Joshua Caleb Dibb (born January 6, 1978), also known by his moniker Deakin, is an American musician who co-founded the experimental pop band Animal Collective. He is the most infrequent member of the collective appearing on only seven of the group's twelve studio albums. In 2016, he made his solo debut with the album Sleep Cycle. He also occasionally works as a carpenter during musical down time.

Biography
Dibb was born on January 6, 1978, in Orange, California to Jessica B Mendlovitz and David C Dibb, who married in 1977. He began writing and recording music with childhood friend Noah Lennox (Panda Bear) in 1991.  While at The Park School of Baltimore, Josh met David Portner (Avey Tare) and Brian Weitz (Geologist) when they asked him to join their band, Automine.  Josh introduced Noah to Dave and Brian and over the next few years the four spent time playing music together and sharing tapes of music they made individually.

After high school, Panda Bear and Deakin went to Boston, where Deakin attended Brandeis University.  Avey Tare and Geologist moved to New York City to attend NYU and Columbia University respectively.  After months of playing the band finally settled on the name "Animal Collective". After touring with the group from 2004 to the end of 2006 and recording two albums, Feels and Strawberry Jam, the Water Curses EP and the visual album ODDSAC he decided to take a break from the increasingly rigorous touring schedule. After not participating in the recording of the album Merriweather Post Pavilion, he rejoined the band live on April 10, 2011, in Petaluma, California after a three-year absence.

On January 1, 2010, he played his first solo show as Deakin at The Ottobar in Baltimore, MD where he grew up. In December 2009, Deakin raised $25,985 through the Kickstarter crowdfunding platform to travel to Mali to play at the music festival Festival au Désert outside of Tomboctou in January 2010 and to record an album in early 2010. After playing the music festival, Deakin played five shows in Europe, including a few shows opening for Panda Bear.

On January 7, 2016, Dibb sent backers of his Kickstarter campaign an announcement that his long awaited solo album was complete. The album, titled Sleep Cycle, was released on Bandcamp on April 6, 2016. "Just Am" was the first track shared from the album, accompanied by a music video.

Tour history

with Animal Collective
 2002
 Spring 2004 – Fall 2006
 Spring 2011 – December 2013
 October 2019
 2021–2022

Discography

Albums
Solo album
 Sleep Cycle (2016)

Appearances as a member of Animal Collective
Campfire Songs (2003)
Here Comes the Indian (2003)
Feels (2005)
Strawberry Jam (2007)
ODDSAC (2010) *
Centipede Hz (2012)
Tangerine Reef (2018) *
Time Skiffs (2022)
Isn't It Now? (2023)

" * " indicates visual album

Singles
Splits
"Wastered" (w/ Black Dice) (2004) – Paw Tracks

Remixes
"Little Bird" (Remix of Goldfrapp), released on "Caravan Girl" UK 7-inch Picture disk and on Digital EP (June 30, 2008, Mute Records)
"Mirando" (Remix of Ratatat), released on "Mirando" single (February 3, 2009, XL Recordings)
"Boundary Waters" (Remix of Palms), released on "Boundary Waters Remixed" 12" (September 2009, Rare Book Room Records)
"Love Like A Sunset (Deakins Jam)"  (Remix of Phoenix), released digitally in 2009 (V2 Records)
"Welt Am Draht" (Remix of Pantha du Prince), released digitally in 2010 (Rough Trade Records)
"Go!" (Remix of M83) (2017, M83 Recording Inc.)
"Extra Kings" (Remix of The Avalanches) (2021, Modular Records)

Miscellaneous
"In The City That Reads" on Arto Lindsay's album Invoke (June 25, 2002, Righteous Babe Records), credited as Avey Tare, Deaken, Geologist, Panda Bear
"Seeing Twinkles" on the sampler Music for Plants (June 2005, PerfectIfOn), under the name Deaken and Geologist
"Country Report" on the cassette tape Keep + Animal Collective (March 2011, Keep)

References

External links
 Bmore Musically Informed – photos and mp3's of New Years show.

American rock guitarists
American male guitarists
American male singers
American multi-instrumentalists
1978 births
Living people
Animal Collective members
21st-century American singers


Bel Sheba (January 29, 1970 – 1995) was an American thoroughbred racehorse.  She was sired by the middle-distance stallion Lt. Stevens, out of Belthazar, daughter of the great War Admiral.

Bel Sheba raced 22 times and was trained by Hall of Fame jockey and trainer  A. P. (Paddy) Smithwick. Her most notable race result was a third in the 1972 Adirondack Stakes at Saratoga Race Course.

As a broodmare, however, she was more productive.  Retired to Hamburg Place Farm, she is best known as the dam of Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes winner Alysheba.

References
 NY Times pg 2

External links
 Pedigree and Stats

1970 racehorse births
1995 racehorse deaths
Racehorses bred in Kentucky
Racehorses trained in the United States
Thoroughbred family 20


The John Clark House in Clarksdale, Mississippi was built in 1859 with elements of Greek Revival style.  It was moved approximately  in 1916 to make way for a grand house, the Italian Renaissance style Cutrer Mansion, to be built in its place.  The John Clark House was then remodeled, including that its "two-tiered one-bay porch supported with turned posts was replaced with a then-stylish Colonial Revival porch."

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.

See also
 National Register of Historic Places listings in Coahoma County, Mississippi
 Riverside Hotel:  Blues Trail site in Clarksdale
 Delta Blues Museum

References

Colonial Revival architecture in Mississippi
Houses completed in 1859
Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Mississippi
Houses in Coahoma County, Mississippi
National Register of Historic Places in Coahoma County, Mississippi
Clarksdale, Mississippi


Stol may refer to:
Stol, Babušnica, a village in Serbia
, mountain in Serbia
Stol (Serbian Carpathians), a mountain in Serbia
, a mountain in Slovenia
Stol (Karawanks) (Veliki Stol), a mountain on the border between Austria and Slovenia

See also
Stole (disambiguation)
Stoll (disambiguation)
Stolle, a surname
STOL (short takeoff and landing), aircraft technology
STOL (Systems Test and Operations Language), a spacecraft command language


The Plan is a Swedish band formed by Broder Daniel guitarist and subsequent bass player Theodor Jensen in 2000.

History
After having written own songs for a period of time, Jensen met organist Mikael Furugärde, drummer Niklas Korssell and bass player Peter Morén through mutual friends. The group recorded its first demo in the winter of 2000-2001 and were signed by EMI in early 2001. By that time, Jensen's childhood friend and Broder Daniel bandmate Håkan Hellström had – on his highly successful debut album Känn ingen sorg för mig Göteborg – already released an interpretation in Swedish of the Plan's song "Foggy Days" (called "Dom dimmiga dagarna").

The self-titled debut album was recorded during the summer of 2001 together with producer Ronald Bood, and at the time of its release in September that year, the first single "Mon Amour" was already climbing the charts. The album entered the Swedish charts at number 2, and was nominated for Grammis awards in four categories: best debut act, best album, best pop/rock group, and best composer. The album was followed by a tour in Europe, as well as performances at South by Southwest in Austin and CBGB in New York City. However, despite the success of the band, drummer Niklas Korssell and bass player Peter Morén left the band in 2002 to pursue their own musical projects.

In 2004, Theodor Jensen left Broder Daniel, where he had been playing bass following Håkan Hellström's departure in 2002. The Plan's sophomore album "Embrace me beauty" was released in September that year and received mixed reviews. Later in 2004, organist Mikael Furugärde – whom Jensen considers his "ideologic brother" – left to focus on the finalization of his third novel, leaving the Plan a one man band.

The band's third record "Walk for Gold" was recorded with Theodor Jensen as the only permanent member under the supervision of producer Jari Haapalainen. It was released in October 2006 and was well received by music critics.

Although Theodor Jensen is the sole remaining member of the Plan, he decided not to release his 2009 solo album "Tough Love" under the Plan name, saying he was relieved to get away from its history.

Band members
Theodor Jensen – vocals, guitars, bass, banjo, mandolin
Mikael Furugärde – organ, electric piano (quit after their second album)
Niklas Korssell – drums, percussion (quit after their first album)
Peter Morén – bass guitar (quit after their first album)

Discography

Albums

Singles

Footnotes

External links
The Plan on last.fm
The Plan on Myspace

Musical groups established in 2000
Swedish musical groups


Clarkdale Historic District may refer to:

Clarkdale Historic District (Arizona), listed on the NRHP in Arizona
Clarkdale Historic District (Georgia), listed on the NRHP in Georgia


Created in 1956, Samuel Ayer High School was the first high school in the City of Milpitas, California.  It was located at 1395 E. Calaveras Blvd.  Previous to its opening, Milpitas high school students attended James Lick High School in San Jose.  With the opening of Milpitas High School in 1969, the two schools coexisted until 1980 when declining enrollment caused Samuel Ayer to be closed.

The campus has now been put to use as the Milpitas Sports Center, Teen Center and Adult Education Center.

See also
List of closed secondary schools in California

Defunct schools in California
Educational institutions disestablished in 1980
1956 establishments in California


Clarkdale Historic District in Clarkdale, Arizona is a historic district that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.

Clarkdale was built as a company town for the United Verde Copper Company, owned by William A. Clark, which located a smelter in Clarkdale.

Historic district contributing properties include:
 Clark Mansion
 Clarkdale Public Works Building
 Clark Memorial Clubhouse, also separately NRHP-listed
 Broadway Bridge, also separately NRHP-listed

See also

References

External links

Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Arizona
National Register of Historic Places in Yavapai County, Arizona
Geography of Yavapai County, Arizona
Mission Revival architecture in Arizona
Spanish Colonial Revival architecture in Arizona


Fred Wilder (born November, 1962) is an American film director, screenwriter, actor, painter, and musician. His early career was devoted to painting, and creating electronic music including soundscape. His filmography as writer director includes the films Scream Karl (2006), and Karl Bites (2006),  which feature the robot Fast Karl. ZomBees (2008), and Vampire Flesh a Poem (2009),  both of which are experimental films driven by poetry. Wilder's films are known for surreal otherworldly and dreamlike images and he often incorporates stop motion animation with live action scenes.

He lives with his wife Candy in Orange County, California.

References

External links

 https://www.pghcitypaper.com/pittsburgh/trailer-trash-a-film-journal-covers-three-harrowing-years-in-the-life-of-west-virginia-artist-don-diego-ramirez/Content?oid=1339312

American filmmakers
Living people
1962 births


William Clark House may refer to:

William A. Clark House, Manhattan, New York City
William S. Clark House, Eureka, California, listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP)
William Clark House (Newark, New Jersey), NRHP-listed
William Clark House (Baraboo, Wisconsin), NRHP-listed

See also
Clark House (disambiguation)


Pierre Gaultier (Gaultier of Orléans; Gaultier Orléanois; Gaultier de Rome, 1599-after 1638) was a French lutenist and composer.

Life
Gaultier hailed from Orléans where he was christened probably on 30 August 1599 in the church of Saint-Michel. Active in Italy in the early 1630s, he probably made the acquaintance of his future patron, prince Johann Anton I of Eggenberg (1610–1649), then ambassador of the emperor Ferdinand III to Pope Urban VIII in Rome in 1638. Nothing is known about his further vita.

Gaultier is not identical to the Jesuit and scholar Pierre Gautruche (Latinised form: Petrus Galtruchius Aurelianensis, baptized on 4 August 1602 in the church of Saint-Paul, Orléans, died 1681 in Caen) who he was formerly taken to be. He is also not the composer and opera director  (1642-1696), whose name was also Pierre Gaultier.

Works
Music by Gaultier has survived in a single publication: Les Oeuvres de Pierre Gaultier (Rome, 1638), dedicated to his patron, the prince of Eggenberg. Gaultier probably paid and sold the book, containing 105 pieces of music with six different new tunings (so called accords nouveaux), on his own. It is the only publication of French lute music of that period that was published outside France.

Gaultier's music is typical in that it features the contemporary style of broken melody (the inappropriate term style brisé was coined during the 20th century) and in that he experimented with new tunings. Atypical of French lute music of that period, however, was his extensive use of hammer-ons and pull-offs, and of campanella technique, both of which betray the strong influence of Italian guitarists and theorbists.

Edition
Monique Rollin (ed.): Oeuves de Pierre Gaultier (Paris: CNRS, Corpus des Luthistes Français, 1984).

Recording
Sigrun Richter, Les Accords Nouveaux: Pierre Gaultier – Les Oeuvres, Rom 1636, ASIN: B000024PKV.

Bibliography
François-Pierre Goy: "Three Versions of Pierre Gaultier's Battaille (1626, 1638, 1650)", in: Journal of the Lute Society of America, vol. XLII-XLIII (2009-2010), p. 1-89, .

External links
Accords Nouveaux

1590s births
17th-century deaths
17th-century classical composers
French Baroque composers
Composers for lute
French lutenists
French male classical composers
17th-century male musicians


The William S. Clark House, in Eureka, Humboldt County, northern California was built in 1888 by master carpenter Fred B. Butterfield.  Its design includes elements of both Eastlake and Queen Anne Styles of Victorian architecture.

It was built for William S. Clark, a businessman, real estated developer, and mayor of Eureka.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.

The builder, Fred Butterfield, co-built (along with Walter Butterfield) the NRHP-listed Thomas F. Ricks House at 730 H St. in Eureka.

See also
National Register of Historic Places listings in Humboldt County, California

References

External links

Buildings and structures in Eureka, California
Houses in Humboldt County, California
Houses completed in 1888
Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in California
1880s architecture in the United States
Queen Anne architecture in California
Stick-Eastlake architecture in California
Victorian architecture in California
National Register of Historic Places in Humboldt County, California


Arixeniidae is a family of earwigs in the suborder Neodermaptera. Arixeniidae was formerly considered a suborder, Arixeniina, but was reduced in rank to family and included in the new suborder Neodermaptera.

Arixeniidae is represented by two genera, Arixenia and Xeniaria, with a total of five species. Arixenia esau and Xeniaria jacobsoni are the most well-known. As with Hemimerina, they are blind, wingless ectoparasites with filiform segmented cerci.  They are ectoparasites of various Southeast Asian bats, particularly of the genus Cheiromeles (i.e., "naked bulldog bats").

Genera
The family includes the following genera:
 Arixenia Jordan, 1909
 Xeniaria Maa, 1974

References

External links

 An example specimen of the species Arixenia esau from the Tree of Life (note that the species is incorrectly labeled)
 An example of a female Arixenia esau from the Australian National Insect Collection

Dermaptera families
Arixeniina


Arixenia is a genus of earwigs, one of only two genera in the family Arixeniidae, and contains two species.

See also
 Earwig

References

External links
 An example specimen of the species Arixenia esau from the Tree of Life (note that the species is incorrectly labeled)
 An example of a female Arixenia esau from the Australian National Insect Collection

Dermaptera genera
Arixeniina


Arixenia esau is a species of earwig in the genus Arixenia (sister to Arixenia camura). It is in the family Arixeniidae, a group composed solely of ectoparasitic earwigs. Like most other species in Arixeniidae, A. esau is found in the tropics of Indonesia and Malaysia and has only been collected on the island of Borneo. The species is heavily associated with its host the hairless bat (Cheiromeles torquatus) and is most commonly collected from the fur of these bats and from caves inhabited by them. Arixenia esau is a rare species and has only been observed infrequently in its natural habitat.

Description
This species was described by the entomologist Karl Jordan in 1909, when it was recorded as living within the brood pouches of hairless bats. Like the related species Xeniaria jacobsoni, A. esau females are much larger in size than the males. A. esau is easily contrasted from other members of the order Dermaptera by its minute cerci and full body covering of sensory hairs giving adults a mottled appearance.

Like all species in the Arixeniidae family, A. esau is wingless and blind. Nymphs and adults are a deep yellowish-brown color, although adults have darker abdominal tergites. The head is prognathous and heart-shaped, broad, and wide. The eyes are small and oval shaped, containing 50 to 65 facets in the males and between 60 and 90 in the females. Antennae have 14 segments and are inserted laterally on the head. Mouthparts are smaller than in other Arixeniidae species, the mandibles bearing 3 apical teeth with small maxilla. The pronotum of the thorax is curved posteriorly and exceeds the mesonotum significantly in length. The tarsal claws are well developed to enable gripping on the fur of hosts.

Biology and life history
This species was originally described as ectoparasitic to its bat hosts, but this relationship has been revised and it is currently understood that the earwigs are not parasitic as they do not harm the bats in the process of feeding off of dead skin and bodily excretions. As the earwigs are blind and flightless, they spend their entire lives within the caves inhabited by their hosts.

Like some other earwig species Arixenia esau is viviparous, giving birth to live offspring that develop in a uterus. This feature has evolved twice within the Dermapteran order, in the groups Hemimeridae and Arixeniidae. Arixenia esau has a unique respiratory system to support larval development within the reproductive tract of the mother. An extensive tracheal system within the mothers body delivers oxygen through the respiratory pigment hemocyanin which is found in the fatty tissue of the larva while a placenta-like organ growing out of the larval abdomen mediates this gas exchange.

Association with bat fleas

This species is associated with the bat fleas Lagaropsylla signata and Lagaropsylla turba, whose survival depends on easy access to hosts via riding on the earwig's body. This association is the only known example of a true phoreteic relationship between bat fleas and other insects. The hairs on the earwigs body make them ideal vectors for the fleas, who would otherwise remain trapped on the cave floors unable to reach the roosting bats.

References

External links

 An example of a female Arixenia esau from the Australian National Insect Collection

Arixeniina
Insects described in 1909
Insects of Asia
Parasites of bats
Taxa named by Karl Jordan
Insects of Borneo


Johann Gottfried Tulla (20 March 1770, in Karlsruhe – 27 March 1828, in Paris) was a German engineer who accomplished the straightening of the Rhine, improving navigation and alleviating the effects of flooding. His measures gave the Upper Rhine a completely new appearance. The river was deepened and channelled between embankments which narrowed the channels to a width of ; new sections were dug to straighten out its meandering course, and numerous small islands were removed. The effect was to reduce the river's length between Basel and Worms from . However, the straightening of the Upper Rhine had increased the streaming speed and thus permanently raised the flood risk in the regions of the Middle and the Lower Rhine, partial floodplain restoration is still performed in a joint program of Germany and France.

Career
Tulla began his training in 1792 with Karl Christian von Langsdorf. From 1794 to 1796 he traveled across Central Europe and to Scandinavia, studying hydraulic projects. During his travels, in 1795 he studied chemistry and mineralogy at the Mining Academy in Freiberg, Saxony. Subsequently, he was transferred to government service in Baden. Further training in Paris followed in 1801, but he was called back to Karlsruhe after a year. There he was appointed to the rank of captain in 1803. Starting in 1807 he worked in Switzerland on the channelling of the Linth river. Also in 1807 he was one of the founders of the school of engineering that was the predecessor of the University of Karlsruhe. He was promoted several times in subsequent years, in 1809 to major and in 1814 to lieutenant colonel. In 1817 he was appointed director of the Oberdirektion des Wasser- und Straßenbaues (Directorate of Water and Road Construction). In this office he was instrumental in planning the stabilizing and straightening of the course of the Upper Rhine, a huge river engineering project that continued until 1879, long after his death. His appointment as an officer of the French Légion d'honneur followed in 1827.

Tulla died of the consequences of malaria in 1828 and was buried in the Montmartre Cemetery in Paris. His gravestone shows the "Altrip corner," one of the technically most difficult sections of the Rhine straightening, near the village of Altrip in the Palatinate.

References

1770 births
1828 deaths
Engineers from Karlsruhe
Officers of the Legion of Honour
Burials at Montmartre Cemetery


The American Philatelic Society Hall of Fame award honors deceased philatelists who have contributed significantly to the field of national and/or international philately.

History

The APS Hall of Fame award was founded at the 1940 American Philatelic Society Convention. The award is intended to honor those deceased philatelists who have made significant contributions during their lifetime to the field of philately.

The award is not to be confused with the society's Luff Award which is presented to outstanding philatelists who are alive at the time of award.

Requirements
Requirements for the APS Hall of Fame are:
 only deceased collectors may be considered for nomination
 those nominated must have made "outstanding contributions to the advancement of national or international philately."

Recipients
Philatelists who have received the APS Hall of Fame award are listed below. Note that some years have no nominees selected.

External links
APS Hall of Fame
Alphabetical listing

Philatelic awards
Phil
Awards established in 1940


Vist may refer to:

Vist, Iran
Vist Station
Serbian whist


Black Heart is the debut studio album by British electronic duo Kish Mauve. It was released as a digital download on 30 March 2009 by YNYS Recordings. The album was recorded over three years and contains previously released material alongside new material.

Track listing
All tracks were written and composed by Mima Stilwell and Jim Eliot, except where noted.

References

External links
 Official Myspace

2009 debut albums
Albums produced by Jim Eliot
Kish Mauve albums


is a 1981 Japanese film directed by Yasuo Furuhata. Among many awards, it was chosen as Best Film at the Japan Academy Prize ceremony.

Cast
 Ken Takakura: Eiji Mikami
 Chieko Baisho: Kiriko (1979) Michio
 Ayumi Ishida: Naoko Mikami (1968)
 Setsuko Karasuma: Suzuko Yoshimatsu (1976)
 Kai Atō: Ryosuke Honjo
 Yu Fujiki: Ichiro Mikami
 Akihiko Hirata
 Ryō Ikebe: Chief Nakagawa
 Ken Iwabuchi: Yoshitaka Mikami
 Tanie Kitabayashi: Masayo Mikami
 Yuko Kotegawa: Fuyuko Mikami
 Sachiko Murase: Ryosuke's mother
 Hideo Murota: Shigeru Morioka
 Toshiyuki Nagashima: Michio Mikami
 Akira Nagoya: Takada
 Jinpachi Nezu: Goro Yoshimatsu
 Junkichi Orimoto
 Hideji Otaki: Aiba
 Nenji Kobayashi : Detective Tasumi
 Kei Satō
 Tetsuya Takeda
 Masao Komatsu
 Kunie Tanaka: Sugawara
 Minori Terada: Chikaraishi
 Ryudo Uzaki: Yukio Kinoshita
 Masako Yagi: Aiba's wife

Reception

Awards and nominations
5th Japan Academy Prize
Won: Best Picture
Won: Best Screenplay - Sou Kuramoto
Won: Best Actor - Ken Takakura
Won: Best Music - Ryudo Uzaki
Won: Best Sound Recording - Nobuyuki Tanaka
Nominated: Best Director - Yasuo Furuhata
Nominated: Best Actress - Chieko Baisho
Nominated: Best Actor in a Supporting Role - Ryudo Uzaki
Nominated: Best Actress in a Supporting Role -  Ayumi Ishida and Setsuko Karasuma
Nominated: Best Cinematography - Daisaku Kimura
Nominated: Best Lighting Direction - Hideki Mochizuki
Nominated: Best Art Direction - Yukio Higuchi

References

Bibliography

1981 films
1981 drama films
Films directed by Yasuo Furuhata
Japanese drama films
1980s Japanese-language films
Picture of the Year Japan Academy Prize winners
Films with screenplays by Sô Kuramoto
Films set in Hokkaido
1980s Japanese films


Wilmot is an unincorporated community located in Annapolis County in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia.

The community takes its name from Wilmot Township, one of the early subdivisions of Annapolis County. The township was named after Montague Wilmot, a colonial governor of Nova Scotia. The township, which included what is now Aylesford, was granted in 1764 to New England Loyalist settlers. In 1768 it had a population of 40; by 1827 it had grown to 2,294.

The first major land owner, a magistrate named Philip Richardson, was granted seven lots totaling 2,000 acres (809 ha) in 1777. Brigadier General Timothy Ruggles was granted 10,000 acres (4047 ha) in 1784.

Notable People

 Samuel Vetch Bayard (1757-1832). Military officer.
 Timothy Ruggles (1711-1795). Politician, jurist, military leader.
 Joshua Slocum (1844-1909). First man to navigate single-handedly around the world.

References

Communities in Annapolis County, Nova Scotia


Baroque! From St Peter's to St Paul's is a three-part BBC Four documentary series on the painting, sculpture and architecture of the Baroque period. It was written and presented by Waldemar Januszczak and first broadcast in March 2009. It is named after its start in the square of Saint Peter's Basilica and its end at St Paul's Cathedral.

In March 2010 'Baroque!' won a Royal Television Society Award for best arts programme.

Episodes
”The Birth of the Baroque". Italy – Baroque's origins in Rome and Spanish Naples, including Borromini's architectural work such as San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane, Bernini's fountains, churches like Sant'Andrea al Quirinale and sculptures such as The Ecstasy of St Theresa; Andrea Pozzo's illusionistic work at Sant'Ignazio and Annibale Caracci's The Loves of the Gods; Caravaggio's career in Rome and Naples; Jusepe de Ribera, his 'Cabal of Naples' and its activities against rivals such as Caracci's followers Domenichino and Guido Reni.
”Baroque’s Dark Heart". Spain, its South American Empire, the Spanish Netherlands and the Dutch Republic – Velázquez and Las Meninas; Zurbarán; Baroque church architecture at Santiago de Compostela and in the Southern Netherlands; Rubens and the Southern Netherlands; Rembrandt, Frans Hals and Vermeer in the Dutch Republic
”Designing St Paul’s Cathedral". England – The Royal Naval Hospital and Queen's House at Greenwich; Rubens, Van Dyck and Charles I's art patronage (including Banqueting House and its ceiling paintings); William Dobson's work during the English Civil War; the London churches of Christopher Wren and Nicholas Hawksmoor; Blenheim Palace, the English Baroque invention of the country house within a landscaped garden and the career of John Vanbrugh; St Paul's.

External links

2009 British television series debuts
2009 British television series endings
2000s British documentary television series
Baroque
2000s British television miniseries
English-language television shows
BBC television documentaries about history during the 16th and 17th centuries
BBC television documentaries about history during the 18th and 19th centuries


Christopher Hansteen (26 September 1822 – 10 March 1912) was a Norwegian judge. He served as an Associate Justice in the Supreme Court of Norway from 1867 to 1905, an unusually long period, and also spent a few years in politics.

Personal life
He was born in Moss as the son of customs surveyor Nils Lynge Hansteen (1782–1861) and his wife Petronelle Severine Clementin (1787–1829). He was a distant relative of Christopher Hansteen, the astronomer and more famous bearer of the name. In November 1853 he married Lagertha Cecilia Wulfsberg (1820–1897), a daughter of politician Gregers Winther Wulfsberg.

Career
Hansteen grew up in Moss, Christiania and Drammen. He enrolled as a student in 1838, and graduated with the cand.jur. degree in 1843. He started a career as a civil servant, working as a clerk in the Ministry of Finance and Customs, the Ministry of the Interior and the Ministry of Justice and the Police. In 1854 he was promoted to subdirector, and from 1857 to 1866 he was a judge and acting stipendiary magistrate in Christiania.

Hansteen was also active in politics. He was a member of Christiania city council from 1867 to 1876, and following the 1868 election he was a deputy representative to the Norwegian Parliament, but without actually meeting in parliament. Political parties did not exist at the time, but Hansteen was known as a political conservative. He frequently used newspapers as an arena for promoting his views.

In 1867 he had been appointed as an Assessor in the Supreme Court of Norway. As such he took part in the Impeachment trial, where members of the Supreme Court as well as politicians from the Lagting ultimately impeached Conservative Prime Minister Christian Selmer and his cabinet. Hansteen largely let his professionalism subdue his political leanings in this case, which could not be taken for granted in the political climate of the time.

In 1886, when Iver Steen Thomle stepped down as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Norway, Hansteen had expressed a strong interest in the position. However, the Liberal cabinet led by Johan Sverdrup chose not to appoint him, probably due to Hansteen's political color. Later, when the Liberals had lost their majority, Hansteen was asked by King Oscar II of Sweden and Norway to become Prime Minister and form a cabinet of his own in 1892; contrary to popular belief, parliamentarism was not fully implemented in Norway yet. This time, Hansteen himself declined due to his relatively old age. He continued as a judge until his retirement in 1905. His 38 years in Supreme Court was a record at the time. He lived almost to the age of ninety, dying in March 1912 in Kristiania.

Hansteen was decorated as a Knight of the Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav in 1868. He became a Commander, First Class of the same order in 1882, and in 1895 he received the Grand Cross.

References

1822 births
1912 deaths
Supreme Court of Norway justices
Politicians from Oslo
Deputy members of the Storting
People from Moss, Norway


Upper Granville is a community in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, located in Annapolis County.

Former Premier Stephen McNeil lives in Upper Granville. It is also the birthplace of Joseph Broussard, leader of the Acadians.

Centenary United Church is a provincially recognised heritage building. Built in 1792 in nearby Beaconsfield, and moved to its present location in 1799, it is believed to be the oldest Methodist Church still standing in Canada. Its early Gothic Revival architecture is described as 'exceptional' for a time when other churches in the area were being built in more established styles.

References

Communities in Annapolis County, Nova Scotia


Jordan James Schafer (born September 4, 1986) is an American former professional baseball center fielder. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Atlanta Braves, Houston Astros, and Minnesota Twins.

Baseball career

Atlanta Braves
Schafer was drafted by the Atlanta Braves in the third round of the 2005 Major League Baseball Draft out of Winter Haven High School. In April  he was suspended 50 games by Major League Baseball after being accused of HGH use. He was the first player to be suspended by Major League Baseball's Department of Investigations.

Schafer was named the Braves' starting center fielder for the 2009 season on April 3, 2009, despite never having played at a higher level than Double-A. He made his major league debut on April 5, 2009, becoming the 99th player in Major League Baseball history to hit his first career home run in his first major league at-bat, off Brett Myers of the Philadelphia Phillies. He finished the game 2 for 3, with the home run, a single, an intentional walk, and a strikeout.

On June 2, 2009, Schafer was optioned to Triple-A Gwinnett Braves after batting only .204 with 63 strikeouts in 167 at-bats. He was called back up to the major league team on May 24, 2011.

Houston Astros

On July 31, 2011, Schafer was traded with Juan Abreu, Paul Clemens, and Brett Oberholtzer to the Houston Astros in exchange for Michael Bourn.

On April 29, 2012, Schafer was ejected from a game by umpire Marvin Hudson after disputing an out call on an attempted steal.

Second stint with Braves
On November 1, 2012, the Atlanta Braves reacquired Jordan Schafer from the Houston Astros on waivers. Schafer was placed on the disabled list on July 4, 2013, with a stress fracture in his ankle. He was designated for assignment by the Braves on August 1, 2014.

Minnesota Twins

Schafer was claimed off waivers by the Minnesota Twins on August 3, 2014. He was named the Twins' 2015 Opening Day center fielder. The team released him on June 18 to make room for an influx of outfield prospects.

Los Angeles Dodgers
Schafer signed a minor league contract with the Los Angeles Dodgers on January 13, 2016. The Dodgers converted him to a pitcher and assigned him to the Double-A Tulsa Drillers of the Texas League. He performed well enough that he was selected to participate in the mid-season Texas League All-Star Game. He pitched in 31 games for Tulsa, six for the Triple-A Oklahoma City Dodgers and another three for the Arizona League Dodgers. Overall, he was 1–1 with a 4.93 ERA in 49  innings.

St. Louis Cardinals
On December 12, 2016, he signed a minor league contract with the St. Louis Cardinals. He joined the team for spring training, during which, on March 14, 2017, it was announced that Schafer would undergo surgery on his left elbow. He missed the entire season.

Invited to spring training in 2018, he was among six cut to minor-league camp on March 4. He was released on March 12.

San Francisco Giants
On April 3, 2018, Schafer signed a minor league contract with the San Francisco Giants. He was released on June 9, 2018.

See also

 List of players with a home run in first major league at-bat

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In trigonometry, Mollweide's formula is a pair of relationships between sides and angles in a triangle.

A variant in more geometrical style was first published by Isaac Newton in 1707 and then by  in 1746. Thomas Simpson published the now-standard expression in 1748. Karl Mollweide republished the same result in 1808 without citing those predecessors.

It can be used to check the consistency of solutions of triangles.

Let a, b, and c be the lengths of the three sides of a triangle.
Let α, β, and γ be the measures of the angles opposite those three sides respectively.  Mollweide's formulas are

Relation to other trigonometric identities

Because in a planar triangle  these identities can alternately be written in a form in which they are more clearly a limiting case of Napier's analogies for spherical triangles,

Dividing one by the other to eliminate  results in the law of tangents,

In terms of half-angle tangents alone, Mollweide's formula can be written as

or equivalently

Multiplying the respective sides of these identities gives one half-angle tangent in terms of the three sides,

which becomes the law of cotangents after taking the square root,

where  is the semiperimeter.

The identities can also be proven equivalent to the law of sines and law of cosines.

Dual relations

In spherical trigonometry, the law of cosines and derived identities such as Napier's analogies have precise duals swapping central angles measuring the sides and dihedral angles at the vertices. In the infinitesimal limit, the law of cosines for sides reduces to the planar law of cosines and two of Napier's analogies reduce to Mollweide's formulas above. But the law of cosines for angles degenerates to  By dividing squared side length by the spherical excess  we obtain a non-vanishing ratio, the spherical trigonometry relation:

In the infinitesimal limit, as the half-angle tangents of spherical sides reduce to lengths of planar sides, the half-angle tangent of spherical excess reduces to twice the area  of a planar triangle, so on the plane this is:

and likewise for  and

As corollaries (multiplying or dividing the above formula in terms of  and ) we obtain two dual statements to Mollweide's formulas. The first expresses the area in terms of two sides and the included angle, and the other is the law of sines:

We can alternately express the second formula in a form closer to one of Mollweide's formulas (again the law of tangents):

References

Further reading
 H. Arthur De Kleine, "Proof Without Words: Mollweide's Equation", Mathematics Magazine, volume 61, number 5, page 281, December, 1988.

Trigonometry
Theorems about triangles


Kentucky Route 884 (KY 884) is a south-north highway in Warren County, Kentucky. Primarily a route serving rural areas southeast of Bowling Green, the route enters the city before its end at U.S. Route 231 (US 231, Scottsville Road). The route is known locally as Three Springs Road.

Route description

KY 884 begins at a junction with Kentucky Route 240, in the community of Woodburn. The route proceeds north for  before crossing a railroad track.  The route then continues through rolling farmland for another  before intersecting KY 242. Following this junction, KY 884 continues North for another  before bridging the William H. Natcher Parkway via an overpass. Shortly before this point, the area around the route becomes more residential.

KY 884 then proceeds North for another  before reaching a junction with Smallhouse Road, an important local corridor. Three Springs Park, one of the largest parks in the Bowling Green Parks and Recreation system, is located in the corner of this junction.  Following the junction with Smallhouse Road, KY 884 continues north into the city of Bowling Green, before ending at a junction with US 231 in a busy commercial area. The junction is  west of the exit 22 interchange with Interstate 65, providing quick access to the interstate for those in southeast Warren County.

Future
There have been studies done in recent years to consider the benefits of widening KY 884 from the Natcher overpass to its end at US 231. Despite a moderate amount of local support, no plans to expand the route have been put in motion.

Major intersections

References

External links

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0884
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Maitland Bridge  is a community in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, located in Annapolis County on Trunk 8 which crosses the Mersey River here. It is named after General Sir Peregrine Maitland, Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia from 1828 to 1834. The entrance to Kejimkujik National Park is at Maitland Bridge.

References

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A specimen stamp is a postage stamp or postal stationery indicium sent to postmasters and postal administrations so that they are able to identify valid stamps and to avoid forgeries.
The usual method of invalidating the stamps is either overprinting in ink or perforating the word Specimen across the stamp and where English is not the common language, the words Muestra (Spanish), Monster (Dutch), Muster (German) or Образец (Russian, 'Obrasetz') have been used instead.

History
Specimen stamps have been in use since the earliest issues and in 1840 examples of the Penny Black, Two penny blue and the Mulready Letter Sheet were sent to all British postmasters. These stamps were not marked in any way, but when the first British one shilling stamp was produced in 1847, examples sent to postmasters were marked with the word Specimen in order to prevent their postal use.

Since 1879, members of the Universal Postal Union have supplied stamps to each other through the UPU's International Bureau and stamps supplied this way have frequently found their way on to the philatelic market. Specimen stamps have no postal validity so postal administrations are free to distribute them as widely as they like and this can include to stamp dealers, philatelic magazines, government bodies, embassies and as promotional items for philatelists.

As many specimen stamps are worth more than the originals, they have often been forged. Inversely, many genuine specimens have had their overprints removed to make them resemble the much more expensive base stamps.

The use of specimen overprints is not restricted to postage stamps. It has also been used on revenue stamps and postal stationery, including International Reply Coupons.  A unique use was by the Portuguese U.P.U. officials at the end of the 19th and early 20th centuries when they hand-stamped postal stationery from Cuba with the term "ULTRAMAR" (overseas) to prevent postal usage.

See also
 Specimen banknote
 Pattern coin

References

Further reading
 Bendon, John. UPU Specimen Stamps. Abingdon: Oxford Book Projects, 2015  560p.
 Easton, John. The De La Rue History of British & Foreign Postage Stamps 1855 to 1901. London: Faber & Faber for The Royal Philatelic Society London,  1958 846p.
 Samuel, Marcus. Specimen Stamps of the Crown Colonies, 1857-1948. London: Royal Philatelic Society London, 1976 255p. (Supplement 1984)
 Samuel, Marcus & Alan Huggins. Specimen Stamps and Stationery of Great Britain. Safron Walden: G.B. Philatelic Publications Ltd., 1980 254p. (Winner Crawford Medal 1981)
 "The Universal Postal Union Collection: Postal Stationery" in British Library Philatelic Collections Newsletter, Issue 15, Spring 2009.

External links

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NSLR may refer to:

 National Security Law Report, periodical of the American Bar Association's Standing Committee on Law and National Security
 Nova Scotia Reports, decisions of the Nova Scotia Court of Appeal


Alberico Passadore (born 18 March 1960) is a former Uruguayan rugby union footballer and a current coach. He played as a scrum-half.

Passadore had 5 caps for Uruguay, from 1989 to 1995, scoring a try.

He was the head coach of the "Teros" until being forced to leave functions, in October 2008, for professional reasons. His main purpose of qualifying for the 2011 Rugby World Cup finals, was followed by his successor, Argentine Guillermo García Porcel.

External links
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 Guillermo García Porcel Succeeds Alberico Passadore as Uruguay Head Coach

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The economic history of Morocco has largely been charted by the national government through a series of five-year plans. Centralized planning has gradually given way to moderate privatization and neoliberal economic reforms.

Saadi dynasty
The institution of Tujjar as-Sultan, in which major Jewish merchants were granted long distance trading privileges, was established in the Saadi period.

18th century
Sultan Muhammad III instated the maks () or mukūs (), a non-Quranic tax, and opened his kingdom to commerce with Europe.

19th century
By mid-century, Morocco was in a monetary crisis caused by the decline in value of its currency. Traditionally, the monetary system in Morocco consisted of a golden mithqal (), divided into ten uqiyyahs (), each of which was divided into four muzunas (), each of which was divided into 48 copper or bronze fils (). Foreign coins began to flood the Moroccan market, the Makhzen allowed them to be used as legal tender, and locally minted coins began to lose value against them.

Attempting to stabilize the currency, Sultan Muhammad minted a silver muhammadi dirham () with a fixed exchange rate with bronze coins. It only circulated for a short time. Succeeding sultans attempted similar strategies: minting new coins, readjusting the rate of exchange to account for inflation, and imposing new taxes to stabilize income for the Makhzen. This dynamic was unfavorable for the less fortunate, who went into debt with rising inflation. In 1864, the price of foodstuffs soared to the point where people had to sell their jewelry and goods for a fraction of their value.

This trend—as well as increasing revenues from ports, cash salaries for the growing bureaucratic class, and calculating national expenses and planning annual budgets—indicate the transformation of the Moroccan economy into a modern monetarized cash economy.

In 1860, the Treaty of Wad Ras following the Hispano-Moroccan War forced Morocco to pay a war indemnity of 20 million duro (equivalent to $4 million 1861 US dollars)—far greater the balance of the Makhzen's treasury. Morocco borrowed £500,000 from Britain—funded by private investors—to help meet the demands of the Spanish. The British loan and the amount owed directly to Spain were to be repaid from tariffs collected at Moroccan ports, to be overseen by Spanish agents.

In the late 19th century, Morocco's expenses grew many times greater than its income. In paying war indemnities, buying military equipment, and buying manufactured goods from Europe, more than half of Morocco's revenue went abroad.

Early 20th century
Between 1902 and 1909, Morocco's annual trade deficit reached 14 million Francs.

Sultan Abdelaziz attempted fiscal reform to curb the draining of the treasury by instating a non-Quranic universal capital tax called the tartib (). It was applied to everyone—including privileged groups such as the shurafa, tribal qaids, those protected by the protégé system, and Europeans, who were for the first time allowed to purchase property at port cities engaged in overseas trade. Although the tartib tax was first mentioned at the Madrid Conference of 1880, Sultan Hassan I of Morocco never implemented it.

Morocco took on a number of loans from European sources: 7.5 million francs from French banks in 1901, loans from England and Belgium, and 62.5 million francs from France June 1904.

The Treaty of Algeciras of 1906 formalized France's dominant position in Morocco and established the State Bank of Morocco () under foreign supervision. The bank essentially took over fiscal administration in Morocco.

Economic exploitation under the Protectorate

Agriculture

With the objective of securing a steady supply of grain for Metropolitan France and transforming North Africa once again into the "granary of Rome," Lyautey solicited a select group of 692 French "gentlemen-farmers"—instead of what he called the "riff-raff" of southern Europe—to serve as an example to  and impart French influence in the rural colonization of Morocco from 1917 to 1925. Primarily cereals were planted in the regions of Chaouia, Gharb, and Hawz—despite the fact that the region is prone to drought. After a period of minimal profits and a massive locust swarm in 1930, agricultural production shifted toward irrigated, higher-value crops such as citrus fruits and vegetables. The industrialization of agriculture required capital that many Moroccan farmers didn't have, leading to a rural exodus as many headed to find work in the city.

Infrastructure

 built a standard gauge railroad connecting Fes and Tangier, while  (CFM) built standard gauge railways connecting Casablanca, Kenitra, and Sidi Kacem, and Casablanca and Marrakech, completed in 1928.  created narrow-gauge railroads east of Fes.

La Compagnie de Transports au Maroc (CTM) was founded 30 November 1919 with the goal of accessing "all of Morocco." Its services ran along a new colonial road system planned with the aim of linking all major towns and cities.

Natural Resources

The  (OCP) was created in 1920 to mine phosphates out of Khouribga, which was connected to the  Port of Casablanca by a direct rail line. In 1921, 39,000 tons of phosphate were extracted, while almost 2 million tons were extracted in 1930. The Moroccan laborers working in the mines benefited from no social protections, were forbidden from unionizing, and earned a tiny fraction of what Europeans earned.

Industry
Industry during the early period of the protectorate on focused food processing for local consumption: there were canneries, a sugar refinery (, COSUMA), a brewing company (, SBM), and flourmills. Manufacturing and heavy industry, however, were not embraced for fears of competing with Metropolitan France.

Before the 1960s
In the 20th century a lot of firms in the Arabic world were run by the government. This was due to the objective to mitigate the influence of foreigners and minorities that frequently ran the firms.  Other reasons included the lack of human capital as well as the special characteristics of oil production economies. Regarding the human skills Morocco lagged behind; the years of schooling as a representation of the level of human capital did not increase much in Morocco in the beginning of the 20th century (from almost 0 years of schooling in 1880 to around 1.6 in 1950). Even compared to other North African countries Morocco was worse off. So this lack of school education was a difficult barrier for developing a class of entrepreneurs.

1960s
Morocco instituted a series of development plans to modernize the economy and increase production during the 1960s. Net investment under the five-year plan for 1960 to 1964 was about $1.3 billion. The plan called for a growth rate of 6.2%, but by 1964 the growth rate had only reached 3%. A new three-year plan (1965 to 1967) targeted an annual growth rate of 3.7%. The plan emphasized the development and modernization of Morocco's agricultural sector. The five-year development plan for 1968 to 1972 called for increased agriculture and irrigation. The development of the tourist industry also figured prominently in the plan. The objective was to attain an annual 5% growth rate in GDP; the real growth rate actually exceeded 6%.

1970s

On March 3, 1973, King Hassan II enacted the domestic economic policy of Moroccanization, in which major segments of the private sector were transferred to Moroccan ownership.

Investment during the 1970s included industry and tourism development. The five-year plan for 1973 to 1977 envisaged a real economic growth of 7.5% annually. Industries singled out for development included chemicals (especially phosphoric acid), phosphate production, paper products, and metal fabrication. Tourist development was also stressed. In 1975, King Hassan II announced a 50% increase in investment targets to allow for the effects of inflation. The 1978 to 1980 plan was one of stabilization and retrenchment, designed to improve Morocco's balance-of payments position, but the 4% annual growth rate achieved was disappointing.

1980s
The ambitious five-year plan for 1981 to 1985, estimated to cost more than $18 billion, aimed for a growth rate of 6.5% annually. The plan's principal priority was to create some 900,000 new jobs and to train managers and workers in modern agricultural and industrial techniques. Other major goals were to increase production in agriculture and fisheries to make the country self-sufficient in food, and to develop energy (by building more hydroelectric installations and by finding more petroleum and other fossil fuels), industry, and tourism to enable Morocco to lessen its dependence on foreign loans. The plan called for significant expansion of irrigated land, for increased public works projects such as hospitals and schools, and for economic decentralization and regional development through the construction of 25 new industrial parks outside the crowded Casablanca-Kénitra coastal area. Proposed infrastructural improvements included the $2-billion rail line from Marrakech to El Aaiún; a new fishing port at Ad-Dakhla, near Argoub in the Western Sahara; and a bridge-tunnel complex across the Strait of Gibraltar to link Morocco directly with Spain. Large industrial projects included phosphoric acid plants, sugar refineries, mines to exploit cobalt, coal, silver, lead, and copper deposits, and oil-shale development.

1990s

Moroccan economic policies brought macroeconomic stability to the country in the early 1990s but did not spur enough growth to reduce unemployment despite Moroccan Government's ongoing efforts to diversify the economy.

Since the early 1990s, Morocco has embarked on a major economic restructuring programme aimed at raising living standards, cutting unemployment and boosting growth. In pursuit of these goals, successive governments have made efforts to attract domestic and overseas investment, which has obliged them to tackle a string of other problems - such as reducing red tape and corruption, updating the financial system and privatizing telecommunications, water and power.

Meanwhile, rolling back the state in terms of cutting public expenditure has also been a priority, alongside labour market reform. Both of these have been praised by international bodies such as the IMF and World Bank, but have led to frequent confrontation between the unions and the government, which since 1998 has been centre-left dominated.

The IMF, World Bank and Paris Club backed structural adjustment programmes followed by the administration first seeing dirham convertibility established for current account transactions in 1993. This marked the beginning of a phased restructuring of the financial sector, which from 1994 was joined by a phased liberalisation of basic item imports. In 1995, the investment code was reformed, and in 1996 an Association Accord was signed with the European Union (EU). This came into force in 2000, with the EU long established as the country's main trading partner - taking some 75% of Morocco's exports and providing 60% of its imports. France alone accounts for about a quarter of the country's imports and a third of its exports.

Meanwhile, the privatisation programme gained momentum in 1999 and 2000 with the sale of a 35% stake in Maroc Telecom (MT), the telecommunications provider. Morocco was one of the first Arab countries to begin a programme of state sell offs, and it has one of the most ambitious programmes, with 114 enterprises identified for sale in 1993. However, progress has been slow since then, and the programme stalled again soon after the MT stake sell off. It is now hoped that the sale of a further 16% stake in MT, the state tobacco company, several sugar firms and a clutch of power generation and water management facilities will revitalize the programme.

Drought conditions depressed activity in the key agricultural sector, and contributed to an economic slowdown in 1999. Favourable rainfalls have led Morocco to a growth of 6% for 2000. Formidable long-term challenges included: servicing the external debt; preparing the economy for freer trade with the European Union; and improving education and attracting foreign investment to improve living standards and job prospects for Morocco's youthful population.

2000s

Macroeconomic stability coupled with relatively slow economic growth characterized the Moroccan economy from 2000 to 2005. The government introduced a number of important economic reforms in that period. The economy, however, remained overly dependent on the agricultural sector. Morocco's primary economic challenge was to accelerate growth in order to reduce high levels of unemployment.

External debt stood at around $19 billion in 2002, but the country had strong foreign exchange reserves and active external debt management, which was allowing it to service its debts. The government continued liberalizing the telecommunications sector in 2002, as well as the rules for oil and gas exploration.  This process started with the sale of a second GSM license in 1999. The government in 2003 was using revenue from privatizations to finance increased spending. Although Morocco's economy grew in the early 2000s, it was not enough to significantly reduce poverty.

Through a foreign exchange rate anchor and well-managed monetary policy, Morocco has held inflation rates to industrial country levels over the past decade. Inflation in 2000 and 2001 were below 2%. Despite criticism among exporters that the dirham has become badly overvalued, the current account deficit remains modest. Foreign exchange reserves were strong, with more than $7 billion in reserves at the end of 2001. The combination of strong foreign exchange reserves and active external debt management gives Morocco the capacity to service its debt. Current external debt stands at about $16.6 billion.

Economic growth, however, has been erratic and relatively slow, partially because of an over-reliance on the agricultural sector. Agriculture production is extremely susceptible to rainfall levels and ranges from 13% to 20% of GDP. Given that 36% of Morocco's population depends directly on agriculture production, droughts have a severe knock-on effect to the economy. Two successive years of drought led to a 1% incline in real GDP in 1999 and stagnation in 2000. Better rains during the 2000 to 2001 growing season led to a 6.5% growth rate in 2001. Growth in 2006 exceeded 9% thanks to a booming real-estate market.

The strongest point of Moroccan industry is phosphate mining near Khouribga and in Western Sahara. Morocco has approximately two thirds of the world's phosphate reserves. Phosphate mining companies employ only 2% of the population, but phosphate mining is responsible for half of the nation's income.

The national government introduced a series of structural reforms in the first decade of the 21st century. The most promising reforms have been in the liberalization of the telecommunications sector. In 2001, the process continued with the privatization of 35% of the state operator Maroc Telecom. Morocco has announced plans to sell two fixed licenses in 2002. Morocco also has liberalized rules for oil and gas exploration and has granted concessions for many public services in major cities. The tender process in Morocco is becoming increasingly transparent. Many believe, however, that the process of economic reform must be accelerated in order to reduce urban unemployment below the current rates above 20%.

The United States Senate ratified the U.S.-Morocco Free Trade Agreement Implementation Act by a vote of 85 to 13 on July 21, 2004. Morocco has also signed a free trade agreement with the European Union which is to take effect by 2010.

Development
During the last 30 years, Morocco has embarked on a gradual but solid program of human development and political liberalization. Since the 1970s, gross national income per person more than quadrupled from $550 to $2,770. The average life expectancy has increased from 55 years in 1970 to 72.5 in 2007.  During the same period, the average number of births per woman has seen a dramatic decline from 6.3 to 2.3 while the number of children dying before age one has dropped from 115 to 38 (per 100,000 live births). Substantial educational improvements during the past 30 years include a primary school net enrollment increase from 47 to 93.5 percent in 2007/08. Access to safe water is expanding particularly rapidly with quasi-universal access to potable water in urban areas where 83 percent of households are connected to reliable network service and the rest rely on standpipes and vendors.

Further reading
Stewart, Charles F. The Economy of Morocco, 1912-1962. Harvard University Press: 1967.

See also

 Economic history of the Arab world

References


John Sharp (9 November 1820 – 23 December 1891) was a 19th-century leader in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) in Utah Territory. Sharp was the LDS Church's representative in negotiations regarding the construction of the First transcontinental railroad through Utah Territory. He represented the LDS Church and its president, Brigham Young, at the driving of the final golden spike of the railroad on 10 May 1869 at Promontory Summit, Utah Territory.

Sharp was born in Clackmannan, Scotland. He began working in a coal mine at age eight. Sharp converted to Mormonism in 1847 and in 1850 he immigrated to Utah Territory. Sharp was the head of a company of Mormon pioneers, and after arriving in the Salt Lake Valley on 28 August 1850, he settled in Salt Lake City. He became involved in the hauling of rocks in the construction of the Salt Lake Temple. In 1856, Sharp became the first bishop of the Salt Lake Twentieth Ward. When he became a bishop, Sharp was also made a member of the LDS Church's Council of Fifty, and an assistant trustee-in-trust of the church.

Brigham Young appointed Sharp as his personal representative and as a representative of the LDS Church in transcontinental railroad construction negotiations with the Union Pacific Railroad. After the railroad was completed in 1869, Sharp became an officer for the Utah Central Railroad and the Utah Southern Railroad. He also became a director for the Union Pacific Railroad, Zion's Cooperative Mercantile Institution, Deseret Telegraph Company, and Deseret National Bank.

Sharp was also involved in politics and was a city councilor in Salt Lake City and was the territorial chairman of the People's Party, a party backed by the LDS Church to counter the non-Mormon Liberal Party.

Sharp practiced plural marriage; in 1885, he was prosecuted for unlawful cohabitation under the Edmunds Act. Sharp initially pleaded not guilty, but withdrew his plea and pleaded guilty to the charge. He was fined $300 and court costs. As a result of pleading guilty, rather than plead not guilty as other LDS Church leaders had done, Sharp was asked by the stake high council and the First Presidency to resign as bishop of the Salt Lake Twentieth Ward, which he did on 3 November 1885. The New York Times criticized the church's removal of Sharp and suggested that it "reveals again the stubborn character of the Mormons' opposition to the law".

Sharp died in Salt Lake City of intestinal cancer. His son James Sharp was the mayor of Salt Lake City and succeeded in his position as director of Union Pacific Railroad. Sharp is also the great-great-grandfather of writer Anne Fadiman.

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Squalamine is a steroid-polyamine conjugate compound with broad spectrum antimicrobial activity and anti-angiogenic activity. It was studied as a potential cancer drug and as a potential treatment for wet macular degeneration but as of 2018 had not succeeded in Phase III trials for any use.

Pharmacology
Squalamine disrupts microbial membranes; the exact mechanism is not known.

Squalamine appears to have an anti-angiogenic effect in mammalian cells by binding to calmodulin once it is taken up by the cell; this prevents signal transduction downstream of pro-angiogenic factors like VEGF.

Chemistry
Squalamine is a steroid-polyamine conjugate.

It was first isolated from the liver of sharks of the genus Squalus but methods to make it synthetically have been subsequently developed.

Research
Squalamine was studied as a potential drug to treat several forms of cancer and wet macular degeneration by scientists at Magainin Pharmaceuticals (subsequently called Genaera), but the company ran out of money and closed in 2009.   Squalamine and some other drug assets were sold to Ohr Pharmaceutical for $200,000 by Genaera's liquidator.

It was studied in an eye drop formulation as a potential way to treat wet macular degeneration in combination with ranibizumab by Ohr Pharmaceuticals. A Phase II trial failed in 2015, but Ohr said a subpopulation with choroidal neovascularization responded well enough to justify a Phase III trial.  Ohr announced that the Phase III trial had failed in January 2018.

References

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Polyamines
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Secondary alcohols
Secondary amines
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"Locked In" is the nineteenth episode of the fifth season of House. It aired on March 30, 2009. Large portions of the episode are shown from the perspective of the patient, who retains consciousness but lacks the ability to move. After discovering the patient in an emergency room while being treated for injuries related to a motorbike crash, House's team move the patient to Princeton Plainsboro and attempts to diagnose him. During the course of treatment, the team discovers several medically relevant secrets about the patient. Other plot points focus on Wilson's attempts to discover why House was in Middletown, New York when he crashed, Wilson's new relationship, and the resolution of Taub's resignation from the previous episode.

Plot
House is injured in a motorcycle accident in Middletown, New York, and finds himself in bed next to a patient (Mos Def) suffering from locked-in syndrome after a bicycling accident. His attending doctor diagnoses brain death, and suggests transplanting his heart into another patient. House notices the patient following the doctors with his eyes, and is immediately interested in taking up his case. Thirteen suggests a well-placed tumor, so the team does an MRI. House sees a lesion on the scan. However, the patient's attending thinks the patient has an infection and has him on antibiotics. House tells the patient if he has cancer, the antibiotics could kill him. However, they could almost kill him, in which case it would confirm that the patient doesn't have an infection. Just then, the patient seizes. Communicating through blinking, the patient requests transfer to Princeton Plainsboro.

The team plans to do a brain biopsy on the new patient, but he loses his eyelid movement in the operation, and with that, his only way to communicate with the doctors.  Dr. Taub suggests they should use a brain–computer interface for communication with the patient. It takes the patient a while, but he finally manages to shift the arrow up, showing he's still mentally present. Communicating via yes or no (up for yes and down for no) on the computer, the team takes the patient's history.  He claims he did not visit St. Louis, contradicting his wife.  Because he is unable to explain himself, his wife concludes that he has had an affair.  Further investigation reveals that the patient has stayed at a friend's home, in order to maintain the facade of a successful business.  Unbeknownst to his wife, he was moonlighting as a janitor, where he was exposed to cadmium, leading the team to believe that he has heavy metal poisoning.

Thirteen notices that he has a tear in the epithelial cells in his eye, and a fluorescein stain reveals ulcerative keratitis. Cameron suggests the team does a lumbar puncture, noting that polys (polymorphonuclear leukocytes) would mean it's varicella, and lymphs, Behçet's. During the lumbar puncture however, the patient crashes. They bring him back, but his foot starts to itch, which he manages to communicate to the team after several questions. This indicates liver failure. Thirteen suggests that the dying liver released toxins which led to locked-in syndrome. Foreman suggests that the liver, kidney and eye point towards sclerosing cholangitis. House orders a biopsy to confirm.

As the team gets ready to perform the biopsy, Kutner notices a rash on Thirteen's wrist, where some of the patient's urine had spilled. He deduces that it is a rash due to leptospirosis, which was transferred from rats, living in the basement where the patient had stayed. Sure enough, the patient has a paper cut on his index finger. The treatment is started, and Kutner manages to get the patient to lift a finger. The patient gradually regains control of his body, and thanks House, who has gone to the patient's room to retrieve a recorder which he's been using to listen in on his team from under the patient's pillow.

Meanwhile, Wilson gets curious as to why House was in Middletown. At the end of the episode, Wilson finds out that House was there to see a psychiatrist, and confronts him on the issue. House reluctantly acknowledges Wilson's accusation, but says he is not going to continue any further sessions. The episode ends with Wilson predicting House will end up alone, and showing that House's vision blurs in a similar fashion to the "locked-in" patient as he looks towards Wilson.

Foreman also tells the patient that he bought his first girlfriend a silver necklace and she never wore it, so he never bought his girlfriends jewelry again, until he met Thirteen. He bought her a bracelet, but again, she doesn't appear to be wearing it. Later during the liver biopsy, Kutner asks Thirteen why she's not wearing her bracelet. Foreman says he didn't realize she was wearing it at all, and Thirteen questions why Kutner noticed but not Foreman. Kutner then notices Thirteen's rash, which he attributes to the patient's urine which could have entered through a scratch from the bracelet.

Medical aspects

Sequence of the diagnoses:
Herpes, varicella, or CMV infection
Stroke, cancer, or infection
Tumor with paraneoplastic syndrome
Marchiafava–Bignami disease
Epstein-Barr virus, malaria, picornavirus or rotavirus
Neurosyphilis
Heavy metal poisoning
Varicella or Behçet's disease
Sclerosing cholangitis
Leptospirosis

Sequence of symptoms and possible causes:
Locked-In Syndrome
Seizure in response to antiviral medication
Alcohol use
Loss of ability to blink after a brain biopsy
Cadmium dust found in a work area
Ulcerative keratitis
Cardiac arrest
Itchy foot
Liver failure
Rash developed as a result of exposure to the patient's urine
Proximity to rats infected with Leptospirosis

Sequence of tests and treatments:
Antivirals administered at the ER where the patient was found
MRI
Brain biopsy
Chelation therapy
Fluorescein dye
Antibiotics

The final diagnosis was Leptospirosis, caught due to proximity to infected rats in the patient's work environment. Leptospirosis shut down the immune system during its incubation period of 2 to 4 weeks, which left his body defenseless temporarily.

Treatment for the final diagnosis was antibiotics and malaria inhibitors.

Reception
AV Club's Zach Handlen gives this episode a B+. Large portions of the episode are shown from the locked in patient's perspective, and Handlen states, "Basically, what we have here is a typical ep, delivered in an atypical fashion."

References

External links

House (season 5) episodes
2009 American television episodes
Television episodes directed by Dan Attias


WMXI (98.1 FM, "News Radio 98.1") is a news/talk formatted radio station licensed to Ellisville, Mississippi, serving the Laurel-Hattiesburg Arbitron market.

History
WMXI started as an alternative rock formatted radio station as "98X". Sometime down the road, the station changed format and name to a Top 40 formatted radio station as "98.1 Hot FM" before its current talk format.

External links

MXI
News and talk radio stations in the United States
Radio stations established in 1997


The New Zealand Law Reports (NZLR) are the official law report series of the superior courts of New Zealand comprising the Supreme Court of New Zealand, Court of Appeal of New Zealand and High Court of New Zealand.

Content

All Supreme Court decisions are reported with the argument of counsel. The reports do not focus on any specialist area of New Zealand law, unlike other specialist reports such as the New Zealand Administrative Reports (NZAR) and the New Zealand Family Law Reports (NZFLR).

Publication

The New Zealand Council of Law Reporting (NZCLR) is an incorporated body charged with overseeing the publication of the NZLR. The NZLR is currently published for the Council by LexisNexis New Zealand Ltd.

The reports started in 1881 but complete sets have been deemed to start at 1861 and include a number of prior series. The reports are published both in print and online, being released in 18 parts over the year. These parts then make up 3 bound volumes of over 860 pages annually.

Charles Hutchinson QC (1906–1997) was the editor from 1971 to 1979.

References

New Zealand case law
Case law reporters


Hans van der Zee (born 15 January 1956 in Amsterdam) is a Dutch soccer manager and scout.
He was a manager of two clubs in the Netherlands on the highest level.
From 1996 until 1997 he was manager of FC Volendam. From 1997 until 1999 he was manager of Sparta Rotterdam.

Van der Zee started as a football player played in the Ajax youth academy for eight years, from 1966 until 1974. His player career came to end because of injuries.

From 1999 until 2001 Van der Zee was director of football at AZ Alkmaar. Then Van der Zee became an international scout for PSV Eindhoven from 2001 until 2007.
In that time he worked close and successfully together with Guus Hiddink, manager of PSV at that time. In the time they worked together, PSV Eindhoven signed South-American top players like Alex, Gomes and Jefferson Farfán. In the six years Van der Zee worked as an international scout for PSV Eindhoven the club won the Dutch title four times: 2003, 2005, 2006 and 2007.

In 2006 Van der Zee joined Hiddink and worked for the Australia national football team during World Cup in Germany. Van der Zee made team reports on the opponents of Australia.

In July 2007, he became the international scout for Ajax.

February 2009 Van der Zee was mentioned in English newspapers as the new chief scout of Chelsea.

On 30 December 2009 the Dutch football magazine Voetbal International reports that PSV-manager Fred Rutten has asked Van der Zee to return to PSV as a scout. According to the article Ajax did not want to let their international scout leave the club.
Since 2010 Van der Zee is the chief scout of Ajax. In 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014 Ajax won the Dutch league with Van der Zee as the chief scout.

In the summer of 2016 Ajax signed Davinson Sanchez from Atletico Nacional. Ajax paid 5 million euros for the Colombian centre half.
After one year Davinson Sanchez went to Tottenham Hotspur and paid 40 million euros as a transfer fee.
In February 2017 De Telegraaf, the biggest Dutch daily newspaper, revealed that Hans van der Zee was the discovererer of David Neres. The biggest South American signing in Ajax history. 12 million euros Ajax paid for the winger of São Paulo.
In February 2020 Ajax signed Antony from FC São Paulo. Transfer fee 20 million euros. Hans van der Zee found him.

References

1956 births
Living people
Dutch football managers
Footballers from Amsterdam
AFC Ajax non-playing staff
FC Volendam managers
Sparta Rotterdam managers
Kozakken Boys managers
Men's association football players not categorized by position
Association football players not categorized by nationality


Mark H. Dunkelman (born October 29, 1947) is a historian, artist, and musician. Dunkelman lives in Providence, Rhode Island.

Painting

Dunkelman was born on October 29, 1947, in Buffalo, New York. As a child, he was inspired by stories from his great-grandfather, Corporal John Langhans, a veteran of the 154th New York Volunteer Infantry. Dunkelman received a BFA in 1969 from the Rhode Island School of Design. In 1976, he was commissioned to paint a historical mural for the town hall in Narragansett, Rhode Island. From 1977 to 1979, he completed a series of 100 American Civil War paintings. Dunkelman designed an 80-foot-long mural at Coster Avenue in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. He painted the mural, which was installed in 1988, with Rhode Island artist Johan Bjurman.

Civil War research

Dunkelman's American Civil War research focuses on the 154th New York Volunteer Infantry, known as the "Hardtack Regiment". He has contacted over 1,200 descendants of members of the 154th, locating and copying over 1,700 wartime letters, 250 portraits, 25 diaries, dozens of relics, and several other memoirs and accounts. In 2015, a collection of Dunkelman and fellow historian Michael J Winey's research was unveiled at St. Bonaventure University in Allegany, New York.

Since 1986, Dunkelman has organized annual reunions in Cattaraugus and Chautauqua Counties for the descendants of members of the regiment. During the tenth annual reunion, held in 1996, attendees raised funds to erect a monument to their ancestors at Chancellorsville, Virginia.

Other

Dunkelman is also a musician who plays pedal steel guitar and dobro.

Books by Mark H. Dunkelman

 The Hardtack Regiment: An Illustrated History of the 154th Regiment, New York State Infantry Volunteers  (East Brunswick, N.J.: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1981). Michael J. Winey, coauthor.
For Generations of Miracles: A History of Providence Lying-In and Women and Infants Hospital of Rhode Island (East Greenwich, R.I.: Meridian Printing, 1996).
 Gettysburg's Unknown Soldier: The Life, Death, and Celebrity of Amos Humiston  (Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 1999).
 Brothers One and All: Esprit de Corps in a Civil War Regiment (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2004).
 War’s Relentless Hand: Twelve Tales of Civil War Soldiers (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2006).
 Marching with Sherman: Through Georgia and the Carolinas with the 154th New York (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2012).
 Patrick Henry Jones: Irish American, Civil War General, and Gilded Age Politician (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2015).

References

21st-century American historians
American male non-fiction writers
1947 births
Living people
21st-century American male writers


Taylor Griffin (born April 18, 1986) is an American former professional basketball player. He played college basketball at the University of Oklahoma and is the older brother of Blake Griffin.

Early years
Taylor Griffin was born on April 18, 1986, in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, to Tommy Griffin, who is of Haitian descent, and to Gail Griffin, who is white. His father was a basketball center and track standout at NAIA Northwestern Oklahoma State University. Griffin and his younger brother, Blake Griffin, were home-schooled by their mother from first grade until Taylor was in the tenth grade and Blake was in eighth.

Blake and Taylor Griffin played at Oklahoma Christian School under their father, who was the head coach. The brothers played together during the 2003–04 and 2004–05 high school seasons, winning two Oklahoma 2A state high school basketball championships.

Considered a three-star recruit by Rivals.com, Griffin was listed as the No. 34 power forward and the No. 141 player in the nation in 2005.

College career
With his brother Blake, Taylor Griffin helped lead Oklahoma to the Elite Eight of the 2009 NCAA men's basketball tournament. As a senior, he averaged 9.6 points, 5.8 rebounds, and 1.3 steals a game with 53.6% field goal shooting, and 35.7% three-point field goal shooting.

Professional career

Phoenix Suns (2009–2010)
Griffin was selected by the Phoenix Suns with the 48th overall pick of the 2009 NBA draft. His younger brother Blake was taken as the 1st pick by the Los Angeles Clippers. He joined the Suns for the 2009 NBA Summer League. On August 17, 2009, he signed his first professional contract with the Suns. Griffin was assigned multiple times to the Iowa Energy during his rookie season.

Griffin re-joined the Suns for the 2010 NBA Summer League. On July 26, 2010, he was waived by the Suns.

Belgacom Liège Basket (2010–2011)
In August 2010, Griffin signed with Belgacom Liège Basket of Belgium.

Dakota Wizards (2012)
On December 10, 2011, Griffin signed with the Charlotte Bobcats. However, he was waived by the Bobcats on December 23. On January 9, 2012, he was acquired by the Dakota Wizards.

Santa Cruz Warriors (2012–2015)
In November 2012, Griffin was acquired by the Santa Cruz Warriors. In November 2013, he was reacquired by the Warriors. On January 3, 2014, he was waived by the Warriors due to a season-ending injury. On November 3, 2014, he was again reacquired by the Warriors. On April 26, 2015, he won the D-League championship with the Warriors.
He was selected to play on the NBA D-League Select team during the 2015 NBA Summer League in Las Vegas, NV.

Pallacanestro Trapani (2015–2016)
On August 13, 2015, Griffin signed with Pallacanestro Trapani of the Italian Serie A2.

Career statistics

NBA

Regular season

|-
| align="left" |
| align="left" | Phoenix
| 8 || 0 || 4.0 || .400 || .000 || .500 || .3 || .1 || .0 || .3 || 1.3
|- class="sortbottom"
| style="text-align:center;" colspan="2"| Career
| 8 || 0 || 4.0 || .400 || .000 || .500 || .3 || .1 || .0 || .3 || 1.3

NBA D-League

Regular season

|-
| align="left" | 2009–10
| align="left" | Iowa
| 12 || 11 || 28.9 || .435 || .235 || .705 || 6.2 || 2.2 || 1.3 || .4 || 9.6
|-
| align="left" | 2011–12
| align="left" | Dakota
| 30 || 5 || 18.3 || .382 || .327 || .623 || 4.5 || .8 || .8 || .3 || 6.2
|-
| align="left" | 2012–13
| align="left" | Santa Cruz
| 48 || 44 || 25.6 || .426 || .347 || .669 || 6.5 || 1.9 || 1.2 || .5 || 10.7
|-
| align="left" | 2014–15
| align="left" | Santa Cruz
| 46 || 21 || 23.7|| .444 || .370 || .819|| 5.7 || 1.6 || .7 || .5 || 9.7
|- class="sortbottom"
| style="text-align:center;" colspan="2"| Career
| 136 || 81 || 23.6 || .426 || .346 || .701 || 5.7 || 1.6 || 1.0 || .5 || 9.3

Playoffs

|-
| align="left" | 2010
| align="left" | Iowa
| 3 || 2 || 29.0 || .318 || .000 || .357 || 9.3 || 1.0 || 1.0 || .3 || 6.3
|-
| align="left" | 2012
| align="left" | Dakota
| 2 || 0 || 11.5 || .333 || .000 || .750 || 2.5 || 1.0 || .0 || .0 || 2.5
|-
| align="left" | 2013
| align="left" | Santa Cruz
| 6 || 6 || 21.0 || .414 || .400 || .833 || 5.3 || 1.2 || 1.2 || .2 || 6.0
|- class="sortbottom"
| style="text-align:center;" colspan="2"| Career
| 11 || 8 || 21.4 || .370 || .286 || .600 || 5.9 || 1.1 || .9 || .2 || 6.0

References

External links

NBADraft.net Profile
NBA D-League Profile

1986 births
Living people
American expatriate basketball people in Belgium
American expatriate basketball people in Italy
American men's basketball players
American sportspeople of Haitian descent
Dakota Wizards players
Iowa Energy players
Liège Basket players
Oklahoma Sooners men's basketball players
Pallacanestro Trapani players
Phoenix Suns draft picks
Phoenix Suns players
Power forwards (basketball)
Santa Cruz Warriors players
Small forwards
Basketball players from Oklahoma City


Eremosuchus is an extinct genus of sebecosuchian mesoeucrocodylian. Fossils have been found from El Kohol, Algeria of Eocene age. It had serrated, ziphodont teeth.

The genus was originally referred to the family Trematochampsidae in 1989. A close relation to the baurusuchids was also considered. However, it was only tentatively assigned to this family on the basis of a few features of the cranial skeleton. Some features, such as a broad concave symphysis and laterally compressed teeth, are not restricted to the trematochampsids and occur in some sebecosuchians such as Baurusuchus and Sebecus. Other features such as the surangular forming part of the craniomandibular articulation can also be found in many basal mesoeucrocodylians. A later phylogenetic analysis placed Eremosuchus within the suborder Sebecosuchia. It is now thought to be one of many putatively assigned sebecosuchians that cannot be firmly placed within any one family. It is thought to be the closest relative of the genus Pehuenchesuchus.

References

Eocene crocodylomorphs
Paleogene reptiles of Africa
Prehistoric pseudosuchian genera


Necromancer is a science fiction novel  by American writer Gordon R. Dickson, published in 1962. It was alternatively titled No Room for Man between 1963 and 1974 before reverting to its original title. It is the prequel to Dickson's earlier novel Dorsai!.

Plot
Necromancer follows the fortunes of Paul Formain, a mining engineer in the late 21st century who endures several accidents. His quest for self-discovery, and recovery from losing his arm, leads him to embrace the Chantry Guild. The Guild embraces a philosophy of destruction with the hope of making space for the rise of a new evolutionary form of humanity. The instruments in their goals are the Alternate Laws or Alternate Forces.

Formain is led to the Chantry Guild after encountering Destruct, a book written by Walter Blunt, the Guild's leader. Formain enlists under the mastery of Necromancer Jason Warren and the ethereal influence of musical vocalist Kantele Maki. His initial goal in joining the guild is the regeneration of his lost arm.

The story is punctuated by Formain's epiphany moments. First, he realizes the inadequacy of psychology in his self-exploration. He slowly realizes his own savant power over the Alternative Forces. He is taken aback by his growing hyper-awareness of the world around him, specifically the inter-related isolation of all individuals. This isolation is dramatically symbolized by Formain's own singularity. He has a final epiphany near the end of the book that clarifies for him his own identity and potential ... and much more.

The book is divided into three sub-books: Isolate, Set, and Pattern. In each book, Formain realizes the function of each mathematical collective in the flow of objective history and subjective reality. As with many science fiction novels, the philosophical underpinnings of evolution require a decidedly unscientific leap in the reader's understanding of what constitutes science to rally the punctuation that brings about the next stage of human evolution.

Major characters
Paul Formain
Walter Blunt
Jason Warren
Kantele Maki

Themes
The title Necromancer is applicable to the contents of the book in two ways. The general, popular conception, a worker of magic, superficially describes the workings of the Chantry Guild. The more technical definition, the occupation of telling the future by communicating with the dead, is applied in the identity and history of Paul Formain, once again, revealed in the climax of the book.

Evolutionary transition is only one of several themes of classic Science Fiction found in Necromancer. It is the link between this novel and the rest of Dickson's Childe Cycle. Also represented, though, are themes of time-travel, immortality and parapsychology.

Place in Dickson's Childe Cycle
Though Dorsai! (as The Genetic General) was actually written first, Necromancer is chronologically the first story in Dickson's Childe Cycle of novels. Dickson's own chronology in the essay "See a Thousand Years" places the events at the last decade of the 21st century. However, Sandra Miesel identifies Paul Formain as another incarnation of characters found later in the Childe Cycle: Hal Mayne and Donal Graeme. So Formain's chronological place is somewhat fluid. His "life" extends the length of the cycle.

References

External links

Dickson, Gordon R. "See a Thousand Years." in The Dorsai Companion. New York: Ace Science Fiction Books, 1986. .
Miesel, Sandra. "The Plume and the Sword." New York: Ace Science Fiction Books, 1981. .

1962 American novels
Doubleday (publisher) books
Novels by Gordon R. Dickson
1962 science fiction novels
American science fiction novels
Fiction about mining


Paul Atkinson may refer to:

Paul Atkinson (basketball) (born 1999), American basketball player
Paul Atkinson (confessor) (1655–1729), English Roman Catholic priest
Paul Atkinson (footballer, born 1961), English football player who played for Oldham, Watford and Burnley
Paul Atkinson (footballer, born 1966), English football player who played for Sunderland and Port Vale
Paul Atkinson (guitarist) (1946–2004), pop guitarist in The Zombies


Isabella Belfer is a sixty-nine-year-old Russian-born Israeli woman convicted of kidnapping in Israel and was the oldest person incarcerated in Israel, until she was granted a pardon in 2010. Her case was made famous through RT, an English language Russian news service, while the Israeli media paid little attention to the case.

Capture
Belfer returned to Israel in 2006 to assist her ailing mother. Rottem located her and pressed kidnapping charges. Belfer was arrested and put on trial for kidnapping.

Trial
Before her trial, Belfer suffered a mild heart attack and had to undergo surgery. Belfer's defense claimed that she was too old to survive prison conditions and would die even if sentenced to one day. She herself expressed worry about going to prison. She had stated that she wondered how long she could survive in prison. Despite claims that she was too old, she was found guilty of kidnapping on January 27, 2008 and sentenced to six years in prison by Judge Oded Mudric, who in the sentencing, stated that Belfer was guilty of "causing fatal [emotional] injuries by not allowing [Yaron Rottem] to be a parent". Michael Yarnin, her lawyer, attempted to overturn the sentence by appealing to the Supreme Court of Israel, but this proved unsuccessful. Her lawyer began trying to obtain a pardon from Israeli president Shimon Peres. After serving her first six months, an Israeli court reduced Belfer's term to three years in prison. After the trial concluded, Belfer was deeply distressed and stated that she felt weak both morally and physically.

References

http://alefmagazine.com/pub2000.html

Living people
Israeli prisoners and detainees
Russian emigrants to Israel
Year of birth missing (living people)
Russian people of Israeli descent
Israeli people of Russian-Jewish descent