Mark Thomas Stoops (born July 9, 1967) is an American college football coach and former player. He is the head football coach at the University of Kentucky, a position he has held since the 2013 season. Stoops is the all-time winningest head coach in the history of the Kentucky Wildcats football program.

Early life
Stoops, one of six children born to Ron and Evelyn "Dee Dee" Stoops, attended Cardinal Mooney High School in Youngstown, Ohio, where his father was an assistant coach and defensive coordinator. He is the brother of former Oklahoma head coach Bob Stoops and former Arizona head coach Mike Stoops.

After graduating from high school, Stoops played college football for the Iowa Hawkeyes from 1986 to 1988.

Coaching career
Stoops was a graduate assistant coach at Iowa from 1989 to 1991. He later became the athletic director and defensive backs coach at Nordonia High School in Macedonia, Ohio (1992–1995).

In 1996, Stoops was the defensive backs coach for South Florida.

Stoops served as the defensive backs coach for the University of Wyoming Cowboys from 1997–1999.

At Wyoming, Stoops served under head coach Dana Dimel. When Dimel was hired at the University of Houston, he took Stoops with him to join the Cougars as co-defensive coordinator (along with Dick Bumpas) and safeties coach in 2000.

Miami (FL)
In February 2001, Stoops was named the defensive backs coach for the University of Miami Hurricanes, replacing Chuck Pagano, who left to go to the Cleveland Browns.

Arizona
Mark's brother, Mike, was hired as the head coach of the Arizona Wildcats for the 2004 season. Mike later hired Mark as part of his staff.

Florida State
On December 11, 2009, Stoops accepted the job as defensive coordinator at Florida State University.

Kentucky
On November 27, 2012, Stoops was hired as the new head coach of the University of Kentucky football program, replacing former head coach Joker Phillips, who was fired after a 2–10 season. In Stoops' first season as the Kentucky Head coach, he went 2–10, followed by back to back 5–7 seasons.

After an 0–2 start to the 2016 season, Stoops led the Wildcats to a 7–6 finish after that start and defeated their in-state rival, the eleventh-ranked Louisville Cardinals 41–38. Kentucky lost in the TaxSlayer Bowl to Georgia Tech 33–18.

The 2017 season featured ups and downs and the breakout of star running back Benny Snell. On October 28, Stoops led Kentucky to a 29–26 defeat of Tennessee. The victory over the Volunteers marked the first for Kentucky since 2011 and only the second time since 1984. The team finished with a  7–5 record in the regular season, losing afterwards in the Music City Bowl to Northwestern.

The 2018 season was a historic one for the Wildcats. Paced by Snell on offense and Josh Allen on defense, they snapped a 31-year losing streak to Florida, finishing 9-3–only the fourth time in school history that the Wildcats have won at least nine games. Kentucky defeated Penn State in the Citrus Bowl on January 1, 2019, giving the Wildcats their first 10-win season since 1977, and only their third in school history. Stoops was named SEC Coach of the Year, the first time a Kentucky coach had won the award since Jerry Claiborne in 1983.

The 2019 season was one of overcoming adversity. After a 2–3 start in which they lost all of their quarterbacks to injury, Kentucky turned to wide receiver Lynn Bowden Jr. to take over at quarterback. With a revamped offense focused on the running game, the Wildcats finished the regular season with a 7–5 record routing Louisville 45–13 on Senior Day. Kentucky capped the season with a thrilling win over Virginia Tech in the Belk Bowl, as the Wildcats scored the winning touchdown with 15 seconds remaining for an 8–5 finish.

The 2020 season, affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, saw Kentucky play a 10-game, All-SEC regular-season schedule. The high point was a 34–7 win at Tennessee their first win in Knoxville since 1984. Despite a 4–6 record, Kentucky was still invited to a bowl game, specifically the 2021 Gator Bowl against No. 24 NC State. Stoops led Kentucky to victory in the Gator Bowl 23–21, making it three straight bowl victories for the team.

The 2021 season was marked by key transfer arrivals for both sides of the ball: quarterback Will Levis and wide receiver Wan'Dale Robinson on offense and linebacker Jacquez Jones on defense. The aforementioned players' impact was significant; the offense scored 33.3 points per game while the defense allowed 22.1 points per game. The improved play from both offense and defense led to a 9–3 regular-season record, including a 20–13 home win against Florida. Stoops lead Kentucky to a 20–17 victory over Iowa in the 2022 Citrus Bowl, giving the team its second 10–3 record since 2018, second Citrus Bowl victory in four years and fourth straight bowl victory.  The fourth consecutive bowl victory for Kentucky marked the longest streak in school history.

The 2022 season marked Stoops' 10th season as head coach, becoming the football program's longest-tenured head coach in its history. Kentucky's Week 1 37–13 victory over Miami (OH) gave Stoops his 60th victory as head coach, tying Bear Bryant for the most in program history. He became Kentucky's all-time winningest football coach after beating the Florida Gators on the road 26–16 in Week 2. Kentucky struggled through the season, finishing with a 7–5 record. Kentucky was invited to the Music City Bowl, playing against Iowa for the second consecutive year. With starting quarterback Levis sitting out of the bowl game, Kentucky were shut out by Iowa 21–0. The shutout loss ended Kentucky's streak of bowl victories at four.

Stoops signed a contract extension on November 18, 2022, that will keep him in Lexington through the 2030 season. He is 66–59 in 10 seasons leading the Wildcats.

Personal life
Stoops is the younger brother of former Oklahoma head coach Bob Stoops, former Arizona head coach and current Kentucky assistant Mike Stoops, and Ron, Jr., the oldest of the brothers, who was an assistant coach at Youngstown State. Stoops and his wife Chantel have two sons, Will and Zach. On January 4, 2021, the couple announced that they will be divorcing.

Head coaching record

References

External links
Coaching statistics at Sports-Reference.com
 Kentucky Wildcats bio

1967 births
Living people
American football defensive backs
Arizona Wildcats football coaches
Florida State Seminoles football coaches
Houston Cougars football coaches
Iowa Hawkeyes football coaches
Iowa Hawkeyes football players
Kentucky Wildcats football coaches
Miami Hurricanes football coaches
South Florida Bulls football coaches
Wyoming Cowboys football coaches
High school football coaches in Ohio
Coaches of American football from Ohio
Players of American football from Youngstown, Ohio


Philip Zialor (born September 6, 1976) is a Seychellois footballer. He was a striker on the Seychelles national football team.

Zialor holds national records for most goals in a career (with 14) and most in a single game, netting four against Mauritius in the 2008 COSAFA Cup. He also scored two of his team's four goals in the 2010 World Cup qualifying matches.

International goals

Scores and results list Seychelles' goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Seychelles goal.

References

External links

1976 births
Living people
Seychellois men's footballers
Seychelles men's international footballers

Men's association football forwards


Finland–Poland relations refer to bilateral relations of Finland and Poland. Both countries are members of the European Union, NATO, OECD, OSCE, Council of the Baltic Sea States, HELCOM, Council of Europe and the World Trade Organization. Both countries established diplomatic relations on 8 March 1919.

History
Poland and Finland were once united by a personal union under the Polish–Swedish union during the reign of King Sigismund III Vasa.

In 1922, Poland and Finland were among signatories of the Warsaw Accord, which however did not enter into force, as Finland did not ratify it under pressure of Germany, which was hostile to Poland. Instead, in 1925, Poland and Finland together with Estonia and Latvia signed a convention on conciliation and arbitration in Helsinki.

In 1937–1938, both ethnic Poles and Finns in the Soviet Union were subjected to genocidal campaigns carried out by the NKVD, known as the Polish Operation and the Finnish Operation respectively.
In 1939, both countries were victims of the German-Soviet Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, according to which they were to be divided into "spheres of influence" between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union. After the subsequent German-Soviet invasion of Poland at the start of World War II, Polish diplomats and consuls with families (apart from those arrested by the Soviets) were evacuated from the Soviet Union to Finland in October 1939. Later on, in November 1939, Finland became the second country to be invaded by the Soviet Union during World War II. As a result of World War II, both Finland and Poland lost their eastern territories to the Soviet Union.

Modern relations

Finland and Poland co-hosted the 2021 Men's European Volleyball Championship and 2025 Men's European Basketball Championship

In 2022, Finnish and Polish gas markets were connected, following the commissioning of the Balticconnector and GIPL interconnections, also providing Finland with a connection to the EU gas market. The Rail Baltica and Via Baltica, modern rail and road links of vital importance, connecting Finland with Poland and Central Europe, remain under construction (as of 2022).

Economic relations

The value of two-way trade between Poland and Finland in 2015 totaled EUR 2.8 billion.

Agreements
The two countries have two agreements regarding environmental protection signed in 1990.

European Union
Finland joined the EU in 1995. Poland joined the EU in 2004.

NATO
While Poland became a member of NATO in 1999, Poland supported Finland's NATO membership during Finland's accession into NATO, which was finalized on 4 April 2023.

Resident diplomatic missions
 Finland has an embassy in Warsaw.
 Poland has an embassy in Helsinki.

Honorary consulates
There are honorary consulates of Finland in Białystok, Gdynia, Kielce, Kraków, Poznań, Szczecin, Toruń and Wrocław, and honorary consulates of Poland in Espoo, Jyväskylä, Kuopio, Tampere and Turku.

See also
 Foreign relations of Finland
 Foreign relations of Poland
 Poles in Finland
 Finns in Poland

References

External links
 Finnish Ministry of Foreign Affairs about the relation with Poland
 Polish embassy in Helsinki (in Finnish and Polish only)

Poland
Bilateral relations of Poland


Chicago International Produce Market (or CIPM) is a wholesale produce market in Chicago, Illinois. It is the largest facility of its kind in the midwestern United States.

Location
The market is located on the near southwest side of Chicago, just north of the South Branch of the Chicago River, between Chicago's Pilsen and McKinley Park neighborhoods. It consists of a single building on a  site. There are two entrances: one from the west on Damen Avenue, and one from the north near Blue Island Avenue. Traffic moves counterclockwise around the main building. The western side of the building is used for receiving, while the eastern side is used for loading.

CIPM is a focal point of food wholesale in Chicago, and several other food wholesalers are located within a mile radius.

History
CIPM was built as the successor to South Water Market, which was located roughly  northeast of the present site. By the late 20th century, South Water Market had unacceptable congestion and inadequate space. On 10 July 2003, the Chicago Planning Commission granted its approval for the new site.  It is being developed by CenterPoint Properties.  It was designed by Cornerstone Architects Ltd., Itasca, Illinois.

Similar Markets
 Hunts Point Cooperative Market

External links
 http://www.chicagoproducemarket.com/index.html

Food markets in the United States
Companies based in Chicago


Henry Brown Fuller (1867-1934) was an American painter of classical and allegorical works.

Life and work
Fuller was the son of painter George Fuller. He married fellow artist Lucia Fairchild in 1893 and had two children, Charles and Clara.  From 1897 onward, he and his family were members of the Cornish Art Colony in Plainfield, New Hampshire.  Two of his most famous paintings were done there:
Illusions (1910), National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution
The Triumph of Truth Over Error (1907), Principia College, Elsah, Illinois

He was a student of Dennis Miller Bunker at the Cowles Art School in Boston and of William Merritt Chase and Henry Siddons Mowbray at the Art Students League of New York.Fuller suffered from bouts of severe depression, which contributed to the breakup of his marriage in 1905.  In 1906, he was elected into the National Academy of Design as an Associate Academician. He left the Cornish Art Colony to live with his mother in Deerfield, Massachusetts, and died in 1934 in New Orleans.

References

Biography for Henry Fuller
Henry Brown Fuller, Illusions

External links
 The Papers of the Fairchild-Fuller Family at Dartmouth College Library

1867 births
1934 deaths
19th-century American painters
American male painters
20th-century American painters
Art Students League of New York alumni
19th-century American male artists
20th-century American male artists


Mazotos (, ) is a village 22 km away from Larnaca in Cyprus, close to the sea.

The community today numbers about 1,200 predominantly Greek speaking Cypriots but with about 350 expatriates who are here on a permanent basis as retirees. In addition the village can accommodate a further 2,500 in 'holiday homes'.

References

Communities in Larnaca District

http://www.camel-park.com/ In Mazotos there is a famous park with camels.  Please check the link.


Antipyrine and benzocaine ear drops is a medication for the treatment of ear pain caused by otitis media. It combines antipyrine, an NSAID, and benzocaine, a local anaesthetic in order to treat ear pain, alongside hydroxyquinoline sulfate, an antiseptic and preservative. Its trade names include Auralgan, Aurodex, Auroto, among others, and is abbreviated as A/B otic drops.

Medical uses
A/B otic drops is indicated for ear pain caused by otitis media. It is used every 2–3 hours as needed for pain.

A/B otic drops is also indicated for the removal of excessive or impacted cerumen. To clear cerumen, it is used 3 times a day for 2–3 days.

Ingredients

Each 1 ml of A/B otic drops contains:

 Antipyrine 54 mg
 Benzocaine 14 mg
 Glycerin and Hydroxyquinoline Sulfate USP

Clinical pharmacology

A/B otic drops are effective because antipyrine reduces pain and inflammation and benzocaine numbs the ear.

Reformulation
In 2008, Auralgan was reformulated to include acetic acid and U-polycosanol 410, in addition to antipyrine and benzocaine. Due to this reformulation, pharmacies could no longer substitute the generic antipyrine/benzocaine drops for a prescription written as "Auralgan". The price for the new formulation was roughly $150.00 compared to the generic price of $2.00.

United States ban on manufacture
In 2015, in accordance with their initiative to remove unapproved prescription drugs from the market, the FDA mandated that companies stop manufacturing this drug or be subject to criminal charges. The FDA has not evaluated this drug for safety, effectiveness or quality and has concerns about inappropriate dosing and risk of contamination during the manufacturing process. The FDA adverse event reporting database does not have any known cases of adverse events where Auralgan is the primary suspect.

References

Combination drugs
Withdrawn drugs


Rainhill High School is a coeducational secondary school and sixth form located in Rainhill, Merseyside, England.

The school is the official Liverpool F.C. Academy Education Centre in Merseyside for under-18 players to be educated. Notable former pupils from the academy include Raheem Sterling and Trent Alexander-Arnold, as well as Jordon Ibe, Jordan Rossiter, Lloyd Jones and Jerome Sinclair, the youngest player in Liverpool's history. The school has recently partnered with FA FE to strengthen post-16 education for the players. FE FA is owned and run by Robbie Fowler, former Liverpool and England footballer.

History
On 28 and 30 March 2017 the NASUWT teachers union began 14 days of discontinuous strike action. NASUWT representatives said the strike action was due to "unacceptable management practices by the employer toward teachers taking part in an ongoing national dispute over excessive workload".  They added that management had "failed to attend meetings" to discuss the "intimidation being experienced by staff taking part in action short of strike action at the school".

The school converted to an academy under Rainhill Learning Village in March 2017. More recently, the school has become part of the Stephenson Trust. It is the lead school in this academy trust. It is an oversubscribed high school. Every year the school received in excess of 600 applications for entry into Year 7. The school has responded to its significant popularity by increasing its pupil admission number, from September 2017, from 240 entry into Year 7 to 300. By September 2021, there will be 1,500 11–16 year olds plus the Sixth Form students on the site.

In March 2020, the school was placed on lockdown after a pupil was stabbed.

In addition to Liverpool FC, it has formal partnerships with Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts, Liverpool John Moores University and University of Leeds.

There is a strong academic curriculum that reflects the high number of high performing students at the school. Students can choose from over 20 GCSEs. There are different pathways at GCSE, and also at Key Stage 3 to reflect the needs of different students. Visual and Performing Arts, as well as PE are particular strengths of the school. This is reflected in excellent exam results as well as the array of curricular enrichment activities.

References

External links
 Rainhill High School website

Secondary schools in St Helens, Merseyside
School buildings completed in 1987
Academies in St Helens, Merseyside
1987 establishments in England


girocard is an interbank network and debit card service connecting virtually all German ATMs and banks. It is based on standards and agreements developed by the German Banking Industry Committee.

German girocards are usually co-branded with Mastercard's Maestro/Cirrus or Visa's V Pay logo, allowing cardholders to use them in other European countries. As another co-badging option, combined girocard/JCB cards were introduced in 2016. The German Savings Banks Association has announced that upcoming Sparkassen-Cards will also function as full Debit Mastercard or Visa Debit cards in addition to girocards and will have a 16-digit Mastercard/Visa number to pay online. Some banks are phasing out girocards. DKB, for instance, has announced that instead of a girocard and a Visa credit card, it will soon be issuing its customers a single Visa Debit card.

History
Originally, German banks formed an interbank network connecting virtually all German ATMs. The network used Eurocheque guarantee cards as ATM cards and did not have a name or trademark of its own. In 1991, the electronic cash debit card service was introduced using the same cards, replacing the Geldkarte ATM and POS scheme in the territory of former-East Germany. The cards used for all three payment methods were simply known as Eurocheque card (German Eurocheque-Karte).

When the Eurocheque system was disbanded at the end of 2001, the cards could no longer use the Eurocheque brand. However, German banks continued to use the EC logo, which was simply re-interpreted as "electronic cash" and the cards were colloquially known as an EC card (German EC-Karte). However, the ATM network still did not have a trade name and was generically called "Deutsches Geldautomaten-System" (German ATM System).

In 2007, the German Banking Industry Committee introduced "girocard" as a common name for electronic cash and the German ATM network. girocard purports to be SEPA-compliant, even though cards are only issued and accepted within Germany.

Services

POS
The girocard network is used for point-of-sale payments within Germany. Two principal processing methods can be used: chip-and-pin guaranteed girocard payment and chip-and-signature non-guaranteed Electronic Direct Debit (ELV, Elektronisches Lastschriftverfahren).

About 770,000 places in Germany accepted girocard payments in summer 2016 (approximately one location per 106 inhabitants). The slow pace of the expansion of the girocard acceptance network has attracted criticism from authors who have pointed out that in the UK, the once-dominant Switch/Maestro debit cards were accepted at 571,268 locations in 2001 (one location per 103 inhabitants) and at over 900,000 places in 2005 – "from high street shops to pubs, opticians, websites, cinemas – even local councils".

A common misconception is that girocard can be used for card-not-present payments. girocards are generally not equipped for e-commerce and any attempt to use the internal 19-digit card number, starting with 672 or 482, through Maestro or V Pay will fail. SEPA Direct Debit transactions are occasionally mislabeled as EC or girocard e-commerce transactions.

ATM network
The German ATM network connects virtually all German ATMs. However, German banks charge high out-of-network ATM usage fees (up to €10) from customers using girocards from unaffiliated banks. (As surcharges for cash withdrawals within the Visa or Mastercard networks are rather uncommon, certain specialty banks, mostly online banks and ethnic banks, have started to issue Visa Debit and Debit Mastercard cards to their German customers for free cash withdrawals.)

There are several cooperations reducing or waiving these fees:
 EUFISERV is a European compact which includes the Sparkasse saving banks in Germany to waive the fees for customers of other local branches.
 Bankcard-Servicenetz is a cooperation of most co-operative banks to waive or reduce the fees for other co-operative banks.
 Cash Group is a cooperation of major private banks, which mutually waive the fees.
 CashPool is a cooperation of smaller private banks (including many virtual banks), which mutually waive the fees.

Some banks participate in more than one cooperation and therefore offer free cash withdrawals at more than 85% of all German ATMs. In addition, some large chain stores such as REWE, PENNY Markt, toom Baumarkt and Netto Marken-Discount offer cashback at the till. This service is free of charge but requires a minimum purchase amount of €20. Cashback is limited to €200 per day.

Mobile Payment and Digital Wallet
Sparkassen and Volksbanken und Raiffeisenbanken are the only German banks to offer the girocard for the digital wallet, namely Apple Pay. Currently, Sparkassen-Cards in Apple Pay only function as girocards not as Mastercard or Maestro cards. Apple, Inc. has been in lengthy negotiations with the girocard committee to allow girocards to be added to the Apple Pay from the additional German banks. The negotiations have been unsuccessful when girocard committee rejected the fee terms set by Apple, Inc. girocards cannot yet be used in Google Pay or Samsung Pay (as of November 2021).

See also
Single Euro Payments Area
Debit card
Laser (debit card)

References

External links

Banking in Germany
Debit card issuer associations
Debit cards
Interbank networks
1991 establishments in Germany
Products introduced in 1991


Court Manor (built as Mooreland Hall) is an early Greek Revival plantation house and estate in Rockingham County, Virginia, located  south of the town of New Market. With its stately manor house and prime location in the heart of the Shenandoah Valley, Court Manor has long been regarded as "one of the finest estates in the Valley of Virginia." The estate is situated on U.S. Route 11, which follows the route of the historic Great Wagon Road, a colonial thoroughfare connecting Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to Savannah, Georgia. The estate's landholdings include some  of land, extending from the base of the Massanutten Mountain Ridge to about one-half mile () west of U.S. Route 11. The manor house (circa 1800), with its impressive Greek Revival portico, can be easily seen from the tree-lined stretch of U.S. Route 11 that passes through the heart of the estate.

Early Estate History

Colonial Period
Sometime prior to the final surveying of the Fairfax Line in 1746, Thomas Fairfax, 6th Lord Fairfax of Cameron, granted a tract of land on the Great Wagon Road near Smith Creek to a Samuel Newman, who in turn sold the land in 1754 to Thomas Moore, Sr., (1727–1797). The first permanent dwelling to be built on the estate was the house of Thomas Moore, Sr., which was located on a knoll overlooking Smith Creek. Seeking to expand the size of his landholdings, Moore petitioned the Crown for a land grant of some , which was granted by King George III eleven years later in 1765. For the next century and a half, the estate was to remain in the hands of Moore family.

American Revolution and later 18th century
In the years leading up to the American Revolution, Moore and his sons continued to expand and improve the estate. Moore's oldest son and future heir, Captain Reuben Moore, Sr., left the estate at the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War to serve as an officer in the Rockingham militia under Colonel Benjamin Harrison. By the war's end in 1784, some 17 members of the Moore family were residing on the estate, both in the original house built by Thomas Moore, Sr., and in a second house built by his third son, Thomas Moore, Jr.

After the war, Captain Moore returned to the plantation and was elected a Commissioner of Rockingham County in 1789. It was Captain Moore who selected a wide, gently rolling tract of land near the Great Wagon Road on which to build a small log house for his family. A quarter-century later, Captain Moore's son, Reuben Moore, Jr., would build Court Manor on the very spot where his father's log cabin once stood.

Design and construction
Reuben Moore, Jr., likely began construction of Court Manor (then known as Mooreland Hall) during the last years of the eighteenth century, following his grandfather's death in 1797. Mooreland Hall would have been a rather conventional exercise in the late colonial style if it were not for the incorporation of the impressive Greek Revival portico into the design. Supported by four massive columns of the Doric order and surmounted by a simple triangular pediment decorated with a single semi-circular window, the scale of the portico dominates the main facade of the house. The large, two-level structure was constructed using bricks fired on site by the plantation's slaves. The house contained twelve spacious rooms, each with a fireplace and with large windows, affording panoramic views of the rolling countryside with the Massanutten Mountain Ridge rising in the distance.

The grandeur of the mansion and its handsomely landscaped grounds served to match the impressive scale of the estate, which at 1,700 acres was unusually large by Valley standards. The wide, spacious lawn, dotted with large trees, slopes gently towards a spring-fed brook that arises on the grounds of the estate less than a mile away and meanders gently towards Smith Creek, which also runs through the estate. Smith Creek was used to power the plantation's mill, which produced flour and other products that were transported up and down the Great Wagon Road. The estate remained in the Moore family until 1879, when Oscar Fitz Allen Moore, grandson of Reuben Moore, Jr., sold the estate to William C. & George H. Harrison.

Twentieth Century
While the house was originally known as Mooreland Hall, by the early 20th century the estate came to be known as Court Manor. Over the years the original structure was expanded with various additions including a large enclosed sun porch on the southwest side of the building and an extended suite of guest rooms on the north side of the house. However, after its 1987 restoration, the front, central portion of the manor house appears today as it did when it was constructed around 1800.

In 1925, Court Manor was purchased by Willis Sharpe Kilmer, a New York entrepreneur, newspaperman, and horse breeder best known for marketing his uncle's popular medicinal tonic "Dr. Kilmer's cure-all remedy Swamp Root". The period of Kilmer's ownership of the estate saw dramatic development of the property, establishing it as one of the country's most preeminent horse studs. Exterminator, the winner of the 1918 Kentucky Derby, resided on the estate after his racing career, and Reigh Count, the winner of the 1928 Kentucky Derby, was bred and born on the estate. After Kilmer had acquired Court Manor in 1923, he had some 10,000 silver maple trees planted along the roads of the estate in memory of those lost in World War I. Today these trees are still extant and can be seen lining both sides of U.S. Route 11 as it passes through the estate.

Following Kilmer's death, Court Manor fell into a state of disrepair and slow deterioration. During the back-to-the-land movement of the 1960s and 1970s, the estate was home to a commune, and by the early 1980s, the estate's landholdings had dwindled to some , the manor house was virtually uninhabitable, and the entire estate was in a state of ruin.

In 1985, Court Manor was acquired by North Carolina textile magnate Nicholas Wehrmann, Sr., who initiated a wide-scale renovation of the manor house and estate grounds. The original section of the house and its Greek Revival portico were intact enough to be preserved in whole, but the later additions, which used inferior construction methods, had sustained far too much structural damage to be salvaged. The renovation restored the structure to its original condition and added two additional wings to the house. Also during this period the grounds of the estate were revitalized for agricultural purposes. Pastures underwent extensive renovation, historical barns were preserved, and new construction of barns, corrals, feeding systems, and miles of high tensile fence was completed. Since 1985, acquisitions by Wehrmann have restored nearly  of land to the estate, bringing the total landholdings to some . The estate was home to Wehrmann's herd of purebred Aberdeen Angus cattle, operated by the firm Wehrmann Angus. Nicholas Wehrman, Sr. died on March 24, 2010, and the estate was sold. Court Manor is now a luxury wedding and event site.

References

Houses in Rockingham County, Virginia
Greek Revival houses in Virginia
Houses completed in 1800
Plantations in Virginia
Plantation houses in Virginia
https://courtmanorvenue.com/


William Sheffield was an American attorney and judge in the state of California. He was a general legal counsel for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) in the Asia Area of the church and was closely connected with the sending of Mormon missionaries to India by the church in the late-20th century. Sheffield has also served as a judge in the Superior Courts of California, Orange County.

Sheffield earned his undergraduate degree from California State University, Long Beach.  and then attended law school at the University of California, Berkeley.

From 1983 to 1985 Sheffield was a judge on the Superior Court of California, sitting in Orange County.  He also served as a member of Indira Gandhi's defense team in the late 1970s (see below).  In 1985, Sheffield resigned his judgeship and went to Yale Divinity School.  At the time Sheffield began attending services of the Methodist Church.  His wife was a Latter-day Saint.

Sheffield's investigations of Mormonism while at Yale lead him to enroll at Brigham Young University (BYU), which had created a graduate program in theology for his study. He did much of his work at BYU under Joseph Fielding McConkie and eventually joined the LDS Church, whereupon he returned to Yale where he completed his divinity degree.

In 1988 William Sheffield defended Morris Albert Kaiserman in a plagiarism lawsuit over his hit song "Feelings". [ Gaste v. Morris Kaiserman 863 F.2d 1061 (2d Cir. 1988) ]  Gaste received approximately 1/2 million dollars US for the plagiarism lawsuit over Gaste's obscure song in the 1957 French movie soundtrack of "Le feu aux poudres", https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050390/.  The lackluster revenue of this soundtrack earned less than $15,000 in worldwide royalties https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000GAL3DW/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_image_o03_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1.  This is a partial and simplified soundtrack of  “Pour Toi” https://cpb-us-w2.wpmucdn.com/blogs.law.gwu.edu/dist/a/4/files/2018/12/feelings-1711njr.mp3  In listening to the soundtrack it is clear that Morris Kaiserman used “Pour Toi” verbatum to produce much-loved "Feelings".  William Sheffield didn't prevail in his defense of Morris Albert.  Incidental to the lawsuit, Bill purchased the remaining rights to "Feelings".  This song is now an elevator music song, and when you're on hold, you can still hear this extremely popular song.  Gaste's lawyers failed to protect future ASCAP royalties and these royalties are substantial, unlike the success of Gaste's "Pour Toi".  Visit https://blogs.law.gwu.edu/mcir/case/gaste-v-morris-kaiserman/ to hear more of this saga.  While Morris took the basic melody and improved it with instrumental flourishes, it is still an example of extreme plagiarism.

In other lawsuits, Bill defended a hippopotamus that escaped from an animal safari attraction [now an outdoor amphitheater] in Irvine California.  Bill also sued the Pope over the death of a St. Bernard canine purchased from a catholic monastery in Switzerland.  It is unclear of the success of these lawsuits since the Pope and the hippopotamus are not talking.  In addition to animal rights [long before its current popularity], Bill Sheffield was a successful criminal defense attorney in Orange county CA, up until his elevation to Superior Court judge in 1983.

After completing his divinity degree from Yale, he worked as the LDS Church's legal counsel in Asia where he used his connections with Rajiv Gandhi to get LDS Church missionaries allowed into that country.

Sheffield had a major role in the development of Dr. ADSN Prasad's humanitarian Pathway Centers for Mentally and Physically Disabled Children in Chennai, India. He met Dr. Prasad in 1988 then spent decades helping Pathway develop funding and vision to grow to serve tens of thousands of the needy in India. This included establishing the US-based 501(c)(3) organization Pathway Centre for Mentally and Physically Handicapped Children.

Upon completion of his assignment for the Church in 1990, Sheffield returned to Southern California where he has been an active mediator/arbitrator, having conducted over 5000 mediations and arbitrations, now exclusively with Judicate West. Sheffield has been named among the top twenty neutrals in California by the Daily Journal. He has also been named among the top lawyers in America.

Since his retirement, Sheffield has been hired by the Los Angeles Unified School District to investigate complaints of retaliatory suspensions of students for actions by their parents in a San Fernando Valley Middle School.

Sheffield wrote the article "Voices from the Dust" in the Encyclopedia of Mormonism.

Notes

References
J. Reuben Clark Law Society, Orange County Chapter Newsletter
mention of recent activity by Judge Sheffield
Gordon B. Hinckley, "The Question of a Mission", Ensign, May 1986, p. 40.
Jan Pinborough, "Sowing Seeds, Sharing Blessings", Ensign, October 2004, p. 54
article that incorrectly state's Sheffield was a supreme court justice
website of Pathway, the organization connected with the orphanage in India Sheffield has helped

External links
Judicate west listing

Living people
California State University, Long Beach alumni
Yale Divinity School alumni
Brigham Young University alumni
Converts to Mormonism from Methodism
University of California, Berkeley alumni
American Latter Day Saints
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Asia
California state court judges
Year of birth missing (living people)


Philip Pusey (25 June 1799 – 9 July 1855) was a reforming agriculturalist, a Tory Member of Parliament (MP) and a friend and follower of Sir Robert Peel.

Life
Pusey stood for election in Rye at a by-election in 1830 and was originally declared elected, but following an election petition he was unseated by an order of the House of Commons on 17 May 1830.

He did not contest Rye at the 1830 general election, when he was elected as a Member for Chippenham. He did not contest Chippenham at the 1831 election, and stood instead in Rye.  After riots in the town hall, Pusey agreed to withdraw from the election in return for a guarantee from General De Lacy Evans to protect the peace of the town; Evans won the seat.

Pusey was then returned at an uncontested by-election in July 1831 for the borough of Cashel in Ireland, and held that seat until the 1832 general election, when he stood unsuccessfully in Berkshire. He was elected without a contest for Berkshire at the 1835 general election, and held the seat until he retired from the House of Commons at the 1852 general election.

He was appointed as a Deputy Lieutenant of Berkshire in January 1831, and was nominated as High Sheriff of Berkshire in November 1833 and again in November 1834.

Succeeding to the Manor of Pusey in Berkshire in 1828, he built a reputation as a progressive and practical farmer.  Disraeli called him "one of the most distinguished country gentlemen who ever sat in the House of Commons". His most notable contribution to farming was the development of a system of using lush water-meadows to support large flocks of ewes and early-maturing lambs. He was an early advocate of the use of earthenware drainpipes for field drainage.

He was one of the founders of the Royal Agricultural Society, and was chairman of the agricultural implement section of the Great Exhibition of 1851. He was a fellow of the Royal Society, a writer on varied topics in the Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society and the translator of the hymn Lord of our Life and God of our Salvation.

Family
The eldest son of Philip Bouverie-Pusey, Pusey was the elder brother of the churchman Edward Bouverie Pusey.  He married Lady Emily Herbert, daughter of Henry Herbert, 2nd Earl of Carnarvon, in 1822.

References

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Tory members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom
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James Stephen may refer to:
James Stephen (architect) (1858–1938), American architect
James Stephen (British politician) (1758–1832), British abolitionist lawyer and Member of Parliament
Sir James Stephen (civil servant) (1789–1859), British under-secretary for the colonies, 1836–1847, son of the British politician
Sir James Fitzjames Stephen (1829–1894), British judge and anti-libertarian writer, son of the civil servant
James Stephen (Australian politician) (1822–1881), member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly, Attorney-General of Victoria and Supreme Court judge
James Kenneth Stephen (1859–1892), English poet, son of James Fitzjames Stephen
James Lynch fitz Stephen, mayor of Galway, 1493–1494
Jimmy Stephen (1922–2012), footballer

See also
James Stephens (disambiguation)


Arden railway station was a station on the Slamannan Railway. The line connected mines and villages in the Central Scotland.

Opened by the Slamannan Railway, then joining the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway, was absorbed into the North British Railway. It became part of the London and North Eastern Railway during the Grouping of 1923. The station was then closed by that company.

The site today

The site has been obliterated by open cast mining.

References

Sources

 Station on navigable O.S. map at centre near coal pit

External links
 RAILSCOT on the Slamannan Railway

Disused railway stations in Falkirk (council area)
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1840
Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1930
1840 establishments in Scotland
1930 disestablishments in Scotland
Former North British Railway stations


Deft may refer to:
Deft (gamer) (born 1996), League of Legends player
USS Deft (AM-216), an Admirable-class minesweeper
Deft (company)

Distinguish from
Delft


Layeni may refer to:

the former name of Triantafyllia, Florina, a village in the Florina regional unit, northern Greece
Layoni, Indonesia, a village in the Maluku Islands of Indonesia
a Yoruba surname from Nigeria
 Stefano Layeni, a football (soccer) player, play for Calcio Prato

Yoruba-language surnames


Melvin Platje (; born 16 December 1988) is a Dutch professional footballer who plays as a forward for Tweede Divisie club AFC.

Career

Early career
Before joining FC Volendam, Platje played in the youth departments of FC Omniworld and SV Huizen. He later moved to the FC Volendam youth system, and Platje joined the professional ranks at the club in the summer of 2007. Platje made his first team debut on 24 August 2007, when he came on as a 68th-minute substitute for Jack Tuyp in an Eerste Divisie match against FC Zwolle. In the 2008–09 Eredivisie season, Platje became known as a super sub for coming on as a substitute and scoring many vital goals in the minutes he played.  In his last season with Volendam in the Eerste Divisie, Platje recorded 4 appearances and netted 5 goals. During the 2011 summer transfer window, Platje was transferred from Volendam to NEC on a free transfer. He made his debut for the club on 6 August 2011, starting in their draw 2–2 draw with Heerenveen.
In his second game for the club, Platje scored a nine-minute second-half brace against Excelsior to give his club a 2–0 win.  The win moved NEC up to fifth spot in the Eredivisie league table.

Neftchi Baku
In July 2013, Platje signed a lucrative one-year contract with Neftchi Baku in the Azerbaijan Premier League, but after failing to make an impact in Azerbaijan, Platje moved to Kalmar on loan for the remainder of his contract.

VVV Venlo
On 3 September, Platje signed a deal with Dutch Eerste Divisie side VVV-Venlo.

Lommel United
On 14 February 2017 he joined Belgian Second division club Lommel United till the end of the season.

Bali United
On 29 June 2018, he joined Indonesian Liga 1 club, Bali United. Platje made his Bali United debut on 11 July 2018 in a Liga 1 match against PSM Makassar in a 2–0 home win. He scored his first league goal on 17 July 2018. It was the first goal in a 0–2 victory against Persija Jakarta in the Liga 1. Platje was chosen as the 2019 Liga 1 best player in September. One of the roles of this special appearance was arguably done by Platje. he was able to get involved in three of the six goals scored by the players of Bali United this September. He scored two goals and one assist for Tridatu Warriors. On 13 August, he scored his first international brace in a temporary score 0–2 over Singapore Premier League club Tampines Rovers, after in the 43rd minute  Tampines's player Boris Kopitovic made his goal. Until the first half is over, score 1–2. Until the match is over. Bali United won 3–5 over Tampines Rovers through extra time and qualify for the preliminary round 2 in the 2020 AFC Champions League and will face Melbourne Victory on 21 January 2020.

Career statistics

Notes
1Includes other competitive competitions, including the Azerbaijan Supercup

Honours

Club
FC Volendam
 Eerste Divisie: 2007–08
Hansa Rostock
 Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Cup: 2015–16
Bali United
 Liga 1: 2019

References

External links
Melvin Platje at VI.nl

 Melvin Platje Interview (1)
 Melvin Platje Interview (2)

1988 births
Living people
Dutch men's footballers
Dutch expatriate men's footballers
FC Volendam players
NEC Nijmegen players
VVV-Venlo players
SC Telstar players
De Graafschap players
Amsterdamsche FC players
Eredivisie players
Eerste Divisie players
Sportspeople from Naarden
Ligue 2 players
Stade Brestois 29 players
3. Liga players
FC Hansa Rostock players
Lommel S.K. players
Challenger Pro League players
Men's association football forwards
Neftçi PFK players
Azerbaijan Premier League players
Bhayangkara Presisi Indonesia F.C. players
Bali United F.C. players
Liga 1 (Indonesia) players
Kalmar FF players
Allsvenskan players
Expatriate men's footballers in France
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Expatriate men's footballers in Belgium
Expatriate men's footballers in Sweden
Expatriate men's footballers in Indonesia
Expatriate men's footballers in Germany
SDO Bussum players
Footballers from North Holland
Dutch expatriate sportspeople in Germany
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Dutch expatriate sportspeople in Indonesia
Dutch expatriate sportspeople in Sweden
Dutch expatriate sportspeople in Azerbaijan
Dutch expatriate sportspeople in Belarus


A Different Me is the third studio album by American singer Keyshia Cole. It was released by Geffen Records in association with Imani Entertainment and Interscope Records on December 16, 2008 in the United States. Cole reteamed with producers Toxic, Ron Fair and The Runners to work on A Different Me, but also worked with a variety of additional collaborators on new material, including Polow da Don, The Outsyders, Kwamé, Carvin & Ivan, Tank, Theron Feemster, and Poke & Tone. Guest appearances include Amina, Nas, Monica and 2Pac.

The album received generally positive reviews from critics who complimented it for its free-spirited and adventurous nature. A Different Me debuted and peaked at number two on the US Billboard 200, selling 322,000 copies in its first week of release. It was eventually certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and became the third highest-selling R&B/Hip-Hop album of 2009. A Different Me spawned the singles "Playa Cardz Right", "You Complete Me", and "Trust," all of which entered the top ten of the US Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs.

Conception
A Different Me focuses less on heartache and more on maturity of her vocals and lyrics. Cole explained that, "The first two albums were more…painful. It's a different me this time: a young woman who's still growing and finding myself, exploring life through different routes musically and in other areas. I wrote more about other people's situations than my own. I'm moving forward." On the songwriting process, Cole stated, "When I hear something, I hear it—it doesn't take me three, four, five times to hear a song and say, 'OK, let's write.' If I don't write to it right off the bat, it's not working." All the songs on the album were written or co-written by Cole. Guest appearances include Amina, Nas, Monica and 2Pac. Along with the album, Cole was developing a movie based on her life. A screenwriter has develop the script with Cole in 2009.

Release and promotion
Before the album was released, BET released the third and final season of her reality show, Keyshia Cole: The Way It Is which showed her in the process of finishing the album and writing a movie. Guests during the season include Ron Fair, Polow Da Don, Monica, and Shirley Murdock. Cole also embarked on the I Am Music Tour in late 2008 and A Different Me Tour in the summer of 2009. She was featured in magazines Billboard, WordUp and VIBE  from winter of 2008 to spring of 2009.

The album was released on December 16, 2008. Earlier that week, Cole made an appearance on BET's 106 and Park being interviewed and introducing the video to lead single  "Playa Cardz Right" featuring Tupac Shakur. The song was released on October 21, 2008 and originally appeared on Tupac's album Pac's Life, but was rearranged by Cole and producers Ron Fair and Carvin & Ivan. It peaked at number nine on Billboards US Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs.  Second single "You Complete Me"  featured on Cole's Myspace page in December and officially released on January 20, 2009. It peaked at number seven on the US Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs.

Third single "Trust" was originally recorded as a solo by Cole and released as an iTunes bonus track to her previous project, Just like You. The song was rerecorded featuring vocals from R&B singer and friend, Monica. It peaked at number five on the US Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs, becoming the most successful single of the album. "No Other" was to be the fourth and final single of the album. Although the single was never officially released, it did receive radio airplay and a music video.

Critical reception

A Different Me received generally positive reviews from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album has an average score of 67 based on 6 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews." Album of the Year collected 5 reviews and calculated an average of 71 out of 100.

Allmusic editor Andy Kellman called the album "Cole's most free-spirited and adventurous album to date," going on to say that there are "at least seven songs here that rate as highly as the best from the first two albums." Jim Farber of Daily News noted that "Cole's assertions of sweetness and light hardly prove as seamless, or simple, as her songs declare". He declared that "her makeover feels less like a day at the spa than a night at the shrink," going on to say that "instead of seeming harrowing or dark", the album's result is "soulful and fulfilling". Ken Capobiano from The Boston Globe said, "On her first two records, good grooves and great singing were matched by her healthy arrogance and fire. Here she's reining in some of the 'tude, and, along with her star producers, showing a sweeter and supremely sexy side [...] Cole emphatically dares to be different—and pretty great."

Entertainment Weeklys Mikael Wood wrote that "on A Different Me, this Oakland-born belter turns her focus from heartbreak to happiness only a few years after Blige promised she was done with drama. Fortunately, Cole still sounds plenty intense singing about finding a guy who completes her; in her experience-ravaged vocals you can hear relief, but also the knowledge that stability has a way of attracting trouble." USA Today writer Steve Jones found that Cole "is in a sexier, more playful mood on her third album. Her songs still wring the emotion, but there is much less pain than on previous works [...] It seems the still-evolving singer just keeps getting better." Similarly, Barry Walters from Spin remarked that "despite her third full-length’s title, Cole doesn’t mess with the formula established on her previous platinum albums, and that’s a blessing. Matching street beats to stringed-up balladry, she narrows the gap between classic and contemporary soul with lived-in love songs that sidestep filler [...] Cole maintains an assured autobiographical voice. Accentuating joy over pain to reflect her ascent from troubled beginnings, this is the rare upbeat R&B disc that still feels real." On the contrary, Jon Caramanica of The New York Times noted that Cole "let go of her doubt," going on to say that "it's missed."

Commercial performance
The album debuted at number two on the US Billboard 200, selling 322,000 copies in its first week, giving Cole her best week sales. In its second week, A Different Me fell to number seven, selling further 127,000 copies. In its third and fourth week, it remained at number seven, selling 54,000 and 37,000 copies, respectively. In its fifth week, the album fell to number nine, selling 31,000 copies. In its sixth week, the album climbed to number six, selling 31,000 copies. In its seventh week, A Different Me fell to number eight, selling 31,000 copies. In its eighth week, the album fell to number ten. The album sold over 1,000,000 copies in the US and has been certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).

Track listing
Credits adapted from the liner notes of A Different Me.

Notes and sample credits
 denotes additional producer
"Make Me Over" contains an interpolation of "Tina's Wish" as written by Ike & Tina Turner.

Personnel

 "Toxic" Donald Alford – music producer (Track 10)
 Ivan "Orthodox" Barias – record producer (Track 8), all other instruments (8)
 Keyshia Cole – executive producer, vocal arrangement (Tracks 1-4, 6-7, 9-12, 14-15),  A&R, vocal producer 1-4, 6-7, 9-12, 14-15)
 Claudio Cueni – 2Pac original vocal recording engineer (Track 8)
 Esther Dean – vocal arrangement, vocal producer (Track 2)
 Bojan Dugich – recording engineer (Track 13-14)
 Mike "Angry" Eleopoulos – recording engineer (All Tracks)
 Eric Eylands – audio mixing assistant (Track 10)
 Ron Fair – organ (Track 2),  harmonica (5-6, 8-12, 14),  horn conductor (2, 7, 13), producer (2-6, 8-11, 14),  vibraphone (5, 8-9, 11),  executive producer, vocal arrangement (1-4, 6, 9-12, 14-15),  horn arrangements (2, 7, 13), string arrangements (3-6, 8-14),  vocal producer (1-4, 6, 9-12, 14-15),  string conductor (3-6, 8-14)
 Ron Feemster – drums (Track 5), additional keyboards (5),  music producer (4-5), additional instruments (4-5)
 Bernie Grundman – mastering
 Josh Gudwin – recording engineer (Track 2)
 Carvin "Ransum" Haggins – record producer (Track 8)
 Manny Halley – executive producer, A&R, management
 Tal Herzberg – recording engineer (Track 2), Pro-Tools music editing (Tracks 1-5, 7-12, 14-15)
 Dan Higgins – flute (Track 14)
 Nate Hill – assistant recording engineer (Track 2)
 Buffy Hubelbank – production coordination (All Tracks)
 Chris James – recording engineer (Track 4)
 Johnny "J" – original 2Pac vocal recording producer (Track 8)
 Ryan Kennedy – assistant recording engineer (Tracks 2-3, 9, 11)

 Kid Named Cus – recording engineer (Track 6)
 Jonathan Merritt – audio mixing assistant (All Tracks)
 Jason T. Miller – producer (Track 12), guitar, synths
 Peter Mokran – audio mixing (Tracks 2-3, 6, 8, 10-12)
 James Murray – recording engineer (Track 5)
 Vek Neal – illustrations
 Outsyders – music producer, recording engineer (Track 7)
 Carlos Oyanedel – audio mixing assistant (Tracks 1, 4, 15)
 Dave Pensado – audio mixing (Tracks 5, 9, 13)
 Jason Perry – drums (Track 2)
 Poke & Tone – music producer (Tracks 13-14)
 Polow da Don – music producer (Track 2)
 James Poyser – additional music producer (Track 6)
 David "DQ" Quinones – recording engineer (Track 12)
 David "Davix" Foreman;- vocal  production (Track 9)
 Josh "Guido" Rivera – guitar (Track 6)
 Mike Ruiz – photography
 The Runners – music producer, recording engineer (Track 3)
 Allen Sides – string recording engineer (Tracks 5-6, 8, 10, 14)
 Johnnie "Smurf" Smith – keyboards (Track 8)
 Phil Tan – audio mixing (Tracks 1, 4, 15)
 Tank – music producer (Track 11)
 Eric Weaver – audio mixing assistant (Tracks 2-3, 6, 8, 11)
 Frank Wolf – string recording engineer (Track 3, 9, 11-13)
 Andrew Wuepper – audio mixing assistant (Tracks 7, 9)

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Certifications

References

2008 albums
Keyshia Cole albums
Albums produced by Johnny "J"
Albums produced by Polow da Don
Albums produced by the Runners
Albums produced by Theron Feemster
Geffen Records albums
Interscope Records albums


Truro and Penwith College is a tertiary college and further education college in Cornwall, England.

History
Truro College was founded in 1993 in Gloweth near Threemilestone, Truro, Cornwall, to replace the Truro Sixth Form College. Penwith College was founded in 1980 in Penzance, and was known until 1990 as Penwith Sixth Form College. It then became a tertiary college named Penwith College. The decision to merge the two colleges was made in 2006, with the merger completed in 2008.

It has assisted the creation of the Ofsted Outstanding Callywith College, a Further Education college in Bodmin, which opened in September 2017 and was rated the best sixth form college in England in 2020. Three of the college's students, who were identical triplets, all went to Cambridge University in 2004, the first set of triplets to do so.
The Rick Stein Academy was launched in 2015 as a partnership between the Rick Stein Group and Truro and Penwith College, in 2016 it was recognized as a Top 100 Apprenticeship Employer nationally. In 2016 Truro and Penwith College won the Association of Colleges Beacon Award for Leadership and Governance.
It is the top non-selective provider of the International Baccalaureate Diploma in the UK, according to Sunday Times Parent Power league tables.
In 2020 it was recognised as the best provider of Hair and Beauty apprenticeships in the UK.
In 2015 it had the highest A Level points-per-student and value-added progress score in the UK. In 2015 one of its students was awarded the 'Outstanding BTEC Student of the Year' award. In 2012 two of its students got the highest marks in the country for English Language and Law.
The college hosts the annual Cornwall Apprenticeship Awards.
Upcoming developments include the South West Institute of Technology on the Truro College campus, a Cornwall STEM Skills Centre in Bodmin, and the Stadium for Cornwall.

In June 2021, the college was one of the ten institutions that the University and College Union opened ballots for industrial action in over pay, working conditions and compulsory redundancies.

Courses

Courses available include further education such as A Levels, T levels, Vocational Qualifications (including BTEC Diplomas, National Vocational Qualifications (NVQs) and apprenticeships), Foundation Studies, and the International Baccalaureate Diploma; higher education such as honours degrees, foundation degrees, Higher National Diplomas, higher level nursing apprenticeships, education qualifications, other professional qualifications;part-time and evening courses. Teacher training is done on PGCE, CertEd and Cornwall SCITT courses. Cornwall SCITT (School Centred Initial Teacher Training, a partnership of 16 local secondary schools, one special school and Truro and Penwith College, offering postgraduate teacher training to the 11-16 age range, with post-16 enhancements) retained its own Ofsted Outstanding rating in 2016.

Results
It was the first tertiary college to be awarded 'Outstanding' status, the highest designation by Ofsted in 2006, and the first to retain an Outstanding rating, in 2016.
It has been recognised as the top non-selective provider of the International Baccalaureate Diploma in the UK, the best provider of Hair and Beauty apprenticeships in the UK, having the highest A Level points-per-student and value-added progress score in the UK, the top BTEC student of the year, and having its students get the highest marks in the country for several subjects.

A Levels
In 2015, the college had the highest A Level points-per-student and value-added progress score in the UK. In 2020, A Level students achieved a 99.7% overall pass rate for the 700 students, 88% passing with A*-C, and there was a 100% pass rate achieved in 37 subjects.

International Baccalaureate
In 2020, International Baccalaureate students achieved an average of just over 36 points, equivalent to three A* grades and one A grade at A Level. 23% of the IB students at Truro gained 40 points or more, equivalent to four A*s or more than five As at A Level. In 2021, the college achieved an average score of 38.4 points, with almost half of the cohort getting 40 points or more. One student scored 45, the highest score possible.

Truro College is regularly rated the top non-selective provider of the International Baccalaureate Diploma in the UK in the Sunday Times Parent Power league tables.

BTEC Extended Diploma
In 2020, 66% of the 900 Level 3 Extended Diploma students achieved a Triple Distinction and on BTEC Diploma courses as a whole over 200 students achieved the highest possible grade, Triple Distinction Star.

2016 Ofsted inspection

Truro and Penwith College was rated as being Outstanding by Ofsted in 2016, the first FE provider to be awarded this highest designation under the new Ofsted assessment framework, and making it the first college to ever retain an Outstanding rating.

Sport and academies

In the 2019 Six Nations Rugby Union game between England and Ireland, four of the players on the pitch were graduates from its Rugby Academy: Luke Cowan-Dickie, Jack Nowell, Henry Slade, and Bundee Aki.
The Truro College Rugby Academy is an Exeter Chiefs Academy team. The college competes in the AASE league along with the other premiership academies and the Association of Colleges Sport Leagues and Cups and has won the Daily Mail Cup, British Colleges U19 Knock-Out Cup, National 10s and 7s, South West Colleges League, Samurai 7s, AASE League Plate and have been AoC Premier Cup Finalists. Rugby Academy players regularly sign for teams such as the Exeter Chiefs, Cornish Pirates, Redruth R.F.C. or Cornish All-Blacks before their studies at the college have finished. The Academy team plays in the Sanix Tournament in Japan against the other best under-18s rugby teams from around the world.

The Truro College Football Development program is in association with the Chelsea F.C. Foundation.  Truro and Penwith College's football teams play in official Chelsea kits and benefit from world-class training at Chelsea FC throughout the year.

Notable alumni
 Bundee Aki, Ireland rugby player
 Molly Caudery, Pole Vaulter
 Luke Cowan-Dickie, England rugby player
 Josh Matavesi, Fiji rugby player
 Sam Matavesi, Fiji rugby player
 Jack Nowell, England rugby player
 Ben Oliver, Athlete, Wheelchair Racer

References

External links

Truro and Penwith College website

Further education colleges in Cornwall
Truro
Penzance
International Baccalaureate schools in England
Educational institutions established in 2008
2008 establishments in England


Louis Bailey Lowdermilk (February 23, 1887 – December 27, 1975), was an American politician and a Major League Baseball pitcher who played in  and  with the St. Louis Cardinals. Lowdermilk had a 4–5 record with a 3.38 ERA, in 20 career games, in his two-year career. He was born in Sandborn, Indiana, and died in Centralia, Illinois. He was the brother of Grover Lowdermilk, who also played in Major League Baseball.

Political career
Lowdermilk served as mayor of Odin, Illinois.

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Demetris Summers (born October 12, 1983) is a former Canadian football running back who played for the Calgary Stampeders of the Canadian Football League. He was released by the team in April 2010.

He was signed by the Dallas Cowboys as an undrafted free agent in 2006. He played college football at South Carolina before being expelled from the team March 1, 2005 after the coaching change and did not play anywhere in the 2005 season before entering early for the 2006 NFL draft, where he was undrafted.

Summers won the 96th Grey Cup as a member of the Stampeders.

Early years
Summers was a record setting running back at Lexington High School and was recruited as the No. 2 running back in the nation. He also was a four-year starter in basketball, his freshman year he tipped in a missed shot with 0.6 seconds left to defeat Dorman High School 46-45 in the Upper State Championship. Lexington would go on to win the state championship over Marlboro County High School. On October 10 of 2014, Summers became a new member of the Lexington Wildcat Hall of Fame.

External links
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South Carolina Gamecocks bio

1983 births
Living people
People from Lexington, South Carolina
American football running backs
American players of Canadian football
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Rowin van Zaanen (born 18 September 1984) is a Dutch former professional footballer who played as a winger. He played in the Eredivisie and Eerste Divisie for Volendam, Willem II, Fortuna Sittard and Almere City, and in the American Premier Development League for the Cincinnati Dutch Lions.

Mostly known for his eight-year spell with FC Volendam, in which he won the Dutch Eerste Divisie and secured promotion to the Eredivisie in the 2007–08 season, van Zaanen retired from professional football in 2014 and played at amateur level until 2017. He made 129 league appearances for Volendam, in which he scored 36 goals. After retirement, he started working as a videographer.

Career
Before moving to FC Volendam in 2003, van Zaanen played for the amateur clubs HBOK and DWV in Amsterdam. He made his professional debut on 9 May 2003 in a second-tier Eerste Divisie match against Stormvogels Telstar. In the 2007–08 season, he scored twelve goals in 34 appearances. Van Zaanen thus played a key role in the promotion of FC Volendam to the Eredivisie for the 2008–09 season. The club's stay at the highest level was, however, limited to one season as they suffered direct relegation after a year. Van Zaanen signed a two-year contract with Willem II in June 2010 with an option for another season. On 7 August 2010, he made his debut for the club against Heracles Almelo. In the winter break of the 2011–12 season, van Zaanen moved to Fortuna Sittard on loan. After completing his loan deal in June 2012, he signed a one-year contract with Almere City. He left the club as his contract expired.

Van Zaanen's professional career came to an end in 2014, after having been a free agent for almost a year after leaving Almere City. He went to play for another year as an amateur in the United States with the Cincinnati Dutch Lions. and then played at amateur level for Kozakken Boys and Achilles Veen before retiring permanently in 2017.

After retiring, Van Zaanen worked as a videographer.

Honours
FC Volendam
Eerste Divisie(): 2007–08

References

External links
Player stats at Voetbal International

1984 births
Living people
Footballers from Amsterdam
Dutch men's footballers
FC Volendam players
Willem II (football club) players
Fortuna Sittard players
Almere City FC players
Cincinnati Dutch Lions players
Kozakken Boys players
Eredivisie players
Eerste Divisie players
USL League Two players
Men's association football midfielders
Dutch expatriate men's footballers
Dutch expatriate sportspeople in the United States
Expatriate men's soccer players in the United States
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Ernest Clifford Peixotto (1869–1940) was an American artist, illustrator, and author. Although he was known mainly for his murals and his travel literature, his artwork also regularly appeared in Scribner's Magazine. His 1916 work Our Hispanic Southwest is famous for including the first written appearance of the ethnic slur "spic" (although, in fact, it had previously appeared with a different spelling and pronunciation).

Biography
Born on October 15, 1869, in San Francisco, California, Peixotto was one of five children in a Sephardic Jewish family: his sister was Jessica Blanche Peixotto. He studied art at the Mark Hopkins Institute of Art with Emil Carlsen, who encouraged him to go to Paris. Taking his advice, Peixotto went to France in 1888 and studied at the Académie Julian under the tutelage of Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant, Henri Lucien Doucet and Jules Joseph Lefebvre. While in France, he visited the colony of the American Impressionists and befriended Theodore Robinson. He spent a total of six years in France, returning to San Francisco in 1894. The following year, he moved to New York City, and joined the staff of Scribner's Magazine.

In 1897, he married the painter Mary Glascock Hutchinson in New Orleans. Two years later the couple returned to France on a sketching trip for Scribner's and ended up staying for six years based in Fontainebleau, outside Paris. During this period, Peixotto illustrated Theodore Roosevelt's Life of Oliver Cromwell (1904). Although he frequently returned to the United States to work, the house in Fontainebleau served as his primary residence for the remainder of his life.

In the spring and summer of 1907 he sketched at the art colonies in Berkeley, California and in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, where he exhibited his work at the Annual of the local Arts & Crafts Club.  That year he also had a conspicuous presence in the community of San Francisco artists, associating with Charles Dickman at the Bohemian Club Grove and with Will Sparks and Maynard Dixon at the Sequoia Club. That fall he was teaching at the Art Institute of Chicago, where Thomas Hart Benton was his student. After having been elected to the National Academy of Design in 1909, Peixotto's first large commissioned mural was Le Morte d'Arthur for a private library for railroader Henry A. Everett (not, as widely repeated, at the Cleveland Public Library) in 1911. Subsequently, the majority of his work was in mural form, most of it for private individuals.

During World War I, Peixotto served as a captain in the United States Army Corps of Engineers, director of the Section of Painting, and one of eight official artists attached to the American Expeditionary Force, whose job was to create a visual record of events. After the war, he remained in France as director of the United States Army's art-training center, which merged into the École des Beaux-Arts in 1923.  Peixotto remained as the chair of the school's American Committee, while simultaneously serving as the director of the mural department of the Beaux-Arts Institute of Design in New York, a position he held from 1919 through 1926, when he left to focus on his own work.  In June 1921 he was made a Chevalier in the Légion d'honneur, for war work and the promotion of friendship between France and the United States.

However, he still served on a number of art organizations. He was the president of the National Society of Mural Painters from 1929 to 1935, and president of School Art League of New York from 1936 to 1940. From 1935 to 1940 he served on the Art Commission of New York City and was director of murals for the 1939 New York World's Fair.

Peixotto died on December 6, 1940.

Bibliography
 Tales of Languedoc (1896)
 Philadelphia: The Place and the People (1898)
 The Story of Old Fort Loudon (1899)
 By Italian Seas (1906)
 Through the French Provinces (1909)
 Romantic California (1910)
 Pacific Shores from Panama (1913)
 Our Hispanic Southwest (1916)
 A Revolutionary Pilgrimage: Being an Account of a Series of Visits to Battlegrounds & Other Places Made Memorable by the War of the Revolution (1917)
 The American Front (1919)
 Through Spain and Portugal (1922)
 Wanderings (1925)
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Further reading

References

External links

 Guide to the Ernest Clifford Peixotto Papers at The Bancroft Library

1869 births
1940 deaths
Académie Julian alumni
United States Army personnel of World War I
American travel writers
American male non-fiction writers
American muralists
Jewish American artists
Jewish American writers
Spanish and Portuguese Jews
Artists from San Francisco
Knights of the Legion of Honour
United States Army artists
United States Army officers
American Sephardic Jews
World War I artists
19th-century American painters
19th-century American male artists
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20th-century American painters
Treasury Relief Art Project artists
20th-century American male artists
20th-century American Sephardic Jews
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Negative Theater, a European-only CD, is the fifth solo album released by Ric Ocasek.

Negative Theater was originally intended to be Ocasek's fourth solo effort, consisting of a double CD and a book of poetry.  However, in North America, Reprise Records declined to release the CD in Ocasek's original form.  Instead, the company took 7 tracks from Ocasek's project, and had him record 7 additional tracks with producer Mike Shipley.  The resulting record was issued as Quick Change World in North America only.

For European release, Negative Theater was issued as a 15-track CD.  It included 7 tracks that were issued on Quick Change World, and 8 tracks that are exclusive to this album.

Track listing
All tracks composed by Ric Ocasek, except where indicated.
Tracks listed with an asterisk (*) were previously released on Quick Change World in North America.

 "I Still Believe" *
 "Come Alive" *
 "Quick Change World" *
 "Ride with Duce"
 "What's on TV" *
 "Shake a Little Nervous"
 "Hopped Up" *
 "Take Me Silver"
 "Telephone Again" *
 "Race to Nowhere" (Alan Vega)
 "Help Me Find America" *
 "Who Do I Pay"
 "Wait For Fate"
 "What Is Time"
 "Fade Away"

Personnel
Ric Ocasek - vocals, keyboards, guitar, art direction, photography
Eric Schermerhorn - guitar, keyboards
Darryl Jenifer - bass
Greg Hawkes - keyboards
Nano the 2'nd - drums

Ric Ocasek albums
1993 albums
Albums produced by Ric Ocasek
Reprise Records albums


Estonia–Finland relations are foreign relations between Finland and Estonia. The independent Republic of Finland, established in 1917, and the independent Republic of Estonia, established in 1918, established diplomatic relations and formally recognised each other in 1920. Diplomatic relations between the two countries were interrupted during World War II and officially restored on 29 August 1991.  Finland has an embassy in Tallinn and an honorary consulate in Tartu.  Estonia has an embassy in Helsinki and five honorary consulates, located in Oulu, Turku, Ekenäs, Tampere and Kotka.
Both countries are full members of the Council of the Baltic Sea States, Council of Europe, European Union, NATO and the Eurozone.
Finland has given full support to Estonia's membership of the European Union. Estonia also has strongly supported Finland's NATO membership.
The majority languages in both countries are Finnic languages, as Finland's main language, Finnish, is related to Estonian, and there is and has been a certain feeling of kinship.  76% of Finns have visited Estonia, and in 2004, 1.8 million Finns reported visiting Estonia. The excise tax on alcohol is lower in Estonia than in Finland, thus it is common to buy large volumes of alcohol when returning from Estonia: a study in 2014 indicated that 34% of alcohol sold in Estonia is bought by Finns. Finnish and Swedish investors are the largest foreign investors in Estonia. Both Finland and Estonia are members of the European Union, Schengen agreement and the Eurozone, freeing international travel and trade between the countries. Finland is Estonia's top import partner, accounting for over 15% total import value in 2012, as well as the second-greatest market for Estonia's exports after Sweden.
Finland's government recognised Estonia's independence in 1920. In response to the Soviet invasion, diplomatic missions were de facto removed. However, when Estonia restored its independence, this "temporary obstruction" was resolved. During the restoration of Estonia's independence, Finland secretly contributed with significant economic aid and know-how under the cover of "cultural co-operation" in order to not upset the Soviet Union. Finland continues to contribute militarily, such as officers' training, and the provision of equipment.

History

Unification proposals
In Finland, the idea of a unified Greater Finland gained popularity and influence rapidly in 1917, but lost support after World War II and the Continuation War.

In 1917, 1918 and 1940, the Estonian president Konstantin Päts wished for a union of Finnic countries in his political testament, writing an outline of a unification plan. He used the term "soomesugu" in Estonian to point to the people and countries of Finland and Estonia when talking about common border law.

Anthem
The Finnish anthem Maamme and the similarly themed Estonian anthem Mu isamaa, mu õnn ja rõõm (My Fatherland, My Happiness and Joy, 1869) share the same melody.

This song is also considered to be the ethnic anthem of Livonians, titled Min izāmō, min sindimō (My Fatherland, My Native Land).

Regional cooperation
Finnish and Swedish investors are the largest foreign investors in Estonia. Both Finland and Estonia are members of the European Union, Schengen Agreement and the Eurozone. Finland is Estonia's top import partner, accounting for over 15% total import value in 2012, as well as the second-greatest market for Estonia's exports after Sweden.

Finland's government recognised Estonia's independence in 1920. Finland contributed and continues to contribute military aid to Estonia, such as officers' training, and the provision of equipment.

The Rail Baltica and Via Baltica, modern rail and road links of vital importance, connecting Finland with Estonia and Central Europe, remain under construction (as of 2022).

Balticconnector is a bi-directional natural gas pipeline between Finland and Estonia.

European Union
Finland joined the EU in 1995. Estonia joined the EU in 2004.

NATO
Estonia joined NATO in 2004. Finland joined NATO in 2023.

Country comparison

Diplomacy

Republic of Estonia
Helsinki (Embassy)

Republic of Finland
Tallinn (Embassy)

See also
Foreign relations of Estonia
Foreign relations of Finland
Finnish–Estonian defence cooperation
Finnish Infantry Regiment 200
Estonians in Finland
Estonian–Finnish federation
Finland–NATO relations
Accession of Estonia to the European Union

References

External links
  Finnish Ministry of Foreign Affairs about relations with Estonia

Bilateral relations of Finland
Finland


A skill is the learned capacity to carry out pre-determined results.

Skill may also refer to:

Skill (labor), a measure of a worker's abilities
The Skill, an album by The Sherbs
Skill F.C. de Bruxelles, a defunct Belgian football (soccer) club
Skills (company), a San Francisco, California, U.S., event promoter, record label and store
Cadence SKILL, a scripting language
USS Skill, at least two ships of the United States Navy
Forecast skill, a scaled representation of forecast error compared to a reference model
Skill, in role-playing game statistics, the learned knowledge and abilities of a character
Skill: National Bureau for Students With Disabilities, a UK charity for students with disabilities
  (see ), is a command-line utility to send a signal or report process status,  is favoured over it; see also , ,

See also
 Skil (disambiguation)
 Skillz (disambiguation)


David Blue may refer to:

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David Blue (actor) (born 1982), American actor, writer, producer and director
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