David G. Armstrong (born February 18, 1969) is an American podiatric surgeon and researcher most widely known for his work in amputation prevention, the diabetic foot, and wound healing. He and his frequent collaborators, Lawrence A. Lavery and Andrew J.M. Boulton, have together produced many key works in the taxonomy, classification and treatment of the diabetic foot. He is Professor of Surgery with Tenure and director of the Southwestern Academic Limb Salvage Alliance (SALSA) at the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California and has produced more than 650 peer reviewed manuscripts and more than 110 book chapters.

Early life and education

Armstrong was raised with his younger brother, Darrin B. Armstrong, a schoolteacher, in Santa Maria, California. His father, Leo N. Armstrong, was a noted podiatrist in California and figures into many of Armstrong's anecdotes, lectures, and writings. As a child, he traveled worldwide with his family and a core group of physicians, mostly podiatrists. This influenced his later career as an ambassador for diabetic foot care and Podiatry.

After attending the Dunn School in Los Olivos, California, Armstrong attended Occidental College in Los Angeles and later the California College of Podiatric Medicine, where he graduated with honors. It was during his college years that he met his future wife, Tania C. Armstrong, on a family trip to Egypt. It is in honor of this that their first child Alexandria A. Armstrong, later received her name.

Armstrong performed his residency at the Kern Hospital for Special Surgery in Detroit, where much of his interest in the diabetic foot emerged. Additionally, it was where he became aware of the works of two influential clinician-researchers, Andrew JM Boulton, of the University of Manchester, and Paul Wilson Brand, of the Hansen's Disease Center in Carville, Louisiana.

Following his surgical training in Detroit, Armstrong was prepared to return to Santa Maria to work in his father's practice. Days before graduation, he was handed a letter inviting him to apply for a fellowship at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. His visit and subsequent acceptance into the program brought him into close proximity of the next two important members of his development, Lawrence A. Lavery, then a junior faculty member, and Professor Lawrence B. Harkless, Armstrong's chief.

Armstrong's relationship with Lavery was, by all accounts, strong from the beginning. Lavery and Armstrong wrote an astonishing 28 manuscripts in the first nine months of his fellowship. Many of those became important foundational works in epidemiology, classification and treatment of the diabetic foot. Since that time, Armstrong and Lavery, nicknamed “the Lennon and McCartney of the Diabetic Foot”, have written more than 150 manuscripts, books and book chapters including the American Diabetes Associations Clinical Care of the Diabetic Foot (). The two researchers credit Harkless for providing the environment for this to occur, as there had previously never existed a full-time academic podiatry faculty of this kind in an American medical school.

Following Lavery's departure to develop a private nationwide diabetic foot program, Armstrong remained prolific, but soon grew interested in new challenges.

Armstrong subsequently received an invitation from Dr. Brent P. Nixon to start his own research service at the Southern Arizona VA Healthcare System in Tucson Arizona. This program, is responsible for producing many key works in the area of diabetes care and amputation prevention. Some of the most notable were the ability to accurately monitor activity and the refinement of offloading the diabetic foot wound. Additionally, Armstrong began a close transatlantic working relationship with Professor Andrew JM Boulton in Manchester. This mentorship led to a period of intense activity and a PhD and MD from the University of Manchester College of Medicine as well as a Master of Science in Tissue Repair of Wound Healing at Professor Keith Harding's University of Wales College of Medicine.

It was also during this time that Armstrong was reacquainted with George Andros, a prominent vascular surgeon. This renewed friendship led to the development of the Diabetic Foot Global Conference, (DFCon). This meeting, the largest annual diabetic foot gathering in the world, hosts delegates from 50 countries and all 50 U.S. states in more than 10 medical and surgical disciplines.

During his cross-country move from Tucson to Chicago, Armstrong's father and greatest influence died. This led to an increasing determination by Armstrong to further advance the specialty that had literally nurtured him.

Following his tour in Tucson, Armstrong accepted an offer to serve as Professor of Surgery and Associate Dean at Scholl College of Podiatric Medicine at Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science. He founded the Center for Lower Extremity Ambulatory Research (CLEAR), which rapidly became the most productive podiatric research group in the world. This program produced or recruited several key members of the field including Stephanie C. Wu, James Wrobel, Lee C. Rogers, Nicholas J. Bevilacqua, Bijan Najafi, Manish Bharara and Vickie Driver. This group produced many key works in the literature, becoming amongst the first podiatrists to be published in JAMA and the Lancet.  Armstrong also became the first tenured podiatrist in the history of Rosalind Franklin University and the Scholl College.

Armstrong, responding to his love of the Desert Southwest, the rampant diabetic epidemic there, and his long-standing friendship with renowned vascular surgeon Professor Joseph Mills, was recruited again to Tucson and the University of Arizona. It was there he founded, with Mills, the Southern Arizona Limb Salvage Alliance (SALSA). This program serves as a model for interdisciplinary care, worldwide. It was also here that Armstrong and Mills coined the term the “Toe and Flow” team. This implies the “irreducible minimum” requirements for a foot specialist and a vascular specialist in order to run a successful amputation prevention service. Working side by side in the same clinic and surgical service led to the development of the Society for Vascular Surgery's Wound, Ischemia and Foot Infection (WIfI) system, which has now been widely validated. This has helped many units develop a "common language" to describe the risk of limb threat.

As with Rosalind Franklin University, at the University of Arizona, he became the first ever podiatrist to be appointed as a tenured professor. It was also here that his interests in a merger between consumer electronics and health care began to flourish. He and Mills became the first surgeons to document a real-time surgical consultation via iPhone's FaceTime with their colleague (and Armstrong's former fellow), Lee C. Rogers. The SALSA vision for merging man and machine was further outlined in his UA College of Science Lecture "Repair, Regeneration and Replacement Revisited".

In 2012, Armstrong recruited Dr. Bijan Najafi from Rosalind Franklin University to help lead a mobile health program to, as he put it, "measure how we all move through and interact with our world". Dr. Najafi, previously at Rosalind Franklin University and Harvard, embarked on development of a broad-based program called the Interdisciplinary Consortium on Advanced Motion Performance (iCAMP). In 2017, Armstrong was honored as a University Distinguished Outreach Professor of Surgery- the first ever in the history of the University of Arizona's Department of Surgery.

After the better part of a decade at the University of Arizona, Dr. Armstrong was recruited back to his home state of California to, in his words,  "help develop a program for amputation prevention spanning Southern California and beyond." The program, centered in the Keck School of Medicine of the University Southern California's Department of Surgery but spanning a characteristically wide interdisciplinary remit, continued the well-known SALSA acronym, was now the Southwestern Academic Limb Salvage Alliance. The goal was to continue to drive care to better "measure and manage how people move through their world."

As part of this program, he has made efforts to develop interdisciplinary links between hospitals and clinics within the Los Angeles County Department of Health System. Most specifically, his efforts at the world-renowned National Rehabilitation Center at Rancho Los Amigos have led to the program having Diabetic Limb Preservation taken on as a focused area of clinical and research excellence. This led to the first-ever county-wide limb preservation working group in the United States.

In 2020, Armstrong and his frequent collaborators Joseph Mills (now of Baylor College of Medicine) and Michael Conte of UCSF worked to develop an interdisciplinary society with the goal of advancing science and clinical care in association with limb preservation and to develop the next generation of clinicians, scientists and clinician scientists in this field. This society took the "Alpine" acronym ALPS and symbolized the difficult task of interdisciplinary limb preservation. That task—compared by Armstrong and Mills with the Greek mythical figure Sisyphus—could be made easier if there were more than one person rolling a figurative boulder up a mountain. The American Limb Preservation Society was created on October 9, 2020 during the DFCon 2020 symposium—nicknamed DFCONline because of its peripandemic virtual format. The founding leadership team of ALPS included the aforementioned Armstrong, Mills and Conte along with Stephanie Wu, Dean of the Scholl College of Podiatric Medicine at Rosalind Franklin University as Vice President. Ryan Crews of Scholl and Brian Lepow of Baylor College of Medicine served as founding Secretary and Treasurer, respectively.

The Comparison of Diabetic Foot Complications to Another Chronic Disease-- Cancer-- and Movement Toward the Diabetic Foot in Remission
Armstrong has been widely credited with popularizing the comparison of the diabetic foot to cancer. In collecting data from mortality, cost, and recurrence. Specifically, regarding remission, Armstrong and colleagues have made the case that the goal should not be to eliminate every single event, but rather to make each event as uncomplicated as possible. This popularized the idea of diabetic foot "ulcer-free days" "hospital-free days" and "activity-rich days". This also paved the way for remote patient monitoring (RPM) to become more popular in care in this and other areas. This was also further illustrated in manuscripts in New England Journal of Medicine,  Circulation, and the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).

Recognition and Awards
During the course of his career, Armstrong has been acknowledged with awards by numerous organizations. In response to his hundreds of lectures in more than 40 nations, worldwide, Armstrong was selected as one of the first six International Wound Care Ambassadors. He was honored with the inaugural Georgetown Distinguished Award for Diabetic Limb Salvage. In 2010, he was the youngest ever recipient of the Roger Pecoraro Award  and Lectureship from the American Diabetes Association, widely viewed as a lifetime achievement award in the field of the diabetic foot. That same year, he was also named the 2010 Honorary Fellow of the American College of Certified Wound Specialists as well as the inaugural recipient of the William S. Baer Award for Advances in Biosurgery/Biotherapy by the International Conference on Biotherapy. He was the first podiatric surgeon to become a member of the Society for Vascular Surgery and the first American podiatric surgeon to be named fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons, Glasgow. He frequently offers that these awards are more "recognitions of the importance of the problem" and of "the acknowledgement of the occupation in the care of people at risk."
Armstrong is past Chair of Scientific Sessions for the ADA's Foot Care Council, and a past member of the National Board of Directors of the American Diabetes Association. He sits on the Infectious Diseases Society of America’s Diabetic Foot Infection Advisory Committee. In 2011, he was appointed Chair of the World Diabetic Foot Commission of the FIP, representing clinicians from more than 30 nations. Dr. Armstrong has also been conferred the title of Visiting Professor at the University of Manchester College of Medicine, the University of Cardiff College of Medicine, the Raine Visiting Professor (first to be named twice) at University of Western Australia,  University of Cincinnati during its 200th anniversary and the Complutense University of Madrid.

In 2023, Armstrong was honored with the Karel Bakker Limb Preservation Award at the International Symposium on the Diabetic Foot in The Hague, Netherlands for a lifetime of achievement in limb preservation. Also in 2023, Armstrong received the Distinguished Investigator Award from the Association for Clinical and Translational Science (ACTS) for his innovative research and education leadership that has had a major impact on clinical and translational science, specifically in the realm of implementation and dissemination of translational solutions to illness and clinical problems.

In 2006, Armstrong was awarded the Father of the Year Award by the National Father's Day Council and the Chicago Area American Diabetes Association.

Personal life

He lives in Los Angeles with his wife Tania. They have three daughters. Alexandria is now a third generation podiatric surgeon at the University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio. Natalie, a Fulbright alumna (Greenland, 2021), now serves at the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine. Nina, graduated from Georgetown University in 2023, is now a graduate student there.

References

External links
 DiabeticFootOnline.com
 DFCon
 SALSA Blog

American surgeons
University of Arizona alumni
1969 births
Living people
People from Santa Maria, California
Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science faculty
Occidental College alumni


Louise Jane Jopling (née Goode, previously Romer and later Rowe) (Manchester 16 November 1843 – 19 November 1933) was an English painter of the Victorian era, and one of the most prominent female artists of her generation.

Early life
Louise Jane Goode was born in Manchester, the fifth of the nine children of railway contractor Thomas Smith "T.S." Goode and his wife Frances. She married at seventeen to civil servant Francis "Frank" Romer. The Baroness de Rothschild, a connection of Romer's, encouraged Louise to pursue and develop her art. In the later 1860s, she studied in Paris with Charles Joshua Chaplin and Alfred Stevens, and first exhibited her work at the Salon. She entered works into the Royal Academy shows, 1870–73 (as Louise Romer). After Romer's 1872 death, she married Vanity Fair artist Joseph Middleton Jopling in 1874, who in 1888 was best man at Whistler's wedding to Beatrix Godwin. Of the children from her first marriage only one son, Percy Romer, survived childhood. She had another son, Lindsay Millais Jopling, by her second marriage; the child was named after his two godfathers Sir Coutts Lindsay, founder of the Grosvenor Gallery and John Everett Millais.

Jopling achieved fair success in her career: her painting Five O'Clock Tea was sold for £400 in 1874. Her Five Sisters of York was shown at the Philadelphia Exposition in 1876, and her The Modern Cinderella at the Paris Exposition of 1878. Yet she was not immune to the gender discrimination of her time: in 1883 she sought a portrait commission for 150 guineas, but lost it to Sir John Everett Millais, who was paid 1000 guineas for the same project. Jopling exhibited her work at the Palace of Fine Arts and The Woman's Building at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois.

She joined the Society of Women Artists (1880) and the Royal Society of Portrait Painters (1891); alongside Lucy Kemp-Welch she became the first woman to be admitted to the Royal Society of British Artists (1901). During the years of her marriage with Jopling, she became the primary earner of the family. It is said that, "She found this responsibility weighty and stressful, necessitating constant production, regular sales and a continual search for commissions and clients. In 1879, despite her own illness and that of her son Percy, she produced eighteen works."

Social life
Jopling "painted portraits of titled sitters, wealthy financiers and actresses" and, to operate in this social milieu, she maintained a fashionable lifestyle, with a Chelsea studio at 28 Beaufort Street, designed by William Burges.  She moved in a social circle that included James McNeill Whistler, Oscar Wilde, Kate Perugini (née Dickens) and Ellen Terry. Augustus Dubourg dedicated his 1892 play Angelica to her. In 1887 the society magazine The Lady’s World described her social circle,

One year we have her portrait, magnificently sketched by Millais, adorning the walls of the Grosvenor; next season she figures as the heroine of a ‘society’ novel from the pen of a popular writer. One week we see her salon drawn by Mr. Du Maurier in Punch, with sketches from the life of herself and her friends; the week after she appears under another name as the heroine of one of those quasi-malicious town and country tales which amuse the readers of a society paper…

Over the mantelpiece hangs the portrait, by her old friend Sir John Millais, which made such a sensation at the Grosvenor a year or two ago…Here Mr. James Whistler and Mr. Oscar Wilde are always to be found, discussing the eternal problems of art; while Sir John Millais, Mr. Sargent and Mr. George Boughton are sworn allies of the subject of our sketch. The Ladies Archibald and Walter Campbell rarely miss a party.

It was at an 1883 party at the Joplings' house that Whistler had a famous exchange with Oscar Wilde. In response to a witticism of Whistler's, Wilde remarked, "How I wish I had said that." Whistler replied, "You will, Oscar, you will."

Like some other women painters (Kate Perugini and Marie Spartali Stillman are examples), Jopling also served as a model and subject for other artists. Both Millais and James Abbott McNeill Whistler painted portraits of her. Whistler praised Millais' picture as "a great work" and "a superb portrait."

Later life
Joseph Jopling died in 1884 and Louise married lawyer George W. Rowe in 1887 continuing to use Jopling's name professionally. She established her own school of painting for women and, also in 1887, wrote several pieces on the subject of art teaching. She championed the right of female art students to work directly from live models as the Royal Academy only allowed its female students to observe male models "carefully draped" in 1893, and her friend Whistler distributed the prizes at her school.

Louise Jopling was a long-term supporter of the National Union of Women's Suffrage, and active in feminist causes. She served as a vice-president of the Healthy and Artistic Dress Union, a short-lived organization promoting dress reform during the 1890s and early 1900s. She published a book of art instruction, and an autobiography, Twenty Years of My Life. She also wrote some poetry and journalism.

References

External links

 Louise Jopling research project
 ArtNet: More works by Jopling.

1843 births
1933 deaths
19th-century English painters
20th-century English painters
19th-century English women artists
20th-century English women artists
Artists from Manchester
English women painters
Members of the Royal Society of British Artists


Walter Washington (1915–2003) was an American politician.

Walter Washington may also refer to:

Walter Washington (educator) (1923–1999), American pioneer educator born in Mississippi
Walter "Wolfman" Washington (1943–2022), American blues guitarist based in New Orleans, Louisiana


Willians may refer to:

 Willians Bartolomeu dos Santos (born 1973), a Brazilian football player known as Willians
 Ilson Wilians Rodrigues (born 1979) Brazilian football player known as Ilson or Willians
 Willians Domingos Fernandes (born 1986), a Brazilian football player known as Willians
 Willians Santana (born 1988), a Brazilian football player known as Willians
 Willians Astudillo (born 1991), a Venezuelan baseball player
 Willians Mendez Suarez, a Cuban Anglican bishop

See also
 Willian (disambiguation)
 William (disambiguation)
 Williams (disambiguation)


In This Defiance is the second full-length album release by California hardcore band Strife.

Legacy and reception
The album proved to be the bands' defining moment, as it continuously gained recognition over the years. It was ranked 7th among the Top 10 most Underrated Hardcore Albums by Metal Hammer magazine, and AllMusic stated that this album was when "Strife finally hit everything just right. Their sound is big and full, yet almost clinically tight; the tempos are brisk, sometimes headlong." Canadian straight-edge metalcore band In This Defiance, active from 2005-2007, named themselves after this album and cited it as a major influence.

In 2017, the album was reissued on vinyl with a limited run of only 100 copies through guitarist Andrew Kline's own record label WAR Records. It was subsequently re-released on vinyl by Victory Records in 2020. In 2018, Strife performed the album in its entirety at a select run of concerts.

Track listing

Personnel
Strife
 Todd Turnham - guitar
 Andrew Kline - guitar
 Rick Rodney - vocals
 Sid Niesen - drums
 Chad Peterson - bass

Additional musicians
 Igor Cavalera - additional drums
 Chino Moreno - additional vocals (on "Will to Die")
 Dino Cazares - additional guitar and background vocals
 Tony Moore - background vocals
 Ryan Cox - background vocals
 Jesse Austin - background vocals
 Justin "Gordo" Dedda - background vocals
 John Turnham - background vocals
 Dom Brooklyn House - background vocals
 Dave STS - background vocals
 Mark Aiken - background vocals
 Darren Doane - background vocals
 Erin Smith - background vocals
 Jen Eisle - background vocals
 Vic Galindo - background vocals
 Ian Ghent - background vocals
 Bobby Canaday - background vocals
 David Couzens - background vocals
 Zack Cordner - background vocals
 Dan Rawe - background vocals
 Jeff Moore  - background vocals
 Weddy Moore - background vocals
 Aaron Bruno - background vocals
 John Monroy - background vocals
 Ben Read - background vocals
 Dirty Ass Dan - background vocals
 Party Up - background vocals
 Stacie - background vocals
 Nick Johnson - background vocals

Production
 Dave Jagosz - recording
 Billy "the Kid" - engineering
 Bob Malrlette - mixing and mastering
 Ken Koroshetz - engineering
 Pat Sulivan - mastering
 Shuji Kobayashi - booklet photography
 OLECHR. Petterson - CD face and tray photography
 Ron Platzer - CD face and tray photography

References

1997 albums
Strife (band) albums


Conatumumab (originally AMG-655) is a monoclonal antibody developed for the treatment of cancer. It is a fully human monoclonal agonist antibody directed against the extracellular domain of human TRAIL (tumor necrosis factor-related apoptosis-inducing ligand) receptor 2 (TR-2, death receptor 5) with potential antineoplastic activity. Conatumumab mimics the activity of native TRAIL, binding to and activating TR-2, thereby activating caspase cascades and inducing tumor cell apoptosis. TR-2 is expressed by a variety of solid tumors and cancers of hematopoietic origin.

The drug was developed by Amgen Inc. In 2008, Takeda licensed the drug from Amgen for development in Japan, but discontinued development in 2011.

References

Amgen
Abandoned drugs


Geraldo dos Santos Júnior commonly known as Gelson (born January 10, 1979) is a former Brazilian footballer.

Club career
He joined Aboomoslem in 2010 but could not help them to stay in the top division.

 Assist Goals

References

1979 births
Living people
Brazilian men's footballers
Coritiba Foot Ball Club players
FC Shinnik Yaroslavl players
Russian Premier League players
Brazilian expatriate men's footballers
Expatriate men's footballers in Russia
Malmö FF players
Académica de Coimbra (football) players
Veria F.C. players
Footballers from Curitiba
Expatriate men's footballers in Iran
F.C. Aboomoslem players
Shahrdari Tabriz F.C. players

Men's association football forwards


Nathan Mark Teut (pronounced "TOYT") (born March 11, 1976) is an American former baseball pitcher. He played for the Florida Marlins of Major League Baseball in .

Career
Teut was drafted in the 4th round of the 1997 MLB draft by the Chicago Cubs. Neut spent one year each in the Marlins and Milwaukee Brewers organizations, but spent most of his career in the Cubs organization. After retiring from baseball, Nate joined the front office staff at the Iowa Cubs doing sales and worked his way up to the position of Assistant General Manager and Executive Vice President. Departing the Iowa Cubs in the summer of 2017, Nate joined the Des Moines Buccaneers Hockey Club (USHL) as the organizations President following the change in team ownership.

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1976 births
Living people
Albuquerque Isotopes players
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Calgary Cannons players
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WITT (91.9 FM) is a non-commercial educational radio station licensed to serve Zionsville, Indiana, United States.  The station is owned by Kids First Incorporated. WITT airs a community radio format.

History
Almost nine years after their initial application was filed in September 1998, this station received its original construction permit from the Federal Communications Commission on May 30, 2007.  The new station was assigned the call letters WITT by the FCC on June 7, 2007. Regular broadcast operations began in June 2009.

WITT employs a unique format-less, format; in essence its programming is widely varied and ever changing. In addition, WITT encourages local listeners to produce shows for broadcast as well as airs programming from throughout the world.  WITT is non-commercial station which relies on listener financial support as well as donations by various corporations.  WITT has no paid-employees, as all work at the station is done on a volunteer basis. WITT is operated largely by its General Manager Jim Walsh and Chief Engineer Matt Masters.

See also
List of community radio stations in the United States

References

External links
WITT official website

ITT
Community radio stations in the United States
Boone County, Indiana


Foravirumab is  a monoclonal antibody for the prophylaxis of rabies. It is under development by Sanofi/Crucell.

References

Monoclonal antibodies
Experimental drugs


Hristijan Kirovski (; born 12 October 1985) is a Macedonian footballer who currently plays as a forward for Skopje in the Macedonian Second Football League.

Career

Club
Kirovski began playing football with local side FK Vardar. He joined OFK Belgrade for 3.5 years, spending the last six months on loan at Ukrainian Premier League side FC Metalurh Zaporizhya. After his contract with OFK was finished, Kirovski moved to Cyprus to join Ethnikos Achna FC for six months. He returned to Vardar, where he enjoyed success, scoring 11 goals in 10 matches. However at age 21, Ukrainian Premier League side FC Karpaty Lviv acquired Kirovski in August 2007. In January 2013 Kirovski signed for Greek Football League club Iraklis. He joined Bulgarian club CSKA Sofia in mid July 2013, signing a two-year contract with the team. He had difficulties establishing himself as the first choice for his position and eventually relocated to Poland, signing with GKS Bełchatów.

On 24 June 2019 it was confirmed, that Kirovski had joined FC Struga.

International career
He made his senior debut for Macedonia in a November 2010 friendly match against Albania and has earned a total of 2 caps, scoring no goals. His second and final international was a December 2010 friendly against China.

Career statistics

References

External links
 Profile at MacedonianFootball.com

1985 births
Living people
Footballers from Skopje
Men's association football forwards
Macedonian men's footballers
North Macedonia men's youth international footballers
North Macedonia men's under-21 international footballers
North Macedonia men's international footballers
FK Vardar players
OFK Beograd players
FC Metalurh Zaporizhzhia players
FC Karpaty Lviv players
FC Vorskla Poltava players
FK Makedonija G.P. players
Ethnikos Achna FC players
FK Rabotnički players
CS Sporting Vaslui players
FK Skopje players
Apollon Limassol FC players
Hapoel Nir Ramat HaSharon F.C. players
Iraklis F.C. (Thessaloniki) players
PFC CSKA Sofia players
GKS Bełchatów players
KF Shkëndija players
Hristijan Kirovski
Hristijan Kirovski
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Macedonian First Football League players
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Ukrainian Premier League players
Cypriot First Division players
Liga I players
Israeli Premier League players
Football League (Greece) players
First Professional Football League (Bulgaria) players
I liga players
Hristijan Kirovski
Macedonian expatriate men's footballers
Expatriate men's footballers in Serbia and Montenegro
Expatriate men's footballers in Ukraine
Expatriate men's footballers in Cyprus
Expatriate men's footballers in Romania
Expatriate men's footballers in Israel
Expatriate men's footballers in Greece
Expatriate men's footballers in Bulgaria
Expatriate men's footballers in Poland
Expatriate men's footballers in Thailand
Macedonian expatriate sportspeople in Serbia and Montenegro
Macedonian expatriate sportspeople in Ukraine
Macedonian expatriate sportspeople in Cyprus
Macedonian expatriate sportspeople in Romania
Macedonian expatriate sportspeople in Israel
Macedonian expatriate sportspeople in Greece
Macedonian expatriate sportspeople in Bulgaria
Macedonian expatriate sportspeople in Poland
Macedonian expatriate sportspeople in Thailand


USS Wachapreague (AGP-8) was a motor torpedo boat tender in commission in the United States Navy from 1944 to 1946, seeing service in the latter part of World War II. After her Navy decommissioning, she was in commission in the United States Coast Guard from 1946 to 1972 as the cutter USCGC McCulloch (WAVP-386), later WHEC-386, the fourth ship of the U.S. Coast Guard or its predecessor, the United States Revenue Cutter Service, to bear the name. In 1972 she was transferred to South Vietnam and served in the Republic of Vietnam Navy as the frigate RVNS Ngô Quyền (HQ-17). Upon the collapse of South Vietnam at the end of the Vietnam War in 1975, she fled to the Philippines, and she served in the Philippine Navy from 1977 to 1985 as the frigate RPS (later BRP) Gregorio del Pilar (PF-8) and from 1987 to 1990 as BRP Gregorio del Pilar (PF-12).

 Construction and commissioning

Wachapreague (AVP-56) was laid down as a Barnegat-class seaplane tender on 1 February 1943 at Houghton Washington, by the Lake Washington Shipyard. She was reclassified as a motor torpedo boat tender and redesignated AGP-8 on 2 February 1943. She was launched on 10 July 1943, sponsored by Mrs. E. L. Barr, and commissioned on 17 May 1944.

 United States Navy service

 World War II
Following her shakedown training out of San Diego, California, Wachapreague got underway on 18 July 1944 for Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, en route to the Southwest Pacific. Soon thereafter, she stopped briefly at Espiritu Santo, New Hebrides, and called at Brisbane, Australia, on 17 August 1944, before reaching her ultimate destination, Milne Bay, New Guinea, on 20 August 1944.

 The New Guinea campaign
Wachapreague dropped anchor at Motor Torpedo Boat Base 21, at that time the largest patrol torpedo boat (PT boat) operating base in the Pacific. She reported to Commander, Motor Torpedo Boats, United States Seventh Fleet, and commenced tending the 10 PT boats of Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron (MTBRon) 12. This unit had previously taken a heavy toll of Japanese barge traffic and had wreaked much havoc upon Japanese shore installations in almost nightly actions during the New Guinea campaign. As Allied forces wrapped up the New Guinea operations, Wachapreague received an additional five PT boats from Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron 7 (MTBRon 7) as the Navy prepared for operations to liberate the Philippines from Japanese occupation.

 The Philippines campaign

 The Leyte campaign begins

On 13 October 1944, Wachapreague sailed in company with the motor torpedo boat tenders  and , the seaplane tender , and two United States Army craft for Leyte, 1,200 nautical miles (2,222 kilometers) away. The 45 torpedo boats, 15 of which were assigned to each motor torpedo boat tender, were convoyed by the larger ships, refuelled while underway at sea – with Wachapreague slowing to nine knots (17 km/h) periodically to fuel two torpedo boats simultaneously, one alongside to starboard and one astern, eventually replenishing the fuel supply of all 15 of her brood – and successfully completed the voyage under their own power. A brief two-day respite at Kossol Roads, Palau, for repairs and a further refueling of the PT boats, preceded the final leg of the voyage.

While Wachapreague dropped anchor at northern San Pedro Bay off Leyte, her PT boats, fresh and ready for action immediately, entered Leyte Gulf on 21 October 1944, the day after the initial landings on Leyte. On 24 October 1944, Wachapreague shifted to Liloan Bay, a small anchorage off Panoan Island, 65 nautical miles (120 kilometers) south of San Pedro Bay, which scarcely afforded the ship room to swing with the tide. Soon after her arrival at Liloan Bay, Wachapreague contacted the Philippine guerrilla radio network for a mutual exchange of information as to Japanese forces in the area.

 The Battle of Leyte Gulf
On the afternoon of 24 October 1944, upon receipt of word that three powerful Japanese task forces were approaching from three directions, PT boats tended by Wachapreague sped to action stations. In the van of the southern Japanese force steamed two battleships and a heavy cruiser, screened by four destroyers; 30 nautical miles (56 kilometers) behind came the second group, consisting of three cruisers and four destroyers. The American PT boats met the Japanese southern force head-on; three coordinated destroyer torpedo attacks soon followed; while American battleships and cruisers under Rear Admiral Jesse B. Oldendorf deployed across the northern end of Surigao Strait to "cross the T" of the Japanese ships. The devastation the American warships wreaked upon the Japanese force was nearly total. Only one Japanese ship, the destroyer Shigure, emerged from what became known as the Battle of Surigao Strait.

PT boats from MTBRon 12 then threw the second task group off balance at the head of the strait, slamming a torpedo into the side of the Japanese light cruiser Abukuma and forcing Abukuma out of the battle line, badly damaged. The Japanese flagship, the heavy cruiser Nachi, collided with another ship in the melee and found her own speed reduced to . This second echelon of Japanese ships, correctly surmising that the first had fallen upon some hard times, then fled, hotly pursued by American planes which administered the coup de grace to sink the already crippled Abukuma and the destroyer Shiranuhi on 26 October 1944.

MTBron 12's actions and the Battle of Surigao Strait itself were part of the larger Battle of Leyte Gulf of 23 October to 26 October 1944, a decisive defeat of the Imperial Japanese Navy from which it never recovered. Yet, while the Japanese capacity for seaborne operations lessened, Japanese forces nevertheless could still strike back from the skies. While the crew of Wachapreague labored to repair the badly damaged torpedo boat  on 25 October 1944, a Japanese plane attacked the ship, only to be driven off by a heavy anti-aircraft barrage. Later that day, Wachapreague shifted to Hinunagan Bay for refueling operations that would enable her six PT boats to return to San Pedro Bay. Japanese nuisance attacks from the air continued, however, and a dive bomber attacked Wachapreague just as she was completing the refueling of . As PT-134 pulled away from Wachapreagues side, a Japanese bomb landed some  from the PT boats stern, killing one man and wounding four on board PT-134. Moving out under cover of a smoke screen, Wachapreague vacated her anchorage just before 14 Japanese planes struck and, while clearing the bay, fired on three twin-engined Mitsubishi G4M (Allied reporting name "Betty") bombers, claiming two kills as one "Betty" crashed into the sea and a second, trailing smoke, crashed behind a nearby island.

 The Leyte Campaign concludes
Wachapreague arrived at San Pedro Bay late on 26 October 1944 and conducted tending operations at that site until 13 November 1944. During this time, her PT boats operated with devastating effect against Japanese shipping in the Ormoc Bay and Mindanao Sea areas. On 13 November 1944, her task completed in those waters for the time being, Wachapreague sailed in company with Willoughby for Mios Woendi. Returning two weeks later, Wachapreague now tended a total of 22 PT boats from MTBRons 13, 16, and 28, as well as six more from MTBRon 36 and two from MTBRon 17, at San Pedro Bay. Wachapreague remained at San Pedro until 4 January 1945, when she headed for Lingayen, on Luzon, in company with MTBRons 28 and 36.

 The Luzon campaign
At 12:00 hours, 12 January 1945, a Japanese suicide aircraft dived into a merchant ship  ahead of Wachapreague. At dusk, seven Japanese planes attacked; one of them crashed in the sea some  ahead of Wachapreague, another came under fire as it plunged toward the merchant ship SS Kyle V. Johnson, and a third headed for Wachapreague, only to be knocked into the sea by a heavy antiaircraft barrage. SS Kyle V. Johnson was hit amidship by a single Japanese kamikaze, killing 129 army engineers from the 1896th Engineer Aviation Battalion who were in transport below decks. Later that evening,  came alongside Wachapreague and transferred two men she had rescued from the water who had been blown overboard from Kyle V. Johnson during the earlier heavy air action.

Wachapreague entered Lingayen Gulf on 13 January 1945 and anchored near the town of Damortis, Santo Tomas, La Union. On 16 January 1945, she shifted her anchorage to Port Sual to tend PT boats from MTBRons 28 and 36. These boats gradually extended their patrols northward to the coastal towns of Vigan City and Aparri, shelling shore installations and wreaking havoc on Japanese barge traffic and shipping along the northwest coast of Luzon, destroying some 20 barges. Wachapreague meanwhile continued to make all electrical and engine repairs for the squadron PT boats and handled all major communications for the motor torpedo boat squadrons until she departed Lingayen on 12 March 1945 to replenish at Leyte.

 The Borneo campaign
Underway again on 23 April 1945, Wachapreague accompanied MTBRon 36 to Dutch North Borneo and took part in the invasion of Tarakan Island. While the guns still pounded the shore and the invasion itself was underway, Wachapreague entered the Tarakan Bay on 1 May 1945 to establish an advance base for her PT boats. For the next four months, until the surrender of Japan on 15 August 1945 that ended World War II, Wachapreague operated from this bay, tending MTBRon 36 PT boats while they in turn conducted daily offensive runs up the coast of Borneo.

In the course of these operations, the PT boats sought out and destroyed Japanese shipping at Tawao, Cowie Harbor, and Noneokan, Dutch North Borneo, shelling and rocketing shore installations. As the Japanese later attempted evacuation by small boats and rafts, the PT boats netted some 30 prisoners-of-war. In addition to these tasks, the PT boats assisted tank landing ship tank (LST) retractions from the beachheads by speeding across the water astern of the landing ships and creating swells which enabled the LSTs to back off the beach and float free.

 Honors and awards
Wachapreague received four battle stars for her World War II service.

 Post-World War II
Wachapreague tended PT boats after the end of the war, based at Tarakan, until she headed back to the United States and arrived at San Francisco, California, on 5 December 1945. After upkeep at the Mare Island Naval Shipyard at Vallejo, California, Wachapreague got underway for the United States East Coast on 20 March 1946 and reported at Boston, Massachusetts, on 6 April 1946 for inactivation. She was decommissioned on 10 May 1946 and transferred outright to the United States Coast Guard on 27 May 1946. Her name was struck from the Navy List on 5 June 1946.

 United States Coast Guard service

Barnegat-class ships were very reliable and seaworthy and had good habitability, and the United States Coast Guard viewed them as ideal for ocean-station duty, in which they would perform weather reporting and search and rescue tasks, once they were modified by having a balloon shelter added aft and having oceanographic equipment, an oceanographic winch, and a hydrographic winch installed. After World War II, the Navy transferred 18 of the ships to the Coast Guard, in which they were known as the Casco-class cutters.

After the Navy transferred Wachapreague to the Coast Guard on 27 May 1946, she underwent conversion for service as a weather reporting ship. The Coast Guard commissioned her as USCGC McCulloch (WAVP-386) on 25 November 1946. She was the fourth ship of the U.S. Coast Guard or its predecessor, the United States Revenue Cutter Service, to bear the name, which honored the financier Hugh McCulloch (1808–1895), who served as United States Secretary of the Treasury under Presidents Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson from 1865 to 1869 and Chester A. Arthur from 1884 to 1885.

 North Atlantic, 1946–1972

McCullochs first home port was Boston, Massachusetts, where she would remain stationed until July 1966. Her primary duty was to serve on ocean stations in the Atlantic Ocean to gather meteorological data. While on duty in one of these stations, she was required to patrol a 210-square-mile (544-square-kilometer) area for three weeks at a time, leaving the area only when physically relieved by another Coast Guard cutter or in the case of a dire emergency. Spending an average of 21 days per month at sea, McCulloch patrolled the direct line of air routes to Europe, acting as an aircraft check point at the point of no return, relayed weather data to the United States Weather Bureau and acted as a source of the latest weather information for passing aircraft, and maintained an air-sea rescue station for downed civilian and military aircraft and vessels in distress. She also operated as a floating oceanographic laboratory and engaged in law enforcement operations. McCulloch remained engaged in these duties until more modern techniques of weather reporting and data gathering came into use and made seagoing weather ships obsolete.

While McCulloch was patrolling Ocean Station Bravo off the coast of Labrador, Canada, in January 1959, raging winter seas cracked her main decks and swept one crewman overboard. In spite of that harrowing experience, she managed to reach Naval Station Argentia in Newfoundland, Canada, without further mishap.

During October and November 1965, McCulloch was assigned to patrol the Florida Strait and rescue Cuban refugees during the Cuban Exodus, in which thousands of Cubans chanced the rough, hazardous  passage from Camarioca, Cuba, to Key West, Florida, many in overcrowded and unseaworthy craft handled by totally inexperienced people. During this patrol, McCulloch was under the command of Commander Frank Barnett, USCG, who was in tactical command of 12 Coast Guard cutters and four airplanes assigned to the Cuban Patrol. In early November 1965, McCulloch rescued 280 Cuban refugees from small craft in the Florida Strait and carried them to Key West. The crew was cited for outstanding service during this patrol and, on 22 April 1966, McCulloch was awarded a Unit Commendation for her Florida Strait patrol, with ceremonies held at Boston, entitling her crew of 144 to wear the Unit Commendation Bar.

On 1 May 1966, McCulloch was reclassified as a high endurance cutter and redesignated WHEC-386. In July 1966, she was stationed at Wilmington, North Carolina, which would remain her home port until 21 June 1972. Just as during her years at Boston, she spent her years at Wilmington in ocean station, law-enforcement, and search-and-rescue operations.

On 17 June 1970, McCulloch helped fight a fire aboard the merchant ship Tsui Yung in Wilmington.

 Decommissioning and transfer to South Vietnam
In April 1972, McCulloch and two of her sister ships, the Coast Guard cutters  and , were deployed as Coast Guard Squadron Two, with crews composed mainly of members of the United States Coast Guard Reserve. They were originally scheduled to sail to Subic Bay in the Philippines, but were diverted to the U.S. Navy base at Apra Harbor, Guam. After their antisubmarine warfare equipment had been removed, the three cutters eventually were decommissioned, transferred to the U.S. Navy, and then transferred to  South Vietnam, all three of these events happening for McCulloch on 21 June 1972.

 Republic of Vietnam Navy service
The former McCulloch was commissioned into the Republic of Vietnam Navy as the frigate RVNS Ngô Quyền (HQ-17), named after Ngô Quyền, who expelled Chinese forces in 938 and founded the first modern Vietnamese state. By mid-July 1972, six other former Casco-class cutters had joined her in South Vietnamese service. They were the largest warships in the South Vietnamese inventory, and their 5-inch (127-millimeter) guns were South Vietnam's largest naval guns. Ngô Quyền and her sisters fought alongside U.S. Navy ships during the final years of the Vietnam War, operating along the South Vietnamese coast on patrol and coastal interdiction duties and providing gunfire support to South Vietnamese forces ashore.

When South Vietnam collapsed at the end of the Vietnam War in late April 1975, Ngô Quyền became a ship without a country. She fled to Subic Bay in the Philippines, packed with South Vietnamese refugees. On 22 and 23 May 1975, a U.S. Coast Guard team inspected Ngô Quyền and five of her sister ships, which also had fled to the Philippines in April 1975. One of the inspectors noted: "These vessels brought in several hundred refugees and are generally rat-infested. They are in a filthy, deplorable condition. Below decks generally would compare with a garbage scow."

Philippine Navy service

The Philippines took custody of Ngô Quyền and her sister ships. After she was cleaned up and repaired, the former Ngô Quyền was commissioned in the Philippine Navy on 7 February 1977 as the frigate RPS Gregorio del Pilar (PF-8). She and three other ex-Barnegat-class, ex-Casco-class ships that had fled South Vietnam constituted the Philippine Navys Andrés Bonifacio class of frigates, the largest Philippine Navy combat ships of their time.

Modernization

The Andrés Bonifacio-class frigates were passed to the Philippine Navy with fewer weapons aboard than they had had during their U.S. Navy and U.S. Coast guard careers and with old surface search radars installed. The Philippine Navy addressed these shortfalls through modernization programs. In Philippine service, Gregorio del Pilar retained her South Vietnamese armament, consisting of a single Mark 12 5"/38 caliber (127-mm) gun, a dual-purpose weapon capable of anti-surface and anti-air fire, mounted in a Mark 30 Mod 0 enclosed base ring with a range of up to  yards; two twin Mark 1 Bofors 40 mm anti-aircraft gun mounts, four Mk. 4 single 20-millimeter Oerlikon anti-aircraft gun mounts, four M2 Browning .50-caliber (12.7-millimeter) general-purpose machine guns, and two 81-mm mortars. However, in 1979 Hatch and Kirk, Inc., added a helicopter deck aft which could accommodate a Philippine Navy MBB Bo 105C helicopter for utility, scouting, and maritime patrol purposes, although the ship had no capability to refuel or otherwise support visiting helicopters. The Sperry SPS-53 surface search and navigation radar also was installed, replacing the AN/SPS-23 radar, although the ship retained both its AN/SPS-29D air search radar and its Mark 26 Mod 1 Fire Control Radar System. The Philippine Navy made plans to equip Gregorio del Pilar and her sister ships with new radar systems and long-range BGM-84 Harpoon anti-ship cruise missiles, but this upgrade did not materialize due to the worsening political and economic crisis in the Philippines in the mid-1980s.

Service history
Gregorio del Pilar was designated BRP Gregorio del Pilar (PF-8) in June 1980 and was decommissioned in June 1985. Redesignated PF-12, she was recommissioned in 1987, but she was decommissioned again in April 1990 due to her poor material condition. She was discarded in July 1990 and probably scrapped.

Notes

References

 Department of the Navy Naval Historical Center Online Library of Selected Images: U.S. Navy Ships: USS Wachapreague (AGP-8, originally AVP-56), 1944–1946
 NavSource Online: Service Ship Photo Archive USS Wachapreague AVP-56 / AGP-8 USCGC McCulloch WAVP-386 / WHEC-386
 United States Coast Guard Historian's Office: McCulloch, 1946 WAVP / WHEC-386
 The Inventory of VNNs Battle Ships
 The Inventory of VNNs Battle Ships Part 2
 Chesneau, Roger. Conways All the World's Fighting Ships 1922–1946. New York: Mayflower Books, Inc., 1980. .
Gardiner, Robert. Conway's All the Worlds Fighting Ships 1947–1982, Part I: The Western Powers. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 1983. .
 Gray, Randal, Ed. Conways All the Worlds Fighting Ships 1947–1982 Part II: The Warsaw Pact and Non-Aligned Nations. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 1983. .
 Moore, John, Captain, RN, FRGS, Ed. Janes Fighting Ships 1973–1974. London: Janes Yearbooks, 1973. No ISBN number.

Barnegat-class motor torpedo boat tenders
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Ships of the United States Coast Guard
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Trần Quang Khải-class frigates
Vietnam War frigates of South Vietnam
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1943 ships
World War II auxiliary ships of the United States
Ships built at Lake Washington Shipyard


David George McQueen (1854–1930) was a Presbyterian minister who spent much of his career in the city of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. The neighbourhood of McQueen is named in his honour.

McQueen was born in Kirkwall, Ontario in 1854, and moved to Edmonton in 1887 upon graduation from Knox College, University of Toronto. He served for 43 years as minister at First Presbyterian Church, and played a role in the founding of several other Edmonton area congregations.

He was awarded an honorary degree by the University of Alberta in 1915.

His son Alexander died during World War I on June 4, 1916 from wounds sustained during the Battle of Mont Sorrel.

His life is chronicled in the book McQueen of Edmonton by E.A. Corbett.

Mount McQueen in the Canadian Rockies was named in his honour in 1953.

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1930 deaths
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The Black Cat () is a 1981 Italian horror film directed by Lucio Fulci. Biagio Proietti co-wrote the screenplay with Fulci. It starred Patrick Magee, Mimsy Farmer, Al Cliver, David Warbeck, and Dagmar Lassander. The film is based loosely on the 1843 story of the same name by Edgar Allan Poe, and uses the violent style that typified the director's later career, following films like Don't Torture a Duckling (1972).

Plot
Strange things are happening in a small English village, beginning when a man driving a car suddenly encounters a strange black cat in the back seat and, through the mesmerizing stare, the cat causes the man to crash his car into a lamp post, killing him. The black cat travels back to its home, a rambling old house occupied by Robert Miles, a morbid and hostile former college professor of the supernatural who is reputed to be a medium. Professor Miles lives alone except for his equally hostile black cat, and spends his time making audiotape recordings at the tombs of the recently deceased. Meanwhile, an American tourist named Jill Trevers, ventures into an open crypt to take photographs for her scrapbook when she discovers a small microphone on the floor of the place. Venturing out, she meets the local police constable Sergeant Wilson who tells her not to venture down the crypt again, saying that the dead like to be left alone.

Elsewhere, Maureen Grayson, a local outgoing teenager and her boyfriend, Stan, are in a rowboat on a nearby canal when they row to a boathouse and lock themselves in an airtight room so they can have sex. Maureen becomes nervous, and Stan discovers that the key for the locked door has disappeared. They are trapped as the room's air begins to run out.

The following day, Lillian Grayson calls the police to report her daughter's disappearance and Sergeant Wilson calls a man from Scotland Yard, Inspector Gorley who rides into town on his motorcycle and immediately gets a speeding ticket from Sergeant Wilson upon arrival at the police station. Meanwhile, Jill's search for the owner of the mini-microphone leads her to Miles, who discusses with her the barriers of perception and how to escape them. He tries to hypnotize Jill, but is prevented from doing so by the black cat, which suddenly leaps and scratches him. Jill leaves in a hurry.

That night, a local man named Ferguson leaves the local pub and walks home. The cat appears and scares him into a disused barn. When the feline appears suddenly before him, Ferguson tries to make his escape along a beam high off the ground. The cat scratches his hands as he holds onto a beam above his head to keep his balance, and he falls off to his death landing on some spikes on the ground.

The next morning, Inspector Gorley arrives at the scene and asks Jill to help photograph the dead man. As she does so, she sees cat scratches on the hands, which remind her of those suffered by Miles the previous day.

At Miles' house, Mrs. Grayson arrives and begs him to help her find her missing daughter. Miles, who is revealed to have been romantically involved with Mrs. Grayson many years ago, reluctantly agrees to help. Holding a bracelet owned by Maureen, Miles enters a trance and describes the boathouse, and the location of the missing key. The police and Mrs. Grayson rush to the scene and find all as Miles had said. Using the key to unlock the door, which had been locked from the inside, they discover the horribly decomposing bodies of Maureen and Stan. The key was on the tarpaulin outside, an impossible feat for a murderer since the only other way out of the room was a blocked air conditioning vent far too small for a human. That night, the cat's next victim is Mrs. Grayson herself when she gets burned to death by a fire in her house started by the malevolent feline.

Jill goes to Miles' house the following day and shows him the photographs she took of the scratches on the dead man's hands. Jill now believes that Miles exerts an evil supernatural influence over the cat, but Miles says that it's the cat who dominates him.

That night, Miles drugs the cat and takes it outdoors, hanging it by the neck from a tree branch. Supernatural forces are unleashed by the cat's death, which also hits Jill as she sleeps in her bed at the village inn. The cat appears before Miles again, now a ghostly curse on the frightened Miles. Inspector Gorley pays a late-night visit to Jill's room to discuss with her the mysterious flashes of light and occurrences that happened just an hour earlier. As he leaves, Gorley sees the evil creature himself, and gets attacked and hypnotized by it. He staggers on the road in front of a moving car and gets run over.

The next day Jill, who still thinks that Miles is the real killer, sneaks into his house when he goes out and snoops around his office, uncovering the audio recordings of his conversations with the dead. When Miles suddenly returns, she runs to hide in the cellar and encounters the black cat, which magically appears and disappears before her eyes. Running away in terror, she is cornered by Miles. He tells her that the cat has picked up on his suppressed hatred for the village folk and is acting them out without his knowledge or control. Jill runs, but is attacked, first by bats in the cellar, and then again by Miles who knocks her out with a stick.

Jill wakes up bound and gagged to find Miles walling her up alive in a space in the cellar wall. He has also taken her keys and emptied her hotel room, making it seem that she has left the village. However, Inspector Gorley, who has survived the car accident, goes with Sergeant Wilson, and his superior, Inspector Flynn, over to Miles' house and insists on searching it for signs of the cat, and Jill. They find nothing and are about to leave when they all hear a faint cry from the cat coming from the cellar. They find the newly bricked-up wall and upon battering it down, they find Jill barely alive, and the cat which was incarcerated there without Miles knowing it. As Jill is pulled out, Miles mumbles to Gorley that the cat has won and that he has fallen victim to his own evil misdeeds.

Cast
 Patrick Magee as Prof. Robert Miles
 Mimsy Farmer as Jill Trevers
 David Warbeck as Inspector Gorley
 Al Cliver as Sgt. Wilson
 Dagmar Lassander as Lillian Grayson
 Bruno Corazzari as Ferguson
 Geoffrey Copleston as Inspector Flynn
 Daniela Doria as Maureen Grayson (as Daniela Dorio)

Production
The film's original shooting title was Il gatto di Park Lane (). It was shot on location in the villages of West Wycombe, Chalfont St Giles and Hambleden, Buckinghamshire, and at film studios in Rome. Filming took place between 11 August and 28 September 1980.

Release
The Black Cat was distributed theatrically in Italy by Italian International Film on April 4, 1981. It was released theatrically in the United States in February 1984.

The film has been released on DVD in America by Anchor Bay Entertainment on May 29, 2001 and Blue Underground and in the UK by Salvation Films and Shameless Screen Entertainment.

Critical reception
Allmovie wrote, "As usual, [Fulci] conjures up a spooky atmosphere with effortless skill – a scene with Patrick Magee wandering through a fog-shrouded graveyard at night is truly creepy – but the film's meandering script makes it sputter when it should be building in intensity. Thus, The Black Cat never rises above being an exercise in style".

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1981 films
1981 horror films
Films about cats
Films based on The Black Cat
Films directed by Lucio Fulci
Italian horror films
1980s Italian-language films
Films scored by Pino Donaggio
Films about animals
1980s Italian films


OH 8 may refer to:

Ohio State Route 8
Ohio's 8th congressional district
Olduvai Hominid 8


OH 9 may refer to:

Ohio State Route 9
Ohio's 9th congressional district
Olduvai Hominid 9


Apple Grove may refer to:
An orchard
Apple Grove, Kentucky
Apple Grove, Ohio
Apple Grove, Mason County, West Virginia
Apple Grove, McDowell County, West Virginia


Rafivirumab (CR57) is a monoclonal antibody for the prophylaxis of rabies.

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Experimental drugs


The National Socialist Schoolchildren's League (Nationalsozialistischer Schülerbund), known under the acronyms NSS and more rarely NSSB, was a Nazi Party organisation for primary school pupils providing a student council and child protection system in Germany from 1929 to 1933.

History
The league began roughly around 1927 as the Hitler Jugend-Schülergruppen. It was established as the Nationalsozialistischer Schülerbund by Adrian von Renteln in 1929 by unifying the scattered groups under one authority.

In 1929, Von Renteln became the leader of the Hitler Youth, an organisation that he would clearly favour and to which he would give increasingly-wider powers. Von Renteln would stay as leader (Reichsführer) of the National Socialist Schoolchildren's League until 16 June 1932.

The NSS targeted small children of school age, who went on to become the harbingers of Nazism.

The National Socialist Schoolchildren's League was merged into the Hitler Youth on 20 May 1933. The event was marked with a youth-group celebration.

References

Abbreviations
Guido Knopp, Hitlers Kinder (de)

National Socialist Schoolchildren's League

1933 disestablishments in Germany
Nazi Party organizations
Child welfare
Youth organizations established in 1929

Education in Nazi Germany


Ramucirumab (LY3009806, IMC-1121B, trade name Cyramza) is a fully human monoclonal antibody (IgG1) developed for the treatment of solid tumors. This drug was developed by ImClone Systems Inc. It was isolated from a native phage display library from Dyax.

Approved uses
On 21 April 2014, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved ramucirumab as a single-agent treatment for advanced gastric cancer or gastro-esophageal junction (GEJ) adenocarcinoma after prior treatment with fluoropyrimidine- or platinum-containing chemotherapy. The approval was based on the results of the REGARD trial, a phase III, international, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study, that evaluated the safety and efficacy of ramucirumab combinated with best supportive care versus placebo. This trial has been criticised for its use of a placebo control arm, which does not reflect standard of care in most Western countries.

Ramucirumab has also been studied in combination with paclitaxel (a type of chemotherapy) and received additional FDA approval on 5 November 2014 as a treatment for people with advanced gastric cancer or GEJ adenocarcinoma after prior treatment with fluoropyrimidine- or platinum-based chemotherapy. The approval was based on the results of the RAINBOW trial, that compared ramucirumab plus paclitaxel or paclitaxel alone.

On 12 December 2014, the FDA approved ramucirumab in combination with docetaxel for treatment of metastatic non-small-cell lung carcinoma (NSCLC) with disease progression during or after first-line platinum-containing chemotherapy. The approval was based on REVEL trial.

On 24 April 2015, ramucirumab was approved by FDA for the treatment of patients with metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC) with disease progression on or after prior therapy with bevacizumab, oxaliplatin, and fluoropyrimidine. The approval was based on the results of the RAISE trial, a phase III study, which compared ramucirumab plus irinotecan, folinic acid, and 5-fluorouracil (FOLFIRI) to FOLFIRI alone.

On 10 May 2019, ramucirumab was approved by FDA as a single agent treatment for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) in patients who have an alpha fetoprotein (AFP) of > 400 ng/mL and have been previously treated with sorafenib. The approval was based on REACH-2 (NCT02435433), a multinational, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, multicenter study in patients with advanced HCC with AFP > 400 ng/mL who had disease progression on or after sorafenib or who were intolerant. The estimated median overall survival (OS) was 8.5 months (7.0-10.6 months) for patients receiving ramucirumab and 7.3 months (5.4-9.1 months) for those receiving placebo.

Contraindications
Under the European approval, NSCLC therapy with ramucirumab is contraindicated when there is tumour cavitation, or if major vessels are involved.

Side effects
The most common adverse effects in a study investigating ramucirumab monotherapy were diarrhoea (14% of patients, as compared to 9% under placebo), hyponatraemia (low blood sodium levels; 6% versus 2%), headache (9% versus 3%), and high blood pressure (16% versus 8%).

Interactions

In studies, no interactions were observed with paclitaxel, docetaxel or irinotecan.

Pharmacology

Mechanism of action
Ramucirumab is a direct VEGFR2 antagonist, that binds with high affinity to the extracellular domain of VEGFR2 and block the binding of natural VEGFR ligands (VEGF-A, VEGF-C and VEGF-D). These ligands are secreted by solid tumors to promote angiogenesis (formation of new blood vessels from pre-existing ones) and enhance tumor blood supply. Binding of ramucirumab to VEGFR2 leads to inhibition of VEGF-mediated tumor angiogenesis.

Clinical trials
On 26 September 2013, the manufacturer Eli Lilly announced that its Phase III study for ramucirumab failed to hit its primary endpoint on progression-free survival among women with metastatic breast cancer.

In June 2014, a phase III trial of the drug reported it failed to improve overall survival in liver cancer.

In Feb 2016 it was reported that a phase II trial of adding ramucirumab to docetaxel improved progression-free survival (PFS) compared with docetaxel alone in locally advanced or metastatic urothelial carcinoma. It is now in the RANGE phase III trial for this indication.

Between 2016 and 2018, 26 hospitals in Italy conducted a multicentre, randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled, phase 2 trial to evaluate the safety and effectiveness of the anti-VEGFR-2 antibody ramucirumab combined with gemcitabine in patients with pretreated  pleural mesothelioma. Combining ramucirumab to standard second line gemcitabine significantly improved overall survival after failure of first-line chemotherapy, with a favourable safety profile.

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Angiogenesis inhibitors
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Eli Lilly and Company brands


Codename: Assassin (Jonathan Drew) is a fictional antihero, a comic book character published by DC Comics. He debuted in 1st Issue Special #11 (February 1976), and was created by Gerry Conway, Steve Skeates and Nestor Redondo (credited as the Redondo Studio). In this first appearance he is called The Assassin, but later appearances renamed him "Codename: Assassin" after the feature in which he debuted.

Conway had been tasked with producing a story for the 11th issue of 1st Issue Special, and since he was working with Redondo, an artist who did not draw superheroes, he decided to make something similar to his earlier non-superhero vigilante the Punisher. In the resulting story, while participating in extrasensory perception studies conducted by a Doctor Andrew Stone at the fictional Antioke University, Jonathan Drew develops powers of telepathy and telekinesis which he uses to punish the murderers of his sister Marie. Drew's telekinesis allows him to walk on air, generate force fields, and lift heavy objects. The idea of The Assassin running through the air rather than using traditional flight was inspired by Wayne Boring's 1950s Superman comic books.

The Assassin briefly operates in Opal City during the 1970s. The character was given a 21st century revival in Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen Special #1 (December 2008), which updates his origin and presents the character in a new light. In this new take, Drew is an operative of the American Government. Jonathan Drew is seemingly part of a conspiracy directed against Superman, and for as yet unknown reasons was responsible for Atlas' attack on Metropolis. Drew is also behind the murders of Dr. Stone, the original Newsboy Legion and the alien known as Dubbilex. He also attempts to murder Daily Planet photojournalist Jimmy Olsen, who had accidentally uncovered the conspiracy.

Drew acts as an agent of General Sam Lane in the multi-title crossover Superman: New Krypton.

 Adventure Comics Special Featuring the Guardian one-shots
 Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen #2
 Superman #695
 Superman: War of the Supermen #1–4

References

External links
 DCU Guide – Codename: Assassin
 Cosmic Teams – Codename: Assassin

DC Comics supervillains
DC Comics superheroes
DC Comics metahumans
DC Comics martial artists
Fictional secret agents and spies
Comics characters introduced in 1976
DC Comics characters who have mental powers
DC Comics telekinetics
DC Comics telepaths
Characters created by Gerry Conway
Superman characters
Vigilante characters in comics


OH-22 may refer to:
Ohio's 22nd congressional district
Ohio's 22nd senatorial district
U.S. Route 22 in Ohio, the only Ohio highway numbered 22 since 1927
Ohio State Route 22 (1923-1927)


Angermeans is the third full-length album by the Californian hardcore band Strife. It was released in 2001 on Victory Records.

Critical reception
The Daily Herald called the album "vicious," writing that it "has as much Slayer as Agnostic Front in its lineage." AllMusic wrote that it "is not just a comeback for the band, it's a long-overdue kick in the butt for a whole [hardcore] movement as well."

Track listing

Personnel

Strife
 Rick Rodney – vocals and photography
 Chad Peterson – bass
 Sidney Niesen – drums
 Andrew Kline – guitar

Additional musicians
 Tom Ball – additional guitar (on "Angermeans" and "From The Graves")
 Ellie Wyatt – additional violin (on "Angel Wings)
 Eric Bobo – percussion (on "From These Graves)
 Melody Rodney – piano (on "Angel Wings)

Production
 Sean O'Dwyer – producing and engineering and mixing
 John Nelson – producing and engineering
 Rpgello Lozano – producing
 John Delaney – engineering
 Justina Powell – assistant engineering
 Josh Lynch – drum programming
 Nate Scott – art direction and design, photography

References

Strife (band) albums
2001 albums


Never Never Never is a 1973 album by Shirley Bassey. It features the hit single title track, which was a UK top 10 hit, which became one of Bassey's best-known songs. The album also became a top 10 hit in the UK and was a moderate hit in the US.

Overview
Released in May 1973, this album saw a peak in the Shirley Bassey career revival that she was experiencing during the early 1970s. The album's lead single, "Never, Never Never" had been a hit, reaching No. 8 in the UK Charts and remaining in the top 50 for 19 weeks, becoming one of her biggest and most well-known hits. It also performed well in the US, becoming her only single to make three different charts: No. 48 on the Billboard Hot 100, No. 8 on the Adult Contemporary Chart, and No. 67 on the R&B Chart. Also included were covers of contemporary hits such as "Baby I'm-a Want You", "Killing Me Softly with His Song" and "No Regrets" - the latter sharing the title with another song Bassey had recorded and released in the 1960s. Closing track, "Make the World a Little Younger" was released as the album's second and final single.

The album followed the single and similarly entered the top 10 in the UK, peaking at No. 10 during a 10-week run, and would go on to earn a silver disc. It was also a hit in the US, peaking at No. 60 on the Billboard 200, and No. 34 on the R&B Chart.

Of the album Billboard magazine said the album was "a superb production" made "with care and love and showcasing Shirley's outstanding vocal range, supplemented by a large orchestra". At the time of release, Bassey was in the middle of a national US tour. In an accompanying booklet of the sheet music for the album, the write-up stated; "with the release of her hit album Never, Never, Never, Shirley Bassey has reached the pinnacle of an ever growing popularity, both as a recording artist and performer".

The original release was in stereo on vinyl (with a gatefold sleeve), and cassette. Photography for this album was by Lord Snowdon. It was released in the US with an alternative cover. The album  was released in remastered form by BGO Records in a double CD pack, together with her 1975 album Good, Bad but Beautiful in 2005. The US version was released alone on CD in 2006.

Track listing
Side One
 "Never, Never, Never" (Tony Renis, Alberto Testa, Norman Newell) - 3:13
 "Baby I'm-a Want You" (David Gates) - 2:44
 "Someone Who Cares" (Alex Harvey) - 2:53
 "The Old Fashioned Way" (Georges Garvarentz, Al Kasha, Charles Aznavour, Joel Hirschorn) - 3:06
 "I Won't Last a Day Without You" (Paul Williams, Roger Nichols) - 3:31
 "Somehow" (Larry Grossman, Hal Hackady) - 2:24
Side Two
"There's No Such Thing as Love" (Ian Fraser, Anthony Newley, George Hackney) - 3:00
 "Killing Me Softly with His Song" (Norman Gimbel, Charles Fox) - 4:40
 "Going, Going, Gone" (John Barry, Alan Jay Lerner) - 2:13
 "No Regrets" (Tom Rush) - 4:29
 "Together" (Graham Gouldman) - 3:16
 "Make The World a Little Younger" (Terry Howell, Karen O'Hara, Denny McReynolds) - 3:34

Personnel
 Shirley Bassey – vocals
 John Harris – musical director, arranger and conductor
 Arthur Greenslade - arranger and conductor
 Chris Gunning - arranger and conductor
Technical
John Timperley, Martin Rushent, Roger Cameron - engineers
Lord Snowdon - photography
Pierre Tubbs - art direction

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Certifications and sales

References

Shirley Bassey albums
1973 albums
Albums arranged by Arthur Greenslade
Albums conducted by Johnny Harris (musician)
United Artists Records albums


Walter Jerome Schloss (August 28, 1916 – February 19, 2012) was an American investor, fund manager, and philanthropist. He was a well-regarded value investor as well as a notable disciple of the Benjamin Graham school of investing. He died of leukemia at the age of 95.

Biography
Schloss did not attend college. In 1934 at the age of 18, he started work as a runner on Wall Street. Schloss took investment courses taught by Graham at the New York Stock Exchange Institute while being employed at Loeb, Rhoades & Co. One of his classmates was Gus Levy, the future chairman of Goldman Sachs. He eventually went to work for Graham in the Graham-Newman Partnership.

In 1955, Schloss left Graham's company and started his own investment firm, eventually managing money for 92 investors. By maintaining a manageable asset size, Schloss averaged a 15.3% compound return over the course of four and a half decades, versus 10% for the S&P 500.  Between 1956 and 1984, the WJS Partnership's annual compounded rate was 21.3% (16.1% for the limited partners).

Schloss closed out his fund in 2000 and stopped actively managing others' money in 2003.

He served four years in the U.S. Army during World War II.

Warren Buffett named him as one of The Superinvestors of Graham-and-Doddsville, who disproved the academic position that the market is efficient, and that beating the S&P 500 was "pure chance".

Warren Buffett had this to say about Schloss: He knows how to identify securities that sell at considerably less than their value to a private owner: And that's all he does... He owns many more stocks than I do and is far less interested in the underlying nature of the business; I don't seem to have very much influence on Walter. That is one of his strengths; no one has much influence on him.

Philanthropy
Schloss was the Treasurer for Freedom House, and was a patron of the Tenement Museum. His archive is held at Columbia University.

See also
Value Investing
David Dodd
The Intelligent Investor
Security Analysis (book)
Warren Buffett
Irving Kahn

References

External links
Experience: Walter Schloss Cover Story on Forbes
2008 Berkshire Hathaway Meeting Transcript
Benjamin Graham and Security Analysis : A Reminiscence excerpt
Walter Schloss Presentation, The Ben Graham School of Value Investing, Richard Ivey School of Business
WalterSchloss.com

1916 births
2012 deaths
American financial analysts
American investors
American money managers
American stock traders
Businesspeople from New York City
Stock and commodity market managers
20th-century American businesspeople


Askale Tafa Magarsa (born September 27, 1984) is an Ethiopian long distance runner, who has specialised in the marathon. Her sister, Tafa Megersa Mergertu, is also a marathon runner.

Career
In 2005, she was third in the Rome Marathon. In 2006, she won the Milan Marathon and was second at the Berlin 25 km in 1:28.13. The following year she won the Dubai Marathon and was first in the Paris Marathon in 2:25.07. At the 2007 World Championships in Athletics in Osaka she earned a 22nd-place finish.

The year 2008 began with third place at the Dubai Marathon with a time of 2:23.23, finishing 41 seconds behind the winner. In the Boston Marathon, she was fifth. In the 2008 Berlin Marathon she finished second in a new personal best time of 2:21:31. She took part in the 2010 London Marathon and finished fifth, just behind her compatriots Bezunesh Bekele and Aselefech Mergia. She was eleventh at the 2011 London Marathon the following year. She entered the 2011 Chicago Marathon, but was slower than her typical pace and finished eighth overall. She was the runner-up at the 2012 Seoul International Marathon, finishing just behind compatriot Feyse Tadese.

She is currently a member of Marathon Elites Athletic Management Canada/Ethiopia and coached by her husband Tola Daba.  Her husband Tola Debel Gudeta is also a long distance runner with a PB of 2:23 hours in the marathon and 1:03 in the 20 km.

Achievements
All results regarding marathon, unless stated otherwise

 2005 Rome Marathon 2:32.34, 3rd
 2005 Berlin Marathon 2:28.27, 3rd
 2006 Arizona Marathon 2:31.46, 2nd
 2006 San Diego Marathon 2:29.47, 4th
 2007 World Championships Marathon 2:38.01, 22nd
 2008 Dubai Marathon 2:23.23, 3rd
 2008 Boston Marathon 2:29.48, 5th
 2008 Berlin Marathon 2:21:31, 2nd

Personal bests
Half marathon - 1:09:37 hrs (2008)
Marathon - 2:21.31 hrs (2008)

References

External links

Athletes Profile on marathoninfo.free.fr
World Marathon Majors :: Askale Tafa Magarsa

1984 births
Living people
Ethiopian female long-distance runners
Ethiopian female marathon runners
Paris Marathon female winners
21st-century Ethiopian women
21st-century Ethiopian people


Hendrickson High School is a high school in the city of Pflugerville, Travis County, Texas, United States. It is operated by the Pflugerville Independent School District and is named after Pflugerville educator and civil servant Robert E. Hendrickson.

Notable alumni
Samaje Perine, American football running back
Hope Trautwein, American college softball pitcher
Rene Otero′, NSDA National Champion, Foreign Extemporaneous Speaking  and featured in the documentary "Boys State" which won numerous awards, including a Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Award.

References

External links

High schools in Travis County, Texas
Public high schools in Texas
Pflugerville, Texas


Malaysia–Pakistan relations refer to bilateral foreign relations between the two countries, Malaysia and Pakistan. Pakistan has its high commission (embassy) in Kuala Lumpur, and Malaysia has its high commission in Islamabad. Both countries are members of the Commonwealth of Nations and the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation.

History

Pakistan and Malaysia established their diplomatic relations in 1957 after the latter's independence. Initially, the High Commission of Malaysia was located in Karachi, which was the capital city of Pakistan then. On 5 October 1965, Pakistan severed diplomatic ties with Malaysia when a Malaysian representative at the UN Security Council (to which Malaysia had been elected in 1965) had taken sides in the Indo-Pakistani war over Kashmir. Pakistan's Foreign Minister Z. A. Bhutto said that Malaysia had taken an immoral position, had violated the solidarity of the African-Asian world." The Malaysian government rejected any Pakistani suggestion that Malaysia had sided with India in the dispute, and sent a note to the Pakistani high commission in Kuala Lumpur that Malaysia had not behaved wrongly to a fellow Muslim nation, challenged a Pakistani claim that Pakistan had tried to mediate the Malaysia-Indonesia dispute".

Shortly after that Malaysia accused Pakistan of being involved in "a sinister pattern of collusion with China and Indonesia against Malaysia". Speaking after a cabinet meeting, the Malaysian Prime Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman said: "I knew this was coming for a long time, and in particular because of the peculiar behaviour of Mr. Bhutto. Mr. Bhutto had given a poor excuse for breaking with Malaysia and what surprises me is that they had not broken off ties with India, with whom they are at war". After 11 months break, the relations was resumed with the help of Iran. When the relations have been normal, Pakistan became a supporter of the Federation of Malaysia which they refused to accept the non-inclusion of Brunei and the leaving of Singapore from the Malaysian Federation, Pakistan only established relations with those countries when Malaysia had done so. In 1968, the High Commission of Malaysia was moved to Islamabad, the new capital. On 2 October 2005, Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi held out assurance to Pakistani Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz during an hour-long meeting that Malaysia would support Pakistan's bid for a full dialogue partner of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).

Diplomatic relations

On 21 November 2018, Malaysia and Pakistan agreed to establish bilateral consultations between the two senior officials of their foreign affairs ministries.

Economic relations
In 1986, Malaysia exported $515.5 million worth of goods to Pakistan mainly palm oil while Pakistan export to Malaysia was only $31.1 million. Thus, Pakistan has stated that it wants to explore more joint ventures with Malaysian companies. There is a trade and cultural pact between the two countries, under which the import and export of various goods is done on fairly large scale. The President and the Prime Minister of Pakistan along with other high officials visited Malaysia many times and Malaysian officials also paid a good will visit to Pakistan. Malaysia and Pakistan signed a free trade agreement called the Malaysia–Pakistan Closer Economic Partnership Agreement (MPCEPA) in January 2008.

Pakistan and Malaysia are linked by air transport. Pakistan International Airlines operates many flights from Karachi, Lahore, and Peshawar to Kuala Lumpur.

Automotive
On 21 March 2019, Proton announced to establish a manufacturing assembly plant in Pakistan, its first in the South Asian region.

Investment & Trade
On investment, Malaysia is Pakistan's third largest foreign investor behind China and United Kingdom for financial year 2017-2018 according to statistics provided by the State Bank of Pakistan.

In terms of bilateral trade, Malaysia is Pakistan's 16th largest trading partner while Pakistan is Malaysia's largest export market in South Asia and the third for import destination.

Security relations
On 18 August 2016, Pakistan Chief of Army Staff General Raheel Sharif arrived in Kuala Lumpur on an official visit. He held separate meetings with Malaysian Chief of Defence Forces  General Zulkifeli Mohd Zin and Malaysian Army Chief General Raja Mohamed Affandi. Later, General Raheel also met Malaysian Minister of Defence Hishammuddin Hussein.

Malaysia–Pakistan Joint Committee on Defence Cooperation (JCDC)
In 1997, Malaysia and Pakistan agreed to set up a Joint Committee on Defense Cooperation exploring collaboration in their military-to-military ties.

MALPAK naval exercise
On 21 March 2017, Pakistan Navy Ships PNS Nasr and PNS Saif arrived at the Malaysian port of Langkawi to participate in first bilateral naval exercise MALPAK-I. Exercise were carried out in Straits of Malacca.

On 17 February 2019, Royal Malaysian Navy Ships KD Kasturi and KD Mahawangsa arrived in Karachi to participate in the bilateral MALPAK-II exercise. Pakistan Navy's ship PNS Saif, PNS Azmat, long-range maritime aircraft and helicopters participated in the MALPAK-II exercise carried out in Arabian Sea.

Military procurement

Since 2002, several Pakistani made weapons such as Anza and Bakhtar Shikan has been acquired by the Malaysian military as part of the arms deal with Pakistan. On 15 April 2018, it is further reported that Pakistan and Malaysia were in preliminary discussions about the potential export of the Pakistan Aeronautical Complex JF-17 Thunder combat aircraft.

See also
 Pakistanis in Malaysia
 Foreign relations of Malaysia
 Foreign relations of Pakistan

References

External links
 MEC Malaysian Education Centre, Pakistan

Pakistan
Bilateral relations of Pakistan
Pakistan
Malaysia


Carol Ann Bartz (born August 28, 1948) is an American business executive, former president and CEO of the internet services company Yahoo!, and former chairman, president, and CEO at architectural and engineering design software company Autodesk.

Early life and education

Bartz was born in Winona, Minnesota, the daughter of Shirley Ann (née Giese) and Virgil Julius Bartz. Her mother died when Carol was eight years old. A few years later, she and her younger brother, Jim, moved from Minnesota across the Mississippi River to the home of their grandmother, Alice, on a dairy farm near Alma, Wisconsin. In high school, Bartz did well in mathematics, and was also homecoming queen. She began college at William Woods University in Fulton, Missouri, and subsequently transferred to the University of Wisconsin–Madison where she received a bachelor's degree in computer science in 1971. While in college, she supported herself as a cocktail waitress. Bartz also has two half brothers and two half sisters all living in Wisconsin and Minnesota.

Bartz was also awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters degree (2002) from New Jersey Institute of Technology, an Honorary Doctor of Science degree from Worcester Polytechnic Institute and an honorary Doctor of Letters degree from William Woods University.

Career
In 1976, Bartz went to work at the manufacturing conglomerate 3M, but left after her request to transfer to the headquarters was denied. Bartz moved on to the computer industry, including jobs at Digital Equipment Corporation and Sun Microsystems.

CEO of Autodesk
She became CEO of Autodesk in 1992. According to Forbes, Bartz "transformed Autodesk from an aimless maker of PC software into a leader of computer-aided design software, targeting architects and builders." She is credited with instituting and promoting Autodesk's "3F" or "fail fast-forward" concept – the idea of moulding a company to risk failure in some missions, but to be resilient and move on quickly when failure occurs. She stepped down as CEO in 2006, and became the executive chairman of the board.

During her 14-year tenure as the company's CEO, Autodesk net revenue substantially increased, and annual revenue rose from $300 million to $1.5 billion, with the stock price rising an average of 20 percent annually.

Bartz served on several boards of directors, including those of Intel, Cisco Systems, Autodesk, BEA Systems, Network Appliance, and the Foundation for the National Medals of Science. Additionally, she has been a member of the United States President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology.

CEO of Yahoo!

On January 13, 2009, Bartz was named CEO of Yahoo!, the Internet services company which operated the fourth most-visited Web domain name in the world, succeeding co-founder Jerry Yang. During a conference call with financial analysts later in January 2009, she announced her intention to make sure Yahoo! got "some friggin' breathing room" so the company could "kick some butt." Rob Hof of Business Week was skeptical that Bartz or anyone else could save the company: "... it's not yet clear if Bartz can turn Yahoo around no matter how good she may be."

In May 2009, Reuters reported that she had already "worked through an impressive checklist" at her new company, "upending the organizational structure, replacing executives and cutting costs, including 675 jobs, or 5 percent of the workforce." Analysts described her efforts as precisely what the company required; reporter Alexei Oreskovic observed:

For Yahoo's ranks, still shell-shocked from deep cuts in 2008 – including 1,600 axed jobs – the hope that Bartz brings is increasingly mixed with a dose of fear and uncertainty. Yet broad support remains for Bartz despite the tough talk, canceled holiday parties and forced vacations that have come to define her era.

Staff became anxious over a fresh round of job layoffs and the removal of a number of Yahoo! sites. The situation was then "exacerbated by a growing sense of secrecy", for which Bartz has a notable reputation. A need to know agenda replaced the company's typically open internal access to information. Bartz was quoted as saying that she would "drop-kick to fucking Mars" employees who leak to the press. Oreskovic quoted a fearful anonymous insider: "We are all sort of wanting to believe in her because we really want to see Yahoo! turned around, but it still doesn't make it any less scary when you don't hear about what's coming up. Everything is on a need-to-know basis."

At her one-year mark at Yahoo in January 2010, Bartz gave herself a "B−" grade for the job done in 2009: "It was a little tougher internally than I think I had anticipated. I did move fast, but this is a big job." Others in the media, however, rated her job higher given the challenges she had to manage.

When Bartz was hired by Yahoo in early 2009, she was paid an annual base salary of $1 million. She was eligible for an annual 400% bonus and received 5,000,000 shares in addition to an equity grant of $18 million of stock (to compensate for the forfeiture of the value of equity grants and post-employment medical coverage from her previous employer). In 2010 Bartz was named "most overpaid" CEO by proxy voting firm Glass-Lewis when she received $47.2 million in compensation.

On September 6, 2011, Bartz was removed from her position at Yahoo! (via phone call by Yahoo Chairman Roy Bostock), and CFO Tim Morse was named as Interim CEO of the company. Bartz notes that Roy was physically 20 minutes away from her when she was fired, noting that "he didn't have the nerve to see [her] face to face" and later stated that the board "fucked me over". Bartz expressed her desire to remain on the Board of Directors. However, on September 9, 2011, Bartz resigned from the company's Board of Directors.

Corporate board memberships
Bartz has been a member of eight public company boards in the last 20 years. As of February 2018, she sits on the board of PlanGrid and Cisco. In December 2017, she was reported to own over fifty-two thousand Cisco shares, worth approximately $1.6 million.

Bartz is an investor in Caliva, a cannabis-based business.

Awards
Bartz received the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year Award in 2001, which spans more than 140 cities and 50 countries worldwide. In 2005, she was included in Forbes Magazine's List of The World's 100 Most Powerful Women, and remained appearing in the list for six consecutive years.

Personal life
Bartz is a survivor of breast cancer. She is married to Bill Marr, a former executive at Data General and Sun Microsystems. They have three children: Bill, Meredith, and Layne. Her hobbies include golf, tennis, and gardening.

On balancing a career with family, Bartz says: "I have a belief that life isn't about balance, because balance is perfection ... Rather, it's about catching the ball before it hits the floor."

References

External links

1948 births
American technology chief executives
American computer businesspeople
American corporate directors
Directors of Yahoo!
Living people
People from Alma, Wisconsin
People from Winona, Minnesota
University of Wisconsin–Madison alumni
William Woods University alumni
American women chief executives
Cisco people
Yahoo! employees
Autodesk people
Businesspeople from Minnesota
21st-century American businesswomen
21st-century American businesspeople


Frankie Stevens (born Francis Donald McKechnie Stevenson in Wellington, 1950), MNZM, is a New Zealand entertainer and singer. He was a judge for all three seasons on the reality series New Zealand Idol.  He is the brother of singer Jon Stevens. He is of Scottish and of Maori descent.

Early career
He got his start singing in a band while at Heretaunga College.
He began his career at the age of 16, when he moved to Sydney, Australia to join a group called "Peter Nelson and the Castaways". After several years of touring and recording with the group, he went solo.

As a solo artist, his first record "My Elusive Dreams" in 1969 was a major hit in New Zealand.

The next year, he moved to London where he won the talent show Opportunity Knocks six times in a row, sang at both The Palladium and Albert Hall, represented Great Britain in several song contests, winning the Silver Prize in the Second Tokyo Music Festival, the Bronze Medal in Caracas Venezuela, and the Gold Medal at the Golden Orpheus Song Festival in Bulgaria.

Through the 1970s, he toured extensively, working with many major acts including Olivia Newton-John, Shirley Bassey, Milton Berle, and Sammy Davis Jr. and acting in Hawaii Five-O. played King Nodos in the Hercules TV series.

Return to New Zealand
In 1982, Stevens returned to New Zealand.

In 1994, he played the High Priest Caiaphas in the New Zealand tour of Jesus Christ Superstar, and later the '94-95' tour of Australia - with his younger brother Jon playing Judas.

From 2004, he was a judge on all three seasons on New Zealand Idol.

In the 2005 New Year Honours, Stevens was made a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to entertainment.

Stevens has been honoured by his home town of Upper Hutt, which named a street in the suburb of Riverstone Terraces, Frankie Stevens Place, after the entertainer.

He is an  ambassador of the Prostate Cancer Foundation of New Zealand.

In October 2015 he was presented with a Scroll of Honour from the Variety Artists Club of New Zealand for his contribution to the New Zealand entertainment industry.

References

External links
 https://web.archive.org/web/20091024095418/http://www.frankiestevens.com/home.html
 https://web.archive.org/web/20110706112624/http://www.thewholenineyards.com.au/

1950 births
Living people
People from Upper Hutt
New Zealand Idol
New Zealand pop singers
New Zealand Māori musicians
New Zealand people of Scottish descent
New Zealand male musical theatre actors
People educated at Heretaunga College


Friedrich Gottlieb Bartling (December 9, 1798 – November 20, 1875) was a German botanist who was a native of Hanover.

He studied natural sciences at the University of Göttingen, and in 1818 took a botanical journey through Hungary and Croatia. In 1822, he became a lecturer at Göttingen, where he later became a professor. In 1837, he was appointed director of its botanical garden.

The plant genus Bartlingia from the family Rubiaceae is named in his honor.

Selected publications
 De litoribus ac insulis maris Liburnici (1820).
 Ordines naturales plantarum (1830).
 Flora der österreichischen Küstenländer, (Flora of the Austrian coastal area), (1825).
 Vegetabilia cellularia in Germania septentrionali praesertim in Hercynia et in agro Gottingensi lecta (1834 and 1836), with Georg Ernst Ludwig Hampe (1795–1880).

References

 Parts of this article are based on a translation of an equivalent article at the German Wikipedia.

19th-century German botanists
Scientists from Hanover
Academic staff of the University of Göttingen
1798 births
1875 deaths
Members of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
Members of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities