The Văcăroiu Cabinet was the 111th cabinet of Romania between 1992 and 1996, led by Nicolae Văcăroiu. After the 1992 general elections, when FDSN obtained 27.75% of the votes in the Chamber of Deputies, and 28.31% in the Senate, the reelected President, Ion Iliescu, nominated in November 1992 Nicolae Văcăroiu as Prime Minister of a minority cabinet formed by FDSN.

The Văcăroiu Cabinet was supported in the Romanian parliament by a legislative coalition called ”the Red Quadrilateral” between FDSN, PRM (Partidul România Mare, the Great Romania Party), PUNR (Partidul Unității Naționale a Românilor, the National Unity of Romanians Party), PDAR (Partidul Democrației Agrare din România, the Agrarian Democracy from Romania Party), and PSM (Partidul Socialist al Muncii, the Socialist Party of Labour).

Membership
Văcăroiu Cabinet was a minority cabinet formed by members of the , and

Prime Minister:
Nicolae Văcăroiu

Ministers of State
Mișu Negrițoiu/Mircea Coșea
Dan Mircea Popescu
Teodor Meleșcanu
Florin Georgescu

Ministers
Petre Ninosu/Gavril Iosif Chiuzbaian/Ion Predescu (Justice)
Florin Georgescu (Finance)
Niculae Spiroiu/Gheorghe Tinca (Defense)
Mihai Golu/Liviu Maior/Marin Sorescu/Viorel Mărgineanu/Grigore Zanc (Culture and Arts)
Ioan Oancea/Valeriu Tabără/Alexandru Lăpușan (Agriculture)
Teodor Meleșcanu (Foreign Affairs)
Marin Cristea (Public Works)
Constantin Teculescu/Cristian Ionescu/Petru Crișan/Dan Ioan Popescu (Commerce)
George Ioan Dănescu/Doru Ioan Tărăcilă (Interior)
Liviu Maior (Education)
Aurel-Constantin Ilie (Environment)
Dan Mircea Popescu (Labor)
Paul Teodoru/Aurel Novac (Transport)
Iulian Mincu/Daniela Bartoș (Health)
Andrei Chirică/Adrian Turicu/Mircea Coșea (Communication)
Dumitru Popescu/Alexandru Stănescu (Industries)
Matei-Agathon Dan (Tourism)
Doru Dumitru Palade/Valer Dorneanu/Petre Ninosu (Research and Technology)
Gheorghe Angelescu/Alexandru Mironov (Youth and Sport)

Notes

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1992 establishments in Romania
1996 disestablishments in Romania
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Deborah Szebeko (born 1980) is the founding director of the social design agency Thinkpublic.

History
After volunteering for nine months at Great Ormond Street Children’s Hospital NHS Trust in 2003, Szebeko identified opportunities to use design to improve communications and patient experiences in healthcare. To encompass her insight, Szebeko set up thinkpublic in 2004 after taking part in the NESTA Creative Pioneer Programme.

Using design to improve health and public services, Szebeko and thinkpublic have worked with organisations across the world in the health and social sectors, with experience in designing services, products, and social enterprise.

Co-design and service design
At the heart of thinkpublic and Szebeko's work is co-design, a Participatory design methodology for involving people in identifying opportunities and needs, then using creative tools to design solutions.

Working across the public, third and private sectors, Szebeko has used design and research methodologies to encourage service innovation and enterprise. Over the past 13 years, she has successfully used her service design approach to inform and develop products, enterprises and service innovations that have been rolled out internationally by the NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement, the Department of Health (UK), NESTA, Alzheimer's Society, Cabinet Office, AstraZeneca, DigitasLBi and Design Council.

Awards
In 2012, thinkpublic won Design Week Service Design Award, followed by being ranked in the top 50 Agencies of the year.

In 2008, for her dedication to social innovation, Szebeko won the British Council’s UK Young Design Entrepreneur Award and was listed in the Top 10 for ‘The Future 500’ in The Observer and New Statesman.

In 2003, Szebeko won the HEFSC Young Volunteer of the Year Award for her design work at Great Ormond St Children's Hospital NHS Trust.

Public speaking
Since setting up thinkpublic, Szebeko has presented her work at international design and health conferences including: Leading Age Services Congress (Australia 2015), Design Indaba (Cape Town 2011), The European Business Analysts Conference (London 2010), Women in Design (Poland 2011),    Designs of the Time (Cornwall 2011), Reinventing Design (Hong Kong Design Centre, 2008), Designs of the Time (Newcastle, 2007), NESTA Young Innovators (London, 2007), The European Forum on Quality Improvement in Healthcare (Prague, 2006), Doors of Perception (New Delhi, 2005) and DOORS Leaders Round Table (Amsterdam, 2004).

Publications
 Szebeko's work has featured in the following publications:
 Jefferies, E. Tan, L.  Yee, J. 2013. Design Transitions – "Inspiring Stores. Global Viewpoints.  How Design is Changing." BIS Publisher
 Meroni, A. Sangiorgi, D. 2011. Design For Services - What Design is doing and can do for services, and how this connects to existing fields of knowledge and practice. Gower Publishing
 Bates, P. Robert, G. 2007. Bringing User Experience To Health Care – “Experience Based Design" (EBD) is a new way of bringing about improvements in healthcare services by being user-focused.Radcliffe Publishing

Academic papers
Papers written by Szebeko on Co-design:

Co-designing for Society - Australasian Medical Journal 2010
Co-designing for dementia: The Alzheimer 100 project - Australasian Medical Journal 2009
Szebeko holds a BA (Hons) in Graphic Design & Advertising from Buckinghamshire University, MA in Communications from University Of The Arts London and Diploma in Organisations, Relationship and Co-active Coaching.

References

 Baker, M. (2007). Public life: Design Makes a Difference. The Telegraph.
 Hutchins, E. (2008). Inaugural Design Award Winner Announced at 100% Design. British Design Innovation.
 Service Design Network. (2008). thinkpublic receives the UK Young Design Entrepreneur Award
 Szebeko, D. (2008). Designing Healthcare Environments Health Sector Journal.
 UKYDE. (2008). "Co-design" pioneer takes top design entrepreneur award.
 Wodcast. (2008). Deborah Szebeko - Interview (mp3)

External links
 thinkpublic

1980 births
Living people
Public economists
British designers


The Stolojan Cabinet was the Cabinet of the Government of Romania between 16 October 1991 and 19 November 1992. It was the fourth post-communist cabinet. The Prime Minister was Theodor Stolojan, a former financial bureaucrat during communism (previously responsible with the foreign currency as well as the money of the Securitatea, according to former Romanian President Emil Constantinescu). Stolojan was an independent minister of finance in the Roman cabinet, dominated by the FSN. The Stolojan Cabinet was a transition cabinet, in charge with organizing the elections, and included FSN members and members from other parties national liberals, ecologists, agrarians, and independents.

Membership
Coalition members: , , , , and

Prime Minister:
Theodor Stolojan

Ministers:
Mircea Ionescu-Quintus (Justice)
Niculae Spiroiu (Defense)
Ludovic Spiess (Culture)
Petru Mărculescu (Agriculture)
Adrian Năstase (Foreign Affairs)
George Danielescu (Economy and Finance)
Victor Babiuc (Interior)
Mihail Golu (Education)
Marcian Bleahu (Environment)
Dan Nicolae (Public Works)
Dan Mircea Popescu (Labor)
Traian Băsescu (Transport)
Mircea Maiorescu (Health)
Andrei Chirică (Communications)
Dan Constantinescu (Industry)
Ion Aurel Stoica (Relation with Parliament)
Florian Bercea (Budget, State Revenues and Financial Control)
Constantin Fota (Commerce and Tourism)
Ioan Moldovan (Youth and Sport)

Stolojan I Cabinet
1991 establishments in Romania
1992 disestablishments in Romania
Cabinets established in 1991
Cabinets disestablished in 1992


John Stewart (1786-1823) was a missionary to the Wyandot Indians of Ohio and founder of what is often considered the first Methodist mission in America. Stewart was born in Powhatan County, Virginia to free Negro parents who were of mixed ancestry; a mix of white, black, and Indian (specifically Saponi and possibly Chickahominy and/or Accomac).

References

http://www.bu.edu/missiology/missionary-biography/r-s/stewart-john-1786-1823/

1786 births
1823 deaths
Wyandot County, Ohio
American Methodist missionaries
Methodist missionaries in the United States
People from Powhatan County, Virginia


The AKARI Architecture Design Project was a project for designing a new generation computer network architecture supported by the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) of Japan. The name "AKARI" indicates "A small light in the dark pointing to the future" and it comes from the Japanese word Akari, which means "a small light". Launched in May 2006, the AKARI Project investigated technologies for new generation network by 2015, developing a network architecture and creating a network design based on that architecture. AKARI is also denoted as a Future Internet project.

The members of the AKARI Project came from NICT and some other universities or companies such as Tokyo University, Keio University, Osaka University, Tokyo Institute of Technology and NTT. In 2008, they produced a conceptual design book, which describes their philosophy to pursue an ideal solution by researching new network architectures from a clean slate without being impeded by existing constraints.

To some extent, the AKARI Project was similar to the Global Environment for Network Innovations (GENI) facility of USA and many of the Seventh Framework Programmes (FP7) of EU such as the Future Internet Research and Experimentation.

Conferences were held in June 2007, January 2008, June 2008, and June 2010.
The project updated a web site through 2011, and removed the site by 2013.

References

Network architecture
Osaka University research


The third cabinet of prime minister of Romania Petre Roman took office from 30 April 1991 up until 16 October 1991. It was the 109th overall cabinet of Romania and ended three weeks after the September 1991 Mineriad which occurred in Bucharest. It was a single-party majority cabinet, plus independents.

Members
Single-party majority cabinet:  and

Prime Minister:
Petre Roman/Theodor Stolojan(ad interim)

Minister of State:
Dan Mircea Popescu (Co-ordinating Quality of Life)

Ministers:
Victor Babiuc (Justice)
Niculae Spiroiu (Defense)
Andrei Pleșu (Culture and Arts)
Ioan Țipu (Agriculture)
Adrian Năstase (Foreign Affairs)
Eugen Dijmărescu (Economy)
Doru Viorel Ursu (Interior)
Gheorghe Ștefan (Education)
Valeriu Eugen Pop (Environment)
Mihnea Marmeliuc (Labor)
Traian Băsescu (Transport)
Bogdan Marinescu (Health)
Andrei Chirică (Communication)
Victor Athanasie Stănculescu (Industry)
Constantin Fota (Commerce and Tourism)
Bogdan Niculescu-Duvăz (Youth and Sport)

Roman III Cabinet
1991 establishments in Romania
1991 disestablishments in Romania
Cabinets established in 1991
Cabinets disestablished in 1991


The Second Roman cabinet was the government of Romania from 28 June 1990 through 30 April 1991, led by Prime Minister Petre Roman. It was a single-party majority cabinet; it was formed only by the party that won the elections with 66% of the vote, the National Salvation Front (Frontul Salvării Naționale, FSN). The cabinet included a few independents.

Members
Single-party majority cabinet (FSN, Frontul Salvării Naționale, National Salvation Front), plus independents.

Prime Minister:
Petre Roman

Ministers of State:
Anton Vătășescu (Co-ordinating Industrial and Commercial Activity)
Eugen Dijmărescu (Co-ordinating Economic Orientation)
Ion Aurel Stoica/Dan Mircea Popescu (Co-ordinating Quality of Life)

Ministers:
Victor Babiuc (Justice)
Theodor Stolojan (Finance)
Victor Athanasie Stănculescu (Defense)
Andrei Pleșu (Culture and Arts)
Ioan Țipu (Agriculture)
Adrian Năstase (Foreign Affairs)
Eugen Dijmărescu (Economy)
Doru Pană (Public Works)
Doru Viorel Ursu (Interior)
Gheorghe Ştefan (Education)
Valeriu Eugen Pop (Environment)
Cătălin Zamfir (Labor)
Traian Băsescu (Transport)
Bogdan Marinescu (Health)
Andrei Chirică (Communication)
Mihai Zisu (Resources and Industry)
Constantin Fota (Commerce and Tourism)
Bogdan Niculescu-Duvăz (Youth and Sport)

Roman II Cabinet
1990 establishments in Romania
1991 disestablishments in Romania
Cabinets established in 1990
Cabinets disestablished in 1991


This article describes the first cabinet led by Petre Roman, which was formed 26 December 1989 and dissolved 28 June 1990.

Members

Prime Minister
Petre Roman

Deputy Prime Ministers
Gelu Voican Voiculescu
Mihai Drăgănescu
Ion Aurel Stoica
Anton Vătășescu

Ministers of State
Petru Pepelea
Mihail Victor Buracu
Costică Bădescu
Ovidiu Adrian Moțiu

Ministers
Teofil Pop (Justice)
Niculae Militaru/Victor Athanasie Stănculescu (Defense)
Andrei Pleșu (Culture)
Nicolae Ștefan (Agriculture and Food Industry)
Sergiu Celac (Foreign Affairs)
Mihai Chițac/Doru Viorel Ursu (Interior)
Mihai Șora (Education)
Simion Hâncu (Environment)
Alexandru Dimitriu (Constructions)
Mihnea Marmeliuc (Labor)
Corneliu Burada (Transport)
Dan Enăchescu (Health)
Stelian Pintilie (Posts and Telecommunications)
Victor Athanasie Stănculescu (National Economy)
Adrian Georgescu (Electric Energy)
Gheorghe Caranfil (Chemical and Petrochemical Industry)
Anton Vătășescu (Electrotechnics, Electronics and Informatics)
Victor Murea (Oil Industry)
Ioan Cheșa (Metallurgical Industry)
Constantin Popescu (Light Industry)
Ioan Aurel Stoica (Motor Industry)
Ioan Folea (Geology)
Nicolae Dicu (Mines)
Ion Râmbu (Woodworking Industry)
Nicolae M. Nicolae (Foreign Trade)
Mihai Lupoi (Tourism)
Nicolae Stoicescu (Religious Affairs)
Mircea Angelescu (Sports)

Roman I Cabinet
Romanian Revolution
1989 establishments in Romania
1990 disestablishments in Romania
Cabinets established in 1989
Cabinets disestablished in 1990


The  is an archaeological site and museum located in the Maruyama and Yasuta neighborhoods to the southwest of central Aomori in Aomori Prefecture in northern Japan, containing the ruins of a very large Jōmon period settlement. The ruins of a  settlement were discovered in 1992, when Aomori Prefecture started surveying the area for a planned baseball stadium. Archaeologists have used this site to further their understanding of the transition to sedentism and the life of the Jōmon people. Excavation has led to the discovery of storage pits, above ground storage and long houses. These findings demonstrate a change in the structure of the community, architecture, and organizational behaviors of these people. Because of the extensive information and importance, this site was designated as a Special National Historical Site of Japan in 2000., and a UNESCO World Heritage Site as part of the Jōmon Prehistoric Sites in Northern Japan collection in 2021. Today the public can visit the site, its various reconstructions of Jōmon structures, and a museum that displays and houses artifacts collected on the site, which have collectively been designated an Important Cultural Property

Early history

The Sannai-Maruyama settlement was occupied from the middle of the Early Jōmon period to the end of the Middle Jōmon period (3900 – 2200 BC), and is the largest Jōmon settlement yet discovered in Japan. It is located on a 20 meter high fluvial terrace on the right bank of the Okidate River, at the tip of a ridge extending southwest from the Hakkōda Mountains.

The area was first settled around 3900 BC. The first settlers of the site lived in pit houses. These dwellings typically were about  in diameter. Over 500 pit dwellings have been found on site. Additionally, they stored their food in pits, which allowed them to hide it when they left the site since the occupants were still semi-nomadic.

Around 2900 BC, the inhabitants became more sedentary. They began to store food above ground in elevated buildings rather than in pits. Also, longhouses began showing up around this time. Long houses were large, oval-shaped structures. The longest one found at the site was  long. Scholars believe longhouses were used for meeting places, workshops, or living space. Pit houses were still being inhabited at the same time that longhouses existed on the landscape.

One of Sannai-Maruyama's most famous structures, a reconstruction of a large six-pillared building, was originally built around 2,600 BC. This structure consisted of six large chestnut pillars that are believed to have held a series of platforms. Each one of these pillars was around 1 meter in diameter and was placed exactly  apart. Evidence for similar large wooden structures has been found at other sites in Japan and the rest of Eurasia, including a wooden precursor to Stonehenge. Most of the wood structure, like other biological remains at the site, deteriorated due to the acidity of the soil; however, the bottoms of the pillars were preserved because they were waterlogged due to their proximity to a marsh. Due to its large size, it is believed that this structure could have functioned as a monument, watchtower, or a lighthouse overlooking Mutsu Bay (which was larger than at present). Remains of other six-pillared buildings from different time periods have been found throughout the site. Many of the post holes from these buildings overlap each other, which suggests that the structures were being rebuilt in the same location and facing the same direction.

The site also contained two middens with domestic refuse, two large mounds, containing refuse, including ceremonial artifacts. A large amount of earthenware and stoneware were recovered from these middens, including approximately 2,000 clay figures, wood products, bones and antler objects and tools, and fragments of baskets and lacquerware. Some objects made of jade, amber and obsidian were not native to the area, and could only have come to this site via trade. The site also contained over 500 burial pits for adult remains, and numerous jar-burials for infants. Some burials, hypothesized to be for the social elite, were enclosed within stone circles.

The settlement of Sannai-Maruyama ended around 2300 BC due to unknown reasons. Its abandonment was likely due to the population's subsistence economy being unable to result in sustained growth, with its end being spurred on by the reduced amount of natural resources during the neoglaciation. However, during the Heian period, a portion of the site was resettled by new inhabitants who also built pit dwellings, and during the Muromachi period, a portion of the site was occupied by a medieval fortification.

Modern history
The presence of ruins at Sannai-Maruyama was known even during the Edo period, as travelers through the area commented in finding pottery shards and clay figurines. The first survey was conducted by Keio University and the Aomori City Board of Education from 1953 to 1967 and from 1976 and 1987, the Board of Education of Aomori Prefecture and the city of Aomori conducted further excavations on the southern part of the site.

The true significance of the site was not recognized until the start of construction of a prefectural baseball stadium in 1992. Due to the large number of finds during the rescue archaeology conducted at the time, including the foundations for the large six-pillared building in June 1994, Aomori Prefecture cancelled the baseball stadium project and decided to preserve the site in August 1994 as an archaeological park.  After this was announced a number of the excavations were backfilled to protect the site. Since 1994, around 26 additional test excavations have been done. These excavations have resulted in around 40% of the site being excavated.

In April 2019, the site was consolidated with the nearby museum, the . Administratively, the archaeological site and the museum had been separate entities, but now function as a single historic site. After their merger, entrance fees to the archaeological site and museum began to be collected in the museum building.

The Sannai-Maruyama Site is the centerpiece of the Jōmon Prehistoric Sites in Northern Japan, a group of Jōmon period archaeological sites in Hokkaidō and northern Tōhoku that was recommended by Japan in 2020 for inclusion to the UNESCO World Heritage List, under criteria iii and iv. It was first placed on the World Heritage Tentative List in 2009, and was officially inscribed on the World Heritage List on 27 July 2021.

The site hosted as the collection point for Aomori Prefecture's Paralympic flame that was collected from around Japan to be sent to the New National Stadium in Tokyo as part of 2020 Summer Paralympics torch relay.

Interpretation
The Sannai-Maruyama Site was inhabited by hunter-gatherers roughly between 3900 BC2900 BC. Over this period of time, the site changed from a seasonal camp, to the home of a more mobile society, and finally to a settled village. Evidence of this sedentary lifestyle can be found in the form of intense use of natural resources such as nuts, fish, and a wide diversity of plants, as well as changes in storage facilities.

Initially, the Sannai-Maruyama site was used on a temporary basis. There were large pits used for storage and can be concealed since they were underground, which was preferred by mobile populations in many parts of the world. A shift occurred around 2900 BC from the use of storage pits to elevated storehouses, revealed by pillar-supported structures that lack the fire pits of the pit-dwellings. An interpretation of this change was that the site's population had become more sedentary.

Later in the site's record, evidence of longhouses that were built along with some pit houses were found at the site. The increase in housing also shows a more sedentary lifestyle and an increase in population. Also, the large pillar structure dates to this time period. Construction on this scale implies the existence of a coordinated labor force due to the sheer size of these posts. The placement of the posts would have required the cooperation of several people. Interpretations of the use of this large post-supported platform is that it was a base for a tower, or even a shrine.

The impact of neoglaciation on Sannai-Maruyama Site's disbandment around 2300 BC has contemporary implications. A decrease in temperature by  influenced the collapse of the settlement and civilizations in other parts of the world. The effects of global warming in relation to the effects the ancient cooling had on the site's population reveal the impact such a change in temperature can have on human society.

See also

Jōmon Archaeological Sites in Hokkaidō, Northern Tōhoku, and other regions
List of Historic Sites of Japan (Aomori)
List of Special Places of Scenic Beauty, Special Historic Sites and Special Natural Monuments

References

External links

Official website
Official website
 "Sannai Maruyama." Jomon Archaeological Sites. Retrieved 28 July 2016.
 "Sannai Maruyama excavation report" The Comprehensive Database of Archaeological Site Reports in Japan.

Aomori (city)
Archaeological sites in Japan
Buildings and structures in Aomori (city)
History of Aomori Prefecture
Jōmon period
Special Historic Sites
Museums in Aomori Prefecture
Tourist attractions in Aomori Prefecture
Important Cultural Properties of Japan
Archaeological parks
Important Cultural Properties of Aomori Prefecture


Showdown is a trivia and word game that tests players’ general and  popular culture knowledge, as well as their numerical skills and willingness to bluff and take a risk. It makes use of the Summit (puzzle) scoring system which awards higher scores for long answers containing letters towards the end of the alphabet.

Showdown is one of the first boxed games to integrate mobile telephone and text message technology, as players can text their answers to a Showdown number which calculates the value of their answers and replies within 10 seconds with their score. The game was created by Winning Moves in 2008.

Showdown has been described as "Trivial Pursuit meets Scrabble" by Peter Sterling, Puzzles Editor for the Press Association.

How to Play

Play begins when one player draws a Topic Card from the deck, and reads out the five topics on it. They range from general knowledge topics (a European country) to popular culture (a James Bond character) to the everyday (something found in a bathroom).

Players have two minutes to come up with an answer to each of the five topics, keeping in mind that if they come up with the same answer as another player, both will score 0 points. They also bear in mind the Summit scoring system, in which each letter A is worth 1 point, B is worth 2, C worth 3, up to Z which is worth 26. Other characters such as punctuation and spaces are ignored. For example, the band ABBA scores 6 points whereas ZZ Top scores 103.

When the time is up, players with a valid answer for a topic can choose whether to go “in” or “out” depending on whether they feel they have a high-scoring, unique answer or not. If a player chooses “out”, they bank 5 points.

Once everyone has announced “in” or “out”, everyone's answers are revealed. If one or more players have chosen “in” and have the same answer, they are knocked out and score 0. If a player has chosen “in” and has a unique answer, they can bank 10 points.

Now that everyone knows the other players’ answers, players must decide whether to enter The Showdown to try to win the maximum 20 points for that topic. The Showdown is where the Summit scoring system comes into play; the highest scoring word in The Showdown wins, and anyone losing The Showdown scores 0. Players announce “in” or “out” again, with players going “out” at this stage scoring 10 points.

If two or more players go “in” to The Showdown, the scores are calculated and the highest-scoring answer wins 20 points. If only one player is willing to enter The Showdown (for example, if everyone thinks that one player's answer is clearly much better than all the others) then that person automatically wins the 20 points. If two or more players have an equal Summit score (for example, the musicals My Fair Lady and Calamity Jane both score 114), then both players win 20 points for that topic.

The player with the most points after the 5 topics wins the game.

Strategy

There are several strategies that can be used to win Showdown.

Unique answers

It is possible to win the game without ever entering The Showdown itself, simply by coming up with unique answers and banking 10 points for each topic. For example, if the topic is Football Clubs, a player might choose Leeds United (118) over answers such as Wycombe Wanderers (193) or Wolverhampton Wanderers (289), in the knowledge that whilst Leeds United scores less, other players are unlikely to choose it for exactly that reason and therefore it is probable that it will be a unique answer.

Bluff

Players can attempt to deceive their opponents by bluffing. This can either be in feigning confidence in the score of their answer before the actual score has been calculated, in an attempt to scare other players out of the game, or in feigning a lack of confidence in an attempt to suck other players into a Showdown and defeat them that way.

Risk taking

As players are generally likely to choose a unique answer, players willing to take a risk can attempt a double bluff and choose an extremely obvious answer in the chance that other players have avoided it for that reason. For example, if the topic is Countries of the World, United States of America is an obviously high-scoring answer (228) because of its length and the number of high-scoring Ss and Ts. But because it is so obvious, players may avoid it because it is unlikely to be unique. This affords a brave player the opportunity to take a risk on both a unique and high-scoring answer.

Gameplay variation

Showdown can also be played where players are attempting to get a low-scoring answer rather than a high-scoring one. For example, in this variation, a Hot Drink topic would see Tea (26) beating Coffee (40).

Online Textulator

The Showdown website allows visitors to type in any answer and instantly calculate their scores, which can be used both while playing the game and to allow fans to compare the scores of anything from the names of their family members to the names of football players to try to find out what has the highest value.

External links
https://www.sporcle.com/games/tags/showdown

https://www.buzztime.com/games/showdown
Quiz games


The first cabinet of Lascăr Catargiu was the government of Romania from 11 May to 13 July 1866.

Ministers
The ministers of the cabinet were as follows:

President of the Council of Ministers:
Lascăr Catargiu (11 May - 13 July 1866)
Minister of the Interior:
Lascăr Catargiu (11 May - 13 July 1866)
Minister of Foreign Affairs:
Petre Mavrogheni (11 May - 13 July 1866)
Minister of Finance:
Ion C. Brătianu (11 May - 13 July 1866)
Minister of Justice:
Ion C. Cantacuzino (11 May - 13 July 1866)
Minister of War:
Gen. Ioan Gr. Ghica (11 May - 13 July 1866)
Minister of Religious Affairs and Public Instruction:
Constantin A. Rosetti (11 May - 13 July 1866)
Minister of Public Works:
Dimitrie A. Sturdza (11 May - 13 July 1866)

References

Cabinets of Romania
Cabinets established in 1866
Cabinets disestablished in 1866
1866 establishments in Romania
1866 disestablishments in Romania


The cabinet of Ștefan Golescu was the government of Romania from 17 August 1867 to 29 April 1868.

Ministers
The ministers of the cabinet were as follows:

President of the Council of Ministers:
Ștefan Golescu (17 August 1867 - 29 April 1868)
Minister of the Interior:
Ștefan Golescu (17 August 1867 - 13 November 1867)
Ion C. Brătianu (13 November 1867 - 29 April 1868)
Minister of Foreign Affairs:
Alexandru Teriachiu (17 August 1867 - 1 November 1867)
(interim) Ștefan Golescu (1 - 13 November 1867)
Ștefan Golescu (13 November 1867 - 29 April 1868)
Minister of Finance:
Ludovic Steege (17 August 1867 - 1 October 1867)
(interim) Grigore Arghiropol (1 - 27 October 1867)
Ion C. Brătianu (27 October - 13 November 1867)
(interim) Ion C. Brătianu (13 November 1867 - 29 April 1868)
Minister of Justice:
Anton I. Arion (17 - 29 August 1867)
Grigore Arghiropol (29 August - 13 November 1867)
Anton I. Arion (13 November 1867 - 29 April 1868)
Minister of War:
Col. Gheorghe Adrian (17 August 1867 - 29 April 1868)
Minister of Religious Affairs:
Dimitrie Gusti (17 August 1867 - 29 April 1868)
Minister of Public Works:
Dimitrie C. Brătianu (17 August 1867 - 13 November 1867)
Panait Donici (13 November 1867 - 29 April 1868)

References

Cabinets of Romania
Cabinets established in 1867
Cabinets disestablished in 1868
1867 establishments in Romania
1868 disestablishments in Romania


The 2009 CAF Confederation Cup was the 6th edition of the CAF Confederation Cup, Africa's secondary club football competition organized by the Confederation of African Football (CAF). The competition began with the preliminary round stage in the first week of March 2009 and concluded with the second leg of the final match on the first week of December 2009. The winners played in the 2010 CAF Super Cup.

Qualifying rounds

The draw for the preliminary round and the second round were made on December 4, 2008.

Preliminary round
1st legs played 30 January-1 February 2009 and 2nd legs played 13–15 February 2009, except the ASFAN-USM game which was postponed to Feb. 25.

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Dispensation round

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Notes

First round
First Legs were played 13–15 March 2009 and second Legs played 3–5 April 2009

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Second round
1st Legs to be played 17–19 April 2009 and 2nd Legs to be played 1–3 May 2009

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Play-off round
Joined by round of 16 losers of the 2009 CAF Champions League. Winners to Group Stage.
1st Legs were played 17–19 May and 2nd Legs were played 29–31 May 2009.

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Group stage

The group stage draw was held before the second round of 16 phase - with teams allocated to groups before the winners of ties were known. Matches were played from 17 July to 20 September 2009.

Group A

Group B

Knock-out stage

Bracket

Semi-finals
The first legs are scheduled on 2–4 October and the second legs on 16–18 October.

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Final

The first leg is scheduled on 29 November and the second leg on 5 December. Stade Malien won 3–2 on penalties to win the CAF Confederation Cup.

Top goalscorers

The top scorers from the 2009 CAF Confederation Cup are as follows:

References

External links
Confederation Cup 2009 - rsssf.com

2009

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Kenneth Crosby (1904–1998) was a British Wesleyan missionary, a Bible translator and language scholar, who worked in Sierra Leone.  He is best known for his work in the Mende language.

Crosby was born on 12 May 1904 at Briton Ferry, near Neath in South Wales. He graduated with a BD degree from the University of London in 1927, then a BA in philosophy from the same university.  He left for Sierra Leone in 1929, though returned to Britain temporarily in 31, where he was ordained and also married to his fiancee Dorothy.

In Sierra Leone, his service included being a part of a team that translating the Bible into Mende, helping to found the Bunumbu Press, and serving as the first principal of Bunumbu Union College (now Bunumbu Teachers College).

In 1939, he was awarded a PhD degree from the University of London for his dissertation A study of the Mende Language. He wrote of the Mende language, "I was brought up on the classics and had been taught that classical Greek was the most perfect instrument of speech ever devised.  I accepted this, of course, unthinkingly and believed it implicitly until I met the Mende language.  But then I began to think differently.  I marvelled at its incredible beauty, its wonderful cadences, its skillful nuances and the deeper I went the more I learned to wonder" (Tuchscherer 1998:220).

Publications
1944. An Introduction to the Study of Mende.  Cambridge University Press.

References

 Tuchscherer, Konrad. 1998. Kenneth Hubert Crosby (1904-1998): pioneer of the Mende language. Journal of African Cultural Studies  11.2: 217-220.

1904 births
1998 deaths
Alumni of the University of London
Linguists
Translators of the Bible into Mande languages
Methodist missionaries in Sierra Leone
Welsh Methodist missionaries
British expatriates in Sierra Leone
20th-century British translators
Missionary linguists


Barbara Alexandra "Sandra" Reemer (17 October 1950 – 6 June 2017) was an Indo-Dutch singer and television presenter. She represented the Netherlands in the Eurovision Song Contest on three occasions, tying with Corry Brokken for most appearances representing the country.

In 1972, she sang the song "Als het om de liefde gaat" in a duet with Dries Holten (she was credited as "Sandra", he was credited as "Andres"); the duo came fourth. In 1976, this time credited under her real name, Reemer performed solo singing the song "The Party's Over", which reached ninth place. In 1979, she was credited as "Xandra" and sang the song "Colorado", which placed twelfth. She later returned to the contest to sing backing vocals (uncredited) for the Dutch entry in 1983, "Sing Me A Song", performed by Bernadette.

On Dutch television Reemer (co)hosted popular shows including Sterrenslag, Wedden, dat..? and Showmasters.

She died on 6 June 2017, following a long battle with breast cancer.

See also
Netherlands in the Eurovision Song Contest 1972
Netherlands in the Eurovision Song Contest 1976
Netherlands in the Eurovision Song Contest 1979

References

1950 births
2017 deaths
Dutch women singers
Indonesian emigrants to the Netherlands
Dutch people of Chinese descent
Eurovision Song Contest entrants for the Netherlands
Eurovision Song Contest entrants of 1972
Eurovision Song Contest entrants of 1976
Eurovision Song Contest entrants of 1979
People from Bandung
Indo people
Deaths from cancer in the Netherlands
Deaths from breast cancer
Nationaal Songfestival contestants
Spanish-language singers of the Netherlands


Muljava (; ) is a village in the Municipality of Ivančna Gorica in central Slovenia. The area is part of the traditional region of Lower Carniola. The municipality is now included in the Central Slovenia Statistical Region.

History
Muljava was originally two villages: Muljava and Zavod. The two were united into a single village when house numbers were assigned in the village.

Jurčič farm

Muljava is best known as the birthplace of the Slovene writer Josip Jurčič and the farm where he was born is now a small museum.

Church

The local church is dedicated to the Assumption of Mary and belongs to the Parish of Krka.

References

External links

Muljava on Geopedia

Populated places in the Municipality of Ivančna Gorica


Xandra is a given name or a nickname for Alexandra (alternate spelling Zandra). Xandra (Zandra) is the feminine equivalent of Xander (Zander).

 Xandra (band), a Dutch musical group fronted by Dutch singer Sandra Reemer representing Netherlands in the Eurovision Song Contest in 1979
Xandra no Daibōken: Valkyrie to no Deai, (literally Xandra's Great Adventure: Encounter with the Valkyrie), an action-adventure platform game featuring character Krino Sandra (romanized as Xandra)
Xandra, a character played by Sheryl Cruz in Komiks Presents: Varga
Xandra, a fictional character in Doom 2099
 Xandra (business), a global conversation design studio formed in Australia in 2016.  Expanded to Los Angeles in 2017.
Xandra, Goddess of Adventure, a fictional character in Legend of the Three Caballeros
Xandra, a Xweetok from Neopets

See also
Xander
Sandra (given name)
Sander (name)
Alexandra


Stages is an album by Elaine Paige, released in 1983 on the Warner Music and K-tel labels and has been re-issued on CD. The album charted in the UK album charts at #2 in 1983.

Background
Stages was the first of a number of Paige's recordings to be produced by Tony Visconti, who had previously worked with David Bowie, The Moody Blues and Mary Hopkin. It featured a number of songs from musicals including tracks from shows in which she had appeared.

Production
The album was primarily recorded at Visconti's Good Earth Studios other than for the track "Tomorrow" which was taped at Olympic Studios. The track "Don't Cry for Me Argentina" was taken from the 1978 original London cast recording of Evita.

Out-Takes
In 2014, Rhino UK released on the compilation album Elaine Paige - The Ultimate Collection the out-take "It's Raining on Prom Night" (from the musical Grease) which was originally recorded as part of the Stages album sessions.

Other Releases
Released in Australia by K-tel: NA680.

In 1987, Atlantic released the album in the US. The tracklisting was amended to open with "On My Own" from Les Misérables, which opened on Broadway that year. "Running Back for More" was therefore omitted.

Track listing
 "Memory" - 4:09 (Andrew Lloyd Webber, T.S. Eliot, Trevor Nunn) - from the musical Cats
 "Be On Your Own" - 2:43 (Maury Yeston) - from the musical Nine
 "Another Suitcase in Another Hall" - 3:23 (Andrew Lloyd Webber, Tim Rice) - from the musical Evita
 "Send in the Clowns" - 4:09 (Stephen Sondheim, Tom Bahler) - from the musical A Little Night Music
 "Running Back for More" - 3:14 (Tim Rice, Stephen Oliver) - from the musical Blondel
 "Good Morning Starshine" - 2:55 (James Rado, Gerome Ragni, Galt MacDermot) - from the musical Hair
 "Don't Cry for Me Argentina" - 5:38 (Andrew Lloyd Webber, Tim Rice) - from the musical Evita
 "I Don't Know How to Love Him" - 3:50 (Andrew Lloyd Webber, Tim Rice) - from the musical Jesus Christ Superstar
 "What I Did for Love" - 3:25 (Marvin Hamlisch, Edward Kleban) - from the musical A Chorus Line
 "One Night Only" - 3:09 (Tom Eyen, Henry Krieger) - from the musical Dreamgirls
 "Losing My Mind" - 3:35 (Stephen Sondheim) - from the musical Follies
 "Tomorrow" - 2:42 (Martin Charnin, Charles Strouse) - from the musical Annie

Charts

Certifications and sales

Personnel

Musicians
 Elaine Paige - lead and backing vocals
 Graham Ward - drums
 Phil Cranham - bass guitar
 Mitch Dalton - guitar
 Robin Smith - keyboards, synthesizers, Fender Rhodes
 Hugh Burns - guitars
 Derek Bramble - bass guitar
 Andy Duncan - drums, percussion
 Mark Williamson - backing vocals
 Tony Visconti - backing vocals
 Annie McGaig - backing vocals
 Maureen Turner - backing vocals
 Mary Hopkin - backing vocals
 John Du Prez - flugelhorn
 David Bitelli - saxophone
 John Thirkell - trumpet, flugelhorn
 Paul Spong - trumpet, flugelhorn
 Spike Edney - trombone

Production credits
 Producer - Tony Visconti
 Engineers - Chris Porter, Bryan Evans and Keith Grant
 Rhythm Track Arrangements - Robin Smith
 Orchestral Arrangements - Tony Visconti

References

1983 albums
Elaine Paige albums
Albums produced by Tony Visconti


Robinsons GenSan (formerly known as Robinsons Place General Santos and Robinsons Place GenSan) is a mall located on Jose Catolico Avenue, Lagao, General Santos in the Philippines. The two-storey mall covers an area of over  and is owned by John Gokongwei, founder of JG Summit Holdings and Robinsons Land Corporation. It was the flagship and largest mall of Robinsons Land Corporation in Mindanao (until Robinsons Place Butuan, upon its mall opening on November, 2013).  The mall had its soft opening on September 30, 2009 and the grand opening took place on Monday, October 5, 2009.

One of the mall's main tenants is the DFA Consular Office General Santos which opened at the ground floor in September 2012.

References

Shopping malls in the Philippines
Shopping malls established in 2009
Buildings and structures in General Santos
Robinsons Malls


So Big may refer to:

So Big (novel), a 1924 novel written by Edna Ferber
So Big (1924 film), a 1924 film adaptation directed by Charles Brabin
So Big (1932 film), a 1932 film adaptation starring Barbara Stanwyck
So Big (1953 film), a 1953 film adaptation directed by Robert Wise
So Big! (book), a Sesame Street spin-off book, see Sesame Beginnings
"So Big" (song), a song by Iyaz


Karl Marx wrote a number of notebooks on the history of technology which so far remain unpublished in English. Their whereabouts were for a long time unknown but in the past they were read and discussed by Marxist researchers.

History
Engels lists Marx's collection of material on technology as one of Marx's "specialisms" in correspondence outlining their mutual division of intellectual labour.

Marx directly refers to the notebooks in his letter to Engels of January 28, 1863 where he says … I have re-read my notebooks (extracts) on technology, and am attending a practical (only experimental) course for workers on the same by Professor Willis (in Jermyn Street, the Institute for Geology, where Huxley also gave his lectures)… While re-reading the technological-historical excerpts, I came to the conclusion that , apart from the invention of gun-powder, the compass and printing - these necessary pre-requisites for bourgeois development - from the 16th to the mid-18th centuries, i.e. the period of the development of manufacture from craftsmanship until really large-scale industry, the two material foundations on which were based the preparations for mechanised industry within manufacturing were the clock and the mill …

Across his writing Marx makes frequent reference to his interest in technological developments, and these mentions are complemented by generic statements such as the need for a critical history of technology in the major footnote at the beginning of the chapter on "Machinery and Large Scale Industry" in Capital, Volume I.

“A critical history of technology would show how little any of the inventions of the 18th century are the work of a single individual. Hitherto there is no such book. Darwin has interested us in the history of Nature's Technology, i.e., in the formation of the organs of plants and animals, which organs serve as instruments of production for sustaining life. Does not the history of the productive organs of man, of organs that are the material basis of all social organisation, deserve equal attention? And would not such a history be easier to compile, since, as Vico says, human history differs from natural history in this, that we have made the former, but not the latter? Technology discloses man's mode of dealing with Nature, the process of production by which, he sustains his life, and thereby also lays bare the mode of formation of his social relations, and of the mental conceptions that flow from them.” (MECW Vol 35.375)

Commentary and sources
György Lukács studied these notebooks while they existed in the archives in Moscow, and appears to refer to them in a 1925 article later published in English translation in the New Left Review criticizing what he saw as Bukharin's undue technicism. Lukács added a commentary on the methodological importance of this critique to the preface to the new edition (1967) of the English Merlin 1971 translation of History and Class Consciousness. Excerpts of Marx's notebooks are held in the International Institute of Social History.

Nathan Rosenberg published an essay on "Marx as a student of technology" in his Inside the Black Box; Donald MacKenzie wrote "Marx and the Machine" in Technology and Culture, which can also be found in a book of essays he edited called 'Knowing Machines' (1998); and Amy E. Wendling published a book on the notebooks entitled Karl Marx on Technology and Alienation (2009). Lucia Pradella in her study of Marx's London Notebooks cites Hans-Peter Müller's transcribed edition in German.

Notes

Marxism
History of technology
Marxist theory
Books by Karl Marx


Horace Haszard (November 2, 1853 – May 11, 1922) was a Canadian wholesale merchant and political figure in Prince Edward Island, Canada. He represented West Queen's in the House of Commons of Canada in 1904 as a Liberal member.

He was born in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, the son of Henry Haszard and Hannah Catherine Cameron. He was educated there and worked for a time as a clerk for a wholesale dry goods firm in Montreal. Haszard returned to Charlottetown in 1873, where he entered business as a broker, insurance agent and manufacturer's representative. Haszard served on the Charlottetown City Council from 1885 to 1886 and from 1894 to 1895.

References
Bibliography

Citations

1853 births
1922 deaths
Charlottetown city councillors
Liberal Party of Canada MPs
Members of the House of Commons of Canada from Prince Edward Island


The YWCA-YMCA Guides and Scouts of Norway () is a Norwegian Scouting and Guiding association founded in its present form in 2003, when the YMCA-Scouts and the YWCA-Guides merged. Norges KFUK-KFUM-speidere serves about 13,000 members.

The association is a member of Speidernes Fellesorganisasjon, the national Scouting and Guiding federation of Norway. It is divided in 20 districts with about 350 local troops.

History
Guiding within the YWCA was started in 1920, Scouting in the YMCA in 1945. In 2003 both organizations merged; for the first years after the merger, the association run both former programs and the units were free to decide if they followed the Guide or the Scout scheme. In 2007, a new organizational structure as well as new program were decided.

Program
Since 2007, the association is divided in four sections according to age:
 Oppdagere (Discoverers) - ages 8 to 10
 Stifinnere (Pathfinders) - ages 10 to 12
 Vandrere (Wanderers) - ages 12 to 17
 Rovere (Rovers) - ages 17 and older

Ideals

Scout law
 A Guide and a Scout are open to God and His word.En speider er åpen for Gud og Hans ord.
 A Guide and a Scout feel responsibility for themselves and others.En speider kjenner ansvar for seg selv og andre.
 A Guide and a Scout are helpful and considerate.En speider er hjelpsom og hensynsfull.
 A Guide and a Scout are a good friend.En speider er en god venn.
 A Guide and a Scout are honest and reliable.En speider er ærlig og pålitelig.
 A Guide and a Scout know nature and protect it.En speider kjenner naturen og verner om den.
 A Guide and a Scout think and act on their own and try to understand others.En speider tenker og handler selvstendig og prøver å forstå andre.
 A Guide and a Scout do their best in hard times and difficulties.En speider gjør sitt beste i motgang og vansker.
 A Guide and a Scout are modest and try to manage on their own.En speider er nøysom og prøver å klare seg selv.
 A Guide and a Scout work for peace and understanding among people.En speider arbeider for fred og forståelse mellom mennesker.

Scout promise
In belief of God's help, I promise
to serve God,
help others,
and live according to the scout law.

I tro på Guds hjelp lover jeg
å tjene Gud,
hjelpe andre
og leve etter speiderloven.

Scout motto
Alltid Beredt: Always Prepared.

Emblem

The elements used in the logo of the Norges KFUK-KFUM-speidere are a fleur-de-lis for Boy Scouting, a trefoil for Girl Guiding and a triangle for YWCA-YMCA. The triangle is more prominent in the historic logo of Norges KFUM speidere prior to the merger.

References

External links
 Official website

Scouting and Guiding in Norway
Norway
Norway
Norway
Norway
2003 establishments in Norway
Organizations established in 2003


Caught Inside is a 2010 Australian thriller directed by Adam Blaiklock and produced by Paul S. Friedmann. The film stars Ben Oxenbould, Daisy Betts, Harry Cook (actor), & Peter Phelps; Damien Wyvill as the cinematographer. Caught Inside was also produced under the names Locked In and The Hedonist.

Premise
Surfing charters are meant to be a trip to Paradise... With 7 male surfers stuck on a boat, there's bound to be some friction – but when two of the boys are replaced at the last minute with two gorgeous girls – the heat is turned way up! The one 'single girl' on board – SAM – enjoys the attention. She soon has them all wrapped around her finger, as she challenges surf legend "BULL" in being 'the Alpha Male' on board. But The Bull decides to make a forceful move on Sam. Archie's loyalty is torn – between Bull and the group, as the others beat and abandon Bull on an island, but soon the ever-determined Bull returns..! It's soon a life-and-death struggle on board the yacht, as the five imprisoned friends – Archie, Sam, Toobs, Rob and Alex – must survive the fury of the psycho at the helm. When everything goes horribly wrong – their "dream trip" turns into a nightmare battle of wits, love and survival.

Cast
Ben Oxenbould as Bull
Daisy Betts as Sam
Sam Lyndon as Rob
Simon Lyndon as Toobs
Peter Phelps as Skipper Joe
Harry Cook as Archie Cox
Leeanna Walsman as Alex

Critical reception
The movie was praised by critics, holding an 86% fresh rating from Rotten Tomatoes.

References

External links

2010 films
2010 action thriller films
Australian action adventure films
2010s English-language films
2010s Australian films


WXIC (660 kHz) is a commercial AM radio station licensed to Waverly, Ohio, calling itself "Ohio's Gospel Giant."  It airs a Southern Gospel radio format and is owned by Crystal Communications Corp.  News updates are supplied by ABC News Radio .

By day, WXIC is powered at 1,000 watts using a non-directional antenna.  But because 660 AM is a clear channel frequency reserved for Class A WFAN New York City, WXIC is a daytimer and must sign off at night to avoid interference.  WXIC's signal covers South-Central Ohio and parts of Kentucky and West Virginia.

History
In 1954, the station first signed on as WPKO at 1380 kHz.  It originally was a country music station with some Southern Gospel music on Sundays.  In 1971, it added an FM sister station at 100.9, playing automated beautiful music.  Today that is co-owned WXIZ, a country music station.

The WPKO call sign is now being used at an FM station in Bellefontaine, Ohio.

References

External links

XIC
XIC
Radio stations established in 1954
1954 establishments in Ohio


KTUI (1560 AM) is a daytime only radio station licensed to Sullivan, Missouri, United States.  The station airs a Talk radio format and is currently owned by Dean Brueseke and Robert Scott, through licensee Meramec Area Broadcasting LLC.

References

External links

TUI (AM)
Talk radio stations in the United States
TUI (AM)


WVVB (1410 AM) is a daytime only radio station originally broadcasting a gospel format. Licensed to Kingston, Tennessee, United States, the station is currently owned by John and Brannigan Tollett, through licensee 3B Tennessee, Inc. On September 1, 2018, the then-WBBX was renamed 94.1 The Vibe. The station changed its call sign to WVVB on March 6, 2019.

References

External links

VVB (AM)
Contemporary hit radio stations in the United States
Radio stations established in 1978
1978 establishments in Tennessee
VVB


Frank Lauren Hitchcock (March 6, 1875 – May 31, 1957) was an American mathematician and physicist known for his formulation of the transportation problem in 1941.

Academic life
Frank did his preparatory study at Phillips Andover Academy. He entered Harvard University
and completed his bachelor's degree in 1896. Then he began teaching, first in Paris and at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio. From 1904 to 1906 he taught chemistry at North Dakota State University, Fargo.

Hitchcock returned to Massachusetts and began to teach at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and study at the graduate level at Harvard. In 1910 he obtained a Ph.D. with a thesis entitled, Vector Functions of a Point. Hitchcock stayed at MIT until retirement, publishing his analysis of optimal distribution in 1941.

Personal life
Frank Hitchcock was descended from New England forebears.
His mother was Susan Ida Porter (b. January 1, 1848, Middlebury, Vermont) and his father was Elisha Pike Hitchcock. His parents married on June 27, 1866. Frank was born March 6, 1875, in New York City.

He had two sisters, Mary E. Hitchcock and Viola M. Hitchcock, and two brothers, George P. Hitchcock and Ernest Van Ness Hitchcock. Although Frank was born in New York City, he was raised in Pittsford, Vermont.

Frank married Margaret Johnson Blakely (d. May 22, 1925) in Paris, France, on May 25, 1899. They had three children, Lauren Blakely (1900-1972), who became a chemical engineer and early opponent of air pollution, John Edward (b. January 28, 1906, d. July 26, 1909), and  George Blakely, January 12, 1910. At the time of his death Frank had 11 grandchildren and 6 great-grandsons.

Works
 1910: Vector Functions of a Point.
 1915: A Classification of Quadratic Vectors Functions, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 1(3):177 to 183.
 1917: On the simultaneous formulation of two linear vector functions, Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy Section A 34: 1 to 10.
 1920: A study of the vector product Vφαθβ, Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy Section A 35: 30 to 7.
 1920: A Thermodynamic Study of Electrolytic Solutions, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 6(4):186 to 197.
 1920: An Identical Relation Connecting Seven Vectors.
 1921: The Axes of a Quadratic Vector, Proceedings AAAS 56(9):331 to 351.
 1921: with Norbert Wiener, A New Vector Method in Integral Equations, MIT Journal of Mathematics and Physics volume 1.
 1923: On Double Polyadics, with Application to the Linear Matrix Equation, Proceedings AAAS 58(10): 355 to 395.
 1923: Identities Satisfied by Algebraic Point Functions in N-space, Proceedings AAAS 58(11): 399 to 421.
 1923: with Clark S. Robinson, Differential Equations in Applied Chemistry, John Wiley & Sons, now from Archive.org.
 1923: A Method for the Numerical Solution of Integral Equations.
 1924: The Coincident Points of Two Algebraic Transformations.
 1922: A Solution of the Linear Matrix Equation by Double Multiplication.
 1927: The Expression of a Tensor or a Polyadic as a Sum or Products, Journal of Mathematics and Physics, 6(1):164-189

References

 Dr. Frank L. Hitchcock, Mathematician, Professor Emeritus at M.I.T., Dies at 82, The New York Times, June 1, 1957, p. 17.
 Frank L. Hitchcock (1941) "The distribution of a product from several sources to numerous localities", MIT Journal of Mathematics and Physics 20:224–230 .

External links
 D. R. Fulkerson (1956) Hitchcock Transportation Problem, RAND corporation.

 Hitchcock's family tree
 Obituary

1875 births
1957 deaths
19th-century American mathematicians
20th-century American mathematicians
Massachusetts Institute of Technology faculty
Harvard University alumni
Kenyon College faculty
Phillips Academy alumni


The 2008–09 Michigan State Spartans men's basketball team represented Michigan State University in the 2008–09 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. They were led by head coach Tom Izzo who was in his 14th year as head coach. The team played their home games at the Breslin Center in East Lansing, Michigan and were member of the Big Ten Conference. MSU finished the season 31–7, 15–3 in Big Ten play to win the Big Ten regular season championship by four games. They defeated Minnesota in the quarterfinals of the Big Ten tournament before losing to Ohio State in the semifinals. The Spartans received their 12th-straight NCAA tournament bid, an at-large bid as the No. 2 seed in the Midwest region. They defeated Robert Morris, USC, Kansas, and Louisville to advance to the Final Four for the fifth time under Izzo. In the Final Four, they defeated UConn to advance to the National Championship game where they lost to North Carolina.

Previous season
The Spartans finished the 2007–08 season 27–9, 12–6 in Big Ten play to finish in fourth place. Michigan State received a No. 5 seed in the NCAA tournament, their 11th straight trip to the Tournament, and advanced to the Sweet Sixteen, their seventh trip under Tom Izzo, before losing to Memphis.

The Spartans lost Drew Neitzel (13.9 points and 4 assists per game) to graduation following the season.

2008 recruiting class

Season summary
Michigan State was led by sophomore Kalin Lucas (14.7 points and 4.6 assists per game), junior Raymar Morgan (10.2 points and 5.3 rebounds per game), and senior Goran Suton (10.4 points and 8.4 rebounds per game).

Regular season
The team began the season ranked No. 6 in the country and began the season well with home wins against Idaho and IPFW (coached by future MSU assistant coach Dane Fife).

The Spartans next traveled to Florida to participate in the Old Spice Classic. In the first round, they faced unranked Maryland who controlled the game, defeating MSU 80–62. The Spartans rebounded from the loss to Maryland by beating Oklahoma State 94–79 in the consolation bracket. In the consolation championship, MSU defeated Wichita State 65–57 behind 12 points from Marquise Gray.

The Spartans then faced No. 1 North Carolina in the Big Ten-ACC Challenge at the site of the upcoming Final Four, Ford Field. There, MSU was blown out, 98–63. Izzo took the blame for the loss, "The blame goes on me for the scheduling. We were dead."

Michigan State returned home after playing five straight games away from the Breslin Center. Following easy wins over Bradley, Alcorn State, and The Citadel, MSU then went on the road again to face No. 5-ranked Texas at the Toyota Center in Houston, Texas. MSU, ranked 19th in the AP poll, were led by Goran Suton's 18 points, but still trailed as time wound down in the game. Durrell Summers hit a three-pointer with 18.6 second remaining to help pull out a 67–63 win.

The Spartans next defeated Oakland at the Palace of Auburn Hills in Detroit, 82–66, to move to 9–2 and were ranked No. 10 in the country to finish the non-conference schedule.

MSU opened conference play on New Year's Eve with a win over No. 21 Minnesota behind a career-high 24 points from Kalin Lucas. Wins over Northwestern and Ohio State followed before the Spartans stepped back out of conference to welcome defending national champion Kansas to the Breslin Center on January 11.  MSU fell behind early 7–1 and 11–6, but fought back before taking control of the game at the half with a 37–18 lead. Lucas again led the Spartans, scoring 22 points as the Spartans won 75–62 for their ninth straight win, pushing their record to 13–2 on the season.

Wins over Penn State and No. 20 Illinois pushed the win streak to 11. Prior to the win over Illinois, the Spartans retired Morris Peterson's jersey. The win over Illinois also gave MSU a 5–0 record in Big Ten play, their best start in conference since 1978. Looking to extend their win streak to 12 games, MSU welcomed Northwestern to the Breslin Centeron January 21. The Spartans, hampered by Raymar Morgan's sickness, were stunned by Northwestern, losing 70–63. The loss ended the Spartans 28-game home winning streak as well and left them at 5–1 in conference, 15–3 overall.

MSU returned to their winning ways defeating Ohio State and Iowa on the road to mark five straight Big Ten road wins. Another surprising loss at home, this time to Penn State, preceded a second win over No. 21-ranked Minnesota. At 18–4 and 8–2 on the season, the Spartans returned to the top ten rankings, moving to No. 9 in the AP poll. The Spartans then welcomed former Izzo assistant Tom Crean, coach of Indiana, to the Breslin Center on February 7. MSU, led by freshman Draymond Green's 15 points and 12 rebounds, blew out the Hoosiers, 75–47.

The Spartans then took their perfect road record to Michigan. MSU led the majority of the game, but Michigan rallied to within four with under five minutes remaining. But Kalin Lucas, who scored 13 of his 15 points after half time, made a three to extend the lead and Delvon Roe scored a season-high 14 points as MSU won 54–42.

The win over Michigan moved MSU to No. 6 in the AP poll (No. 5 in the Coaches Poll) and set up an important road game against No. 19 Purdue. The Boilermakers forced 22 Spartan turnovers, blocked eight shots and held MSU to 33% from the field. Lucas scored 13 for MSU, but it wasn't enough as they were blown out 72–54. The Purdue loss broke the road-winning streak, but still left MSU at 20–5 and 10–3 in conference.

The Purdue loss would also mark the last regular season loss by the Spartans. Wins over Wisconsin and Iowa preceded the No. 9-ranked Spartans trip to No. 20 Illinois. Lucas led the Spartans again with 18 points as they defeated Illinois 74–66 clinching a share of the Big Ten regular season championship. With a 64–59 win at Indiana on March 3, the Spartans won their first Big Ten regular season title since 2001 and first outright title since 1999. In the final game of the season, a 62–51 win over No. 19 Purdue, Lucas scored 21 points to lead MSU to the Big Ten championship by four games with a 15–3 record, 25–5 overall, and ranked No. 7 in the country.

Following the conclusion of the regular season, Kalin Lucas was named Big Ten Player of the Year and Tom Izzo was voted Big Ten Coach of the Year. Travis Walton was named Defensive Player of the Year, while Goran Suton was a second team All-Big Ten selection. Delvon Roe was named to the Big Ten freshmen team.

Big Ten tournament
As the No. 1 seed in the Big Ten tournament, MSU had a bye into the quarterfinals. Looking to make their case for a No. 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament, MSU defeated No. 8-seeded Minnesota 64–56 led by Chris Allen's 17 points. The win moved the Spartans to the Big Ten semifinals to face Ohio State. However, Michigan State's hopes for a No. 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament vanished as they were defeated by Ohio State, 82–70. Evan Turner had 18 points to lead the Buckeyes to win the over the Spartans, who shot just 38 percent from the field.

NCAA Tournament
Michigan State received an at-large bid as the No. 2 seed in the Midwest Region of the NCAA tournament, their 12th straight appearance in the Tournament. Though they only received a No. 2 seed, the path to the Final Four looked good for the Spartans with games in Minneapolis, Minnesota and Indianapolis, Indiana before the Final Four in Detroit.

In the First Round, the Spartans defeated No. 15-seed Robert Morris 77–62 behind Raymar Morgan's 16 points and Goran Suton's 11 points and 17 rebounds. Draymond Green added 16 points in the easy win. In the Second Round, MSU faced No. 10-seed USC for the right to advance to the Sweet Sixteen. With a surprising offensive output by Travis Walton, scoring a career-high 18 points, the Spartans were able to hold off USC to advance to the Sweet Sixteen.

In the Sweet Sixteen, MSU faced No. 14-ranked and No. 3-seeded Kansas, marking MSU's eighth trip to the Sweet Sixteen in the previous 12 years. The game was held in Indianapolis where MSU was 5–0 all-time in NCAA Tournament games. Michigan State trailed by as many as 13 in the first half as Lucas struggled from the field. MSU trailed 36–29 at the half, but started strong in the second half as Draymond Green cut the Kansas lead to just one point just three minutes into the half. Lucas sealed the win by scoring seven points in the final 49 seconds of the game (going five for five from the free throw line) as MSU advanced to the Elite Eight with a 67–62 win.

In the Elite Eight, the Spartans faced overall No. 1 seed Louisville with a chance to go to the Final Four in nearby Detroit, only 90 miles from MSU's campus. Led by MSU's rugged defense, Louisville, who had scored 103 points in their win over Arizona in the Sweet Sixteen, was held to 52 points and lost for the first time in 14 games. The Spartans, who slowed the game down, were led by Suton's 19 points and 10 rebounds and won 64–52. The win sent MSU to the Final Four for the fifth time in 11 seasons. "Detroit, here we come," said coach Tom Izzo, a Michigan native. "I can't tell you how much I'm looking forward to that." Durrell Summers contributed 10 second-half points in the win.

In Detroit for the Final Four, the Spartans practiced before a crowd of over 30,000 fans as they were clearly the hometown favorites. In the national semifinals, Michigan State faced Connecticut, another No. 1 seed, for the right to play for the national championship. Kalin Lucas led the Spartans with 21 points and Raymar Morgan added 18 as the smaller Spartans took it to the much bigger Huskies, led by Hasheem Thabeet. MSU led by two at the half and pulled away in the second to win 82–73 to advance to the national championship game. In contrast to the slowed down play against Louisville in the Elite Eight, MSU pushed the ball and wore out Thabeet and the Huskies.

In the National Championship game, the Spartans were rematched with North Carolina, whom they had also lost to earlier in the season at Ford Field. Michigan State was appearing in only its third national championship game, going 2–0 in prior trips while winning the 1979 and 2000 Tournaments. Further, under Tom Izzo, MSU was 14–2 in the second game of a weekend in NCAA Tournament play. However, the game started horribly for MSU as North Carolina jumped out to a lead of 17–7 in the first five minutes and extend the lead to 24–7 with 14 minutes remaining in the half. North Carolina scored more points than any team had ever scored in the first half of an NCAA championship game, scoring 55 and blowing out the Spartans 55–34 at the half. MSU's 14 turnovers in the first half aided the Tar Heels 52.9% shooting. The Spartans only made 12 baskets in the first half. The Spartans held UNC in check more in the second half, outscoring the Tar Heels 38–34, but it was too little too late. The Spartans were defeated by North Carolina 89–72, marking the Spartans' first ever loss in the national championship game.

The Spartans faced three No. 1 seeds (Louisville, UConn, and North Carolina) in the Tournament, only losing to North Carolina.

Roster

Schedule and results

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Player statistics

Source

Rankings

*AP does not release post-NCAA tournament rankings
Source

Awards and honors
 Kalin Lucas – Big Ten Player of the Year
 Kalin Lucas – NABC All District First Team
 Kalin Lucas – USBWA All-District Team
 Kalin Lucas – AP All-American honorable mention
 Tom Izzo – Big Ten Coach of the Year (Coaches)
 Travis Walton – Big Ten Defensive Player of the Year
 Goran Suton – All Big Ten Second Team
 Goran Suton – NABC All District Second Team
 Raymar Morgan – All Big Ten Honorable Mention
 Delvon Roe – Big Ten All-Freshman Team

References

Michigan State Spartans men's basketball seasons
Michigan State
Michigan State
NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament Final Four seasons
2008 in sports in Michigan
2009 in sports in Michigan


William Blunt (5 August 1886 – 1962) was an English footballer who played in the Football League for Wolverhampton Wanderers and Bristol Rovers.

Blunt joined Second Division Wolverhampton Wanderers in 1908 from nearby non-league side Stafford Rangers. He made his Football League debut on 28 November 1908 in a 1–2 defeat at Oldham Athletic. He scored two in his second appearance (against Clapton Orient) and ended the season with 8 goals.

The 1909–10 campaign saw him score 27 goals, making him the club's top goalscorer for the season. During this, he became the first Wolves player to score two hat-tricks during a season and twice scored 4 in games. However, an injury in Autumn 1910 halted his exploits and effectively ended his Wolves career, though he managed one further appearance in February 1912.

He moved to Bristol Rovers in 1912 and died in 1962.

References

1886 births
1962 deaths
Sportspeople from Bilston
English men's footballers
English Football League players
Stafford Rangers F.C. players
Wolverhampton Wanderers F.C. players
Bristol Rovers F.C. players
Men's association football forwards
Footballers from Wolverhampton


Prosper Jean Levot (14 December 1801 – 3 February 1878) was a French librarian and historian, author of several books on the history of Brest, Brittany and the French Navy.

Sources

Bibliography

1801 births
1878 deaths
French naval historians
French librarians
19th-century French historians
History of Brest, France
History of Brittany
French male non-fiction writers
19th-century French male writers


Cinema is the fourth solo album by Elaine Paige, released in 1984 on Warner Music. It peaked at number 12 in the UK Albums Chart.

Background
For her previous album Stages (1983), Paige had chosen tracks from musical theatre. Following this theme, Cinema features songs that had been previously recorded for film soundtracks.

Tim Rice wrote lyrics to Vangelis's theme for the film Missing specifically for this album.

Production
Cinema was the second of Paige's recordings to be produced by Tony Visconti.

Like Stages, the recording was primarily conducted at Visconti's Good Earth Studios, other than for "Sometimes" (Theme from Champions) which had been previously recorded at CTS Studios in London, featuring the New World Philharmonia.

Out-takes
In 2014, Rhino UK released the compilation album Elaine Paige: The Ultimate Collection which includes the out-take "What a Feeling" (from the film Flashdance), originally recorded as part of the Cinema album sessions.

Track listing
 "The Windmills of Your Mind" - 3.15 (Michel Legrand, Alan Bergman, Marilyn Bergman) - from the film The Thomas Crown Affair
 "Out Here On My Own" - 3.50 (Lesley Gore, Michael Gore) - from the film Fame
 "Prisoner (Love Theme from 'The Eyes of Laura Mars')" - 4.30 (Karen Lawrence, John Desautels) - from the film The Eyes of Laura Mars
 "Sometimes" - 2.34 (Norman Newell, Carl Davis) - from the film Champions
 "Theme from Mahogany (Do You Know Where You're Going To)" - 3.40 (Michael Masser, Gerry Goffin) - from the film Mahogany
 "Up Where We Belong" - 4.18 (Will Jennings, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Jack Nitzsche) - from the film An Officer and a Gentleman
 "Unchained Melody" - 3.43 (Hy Zaret, Alex North) - from the film Unchained
 "Bright Eyes" - 3.50 (Mike Batt) - from the film Watership Down
 "Alfie" - 2.51 (Hal David, Burt Bacharach) - from the film Alfie
 "Missing" - 3.55 (Vangelis, Tim Rice) - from the film Missing
 "The Way We Were" - 4.10 (Edward Kleban, Marvin Hamlisch) - from the film The Way We Were
 "The Rose" - 3.45 (Amanda McBroom) - from the film The Rose

Personnel

Musicians
 Elaine Paige – vocals
 Ian Bairnson – slide guitar
 Derek Bramble – bass guitar
 Vicki Brown – backing vocals
 Simon Chamberlain – piano
 Phil Cranham – bass guitar
 Mitch Dalton – guitars
 Andy Duncan – drums
 Herbie Flowers – bass
 Sue Glove – backing vocals
 Luis Jardim – percussion
 Sunny Leslie – backing vocals
 Barry Morgan – drums
 Robin Smith – keyboards, piano, backing vocals
 Tony Visconti – guitar, backing vocals
 Graham Ward – drums
 Ray Warleigh – saxophone

Production
 Producer and mixer – Tony Visconti
 Assistant engineers – Sven Taits and Rob Trillo
 "Sometimes" engineer – David Hunt
 "Sometimes" assistant engineer – Tim Pennington
 Rhythm and string arrangements – Robin Smith
 Woodwind and orchestral arrangements – Tony Visconti
 "Sometimes" orchestral leader – David Katz

Charts

Certifications and sales

References

1984 albums
Elaine Paige albums
Albums produced by Tony Visconti
Warner Records albums


Jan Smeets (born 5 April 1985) is a Dutch chess grandmaster. He is a two-time Dutch Chess Champion.

Playing record

2004 was the year that his participation in senior tournaments began to yield encouraging results. He finished in second place in Gouda (after Daniel Fridman) and gained the Grandmaster title the same year. At Dos Hermanas the following year, he shared third behind Fridman and Bu Xiangzhi (with Sergey Volkov) and at the 2005 Hengelo Stork Young Masters event, he finished one-half point behind the Russian grandmaster Alexander Riazantsev. This was a year of significant breakthrough for Smeets, when he recorded one of his best performances at Wijk aan Zee's Corus 'B' tournament, finishing equal with Shakhriyar Mamedyarov for a share of second place, behind Teimour Radjabov. Left in his wake were a multitude of other strong players, including Peter Heine Nielsen, Ivan Cheparinov, Alexander Onischuk, Magnus Carlsen and Predrag Nikolić.

He played successfully at the Essent Open in Hoogeveen in 2007, finishing once more as runner-up, this time with Friso Nijboer, Jan Werle and Evgeny Postny, behind surprise winner Eltaj Safarli. In 2008, there were a number of excellent results; he was the winner of the Dutch Championship at Hilversum and finished third at the Howard Staunton Memorial Tournament, after Michael Adams and Loek van Wely, but ahead of Jan Timman, Ivan Sokolov and Nigel Short. He took a share of fifth place at the EU Individual Open Chess Championship, was selected to represent the Netherlands at the Dresden Olympiad and shared second place in the four player Essent (Crown Group) Tournament, after Ivan Sokolov and equal with former World Junior Champion Ahmed Adly. It was also a year in which his Elo rating broke through the 2600 barrier. In 2010 Smeets won the Dutch Championship for the second time.

Smeets is a very keen player of team chess and competes in the national leagues of Germany (for Bundesliga team Solingen SG 1868), Belgium and the Netherlands (where he drew with former World Champion Vladimir Kramnik).

Notable games
 Mamedyarov vs Smeets, Wijk aan Zee, Corus 'B', 2005, Caro-Kann, 0-1
 Smeets vs Short, London, Staunton Memorial, 2008, Closed Spanish, 1-0

References
 2007 Corus biography
 2005 Corus 'B' final standings
 'Wild Knights' article/interview
 Essent 2007 result
 Essent 2008 result
 Dos Hermanas 2005 result

External links

1985 births
Living people
Chess grandmasters
Dutch chess players
People from Oegstgeest


No. 221 Squadron was a Royal Air Force squadron that saw service in both the First and Second World Wars. Its motto was "From sea to sea".

History
The squadron was formed in Greece on 1 April 1918, from 'D' Squadron of No. 2 Wing RNAS. Initially engaged in anti-submarine warfare in the Aegean, it was sent to Russia in December 1918 to support White forces against the Bolsheviks. The unit was based at Petrovsk from January to 1 September 1919, when it was disbanded.

On 21 November 1940, No. 221 Squadron was reformed as part of Coastal Command. It flew Vickers Wellingtons on reconnaissance and anti-submarine patrols in the Atlantic, first out of England, then Northern Ireland and later Iceland. The squadron relocated to the Middle East in January 1942 and operated in the Mediterranean for the rest of the war, disbanding at Idku, Egypt on 21 August 1945.

See also
List of Royal Air Force aircraft squadrons

References

External links

RAF Squadron website
RAF Squadron history
Air of Authority Squadron history

221
Military units and formations established in 1918
Military units and formations disestablished in 1945
1918 establishments in Greece


The Greek Men's Handball Championship, or Handball Premier, is the most important competition of Greek handball. The competition which is organised by Hellenic Handball Federation (Greek: ΟΧΕ) started in the 1979–80 season. The most successful team is Ionikos Nea Filadelfeia who has won ten titles. The last title was won by AEK.

Evangelos Kalfarentzos, fitness director of the Panhellenic Gymnastics Association of Athens (Panellinios), physical education teacher, and author, recognized as rapporteur of the sport in Greece.

Competition format
The season begins with a tournament between the twelve teams. The first six teams qualify for a play-off round, while the last three play play-out.
The top two teams of the play-off round qualify directly to the semifinals, while the other four play the top two teams of the play-out round in the quarterfinals.

2022/23 Season participants

The following 12 clubs compete in the Handball Premier during the 2022–23 season.

Previous champions

Panhellenic Championship (1979–80 to 1981–82)
 1980 :  Ionikos Nea Filadelfeia
 1981 :  Ionikos Nea Filadelfeia (2)
 1982 :  Ionikos Nea Filadelfeia (3)
Alpha Ethniki (1982–83 to 1988–89)
 1983 :  Ionikos Nea Filadelfeia (4)
 1984 :  Ionikos Nea Filadelfeia (5)
 1985 :  Ionikos Nea Filadelfeia (6)
 1986 :  Filippos Veria
 1987 :  Ionikos Nea Filadelfeia (7)
 1988 :  Filippos Veria (2)
 1989 :  Filippos Veria (3)
A1 Ethniki (1989–90 to 2014–15)
 1990 :  Filippos Veria
 1991 :  Filippos Veria (5)

 1992 :  Ionikos Nea Filadelfeia (8)
 1993 :  Ionikos Nea Filadelfeia (9)
 1994 :  Filippos Veria (6)
 1995 :  Filippos Veria (7)
 1996 :  ESN Vrilissia
 1997 :  GE Veria
 1998 :  ASE Douka
 1999 :  Ionikos Nea Filadelfeia (10)
 2000 :  Panellinios
 2001 :  ASE Douka (2)
 2002 :  Panellinios (2)
 2003 :  Filippos Veria (8)
 2004 :  Panellinios (3)
 2005 :  Athinaikos
 2006 :  Panellinios (4)
 2007 :  Panellinios (5)
 2008 :  ASE Douka (3)

 2009 :  PAOK
 2010 :  PAOK (2)
 2011 :  AEK
 2012 :  Diomidis Argous
 2013 :  AEK (2)
 2014 :  Diomidis Argous (2)
 2015 :  PAOK (3)
Handball Premier (2015–16 to present)
 2016 :  Filippos Veria (9)
 2017 :  IEK Xini DIKEAS
 2018 :   Olympiacos
 2019 :  Olympiacos (2)
 2020 :  AEK (3)
 2021 :  AEK (4)
 2022 :  Olympiacos (3)
 2023 :  AEK (5)

Performances

By club

By city
Twelve clubs from five cities have won the championship.

EHF coefficient ranking

Greek handball clubs in European competitions
EHF Cup Winners' Cup:

EHF European Cup:

Sources
Hellenic Handball Federation, Champions

References

External links
Hellenic Handball Federation
Hatzi Handball

Handball in Greece
Greece
Hand
Men's sports competitions in Greece
Handball
Professional sports leagues in Greece


Swing High, Swing Low may refer to:

"Swing High, Swing Low" (song), a 1930s R&B song written by Ralph Freed and Burton Lane, recorded by The Ink Spots
Swing High, Swing Low (album), a 1991 compilation album by American early R&B group The Ink Spots
Swing High, Swing Low (film), a 1937 film starring Carole Lombard and Fred MacMurray


Clifton Township may refer to:

Arkansas
 Clifton Township, Faulkner County, Arkansas, in Faulkner County, Arkansas

Kansas
 Clifton Township, Washington County, Kansas, in Washington County, Kansas

 Clifton Township, Wilson County, Kansas

Minnesota
 Clifton Township, Lyon County, Minnesota
 Clifton Township, Traverse County, Minnesota

Missouri
 Clifton Township, Randolph County, Missouri

North Carolina
 Clifton Township, Ashe County, North Carolina

North Dakota
 Clifton Township, Cass County, North Dakota, in Cass County, North Dakota

Pennsylvania
 Clifton Township, Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania

South Dakota
 Clifton Township, Beadle County, South Dakota, in Beadle County, South Dakota
 Clifton Township, Spink County, South Dakota, in Spink County, South Dakota

Township name disambiguation pages


Zsámbék () is a town in Pest County, Hungary.

Location
Zsámbék is located 30 km west of Budapest along the M1 motorway in the Gerecse Mountains. Its neighbouring villages are Tök, Perbál, Páty, Herceghalom, Mány, Bicske, and Szomor.

History

Zsámbék has been inhabited  since Paleolithic times. It has seen Celtic, Roman and Avar populations throughout its history, according to archaeological finds. A Celtic coach's remains were found there as well as a bronze trumpet.

In the 1180s the wife of Béla III of Hungary, Margaret Capet, who was the step-sister of the French king Philippe Auguste,  granted land around the village to a knight named Aynard, in recognition of his service to the King for safely escorting Margaret from Paris to Esztergom in 1186. His origin is obscure, but he would certainly have been selected for the military responsibility from those who the French king trusted. The only identifiable person in the king's entourage named Aynard was at one time the Viscount of Limoges, who had been outlawed by the Anglo-Norman court of Henry II in 1183. This person was assassinated in Paris in the year 1199. Aynard's family built the Premonstratensian church beginning in 1220.

The church was destroyed in 1241 during the Mongolian invasions. Following the destruction, during the reign of Béla IV of Hungary, the church and monastery were rebuilt. Positioned at an important merchant route — halfway between Esztergom and Székesfehérvár and near Buda — the village underwent rapid growth.

In 1467 Matthias Corvinus granted the rights of a borough. He also gave the fortress to his son, John Corvinus.

In 1541, Turkish troops occupied the fortress and held it for 145 years. During this occupation, they also built a Turkish bath, the ruins of which are still visible in the village.

In 1686 general János Bottyán fought there against the Turks. Later the Zichy family became the landowners of the region. They then rebuilt the castle.

An earthquake in 1763 ruined the church once again. It was not reconstructed after this horrific event. Settlers from Germany, who came to live in the abandoned village after the Turkish occupation, took the stones from the church and used them for building houses and fences. Many of the church's stones are still present in the walls of older houses.

In 1946, as part of the larger expulsion of Volksdeutsch from central Europe, 3,700 German inhabitants of Zsámbék—or approximately 95% of the town's population—were forcibly resettled to Germany. Ethnic Hungarian settlers from the Great Hungarian Plain repopulated the town.

Notable people
József Molnár, painter
Joseph Gungl, Austrian composer

Twin towns – sister cities

Zsámbék is twinned with:
 Mărtiniș, Romania
 Miglianico, Italy
 Wettenberg, Germany
 Zawiercie, Poland

References

Further reading
Dercsényi, D. (1972): Románkori építészet Magyarországon. Corvina, Budapest
Gerevich, T. (1938): Magyarország románkori emlékei. (Die romanische Denkmäler Ungarns.) Egyetemi nyomda. Budapest
Gerő, L. (1984): Magyar műemléki ABC. (Hungarian Architectural Heritage ABC.) Budapest
Gervers-Molnár, V. (1972): A középkori Magyarország rotundái. (Rotunda in the Medieval Hungary). Akadémiai, Budapest
Henszlmann, I. (1876): Magyarország ó-keresztyén, román és átmeneti stylü mű-emlékeinek rövid ismertetése, (Old-Christian, Romanesque and Transitional Style Architecture in Hungary). Királyi Magyar Egyetemi Nyomda, Budapest

External links

Official website
Circular panorama
Aerial photographs
Zsámbék.lap.hu - link collection to Zsámbékyűjtemény

Populated places in Pest County
Romanesque architecture in Hungary
Hungarian German communities


King's Academy Prospect is a coeducational secondary school and sixth form located in West Reading, Berkshire, England.

History
Stoneham Secondary School for Boys opened in April 1956 and Westwood Girls School opened in April 1958. Prospect School was formed in 1985 by combining Stoneham Boys School and Westwood Girls School. To this day the school has two entrances because the combined Stoneham and Westwood buildings were originally built close to each other and each had its own entrance.

Prospect School became an academy on 1 July 2011 and is now sponsored by the King's Group Academies. The school was later renamed King's Academy Prospect to reflect this.

Admissions
The school caters for those in Key Stage 3 and Key Stage 4 and Sixth Form Key Stage 5, between the ages of 11 and 18. The school follows the National Curriculum. The school currently has 1,200 students. The school is part of the Multi Academy Trust King's Group Academies (KGA).

Buildings
King's Academy Prospect is situated on a 34-acre green site on the western outskirts of Reading. A capital investment of £5.6 million resulted in refurbished Science and Art facilities, a modern Learning Centre as a base for the Sixth Form and a building that houses a Hair and Beauty salon, Motor Vehicle and Construction teaching yards and high level computer suites. The school has a total of 7 Blocks consisting of:

 A block = Geography, History, R.E., Music, Art and Drama, Health and Social Care
 B block = Science and Technology
 C block = Science, Business, Accounting, ICT and Computing
 D block = English, Mathematics, Sociology and Psychology
 Sports Hall = (E Block) P.E.
 Sixth Form Centre = (F block)   Modern Foreign Languages and PE
 Loddon Building = (G block)  Hair and Beauty, Technology, Construction and Media Studies

Curriculum
The school teaches: English Language, English Literature, Mathematics, Science, French, German, History, Geography, Religious Studies, Art, Business Studies, Health and Social Care, Computing, ICT, Music, Drama, Dance, Physical Education, Technology (including Food, Graphics, Resistant Material and Textile Technology), Sociology,  PSHE/Well-Being, Accountancy.

The school offers a range of subjects for GCSE & A-Level; most of the above and many more including Motor Vehicle Maintenance, Construction, Hairdressing and Media Studies.

References

Famous People

External links

 EduBase

Secondary schools in Reading, Berkshire
Academies in Reading, Berkshire


The Arboretum du Chemin de la Découverte is an arboretum located in Melle, Deux-Sèvres, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France. It is open daily without charge.

The arboretum was established in 1987 along a disused railway track (6 km), and now contains more than 1,000 species of woody plants, with good collections of ash, birch, chestnut, hackberry, hornbeam, lime trees, and willows, as well as more than 250 rose varieties.

See also
 List of botanical gardens in France

References
 Arboretum du Chemin de la Découverte
 Jardinez entry (French)
 Gralon.net entry (French)
 Bellebouche description
 Lagroie description

Gardens in Deux-Sèvres
Chemin de la découverte


Ipso Facto were an English goth-inflected, melodramatic psychedelic rock band. Founded in 2007 by Rosalie Cunningham (singer, songwriter, guitar), Victoria Smith (drums), Cherish Kaya (keyboards) and Samantha Valentine (bass guitar). They were based in London but individually originated from different parts of the UK, including Southend, Newcastle and Bedford. Before Ipso Facto, Cunningham and Valentine played in the Southend band Theoretical Girl.

The band appeared on the 'BBC Introducing Stage' at the Reading Festival, supporting The Last Shadow Puppets on their 2008 tour. They went on to support post-punk band Magazine on their 2009 reunion tour.

Ipso Facto split up while touring Italy in 2009, just before recording a new album. Cherish Kaya left first, citing in-fighting on musical direction as the key reason for her departure. Kaya went on to play keyboard and violin for Florence and the Machine before founding an independent record label, Kaya Kaya Records. Rosalie Cunningham founded Purson. Samantha Valentine joined Romance and now teaches yoga. Victoria Smith became a touring drummer for groups such as MIA, Jamie T, Miles Kane and Soulwax.

Discography

Singles
 "Harmonise" / "Balderdash" (Disc Error), October 2007
 "Ears and Eyes" (PureGroove), August 2008
 "Six and Three-Quarters" / "Circle of Fifths" (Mute Records), October 2008

EPs
 IF... (Vinyl Junkie, Japan), February 2009

References

All-female punk bands
English indie rock groups
English psychedelic rock music groups
British garage rock groups
English gothic rock groups
Musical groups from London
English musical quartets


Buckpool Golf Club is located in Buckie, Moray on the Moray Firth coast of Scotland. This 18 hole course is set out on a clifftop location at the extreme western end of Buckpool. UK Golf Guide describes it as a links course with superlative view over Moray Firth

The course was created in the 1930s and part of the purpose of the project was to create jobs in a time of high unemployment, especially in the herring fishing industry. Golf website St Andrews.com  describes Buckpool thus whilst reflecting on its origins as a job creation scheme, for a course of this quality some of today's multi-millionaire course designers would be shaking in their soft-spikes if such schemes were resurrected. In the early sixties the Town Council, which had maintained both Buckpool and Buckie's other course Strathlene decided to close Buckpool due to economic reasons. A group of enthusiasts formed a private club and leased the course which has come a long way from the old farmhouse which was the clubhouse to the present building situated besides the 10th and 18th greens. In 1999 the land was purchased from Moray Council by the members.

Buckpool provides a full calendar of tournaments throughout the season for both Ladies and Gents sections and regular competition for Seniors and Juniors as well.

Today the course plays to a par of 70 and is 6127 yards in length.

Buckpool Golf Club is notable as being the venue for Paul Lawrie's maiden professional tournament victory when he won the 1986 Moray Seafoods Open which was, incidentally, his first ever tournament as a pro.

References

External links
Website

Golf clubs and courses in Moray
Buckie


Restless Heart was an American country music band founded in 1984 by John Dittrich, Paul Gregg, Dave Innis, Greg Jennings, and Larry Stewart. Active from 1984 to 1994, in 1998, and from 2002 onward, the band has released eight studio albums, seven compilation albums, and two live albums. Its second through fifth studio albums—Wheels, Big Dreams in a Small Town, Fast Movin' Train, and Big Iron Horses—have all been certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).

Restless Heart has also charted six number one singles on the Hot Country Songs chart: "That Rock Won't Roll", "I'll Still Be Loving You", "Why Does It Have to Be (Wrong or Right)", "Wheels", "The Bluest Eyes in Texas", and "A Tender Lie". Besides these songs, the band has nine other top ten singles on that chart. Two of the band's singles—"I'll Still Be Loving You" and "When She Cries"—both reached the top 40 on the Billboard Hot 100.

Studio albums

Compilation albums

Live albums

Singles

1980s

1990s–2010s

As a featured artist

Notes

Other charted songs

Videography

Music videos

Album appearances

References

Country music discographies
Discographies of American artists
Discography


A House is Built (1929) is the first novel of M. Barnard Eldershaw, the joint pseudonym of Marjorie Barnard and Flora Eldershaw. It was written as a result of their seeing an advertisement for The Bulletin prize. The novel won this prize in 1928, shared with Katharine Susannah Prichard's Coonardoo. It was originally serialised in The Bulletin under the title, The Quartermaster.

Plot introduction
The novel centres on James Hyde and his family.  A former Royal Navy quartermaster, in 1837 Hyde sets up a business in early Sydney.  He brings his family to Australia and would have his sons and grandsons continue his business.  They are either disinclined to take up the business or more interested in the Australian gold-fields. His daughter Fanny has all the qualities needed to continue the family business. Constricted by gender stereotypes, Hyde, his business, and his family fall into tragedy.

References

External links
 A House is Built from The Cambridge Companion to Australian Literature at Google Books
 A House is Built at the National Library of Australia

1929 Australian novels
Collaborative novels
Novels first published in serial form
Works originally published in The Bulletin (Australian periodical)
Works published under a pseudonym
Novels set in Sydney
Australian historical novels
George G. Harrap and Co. books


The 2003 Pacific Life Open was a tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the 30th edition of the Indian Wells Masters and was part of the Tennis Masters Series of the 2003 ATP Tour and of Tier I of the 2003 WTA Tour. Both the men's and women's events took place at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden in Indian Wells, California in the United States from March 5 through March 16, 2003.

Champions

Men's singles

 Lleyton Hewitt defeated  Gustavo Kuerten, 6–1, 6–1
 It was Hewitt's 2nd title of the year and the 21st of his career. It was his 1st Masters title of the year and his 2nd overall. It was also his 2nd title at the event after winning in 2002.

Women's singles

 Kim Clijsters defeated  Lindsay Davenport 6–4, 7–5
 It was Clijsters' 4th title of the year and the 19th of her career. It was her 1st Tier I title.

Men's doubles

 Wayne Ferreira /  Yevgeny Kafelnikov defeated  Bob Bryan /  Mike Bryan 3–6, 7–5, 6–4
 It was Ferreira's 1st title of the year and the 25th of his career. It was Kafelnikov's 1st title of the year and the 52nd of his career.

Women's doubles

 Lindsay Davenport /  Lisa Raymond defeated  Kim Clijsters /  Ai Sugiyama 3–6, 6–4, 6–1
 It was Davenport's 2nd title of the year and the 72nd of her career. It was Raymond's 2nd title of the year and the 43rd of her career.

References

External links

 Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) tournament profile
 WTA Tournament Profile

Pacific Life Open
Pacific Life Open
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Pacific Life Open


Paul John Butler (born 9 June 1964) is an English former footballer who played as a midfielder in the Football League for Wolverhampton Wanderers, Hereford United and Hartlepool United.

Career
Butler was born in Stockton-on-Tees, and began his career at Wolverhampton Wanderers as an apprentice. He made his senior debut for the club on 28 August 1982 as a substitute in a 2–1 win over Blackburn Rovers, the first of ten appearances during the 1982–83 season.

After making just three substitute appearances in the top flight, he was loaned to Hereford United in the second half of the 1983–84 season to gain playing time. He returned to Wolves first team contention during the next season, playing 21 times and scoring his only two goals for the club. However, he returned to Hereford on a permanent basis before the end of the season.

He finished his league career with a season at Hartlepool United in 1987–88 before moving into non-league football with Brandon United for the 1988–89 season.

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1964 births
Living people
Footballers from Stockton-on-Tees
English men's footballers
Men's association football midfielders
Wolverhampton Wanderers F.C. players
Hereford United F.C. players
Hartlepool United F.C. players
English Football League players
Brandon United F.C. players


Michal Hipp (born 13 March 1963) is a Slovak football manager and a former player.

Playing career
Hipp began his football career in his native village Horná Kráľová. When he was twelve years old, he started playing in the youth team and then progressed to the first team when he was sixteen. In 1983 Hipp got an offer to transfer to Slovan Duslo Šaľa by coach Jozef Adamec. There he played as a right midfielder. Then he left for MŠK Hurbanovo as he completed compulsory military service in the town.

In October 1984 he went to Plastika Nitra. Hipp debuted in the Czechoslovak First League in the 1986–87 season in a match against FC Bohemians Praha. In 1989–90 season FC Nitra qualified for the UEFA Cup. They lost both matches against 1. FC Köln with an aggregate score of 5–1.

Also he played for Czech side Slavia Prague and 1. FC Košice.

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1963 births
Living people
People from Šaľa District
Footballers from the Nitra Region
Slovak men's footballers
Slovak football managers
Slovakia men's international footballers
Czechoslovak men's footballers
Czechoslovak expatriate men's footballers
Czechoslovakia men's international footballers
Dual men's international footballers
Men's association football defenders
FC Nitra players
Czech First League players
SK Slavia Prague players
FC VSS Košice players
First Vienna FC players
FK Slovan Duslo Šaľa players
Slovak First Football League players
Expatriate men's footballers in Austria
Czechoslovak expatriate sportspeople in Austria
ŠK Slovan Bratislava managers
FC Petržalka managers
FC Nitra managers
Slovakia national football team managers
FC Vysočina Jihlava managers
Szombathelyi Haladás football managers
Nemzeti Bajnokság I managers
Czech First League managers
Expatriate football managers in Hungary
Expatriate football managers in the Czech Republic
Expatriate football managers in Kazakhstan
Slovak expatriate sportspeople in Hungary
Slovak expatriate sportspeople in the Czech Republic
Slovak expatriate sportspeople in Kazakhstan


Felix Ademola Aladesanmi (born 9 September 1974) is a Nigerian former professional football who played as a midfielder.

Career
Ademola played for Stationery Stores F.C., France-based club RC Lens, Belgian RFC Liège, Colombian team Deportes Tolima, then Skeid Fotball and FK Haugesund and Swedish side Husqvarna FF. He returned to Norway and played for Hamarkameratene, Hønefoss BK, Vard Haugesund and Manglerud Star in Norway. In the second half of 2009 he was loaned out to Årvoll IL.

Personal life
Ademola's son, Kevin Aladesanmi, is a professional footballer.

References

1974 births
Living people
Men's association football midfielders
Nigerian men's footballers
Yoruba sportspeople
RC Lens players
RFC Liège players
Deportes Tolima footballers
FK Haugesund players
Hamarkameratene players
Hønefoss BK players
SK Vard Haugesund players
Manglerud Star Toppfotball players
Skeid Fotball players
Categoría Primera A players
Eliteserien players
Nigerian expatriate men's footballers
Expatriate men's footballers in Colombia
Expatriate men's footballers in Belgium
Nigerian expatriate sportspeople in Belgium
Expatriate men's footballers in France
Nigerian expatriate sportspeople in France
Expatriate men's footballers in Norway
Nigerian expatriate sportspeople in Norway
Expatriate men's footballers in Sweden
Nigerian expatriate sportspeople in Sweden
Aladesanmi family
Nigeria men's international footballers