Pegloticase (trade name Krystexxa) is a medication for the treatment of severe, treatment-refractory, chronic gout. It is a third line treatment in those in whom other treatments are not tolerated. The drug is administered by infusion intravenously.

It was developed by Savient Pharmaceuticals. It was approved in the United States in 2010, after two clinical trials found it lowered uric acid levels and reduced deposits of uric acid crystals in joints and soft tissue. The European Medicines Agency (EMA) granted marketing authorization in 2013 for treatment of disabling tophaceous gout. In 2016 this authorization was ended in Europe.

Medical uses
It is an option for the 3% of people with gout who are intolerant to other medications. Pegloticase is given as an intravenous infusion every two weeks, and has been found to reduce uric acid levels in this population. There is moderate quality evidence that It is useful for tophi but has a high rate of side effects and withdrawals due to adverse events. About 40% of people develop resistance to the medication over time.

Side effects
In individuals with glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency, pegloticase may precipitate a severe, life-threatening hemolysis with methemoglobinemia; it is therefore contraindicated in such individuals. Pegloticase may also show immunogenicity.

Mechanism of action
Pegloticase is a recombinant porcine-like uricase. Similarly to rasburicase, it metabolises uric acid to allantoin. This reduces the risk of precipitates, since allantoin is five to ten times more soluble than uric acid.

In contrast to rasburicase, pegloticase is pegylated to increase its elimination half-life from about eight hours to ten or twelve days, and to decrease the immunogenicity of the foreign uricase protein. This modification allows for a dosing interval of two to four weeks, increasing its suitability for long-term treatment.

Chemistry
Pegloticase is a tetrameric protein composed of four identical chains of about 300 amino acids each. Approximately nine of the 30 lysine residues in each chain are pegylated. These PEG chains consist of about 225 ethylene glycol units each (10 kg/mol PEG).

References

External links
DailyMed

Antigout agents


Shane Schoeller (born August 21, 1971) is an American politician, currently serving as the Greene County Clerk.  He is a former Republican member of the Missouri House of Representatives.  Schoeller represented the 139th district, encompassing North Springfield and the communities of Walnut Grove, Fair Grove, and Willard in the northern half of Greene County. Schoeller also served as the Speaker Pro Tem of the House for the 96th General Assembly. On August 13, 2012, Speaker of the Missouri House of Representatives Steven Tilley resigned. As Speaker Pro Tem, Schoeller held the office for one month until a replacement was named.

Shane was the Republican nominee for Missouri Secretary of State in the 2012 election, losing in the general election to Democrat Jason Kander.  Following his narrow loss for Secretary of State, Schoeller was named the executive director of the Missouri Republican Party.

Early life and education

Schoeller was born in Salina, Kansas, and later moved to Branson, Missouri, where he graduated from Branson High School.  He received a Bachelor of Science degree from Southwest Baptist University.  He is married to Mendie Schoeller, and they have three children: Emma Marie, Dorthy Katelynn, and Johnny Frederick.

Professional career

Schoeller's professional background encompasses working on behalf of the Home Builder Association of Greater Springfield as the Director of Government Affairs.  He also has served as Director of Development for Students in Free Enterprise, a global, non-profit organization based on more than 1700 campuses across the world that teaches students the principles of free enterprise.

Schoeller also worked in politics and government as a Field Representative for U.S. Senators John Ashcroft and Kit Bond, as a Legislative Assistant for U.S. Congressman Roy Blunt, and as Chief Administrative Aide to Matt Blunt during his tenure as Missouri Secretary of State.

Political career

Schoeller was elected in 2006 to succeed Brad Roark.  In the primary, Schoeller defeated his nearest opponent, Karen Roark (mother to outgoing Representative Roark) with 47.7% of the vote as opposed to Roark's 37.5%.  Schoeller then defeated Democrat Jamie Schoolcraft and Libertarian Thomas Martz in the November general election to become state representative. Schoeller won reelection in 2008, facing no primary opposition and defeating Democrat Janet Adams with nearly 70 percent of the vote. Schoeller ran unopposed in the 2010 Republican primary and general election.

In 2014, Schoeller was elected to the office of Greene County Clerk. He was reelected in 2018 and for a third term in 2022.

Electoral history

Candidacy for Missouri Secretary of State
On October 24, 2011, Representative Schoeller announced his candidacy in the Missouri secretary of state election, 2012. Schoeller has since received 90+ endorsements from colleagues in the Missouri House and Senate. Additionally, Representative Schoeller received endorsements by John Ashcroft, Alan Keyes, and Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach. Schoeller led the field in fundraising throughout the race and had a campaign marked by a strong grassroots effort.  Despite a barrage of last-minute attack ads from opponents, on August 7, 2012, Schoeller won the Republican Primary with 35.3 percent of the vote over opponents Scott Rupp and Bill Stouffer.

In the General Election, Schoeller faced off against attorney and fellow State Representative Jason Kander.  Despite nearly $900,000 in donations from Rex Sinquefield, Kander outraised Schoeller and was able to defeat Schoeller on Election Day by approximately 40,000 votes, 48.9 to 47.4 percent.

Executive Director of the Missouri Republican Party

Following his narrow defeat for Secretary of State, Schoeller was tapped by new Missouri Republican Party Chairman Ed Martin to serve as executive director of the Party.  The announcement was made on February 28, 2013.  In the announcement, Martin called Schoeller 'A passionate and articulate messenger for the Republican Party.'

Personal life

Schoeller and his family are members of Second Baptist Church in Springfield.  He also serves on the Missouri Tourism Commission, holds a membership in the Willard Chamber of Commerce and is a board member of Clear Vision Drama Company.

References

External links
Schoeller's official Missouri House of Representatives page
Schoeller's Official Website

1971 births
Living people
Politicians from Salina, Kansas
Southwest Baptist University alumni
Republican Party members of the Missouri House of Representatives
People from Greene County, Missouri
21st-century American politicians


Mark Lawrence (born 4 December 1958) is an English former footballer who played as a midfielder for Hartlepool United from 1977 to 1984. He also represented Port Vale (on loan) and Whitby Town. He helped the "Valiants" to win promotion out of the Fourth Division in 1982–83.

Career
Lawrence began his career at Fourth Division side Hartlepool United, who were forced to apply for re-election to the Football League in the 1977–78 campaign. Billy Horner's "Pools" rose to 13th place in 1978–79, before dropping back down to 19th in 1979–80. They rose up to ninth place in 1980–81, then posted 14th and 22nd-place finishes in 1981–82 and 1982–83. Lawrence was loaned out to John McGrath's Port Vale in March 1983. He played eleven games, helping the "Valiants" to finish third and gain promotion from the Fourth Division in 1982–83. He left Vale Park and returned to Victoria Park in May. Hartlepool had to apply for re-election once again after finishing second-from-bottom in 1983–84; Lawrence then left Hartlepool and joined non-League Whitby Town.

Career statistics
Source:

Honours
Port Vale
Football League Fourth Division third-place promotion: 1982–83

References

1958 births
Living people
Footballers from Middlesbrough
English men's footballers
Men's association football midfielders
Hartlepool United F.C. players
Port Vale F.C. players
Whitby Town F.C. players
English Football League players


Harold Palmer may refer to:

 Harold E. Palmer (1877–1949), English linguist and phonetician
 Harold Sutton Palmer (1854–1933), English watercolour landscape painter and illustrator
 Harold Palmer (cricketer) (1890–1967), English cricketer


Andrew Scott Dickens (born August 4, 1984) is a former competitive swimmer from Canada, who mostly competes in the breaststroke events.  He claimed two medals at the 2007 Pan American Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.  Dickens won his first national title at the 2004 Canadian Olympic Trials, earning his first trip to the Olympic Games where he finished 19th in the 100-metre breaststroke.

Dickens finished 8th in the semifinal heat and 16th overall in the 100-metre breaststroke at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. Dickens was feeling sick during his semifinal race, with a running nose the morning of the race.  He also finished in 16th in the 200-metre breaststroke, and was part of the Canadian team that finishing in 8th place in the men's 4 x 100 medley relay.

On October 23, 2013, Dickens announced he was retiring from swimming after ten years with the national team.

References

External links
Profile Canadian Olympic Committee
Dickens Retirement

1984 births
Living people
Canadian male breaststroke swimmers
Commonwealth Games competitors for Canada
Olympic swimmers for Canada
Sportspeople from Burlington, Ontario
Swimmers at the 2003 Pan American Games
Swimmers at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Swimmers at the 2006 Commonwealth Games
Swimmers at the 2007 Pan American Games
Swimmers at the 2012 Summer Olympics
Swimmers from Ontario
UBC Thunderbirds swimmers
Pan American Games gold medalists for Canada
Pan American Games bronze medalists for Canada
Pan American Games medalists in swimming
Universiade medalists in swimming
Universiade silver medalists for Canada
Medalists at the 2005 Summer Universiade
Medalists at the 2007 Summer Universiade
Medalists at the 2003 Pan American Games
Medalists at the 2007 Pan American Games
21st-century Canadian people


Thyroid cancer is cancer that develops from the tissues of the thyroid gland. It is a disease in which cells grow abnormally and have the potential to spread to other parts of the body. Symptoms can include swelling or a lump in the neck. Cancer can also occur in the thyroid after spread from other locations, in which case it is not classified as thyroid cancer.

Risk factors include radiation exposure at a young age, having an enlarged thyroid, family history and obesity. The four main types are papillary thyroid cancer, follicular thyroid cancer, medullary thyroid cancer, and anaplastic thyroid cancer. Diagnosis is often based on ultrasound and fine needle aspiration. Screening people without symptoms and at normal risk for the disease is not recommended as of 2017.

Treatment options may include surgery, radiation therapy including radioactive iodine, chemotherapy, thyroid hormone, targeted therapy, and watchful waiting. Surgery may involve removing part or all of the thyroid. Five-year survival rates are 98% in the United States.

Globally as of 2015, 3.2 million people have thyroid cancer. In 2012, 298,000 new cases occurred. It most commonly is diagnosed between the ages of 35 and 65. Women are affected more often than men. Those of Asian descent are more commonly affected; with a higher rate of mortality among Filipino females. Rates have increased in the last few decades, which is believed to be due to better detection. In 2015, it resulted in 31,900 deaths.

Signs and symptoms

Most often, the first symptom of thyroid cancer is a nodule in the thyroid region of the neck. However, up to 65% of adults have small nodules in their thyroids, but typically under 10% of these nodules are found to be cancerous. Sometimes, the first sign is an enlarged lymph node. Later symptoms that can be present are pain in the anterior region of the neck and changes in voice due to an involvement of the recurrent laryngeal nerve.

Thyroid cancer is usually found in a euthyroid patient, but symptoms of hyperthyroidism or hypothyroidism may be associated with a large or metastatic, well-differentiated tumor. Thyroid nodules are of particular concern when they are found in those under the age of 20. The presentation of benign nodules at this age is less likely, thus the potential for malignancy is far greater.

Causes
Thyroid cancers are thought to be related to a number of environmental and genetic predisposing factors, but significant uncertainty remains regarding their causes.

Environmental exposure to ionizing radiation from both natural background sources and artificial sources is suspected to play a significant role, and significantly increased rates of thyroid cancer occur in those exposed to mantlefield radiation for lymphoma, and those exposed to iodine-131 following the Chernobyl, Fukushima, Kyshtym, and Windscale nuclear disasters. Thyroiditis and other thyroid diseases also predispose to thyroid cancer.

Genetic causes include multiple endocrine neoplasia type 2, which markedly increases rates, particularly of the rarer medullary form of the disease.

Diagnosis

After a thyroid nodule is found during a physical examination, a referral to an endocrinologist or a thyroidologist may occur. Most commonly, an ultrasound is performed to confirm the presence of a nodule and assess the status of the whole gland. Some ultrasound results may report a TI-RADS or TIRADS score to categorize the risk of malignancy. Measurement of thyroid stimulating hormone,  free and/or total triiodothyronine (T3) and thyroxine (T4) levels, and antithyroid antibodies will help decide if a functional thyroid disease such as Hashimoto's thyroiditis is present, a known cause of a benign nodular goiter. a thyroid scan, performed often in conjunction with a radioactive iodine uptake test may be used to determine whether a nodule is "hot" or "cold" which may help to make a decision whether to perform a biopsy of the nodule. Measurement of calcitonin is necessary to exclude the presence of medullary thyroid cancer. Finally, to achieve a definitive diagnosis before deciding on treatment, a fine needle aspiration cytology test may be performed and reported according to the Bethesda system.

After diagnosis, to understand potential for spread of disease, or for follow up monitoring after surgery, a whole body I-131 or I-123 radioactive iodine scan may be performed.

In adults without symptoms, screening for thyroid cancer is not recommended.

Classification

Thyroid cancers can be classified according to their histopathological characteristics. These variants can be distinguished (distribution over various subtypes may show regional variation):
 Papillary thyroid cancer (75 to 85% of cases) – is more often diagnosed in young females compared to other types of thyroid cancer and has an excellent prognosis. It may occur in women with familial adenomatous polyposis and in patients with Cowden syndrome. A follicular variant of papillary thyroid cancer also exists.
 Newly reclassified variant: noninvasive follicular thyroid neoplasm with papillary-like nuclear features is considered an indolent tumor of limited biologic potential.
 Follicular thyroid cancer (10 to 20% of cases) – occasionally seen in people with Cowden syndrome. Some include Hürthle cell carcinoma as a variant and others list it as a separate type.
 Medullary thyroid cancer (5 to 8% of cases) – cancer of the parafollicular cells, often part of multiple endocrine neoplasia type 2.
 Poorly differentiated thyroid cancer
 Anaplastic thyroid cancer (1 to 2%) is not responsive to treatment and can cause pressure symptoms.
 Others
 Thyroid lymphoma
 Squamous cell thyroid carcinoma
 Sarcoma of thyroid
 Hürthle cell carcinoma

The follicular and papillary types together can be classified as "differentiated thyroid cancer". These types have a more favorable prognosis than the medullary and undifferentiated types.
 Papillary microcarcinoma is a subset of papillary thyroid cancer defined as a nodule measuring less than or equal to 1 cm. 43% of all thyroid cancers and 50% of new cases of papillary thyroid carcinoma are papillary microcarcinoma. Management strategies for incidental papillary microcarcinoma on ultrasound (and confirmed on FNAB) range from total thyroidectomy with radioactive iodine ablation to lobectomy or observation alone. Harach et al. suggest using the term "occult papillary tumor" to avoid giving patients distress over having cancer.  Woolner et al.  first arbitrarily coined the term "occult papillary carcinoma", in 1960, to describe papillary carcinomas ≤ 1.5 cm in diameter.

Staging
Cancer staging is the process of determining the extent of the development of a cancer. The TNM staging system is usually used to classify stages of cancers, but not of the brain.

Metastases
Detection of differentiated thyroid cancer metastases may be detected by performing a full-body scintigraphy using iodine-131.

Spread
Thyroid cancer can spread directly, via lymphatics or blood. Direct spread occurs through infiltration of the surrounding tissues. The tumor infiltrates into infrahyoid muscles, trachea, oesophagus, recurrent laryngeal nerve, carotid sheath, etc. The tumor then becomes fixed. Anaplastic carcinoma spreads mostly by direct spread, while papillary carcinoma spreads so the least. Lymphatic spread is most common in papillary carcinoma. Cervical lymph nodes become palpable in papillary carcinoma even when the primary tumor is unpalpable. Deep cervical nodes, pretracheal, prelaryngeal, and paratracheal groups of lymph nodes are often affected. The lymph node affected is usually the same side as that of the location of the tumor. Blood spread is also possible in thyroid cancers, especially in follicular and anaplastic carcinoma. The tumor emboli do angioinvasion of lungs; end of long bones, skull, and vertebrae are affected. Pulsating metastases occur because of their increased vascularity.

Treatment
Thyroidectomy and dissection of central neck compartment is the initial step in treatment of thyroid cancer in the majority of cases. Thyroid-preserving operations may be applied in cases, when thyroid cancer exhibits low biological aggressiveness (e.g. well-differentiated cancer, no evidence of lymph-node metastases, low MIB-1 index, no major genetic alterations like BRAF mutations, RET/PTC rearrangements, p53 mutations etc.) in patients younger than 45 years.
If the diagnosis of well-differentiated thyroid cancer (e.g. papillary thyroid cancer) is established or suspected by FNA, then surgery is indicated, whereas watchful waiting strategy is not recommended in any evidence-based guidelines.  Watchful waiting reduces overdiagnosis and overtreatment of thyroid cancer among old patients.

Radioactive iodine-131 is used in people with papillary or follicular thyroid cancer for ablation of residual thyroid tissue after surgery and for the treatment of thyroid cancer. Patients with medullary, anaplastic, and most Hurthle-cell cancers do not benefit from this therapy.

External irradiation may be used when the cancer is unresectable, when it recurs after resection, or to relieve pain from bone metastasis.

Sorafenib and lenvatinib are approved for advanced metastatic thyroid cancer. Numerous agents are in phase II and III clinical trials.

Post surgical monitoring for recurrence or metastasis may include routine ultrasound, CT scans, FDG-PET/CT, radioactive iodine whole body scans, and routine laboratory blood tests for changes in thyrogolubin, thyroglobuilin antibodies, or calcitonin, depending on the variant of thyroid cancer.

Prognosis

The prognosis of thyroid cancer is related to the type of cancer and the stage at the time of diagnosis.  For the most common form of thyroid cancer, papillary, the overall prognosis is excellent. Indeed, the increased incidence of papillary thyroid carcinoma in recent years is likely related to increased and earlier diagnosis. One can look at the trend to earlier diagnosis in two ways. The first is that many of these cancers are small and not likely to develop into aggressive malignancies. A second perspective is that earlier diagnosis removes these cancers at a time when they are not likely to have spread beyond the thyroid gland, thereby improving the long-term outcome for the patient. No consensus exists at present on whether this trend toward earlier diagnosis is beneficial or unnecessary.

The argument against early diagnosis and treatment is based on the logic that many small thyroid cancers (mostly papillary) will not grow or metastasize. This view holds the overwhelming majority of thyroid cancers are overdiagnosed that is, will never cause any symptoms, illness, or death for the patient, even if nothing is ever done about the cancer.  Including these overdiagnosed cases skews the statistics by lumping clinically significant cases in with apparently harmless cancers.  Thyroid cancer is incredibly common, with autopsy studies of people dying from other causes showing that more than one-third of older adults technically have thyroid cancer, which is causing them no harm.  Detecting nodules that might be cancerous is easy, simply by feeling the throat, which contributes to the level of overdiagnosis. Benign (noncancerous) nodules frequently co-exist with thyroid cancer; sometimes, a benign nodule is discovered, but surgery uncovers an incidental small thyroid cancer. Increasingly, small thyroid nodules are discovered as incidental findings on imaging (CT scan, MRI, ultrasound) performed for another purpose; very few of these people with accidentally discovered, symptom-free thyroid cancers will ever have any symptoms, and treatment in such patients has the potential to cause harm to them, not to help them.

Thyroid cancer is three times more common in women than in men, but according to European statistics, the overall relative 5-year survival rate for thyroid cancer is 85% for females and 74% for males.

The table below highlights some of the challenges with decision making and prognostication in thyroid cancer. While general agreement exists that stage I or II papillary, follicular, or medullary cancer have  good prognoses,  when evaluating a small thyroid cancer to determine which ones will grow and metastasize and which will not is not possible. As a result, once a diagnosis of thyroid cancer has been established (most commonly by a fine needle aspiration),  a total thyroidectomy likely will be performed.

This drive to earlier diagnosis has also manifested itself on the European continent by the use of serum calcitonin measurements in patients with goiter to identify patients with early abnormalities of the parafollicular or calcitonin-producing cells within the thyroid gland. As multiple studies have demonstrated, the finding of an elevated serum calcitonin is associated with the finding of a medullary thyroid carcinoma in as high as 20% of cases.

In Europe where the threshold for thyroid surgery is lower than in the United States, an elaborate strategy that incorporates serum calcitonin measurements and stimulatory tests for calcitonin has been incorporated into the decision to perform a thyroidectomy; thyroid experts in the United States, looking at the same data, have for the most part not incorporated calcitonin testing as a routine part of their evaluations, thereby eliminating a large number of thyroidectomies and the consequent morbidity. The European thyroid community has focused on prevention of metastasis from small medullary thyroid carcinomas; the North American thyroid community has focused more on prevention of complications associated with thyroidectomy (see American Thyroid Association guidelines below).
As demonstrated in the table below, individuals with stage III and IV disease have a significant risk of dying from thyroid cancer. While many present with widely metastatic disease, an equal number evolve over years and decades from stage I or II disease. Physicians who manage thyroid cancer of any stage recognize that a small percentage of patients with low-risk thyroid cancer will progress to metastatic disease.

Improvements have been made in thyroid cancer treatment during recent years. The identification of some of the molecular or DNA abnormalities  has led to the development of therapies that target these molecular defects. The first of these agents to negotiate the approval process is vandetanib, a tyrosine kinase inhibitor that targets the RET proto-oncogene, two subtypes of the vascular endothelial growth factor receptor, and the epidermal growth factor receptor.  More of these compounds are under investigation and are likely to make it through the approval process. For differentiated thyroid carcinoma, strategies are evolving to use selected types of targeted therapy to increase radioactive iodine uptake in papillary thyroid carcinomas that have lost the ability to concentrate iodide. This strategy would make possible the use of radioactive iodine therapy to treat "resistant" thyroid cancers. Other targeted therapies are being evaluated, making  life extension possible over the next 5–10 years for those with stage III and IV thyroid cancer.

Prognosis is better in younger people than older ones.

Prognosis depends mainly on the type of cancer and cancer stage.

Epidemiology
Thyroid cancer, in 2010, resulted in 36,000 deaths globally up from 24,000 in 1990.  Obesity may be associated with a higher incidence of thyroid cancer, but this relationship remains the subject of much debate.

Thyroid cancer accounts for less than 1% of cancer cases and deaths in the UK. Around 2,700 people were diagnosed with thyroid cancer in the UK in 2011, and around 370 people died from the disease in 2012.

However, in South Korea, thyroid cancer was the 5th most prevalent cancer, which accounted for 7.7% of new cancer cases in 2020.

Notable cases
 April Winchell actress
 Scott Thompson (businessman)
 Katee Sackhoff actress
 Karen Smyers American swimmer
 Emre Can, German footballer
 Joe Piscopo, American actor
 Sofía Vergara, American actress
 Roger Ebert, American film critic
 Rod Stewart, British singer
 Julia Volkova, Russian singer
 Daniel Snyder, American owner of the Washington Football Team
 Danny New, co-host of Daytime for WFLA and previous host of Mass Appeal on WWLP.
 Erica Lugo, a coach on Biggest Loser television show.
 Jerry Dipoto, former Major League Baseball pitcher
 William Rehnquist, Chief Justice of the United States (1986–2005) died September 3, 2005, from anaplastic thyroid cancer
 Esther Grace Earl, Avid Nerdfighter (August 3, 1994 – August 25, 2010) Died from papillary thyroid cancer that spread to the lungs
 Uhm Jung-hwa,  South Korean singer, actress and dancer
 Lee Moon-sae, South Korean ballad singer
 Vladimir Putin, president of Russia
 Ann-Katrin berger, Chelsea women footballer.
 Jennifer Grey American Actress

References

External links

 Management Guidelines for Patients with Thyroid Nodules and Differentiated Thyroid Cancer—The American Thyroid Association Guidelines Taskforce (2015)

Endocrine diseases
Wikipedia medicine articles ready to translate
Thyroid disease


Iabet (Iabtet, Iab, Abet, Abtet, Ab) is a goddess in Egyptian mythology, counterpart of Imentet.

Mythology

She is a cleanser of the Sun god Ra, and goddess of the east. Her main husband is the fertility god Min. She was worshiped in Panopolis, with her husband.

In the Amduat, Iabet is depicted as a woman with her arms by her sides, under the name of Iab. Along with eleven other goddesses, including Isis and her grandmother Tefnut, the group was known as "Those who give praises to Ra as he passes over Wernes".

Literature

Egyptian goddesses


The 1964 Major League Baseball All-Star Game was the 35th midseason exhibition between the all-stars of the American League (AL) and the National League (NL), the two leagues comprising Major League Baseball. The game was played on July 7, 1964, at Shea Stadium in Queens, New York City, home of the New York Mets of the National League. The game was a 7–4 victory for the NL. Johnny Callison hit a walk-off home run, the most recent MLB All-Star game to end in such a fashion.

Game summary
National League starter Don Drysdale gave up a leadoff single to Jim Fregosi, who scored on a passed ball and single by Harmon Killebrew.

The NL took the lead in the fourth on a pair of home runs by Billy Williams and Ken Boyer off AL reliever John Wyatt, then made it 3–1 in the fifth on a Roberto Clemente single and Dick Groat double off Camilo Pascual.

The score was tied in the sixth when Mickey Mantle and Killebrew singled and scored on a Brooks Robinson triple to right-center. The AL regained the lead 4–3 in the seventh. Elston Howard was hit by a pitch by Turk Farrell, took third on a Rocky Colavito double and scored on Fregosi's sacrifice fly.

It remained 4–3 until the bottom of the ninth. Dick Radatz issued a leadoff walk to Willie Mays, who stole second. Orlando Cepeda singled him home with the tying run and took second on an error. With Curt Flood pinch-running for Cepeda and Johnny Edwards on first with an intentional walk, Johnny Callison's three-run homer to deep right field ended the game.

Roster
Players in italics have since been inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame.

American League

National League

x – replaced due to injury

y – replacement for injured player

Game

Starting lineups

Umpires

Line score

External links
Baseball Almanac
Baseball-Reference.com

Major League Baseball All-Star Game
Major League Baseball All-Star Game
Sports in Queens, New York
Major League Baseball All-Star Game
Major League Baseball All-Star Game
Baseball competitions in New York City
1960s in Queens
Shea Stadium


The Elektrizitätsmuseum (Museum of Electricity) is in Münchenstein,  in the canton of Basel-Country in Switzerland.

The Elektrizitätsmuseum belongs to the electric utility Elektra Birseck Münchenstein (EBM), and was opened in 1997. Exhibits explore the history and development of power production and its use. The collection contains rare historic equipment and is complemented by a laboratory in which visitors can experiment with electric power.

Special Exhibitions
 „Rechnen unter Strom“, (calculation under current):„From counting frame to electronic brain“ and „Exclusives from the Basler super brains Bernoulli und Euler“, exhibition in 2006.
 „Licht - vom Kienspan zur LED“, (Light from Fatwood to LED).Special Exhibition from 14 June 2009 to 15 December 2009.
 „Kommunikation - Vom Rauchzeichen zum iPhone“, (Communication from smoke signal to iPhone):Special exhibition from 24 October 2010 until 22 May 2011.

See also
 History of electrical engineering
 History of electromagnetism

References

Museums established in 1997
Münchenstein
History museums in Switzerland
Technology museums in Switzerland
Electric power
1997 establishments in Switzerland
Museums in Basel-Landschaft


Longley Park is a public park within the City of Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England. The park lies between the suburbs of Longley and Firth Park, four km north of the city centre. It covers an area of just under 52 acres (21 hectares) and is the third largest public park in Sheffield.

Geography
The main entrance to the park lies on Crowder Road at  although there are several other entrances around the perimeter. It is roughly triangular in shape and is bordered by Elm Lane, Longley Lane, Barnsley Road and Crowder Road. The park has a rolling landscape with hills and valleys, there are numerous copses of old trees. The Bagley Dike rises in a valley in the park and flows on the surface for a short distance before going underground via a man made culvert built in the 1930s to keep the dike away from the old open air swimming pool.

History
Longley Park was officially opened in 1929, it was created by Sheffield City Council to serve the newly built Longley housing estate. The park was established on mostly undeveloped farming land and signs of the hedge boundaries of the ancient field system can still be seen. Crowder House, a large country house which dated back to the 14th century, was the only dwelling on the land which was to become the park and this was demolished to make way for the new estate and park.

The early 1930s saw the park undergo development of its facilities, with a sports pavilion, two football pitches, bowling green, six tennis courts and toilets being built . Much of the labour for this work was provided by the long term unemployed of the Great Depression who had used up their unemployment insurance. On 3 September 1938, a 125-foot (38-metre) by 40-foot (12-metre) outdoor swimming pool was opened in the park along with a 90-foot (27-metre) by 30-foot (9-metre) children's paddling pool. The pools, which were to become the parks major attractions for many years to come, were paid for by local businessman G.H. Lawrence, a razor blade manufacturer. During World War II part of the park was turned into allotments to allow local people to grow their own food. In the 1960s, a nine-hole pitch and putt golf course was constructed in the park along with a putting green.

Present day
In the 1980s the park suffered from vandalism with many of the facilities suffering damage and becoming rundown, the open air swimming pool was closed in 1987 and eventually filled in by the council after being extensively damaged by stolen cars being crashed into it. The golf course closed in the 1980s along with the putting green.

Redevelopment
The park has been redeveloped in recent years along with the nearby Parson Cross and Colley Parks as part of the Three Parks Programme. New facilities include play areas for toddlers and older children (officially opened by the Lord Mayor in February 2006), a replanting programme to replace some of the parks aging trees and shrubs. The park has had new drainage installed to prevent problems with boggy areas, new footpaths have been laid which are suitable for wheelchairs. The pavilion has been rebuilt and is now run and looked after by the parks bowling club. The tennis courts are no longer used and a car park has been built at the main entrance on Crowder Road on part of the old courts. Another area of the courts has been converted for Basketball use. A new seating and picnic area has been constructed near the playgrounds and the whole area around the pavilion has new lighting. Two Bowling greens are still in use, and there is one full size football pitch and two Five-a-side pitches.

References

Parks in Sheffield


Primeo Energie or EBM (Cooperative Elektra Birseck, Münchenstein) is a Swiss energy supplier with head office in Münchenstein. It was founded as a cooperative under private law in 1897. EBM supplies around 230,000 people with electricity in North-West Switzerland and Alsace. The company operates 167 local heat supply systems in Switzerland, Alsace and South Germany.

History
The engineer Fritz Eckinger and politician Stephan Gschwind founded Elektra Birseck Münchenstein in 1897 with the intention of introducing electric lighting and the idea of organising a company as a cooperative, which was a new concept at the time. The supply area in the lower part of the Canton of Basel-Country and Birseck-Dorneck, a part of the Canton of Solothurn, was soon expanded. Between 1906 and 1914, EBM connected eleven municipalities and the City of Saint-Louis (Haut Rhin) to the grid. Since 1921, EBM has been supplying a total of 60 municipalities with electricity in the Swiss Cantons of Basel-Landschaft and Solothurn.

In 1979, it became the first company in Switzerland to support the frugal and rational use of energy. EBM implemented the first tariffs for promoting renewable energies and set up an energy and environmental advice centre for its customers. In the field of decentralised heating supplies, EBM developed the concepts «cogeneration plant and heat pump» at the beginning of the 1980s and constructed the first cogeneration plant in 1982.

Since 1992, the company constructs, supports and participates in photovoltaic plants, to supply solar energy at a favourable price. In 1997, EBM opened an electricity museum in Münchenstein to celebrate its 100th anniversary.

In 2009, EBM started producing electricity from wind and solar power. The company founded aravis («Aravis Energy I LP») to realise large plants in Southern Europe. It is the first «Swiss Limited Partnership» (limited commercial partnership for collective capital investments) that was approved by the Swiss Federal Banking Commission. The fund was used for developing projects with a volume of CHF 200 million. EBM was the main investor with CHF 70 million. EBM’s investments helped to realise wind parks and photovoltaic plants in Italy and Spain with an installed output of around 64 Megawatt.

Renewable energy
EBM procures electricity from renewable energies from its own plants, partner plants and long-term agreements. In addition to plants in the region, specific plans are in place to realise large projects in suitable foreign locations.

EBM aims to expand in Europe and Switzerland in the medium terms with the help of the companies «EBM Greenpower AG», «Leading Swiss renewables AG» and its minority share in «Kleinkraftwerk Birseck AG». The electricity generated by foreign plants is not yet supplied to Switzerland but is sold directly abroad at local supply prices or on the foreign electricity markets. The electricity generated from renewable energies rose to 811,703 MWh (as of 31 December 2013) as a result of EBM increasing the number of its plants.

LSR investment company
«Leading Swiss renewables AG» (LSR) is an investment company founded by EBM, «Energie Wasser Bern» and «Aravis» in January 2012. The company’s purpose is to develop renewable energy production plants in Europe in the medium term. It has around EUR 100 million in capital at its disposal to meet this target. EBM holds a share of EUR 65 million and «Energie Wasser Bern» a share of EUR 35 million. Plans are for the total installed output to exceed 100 Megawatt in an initial phase. The focus is on wind energy as there is an active market for wind power projects in numerous European countries.

Kleinkraftwerk Birseck AG (KKB)
Decentralised power plants have been gaining in importance in recent years as it has become increasingly difficult to construct large power plants in Switzerland and the rest of Europe. EBM has invested in KKB AG, an independent producer of electricity generated from renewable energies. The company acquires and operates water, solar and wind power plants in Switzerland and certain European countries. KKB AG is listed at the stock exchange in Bern under securities number ISIN CH0023777235 listed.

Heat production and renewable energy
For more than 30 years, EBM Wärme AG has been operating in the field of heat contracting throughout Switzerland. Its focus has been on the use of renewable energies for many years. In the beginning, EBM mainly realised heating networks in its Swiss grid area. Today, the company is represented in almost all of Switzerland, in the adjoining Alsace by «EBM Thermique SAS» and even in Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany, by «EBM Wärme GmbH». In 2012, EBM operated a total of 170 plants.

Company structure
EBM is a cooperative under private law. The cooperative members include legal entities and private persons owning property that is connected to EBM’s grid. The company had over 50,000 cooperative members in 2013.

References

External links
EBM Switzerland
EBM France

Energy companies of Switzerland
Energy cooperatives
Consumers' cooperatives in Switzerland
Companies based in Basel-Landschaft
Swiss companies established in 1897
Energy companies established in 1897
District heating


General elections were held in Puerto Rico on 5 November 1996. Pedro Rosselló of the New Progressive Party (PNP) was re-elected Governor, whilst the PNP also won a majority of seats in the House of Representatives and the Senate. Voter turnout was between 80% and 82%.

Results

Governor

Resident Commissioner

House of Representatives

Senate

References

General elections in Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico
General
Puerto Rico


Toad Day Out is a pest control event which takes place in Queensland, Australia on the 29 March of each year. Its focus is to reduce the population of the invasive cane toad. The toads are caught live and unharmed. The day was originally advocated by politician Shane Knuth.

Toads are captured and taken to be humanely destroyed. Prizes are awarded for children who find the heaviest toads, and schools which capture the most toads (by weight). Before they are destroyed, the toads are inspected, weighed and bagged. They are euthanized via exposure to CO₂ gas, ensuring a quick and painless death. Most end up being turned into fertilizer, some are used for research, and a few have been stuffed by a taxidermist.

The cane toad has been a pest since it was introduced to Australia in 1935  by farmers who hoped the toad would control the spread of the cane beetle.

As of 2018, no national eradication program has been implemented due to a lack of resources and technology.

Toad Day Out has been held since 2009. The event was inspired by an episode of The Simpsons called "Whacking Day".

See also

Conservation in Australia
Invasive species in Australia
Cane toads in Australia

References

External links
Toad Day Out. Townsville City Council.

Annual events in Australia
Pest control campaigns
Autumn events in Australia
March events
Animals in sport
Townsville


Iveria () was a Georgian music ensemble founded in 1968 that gained popularity in the Soviet Union in the 1970s. The group's art director was Alexander Basilaia. The group sang both Georgian folk and contemporary songs, wrote and performed Argo and Jays Wedding musicals, and released 6 vinyl albums on Melodiya label.

Discography
 Кругозор (Horizon), 1973
 13 лет (13 years old), 1982

References

External links
 Unofficial site (in Russian)
 Discography (in Russian)

Musical groups established in 1968
Rock music groups from Georgia (country)
Pop music groups from Georgia (country)
Pop rock music groups from Georgia (country)
Folk rock groups from Georgia (country)
Soviet rock music groups


Alexandrina Road (formerly Strathalbyn–Goolwa Road) is a South Australian secondary road, connecting the towns of Strathalbyn and Goolwa. It has been designated part of route B37.

Major intersections
Alexandrina Road is entirely contained within the Alexandrina Council local government area.

See also

References

Roads in South Australia


Miles to Go is an autobiography by Miley Cyrus, co-written by Hilary Liftin and published by Disney Hyperion in March 2009. The memoir discusses Cyrus's relationship with her parents, her thoughts on the media, her love life, her future ambitions and milestones she still has to reach in her life. Miles to Go reached #1 on the New York Times children’s best seller list. A second edition to the book was released in Australia in December 2009 and in the UK on 1 March 2010.

Miles to Go has sold more than 2 million copies, selling over 1,000 copies the first day of its release. On a Today Show interview in April 2009, Cyrus said, "In my book, I want readers to feel what I feel; the emotion and power. I've explained how things went through in my life and how I've done it all. I just don't want my fans to come up to me and say all these things saying that famous is the best thing in the world. The popularity is pretty high and I want readers to understand that it is not that way about being a celebrity and not read it all for nothing." The book debuted on USA Today Best-Selling Books list at #80 on March 12, 2009. It then peaked at #43 on April 16, 2009 – the premiere week of Hannah Montana: The Movie.

The book, in which Cyrus writes about how she is an ordinary girl living her dream life, includes stories, poems, songs, photos and quotations from the Bible.

Six more editions of the book have been released since its first release in March 2009.

References

2009 non-fiction books
American autobiographies
Books about singers
Collaborative non-fiction books
Music autobiographies
Works by Miley Cyrus


42nd Group may refer to:

 42nd Support Group (United Kingdom), a unit of the United Kingdom Army
 Marine Aircraft Group 42, a unit of the United States Marine Corps
 42d Air Base Wing (42nd Bombardment Group), a unit of the United States Air Force

See also
 42nd Division (disambiguation)
 42nd Brigade (disambiguation)
 42nd Regiment (disambiguation)
 42nd Battalion (disambiguation)
 42nd Squadron (disambiguation)


The Palisades Sill is a fine-grained porphyritic dacite sill which forms spectacular cliffs and palisades in the Cimarron River canyon between Eagle Nest and Cimarron in northern New Mexico.  It can be seen in the eastern part of Cimarron Canyon State Park.

References

Igneous petrology of New Mexico
Sills (geology)


Elizabeth "Liz" Collins (born November 29, 1982) is a female swimmer from Canada, who mostly competes in the freestyle events. Collins won three silver medals at the 2007 Pan American Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She is starting her third year of coaching Vancouver Pacific Swim Club in Vancouver, British Columbia.

References
Elizabeth Collins
Vancouver Pacific Swim Club
Elizabeth Collins Image

1982 births
Living people
Canadian female freestyle swimmers
Swimmers from Ottawa
University of British Columbia alumni
Swimmers at the 2003 Pan American Games
Swimmers at the 2007 Pan American Games
Pan American Games silver medalists for Canada
Pan American Games bronze medalists for Canada
Pan American Games medalists in swimming
Medalists at the 2003 Pan American Games
Medalists at the 2007 Pan American Games
21st-century Canadian women


Yevgeny Grigoryevich Yasin (; 7 May 1934 – 25 September 2023) was a Russian economist. He served as the economy minister of Russia from 1994 to 1997. Until July 2021, he was an academic supervisor at the National Research University Higher School of Economics. He was a regular contributor to the Echo of Moscow radio station.

Biography
Yevgeny Yasin was born in Odessa, Ukrainian SSR, on 7 May 1934.

In 1957, he graduated from the Odessa Institute of Civil Construction, and in 1963, from the Moscow State University (MSU) Faculty of Economics. In 1968, he defended his thesis for the degree of the Candidate of Science. In 1976 – Doctor of Economics, and since 1979 – Professor. From 1958 to 1960, Yasin was an engineer at the Design Institute Number 3 of the Committee of Civil Engineering, Ukrainian SSR. After graduating from MSU, from 1964 to 1973, he worked at the Research Institute of the Central Department of Statistics as head of department and later head of laboratory.

From 1973 to 1989, he headed a laboratory at the Central Institute of Economics and Mathematics, USSR Academy of Sciences.
In 1978, Yasin led the Department on Economic Reform in the State Commission of the USSR Council of Ministers. He was one of the key authors of a number of programmes on the transition to a market economy, including the well-known programme "500 days".

In 1991, he went from the USSR Government Office to the Scientific and Industrial Union of the USSR – today called the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (Employers) (RSPP) – as Director for Economic Policy. In November 1991, he created the Expert Institute as part of this organization and became its head.

From January 1992, Yasin worked as Director of the RSPP and at the same time as an Authorized Representative of the Russian Government in the Supreme Council of the Russian Federation. In 1993, he was appointed Head of a work group under the Chairman of the Government of the RF and actively participated in the development of economic programmes. In April 1994, he became Head of the Analytical Center under the President of the Russian Federation.

In November 1994, Yasin was appointed head of the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation, and in April 1997 – Minister of the Russian Federation.

From October 1998, he was the Academic Supervisor of the Higher School of Economics and president of the Expert Institute.
From 2000 - President of the "Liberalnaya Missiya" ("Liberal Mission") Foundation. Its board members include his daughter Irina Yasina, Igor Klyamkin, Alexander Arkhangelsky, Jochen Wermuth, Dmitry Zimin, Georgy Satarov, Lilia Shevtsova, and others.

Until September 2009, he was a member of the Federal Political Council of the "Union of Rightist Forces", but when President Vladimir Putin named him a member of the Civic Chamber of the Russian Federation, he cancelled his membership in the party.

Yevgeny Yasin died on 25 September 2023, at the age of 89.

Titles

 Academic Supervisor of the Higher School of Economics (HSE)
 President of the ‘Liberalnaya Missiya' (‘Liberal Mission') Foundation
 President of the Scientific Non-Commercial Foundation ‘Expert Institute' (Exin)
 Member of the Russian Federation Public Chamber Commission on Education and Science (2008)
 Member of the European Academy of Sciences
 Honorary Professor at the Jilin University (People's Republic of China)
 Doctor Honoris Causa at the University of Birmingham (Great Britain)
 Chairman of the Dissertation Council on Economic Sciences, HSE
 Professor at the HSE Department of Statistics

References

External links
 homepage of the Higher School of Economics with biography of Yevgeny Yasin
 board homepage  of the ‘Liberal Mission' Foundation
 Yasin board member of RSPP

1934 births
2023 deaths
Writers from Odesa
Russian economists
Russian liberals
Union of Right Forces politicians
Economy ministers of Russia
Academic staff of the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology
Echo of Moscow radio presenters
Academic staff of the Higher School of Economics
Members of the Civic Chamber of the Russian Federation
Recipients of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 3rd class
Recipients of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 4th class
Recipients of the Order of Honour (Russia)


Katamari Forever, known in Japan as , is a video game in the Katamari series. The game was released for the PlayStation 3 console in Japan on July 23, 2009, on September 22, 2009 in North America, and September 18, 2009 in Europe. A demo of the game became available on the Japanese PlayStation Network on its Japanese release date, and on the North American PlayStation Network on September 10, 2009.

Story and gameplay
Katamari Forever contains 34 stages, with all but three of the stages being taken from previous titles in the series. Half of the stages take place within the mind of the King of All Cosmos, who gets knocked in the head and suffers from amnesia. The levels are black-and-white in appearance, and the objective is to roll up junk to bring color back to the stages, restoring the King's memory. The other half of the stages take place in the present, where RoboKing, a robotic version of the King of All Cosmos created by the Prince and his cousins, goes on a rampage and destroys all the stars in the sky, which, unlike the King, he feels extremely remorseful for.

The objective of the new levels involves creating stars by rolling up junk as in previous Katamari Damacy games. New additions to the gameplay include: the "Prince Hop", which allows the Prince to hop into the air by flicking the controller up or pressing a shoulder button; and the "King Shock", which sucks nearby objects onto the katamari like a magnet.

Katamari Forever lacks the online multiplayer mode as in Beautiful Katamari, but does include local multiplayer and online leaderboards. The game utilizes a full high-definition video format. In addition to graphics in the original style of Katamari Damacy, the game allows the players to select graphic filters such as cel-shaded, colored pencil, or wood grain graphics.

Music
The music for the game includes a number of remixed tracks from previous iterations of the series, using a combination of "electric" and "organic" sounds according to the sound director Yuu Miyake. Miyake employed the help of artists and remixers to help the soundtrack. The soundtrack was released in Japan on August 19, 2009. It includes a total of 36 tracks spanning two discs.

Reception

Katamari Forever was met with positive to average reception upon release.  GameRankings gave it a score of 77.80%, while Metacritic gave it 74 out of 100.

The game received a score of 33 out of 40 by Japanese gaming publication Famitsu. It was the 6th best-selling game in Japan during the week of its release, selling 28,000 units. In America, IGN awarded the game 7 out of 10, noting that the game still suffered from many of the issues that plagued past entries in the series. GameSpot also gave it 7 out of 10, stating that, "Rolling a katamari is as charming as ever, but you may have rolled most of these katamaris before." PixlBit awarded the game 4 of 5 stars recommending the game to both fans of the series and newcomers alike.

References

External links
Official website
Official Japanese trailer

2009 video games
Katamari
PlayStation 3 games
PlayStation 3-only games
Video games with cel-shaded animation
Genki (company) games
Bandai Namco games
Puzzle video games
Multiplayer and single-player video games
Video games developed in Japan
Video games scored by Yuu Miyake


Henri Lloyd is a British clothing brand that specialised in sailing apparel and fashion for men and women. Established in Manchester in 1963, the company had 40 stores spanning the UK, Australia, the Middle East, and Europe. In June 2018, the brand, stock and 5 stores were acquired by Swedish investment firm, Aligro Group, and subsequently, the brand underwent a redesign and refocused on European sailors. In 2022 was acquired again by Monte Rosa Capital

History
Henri-Lloyd Limited was founded in 1963 in Manchester by Henri Strzelecki, a Polish soldier who moved to Manchester to study textiles during the war, alongside his partner Angus Lloyd.

A soldier in the Polish Army during World War II, Strzelecki was awarded both Polish and British military medals in 1946.  He settled in Manchester at war's end and studied textiles and design before working with local clothing companies there. In time known as "Mr Henri" or "Waterproof Henry", Strzelecki was given the Member of the Order of the British Empire in 1985. Two Queen's Awards for Export Achievement followed in 1986 and 1987.

Innovation
Henri Lloyd pioneered the use of new technologies and fabrics such as Bri-Nylon in its early clothing lines. Among its innovations were the first non-corrosive zipper made of nylon, the introduction of Velcro closures in waterproof garments, the hand taping of seams as an alternative to varnishing, and the incorporation of Gore-Tex waterproofing.

The use of Gore-Tex alone went through over 22,000 hours of round the world testing at sea before it was first sold to customers in Henri Lloyd high performance breathable foul weather gear 1994. In 2001 the company's TP3 Reflex Jacket and Hi-Fit Trouser won The DAME Design Award at the Marine Equipment Trade Show in Amsterdam.

Pioneers
A Henri Lloyd Consort Jacket was worn by Sir Francis Chichester when he became the first person to sail single-handed around the world by the clipper route, and the fastest circumnavigator, in nine months and one day overall in 1966–67.

Henri Lloyd oilskins were worn by Sir Robin Knox-Johnston when he became the first man to perform a single-handed non-stop circumnavigation of the globe in 1969.

Sir Ranulph Fiennes and his crew wore Henri Lloyd foul weather gear on their Transglobe Expedition.

Chay Blyth and Naomi Jones both wore Henri Lloyd sailing clothing for their circumnavigations.

Corporate partnership

In 2009, Henri Lloyd became the "Official Supplier of Clothing and Footwear Technology" of the Brawn GP Formula One Team as part of a commercial partnership.

Henri Lloyd have sponsored Sir Ben Ainslie since 1996 and were his first commercial sponsor. It has also supported Shirley Robertson. It has been the technical clothing supplier for the Clipper Round the World Yacht Race since 2002 and for Land Rover BAR’s 2017 America’s Cup bid. The sailing kit was developed in close collaboration with the Land Rover BAR team and featured a neoprene wetsuit long john and top.

In 2017 the brand announced a 3-year sponsorship deal with the FAST40+ Class, providing bespoke sailing kit for the crew and a perpetual trophy for the FAST40+ Race Circuit.

Henri Lloyd were one of the sponsors of Cowes Classics Week 2017, which includes a Henri Lloyd race day and trophy.

In September 2018 Henri Lloyd continued its partnership with Sir Ben by announcing a partnership with Ineos Team UK in the pursuit of the 36th challenge of the America's Cup in 2021.

Henri Lloyd is the current official Performance Clothing Partner of the Americas Cup team, Ineos Britannia. The brand also actively has a purpose led partnership with the Emirates Great Britain SailGP Team.

Fashion
Henri Lloyd first became known for fashion in 1984 when the Milan Scooter Society or ‘Paninaro' scene adopted the Henri Lloyd Consort Jacket as part of their uniform along with Levi 501 jeans and Timberland boots. Additionally, the brand was profoundly popular within the Madchester scene.

The mid-1990s saw the launch of Henri Lloyd Black Label, This Massimo Goggi designed collection linked Italian-inspired sportswear with technically innovative fabrics, helping the firm earn the Fashion Brand of the Year in the UK award in 1997.

The Consort Jacket, first designed by Henri Strzelecki in 1965 has been redesigned for 2017 in a collection of 21 different editions.

In 2023 the brand announced the appointment of Scottish Menswear Designer Kestin Hare as Creative Director.

Change of Ownership
Facing severe financial difficulties in early 2018 Henri Lloyd reduced costs and divested assets. In March 2018 they sold the Henri Lloyd brand and trademarks to Aligro Group, a Swedish investment firm.

On 8 June 2018 it was announced that the company had been put into administration. Three days later it was announced that the company was purchased by Aligro Group. Altogether 128 jobs were lost, the company's Manchester office shuttered and the brand moved to be based in Sweden.

In September 2018 the firm announced a relaunch of all lines in 2019 with "25 styles for men and women. The products are adapted for one design sailing, keelboats and super yachts, with a focus on Northern European and Mediterranean sailors."

In 2022 the brand was acquired by Monte Rosa Capital.

References

External links

British brands
Clothing brands of the United Kingdom
Companies based in Manchester
Clothing companies established in 1963
Outdoor clothing brands
Sailing equipment manufacturers


P. Ayya Nadar (1905–1982) was an Indian entrepreneur from the southern city of Sivakasi in Tamil Nadu. He along with Shanmuga Nadar is credited for transforming the small village of Sivakasi into a thriving industrial town with firecracker, matchbox and printing industries. He was the founder of Anil brand (Squirrel) matches, which later turned into National Fireworks, after he died theNational Firewoks name changed to AYYAN FIREWORKS and Ayya Nadar Janaki Ammal College.

Personal life
He was born in 1905 in Sivakasi to Palaniappa Nadar and Nagammal. He was married to Janaki Ammal with whom he has five sons and four daughters. He died in year 1982.

Inception of match business
Ayya Nadar along with his cousin Shanmuga Nadar travelled to Calcutta in the year 1922 and stayed there for 8 months learning about the match industry. Upon their return to Sivakasi, they started the first handmade safety matches factory (National Matches) with machines imported from Germany.

The business eventually diversified into manufacturing of fireworks and yarn. Ayya Nadar later ventured into printing business and an educational institution. Ayya Nadar the first generation entrepreneur, in the year 1925 started National Fireworks in Sivakasi.

In 1926, they separated and established two separate match industries with Ayya Nadar's Anil (squirrel) brand competing with Shanmuga Nadar's kaka (crow) or Standard brand.

From 1984, Ayya Nadar four sons- A Grahadurai, A Vairaprakasam, A. Subash Chandra Bose & A Ramamurthy run their respective businesses. A Grahadurai & A Vairaprakasam partnered on  their own company called Ayyan Fireworks that could not adopt the name National Fireworks Factory.

Business expansion
P. Ayya Nadar founded Ayya Nadar Janaki Ammal College in 1963 offering courses in Arts and Sciences. The college is located in Sivakasi. From its beginning in 1923 till 1984, he headed the institution he founded. He has four sons- A Grahadurai (who died in 2007), A Vairaprakasam, A Subash Chandra Bose (who died in 2019) and A Ramamurthy. Each of the sons have diversified businesses.
Ayya Nadar, along with Shanmuga Nadar, is credited with transforming the small poverty-stricken Sivakasi village into "Mini Japan of India" an industrial town with entrepreneurial people. R. G. Chandramogan, another entrepreneur and owner of Hatsun Agro, who happened to grow up in this town and witness this transformation said, This revolution was brought to Sivakasi by Shanmuga Nadar and his cousin Ayya Nadar. The people of our town looked up to them as demigods because of the prosperity they brought to us.

Sivakasi Municipality
He was the chairman of Sivakasi municipality between 1955 and 1963. Vaippar-Vembakkotai drinking water scheme with a dam in the north of the city was instituted during his tenure, which helped in the expansion of population and industries in the drought-prone town.

References

External links
MEPCO Schlenk Engineering College Sivakasi

People from Virudhunagar district
1905 births
1982 deaths
Tamil businesspeople
Businesspeople from Tamil Nadu


Liquid oxygen supplements are products that claim to add extra oxygen to the human body, most often through a chemical process in the digestive system, like the breakdown of hydrogen peroxide or magnesium peroxide. While the FDA describes these products as being inert, and has penalized some producers who made explicit medical claims, it has not prohibited their sale.

Liquid oxygen
Liquid oxygen is the name of a product that is a solution of hydrogen peroxide and other compounds including sodium chloride (common salt) that claims to help with "jet lag, fatigue, altitude sickness, headaches, hangovers, youthful skin, energy, and insomnia".

Professor Ken Harvey, a member of the World Health Organization team that formulated criteria for the promotion of medicinal drugs and a member of Auspharm Consumer Health Watch, states that the product is "no more than salty water", and that most forms of water carry some dissolved oxygen.  The Federal Trade Commission has prosecuted some makers of such products for making "blatantly false and unsubstantiated health claims", although it has not banned the sale of such products.

The product claims to have an effect through increasing the amount of oxygen in the body but this is unnecessary as oxygen is absorbed by the lungs via breathing. Among the ingredients sometimes listed by makers are magnesium peroxide, or "deionized water and sodium chloride [salt]". It cannot contain simple liquid oxygen, which would boil at -297°F(-183°C) at normal pressure, but ostensibly contains oxygen in some other form, like hydrogen peroxide, that will be released after consumption.

Vitamin O
Vitamin O is a dietary supplement marketed and sold by Rose Creek Health Products and its sister company The Staff of Life (doing business as R-Garden) since 1998. Despite its name, the product is not recognized by nutritional science as a vitamin. In 1999, the Federal Trade Commission fined the manufacturer for making false statements claiming health benefits resulting from the use of the product.  The manufacturer had claimed that taking the supplement had beneficial effects on a wide variety of ailments, including angina, anaemia, and various forms of cancer, and that it also increased vigor and provided for a more positive state of mind. The company states that Vitamin O is "a special supplemented oxygen taken in liquid form and produced through electrical-activation with a saline solution from the ocean," and that the substance increases the amount of oxygen present in the blood.

While Rose Creek Health Products complied with the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994 in that the product was sold without approval by the Food and Drug Administration because no claims about its medical efficacy were made by its producers, Rose Creek collected statements from users who attributed wide-ranging benefits to taking their supplement. However, subsequent ads also ran statements allegedly coming from experts and which provided anecdotal evidence from small-scale clinical trials showing positive results in several patients. Because of this, the Federal Trade Commission filed an injunction in March 1999 against Rose Creek Health Products Inc., stating that the ads being run in both print and online sources, including USA Today, were "blatantly false". Studies run on Vitamin O showed it to be composed largely of salt water as well as a small quantity of germanium, which would provide no benefits not attributable to the placebo effect.

On April 28, 2000, Rose Creek Health Products Inc., agreed to pay a cash settlement of $375,000 for consumer redress, and to abstain from making claims as to the health benefits attributed to the supplement, or promoting its efficacy in treating illnesses. However, in 2005, the Food and Drug Administration issued a warning letter to R-Garden, indicating that its product labeling, website, and literature that the company distributed with shipped product were promoting Vitamin O as drugs — i.e., agents intended for use in the cure, mitigation, treatment or prevention of disease. These included testimonial claims that a person unable to walk because of congestive heart failure had been able to walk again and ceased taking "heart pills or pain pills" after a three-month course of the product, and that another was able to breathe very easily again despite chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and repeated prior bouts of chronic bronchitis and pneumonia thanks to the product. As of 2010, the product contains a disclaimer stating "This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease".

References

Related articles
Fraud in the United States
Oxygen
Pseudoscience


Cathal Moore (born 26 July 1975) is an Irish sportsperson. He played hurling with his local club Turloughmore and was a member of the Galway senior inter-county team from the 1990s until the 2000s where he played centre-forward and centre-back.  Moore currently works as a hurling analyst with TG4 and is principal  in Presentation College, Athenry.

References

1975 births
Living people
Connacht inter-provincial hurlers
Gaelic games writers and broadcasters
Galway inter-county hurlers
Heads of schools in Ireland
Turloughmore hurlers


Everett High School is a public high school in Everett, Massachusetts, United States operated by Everett Public Schools. The school's previous building was located on Broadway in Everett for almost a century. A new high school was built on Elm Street, which opened in September 2007.

Athletics

Honors

 27x Greater Boston League Titles - 1955, 1961–65, 1972, 1975, 1995-2013.
 12x Division 1 "Super Bowl" Championships - 1997, 1999, 2001-2003, 2006-2007, 2010-2012, 2016-2017
 2x National Championships - 1914 & 1915 (Co-Champs with Central of Detroit)

Other sports
Baseball
Basketball
Boys' soccer
Boys’ hockey
Crew/Rowing
Cross country
Field hockey
American football
Girls’ basketball
Girls’ hockey
Girls’ soccer
Girls’ softball
Lacrosse
Golf
Soccer
Tennis
Track
Volleyball
Marching band
Boys Wrestling

Notable alumni

Baseball
Patricia Courtney
Maddy English
Barney Olsen
Basketball
Pat Bradley
Nerlens Noel
Entertainment
Charles Bickford, actor
Ellen Pompeo, actor, producer and director.
Judges
A. David Mazzone
Military
Andrew P. Iosue
Politicians
Edward G. Connolly
George Keverian
Stephen Stat Smith
Sal DiDomenico
American football
Charles Brickley
George Brickley
Matthew W. Bullock
Jackson Cannell
Frank Champi
Johnny Dell Isola
Omar Easy
Diamond Ferri
Mario Giannelli
Hub Hart
Pat Hughes
Pike Johnson
Bobby Leo
Isaiah Likely
Andy Oberlander
Lewis Cine
Mike Sainristil
Ralph Pasquariello
Al Pierotti
Art Raimo
Dan Ross
Rick Sapienza
Fred Sweetland
Ray Trowbridge

Notable faculty
George Brickley (athletic director and football coach; 1922–1925)
Harry A. Dame (mathematics teacher and football and baseball coach; 1905–1909)
Omar Easy (vice principal; 2012–2019)
Ginger Fraser (science teacher and football and baseball coach; 1916–1917)
Dennis Gildea (English teacher, athletic director, and football, baseball, and track and field coach; 1926–1963)
Frank Keaney (football coach; 1917–1919)
Cleo A. O'Donnell (football coach; 1909–1916)
Moody Sarno (English teacher and football coach; 1938–1941, 1955–1982)

References

External links

Profile at City Data

Public high schools in Massachusetts
High schools in Middlesex County, Massachusetts
Everett, Massachusetts


Whiteford may refer to:

Places
United Kingdom
Whiteford House, Cornwall
Whiteford Sands, Wales
Whiteford Lighthouse
Whiteford National Nature Reserve

United States
Whiteford (Price) Archeological Site, Kansas
Whiteford, Maryland
Whiteford Township, Michigan
Whiteford Agricultural Schools

Other uses
 Whiteford (surname)
 Whitford (disambiguation)


Mike or Michael Archer may refer to:
Mike Archer (American football) (born 1953), American football coach
Mike Archer (paleontologist) (born 1945), former director of the Australian Museum
Michael Eugene Archer, stage name D'Angelo (born 1974), American singer-songwriter and record producer


Seanna Mitchell (born July 2, 1988 in Montreal, Quebec) is a female swimmer from Canada, who mostly competes in the freestyle events. She claimed a silver medal (4 × 100 m freestyle) at the 2007 Pan American Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

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Jugantar Patrika () was a Bengali revolutionary newspaper founded in 1906 in Calcutta by Barindra Kumar Ghosh, Abhinash Bhattacharya and Bhupendranath Dutt. A political weekly, it was founded in March 1906 and served as the propaganda organ for the nascent revolutionary organisation Anushilan Samiti that was taking shape in Bengal at the time. The journal derived its name 'Jugantar' (: New Era) from a political novel of the same name by Bengali author Shivnath Shastri. The journal went on to lend its name to the Western Bengal wing of the Anushilan Samiti, which came to be known as the Jugantar group. The journal expounded and justified revolutionary violence against the British Raj as a political tool for independence, and denounced the right and legitimacy of the British rule in India. It was also critical of the Indian National Congress and its moderate methods which was viewed as aiding the Raj.  Its target audience was the young, literate and politically motivated youth of Bengal, and was priced at one paisa.

The paper rapidly acquired a broad popularity, at one time having a readership of 20,000. Bhupendranath Dutt served as the editor of the newspaper till his arrest in 1907, although it also published articles from a number of noted Bengali revolutionaries including Barindra Kumar Ghosh and Aurobindo Ghosh. It faced prosecution a number of times by the British Indian government for publishing seditious articles. Bhupendranath Dutt was arrested in 1907 for publication of articles "inciting violence against the Government of India", for which he was sentenced to a year's rigorous imprisonment. The paper was ultimately forced to shut down in down in 1908, amidst financial ruins following the prosecutions, and after the passage of The Newspapers (Incitement to offences) Act in June 1908 which made its position vulnerable.

References

 Legitimising Violence: Seditious Propaganda and Revolutionary Pamphlets in Bengal, 1908–1918, Sanyal S., The Journal of Asian Studies, vol. 67, n° 3, 2008, pp. 759–787.

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"Love Is Bubble" is Bonnie Pink's twenty-fourth single. The single was released under the Warner Music Japan label on May 10, 2006.

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Love Is Bubble

Do You Crash? (2005.9.21 Live at Shibuya-Ax)
Love Is Bubble (Instrumental)

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Andrey Borisovich Zubov (, born 16 January 1952, Moscow) is a Russian historian, religion scholar and political scientist, Doctor of History, prominent public person, church figure, political activist and commentator.  He was also the Vice-president of the former People's Freedom Party.

Zubov is a former Professor of the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO). He temporarily lost his job after making a comparison of the deployment of Russian troops in Crimea with Hitler's annexation of Austria in the Russian Newspaper Vedomosti. One month later he was reinstated to his position until his contract at the MGIMO officially expired.

Biography
Andrey Zubov was born on January 16, 1952, in Moscow. He Graduated from Moscow School No. 56 in 1968. In the same year, he entered the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (Department of International Relations).

Upon his graduation in 1973, he started working at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

In 1978, he defended his candidate’s thesis on ‘Experience of parliamentary democracy research in Thailand’.

In 1989, he defended his doctoral thesis in history on ‘Parliamentary democracy and political tradition of the East’.

Between 1988 and 1994, he taught history of religions at the Moscow Theological Academy, where he was appointed associate professor in 1990.

From 1994 to 2012, he was Head of the Department of Religion Studies at the Faculty of Philosophy and Theology of the Russian Orthodox University.

In 2001, he resigned from the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences and moved to MGIMO where he became professor at the Department of Philosophy and also headed the University Center on ‘Church and International Relations’.

In March 2014, Andrey Zubov was fired following his criticism of the actions of the Russian government in Ukraine and Crimea (for ‘committing an act of indecency’, as the official order read). However, the Presidential Commission to Protect Labour Rights declared the dismissal illegal and he was reinstated to his position on 11 April 2014 and continued to work until the formal expiration of his contract on June 30, 2014.

In 2009–2014, he was a member of the Synodal Biblical-Theological Commission of the Russian Orthodox Church and a member of its Inter-Council Presence. He is one of the authors of the ‘Basic Social Concept of the Russian Orthodox Church’ (2000).

In 2014–2018, he was a columnist at Novaya Gazeta.

Starting from 2014, he has been giving public lectures at various venues and on the Internet on history of philosophy, history of religious ideas, and on the Russian history.

He has edited three volumes of "Russian History: 20th Century."

He is one of leading members of People's Freedom Party. He ran for Duma in 2016 and came in the third place in the Moscow Center constituency.

In 2022, he moved to Czech Republic, working in Masaryk University.

In February 2023, Zubov was listed by Russian government as a "foreign agent".

Professor Zubov speaks English, Thai and French.

Academic career and publications
Initially, Andrey Zubov focused himself on the political history of Thailand and Asian parliamentary systems. Under the influence of the famous Russian indianist, Vsevolod Sementsov and his wife, Olga Zubova (Egyptologist) he became interested in comparative religious studies.

Since 1993, he has been lecturing and writing books on the history of religious ideas. He taught the history of religious ideas at Moscow Theological Academy (1988–1994), Russian Orthodox University (1994–2011), MGIMO (2001–2014), Russian State University for the Humanities (1994–1998), etc.

In 2006, he became the editor-in-chief of a multivolume book on Russian history, ’History of Russia. XX century.’ The writing team united more than 45 contributors from Russia, Russian diaspora, European and American specialists in Russian studies (Vittorio Strada, Richard Pipes). The project was originally developed under the leadership of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, who read and edited most of the manuscript (approximately until 1956), but in autumn 2007. Solzhenitsyn chose to take distance from it (the reasons are revealed in his letter to Zubov, a copy of which is available in the blog russia_xx) The book was published in two volumes in 2009 (volume 1: Introductory chapter and 1894–1939 period, volume 2: 1939-2007 period). In 2016-17 a new three-volume edition came out (volume 1: Introductory Chapter and 1894–1922 period; Volume 2: 1923-1953 period; Volume 3: 1953-2008 period).

The book was translated in Czech and published in two volumes in Prague.

Since his expulsion from the MGIMO, Professor Zubov has made frequent appearances in opposition media, expressing himself among other issues on historical matters.

In 2014, A.B.Zubov was awarded the title of Honorary Doctor of the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy (Ukraine), in 2019 he became an Honorary Doctor of Masaryk University (Brno, Czech Republic).

Social, political and church activities

Andrey Zubov is a practicing Orthodox Christian.

He is a member of the editorial board of the Kontinent journal. In 1998 he was awarded the Znamya Foundation Prize.

On July 16, 2005, by the decision of the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church, he was included in the working group for the development of ‘a conceptual document on the position of the Russian Orthodox Church in inter-religious relations’.

He has been a member of the National Alliance of Russian Solidarists (NTS) since 2003.

Andrey Zubov was awarded the orders of Holy Prince Daniel of Moscow (III degree) and St. Sergius of Radonezh (III degree) in 2006 and 2008 personally by Patriarch Alexy II.

On June 29, 2009, by the decision of the Patriarch of Moscow and all Rus' Kirill, Professor Zubov was included in the editorial board for writing a textbook for the course ‘Basics of Orthodox Christian Culture’ for high school.

On September 29, 2009, he took part in the conference ‘Religion and Political Culture’ organized in Rome by the Pontifical Gregorian University and the Konrad Adenauer Foundation. He made a report on the relationship between the Church and the Russian State in the 20th century.

In March 2012, he publicly expressed his opposition to Pussy Riot trial: in his opinion, the punishment was disproportionate, and even in the Russian Empire sentences in similar cases were less severe.

In the spring of 2014, he criticized Russia’s actions in Crimea, comparing it to the Anschluss. In September that year, he was one of the signatories to a declaration that stated that a political regime of "fascist type" was fast taking shape in Russia and called on the authorities ‘to put an end to the aggressive adventure: to withdraw Russian troops from Ukraine and to stop propaganda as well as material and military support to the separatists in southeastern Ukraine’.

In spring 2016, Andrey Zubov announced that he would take part in the State Duma elections as a member of the People’s Freedom Party. He came in the third place in his constituency.

In February 2022, he condemned the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Shortly before the invasion, Zubov said: "In Russia we have no possibility to influence our government or our parliament. But I signed [anti-war petition] so that I could express my opinion and distance myself from Russia's ruling elite, which is breaking international law."

Works
Professor Zubov has published eight major books and more than 300 articles.

Books

 Парламентаризм в Таиланде: опыт исследования современного восточного общества методом анализа избирательной статистики (Parliamentary System in Thailand: a Study of a Contemporary Asian Society by Analysing Electoral Statistics), Moscow, 1982.
 Парламентская демократия и политическая традиция Востока (Parliamentary Democracy and Asian Political Tradition), Moscow, 1990.
 L’Euroasia del Nord : Il rischio del caos dopo l’impero sovetico / Ed.San Paolo. Turin — Milano, 1994.
 Обращение к русскому национальному правопорядку как нравственная задача и политическая цель (Return to the Russian National System of Justice as a Moral Task and a Political Goal), Moscow, 1997.

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Family

 Wife: Olga Igorevna Zubova, born 1948, historian, Egyptologist. Married since 1982.
 Father: Boris Nikolayevich Zubov (1912–2007), Russian shipbuilder, Admiral.
 Mother: Ia Evgeniyevna Zubova (Savostyanova) (1916–2005). Associate Professor of the Department of General Chemical Technology, candidate of Technical Sciences.
 Brother: Sergey Borisovich Zubov, born in 1944.
 Children: Xenia, Irina, Daria, Daniil.

References

External links
Official Page

Professor Zubov's Youtube channel

1952 births
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Bessie Potter can refer to:

Bessie Potter (1872–1955), American sculptor better known as Bessie Potter Vonnoh
Bessie Potter, fictional character on television series Dawson's Creek


Little Man, What Now? may refer to:

 Little Man, What Now? (novel), a 1932 novel by Hans Fallada
 Little Man, What Now? (1933 film), a 1933 German film, based on the novel
 Little Man, What Now? (1934 film), a 1934 American drama film directed by Frank Borzage, based on the novel
 "Little Man, What Now?" (song), a song performed by Morrissey on his album Viva Hate

See also
 What Now, Little Man?, a 1959 novelette by Mark Clifton


Sheikh Salman bin Ibrahim Al Khalifa (; born 2 November 1965) is a Bahraini football administrator.  he is Senior Vice-President of the FIFA Council. He has been president of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) since 2 May 2013. Before becoming president of the AFC, he had been president of Bahrain Football Association (2002–13) and also chairman of the AFC Disciplinary Committee and deputy chairman of the FIFA Disciplinary Committee.

He is member of the House of Khalifa, the royal family of Bahrain, and has been accused of involvement in the crackdown on dissidents since the Arab Spring in Bahrain. He has denied these allegations.

Early life and education
Salman bin Ibrahim Al Khalifa was born on 2 November 1965 in Bahrain. He is a member of the royal family of Bahrain. He is  the second son of Ibrahim bin Hamad al-Khalifa and Aisha bint Salman al-Khalifa, daughter of Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa I, the ruler of Bahrain from 1942 until his death in 1961.

He graduated from the University of Bahrain in 1992 with a bachelor's degree in English literature  and history.

Football

Riffa SC
Salman has been involved in football for many years, dating back to the early 1980s when he played a few years in the youth team of Bahrain Division I team, Riffa Club.

BFA
Since leaving Riffa Club to focus on his academic studies, Salman has held executive positions at the  Bahrain Football Association (BFA). In 1996, he became chairman of the national team. In 1998, he was elected vice-president of the BFA, and president in 2002, a post he held until 2013, when he assumed a new post at the AFC.

Salman was president of the Bahrain Football Association at time of the "golden era" of Bahraini football. The national team was a match away from qualifying to the 2006 FIFA World Cup and 2010 FIFA World Cup. The team also managed to reach the 2004 Asian Cup semi-final, the furthest the national team has ever reached in the continental championship. The national team FIFA ranking also reached its highest in the history of Bahraini Football, as it moved up to the 44th position.

AFC
In May 2013, Salman was elected president of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC), which also made him a member of the FIFA Executive Committee. Soon after his election he changed the AFC constitution, which led to Prince Ali bin Al Hussein of Jordan losing his seat as an Asian representative on the FIFA Executive Committee and caused a rift between the two men.

On 6 April 2019, Salman was elected for a second full term as AFC President for the term 2019–2023, supported by Football Federation Australia despite concerns about his human rights record being raised by former socceroo Craig Foster, Professional Footballers Australia, and  others.

He was re-elected for another term as AFC President in February 2023 until 2027.

FIFA
Salman has held the post of co-chairman of the disciplinary Committee of the FIFA World Cups, the FIFA Beach Tournaments, and the FIFA Club Championships. He was deputy chairman of the FIFA disciplinary committee at Beijing in 2008. He became a member of the FIFA Executive Committee in 2013, as president of the AFC.

On 15 October 2015, he announced his candidature for president of FIFA after the election of February 2016. Despite being touted as a favourite, he was defeated by UEFA general secretary Gianni Infantino. This was attributed in part to his alleged involvement in the brutal suppression of pro-democracy protesters in Bahrain since the Arab Spring in Bahrain in 2011.

Since 6 April 2018, Salman has been a member of the FIFA Council, and  is senior vice-president, and also Chair of the FIFA Development Committee.

Allegations of human rights breaches
Human rights defender groups such as Human Rights Watch, Human Rights in Bahrain, and the Bahrain Institute for Rights and Democracy, have said that Salman headed a committee that was tasked with identifying international Bahraini footballers and other athletes who were, involved in the 2011 Bahraini uprising during the Arab Spring. Many were imprisoned and/or tortured.

Prince Nasser issued a royal decree permitting the army to establish military courts to deal with democracy protesters in the Arab Spring, at which time Salman was general secretary of the supreme sports and youth council. He then headed a committee which was set up to investigate "breaches by individuals associated with the sports movement during the recent unfortunate events in the Kingdom of Bahrain". The  BFA (then headed by Salman) threatened punishments for those who had participated in the protests, or any other act that aims to "overthrow the regime or insult national figures". Around 150 athletes and administrators were arrested under the decree, and some alleged that they had endured torture during their detention. After initially refusing to answer questions and maintaining silent about his role, Salman has since denied allegations of being involved in human rights abuses, calling them "false, nasty lies".

Some athletes, such as Hakeem al-Araibi, who had played for the national team, fled the country during subsequent purges in the years following. He has always maintained that Salman knew about the torture. Al-Araibi became the subject of an international human rights campaign (#savehakeem)  in early 2020, and three years later a documentary film, after he was detained in Thailand, where he had gone with his wife for a holiday, following the issue of an Interpol red notice issued by Bahrain.

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White Acre vs. Black Acre is an 1856 plantation fiction novel written by William M. Burwell.

Overview

White Acre vs. Black Acre is one of several pro-slavery novels published in the Southern United States in response to Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe, published in 1852.

Burwell's novel, however, departs from the usual outline of most anti-Tom novels, which often narrated stories of loyal slaves serving benign plantation owners who were disturbed by troublesome abolitionists. Instead, Burwell's novel acts as an allegory for the history of slavery in the United States, in a manner similar to George Orwell's Animal Farm, which acts as an allegory for the history of the Soviet Union.

Plot

The story follows the history of the United States from its time as a British province to the beginning of tensions between North and South in the 1850s. It is presented as though the story were being recounted by a retired barrister from Lincolnshire in England to a reporter from the United States.

The story takes place in the county of Shropshire in England, where capitalist Mr. Bull is undergoing a difficult transaction with a large quantity of land his firm has since acquired from various lucrative business deals. His main rival is Don Armado, who owns land near his own, and seeks to steal Bull's land from him.

When Don Armado is placated, Mr. Bull takes his business elsewhere, and the land prospers. However, the two farmers tilling the land are suddenly split over the question of whether the land ought to be tilled by ordinary, ineffective farmhands or by loyal, hardworking slaves.

The land is thus split between the two farmers. The pro-slavery segment becomes the Black Acre Farm, whilst the anti-slavery land becomes the White Acre Farm, with both competing to see which side will be the most prosperous.

Allegories
Broadview is an English gentleman, and the main protagonist of the novel who attempts to heal the breach between the White and Black Acres. Broadview represents the readers of the story, acting as an outside influence to the ongoing conflict between the two farms.
The White Acre Farm is one-half of the original land owned by Mr. Bull, which is tended to by a handful of farmhands incapable of harvesting the produce. The White Acre symbolises the Northern United States before (and later during) the American Civil War.
The Black Acre Farm is one-half of Mr. Bull's land that is tended to by loyal, hardworking slaves who are able to farm the land easily due to their effort and numbers. The Black Acre symbolises the Southern United States and the later Confederate States of America.
Mr. Bull is a portly, ageing businessman who is overwrought by his excessive workload, and is unable to make deals effectively without additional assistance due to his age. He represents Great Britain and the British Empire as a whole, with his name and appearance being derived from John Bull.
Don Armado is a minor character who is referenced frequently as a part-associate, part-adversary of Mr. Bull who uses slaves for harvesting sugar and mining gold. His title of Don and the references to gold suggest that Don Armado represents the early Spanish Empire that colonised the Americas during the Renaissance, before the arrival of the British in the 17th century.

Publication history

The novel was released in book form in 1856, and was printed by the same publishers of an earlier anti-Tom novel, Uncle Robin, in His Cabin in Virginia, and Tom Without One in Boston by J.W. Page (1853).

See also

Mr. Frank, the Underground Mail-Agent – Another satirical anti-Tom novel, released in 1853

References

External links
White Acre vs. Black Acre at the University of Virginia
White Acre vs. Black Acre at Google Books

1856 American novels
Allegory
American satirical novels
Anti-Tom novels
Novels set in Shropshire


Milton of Leys (Scottish Gaelic: Baile Muilinn an Leigheis, meaning "Mill-Farm of Medicine" ) is an area of the city of Inverness in the Highland council area of Scotland. It lies on high ground overlooking the Moray Firth, 3 miles (5 km) southeast of the city centre, to the west of the A9 road.

Since the 1990s, Milton of Leys has developed largely as a residential settlement. Construction of a local primary school began in June 2010,  opening in August 2011. Previously, pupils attended nearby Inshes Primary.

Housing development has continued throughout the 21st century, with Milton of Leys being one of the city's fastest growing areas.

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George King (5 January 1923 – 2009) was an English footballer. A forward, he scored 59 goals in 164 league games in a seven-year career in the Football League. He was the brother of goalkeepers Frank and Ray King.

He began his career with Newcastle United following the conclusions of World War II, and had a brief spell with Hull City, before joining Port Vale in April 1949. He impressed for the "Valiants", and was sold on to Barrow for a four-figure fee in February 1950. He scored more than half of his career goals for the "Bluebirds", before he enjoyed brief stays with Bradford City and Gillingham. He later played for non-League clubs King's Lynn and Ely City.

Career
King played for the Royal Air Force during World War II. During the war he narrowly escaped death when he was aboard a ship that was sunk by a U-boat. He signed with Newcastle United in 1945, despite interest from Burnley. He played two Second Division games in 1946–47, before injury restricted his progress. He swapped St James' Park for Boothferry Park when he transferred to Hull City. He spent 1947–48 and 1948–49 with Hull City, featuring in three Third Division North games for Raich Carter's "Tigers".

He joined Port Vale for a four-figure fee in April 1949. He scored twice on his debut, a 3–1 win over Torquay United at The Old Recreation Ground on 23 April. He scored three goals in eight Third Division South games in 1949–50, but lost his place in October 1949. He was sold on to Barrow for a four-figure fee in February 1950 by manager Gordon Hodgson. He scored 35 goals in 86 Third Division North games for Jack Hacking's "Bluebirds", before leaving Holker Street for Bradford City on a £4,500 transfer. He scored nine times in 23 games for Ivor Powell's "Bantams" in 1952–53 in a brief stay at Valley Parade. He later scored five goals in 21 Third Division South games for Archie Clark's Gillingham. He left Priestfield and the Football League, and played for United Counties League side King's Lynn, before he was appointed player-coach at Cambridgeshire League side Ely City, becoming the club's first manager in June 1955. He led the club to the First Round of the FA Cup in 1956–57, at which point they lost out to Torquay United. After retiring, he became a chiropodist. He died in 2009, having suffered with alzheimer's disease.

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MV Pentalina is a  RoPax catamaran ferry purchased by Pentland Ferries in 2008 to operate between Gills Bay, Caithness and St Margaret's Hope, Orkney.

Layout
Pentalina was designed by the naval architects, Sea Transport Solutions of Australia. The catamaran form has a steel hull with aluminum superstructure. She is designed to handle the rough seas off the north coast of Scotland. Her overall length is , with a beam of .

Route
Pentalina replaced the ferry , crossing the Pentland Firth, between Gills Bay, Caithness and St Margaret's Hope, Orkney. The journey time for the crossing on this vessel is one hour.

Construction and career
Pentalina was built in Cebu, Philippines, starting in February 2007. She was ready to launch in April 2008, although there were delays in installing equipment. The  journey from the Philippines to Scotland was delayed by bad weather, forcing a short detour to Salalah, Oman. She arrived in St Margaret's Hope on 9 December 2008.

There was discussions of her doing sailings from Gills Bay to Shetland.

Pentland Ferries commissioned a larger catamaran, MV Alfred, to replace Pentalina on the St Margaret's Hope to Gill's Bay route, and the new vessel entered service on 1 November 2019. On 5 July 2022, Alfred ran aground on the island of Swona and Pentland Ferries confirmed that the port bulbous bow had sustained impact damage. Pentalina returned to serve on the St Margaret's Hope -  Gill's Bay route while Alfred was in dry dock in Belfast. Alfred returned to service on 12 August 2022.

2023 grounding
On 29 April 2023, Pentalina ran aground near St Margaret's Hope. Pentland Ferries stated that smoke was detected in the ship's engine room around 19:30 and she subsequently grounded. The Royal National Lifeboat Institution arrived at the incident, and 60 people were safely evacuated. It was described as a Major Incident by the RMT. Pentalina was moved to her berth, about 90m away, the next morning and was expected to be out of service for repairs until 21 May 2023.

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