William Levett (also spelled William Levet) (ca. 1643–1694) was the Oxford-educated personal chaplain to Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon, whom he accompanied into exile in France, then became the rector of two parishes, and subsequently Principal of Magdalen Hall, Oxford (now Hertford College, Oxford) and the Dean of Bristol.

Family background
Levett was born in Ashwell, Rutland, to an Anglo-Norman family with roots in Sussex going back to the Norman Conquest. His father Rev. Richard Levett, born in Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire, and a graduate of Magdalen Hall, Oxford, was the intruding rector at Ashwell from 1646 until 1660. After Rev. Richard Levett was turned out of the parish of Ashwell, he wrote to Edward Heath of London, soliciting the rector's job in Cottesmore, Rutland, which Heath's family-owned.

William Levett had at least two brothers, Richard, who became Lord Mayor of London, and Francis, an international trader; these two were in business together. Their uncle William Levett was a courtier and groom of the bedchamber to King Charles I and accompanied to the monarch to his execution. Later Levett set off a firestorm when he provided a letter stating that he had seen the late King write the Eikon Basilike.

Education and career

William Levett was educated at Christ Church, Oxford, where he became a fellow, in 1663. After his graduation with a doctorate of divinity, he entered the service of the first Earl of Clarendon (1609-1674), historian and statesman who went into exile in France. Levett accompanied him there, returning to England in 1672 and becoming rector of Husbands Bosworth in Leicestershire. Four years later he became vicar of Flore, Northamptonshire.

In 1681 he was named Principal of Magdalen Hall at Oxford, succeeding James Hyde. Hyde, who was the eleventh son of Sir Laurence Hyde of Heale, near Salisbury, was a barrister and a physician as well as Member of Parliament. Hyde himself had been nominated Principal by his relation, the Earl of Clarendon, who was Chancellor of the university, and he took office in 1662. On his death in 1681, the Principal's slot passed to Dr. Levett, another favourite of the Hydes.

In 1685 Levett became Dean of Bristol. Levett was well known to many Oxford contemporaries, and remained friends with the Earl of Clarendon and his second son Laurence Hyde, 1st Earl of Rochester for the rest of his life. Among his fellow churchmen, Levett seems to have been held in high regard. Levett held all four positions—his appointments to both parishes, as well as his Magdalen Hall principalship and his Deanship of Bristol—until his death.

Death and legacy
In his will Levett directed his body be decently interred, "without any manner of speech, or funerall oration, or either good or bad verses, and without any opening of it, or the least dissection of it whatever" in the Cathedral at Christ Church. The invitations should be sent out and the body carried in such a way, Levett directed, so as to permit the service to be carried out at the "canonical houre" of 4 p.m. exactly. When word of Dean Levett's death reached Oxford on 11 February 1694, a Sunday morning, bells were rung in honour of the late Principal.

Levett left bequests of £50 for the Christ Church library; £20 to Magdalen Hall; £5 for books at Corpus Christi College, Oxford library; and monies to the poor apprentice boys of Husband's Bosworth and Flore. The will mentions his namesake nephew William Levett, second son of his brother Sir Richard Levett. The sole executor of Levett's estate was Dr. Henry Levett of the London Charterhouse, fellow of Exeter College, Oxford, and son of Dean Levett's uncle, courtier William Levett of Swindon and Savernake, Wiltshire. Dean Levett was survived by five daughters.

References

Further reading
The Levetts of Staffordshire, Dyonese Levett Haszard, privately printed

External links
Funerary monument, William Levett, Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford, Flickr

1694 deaths
William
People from Ashwell, Rutland
17th-century English Anglican priests
Fellows of Christ Church, Oxford
Deans of Bristol
Clergy from Oxford
Anglican clergy from London
Year of birth unknown
English people of Norman descent
Principals of Magdalen Hall, Oxford


Cecil William Blachford (June 24, 1880 – May 10, 1965) was a Canadian professional ice hockey forward player who played for the Montreal Hockey Club and the Montreal Wanderers. He was a member of Stanley Cup-winning teams in 1903, 1906, 1907, 1908 and 1910, and captain of the 1906 to 1908 teams.

Playing career

Born in Montreal, Quebec, Blachford played junior hockey for Montreal Mintos in 1898–99, before graduating to senior-level hockey the following season with Montreal Stirling, for which he played until 1902. He joined the Montreal Hockey Club's intermediate squad, and played one game with the Montreal HC senior team (also known as the "Little Men of Iron") in the regular season, and two games of Stanley Cup challenge play, helping to defeat the Winnipeg Victorias. He left Montreal HC with several other Montreal HC players in the off-season to join the new Montreal Wanderers for whom he played continuously until the end of the 1907–08 season. He was captain of the 1906 through 1908 squads.

In the 1906 season, he was sidelined for most of the season with blood poisoning. In 1907 he was the victim of a blow to the head from Charlie Spittal of the Ottawa Hockey Club for which Spittal was convicted in criminal court. Blachford served as a coach for the Wanderers in 1906 and 1907 while he was recovering from his illnesses. After the 1908 season, he retired, but returned for the 1909–10 season for the Wanderers in the new National Hockey Association, helping to win another Stanley Cup title before retiring for good.

Blachford died at Lachine Hospital in Montreal, Quebec in 1965.

Playing style
Outside of the rover position, the more free-roaming position in the seven man game between defence and the forward line, Blachford also played as a winger. The March 21, 1908 issue of the Ottawa Citizen, in a review of the players on the Montreal Wanderers, listed Blachford as a right winger and claimed that the late defenceman Hod Stuart, a teammate of Blachford on the 1906–07 Wanderers prior to his death in June 1907, had rated him as the best winger in the ECAHA that season. The newspaper claimed that Blachford was "easily the most finished player on the forward line" on the Montreal team, and that he was "speedy, aggressive and a beautiful stick-handler."

Statistics
CAHL-I = CAHL-Intermediate

Statistics per Society for International Hockey Research at sihrhockey.org

References

Notes

Bibliography

1880 births
1965 deaths
Anglophone Quebec people
Canadian ice hockey forwards
Montreal Hockey Club players
Montreal Wanderers (NHA) players
Ice hockey people from Montreal
Stanley Cup champions


Reza Shah-Kazemi (b. 1 June 1960 ᴄᴇ) is an author who specializes in comparative mysticism, Islamic Studies, Sufism and Shi'ism. He is the founding editor of the Islamic World Report and currently a research associate at the Institute of Ismaili Studies with the Department of Academic Research and Publications.
He received degrees in International Relations and Politics at Sussex and Exeter University, before receiving his doctorate in Comparative Religion from the University of Kent in 1994. He later acted as a consultant to the Institute for Policy Research in Kuala Lumpur.

Bibliography

 Imam 'Ali: Concise History, Timeless Mystery (I.B. Tauris, 2022)
 Interpreting the 'Spirit of Assisi': Challenges to Interfaith Dialogue in a Pluralistic World (Vesuvius Press, 2013)  [contributor]
 The Spirit Of Tolerance in Islam (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2012)
"Loving Compassion in Islam and Buddhism: Rahma and Karunā", Religions-Adyan, Issue 1, 2011 [contributed article]
Common Ground Between Islam and Buddhism (Independent Publishing Group, 2010)  [contributor]
The Sacred Foundations of Justice in Islam (World Wisdom, 2007)
The Underlying Religion: An Introduction to the Perennial Philosophy (World Wisdom, 2007)  [contributed article]
My Mercy Encompasses All: The Koran's Teachings on Compassion, Peace and Love (Shoemaker & Hoard, 2007)
Justice and Remembrance: Introducing the Spirituality of Imam Ali (I. B. Tauris, 2007)
Paths to Transcendence (World Wisdom, 2006)
Sufism: Love and Wisdom (World Wisdom, 2006)  [contributed article]
The Other in the Light of the One: The Universality of the Qur'an and Interfaith Dialogue (Islamic Texts Society, 2006)
Paths to the Heart (World Wisdom, 2004)  [contributed article]
Seeing God Everywhere: Essays on Nature and the Sacred (World Wisdom, 2004)  [contributed article]
Islam, Fundamentalism, and the Betrayal of Tradition (World Wisdom, 2004)  [contributed article]
Doctrines of Shi`i Islam: A Compendium of Imami Beliefs and Practices (I. B. Tauris, 2001)
Algeria: Revolution Revisited (Islamic World Report) (I. B. Tauris, 1998)
Avicenna (Heroes from the East) (Hood Hood Books Ltd, 1997)
Crisis In Chechnia (Islamic World Reports) (Isbs, 1996)
Bosnia (Islamic World Reports) (Isbs, 1996)
Turkey (Islamic World Reports) (Isbs, 1996)

See also
Institute of Ismaili Studies
Sufism
The Matheson Trust

External links
 Life and Work
Institute of Ismaili Studies Profile

Articles
Defining Without Confining: reflections on a prophetic usage of sacred space
Recollecting the Spirit of Jihad
Eckhart’s Image of the Eye and the Wood: An analogy which explains ‘all that I have ever preached about’
A Message of Hope at the Eleventh Hour: Martin Lings, 1909-2005

References

Alumni of the University of Kent
Alumni of the University of Sussex
Alumni of Exeter College, Oxford
British Islamic studies scholars
Living people
Sufi writers
Traditionalist School
Year of birth missing (living people)


The Taurach Railway () is a  narrow-gauge museum railway in the Austrian state of Salzburg.

History

The Taurach Railway uses the section of the Murtalbahn from Tamsweg to Mauterndorf, which was closed for economic reasons in 1981 after heavy damage to a bridge. The section was revived as a museum railway by Club 760, which is an association formed for that purpose. Club 760 leased the line on 1 April 1982 and from 1983 to 1987 volunteers and members worked on restoring it. The Taurachbahn was opened on 9 July 1988 and operates as a museum railway weekends every summer.

The route

The line begins at Mauterndorf station and runs along the  through  stop to Mariapfarr station. From there the route goes through Lintsching stop to St. Andrä Andlwirt, which is the terminus for passenger traffic. The Taurachbahn continues a further two kilometers to meet the Murtalbahn at Tamsweg. On this section is a branchline, which gives an easier grade. Tamsweg station is not used for regular tourist traffic because of the fees demanded by Steiermarkbahn und Bus for it; however special trains do go through to Mauterndorf through Tamsweg from the Murtalbahn on specific occasions. Also this section is used for the mutual change by vehicles.

Infrastructure

The major station on the railway is Mauterndorf, where there is a boiler house and workshop, and also a wagon-works constructed in 1999 with the assistance of a European Union grant. After  passing through Mariapfarr the line crosses the Taurach, and Lignitzbach rivers, and then local highway L248.  After St. Andrä-Andlwirt the railway crosses the Göriachbach river, local highway L222, and then finally the Lessachbach river.

The railway crossings on the federal highway at Mariapfarr station and the local highway at Lintsching stop are secured by barriers, which must be closed and opened by the train crew by hand. There are many crossings at local dirt roads, which are secured by speed limits, St Andrews crosses and/or stop boards.

Rolling stock
Steam locomotives 298,56, 699,01, StLB 6 are used to operate the railway, and in 2004 locomotive 12 from a salt mine railway was obtained. Diesel locomotives 2091,03 and SKGLB D40 are also used, as well as three smaller diesel locomotives and a hand trolley for work trips. Several historic railway carriages are used for passenger traffic. In the goods yard are a number of goods wagons, several of which are used for maintenance on the railway.

Operation

The railway operates on Saturday and Sunday afternoons from the middle of June to in the middle of September, in the mornings in July and August and on Friday afternoons from middle of July to the middle of August. The railway is operated completely by those voluntary members from Club 760.

References

760 mm gauge railways in Austria
Heritage railways in Austria
Railway companies of Austria
Museums in Salzburg (state)
Railway museums in Austria
Articles containing video clips


Schagen railway station serves the town of Schagen, Netherlands. The station opened on 20 December 1865 and is located on the Den Helder–Amsterdam railway. The train services are operated by Nederlandse Spoorwegen.

The train station has 3 platforms. The line between Schagen and Den Helder is single track and between Schagen and Alkmaar double track. The track between Schagen and Heerhugowaard was also single track until 1995. In 2009 the station was modernised; some roofs were replaced and two new lifts were built.

Train services
The station is served by the following service(s):

2x per hour Intercity services Schagen - Alkmaar - Amsterdam - Utrecht - Eindhoven - Maastricht (peak hours only)
2x per hour Intercity services Den Helder - Alkmaar - Amsterdam - Utrecht - Arnhem - Nijmegen

Bus services
The following bus services call at the station:

References

External links

NS website
Dutch public transport travel planner

Railway stations in North Holland
Railway stations opened in 1865
Railway stations on the Staatslijn K
Schagen
Railway stations in the Netherlands opened in the 1860s


The Aglaé was a 32-gun frigate of the French Navy, built to a design by P. Duhamel.

Service

During the Revolutionary wars, she was used to ferry troops to the Caribbean, and spent two years on station at  Saint Domingue. In 1793, she undertook a refit, after which she was renamed Fraternité.

Under lieutenant de vaisseau Gourrège, she cruised off Spain, and later she took part in the Battle of Groix on 23 June 1795 under lieutenant de vaisseau Florinville.

During the winter 1796, she took part in the Croisière du Grand Hiver under vice-admiral Morard de Galles. On 30 December, she helped Révolution in rescuing the crew of Scevola, which foundered in the tempest off Ireland. Fraternité returned to Rochefort on 14 January 1797.

On 22 September 1798, Captain Louis-Marie Le Gouardun took command, until 5 October of the same year.

Fate
She was lost at sea in August 1802, as she sailed from Saint Domingue to France.

Notes and references
 References

 Bibliography

  (1671-1870)

Age of Sail frigates of France
Ships built in France
1788 ships
Frigates of the French Navy


Barry Lee Lersch (September 7, 1944 – October 4, 2009) was an American professional baseball pitcher who played Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Philadelphia Phillies (–) and St. Louis Cardinals in (). A right-hander, he was born in Denver, Colorado and was listed as  tall and  and attended East High School in Denver, Colorado.

One of Lersch's great baseball moments was a pitching victory in 1964's annual Midnight Sun Game. He defeated the host Alaska Goldpanners of Fairbanks by a score of 10–5; 2,500 people were on hand to witness his win. The game ended at 2:34 a.m. local time and is in the record books as one of the latest-finishing games in amateur baseball history.

Lersch became a professional later that year when, in December 1964, he signed with the Phillies' organization. He made his MLB debut in April 1969 and spent four full years  through ) in the big leagues. Lersch was primarily a relief pitcher in the majors; of his 169 career games pitched, 53 were starts. He posted an 18–32 won–lost record and a 3.82 career earned run average. All of his decisions (and all but one of his games played) came with struggling Phillies teams. In 570 innings pitched, he allowed 536 hits and 172 bases on balls, and struck out 317. He was credited with nine complete games, six saves and one shutout, a two-hitter against the Montreal Expos on September 30, 1972, at Jarry Park. He was traded along with Craig Robinson from the Phillies to the Braves for Ron Schueler at the Winter Meetings on December 3, 1973.

Lersch died of a heart attack on October 4, 2009, in Aurora, Colorado. He was 65; his body was donated to medical science.

References

External links

Barry Lersch at Baseball Almanac
Barry Lersch at Baseball Gauge
Barry Lersch at Pura Pelota (Venezuelan Professional Baseball League)
Barry Lersch at The Deadball Era

1944 births
2009 deaths
American expatriate baseball players in Mexico
Baseball players from Colorado
Colorado Mesa Mavericks baseball players
Eugene Emeralds players
Florida Instructional League Phillies players
Indios de Ciudad Juárez (minor league) players
Leones del Caracas players
American expatriate baseball players in Venezuela
Major League Baseball pitchers
Mesa Thunderbirds baseball players
Mexican League baseball pitchers
Oklahoma City 89ers players
Philadelphia Phillies players
Richmond Braves players
St. Louis Cardinals players
San Diego Padres (minor league) players
Spartanburg Phillies players
Tidewater Tides players


Highland Rugby Football Club is a rugby union amateur club from the city of Inverness that compete in the . They have a number of teams taken from different age groups including micros and minis, S1 and S2, Under-15, Under-16, Under-18 and senior first and second teams. They play their rugby at Canal park in Inverness.

History
The club celebrated when they announced the appointment of a jointly funded development officer enabling the club to more actively grow rugby across all ages. The Canal Park Club demonstrated their commitment to the game, and the revised development structure, when they teamed up with Scottish Rugby and the Highland Council to fund the new post which brings thousands of pounds of investment into rugby in the area.
Development Officers (DOs) are dedicated to recruiting and retaining rugby players, coaches, referees and volunteers in and around their local communities working continuously to create links between schools and clubs to maximise the opportunities to play rugby in their area. Their efforts were rewarded in the 2010–11 season when they were given the SRU club of the month award for November.

In 2020 Highland RFC launched a club lottery in association with Our Club Lotto which continues to help fund rugby development in Inverness. Draws take place every Wednesday night with all profits reinvested into the club and prizes up to £20,000 available to be won.

Sides

1st XV
The 1st XV have had a recent resurgence during the second decade of the 21st century, led by Coach Dave Carson, most notably winning the Scottish National League Division Three title in 2017–2018.

The 1st XV currently play in National Division one.

2nd XV
Highlands 2nd XV also known as the Raptors currently play in Caledonia Division 2 Northwest after successfully winning Caledonia North 3 in 2015/16.  This was the side's second promotion in two years, after winning Caledonia League Division 4 North the year before.

During the 2010–11 season the Highland raptors became champions in the Caledonia Division 2 Northwest league although they could not be considered for promotion due to them playing as a second XV side. Due to this, Moray RFC progressed to the play-off stage for a chance at promotion to Caledonia Division 1 in which they triumphed over Aberdeen Wanderers. The Raptors however still got the chance to become Division 2 champions by playing Aberdeen Wanderers, a game in which they also achieved success.

Sevens

The club run the Inverness City Sevens. The club's sevens tournament was renamed in 2022. Formerly it was known as the Highland Sevens.

Stadium

The rugby club's ground, Canal Park, has been their home since their founding in 1922. Following their surge into higher levels of Rugby, their ground was upgraded in 2017 from grass to a 4G pitch, and the club house majorly improved upon. In 2020, local football club Clachnacuddin F.C., were put into a temporary groundshare agreement after a fire at their ground, Grant Street Park, on Christmas Eve 2019, in order to keep the Highland League running smoothly. On Clachnacuddin's opening game at Canal Park against Fort William F.C., they drew a crowd of approximately 700, which was a significant improvement on their usual attendance at Grant Street, however, Fort William won the game 1–0. It was used for a second time against Forres Mechanics F.C., in which Clachnacuddin lost 3–2.

The ground is often used by the youth and reserve teams of Inverness Caledonian Thistle.

Notable players
 Moray Low, currently playing for Exeter Chiefs in the Aviva Premiership and internationally for . Before Exeter he played for Glasgow Warriors (2006–2014)
 John Barr – International shinty player
 Jamie Dobie – Glasgow Warriors
 Bruce Flockhart – Glasgow Warriors
 Jamie Gillan – Punter for Cleveland Browns in the NFL
 Patrick Kelly – Glasgow Warriors
 George Mackie – Scotland
 Ernie Michie – Scotland, British Lions
 Nairn McEwan,
 Fionn Call - Fat Scrum Half

Honours

 Highland / Inverness City Sevens
 Champions: 1932, 1953, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1985, 1991, 1994
 Scottish National League Division Three
 Champions (1): 2017–18
 Caledonia League Division One
 Champions (1): 2015–16
 Runners-Up (1): 2014–15
 Scottish Rugby Shield
 Runners-Up (1): 2015–16
 Inverness Craig Dunain Sevens
 Champions: 1992
 Aberdeen Sevens
 Champions: 1934
 Stornoway Sevens
 Champions: 1977
 Lochaber Sevens
 Champions: 1991
 Orkney Sevens
 Champions: 1981
 Clarkston Sevens
 Champions: 1976, 1977
 Caithness Sevens
 Champions: 1969, 1970, 1973, 1975, 1980
 Ross Sutherland Sevens
 Champions: 1966, 1978, 1984, 1985, 1994, 2022
 Moray Sevens
 Champions: 1967, 1969, 1971, 1972, 1975, 1976, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1989
 Kirkcaldy Sevens
 Champions: 1975, 1980, 1981
 Mull Sevens
 Champions: 2023
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Other honours
2015/16: 1st Xv Caledonia Shield Champions2nd Xv Caledonia Division 3 North ChampionsAndrew Findlater – Caledonia Leagues Player of the SeasonStevie Rutledge – Scottish Rugby Try of the SeasonLondon Irish mini festival shield winners

2014/15:
2nd XV Caledonia League Division 4 Winners1st XV 2nd place in Caledonia League 1

2013/14:
1st XV Caledonia North Division 2 Winners – undefeated season1st XV Caledonia Bowl Winners1st XV National Bowl WinnersRory Cross – National Bowl Final Man of the Match

References

Sources

 Massie, Allan A Portrait of Scottish Rugby (Polygon, Edinburgh; )
 Highland RFC Website
 The Inverness Courier – Rugby News
 Highland RFC Facebook Page

External links

Rugby union teams in Scotland
Sport in Inverness
Rugby clubs established in 1922


NewsBios is an Internet-based service that provides unauthorized biographies on business and financial reporters, editors, writers, producers, anchors, freelancers and other journalists.

The Sunday New York Times described the service on October 5, 2014, comparing and contrasting the methods of NewsBios with the methods of professional journalists: “NewsBios employs techniques that journalists use: Doing web searches of people's backgrounds, reading their social media posts to learn more about them and drawing conclusions. The difference is that journalists generally notify and seek interviews with the subjects of profiles, whereas NewsBios promises to ‘never contact the journalists directly.”

The Columbia Journalism Review noted that NewsBios "compiles dossiers on journalists, scouring obituaries, social media, real-estate records, and past stories, and claims to turn up worldview-shaping experiences. The rub is in a disclaimer: NewsBios doesn’t verify the information found online."

History
Among those journalists whose bios are sold most frequently are members of NewsBios's annual list of the 100 Most Influential Business and Financial Journalists, winners of its Business News Luminary Awards (NewsBios) and the 30 Under 30 list of successful young business journalists.

NewsBios aggregates and sifts information from more than 60 sources of public information and combines that research with its own analytics and proprietary databases. Among the core advantages of a NewsBio when compared with an authorized profile is the inclusion of biographical information that journalists do not wish the public to know.

This unauthorized information may include previous jobs that did not work out well, complaints pertaining to a journalist's reporting, personal life developments that may influence a reporter's news judgment and opinions writers and editors have expressed that reveal a bias.

In addition, because NewsBios has prepared more than 15,000 reporter dossiers over a period of two-and-a-half decades, NewsBios is able to put individual bios in perspective with professional standards in general.

NewsBios was founded in 1987 as FaxProfiles in Ridgewood, New Jersey. Its parent company, TJFR Group, Inc., was publisher of the TJFR Business News Reporter, a twice monthly print newsletter that tracked the activities of key financial journalists. The newsletter was published from 1987 to 2002. TJFR stands for The Journalist & Financial Reporting. Dean Rotbart, a former reporter and columnist with The Wall Street Journal, is the founder and executive editor.

Notes

External links

Online person databases


Anna Paulowna railway station serves the town of Anna Paulowna, Netherlands. The station opened on 20 December 1865 and the station is on the Den Helder–Amsterdam railway. The train services are operated by Nederlandse Spoorwegen.

Train services
The station is served by the following service(s):

2x per hour Intercity services Den Helder - Amsterdam - Utrecht - Arnhem - Nijmegen

Bus services
The following bus services stop at Anna Paulowna NS:

References

External links
NS website
Dutch public transport travel planner

Railway stations in North Holland
Railway stations in the Netherlands opened in 1865
Railway stations on the Staatslijn K
Hollands Kroon
Railway stations in the Netherlands opened in the 1860s


The women's alpine skiing downhill event was part of the alpine skiing at the 1948 Winter Olympics programme. It was the first appearance of the event. The competition was held on Monday, February 2; thirty-seven alpine skiers from eleven nations competed.

Medalists

Results
This race was also part of the alpine combined event.

References

External links
Official Olympic Report

Women's alpine skiing at the 1948 Winter Olympics
Olymp
Alp


A Long and Winding Road is Maureen McGovern's twelfth studio album and was released in 2008 by PS Classics. It is a cover album of songs that were from the 1960s and early 1970s, written by notable songwriters of that era. Inside the album cover includes an essay by Philip Himberg (who is the Producing Artistic Director of the Sundance Institute Theatre Program) that covers Maureen McGovern's making of the album and the growth of the Great American Songbook during the 1960s.

Track listing

Album credits
 Music director/arranger – Jeff Harris
 Special guest appearance by – Jay Leonhart
 Produced by – Jeffrey Lesser
 Co-produced by – Maureen McGovern
 Executive producer – Dan Fortune
 A&R director – Philip Chaffin

Personnel
 Jeff Harris – piano
 Jay Leonhart – bass
 Lou Marini Jr. – saxophone
 Jeffrey Carney – bass on "Circle Game," "Cowboy," and "By the Time I Get to Phoenix"
 Joseph Passaro – percussion
 Cenovia Cummins – violin
 Suzanne Chaplin – violin
 Debra Shufelt-Dine – viola
 Dorothy Lawson – cello
 Recorded at Avatar Studios and Clinton Recording Studios, February 2008
 Recorded by: Tom Lazarus
 Pro Tools operator: Bart Migal
 Assistant engineer: Tim Mitchell
 Mixed by: Jeffrey Lesser
 Mastered by: Joe Lambert, Trutone Mastering
 Art direction & design: John Costa, New Orleans
 Photographs by: Deborah Feingold
 Additional photos courtesy of: Maureen McGovern

For PS Classics, LLC
 Executive producer: Tommy Krasker
 A&R direction: Philip Chaffin
 Staff engineer: Bart Migal
 Editorial coordinator: Clifton Gutesman
 Assistant to the producers: Robbie Rozelle

2008 albums
Covers albums
Maureen McGovern albums


The Taking of Power by Louis XIV (), also called The Rise of Louis XIV, is a 1966 French television film by Italian film director Roberto Rossellini. The film revolves around the French king Louis XIV's rise to power after the death of his powerful advisor, Cardinal Mazarin. To achieve this political autonomy, Louis deals with his mother and the court nobles, all of whom make the assumption that Mazarin's death will give them more power.

Reception
Colin McCabe of the University of Pittsburgh praised the film as "the most serious attempt by a great director to film history." In addition to the political story of the king's grasp of power, the "incidental details, it can be argued, form the real subject matter of all of Rossellini's historical films...." McCabe's examples include the doctors’ examination of Mazarin at the beginning of the film and the "extraordinary banquet" that comes close to the end. "We watch the dishes being prepared in a kitchen teeming with cooks, we follow the umpteenth platter as it is formally escorted through the corridors and staircases, until it reaches an enormous table, where the king sits alone, dining in front of his whole court."

Cast

Release
The Taking of Power by Louis XIV received a DVD release by The Criterion Collection in January 2009.

References
 Colin MacCabe, (2008) The Taking of Power by Louis XIV: Long Live the Cinema!, Criterion Collection Essay.

References

External links

The Taking of Power by Louis XIV: Long Live the Cinema! an essay by Colin MacCabe at the Criterion Collection

1966 films
French drama television films
1960s French-language films
Films about Louis XIV
Films directed by Roberto Rossellini
Films about food and drink
Cultural depictions of Cardinal Mazarin
Cultural depictions of Jean-Baptiste Colbert
1960s French films


Alderman Blaxill School was a secondary school with academy status in Colchester, Essex, and was the town's smallest secondary school. It closed in 2014.

History

Alderman Blaxill Secondary Modern School in Walnut Tree Way, Colchester, was opened in 1955.  It replaced the former Hamilton Road Central School (built in 1914, but used as a military hospital during World War I,not opening as a school until 1920. Following the Education Act 1944, it became a secondary modern school. In 1955, the secondary part of the school moved to the new building in Walnut Tree Way, Shrub End, and was renamed Alderman Blaxill after a former Mayor of Colchester and chairman of the education committee.  The Hamilton Road building was used for infants and juniors.   In 1976, Alderman Blaxill became a comprehensive school. It became an academy in 2012, and closed in 2014. The majority of the students transferred to The Stanway School and Thomas Lord Audley School, with which Alderman Blaxill was federated.

Legacy
Following the closure of the school in July 2014, the buildings were maintained for temporary use by children from the Market Field School in Elmstead Market, which was being rebuilt at the time. Demolition of the school commenced in October 2017.

See also
Secondary schools in Essex

References

External links

School Ofsted report

Educational institutions established in 1920
1920 establishments in England
Defunct schools in Essex
Educational institutions disestablished in 2014
2014 disestablishments in England
Buildings and structures demolished in 2017
Demolished buildings and structures in England


Todd Woodbridge and Mark Woodforde defeated Sébastien Lareau and Alex O'Brien in the final, 6–4, 5–7, 6–2, 7–6(7–3) to win the doubles tennis title at the 1996 ATP Tour World Championships. It was the Woodies' second Tour Finals title.

Grant Connell and Patrick Galbraith were the reigning champions, but only Connell competed that year partnering Byron Black; they were defeated in the semifinals by Woodbridge and Woodforde.

Seeds
Champion seeds are indicated in bold text while text in italics indicates the round in which those seeds were eliminated.

Draw

Finals

Green group
Standings are determined by: 1. number of wins; 2. number of matches; 3. in two-players-ties, head-to-head records; 4. in three-players-ties, percentage of sets won, or of games won; 5. steering-committee decision.

Yellow group
Standings are determined by: 1. number of wins; 2. number of matches; 3. in two-players-ties, head-to-head records; 4. in three-players-ties, percentage of sets won, or of games won; 5. steering-committee decision.

References

Doubles
ATP Tour World Championships - Doubles
Tennis tournaments in the United States
Sports in Hartford, Connecticut
Sports competitions in Hartford, Connecticut


Den Helder Zuid railway station (English: Den Helder South) serves the town of Den Helder, Netherlands. The station opened on 31 May 1980 and is located on the Den Helder–Amsterdam railway. The train services are operated by Nederlandse Spoorwegen. The station has two platforms, of which only one is in use for both directions.

Train services
The station is served by the following service(s):

2x per hour Intercity services Den Helder - Amsterdam - Utrecht - Arnhem - Nijmegen

Bus services
These services stop outside the station. For timetables see.

References

External links
NS website
Dutch public transport travel planner
Departure times for Den Helder South

Railway stations in North Holland
Railway stations opened in 1980
Railway stations on the Staatslijn K
Railway stations in the Netherlands opened in the 1980s


Les Avions was a French pop rock band formed in 1980 in Paris by Jean-Pierre Morgand. Jean-Pierre played vocals and guitar and was born on January 7, 1959., Jean Nakache (guitar / keyboards) and Jérôme Lambert (drums). The keyboardist Sylvain Pauchard also greatly contributed to Les Avions'albums for the arrangements and programming. The group disbanded in 1997 after an ultimate concert in Moscow on the occasion of the festival named 'Les Allumées'. Their best known song is the hit "Nuit sauvage" in 1986 (#16 in France), but few other singles of the trio also enjoyed a significant broadcasting, such as "Tu changes" (1986), "Noël (tombe la neige)" (1987) and "Tous ces visages" (1989).

Discography

Albums
 1982 : Les Avions
 A-side : "La Planète des singes" - "Trio" - "Des Usines & des Hommes" - "Puzzle & Parallèles"
 B-side : "Un Certain Paradis" - "Twist and Shout" - "Aquarium"
 1987 : Fanfare
 1989 : Loin
 1992 : 4

Compilations
 2002 : Des Jardins et des Ronces, le Best of des Avions

Singles
 1982 : "Trio" / "Twist and Shout"
 1985 : "Nuit sauvage" / "Tour Eiffel" - #16 in France
 1986 : "Be bop" / "Guitare espagnole"
 1987 : "Tu changes" / "Le cyrk"
 1987 : "Tombe la neige" / "Zim bam boum"
 1988 : "Et la fanfare des PTT" / "Medley" ("Nuit sauvage", "Be bop", "Fanfare")
 1988 : "Fanfare"
 1989 : "Tous ces visages" / "Le Train"
 1992 : "Mélodie"
 1992 : "Monsieur Moyen"

References

External links
Jean-Pierre Morgand official site

French pop music groups
Musical groups established in 1980
Musical groups disestablished in 1997
French musical trios
Musical groups from Paris


Christine is the third album by Norwegian pop singer Christine Guldbrandsen, released in 2007 in Norway through MBN Music Business Norway. The album is progressive Celtic, using a combination of traditional and modern instruments.

Album information
Guldbransen's third album and was released on February 5, 2007. The songs on this album span a wide range of styles, from ballads with choir and piano, to soundscapes. The lyrics are primarily in Norwegian, though Latin and English is used on a couple of songs. Guldbrandsen wrote several of the songs in collaboration with her creative team. One of these is Alvedansen, Norway's entry for the Eurovision Song Contest 2006, reworked for the album. Apart from one Norwegian folk song Den Dag Kjem Aldri the rest of the album is new material. The song Dansekjolen placed 1st in the Norwegian charts.

Reviews

A review on the Musical Discoveries website states, "Artists can often deliver more emotional content when singing in their native tongue and this evolution has worked well for Christine... The combination of traditional instruments and modern arrange- ments work perfectly to support Christine's far ranging vocal power."

Track listing

References

2007 albums
Christine Guldbrandsen albums


This Time of Year EP is the second EP by American Christian rock band Project 86. The release was first announced on September 23, 2008 through the band's official MySpace blog. Nine days later, the band released a further update naming the new release as This Time of Year, and specifying the release date as November 18, 2008. The release date was then changed to November 25, 2008. The EP contains four new songs, as well as a cover of the song, This Time of The Year, which was created for the Christmas season of 2007. The instrumental song "What Child?" uses elements from the traditional English folk song Greensleeves.

Track listing

Credits
 Andrew Schwab - Vocals
 Randy Torres - Lead Guitar, Keyboards, Backing Vocals
 Steven Dail - Bass, Rhythm Guitar, Backing Vocals
 Jason Gerken - Drums

Project 86 albums
2008 EPs
2008 Christmas albums
Christmas albums by American artists
Rock Christmas albums


The Historic Railway, Frankfurt (Historische Eisenbahn Frankfurt) or HEF is a German museum railway in Frankfurt am Main. The society was founded in 1978 and its aim is the preservation of historic, valuable railway materiel in working order, especially steam locomotives, as technical and cultural monuments.

Since 1979 there has been a regular museum service several weekends a year on the tracks of the Frankfurt Harbour Railway (Frankfurter Hafenbahn) between the halts of Mainkur, Eiserner Steg and Frankfurt-Griesheim. Since 1981 the society has organised the Königstein railway festival (Bahnhofsfest Königstein) every year at Whitsun, when the Königsteiner Bahn between Frankfurt-Höchst and Königstein im Taunus is operated. In addition vehicles of the Historic Railway, Frankfurt are used in special services throughout Germany.

Rolling stock

The society has several operational locomotives. The most famous and historically important is the DRG Class 01 express train, steam locomotive, number 01 118.

Steam locomotive 01 118
The locomotive was built by Krupp in Essen in 1934 under works number 1415 and is the only one of its class still in existence today that has seen unbroken operational service. It was delivered on 18 December 1934 and officially taken over by the Deutsche Reichsbahn on 24 December 1934. The purchase price for the engine and tender was 208,597 Reichsmarks. It began its duties on 2 January 1935 and in March 1939 it was fitted with an inductive train control (PZB).

Over the course of time, the locomotive was stationed in various central German locomotive sheds (Betriebswerke. After the end of the Second World War it was left in the Soviet Zone of Occupation and was incorporated in the Deutsche Reichsbahn's fleet in East Germany, where it was given the computer number 01 2118-6 in 1970.

During its entire service the Reichsbahn did not carry out any major conversion or modernisation of the engine. As a result, its appearance has remained unchanged; something which is especially evinced by the large Wagner smoke deflectors. Instead of the original rivetted tender, the locomotive was coupled with a Class 2'2'T 34 tender which was delivered by Borsig in 1941 under the works number 15117. Over the course of the years the boiler has been replaced several times. Its present boiler, which is the seventy, was fitted in July 1973. It came originally from locomotive 01 191, built in 1937, and was last used on locomotive 01 089.

Until its sale to the Historic Railway, Frankfurt, on 5 November 1981 it had covered 3,559,271 kilometres according to its log. Her last locomotive depot (Bahnbetriebswerk) was Bw Saalfeld in the Reichsbahn division of Erfurt.

Its sale was handled by the Kunst und Antiquitäten GmbH, a branch of the Kommerzielle Koordinierung. This  government department of East Germany's Foreign Ministry, headed by Alexander Schalck-Golodkowski, had the task of acquiring foreign exchange assets through the sale of art and antiquities to customers in the West. After the bill of sale had been paid, the locomotive was on its way to the West on 7 November 1981 together with two other historic locomotives, numbers 35 1097 (formerly 23 1097) and 03 2098.

Since 1981 the locomotive has been used for steam specials, initially on the Frankfurt Harbour Railway and since 1985 on public railway lines. The engine underwent the required general inspections in 1991, 1995, 1999 and 2003 and can therefore continue to be used for special trips, that have taken it so far to France, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and Switzerland. In spring 2004 the locomotive was fitted with the PZB 90 train safety system. She is stationed at Frankfurt Eastern Harbour.

Up to 2006 the specials were organised by the Nuremberg Transport Museum. In addition to the traditional events held by the Historic Railway, Frankfurt, she also took part, for example, in the Frankfurt Harbour celebrations in August 2006, as part of the 'Rhine-Main route of industrial heritage'.

Apart from the numerous photographs and films, that railway fans and train spotters have produced on her appearances, the locomotive played an important side role in the 2001 TV melodrama Geraubte Liebe ('Stolen Love'), that was shown by Hessischer Rundfunk.

Locomotive 01 118 is the prototype for several models in various gauges. In 2004, for their 70th anniversary, a model railway manufacturer in Viernheim made a brass model of 01 118 in 1:45 (I) scale, that was produced as a limited edition. It is also available as a model from the trade in TT gauge.

Steam locomotive 52 4867

The DRG Class 52 goods train locomotive, 52 4867, was built in 1943 and was left in Austria after the Second World War. In 1980 it was acquired by the Historic Railway, Frankfurt, from the Graz-Köflacher Eisenbahn- und Bergbaugesellschaft.

She carried out an unusual duty in October 2007. When the tracks on the curve of the Bäderbahn (Homburger Damm) – a link line in west Frankfurt normally worked by the Taunusbahn – needed to be completely refurbished, the firm carrying it out decided on cost grounds, to charter the goods train locomotive from the Historic Railway, Frankfurt, as motive power for the heavy works trains. Number 52 4867 hauled wagons laden with track ballast in a 64-hour continuous shift to the Frankfurt (Main) Höchst goods station. Likewise she was used for duties on the Main-Neckar bridge at Easter 2008.

Other locomotives

 Two former military (Wehrmacht) diesel locomotives of class V 36. These two Deutsche Bundesbahn engines, V 36 405 and V 36 406, built in 1950, were acquired by the HEF after their retirement in 1981 and 1979 respectively. Of the two, number V 36 406 remains in working condition.
 A DRG Köf II shunter.  Köf 5712, built in 1942 was initially used at the Peenemünde military research institute Heeresversuchsanstalt Peenemünde and ended up in the Deutsche Reichsbahn in Erfurt, East Germany after the Second World War. In 1995 it was retired, was refurbished in 1998 and has been operational since 2000. Another Kö II, number 4293 built in 1934, is in private hands. It has been used, on loan, by the HEF since its restoration in 2004.
 A railbus set of class VT 98, comprising the traction car 798 629-2, the driving car 996 683-9 and the two trailer cars 998 175-4 and 996 257-5, was made available to the HEF by a railway society. The traction car, control car and first trailer car are working.

Passenger coaches
The society has a range of historic passenger coaches, including 13 eight-wheeled wagons of class Bm 234, a saloon car as well as twelve six-wheeled Class 3yg coaches.

Footnotes and references

External links

 Website of the Historic Railway, Frankfurt

Heritage railways in Germany
Museums in Frankfurt
Railway museums in Germany
History of Frankfurt


Prince of Light may refer to:
 Prince of Light, a title of Saint Michael the Archangel
Ramayana: The Legend of Prince Rama, a 1992 Indo-Japanese animated film

See also
 Good Lord (disambiguation)
 Prince of Darkness (disambiguation)


The 51st Pennsylvania House of Representatives District is located in southern Pennsylvania and has been represented by Charity Grimm Krupa since 2023.

District profile
The 51st Pennsylvania House of Representatives District is located in Fayette County and includes the following areas:

 Fairchance
 Georges Township
 German Township
 Henry Clay Township
 Markleysburg
Masontown
Menallen Township
 Nicholson Township
North Union Township
 Point Marion
 Smithfield
 South Union Township
 Springhill Township
 Uniontown
 Wharton Township

Representatives

Recent election results

References

Government of Fayette County, Pennsylvania
Government of Somerset County, Pennsylvania
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"Saturday Night Hustle" is the second single released from Sway's second album The Signature LP. It features R&B singer Lemar. The song was produced by Al Shux, who has worked with Sway before. The single was released on 15 September 2008. It spent one week on the UK Singles Chart, peaking at number 67.

According to the DVD release of The Signature LP, "Saturday Night Hustle" was written during the production of Sway's debut album This Is My Demo, but was omitted from the album's track list as he believed it was not appropriate for the album.

Track listing
 "Saturday Night Hustle (Album Version)" - 3:24
 "Saturday Night Hustle (Jukey Club Remix)" - 6:09
 "Saturday Night Hustle (Instrumental)" - 3:23

References

2008 singles
2008 songs
Sway (musician) songs
Song recordings produced by Al Shux
Songs written by Sway (musician)


"You Will Know" is a song written and recorded by American R&B singer-songwriter Stevie Wonder, taken from his 1987 Characters album. It is the opening track on the album, and is the second single from the album as well. This is Stevie Wonder's 20th and final  number-one R&B hit single. Wonder performed the song along with R&B quartet Jodeci and Mary J. Blige on an episode of The Arsenio Hall Show in late 1992.

Chart performance
In March 1988, the song reached number 77 on the US Billboard Hot 100, number 1 on the R&B chart, "You Will Know" also peaked at number 16 on the Adult Contemporary charts.

Critical reception
Karen Swayne from Number One wrote, "This isn't one of the best tracks, but there's a warmth and humanity to it that means all but the hardest hearted will forgive him (for) crooning trite platitudes like 'problems have solutions/trust and I will show.' Some people might even believe him. And why not."

Charts

References

Stevie Wonder songs
1987 songs
1987 singles
Songs written by Stevie Wonder
Motown singles
Song recordings produced by Stevie Wonder


Kate Edwards (born  1965) is a geographer, writer, and content culturalization strategist, most active in information-based cartography and video game content. She was the executive director of the International Game Developers Association from December 2012 to June 2017. Edwards spent over a decade working in various roles at Microsoft, creating the Geopolitical Strategy team and working to evaluate and manage geopolitical and cultural content in software products. After leaving Microsoft she founded Englobe (now Geogrify) as a consulting firm engaged in content culturalization and strategy, primarily for the video game industry.

Education and career
Edwards received a B.A. in geography and a certificate in cartography from California State University, Long Beach. She received an M.A. and PhC in geography at the University of Washington.

Edwards was the geopolitical strategist for Microsoft between 1992 and 2005. She assisted with Microsoft's virtual earth technology and Encarta World Atlas project. She proposed and founded a new team called Geopolitical Strategy in 1998. As Microsoft's Senior Geopolitical Strategist, Edwards was responsible for the risk assessment of geopolitical and cultural content across all products and locales. In the Microsoft Studios, Edwards implemented a geopolitical quality review process which was used to evaluate PC and Xbox titles.

In March 2005, she left Microsoft to launch Englobe (now Geogrify), a consulting firm specializing in content culturalization and strategy in video games, cartography and general cultural sensitivities in digital content. Through Englobe, Edwards was involved on games such as Dragon Age II and Star Wars: The Old Republic.

Edwards was the founder and chair of the Game Localization Special Interest Group (SIG) in the International Game Developers Association (IGDA), and served as a board of directors member for the IGDA Seattle chapter. Edwards was awarded the IGDA's 2011 MVP award for her contributions to the organization and to the game industry. In December 2012, she was appointed as the executive director of the International Game Developers Association after Gordon Bellamy moved on from the position. Edwards left IDGA in 2017.

Edwards was listed as one of "The 10 Most Powerful Women In Gaming" in 2013 by Fortune, and in 2014 she was named as one of the video games industry's six "People of the Year".

Edwards conceived of the 50 Over 50 List to showcase games developers who were over the age of 50, and "as a response to the reality that ageism is a rampant problem in the game industry and within the broader technology sector." The yearly list was first published in 2018.

Edwards received the Ambassador Award at the 20th Game Developers Choice Awards in March 2020 for her past work in the IGDA and current work in the Global Game Jam.

References

1965 births
Living people
American cartographers
American geographers
Game Developers Conference Ambassador Award recipients
American video game designers
Women video game designers
American women business executives


The Goodwin model, sometimes called Goodwin's class struggle model, is a model of endogenous economic fluctuations first proposed by the American economist Richard M. Goodwin in 1967. It combines aspects of the Harrod–Domar growth model with the Phillips curve to generate endogenous cycles in economic activity (output, unemployment and wages) unlike most modern macroeconomic models in which movements in economic aggregates are driven by exogenously assumed shocks. Since Goodwin's publication in 1967, the model has been extended and applied in various ways.

Model

The model is derived from the following assumptions:
 there is steady growth of labour productivity (e.g. by technological improvement);
 there is steady growth of the labour force (e.g. by births);
 there are only two factors of production: labour and capital;
 workers completely consume their wages, and capitalists completely invest their profits;
 the capital-output ratio is constant (i.e. a fixed amount of output can always be turned into the same amount of capital);
 real wages change according to a linearized Phillips curve, where wages rise when close to full employment.

The model uses the variables
 q  is output
 k  is (homogeneous) capital
 w  is the wage rate
 a  is labour productivity
 n  is the labour force
which are all functions of time (although the time subscripts have been suppressed for convenience) and the constants
 α  is the rate of growth of labour productivity
 β  is the rate of growth of  the labour force
 γ  is used to define the real wage change curve
 ρ  is also used to define the real wage change curve
 σ  is the capital-output ratio.

A number of derived quantities are helpful to define the model.
The amount of employed labour is given by
 ,
the employment ratio is given by
 ,
the workers' share in the output is given by
 ,
and the share of the capitalists in the output ( for surplus) is given by
 .

The model is then defined by a set of differential equations.
Firstly, the change in labour productivity is defined by
 ,
that is, steady growth, with .
(Note that  is the derivative over time .)
The labour force changes according to
 ,
again, steady growth, with .
Real wages change according to
 ,
that is, the real wage change curve is modelled as linear.
Note that to correctly model the assumptions,  and
must be picked to ensure that real wages increase when  is near 1.
In other words, if the labor market is 'tight' (employment is already high) there is upward pressure on wages and vice versa in a 'lax' labor market.

Capital changes according to
 ,
as the surplus is assumed to be completely invested by the capitalist.
Lastly, output changes according to
 ,
that is, in proportion to the surplus invested.

Note that

by the assumption that k and q grow at the same rate by assumption of full utilization of capital and constant returns to scale.

Solution

The defining equations can be solved for  and ,
which gives the two differential equations

 .
These are the key equations of the model and in fact are the Lotka–Volterra equations, which are used in biology to model predator-prey interaction.
These equations have two fixed points. The first is when
  and
and the second is when

 ,
which determines the center of a family of cyclic trajectories.

Since the model cannot be solved explicitly, it is instructive to analyze the trajectory of the economy in terms of a phase diagram.
The two lines defining the center of the cycle divide the positive orthant into four regions. The figure below indicates with arrows the movement of the economy in each region. For example, the north-western region (high employment, low labor's share in output) the economy is moving north-east (employment is rising, worker's share is increasing). Once it crosses the u* line it will begin moving south-west.

The figure below illustrates the movement of potential output (output at full employment), actual output and wages over time.

As can be seen the Goodwin model can generate endogenous fluctuations in economic activity without relying on extraneous assumptions of outside shocks, whether on the demand or supply side.

Statistics

See also
 Business cycle
 Richard M. Goodwin
 Harrod–Domar model
 Marxian economics
 Phillips curve

Notes

References
 Goodwin, Richard M. (1967), "A Growth Cycle", in C.H. Feinstein, editor, Socialism, Capitalism and Economic Growth. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
 Goodwin, Richard M., Chaotic Economic Dynamics, Oxford University Press, 1990.
 Flaschel, Peter, The Macrodynamics of Capitalism - Elements for a Synthesis of Marx, Keynes and Schumpeter. Second edition, Springer Verlag Berlin 2010. Chapter 4.3.

Economics models
Economic growth
Business cycle theories


Clinical Colorectal Cancer is a peer-reviewed medical journal published by CIG Media Group (Cancer Information Group) from 2001 to 2010 and by Elsevier since 2011. It publishes original articles describing various aspects of clinical and translational research of gastrointestinal cancers. The journal is devoted to articles on detection, diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of colorectal, pancreatic, liver, and other gastrointestinal cancers. The main emphasis is on recent scientific developments in all areas related to gastrointestinal cancers. Specific areas of interest include clinical research and mechanistic approaches; drug sensitivity and resistance; gene and antisense therapy; pathology, markers, and prognostic indicators; chemoprevention strategies; multimodality therapy; and integration of various approaches.

Abstracting and indexing
Clinical Colorectal Cancer is indexed in Index Medicus/PubMed, EMBASE Excerpta Medica, ISI Current Contents, CINAHL (Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature), Chemical Abstracts, and Journal Citation Reports.

Article types
The journal publishes editorials, original research papers, comprehensive reviews, current treatment reports, case reports, brief communications, current trials, translational medicine pieces,  and a "Meeting Highlights" section.

External links
 Clinical Colorectal Cancer
 Clinical Colorectal Cancer at ScienceDirect

Oncology journals
Academic journals established in 2001
Quarterly journals
English-language journals


The Lakes () in Copenhagen, Denmark is a row of three rectangular lakes curving around the western margin of the City Centre, forming one of the oldest and most distinctive features of the city's topography. The paths around them are popular with strollers, bikers and runners.

History
Originally the area, which the lakes now form, was one long stream. It had an arch shape and was just outside the city levees. In the early Middle Ages, a need of water for watermills was determined. As a result of this a dam was built and the Peblinge Sø was created.

As a result of a siege of Copenhagen in 1523, it was decided to expand the entrenchments in order to improve the fortifications of the city. The levee at Peblinge Sø was expanded and another was created, which resulted in the creation of Sortedams Sø. In the beginning of the 16th century, Sankt Jørgens Sø was created, by further damming. This made it possible to flood the banks and lakes in case of an attack.

Peblinge Sø and Sortedams Sø also served as reservoirs for the city, and in the period 1705–1727 they were cleaned and dug deeper. The edges were also straightened, giving them their current shape. In the middle of the 18th century they were discontinued as a source of drinking water, due to poor water quality. Sankt Jørgens Sø was to be used instead and it was cleaned and straightened in a similar manner as had the two other lakes 120 years earlier. Until the end of World War II, it played a central role in as a reservoir in Copenhagen and as a backup reservoir until 1959.

The first Fredensbro (bridge) was built across Sortedams Sø in 1878 as a small wooden bridge. The current Fredensbro is a wide levee, that separates the two basins. It was created in 1976–1977.

The vertical slopes of Peblinge Sø and Sortedams Sø were made in 1929, where the pathways surrounding the lakes also were made. In the 60's it was suggested a four lane city ring (named Søringen) be constructed, but the project was disbanded and the lakes were granted the a status of a protected area in 1966.

Fugleøen (the Bird Island) is located within the northern basin of Sortedams Sø. It was raised to fame in 1967, when it was "liberated" by a group of activists, who declared it an independent state, separate from Denmark.

During the 2010s the local governments of Copenhagen and Frederiksberg explored plans to create a park around Sankt Jørgens Sø, with the dual use of acting as a detention basin for cloudburst flood waters. Likely as a consequence of Global Warming, cloudbursts have become much more common in Denmark, making the sewerage pipes designed for the old weather patterns insufficient; using Sankt Jørgens Sø as a detention basin is just one of many such projects in Copenhagen. The proposed plans were largely set aside after mass criticism from the public, which eliminated any political support to challenge the protected status of Sankt Jørgens Sø and the other lakes.

Geography

The landmark consist of three artificial lakes, which are divided into five basins:

 Sankt Jørgens Sø () is made of two basins (south and north) with the southernmost point at the Tycho Brahe Planetarium and northernmost point at Gyldenløvesgade (a continuation of H. C. Andersens Boulevard which passes City Hall Square). The two basins are divided by a levee that serves as a foundation for the street Kampmannsgade.
 Peblinge Sø (). A single basin between Gyldenløvesgade and Dronning Louises Bro (), which is the continuation of Nørrebrogade. The word pebling means little priest, and was used metaphorically for any student in the elementary and secondary schools in Denmark during the time when the church was the sole provider of education.
 Sortedams Sø () consists of two basins (north and south). The southernmost point is by the Dronning Louises Bro, while the northernmost is by Østerbro. The lakes are separated by Fredensbro ().

Water

The lakes inlet is through piped streams (Grøndalsåen, Lygteåen and Ladegårdsåen). These streams jointly provide water from the wet-area Utterslev Mose, the lake Emdrup Sø and to a lesser degree the lake Damhussøen. Ladegårdsåen was converted from an open stream to a piped stream in 1925 and is located below the streets Ågade and Åboulevarden. It provides water for Peblinge Sø and has its endpoint near the pavilion Søpavillonen (). From the lakes the water is streamed further on, with an endpoint at the north end of Sortedams Sø, to the lakes in Østre Anlæg, the Fredrikshavn Entrenchment and Øresund. The water has an average time in the lakes of approximately 1 year.

The water in Utterslev Mose and Emdrup Sø is very high in nutrients. As a result of this, large quantities of algae formed in the lakes and the water became rather unclear as well as hindering animal and plant life. In 1999 the municipality of Copenhagen erected a water treatment plant by Emdrup Sø, to clean the water that was being led to the lakes. This allowed for the re-creation of the water environment. Currently the water is much more clear and animal and plant life are present.

Use
The lakes primarily serve as a recreational area and the paths surrounding them are popular for strolls and a favoured running route. The total distance around the lakes is 6.4 km.

Sankt Jørgens Sø has a depth of 4–5 metres with sloped sides. The other lakes have a depth of 2.5 metres, with hard vertical edges (made of granite). In Sortedams Sø, two artificial islands have been created. They are named Fiskeøen () and Fugleøen () and both serve as sanctuary for birds.

See also

 Søtorvet, Copenhagen
 Sortedam Lake

References

External links

 Visit Copenhagen information

Parks and open spaces in Copenhagen
Tourist attractions in Copenhagen
Lakes of Copenhagen
Artificial lakes


Charles Alfred Miller is an American computer security researcher with Cruise Automation. Prior to his current employment, he spent five years working for the National Security Agency and has worked for Uber.

Education
Miller holds a bachelor's degree in mathematics with a minor in philosophy from the then called Northeast Missouri State, and a Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Notre Dame in 2000. He lives in Wildwood, Missouri.

Security research
 Miller was a lead analyst at Independent Security Evaluators, a computer protection consultancy. He has publicly demonstrated many security exploits of Apple products. In 2008, he won a $10,000 cash prize at the hacker conference Pwn2Own in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada for being the first to find a critical bug in the MacBook Air. In 2009, he won $5,000 for cracking Apple's Safari browser. Also in 2009, he and Collin Mulliner demonstrated an SMS processing vulnerability that allowed for complete compromise of the Apple iPhone and denial-of-service attacks on other phones. In 2011, he found a security hole in the iPhone and iPad, whereby an application can contact a remote computer to download new unapproved software that can execute any command that could steal personal data or otherwise using iOS applications functions for malicious purposes. As a proof of concept, Miller created an application called Instastock that was approved by Apple's App Store. He then informed Apple about the security hole, who promptly expelled him from the App Store.

Miller participated in research on discovering security vulnerabilities in NFC (Near Field Communication).

Miller, along with Chris Valasek, is known for remotely hacking a 2014 Jeep Cherokee and controlling the braking, steering, and acceleration of the vehicle.

Publications

 iOS Hacker Handbook
 The Mac Hacker's Handbook
 Fuzzing for Software Security Testing and Quality Assurance
Battery firmware hacking: inside the innards of a smart battery

References

External links

Living people
University of Notre Dame alumni
Computer security specialists
Year of birth missing (living people)


Calm at Sunset, Calm at Dawn is the second novel by American author Paul Watkins. It was published in 1989 by Houghton Mifflin and shared the Encore Award the following year.

Plot introduction
The story is set on and off the Rhode Island coast where James Pfeiffer, age 20 and just expelled from college, starts working on a broken down scallop trawler against the wishes of his family.  He follows in the footsteps of his father Russ, who now has an unexplained fear of the sea.  James comes to learn the very real dangers that exist in the present and truth about his father's past.

Reception
Publishers Weekly said 'Watkins's spare, whittled-down prose does not buoy up the action, but readers will savor the realistic evocations of life at sea and the portrayal of a particular maritime subculture.'
Kirkus Reviews' opinion was mixed: "There are hardships, deaths, injuries, sweepings-overboard, and near-misses aplenty in the spectacularly described and salty passages at sea--but the plot chugs along like a leaky TV barge', and concludes "Descriptive brilliance laboring through the shoals of the routine."

Publication history
1989, US, Houghton Mifflin, , Pub date Aug 1989, Hardback
1989, UK, Hutchinson, , Pub date Sep 1989, Hardback
1990, UK, Vintage, , Pub date 20 Sep 1990, Paperback
1991, US, Avon, , Pub date Feb 1991, Paperback
1991, US, Recorded Books, , Audio cassette
1996, US, Picador, , Pub date 15 Oct 1996, Paperback
1997, UK, Faber & Faber, , Pub date 06 Jan 1997, Paperback
2012, US, Daunt, , Pub date 01 Jun 2012, Paperback

Film adaptation
The story was adapted for television in 1996 for Hallmark Hall of Fame, entitled just Calm at Sunset. Directed by Daniel Petrie it starred Peter Facinelli as James Pfeiffer, Michael Moriarty as his father Russ, Kate Nelligan as his mother Margaret and Gretchen Mol as his girlfriend Emily. Its music, composed by Ernest Troost, was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award.

References

External links

 Chapter 1 online

1989 American novels
Novels by Paul Watkins
Novels set in Rhode Island
American novels adapted into films
Houghton Mifflin books


Brigadier general John Harold Whitworth Becke,  (17 September 1879 – 7 February 1949) was an infantry officer in the Second Boer War and squadron, wing and brigade commander in the Royal Flying Corps during World War I. He transferred to the Royal Air Force (RAF) on its creation on 1 April 1918 as a temporary brigadier general. He retired from the RAF in 1920.

He was born in Liverpool on 17 September 1879. As a captain in the Sherwood Foresters, he was seconded to the Royal Flying Corps and awarded his Royal Aero Club aviators certificate on 18 June 1912 flying a Bristol Biplane at Brooklands. Becke was the first commanding officer of No. 6 Squadron, one of a handful of flying squadrons to be established before the First World War.

References

External links
Air of Authority – A History of RAF Organisation – Brigadier-General J H W Becke
No. II(AC) Squadron – Major J H W Becke

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Royal Flying Corps officers
Royal Air Force generals of World War I
Companions of the Order of St Michael and St George
Companions of the Distinguished Service Order
Recipients of the Air Force Cross (United Kingdom)
Officers of the Legion of Honour
Recipients of the Croix de Guerre 1914–1918 (France)
Sherwood Foresters officers
1879 births
1949 deaths
Military personnel from Liverpool
British Army personnel of the Second Boer War


Megan Rose Gedris (born June 12, 1986) is a mostly self-taught American cartoonist, writer, and publisher whose most well-known comics include YU+ME:dream and I Was Kidnapped By Lesbian Pirates From Outer Space. They are commonly regarded for writing about the advancement of women, LGBTQIAP+, sex and body-positivity within their work.

Work

YU+ME:dream (2004–2010)
YU+ME:dream is a webcomic begun in 2004, using manga and other types of styles, about an 18-year-old girl named Fiona who spends all her time dreaming. At home, she lives with her father and stepmother and while she is not at home, she frequently experiences bullying at the hands of her classmates at West Catholic High. Enter Lia: a new girl at school. Fiona is confused by Lia until she arrives at the realization that girls can be in love with girls. The two begin a secret relationship, however, while they are attending a school dance, Fiona discovers that the past few months have merely been a very long dream while she was in a coma. The remaining two-thirds of the story follow Fiona's attempts to return to Dreamworld, find Lia, and resume their relationship against the wishes of Sadako, Queen of Dreamworld. The Dreamworld sequences employ a number of different art styles, including collage and clay modeling, to portray different realms of the imaginary world.
The webcomic won the second Queer Press Grant from Prism Comics which allowed Gedris to publish the first collected volume of the series.

Gedris writes, "So many stories (bad ones) end with '. . . and it was all a dream.' But I always wanted to know what would happen after that. How would this affect someone’s life." Therefore, the "it was all a dream" twist comes not at the end of the story, but one-third of the way through. According to Gedris, "I put my twists in the middle, rather than the end. . . . Instead of ending with it being a dream, we follow how things go after the dream ends."

Lesbian Pirates from Outer Space (2006– )
Gedris' second webcomic, I Was Kidnapped By Lesbian Pirates from Outer Space (usually shortened to Lesbian Pirates from Outer Space or LPFOS), created in 2006, centers on Susan Bell, a secretary living in the 1950s who is kidnapped by a group of titular lesbian pirates. Lesbian Pirates from Outer Space follows the humorous and occasionally risqué situations that develop as Susan lives alongside them, and chronicles Susan's eventual realization that she too is homosexual. The lesbian pirates are a race of Amazonesque beings who come from a planet referred to as "Lesbos-1," named after the Greek island of Lesbos.

Gedris created the webcomic as an antidote to the portrayals of lesbians in the comics media. The webcomic is based on the historic Cold War pulp novels about lesbians. Gedris entered the Platinum Comics Comic Book Challenge and was a finalist (first place going to D.J. Coffman for Hero by Night). As a result, Platinum Studios began publishing the webcomic via the Drunk Duck webcomics site; in May 2008, the first story arc was published in print. Prism Comics stated that the webcomic had "laugh out loud moments in every issue".  The webcomic was one of the most popular titles on Drunk Duck since its debut.

In November 2013, Gedris took all 18 chapters of Lesbian Pirates From Outer Space down from the web, where it had been hosted by Platinum Studios since 2007. They said the company had not paid them since 2007, and had strung them along for years with false promises.

Darlin' It's Betta Down Where It's Wetta (2010– )
Renowned for its many sexual puns, Darlin' It's Betta Down Where It's Wetta chronicles the misadventures of Pearl the mermaid, who only understands human genitalia as it is told through legends. Until, a naked girl who has been shipwrecked appears and she quickly fills in the gaps of her anatomical knowledge-base. Then, she goes on an adventurous quest to find a vagina from the infamous Sea Witch.

This book is part of their Filthy Figments collection and it is widely considered to be their most erotic release of all time.

Meaty Yogurt (2010– )
This book centers around teenage Jackie Monroe who is suffering from "small town boredom" in her city of Middleville, which is under a curse thanks to the fact it was built upon an Indian tribe's stolen land. She always strives to make her life as interesting as possible but is weighed down by other people's lack of ambition and death. Because she is so fickle with things such as choosing her college major or starting then stopping screenplays, she struggles to follow through with this. Her idol, Moira, is an out-of-town musician and Jackie's best friend, Saffron's girlfriend. Moira has been through a lot of positive and negative things, making Jackie constantly switch between idolizing and then hating her because of her own insecurities about being awkward and indecisive.

Meaty Yogurts art style is much more realistic and subdued compared to Gedris' other works.

Spectacle (2018)
In Spectacle, published 2018 by Oni Press, Gedris shares the story of Anna, a pragmatic engineer who despite working as a psychic at the Samson Brothers Circus, is completely skeptical of the supernatural. That is, until her twin sister, Kat, is stabbed suddenly and after she dies she gets reincarnated into a needy ghost. The two, who have consistently had problems sharing in their childhood, must now share a body together to find Kat's killer. With their troupe backing the pair upon numerous paranormal occurrences at the circus, the effort to identify them still seems hopeless. On their journey there, they discover that the killer wasn't the scariest thing there at all.

On Gedris' website, they offer a "Meet the Cast" bonus for fans who want to know more about the characters. Their character illustration in this book frequently resembles a doll and the appearance as a whole is very colorful. Anna's narration bubbles are said to be casting spells of its own as they are wrapped into the side pieces. There is a planned second book to be released either late 2018 or early 2019.

Accomplishments
Gedris was once mentioned in a list of influential female independent and underground comic creators by Liorah Golomb.

The webcomic won the second Queer Press Grant from Prism Comics which allowed Gedris to publish the first collected volume of the series, YU+Me:dream.

Personal life
According to Gedris, the name Rosalarian comes from a nickname their dad gave them when they were growing up because he used to call them by their middle name Rose, and just started messing around with it.

One of their motivations for starting their comics career was their experience at a comics store as a young still-closeted queer woman where they noticed the abundance of sexualized women on the covers suggesting that they wanted "better" as these "stories were not even stories". They have also said they enjoyed reading yuri manga but at one point received the impression that the stories became predictable and so Gedris decided to create their own comic. Comic culture has permeated every aspect of their life and always has.

Gedris has indicated before that they enjoy keeping things like romance private, but been very open about their interest in Burlesque dancing, which has not allegedly impacted their work as a writer, but it has generally improved their work ethic. Gedris has also been a traveling performer since 2012. Gedris is very active on social media and occasionally shows little tidbits from their life in between uploading art and informal comic strips on several of their profiles. This, along with their website and Patreon page, is the primary medium through which Gedris connects with their fanbase.

Gedris has indicated that they identify as nonbinary or genderfluid, and uses "they/them" pronouns, describing their personality as "made up of several districts who all vote on what our overall identity will be on any given day. Usually the majority of the districts vote femme. But there are a lot of swing districts who will vote masc or independent."

References

External links

LGBT comics creators
American LGBT artists
American female comics artists
Female comics writers
Living people
1986 births
American graphic novelists
American women cartoonists
American publishers (people)
American cartoonists
Genderfluid people


Pośród niesnasków Pan Bóg uderza... - "Among the discord God rings [a bell]..." - is a poem written by Juliusz Słowacki in 1848, in which the poet prophesied the coming of a first Slavic pope.

The poem was not popular with Słowacki's contemporaries and was mostly forgotten until a century later, when it gained huge popularity after Polish cardinal Karol Wojtyła was elected pope in 1978, as it has explicit predictions regarding a future Slavic pope (in Polish: "Słowiański Papież"). It was frequently cited by John Paul II.

References

External links
Poem on Polish Wikisource

Polish poems
Works by Juliusz Słowacki
Cultural depictions of Pope John Paul II
1848 poems


Bracebridge is a suburb of Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England. It is situated approximately  south from the city centre on the main A1434 Newark Road, stretching approximately from St Catherine's to Swallowbeck alongside the east bank of the River Witham, and the village of Bracebridge Heath.

Under the Local Government Act 1888 Bracebridge was part of Kesteven and considered a separate town within that county. The Local Government Act 1894 changed Bracebridge's status to an Urban District within Lincoln in the county of Lindsey.  Bracebridge now falls under the City of Lincoln Council, within the county of Lincolnshire.

Bracebridge was formerly served by the now-defunct Bracebridge railway station which was located to the rear of the Manse estate which is accessible from Brant Road. Bracebridge lowfields consist of Brant Road area to Waddington Village in the south and Newark Road area to St. Catherines roundabout at South Park. Using Cross O'Cliff hill from the South Park roundabout, one can access Bracebridge Heath, which has a mixed development of old and new properties and commercial units. It is possible to access the town of Sleaford from 'the heath' as it is locally known via the A15 or Grantham via the A607. Both Bracebridge and Bracebridge Heath are served by regular bus services. The Number 1 goes from Lincoln City bus station to Grantham via Cross O'Cliff hill and the A607, Bracebridge Lowfields are served by the 13/14 Service which travels around the Larne Road area and on to Waddington village. Also serving Bracebridge is the number 27 which travels to ASDA in North Hykeham; this follows the route of Newark Road.

All Saints' Church dates from the 11th century, but was remodelled in 1875 by J L Pearson. It was further restored in 1895 and the 20th century and is a Grade I listed building.

References

External links

Areas of Lincoln, England
Former civil parishes in Lincolnshire


Phobaeticus chani, the Chan's megastick (also known by its synonym Sadyattes chani), is a species of stick insect in the tribe Pharnaciini, native to the southeast Asian island of Borneo. It is one of the longest insects in the world and was once considered the record-holder (it is currently held by a scientifically undescribed species discovered in 2014 and informally known as Phryganistria "chinensis"). One specimen held in the Natural History Museum in London measures . This measurement is, however, with the front legs fully extended. The body alone still measures an impressive .

It is named after amateur Malaysian naturalist Datuk Chan Chew Lun.

Phobaeticus chani was selected as one of "The Top 10 New Species" described in 2008 by the International Institute for Species Exploration at Arizona State University and an international committee of taxonomists.  The species was also listed as one of the top 10 discoveries of the decade in the BBC television documentary Decade of Discovery, first broadcast on December 14, 2010.

References

External links
Phasmid Study Group: Phobaeticus chani
Image of insect

Phasmatidae
Insects of Indonesia
Insects of Malaysia
Insects described in 2008
Phasmatodea of Malesia


Alfonso Feijoo García (born in San Sebastián, 5 January 1953) is a former Spanish rugby union footballer and a current coach. He's also a Physical Education teacher in San Sebastián.

Feijoo had 23 caps for Spain, during his career. He later become a rugby union coach, taking office as head coach of Spain, in 1997. He achieved his country first ever qualification for the Rugby World Cup finals. Spain played in the 1999 Rugby World Cup finals, but lost all the three matches.

He was elected President of the Spanish Rugby Federation at May 2014.

References

External links
Profile of Alfonso Feijoo

1953 births
Living people
Spanish rugby union players
Spanish rugby union coaches
Rugby union centres
Spain international rugby union players
Rugby union players from the Basque Country (autonomous community)
Sportspeople from San Sebastián


John Hagel (or John Hagel III) is a management consultant and author.

Hagel has spent over 40 years in Silicon Valley. He is the founder of two technology startups and served as the Senior Vice President for Strategic Planning at Atari, Inc. He spent 16 years at McKinsey & Company, where he helped open their Silicon Valley office and served as a leader of their strategy practice as well as founded their e-commerce practice in 1993. Hagel has also been a consultant at Boston Consulting Group.

In 2007, Hagel founded the Deloitte Center for the Edge, a Silicon Valley-based research center. The Center for the Edge now has offices in Amsterdam and Melbourne.

Hagel is also involved with several other organizations, including the World Economic Forum, where he currently serves as co-chair of the Global Future Council on the Future of Platforms and Systems. He is also on the Board of Trustees of the Santa Fe Institute, an organization that conducts research on complex adaptive systems, and Independent Institute. Additionally, he hosts executive roundtables at the Aspen Institute.

He is credited with inventing the term "infomediary" in his book, NetWorth, co-authored with Marc Singer, and published by the Harvard Business School Press in 1999.

Hagel has been published in business publications including The Economist, Fortune, Forbes, Business Week, Financial Times and Wall Street Journal as well as in mainstream media such as the New York Times, NBC and BBC.He has also been awarded two prizes by the Harvard Business Review for Best Article and has been called an industry thought leader by the World Economic Forum and Business Week. Hagel also blogs at Edge Perspectives, the Harvard Business Review, Fortune and Techonomy.

Major positions and roles
 Co-Chairman of the Deloitte Center for the Edge (present)
 Santa Fe Institute  Board of Trustees
 Aspen Institute
 The Independent Institute  Board of Directors
 Advisory board member of open innovation vendor Innovation Exchange
 Fellow, World Economic Forum

Education, degrees and awards
 MBA - Harvard Business School  1978
 JD - Harvard Law School  1978
 B.Phil. - Oxford University  1974
 BA - Wesleyan University  1972

Publications
 John Hagel III, John Seely Brown: Lang Davison, The Power of Pull: How Small Moves, Smartly Made, Can Set Big Things In Motion, Basic Books 2010. .
 John Hagel III, John Seely Brown, How World Of Warcraft Promotes Innovation; in: Willms Buhse/Ulrike Reinhard: Wenn Anzugträger auf Kapuzenpullis treffen (When Suits meet Hoodies), whois-Verlag 2009. .
 John Hagel III, John Seely Brown, The Only Sustainable Edge: Why Business Strategy Depends On Productive Friction And Dynamic Specialization, Harvard Business Review Press 2005. .
 John Hagel III, John Seely Brown, Out of The Box: Strategies for Achieving Profits Today and Growth Tomorrow Through Web Services, Harvard Business Press 2002. .
 John Hagel III, Marc Singer, Net Worth: Shaping Markets When Customers Make the Rules, Harvard Business Review Press 1999. .
 John Hagel III, Arthur G. Armstrong, Net Gain: Expanding Markets through Virtual Communities, Harvard Business Review Press 1997. .
 John Hagel III, Assessing the Criminal, Restitution, Retribution and the Legal Process, Ballinger Publishing 1977. .
 John Hagel III, Alternative Energy Strategies: Constraints and Opportunities, Praeger 1976.

References

External links

 John Hagel's website

Living people
Wesleyan University alumni
Harvard Law School alumni
Harvard Business School alumni
Santa Fe Institute people
McKinsey & Company people
Year of birth missing (living people)


A Piece of Cake: A Memoir is an autobiography by Cupcake Brown, published by Crown in 2006. The book describes Brown's descent into teenage prostitution and drug addiction.

Although doubt has been cast as to the veracity of events described in the memoir, Brown maintains that the events in the book are real.

Plot summary
The story begins in January 1975 when the female protagonist, born LaVetteMichelle Brown, gives a short account of why her mother named her Cupcake Brown. Brown's mother died in 1976, when Brown was age 11. Since her biological father only acquired custody because he wanted to receive social security checks, she and her brother were placed in a stranger's foster home, along with several other children. Their foster mother, Diane, forced them to clean her entire house every day and physically abused them if she wasn't satisfied. Diane's biological daughter, Connie, is also portrayed as sadistic, reportedly deriving pleasure from tormenting Brown and the other children who resided in the foster home. For example, she is quick to point out to Brown that she is the real (biological) child of Diane as opposed to being a foster child. Brown believes that Connie feels entitled to cause trouble for the foster children in any way that her cruel mind will allow because of her perceived higher familial status.

Within days of arriving, Brown is raped by her foster mother's nephew, Pete. Brown provides a frank account of how Pete thrusts a glass of rum and coke into her hand, tells her to drink it and how "everything happened so fast" afterwards. Although the drink makes Brown feel very good at first, she proceeds to relate what she describes as being a nightmare. She also decides that since God took her mother away from her as well as allowed the rape to happen to her, then He must not like Brown very much. She then decides that she hates God.

After months of unrelenting abuse, Brown runs away and ends up meeting a prostitute, Candy, who teaches her about life on the streets, including how to smoke marijuana, and introduces her to prostitution. Brown turns her first "trick" at age eleven. Her next foster father, under the guise of "cheerleading practice", traded her LSD and cocaine for oral sex.

She later moved in with her great aunt in South-Central Los Angeles, where she joined a gang. She narrowly survived a shooting when she was 13, and left the gang.

Later, a boyfriend teaches her how to freebase and introduces her to crack. Brown becomes what she calls a "trash-can junkie", indulging in as many drugs as she could find. When she woke up behind a dumpster one morning, scarcely dressed and possibly close to death, she admitted that she needed help. She then attends an addiction clinic, where she embarks upon her road to recovery, which is successful.

See also
 A Million Little Pieces

References

External links
 Archive of the original San Diego Union-Tribune story, by Samuel Autman, about Cupcake Brown

2006 books
American memoirs
Memoirs about drugs
Non-fiction books about American prostitution


Cléopâtre was a 32-gun Vénus class frigate of the French Navy. She was designed by Jacques-Noël Sané, and had a coppered hull. She was launched in 1781, and the British captured her in 1793. She then served the Royal Navy as HMS Oiseau until she was broken up in 1816.

French career and capture
Cléopâtre took part in the Battle of Cuddalore in late June 1783, where she was the flagship of Suffren.

On 19 June 1793, as she sailed off Guernsey under Lieutenant de vaisseau Mullon, she encountered , under Captain Edward Pellew. During the short but sharp action, Cléopâtre lost her mizzenmast and wheel, and the ship, being unmanageable, fell foul of Nymphe. The British then boarded and captured her in a fierce rush. Mullon, mortally wounded, died while trying to swallow his commission, which, in his dying agony, he had mistaken for the vessel's secret signals. Pellew then sent the signals to the Admiralty.

In the battle Nymphe had 23 men killed and 27 wounded. Pellew estimated the number of French casualties at about 60.

Cléopâtre was the first French frigate taken in the war. In 1847 the Admiralty awarded the Naval General Service Medal with clasp "Nymphe 18 June 1793" to the four surviving claimants from the action.

British career

French Revolutionary Wars

The Royal Navy commissioned Cléopâtre as HMS Oiseau in September 1793 under Captain Robert Murray. On 18 May 1794 he sailed her from Plymouth to Halifax in a squadron commanded by Rear-Admiral George Murray. Between 1793 and 1795, the Russian naval officer Yuri Lisyanski sailed aboard Oiseaux as a volunteer. Between 1803 and 1806 he would captain the Russian-American Company's sloop  on the first Russian circumnavigation of the world.

In June 1794 Oiseau and  seized fourteen French vessels of a convoy of 25, all loaded with flour, naval stores, beef, and pork. The vessels were American-owned and had sailed from Hampton Roads with two sets of papers, one set showing the cargo going to England and the other giving their destination as France. The British sent the vessels into Halifax.

In July, Argonaut, Oiseau, , and  captured Potowmac and
True Republican.

On 8 January 1795, Argonaut captured the French Republican warship  on the North America Station. Esperance was armed with 22 guns (4 and 6-pounders), and had a crew of 130 men. She was under the command of lieutenant de vaisseau de St. Laurent and had been out 56 days from Rochfort, bound for the Chesapeake. Argonaut shared the prize money with Oiseaux. Because she was captured in good order and sailed well, Rear Admiral Murray put a British crew aboard and sent Esperance out on patrol with  on 31 January.

In 1798, Oiseau served in the Indian Ocean, where she captured the French Réunion on 1 September. On 21 April 1799 her boats went into Saint Denis on the Íle de Bourbon and cut out two merchant vessels, Denree, which had a cargo of bale goods and coffee, and Augustine, which had a cargo of rum and arrack. Augustine was lost in St. Augustine's Bay.

On Monday, 26 January 1801, at 8.00 a.m., at , Oiseux, under Captain Samuel Hood Linzee fell in with and chased Dédaigneuse, which was bound from Cayenne to Rochefort with despatches. By noon the following day, with Cape Finisterre in sight, Captain Linzee signaled to  and , which were in sight, to join the pursuit. Dédaigneuse maintained her lead until 2.00 a.m. on the 28th when came within small arms range. Dédaigneuse opened fire from her stern-chasers, and the two British ships returned fire. After a running fight of 45 minutes, two miles off shore near Cape Bellem, fire primarily from Sirius had cut Dédaigneuses running rigging and sails ). She had also suffered casualties with several men having been killed, and 17 wounded, including her Captain and fifth Lieutenant. She then struck her colours. Unfavourable winds kept Amethyst, from getting up before Dédaigneuse had struck. Sirius was the only British ship to sustain any damage (rigging, sails, main-yard and bowsprit) in the encounter and there were no fatalities on the English side. Captain Linzee declared the encounter a long and anxious chase of 42 hours and acknowledged a gallant resistance on the part of Dédaigneuse. At the time of the encounter she was armed with twenty-eight 12-pounder guns. Linzee described her as "a perfect new Frigate, Copper fastened and sails well...". He sent her into Plymouth with a prize crew under the command of his first lieutenant, H. Lloyd. The Admiralty took Dédaigneuse into the Royal Navy under the same name HMS Dedaigneuse.

On 28 January, along with HMS Sirius, she captured 3 French frigates off Ferrol.

On 16 September 1800, Oiseau,  and the cutter Fly captured Neptunus when Neptunus was going into Havre de Grace. The next day  brought Neptunus into Portsmouth, together with her cargo of naval stores that Wight had captured

In February 1801 Captain Lord Augustus Fitzroy assumed command.

In mid-afternoon on 16 March the privateer schooner Lord Nelson, Captain Humphrey Gibson, was between the Isle of Wight and Portland when a lugger came into sight, under chase by a larger vessel. Humphrey immediately changed his direction to attempt to cut the lugger off. After a chase of four hours, Lord Nelson caught up with the lugger, which immediately surrendered. The lugger turned out to be the French privateer Espoir, of 14 guns and 75 men, under the command of M. Alegis Ballet. She was two days out of Saint-Malo and had taken nothing.  There were no casualties. As Lord Nelson was taking out the prisoners Oiseau, Captain Augustus Fitzroy, came up.

Captain John Murray replaced Fitzroy in August, and was replaced in turn in December by Captain John Phillips.

Napoleonic Wars
In June 1806 Oiseau was commissioned under Lieutenant Walter Kennedy as a prison hulk at Portsmouth. In 1812 Lieutenant William Needham succeeded Kennedy. She was laid up in December, but then lent to the Transport Board.

In 1814 she was under the command of Lieutenant John Bayby Harrison. She was then put in ordinary in 1815.

Fate
Oiseau was advertised for sale on 2 September 1816, and sold for breaking up to a Mr. Rundle for £1500 on 18 September.

Notes

Citations

References

External links

 HMS Oiseau  Naval Database

Age of Sail frigates of France
1781 ships
Frigates of the French Navy
Captured ships


Maria Magdalene Tatar (born May 13, 1945) is an American academic whose expertise lies in children's literature, German literature, and folklore. She is the John L. Loeb Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures, and Chair of the Committee on Degrees in Folklore and Mythology at Harvard University.

Biography
Maria Tatar was born in Pressath, Germany. Her family emigrated from Hungary to the United States in the 1950s when she was a child.

She grew up in Highland Park, Illinois and graduated from Highland Park High School in 1963.

Tatar earned an undergraduate degree from Denison University and a doctoral degree from Princeton University. In 1971, after finishing her doctorate at Princeton University, Tatar joined the faculty of Harvard University. She received tenure in 1978. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Selected works
  Spellbound: Studies on Mesmerism and Literature (Princeton University Press,  1978)
  The Hard Facts of the Grimms' Fairy Tales (Princeton, 1987)
  Off With Their Heads! Fairy Tales and the Culture of Childhood (Princeton, 1993)
  The Annotated Classic Fairy Tales (W. W. Norton & Company, 2002)
  The Annotated Brothers Grimm  (W.W. Norton, 2004)
  The Annotated Hans Christian Andersen (W.W. Norton, 2008)
  Enchanted Hunters: The Power of Stories in Childhood (W.W. Norton, April 2009)
  "From Bookworms to Enchanted Hunters: Why Children Read" (Journal of Aesthetic Education, Summer 2009, vol.43, no.2, p. 19-36) ISSN 0021-8510
  The Annotated Peter Pan, ed., (W.W. Norton, 2011)
  The Annotated African American Folktales, ed. with Henry Louis Gates Jr., (Liveright-W.W. Norton, 2017),
  The Fairest of Them All: Snow White and 21 Tales of Mothers and Daughters, (Harvard University Press,  2020)
  The Heroine with 1001 Faces (Liveright, 2021),

References

External links
 Maria Tatar at Harvard University
 Breezes from Wonderland – Tatar's blog on storytelling, folklore, and children's literature
 , 2008)
 "Tatar Discusses Development of Fairy Tales", The Harvard Crimson (April 8, 2012)

Living people
Denison University alumni
Princeton University alumni
Harvard University faculty
Highland Park High School (Illinois) alumni
1945 births
People from Highland Park, Illinois


Massed negative practice is a proposed treatment for the tics of Tourette syndrome in which the individual with Tourette's "practices" tics continuously until a conditioned level of fatigue is reached.  It is based upon the Hullian learning theory, which holds that tics are "maladaptive habits that are strengthened by repetition and can be replaced by the strengthening of more adaptive habits (i.e., not having tics)".  There is little evidence supporting its efficacy in the treatment of tics.

References

Behavior therapy
Behavior modification


The women's alpine skiing slalom event was part of the alpine skiing at the 1948 Winter Olympics programme. It was the first appearance of the event. The competition was held on Thursday, February 5, 1948. Twenty-eight alpine skiers from ten nations competed.

Medalists

Results

* 5 seconds penalty added.

References

External links
Official Olympic Report

Women's alpine skiing at the 1948 Winter Olympics
Olymp
Alp


Montluçon Rugby is a French rugby union team, from the city of Montluçon. They play in Fédérale 1.

Rugby union clubs in France


Charles Beseler Company is a Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania industrial company addressing four primary markets: public and corporate steel shelving and furniture, iron shelving and storage, shrink wrap packaging and silver halide photography (film photography).  The company now has two divisions left, its photo division and shrink wrap packaging.

The company is a historic contributor to silver halide photography. The company still sells photographic enlargers; one of the few remaining companies to market the device.

History

The name Charles Beseler Company comes from Charles Beseler, a businessman in Germany in the 19th century who sold magic lanterns and stereopticons.

Beseler died in 1909, but his company remained and then moved to New Jersey in 1919. The company manufactured photographic enlargers and other photographic equipment throughout the 20th century. It also imported the Topcon line of cameras into the US during the time that the company made cameras.

Following a three-way merger in 1987, the company introduced other industrial lines to its business, and assumed new ownership.

Around 2004, the president died and ownership passed to his wife, with the previous CEO taking on the role of president.

Role in education

From as early as the 1990s and as of the 2000s, the Charles Beseler Company was a supplier to high schools for photography classes in Minnesota and Ontario.

References

External links
Beseler Official Website

Companies based in Monroe County, Pennsylvania
Companies with year of establishment missing
Manufacturing companies based in Pennsylvania