Toto Mui Siu-wai (born April 17, 1966) is a Hong Kong actress and television host associated with Television Broadcasts Limited. Her notable roles include Sek Mei in Virtues of Harmony and Loose Head Zhi in Justice of Life.

Her older sister is TVB producer, Mui Siu-ching.  In the mid-nineties, Mui had a long-term relationship with fellow TVB actor Savio Tsang. After 13 years together, the couple broke up in 1999.

Filmography
The Seasons (1987–1989)
My Father's Son (1988)
The Legend of Master Chan (1989)
Looking Back In Anger (1989)
The Final Combat (1989)
Two of a Kind (1989)
Everybody Loves Somebody (1989)
Justice Of Life (1989)
Song Bird (1989)
Where I Belong (1990)
No Risk, No Gain (1990)
The Big Family (1991)
The Commandments (1992)
The Key Man (1992)
Being Twins (1992)
From Act to Act (1995)
Good Match from Heaven (1995)
Night Journey (1996)
Working Women  (1997)
Show Time Blues (1997)
A Road and a Will (1997)
As Sure As Fate (1998)
A Matter of Business (1999)
Life for Life (1999)
When Dreams Come True (2000)
Colourful Life (2001)
Virtues of Harmony (2001–2003)
Virtues of Harmony II (2003–2005, Cutie left in 2004)
Short of Love (2009)

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Tutova County is one of the historic counties of Moldavia, Romania with the city of Bârlad as capital.

Geography
Tutova County covered 2,498 km2 and was located in the central-eastern part of Greater Romania, in the south-eastern part of Moldavia. Currently, the territory that comprised Tutova County is now included primarily at present in Vaslui County, with some of its southern portions in Bacău County and Galați County. In the interwar period, the county neighbored Vaslui County to the north, Fălciu County to the northeast, Cahul County to the east, Covurlui County to the south, and Tecuci and Bacău counties to the west.

Administrative organization

Administratively, Tutova County was initially divided into three districts (plăși):
Plasa Alexandru Vlahuță, headquartered at Puiești
Plasa Monolache Epureanu, headquartered at Murgeni
Plasa Vasile Pârvan, headquartered at Grivița

Subsequently, after a reorganization, a fourth district was established:
Plasa I.G. Duca, headquartered at Banca

Population
According to the census data of 1930, the county had a population of 144,821, 93.7% Romanians, 2.9% Jews, 2.6% Romanies, 0.2% Germans, as well as other minorities. In religious terms, the county population consisted of 96.5% Eastern Orthodox, 2.9% Jewish, 0.3% Roman Catholic, as well as other minorities.

Urban population
In 1930, the urban population of the county was 21,857 inhabitants, of which 81,9% were Romanians, 14,1% Jews, 0,8% Germans, as well as other minorities. From a religious point of view, the urban population was made up of 83.4% Eastern Orthodox, 14.2% Jewish, 1.0% Roman Catholic, as well as other minorities.

History
Tutova County was established in 1925, and broken up as a result of the 1950 administrative reform.

Interbellum
In July 1924, ultranationalist student and future Legionary, Constantin Buşila, led attacks against Jewish villages in Tutova County. In April 1932, Ion Zelea Codreanu, the father of Corneliu Zelea Codreanu, is elected to Parliament by the citizens of Tutova County, as a representative of the fascist Legionary movement led by his son.

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  Tutova County on memoria.ro

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Charford is a small village located close to the town centre of Bromsgrove in Worcestershire, England.

History

Charford used to be farm land  with a mill, Charford Mill (known as The Lint Mill) provided employment by the manufacture of sanitary towels and wound dressings but was worn out for many years until it was demolished to make way for South Bromsgrove High School which retained the old mill pond at the front of the complex. This, however, has since been filled in due to the demolition and redevelopment of the school on an adjacent field though the sluice gate can still be seen to the side of the Sugarbrook that runs along the front of the school off Charford Road.

The original housing estates of Charford were built for workers  of the Garringtons Drop forging plant in nearby Aston Fields that provided forgings for the automotive and aerospace industries.

Transport
Bus services in Charford are provided by First Midland Red, Diamond West Midlands, Clearway and MRD Travel. There are routes to Bromsgrove, Droitwich, Worcester, Birmingham and Redditch. Bromsgrove railway station is situated in the adjacent village of Aston Fields with train services to Birmingham, Worcester and Hereford

Education

Charford has two schools; Charford First School and South Bromsgrove High School, the latter having been recently rebuilt on the original playing fields as a brand new modern complex.  The old buildings were demolished by DSM Demolition and the land is now a car park for staff and visitors.

External links
 St Andrews Church

References

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Frédéric "Freddy" A. Mésot (25 May 1905 – October 1979) was a Belgian figure skater who competed in the 1924 Winter Olympics. In 1924 he finished ninth in the singles event.

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Avenue Capital Group is an American multinational investment firm focusing on distressed securities and private equity with regional teams focusing on opportunities in the United States, Europe and Asia.  The firm operates as both a private equity firm and as a hedge fund.  Avenue's core strategy is focused on distressed debt and equity securities although the firm also manages investment funds that focus on long-short opportunities, real estate, and collateralized debt obligations.  The firm manages assets valued at approximately $9.5 billion.  The firm was founded by former professionals of Amroc Investments, an affiliate of the Robert M. Bass Group.

The firm is headquartered in New York City, with offices in London, Luxembourg, Munich, Beijing, Hong Kong, New Delhi and Singapore. The firm has established an institutional-quality infrastructure in terms of accounting, compliance legal, investor relations, and information technology capabilities. Avenue has approximately 220 employees across its 8 offices worldwide.

Avenue's investment professionals seek "good companies with bad balance sheets" — firms with sustainable businesses and positive cash flow but whose financial situation is distressed. The investment team uses Avenue's top-down/bottom-up approach to find undervalued opportunities and typically seeks to make non-operational control investments in troubled businesses. This provides the strategy maximum trading flexibility and allows Avenue's investment professionals to focus on pre-investment research and analysis rather than post-investment operating issues.

From 2006 to 2009, Chelsea Clinton, daughter of former President of the United States Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, worked as an associate at Avenue Capital Group LLC.

Bloomberg reported that as of February 28, 2010, Avenue Capital Group is the 13th largest hedge fund in the world.

History
Avenue Capital Group was founded in 1995 by siblings Marc Lasry and Sonia Gardner.  The two founders had previously founded Amroc Investments in 1989 as a $100 million distressed debt investment fund organized in association with the Robert M. Bass Group.

In 1995, Mr. Lasry and Ms. Gardner started their first Avenue fund, Avenue Investments, with less than $10 million. This onshore fund has grown to $509 million as of December 31, 2012.

In 1997, Mr. Lasry and Ms. Gardner formed their second Avenue fund called Avenue International. This offshore fund attracts U.S. tax exempt and non-U.S. investors. As of December 31, 2012, Avenue International has $1,461 million in assets under management.

In 2012, The firm was featured in Maneet Ahuja's book, The Alpha Masters: Unlocking the Genius of the World's Top Hedge Funds.

In February, 2016 Marc Lasry explained on CNBC that Avenue Capital was taking advantage of the opportunity to purchase loans from European Banks at a discount. As Lasry said: "Most banks are being forced by the European Central Bank to sell loans and therefore we're able to buy those loans at a great discount. The ECB will likely continue to put pressure on these banks to clean up their balance sheet."

In August 2018, it was announced Avenue Capital has invested €250million ($278 million) in Castlehaven Finance, an Irish construction sector lending platform.

In March 2021, Avenue signed an agreement with Indian economy airline SpiceJet to accommodate the financing, sale & leaseback of fifty new airplanes.

Since its inception in 1995, Avenue has raised 14 private equity style investment funds across its three principal regions (US, Europe and Asia) to invest in distressed securities and real estate:

United States
1998 - Avenue Special Situations I - $133 million
2001 - Avenue Special Situations II - $520 million
2003 - Avenue Special Situations III - $628 million
2006 - Avenue Special Situations IV - $1.68 billion
2007 - Avenue Real Estate Fund - $166 million
2007 - Avenue Special Situations V - $6.0 billion
2011 - Avenue Special Situations Fund VI - $1.9 billion
2014 - Avenue Energy Opportunities Fund - $1.3 billion

Asia
2001 - Avenue Asia Capital Partners - $126 million
2001 - Avenue Asia Special Situations II - $275 million
2003 - Avenue Asia Special Situations III - $628 million
2006 - Avenue Asia Special Situations Fund IV - $3.0 billion

Europe
2008 - Avenue Europe Special Situations Fund - €1.5 billion
2012 - Avenue Europe Special Situations Fund II – $2.78 billion

Avenue launched its Asian-focused distressed business in 1999.
In 2004, Avenue launched its European-focused distressed business with Rich Furst as the senior portfolio manager. While building distressed debt, the European branch of the firm also writes loans for small companies that are unable to obtain financing.

Ownership
In October 2006, Morgan Stanley bought a non-controlling 15% stake in the firm. Marc Lasry and Sonia Gardner invested 100% of the proceeds they received from Morgan Stanley back into the Avenue funds.

Corporate responsibility
In 2014, Avenue Capital Group raised over $68,000 for HerJustice, a New York-based organisation devoted to ending domestic violence.
Avenue Capital Group served as a sponsor in 2010 and 2011 and, in July 2012 Avenue's President, Sonia Gardner, hosted a breakfast on inMotion's behalf to encourage other firms to participate.
Ms Gardner was again honored in 2014 at the Annual Photography Auction & Benefit for Her Justice.

In January 2016 Marc Lasry participated in "Portfolios with Purpose", in which participants compete on behalf of their favorite charities.

In April 2018 the firm was reported to be launching a $500 million fund focused on impact investing.

References

External links
 Avenue Capital Group (company website)
 A World Where Down Means Up

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Socrates () (c. 436 BC – 401 BC) was a Greek mercenary general from Achaea who traveled to Persia to fight at the Battle of Cunaxa. Xenophon describes him as brave in war and a reliable friend. Socrates was summoned by Cyrus, with whom he was already connected, to bring as many troops as he could muster under the pretense that Cyrus intended to attack Tissaphernes. Socrates had previously been besieging Miletus alongside Pasion the Megarian.  Socrates brought Cyrus about 500 hoplites. Socrates and the other troops were only later told that Cyrus intended to seize the Persian throne from his brother Artaxerxes. Socrates fought at the Battle of Cunaxa and the Greek forces were able to drive the Persians into retreat, but Cyrus and his force faced heavy casualties and Cyrus himself was killed in battle.

With Cyrus dead, the Greek troops were left in limbo, trying to make arrangements to return home first with Ariaeus (Cyrus' good friend and second in command at the battle) and then with Tissaphernes (one of the Persian generals at the battle). Eventually Socrates and several other Greek generals were betrayed by Tissaphernes and Ariaeus. Socrates, along with Clearchus, Agis of Arcadia, Menon of Thessaly and Proxenus of Boeotia were summoned for a cordial meeting in the tent of Tissaphernes. They were seized and taken to Artaxerxes, and beheaded.

References

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 Dakyns' translation of Xenophon's Anabasis

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A mirage of an astronomical object is a meteorological optical phenomenon, in which light rays are bent to produce distorted or multiple images of an astronomical object. The mirages might be observed for such celestial objects as the Sun, the Moon, the planets, bright stars, and very bright comets. The most commonly observed of these are sunset and sunrise mirages.

Mirages versus refraction
Mirages are distinguished from other phenomena caused by atmospheric refraction. One of the most prominent features of mirages is that a mirage might only produce images vertically, not sideways, while a simple refraction might distort and bend the images in any way.

The distortion in both images displayed in this section was caused by refraction, but while the image on the left, which is a mirage, demonstrates only vertical distortion, the image on the right demonstrates distortion in all the ways possible. It is easier to see the vertical direction of the mirage not even at the mirage of the Sun itself, but rather at the mirage of a sunspot. As a matter of fact, it is at least a three-image mirage of a sunspot, and all these images show a clear vertical direction.

Inferior mirage of astronomical objects

Inferior mirage of astronomical objects is the most common mirage. Inferior mirage occurs when the surface of the Earth or the oceans produces a layer of hot air of lower density, just at the surface. There are two images, the inverted one and the erect one, in inferior mirage. They both are displaced from the geometric direction to the actual object. While the erect image is setting, the inverted image appears to be rising from the surface.

The shapes of inferior mirage sunsets and sunrises stay the same for all inferior mirage sunsets and sunrises. One well-known shape, the Etruscan vase, was named by Jules Verne.
As the sunset progresses the shape of Etruscan vase slowly changes; the stem of the vase gets shorter until the real and the miraged Suns create a new shape – Greek letter omega Ω. The inferior mirage got its name because the inverted image appears
below the erect one.

Here's how Jules Verne describes an inferior mirage sunset.

On very rare occasions the mirages of astronomical objects other than the Sun and the Moon might be observed. An apparent magnitude of an astronomical object should be low enough (that is, bright enough) in order to see it as not only a real object, but also a miraged one.

Mock mirage of astronomical objects

A mock mirage of astronomical objects is much more complex than an inferior mirage. While an inferior mirage of astronomical objects can produce only two images, a mock mirage can produce multiple miraged images. The shapes of the miraged object are changing constantly and unpredictably. In order for a mock mirage to appear, the cooler air needs to be trapped below the inversion. Several inversion layers produce multiple pancake-like shapes.

It is possible that the solar anomaly mentioned in the Book of Joshua may have been an example of a mock mirage. In that tale, Joshua launched a surprise attack on the Amorites following a night march, causing the Amorites to panic and flee as far as Beth-horon, but they did not find a safe haven there. "...they were more who died with the hailstones than they whom the children of Israel slew with the sword." Hailstones are a rare event in deserts and are a good precondition for creating a mock/superior mirage of the setting sun. Inferior mirage is the most common mirage in the deserts. When the Israelites went from a hot desert to a hail-covered desert to fight the Amorites, the inversion layers could have created a mock mirage of the setting sun. To the Israelites, the sun would then have appeared to stand still. A poem is quoted from the Book of Jasher, which states that the sun stood still at Gibeon, and the moon in the valley of Ajalon, in order that Joshua could complete the battle.

Novaya Zemlya effect

Due to a normal atmospheric refraction, sunrise occurs shortly before the Sun crosses above the horizon. Light from the Sun is bent, or refracted, as it enters earth's atmosphere. This effect causes the apparent sunrise to be earlier than the actual sunrise. Similarly, apparent sunset occurs slightly later than actual sunset.

In ordinary atmospheric conditions, the setting or rising Sun appears to be about half a degree above its geometric position. But sometimes, very unusual atmospheric circumstances can make it to be visible when it is really between two and five degrees below the horizon. This is called the Novaya Zemlya effect, because it was first observed in Novaya Zemlya, where the Sun was seen when, according to astronomical calculations, it should have been two degrees below the horizon.

However, due to changes in air pressure, relative humidity, and other quantities, the exact effects of atmospheric refraction on sunrise and sunset time cannot be predicted. Also note that this possible error increases with higher (closer to the poles) latitudes.

Novaya Zemlya is a polar region in Russia. The Novaya Zemlya effect is a  mirage caused by high refraction of sunlight between atmospheric thermoclines. The Novaya Zemlya effect will give the impression that the sun is rising earlier than it actually should or the sun is setting later than it actually should.
Fridtjof Nansen wrote
It is possible to observe the Novaya Zemlya effect in any place, where the temperature variations are great enough to produce a  high refraction.

Green flash

Green flash is a rare optical phenomenon that occurs during or shortly after set and during or before rise of a bright astronomical object, when a green spot is visible for a short period of time above a mirage of an astronomical object or its set/rise point.
Green flashes are enhanced by atmospheric inversions which increase the density gradient in the atmosphere, and therefore increase refraction. In other words, to see a green flash a mirage should be present.

Jules Verne described a green flash.

Many tend to believe that seeing a green flash brings good luck.

Green flashes might be observed from any place with a low horizon. Deserts, oceans and ice shelves are probably the best places to observe mirages and therefore green flashes. It is easier not to miss a green flash during sunset than during sunrise. It is especially true regarding an inferior mirage green flash, when the timing should be just right to capture it at sunrise.
From the above observation it is clear that the author observed an inferior mirage green flash, when the much warmer surface of the desert with the help of the rising Sun was fighting the cool morning air, producing in the process a green flash – one of nature's great spectacles.

A green flash might be also seen with a rising or setting Moon.
In the right conditions it is common to observe multiple green flashes during one mock mirage sunset.Some claim they saw a green flash from Venus. This may be true, but it might be that a color of the setting or the rising planet is mistaken for a real green flash that is a by-product of a mirage.

Green rim

As an astronomical object sets or rises, the light it emits travels through the atmosphere, which works as a prism separating the light into different colors. The color of the upper limb of an astronomical object could go from blue to green to violet depending on the decrease in concentration of pollutants as they spread throughout an increasing volume of atmosphere. The lower limb of an astronomical object is always red.

The green rim is very thin, and is difficult or impossible to see with the naked eye. In usual conditions a green rim of an astronomical object gets fainter, when an astronomical object is very low above the horizon because of atmospheric reddening, but sometimes the conditions are right to see a green rim just above the horizon.

The following quote describes probably the longest observation of a green rim, which sometimes could have been a green flash. Members of Richard E. Byrd's party from the Little America exploration base saw the phenomenon on and off for 35 minutes (source for 30 versus 35 minutes?).

Often the green rim of the setting Sun will change to a green flash and then back again to a green rim during the same sunset. The image to the right might accurately illustrate what members of Byrd's party from the Little America base might have seen.

However, to see a green rim and green flash on and off for 35 minutes, there must have been some degree of mirage present.

A green rim is present in every sunset, but it is too thin to be seen with a naked eye. The best time to observe the green rim is about 10 minutes before sunset time. However, the solar disc is too bright at that time to use magnification, such as binoculars or telescopes, to look directly at the Sun. Of course, a telescope or binoculars image can be projected on a sheet of paper for viewing. When the Sun gets closer to the horizon, the green rim gets fainter because of atmospheric reddening. Although a green rim is present in every sunset, and a green flash is rare because it requires a mirage to be present, it is actually more common for people to have seen a green flash rather than a green rim.

Not a mirage

The composite image on the left is made out of five frames of different sunsets. None of the images is a mirage. Frames # 1 and # 2 could fool even a very experienced observer. They do look like a mock mirage of the setting Sun, but they are not. Frames #3 and # 4 are clearly not a mirage. Frame # 5 is not a mirage and not even a sunspot, it is a spider with the Sun as a background. The strange shapes of the Sun in this composite is due to vog and clouds.
Numerous atmospheric effects, such as vog, clouds, smoke, smog and others could generate a mirage like appearance of an astronomical object.  Lens flares and ghost images also might be responsible for a false mirage or a false green flash.

See also
 Gravitational lens, which is believed to cause a similarly duplicate image of galaxies
 Refraction
 Atmospheric refraction
 Looming and similar refraction phenomena

References

External links
All kind of mirages explained, Andrew T. Young's page with comprehensive explanations and simulations.
 A Green Flash Page, Andrew T. Young's page with comprehensive explanations and simulations.
 Green Flash – Atmospheric Optics, explanations and image gallery, Les Cowley's Atmospheric Optics site.

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Herbert James Clarke (10 April 1879 – 5 September 1956) was a British figure skater who competed in the 1924 Winter Olympics. He was born in London. In 1924 he finished tenth in the singles event.

Clarke was also the president of the International Skating Union from 1945 to 1953.

References

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 International Skating Union – Past Presidents at www.isu.org

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Marc Lasry (born September 23, 1959) is an American billionaire businessman and private equity manager. He is the co-founder and chief executive officer (CEO) of Avenue Capital Group. He was a co-owner of the NBA's Milwaukee Bucks basketball team from 2014 to 2023.

Early life and education
Lasry was born in Marrakesh, Morocco. When he was seven years old, he and his family immigrated to the U.S. His father, Moise, was a computer programmer and his mother, Elise, was a schoolteacher. Lasry grew up in West Hartford, Connecticut, and received a B.A. in history from Clark University in 1981 and a J.D. from New York Law School in 1984. While in law school, he worked as a clerk for the Chief Bankruptcy Judge of the Southern District of New York, Edward Ryan.

Career
After graduating from law school, Lasry took a position in the bankruptcy branch of the law firm Angel & Frankel.  Together with his sister Sonia Gardner, an attorney, they founded Amroc Investments in 1989 and Avenue Capital Group in 1995. One year later Lasry became the Director of the Private Debt Department at the investment firm R. D. Smith, now Smith Vasillou Management. This is where Lasry first got involved in trade claims. He then took a position as co-director of the Bankruptcy and Corporate Reorganization Department at Cowen & Company. There Lasry recruited his sister Sonia to assist in the company's trade claims department. Lasry left Cowen & Company and joined the Robert M. Bass Group, focused on distressed security investments.

In 1989, Lasry and his sister founded the firm Amroc Investments with $100 million in seed money from various investors. Amroc purchased both trade claims and bank debt held by vendors of bankrupt and/or distressed companies. In 1995, Lasry and Gardner invested $7 million of their own capital and founded the Avenue Capital Group, which initially focused on distressed debt and special situations primarily in the United States, including getting involved in Puerto Rican government-debt crisis. The partners successfully expanded the firm's investment focus to Europe and Asia. The two went on to build their hedge fund, which had as much as $11 billion in assets under management.

In 2010, Lasry also took control of Trump Entertainment Resorts as it went through its third bankruptcy. In October 2011, Lasry and Donald Trump announced plans to set up an online gambling venture if and when the United States legalizes such betting. On January 12, 2013 when the reorganization of Trump Entertainment had made marked progress, Lasry resigned as the casino company's chairman of the board.

In 2013, Lasry was considered for the position of U.S. ambassador to France, but declined consideration for business reasons. In 2014 Forbes listed Lasry as one of the 25 highest-earning hedge fund managers in 2013, with total earnings of $280 million.

In April 2014, Lasry became co-owner of the NBA's Milwaukee Bucks after purchasing the team from Herb Kohl for $550 million with Wes Edens. Following the 2016 U.S. election, Lasry and the Milwaukee Bucks became one of three NBA teams to openly state they would not be staying at Trump branded hotels when on the road.

In 2021, Lasry stepped down as the chair of Ozy. He also touted about investing in China, saying "Now is a great time to be investing in China"

Lasry is the largest shareholder of Amplify Energy, an energy company responsible for an October 2021 oil spill in Orange County, California. Amplify was charged by a federal grand jury in December 2021 for criminal negligence in connection with their role in the oil spill. The 25,000-gallon oil spill was “in a quantity that may be harmful to the public health, welfare and environment of the United States,”

In 2023, Lasry entered an agreement to sell his 25% stake of the Bucks to Dee and Jimmy Haslam. The NBA Board of Governors approved the sale on April 14, 2023.

Philanthropy
In 2004, Lasry and his wife contributed support to the University of Pennsylvania and co-chaired the Penn Parent Leadership Committee. In 2005 they donated $5 million to Clark University for the construction of the "Cathy '83 and Marc '81 Lasry Center for Bioscience".

Lasry served as a director of the 92nd Street Y and the Big Apple Circus and was a trustee of the Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan.

In January 2016 Lasry participated in "Portfolios with Purpose," an annual stock selection contest in which participants pick portfolios on behalf of their favorite charities.

In October 2017, Lasry, Dirk Ziff and Tim Sarnoff resigned from The Weinstein Company's board following the publication of a New York Times investigation into the claims against Mr. Weinstein.

Personal life
Lasry is married to Cathy Cohen and they have five children. Their son, Alex, worked for White House senior adviser Valerie Jarrett and was a candidate for the United States Senate in 2022. Their daughter, Samantha, was a staffer for congressman Rahm Emanuel.

Lasry is a member of Kappa Beta Phi.

Lasry is a major Democratic Party donor while considering a Democratic sweep in election “bad for stocks”. He backed Kamala Harris in the 2020 Democratic presidential primary, stating that he "would like to have somebody who’s in the middle" as the party's candidate.

In 2019, Lasry played on the "Away" roster during the NBA All-Star Celebrity Game at the Bojangles Coliseum in Charlotte, North Carolina.

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Eric Stefanson (8 January 1913 – 3 February 1977) was a Progressive Conservative party member of the House of Commons of Canada. He was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba and became an insurance agent and merchant by career.

Stefanson attended public school in Vestfold then high school in Winnipeg at Daniel McIntyre Collegiate Institute. From 1950 to 1957, he was a municipal councillor for Gimli and served for four years as deputy mayor there.

He was first elected at Manitoba's Selkirk riding in the 1958 general election then re-elected for successive terms in the 1962, 1963 and 1965 federal elections. In the 1968 election he was defeated at Selkirk by Ed Schreyer of the New Democratic Party.

After leaving federal politics, Stefanson became general manager of the Interlake Development Corporation in 1970, where he served until his sudden death in 1977.

His son, Eric Stefanson, was a member of Manitoba's legislature.

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An ideal city is the concept of a plan for a city that has been conceived in accordance with a particular rational or moral objective.

Concept
The "ideal" nature of such a city may encompass the moral, spiritual and juridical qualities of citizenship as well as the ways in which these are realised through urban structures including buildings, street layout, etc.  The ground plans of ideal cities are often based on grids (in imitation of Roman town planning) or other geometrical patterns.  The ideal city is often an attempt to deploy Utopian ideals at the local level of urban configuration and living space and amenity rather than at the culture- or civilisation-wide level of the classical Utopias such as St Thomas More's Utopia.

History

Several attempts to develop ideal city plans are known from the Renaissance, and appear from the second half of the fifteenth century. The concept dates at least from the period of Plato, whose Republic is a philosophical exploration of the notion of the 'ideal city'. The nobility of the Renaissance, seeking to imitate the qualities of Classical civilisation, sometimes sought to construct such ideal cities either in reality or notionally through a reformation of manners and culture.

Leon Battista Alberti

The Renaissance concept of an Ideal town developed by Italian polymath Leon Battista Alberti (14041472), author of ten books of treatises on modern architecture  titled De re aedificatoria written about 1450 with additions made until the time of his death in 1472, concerned the planning and building of an entire town as opposed to individual edifices for private patrons or ecclesiastical purposes.

Alberti insisted on choosing the location of the town first, followed by careful setting up of the size and direction of streets, then location of bridges and gates, and finally a building pattern ruled by perfect symmetry. One of the more prominent examples of a town modelled on this theory was Zamość founded in the 16th century by the chancellor Jan Zamoyski. At present, it is a World Heritage Site in Poland.

Examples

Examples of the ideal cities include Filarete's "Sforzinda", a description of which was included in Trattato di architettura (c. 1465).  The city of Sforzinda was laid out within an eight-pointed star inscribed within a circular moat.  Further examples may have been intended to have been read into the so-called "Urbino" and "Baltimore" panels (second half of the fifteenth century), which show classically influenced architecture disposed in logically planned piazzas.

The cities of Palmanova and Nicosia, whose Venetian Fortesses were built in the 1590s by the Venetian Republic, are considered to be practical examples of the concept of the ideal city. Another notable example of the concept is Zamość in eastern Poland, founded in the late 16th century and modelled by the Italian architect Bernardo Morando.

James Oglethorpe synthesized Classical and Renaissance concepts of the ideal city with new Enlightenment ideals of scientific planning, harmony in design, and social equality in his plan for the Province of Georgia. The physical design component of the famous Oglethorpe Plan remains preserved in the Savannah Historic District.

Late nineteenth-century examples of the ideal city include the Garden city movement of Sir Ebenezer Howard, realised at Letchworth Garden City and Welwyn Garden City in England. Poundbury, Charles III's architectural vision established in Dorset, is among the most recent examples of ideal city planning.

Built in 1950s Communist Poland, Nowa Huta, now part of in Kraków, Poland, serves as an unfinished example of a utopian ideal city, and is still one of the largest planned socialist realist settlements or districts ever built and "one of the most renowned examples of deliberate social engineering" in the entire world. Its street hierarchy, layout and certain grandeur of buildings often resemble Paris or London. The high abundance of parks and green areas in Nowa Huta make it the greenest part of Kraków.

See also
 Oglethorpe Plan
 Utopia

References

Urban planning
Utopian theory


Thomas Alexander Parrott (November 27, 1914 – June 14, 2007) was an American Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officer.

Personal
He was born at Fort Sam Houston in Texas, the son of Lt. Col. Roger Sheffield Parrott (1883 in Ohio – ?) and Mary B. Parrott (1884 in North Dakota – ?). He graduated from high school in Princeton, New Jersey, and then graduated from Princeton University in 1936. He died of a heart attack at his home in Washington, D.C.

Military career
He served in the United States Army during World War II in North Africa and Italy, earning the
Soldier's Medal and Legion of Merit, retiring as a colonel from the U.S. Army Reserve.

CIA career
He served as Deputy Chief of the Soviet Division of the Clandestine Services Unit of the CIA, then as a base chief in Germany and then as assistant to Director Allen Dulles. In 1962 he was assigned to the White House during the Cuban Missile Crisis. He retired from the CIA in 1973.

Family
He and wife Barbara had three children, son Tommy Parrott died in 1957 and daughters Cynthia and Susan.

References

The Washington Post obituary

1914 births
2007 deaths
Military personnel from San Antonio
People from Princeton, New Jersey
Princeton University alumni
United States Army officers
United States Army personnel of World War II
People of the Central Intelligence Agency
Recipients of the Legion of Merit
Burials at Arlington National Cemetery
Recipients of the Soldier's Medal
Military personnel from New Jersey


Woodstock is a -story historic home located at Upper Marlboro, Prince George's County, Maryland, United States. The home is an outstanding example of a mid-19th-century plantation house with decorative elements in the Greek Revival style. The main block was probably built in the early 1850s by Washington Custis Calvert. The home is in the Tidewater house style.

Woodstock was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.

References

External links

 , including photo in 1986, at Maryland Historical Trust website
 Woodstock, 8706 South East Crain Highway (U.S. Route 301), Upper Marlboro vicinity, Prince George's County, MD: 15 photos and 14 data pages, at Historic American Buildings Survey

Historic American Buildings Survey in Maryland
Houses completed in the 19th century
Houses in Prince George's County, Maryland
Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Maryland
Calvert family residences
Plantation houses in Maryland
National Register of Historic Places in Prince George's County, Maryland


John Davies (25 May 1625 – 1693) was a Welsh translator and writer.

Davies was born in Kidwelly in Carmarthenshire, Wales and was educated in Carmarthen before entering Jesus College, Oxford in 1641.  He moved to St John's College, Cambridge in 1646, during the English Civil War, and met the poet John Hall, later writing a preface to Hall's book of essays. Davies acquired through Hall a Latin manuscript of The Ancient Rites, and Monuments of the Monastical, Cathedral Church of Durham; he proceeded to translate this and it was published in 1672, dedicated to James Mickleton of Durham.  Davies learned French during his years abroad; on his return, after the Restoration, he wrote The civil warres of Great Britain and Ireland: containing an exact history of their occasion, originall, progress, and happy end (1661, Scottish edition 1664).  He translated various works from French, Spanish and Latin, some being practical works, others being novels and histories.  He was buried in the church in Kidwelly on 22 July 1693.

References

External links
 Works by John Davies listed at the Online Books Page

1625 births
1693 deaths
Alumni of Jesus College, Oxford
Alumni of St John's College, Cambridge
Welsh translators
French–English translators
Latin–English translators
Spanish–English translators
Welsh male non-fiction writers
People from Kidwelly
17th-century translators


Beyond the Tesseract is a text-based adventure game developed in 1983 by Canadian author David Lo for the TRS-80. The game was notable for its unique take on the genre and approach to mathematical entities and abstract concepts.
In one section the player must navigate a text adventure game, inside the text adventure game. In another the player, while asleep, derives a proof using physical representations of various symbolic logic components.

The game is intentionally vague using a VERB NOUN gameplay mechanic with a vocabulary of just 200.

In 1988 the game was rewritted from BASIC to C as V2.0, for MS-DOS and Atari ST; included was a patch file for V2.0p making it portable to Unix environments. It was published on Usenet that year, where it received a small patch submitted to fix issues in the Unix port, which became version V2.1p. In 2003, it was ported with minor modifications to the Z-machine interactive fiction standard virtual machine by Andrew Plotkin.

Original release notes

Scenario:
"You have reached the final part of your mission. You have
gained access to the complex, and all but the last procedure has
been performed.  Now comes a time of waiting, in which you must
search for the hidden 12-word message that will aid you at the
final step. But what choice will you make when that time comes?"

The scenario for the adventure is meant to be vague.  Once the
adventure has been completed, the scenario will hopefully become
clear.

Instructions:
This adventure recognizes the standard commands for moving
(N, E, S, W), taking inventory (I), manipulating objects (GET,
DROP, LOOK), and saving games (SAVE, LOAD), as well as many
others.  Use 2-word 'verb noun' commands, such as 'use stack' or
'get all'.  Only the first four letters of each word are
significant.  The adventure recognizes about 200 words, so if
one word does not work, try another.

Notes:
"The "stack" is an acronym for Space Time Activated Continuum
Key. You will find this object very useful.  Try the command
"use stack"."

This adventure is abstract and a bit on the technical side.
Basic knowledge of the names of interesting mathematical objects
would be a definite asset in solving the puzzles.  However,
detailed knowledge of the technical background is not necessary,
although it will make the adventure more enjoyable and reduce
the amount of comments of the form "Was that supposed to be funny
or what?  I don't get it."

There is no carry limit, no death traps, and over 200 words in
the program's vocabulary, so the player can hopefully concentrate on
solving the adventure instead of solving the program.  The map
of the adventure can be draw on a grid.  All it takes is a
little experimenting to put all the subsets of locations
together "logically".

History:
The idea of a mathematically abstract adventure came about
during the summer of 1983, when I was reading the book Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid.
I had just read an
article on writing adventures, and I thought about doing my own
article on adventure writing.  I did start on the article, and
one of the examples of how varied puzzles can be is a
mathematical adventure where the player has to "use a
probability function to cross a field of improbability to get to
a vortex."  Sadly the article was never finished, although
remnants of it can be found in the ADV.DOC file. I started
thinking more and more about a mathematically abstract
adventure, and Tesseract was born!

The very first adventure that I wrote was in 1982, titled "Hall
of the Mountain King" (find the Crystal of Light).  Tesseract
Version 1.0 was the second of the three TRS-80 BASIC adventures
that I wrote in a two-month adventure-frenzy during the summer
of 1983.  The first was "Project Triad" (defuse the bomb on the
space station), and the third was "Codename Intrepid" (deliver a
package to another agent).

References

External links

 Various versions of the game are available for free legal download

1980s interactive fiction
1983 video games
Atari ST games
DOS games
TRS-80 games
Video games about video games
Video games developed in Canada


Marcus Rafael Nikkanen (26 January 1904 – 28 March 1985) was a Finnish figure skater. He was the 1930 European bronze medalist and the 1933 World bronze medalist. He represented Finland at the 1928 Winter Olympics, at the 1932 Winter Olympics, and the 1936 Winter Olympics. He placed sixth in 1928,  fourth in 1932, and  seventh in 1936.

He was born and died in Helsinki.

Results

References

1904 births
1985 deaths
Sportspeople from Helsinki
Sportspeople from Uusimaa Province (Grand Duchy of Finland)
Finnish male single skaters
Olympic figure skaters for Finland
Figure skaters at the 1928 Winter Olympics
Figure skaters at the 1932 Winter Olympics
Figure skaters at the 1936 Winter Olympics
World Figure Skating Championships medalists
European Figure Skating Championships medalists


The 45th Fighter Squadron is a United States Air Force Reserve unit.   It is assigned to the Air Force Reserve Command's (AFRC) 924th Fighter Group and stationed at Davis–Monthan Air Force Base, Arizona. The squadron currently flies the Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II.

Mission
The squadron trains A-10 Thunderbolt II pilots, operating and maintaining the aircraft of the 355th Fighter Wing, the regular A-10 unit at Davis Monthan.  The A-10 formal training includes initial qualification in the airplane, transition training, instructor pilot upgrade training and a senior officer course.

History

World War II
The history of the 45th Fighter Squadron goes back to 22 November 1940, when the War Department constituted the 45th Pursuit Squadron (Fighter). The unit was activated at Wheeler Field, Hawaii on 1 December 1940, where it served as part of the 15th Pursuit Group in defense of Hawaii.

When the Japanese launched their surprise attack on Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941, the 45th suffered heavy losses, as did the other squadrons in the 15th Group. Two-thirds of the Curtiss P-36 Hawk and Curtiss P-40 Warhawk aircraft at Wheeler Field were destroyed on the ground. Earlier, the planes had been stripped of ammunition and fuel, and taken out of their protective earthen revetments because of potential for sabotage in these protected but difficult-to-see areas. Parked in the open, the planes were easy targets for the Japanese pilots as they strafed and bombed the field.

Everyone on the ground scrambled for cover as the field was being hit, while at the same time pilots were trying to get their planes off the ground without too much success. However, Lieutenants George Welch and Kenneth Taylor, two pilots from the 47th Pursuit Squadron whose planes were at Haleiwa Field at the time, were able to get their Curtis P-40B Tomahawks into the air soon after the attack began. Although outnumbered, they still managed to shoot down six Japanese planes.

Meanwhile, Captain Aaron Tyler, commander of the 45th at Wheeler, ordered his crews to pull out all the undamaged planes they could find and have them fueled and armed. Less than a dozen aircraft were available, but the pilots who were selected to fly wasted no time boarding their planes. They quickly took off, hoping to tangle with the Japanese fighters. After searching the area for almost an hour, all they saw as they flew over Pearl Harbor were the burning ships and immense damage. By this time, the Japanese planes were long gone, having already headed back to their carrier at sea.

In the days following the attack on Pearl Harbor, the pilots and ground personnel of the 45th had the job of cleaning up the mess at Wheeler Field. Among the first things they did was put the remaining aircraft back into their revetments. After moving their flight operations to different fields in Hawaii, the 45th was back in the air conducting daily air defense patrols over the islands. These long flights put a heavy toll on the P-36s and P-40Bs that the pilots flew, so they requested new aircraft. The pilots soon received new Curtiss P-40E Warhawk and the tricycle-gear Bell P-39 Airacobra.

On 12 February 1942, the squadron was redesignated the 45th Pursuit Squadron (Interceptor). Although the 45th still had as its primary mission the conducting of aerial patrols, it was also given the duties of conducting combat training for pilots. Three months later, on 15 May 1942, the term "pursuit" was dropped and the squadron was redesignated the 45th Fighter Squadron. Over the next two years, the squadron would be involved primarily with combat training, and the job of air defense would take on a secondary role.

The 45th was sent to the Central Pacific in 1943 for combat operations against Japanese forces. Then, on 6 April 1944, the squadron returned to Mokuleia Field, Hawaii, and began training for very-long-range (VLR) bomber escort missions. By this time, the pilots in the squadron were flying Republic P-47 Thunderbolts. Later in the year they would acquire the longer range North American P-51 Mustangs.

In January 1945, the 45th was ordered into combat, along with the other assigned squadrons in the 15th group. It left Hawaii for Saipan in the Marianas Islands, staying there until the Marines on Iwo Jima could secure a landing strip.

The first squadron to arrive at Iwo Jima was the 47th Fighter Squadron on the morning of 6 March, with the 45th landing the next day. They supported Marine ground units by bombing and strafing cave entrances, trenches, troop concentrations, and storage areas. Before the month was over, the 45th began strikes against enemy airfields, shipping and military installations in the Bonin Islands.

Flying its first VLR mission to Japan on 7 April 1945, the 45th provided fighter escort for the Boeing B-29 Superfortresses that attacked the Nakajima aircraft plant near Tokyo. In late April and early May that year, the 45th struck airfields on the Japanese home island of Kyushu to hold back the enemy's Kamikaze attacks against the American invasion force on Okinawa. The squadron also attacked enemy troop trains, small factories, gun positions, and hangars in the Bonin Islands and Japan.

During the summer of 1945, the 45th was assigned to the Twentieth Air Force and continued its fighter sweeps against Japanese airfields and other tactical targets. It continued to fly long-range B-29 escort missions to Japanese cities until the end of the war. After the Japanese surrender, the squadron remained on Iwo Jima until 25 November 1945, when it transferred to Bellows Field, Hawaii. On 8 February 1946, the squadron moved to Wheeler Field, where it stayed until inactivated on 15 October 1946.

Air Defense Command
The squadron was redesignated the 45th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron and was activated on 1 November 1952 at Suffolk County Air Force Base, New York and assigned to the 4709th Defense Wing of the Air Defense Command (ADC). It assumed the mission, personnel and North American F-86 Sabres of the 118th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron, which had been called to active duty for the Korean War. The 118th was returned to the control of the Connecticut Air National Guard.  In February 1953 Air Defense Command reorganized its dispersed fighter bases and the 45th was assigned to the 519th Air Defense Group, which was activated to control operational and support elements at Suffolk County. Its primary mission was in defending the American east coast from any Soviet threats.

North Africa
The squadron had a short ADC commitment, however, as they were transferred to United States Air Forces Europe (USAFE) in French Morocco, North Africa. On 25 May 1953, the squadron left Suffolk County and flew all their aircraft over to Sidi Slimane Air Base, which was a Strategic Air Command (SAC) base. Making stops along the way, the squadron arrived at Sidi Slimane on 28 May. The base was shared with rotating bomber groups that flew Boeing B-47 Stratojet medium-range bombers.

Now part of the Seventeenth Air Force, the squadron was attached to the Air Defense Division, Provisional on 8 June 1953. A short time later, on 18 September 1953, they were assigned to the 316th Air Division. The primary mission of the 45th at Sidi Slimane was flying air defense patrols off the coast of Morocco and around the Atlas mountains to the east. Pilots also took turns on alert duty in case an unidentified aircraft was spotted on radar coming towards French Morocco.

The squadron was redesignated 45th Fighter-Day Squadron on 8 October 1954. The pilots in the 45th continued to fly the F-86F Sabre until March 1956, when they received new North American F-100C Super Sabres. Defense patrols were still carried out by the 45th until the end of December 1957. On 8 January 1958, the squadron was inactivated again.

Tactical Air Command
On 17 April 1962, the squadron was redesignated 45th Tactical Fighter Squadron. It organized on 8 May at MacDill Air Force Base, Florida, a former Strategic Air Command base now under Tactical Air Command (TAC), and was assigned to the 12th Tactical Fighter Wing. It was transferred to the 15th Tactical Fighter Wing at MacDill on 1 July 1962. The 45th flew Republic F-84F Thunderstreaks for two years while at MacDill, then in 1964 received McDonnell F-4 Phantom IIs. The mission of the squadron was conducting combat crew training, and they took part in many exercises, flight operations, and readiness tests. During the Cuban Missile Crisis in October 1962, the squadron temporarily reorganized as a combat-capable unit ready to strike Cuba if necessary. After the crisis was over, the squadron returned to its training mission.

In 1965, the 45th was sent from their home base at MacDill to Southeast Asia. Under the command of Colonel William A. Alden, they arrived at Ubon Royal Thai Air Force Base in Thailand on 4 April. The 45th was the first F-4 Phantom II unit to arrive in Southeast Asia. It achieved another first a little over three months later, when on 10 July 1965, two F-4C Phantoms from the 45th shot down two North Vietnamese MiG-17s. This was the first United States Air Force aerial victory of the Vietnam War. Captain Thomas Roberts was the pilot of one of the F-4s, and Captain Ronald Anderson was his backseat weapon systems officer (WSO). Captain Kenneth Holcombe with Captain Arthur Clark as WSO piloted the other F-4.

The 45th left Ubon on 10 August 1965, and returned to MacDill. For the next five years they would serve as a replacement training unit for F-4 pilots headed to SEA. On 1 October 1970, the 15th Tactical Fighter Wing was inactivated and the 1st Tactical Fighter Wing, which was formerly at Hamilton Air Force Base in California, took its place at MacDill. The 45th was assigned to the 1st Wing and continued its role as a training unit until it was inactivated on 1 July 1971.

Air Force Reserve
On 1 October 1973, the 45th Tactical Fighter Squadron was reactivated and assigned to the Air Force Reserve's (AFRES) 434th Tactical Fighter Wing at Grissom Air Force Base, Indiana. For the next eight years they would fly the Cessna A-37 Dragonfly, an upgraded version of the Cessna T-37 Tweet jet trainer with more performance and armament capabilities.

In 1981 the squadron transitioned to the Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II, affectionately called the "Warthog" by those who flew it.  On 1 July 1987, the squadron was reassigned to the 930th Tactical Fighter Group at Grissom, which became the 930th Operations Group. As an Air Force Reserve unit, the 940 TFG still flew the A-10.  On 1 February 1992, the squadron was redesignated 45th Fighter Squadron. Known as the "Hoosier Hogs," the pilots of the 45th flew their missions up until September 1994.  The squadron was inactivated on 1 October 1994.

On 1 November 2009, the unit was reactivated as an Air Force Reserve Command A-10 unit at Davis–Monthan Air Force Base, Arizona. The 45th is an associate of the regular 355th Fighter Wing at Davis–Monthan, where it trains A-10 pilots.

Lineage
 Constituted as the 45th Pursuit Squadron (Fighter) on 22 November 1940
 Activated on 1 December 1940
 Redesignated 45th Pursuit Squadron (Interceptor) on 12 February 1942
 Redesignated 45th Fighter Squadron (Single Engine) on 15 May 1942
 Inactivated on 15 October 1946
 Redesignated 45th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron on 11 September 1952
 Activated on 1 November 1952
 Redesignated 45th Fighter-Day Squadron on 8 October 1954
 Inactivated on 8 January 1958
 Redesignated 45th Tactical Fighter Squadron and activated on 17 April 1962 (not organized)
 Organized on 8 May 1962
 Inactivated on 1 July 1971
 Activated 1 October 1973
 Redesignated 45th Fighter Squadron on 1 February 1992
 Inactivated on 1 October 1994
 Activated on 1 November 2009

Assignments
 15th Pursuit Group (later Fighter Group), 1 December 1940 – 15 October 1946
 4709th Air Defense Wing, 1 November 1952
 519th Air Defense Group, 16 February 1953
 Seventeenth Air Force, 1 June 1953 (attached to Air Defense Division, Provisional after 8 June 1953)
 316th Air Division, 18 September 1953 – 8 January 1958
 Tactical Air Command, 1 April 1962 (not organized)
 12th Tactical Fighter Wing, 8 May – 1 July 1962
 15th Tactical Fighter Wing, 1 July 1962 – 1 October 1970
 Attached to 12th Tactical Fighter Wing, April 1965 – August 1965
 1st Tactical Fighter Wing, 1 October 1970 – 1 July 1971
 434th Tactical Fighter Wing, 1 October 1973 – 1 July 1987
 930th Tactical Fighter Group (later 930th Operations Group), 1 July 1987 – 30 September 1994
 917th Wing, 1 November 2009
 924th Fighter Group, 1 January 2011 – present

Stations

 Wheeler Field, Hawaii Territory, 1 December 1940
 Haleiwa Fighter Strip, Hawaii Territory, 21 December 1941
 Mokuleia Army Airfield, Hawaii Territory, 27 December 1941
 Hilo Army Airfield, Hawaii Territory, 20 October 1942
 Stanley Army Airfield, Hawaii Territory, 20 December 1942
 Bellows Field, Hawaii Territory, 14 August 1943
 Baker Island, 1 September 1943
 Funafuti Airfield, Nanumea, Gilbert Islands, 28 November 1943
 Abemama Airfield, Abemama, Gilbert Islands, 4 January 1944
 Operated from: Makin Airfield, Makin, Gilbert Islands, 15 January – 24 March 1944
 Mokuleia Army Airfield, Hawaii Territory, 6 April 1944

 Bellows Field, Hawaii Territory, 19 June 1944 – 5 February 1945
 South Field (Iwo Jima), Iwo Jima, 7 March 1945
 Bellows Field, Hawaii Territory, 25 November 1945
 Wheeler Field, Hawaii Territory, 9 February – 15 October 1946
 Suffolk County Air Force Base, New York, 1 November 1952
 Sidi Slimane Air Base, French Morocco, 28 May 1953 – 8 January 1958
 MacDill Air Force Base, Florida, 8 May 1962 – 1 July 1971 (deployed to Ubon Royal Thai Air Force Base, Thailand, 4 April – 10 August 1965)
 Grissom Air Force Base, Indiana, 1 October 1973 – 30 September 1994
 Davis–Monthan Air Force Base, Arizona, 1 November 2009 – present

Aircraft assigned

 Boeing P-26 Peashooter, 1940–1941
Curtis P-36 Hawk, 1941
 Bell P-39 Airacobra, 1942–1944
 Curtis P-40 Warhawk, 1942–1944
 North American P-51 Mustang, 1944–1946
 Republic P-47N Thunderbolt, 1944–1945

 North American F-86F Sabre, 1952–1956
 North American F-100 Super Sabre, 1956–1957
 Republic F-84F Thunderstreak, 1962–1964
 McDonnell F-4 Phantom II, 1964–1970
 Cessna A-37 Dragonfly, 1973–1981
 Fairchild A-10 Thunderbolt II, 1981–1994; 2009–present

In popular culture
In the 2017 film Kong: Skull Island, Lt. Hank Marlow (played by John C. Reilly) was a member of the 45th Pursuit Squadron when he was shot down over Skull Island in 1944.

References

Notes

Bibliography

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Military units and formations in Arizona
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Emilcin Abduction was a supposed alien abduction of farmer Jan Wolski in May 1978. There was little media attention at the time. A monument was subsequently erected in Emilcin, Poland, at the site where the abduction is said to have taken place.

Background
Jan Wolski (; 29 May 1907 – 8 January 1990) was out driving a horse-drawn cart early on 10 May 1978 when he says he was jumped by two "short, green-faced humanoid entities" about  tall. The two beings jumped onto Wolski's cart and, according to Wolski, sat next to him and started to speak in a strange language. Originally he had mistaken them for foreigners because of their "slanted eyes and prominent cheekbones." Wolski drove his cart, with the two beings aboard, to a clearing where he says a large object was hovering.

The craft
According to Wolski, a purely white unidentified flying object, about  –  in height and "as long as a bus," hovered in the air at an altitude of about . There were no notable external features of the craft (i.e. lights, joints, etc.). Wolski mentioned that there were four objects on the craft made of a black material that appeared to be drill-like in appearance, which generated a humming sound. An elevator-like platform attached to the hovering craft descended to the ground. (Artist's Rendition)

Wolski then claims that he was taken aboard the ship with two additional entities he met near the flying object. He was then gestured to "undress" (take off his clothes). There were about eight or ten benches situated around the craft, each the size for one person to sit in. There were some rooks in front of the door which were moving their legs and wings but seemed to be immobilized. Wolski claims that he was then examined with a tool that resembled two dishes or "saucers." After this, he was ordered to redress, and it was then that he noticed there were no lights or windows on the craft, only the daylight coming through the craft's door. Entities ate and offered him something like icicles but he refused. The craft's interior was described as black with a greyish tint, similar to that of the creatures' outfits.

Aftermath
Afterwards, Wolski returned home to his family and notified them of what had just happened, urging them to come see the floating craft. He notified his sons who called to other neighbours, and together they went to investigate the site. The grass where the craft had been had signs of usage in it, being "trodden down covered with dew and paths coming in all directions." Wolski returned home, leaving the rest of the neighbours and family at the site. Wolski's sons claim that there were footprints left behind by the beings, though they did not detail whether the footprints were larger or smaller than their own.

A six-year-old boy claims to have witnessed a bus-like craft hover over a barn, then climb high into the sky and vanish.

Wolski explained these memories in an interview with Henryk Pomorski and Krystyna Adamczyk in July 1978, two months following the incident. The audio tape of the interview was kept in a private archive for a long time before being released to the public.

Memorial
In 2005, a memorial was constructed in Emilcin at  to commemorate the alien abduction of Jan Wolski. The text in Polish, read: "On 10 May 1978 in Emilcin a UFO object landed. The truth will astonish us in the future".

Media portrayals
The incident in Emilcin was the subject of several books and short television documentaries in Poland. A short comic book about the event, titled Przybysze (The Visitors), drawn by Grzegorz Rosiński and written by Henryk Kurta, was published in 1978.

See also
List of UFO sightings
UFO

References

External links
 "UFO Casebook: Jan Wolski, 30th Anniversary"
 "UFO Digest: Jan Wolski, 30th Anniversary"
 The Emilcin Incident: A Polish Encounter of the Fourth Kind

Alien abduction reports
1978 in Poland
Polish folklore
May 1978 events in Europe
Opole Lubelskie County


John David Bessler (born October 23, 1967) is an American attorney and academic. He is a professor of law at the University of Baltimore School of Law and an adjunct professor at the Georgetown University Law Center. He is the husband of U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar.

Education
Bessler attended Loyola Catholic School in Mankato, Minnesota, and received his B.A. in political science from the University of Minnesota, J.D. from Indiana University Maurer School of Law, M.F.A. in creative writing from Hamline University and his M.St. in international human rights law from Oxford University. Bessler studied international human rights law at Oxford University and wrote articles for the Indiana Law Journal and the Arkansas Law Review.

Legal career
Bessler previously taught at the University of Minnesota Law School and The George Washington University Law School, where he specialized in death penalty issues. In addition, Bessler clerked for U.S. Magistrate Judge John M. Mason of the District of Minnesota and practiced law as a partner at Kelly & Berens, P.A. Bessler currently is a tenured associate professor at the University of Baltimore School of Law, where he teaches civil procedure, contracts, capital punishment, international human rights law, and lawyering skills.

Writings
He is a leading authority on capital punishment, having written five books and various book chapters and articles on the subject. Two of Bessler's books, Death in the Dark: Midnight Executions in America and Legacy of Violence: Lynch Mobs and Executions in Minnesota, were Minnesota Book Award finalists. He also authored Writing for Life: The Craft of Writing for Everyday Life. His most recent book is The Birth of American Law: An Italian Philosopher and the American Revolution (Carolina Academic Press, 2014), which discusses the influence of the Italian jurist and philosopher Cesare Beccaria on the founders of the United States. Bessler also has contributed to one event, a teleforum entitled "Execution Methods and Deciding Implementation of the Death Penalty," held by The Federalist Society, a conservative and libertarian organization.

Personal life
Bessler is married to Amy Klobuchar, a politician and lawyer who currently serves as a U.S. Senator for Minnesota. They have a daughter. On March 23, 2020, Klobuchar announced via Instagram that Bessler had contracted COVID-19 and was later hospitalized.

References

External links
University of Baltimore School of Law Faculty Profile

1960 births
Living people
20th-century American lawyers
21st-century American lawyers
21st-century American non-fiction writers
21st-century American male writers
Spouses of Minnesota politicians
University of Minnesota College of Liberal Arts alumni
University of Minnesota faculty
Alumni of the University of Oxford
Amy Klobuchar
Indiana University Maurer School of Law alumni
Minnesota lawyers
Hamline University alumni
George Washington University faculty
American legal scholars
Georgetown University Law Center faculty
Anti–death penalty activists
University of Baltimore faculty
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Kondoa District is one of the seven districts of the Dodoma Region of Tanzania. It is bordered to the north by Manyara Region, and to the south by Chemba District. Its district capital is the town of Kondoa.

According to the 2012 Tanzania National Census, the population of Kondoa District was 269,704. , the population of the Kondoa District was 429,824. The population of the district declined from 2002 to 2012, because Chemba District was split off.

The Kondoa Irangi Rock Paintings, which were inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2006, are found in this district.

Transport
Trunk road T5 from Dodoma to Babati passes through the district.

Administrative subdivisions
As of 2012, Kondoa District was administratively divided into 28 wards.

Wards

 Bereko
 Bolisa
 Bumbuta
 Busi
 Changaa
 Chemchem
 Haubi
 Hondo mairo
 Itaswi
 Itololo
 Kalamba
 Kikilo
 Kikore
 Kilimani
 Kingale
 Kinyasi
 Kisese
 Kolo
 Kondoa mjini
 Kwadelo
 Masange
 Mnenia
 Pahi
 Salanka
 Serya
 Soera
 Suruke
 Thawi

References

Districts of Dodoma Region


Japanese supercentenarians are citizens, residents or emigrants from Japan who have attained or surpassed the age of 110 years. , the Gerontology Research Group (GRG) had validated the longevity claims of 263 Japanese supercentenarians, most of whom are women. As of , it lists the oldest living Japanese person as Fusa Tatsumi (born in Ōsaka on 25 April 1907), aged . The oldest verified Japanese and Asian person ever is Kane Tanaka (1903–2022), who lived to the age of 119 years and 107 days, making her the second oldest validated person ever as well. Japan was also home to the world's oldest man ever, Jiroemon Kimura (1897–2013), who lived to the age of 116 years and 54 days.

100 oldest known Japanese

Biographies

Denzō Ishizaki
 was an elementary school teacher and town assembly member in his hometown Kansago, Ibaraki Prefecture. At the time of his death, Ishizaki had been the world's oldest living man for almost 18 weeks, as well as the 9th oldest living person in the world. He died of multiple organ failure on 29 April 1999 at age 112 (or 114?) years and 209 days, and was the oldest Japanese man ever (until October 2001, when his record was broken by Yukichi Chuganji). However, Ishizaki claimed to be two years older, asserting that his birth register had been "delayed by two years". In July 2023, LongeviQuest determined that Ishizaki was born 18 days earlier than previously believed, based on his family records.

Yukichi Chuganji
Yukichi Chuganji (中願寺 雄吉; Chūganji Yūkichi, 23 March 1889 – 28 September 2003) was a Japanese silkworm breeder, instructor in the agricultural specialty, bank employee and community welfare officer who lived for 114 years and 189 days. At the time of his death, he was the oldest Japanese man ever and the world's oldest living person.

Chuganji didn't like to eat vegetables but liked beef, pork and chicken. He also ate toffee, drank milk, the occasional apple juice and only drank alcohol in moderation, which he believed were the secrets to a long life. During the last years of his life, he had failing eye sight and was bedridden. He died of natural causes on the evening of 28 September 2003, after being served a glass of apple juice by his 74-year-old daughter, who was his only living child. Besides 5 children, Chuganji also had 7 grandchildren and 12 great-grandchildren.

Yasutaro Koide
 worked as a tailor for a men's clothes shop in Tsuruga, Fukui. He moved to Nagoya when he was 107 years old, to live with his daughter. When he turned 110, Koide could still read newspapers without eyeglasses and eat without dentures.

On 31 March 2014, Koide became the oldest living person in Aichi Prefecture following the death of Nagoya resident Tsuya Miura, who died at the age of 111. The following year, he became the oldest living man in the world following the death of Sakari Momoi on 5 July 2015, a feat which was recognized by  Guinness World Records on 21 August 2015. When asked about the secret to his long life, Koide responded by stating that "the best thing is to not overdo" and recommending abstinence from smoking or drinking.

Koide died on 19 January 2016 due to heart failure and pneumonia in a hospital in Nagoya at the age of 112 years, 312 days.

Nabi Tajima
 succeeded Violet Brown as the world's oldest person after Brown's death on 16 September 2017. She was the last person verified as having been born in the 19th century.

Tajima was born and died on the small island of Kikaijima in the Amami Islands chain, about halfway between Okinawa and the main Japanese islands. Her husband, Tominishi Tajima (田島 富二子), died aged 93 in 1991. She had nine children, seven sons and two daughters, and in September 2017 she was reported to have had around 160 descendants, including great-great-great-grandchildren. She stated that her longevity was due to sleeping soundly and eating delicious food. Guinness World Records was planning to certify Tajima as the world's oldest person, but she died at a nursing home in Kikai shortly before they could do so.

She died at age 117 years and 260 days on 21 April 2018, and was the oldest Japanese person ever until Kane Tanaka surpassed her age on 19 September 2020.

Masazō Nonaka
 had been, at the time of his death, Japan's oldest living man since October 2016, and the world's oldest living man for one year, since January 2018. Nonaka was also the oldest person ever born in Hokkaidō.

He had two brothers and three sisters; Nonaka married Hatsuno Nonaka in 1931. They had five children, of whom three were living as of his death. He ran the family onsen, which opened in 1905. He spent most of his later years in a wheelchair, crediting his longevity to eating sweets and relaxing in the hot springs. Nonaka died at home of natural causes at 1:30 a.m. on 20 January 2019, aged 113 years and 179 days.

Fusa Tatsumi

 is a Japanese supercentenarian. Aged , she has been Japan's oldest living person since the death of Kane Tanaka on 19 April 2022.

Fusa Tatsumi was born in Yao, Osaka Prefecture, Empire of Japan on 25 April 1907. Tatsumi moved into the Hakuto nursing home in Kashiwara, Osaka Prefecture, Japan in 2013. When she came to the nursing home she was in relatively good health, and was able to do gymnastics from her wheelchair. Aged 110, she was still able to do her own makeup. She is now bedridden and rarely speaks. After the death of Lucile Randon of France on 17 January 2023, Tatsumi became the second-oldest living person in the world behind Maria Branyas, a Californian-born woman of Catalan descent. The pair are the last two people verified to have been born in 1907.

See also
Shigechiyo Izumi, wrongly assumed to have been the world's oldest man ever

References

Supercentenarians
Japanese


En Vivo: Desde el Auditorio Nacional (Eng.: Live: From the Mexican Auditorium) is a live album by Mexican duranguense band K-Paz de la Sierra. It was released on February 19, 2008. This album became their third number-one set on the Billboard Top Latin Albums.

Track listing CD/DVD
The information from Billboard.

Chart performance

References

K-Paz de la Sierra live albums
Spanish-language live albums
2008 live albums
Disa Records live albums
Albums recorded at the Auditorio Nacional (Mexico)


Bumbuta is an administrative ward in the Kondoa district of the Dodoma Region of Tanzania. In 2016 the Tanzania National Bureau of Statistics report there were 9,349 people in the ward, from 8,602 in 2012.

References

Kondoa District
Wards of Dodoma Region


Takers (formerly known as Bone Deep) is a 2010 American heist action thriller film directed by John Luessenhop from a story and screenplay written by Luessenhop, Gabriel Casseus, Peter Allen, and Avery Duff. It features Matt Dillon, Paul Walker, Idris Elba, Jay Hernandez, Michael Ealy, Tip "T.I." Harris, Chris Brown, Hayden Christensen and Zoe Saldana in an ensemble cast. The film was released on August 27, 2010.

The film follows a group of professional bank robbers (Ealy, Brown, Christensen, Walker and Elba) who specialize in spectacular robberies. They are pulled into one last job by a recently-paroled cohort (T.I.) only to be pitted against a hard-boiled detective (Dillon) and his partner (Hernandez) who interrupt their heist.

Plot

Detectives Jack Welles and Eddie Hatcher investigate a daring heist by a group of well-organized bank robbers. The crew, led by Gordon Cozier, consists of John, A.J., and brothers Jake and Jesse Attica. The crew is without a former member, Ghost, who was caught during a previous robbery five years before. In his absence, Jake began a relationship with Ghost's former girlfriend Lilly, who had accepted his marriage proposal.

After Ghost is released from prison, he meets up with the crew to plan a major heist, in which it is discovered that two armored trucks will travel together, but that all the money is kept in the first truck, which holds $12 million.

The crew, dressed as construction workers, hide out underground, while Ghost poses as a police officer, so he can keep an eye out for the trucks. Meanwhile, in order to cover themselves in case Ghost is setting them up, John heads to the top of a nearby garage to take out Ghost with a sniper rifle in case things go wrong. The crew plan to detonate the blast when the armored trucks drive overhead, causing the trucks to fall underground. However, a cyclist causes the lead driver to stop short and the explosives are detonated too early. The lead driver radios the police, while armed guards pile out of the rear truck.

A gunfight ensues between the robbers in the crater and the guards on the street, until John commandeers the rear truck and rams the lead truck into the crater where the crew cut into it. John and the other robbers pack the cash into bags, and flee by heading down a variety of different tunnels, with the plan of connecting into various subway lines to make their escape.

Welles and Hatcher show up on the scene, and, after learning of the robbers' escape through the sewer system, remember a map of the city subway system from the Russian gang hideout, and deduce that they must be escaping through the stations marked on the map where the sewers intersect the subway. They rush to the nearest station, where they find Jesse, and a chase ensues, during which Jesse hides his bag of money and is cornered. He shoots Detective Hatcher and escapes while Welles stops to aid his partner, who dies from his wound.

Jesse reconvenes with the rest of the crew at a hotel room, and admits to the shooting of Hatcher. It is now revealed that Ghost had previously cut a deal with the Russian gangsters to kill his former accomplices in exchange for half of the heist's take. Ghost gives the Russians the hotel room number, then escapes out the bathroom window, just before the Russians storm the room and attempt to kill the crew. A.J. sacrifices himself to save the others in the ensuing gunfight, and the rest of the crew is able to kill the Russians and flee the building before the police arrive. Jake and Jesse return home where, to their horror, Jake finds Lilly's corpse, and Jesse finds the safe where they kept their secret stash of money opened and cleaned out. The police surround their bar, and shoot the two when they make a suicide charge outside, killing them.

Gordon and John separate to make their escape, but realize that Ghost intends to take all of their money, which is being held by Scott, a well-connected fence. Ghost sneaks onto Scott's private plane and kills him, taking their laundered money in two suitcases. Gordon and Detective Welles arrive, and a three-way Mexican standoff results in which Ghost hits both Gordon and Welles. As Ghost prepares to finish Gordon off, John arrives and shoots him dead. John recognizes Welles as the same cop, who was with the little girl. John and Gordon refuse to kill Welles. John and an injured Gordon take the money and drive off, with Gordon's sister Naomi in tow. A gravely wounded Welles manages to call 911 for help on his cell phone.

Cast
Matt Dillon as Jack Welles
Paul Walker as John Rahway
Idris Elba as Gordon Thomas "G" Cozier
Jay Hernandez as Eddie "Hatch" Hatcher
Michael Ealy as Jake Attica
Tip "T.I." Harris as Delonte "Ghost" Rivers
Chris Brown as Jesse Attica
Hayden Christensen as A.J.
Zoe Saldana as Lilly
Marianne Jean-Baptiste as Naomi Cozier
Glynn Turman as Chief Detective Duncan
Steve Harris as Lieutenant Carver
Johnathon Schaech as Scott
Gaius Charles as Max
Gideon Emery as Sergei
Zulay Henao as Monica Hatcher
Nick Turturro as Franco Dalia
Andrew Fiscella as Security Chief
Gino Anthony Pesi as Paulie, Jr.

Reception

Critical reception
Rotten Tomatoes, a review aggregator, reports that 28% of critics gave the film a positive review based on 115 reviews; the average rating is 4.6/10. The site's critics consensus reads, "Takers boasts some gripping set pieces and keeps things moving quickly, but its two-dimensional characters, clichéd script, and brazenly derivative plot make it hard to recommend." On Metacritic, the film holds a weighted average score of 45 out of 100 based on 20 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews". Today called it "almost a good little heist movie", praising the plot twists but criticising the characterization.

Author Stephen King, in his end-of-the-year Entertainment Weekly column, listed it at #5 of his best films of 2010. He says that "the climax does strain credulity, but the characters feel real & the armored-car heist is the best action sequence in 2010"

Box office
The film was number one at the box office during its opening weekend, making $20,512,304. Takers made its U.S. debut on approximately 2,600 screens at 2,206 locations. According to Box Office Mojo, "The heist thriller tripled the start of Armored, and it came in only a bit behind last summer's higher-profile The Taking of Pelham 123. Its initial attendance was also nearly 50 percent greater than similar titles like Dead Presidents,  and Street Kings." Takers was made available on Blu-ray and DVD on January 18, 2011.

Accolades
BET Awards
 2011: Win – Best Actor – Idris Elba (also for Luther)
 2011: Nomination – Best Actor – Chris Brown
 2011: Nomination – Best Movie

Black Reel Awards
 2011: Nomination – Best Ensemble
 2011: Nomination – Best Screenplay, Adapted or Original

California on Location Awards
 2011: Win – Location Team of the Year – Features

NAACP Image Awards
 2011: Nomination – Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture – Idris Elba

See also
List of black films of the 2010s

References

External links

 Behind-the-scenes photos from the Los Angeles Times
 Takers at Yahoo!

2010 films
2010 action thriller films
2010 crime action films
2010 crime thriller films
2010s heist films
American action thriller films
American crime action films
American crime thriller films
American heist films
Films set in Los Angeles
American police detective films
Films produced by Will Packer
Rainforest Films films
Films scored by Paul Haslinger
Films directed by John Luessenhop
2010s English-language films
2010s American films


Busi is an administrative ward in the Kondoa district of the Dodoma Region of Tanzania. In 2016 the Tanzania National Bureau of Statistics report there were 8,459 people in the ward, from 18,724 in 2012.

References

Kondoa District
Wards of Dodoma Region


The Rayward–Shepherd House, also known as Tirranna and as the John L. Rayward House, is a home in New Canaan, Connecticut originally built in 1955 to an design of renowned architect Frank Lloyd Wright. Commissioned by
Joyce and John Rayward, the home was expanded to a design of Wright’s successor firm, Taliesin Associates by subsequent owner Herman R. Shepherd after his purchase in 1964.

Description
"Tirranna" is an Australian aboriginal word meaning "running waters," an apt name for a home located on a pond just off the Noroton River featuring elaborate land and water-scaping. The largely semicircular home is built of standard concrete block, timber, and glass, with poured Colorundum flooring and extensive Philippine mahogany trim. Its living/dining wing overlooks a pool which steps down to a pond and extensive landscaped gardens, designed by Frank Okamura, landscape architect for the Brooklyn Botanic Garden.  Charles Middeleer, a notable local landscape architect, also contributed to the landscape design.

The home includes a 1958 extension featuring an observatory above the master bedroom dressing room, as well as a playhouse for the Raywards’ daughters, Victoria and Jennifer (1957), which echoes the semicircular form of the main house.

The property was purchased by Herman R. Shepherd in 1964. According to William Allin Storrer Shepherd's actions repairing the “poor work” that Storrer attributes to John Rayward's "constant pursuit of the lowest bid" salvaged the house.(Storrer, 411)

Shepherd also engaged Wright's successor firm, Taliesin Associated Architects (TAA), to design a “major extension beyond the work room...." which "leads to a greenhouse with servant and guest quarters, shop and extra carport." Later work by TAA "brought about the enclosure of the space between original bedroom wing and added master bedroom wing, gaining an atrium and informal living room.... Even later, a circular deck was added above the main pool." (Storrer, 411)

The home was purchased in the late 1990s by businessman Ted Stanley and his wife Vada. After Stanley's death, the 15-acre property was put on the market in January 2017 for US$8,000,000 by his heirs. The house sold in March 2018 for a reported US$4.8 million.

See also
 List of Frank Lloyd Wright works

References

 Storrer, William Allin. The Frank Lloyd Wright Companion. University Of Chicago Press, 2006,  (S.383)

External links
 Photos of the Rayward–Shepherd House
 Modern Homes Survey - New Canaan Connecticut - Tirranna/Rayward House

Frank Lloyd Wright buildings
Houses in New Canaan, Connecticut
Houses completed in 1955
Houses completed in 1958


Leo Rutman is an American author and playwright. His novels are generally set in New York City during the twentieth century.

Rutman has received playwriting awards from Yale University, Brandeis University, and Columbia University. His published and produced plays include They Got Jack, Jesus is a Junkie, and Where is Che Guevara?.

Bibliography
 Five Good Boys (1982)
 Spear of Destiny (1988)
 Clash of Eagles (1990)
 Thy Father's Son (2002)

20th-century American novelists
21st-century American novelists
American male novelists
Living people
20th-century American male writers
21st-century American male writers
Year of birth missing (living people)


Pahi (Tanzanian ward) is an administrative ward in the Kondoa district of the Dodoma Region of Tanzania. According to the 2002 census, the ward has a total population of 20,152.

References

Kondoa District
Wards of Dodoma Region


Haubi is an administrative ward in the Kondoa district of the Dodoma Region of Tanzania. According to the 2002 census, the ward has a total population of 12,894.

Haubi is a little village less than  from Haubi Catholic Mission Station. There are no public water or electricity there. The lake Haubi has been investigated as a natural historical archive. It contains for instance sediments from the Haubi badlands.

References

Kondoa District
Wards of Dodoma Region


Kalamba is town found in Makueni Constituency Makueni County in Kenya.  The town was started as a mission station of Africa Inland Mission in 1895 by Peter Cameron Scott. In Kalamba, there is final resting place for Peter Scott.

First AIC Church at Kalamba village

As a historical destination, it is now known as the origin of AIC Church  in Kenya. In 1895, Mr. Peter Cameron Scott, a Scottish missionary sent from America passed here and ventured further interior to Nzaui  where he set up the first Africa inland Mission  in Kalamba with his sister Margret and six others. After hardly seven months, he had established three other missions in Ukambani at Sakai, Kilungu and Kangundo. He died in Nzaui- Kalamba on 4 December in 1896, after having established the first mission that gave birth to the Africa Inland Church in Ukambani.

The AIC Kalamba Mission
A very committed Christian, Peter Scott managed to build the first house that measured 30 ft by 14 ft  that was completed on 23 December 1895 which the five missionaries occupied. Peter was generally weak but very strong in faith as he had been run over by a hand cart back home at the age of 3 making his general condition of health unpredictable for the better part of his life. Despite his poor health he had within 7 months managed to establish three other mission stations at Sakai, Kilungu and Kangundo including the main station at Kalamba through very challenging situations.

A portrait of Johannes Hoffman  and that of his wife Emilie who lived here between (1886-1914) is preserved in the church with a written message in his own words.

Rock climbing
Kalamba has a reputation as a "rock climbers paradise."

References

Kondoa District
Wards of Dodoma Region


Mondo is an administrative ward in the Chemba District of the Dodoma Region of Tanzania. In 2016 the Tanzania National Bureau of Statistics report there were 10,318 people in the ward, from 9,494 in 2012.

References

Wards of Dodoma Region


Wallis Pang (born 26 August 1973) was once an actress with Television Broadcasts Limited, who first came into fame in File of Justice. She is popularly known for her role Ah Jing in A Kindred Spirit, in which she was paired with Lap San, played by Marco Lo and was named as one of the Five Fresh Beauties of TVB. She is no longer active in acting.

Filmography
 File of Justice IV (1995)
Cold Blood Warm Heart (1995)
The Legend of Master Chan (1996)
The Hitman Chronicles (1996)
The Criminal Investigator II (1996)
A Road and A Will (1997)
A Kindred Spirit (1997-1999)
Moments of Endearment (1998)
A Matter of Business (1999)
Detective Investigation Files IV (1999)
Ultra Protection (1999)

Films
 Don't Fool Me (1991)
 Fight Back to School (1991)
 Fist of Legend (1994)
 Troublesome Night 3 (1998)

References
Chinese Wikipedia
彭子晴
Starring....Wallis Pang
Wallis Pang

1973 births
Living people
TVB actors
Hong Kong people of Hakka descent


Dalai is an administrative ward in the Chemba District of the Dodoma Region of Tanzania. In 2016 the Tanzania National Bureau of Statistics report there were 16,387 people in the ward, from 15,078 in 2012.

References

Wards of Dodoma Region


Jangalo is an administrative ward in the Chemba District of the Dodoma Region of Tanzania. According to the 2002 census, the ward has a total population of 21,432.

References

Wards of Dodoma Region


Mrijo is an administrative ward in the Chemba District of the Dodoma Region of Tanzania. According to the 2002 census, the ward has a total population of 12,950.

References

Wards of Dodoma Region


The 96th Pennsylvania House of Representatives District is located in South Central Pennsylvania and has been represented by Mike Sturla since  1991.

District profile
The 96th District is located in Lancaster County and includes the following areas:

East Petersburg, Pennsylvania
 Lancaster (part)
Ward 01
Ward 02 (part)
Division 01
Ward 05,
Ward 06 (part)
Division 01
Division 02
Division 03
Division 04
Division 05
Division 06
Division 07
Ward 09
 Manheim Township (part)

District 01
District 03
District 04
District 05
District 07 A
District 07 B
District 08
District 09
District 10
District 11
District 14
District 15
District 16
District 17
District 18
District 19
District 20
District 21
District 22
District 23

Representatives

References

Government of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania
96


Chandama is an administrative ward in the Chemba district of the Dodoma Region of Tanzania. According to the 2002 census, the ward has a total population of 24,143.

References

Wards of Dodoma Region


Goima is an administrative ward in the Chemba District of the Dodoma Region of Tanzania. According to the 2002 census, the ward has a total population of 20,309.

References

Wards of Dodoma Region


Chemba is an administrative ward in the Chemba district of the Dodoma Region of Tanzania. In 2016 the Tanzania National Bureau of Statistics report there were 5,341 people in the district, from 16,047 in 2012.

References

Wards of Dodoma Region


Paranga is an administrative ward in the Chemba District of the Dodoma Region of Tanzania. In 2016 the Tanzania National Bureau of Statistics report there were 13,365 people in the ward, from 12,297 in 2012.

References

Wards of Dodoma Region


Gwandi is an administrative ward in the Chemba District of the Dodoma Region of Tanzania. The ward covers an area of  with an average elevation of .

In 2016 reports there were 3,834 people in the ward, from 7,971 in 2012, and 6,354 in 2002. The ward has .

References

Wards of Dodoma Region


Farkwa is an administrative ward in the Chemba District of the Dodoma Region of Tanzania. According to the 2002 census, the ward has a total population of 9,110.

References

Wards of Dodoma Region


Mpendo is an administrative ward in the Chemba District of the Dodoma Region of Tanzania. In 2016 the Tanzania National Bureau of Statistics report there were 7,605 people in the ward, from 6,997 in 2012.

References

Wards of Dodoma Region


Sanzawa is an administrative ward in the Chemba District of the Dodoma Region of Tanzania. According to the 2002 census, the ward has a total population of 8.437.

References

Wards of Dodoma Region


Marilyn Agency is a French modeling agency established in Paris in 1985 by Marilyn Gauthier.

History
Marilyn Agency was founded in Paris by Marilyn Gauthier in 1985. In 1992, the agency added a men's division, and in 1997 the agency expanded to New York City, founding Marilyn Model Management.

Marilyn Gauthier sold the company in 2012. The company is currently owned by billionaire Marie Halley, heir to the Carrefour supermarkets group.

Marilyn Agency is divided into two departments: MGM and Marilyn Paris/NY. In 2015, the French branch of the company had reported a workforce of 30 employees. In 2015, the French office had a turnover decrease of 34.44% compared to 2014, with a turnover of €9.3 million. It booked a net loss of €1.9 million in 2014, and €525,000 in 2015. In April 2016, the company relocated its Parisian office to 11 Rue Portefoin.

Marilyn Agency currently represents a multitude of different models including Claudia Schiffer, Julia Stegner, Shannan Click, Alex Lundqvist, Marlon Teixeira, Francisco Lachowski, Fernando Cabral, Erik van Gils, Alpha Did, and Sam Way.

The agency has previously represented supermodels including Kate Moss, Naomi Campbell, Eva Herzigova, Claudia Schiffer, and Missy Rayder.

Controversies
In September 2016, Marilyn Agency was penalized for illegal price-fixing by the French Competition Authority along with 36 other model agencies. Marilyn Agency was the most heavily penalized, with a fine of €600,000. Agency fines were determined based on the gravity of their practices and the damage caused to the economy.

See also
 List of modeling agencies

External links
 Corporate home page

References

Modeling agencies


2nd Nature was an American R&B group from the 1990s. They released one album, What Comes Natural, on March 21, 1995.

History
2nd Nature was formed by producers Don & Oman Quijano, who discovered Jason Turner, Darnel Alexander, and David Booker at Star Search. Leland "L.A." Allen, a former player for the San Diego Chargers and part-time singer, was added to round out the group. David "SuperDave" James and KC Whitaker Schneider should also be credited with managing and promoting the band. They debuted with What Comes Natural, which turned out to be the only album they would release. The album produced a minor hit, "Can U Show Me."

Discography
 What Comes Natural (1995)
 You
 Can U Show Me
 Since I Met U
 Kno Dat U Kno
 Later
 Iz It Enuf
 This Time
 Be Alright
 I Should Be With You
 Comeback
 Lift Every Voice and Sing

Chart history

References

External links
 Darnel Alexander's MySpace
 David Booker's MySpace

Musical groups from Seattle
African-American musical groups
Musical groups established in 1993
Musical groups disestablished in the 1990s
American soul musical groups
American contemporary R&B musical groups
1993 establishments in Washington (state)


Kwamtoro is an administrative ward in the Chemba District of the Dodoma Region of Tanzania. It is made of six villages which are Kwamtoro, Msera, Banguma, Kurio, Ndoroboni and Mialo. In 2016 the Tanzania National Bureau of Statistics report there were 10,635 people in the ward, from 9,785 in 2012.

References

Wards of Dodoma Region


Lalta is an administrative ward in the Chemba District of the Dodoma Region of Tanzania. According to the 2002 census, the ward has a total population of 7,537.

References

Wards of Dodoma Region


The Teviot Falls is a plunge waterfall in the Darling Downs region of Queensland, Australia.

Location and features

The falls are part of the Scenic Rim and are located near the town of . The falls descend  from the McPherson Range near Wilsons Peak, north of the Queensland/New South Wales border. The falls may be viewed via accessing a sealed road up the range towards Teviot Gap, also known as The Head.

Four other waterfalls are located in the area surrounding Killarney, including the Queen Mary Falls, Daggs Falls, Browns Falls and Upper Browns Falls.

Etymology
The naming of the falls is derived from the naming of Teviot Brook on 6 August 1828 by Allan Cunningham, a botanist and explorer, after the River Teviot, Roxburghshire, Scotland.

See also

 List of waterfalls of Queensland
Wyaralong Dam

References

Waterfalls of Queensland
Darling Downs
Plunge waterfalls


Suruke is an administrative ward in the Kondoa district of the Dodoma Region of Tanzania. According to the 2002 census, the ward has a total population of 11,711.

References

Kondoa District
Wards of Dodoma Region


Kingale is an administrative ward in the Kondoa district of the Dodoma Region of Tanzania. In 2016 the Tanzania National Bureau of Statistics report there were 11,958 people in the ward, from 11,003 in 2012.

References

Kondoa District
Wards of Dodoma Region


Kondoa is a town and administrative ward (called Kondoa Mjini or Kondoa Urban) in the Kondoa District of the Dodoma Region of Tanzania.

Kondoa Town is the district capital of Kondoa District. The local government buildings were mostly built during the German colonization. The town also has a district hospital, three O-Level Secondary schools, one A-Level school for girls, and an agricultural college. There is also a teachers' training college called Bustani (garden in Kiswahili) College. There is a local NMB bank branch.

Geography

Kodoa Town is , with the town being  from Dodoma.

The town has a hot spring that provides drinking water for many inhabitants. There is also a river that runs through the town, though in the dry months there is almost no water above ground. There is a good bridge over the river.

Administrative Units

The town has two divisions. Kondoa Mjini with 6 wards consisting of 32 villages and neighborhoods, and Kolo with 2 wards consisting of 4 villages and neighborhoods.

Climate

The climate is semi-arid. The rainy season is from late December to mid March, and Kondoa receives little to no precipitation the rest of the year. The weather is mostly hot.

Demographics

In 2016 the Tanzania National Bureau of Statistics report there were 64,147 people in the town.

The Warangi is the most populous ethnic group in Kondoa, and their native language is Kirangi. As it was a stop on an ancient caravan road, Kondoa has a sizeable non-Irangi minority. Other tribes include the Wasandewe, Waburunge, Wafyomi, Waalagwa, Wabarbaig, Wamasai, and Wagorowa.

The town is about 70% Muslim and 30% Christian, with aboriginal religions virtually extinct. Relations between religious groups are good.

Transport

Trunk road T5 from Dodoma to Babati passes through the town.

References

Kondoa District
Wards of Dodoma Region
Districts of Tanzania


Kolo is an administrative ward in the Kondoa district of the Dodoma Region of Tanzania.

According to the 2002 census, the ward has a total population of 8,268.

References

Kondoa District
Wards of Dodoma Region


Changaa is an administrative ward in the Kondoa district of the Dodoma Region of Tanzania. In 2016 the Tanzania National Bureau of Statistics report there were 10,471 people in the ward, from 9,634 in 2012.

References

Kondoa District
Wards of Dodoma Region