Digital Collections Selection Criteria are applied by organisations (typically libraries) creating a digital library which of their existing holdings and forthcoming acquisitions to digitize for inclusion.

A strategy with defined selection priorities for digitization is critical, and should consider both preservation and access. factors to consider are:
the value of materials
the condition of materials
use of materials
material characteristics ensuring a high level of success

For the Library of Congress, items of national interest were prime candidates both to improve access and reduce wear and tear on the physical copies.

In the early discussions about digitization of library materials the selection decisions were often proposed based on a desire for better access to that item's content, and not on the condition or value of the original item. In 2001, Paula De Stefano wrote that a use-based group of criteria was promising, as it is "fundamental to collection development and is the common thread in all selection decisions".  In practice, however, her study showed that most digital projects focused on special collections, which are generally not the most popular items in the overall collection.

The persistent risk of disappearing "last copies". and the declines seen in the condition of national treasures, as exemplified by the 2005 Heritage Health Index Report on the State of America's Collections provide the rationale for establishing priorities and balancing access with preservation needs. The transient nature of electronic information can contribute to a phenomenon called "memory loss". This is a result of data extinctions as technologies become obsolete. There is also a drift away from original bibliographic contexts as time passes.

A 1998 Council on Library and Information Sources white paper  identified the following comprehensive considerations for selection:
assessment of the intellectual and physical nature of the source materials
the number and location of current and potential users
the current and potential nature of use
the format and nature of the proposed digital product and how it will be described, delivered, and archived
how the proposed product relates to other digitization efforts
projections of costs in relation to benefits

See also
 Australian Web Archive
 Legal deposit
 National edeposit
 National library
 Web archive

References

Library management
Digital libraries


Yuecheng District () is a county-level district which forms the core of the municipality of Shaoxing, Zhejiang, in the People's Republic of China. It encompasses all of downtown Shaoxing and the immediately surrounding areas, including the former Yue base beside Mount Kuaiji and the imperial Chinese capital of Kuaiji Commandery. The district's total area is  and its population is 610,000 people. The district's postal code is 312000.

The district government is located on Tashan Street at Yan'an Road. The Paojiang Economic and Technical Development Area is located in this district.

Administrative division
The district administers six street offices and seven towns. In total, this encompasses 66 communities, 11 residential areas, and 340 villages. The offices are located on Tashan Street, Fushan Street, Beihai Street, Jishan Street, Chengnan Street, and Qishan Street. The towns are Lingzhi, Donghu, Gaobu, Mashan, Doumen, Jianhu, and Dongpu.

Tourist attractions
The district houses many ancient bridges, including Guangning Bridge, Tishan Bridge, Xiegong Bridge, Baiwang Bridge, and Guangxiang Bridge. They were listed among the seventh batch of "Major National Historical and Cultural Sites in Zhejiang" by the State Council of China in May 2013.

References

External links
 Paojiang Development Area's official website

Districts of Zhejiang
Shaoxing


The languages of Djibouti include Afar, Arabic, Somali and French. Somali and Afar are the most widely spoken tongues, and Arabic and French serve as the official languages.

Languages
Djibouti is a multilingual country. According to Ethnologue, the majority of the population speaks Somali (524,000 speakers) or Afar (306,000 speakers) as a first language, which are the mother tongues of the Somali and Afar ethnic groups, respectively. Both languages belong to the larger Afro-Asiatic family. Northern Somali is the main dialect spoken in the country and neighbouring Somalia

There are two official languages in Djibouti: Arabic and French. Arabic is of religious importance. In a formal setting, it consists of Modern Standard Arabic. Colloquially, about 59,000 local residents speak the Ta'izzi-Adeni Arabic dialect, known in Djibouti as Djiboutian Arabic. French was inherited from the European colonization period and is the primary language of instruction. About 17,000 Djiboutians speak it as a first language.

Immigrant languages include Omani Arabic (38,900 speakers), Amharic (1,400 speakers), Greek (1,000 speakers) and Hindi (600 speakers).

Additionally, the Somali deaf community in Djibouti uses the Somali Sign Language.

The Somali language is regulated by the Regional Somali Language Academy, an intergovernmental institution established in June 2013 in Djibouti City by the governments of Djibouti, Somalia and Ethiopia. It is officially mandated with preserving the Somali language.

Writing system
Nationally, the Latin script is the most widely used orthography for all languages. The Somali alphabet, a modified form of the script, is used to write Somali. In the early 1970s, two Afar intellectuals and nationalists, Dimis and Redo, formalized a similar Afar alphabet. Known as Qafar Feera, the orthography is also based on the Latin script.

Additionally, Somali and Afar are transcribed using the Arabic script.

Notes

References
Ethnologue, "Languages of Djibouti"


Columella edentula, common name the "toothless column snail", is a species of very small, air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Truncatellinidae.

Description
The 2.5-3 (-3.5) mm. shell is cylindrical with a conical apex and yellow-brown to brown. The aperture is without teeth and the simple lip is thin.  The shell has (4.5 )5-6 (-7) whorls. The last whorl has the largest diameter. The apex is  more pointed than in Columella columella. It is narrower and taller than the shell of the similar Columella aspera. The shell sculpture is more irregular and finer than that of C. aspera.

Distribution
This species occurs in countries and islands including:
 Great Britain
 Ireland
 Ukraine

References

 Minato, H. (1988). A systematic and bibliographic list of the Japanese land snails. H. Minato, Shirahama, 294 pp., 7 pls.
 National Institute of Biological Resources. (2019). National Species list of Korea. II. Vertebrates, Invertebrates, Protozoans. Designzip. 908 pp. page(s): 338
 Kerney, M.P., Cameron, R.A.D. & Jungbluth, J-H. (1983). Die Landschnecken Nord- und Mitteleuropas. Ein Bestimmungsbuch für Biologen und Naturfreunde, 384 pp., 24 plates.
 Sysoev, A. V. & Schileyko, A. A. (2009). Land snails and slugs of Russia and adjacent countries. Sofia/Moskva (Pensoft). 312 pp., 142 plates

External links

Columella edentula at Animalbase taxonomy,short description, distribution, biology,status (threats), images
 Draparnaud, J.-P.-R. (1805). Histoire naturelle des mollusques terrestres et fluviatiles de la France. 2 pp. (Avertissement a sa Majesté l'Impératrice), 2 pp. Rapport, i-viii (Préface), 1-164, pl. 1-13, 1 p. Errata
 Schileyko, A. A. & Rymzhanov, T. S. (2013). Fauna of land mollusks (Gastropoda, Pulmonata Terrestria) of Kazakhstan and adjacent territories. Moscow-Almaty: KMK Scientific Press. 389 pp

Truncatellinidae
Gastropods described in 1805


Colortrak 2000 was a brand name used for RCA's high-end television models produced from the early-1980s to the early 1990s. Colortrak 2000 was situated above the less expensive Colortrak line, but below the more expensive Dimensia line. As opposed to ColorTrak, ColorTrak 2000 models incorporated a comb filter, which provided a sharper picture.  The Colortrak 2000 chassis was identical to the Dimensia tabletop model. Colortrak 2000s with BNC connectors were given the designation of Lyceum TVs. This TV set was also used with RCA's Digital Command Component System released in 1985.

Features

Colortrak 2000s had a wide array of high-end features such as a large input/output panel on the back, which included BNC connections, and advanced video features. The Colortrak 2000s from 1983 and later came with the Digital Command Center, a large and very advanced remote control. The same remote was also used for all the Dimensias, except it was called Dimensia Intelligent Audio Video.

See also

 RCA Dimensia
 Lyceum TV
 Digital Command Center
 Colortrak

References

External links
 RCA Dimensia Facebook page

RCA brands
Television technology
Television sets


The Amiens Gun is a German  railway gun (originally mounted in the battleship ) that was captured by the Australian Imperial Force during World War I and returned to Australia as a war trophy. The 28 cm SK L/40 "Bruno" (SK – Schnelladekanone (quick-loading cannon) L – Länge (with a 40-calibre barrel)) gun was placed on public display on 26 March 1920 adjacent to Central railway station, Sydney. While the gun's carriage was scrapped during the 1960s, the gun barrel remains on display at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra.

Unveiling ceremony

The ceremony of unveiling was performed before cheering thousands by Major-General Lee, State Commandant. Also present was Major-General Sir Charles Rosenthal; Brigadier-General Cox, C.B.; Colonel Kingdon; Colonel Brughe, Q.M.G.; Captain Soane, A.D.C; Mr. Richard Thomas Ball, Minister for Works; Chief Railway Commissioner James Fraser, C.M.G.; and many Railway officers. Major-General Lee, in addressing the gathering, complimented all concerned in the unloading and reassembling of the gun.

General Sir C. Rosenthal, speaking of the capture of the gun by the 31st Battalion of the eighth Brigade of the fifth Division, jocularly remarked that as it was a Victorian Brigade, they would no doubt have kept the great trophy for Victoria, but for the fact that they did not have the proper railway gauge there for it, and General. C. Cox added: "Thanks to our 4ft. 8½in. gauge we have this trophy permanently." The Chief Commissioner of Railways (Mr. James Fraser) remarked that he had been authoritatively informed that Great Britain had built the biggest gun on earth as an answer to the German "Big Bertha." It never fired a shot—there was no occasion for it—but it had a length of 83 ft. (25.3m), being 11 ft. (3.35m) longer than the gun at Central, and a range of 87 miles (140 km). It was intended as our answer to Krupp's if the war had lasted any longer. Lieutenant George Burrows, M.C. (and Bar) was decorated for his gallantry in connection with the capture of the gun.

The capture
The following account of the capture was given by Lieutenant Burrows. On the morning of 8 August 1918, the Australian Corps, with two Divisions of Canadians on their left, attacked the German position in front of Villers-Bretonneux, the Australian portion of the line extending from the Somme River to a point some hundreds of yards south of Villers-Bretonneux. Preparations for the attack were carried out secretly along the front for several weeks before the attack. A heavy concentration of artillery was brought on to the front, and every wood for some distance behind the line concealed tanks, ready to move forward into position, during the night prior to the attack. The infantry and tanks got into position under cover of the noise created by aeroplanes flying overhead for that purpose. A dense fog came over at about 2 am, and did not clear until about 9 am. Following a terrific bombardment, the infantry supported by tanks, attacked at 5 am, and after passing the German front and support lines very little opposition was met with until reaching the final objective, which was the old Amiens defence line in front of Harbonnieres. The attack was well organised, and came as a complete surprise to the enemy.

Referring to the particular part of the front where the gun was captured, in the fifth Division sector, a section of sappers from the eighth Field Company Engineers was detailed to go over with the 31st Battalion. Their work on arrival at final objective was to put out wire entanglements in front of the front line, and dig a series of strong points about 200 yards (180m) behind the front line for the reserve companies. On arrival at final objective, east of Harbonnieres, about 200 yards in front of the front line, there was a train consisting of
an 11.5in. naval gun on railway mounting, a locomotive, two ammunition trucks, and about twenty other trucks. The rear portion of the train was on fire. An Engineer officer went forward, examined the train, and found it to be in working order, and with the assistance of two sappers raised steam. Whilst this was being done the water feed-pipe from the injector to the tank was perforated by a machine-gun bullet. This was bound round with tracing tape. The burning portion of the train was detached, shunted into a siding, and the engine, gun, and ammunition trucks were brought back about 600 yards (550m) behind the lines, to where the rails had been blown out by shell-fire. A message was sent back to the Field Company Headquarters for a party to repair the track. This was done during the night. The message also asked for more water to be sent forward.

Steam was again raised the following morning and, in trying to move the gun back, the gun slipped the rear bogie wheels off the rails. There were nine lifting jacks on the train. With the aid of these the gun was got on to the track again and brought back to Bayonvillers the following morning at 2 o'clock, and a receipt obtained from the officer sent up from Army Headquarters to take over the gun. The gun was complete in every detail, ready for firing, with 37 rounds of ammunition in the trucks. Each shell weighed over 320 kg (704 lbs).

Firing sequence

The sequence of firing a round was as follows:-

Load – the gun was run back on its mountings with the breech in under the shelter. In here was the ready-for-use ammunition – shell and cartridge case (German guns had the Krupp breech and used brass cartridge cases for all calibres) and the hydraulic rammer which rammed the shell and cartridge into the gun.

Loaded – ready – the loaded gun was run back on its mounting with the breech end over the well between the two side frames of the carriage.

Aim – the piece was raised to the required elevation which, for the heavy siege guns, was a relatively high angle.

Fire – the gun fired and the recoiling barrel went down into the well between the frames with the thrust of the recoil being transmitted to the ground via the recoil pad. The barrel then dropped to the "load" position and the sequence repeated.

Subsequent events
The Capture paragraph is a first-hand account by the man who captured the gun. This account is of subsequent events.

An Engineer and two sappers were on the train. The Engineer obtained a receipt for the gun from an Artillery Major sent up from the Australian Corps Headquarters. This receipt in the ordinary course of events was filed with the Field Company records.

When he returned to the Field Company's headquarters two days later, he was paraded before the Divisional General, Sir Talbot Hobbs, and was asked what had happened and how the gun was captured. He told the General, and also put in a full report.

From the time he handed over the gun he did not see it again, but later on heard it had been exhibited in Paris.

There was one amusing incident. He was an officer of the 14th Field Company (fifth Division), Engineers, and was on loan to the eighth Field Company only for the attack and was on loan to them when the gun was captured. After the gun had been taken behind Australian lines the O.C. of the eighth Field Company sent a man up with a pot of white paint, and he painted on the side of the gun in large letters:—

Naturally the seizure of such a 'big gun' – with the bogies it weighed 185 tons (168t) – excited some interest. Besides, it was the gun that the Germans had brought up specially to shell Amiens. Well, when the announcement of the eighth Field Company appeared on it the
C.O. of the 31st Battalion was not satisfied. As soon as he spotted it he sent along a man with another pot of paint, and the first announcement was painted out, and the new words painted on:—

It was interesting, as well as amusing; but the fact is it was not under the orders of the C.O. of the 31st Battalion, but was under the orders of the O.C. of the eighth Field Company, although really an officer of the 14th Field Company.

He added that the train consisted of engine, gun, two ammunition trucks containing 37 rounds of ammunition, two officers' carriages, and about 25 other vehicles loaded with cordite charges, ammunition, and other war paraphernalia. The fire at the rear part of the train was caused by shellfire from a British tank, and a number of Germans were burnt to death. Cavalry rounded up about 800 of the enemy in the vicinity.

It was a bit exciting while they were trying to get the gun away. He was all prepared to destroy her if they failed; but all's well that ends well.

General Birdwood's congratulations

After capture
After capture, the gun was exhibited in Paris before being removed to England, via an English Channel ferry. It was later taken by rail to Woolwich Arsenal for examination and finally to Chatham Dockyard for transport to Australia.

Transport of this weapon was a formidable task. Finally, arrangements were made to load the trophy on board the SS Dongarra at Chatham dockyard which was achieved without mishap. The Dongarra, on which the gun was shipped to Sydney, was itself a war prize, being the former German liner Stetsenfels.

Mr. G.D. Delprat, the then general manager of BHP, who happened to be in London at the time, offered to place the company's facilities and skilled personnel at Newcastle at the Government's disposal, but on the advice of Mr Shellshear, consulting engineer for the New South Wales Government Railways in London, that the gun's axle loading would exceed the safe load on the original Hawkesbury River Railway Bridge, unless the gun's barrel was removed. This was agreed to.

However, it was subsequently decided that, as the naval floating crane Titan was available in Sydney and was capable of lifting weights up to 200 tons, the problem was solved. So the bogies, central pivot, undercarriage and gun were unloaded in the Port of Sydney direct on the rails, at Darling Harbour. From there, the gun was hauled to the New South Wales Government Railways' Eveleigh Railway Workshops, where with the assistance of Lieut. George Norman Pockett, Australian Army Engineer Ordnance Corps, all fittings and parts were reassembled.

From Eveleigh the gun was hauled to Station East Box by a superheated T-class locomotive and from there pushed forward to a specially prepared track at Eddy Avenue, via a ramp, the rails of which sank under the weight (approximately 18½ tons per axle). After strengthening, another attempt was more successful, although one bogie ran off the end and remained suspended in mid-air until powerful jacks were used to re-rail the trophy, which was floodlit at night by special arrangement with the Australian General Electric Co. for some weeks during the 1920 visit of H.R.H. the Prince of Wales (later King Edward VIII) who inspected it. Thousands of Sydneysiders passing the site saw the gun until its eventual movement to Canberra in 1923.

Move to Canberra
Details of this movement by rail are unknown, but must have involved partial dismantlement, if only to negotiate the various tunnels en route, especially those on the Pine Range Bank between Bungendore and Queanbeyan.

In 1927, prior to the visit to Canberra of the Duke and Duchess of York (later King George VI and Queen Elizabeth) to open the Federal Parliament, which had sat hitherto in Melbourne, the Amiens gun was moved from a siding near the former power station at Kingston and set in position on a set of rails embedded in a concrete base, near the railway station.

This task was carried out under the direction of the then District Superintendent (Mr. Reid) and involved building a spur line 100 yards long employing 40 men who were engaged by the Federal Capital Commission. The cost of the removal was said to be £500.

From 1923 until 1942, one of the first things seen by the train traveller arriving in Canberra, was the enormous railway gun captured by Australian troops, the so-called Amiens Gun.

Use during World War II
The gun remained outside the station, resplendent in its camouflage paint and target for the climbing ambitions of numerous small boys until the outbreak of World War II, when in 1942 the Australian Army began to express interest in the gun. The Inspector-General of Munitions, in a request for the transfer to the Department of Munitions 'for the duration' pointed out that a mounting of this type in which heavy British guns and ammunition could be test-fired was badly needed, as the stresses involved in such firings made our own coastal defence gun mountings unsuitable.

It was planned to install the mounting at the Artillery Proof Range at Port Wakefield, South Australia. The Army gave an undertaking to restore the gun and its mounting to its former condition and to meet all expenditure involved, and claimed that because the mounting was indispensable to the war effort, the Chairman of the Australian War Memorial Board of Management had given approval for its removal.

A party of engineer troops from Kapooka Camp, Wagga Wagga, under command of Lieut. Colonel Warren McDonald were given the task of dismantling the gun under supervision of Mr. Rettinger of the Department of the Interior. Thus, the mounting was sent to Port Wakefield, presumably by rail and the bogies were sent to No. 1 Central Ordnance Depot, at Bandiana, for storage. They remained there until after the war. The gun barrel remained in Canberra.

Final resting place

After the conclusion of hostilities in 1945, the Australian War Memorial made inquiries with a view to having the mountings and bogies returned. The Inspector-General of Munitions in 1948 requested approval for the retention of the mounting, on loan, for an indefinite period, to which the Board acceded.

In 1954, the Memorial was advised by the Department of Supply and Development that the mounting was no longer required at Port Wakefield and discussions began as to the ultimate fate of the gun barrel, mountings and bogies. These extended over some years and involved both the ACT Tourist Bureau and the Returned Servicemen's League. At one stage, consideration was given to assembling the complete gun on Mount Pleasant, overlooking the Royal Military College, Duntroon. In 1964, the Director of the Memorial advised that the Board of Management had decided to exhibit only the barrel. This is on the lawn adjacent to the Memorial building.

In reaching this decision the Board had taken into consideration the anticipated enormous cost involved in the removal of the component parts of the gun, while there was some doubt, because of its immense size and weight, as to the suitability of the gun as a whole as an exhibit in the grounds of the Australian War Memorial. Thus it was that in 1961 the bogies were sold for scrap, while the gun mountings were similarly disposed of two years later.

Two guns

Mr. Bill Crooks, M.B.E., E.D.. of Bribie Island is clear that there were, in fact, not one, but two 'Amiens Guns' captured by Australian forces operating in France in August 1918.

1. The 28 cm railway gun, the subject of these pages, which weighed 149 tons and was subsequently shipped to Australia; and

2. A concrete-emplaced siege gun with a 38 cm (14.96") calibre 72' long barrel, one of a number disposed by the German forces for the bombardment of Paris and other targets. This latter was presented to the City of Amiens by General John Monash.

Both guns were products of the Krupp works which specialised in super-heavy artillery for land use.

See also
28 cm SK L/40 "Bruno" main article for this type of railway gun

References

External links

Military history of Australia during World War I
World War I railway artillery of Germany
280 mm artillery
Individual cannons
Collections of the Australian War Memorial


Agios Dimitrios is a village, about  north of Lixouri in the Paliki peninsula of Cephalonia. The village which lies on the hillside just above the gulf of Argostoli and is a five-minute drive along the main road out of Lixouri.

Geography

 The overall geography of Agios Dimitrios can be appreciated in a satellite view from Google Maps . The village largely straddles the main road running north from Lixouri. The immediate view from the main road is of small houses, a taverna, a variety holiday accommodation, including a two hotels. The area is rural and consists largely of agricultural land. There is a very low density of building.

Turning off from the main road to the East, towards the sea, brings one past small residences with some accommodation for renting and eventually down to the shoreline of the gulf of Argostoli. The shoreline is a long narrow strip of mainly sandy beach with scrub vegetation and no facilities. A small number of fishermen work from the area in small boats. The immediate sea is shallow with extensive weed beds. This area is known to be inhabited by turtles.

In addition to agriculture and tourism, a small activity in fishing is supported. Nearby to the south, just before the village, is an auto mechanics car workshop and garage.

Amenities

In addition to the small number of local residences, there are various holiday accommodations, from bed & breakfast studios, villas and hotels. There are also small hotels, for example the Hotel Terra Mare with several acres of associated grounds in which holiday bungalows are set.

Taverna Angelos is renowned for its pizzas, is situated on the main street.

Another Taverna, Pharos, can be found by turning up a side road off the west side of the main street.

There are no shops or banks in the village. The nearest shops are back south on the main road towards Lixouri, 25 minutes to walk but five minutes in a car. They comprise a general grocery and household goods store, a takeaway food shop, and a butcher who sells a range of meats.  Most main shops, banks, medical services, and schools are to be found in Lixouri. An exception to this is a nearby store located immediately south of the village on the main road to Lixouri which is a large outdoor centre, stocking swimming, snorkeling, fishing and leisure equipment.

The fact that the local beach is very narrow and there are no facilities means that tourists are hardly ever seen and it is therefore a quiet area in which to walk and admire very open views over the bay. Cephalonia is renowned for having several world-class beaches (for example, Myrtos Beach, Xi Beach, Petani Beach and Vatsa Bay) and it is very easy to travel to one of these by car, which is what most tourists who come to stay in this part of the island do.

Economy and environment

As with many areas in Cephalonia, Agios Dimitrios was originally based on agriculture and a small contribution from fishing.

In recent years tourism has become an increasing priority within the economy of Cephalonia with investment from the EU under the Operational Programme 'Western Greece - Peloponnesus - Ionian Islands' Programme under the Convergence objective co-funded by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) for the period 2007-2013. The budget of the programme is around €1.14 billion. Within this framework are several priorities which include

Priority 3: Infrastructure works & accessibility in Ionian Islands
Priority 6: Digital convergence & entrepreneurship in Ionian Islands
Priority 7: Sustainable development & quality of life in Western Greece

These high level strategic priorities are starting to have an effect and the evidence can be seen even in Agios Dimitrios. The number of buildings dedicated to tourist trade and tourist accommodation has increased with an increase in local development. There has been an increase in the number of non-Greek nationals becoming residents and developing properties within the village. There has also been a migration back to Cephalonia of Greek nationals (or family members) who had originally been displaced as a consequence the earthquake in the 1950s.

Geology and Homer's Ithaca
Recent geological studies suggest that the Paliki Peninsula, in which Agios Dimitrios is sited, was originally a separate island. Known as the Paliki Hypothesis, it is now suggested that in the Bronze Age, a large earthquake caused a landslide to fill in a sea channel creating the bridge between the Paliki and the main island. One implication of this is that the Paliki Peninsula, and the area in which Agios Dimitrios is located is in fact the original location for Homer's Ithaca, the home of Odysseus, to which he journeyed after the Trojan War and written as the epic tale, Homer's The Odyssey.

References

Populated places in Cephalonia


Thomas Kurton Heath (1853–1938) was a vaudeville actor with James McIntyre. They started their act in 1874.

References

1853 births
1938 deaths
Vaudeville performers
Blackface minstrel performers
19th-century American male actors
American male stage actors


Three acres and a cow was a slogan used by British land reform campaigners of the 1880s, and revived by the distributists of the 1920s. It refers to an ideal land holding for every citizen.

The phrase was invented by Eli Hamshire in letters written to Joseph Chamberlain and Jesse Collings during the early 1880s. Hamshire did, in fact, own . Collings used the phrase as a slogan for his 1885 land reform campaign, and it became used as part of the political struggle against rural poverty. He became derisively known as "Three Acres and a Cow Collings."

Chamberlain used the slogan for his own "Radical Programme": he urged the purchase by local authorities of land to provide garden and field allotments for all labourers who might desire them, to be let at fair rents in plots of up to  of arable land and up to  of pasture.

In What's Wrong With the World, G. K. Chesterton used the phrase to summarise his own distributist opinions.

See also
 "Forty acres and a mule", referring to what was granted to some emancipated slaves during the American Civil War.

References

British political phrases (Pre 1950)
Land reform
Distributism


The St. Thomas Celts are the athletic teams that represent the University of St. Thomas, located in Houston, Texas, in intercollegiate sports as a member of the Division III level of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), primarily competing in the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference (SCAC) as a provisional member since the 2019–20 academic year. The Celts previously competed in the Red River Athletic Conference (RRAC) at the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) from 2011–12 to 2018–19; as well as an NAIA Independent within the Association of Independent Institutions (AII) from 2007–08 to 2010–11.

Varsity teams
UST competes in eight intercollegiate men's sports, nine women's sports, and two co-ed sports: Men's sports include baseball, basketball, cross country, golf, soccer, swimming, tennis and track & field; while women's sports include basketball, cross country, golf, soccer, softball, swimming, tennis, track & field and volleyball; and co-ed sports include cheerleading (spirit) and Esports.

History

Original Tenure
UST men's basketball dates back to 1947, in conjunction with the opening of the university. During their original athletic tenure, their mascot was the Warriors. Their men's basketball program disbanded in 1967. UST also hosted a baseball team from 1948 to 1969. Men's Basketball temporarily returned for the 1984–85 season, posting a 9–23 record and losing in the NAIA District IV Tournament to Southwestern University. 1984 was also when the UST athletic teams were first known as the Celts.

NAIA (2006-2019)
In Fall 2006, the NAIA informed UST that its application to join had been accepted, bringing varsity intercollegiate athletics back to campus for the first time in 20 years. Beginning in 2007, UST fielded both a women's volleyball team and a men's soccer team to compete as Independents within the Association of Independent Institutions (AII). The 2009–10 academic year marked the return of the UST men's varsity basketball team. From 2011 to 2019, UST competed in the NAIA as members of the RRAC.

Move to NCAA Division III
On February 14, 2018, UST announced it would become the SCAC's 10th member after completing an exploratory year in NCAA Division III.  Pending acceptance into Division III after that, SCAC competition would begin in the 2019–20 season.  As Division III and the SCAC require a minimum of 12 sports, UST will add men's and women's tennis and baseball during the 2019–20 academic year. According to UST President Richard Ludwick, "[t]his is really recognition not only of the quality of our athletics program, but of the quality of our academics and institution as a whole. It is exciting to think about the level of competition that we have been invited to join."

The school became a provisional member of Division III in 2019.

See also
 List of college athletic programs in Texas
 List of NCAA Division III institutions

References

External links


Anton Erhard Martinelli (1684 – September 15, 1747) was an Austrian architect and master-builder of Italian descent.

Martinelli was born in Vienna. He was the son of architect Franz Martinelli.

Anton Erhard Martinelli supervised the construction of several important buildings in Vienna, such as the Karlskirche and the Palais Schwarzenberg or the remodelling of the Deutschordenskirche. He designed the plans of the Palais Thinnfeld in Graz and of Invalidenhaus (Invalidus-palota) in Budapest, now the city hall.

In cooperation with his brother Johann Baptist Martinelli, he also designed the plans of several baroque churches in the Habsburg empire, among which Holy Trinity Cathedral in Blaj and carried out work for the estates of the Esterházy family (such as the country house in Fertőd) He also worked on the Lanschütz mansion (in Bernolákovo) and the Veľký Biel mansion in Western Slovakia, and the restoration of the Dvorac Zrinskih (Zrinski Castle) of the Croatian counts in Čakovec, Croatia.

He died in Vienna in 1747.

Works
 Karlskirche in Vienna
 Palais Schwarzenberg in Vienna
 Deutschordenkirche in Vienna.
 Invalidenhaus (Invalidus-palota) in Budapest
 Holy Trinity Cathedral in Blaj
 Castle of Vranov nad Dyjí
 Castle of Hluboká nad Vltavou
 Esterházy country house in Fertőd
 Lanschütz mansion (in Bernolákovo)
 Veľký Biel mansion
 Dvorac Zrinskih (Zrinski Castle) in Čakovec
 Palais Thinnfeld in Graz
 Neuwartenburg Castle in Timelkam
 St.Jacob Church in Kostelec na Hane
 Town hall in České Budějovice

References

 Anton Erhard Martinelli
 Anton Martinelli
 Dvorac Zrinskih
 Dehio-Handbuch, Die Österreichischen Kunstdenkmäler, Graz, 1979
 Baroque mansion in Veľký Biel, Western Slovakia
 Martinelli, Anton Erhard - Artportal
 History 1450–1789: Art in Central Europe

Austrian Baroque architects
Austrian people of Italian descent
Architects from Vienna
1684 births
1747 deaths
18th-century Austrian people


Exophilia is "a fetishism whose object is the sexuality of extraterrestrials." In other words, it is a desire for extraterrestrial, alien, or other non-human life forms. The term was coined by the writer Supervert in the 2001 book Extraterrestrial Sex Fetish. Because exophilia originated in a literary work, it is not a paraphilia recognized by experts such as the American Psychiatric Association in its Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, Fifth Edition (DSM).

References

Sexuality


The Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Revival of a Play is an annual award presented by Drama Desk in recognition of achievements in the theatre among Broadway, Off Broadway and Off-Off Broadway productions. The award was initially introduced in 1976 as Outstanding Revival and included musicals as well as plays.

Winners and nominees

1990s

2000s

2010s

2020s

See also
 Laurence Olivier Award for Best Revival
 Tony Award for Best Revival of a Play

References

External links
 Drama Desk official website

Play Revival


This is a list of members of the Senate of Canada in the 40th Parliament of Canada.

At dissolution on March 28, 2011, there were three vacancies in the Senate: two in Quebec, and one in Newfoundland and Labrador.

The province of Quebec has 24 Senate divisions which are constitutionally mandated. In all other provinces, a Senate division is strictly an optional designation of the senator's own choosing, and has no real constitutional or legal standing. A senator who does not choose a special senate division is designated a senator for the province at large.

Names in bold indicate senators in the 28th Canadian Ministry.

Incumbencies are , in the 42nd Parliament.

List of senators

Changes in membership during the 40th Parliament

Senators appointed during the 40th Parliament

Left Senate during the 40th Parliament

Changes in party affiliation during the 40th Parliament

Notes
 Left the Senate after the 39th Parliament was dissolved but before the writs were returned for the 40th Parliament.
 Left the Senate after the writs were returned for the 40th Parliament but before the first sitting of the first session.
 Left the Senate after the 40th Parliament was dissolved but before the writs were returned for the 41st Parliament.
 Was later re-appointed.

Party standings since the election
The party standings changed as follows from the election of the 40th Parliament on October 14, 2008 to its dissolution on March 28, 2011:

 Raymond Lavigne was identified as a Liberal in official Senate standings, but was not a part of the Liberal caucus. Lavigne was barred from performing legislative duties as a Senator due to the criminal charges against him and resigned shortly after being convicted of fraud.

Honorary senators

The Senate of Canada posthumously awarded the title of Honorary Senator during the 40th Parliament to five pioneering women known as The Famous Five. The motion was introduced to celebrate the 80th anniversary of the landmark court challenge that allowed women to hold seats in the Senate of Canada.

The Motion to recognize the women was introduced by Conservative senator Ethel Cochrane and seconded by Consiglio Di Nino. After debate, the motion passed without opposition. This was the first time in the history of the Senate of Canada that the title of honorary Senator was awarded to anyone.

See also
List of House members of the 40th Parliament of Canada
Women in the 40th Canadian Parliament
List of current Canadian senators

References

External links

40
40th Canadian Parliament


Mubarak Mosque (English: “Mosque of the blessed”) may refer to:

 Mubarak Mosque (An Giang), Vietnam
 Mubarak Mosque (Qadian), Punjab, India
 Mubarak Mosque (Tilford), England

 Moubarak Mosque, Val-d'Oise (Masjid Moubarak), France
 Mobarak Mosque (The Hague), Netherlands

See also
 Mubarak (disambiguation)


The fimbriate gudgeon (Oxyeleotris fimbriata) is a species of sleeper goby native to the fresh waters of New Guinea and Australia.  This species can reach a standard length of , though most do not exceed .

References

Oxyeleotris
Fish described in 1907
Freshwater fish of Australia

pt:Oxyeleotris wisselensis


To Kill with Intrigue (, ) is a 1977 historical action-drama film directed by Lo Wei. A joint Hong Kong and South Korean co-production with martial arts, revenge and romance film elements, the film stars Hong Kong action movie star Jackie Chan with Taiwanese actress Hsu Feng and South Korean actress Jeong Hee. The movie was filmed in South Korea.

Plot
Ding Can-ren (Hsu Feng) leads a gang known as the Killer Bees on a revenge mission to kill Lei Shao-feng (Jackie Chan) and his family. However, she kills everyone but Lei Shao-feng and falls in love with him.

Cast
Jackie Chan - as Lei Shao-feng
Hsu Feng - as Ding Can-ren
Jeong Hee (credited as Yu Ling Lung) - as Qian-qian (also known as Chin Chin)
Shin Il-Ryong - as Jin-chuan
George Wang - as Dragon Escort Master
Chan Wai Lau - as assassin's chief
Chan San Yat - as assassin
To Wai Wo - as assassin
Yuen Biao - as assassin
Chin Yuet Sang - as castle guard

Production
Jackie mentions, in his book I Am Jackie Chan, how much of the plot is confusing, and he was sure that even the director, Lo Wei, didn't even know what was going on. He has also gone on to express that tensions between himself and the director along with the generally cold weather at the time of filming made for a frustrating experience.

Box office
In Hong Kong, the film grossed 292,664.90 (). In South Korea, it sold 103,265 tickets in Seoul, equivalent to an estimated gross revenue of approximately  (). This adds up to a total estimated gross of approximately  in Hong Kong and Seoul, equivalent to  adjusted for inflation.

Trivia
For the Japanese release of this film, the name of Chu Feng's character, Chin Chin, had to be changed because Chin Chin is the slang for penis in Japan.

See also
 Jackie Chan filmography
 List of Hong Kong films
 List of martial arts films
 Rurouni Kenshin: Trust & Betrayal (1999), an original video animation series involving similar plot elements

References

External links

1977 films
1977 martial arts films
1970s action films
1970s action drama films
1970s historical drama films
1970s martial arts films
1970s Cantonese-language films
Films based on works by Gu Long
Films shot in South Korea
Historical action films
Hong Kong films about revenge
Hong Kong action films
Hong Kong historical films
Hong Kong martial arts films
Hong Kong multilingual films
Hong Kong romantic drama films
1970s Korean-language films
South Korean films about revenge
South Korean action drama films
South Korean historical drama films
South Korean martial arts films
South Korean multilingual films
South Korean romantic drama films
1970s Hong Kong films


The 1998 Major League Baseball expansion resulted in the establishment of Major League Baseball (MLB)'s 29th and 30th teams beginning play for the 1998 season. After initiating an expansion committee in March 1994, 27 groups representing nine cities submitted bids for the proposed expansion teams. After a yearlong process, on March 9, 1995, the league awarded the National League franchise to Phoenix and the American League franchise to Tampa Bay. The Arizona Diamondbacks and the Tampa Bay Devil Rays (currently the Tampa Bay Rays), would subsequently begin play for the 1998 season.

History
With the successes of the Colorado Rockies and Florida Marlins following the 1993 expansion, Major League Baseball by 1994 was looking to expand again from 28 to 30 teams. On March 2, 1994, MLB created an expansion committee to evaluate the feasibility of expansion. Although both Phoenix and Tampa Bay were believed to be overwhelming favorites for the franchises, other cities were invited to bid for the proposed franchises. The committee was headed by Boston Red Sox General Partner John Harrington, with others serving on the committee including Bill Giles of the Philadelphia Phillies, Jerry Reinsdorf of the Chicago White Sox, George Steinbrenner of the New York Yankees, Stanton Cook of the Chicago Cubs, Richard Jacobs of the Cleveland Indians, Stan Kasten of the Atlanta Braves, the president of the National League, Leonard S. Coleman, Jr., and the president of the American League, Bobby Brown.

By June, the league announced that all cities with interest in the proposed franchises should submit their intentions by June 24. By June 30, the committee released the nine communities that submitted information to MLB for the proposed franchises. Buffalo, Nashville, Northern Virginia, Orlando, Phoenix, Tampa Bay and Vancouver placed expansion requests. Other cities mentioned as potential expansion locations which did not officially submit an application to the league included Charlotte and Washington.

After whittling down the field to four finalists (Northern Virginia, Orlando, Phoenix and Tampa Bay), MLB announced Phoenix and Tampa Bay as the two expansion franchises on March 9, 1995. Announced to begin play for the 1998 season, each ownership group paid a $130 million expansion fee to enter the league. The ownership groups paid $32 million in July 1995, $25 million in July 1996, $40 million in July 1997 and $33 million in November 1997. In addition, the two expansion teams gave away their rights to $5 million from baseball's central fund for each of the five years following expansion (1998–2002).

The adding of the 29th and 30th team caused the American League and the National League to have fifteen teams each. Because of the odd number of teams, only seven games could possibly be scheduled in each league on any given day. Thus, one team in each league would have to be idle on any given day. This would have made it difficult for scheduling, in terms of travel days and the need to end the season before October. In order for MLB officials to continue primarily intraleague play, both leagues would need to carry an even number of teams, so the decision was made to move one club from the AL Central to the NL Central - it was ultimately then-acting Commissioner Bud Selig (who at the time also owned the Milwaukee Brewers) who agreed to have his own franchise change leagues.

The 1998 expansion remains the most recent to be conducted in Major League Baseball. MLB would later reverse the imbalance created by the 1998 expansion when, following the sale of the Houston Astros, the new owners agreed to move their franchise to the American League before the 2013 season. Following that transaction, MLB consequently altered its season structure so as to include interleague play throughout the regular season.

See also
1961 Major League Baseball expansion
1962 Major League Baseball expansion
1969 Major League Baseball expansion
1977 Major League Baseball expansion
1993 Major League Baseball expansion

References

Arizona Diamondbacks
Tampa Bay Rays
Major League Baseball Expansion, 1998
Major League Baseball expansion


Sodium diacetate is a compound with formula . It is a salt of acetic acid.  It is a colorless solid that is used in seasonings and as an antimicrobial agent.

Preparation and structure
The salt forms upon half-neutralization of acetic acid followed by evaporation of the solution.  It can be viewed as the result of homoassociation, an effect that enhances the acidity of acetic acid in concentrated solution:
 2 CH3CO2H  +  NaOH   →   Na+[(CH3CO2)2H]−  +  H2O

Also described as the sodium acid salt of acetic acid, it is best described as the sodium salt of the hydrogen-bonded anion (CH3CO2)2H−.  The O···O distance is about 2.47 angstrom.  The species has no significant existence in solution but forms stable crystals.

Applications
As a food additive, it has E number E262 and is used to impart a salt and vinegar flavor.

See also
 Sodium acetate

References

Acetates
Organic sodium salts
Acid salts
Food additives


Juliet E. McMains is a United States dance scholar and instructor, the author of the Glamour Addiction, the first comprehensive study of the United States DanceSport.

Juliet McMains started doing ballroom dancing as a teenager. Eventually she became professional ballroom dancer until she stopped competing in 2003. Her Senior thesis in the college was Tradition and Transgression: Gender Roles in Ballroom Dancing. She earned B.A. in Women's Studies from Harvard University and PhD in dance history and theory (2003) at the University of California, Riverside.

, she is a teacher of World Dance History, Beginning Salsa, Beginning Tango, Beginning Swing and Beginning Ballroom dance at the University of Washington, Seattle. Her academic specializations include dance ethnography, social dance history, post-structural theory, cultural studies, and feminist theory.

Scholar works
2006: Juliet E. McMains, "Glamour Addiction: Inside the American Ballroom Dance Industry" Wesleyan University Press,
2002:  Juliet McMains and Danielle Robinson. "Swinging Out: Southern California's Lindy Revival." in: I See America Dancing: Selected Readings, 1685-2000, Ed. Maureen Needham. University of Illinois Press

References

Dance historians
University of Washington faculty
Living people
Dancesport
Harvard University alumni
University of California, Riverside alumni
Dance teachers
Year of birth missing (living people)


Vespericola columbiana, common name the northwest hesperian, is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Polygyridae.

Subspecies
Vespericola columbiana depressa (Pilsbry & Henderson, 1936)
Vespericola columbiana latilabrum Pilsbry, 1940

References

Polygyridae
Gastropods described in 1838


McMains is a family name which may refer to one of the following persons.

Cody McMains, American film and television actor
 Jim McMains, French vocalist of Les Irrésistibles
 Steve McMains, French bass player
Juliet McMains, American dance scholar and teacher
 Maury McMains (1903-1993), American football and basketball coach
 Ross McMains, Australian basketball coach


The Ashland Eagles are the athletic teams that represent Ashland University, located in Ashland, Ohio, in Division II intercollegiate sports of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). The Eagles are members of the Great Midwest Athletic Conference (G-MAC). They previously had competed in the Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (GLIAC) from 1995–96 to 2020–21, in the Mid-Ohio League (later the American Mideast Conference) of the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) from 1949–50 to 1965–66, and in the Ohio Athletic Conference (OAC) from 1931–32 to 1947–48.

Varsity teams

List of teams

Men's sports (11)
Baseball
Basketball
Cross Country
Football
Golf
Soccer
Swimming and Diving
Indoor Track and Field
Outdoor Track and Field
Tennis
Wrestling

Women's sports (12)
Basketball
Cross Country
Golf
Lacrosse
Soccer
Softball
STUNT
Swimming and Diving
Tennis
Indoor Track and Field
Outdoor Track and Field
Volleyball

National championships

Team

Accomplishments
 In the winter of 2016–17, the Eagle women's basketball team won its second NCAA Division II national championship, and became the first D-II women's hoops team to finish a season at 37–0. In addition, the men's indoor track and field team finished second in the country and saw sophomore Myles Pringle win a national title in the 400-meter dash, and the wrestling team placed sixth as a team at nationals and had its own national champion in 133-pound senior Michael Labry.
 In 2014–15, Ashland's athletic department finished second in the final Division II Learfield Sports Directors’ Cup standings, its highest finish all-time. It also ends a run for AU of eight consecutive athletic seasons in which it finished in the top 10 in the Directors’ Cup.
 2012 was the fifth year in school history that the Ashland University Eagles football team took a trip to the postseason, the third under Coach Lee Owens. This was Ashland University's highest ranking since becoming an NCAA Division II institution. 2012 also produced the first GLIAC football championship in school history. This is only the second team in school history to win 10 or more games in a season. This team was only the fourth at Ashland to end the regular season without a loss. The Eagles record in 2012 was 11–1.
 2013 proved to be one of Ashland University's strongest years in athletics. Ten Ashland University Eagles became national champions between swimming and indoor track and field. The first national champions were seniors Julie Widmann and Rachel Ausdenmoore, junior Gaby Verdugo-Arzaluz and freshman Kaylyn Murphy who won the women's 200-yard freestyle relay at the national swim meet March 7, 2013. Widmann has won four national titles (3 relays, 1 individual). For track and field Richard Quick won a national title in the weight throw, 68-feet, 3.25-inches. Katie Nageotte also won a national title in pole-vault, 13-feet, 11.25-inches. The next set of national champions were the track 1600-meter relay team (Sophomore: Drew Windle, Senior: Cory Lamar, Junior: Jacob Cook, and Junior Keith Cleveland). Drew Windle also won a second national championship in the 800 meter run with a time of 1:48.75.
 2013 was the first year in school history for an Ashland University Team to win a national championship. The Eagles Women's Basketball team had a 71–56 victory against Dowling College in the NCAA Division II national championship game. Ashland University is the second GLIAC team to win a women's basketball Division II national championship. Kari Daugherty was selected as the 2013 Women's Division II Bulletin player of the year, as well as the most outstanding player. Daugherty is the first Ashland University player to receive the Bulletin's player of the year award.
 2013: This year AU also had Basketball's Kari Daugherty receive the NCAA II player of the year award for the second year in a row, and Track and Field's Drew Windle awarded the men's indoor track and field athlete of the year. 27 Ashland University Student-Athletes were recognized as All-Americans for the winter sports season.

References

External links


The Lucas L5 was a sport aircraft designed in France in the late 1970s and marketed for amateur construction. It was a conventional, low-wing cantilever monoplane with side-by-side seating for two in a fully enclosed cabin. Construction was of metal throughout, and the builder was given the option of fixed, tricycle undercarriage, or tailwheel undercarriage in which the main units were manually retractable.

Specifications

Notes

References

External links
 Photo gallery on designer's website
 Video of a Lucas L5 in flight, and brief talk with designer Emile Lucas (in French)

1970s French sport aircraft
Lucas aircraft
Homebuilt aircraft
Single-engined tractor aircraft
Low-wing aircraft
Aircraft first flown in 1976


The Sankey brick was the preferred construction material of the South Side Flats in Pittsburgh. It was the original product of the Sankey Brick Company, founded in 1861 by William, John, and Thomas Sankey.

History
The original brick works stood at the end of a railroad at 21st Street, and now forms part of the present South Side Park.

The Sankey Brothers were pioneers in the automated production of brick, using local shale instead of clay as the basis of the brick. The company had an office at 2112 Carson Street, and additional plants at 37th and Liberty in Lawrenceville and at Penn and Atlantic in the East End of Pittsburgh.

1916 Pittsburgh map

References

History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania
Companies based in Pittsburgh
1861 establishments in Pennsylvania


Vespericola armigera, common name the Santa Cruz hesperian, is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Polygyridae.

References

Polygyridae
Gastropods described in 1881
Taxa named by César Marie Félix Ancey


School Lane station is SEPTA Route 101 trolley station in Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania. It is located on School Lane west of Edmonds Avenue. The station is next to Grace Lutheran Church on the northwest corner of the aforementioned intersection.

Trolleys arriving at this station travel between 69th Street Terminal in Upper Darby, Pennsylvania, and Orange Street in Media, Pennsylvania. The station features a P&W-era shed with a roof in which passengers can wait during inclement weather. The shed is made of stucco similar to that of the nearby Aronimink stop. An actual school can be found one block east of this intersection. No parking is available at this stop, as it is located in a residential area.

Station layout

External links

July 3, 1999 Fantrip image (World-NYC Subway.org)
 Station from School Lane from Google Maps Street View

SEPTA Media–Sharon Hill Line stations


Ljudevit Jurak (October 6, 1881 – June 9, 1945) was a Croatian professor of pathology who was executed by the Yugoslav government for his research into the Vinnytsia massacre.

Jurak was born in Zalug near Hum na Sutli. He studied medicine at the University of Innsbruck where he graduated in 1910. In 1914 Jurak came to Zagreb where he led the Department of Pathology at the Sisters of Charity Hospital, a post he held until his death.

In 1915 Jurak and German physician Felix Gaisbock published a paper in a renowned journal Zentralblatt für Herz- und Gefässkrankheiten in which they described both Lev's and Legendre's disease half a century before its contemporaries.

Jurak collaborated on Mate Ujević's Croatian Encyclopedia.

In 1943, Jurak was among those invited by the International Committee of the Red Cross to take part in an investigation into the massacre of ethnic Ukrainians at Vinnytsia in the 1930s. This investigation concluded that the Soviet Union had been responsible for the massacre. He also commented on the Soviet responsibility for the Katyn massacre. His article about it was published in the Zagreb newspaper run by the Independent State of Croatia. When World War II in Yugoslavia ended, OZNA had Jurak killed by firing squad in Zagreb in June 1945.

Since the democratic changes in 1990, the Ljudevit Jurak Clinical Department of Pathology in Zagreb has borne his name.

See also
Eduard Miloslavić

Notes

References
Ljudevit Jurak - Our wound and pride

Croatian pathologists
1881 births
1945 deaths
People executed by Yugoslavia by firing squad
Pathologists from Austria-Hungary
Yugoslav physicians


Henri Lopes (born 12 September 1937) is a Congolese writer, diplomat, and political figure. He was Prime Minister of Congo-Brazzaville from 1973 to 1975, and became the Congo-Brazzaville's Ambassador to France in 1998.

Political and diplomatic career
Lopes was born across the Congo River in Leopoldville (now Kinshasa), the capital of the Belgian Congo (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo). He received his primary education in Brazzaville and Bangui, then went to France in 1949 for his secondary and higher education. While there, he was a member of the Executive Committee of the Federation of Black African Students and was President of the Association of Congolese Students from 1957 to 1965. Returning to Congo in 1965, he was a history professor at the Ecole normale supérieure d'Afrique Centrale in Brazzaville from 1965 to 1966, then Director-General of Education from 1966 to 1968.

Under President Marien Ngouabi, Lopes was Minister of National Education from January 1969 until becoming Minister of Foreign Affairs in December 1971. He was included on the five-member Political Bureau of the Congolese Labour Party (PCT) in December 1972. Subsequently, he was Prime Minister from 1973 to 1975. He visited China in early 1975, but could not meet with Chairman Mao Zedong because Mao was ill. Lopes and his government resigned following a meeting of the PCT Central Committee in December 1975, and Louis Sylvain Goma was appointed to replace him.

After working as political director of Etumba from 1975 to 1977, Lopes was reappointed to the government as minister of finance on 5 April 1977; he served in that position until Justin Lekoundzou was appointed to replace him in December 1980. Subsequently, he worked at UNESCO as Assistant Director-General for Culture and Deputy Director-General for Africa from 1981 to 1998.

On 26 October 1998, Lopes presented his credentials as Congo-Brazzaville's Ambassador to France; while posted in Paris, he was additionally accredited as Ambassador to the United Kingdom, Portugal, Spain, and the Vatican City.

In 2002, Lopes was a candidate for the post of Secretary-General of the international organization La Francophonie, but he withdrew his candidacy under pressure on the night before the vote, which was held on 20 October 2002 and resulted in the unanimous election of Senegal's Abdou Diouf.

In mid-2015, it was reported that Lopes planned to retire from his post as Ambassador to France, which he did later that year.

As a writer
In addition to his distinguished political and diplomatic career, Lopes has earned distinction as a literary author. Perhaps his most acclaimed work is the satirical novel Le Pleurer-rire ("The Laughing Cry", 1982). Other works include the short-story collection Tribaliques ("Tribaliks," 1971), as well as the novels La Nouvelle romance (1975) and Sans tam-tam (1977). His most recent novel, Le Méridional (2015), has been praised as "a fine portrayal of the life of an African long residing in France, narrated by a writer whose life bears some resemblances to Lopes's own".

Tribaliques received the Grand Prix Littéraire de l'afrique noire in 1972, and in 1993 Lopes received the Grand prix de la francophonie of the Académie française for his entire body of work.

In November 2015, he delivered the keynote address at the 22nd International African Writers' Day Conference, organized by the Pan African Writers' Association (PAWA) on the theme "Celebrating the life and works of Chinua Achebe; the coming of age of African Literature?", in Accra, Ghana. During the conference Lopes received the award of Honorary Membership of PAWA, alongside other honorees who included the late Kwame Nkrumah, Emeritus Professor Ekwueme Michael Thelwell, Dr Margaret Busby, James Currey, Professor Jophus Anamuah-Mensah, Dr Joyce Rosalind Aryee and others.

Selected bibliography
 Le Méridional (Editions Gallimard, 2015, )
 Une enfant de Poto-Poto (Editions Gallimard, 2012, )
 Ma grand-mère bantoue et mes ancêtres les Gaulois. Simples discours (Paris: Editions Gallimard, )
 Le Lys et le Flamboyant (Paris: Seuil, 1997, )
 Le chercheur d’Afriques (Paris: Seuil, 1990, )
 Le Pleurer-rire (Présence Africaine, 1982, ). Translated into English by G. Moore as The Laughing Cry: An African Cock and Bull Story, Readers International, 1987,
 Sans tam-tam (Éditions CLE, 1977, )
 La Nouvelle romance (Yaoundé: CLE, 1975)
 Tribaliques (Yaoundé: CLE, 1971). Translated into English as Tribaliks: Contemporary Congolese Stories (Heinemann African Writers Series, 1987, )

Selected awards
 1972: Grand Prix Littéraire de l'afrique noire for Tribaliques
 1992: Grand prix de la francophonie
 2002: Honorary doctorates from University of Paris XII and the University of Quebec
 2013: Honorary doctorate from University of Sonfoniah, Guinea
 2015: Officer of the Légion d'Honneur

Further reading
 Bokiba, André-Patient (2003). Henri Lopes: Une lecture d'enracinement et d'universalité. Editions L'Harmattan.
 Chemain, Arlette (1988). "Henri Lopes: engagement civique et recherche d’une écriture". Notre librairie, 92-93:123-128.
 Maunick, Edouard (1988). "Le territorre d'Henri Lopes". Notre librairie, 92-93:128-131.
 Mwepu, P. K. (December 2007). "From self-identity to universality: a reading of Henri Lopes’ works", Literator 28(3):131-144. ISSN 0258-2279

References

External links
 Lydie Moudileno, "Henri Lopes – 'La critique n'est pas une agression'" (interview), Genesis, 33, 2011, 93–100.
 Olivia Marsaud, "‘What I have learned’ from Henri Lopes", Afrique Magazine, May 2015.

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1937 births
People from Kinshasa
Ambassadors of the Republic of the Congo to France
Ambassadors of the Republic of the Congo to the Holy See
Ambassadors of the Republic of the Congo to Portugal
Ambassadors of the Republic of the Congo to Spain
Ambassadors of the Republic of the Congo to the United Kingdom
Congolese Party of Labour politicians
Living people
Prime Ministers of the Republic of the Congo
Foreign Ministers of the Republic of the Congo
Finance ministers of the Republic of the Congo
Republic of the Congo novelists
20th-century male writers
21st-century male writers
20th-century Republic of the Congo politicians


Neohelix dentifera is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Polygyridae.

References

Polygyridae
Gastropods described in 1837


Floyd John Chiffer (born April 20, 1956) is a former Major League Baseball pitcher who attended the University of California, Los Angeles. He played his entire career for the San Diego Padres, with his best year coming in 1982 when he appeared in 51 games, with a 2.95 ERA. On December 7, 1984, Chiffer was traded to the Minnesota Twins but never pitched in another major league game.

Chiffer is noteworthy for having been drafted three times in the Major League Baseball Draft in three years, by three teams, finally signing with the San Diego Padres after the 1978 draft.

External links

Floyd Chiffer's Baseball Almanac Page
Floyd Chiffer's Baseball Library Page

1956 births
Living people
Major League Baseball pitchers
San Diego Padres players
Richmond Braves players
Hawaii Islanders players
UCLA Bruins baseball players
Sportspeople from Glen Cove, New York
Baseball players from Nassau County, New York
Amarillo Gold Sox players
Indianapolis Indians players
Las Vegas Stars (baseball) players
Reno Silver Sox players
Toledo Mud Hens players
Mat-Su Miners players


Cools  is a Dutch patronymic surname meaning "son of Cool", Cool being an archaic nickname for Nicholas. The name is particularly prominent in the Belgian province of Antwerp. People with the surname include:

 Alexander Cools ( 1941–2013), Dutch behavioral pharmacologist
 André Cools (1927–1991), Belgian socialist politician
 Anne Cools (born 1943), Canadian social worker
 Dion Cools (born 1996), Malaysian-Belgian footballer
 Frans Cools (1918–1999), Belgian cyclist
 Jens Cools (born 1990), Belgian football player
 Julien Cools (born 1947), Belgian football player
  (1618–1706), Flemish Catholic bishop
 Roshan Cools (born 1975), Dutch neuroscientist
 Samantha Cools (born 1986), Canadian cyclist
 Sarah Cools (born 1997), Belgian volleyball player

References

See also
 Cool (surname)
 McCool (surname)

Dutch-language surnames
Surnames of Belgian origin
Patronymic surnames


Robert Emory Lamb  (born December 24, 1962) is an American college football coach and former player. He was most recently the head football coach at Mercer University, a position he assumed in 2011 when Mercer reinstated their football program after a 72-year hiatus. The Mercer Bears football program resumed play in 2013. Lamb served as the head football coach at Furman University from 2002 until his resignation in 2010.

Playing career
Lamb attended Commerce High School in Commerce, Georgia, from 1978 to 1981, where he played quarterback. Along with current Furman University head football coach Clay Hendrix He led the team to the 1981 AA State Championship and was named The Atlanta Journal-Constitution's AA Back of the Year.

From 1982 to 1985, Lamb played quarterback for the Furman Paladins, a Division I-AA program, where he was a two-year starter. During Lamb's playing career, the Paladins defeated three Division I-A teams: South Carolina (1982), Georgia Tech (1983), and NC State (1984 and 1985). In 1985, Lamb helped lead the Paladins to the Southern Conference championship, and he was named Southern Conference Player of the Year. The Paladins suffered a two-point loss to Georgia Southern in the 1985 NCAA Division I-AA Football Championship Game, with Lamb throwing for one touchdown and rushing for another.

Coaching career
Lamb began coaching as an assistant for the Paladins in 1986 and was the defensive ends coach on the 1988 team that won the NCAA Division I-AA Football Championship. He became the quarterbacks coach in 1989, a position filled until taking over head coaching duties in 2002. In November 2010, he announced his resignation from Furman after the team had missed the playoffs four straight years.

On January 20, 2011, Lamb was announced be the first modern head football coach for Mercer University, which began playing football in 2013 after the sport's 70-year absence from campus.

On November 24, 2019, Lamb was terminated as Mercer's football coach after the team went 4–8 that season, including 3–5 in the Southern Conference. He finished with an overall record of 41–39 after seven seasons.

Lamb is set to become the first ever football coach of Anderson University (Anderson, SC) in 2024, once the program begins.

Personal
Lamb has a brother, Hal, who is the head football coach and athletic director at Calhoun High School in Calhoun, Georgia. Lamb is active in bringing about public awareness of shoulder Cleidocranial dysplasia. Lamb's son Taylor was quarterback for the Appalachian State Mountaineers from 2014 to 2017 and is QB Coach at Gardner-Webb University.

Head coaching record

References

External links
 Anderson (SC) profile
 Mercer profile

1962 births
Living people
American football quarterbacks
Furman Paladins football players
Furman Paladins football coaches
Mercer Bears football coaches
People from Commerce, Georgia
Coaches of American football from Georgia (U.S. state)
Players of American football from Augusta, Georgia


Dr.Robert Mead Quackenbush, MSW, PhD (July 23, 1929 – May 17, 2021) was an American author and illustrator of children's books.  He authored 110 books and illustrated 60 more by 1999.  He is noted for creating the characters Henry the Duck, Detective Mole, and Miss Mallard.

Early life
Quackenbush was born in Los Angeles on July 23, 1929.  His ancestors immigrated to New York from the Netherlands during the 17th century.  His father, Roy, worked as an engineer; his mother, Virginia (Arbogast), was employed as a secretary.  He was raised in Phoenix, Arizona.  His father died in a traffic collision several days before Christmas while on a business trip when Quackenbush was nine years old.  The two feuded over an insignificant matter before his trip and Quackenbush assumed that it was related to his father's death.  He went to a therapist to help alleviate his anguish and this consequently piqued his long-lasting interest in children's therapy and mental health.

After graduating from high school in 1947, Quackenbush spent a summer studying art at Parsons School of Design.  He initially attended Phoenix College, but opted not to continue his studies and worked towards a career in art instead.  He subsequently enrolled in the ArtCenter College of Design in 1948.  Two years later, he was chosen in the Selective Service draft and joined the US Army to fight in the Korean War.  He was stationed in South Carolina and Indiana, where he continued his art by painting watercolor portraits of his fellow soldiers and officers.  Quackenbush was honorably discharged in 1953, with his G.I. Bill helping him finish his studies at the ArtCenter.  He graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1956, before relocating to New York.

Career
Quackenbush first worked as creative director for Scandinavian Airlines.  During a summer stint in Stockholm, he came across the mediums of woodcuts, etchings, and lithography, and took a particular interest in woodcuts.  He consequently quit his corporate job upon returning to New York and went into printmaking.  He was commissioned by the New York Hilton Midtown, National Parks Division, and the National Air and Space Museum, and his prints were exhibited in places like the Whitney Museum of American Art.  He then worked in illustrating, first with magazines and later with books.  He was commissioned by Henry Holt and Company in 1962 to illustrate "The Steadfast Tin Soldier" by Hans Christian Andersen.  After illustrating 62 books by other authors, he decided to author and illustrate his personal work, starting with Old MacDonald Had a Farm in 1972.  He started writing the Henry the Duck stories around the time his son was born in 1974 to ease any taunting he would receive because of his surname.  Quackenbush recounted how he had been nicknamed "Quack" while he was serving in the Army.  He did not want his son to go through the same experience and dedicated every book to him, adding how "after that, nobody made fun of him and his last name".

Quackenbush authored and illustrated over 200 books.  He created the characters Detective Mole, Miss Mallard, and Pete Pack Rat.  His most widely-known book, Henry's Awful Mistake, was published by Parents Magazine Press in 1980.  It ultimately featured in almost 900 US and Canadian libraries.  He was conferred the Edgar Allan Poe Award in 1982 for best juvenile mystery with Detective Mole and the Halloween Mystery.  Two decades later, his books on Miss Mallard were adapted into an animated television series, A Miss Mallard Mystery, that was premiered in 2000, but produced by the Montreal-based children's entertainment company.

During his sixties, Quackenbush returned to school, obtaining a master's degree in social work from Fordham University.  He was later awarded a Doctor of Philosophy in childhood development and children's education.  He then practiced as a licensed psychoanalyst at his East 78th Street studio, where he also taught painting to children after school and held workshops for adults about authoring children's books.

Selected works
Henry's Awful Mistake (1980)

Henry's Important Date (1981)

Henry Babysits (1983)

Don't You Dare Shoot That Bear!: A Theodore Roosevelt Story (1984)

Sherlock Chick's First Case (1986)

Sherlock Chick and the Peekaboo Mystery (1987)

Too Many Ducklings: A Henry the Duck Adventure (1987)

Dogsled to Dread: A Miss Mallard Mystery (1988)

Sherlock Chick and the Giant Egg Mystery (1989)

Sherlock Chick and the Case of the Night Noises (1990)

Quackenbush's Treasury of Humor (1990)

Taxi to Intrigue: A Miss Mallard Mystery (1991)

Daughters of Liberty (1999)

Batbaby Finds a Home (2001)

Henry Goes West (2007)

First Grade Jitters (2010)

Express Train to Trouble: A Miss Mallard Mystery (2018)

Stairway to Doom: A Miss Mallard Mystery (2018)

Texas Trail to Calamity: A Miss Mallard Mystery (2018)

Bicycle to Treachery: A Miss Mallard Mystery (2019)

Henry's World Tour (2021)

Personal life and death
Quackenbush married Margery Clouser in 1971.  They met after she walked into his studio while he was authoring and illustrating Old MacDonald Had a Farm.  She was one of the inspirations for Miss Mallard, whose given name was also Margery and wore a brim hat like her.  Together, they had one child (Piet).  They remained married until his death.

Quackenbush died on May 17, 2021, at his home in Manhattan.  He was 91, and suffered from leukemia prior to his death.

Awards
American Flag Institute Award for outstanding contributions to children's literature – four-time winner
Edgar Allan Poe Special Award for best juvenile mystery for his book Detective Mole and the Halloween Mystery (1982).
Gradiva Award for Batbaby, voted best children's book of 1998 by NAAP

References

External links

Official site of Robert Quackenbush Studios

1929 births
2021 deaths
American children's writers
American people of Dutch descent
Art Center College of Design alumni
Deaths from leukemia
Writers from Los Angeles
Writers who illustrated their own writing
United States Army soldiers
Deaths from cancer in New York (state)


Ivo Brnčić or Brnčič (13 March 1912 – May 1943) was a Yugoslav author, essayist and literary critic of Croat origin, particularly notable for his assessment of interwar Slovene literature. Most of his works were published posthumously.

Biography

Brnčić was born in the village of Sveta Trojica v Slovenskih Goricah, Lower Styria, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. His father was an Austrian public servant from Croatia. His mother came from a notable Slovene left wing intellectual family: her brother was the writer Lojz Kraigher, and Ivo Brnčić's cousins were the Communist politicians Boris and Sergej Kraigher. After finishing the high school in Ljubljana, Brnčić enrolled at the University of Ljubljana, later switching to the University of Zagreb, where he studied Slavic philology. Because of his openly Marxist convictions, he could not find a job for a long time. He made his living mostly from writing and translating. In 1940, he got employed as a professor in an elementary school in Drniš, Croatia (then also part of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia).

During World War II, he was mobilized in the Croatian Home Guard. In 1942 he tried to escape and join the Yugoslav Partisans. He was captured and imprisoned in Zenica, but was later acquitted of charges of desertion and mobilized again into the armed forces of the Independent State of Croatia. In May 1943, Brnčić escaped for the second time, but before he could join the Partisans he was captured by the Chetniks, who killed him and buried in an unknown location.

Work and legacy

Brnčić wrote several lyrical poems, short stories and theatre plays, but he is most known for his works in literary criticism and essayism. He became known mostly for his articles in journals, but he didn't publish a single book during his lifetime. Only in the 1950s, the literary historians Herbert Grün and Janko Kos edited his collected works. The first volume, which included his essays and critiques, was published in 1954 under the title A Generation in front of the Closed Doors (). This expression, used in one of his earlier essays from the 1930s, became a popular and widespread designation of the generation of left wing Slovenian authors in the 1930s and early 1940s who embraced a lyrical version of neorealism (notably Ciril Kosmač, Miško Kranjec, Ludvik Mrzel, Karel Destovnik Kajuh and others).

Since the publication of his collected works in the 1950s, Brnčić has been frequently considered as the foremost theorist of the social realist and neorealist literary movements in Slovenia in the 1930s. His name has been strongly linked to the critical Marxist intellectual scene in the interwar period. Together with the left liberal Josip Vidmar and the Catholic France Vodnik, Brnčić was considered as the foremost Slovene literary critic of the 1930s.

See also
Croats of Slovenia

References

Janko Kos, Slovenska književnost (Ljubljana : Cankarjeva založba, 1982), 38-39.

1912 births
1943 deaths
People from Ormož
Yugoslav Marxist writers
Yugoslav essayists
Croatian Home Guard personnel
Yugoslav poets
Yugoslav literary critics
University of Ljubljana alumni
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb alumni
People killed by Chetniks during World War II
Croatian civilians killed in World War II
Slovenian civilians killed in World War II
Yugoslav civilians killed in World War II
Ethnic Slovene people
Slovenian people of Croatian descent
People from the Municipality of Sveta Trojica v Slovenskih Goricah
20th-century essayists
Croatian people of Slovenian descent
Deserters


Franz Antoine (23 February 1815 in the  on the Löwelbastei, Vienna – 11 March 1886) was an Austrian horticulturalist and gardener.

From 1865 he was director of royal gardens to the Austrian/Austro-Hungarian monarchy. He was an authority on the botanical family Bromeliaceae, and was also an avid photographer. His photographs of still lifes, plants and scenes of Vienna were presented at exhibitions in Vienna (1864, 1873) and Paris (1867). Among his written works were the following:
 Die Coniferen, (The conifers), (1840-1847).
 Der Wintergarten der K.K. Hofburg zu Wien, (The Winter Garden at the Hofburg Imperial Palace in Vienna), (1852).
 Coniferen des Cilicischen Taurus, (Conifers of Cilician Taurus) – with Theodor Kotschy, (1855).
 Phyto-Iconography der Bromeliaceen, (Photo-iconography of bromeliads), (1884).

His father, Franz Antoine the Elder (1768-1834), was also a gardener to Austrian royalty, with a gardener's residencethe younger Franz' birthplacein the  garden, now part of the Volksgarten, Vienna.

References

19th-century Austrian botanists
Austrian gardeners
People from Innere Stadt
1815 births
1886 deaths


Allan Roy Mackintosh, FRS (22 January 1936 – 20 December 1995) was a prominent  Danish physicist and a leading authority on magnetism and neutron scattering, especially in the rare-earth metals.

Mackintosh was known for his key role in stimulating solid-state physics research in Denmark and for his advocacy of international collaboration. Many of his former students now occupy leading academic and industrial posts in a variety of countries. As director of the Danish Atomic Energy Research Establishment from 1971 to 1976 he was a major force in Danish science policy and a prolific contributor to the public debate about nuclear power.

Mackintosh was born in 1936 in Nottingham, England and received his university education at the University of Cambridge (Bachelor of Arts as a scholar at Peterhouse in 1957, PhD in 1960). His doctoral research at Cambridge was carried out in the renowned Cavendish Laboratory under Sir Brian Pippard, where he investigated the Fermi surface of metals.

On leaving Cambridge in 1960, he became Associate Professor of Physics at Iowa State University and worked in its Ames Laboratory for seven years. This is where he established himself as a leading expert on the fundamental electrical and magnetic properties of the newly purified group of elements, the rare-earth metals.

During a 1966 sabbatical at the Riso National Laboratory in Denmark, Mackintosh discovered a technique to quantify the magnetic moments on an atomic scale using the newly constructed neutron spectrometer. His measurements of the spin waves in rare-earth metals marked a significant advance in the study of magnetism, for which he was awarded (jointly with Hans Bjerrum Møller) the prestigious Spedding Prize in 1986.

In 1970 he became Professor of Experimental Solid State Physics at the University of Copenhagen, a chair he held until his death. From 1971 to 1976 he also served as Director of the Riso National Laboratory, and from 1986 to 1989 as Director of NORDITA (the Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics), with its close connections to the Niels Bohr Institute. Mackintosh was also President of the Danish Physical Society from 1976 to 1979, and President of the European Physical Society from 1980 to 1982.

Long known for his careful yet lucid prose, Mackintosh's publication in 1991, with Jens Jensen, of Rare Earth Magnetism, was a landmark in solid state physics and the book became a classic text. In the same year he was elected Fellow of the Royal Society. In Denmark, he was made a Knight of the Dannebrog Order. He was also a Fellow of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, the , the Royal Norwegian Scientific Academy, and the American Physical Society. Uppsala University awarded him an honorary doctorate of philosophy in 1980.

Mackintosh was also noted for a widely quoted 1988 article in Scientific American where he argued for wider recognition of John Vincent Atanasoff's key role as the inventor of the first electronic digital computer (the Atanasoff–Berry Computer).

He married the Danish-born Jette Stannow, whom he met in Cambridge, in 1958. The couple had one son, Paul Erik (born 1962), and two daughters, Anne Karen (born 1959) and Ida Alys (born 1964).

He died in 1995 in Roskilde, Denmark after a car accident.

References

External links
Allan Mackintosh's work opened up a new era in the understanding of magnetism – Obituary, The Independent (UK), 1996
Magnetism in Metals: A Symposium in Memory of Allan Mackintosh – The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, 1997
"Allan Roy Mackintosh" – Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society, Vol. 43 (Nov. 1997), pp. 323–331
A. R. Mackintosh, “Dr. Atanasoff’s Computer,” Scientific American, August 1988 (Archived 2009-10-31)
Jens Jensen and Allan R. Mackintosh: Rare Earth Magnetism, 1991

Fellows of the Royal Society
Iowa State University faculty
British physicists
Danish physicists
1936 births
1995 deaths
Alumni of Peterhouse, Cambridge
Knights of the Order of the Dannebrog
Rare earth scientists
Presidents of the European Physical Society


The Peaches is a 1964 British short film, narrated by Peter Ustinov.

In 1964 the film was the British choice for the Cannes Film Festival and is a sensual, surreal fantasy about a beautiful woman and her passion for peaches. The 15-minute story, which opens with a woman splayed on a bed rubbing her face with a ripe peach.

Directed by Michael Gill and written by Yvonne Gilan, his then wife, it stars Juliet Harmer as the Very Beautiful Girl, Tom Adams as The Boy Next Door, and is narrated by Peter Ustinov.  It also features an appearance from the nine-year-old A. A. Gill, son of the director and writer.

The film charts the coming of age of this clever and beautiful girl and her fetish for fruit. In search of kindred spirits of like intellect, she goes to live in the city, but finds herself cleaning in "the Ministry". She then falls in love, and the peaches become less important as her love grows. Bizarrely she transfers her craving to pickled onions.

The film won several awards and made Michael Gill consider working in Hollywood. Instead he chose to remain at the BBC, where he later approached Sir Kenneth Clark to make the television series Civilisation.

The film was funded by the BFI’s Experimental Film Fund, established by Sir Michael Balcon.

Cast

Juliet Harmer as The Very Beautiful Girl
Tom Adams as The Boy Next Door

References

External links

1964 films
British short films
1964 short films


Xolotrema notata is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Polygyridae.

References

Polygyridae


Roman Lengyel (born 3 November 1978 in České Budějovice) is a Czech former professional footballer who played as a defender.

External links

Living people
1978 births
Sportspeople from České Budějovice
Footballers from the South Bohemian Region
Men's association football defenders
Czech men's footballers
Czech people of Hungarian descent
Czech Republic men's youth international footballers
Czech Republic men's under-21 international footballers
AC Sparta Prague players
FK Teplice players
Czech First League players
SK Dynamo České Budějovice players
FC Leon Saturn Ramenskoye players
FC Kuban Krasnodar players
FC Rostov players
Russian Premier League players
Czech expatriate men's footballers
Expatriate men's footballers in Russia
Czech expatriate sportspeople in Russia
Footballers at the 2000 Summer Olympics
Olympic footballers for the Czech Republic


GA4 may refer to:
 Georgia's 4th congressional district, a congressional district in the U.S. state of Georgia
 Georgia State Route 4, a state highway in the eastern part of the state
 U.S. Route 1 in Georgia, a US highway that is mostly concurrent in the state with SR 4
 Gibberellin A4, a form of the gibberellin plant hormone
 Google Analytics' fourth generation, released in 2020


Nantucket LORAN-C transmitter was a LORAN-C transmitter at Siasconset, Massachusetts. It was built in 1963 with a 625 ft tall mast radiator. It operated in conjunction with the LORAN-A station on Nantucket from 1963 to 1981. It was closed in 2010 when the United States discontinued the Loran system, and officially decommissioned on September 10. The tower was taken down in May 2013.

Commanders

LORAN A
Commanding Officer: Lieutenant, Junior Grade W P Clark 8/1943-44
Officer-in-Charge: Chief Electronics Technician Jack Cromwell 1957

LORAN A/C
1st Commanding Officer: "Red" Fredericks 1962-63
Commanding Officer: Lieutenant Ostrum 1963-64
Commanding Officer: Lieutenant Wesemen 1970-73
Commanding Officer: Lieutenant, Junior Grade Charles T. Winfrey 1973-76
Commanding Officer: Lieutenant Jack Ryan 1978-80
Commanding Officer: Lieutenant John W Simpson 1980-81

LORAN C
Commanding Officer: Lieutenant Brooke Winter 1981-82
Commanding Officer: Commissioned Warrant Officer Joseph Puntino 1982-84
Commanding Officer: Commissioned Warrant Officer David Fronzuto 1984-86
1st Officer-in-Charge: Chief Electronics Technician Bill Dietz 1986-87
Officer-in-Charge: Chief Electronics Technician Joe Jester 1987-90
Officer-in-Charge: Chief Electronics Technician John Dreger 2002–04
Officer-in-Charge: Chief Electronics Technician Martin Hazeltine 2004-08
Officer-in-Charge: Chief Electronics Technician Shane Hyde 2008-10

See also
List of masts
 List of military installations in Massachusetts

References

External links
Loran Station Nantucket
Excel-File with information about LORAN-C transmitters

LORAN-C transmitters in the United States
Military facilities in Massachusetts
Buildings and structures in Nantucket, Massachusetts


Haplotrema concavum, the gray-footed lancetooth, is a species of predatory air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Haplotrematidae.

Distribution
The snail is native to the humid hardwood forests of eastern North America, from Southern Canada and the Great Lakes region, south through the Midwestern U.S. including eastern Nebraska and Oklahoma, and through the Southeastern United States, including the Gulf States. It is found along the Apalachicola River in western Florida and Georgia.

Haplotrema concavum is found living in leaf litter near the base of trees, or under rotting logs.

Feeding habits
Haplotrema concavum is a carnivorous species. It is known to be a predator, for example, of Patera clarki nantahala.

Parasites
Parasites of Haplotrema concavum include:
 Parelaphostrongylus tenuis

References

External links

 Univ. of Florida: Featured Creatures website — Haplotrema concavum  — UF Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences-IFAS.

Haplotrematidae
Molluscs of North America
Fauna of the Eastern United States
Fauna of the Great Lakes region (North America)
Fauna of the Southeastern United States
Gastropods described in 1821


Haplotrema vancouverense, common name the robust lancetooth, is a species of predatory air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Haplotrematidae.

References

Haplotrematidae
Gastropods described in 1839


The Trofeo Ricardo Delgado Aray (also known as the Manta Open) is a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It is currently part of the ATP Challenger Tour. It is held annually at the Umiña Tenis Club in Manta, Ecuador, since 2004.

Past finals

Singles

Doubles

External links
Official website
ITF Search

ATP Challenger Tour
Hard court tennis tournaments
Tennis tournaments in Ecuador


Chuck Riley (born May 31, 1939) is an American politician who served as a member of the Oregon State Senate for the 15th district, which includes Hillsboro, Forest Grove, and Cornelius in western Washington County. He served three terms in the Oregon House of Representatives from 2005 to 2011.

Riley was the Democratic nominee for Senate District 15 in 2010, losing to incumbent state senator Bruce Starr. However, Riley prevailed in a rematch against Starr in 2014, winning in the tightest Oregon legislative election of the year.

Early life and education
Chuck Riley the son of Oscar Edwin Riley and Jessie May (Spangler) Riley was born in 1939 in Illinois where he grew up on his father's farm. In 1957, he graduated from Mount Vernon High School in Mount Vernon before enrolling in college. He took some classes at the University of Illinois, majoring in mathematics, before enlisting in the United States Air Force in 1958. Riley remained in the Air Force until 1961 and spent some time at the Army Language School learning Russian. He later attended Southern Illinois University as an art major and worked for the school before moving to California, where he worked at the Jet Propulsion Lab and for Santa Barbara County. After moving to Oregon, Riley enrolled at Portland State University, where he majored in art.

Career
In 1979, he moved to Oregon and settled in Washington County west of Portland. He moved to Hillsboro in 1992 and worked for First Interstate Bank as a systems analyst. Riley also worked in the same position with Blue Cross of Oregon. He later ran his own computer consulting business.

Oregon House of Representatives
In 2000, Riley enter politics and ran for a seat on the Hillsboro City Council, losing to incumbent Karen McKinney. The following year he ran for a seat in the Oregon House of Representatives as a Democrat to represent District 29, running unopposed in the primary election. In the November general election he lost to Republican Mary Gallegos by a total of 434 votes. In May 2004, Riley defeated Elena Uhing in the Democratic primary for the same district. Riley then defeated Gallegos in the November 2004 election for the same seat.

In 2006, he faced off against Terry Rilling in the district that has more Democratic voters than Republicans. Riley won with 55% of the vote to Rilling's 45% in the November election. In the 2007-08 Legislature, Riley was chairman of the Government Accountability and Information Technology Committee in the House. During the 2008 special session he also served on the Consumer Protection and the Workforce and Economic Development committees.

Riley faced Rilling again in the November 2008 election for the House seat after Republican primary winner Jeff Duyck was later declared ineligible. Duyck's property spans two districts and the county elections office miscalculated where he was registered to vote and thus which seat he was eligible to run for.

Oregon Senate
In 2009, he announced he would run for a seat in the Oregon State Senate in 2010, challenging incumbent Republican Bruce Starr in District 15. Riley lost to Starr, and in 2011 ran for a seat on the school board for Portland Community College, losing in May to Deanna Palm.

In 2014, Riley ran again for the Oregon Senate against Starr. The contest was one of the most expensive legislative races in the state and was decided by the closest vote margin, with Riley edging out Starr by just a few hundred votes. He was sworn into the Senate on January 12, 2015, and serves on the Senate Committee on Business and Transportation, the Senate Committee on Finance and Revenue, the Joint Committee on Tax Credits, and the Joint Committee on Audits. Additionally, he serves as co-chair of the Ways and Means Subcommittee on Information Technology.

In April 2015, gun rights activists filed a recall petition against Riley. The recall was initiated over Riley's support for "mandatory vaccinations, repealing the gain share tax, increasing the minimum wage, background checks for private gun sales and voting to under-fund the state education system." The recall effort was dropped when organizers could not collect sufficient signatures to place the recall question on the ballot.

On Jan 9, 2017 Riley sponsored SB115 in the Senate. The bill would have banned the sale of leaded aviation fuel in Oregon, starting in 2020.

Personal life
Riley to Katie Riley, who teaches at Oregon Health & Science University. They have four children.

References

External links
 2000 Voter’s Guide

Democratic Party members of the Oregon House of Representatives
Democratic Party Oregon state senators
Politicians from Hillsboro, Oregon
People from Illinois
University of Illinois alumni
Portland State University alumni
1939 births
Living people
Businesspeople from Oregon
Defense Language Institute alumni
21st-century American politicians