John Lemesurier (or Le Mesurier or LeMesurier) (28 January 1826 — 26 June 1891) was a Canadian politician, serving as Mayor of Quebec City from January 1868 to November 1869.

Biography
John Lemesurier was the son of Mary Thompson and Charles Lemesurier, the latter whom was born on Jersey, and served in the Royal Navy under the British Vice Admiral, Lord Horatio Nelson, for nine years and was present at the famed engagement at Trafalgar, where Lord Nelson lost his life at age 47.

John Lemesurier was born on January 28, 1826, in Gaspé, and in 1847, sailed on board the schooner "Antelope" for Quebec City. It was wrecked coming up the Saint Lawrence River. He returned to Gaspé and embarked on the "Mary;" he was then wrecked a second time. It is reported that, enduring great hardship and privation, Lemesurier and crew members walked over the snow and ice to Sault-au-Cochon. He stayed there with two crew members and worked for the Price family. The remaining crew members headed for Quebec City.

The following spring, Lemesurier crossed to the south shore and made his way on foot to Quebec, then returned to the fishery business in Gaspé. Young Lemesurier set out a third time for Quebec City. The schooner took 21 days, but this time he made it to his destination. His first job was with a Mr. Withall who became vice president of the Quebec Bank. In the second year a trifling increase was made to his small salary. Finally, Withall sold his business to Lemesurier, who made a success of it. Next he started an oakum manufactory, probably to help a brother, but it did not prosper.

From January 1861 to January 1868, he was a member of the Quebec City Council, and in December 1867, was elected mayor with the support of the working class, defeating the incumbent, Joseph Cauchon, who later became governor of Manitoba. Following Lemesurier's first term, the people of Quebec re-elected him by acclamation. During the first year of his mayoralty, John Lemesurier, delivered the welcome address to H. R. H. Prince Arthur and dined with him at a dinner given by Sir Narcisse Belleau at the Stadacona Club.  While Lemesurier retained office as chief magistrate, a labor riot broke out. He was ordered to read the Riot Act, but this he refused to do. Instead, he courageously went amidst the rioters and, by diplomatic persuasion, induced them to disperse. Because armed troops had been ordered up, Lemesurier's cool headed daring probably saved bloodshed. He left politics in 1869, to take care of his tobacco venture that was in financial distress.

Mr. Lemesurier was actively engaged in Liberal party politics, and in October 1877, was asked to introduce Wilfrid Laurier to a meeting that took place in his store. In his introduction, he is reported to have "made a very able speech against the corrupt government to which Mr. Laurier was opposing his energy and talents," and "spoke in felicitous terms of the great reforms made by the reform parties all over the world, and said that if the just measures of reformers had been carried out, we would not have discontent or disaffection anywhere."

John Lemesurier married Marie Sylvain of Quebec, a French Canadian Catholic who was 12-years his senior, and they had five children. In 1870, he opened a brewery and tannery, but not satisfied with the results, he gave them up and, in 1873, went into tobacco manufacturing, taking his sons William and Henry as partners. This enterprise became one of the largest of its type in the province.

In addition, Lemesurier became owner of fairly extensive real estate holdings.  A biographer, writing in a flowery 19th-century style, gives John Lemesurier very high marks for his accomplishments in Quebec City, saying, "Possibly, in Quebec City, there is no man stands higher 'rated' amongst the banking community, with whom he has always done business, than John Lemesurier." His tobacco company, Lemesurier and Sons, was found to be worth around $10,000 around 1890, which was then appreciable.

After a year-long illness and at the age of 65-years-old, John Lemesurier died on June 26, 1891, at his residence on rue Saint-François Est in the Saint-Roch neighbourhood of Quebec City. He is buried next to his wife, Marie, in Mount Hermon Cemetery, located in Quebec City's Sillery neighbourhood.

References

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Mayors of Quebec City
1826 births
1891 deaths
Canadian people of Jersey descent
People from Gaspé, Quebec
Burials at Mount Hermon Cemetery


Intermittent fasting is any of various meal timing schedules that cycle between voluntary fasting (or reduced calorie intake) and non-fasting over a given period. Methods of intermittent fasting include alternate-day fasting, periodic fasting such as the 5:2 diet, and daily time-restricted eating (TRE).

Intermittent fasting has been studied to find whether it can reduce the risk of diet-related diseases, such as metabolic syndrome. A 2019 review concluded that intermittent fasting may help with obesity, insulin resistance, dyslipidemia, hypertension, and inflammation. There is preliminary evidence that intermittent fasting is generally safe.
Adverse effects of intermittent fasting have not been comprehensively studied, leading some academics to point out its risk as a dietary fad. The US National Institute on Aging states that there is insufficient evidence to recommend intermittent fasting, and encourages speaking to one's healthcare provider about the benefits and risks before making any significant changes to one's eating pattern.

Fasting exists in various religious practices, including Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, Jainism, and Judaism.

History
Fasting is an ancient tradition, having been practiced by many cultures and religions over centuries.

Therapeutic intermittent fasts for the treatment of obesity have been investigated since at least 1915, with a renewed interest in the medical community in the 1960s after Bloom and his colleagues published an "enthusiastic report". Intermittent fasts, or "short-term starvation periods", ranged from 1 to 14 days in these early studies. This enthusiasm penetrated lay magazines, which prompted researchers and clinicians to caution about the use of intermittent fasts without medical monitoring.

Types

There are multiple methods of intermittent fasting.

 Time restricted eating (TRE): involves eating only during a certain number of hours each day, often establishing a consistent daily pattern of caloric intake within an 8–12-hour time window. This schedule may align food intake with circadian rhythms (establishing eating windows that begin after sunrise and end around sunset). Research has shown that time-restricted eating may mitigate obesity, and aid in the improvement of general heart health.
 Alternate-day fasting: involves alternating between a 24-hour "fast day" when the person eats less than 25% of usual energy needs, followed by a 24-hour non-fasting "feast day" period.  There are two subtypes:
 Complete alternate-day fasting: total intermittent energy restriction, where no calories are consumed on fasting days.
 Modified alternate-day fasting: partial intermittent energy restriction which allows the consumption of up to 25% of daily calorie needs on fasting days instead of complete fasting. This is akin to alternating days with normal eating and days with a very-low-calorie diet.

 5:2 Diet: A type of periodic fasting (that does not follow a particular food pattern) which focuses entirely on calorie content.  In other words, two days of the week are devoted to consumption of approximately 500 to 600 calories, or about 25% of regular daily caloric intake, with normal calorie intake during the other five days of the week. It was first documented in a 2011 article co-authored by Michelle Harvie, Mark Mattson, and 14 additional scientists. It was later popularized in the UK and Australia by Michael Mosley though the 2012 BBC documentary Eat, Fast and Live Longer (where he learned about the 5:2 diet from Mark Mattson). It also became common in Australia.

 Periodic fasting or whole-day fasting: involves intermittent periods of water fasting longer than 24 hours.

The science concerning intermittent fasting is preliminary and uncertain due to an absence of studies on its long term effects. Preliminary evidence indicates that intermittent fasting may be effective for weight loss, may decrease insulin resistance and fasting insulin, and may improve cardiovascular and metabolic health, although the long term sustainability of these effects has not been studied.

Research

Body weight and metabolic disease risk
There is limited evidence that intermittent fasting produces weight loss comparable to a calorie restricted diet. Most studies on intermittent fasting in humans have observed weight loss, ranging from 2.5% to 9.9%.

The reductions in body weight can be attributed to the loss of fat mass and some lean mass. For time restricted eating the ratio of weight loss is 4:1 for fat mass to lean mass, respectively. Alternate-day fasting does not affect lean body mass, although one review found a small decrease.

Alternate-day fasting improves cardiovascular and metabolic biomarkers similarly to a calorie restriction diet in people who are overweight, obese or have metabolic syndrome.  As of 2021, it remains uncertain whether intermittent fasting could prevent cardiovascular disease.

Intermittent fasting has not been studied in children, elderly, or underweight people, and may be harmful in these populations. Intermittent fasting is not recommended for people who are not overweight, and the long-term sustainability of intermittent fasting is unknown .

A 2021 review found that moderate alternate-day fasting for two to six months was associated with reductions of body weight, body mass index, and cardiometabolic risk factors in overweight or obese adults.

Other effects
Intermittent fasting is not recommended to treat cancer in France, the United Kingdom, or the United States, although a few small-scale clinical studies suggest that it may reduce chemotherapy side effects. Periodic fasting may have a minor effect on chronic pain and mood disorders.

Athletic performance does not benefit from intermittent fasting. Overnight fasting before exercise increases lipolysis, but reduces performance in prolonged exercise (more than 60 min).

Side effects

There is preliminary evidence that intermittent fasting appears safe for people without diabetes or eating disorders.

Reviews of preliminary clinical studies found that short-term intermittent fasting may produce minor side effects, such as continuous feelings of hunger, irritability, dizziness, nausea, headaches, and impaired thinking, although these effects disappear within a month from beginning the fasting practice. A 2018 systematic review found no major adverse effects. Intermittent fasting is not recommended for pregnant or breastfeeding women, growing children and adolescents, the elderly, or individuals with or vulnerable to eating disorders.

Tolerance
Tolerance of a diet is a determinant of the potential effectiveness and maintenance of benefits obtained, such as weight loss or biomarker improvement. A 2019 review found that drop-out rates varied widely from 2% to 38% for intermittent fasting, and from 0% to 50% for calorie restriction diet.

Possible mechanisms

Preliminary research indicates that fasting may induce a transition through four states:
 The fed state or absorptive state during satiety, when the primary fuel source is glucose and body fat storage is active, lasting for about 4 hours;
 The postabsorptive state, lasting for up to 18 hours, when glucagon is secreted and the body uses liver glucose reserves as a fuel source;
 The fasted state, transitioning progressively to other reserves, such as fat, lactic acid, and alanine, as fuel sources, when the liver glucose reserves are depleted, occurring after 12 to 36 hours of continued fast;
 The shift from preferential lipid synthesis and fat storage, to the mobilization of fat (in the form of free fatty acids), metabolized into fatty acid-derived ketones to provide energy. Some authors call this transition the "metabolic switch".

A 2019 review of weight-change interventions, including alternate day fasting, time-restricted feeding, exercise and overeating, found that body weight homeostasis could not precisely correct "energetic errors" – the loss or gain of calories – in the short-term.

Another pathway for effects of meal timing on metabolism lies in the influence of the circadian rhythm over the endocrine system, especially on glucose metabolism and leptin. Preliminary studies found that eating when melatonin is secreted  during darkness and commonly when sleeping at night  is associated with increased glucose levels in young healthy adults, and obesity and cardiovascular disorders in less healthy individuals. Reviews on obesity prevention concluded that "meal timing appears as a new potential target in weight control strategies" and suggest that "timing and content of food intake, physical activity, and sleep may be modulated to counteract" circadian and metabolic genetic predispositions to obesity.

Intermittent feeding
Other feeding schemes, such as hypocaloric feeding and intermittent feeding, also called bolus feeding were under study. A 2019 meta-analysis found that intermittent feeding may be more beneficial for premature infants, although better designed studies are required to devise clinical practices. In adults, reviews have not found intermittent feeding to increase glucose variability or gastrointestinal intolerance. A meta-analysis found intermittent feeding had no influence on gastric residual volumes and aspiration, pneumonia, mortality nor morbidity in people with a trauma, but increased the risk of diarrhea.

Food production
Intermittent fasting, or "skip-a-day" feeding, is supposedly the most common feeding strategy for poultry in broiler breeder farms worldwide, as an alternative to adding bulky fibers to the diet to reduce growth. It is perceived as welfare-reducing and thus illegal in several European countries including Sweden. Intermittent fasting in poultry appears to increase food consumption but reduce appetitive behaviors such as foraging.

Religious fasting

Some different types of fastings exist in some religious practices. These include the Black Fast of Christianity (commonly practiced during Lent), Vrata (Hinduism), Ramadan (Islam), Yom Kippur (Judaism), Fast Sunday (The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints), Jain fasting, and Buddhist fasting. Religious fasting practices may only require abstinence from certain foods or last for a short period of time and cause negligible effects.

Hinduism
A Vrata/Nombu is observed either as an independent private ritual at a date of one's choice, as part of a particular ceremony such as wedding, or as a part of a major festival such as Diwali (Lakshmi, festival of lights), Shivaratri (Shiva), Navratri (Durga or Rama), Kandasashti (Muruga), Ekadashi (Krishna, Vishnu avatars).

Christianity
In Christianity, many adherents of Christian denominations including Catholics, Lutherans, Methodists, Anglicans, and the Orthodox, often observe the Friday Fast throughout the year, which commonly includes abstinence from meat. Throughout the liturgical season of Lent (and especially on Ash Wednesday and Good Friday) in the Christian calendar, many Christians practice a form of intermittent fasting in which one can consume two collations and one full meal; others partake of the Black Fast, in which no food is consumed until sundown.

Buddhism
In Buddhism, fasting is undertaken as part of the monastic training of Theravada Buddhist monks, who fast daily from noon to sunrise of the next day. This daily fasting pattern may be undertaken by laypeople following the eight precepts.

Islam
During Ramadan, Islamic practices are similar to intermittent fasting by not eating or drinking from dawn until sunset, while permitting food intake in the morning before dawn and in the evening after dusk for 30 days. A meta-analysis on the health of Muslims during Ramadan shows significant weight loss during the fasting period of up to , but this weight was regained within about two weeks thereafter. The analysis concluded that "Ramadan provides an opportunity to lose weight, but structured and consistent lifestyle modifications are necessary to achieve lasting weight loss." One review found similarities between Ramadan and time-restricted feeding, with the main dissimilarity being the disallowance of water drinking with Islamic fasting. In a 2020 review, Ramadan fasting caused a significant decrease in LDL cholesterol levels, and a slight decline in total cholesterol.

A review of the metabolic effects of fasting showed that religious fasting proved to be beneficial in terms of "body weight and glycemia, cardiometabolic risk markers, and oxidative stress parameters", where animals, in the study, that followed a diet regimen consistent with that of religious fasting, were observed to have weight loss in addition to "lowered plasma levels of glucose, triacylglycerols, and insulin growth factor-1". Negative effects of Ramadan fasting include increased risk of hypoglycemia in diabetics, as well as inadequate levels of certain nutrients. Ramadan disallows fluids during the fasting period. This type of fasting would be hazardous for pregnant women, as it is associated with risks of inducing labor and causing gestational diabetes, although it does not appear to affect the child's weight. For these reasons, pregnant women, as well as children who have not reached puberty, the elderly, those who are physically or mentally incapable of fasting, travelers, and breast-feeding mothers are often exempt from religious fasting – Ramadan being one example.

Recommendations

United States
The American Heart Association (AHA) says that as with other fad diets, there is no good evidence of heart health benefits from intermittent fasting.

The American Diabetes Association "found limited evidence about the safety and/or effects of intermittent fasting on type 1 diabetes" and preliminary results of weight loss for type 2 diabetes, and so does not recommend any specific dietary pattern for the management of diabetes until more research is done, recommending instead that "health care providers should focus on the key factors that are common among the patterns".

The National Institute on Aging states that although intermittent fasting showed weight loss success in several studies on obese or overweight individuals, it does not recommend intermittent fasting for non-overweight individuals because of uncertainties about its effectiveness and safety, especially for older adults.

New Zealand
The New Zealand's Ministry of Health considers that intermittent fasting can be advised by doctors to some people, except diabetics, stating that these "diets can be as effective as other energy-restricted diets, and some people may find them easier to stick to" but there are possible side effects during fasting days such as "hunger, low energy levels, light-headedness and poor mental functioning" and note that healthy food must be chosen on non-fasting days.

United Kingdom
According to NHS Choices, people considering the 5:2 diet should first consult a physician, as fasting can sometimes be unsafe.
A news item in the Canadian Medical Association Journal expressed concern that promotional material for the 5:2 diet showed people eating high-calorie food, such as hamburgers and chips, and that this could encourage binge eating since the implication was that "if you fast two days a week, you can devour as much junk as your gullet can swallow during the remaining five days". Binge eating following dietary restrictions has been observed in a post-war famine study, where nineteen prisoners of war were observed during their rehabilitation with unlimited access to food, and found they tended to engage in binge eating.

Europe
Given the lack of advantage and the increased incidence of diarrhea, European guidelines do not recommend intermittent feeding for people in intensive care units.

Usage trends

, intermittent fasting was a common fad diet, attracting celebrity endorsements and public interest.

UK and Australia
Intermittent fasting (specifically the 5:2 diet) was popularized by Michael Mosley in the UK and Australia in 2012 after the BBC2 television Horizon documentary Eat, Fast and Live Longer.

North America
In the United States, intermittent fasting became a trend in Silicon Valley, California. It was the most popular diet in 2018, according to a survey by the International Food Information Council.

Commercial activity
, interest in intermittent fasting led some companies to commercialize diet coaching, dietary supplements, and full meal packages. These companies were criticized for offering expensive products or services that were not backed by science.

See also

 List of diets

References

External links
 The benefits of intermittent fasting Jane E. Brody, The New York Times, 17 February 2020
 Intermittent fasting Harriet Hall, Science-Based Medicine, December 2015

Diets
Eating behaviors of humans
Fad diets
Fasting


Ivory Coast–Russia relations () are the bilateral relations between Ivory Coast and Russia. Russia works on UN missions to help the people of Ivory Coast. The help is sometimes done from the Russian embassy in Abidjan, but is also done from the embassy in Accra, Ghana. From these point of view, Russia regarded the outcome of the extraordinary summit held in Dakar, Senegal, of the Economic Community for West African States.

History
After the breakup of the Soviet Union, the relations between the two countries became strong and friendly. Ever since Russia has sent UN missions to the country, the relations got even stronger. There was however a feud in the relations when un-cut diamonds were brought to Russia by Ivory Coast. This calls for a decree that Ivory Coast has just committed human rights violations and financial sanctions against individuals. The decree is a symbolic move for Russia, which is known for its highly secretive diamond trade, making it a popular destination for "conflict diamonds" from war-torn countries such as the Ivory Coast and Liberia. Russia has played its part in the fight against conflict diamonds by chairing the Kimberly Process until Botswana took over the chairmanship in January 2006, and is currently the chair of the Kimberley Process Participation Committee.

See also
Foreign relations of Ivory Coast
Foreign relations of Russia

External links
  Documents on the Côte d'Ivoire – Russia relationship from the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
  Embassy of Côte d'Ivoire in Moscow

Africa–Russia relations
Russia
Ivory Coast


Tantoyuca Municipality is a municipality in the Mexican state of Veracruz. It is located in the state's Huasteca Alta region. The municipal seat is Tantoyuca, Veracruz.

In the 2005 INEGI Census, the municipality reported a total population of 97,949 (up from 89,492 in 1995), of whom 23,893 lived in the municipal seat.
Of the municipality's inhabitants, 40,864 (47.92%) spoke an indigenous language, primarily Wastek (Huasteco).

The municipality of Tampico Alto covers a total surface area of 1,205.84 km2.

Settlements in the municipality
Tantoyuca (municipal seat; 2005 population 23,893)
San Sebastián (population 1,170)
Corral Viejo (1,080)
Ixcanelco (1,079)
El Lindero (966)

References

External links
Tantoyuca Web page of the Veracruz State Govt. Accessed 6 November 2008.

Municipalities of Veracruz


Tantoyuca is a city in the Mexican state of Veracruz. Popularly known as "the Pearl of the Huastecas", it is located in the state's Huasteca Alta region.
It serves as the municipal seat of the surrounding municipality of Tantoyuca.

In the 2005 INEGI Census, the city of Tantoyuca reported a total population of 23,893.

Name
"Tantoyuca" comes from the Tenek "tan-tuyik", which means "place of wax."

History
Tantoyuca was founded by Huastec people in pre-Hispanic times. It was conquered by the Mexica Triple Alliance in the late 15th or early 16th centuries. It was given town  (villa)  status on 12 April 1850 and city (ciudad) status on 25 July 1901.

References

External links

Tantoyuca Web page of the Veracruz State Govt. Accessed 6 November 2008.

Populated places in Veracruz


USS Tioga County (LST-1158), previously USS LST-1158, was a United States Navy landing ship tank (LST) in commission from 1953 to 1970, and which then saw non-commissioned Military Sealift Command service as USNS Tioga County (T-LST-1158) from 1972 to 1973.

Construction and commissioning

USS LST-1158 was designed under project SCB 9A and laid down on 16 June 1952 at Bath, Maine, by Bath Iron Works. She was launched on 11 April 1953, sponsored by Mrs. Joseph A. Callaghan, and commissioned on 20 June 1953.

Pacific service

Following shakedown out of Naval Amphibious Base Little Creek at Virginia Beach, Virginia, LST-1158 shifted to the United States West Coast in January 1954 and operated out of San Diego, California. For the next few years, she worked along the U.S. West Coast and in the Hawaiian Islands. On 2 July 1955, LST-1158 was renamed USS Tioga County (LST-1158).

Tioga County conducted two Western Pacific (WestPac) deployments between January 1957 and mid-1960, interspersed with local operations and cruises to the Hawaiian Islands. While en route from the Philippines to Yokosuka, Japan, Tioga County went to the aid of a stricken Taiwanese fishing vessel on 2 February 1960. Bucking gale-force winds and 17-foot (5.2-meter) seas, Tioga County passed lines to the foundering craft and drew her alongside. Tioga Countys crew passed lifejackets down to the fishermen and brought them up via a Jacob's ladder, including one of the nine who had injured his leg.

Following her return to the U.S. West Coast from the second Western Pacific deployment, Tioga County resumed local operations out of San Diego. In August 1961, she sailed north for Alaskan waters and operated in the Aleutian Islands for three months. On one occasion off Attu, Tioga County battled high seas and gales up to 80 knots. She returned to San Diego on 1 December 1961.

Tioga County was subjected to at least two simulated biological weapon attacks in the first half of 1963 under Project SHAD.

Sailing for Hawaii following leave and upkeep, Tioga County participated in joint United States Army-United States Navy exercises in the islands before returning to the California coast. She conducted local operations and training out of San Diego, on occasion between the U.S. West Coast and the Hawaiian Islands, into 1965.

On 31 May 1965 of that year, Tioga County was selected as the test bed for the Sea Sparrow antiaircraft and antimissile missile, and she participated in these tests until June 1965, when she was commended by the Raytheon Corporation for her part in the development of the missile system.

In July 1965, Tioga County departed San Diego, bound for Hawaii. During her five-month deployment, she operated out of Pearl Harbor and worked with the U.S. Army 25th Infantry Division on exercises.

Vietnam War service
Although Tioga County was scheduled to spend Christmas 1965 in San Diego, a change of plans sent her to the Far East for her third Western Pacific deployment.

Arriving at Subic Bay, the Philippines, en route to Vietnamese waters, Tioga County loaded barbed wire and aviation fuel tanks and got underway for Da Nang, South Vietnam in mid-January 1966. After delivering her cargo there, she embarked troops and served as a "combat taxi" for the U.S. Army 101st Airborne Division, making troop and vehicle lifts between Phan Rang and Tuy Hòa and carrying up to 1,000 troops each time.

After shifting briefly to Subic Bay for a drydocking for repair of her screws, Tioga County soon returned to Vietnamese waters to take part in Operation Double Eagle, off Quảng Ngãi Province. She made numerous beachings to load troops and cargo and earned her first engagement star for this action.

Following this logistics support evolution, Tioga County returned to the U.S. West Coast via Hong Kong, Yokosuka, Japan, and Pearl Harbor, and reached San Diego on 14 May 1966.

Tioga County conducted local operations along the U.S. West Coast until 2 March 1967, when she got underway for her fourth Western Pacific deployment. Proceeding via Pearl Harbor, Guam, and Subic Bay, she arrived at Da Nang on 28 April 1967 with 43 vehicles and other cargo.

Following a run to Okinawa, Tioga County returned to Vietnam and became the first landing ship tank of her class to participate in duty with the Mobile Riverine Assault Force.

Arriving at Vũng Tàu on 6 June 1967, Tioga County loaded 30,000 cases of C rations, 700 tons of U.S. Army ammunition, and 350 tons of miscellaneous cargo. She transited the Song Cua Thiệu to the 9th Infantry Regiment's advanced base at Dong Tam Base Camp and took on board 369 men of "B" and "C" companies of the 3rd Battalion, 9th Infantry.

Under the aegis of Commander, River Flotilla 1, Tioga County served in the Rung Sat Special Zone of the Mekong Delta region, supporting "search-and-destroy" missions against Viet Cong (VC) troops. She acted as a "Mekong Hilton" to the men who were based on board and served as a mobile ammunition and supply depot. In addition, she accompanied the rest of the riverine warfare force up the Song Soirap to Nha Be for close support of both artillery and infantry combat operations.

Difficulty with Tioga Countys generators forced her back to Subic Bay for repairs before she returned to Vietnamese waters in late July 1967. She then joined Amphibious Ready Group Alfa off the coast of Vietnam near the Vietnamese Demilitarized Zone (DMZ). Here she participated in Operation Beacon Gate, Operation Beacon Guide, and Operation Beacon Point. During this period, in addition to logistics support operations, Tioga County conducted her first combat landing as her LCVPs put a U.S. Marine landing team ashore on the coastal region of Quảng Ngãi Province, a known VC stronghold near the DMZ, with the initial landing wave.

Detached from this duty on 6 September 1967, Tioga County sailed for the United States, steamed via Yokosuka and Pearl Harbor, and arrived back at her homeport on Navy Day, 27 October 1967. She conducted local operations and training out of San Diego into 1970, before she conducted her fifth and final Western Pacific deployment from 5 January 1970 to 7 July 1970.

Tioga County received three battle stars for Vietnam War service, for:

Vietnamese Counteroffensive 11 January 1966 – 27 January 1966, 10 February 1966 – 22 February 1966, and 5 March 1966 – 19 March 1966
Vietnamese Counteroffensive Phase II  29 April 1967 – 4 May 1967
Vietnamese Counteroffensive Phase III 2 June 1967 – 21 June 1967, 22 July 1967 – 17 August 1967, and 29 August 1967 – 9 September 1967.

Decommissioning

Decommissioned on 23 December 1970, Tioga County was placed in reserve at San Diego with the inactive fleet.

Military Sealift Command service

Tioga County was reactivated in mid-1972 to serve as a cargo ship in a non-commissioned status with a civil service crew with the Military Sealift Command, being designated the United States Naval Ship USNS Tioga County (T-LST-1158). This service continued until she was stricken from the Navy List on 1 November 1973.

Disposal

After her Military Sealift Command service ended, Tioga County was transferred to the Maritime Administration for layup in the National Defense Reserve Fleet at Suisun Bay, Benicia, California. Custody of Tioga County was transferred to the Maritime Administration on 17 December 1992. She was sold for scrapping to ESCO Marine of Brownsville, Texas on 21 July 2005. She was returned to U.S. Navy custody, removed from the National Defense Reserve Fleet Suisun Bay Group by towing on 17 August 2005 and subsequently scrapped.

See also
 List of United States Navy LSTs

References

External links
NavSource Online: Amphibious Photo Archive: LST-1158 Tioga County

Cold War amphibious warfare vessels of the United States
Vietnam War amphibious warfare vessels of the United States
Terrebonne Parish-class tank landing ships
Ships built in Bath, Maine
1953 ships
Riverine warfare


Monika Fikerle is an Australian musician and multi-instrumentalist, most noted for her "energetic, quirky" drumming style.

Fikerle began her music career in Hobart in 1994, becoming Sea Scouts' drummer after having taken up the drums 'about a week' earlier. She later played in Surgery and 1001101 before rejoining Sea Scouts in what would become the classic line-up.  Fikerle's drumming style during her early years in Hobart featured a lot of tom work, and used cymbals only to accent the end of the bar, creating a thunderous wall of tribal pounding. Fikerle's later work re-introduced more traditional rock kit elements such as snare and cymbals.

Since relocating to Melbourne, Fikerle has continued to work in more than one band concurrently, including her current projects Love of Diagrams, Baseball and Miniature Submarines, and her previous projects The Bites, The Grimm, and Jihad Against America.  Although Fikerle is best known for her drumming, she has contributed to bands on bass, melodica and piano accordion, and has also featured as a vocalist. Love of Diagrams signed to Matador Records for the release of Mosaic, becoming the first Australian act to appear on the Matador label.

Tours
Fikerle has also toured internationally with several of the bands that she has contributed to, including Sea Scouts, Baseball, and Love of Diagrams.  The tours have encompassed several locations that are not widely visited by Australian bands, such as Eastern Europe and the Middle East.

Discography

On compilations
Puppet Show, 1998: Sea Scouts – Inbuilt Obsolescence
Make Mix Tapes Not War!, 2003: Love of Diagrams – La Violencia; The Bites – Eno; Baseball – Gods & Stars, Priests & Kings; Jihad Against America – Terrorism Is The New Black
Melbourne Water 2, 2006: Accidents With Magnets – Twig

Videography
Acting Normal (1997) with "Surgery" (live footage and interview)
Sticky Carpet (2006): with Love of Diagrams (live footage); with Baseball (live footage and interview)
Live at Bar Open (2006): with Baseball (live footage)
The Super8 Diaries Project (2008): with Love of Diagrams (live footage); with Baseball (live footage and interview)

References

External links
 [ Monika Fikerle's listing at allmusic.com]
 Tour news for Baseball
 Love of Diagrams releases
 Larinerg's Sea Scouts site
 Love of Diagrams at Matador Records
 Bassball live review, Brisbane, The Zoo (16 July 2008)
 Love of Diagrams, Mosaic album review

Living people
Musicians from Melbourne
Australian rock drummers
1974 births
Musicians from Hobart
Australian indie rock musicians
Australian heavy metal drummers
21st-century drummers
Women in metal
Women in punk


Paleoparasitology (or "palaeoparasitology") is the study of parasites from the past, and their interactions with hosts and vectors; it is a subfield of paleontology, the study of living organisms from the past. Some authors define this term more narrowly, as "Paleoparasitology is the study of parasites in archaeological material." (p. 103) K.J. Reinhard suggests that the term "archaeoparasitology" be applied to "... all parasitological remains excavated from archaeological contexts ... derived from human activity" and that "the term 'paleoparasitology' be applied to studies of nonhuman, paleontological material." (p. 233)  This article follows Reinhard's suggestion and discusses the protozoan and animal parasites of non-human animals and plants from the past, while those from humans and our hominid ancestors are covered in archaeoparasitology.

Sources of material

The primary sources of paleoparasitological material include mummified tissues, coprolites (fossilised dung) from mammals or dinosaurs, fossils, and amber inclusions.   Hair, skins, nematode larvae found embedded in animal coprolites, and a mite caught in amber in the process of apparently feeding on a spider. In 2023, nematode eggs and possibly protozoan cysts were found in the Late Triassic coprolite of phytosaur. Some holes in the mandibles of several specimens of Tyrannosaurus may have been caused by Trichomonas-like parasites.

Fossil organisms which are related to present-day parasites often possess the morphological features associated with a parasitic lifestyle, such as blood-feeding mouthparts.  So fossil ticks and hematophagous insects are generally assumed to be ectoparasites, even when their remains are found in the absence of a host. The ancient flea Saurophthirus found in Early Cretaceous deposits had a sucking proboscis and a stretching abdomen, which indicates the parasitic lifestyle of this insect.

The presence of structures resembling leaf miner trails in leaf fossils provide indirect evidence of parasitism, even if remains of the parasite are not recovered.  The dramatic tissue aberrations seen in present-day plant galls and gall-like structures in some invertebrates are direct physiological reactions to the presence of either metazoan parasites or microbial pathogens.  Similar structures seen in fossil plant and invertebrate remains are often interpreted as evidence of paleoparasitism.

Host-parasite interactions today are often exploited by other species, and similar examples have been found in the fossil record of plant galls and leaf mines.  For example, there are species of wasps, called inquilines, which are unable to induce their own plant galls, so they simply take up residence in the galls that are made by other wasps. Another example is the predation of plant galls or leaf mines, to eat the trapped insect larva inside the gall or mine.

Knowledge gained from ancient animal and plant parasites

Studies of parasite remains and traces from the past have yielded a vast catalog of ancient host-parasite associations.  Genetic sequence data obtained directly from ancient animal parasites, and inferences of past relationships based on genetic sequences of existing parasite groups are also being applied to paleoparasitological questions.  Data obtained by all of these methods are constantly improving our understanding of the origin and evolution of the parasites themselves and their vectors, and of the host-parasite and vector-parasite associations.

In some cases, presumed host-parasite relationships of the past seem quite different from those known in the present, such as a fly which appears to be a parasite of a mite

Paleoparasitological studies have also provided insight into questions outside the realm of parasitology.  Examples include the migration and phylogeography of marine mammal hosts, the identity of domestic animal bones based on the known hosts of parasite remains found at the site, and the possible role of climatic changes on animal host genetic diversity.

References

Parasitology
Parasitology


The Danheiser annulation or Danheiser TMS-cyclopentene annulation is an organic reaction of an α,β-unsaturated ketone and a trialkylsilylallene (e.g., trimethylsilyl- or triisopropylsilyl-) in the presence of a Lewis Acid to give a trialkylsilylcyclopentene in a regiocontrolled annulation.

References

Organic reactions
Name reactions


Illyricus may refer to:
 Bogumil Vošnjak (1882–1955), pseudonym Illyricus, a Slovene and Yugoslav jurist, politician, diplomat, author and legal historian
 Matthias Flacius Illyricus (1520–1575), a Lutheran reformer
 Pietro Gozze (1493–1564), called Doctor Illyricus, Ragusan Catholic prelate
 Saint Illyricus of Mount Myrsinon in the Peloponnesus (see April 3 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics))
 Thomas Illyricus (1484/5–1528/9), Dalmatian Franciscan theologian and preacher

Species and subspecies
 Squalius illyricus, a ray-finned fish species
 Astragalus monspessulanus subsp. illyricus, a plant subspecies

See also
 Illyricum (disambiguation)
 Illyrians (disambiguation)
 Illyrian (disambiguation)
 Illyria (disambiguation)


Groppello is a red Italian wine grape variety planted primarily in the Lombardy region.

References

Red wine grape varieties


Brigadier General Robin Umberg (born c. 1955), Deputy Commander Clinical Services 3rd Medical Command, is one of several female United States Army general officers.

Military career
Umberg began her 36-year military career at the age of 18 when she enlisted and received a four-year military scholarship from the Walter Reed Army Institute of Nursing (WRAIN). She was commissioned a First Lieutenant in 1977. Her active duty assignments included Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington D.C., the USAMEDDAC Fort Carson, Colorado, the 121st Evacuation Hospital, Seoul, Korea, and the United States Army Hospital in Vicenza, Italy. In 1990, she deployed in support of Operations Desert Shield/Storm for 6 months.

After 12 years of active duty, Umberg transferred to the US Army Reserve. She served in a variety of command and staff assignments in the Army Reserve to include: Commander, 4211th US Army Hospital, San Diego, CA; Commander, 6253rd US Army Hospital, Mesa, AZ; Chief Nurse, 18th Field Hospital, Fort Story, VA; Executive Officer, 349th General Hospital; and Training Officer, 6252nd US Army Hospital, Irvine, CA. On May 8, 2005, she assumed the post as Deputy Commander of Professional Services, 3rd Medical Command, Fort Gillem, Georgia.  BG Umberg focused on battlefield readiness, training, and career management for more than 27,000 Army medical personnel.

Awards
Umberg's military awards include the Legion of Merit, the Meritorious Service Medal with three Oak Leaf Clusters, the Army Commendation Medal with two Oak Leaf Clusters, the Army Achievement Medal with one Oak Leaf Cluster, the Humanitarian Service Medal, Military Outstanding Volunteer Service Medal, Army Reserve Components Achievement Medal with Silver Oak Leaf Cluster, National Defense Service Medal with Bronze Service Star, Armed Forces Reserve Medal with Gold Hourglass and M Device, Good Conduct Medal, and two Overseas Service Ribbons. She was inducted into the Order of Military Medical Merit in 2006.  In 2014, she received the "Lifetime Achievement Award" for her service to Veterans from the California Department of Veteran Affairs.

Education
Her military education includes the AMEDD Officers Basic Course, Army Critical Care Nursing Course, the AMEDD Officers Advanced Course, Principals of Advanced Nursing Administration, Command and General Staff College, Army Nurse Corps Senior Field Leadership Course, Medical Management of Chemical, Biological, and Nuclear Casualties Course, and the Reserve National Security Course. Umberg received her Bachelor of Science in nursing from the University of Maryland and her Master of Science in Health Care Administration from the University of Northern Colorado.

Civilian life
In her civilian capacity, Umberg has been a Medical-Legal Consultant and business owner. In November 2000, President Bill Clinton appointed her to serve on the Board of Visitors of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. In May 2009, she served as a Regional Panelist for the President's Commission on White House Fellowships. In 2011, BG Umberg became a member of Mission Readiness—an organization of Admirals and Generals with a mission to improve childhood nutrition as a National Security issue.

On May 20, 2011, California Governor Jerry Brown appointed Brigadier General Robin Umberg to oversee the Veterans Homes Division in the California Department of Veterans Affairs.  Governor Brown elevated Brigadier General Robin Umberg to the level of Undersecretary California Department of Veterans Affairs in 2011.
  In 2012, she joined the board of the Public Private Partnership for Justice Reform in Afghanistan working in collaboration with the State Department to expand the Rule of Law in Afghanistan.  She was a part of the delegation traveling to Kabul in 2012 and 2013.
In Dec 2019, BG Umberg was appointed by Governor Brown and in 2022 reappointed by Governor Newsom to the California Veterans Board that serves to advocate for Veterans and decide Veteran appeals on decisions made by Calvet. She is a member of the American Legion, Reserve Officer Association, and the Military Officer Association of America.  She currently resides in California with her husband, Tom Umberg who is a retired Army Colonel and current member of the California State Senate.  They have three children, Brett, Tommy, and Erin Umberg.

References

External links
 The Morning Read: Campaigning absentee
 Air Commando Newsletter: Homecoming Queen makes Brigadier General, December 2005
 Bio

Living people
1950s births
Year of birth uncertain
United States Army generals
Recipients of the Legion of Merit
Military personnel from Texas
People from Fort Worth, Texas


"Jiāyoú! Ni You ME!" () is a Mandarin pop duet song by Chinese singer Alan featuring Vision Wei. It was released as Alan's third Chinese single on October 29, 2008, as a digital download in Asia and as a mini-CD in Hong Kong. The song was used to encourage Chinese students and promote Epson's ME 30/300 printer series in China, which she became a spokesperson of in September 2008.

Alan and Wei Chen became acquainted with each other when they were the only two selected to represent Mainland China at the 9th Asian New Singer Competition in 2006.

Composition
The lyrics were written by Francis Lee, who had previously written the lyrics of Alan's "Xin Zhan: Red Cliff". The music was composed by Bi Kuo Yong and arranged by Chen Lei.

Track listing
 Digital download
 "Jiāyoú! Ni You ME!" (Chinese: 加油！你有ME; Pinyin: Jiāyoú! Ni You ME!; Go! You Have ME!) – 3:21

 Mini-CD
 "Jiāyoú! Ni You ME!"
 "Jiāyoú! Ni You ME!" (Instrumental Version)

2008 singles
Alan Dawa Dolma songs
2008 songs
Avex Trax singles


Cerro Alto Mountain is a mountain in western Texas east of El Paso along U.S. Route 180. It is the highest point in the Hueco Mountains.

The awelo of the Tigua Indians is believed to reside near Cerro Alto Mountain. Which began during their arrival in the 17th century.

See also
Geography of Texas

References

Landforms of Hudspeth County, Texas
Mountains of Texas


Helfensteiner is a dark-skinned German wine grape crossing of the species Vitis vinifera, that was created in 1931 with the crossing of Frühburgunder (Pinot Précoce noir) and Trollinger (Schiava Grossa). It was created by August Herold at the grape breeding institute in Weinsberg in the Württemberg region.

The name of the variety is derived from that of the castle ruin Helfenstein close to Geislingen an der Steige.

A relatively small amount of Helfensteiner is cultivated in Württemberg,  in 2008 (and less than 1 ha in the rest of Germany combined). It produces red wines of a fruity character, and rosé wines. The reason for the variety's limited popularity with growers is its very variable yield, which is due to its susceptibility to flowering problems.

Helfensteiner was later, in 1955, crossed by Herold with Heroldrebe to produce the much more successful Dornfelder. The variety Hegel shares the same parentage as Dornfelder.

Synonyms
Helfensteiner is also known under its breeding code Weinsberg S 5332 and the synonyms Blauer Weinsberger and Helfensteyner.

References

Red wine grape varieties


Tempoal is a municipality in the Mexican state of Veracruz. It is located in the state's Huasteca Alta region. The municipal seat is Tempoal de Sánchez.

In the 2005 INEGI Census, the municipality reported a total population of 33,107
(down from 35,600 in 1995),
of whom 12,237 lived in the municipal seat.

Of the municipality's inhabitants, 3252 (9.33%) spoke an indigenous language, primarily Wastek (Huasteco); the municipality's name comes from the Wastek tam-puhal, meaning "place of toads".

The municipality of Tempoal covers a total surface area of 1,487.15 km².

Settlements in the municipality
Tempoal (municipal seat; 2005 population 12,237)
Corozal (population 2,000)
El Aguacate Terrero (1,200)
Horcón Potrero (1,100)

References

External links
https://www.tempoal.gob.mx/
Tempoal Web page of the Veracruz State Govt. Accessed 6 November 2008.

Municipalities of Veracruz


Heroldrebe is a red German wine grape variety produced by crossing Blauer Portugieser and Lemberger. It was created by August Herold at the grape breeding institute in Weinsberg in the Württemberg region in 1929, and was named after him.

One of Heroldrebe's drawbacks is its relatively late ripening; it is harvested at about the same time as Pinot noir. Heroldrebe was grown on a total of  in Germany in 2008, with a decreasing trend. There were  in Palatinate,  in Rheinhessen, and  in Württemberg. In Palatinate it is typically used to produce light, almost pinkish, colored wines.

Synonyms
The only synonyms of Heroldrebe is its breeding code We S 130 or Weinsberg S 130.

Offspring
Heroldrebe was later crossed with Helfensteiner by Herold to produce Dornfelder, which has become the most widely planted of the grape varieties created by Herold. Hegel is also Helfensteiner × Heroldrebe.

References

Red wine grape varieties


Chlorphenesin carbamate (Maolate, Musil) is a centrally acting muscle relaxant used to treat muscle pain and spasms. Chlorphenesin carbamate is no longer used for this purpose in most developed nations due to the availability of much safer spasmolytics such as benzodiazepines.

Other central effects include sedation, anxiolysis, and dizziness.

Chlorphenesin
A related chemical, chlorphenesin (C9H11ClO3) without the carbamate group, is used as a preservative in products such as cosmetics. It has antifungal and some antibacterial properties, and is classified as an antifungal for topical use by the WHO.

The major adverse effect from this preservative on skin is allergic contact sensitivity. Systemic intoxication from transdermal use has not been observed, although the FDA discourages its use as an ingredient in nipple cream for nursing mothers.

See also
 Methocarbamol

References

Muscle relaxants
Carbamates
Secondary alcohols
Phenol ethers
Chloroarenes
Drugs with unknown mechanisms of action
Glycerols


Christopher P. Lu (; born June 12, 1966) is a Chinese American political advisor who serves as the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations for Management and Reform. He is also an alternative representative to the United Nations General Assembly during his tenure as Representative for Management and Reform. In the administration of United States President Barack Obama, Lu served as the United States Deputy Secretary of Labor from 2014 to 2017, the White House Cabinet Secretary and Assistant to the President from 2009 to 2013, and the co-chair of the White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders. Lu graduated from the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University and from Harvard Law School, where he was a classmate of Obama's.

After serving briefly as an advisor on Senator John Kerry's 2004 presidential campaign, Lu began working for Barack Obama in 2005 in his U.S. Senate office, where Lu served as legislative director and acting chief of staff. Following Obama's successful 2008 campaign for presidency, Lu was appointed executive director of the Obama-Biden Transition Project. When Obama appointed Lu as Cabinet Secretary, The New York Times described him as "one of the highest-ranking Asian Americans in the Obama administration". In 2018, Lu was elected as a fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration.

Early life and education
Chris Lu was born on June 12, 1966, in New Jersey. In 1974, his family moved to the Fallsmead neighborhood of Rockville, Maryland, where he graduated from Thomas S. Wootton High School in 1984. Lu is the son of Eileen and Chien-Yang Lu, both of whom were born in mainland China and lived in Taiwan until the 1950s when they emigrated to the United States to attend college. Lu's grandfather, Wang Renyuan, was Republic of China Minister of Justice from 1970 to 1976 and was elected to the first Legislative Yuan in 1948 to represent Tianjin. Lu said he was heavily influenced by his father, who worked as an electrical engineer but loved literature and history; the two would read biographies of politicians and watch the evening news together.

Lu attended the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University, where he was the senior news editor of the Daily Princetonian. Lu's ambition for a political career developed at Princeton, particularly during his internship in the Capitol Hill office of Senator Charles Mathias. He graduated magna cum laude in 1988, after writing a 161-page long senior thesis titled "Press Coverage of Presidential Primaries, 1972-1984." After graduating from Princeton, Lu attended Harvard Law School, where he was one of Barack Obama's classmates from 1988 to 1991.

Career
After graduating cum laude from Harvard in 1991, Lu started his career as a law clerk to Judge Robert Cowen in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. In 1992, he began working as a litigation attorney at the Washington, D.C., office of Sidley Austin, a large Chicago-based law firm. Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle, also worked at Sidley Austin, in the firm's Chicago office.

In 1997, Lu left Sidley Austin and took his first job in the political arena as deputy chief counsel for Representative Henry Waxman and the Democratic staff of the Oversight and Government Reform Committee of the House of Representatives. Phil Schiliro, Waxman's chief of staff, had a large part in the decision to hire Lu; the two would work together again later on the Obama administration; Lu later said he considers Schiliro and Pete Rouse, another future White House staffer, among his most influential mentors. During his tenure with the Government Reform Committee, Lu conducted several high-profile investigations, including investigations into campaign fundraising during the 1996 presidential election, the collapse of Enron, and substandard nursing home conditions. Lu also served as special adviser for communications to Senator John Kerry during the 2004 presidential election. One of his primary duties there was coordinating the activities of families of September 11 attack victims supporting the Kerry campaign.

Barack Obama's Senate office
After Barack Obama was elected as U.S. Senator of Illinois, Lu joined Obama's office in early 2005 as legislative director. Lu developed a strong admiration for Obama, of whom he said, "With his quick and incisive mind, Obama is the most intelligent person that I have ever met (in the political arena)." As legislative director, Lu led a 15-person group and was responsible for overseeing the drafting of all legislation and advising Obama on votes and policy decisions. When weighing difficult votes, Obama had Lu and his other staff members assemble together and argue about the issue in front of him. David Mendell, a Chicago Tribune reporter and Obama biographer, said Lu was among the "moderate voices in this atmosphere of smart young staffers." Lu advised Obama to vote in favor of the Military Commissions Act of 2006 because he felt it would have been politically wiser to support it, but Obama ultimately voted against it.

Lu said of his role as legislative director, "It's one of the most fun jobs in the Senate (but) it's also an incredibly difficult job because you have to know something about any given thing going on in the Senate at the time ... It takes a couple years off your life." Lu, along with Robert Gibbs and several other Obama staffers, read Obama's manuscript for The Audacity of Hope and provided him with several editorial suggestions.

Lu eventually became acting chief of staff in Obama's Senate office. When Obama announced his candidacy for president in February 2007, Lu did not move over to the campaign, but remained to continue running Obama's operations in the Senate; Lu said of Obama at that time, "Even while he was running for president, he had a day job [in the Senate]."

Obama administration

In May 2008, Obama asked Lu to begin planning for a possible presidential transition. Obama warned him to tell no one about the nascent operation, even his own wife, so Lu quietly rented a small office in D.C. and secretly met with people who had worked on previous Democratic presidential transition efforts. The planning efforts produced policy options on a wide range of topics, compiled names of and began vetting potential political appointees for top jobs, arranged over 100 security clearances, and managed the logistics for expanding the operations after Election Day.

After Obama's victory, Lu became executive director of the Obama-Biden Transition Project, a position that was responsible for the day-to-day operations of the transition.  During the transition period, Lu was in daily contact with Bush administration officials, managed the $9 million budget, and negotiated the ground rules for Obama transition representatives to gather information on federal agency operations and programs.

Obama selected Lu to serve as Cabinet Secretary, making him one of the highest-ranking Asian Americans in the administration, along with Secretary of Commerce Gary Locke and Secretary of Energy Steven Chu. At the time of his selection, The New York Times reporter Michael Falcone wrote, "By now, Mr. Lu knows the president-elect's record better than almost anyone."

Lu's responsibilities included representing Obama's positions to each of the Cabinet secretaries and agencies and coordinating a common White House agenda among them. Marc Ambinder, associate editor of The Atlantic, said of Lu, "when agency heads have a problem, or when the White House has a problem with an agency head, Mr. Lu will be the first person who's called, or calls."

In July 2009, Lu visited China as part of an official delegation for the Obama administration, along with Locke and Chu. Although his parents were born there, it was the first time Lu had set foot on Chinese soil. Lu was introduced to Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, who said upon meeting Lu, "I know the name and also the importance of his position." In July 2010, Lu was a member of the official U.S. delegation to the Shanghai Expo, along with former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright.

On January 8, 2014, Lu was nominated by President Obama to be the Deputy Secretary for the United States Department of Labor.  He was unanimously confirmed by the United States Senate on April 1, 2014. Lu became the first Asian American to hold the position, and only the second Asian American in history to serve as deputy secretary of a cabinet department, after Elaine Chao. Lu's service in this position ended on January 20, 2017, concurrent with the end of the Obama Administration.

Career after Obama administration
Lu soon took up positions as a Senior Fellow of the University of Virginia Miller Center, specializing in presidential scholarship, and as a Senior Advisor to FiscalNote. He remains heavily involved as a DNC superdelegate and co-chaired DNC Chairman Tom Perez's transition committee.

In November 2020, Lu was named a volunteer member of the Joe Biden presidential transition Agency Review Team to support transition efforts related to the United States Department of Labor.

Ambassador to United Nations
On April 27, 2021, President Joe Biden nominated Lu to serve as Permanent Representative of the United States of America to the United Nations for UN Management and Reform. Hearings on his nomination were held before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on July 27, 2021. The committee reported his nomination favorably on August 4, 2021. The United States Senate confirmed Lu on December 18, 2021, by voice vote, and he was sworn into office on January 4, 2022.

References

External links

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1966 births
American politicians of Chinese descent
American politicians of Taiwanese descent
Harvard Law School alumni
Living people
Obama administration personnel
People from New Jersey
People from Rockville, Maryland
United States Deputy Secretaries of Labor
Lawyers from Washington, D.C.
Princeton School of Public and International Affairs alumni
American lawyers of Chinese descent


Limnio (LIM-nee-oh) is a red Greek wine grape variety that is indigenous to the Greek island of Lemnos. The grape has had a long history of wine production that may extend back to Ancient Greece with wine historians widely believing it was the grape variety, Lemnia, that was described by Aristotle as producing the famous red Lemnian wine. According to wine expert Oz Clarke, Limnio is "One of Greece's most important red vines."

History

According to wine expert Jancis Robinson, Limnio was almost certainly the Lemnia grape described by Aristotle as a specialty of the island of Limnos-an assessment shared by other wine experts and historians. A Limnia grape was also referenced in Ancient Greek writings by Hesiod and Polydeuctes.

Wine regions

Today, Limnio is still being produced on Lemnos, though it is not utilized in the appellation wine produced on the island. (Technically the only appellation wine produced on Lemnos is from Muscat of Alexandria According to information by the Union of Agricultural Cooperatives of Lemnos (E.A.S.) the total production of Muscat of Alexandria (white wine), delivered by the producers to the Union, was 2,449 tonnes of grapes, while Limnio (Kalambaki) was 86 tones.) with notable plantings around Mount Athos. It is a principal grape variety in the Playies Melitona Appellation of Origin (A.O.) as well as the Drama TI (a Greek wine region similar to a vin de pays) in Macedonia.

Viticulture and winemaking
Limnio vines are known for their hardiness and ability to survive harsh droughts. The grapes have the ability to produce high must weights that translates into noticeable alcohol levels. They are generally late ripening with phenols that will produces enhanced herbaceous tones if the grapes are not harvested early. Today it is often blended with Cabernet Sauvignon in Meritage-style wines. Other grape varieties that may be blended with Limnio include Cabernet Franc, Cinsaut, Grenache, Petite Sirah, Merlot, Aghiorgitiko and Xynomavro.

Wine styles and food pairing
As a varietal, Limnio produces full bodied wines with moderate tannins and acidity levels and a distinctive mineral aroma. When blended, Limnio adds color, weight, acidity and an herbal aroma which Oz Clarke describes as reminiscent of bay leaves. Wines made from Limnio are often paired with aged cheeses, game meat and roasted dishes.

Synonyms
Limnio is also known under the synonyms Kalabaki, Kalambaki, Kalampaki, Lembiotiko, Lemnia, Lemnio, Lemniotico, Lemniotiko, Limniotico, Mavro Limnio, Ntourou Kara, and Ntoyrou Kara.

References

Grape varieties of Greece
Red wine grape varieties
Lemnos


Tempoal (formally: Tempoal de Sánchez) is a city in the Mexican state of Veracruz. Located in the state's Huasteca Alta region,
it serves as the municipal seat of the surrounding municipality of Tempoal.

In the 2005 INEGI Census, the city of Tempoal reported a total population of 12,237.

Name
Tempoal comes from the Wastek Tam-puhal, meaning "place of toads". "De Sánchez" honours Rafael Platón Sánchez (1831–1867), a native of the area who fought in the Battle of Puebla of 5 May 1862 and later chaired the court martial that sentenced Emperor Maximilian and his generals Miguel Miramón and Tomás Mejía to death by firing squad in Santiago de Querétaro on 19 June 1867.

History
Tempoal was founded in pre-Hispanic times.
It was given town  (villa)  status in 1927 and city (ciudad) status in 1960.

References

External links

Tempoal Web page of the Veracruz State Govt. Retrieved 6 November 2008.

Populated places in Veracruz


Ángel Lizardo Cheme Ortiz (born 19 November 1981) is an Ecuadorian footballer.

He played the majority of his professional career as Gonzalo Javier Chila Palma, and claimed a date of birth of 9 December 1984, thus enabling him to play in age-restricted matches for three years after he was entitled to do so.

Identity case
In December 2010, Cheme was accused of aggravated identity theft by the actual Gonzalo Chila, an evangelical pastor in Guayaquil. This led the Ecuadorian Football Federation (FEF) to investigate the accusations and apply any applicable punishments. FEF concluded that Cheme had used Chila's identity to play and was suspended for one year.

References

External links
FEF player card of Ángel Cheme
FEF player card of "Gonzalo Chila"

1981 births
Living people
Footballers from Esmeraldas, Ecuador
Men's association football midfielders
Ecuadorian men's footballers
Ecuadorian Serie A players
S.D. Aucas footballers
C.D. Olmedo footballers
L.D.U. Quito footballers
S.D. Quito footballers
C.D. ESPOLI footballers
L.D.U. Loja footballers
C.D. Cuenca footballers


DOCS (Display Operator Console Support) was a software package for IBM mainframes by CFS Inc., enabling access to the system console using 3270-compatible terminals.

Computer operators communicated with IBM mainframe computers using an electro-mechanical typewriter-like console that came standard on most IBM 360 and 370 computer, except a few upper end models that offered video consoles and the Model 20 which came standard without a console.

The majority of smaller and less expensive IBM 360s and 370s came equipped with these ruggedized Selectric keyboard devices. The Selectric was a major step up from the teletypes (TTY) associated with Unix and smaller systems, but still clunky. The video consoles provided with certain models were not considered particularly user friendly, and they ignored two thirds of IBM's mainframe market, DOS and its VSE descendants.

DOCS  replaced or supplanted the typewriter interface with a video screen. In practice, it worked a little like present-day instant messenger programs (ICQ, QQ, AIM, Adium, iChat, etc.), with a data entry line at the bottom and messages scrolling in real time up the screen. The commands were otherwise identical.

DOCS was available for DOS, DOS/VS, DOS/VSE, and came packaged with third party operating systems, such as EDOS from The Computer Software Company, later acquired by Nixdorf.

Platforms

Software
The product ran under several DOS-related platforms:
 DOS/VS
 DOS/VSE
 DOS, modified
 EDOS
 vDOS

Hardware
Several vendors offered DOCS as part of their OS:
 Amdahl
 Fujitsu
 Hitachi
 Magnuson
 RCA

Development

DOCS was developed by CFS, Inc. of Brookline, Massachusetts at the Kayser-Roth data center in Whitman, Massachusetts. Dick Goran wrote the video interface. Leigh Lundin wrote the operating system interface and transcript recorder.

Fx
DOCS required a dedicated partition. With DOS having only three partitions and DOS/VS seven, giving up a partition to DOCS placed a crimp in practicability.

Leigh Lundin designed Fx, a pseudo-partition that relieved the user from relinquishing a working partition. Fx appeared in the DOS/VS version of SDI's Grasp as F0.

Marketing

DOCS was sold in North America by CFS, Inc, Brookline, Ma.

For overseas sales, CFS engaged in both mail order and local vendors. The product was also embedded in third party operating system packages, such as EDOS and vDOS.

References

Device drivers
IBM mainframe software


Alamo Emergency Medical Services, Inc. (Alamo EMS) was an Advanced Life Support (ALS) and Basic Life Support (BLS)  ambulance service owned by Health Quest, with transportation services in the Hudson Valley region of New York.  Alamo operated ambulances staffed by emergency medical technicians (EMTs) and paramedics.

Alamo held Emergency Response 9-1-1 contracts and CON's in Dutchess, Putnam, Orange and Ulster Counties.

History
Alamo Ambulance began in the early 1960s in Binghamton, New York  by
paramedic James Alamo. In 1966 Jim Alamo moved the company to Poughkeepsie, New York. On March 21, 1966, The Poughkeepsie Common Council voted to contract with Alamo and replace the ambulance contract they had with Vassar and St Francis Hospitals. The initial contact called for Alamo to bill $20 per private call, $16 for welfare calls and a $5 surcharge if oxygen was used. Alamo EMS was one of the main EMS companies to offer services to Dutchess County in the late 1900s.
Before ambulances were readily available, Alamo would have "Fly Cars" or paramedics that have an SUV with all the equipment an ambulance has, including a drug box. This was more practical for towns and jurisdictions that didn't have enough residents to merit a separate ambulance. Often the paramedic would ride in the back of a town ambulance to provide advanced medical care to the patient en route to the hospital.

In 1996 Alamo became the 51st ambulance service in the United States and the first not-for-profit in the Northeast to be accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of Ambulance Services (CAAS). CAAS [1] is a non-profit organization which was established to encourage and promote quality patient care in America's medical transportation system. The primary focus of the Commission's standards is high-quality patient care. This is accomplished by establishing national standards which not only address the delivery of patient care, but also the ambulance service's total operation and its relationships with other agencies, the general public, and the medical community. The Commission's standards often exceed state or local licensing requirements. In 2004 Alamo received its second perfect score for re-accreditation and still maintains its accreditation today.

On December 14, 2007, Northern Dutchess Paramedics announced a proposed merger with Alamo
EMS. The application was the first step in the regulatory process toward creating an organization which was aimed at better serving the Hudson Valley community in providing emergency and ambulance services. The joint venture would also have required approval from the New York State Attorney General's Office, and the New York State Supreme Court. Health Quest and Northern Dutchess Paramedics anticipated that the regulatory process would take approximately six to twelve months; however as of December 31, 2008 the merger was not completed and is now abandoned. If it had been completed it would have created the largest independent ambulance provider in the Hudson Valley Region.

On December 17, 2008, the two companies announced that the merger had fallen through, and would not be completed. The companies claimed they had differences that could not be settled. In January 2009 Health Quest began allocating additional funding to Alamo to aid their goal of covering most of the towns in Dutchess County.

On June 4, 2009, Health Quest, the parent company of Alamo EMS, announced to its employees that the company has been sold to TransCare, with a projected completion of acquisition of August 1, 2009. The date was pushed back to a later date due to the complexities involved in the takeover. On September 19, 2009, the buyout was completed and all Alamo EMS services were terminated and transitioned to TransCare.

Up until its demise in 2009, Alamo EMS was the only community-owned ambulance service and was governed by an all-volunteer board of trustees composed of community leaders, and under the guidance the umbrella organization Health Quest. As a "not-for-profit, charitable organization, all operating funds went back into Alamo and increased the quality of the ambulance service offered.

Other than emergency medical services, Alamo operated a full-time Ambulette service which provided service to the disabled seven days a week. Also a Training and Education division hosted a wide array of medical training available to all employees and residents of the jurisdictions of the towns they served.

Alamo Ambulance Service, Inc. remains a certified ambulance service listed by New York New York State Department of Health Bureau of EMS, with one registered ambulance. The address listed is the same as the Healthquest corporate office.

Final Management
 General Manager, Marc Reina
 Operations Manager, Eric Flynn
 Communications Manager, Larry Bigando
Communications Supervisor, Wendy Perruna
 Project Manager, George Thomas

References

External links
 Alamo EMS Home Page

Ambulance services in the United States
Companies disestablished in 2009
Medical and health organizations based in New York (state)
1966 establishments in New York (state)
2009 disestablishments in New York (state)


Alexander More may refer to:

 Alexander F. More (1982-), Climate and Health Scientist and Economist at Harvard
 Alexander Morus (1616–1670), or More, Franco-Scottish Calvinist preacher
 Alexander Goodman More (1830–1895), British naturalist


The Legislative Palace of Peru is the seat of the Congress of Peru, the legislative branch of Peruvian government. It is located at the historical center of Lima on the Plaza Bolivar.

The palace contains the congressional chambers, the Raúl Porras Barrenechea Hall; the Hall of the Lost Steps; and the offices of the congressional leaders, commissions, and parliamentary groups. This building houses the sessions of Congress as well as the inauguration speech of the President.

When the Congress of Peru first met in 1822, meetings took place at the same site in what was then the main building of the University of San Marcos. Construction on a new legislative building began in 1904 based on the design of the French architect Emilio Robert. While the building served several political functions over the following decades of construction, it was not permanently occupied until 1938 during the presidency of Óscar R. Benavides.

See also
Historical Center of Lima
Congress of Peru
Lima
Government of Peru

References

Government of Peru
Buildings and structures in Lima
Government buildings completed in 1936
Neoclassical architecture in Peru
Seats of national legislatures


Magarach Ruby or Rubinovyi Magarcha is a red Crimean wine grape variety that is a crossing of Cabernet Sauvignon and Saperavi. The crossing was carried out at the Magarach viticultural institute at Yalta, Crimea in 1928 in what was then the Soviet Union.

Synonyms
Rubinovyi Magarcha is also known under the synonyms Crossing 56, Magarach 56, Magaracha Rubinovyi, Magaratch 56, Roter Rubin Von Magaratsch, Roubinovy Magaratcha, Roubinoy De Magaratch, Rubin Von Magaratch, Rubinovi Magaraca, and Rubinovyi Magaracha.

References

Red wine grape varieties
Russian wine


The East Portland Branch, Public Library of Multnomah County housed part of the library system of Multnomah County, Oregon, from 1911 to 1967. Designed by architect A. E. Doyle, the structure was completed in 1911 in Portland at 1110 Southeast Alder Street in the city's central eastside. Funded in part by the Carnegie Foundation, the original building consisted of one floor and a daylight basement and included reading rooms for children and adults. The building had a red brick exterior, terra-cotta trim, and a roof of green Spanish tiles. Remodeled in 1956 and remodeled again prior to its sale in 1967, the one-story building, which had rooms  high, became a two-story office building.

From 1864 until 1902, Portland had subscription libraries that were open to the public, but it had no tax-supported public library. In 1902, the library system became tax-supported, free, and open to all Portland residents. A year later, it was opened to all residents of Multnomah County. Within months of the change from subscription library to free public library, the number of users grew from 1,000 members to 8,000 registered borrowers.

The subscription libraries had reading rooms only in downtown Portland. To accommodate the growing number of users, the new library established reading rooms in other parts of the city. By 1907, it had neighborhood branches in Sellwood, Albina, and the central eastside neighborhood. Doyle designed a small temporary building for the eastside branch before money became available for the permanent structure.

References

External links

1911 establishments in Oregon
A. E. Doyle buildings
Buckman, Portland, Oregon
Carnegie libraries in Oregon
Former library buildings in the United States
Libraries established in 1911
Libraries on the National Register of Historic Places in Oregon
Library buildings completed in 1911
Multnomah County Library
National Register of Historic Places in Portland, Oregon
Portland Historic Landmarks
1967 disestablishments in Oregon


Mammolo is a red Italian wine grape that is planted primarily in Tuscany. While its use has been diminishing, Mammolo was historically included in the blended Sangiovese-based wines of Chianti where it contributed a distinctive violet or mammole aroma. In addition to small plantings in the Chianti zone, Mammolo can be found in the Vino Nobile di Montepulciano region of Tuscany and in scattered vineyards throughout Central Italy.

Offspring
Mammolo is believed to be a parent vine of the Ligurian/Tuscan vine Pollera nera and Colombana nera.

Synonyms
Mammolo is known under a variety of synonyms throughout Central Italy. These include Fegeri, Mammola asciutta, Mammola minuto, Mammoli, Mammolo asciutto, Mammolo di Montepulciano, Mammolo fiorentino, Mammolo nero, Mammolo nero primaticio, Mammolo normale, Mammolo piccola rooso nero, Mammolo pratese, Mammolo rosso, Mammolo rosso tondo, Mammolo serrato, Mammolo tondo, Mammolo toscana, Mammolone di Lucca, Uva mammola asciuta, Uva mammola near, Uva mammola scrigiolante, Uva Mammolo nero and Uva mammolo tonda.

See also
 Sciacarello

References

Red wine grape varieties


The Community Broadcasters Association (CBA) was a trade organization representing low-power broadcasting interests, including LPTV and Class A television stations, in the United States of America. It ceased operations in 2009.

History
Key issues addressed by the CBA included the provision of interference protection for small broadcasters (for which it successfully petitioned the FCC for creation of the "Class A" designation in 1998) and the need for analog passthrough in coupon-eligible converter boxes (it had unsuccessfully pursued legal action claiming that the absence of this feature, needed to avoid blocking signals from low-power and foreign stations not converting to digital in 2009, violates the All-Channel Receiver Act of 1961).

CBA's lawsuit seeking an injunction to halt the sale and distribution of DTV converter boxes lacking analog tuners and analog passthrough was filed in March 2008 but denied without comment in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia in May 2008. The FCC and NTIA urged manufacturers to include analog pass-through voluntarily in all converter boxes, and some of the newest generation of models now offer the feature.

Due to the large number of public service announcements on full-service stations, which often confusingly claimed that "all TV is going digital" on February 17, 2009, the CBA established websites such as KeepUsOn.com to notify consumers of the continued post-transition operation of analogue LPTV, with information on how to find and install converters which offered analogue pass-through capability.

The CBA also advocated that existing Class A stations be permitted to upgrade to full service status, obtaining the same must-carry access to cable television that was available to full-power broadcasters, and (like full-power broadcasters) opposed expansion of the FM radio band into the frequency range currently occupied by TV channels 5 and 6.

Amy Brown was the executive director of the Community Broadcasters Association when it closed. The corresponding advocacy role for U.S. full-service television stations is filled by the National Association of Broadcasters.

See also
 Class A television service
 Broadcast relay station
 Low-power broadcasting
 DTV transition in the United States

References

External links
Community Broadcasters Association (no longer active)

Television organizations in the United States
Broadcast law
Defunct organizations based in the United States
Organizations disestablished in 2009


Mandilaria () is a red Greek wine grape variety that is grown throughout the Greek Isles. The grape is often used as a blending component, producing deeply colored wines that are light bodied.

Synonyms
Mandilaria is also known under the synonyms Amorgiano, Amourguiano, Armorgiano, Dombrena Mavri, Domvrena Mavri, Doubraina Mavri, Doubrena Mavri, Doumbrena Mavri, Doumpraina Mavri, Doympraina Mavre, K'ntoura Kai M'ntoura, Kontoura, Koudoura Mavri, Koundour A Mavri, Koundoura Mavri, Kountoura, Kountoura Mavri, Kountoyro, Koutoura, Koyntoura,
Koyntoura Mavre, Kytoura, Mandalari, Mandilari, Mantelaria, Mantilari, Mantilaria, Montoyra, and Tsoumpraina Mavri.

References

Grape varieties of Greece
Red wine grape varieties


The 2003 Champ Car Grand Prix of Mid-Ohio was the thirteenth round of the 2003 CART World Series season, held on August 10, 2003 at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course in Lexington, Ohio.  It was the last of 22 Champ Car events to take place at the track which was a fixture in the CART calendar for most of its history.

Qualifying results

Race

Caution flags

Notes

 Average Speed 106.251 mph

External links
 Full Weekend Times & Results

Mid-Ohio
Indy 200 at Mid-Ohio
Champ Car Grand Prix


Oleg Caetani (born 5 October 1956) is an Italian conductor.

Life and career
Born in Lausanne, Caetani studied with Nadia Boulanger. At the Conservatory of Santa Cecilia in Rome, he studied conducting with Franco Ferrara and composition with Irma Ravinale.  He made his debut at age 17 with a production of Claudio Monteverdi's Il combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda.  He then attended the Moscow Conservatory to study conducting with Kirill Kondrashin and musicology with Nadezhda Nikolaeva.  He graduated from the St Petersburg Conservatory in conducting with Ilya Musin.

Caetani won the RAI Competition in 1979 and the third prize at the Karajan Competition in Berlin in 1982. He started his professional career at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden in Berlin.  He was then Chief Conductor at the Nationaltheater Weimar, First Kapelllmeister  at the Frankfurt Opera, Music Director first at the Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden, later at the Chemnitz Opera and Robert Schumann Philharmonic Orchestra.

In 2001 Caetani conducted at La Scala, Milan  Turandot and  Otello in 2005.  His first conducting appearance with English National Opera (ENO) was in 2003 with Khovanshchina, then he was Chief Designate in 2005 and came back for Sir John in Love in 2006. Since then he maintains a strong regular presence at the ENO.
Caetani made his Australian conducting debut in 2001 with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra (MSO).  In January 2005, he became the MSO's Chief Conductor and Artistic Director.  In 2007 he led the MSO on its second European tour, which took in performances in major centres including Berlin, Madrid, Milan and Paris (the first time that an Australian orchestra played in those European capitals). In March 2008, the MSO announced the extension of Caetani's contract through to the end of 2010.  He led the MSO in the Australian premieres of Brahms' Serenade No. 1, works by Enescu, Bartók, Schoenberg, Walton, Ravel, and Shostakovich's Symphonies No. 2 and No. 13 (Babi Yar) on 7 August 2008.  His recording projects with the MSO included all the symphonies of Alexandre Tansman and the orchestral works of Rudi Stephan. In 2009, Caetani's contract was ended one year early after disagreements with the MSO management.

He is regular guest at the Mariinsky Theatre where he has conducted the Russian Premiere of The Prisoner by Dallapiccola at the White Night Festival in 2015.

Caetani's recordings include the first complete cycle of the Shostakovich symphonies recorded by an Italian orchestra, with the Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi, Poliuto by Donizetti with Carreras,  Ricciarelli and the Wiener Symphoniker, the symphonic cycles by Tchaikovsky and Gounod (Diapason d'or ), a CD with Wagner overtures and another one with various Mendelssohn works.

Caetani received the Berlioz medal for his interpretation of Benvenuto Cellini and the Romanian Legion of Honour for culture merite because of his work to increase Enesco's popularity outside Romania.

Family
Caetani was born the son of the conductor and composer Igor Markevitch (1912-1983) and his second wife Donna Topazia Caetani (1921–1990), who is descended from a very old aristocratic Roman family that included the early 14th-century Pope Boniface VIII. Caetani has chosen to use his mother's family name to continue its lineage.

References

External links
 artist info
 Klassika German-language page on Caetani
 Melbourne Symphony Orchestra biography of Caetani

1956 births
Living people
Italian male conductors (music)
Swiss people of Italian descent
Swiss people of Russian descent
Moscow Conservatory alumni
Saint Petersburg Conservatory alumni
Swiss people of Ukrainian descent
Swiss conductors (music)
Male conductors (music)
Musicians from Lausanne
20th-century Italian conductors (music)
21st-century Italian conductors (music)
20th-century Italian male musicians
21st-century Italian male musicians


Arthur D. "Art" Hershey (born November 14, 1937) was a Republican member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 13th District and was elected in 1982. He and his wife, Joyce, live in Cochranville, Pennsylvania and have 4 children and 11 grandchildren. He retired prior to the 2008 election, and was succeeded by Democrat Tom Houghton.

References

External links
Pennsylvania House of Representatives - Art Hershey official PA House website (archived)
Pennsylvania House Republican Caucus - Representative Art Hershey official Party website (archived)
Biography, voting record, and interest group ratings at Project Vote Smart

1937 births
Living people
Republican Party members of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives
Pennsylvania State University alumni
Politicians from Chester County, Pennsylvania
Politicians from Lancaster County, Pennsylvania


Jalan Jerangau Barat, Federal Route 1689, is a federal road in Terengganu, Malaysia.

At most sections, the Federal Route 1689 was built under the JKR R5 road standard, with a speed limit of up to 90 km/h.

List of junctions

Malaysian Federal Roads
Roads in Terengganu


Patrick Galvin  (30 March 1911 – 24 September 1980) was an Australian politician.

Biography
Born in Quorn, South Australia, he was educated at Rostrevor College. Galvin was an engineer by profession, but became involved in the trade union movement, rising to become South Australian state organiser of the Australian Society of Engineers in June 1947. In January 1948, he became state industrial officer of the Australian Workers' Union, in which capacity he was credited with resisting an attempt by the communist-dominated Miners' Federation to recruit AWU members at the Leigh Creek mine. Galvin was secretary and president of the Australian Labor Party's Glenelg electorate committee and was an AWU delegate to the party's state council.

In 1951, he was elected to the Australian House of Representatives as a member of the Labor Party, defeating Liberal MP Jim Handby for the seat of Kingston. He held the seat until 1966, when he was defeated by Liberal candidate Kay Brownbill. Galvin died in 1980.

References

Australian Labor Party members of the Parliament of Australia
Members of the Australian House of Representatives for Kingston
Members of the Australian House of Representatives
Australian Officers of the Order of the British Empire
1911 births
1980 deaths
People educated at Rostrevor College
20th-century Australian politicians


WLWK may refer to:

 WLWK-CD, a low-power television station (channel 19, virtual 22) licensed to serve Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin, United States
 WKTI, a radio station (94.5 FM) licensed to serve Milwaukee, Wisconsin, which held the call sign WLWK-FM from 2008 to 2015


The Blessed William Howard Catholic School is a mixed secondary school and sixth form located in Stafford, Staffordshire, England.

The school was originally opened in 1963. The name Blessed William Howard comes from the site on which the school is located. William Howard was the 1st Viscount of Stafford in the 17th century, and owned the land on which the current school is built. He was convicted of treason and executed in 1680, wrongly so, as it is viewed by the Roman Catholic Church. The Church therefore beatified him in 1929, and he became known as Blessed William Howard. Thus the school is named eponymously.

Blessed William Howard was previously a voluntary aided school administered by Staffordshire County Council, and gained specialist Arts College status in 2003. In March 2016 the school was converted to academy status, however Blessed William Howard continues to coordinate with Staffordshire County Council for admissions. The school continues to be under the guidance of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Birmingham.

The sixth form provision forms part of the Stafford Collegiate which includes all Stafford secondary schools and Stafford College.

Notable former pupils
 Tom Edwards, Stoke City footballer
 Peter Turnbull, cricketer

References

External links
 Blessed William Howard Catholic School official website

Schools in Stafford
Catholic secondary schools in the Archdiocese of Birmingham
Educational institutions established in 1963
Secondary schools in Staffordshire
1963 establishments in England
Academies in Staffordshire


Kay Cathrine Millin Brownbill OBE (21 July 1914 – 3 February 2002) was an Australian media personality and politician. She was a playwright, journalist, radio and television presenter, writer, and publicist, working primarily in Adelaide. She was the first South Australian woman elected to the House of Representatives and the third overall, serving a single term from 1966 to 1969.

Early life
Brownbill was born in Adelaide on 21 July 1914. She was a child actress under the name "Kitty Brownbill", making her debut on stage at the age of six, but gave up the theatre after injuring an ankle while dancing. She attended Unley High School and business colleges in Adelaide and Sydney, earning a certificate in home economics, and also took classes in English and public speaking at the University of Adelaide.

Media career
At a young age, Brownbill began writing, producing, and acting in radio plays under the name "Cathrine Brownbill". Her plays were distributed by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) and aired in Canada, New Zealand, India and South Africa. Her play "Sleep to Wake" – about Colonel William Light – won second prize in a competition run by The Advertiser and was performed at the celebrations marking the centenary of South Australia in 1938.

Brownbill briefly worked at radio station 2WG in Wagga Wagga before returning to Adelaide in 1939. She spent eight years at 5DN and 5RM, holding the title of "social editress" and helping expand the station's female listenership. Brownbill eventually moved to Sydney to work as an executive at 2GB, another Macquarie Network affiliate. In 1949, she moved to England for a year to study at a television school. Upon her return she was heralded by The News as "Australia's first television expert". She eventually transitioned to the field of public relations, and was deputy state president of the Public Relations Institute of Australia.

Politics
Brownbill was active in the Liberal and Country League of South Australia, and first stood for the House of Representatives at the 1963 federal election. She ran in the Division of Kingston but the seat was retained by the sitting Labor member Pat Galvin. She reprised her candidacy in 1966, defeating Galvin with a 12.7-point swing as the Coalition won a landslide victory. Brownbill was the third woman elected to the House of Representatives, after Enid Lyons and Doris Blackburn, and the first from South Australia.  She was the first woman elected to the House since 1949, and the first not to have been the widow of a previous member. At the time of her election she was the only South Australian woman in federal parliament, but she was joined by Senator Nancy Buttfield in July 1968.

Brownbill's maiden speech focused on the need to attract more overseas tourists to Australia, and she lobbied for the appointment of a woman to the board of the newly created Australian Tourist Commission. She served on the Printing Committee and the Joint Committee on the Broadcasting of Parliamentary Proceedings, and supported quotas for Australian content on radio and television. Her speeches showed "a keen interest in aircraft noise, foreign policy, social welfare reform and education". Her parliamentary career came to an end after a single term, as she lost her seat to Labor's Richard Gun at the 1969 election. It was not until 1987 that another South Australian woman, Elizabeth Harvey, was elected to the House of Representatives.

Other activities
In 1962, Brownbill published a historical mystery novel titled Blow the Wind Southerly. Before and after her political career, she lectured in South Australian history at the University of Adelaide's Adult Education Department. She began working on a biography of artist Hans Heysen in 1963, but after her election to parliament she passed on her notes and tape-recordings to Colin Thiele who completed his own biography of Heysen.

Brownbill was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 1980 Queen's Birthday Honours. She died in Adelaide in February 2002, aged 87.

References

External links

Liberal Party of Australia members of the Parliament of Australia
Members of the Australian House of Representatives for Kingston
Members of the Australian House of Representatives
Australian Officers of the Order of the British Empire
1914 births
2002 deaths
Women members of the Australian House of Representatives
20th-century Australian politicians
20th-century Australian women politicians
Australian radio and television personalities
Australian dramatists and playwrights
Australian women novelists
Australian public relations people


is a 1928 black and white Japanese silent film with benshi accompaniment directed by Teppei Yamaguchi. It is part of the Kurama Tengu series and features the battle between the title character, Kurama Tengu, and his impostor. The last scene, featuring sword fights of exhilarating speed, is one reason this series was very popular, especially with children.

Cast
 Kanjuro Arashi
 Reizaburo Yamamoto
 Takasaburo Nakamura
 Tokusho Arashi

See also
 Kurama Tengu (film)
 Kurama Tengu ōedo ihen

External links
Kurama tengu - Kyôfu jidai on Internet Movie Database

1928 films
Japanese black-and-white films
Japanese silent films
1920s Japanese films


The Office of the United States Nuclear Waste Negotiator was a short-lived independent agency of the federal government of the United States during the late 1980s and early 1990s. The agency was responsible for the placement and long term storage of radioactive waste in the United States. It was created under the auspices of the Nuclear Waste Policy Act.

Although the agency was created in 1987, it remained without a head until 1990, when President George H. W. Bush appointed former Idaho Lieutenant Governor David Leroy, a Republican, to be the first United States Nuclear Waste Negotiator. In a 1991 speech to the National Congress of American Indians, Leroy stated the Native American's tradition of long-term culture made them especially suited for storing nuclear waste, including quotes from Chief Seattle. This led to sharp negative reactions from the audience, calling it Machiavellian and Orwellian.

In 1993 President Bill Clinton replaced Leroy with former Democratic Congressman Richard Stallings, also from Idaho.

The agency was eliminated in 1995.

United States Nuclear Waste Negotiators

Footnotes

Defunct agencies of the United States government
Government agencies established in 1987
Government agencies disestablished in 1995
1987 establishments in Washington, D.C.
1995 disestablishments in Washington, D.C.
Radioactive waste


The Kumusi River (also known as the Kamusi River) is a river located in the Oro Province of Papua New Guinea. Known for its width and its strength, the Kumusi has had a significant impact on the history of the Oro Province. It was a significant factor in the Kokoda Track Campaign and also a contributing factor to the destruction caused by Cyclone Guba.

History

World War II

Due to its relative proximity to the Kokoda Track, the Kumusi River was often a factor in the Kokoda Track Campaign of World War II. The fast flowing and wide river provided natural barrier from enemy, and gave the soldiers a distinct advantage. There were few bridges, the solid ones were often bombed to break a supply line. Soldiers often had to walk, or use rafts through the powerful current in order to get across Many fatalities were recorded as the current overwhelmed the soldiers.  One of the most notable deaths was that of Japanese Major General Tomitaro Horii. After the Oivi-Gorari battle, the Japanese chaotically crossed the river at Wairopi. Although his horse already had drowned, Horii opted to try and cross on a raft. He soon fell into the water and drowned.

Cyclone Guba

On 14 and 15 November 2007, Cyclone Guba hit the Oro Province. The Cyclone brought five days of solid rain, causing widespread flooding; the Kumusi swelled to ten times its original width.
The flooding destroyed homes, gardens and in some cases, entire villages were washed away. The flooding completely destroyed the provinces vital infrastructure, over twenty-two bridges were washed away, cutting the link to Popondetta. Of the twenty-two, the Kumusi Bridge, a large steel structure was destroyed, with estimated rebuilding costs at K70 million. A replacement bridge funded by the Australian government opened in 2016.

http://www.looppng.com/content/pm-officially-open-kumusi-bridge

Notes

References

Rivers of Papua New Guinea