The International Academy of Macomb (IAM/IA) is a public, magnet high school in Macomb County, Michigan located in the Chippewa Valley 9th Grade Center in Clinton Township. The school opened in the spring of 2008 and is an International Baccalaureate school as of early 2010. The first two years at the IAM consist of International Baccalaureate Middle Years Programme courses . After these two years, students will begin the International Baccalaureate program, which lasts for two years. All IB students will have to complete 9 'CAS' experiences (creativity, action, service) throughout the two IB years. After all four years are completed, students will partake in several IB exams in order to receive their IB diploma. The students at the IAM get an understanding of the world through many great books, including Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, The Odyssey by Homer, and The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Although it is an IB school, the IAM is still considered a public school, but it requires students to pass a test and get drawn in a lottery to become enrolled. There is no tuition required for students, but there is an initial $150 fee that will cover computer fees. Each student will receive his or her own laptop that will be used throughout the four years at the IAM, and any damage can usually be fixed with a re-imaging, including physical damage to the laptop.

Extracurricular activities

All of the IAM's Division I MHSAA sports teams are known as the Lady Leopards. The only sport that the IAM offers currently, as of 2020, is girls Powderpuff (sports) football. In October 2013, IAM secured their first victory in the annual "Nerd Bowl" by defeating the Utica Academy for International Studies by a score of 54-6.  On October 11, 2014, headed by brilliant coaches Greg Iacobelli, Ben Dib, Salvatore "Sal" Maltese, Sam Ebbit, and Miroslaw "Miko" Ochocinski, the Lady Leopards went on to defeat UAIS by a score of 55-18 and hereby setting the series record at 2-2. The Lady Leopards' slogan is "RKO Utica", in reference to famous wrestler Randy Orton.

On September 12, 2015, the IAM played UAIS for the first time at their home field. With only three weeks of practice, head coach Ben Dib and assistant coaches Alex Damer and Devin Bingham led the Leopards to a 32-12 victory over the Phoenix. This win marked the 3rd win for the IAM, putting them at a 3-2 series lead over UAIS.

In conjoined efforts with the powderpuff football team, the IAM also features an all-male cheerleading team, known for their energetic and elaborate performances featured at halftime.

In addition to powderpuff football, the IAM held its first annual softball tournament on May 31, 2014. This event, again, was against UAIS, with two teams from each school. IAM Team A (coached by Brandon Rickert, Chance Stevenson, and Kayla Strunk) and IAM Team B (coached by Jordan Edwards, Greg Iacobelli, and Maria Miglio) were both undefeated in the tournament, with the help of a 2-run, walk-off home run by Brandon Rickert while trailing by 1 in extra innings of Game 1. Both teams played each other in a championship game on a later day, with Team A winning by a score of 12-11. The idea for the tournament came from UAIS Junior Jessica DiGiovanni. After requesting assistance from an IAM Junior, Eoin Barry stepped up to the plate to help. The second annual IAM softball tournament took place on June 6, 2015, under the leadership of Eoin and Jessica's successor Brenna Wyffels. IAM won both charity softball tournaments. The 3rd annual tournament took place on June 4, 2016.

The IAM also features various clubs. These include Soccer Club, Creative Writing Club, Red Cross Club, Excel Club, Book Club, Drama Club, Economy Club, Ecology Club, German Club, Dungeons and Dragons Club, Dodgeball Club, Video Game Club, Harry Potter Alliance, Art Club, Improv Club, Ski Club, Science Olympiad, Students Against Destructive Decisions, Basketball Club, Writing Club, Chess Club, Euchre Club, Anime Club, Quiz Bowl, Blender Club, Key Club, French Club, Diversity Club, Gay-Straight Alliance, Global Peace Club, Tea Club, and Spanish Club. And, to make it even better, students are allowed to make their own clubs if they can't find one that is personalized to them.

The IAM's FIRST Robotics Competition Team, Team 4810 I AM Robot, was founded in 2012, and won the Michigan Rookie All-Star Award in 2013, and the Troy District Entrepreneurship award in 2014. In 2018, they won the Creativity in Design Award at their Troy Competition and had the opportunity to compete in the Tesla Division of the FIRST Championship in Detroit. Recently, in 2019, I.AM.ROBOT Team 4810 hosted a Charity Dodgeball Tournament to benefit the charity, A Beautiful Me. They also won the Entrepreneurship Award and the Gracious Professionalism Awards at their district competitions.

The School also is a part of SEMMUNA, MUNNIAC, OUMUN and has a large Model United Nations team. Not only this, but it participates in Tri-M Musical Honor Society, National Honor Society, National Spanish Honors Society, National French Honors Society, National Science Honors Society, Delta Epsilon Phi (German National Honors Society), and National Art Honor Society.

Awards and honors

The International Academy of Macomb, or the IAM, frequently places as one of the best High Schools in the United States and routinely is named in the top three schools in Michigan. As of 2019, it was ranked by U.S. News as the #1 High school in the State of Michigan, the #1 Magnet school in the nation, and the #8 High school in the nation.

See also
 International Academy

References

External links
 Official web site
 Consultant Services

Educational institutions established in 2008
Public high schools in Michigan
International Baccalaureate schools in Michigan
Schools in Macomb County, Michigan
2008 establishments in Michigan


Brian Ndubisi Orakpo  (born July 31, 1986) is an American former professional football player who was an outside linebacker for 10 seasons in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the University of Texas, was recognized as a unanimous All-American, and was drafted by the Washington Redskins with the thirteenth overall pick in the 2009 NFL Draft. He also played for Tennessee Titans, and was selected to four Pro Bowls.

Early years
Orakpo was born on July 31, 1986, in Houston, Texas to parents Gloria and Arthur Orakpo, who are immigrants from Nigeria. He has two younger siblings, Jennifer and Michael. Orakpo played high school football at Lamar High School in Houston, Texas. He played defensive end and tight end and was a two-time First-team all-district selection for the Texans football team. In addition, he played basketball from his freshman to junior years.

College career

Orakpo attended the University of Texas, where he played for coach Mack Brown's Texas Longhorns football team from 2004 to 2008. He was redshirted as a freshman in 2004, but in 2005 he played in all 13 games and started in one. He made an immediate impact for the Longhorns, helping them finish 10th in the nation at defense, recording 27 tackles, a half sack, a forced fumble and recovered fumble. His play earned him Defensive Freshman of the Year and first-team Freshman All-America by The Sporting News. He helped the Longhorns obtain their fourth National Championship.

As a sophomore in 2006, he played all 13 games, recording 26 tackles and 4.5 sacks and was named one of the Lowe's Most Improved Defensive Players. As a junior in 2007, he played in nine games and missed four due to right knee injury suffered against Arkansas State. He was the Defensive MVP of the 2007 Holiday Bowl against Arizona State after recording six tackles and two sacks during the game. He finished the season with 37 tackles and 5.5 sacks.

As a senior in 2008, Orakpo recorded 40 tackles and 11.5 sacks and was the Associated Press Big 12 Defensive Player of the Year. He also was the winner of the Bronko Nagurski Trophy, given to the best defensive player, the Ted Hendricks Award, given to the top defensive end, The Bill Willis Trophy given to the top collegiate defensive lineman, and the Lombardi Award, given to the best lineman or linebacker.  He was recognized as a unanimous first-team All-American, after receiving first-team honors from the Associated Press, American Football Coaches Association, Football Writers Association of America, The Sporting News, and the Walter Camp Football Foundation. He was the first Texas Longhorn defensive end to earn All-American honors since Tony Brackens in 1995.

In his college career, Orakpo recorded 132 tackles, 22 sacks, 38 tackles for loss, 62 pressures, six passes broken up, six forced fumbles, and a fumble recovery.

Professional career
Orakpo attended the NFL Combine with much anticipation due to his well-known reputation as a "workout warrior". His 31 reps in the bench press ranked second among all defensive ends and seventh best among all defensive linemen. His 39.5-inch vertical jump was second for all defensive lineman, and he showed his speed and acceleration while recording a 4.63 40-yard dash time. At the conclusion of the pre-draft process, Orakpo was projected to be a first round pick by NFL draft experts and scouts. He was ranked the best defensive end/outside linebacker prospect in the draft by NFL analyst Bucky Brooks, was ranked the second best defensive end by DraftScout.com, and was ranked the second best outside linebacker in the draft by NFL analyst Mike Mayock.

Washington Redskins
The Washington Redskins selected Orakpo in the first round (13th overall) of the 2009 NFL Draft. Orakpo was the third defensive end drafted in 2009.

2009 season: Rookie year
On July 31, 2009, the Washington Redskins signed Orakpo to a five-year, $15.33 million contract that included $11.69 million guaranteed and a signing bonus of $6.36 million.

Head coach Jim Zorn named Orakpo the starting strongside linebacker to begin the regular season, along with Rocky McIntosh and middle linebacker London Fletcher.

Orakpo made his NFL debut and first start in the season-opener against the New York Giants and recorded two solo tackles in a 23–17 road loss. During Week 3, he recorded four combined tackles and made his first NFL sack during a 19–14 loss at the Detroit Lions. Orakpo made his first career sack on quarterback Matthew Stafford for an eight-yard loss in the third quarter. In the next game, he collected a season-high seven combined tackles and a sack in a 16–13 victory over the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. During Week 14, Orakpo made six combined tackles and a season-high four sacks as the Redskins defeated the Oakland Raiders by a score 34–13. Orakpo had a sack on Bruce Gradkowski and three sacks on Jamarcus Russell and tied the Redskins' single-game sack record. He earned the NFC Defensive Player of the Week award for his performance. On December 30, 2009, it was announced that Orakpo was selected to play in the 2010 Pro Bowl and was the only rookie to be initially voted to the NFC roster. Orakpo became the first Redskins' rookie to make the Pro Bowl since RB/KR Tony Green in 1978.

Orakpo finished his rookie year 50 combined tackles (37 solo), a career-high 11 sacks, and two pass deflections in 16 games and starts.

2010 season
On January 4, 2010, the Redskins fired head coach Jim Zorn after they finished with a 4–12 record in 2009. The Washington Redskins hired Jim Haslett as their new defensive coordinator and installed a base 3-4 defense. Head coach Mike Shanahan named Orakpo and Andre Carter the starting outside linebackers to begin the regular season, along with inside linebackers London Fletcher and Rocky McIntosh.

During Week 5, Orakpo recorded three combined tackles and a season-high a two sacks on quarterback Aaron Rodgers during a 16–13 win over the Green Bay Packers. In Week 10, he collected a season-high eight combined tackles and was credited with half a sack during a 59–28 loss to the Philadelphia Eagles. Orakpo was sidelined for the Week 16 victory at the Jacksonville Jaguars after sustaining a hamstring injury the previous week.

Orakpo finished his second professional season with 56 combined tackles (36 solo), 8.5 sacks, two pass deflections, and a forced fumble in 15 games and starts. On January 23, 2011, it was announced that he would play in the 2011 Pro Bowl as a replacement for Packers linebacker Clay Matthews III who was appearing in Super Bowl XLV.

2011 season
Head coach Mike Shanahan named Orakpo and Ryan Kerrigan the starting outside linebackers to start the regular season, along with inside linebackers London Fletcher and Rocky McIntosh.

During Week 4 against the St. Louis Rams, Orakpo recorded five combined tackles, a forced fumble, and had a season-high 2.5 sacks on Rams' quarterback Sam Bradford during a 17–10 road victory. His performance earned him the NFC Defensive Player of the Week award. Three weeks later, he collected a season-high six combined tackles and a sack in a 33–20 road loss against the Carolina Panthers. In the regular-season finale, Orakpo recorded three solo tackles and made two sacks during a 34–10 road loss to the Philadelphia Eagles. He exited the game after suffering an injury to his left shoulder and pectoral muscle after sacking Michael Vick in the second quarter.

On January 10, 2012, it was reported that Orakpo successfully underwent surgery to repair his shoulder. Orakpo was selected as an alternate for the 2012 Pro Bowl along with teammates, London Fletcher and Lorenzo Alexander. He finished his third season with 59 combined tackles (34 solo), nine sacks, and five pass deflections in 16 games and starts.

2012 season
Orakpo and Ryan Kerrigan returned as the starting outside linebackers to begin the regular season, along with London Fletcher and Perry Riley.

During Week 2, Orakpo recorded three solo tackles and a sack before exiting the 31–28 road loss against the St. Louis Rams after tearing his pectoral muscle. On September 18, 2012, the Redskins officially placed Orakpo on injured reserve after confirming he would have to undergo surgery to repair his torn pectoral muscle and would miss the rest of the season.

Orakpo finished the season with five solo tackles, three pass deflections, and a sack in two games and starts.

2013 season
During Week 4, Orakpo recorded four combined tackles, a season-high two sacks, and broke up two passes during a 24–14 road victory against the Oakland Raiders. Three weeks later, he recorded four combined tackles, a pass deflection, and returned an interception for his first NFL touchdown during a 45–41 victory against the Chicago Bears. Orakpo intercepted a pass by quarterback Jay Cutler, that was intended for wide receiver Alshon Jeffery, and returned it 29 yards for a touchdown in the second quarter. During Week 13, Orakpo recorded six combined tackles and tied his season-high of two sacks during a 24–17 loss to the New York Giants. Orakpo was inactive for the Redskins' Week 17 loss as the New York Giants due a ground injury he sustained the previous week. On December 30, 2013, the Washington Redskins fired head coach Mike Shanahan after they finished with a 3–13 record.

Orakpo finished the season with a career-high 60 combined tackles (43 solo), ten sacks, four pass deflections, an interception, and a touchdown in 15 games and starts. On January 21, 2014, it was announced that he would play in the 2014 Pro Bowl as a replacement for Ahmad Brooks who withdrew from the game.

2014 season

On March 3, 2014, the Redskins applied their non-exclusive franchise tag on Orakpo which allowed them to match any contract offer by other teams attempting to sign him. On March 27, 2014, he signed his one-year, $11.45 million franchise tender.

New head coach Jay Gruden retained defensive coordinator Jim Haslett and opted to retain the base 3–4 defense. He named Orakpo and Ryan Kerrigan the starting outside linebackers to begin the regular season, along with inside linebackers Keenan Robinson and Perry Riley. During Week 5, he collected a season-high eight combined tackles during a 27–17 loss to the Seattle Seahawks. On October 19, 2014, Orakpo made one tackle before exiting in the fourth quarter of the Redskins' 19–17 win against the Tennessee Titans due to an injury to his right shoulder. The following day, it was announced that Orakpo had torn his pectoral muscle and was expected to miss the rest of the season. On October 21, 2014, the Redskins officially placed him on injured reserve for the remainder of the season.

Orakpo finished the 2014 season with 24 combined tackles (14 solo), a pass deflection, and was credited with half a sack in seven games and starts. He became an unrestricted free agent in 2015 and was regarded as the top free agent linebacker available. He attended a private meeting with the Tennessee Titans and had a meeting scheduled with the Arizona Cardinals.

Tennessee Titans
On March 13, 2015, the Tennessee Titans signed Orakpo to a four-year, $31 million contract with $13.50 million guaranteed and a signing bonus of $5 million.

2015 season
Orakpo entered training camp slated as the starting right outside linebacker. Head coach Ken Whisenhunt named Orakpo and Derrick Morgan the starting outside linebackers to begin the regular season, along with inside linebackers Avery Williamson and Zach Brown.

On October 21, 2015, Orakpo was announced as the Titans' defensive captain. It marked the first time he was named a team captain during his career. On November 3, 2015, the Tennessee Titans fired head coach Ken Whisenhunt after the Titans began the season with a 1–6 record. Tight ends coach Mike Mularkey was promoted to interim head coach for the remainder of the season. During Week 9, Orakpo recorded four combined tackles, deflected a pass, and had a season-high two sacks on quarterback Drew Brees during a 34–28 overtime road victory against the New Orleans Saints. In the next game, he had a season-high six combined tackles and a sack as the Titans lost 27–10 to the Carolina Panthers in Week 10.

Orakpo finished his first season with the Titans with 51 combined tackles (38 solo), seven sacks, and five pass deflections in 16 games and starts.

2016 season
The Titans retained head coach Mike Mularkey and hired Dick LeBeau as their new defensive coordinator. Mularkey named Orakpo and Derrick Morgan the starting outside linebackers to begin the regular season, along with inside linebackers Avery Williamson and Wesley Woodyard.

During Week 5, Orakpo collected a season-high six combined tackles and sacked quarterback Ryan Tannehill twice during a 30–17 road victory against the Miami Dolphins. On December 20, 2016, it was announced that Orakpo was named to the 2017 Pro Bowl roster.

Orakpo finished the 2016 season with 46 combined tackles (38 solo), 10.5 sacks, four pass deflections, and a forced fumble in 16 games and starts. He was ranked 78th by his fellow players on the NFL Top 100 Players of 2017.

2017 season
Head coach Mike Mularkey retained Orakpo, Derrick Morgan, Wesley Woodyard, and Avery Williamson as the starting linebackers in 2017.

During a Week 2 37–16 victory over the Jacksonville Jaguars, Orakpo forced a fumble off of quarterback Blake Bortles, which was recovered by teammate Erik Walden. During Week 12, Orakpo recorded four combined tackles and a season-high 1.5 sacks during a 20–16 road victory against the Indianapolis Colts. During Week 16, he collected a season-high six combined tackles in a 27–23 loss against the Los Angeles Rams.

Orakpo finished the 2017 season 44 combined tackles (30 solo), seven sacks, three forced fumbles, and two pass deflections in 16 games and starts. The Titans finished second in the AFC South with a 9–7 record and qualified for the playoffs as a Wild Card team. On January 6, 2018, Orakpo started in his first career playoff game and recorded two combined tackles and 1.5 sacks during a narrow 22–21 road victory against the Kansas City Chiefs in the AFC Wild Card Round. The following week, he recorded two combined tackles as the Titans lost to the New England Patriots in the AFC Divisional Round on the road by a score of 35–14.

2018 season
Orakpo missed the final three games of the season due to an elbow injury. He finished the 2018 with 28 tackles, 1.5 sacks, three passes defensed, and a forced fumble in 13 games starting all of them.

Retirement
On December 31, 2018, Orakpo announced his retirement from the NFL after 10 seasons.

NFL statistics

Regular season

Postseason

Personal life
Among Orakpo's endorsement contracts included one he signed in August 2011 with Geico, and he has appeared in several commercials with one of that company's "caveman" spokespeople. While with the Redskins, Orakpo also appeared in several commercials for Eastern Motors, a D.C. area car dealership. Brian married his wife Bitura in 2009. They have three children together: Brian, Brianna (2013), and Brea (November 2017). In 2018, Orakpo and Tennessee Titans teammate Michael Griffin opened a franchise of Gigi's Cupcakes outside Austin, Texas with their friend, Bryan Hynson.

References

External links

Texas Longhorns bio

1986 births
Living people
African-American players of American football
Lamar High School (Houston, Texas) alumni
All-American college football players
American football defensive ends
American football linebackers
American sportspeople of Nigerian descent
American people of Igbo descent
Igbo sportspeople
Players of American football from Houston
Texas Longhorns football players
Washington Redskins players
Tennessee Titans players
National Conference Pro Bowl players
Unconferenced Pro Bowl players
American Conference Pro Bowl players
21st-century African-American sportspeople
20th-century African-American people


Julian "Jools" Jameson (born in Sunderland, England in the Summer of 1968) is the CEO of Greenhill EnviroTechnologies Inc. based in Nova Scotia Canada, having previously worked in England (where he was known as 'Jools') as a computer game developer, designer and producer.

Greenhill EnviroTechnologies
Julian currently runs Greenhill EnviroTechnologies which designs and develops electronic control systems for green technologies. The company's current Okapi product line, of sophisticated control systems for solar collectors, is featured on the Kickstarter website.

Okapi Product Line
 Okapi: a sophisticated control system for solar collector air heaters.
 Okapi 2: controller for two side-by-side solar collector air heaters (or one very large collector).
 Okapi 2.i: controller for two independent solar collectors.

Game development
Jools' gaming career spanned some 20 years starting in the early days of gaming "messing around" with machine code on the 6502-based Oric 1 and has programmed almost every home computer and console since.

The most prominent game of his career is Cannon Fodder, which he co-designed and programmed.  Cannon Fodder 2 followed and, later in his career,  he converted it onto the Game Boy platform (a project he initiated). This conversion included an FMV player, which he both designed and programmed, capable of streaming digital video and audio.  The Game Boy conversion received a BAFTA nomination for sound and high review scores, including 93% from Official Nintendo Magazine and 96% from Nintendo Power.

External links
 Lemon Amiga games
 MSN: The decline of the British gaming industry
 Gamespot GameFaqs: WWF WrestleMania
 Gamespot WWF WrestleMania Tech Info
 Hall of Light: Seconds Out
 Very Special Cannon Fodder
 Answers: Croc of the Gobbos
 IGN: Cannon Fodder on Game Boy Color
 G-Police
 Tynesoft Boys Club
 Hall of Light: Frost Byte
 UVL Cannon Fodder
 Atari Legend: Seconds Out
 Classic Amiga: Frost Byte
 UVL Game List: 3D Ghost Chase
 Retro Game Reviews: Cannon Fodder

1968 births
Living people
British video game designers


Pamela Ann Mary Flood (born 25 July 1971) is a former Irish television presenter and former model from Tallaght, South Dublin. She received the Miss Ireland crown in 1993.

A former employee of Raidió Teilifís Éireann, she was at one time a well-recognised face on the broadcaster's television channels, having presented Off the Rails, Marry Me and The Podge and Rodge Show. She also made an appearance in the genealogy series Who Do You Think You Are?, learning that her grandmother was an illegitimate child and that a deceased distant relative was accused of murdering her husband, but later found not guilty - over 160 years ago. She then went on to feature on Celebrity Showhouse broadcast on 29 December 2008.

Career
Flood worked as a continuity officer with national broadcaster RTÉ from 1997 to 2000, and was a presenter of Irish fashion television show Off the Rails for a number of years before receiving the axe in 2008.

Flood moved on to Marry Me, of which there were eight editions, and has presented two editions of The Podge and Rodge Show, For her research in the RTÉ series Who Do You Think You Are? she travelled through 19th-century Dublin, "taking in red light districts, millionaire solicitors, pawnbrokers, contested wills, illegitimate children and murder." She met historian David Nolan, who has written a history of Corballis House, where her granny was sent to stay and subsequently discovered she was born out of wedlock. She appeared on the front cover of the RTÉ Guide to promote the show, and on Anonymous as "Doreen Prendergast".

Flood has since found herself exposed and vulnerable at RTÉ.

Personal life
In 2008, Flood announced the recent end of her three-year relationship with Michael Sharp, the manager of Denis Desmond's Spirit nightclub in Dublin. She then began a new one with restaurateur, Ronan Ryan.

Flood and Ryan appeared in the news in 2019 following a public battle with their mortgage provider over a house in which the couple had been living in Clontarf, Dublin. It was reported that the couple had been living in the property valued at €900,000 yet had not made a mortgage payment in over 9 years. Nevertheless, the couple refused to vacate the property.

References

External links

1971 births
Living people
Irish female models
RTÉ television presenters
Miss World 1993 delegates
Miss Ireland winners
Miss Universe 1994 contestants
Beauty pageant contestants from Ireland
People from Tallaght
Broadcasters from County Dublin


Marisa is a genus of freshwater snails in the family Ampullariidae, the apple snails.

Species
There are two species:
 Marisa cornuarietis (Linnaeus, 1758)
 Marisa planogyra Pilsbry, 1933

Phylogeny
Based on analysis of mitochondrial 12S ribosomal RNA, 16S ribosomal RNA, and the cytochrome-c oxidase I (COI) gene, M. cornuarietis is a sister clade to M. planogyra and Asolene spixii, indicating that genus Marisa is not monophyletic.

References

Further reading
 Cowie R. H. & Thiengo S. C. (2003). The apple snails of the Americas (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Ampullariidae: Asolene, Felipponea, Marisa, Pomacea, Pomella): a nomenclatural and type catalog. Malacologia 45: 41-100.

Ampullariidae
Gastropod genera
Taxa named by John Edward Gray


Compton Place is a mansion house in the parish of Eastbourne, East Sussex, England. It was rebuilt from 1726 by Sir Spencer Compton (later 1st Earl of Wilmington), to the design of the architect Colen Campbell, and was completed after Campbell's death by William Kent.

History
The predecessor Elizabethan/Jacobean mansion house on the site was called East Borne or Borne Place and was the seat of Sir William Wilson, 1st Baronet (c. 1608–1685). The tenant from 1714 was Spencer Compton, Treasurer to George, Prince of Wales. In 1724 Compton liked the place well enough to purchase the house and estate outright and to rename it Compton Place; the Prince of Wales was Colen Campbell's chief patron, and it was natural for Spencer Compton to turn to him for its design.

The E-shaped plan, of which the central range had been doubled in depth in the seventeenth century, was retained. Campbell presented a plan for the south elevation, which was modified in the execution, but he was principally involved in remaking the interiors, where his presence is commemorated in the stucco portrait bust of him in the soffit of the bay window at the south end of the Gallery, which is the sole surviving contemporary image of the Scottish architect; the plasterwork is associated with the "three Germans" alluded to in the correspondence from Lord Wilmington's gardener William Stuart, one of whom is thought to have been the Anglo-Danish stuccator Charles Stanley. The London plasterer John Hughes supervised the plasterwork. Carving in the house was by the London carver John Richards.

Opening out of the south end of the Gallery are state bedroom with alcoves. Engravings of the alcove and the compartmented ceiling of the East Bedroom (later called the "Duchess's Bedroom") appear in Campbell's Five Orders. The Duke's Bedroom", "one of the most opulent examples in England", has a stucco relief following Titian's Venus and Adonis; there are smaller stucco relief panels of Paris with Helen and Diana with Endymion.

Sir Spencer was created Earl of Wilmington in 1728. At his death in 1743, Compton Place passed to his nephew the 5th Earl of Northampton. It then passed by marriage in 1759 to George Cavendish, 1st Earl of Burlington. He renovated the building in 1806. when the brick and flint exterior was faced with stucco and composition and a Doric peristyle added to the bay window. The estate passed down to his grandson 7th Duke of Devonshire, who from 1859 laid out the new town of Eastbourne on the south half of the estate. More recently the park north and east of the house has been laid out in golf courses of the Royal Eastbourne Golf Club, (founded in 1887), whose first president was William Cavendish, 7th Duke of Devonshire, and the dukes continue to be presidents; the two golf links are named for the Duke of Devonshire and his eldest son, the Marquess of Hartington.

In 1954, as part of the 11th Duke's retrenchment following the 80% death duties levied on his father's estate, the house was let to a language school, and its successor remains in residence as of 2009.

See also
Listed buildings in Eastbourne

Notes

Country houses in East Sussex
Grade I listed buildings in East Sussex
Grade I listed houses
Buildings by Colen Campbell
Buildings and structures in Eastbourne


James Hardy Payne (born 1941) is an inactive senior United States District Judge in Oklahoma, sitting simultaneously on the federal courts for the Eastern, the Northern and the Western districts.

Background, education, and early career

James Hardy Payne was born in 1941 and grew up in Lubbock, Texas. He received his Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Oklahoma in 1963. In 1966, he graduated from the University of Oklahoma College of Law with a Juris Doctor. From 1966 until 1970, he was on active duty in the United States Air Force. He continued as an Air Force reservist from 1975 until 1992.

From 1970 until 1973, Payne worked as an Assistant United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Oklahoma. In 1973, he entered private practice as lawyer for the firm of Sandlin and Payne, working as a partner to Robert Forney Sandlin (1934-2015), in Muskogee, Oklahoma.

In 1988 Payne was appointed by the federal district judges of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, based in Muskogee, as a United States magistrate judge of that district, to assist the district judges.

Federal judicial service
On September 4, 2001, President George W. Bush nominated Payne to a seat that simultaneously serves all three of the United States district courts in Oklahoma: the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, the United States District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma (based in Tulsa) and the United States District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma (based in Oklahoma City). The seat had been vacated by Judge Michael Burrage, who had resigned on March 1, 2001. Payne was confirmed on October 23, 2001, and received his commission the next day. Although Payne was jointly appointed to all three districts, he does not maintain chambers nor does he hear cases in the Western District of Oklahoma. He assumed senior status on August 1, 2017.

Judge Payne served as Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Oklahoma from 2002 to 2017.

Tenth Circuit nomination under Bush

On September 25, 2005, President Bush nominated Payne to a seat on the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit vacated by Judge Stephanie Kulp Seymour, who took senior status on October 16, 2005.

On January 23, 2006, Will Evans of the Center for Investigative Reporting published an article in the online magazine Salon.com reporting that Judge Payne "had issued more than 100 orders in at least 18 cases that involved corporations in which he owned stock", according to review of court and financial records.

Required to file annual financial disclosure forms, judges are expected to regulate themselves. Most district courts have computer systems designed to help monitor such conflicts of interest, but judges must enter their financial information and use it. The clerk's office of neither the Northern nor Eastern District Courts participate in monitoring, as this office does in some other courts.

The article noted that Payne had apparently violated federal law and the official Code of Conduct for U.S. judges, which "explicitly prohibit judges from sitting on cases involving companies in which they own stock—no matter how small their holdings". This prohibition, established as federal law in 1974 by Congress after the Watergate scandal, is intended to uphold the integrity of the judicial system.

Scholars of legal ethics such as professor Leslie W. Abramson, of University of Louisville's law school, and Stephen Gillers, of New York University School of Law, noted that the law was clear and that the judge should have recused himself from these cases where he had a conflict. Professor Steven Lubet, of Northwestern University School of Law, by contrast characterized Payne's actions as "careless mistakes" that were not very significant in terms of the cases or his career. Some lawyers in Oklahoma praised Payne's integrity, and said that most of his actions were "routine and procedural." But some plaintiffs were unhappy to learn of his conflict of interest while presiding over their cases.

According to available financial records, which dated to 1999, Judge Payne also had participated in cases in which he held stock in affected companies while he was serving as a magistrate judge in the Eastern District Court of Oklahoma. This information was not discovered during the review of his nomination as a federal district judge to the seat for the three districts in Oklahoma.

As a result of the Salon article and questions raised, the American Bar Association on February 21 re-evaluated Judge Payne's nomination and downgraded their original judicial rating of him from "well qualified" to "qualified". In addition, the Senate Judiciary Committee and the chief judge of the 10th Circuit said they would investigate Payne's record further.

While saying the "allegations were without merit", Judge Payne withdrew his nomination on March 8, 2006. He offered no further response to the article and refused to respond to the reporter seeking comments. He wrote to President Bush saying that he needed to oversee renovation of information technology systems of the District Courthouse in Muskogee. The allegations concerning financial conflicts of interest created the appearance of "extraordinary circumstances", which would have prevented his confirmation under the terms of the Gang of 14 deal.

On May 4, 2006, President Bush nominated Jerome A. Holmes for the position at the Appeals Court. Holmes was confirmed by the Senate less than three months later.

See also

George W. Bush judicial appointment controversies

References

External links

 Department of Justice Resume

1941 births
Living people
Assistant United States Attorneys
University of Oklahoma alumni
University of Oklahoma College of Law alumni
Judges of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Oklahoma
Judges of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma
Judges of the United States District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma
United States district court judges appointed by George W. Bush
21st-century American judges
United States magistrate judges
People from Lubbock, Texas


The Berlin Open officially known as the West Berlin Open was a men's tennis tournament founded in 1896 as a combined event (women included) called the Championships of Berlin until 1914, following World War I the event was known as the Berlin Championships. The event was first played at the Lawn-Tennis-Turnier-Club until 1906.  In 1907 it moved to Grunewald, and a new venue the Rot-Weiss Tennis Club. Following World War II the tournament was branded as the West Berlin International Championships. It then ran annually until 1973 as a combined event when the women's tournament was discontinued.  The men's event carried on until 1983 when it was last held in West Berlin, West Germany.  The event was part of the Grand Prix circuit and was played on outdoor clay courts.

Finals

Men's singles

Men's doubles

Women's singles

See also
 European Indoor Championships – men's tournament held in Berlin (1990–1991)
 German Pro Championships  – men's professional tournament held in Berlin (1911–1952)

Notes

References

External links
 ATP 1973 Berlin Open
 ATP 1976 Berlin Open

Grand Prix tennis circuit
Defunct tennis tournaments in Germany
Clay court tennis tournaments
Sports competitions in Berlin
Berlin Open


Mikhail Alekseyevich Meandrov () (22 October 1894 – 1 August 1946) was an Imperial Russian and later Soviet officer. Taken prisoner by the Germans in World War II near Leningrad in 1941, he later became an important commander (general) in the Nazi-allied Russian Liberation Army. Taken prisoner by the Soviets, he was executed in 1946.

Early career
Meandrov graduated from an officer academy at the time of World War I. During that conflict, he fought on the Southwestern Front. He originally commanded the 37th Rifle Corps, before being reassigned to the command staff of the 6th Army in 1941. He fought around Kiev and later was taken prisoner by German Army forces near Uman.

Defection and death
Meandrov joined Lieutenant General Andrey Vlasov, a Red Army defector, in the Russian Liberation Army (Русская освободительная армия, РОА; in Latin "ROA"), and was promoted to the rank of major general. He fought with the ROA until the end of the war, and was captured by the Red Army. He was found guilty of treason and was executed in Moscow, on 1 August 1946, with eleven other ROA officers, including Vlasov.

References

External links
  Biography
  K. M. Alexandrov, Офицерский корпус армии генерал-лейтенанта А. А. Власова 1944-1945, Moscow 2001
 Russian Wikipedia

1894 births
1946 deaths
Military personnel from Moscow
People from Moskovsky Uyezd
Expelled members of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Soviet colonels
Russian military personnel of World War I
Soviet military personnel of the Russian Civil War
Soviet military personnel of the Winter War
Soviet military personnel of World War II
Russian Liberation Army personnel
Executed people from Moscow
Executed military leaders
Executed Soviet people from Russia
Executed Russian collaborators with Nazi Germany
Russian people executed by the Soviet Union
People executed by the Soviet Union by hanging


That's Them is the second studio album by American hip hop duo Artifacts. It was released by Big Beat Records in 1997. It peaked at number 134 on the Billboard 200 chart, number 3 on the Heatseekers Albums chart, and number 25 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart.

Track listing

Charts

References

External links

1997 albums
Artifacts (group) albums
Atlantic Records albums
Albums produced by Showbiz (producer)
Albums produced by Lord Finesse
Albums produced by Da Beatminerz


Lula, Son of Brazil (; ) is a 2009 biographical Brazilian film based on the early life of Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Directed by Fábio Barreto, the film was released on January 1, 2010. Upon its release, Lula, Son of Brazil was the most expensive Brazilian film ever, with a budget of over 17 million reais, being later surpassed by Nosso Lar. The film was unanimously chosen by a Ministry of Culture commission as Brazil's submission to the 83rd Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, despite not having been chosen to compete.

The film was a commercial and critical failure. Critics charged that it was election propaganda, fostering a cult of personality.

Plot
The film begins in October 1945 in Garanhuns, a municipality in the countryside of Pernambuco, when Luiz Inácio da Silva, nicknamed Lula, is born as the seventh child of Dona Lindu and Aristides. Two weeks after his birth, Aristides moves to Santos, a coastal city in São Paulo, with Dona Mocinha, a cousin of Dona Lindu. Lindu raises Lula's siblings alone until December 1952, when the family moves to Santos to meet the patriarch. Upon their arrival, Dona Lindu discovers that Aristides had formed a second family with Dona Mocinha.

Aristides' two families live in the same house and, as time goes on, they struggle to survive. Lula and his siblings attend elementary school and work as street vendors. Later, Lindu leaves the alcoholic and abusive Aristides and moves with her children to São Paulo. Lula receives certification as a lathe operator and gets a formal job in the automobile industry, where he loses a finger in a press. This and his brother Ziza's arrest lead him into trade union activism, which made him nationally known in a period when such activities were forbidden. Lula is incarcerated for his activities, just as his mother dies.

Production
Based on the book of the same name by journalist Denise Paraná, the film narrates the story of Lula from his birth until his mother's death, when he was a 35-year-old union leader detained by the political police of the military dictatorship. The screenplay was written by Paraná, Fábio Barreto and Daniel Tendler. Writer Fernando Bonassi was hired to supervise it.

João Miguel, better known for his role in Cinema, Aspirinas e Urubus, was initially cast as Lula, but declined due to scheduling problems. Tay Lopez was then cast, but declined due to medical reasons, since the role required him to gain and lose weight quickly and he suffers from hypertension. Little known 30-year-old stage actor Rui Ricardo Dias was then cast as Lula. Other cast members includes Glória Pires as Lula's mother Dona Lindu, Cléo Pires as Lula's first wife Lourdes and Juliana Baroni as Marisa Letícia Lula da Silva. Lucélia Santos, a close friend of Lula, played a small role as his teacher. Milhem Cortaz, known for playing a corrupt police officer in the Golden Bear-winning film Tropa de Elite, was cast as Lula's father Aristides.

The film was produced by Luiz Carlos Barreto and Paula Barreto, father and sister of the director, respectively. The budget of the film was relatively high for Brazilian cinema standards: over 17 million reais (more than 9.5 million U.S. dollars). The Barretos, who supported Lula in both 2002 and 2006 presidential elections, claimed to have obtained financing without government funds in order to repel criticism from their work. According to Agência Estado, however, the film was sponsored by several construction firms, something extremely unusual for the Brazilian film market. Three of these companies maintain direct business with the federal government.

The shooting of the film began in late January 2009 in the Pernambuco municipality of Garanhuns, Lula's hometown. In February, the second phase of the production began in Santos and Guarujá, cities on the coast of São Paulo where Lula spent most of his childhood. The shooting was predicted to end on March 21, 2009. The film was then edited in time to premiere in some film festivals prior to its wide release in Brazilian cinemas on January 1, 2010.

Cast

Main cast:
 Rui Ricardo Dias as Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
 Glória Pires as Dona Lindu
 Juliana Baroni as Marisa Letícia
 Cléo Pires as Lourdes da Silva
 Milhem Cortaz as Aristides
 Sóstenes Vidal as Ziza

Supporting cast:
 Guillerme Tortólio as adolescent Lula
 Felipe Falanga as young Lula
 Rayana Cavalho as Dona Mocinha
 Lucélia Santos as Lula's teacher
 Antonio Pitanga as Mr. Cristóvão
 Celso Frateschi as Mr. Álvaro
 Marcos Cesana as Cláudio Feitosa
 Clayton Mariano as Lambari
 Mariah Teixeira as Marinete
 Suzana Costa as midwife
 Jones Melo as salesman
 José Ramos as Pau de Arara driver
 Antonio Saboia as Vavá
 Eduardo Acaiabe as Geraldão
 Marat Descartes as Arnaldo
 Nei Piacentini as Dr. Miguel
 Luccas Papp as Lambari (age 15)
 Vanessa Bizarro as Lourdes (age 13)
 Maicon Gouveia as Jaime
 Jonas Mello as Tosinho
 Fernando Alves Pinto as journalist
 Fernanda Laranjeira as Tiana

Historical background
Some facts of Lula's early life coincides with several aspects of the Brazilian history, and this is a reason why Paraná decided to write her book, which was also her Ph.D. dissertation at the University of São Paulo History School. During her research for the book, Paraná interviewed Lula himself and several people connected to him. According to her, while listening to Lula's statements, she thought that it was "a poorly written movie script, because everything fits".

Among the facts of Lula's life and the history of Brazil that "fits" together, according to the author, are the death of his first wife by malpractice during labour at the same time that Brazil had one of the highest rates in the world of death in childbirth, the migration of his family to São Paulo at the same time which Brazil was struggling with its largest internal migration wave and Lula's father developing alcoholism at the same time there was an epidemic incidence of this disease in the Northeast region of Brazil.

Soundtrack

The soundtrack was composed by Antonio Pinto. The musical taste of Lula was faithfully followed in the preparation of the soundtrack. He requested the sertanejo duo Zezé Di Camargo & Luciano to record "Meu Primeiro Amor", a version of "Lejanía" by Paraguayan composer Herminio Giménez adapted into Portuguese by José Fortuna. The former president also requested the inclusion of two remarkable songs in his life and emotional memories: "Nossa Canção", a romantic samba by Luiz Ayrão, recorded by Nana Caymmi especially for the soundtrack, and "Desesperar Jamais" by Ivan Lins and Vitor Martins, recorded by Ivan and samba player Roberto Ribeiro. The soundtrack is complemented with songs contemporary to the years represented in the film, such as "Sentimental Demais" by Altemar Dutra, "Estúpido Cupido" by Celly Campelo, "Saudosa Maloca" by Demônios da Garoa, and even "Pra Frente Brasil", an anthem for the Brazil national football team during the 1970 FIFA World Cup. The film's soundtrack album was released a month before the film, marking the first time this had ever happeneded in Brazil.

Release

Although it had not been chosen by the competitive selection of the 42nd Brasilia Film Festival, the film premiered at the event's opening in the Brazilian federal capital on November 18, 2009. At least 300 employees of the presidential palace Palácio do Planalto attended. In Lula's home state of Pernambuco, the film premiered in Recife on November 19, being attended by several politicians and the president's relatives. On November 28, Lula himself attended the film's premiere in São Bernardo do Campo, the city where he began his political activities. The film also premiered in João Pessoa and Rio de Janeiro later in 2009. According to Regina Rito's gossip column on newspaper O Dia, the film's international premiere was held in Washington, D.C. at the request of American president Barack Obama. On January 1, 2010, the film received its wide release, debuting at over 500 cinemas all over Brazil.

Unionized workers were able to purchase the film's tickets for 5 reals (about 2,5 U.S. dollars) between November 20 and December 31, 2009, after a deal made between labour unions Central Única dos Trabalhadores and Força Sindical and the producers. Since its wide release on January 1, 2010, unionized workers were able to buy tickets with a 50% discount.

The film's DVD release took place in May 2009. It has affordable prices, from 10 to 12 reais (around 5 to 7 U.S. dollars), in order to counteract piracy. The DVD has more than 10 extra features, including an exclusive interview with Lula about the film. Upon the DVD release, Tadeu Damiani, president of the Union of Video Rentals of the State of São Paulo and member of opposition party PPS, had sent an open letter to 2,800 video rental stores in the state recommending that they should not buy or rent the film. He spread his plea throughout video rental associations and trade unions in the country. The reason he gave for starting the campaign was the fact that Lula had watched 2 Filhos de Francisco before being released, encouraging piracy. But, there is no evidence that proves that President Lula had watched by illegal means.

On September 23, 2010, Lula, Son of Brazil premiered in Argentina. It was screened on 20 cinemas in Buenos Aires, La Plata and Mar del Plata. The release in  Argentina had been delayed for four months in order to enjoy the atmosphere of the presidential election in Brazil. Initially, the producers had planned to release the film simultaneously in all South American countries, but logistical issues and the reduced time prevented the plan from taking place. In the United States, the premiere is scheduled for February or March 2011. The distribution will be done by New Yorker Films, which had dropped the film after the Brazil–Turkey–Iran agreement in fear of a boycott led by the Jewish community. The film's ending clip has been modified for foreign audiences. According to producer Luiz Carlos Barreto, the international distributors wanted to highlight Lula's consecration as a global leader. "Instead of pictures in the Northeast, with his family, they want pictures with Obama and the Queen of the United Kingdom. We had this available, but avoided putting it in the original version in order not to get very jingoistic", he said.

The film has two scheduled dates for television premiere. It will be featured on Canal Brasil's programming in February if the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announces that the film will compete for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Otherwise, it will be aired in March, in accordance with the rules of the academy.

Reception

Public
Lula, Son of Brazil was a commercial flop, grossing only two million reals (around one million U.S. dollars) in its first week of release, being watched by no more than 200,000 people. In spite of the controversy surrounding the film, it was still the second in box office receipts that week, behind Avatar. As of January 8, the film had been watched by almost 320,000 people. At the end of its theatrical run, the film had sold 852,212 tickets, making it only the 7th highest-grossing national production of 2010 in Brazil.

After watching the film in London, British Indian actor Ben Kingsley said that "this film is important for the whole world", adding that "[Lula's] history is bigger than Gandhi's". Kingsley won the Academy Award for Best Actor in 1982 for his performance as Mahatma Gandhi in the eponymous film.

Criticism
Alexei Barrionuevo, correspondent for The New York Times in Brazil, criticized the film for "failing to mention that Lula abandoned his girlfriend, Miriam Cordeiro, when she was six months pregnant". Lurian Cordeiro, Lula's daughter with Miriam, sent a letter to the editor saying that her mother was not "abandoned". Cordeiro said that Lula not only paid for all of her mother's medical costs, but also legally recognized her as his daughter on the very day after her birth. She also noted the fact that none of Lula's children are mentioned in the film, questioning that "If the movie is about my father's path from impoverished immigrant to trade union leader, where do my brothers and I fit in?". She finished the letter by saying that she "loved the film" and that she agrees "with President Obama: Lula is the man!".

On March 15, 2010, Brazilian magazine Veja made a list of the top 10 worst Brazilian films of all time, and Lula, Son of Brazil was featured in ninth place. The list's author, Pollyane Lima e Silva, stated: "The director, Fábio Barreto, went on to say that his intention was not to be faithful to reality, but was, instead, 'to do a melodrama'. And he was successful, since many scenes shown in the film never happened, and others were exaggerated so that Lula could seem like a hero".

It currently holds a 33% "Rotten" rating at Rotten Tomatoes.

Political criticism
The film has been criticized by the Brazilian press for being released in an electoral year, while Lula was trying to elect his successor Dilma Rousseff. The release date would represent a deliberate attempt to influence the outcome of the election, in order to help Lula's candidate. Rousseff admitted in an interview that the film could influence the outcome of the election. But she added that "there is no possible way to measure the effect of this". The DVD release date, scheduled for May 2010, has also been criticized, as the electoral debate would be warming up. In November 2009, it was revealed that Rede Globo bought the exclusive television rights for the film, but decided to broadcast it only after the elections.

The biggest criticism, however, is that the film ignores less flattering aspects of Lula's career. According to O Globo'''s Ricardo Noblat, the film represents an attempt to eliminate all of Lula' failures, making him look like the almost perfect protagonist, showing him in an overly romanticized and heroic role. This would also have electoral purposes, according to him. The film was also criticized by opposition politicians, the press and by many Brazilians because many of the companies that invested in the film (such as the heavy construction firms Odebrecht and Camargo Correa, as well as electric utilities) depend on government concessions and have major contracts with the federal government.The New York Times Barrionuevo also said that the film may have an impact in the presidential election. He noted that while Lula can not run for re-election, "he hopes to transfer his popularity to his chief of staff and chosen successor, Dilma Rousseff". "Political analysts sees the movie as part of the renovation of the myth of Lula, which could help him return to power in 2014", he added.

Glória Pires, which played Lula's mother in the film, said that Lula, Son of Brazil was a victim of political prejudice. According to her, "people saw another movie (...); the film I was in was based on a beautiful story of overcoming adversities, which was about a man that would become president, and not only a movie about the president itself". Main actor Rui Ricardo Dias said that "those in power today do not depend on this film for absolutely anything. Nor is this production going to change anything in the course of the elections".

Academy Award submission
On September 23, 2010, Lula, Son of Brazil was unanimously chosen by government Ministry of Culture commission as Brazil's submission to the 83rd Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. The commission was formed by nine government officials, including members of the Ministry, the Brazilian Film Academy, the Audiovisual Secretariat, and the National Agency for Cinema. According to Roberto Farias, president of the Brazilian Film Academy and representative for the commission, "we voted in the film that seemed most well done, which honors the Brazilian film industry and has as an actress like Glória Pires, who becomes an excellent candidate for the Best Actress award".

Director Daniel Filho, whose film Chico Xavier was also in the competition to represent Brazil at the Oscars, criticized the Ministry's choice, labelling it as political, and saying that the film's title should have been Lula, the Owner of Brazil. Arnaldo Jabor, whose film A Suprema Felicidade'' was also in the competition for the submission, chose not to comment on the Ministry's choice, saying that the commission "must have had reasons" to choose the film.

According to producer Paula Barreto, the film may not be the best among the 23 competitors for the submission, but is the most adequate for the Academy Awards. She believes that the film was "analyzed by reputable people, who know the film industry and also how the Oscar dispute works". Farias responded the criticism for his commission's choice by saying that "our position has nothing to do with politics". The film didn't make the shortlist published in January 2011.

References

External links

 Lula, The Son of Brazil

2009 films
Brazilian biographical films
Films about Brazilian military dictatorship
Films directed by Fábio Barreto
Films based on biographies
Films set in São Paulo
Films shot in São Paulo
Films set in 1945
Films set in the 1950s
Films set in the 1960s
Films set in the 1970s
2000s Portuguese-language films
Biographical films about presidents of Brazil
Films scored by Antônio Pinto


Michael LaCour (born April 22, 1987), known by his stage name Blackie (styled in all caps with spaces, B L A C K I E)  is an American rapper, songwriter, record producer, and musician. His experimental style combines hip hop, hardcore punk, noise, industrial and electronic.

History
Michael LaCour first began B-L-A-C-K-I-E as a project through assembling his own sound systems; at one time his sound system was rumored to consist of over twenty speakers and to be estimated at more than 5,000 watts, and these sound systems would propel LaCour to local recognition. Often set up on the floors of nightclubs and warehouses, his massive speaker arrangement coupled with his energetic and many times unscheduled performances caused him to become legendary in Houston. He is featured on the cover of the book Houston Rap Tapes: An Oral History of Bayou City Hip-Hop.

Music and style
LaCour's project has been called a "one-man noise ordinance violation", and his sound has been described as "equal parts fucked-up electronics, distorted pop-cult samples, guitar feedback, video game noise, and angry-as-hell street flow". He at one point called it "U.S. Grime" and "Thrash-Rap", among other names.

LaCour's energetic live performances, often engaging with crowds, made him a fan and college-radio favorite in the 2010s. LaCour has explained in interview that the spelling and spacing of the epithet that he uses as his stage name was chosen for visceral as well as aesthetic reasons. The artist states, "...I started writing it down, like over and over and when I would write it normal like just with the B capitalized it looked ugly, I didn’t like how it looked. Then I started writing it in all caps real big all over the paper and I thought it looked really intimidating, really good..."

Discography

Albums
Wilderness of North America (2008)
GEN (2012)
IMAGINE YOUR SELF IN A FREE AND NATURAL WORLD (2014)
REMAINS (2017)
FACE THE DARKNESS (2020)
FACE THE DARKNESS II (2021)

Extended plays
B L A C K I E (2005)
Spred Luv (2009)
True Spirit and Not Giving a Fuck (2011)
Fuck the False (2012)

References

External links

1987 births
Living people
Rappers from Houston
American experimental musicians
21st-century American rappers


Robert Hakim (19 December 1907 – 9 February 1992) and Raymond Hakim (23 August 1909 – 14 August 1980) were Egyptian-born brothers who usually worked in collaboration as film producers in France and other European countries. Their brother André Hakim was also a film producer.

Film production

Initially working for the American company Paramount, they formed the company Paris-Film Production in 1934. They financed Julien Duvivier's Pépé le Moko (1937), Jean Renoir's La Bête Humaine (1938) and Marcel Carné's Le Jour se lève (Daybreak 1939), all starring Jean Gabin. The brothers lived to the United States during World War II.

After the war they worked on several American films, including Renoir's The Southerner (1945) and The Long Night (1947), a remake of Le Jour se lève with Henry Fonda.

In 1950, they returned to France and embarked on producing films aimed at an international audience. Casque d'or (1953) effectively launched the career of Simone Signoret and Plein Soleil (1960) did the same for Alain Delon. Notre Dame de Paris (1956) with Anthony Quinn as Quasimodo and Gina Lollobrigida as Esmeralda was internationally successful, but not critically well received.

In the 1960s, they made two films with a nouvelle vague director, Claude Chabrol with À double tour (Web of Passion, 1959) and Les Bonnes Femmes (1960), but worked with older directors, like Luis Buñuel on Belle de jour (1967). On other occasions, they worked with someone relatively new to international audiences, such as Michelangelo Antonioni on L'Eclisse (1962). They also worked with Roger Vadim on a remake of La Ronde (1964), which starred Vadim's then wife, Jane Fonda.

The Hakims have a mixed reputation; American director Joseph Losey had an especially fraught relationship with them while making Eva (1962). In post-production, Losey and his team found the film had been recut during the weekend without their consultation; Losey and Robert Hakim almost came to blows. Michel Legrand was commissioned for the score without consultation too, but like actor Jeanne Moreau, was not paid a fee.

Selected filmography
 The Kiss of Fire (1937)
 Lights of Paris (1938)

References

Egyptian film producers
French film producers
Egyptian emigrants to France
People from Alexandria
Sibling duos


Estadio Olímpico is a multi-use stadium in Concepción de la Vega, Dominican Republic.  It is currently used mostly for football matches and hosts the home games of Jarabacoa of the Liga Dominicana de Fútbol.  The stadium holds 7,000 spectators.

Renovations
The terrains was renovated after the 2015 Liga Dominicana de Fútbol, and now is up to the requirements of the CONCACAF.

External links
Stadium information

Olimpico
Buildings and structures in La Vega Province
La Vega, Dominican Republic


Iraqi Revolutionary Communists () was the name of an Iraqi political organization, founded in 1973. The group was formed as a split from the Revolutionary Committee of the Iraqi Communist Party led by Salim al-Fakhri. The group was led by Tahsin Ali Ash-Shaikhli (alias 'Yahia al-Iraqi').

Ash-Shaikhli had been a student activist and joined the Revolutionary Committee in 1964. He was jailed in 1969. Following his release in 1970 he escaped to Jordan but left for Beirut following Black September. In Beirut Ash-Shaikhli maintained contacts with revolutionary leaders such as Abdullah Öcalan.

The Organization of Iraqi Revolutionary Communists called for complete rejection of Baathist rule and appealed for armed struggle against the regime. Moreover, it questioned why the Iraqi Communist Party had entered into an alliance with the Baathists, and issued criticism against perceived lack of internal democracy in the Communist Party.

The organization published a periodical called al-Asas from Beirut.

Ash-Shaikhli was assassinated in Beirut on March 24, 1980, allegedly by agents of the Iraqi regime. Another key cadre of the group, Ali, was killed in Kurdistan.

References

Defunct communist parties in Iraq
Rebel groups in Iraq


L'Anse Creuse High School is a public, magnet high school in Harrison Township, Michigan, United States. It is one of two high schools in the L'Anse Creuse Public Schools district, with the other being L'Anse Creuse High School - North.

Demographics
The demographic breakdown of the 1,629 students enrolled in 2012-2013 was:
Male - 48.8%
Female - 51.2%
Native American/Alaskan - 0.4%
Asian/Pacific islanders - 1.1%
Black - 14.5%
Hispanic - 2.5%
White - 77.6%
Multiracial - 3.8%

Additionally, 33.9% of the students were eligible for free or reduced lunch.

Notable alumni
 Uncle Kracker, musician and rapper
 Lary Sorensen, former Detroit Tigers announcer and former MLB player

References

External links
 L'Anse Creuse High School

Public high schools in Michigan
Schools in Macomb County, Michigan


Mann Vasanai () is a 1983 Indian Tamil-language romantic drama film directed by Bharathiraja. The film stars debutants Pandiyan and Revathi, with Vinu Chakravarthy, Gandhimathi, and Y. Vijaya in supporting roles. It was released on 16 September  1983 and ran for over 200 days in theatres, besides winning the Filmfare Award for Best Film – Tamil. The film was remade in Telugu as Mangammagari Manavadu (1984).

Plot
Ochayi, a widow, lives in Karisalpatti village with her son Veerannan, a school dropout. Ochayi's daughter is married to Mookkaiya Thevar, whose daughter is Muthupechi. Malaichamy Thevar, the chief of the neighbouring village, is the patron of the village school, where children from both villages study. Mookkaiya Thevar has an extramarital affair with Hamsavalli and spends most of his time and money on her. Though Muthupechi secretly nurtures a desire to marry her maternal uncle Veerannan, he does not think along those lines as their families are not on talking terms due to a dispute over a field that was to be gifted as dowry to Mookkaiya at the time of his wedding. Though Mookkaiya has a grownup daughter, he pressures his wife to get the dowry owed to him from Ochayi. However, Ochayi does not yield to the pressure as she feels that Mookkaiya, the womaniser, would squander it on his other women.

A new teacher joins the village and falls in love with Muthupechi. When Muthupechi attains puberty, Mookkaiya organises a ceremony but does not invite Ochayi and Veerannan, her suitor, to perform rituals as per tradition. Enraged, Veerannan creates a ruckus. The villagers support him and advise Mookkaiya to invite Ochayi and Veerannan. Mookkaiya relents. All rituals take place and Muthupechi feels happy for having drawn the attention of Veerannan. Veerannan, who had all the while ignored Muthupechi, now gets attracted to her and they start meeting each other secretly. Veerannan promises to marry Muthupechi. Hamsavalli's brother Muthukalai asks Mookkaiya why he was not invited to perform the rituals of a suitor at Muthupechi's function. Though Mookkaiya is having an illicit relationship with Hamsavalli, he looks down upon them and is irritated with Muthukalai's desire.

During a jallikattu festival in the village, Veerannan fights with a bull belonging to Malaichamy and wins a gold chain as a prize. Upset with his bull being subdued by Veerannan, Malaichamy schemes to teach a lesson to Mookkaiya who constantly boasts about his bull. He manipulates Mookkaiya into announcing that the person who controls his bull will win Muthupechi as the prize. Muthukalai feeds Mookkaiya's bull medicinal herbs, resulting in Malaichami's man subduing the bull. Malaichamy demands that Mookkaiya get Muthupechi's man married to the winning man. When Mookkaiya returns home, his wife berates him, saying he has no right to declare his daughter as a prize. Mookkaiya, realising his mistake and the precarious situation he has created, kills his bull and himself.

Malaichamy does not relent; he approaches the Karisalpatti Panchayat and demands that Muthupechi should be married to his person. The Panchayat refuses and advises Malaichamy to forget the bet. When Malaichamy challenges the Panchayat and demands Muthupechi, the Panchayat makes necessary arrangements to get Muthupechi married to Veerannan by the next morning so that this issue will end. When Veerannan is returning after getting the necessary items, he is attacked by Malaichami's hoodlums. He fights and knocks out some of them. Fearing arrest, he runs away from the village and everyone assumes him to be dead. Unrelenting, Malaichamy comes with his villagers, camps at Karisalpatti and demands that Muthupechi be given to him. When the Panchayat refuses, a fight erupts between the two villages. The police intervenes, bans the Panchayat and imposes restrictions on the movement of people in the villages. Enraged, Malaichamy closes the school run by him in Karisalpatti. However, the teachers plead with him and finally, run the school in the open.

To pressure the Karisalpatti villagers, Malaichamy orders his villagers to send back women who are natives of Karisalpatti, which leads to several women coming back to Karisalpatti. Muthupechi gets depressed with these happenings and feels guilty. But her villagers take it as a prestige issue and protect her. She is also worried about Veerannan, who has not contacted her or his mother after running away. The school teacher, who loves Muthupechi, understanding her emotional turmoil, sends her letters in Veerannan's name every week, which makes her happy and makes his family hope they will see him one day. A year passes, but the impasse between the two villages continues. One day, Muthupechi gets two letters: one from Veerannan announcing his arrival, the other from the teacher. She is excited and anxiously awaits Veerannan's arrival. The next day, Veerannan arrives with his wife. Both Ochayi and Muthupechi are shocked. Veerannan explains the situation which led to his leaving the village, his joining the army and marrying the girl to save her. Muthupechi empathises with his villagers. Malaichamy returns with his villagers and demands Muthupechi to be handed over to them.

The villagers of Karisalpatti decide that enough is enough and ask Veerannan to accept Muthupechi as his second wife to protect the village honour but Muthupechi refuses, keeping in mind the welfare of Veerannan's wife. The villagers get upset with her decision, excommunicate and leave them. Malaichamy gets the message that Muthupechi is no longer under the villagers' protection, reaches the village and abducts her. When Veerannan learns of this, he goes to fight with them and rescue her. In the fight, Veerannan's wife gets killed by Malaichamy. Enraged, Muthupechi takes the trident of the temple to kill Malaichamy. At the same time, Veerannan, after beating the other men, also comes to kill Malaichamy and succeeds. Muthupechi realises Veerannan's love for her and they unite.

Cast
Pandiyan as Veerannan
Revathi as Muthupechi
Vijayan as Mookkaiyan
Gandhimathi as Ochayi
Nizhalgal Ravi as School Teacher
Vinu Chakravarthy
K. K. Soundar
Janagaraj as School Teacher
Y. Vijaya
S. Sathyendra

Production
The film's actor Pandiyan was spotted by director Bharathiraja, while seeing him selling bangles in Madurai and offered him the lead role. Asha Kelunni Nair was spotted by Bharathiraja, who was searching for a new heroine for the same film, and went on to play the female lead of the film, making her acting debut. She was given the screen name Revathi. While filming the climax scene, Bharathiraja slapped Revathi to ensure that she cried as required for the script, rather than use glycerine.

Soundtrack
The music was composed by Ilaiyaraaja.

Release and reception
Mann Vasanai was released on 16 September 1983. Ananda Vikatan, in a review dated 2 October 1983, rated the film 48 out of 100. S. Shivakumar of Mid-Day wrote "A love story based on a real incident is a trifle too long with some unnecessary song sequences but all this is compensated for by the technical brilliance" and appreciated the performances of Pandian and Revathi. Jayamanmadhan of Kalki praised the acting of star cast, Kannan's cinematography and Ilaiyaraaja's music but felt as there is no care in plotting the story and what should be given in what proportion, when we come out of the theatre, only vibrations are left in our chest and concluded there is more of smell of blood than the smell of sand. The film ran for over 200 days in theatres. It won the Filmfare Award for Best Film – Tamil, and Revathi received Filmfare Special Award – South for her performance in the film.

In other media
Mann Vasanai was parodied in the Star Vijay comedy series Lollu Sabha in an episode titled Masala Vasanai ().

References

External links

1980s Tamil-language films
1983 films
1983 romantic drama films
Films directed by Bharathiraja
Films scored by Ilaiyaraaja
Films with screenplays by Bharathiraja
Indian romantic drama films
Tamil films remade in other languages


Estadio Anna Mercedes Campos is a multi-use stadium in Sonsonate, El Salvador. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home stadium of Sonsonate. The stadium holds 10,000 spectators.

It is named after Ana Mercedes Campos “La Morocha”, a javelin gold medallist in the 1954 Central American and Caribbean Games held in Mexico.

References

External links
Stadium information

Anna Mercedes Campos
C.D. Sonsonate


Heinrich Lilienfein (20 November 1879 - 20 December 1954) was a German writer.

Literary works
 Der Stier von Olivera, 1910
 Das fressend Feuer, 1932
 Die Stunde Karls XII, 1938
 Besuch aus Holland, 1943
 Licht und Irrlicht, 1943
 Anna Amalia, 1949
 Bettina, 1949

1879 births
1954 deaths
German male writers


The Mata River is a river of the East Coast of the North Island of New Zealand. It flows northeast from the slopes of Mount Arowhana in the Raukumara Range to join with the Tapuaeroa River close to the settlement of Ruatoria, in doing so forming the Waiapu River, which reaches the Pacific Ocean near Rangitukia,  south of East Cape.

Coordinates
Source
Mouth

Rivers of the Gisborne District
Rivers of New Zealand


The  was developed by the Avionics and Supersonic Aerodynamics (AVSA) research group in the early days of the Japanese space program.  A prominent engineer on the project was Hideo Itokawa.  The rocket was first launched on 12 April 1955.  The dimensions were 23 cm in length by 1.8 cm in diameter, weighing 200 grams.

Development of the Pencil rocket system started in 1954 when Hideo Itokawa formed a center for rocket development at the University of Tokyo. In 1955, Itokawa's team, began conducting experimental launches of pencil-type rockets. The team launched 29 rockets over their course of these first experiments in space launch. Afterwards, the team expanded its focus to atmospheric observation with the larger Kappa 6 rocket.

Japan donated a full-scale replica of the Pencil test rocket to the U.S. National Air and Space Museum in 1974.

References

External links

Space program of Japan
Japanese inventions


Estadio Hans Usko is a multi-use stadium in Guazapa, El Salvador.  It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home stadium of AD El Tránsito ADET.  The stadium holds 3,000 spectators.
The stadium was named in tribute to Hans Gunter Usko the former head of Bayer, who was a major sponsor to ADET, who was killed in a robbery gone wrong .

External links
Stadium information

Hanz Usko


Estadio Las Delicias is a multi-use stadium in Santa Tecla, El Salvador.  It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home stadium of Santa Tecla F.C. The stadium holds 10,000 spectators.

Sport events
The stadium will be one of the venues for the 2023 Central American and Caribbean Games.

References

External links

  (Stadium Information)

Las Delicias


A heraldic knot (referred to in heraldry as simply a knot) is a knot, unknot, or design incorporating a knot used in European heraldry. While a given knot can be used on more than one family's achievement of arms, the family on whose coat the knot originated usually gives its name to the said knot (the exception being the Tristram knot). These knots can be used to charge shields and crests, but can also be used in badges or as standalone symbols of the families for whom they are named (like Scottish plaids). The simplest of these patterns, the Bowen knot, is often referred to as the heraldic knot in symbolism and art outside of heraldry.

Heraldic knots

References

Decorative knots
Knot

Knot


Kinkynasti is the second studio album by American hip hop group Five Deez. It was released on Studio !K7 in 2003.

Critical reception

Spin wrote that "this brainy, brawny crew straddle urban tough, dirty smoove, and indie introspective. It's a tough mix, but Pase Rock and Fat Jon the Ample Soul Physician keep it flowing like happy hour." Del F. Cowie of Exclaim! described Kinkynasti as "a cohesive and intelligently crafted affair that remains loose and carefree enough to retain and reinvigorate hip-hop's celebratory aspects." David Morris of PopMatters said, "What comes out is beautiful, funky, propulsive, and dreamy, but it is also undeniably hip-hop, and anything but soft." Gabe Gloden of Stylus Magazine found the lyrics as "sonic drapery" for Fat Jon's "discernable ear for details" in crafting party-ready hip-hop beats that grab the listeners' attention, concluding that, "Kinkynasti is one of those albums that every DJ should have in his/her bag, an album exhibiting a mood and style that could complement the flow of any dance music set." AllMusic's David Jeffries was critical of the "overall zaniness" in Fat Jon's musicianship almost obscuring the competent rapping on highlights like "Funky" and "B Girl", concluding that "[W]ith a lackluster collaboration with German dubmeister Pole behind him, Kinkynasti adds a more satisfying addition to Fat Jon's curious universe." Despite Fat Jon's production and the story raps in "Kissy Face" and "The Boostin Jam", Vibe writer David A. Herron found the record to be lackluster with the group delivering unmemorable lyrics and vocal performances on tracks that "sound like one song that goes on for much too long."

Track listing

References

External links

2003 albums
Studio !K7 albums
Albums produced by Fat Jon


We Are the Ocean are  a four-piece English rock band from Loughton, Essex, consisting guitarist, vocalist Liam Cromby, bass guitarist Jack Spence, guitarist Alfie Scully and drummer Tom Whittaker. They are signed to Hassle Records in the United Kingdom and SideOneDummy Records in the United States.

Over the course of their career they have released four albums: Cutting Our Teeth in 2010, Go Now and Live in 2011, Maybe Today, Maybe Tomorrow in 2012, and Ark in 2015.

History

Formation and self-titled debut EP (2007–2008)

Dan Brown and Jack Spence were formerly in a band named Dead But Still Dreaming, and when they disbanded they set about finding new members for a new band. They had formed a full line-up again by 2007 with Liam Cromby, Rickie Bloom and Tom Whittaker, and still under the original name of Dead But Still Dreaming. After a while, Bloom left the band and was eventually replaced by Alfie Scully. Shortly after the creation of this line-up, the band decided on a new start with the name We Are the Ocean.

The band quickly shot to prominence thanks mainly to MySpace and were nominated for Kerrang! Best British Newcomer and voted K! Readers Poll 2nd best unsigned UK band. They released their debut EP entitled We Are the Ocean in 2008, selling 1000 limited edition copies in 1 day.

Cutting Our Teeth and subsequent touring (2008–2010)
We Are the Ocean have an extensive tour history, having toured all over the UK, Europe, the US and Australia. They have played countless festivals, including the main stage at Reading and Leeds Festival, Download Festival, and are one of few UK bands invited to play Bamboozle festival in New Jersey, USA, one of the largest alternative/punk festivals in the world.

We Are the Ocean started writing material for their debut album around December 2008. The album was produced by Brian McTernan (Thrice, The Bled, Converge) at Salad Days Studio in Baltimore, USA. They were originally aiming for a Summer 2009 release but for unknown reasons the album release date was delayed many times. Pushing back to November, then pushed back again to 25 January 2010, and finally pushed back to 1 February 2010.

The band re-released Cutting Our Teeth in October 2010 as a deluxe edition with a second disc, featuring the highly sought limited edition EP, and four unheard tracks. The re-release has received positive feedback from critics.

Departure of Dan Brown and Maybe Today, Maybe Tomorrow (2011–2013)
We Are the Ocean recorded their second album, titled Go Now and Live, with Pete Miles (The King Blues, Canterbury). The album's singles "What It Feels Like", "The Waiting Room" and "Runaway" were all playlisted on Radio 1, and received heavy rotation on many radio and television stations. The album reached number 45 in the chart in its first week.

On 1 March 2012, We Are the Ocean released that they will be entering the studio in May to record their third full-length album. On 5 June 2012, it was announced on their Facebook page that the band had parted ways with frontman Dan Brown, who would instead be pursuing a career as a band manager. Cromby will now be the primary vocalist.

Their third studio album Maybe today, Maybe Tomorrow was released in the UK on 17 September 2012.

On 30 March 2013 We Are the Ocean performed at Radstock Festival.

Ark and disbandment (2014–2017)
With new management now on board, the band recorded their fourth album, titled ARK, in the summer of 2014 and released an eponymous teaser single at the end of the year. They recorded a BBC Live Lounge session, playing an acoustic version of the track and a cover of London Grammar's 'Hey Now' which led to BMG/Infectious signing the band. ARK was released on 11 May 2015.

After embarking on and finishing a tour to support their new album, updates on future endeavours became rare. In early 2016, the band was dropped by their label for undisclosed reasons. Later that year, they asked for pictures from past concerts on Facebook. On 18 January 2017, We Are the Ocean announced their disbandment and a farewell tour through Europe in February and March. {{Citation needed|date=July 2023}}

Reunion (2022)

On July 15, 2022, the band issued a statement on Facebook about their reunion. They announced their first live show in five years, on October 15 in London's Omeara Venue. The band have not confirmed if they will release new music in addition to this.

Band members
Current members
 Liam Cromby – lead vocals, rhythm guitar, piano (2007–2017, 2022)
 Alfie Scully – lead guitar (2007–2017, 2022); vocals (2012–2017, 2022)
 Jack Spence – bass guitar, backing vocals (2007–2017, 2022)
 Tom Whittaker – drums, percussion (2007–2017, 2022)

Former members
 Dan Brown – lead vocals (2007–2012)

Timeline

Discography

Studio albums

Extended plays

Singles

Music videos
 "Save Me! Said the Saviour" (2007)
 "Nothing Good Has Happened Yet" (2008)
 "Welcome to My Broken Home"
 "Look Alive" (2009)
 "All of This Has to End" (2010)
 "These Days I Have Nothing" (2010)
 "Lucky Ones" (2010)
 "Waiting Room" (2011)
 "Runaway" (2011)
 "What It Feels Like" (2011)
 "Overtime Is a Crime" (2011)
 "The Road" (2012)
 "Young Heart" (2012)
 "Machine" (17 April 2013)
 "Chin Up, Son" (5 September 2013)
 "Holy Fire" (2015)
 "Do It Together" (2015)
 "Good For You" (2015)
 "Hey Now" (2015)
 "The Pretender (Foo Fighters cover)" (2015)

References

British post-hardcore musical groups
Hassle Records artists
Musical groups established in 2007
Musical groups disestablished in 2017


Estadio Mauricio Vides is a multi-use stadium in Ilobasco, El Salvador. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home stadium of C.D. El Roble. The stadium holds 4,000 spectators.

External links
Stadium information

Mauricio Vides


Estadio León Gómez is a football stadium in Tela, Honduras.  It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home stadium of Parrillas One.  The stadium holds 3,000 spectators.

External links
Stadium information

Leon Gomez


Adesoye Oyetundzhiyevich Oyevole (; born 18 September 1982) is a Russian football coach and a former defender of Nigerian heritage. He played as a central defender. He is an assistant manager with FC Dynamo Moscow.

Career
Born in Moscow to a Nigerian father and a Russian Tatar mother, Oyevole moved to Bida, Nigeria at early age, and moved back to Russia at 5.

International
Oyevole has played in Russian youth national teams.

External links
Profile

1982 births
Footballers from Moscow
Yoruba sportspeople
Russian people of Yoruba descent
Russian people of Nigerian descent
Living people
Russian men's footballers
Men's association football defenders
FC Zhemchuzhina-Sochi players
FC Ural Yekaterinburg players
FC Sibir Novosibirsk players
Russian Premier League players
FC Orenburg players
FC Tambov players


Estadio Javier Cruz 'Artes y Oficios' is a multi-purpose stadium. It located at the corner of Ricardo J. Alfaro Avenue and Vía Simón Bolivar in Panama City, Republic of Panama; close to Colegio de Artes Y Oficios Melchor Lasso de La Vega, from which it has received part of his name.  It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home stadium of Tierra Firme F.C. from the Liga Nacional de Ascenso.  The stadium holds 2,500 spectators.

External links
Stadium information

Javier Cruz 'Artes y Oficios'
Multi-purpose stadiums in Panama
Sports venues in Panama City


Michael Plowden (1958 - Pinhal Novo – 28 February 2008) was an American-born Portuguese naturalized basketball player and coach. He played as a power forward.

Plowden came to Portugal still in his 20s to play for Barreirense. He later would represent Benfica, in the best years of his career, winning several National Champion titles and the Cup of Portugal. Also important, in the last years of its career as a professional player, namely for its social and regional impact in the divulgation of basketball, was its passage by the club representing Alentejo Region: Juventude Sport Clube, from Évora, Portugal.

He was capped 61 times for Portugal, since 1988.

Plowden, after ending his player career, become a coach. He died suddenly while coaching Quintajense, at his team pavilion.

1958 births
2008 deaths
American men's basketball coaches
American men's basketball players
Portuguese basketball coaches
Portuguese men's basketball players
Power forwards (basketball)
Saginaw Valley State Cardinals men's basketball players
S.L. Benfica basketball players

Portuguese people of American descent


Glorias Costeñas Stadium is a multi-use stadium in Bluefields, South Caribbean Coast Autonomous Region.  It is used for football matches and is the home stadium to Deportivo Bluefields and Nicaraguan baseball team Costa Caribe also play their home matches at the stadium.

The stadium holds 4,000 spectators.

External links
Stadium information

Glorias Costenas
South Caribbean Coast Autonomous Region


The 2004 NASDAQ-100 Open was a tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the 20th edition of the Miami Masters and was part of the Masters Series of the 2004 ATP Tour and of Tier I of the 2004 WTA Tour. Both the men's and women's events took place at the Tennis Center at Crandon Park in Key Biscayne, Florida in the United States from March 24 through April 4, 2004.

The men's tournament was notable as it featured the first ever meeting between Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal, with Nadal winning in straight sets. The women’s tournament was also notable for featuring the first ever meeting between Maria Sharapova and Serena Williams, with Williams winning in straight sets.

Finals

Men's singles

 Andy Roddick defeated  Guillermo Coria 6–7(2–7), 6–3, 6–1 (Coria retired)
 It was Roddick's 2nd title of the year and the 15th of his career. It was his 1st Masters title of the year and his 3rd overall.

Women's singles

 Serena Williams defeated  Elena Dementieva 6–1, 6–1
 It was Williams' 1st title of the year and the 24th of her career. It was her 1st Tier I title of the year and her 7th overall.

Men's doubles

 Wayne Black /  Kevin Ullyett defeated  Jonas Björkman /  Todd Woodbridge 6–2, 7–6(14–12)
 It was Black's 1st title of the year and the 15th of his career. It was Ullyett's 1st title of the year and the 21st of his career.

Women's doubles

 Nadia Petrova /  Meghann Shaughnessy defeated  Svetlana Kuznetsova /  Elena Likhovtseva 6–2, 6–3
 It was Petrova's 1st title of the year and the 5th of her career. It was Shaughnessy's 1st title of the year and the 8th of her career.

References

External links
 Official website
 ATP Tournament Profile
 WTA Tournament Profile

NASDAQ-100 Open
NASDAQ-100 Open
NASDAQ-100 Open
Miami Open (tennis)
NASDAQ-100 Open
NASDAQ-100 Open
NASDAQ-100 Open


Rangitukia is a small settlement 10 kilometres south of East Cape in the northeast of New Zealand's North Island. It is near the mouth of the Waiapu River.

The settlement is an important place in Ngāti Porou and the founding place for Christian missions in the Gisborne District.

The Rangitukia cemetery includes the burial ground of Canon Hone Kaa and former Māori All Black George Nēpia.

Labour Party MP Cushla Tangaere-Manuel is from Rangitukia.

Marae
Rangitukia has two marae, belonging to the Ngāti Porou hapū of Ngāi Tāne, Ngāti Hokopū, Ngāti Nua, Te Whānau a Hunaara, Te Whānau a Rerewa and Te Whānau a Takimoana: Hinepare Marae and Te Tairawhiti meeting house, and Ōhinewaiapu Marae and meeting house. In October 2020, the government committed $1,686,254 from the Provincial Growth Fund to upgrade Hinepaare, Ōhinewaiapu and four other Rongowhakaata marae, creating an estimated 41 jobs.

Karuwai Marae and Te Rehu ā Karuwai meeting house, north of Rangitukia at the end of a gravel road,
is a meeting place for the Ngāti Porou hapū of Te Whānau a Karuwai and Te Whānau a Karuai. In October 2020, the government committed $5,756,639 from the Provincial Growth Fund to upgrade the marae and 28 other Ngāti Porou marae, creating an estimated 205 jobs.

Education

Te Kura Kaupapa Māori o Tapere-Nui-A-Whatonga is a Year 1–8 co-educational Māori immersion school. In 2019, it was a decile 1 school with an enrollment of 19.

References

Populated places in the Gisborne District


Hupmobile Club Sedan – R was a vehicle produced by the Hupp Motor Company.

Hupmobile Club Sedan – R specifications (1926 data)

 Color – Lower body and hood, beige or blue; Upper body, fenders, and running gear, black.
 Seating Capacity – Five
 Wheelbase – 115 inches
 Wheels - Wood
 Tires - 31" × 5.25" balloon
 Service Brakes – Contracting on rear wheels
 Emergency Brakes – expanding on rear wheels
 Engine  - Four cylinder, vertical, cast en block, 3 × 5 inches; head removable; valves in side; H.P. 16.90 N.A.C.C. rating
 Lubrication – Force feed and splash
 Crankshaft - Three bearing
 Radiator – Cellular
 Cooling – Thermo-syphon
 Ignition – Storage Battery
 Starting System – Two Unit
 Voltage – Six
 Wiring System – Single
 Gasoline System – Vacuum
 Clutch – Dry single plate
 Transmission – Selective sliding
 Gear Changes – 3 forward, 1 reverse
 Drive – Spiral bevel
 Rear Springs – Semi-elliptic
 Rear Axle – Semi-floating
 Steering Gear – Cam and lever

Standard equipment
New car price included the following items:
 tools
 jack
 speedometer
 ammeter
 electric horn
 ignition theft lock
 windshield cleaner
 demountable rims
 spare rim
 snubbers
 spare tire carrier
 rear view mirror
 sun visor
 cowl ventilator
 headlight dimmer
 luggage trunk

Prices
New car prices were F.O.B. factory, plus Tax:
 Five passenger Touring - $1225
 Two passenger Roadster - $1225
 Five passenger Club Sedan - $1375
 Two passenger Coupé - $1350

See also
 Hupmobile

References
Source:

Cars of the United States
Hupmobile


The 2002 United States Senate election in Oregon was held on November 5, 2002. Incumbent Republican United States Senator Gordon Smith ran for re-election to a second term. Oregon Secretary of State Bill Bradbury emerged as the Democratic nominee, and though a competitive gubernatorial election occurred at the same time, Bradbury's campaign was never able to gain traction and Smith overwhelmingly won re-election (Bradbury only carried Multnomah County). , this is the last time the Republicans have won a U.S. Senate election in Oregon.

Democratic primary

Candidates
 Bill Bradbury, Oregon Secretary of State
 Craig Hanson
 Greg Haven

Results

Republican primary
 Gordon Smith, incumbent United States Senator

Results

General election

Campaign
Smith, who had only served one term in the U.S. Senate, had slightly lower than a 50% approval rating before the summer of 2002 began. By July 2002, Smith had raised over $5 million, while Bradbury raised only about $1 million.

Predictions

Results

Counties that flipped from Democratic to Republican
 Clatsop (largest city: Astoria)
 Lane (largest city: Eugene)
 Lincoln (largest city: Newport)
 Benton (largest city: Corvallis)

See also
 2002 United States Senate elections

References

Senate
Oregon
2002


Mount Arowhana is a 1440-metre (4724 ft) mountain that is part of the backbone of the Raukumara Range in the northeast of New Zealand's North Island. The range forms part of a line of mountains extending along the eastern side of the North Island between the Gisborne District and Wellington.

The mountain is at the centre of a major watershed, on the boundary between the Gisborne District and the Ōpōtiki District. Its eastern side is drained by the Mata River, which flows to the Waiapu River, thence into the Pacific Ocean just south of East Cape. Its western side is drained by a tributary of the Mōtū River, which flows into the western Bay of Plenty.

Road access to the vicinity is via Whatatutu, a small settlement 30 kilometres to the south in a direct line.

Arow


Oakgrove School is a coeducational, nursery, primary school, secondary school and sixth form with academy status, located in the Middleton (Oakgrove Secondary) and Oakgrove (Oakgrove Primary & Nursery) districts of south-east Milton Keynes, England. It is the flagship school of the Kingsbridge Educational Trust.

The school originally opened on 1 September 2005, intaking roughly 60 students of both Year 7 and Year 8. In September 2016 the school expanded further to include a primary and nursery school section, for children aged 4 to 11.

Oakgrove Primary & Nursery
The Primary & Nursery section of Oakgrove School was introduced along with the development of the Oakgrove district. The current headteacher is Mark Sim.

Oakgrove Secondary
Oakgrove Secondary (originally opened as Oakgrove School) was founded in 2005. From 2005 to 2015 (2014–2015 academic year) the headteacher was Peter Barnes (current executive headteacher of Kingsbridge Educational Trust); however, from 2015 to present, Ian Tett currently holds this position.

Ofsted inspection results
Oakgrove School has undergone 4 full inspections conducted by Ofsted. Gradings have varied from outstanding to good. The latest full inspection was conducted on 26–27 June 2019.

Notable former pupils
Jeffrey Schlupp, a professional footballer who won the league with Leicester City in 2016, as of 2017 plays for Crystal Palace.
Max Crocombe, professional footballer who is a goalkeeper for Salford City and the New Zealand under-20 national team.

References

External links
 School website

Educational institutions established in 2005
2005 establishments in England
Secondary schools in Milton Keynes
Academies in Milton Keynes
Primary schools in Milton Keynes


Bric-a-Brac is a British children's television series devised by Michael Cole and Nick Wilson, and starring well known children's television presenter Brian Cant. It was produced by the BBC and originally ran from 1 October until 5 November 1980, with another series from 18 August to 29 September 1982. It was repeated frequently until 1989.

The programme was set in a fictitious junk shop, with its shopkeeper played by Cant, who would deliver a monologue to camera. Each episode centred on a particular letter of the alphabet, with different items beginning with that letter found and discussed by the shopkeeper.  Cant's script made heavy use of alliteration, and made use of tongue-twisters.  At the end of each episode, he would wind up and set off a traditional clockwork toy, upon which the camera would focus whilst the credits rolled.

Presenter
The programme was presented by Brian Cant throughout its run.

Theme Music
The theme music is an edited version of the track "Keystone Capers 2" by Eric Peters from the KPM LP Electrosonic (1972).

References

External links
Bric-A-Brac at www.forthechildren.org.uk
Bric-A-Brac at IMDb

BBC children's television shows
1980 British television series debuts
1982 British television series endings
1980s British children's television series


Ivan Ivanišević (; born 23 November 1977) is a Serbian chess player who received the FIDE title of Grandmaster in 2000. He won the Serbian Chess Championship in 2008, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2017 and 2019. He participated in seven Chess Olympiads to date, representing FR Yugoslavia (1998, 2000 and 2002) and Serbia (2008, 2010, 2012 and 2014), three times on the first board.

Ivanišević participated in the Chess World Cup 2021 and reached the second round via walkover, where he was eliminated by Alexander Areshchenko. He also took part in the Chess World Cup 2011, where he was eliminated in the first round by Alexander Onischuk. That same year, he won the 3rd Balkan Individual Chess Championship in Podgorica. In 2014, Ivanišević won the Chigorin Memorial in Saint Petersburg.

See also
 List of chess players
 List of chess grandmasters

References

External links

Interview with GM Ivan Ivanisevic

1977 births
Living people
Serbian chess players
Chess grandmasters
Place of birth missing (living people)


Maungahaumi is a mountain in the Raukumara Range in the northeast of New Zealand's North Island.

Part of the backbone of the range, which forms part of a line of mountains extending across much of the North Island, 1213 metre (3979 ft) Maungahaumi is the southernmost of the Raukumara Range's most prominent peaks. To the southwest of the peak is a saddle separating the Raukumara Range from the Huiarau Range – this saddle, with its highest point at the 725 metre Traffords Hill, is crossed by State Highway 2, the main road link between Gisborne and Opotiki in the Bay of Plenty.

Several rivers have their sources on the slopes of Maungahaumi, including the Motu River and several tributaries of the Waipaoa River.

Cultural significance
Maungahaumi is the principal ancestral mountain of the Maori tribe Ngaariki Kaiputahi, as well as other affiliated tribal groups and hapū in the Tūranga region.

Name
The origins of the name date back to the story of the Horouta waka and its journey from Hawaiki. The Horouta waka (led by captain Paoa) became severely damaged by high winds and seas en route to New Zealand. The waka and the crew on board were subsequently washed ashore at Ohiwa near Opotiki with a broken hull and bow piece. Upon landing, Paoa and his crew ventured inland to the interior mountain ranges to find suitable materials to repair the vessel. It was on the mountain that we now know as Maungahaumi, where he found the totara trees that were used to repair and bring together the hull and bow pieces of the waka.

From this experience, Paoa named the mountain from the Maori words  (mountain) and  (to join together), as a testament to the resources the mountain provided towards repairing the waka. The tale is also told in the old  (chant) "Haramai a Paoa".

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