, part 2.
 Zizhi Tongjian, vols. 226, 227, 228, 229, 231.

8th-century births
8th-century deaths
Chancellors under Emperor Dezong of Tang
Lu clan of Fanyang


Pentrepiod Halt railway station may refer to the following stations in Wales:
Pentrepiod Halt railway station (Gwynedd)
Pentrepiod Halt railway station (Monmouthshire)


Daniel Benjamin "Dan" Shapiro (born August 1, 1969) is an American diplomat who served as United States Ambassador to Israel from 2011 to 2017. He was nominated by President Barack Obama on March 29, 2011, and confirmed by the Senate on May 29. He was sworn in as ambassador by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on July 8, 2011.
Previously, he was the senior director for the Middle East and North Africa on the United States National Security Council. As an Obama administration political appointee, Shapiro was ordered on January 5, 2017, to resign upon the inauguration of President Donald Trump. On August 30, 2021, President Joe Biden appointed Shapiro as a special liaison to Israel on Iran.

Biography
Dan Shapiro was born to a Jewish family in Champaign, Illinois, one of four children of novelist Elizabeth Klein Shapiro and University of Illinois English professor emeritus Michael Shapiro. He went to Westview Elementary and Edison Middle school in Champaign, and graduated from the University Laboratory High School in 1986. He first entered Washington University in St. Louis, spending his sophomore year in Israel, and then transferred to Brandeis University, where he obtained a bachelor's degree in 1991 in Near Eastern and Judaic Studies. Two years later he earned a master's degree in Middle Eastern Politics from Harvard University.

Shapiro speaks both Hebrew and Arabic.

Shapiro is married to Julie Fisher. The couple has three daughters. They are members of the Conservative Jewish Adas Israel Congregation in Washington.

Public service and diplomatic career
From 1993 to 1995, Shapiro served as a professional staff member on the House Foreign Affairs Committee under Chairman Lee H. Hamilton. From 1995 to 1999, he was a legislative assistant and senior foreign policy adviser to Senator Dianne Feinstein. From 1999 to 2001, he sat on the National Security Council under President Bill Clinton, as director of legislative affairs, and as a Congressional liaison for National Security Adviser Sandy Berger. From 2001 to 2007, he was first legislative adviser and then deputy chief of staff (primarily on foreign policy issues) for U.S. Senator Bill Nelson. From 2007 till 2008, he was vice president of the Washington, D.C., lobbying firm Timmons & Company.

Shapiro had served as an advisor to then-U.S. Sen. Barack Obama on Middle East and Jewish community issues since 2007, also assisting as strategist and fundraiser. He accompanied Obama on his July 2008 trip to Israel; in August 2008, Obama appointed him senior policy adviser and Jewish outreach coordinator for his 2008 presidential campaign.

In January 2009, Shapiro was appointed senior director for the Middle East and North Africa of the U.S. National Security Council. Focusing on Israel, he attended every Israel-related meeting, and met with every senior Israeli diplomat and military officer who visited Washington, D.C. Shapiro often accompanied U.S. Special Envoy for Middle East Peace George J. Mitchell on his trips to the region, and played a central role in talks regarding the Middle East Peace Process and the strengthening of military cooperation between the U.S. and Israel. He maintained close relations with Benyamin Netanyahu, in spite of tensions between the Israeli prime minister and President Obama. In June 2011, he was appointed Ambassador to Israel. Shapiro took leave of the President of Israel, Reuven Rivlin, on January 17, 2017 before holding his final meeting with Netanyahu two days later, which one newspaper described as a "terse farewell."

After concluding his service as ambassador to Israel, Shapiro became a Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Institute for National Security Studies at Tel Aviv University. Shapiro is currently a principal at WestExec Advisors.

References

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1969 births
20th-century American Jews
Ambassadors of the United States to Israel
American lobbyists
Brandeis University alumni
Harvard University alumni
Living people
Obama administration personnel
People from Champaign, Illinois
United States National Security Council staffers
21st-century American Jews
University Laboratory High School (Urbana, Illinois) alumni


Sibi Junction Railway Station (, Balochi: سبی جنکشن ریلوے اسٹیشن) is located in Sibi, Balochistan, Pakistan. It is staffed and has a booking office. The station served as the junction between the Rohri-Chaman Railway Line and Kandahar State Railway.

Services
The following trains stop at Sibi Junction station:

See also
 List of railway stations in Pakistan
 Pakistan Railways
 Quetta Railway Station
 Rawalpindi Railway Station
 Larkana Railway Station

References

External links

Railway stations in Sibi District
Railway stations on Rohri–Chaman Railway Line
Railway stations on Kandahar State Railway Line


Wired is a 2008 three-part television miniseries starring Jodie Whittaker, Laurence Fox and Toby Stephens. It debuted on ITV at 9:00pm on Monday, 13 October 2008, and was shown over three consecutive weeks. The complete series was released on DVD on 10 November 2008.

Plot
Single mother and bank employee Louise Evans (Jodie Whittaker) finds herself blackmailed by a former bank employee with documents reveal that she and a former partner stole £3,000 from a former employer. The boyfriend of her best friend, Philip Manningham (Laurence Fox), plans to defraud £250m from ZBG Banking, the company from which he was sacked, and after he threatens Louise she agrees to help him pull off an Internet scam. Meanwhile, Detective Crawford Hill (Toby Stephens) is working undercover in an attempt to expose the fraud ring and after a chance meeting with Louise, he realises she is involved and is key to him cracking the case. However, their relationship soon threatens to compromise everything and places Louise in mortal danger.

Cast
 Jodie Whittaker as Louise Evans
 Laurence Fox as Philip Manningham
 Toby Stephens as DI Crawford Hill
 Riz Ahmed as Manesh Kunzru
 Charlie Brooks as Anna Hansen
 Sacha Dhawan as Ben Chandrakar
 Ramon Tikaram as Yusuf Ralindi
 Iain McKee as Nick Benson
 Katy Cavanagh as DS Polly Stuart
 Helena Fox as Erica Wilson

Episodes

References

External links

2008 British television series debuts
2008 British television series endings
2000s British drama television series
2000s British television miniseries
English-language television shows
ITV television dramas
Television series by ITV Studios
Television shows produced by Granada Television
Television shows set in Liverpool
Television shows set in Manchester


Sporting Kansas City II is a MLS Next Pro club affiliated with Sporting Kansas City of Major League Soccer. For the 2022 season they will play their home games at Rock Chalk Park at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kansas, as well as Swope Soccer Village in Kansas City, Missouri. They were formerly known as the Swope Park Rangers. The club is headquartered alongside Sporting Kansas City at Children's Mercy Park in Kansas City, Kansas.

History
On October 22, 2015, the team was officially announced as the USL's 30th franchise, as were the Swope Park Rangers name, color scheme and logo. The Rangers replaced Oklahoma City Energy FC as SKC's USL affiliate, and was named after a nickname for SKC reserve squad in 2008. The team is Sporting Kansas City's third USL affiliate in the team's history, after previously having partnered with Orlando City SC and Oklahoma City Energy FC. Canadian Marc Dos Santos, who led Ottawa Fury FC to the NASL Soccer Bowl in 2015, was named the first head coach of the Rangers on November 20, 2015.

The Rangers finished their inaugural season in 2016 with a 14–10–6 record and finished fourth in the Western Conference. The side advanced to the 2016 USL Cup Final, becoming just the second team in USL history to do so in its inaugural season. The Rangers beat LA Galaxy II, Orange County SC and Vancouver Whitecaps FC 2 en route to the final where the side eventually fell 5–1 to New York Red Bulls II at Red Bull Arena. Goalkeeper Adrian Zendejas and winger Tyler Pasher were each signed by parent club Sporting Kansas City at the end of the season.

Following the conclusion of the 2016 season, Marc Dos Santos departed to take over at newly founded NASL club the San Francisco Deltas. His assistant for the 2016 campaign, Nikola Popovic, took the reins ahead of the 2017 season. The side continued to have success as Popovic led the team to a 17–8–7 record in the West and another fourth-place finish. Sporting KC also signed four more players from SPR during 2017 in Amer Didic, James Musa, Kharlton Belmar and Kevin Oliveira. Popovic resigned as head coach on November 17, 2017, after leading Swope Park to their second consecutive conference championship.

On September 30, 2019, the club announced that it would re-brand as Sporting Kansas City II ahead of the 2020 USL Championship season.

MLS Next Pro
The club announced on December 6, 2021, that it was joining the inaugural 21-team MLS Next Pro season starting in 2022. Former Sporting Kansas City player Benny Feilhaber was named the team's head coach for the 2022 season.

Location
The team is headquartered out of Children's Mercy Park in Kansas City, Kansas. For the 2022 season they will split matches between Rock Chalk Park at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kansas, as well as return to Swope Soccer Village in Kansas City, Missouri.

When the team was known as Swope Park Rangers they played at Swope Soccer Village in Kansas City, Missouri as permanent home venue for the 2016 and 2017 USL seasons, although occasional matches were played at Children's Mercy Park during those first two seasons. For the 2018 season, the Rangers moved to Shawnee Mission District Stadium in Overland Park, Kansas for home USL matches. The move to Shawnee Mission South District Stadium was in response to new USL stadium standards, requiring seating for at least 5,000 fans, that were not met by Swope Soccer Village. The 7,500-seat Shawnee Mission South District Stadium had received $6 million in improvements between fall 2016 and spring 2017. After just two home matches into the season, the Rangers announced that all home matches would be moved to Children's Mercy Park for the remainder of the 2018 USL season. The move came just days after allegations were reported that there had been issues with the quality of the artificial-turf field at Shawnee Mission South.

Players and staff

Roster

Technical staff
  Benny Feilhaber - head coach
  Ike Opara – assistant coach
  Wan Kuzac Wan Kamal — assistant team administrator

Year-by-year

1. Top Scorer includes statistics from league matches only.

Head coaches
 Includes USL regular season, USL playoffs

Average attendance

Honors
 USL Cup
Runners-up (2): 2016, 2017
Western Conference
Winners (Playoffs): 2016, 2017

References

External links

 Sporting Kansas City II at USL Championship

Association football clubs established in 2015
Soccer clubs in Kansas City, Missouri
Former USL Championship teams
Sporting Kansas City
2015 establishments in Missouri
Reserve soccer teams in the United States
Sports clubs and teams in the Kansas City metropolitan area
MLS Next Pro teams


Ewa Brodzka is a Polish film maker, production manager, assistant director, second unit director, television director, and casting director. She has worked on many Polish feature films and television series. Notable is her working relationship as first assistant director and production manager with Academy Award winning director  Andrzej Wajda.
She has worked on many international productions made in Poland including Roman Polanski's The Pianist and Steven Spielberg's Schindler's List.

She is married to film director Marek Brodzki.

Selected filmography

Feature films:

 2009 Tatarak - with director Andrzej Wajda - Production Manager, Casting Director
 2007 Katyń - Academy Award nominated film with director Andrzej Wajda - Second Unit Director, Casting Director
 2007 Jutro Idziemy Do Kina - award-winning film with director Michał Kwieciński - Second Unit Director, Casting Director
 2006 Strike (Strajk) - with director Volker Schlöndorff - Casting Director
 2003 The Revenge (Zemsta) - with director Andrzej Wajda - Asst. Director
 2002 The Pianist - with director Roman Polanski - Second Asst. Director
 2001 Wiedźmin (The Hexer) - Casting Director
 1999 Pan Tadeusz - with director Andrzej Wajda - Second Unit Director
 1988 And the Violins Stopped Playing - with director Alexander Ramati - Production Organizer

Television:

 2008 Teraz Albo Nigdy - series - Casting Director, Second Unit Director
 2008 Czas Honoru - series - Casting Director, Second Unit Director
 2007 Twarzą w Twarz - series - Casting Director, Second Unit Director
 2005-2007 Magda M. - series - Casting Director
 2002 Wiedźmin (The Hexer) - series - Casting Director

External links
Ewa Brodzka at the Filmpolski Database

1959 births
Living people
Polish women film directors
Casting directors
Women casting directors


The Kasatka class was a class of submarines built for the Imperial Russian Navy. The six boats were built between 1904 and 1905. They were designed by I. G. Bubnov and were based on the . The first boat, , experienced significant problems with stability on trials and had to have extra flotation added. In 1905, four of the class were transferred from Western Russia to Vladivostok with the outbreak of the Russo-Japanese War. Initially powered by a kerosene/electrical system, the boats were re-built around 1910 with a diesel-electric power plant following the end of the war. The class remained in service throughout World War I. Two were captured by the German Empire in 1918 and handed over to the British following the German surrender. They were scuttled by the British in 1919 to prevent their capture by the Soviets. The remaining four were broken up for scrap in 1922.

Design and description
I. G. Bubnov was tasked with producing a submarine design following experience with the , which had been deemed a success. The design was accepted by the Naval Technical Committee on 20 December 1903. As designed the class had a surfaced displacement of  and displaced  when submerged. They were  long with a beam of  with a draught of . The submarines were propelled by one shaft powered by a kerosene engine for travel on the surface rated at  and an electric motor rated at . The Kasatka class had a maximum speed of  on the surface and  submerged. Initially the design called for a three-shaft propulsion system, but due to the increased hostilities with the Empire of Japan, the submarines were completed with only the one shaft-design. They had a range of  at  surfaced and  at  submerged. The class was armed with four torpedoes carried externally in Drzewiecki drop collars and one machine gun. Vessels of the class had a complement of 24.

Modifications
In 1906–1907, new conning towers were installed aboard the submarines to rectify buoyancy issues. In 1910, the Kasatka class were rebuilt with new power plants. They received a diesel-electric system which included a diesel engine rated at . The displacement of the submarines increased to  surfaced and  submerged. Two of the class, Nalim and Skat, were given a  gun in 1915.

Ships

Service history
The first submarine of the class, Kasatka was ordered in the 1903 building programme on 2 January 1904, with the rest ordered as part of the 1904 Emergency Programme, with the next four ordered on 24 February 1904 and Feldmarshal General Sheremetev on 26 March 1904. Feldmarshal General Sheremetev was paid for by public subscription with the Sheremetev family as major donors. Due to the outbreak of the Russo-Japanese War, construction was accelerated on the submarines and only Kasatka ran sea trials. During trials, Kasatka had trouble during operation of the ballast tanks, steering gear and water entered the submarine through the main hatch when submerged. The latter problem was rectified by the addition of two floats attached to the aft casing first on Kasatka and then on the others. Kasatka was then transferred to Vladivostok by rail, followed by the rest between September and December 1904 with the exception of Makrel and Okun. Makrel and Okun remained in the west and were used as evaluation boats for the design. Kasatka and Skat became operational in March 1905, followed by Feldmarshal General Sheremetev and Nalim in May 1905. Completion of Makrel and Okun took until 1907. At Vladivostok, the submarines were used as a deterrent against Japanese warships. They operated out to  from the coast and remained as visible as possible, remaining at sea for up to five days, though some patrols lasted two weeks. Upon completion Makrel and Okun were assigned to the 1st Division of the Baltic Fleet.

During World War I, Nalim and Skat were transferred to the Black Sea in 1915 and joined the Black Sea Fleet. That same year, Feldmarshal General Sheremetev and Kasatka were transferred to the Baltic Sea and joined the Baltic Fleet. In June 1915, Okun and Makrel were among the submarines deployed off the Kurland coast. Okun engaged the German cruiser , but missed. However, the submarine threat led the German command to withdraw their ships from around Windau. In August, the two submarines were ordered to the Gulf of Riga as part of the Russian attempt to defend against the German High Seas Fleet's movements in the area. Following the arrival of British submarine reinforcements, the smaller Russian submarines were deployed on coastal defence missions in the Baltic. After the entry of the Romania into the war on the side of the Allies in 1916, Nalim and Skat were based at Batumi but remained relatively inactive. Kasatka and Feldmarshal General Sheremetev transferred to Arkhangelsk in 1915 and 1916 respectively, arriving via inland waterways. In 1917, the two submarines were sent back to the Baltic for overhaul.

In March 1917, Nalim and Skat were removed from service. In August 1917, Feldmarshal General Sheremetev was renamed Keta. In 1918, Kasatka, Makrel and Okun were transferred to the Caspian Sea. In April 1918, Nalim and Skat were re-activated and used against the Soviets. After the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk was signed ending the Russian participation in World War I, they briefly flew the flag of the Ukrainian State before the Germans seized Nalim and Skat. In November 1918, following the Armistice of 11 November 1918 which ended World War I, the British took over the submarines after the German Empire surrendered. The two subs were later scuttled by the British at Sevastopol to prevent their capture by the Soviets during the Russian Civil War. The surviving boats were broken up for scrap in 1922.

Notes

Citations

References

Submarine classes
Submarines of the Imperial Russian Navy


The 1952–53 New York Knicks season was the seventh season for the team in the National Basketball Association (NBA). With a 47–23 record, the Knicks won the regular season Eastern Division title by a half-game over the Syracuse Nationals and made the NBA Playoffs for the seventh consecutive year.

In the first round of the 1953 NBA Playoffs, the Knicks swept the Baltimore Bullets 2–0 in a best-of-three series to advance to the Eastern Division finals. There, New York defeated the Boston Celtics 3–1 to make the NBA Finals for the third straight year. In the Finals, the Knicks lost to the Minneapolis Lakers, four games to one. The club would wait another 17 years to make an NBA championship final, winning it in 1970.

NBA draft

Note: This is not an extensive list; it only covers the first and second rounds, and any other players picked by the franchise that played at least one game in the league.

Regular season

Season standings

x – clinched playoff spot

Record vs. opponents

Game log

Playoffs

|- align="center" bgcolor="#ccffcc"
| 1
| March 17
| Baltimore
| W 80–62
| Connie Simmons (25)
| Madison Square Garden III
| 1–0
|- align="center" bgcolor="#ccffcc"
| 2
| March 20
| @ Baltimore
| W 90–81
| Vince Boryla (20)
| Baltimore Coliseum
| 2–0
|-

|- align="center" bgcolor="#ccffcc"
| 1
| March 25
| Boston
| W 95–91
| Connie Simmons (18)
| Dick McGuire (8)
| Madison Square Garden III
| 1–0
|- align="center" bgcolor="#ffcccc"
| 2
| March 26
| @ Boston
| L 70–86
| Harry Gallatin (17)
| Carl Braun (7)
| Boston Garden
| 1–1
|- align="center" bgcolor="#ccffcc"
| 3
| March 28
| Boston
| W 101–82
| Harry Gallatin (23)
| Dick McGuire (11)
| Madison Square Garden III
| 2–1
|- align="center" bgcolor="#ccffcc"
| 4
| March 29
| @ Boston
| W 82–75
| Carl Braun (18)
| Nat Clifton (9)
| Boston Garden
| 3–1
|-

|- align="center" bgcolor="#ccffcc"
| 1
| April 4
| @ Minneapolis
| W 96–88
| Carl Braun (21)
| —
| Minneapolis Auditorium5,000
| 1–0
|- align="center" bgcolor="#ffcccc"
| 2
| April 5
| @ Minneapolis
| L 71–73
| Connie Simmons (17)
| —
| Minneapolis Auditorium4,848
| 1–1
|- align="center" bgcolor="#ffcccc"
| 3
| April 7
| Minneapolis
| L 75–90
| Connie Simmons (18)
| —
| 69th Regiment Armory5,100
| 1–2
|- align="center" bgcolor="#ffcccc"
| 4
| April 8
| Minneapolis
| L 69–71
| Connie Simmons (17)
| —
| 69th Regiment Armory5,200
| 1–3
|- align="center" bgcolor="#ffcccc"
| 5
| April 10
| Minneapolis
| L 84–91
| Carl Braun (19)
| Ernie Vandeweghe (4)
| 69th Regiment Armory5,200
| 1–4
|-

Player statistics

Season

Playoffs

Awards and records

Transactions

See also
1952–53 NBA season

References

External links
1952–53 New York Knickerbockers Statistics
1953 NBA Playoff Summary

New York Knicks
New York Knicks season
New York Knicks
New York Knicks seasons
1950s in Manhattan
Madison Square Garden


Koza may refer to:

Places
 Koza, Opole Voivodeship, a village in south-west Poland
 Koza, Wakayama, a Japanese town, merged in 2005 into Kushimoto
 Kōza District, Kanagawa, a Japanese district in Kanagawa Province
 Koza, Okinawa, a city in Okinawa, Japan
 Koza Station, railway station in Kushimoto, Higashimuro District, Wakayama Prefecture, Japan.
 Koza, Cameroon, a commune in Cameroon
 Koza Han, historic caravanserai (han) in Bursa, Turkey

Surname
 Casimir Koza (1935 – 2010), French footballer
Dave Koza (born 1954), American baseball player
 John Koza, 20th-century computer scientist and genetic programming pioneer
Luxolo Koza (born 1994), South African rugby union player
Paballo Koza (born 2002),  South African actor
 (1954–2012), Czech physician, hematooncologist

Other
 Koza (bagpipe), a type of Polish bagpipe
 Koza (film), a 2015 Slovak film
 KOZA, a defunct American radio station

See also


The Kootenay Ranges, also known as the Western Ranges, are one of the three main subdivisions of the Continental Ranges which comprise the southern half of the Canadian Rockies, the other two subdivisions being the Front Ranges and the Park Ranges (which is the largest of the groupings).  The Kootenay Ranges lie between the Bull River (E) and the town of Golden, British Columbia (W) and south of Kicking Horse Pass, and are the location of the headwaters of the Kootenay River

Subranges
Beaverfoot Range
Hughes Range
Stanford Range
Vermilion Range

References

Landforms of British Columbia, S. Holland, publ. BC Govt, 1976

Mountain ranges of British Columbia
Ranges of the Canadian Rockies
East Kootenay
Columbia Valley


Gabriela Potorac (born 6 February 1973) is a Romanian former artistic gymnast. At the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, she won three medals: a team silver, a silver on vault with a score of 19.830, and a bronze on balance beam with a score of 19.837. At the 1989 World Championships, she won the bronze medal on balance beam with a score of 9.887.

After retiring from competitions Potorac studied at the Sports University in Bucharest and coached at the club Triumf. In 1993 she moved to Japan to work as a gymnastics coach and married there. She later divorced, but stayed in Japan, working as a coach and occasional Japanese-Romanian translator.

References

External links

1973 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Bacău
Romanian female artistic gymnasts
Gymnasts at the 1988 Summer Olympics
Olympic gymnasts for Romania
Olympic silver medalists for Romania
Olympic bronze medalists for Romania
Olympic medalists in gymnastics
Medalists at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships
European champions in gymnastics
Medalists at the 1988 Summer Olympics
20th-century Romanian women


The University of Kaposvár is a university in Hungary. It was established in 2000. It offers undergraduate and postgraduate education. The Health Sciences Center and the Feed Crops Research Institute in Iregszemcse are parts of the University.

Faculties
Its four faculties are:
 Faculty of Animal Science
 Faculty of Economic Sciences
 Faculty of Pedagogy
 Faculty of Arts

External links
 Official site of the University
 History of the University

Buildings and structures in Kaposvár
Universities and colleges in Hungary
Educational institutions established in 2000
Buildings and structures in Somogy County
Education in Somogy County
2000 establishments in Hungary


Llangower was a minor station opened by the GWR on the Ruabon to Barmouth line in 1929 on the southern shore of Bala Lake serving the hamlet of Llangower.

There was no signal box or freight facility, just a short platform and a waiting shelter on the south side of the line. Today, although not in its original location the station has been reopened 350m to the west (on the north side of the line) by the Bala Lake Railway and is the main intermediate point on the line and the only place where trains can pass each other. It is well sited to provide access to the lakeside for walks, picnics and bird watching.

The station has a single platform, with the passing loop located to the east of the platform. When two trains are in service, they must use the station in turn, with the second train remaining in the loop until called forward after the first train has departed. The points and signals at the station are operated from a ground frame, housed in a ground frame shelter.

In the spring of 2017 and thanks to a significant donation collected in memory of “Pip, The Railway Dog” - faithful companion to a volunteer and supporter of the railway, the station received refurbishment with a new picket fence and running in board.

Llangower is a small hamlet, with a beautiful old church, 3 miles from Bala situated on the south-eastern side of Bala lake. It is on the (original) turnpike-road leading from Dinas-Mawddwy to Bala and Corwen.

Neighbouring stations

References

Further reading

External links
 Llangower station on navigable 1946 O.S. map

Heritage railway stations in Gwynedd
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1929
Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1965
Beeching closures in Wales
Llangywer
Former Great Western Railway stations


Mukhtar Sahota is a British Punjabi music composer and producer, associated with the group Sahotas.

After the 2004 tsunami in Asia and the 2005 Kashmir earthquake, Sahota produced the charity single "We Can Make it Better". A R Rahman arranged the strings.

Sahota releases his music via his own label, Internalmusic.

Sahota has produced songs for a number of Bollywood films.

Albums produced by Mukhtar Sahota for Sahotas

Solo albums & singles produced by Mukhtar Sahota

Films

Various musical projects
 Rock in the Temple - Collaboration with Des Sherwood
 Stage 3 - Ministry of Sound 2003 Compilation Album
 Ilahi - Religious Islamic Nasheed Album 2009 for Suhail Najmi

References

External links
 Mukhtar Sahota Website

Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
British rock musicians
British composers
Bhangra (music)
English film score composers
English male film score composers
Experimental composers
Hindi film score composers
Punjabi people
20th-century English composers
20th-century Indian musicians
20th-century British male musicians


Club de Campo del Mediterráneo is a country club located in Castellón, Spain. Opened in 1978, the Ramon Espinosa designed golf course was the venue for the former European Tour event, the Castelló Masters Costa Azahar. The inaugural tournament, held in October 2008, was won by home favourite Sergio García, whose father is also the club professional.

External links
Club de Campo del Mediterráneo

Golf clubs and courses in Spain
Sports venues in the Valencian Community


The 1951–52 New York Knicks season was the sixth season for the team in the National Basketball Association (NBA). The Knicks finished third in the Eastern Division with a 37–29 record, and advanced to the NBA Playoffs for the sixth consecutive season.

In the first round of the Eastern Division playoffs, the Knicks defeated the Boston Celtics in a best-of-three series, two games to one, to move on to the Eastern Division finals. New York won 3–1 in a best-of-five series with the Syracuse Nationals to reach its second straight NBA Finals. In the Finals, the Knicks lost to the Minneapolis Lakers in seven games. The Knicks became the first NBA team to erase a 3–0 deficit in a best-of-seven series and force a deciding game 7.

NBA draft

Note: This is not an extensive list; it only covers the first and second rounds, and any other players picked by the franchise that played at least one game in the league.

Regular season

Season standings

x = clinched playoff spot

Record vs. opponents

Game log

Playoffs

|- align="center" bgcolor="#ffcccc"
| 1
| March 19
| @ Boston
| L 94–105
| Max Zaslofsky (20)
| Dick McGuire (7)
| Boston Garden
| 0–1
|- align="center" bgcolor="#ccffcc"
| 2
| March 23
| Boston
| W 101–97
| Connie Simmons (22)
| Dick McGuire (7)
| Madison Square Garden III
| 1–1
|- align="center" bgcolor="#ccffcc"
| 3
| March 26
| @ Boston
| W 88–87 (2OT)
| Max Zaslofsky (21)
| Dick McGuire (9)
| Boston Garden
| 2–1
|-

|- align="center" bgcolor="#ccffcc"
| 1
| April 2
| @ Syracuse
| W 87–85
| Max Zaslofsky (26)
| Onondaga War Memorial
| 1–0
|- align="center" bgcolor="#ffcccc"
| 2
| April 3
| @ Syracuse
| L 92–102
| Harry Gallatin (16)
| Onondaga War Memorial
| 1–1
|- align="center" bgcolor="#ccffcc"
| 3
| April 5
| Syracuse
| W 99–92
| Max Zaslofsky (20)
| Madison Square Garden III
| 2–1
|- align="center" bgcolor="#ccffcc"
| 4
| April 6
| Syracuse
| W 100–93
| Max Zaslofsky (20)
| Madison Square Garden III
| 3–1
|-

|- align="center" bgcolor="#ffcccc"
| 1
| April 12
| @ Minneapolis
| L 79–83 (OT)
| Simmons, McGuire (15)
| Nat Clifton (12)
| Dick McGuire (5)
| St. Paul Auditorium8,722
| 0–1
|- align="center" bgcolor="#ccffcc"
| 2
| April 13
| @ Minneapolis
| W 80–72
| Harry Gallatin (18)
| Harry Gallatin (11)
| Dick McGuire (5)
| St. Paul Auditorium
| 1–1
|- align="center" bgcolor="#ffcccc"
| 3
| April 16
| Minneapolis
| L 77–82
| Max Zaslofsky (17)
| Nat Clifton (10)
| Dick McGuire (10)
| 69th Regiment Armory4,500
| 1–2
|- align="center" bgcolor="#ccffcc"
| 4
| April 18
| Minneapolis
| W 90–89 (OT)
| Connie Simmons (30)
| Nat Clifton (12)
| Dick McGuire (6)
| 69th Regiment Armory5,200
| 2–2
|- align="center" bgcolor="#ffcccc"
| 5
| April 20
| @ Minneapolis
| L 89–102
| Nat Clifton (17)
| Clifton, Gallatin (8)
| six players tied (1)
| St. Paul Auditorium7,244
| 2–3
|- align="center" bgcolor="#ccffcc"
| 6
| April 23
| Minneapolis
| W 76–68
| Max Zaslofsky (23)
| Harry Gallatin (13)
| Ernie Vandeweghe (7)
| 69th Regiment Armory3,000
| 3–3
|- align="center" bgcolor="#ffcccc"
| 7
| April 25
| @ Minneapolis
| L 65–82
| Max Zaslofsky (21)
| Nat Clifton (10)
| Nat Clifton (3)
| Minneapolis Auditorium8,612
| 3–4
|-

Player statistics

Awards and records

Transactions

See also
1951–52 NBA season

References

External links
1951–52 New York Knickerbockers Statistics

New York Knicks
New York Knicks season
New York Knicks
New York Knicks seasons
1950s in Manhattan
Madison Square Garden