The Clifford Ball is a seven-DVD box set released on March 3, 2009 by the rock band Phish. It was performed on August 16 and August 17, 1996 at Plattsburgh Air Force Base in Plattsburgh, NY, chronicling the first of ten Phish festivals. The collection received a nomination for the Grammy Award for Best Boxed or Special Limited Edition Package in 2009.

Additional footage in this set includes documentaries, the soundcheck from August 15, and footage of the early morning performance of "The Flatbed Jam".

Phish issued the entirety of The Clifford Ball on a 12 LP box set on March 4, 2022. The Flatbad Jam was also made available on a separate LP. The same day as the box set's release, the official audio recordings of the festival were also made available for digital purchase and streaming on the band's LivePhish website.

The event was named after aviator Clifford Ball. The band reportedly learned of Ball from a plaque in a Pittsburgh airport which described him as a "Beacon of light in the world of flight". Phish had previously used the name "The Clifford Ball" as the recording location of the tracks that appeared on their 1995 live album A Live One, as they were unable to secure the recording rights from every venue on the album at the time of its release.

Track listing

Disc one (August 16, 1996 – Set one)
 "Chalk Dust Torture" (Anastasio, Marshall) – 7:05
 "Bathtub Gin" (Anastasio, Goodman) – 10:30
 "Ya Mar" (Ferguson) – 8:51
 "AC/DC Bag" (Anastasio) – 9:11
 "Esther" (Anastasio) – 9:07
 "The Divided Sky" (Anastasio) – 16:35
 "Halley's Comet" (Wright) – 7:01
 "David Bowie" (Anastasio) – 14:52

Disc two (August 16, 1996 – Set two)
 "Split Open and Melt" (Anastasio) – 13:46
 "Sparkle" (Anastasio, Marshall) – 3:48
 "Free" (Anastasio, Marshall) – 8:48
 "The Squirming Coil" (Anastasio, Marshall) – 10:30
 "Waste" (Anastasio, Marshall) – 4:59
 "Talk" (Anastasio, Marshall) – 3:41
 "Train Song" (Gordon, Linitz) – 3:14
 "Strange Design" (Anastasio, Marshall) – 3:47
 "Hello My Baby" (Emerson, Howard, Singer) – 1:48
 "Mike's Song" (Gordon) – 16:00
 "Simple" (Gordon) – 6:03
 "Contact" (Gordon) – 6:09
 "Weekapaug Groove" (Anastasio, Fishman, Gordon, McConnell) – 10:02

Disc three (August 16, 1996 – Set three)
 "Makisupa Policeman" (Anastasio, Marshall) – 8:17
 "2001" (Deodato) – 6:13
 "Down with Disease" (Anastasio, Marshall) – 15:34
 "NICU" (Anastasio, Marshall) – 5:17
 "Life on Mars?" (Bowie) – 3:23
 "Harry Hood" (Anastasio, Fishman, Gordon, Long, McConnell) – 19:58
 "Amazing Grace" (Traditional) – 2:34

Disc four (August 17, 1996 – Set one)
 "The Old Home Place" (Jayne, Webb) – 3:37
 "Punch You in the Eye" (Anastasio) – 8:11
 "Reba" (Anastasio) – 16:19
 "Cars Trucks Buses" (McConnell) – 3:41
 "The Lizards" (Anastasio) – 10:35
 "Sample in a Jar" (Anastasio, Marshall) – 4:59
 "Taste" (Anastasio, Fishman, Gordon, Marshall, McConnell) – 7:02
 "Fee" (Anastasio) – 5:52
 "Maze" (Anastasio, Marshall) – 12:50
 "Suzy Greenberg" (Pollak) – 7:06

Disc five (August 17, 1996 – Set two)
 "The Curtain" (Anastasio, Daubert) – 7:39
 "Runaway Jim" (Abrahams, Anastasio) – 12:26
 "It's Ice" (Anastasio, Marshall) – 9:03
 "Brother" (Anastasio, Fishman, Gordon, McConnell) – 6:19
 "Fluffhead" (Anastasio, Pollak) – 14:42
 "Run Like an Antelope" (Anastasio, Pollak) – 10:09
 "Golgi Apparatus" (Anastasio, Marshall, Szuter, Woolf) – 4:44
 "Slave to the Traffic Light" (Abrahams, Anastasio, Pollak) – 13:03

Disc six (August 17, 1996 – Set three)
 "Wilson" – (Anastasio, Marshall, Woolf) – 6:14
 "Frankenstein" (Winter) – 4:49
 "Scent of a Mule" (Gordon) – 15:22
 "Tweezer" (Anastasio, Fishman, Gordon, McConnell) – 11:56
 "A Day in the Life" (Lennon, McCartney) – 5:35
 "Possum" (Holdsworth) – 13:23
 "Tweezer Reprise" (Anastasio, Fishman, Gordon, McConnell) – 4:46
 "Harpua" (Anastasio, Fishman) – 8:53

Disc seven
 "The Clifford Ball: A Beacon of Light"
 "The Flatbed Jam" (Anastasio, Fishman, Gordon, McConnell) – 39:22
 "Soundcheck" (Anastasio, Fishman, Gordon, McConnell) – 52:56
 "An Interview with Jim Pollock"
 "Chris Kuroda Split-Screen"
 "Phish: On Jamming"
 "Phish: The LG"

Album release

The Clifford Ball was later released in album form on LP and streaming on March 4, 2022.

Track listing

August 16, 1996 – Set one:

Side A

 "Chalk Dust Torture" (Anastasio, Marshall) – 7:05
 "Bathtub Gin" (Anastasio, Goodman) – 10:30

Side B

 "Ya Mar" (Ferguson) – 8:51
 "AC/DC Bag" (Anastasio) – 9:11

Side C

 "Esther" (Anastasio) – 9:07
 "The Divided Sky" (Anastasio) – 16:35

Side D

 "Halley's Comet" (Wright) – 7:01
 "David Bowie" (Anastasio) – 14:52

August 16, 1996 – Set two:

Side E

 "Split Open and Melt" (Anastasio) – 13:46

Side F

 "Sparkle" (Anastasio, Marshall) – 3:48
 "Free" (Anastasio, Marshall) – 8:48
 "The Squirming Coil" (Anastasio, Marshall) – 10:30

Side G

 "Waste" (Anastasio, Marshall) – 4:59
 "Talk" (Anastasio, Marshall) – 3:41
 "Train Song" (Gordon, Linitz) – 3:14
 "Strange Design" (Anastasio, Marshall) – 3:47
 "Hello My Baby" (Emerson, Howard, Singer) – 1:48

Side H

 "Mike's Song" (Gordon) – 16:00
 "Simple" (Gordon) – 6:03

Side I

 "Contact" (Gordon) – 6:09
 "Weekapaug Groove" (Anastasio, Fishman, Gordon, McConnell) – 10:02

August 16, 1996 – Set three:

Side J

 "Makisupa Policeman" (Anastasio, Marshall) – 8:17
 "2001" (Deodato) – 6:13

Side K

 "Down with Disease" (Anastasio, Marshall) – 15:34
 "NICU" (Anastasio, Marshall) – 5:17

Side L

 "Life on Mars?" (Bowie) – 3:23
 "Harry Hood" (Anastasio, Fishman, Gordon, Long, McConnell) – 19:58
 "Amazing Grace" (Traditional) – 2:34

August 17, 1996 – Set one:

Side M

 "The Old Home Place" (Jayne, Webb) – 3:37
 "Punch You in the Eye" (Anastasio) – 8:11

Side N

 "Reba" (Anastasio) – 16:19
 "Cars Trucks Buses" (McConnell) – 3:41

Side O

 "The Lizards" (Anastasio) – 10:35
 "Sample in a Jar" (Anastasio, Marshall) – 4:59
 "Taste" (Anastasio, Fishman, Gordon, Marshall, McConnell) – 7:02

Side P

 "Fee" (Anastasio) – 5:52
 "Maze" (Anastasio, Marshall) – 12:50
 "Suzy Greenberg" (Pollak) – 7:06

August 17, 1996 – Set two:

Side Q

 "The Curtain" (Anastasio, Daubert) – 7:39
 "Runaway Jim" (Abrahams, Anastasio) – 12:26

Side R

 "It's Ice" (Anastasio, Marshall) – 9:03
 "Brother" (Anastasio, Fishman, Gordon, McConnell) – 6:19

Side S

 "Fluffhead" (Anastasio, Pollak) – 14:42
 "Run Like an Antelope" (Anastasio, Pollak) – 10:09

Side T

 "Golgi Apparatus" (Anastasio, Marshall, Szuter, Woolf) – 4:44
 "Slave to the Traffic Light" (Abrahams, Anastasio, Pollak) – 13:03

August 17, 1996 – Set three:

Side U

 "Wilson" – (Anastasio, Marshall, Woolf) – 6:14
 "Frankenstein" (Winter) – 4:49

Side V

 "Scent of a Mule" (Gordon) – 15:22

Side W

 "Tweezer" (Anastasio, Fishman, Gordon, McConnell) – 11:56
 "A Day in the Life" (Lennon, McCartney) – 5:35

Side X

 "Possum" (Holdsworth) – 13:23
 "Tweezer Reprise" (Anastasio, Fishman, Gordon, McConnell) – 4:46
 "Harpua" (Anastasio, Fishman) – 8:53

Personnel
Phish
 Trey Anastasio – guitars, lead vocals, acapella vocals on "Hello My Baby" and "Amazing Grace", narration on "Harpua"
 Page McConnell – keyboards, backing vocals, lead vocals on "Strange Design", "Life on Mars?", "It's Ice" and "A Day in the Life", acapella vocals on "Hello My Baby" and "Amazing Grace"
 Mike Gordon – bass, backing vocals, lead vocals on "Ya Mar", "Train Song", "Mike's Song", "Contact", "The Old Home Place" and "Scent of a Mule", acapella vocals on "Hello My Baby" and "Amazing Grace"
 Jon Fishman – drums, backing vocals, acapella vocals on "Hello My Baby" and "Amazing Grace"

Special guests
Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield of Ben & Jerry's – vocals on "Brother"

Video Director
Martin Pitts

References

Phish video albums
2009 compilation albums
2009 live albums
Live video albums
Phish live albums


Embedded Supercomputing (EmbSup) a relatively new solution which targets fine grain and coarse grain parallelism altogether. This combination thought to be a best way for exploiting fine and coarse grain parallelism by targeting fine grain parallelism towards FPGAs and coarse grained parallelism towards super computers or clusters.

Basically Embedded Supercomputing is a hybrid network of CPU and FPGA hardware, where FPGA acts as external co-processor to CPU. However, this programming model is still evolving and has many challenges.

Programming Model for EmbSup

References

Supercomputing


Akwasi Fobi-Edusei (born 12 September 1986), sometimes listed as Akwasi Fobe-Edusei or simply Akwasi Edusei, is an English former professional footballer.

Playing career
Born in Camberwell, London, he began his career with Gillingham, where he made 9 appearances in The Football League. He has also played on loan for Welling United and Farnborough. In 2013, he was released by Burgess Hill Town and was signed by Hastings United on a free transfer. On 28 November he joined Horsham but failed to start a match, making 13 substitute appearances, before joining Crawley Down Gatwick in March 2014.

References

1986 births
Living people
Footballers from Camberwell
English men's footballers
Men's association football defenders
Gillingham F.C. players
Welling United F.C. players
Walton & Hersham F.C. players
Ramsgate F.C. players
East Thurrock United F.C. players
Tonbridge Angels F.C. players
Farnborough F.C. players
Halesowen Town F.C. players
Margate F.C. players
Burgess Hill Town F.C. players
Hastings United F.C. players
Horsham F.C. players
Crawley Down Gatwick F.C. players
English Football League players
Isthmian League players
Black British sportsmen


Thorapalli or Thorapalli Agraharam is a village in Hosur taluk, Krishnagiri district, Tamil Nadu. It is located on the banks of the Ponnaiyar river about 6 km south-east of Hosur close to the Hosur-Krishnagiri road (National Highway 44), about 50 kilometres from Bangalore. It is the birthplace of C. Rajagopalachari, the last Governor-General of India and second chief minister of Madras State (now Tamil Nadu).

Demographics

2011
The 2011 Census of India reported that Thorapalli had a population of 9,849 people. The sex ratio was 90.13, with 4,669 males and 5,180 females. The literacy rate was 62.43, with 6,149 literates (3,014 male and 3,135 female) and 3,700 illiterates (1,655 male and 2,045 female).

2001
The 2001 Census of India reported that Thorapalli had a population of 2947, with 1365 males and 1350 females. The sex ratio was 989 and the literacy rate was 53.01.

References

Villages in Krishnagiri district


Triangle Park is a former American football stadium located in Dayton, Ohio.  The stadium was home to the Dayton Triangles of the National Football League from 1920 to 1929.  It held a capacity of 5,000 spectators.  It was located at the confluence of the Great Miami River and Stillwater River.  On October 3, 1920, it hosted the first NFL game against the Columbus Panhandles.

Currently, Triangle Park is a park in the city of Dayton, known formally as Triangle Park Pavilion, located on 1700 Embury Park Rd., near Island Metro Park in North Dayton. Its features include both a baseball/softball diamond and a soccer field and it can be booked for special events.

In 2019, in honor of the NFL's centennial season, the league announced that it would fund the construction of a new artificial turf field at Triangle Park, and make donations to local youth football programs. Additionally, the Cincinnati Bengals planned to host a practice on the newly constructed field in late July or early August 2019. In response to the announcement by the NFL to build the new turf field, a Native American filed to halt and cease the project, to protect a supposed American Indian burial site located at Triangle Park.

Ohio's state historic preservation office stated that the burial sites are a "considerable distance" from the proposed site of the field. Despite this, the city of Dayton announced that they would postpone breaking ground on the new field until officials could be certain that the construction would not disturb anything of historical value. On May 15, 2019, the city of Dayton officially scrapped the field, after a survey discovered a "unique and sizable anomaly" in the area that was "potentially prehistoric". The training camp practice was held at Welcome Stadium instead. In July 2019, the NFL announced that it would construct the field at Dayton's Kettering Field park.

Notes and references

American football venues in Ohio
Defunct American football venues in the United States
Defunct sports venues in Ohio
Defunct National Football League venues
Ohio League venues
Sports venues in Dayton, Ohio


Le Journal de Mickey is a French weekly comics magazine established in 1934, featuring Disney comics from France and around the world. The magazine is currently published by Unique Heritage Media. It is centered on the adventures of Mickey Mouse and other Disney characters but  also contains other comics. It is credited with "the birth of the modern bande dessinée". It is now the most popular French weekly magazine for children between 8 and 13 years old.

Origins
Paul Winkler, owner of the Opera Mundi syndicate, distributed comic strips from King Features Syndicate in France since 1928, including the American Mickey Mouse comic strip which was published in Le Petit Parisien as Les Aventures de Mickey since October 7, 1930. In 1931, Opera Mundi began a collaboration with publisher Librarie Hachette, who published books of French bandes dessinées (comic strips). Working with Opera Mundi, Hachette published reprint collections of the Mickey Mouse comic, with prose captions instead of speech balloons, as was customary in French BD. Their two Mickey Mouse books published in 1931 were a great success, selling more than 500,000 copies.

In 1933, Winkler got the idea to create a children's newspaper. At the time, the only children's publications on the market were des Illustrés, magazines for young children with big print. Winkler was convinced that there was a youth market that wanted "a cheerful and entertaining newspaper" (un journal gai et distrayant). Winkler later said:

Winkler proposed the creation of a Mickey Mouse newspaper to various periodical publishers, who all turned him down. Finally, Robert Meunier du Houssoy of Librarie Hachette agreed to publish the paper, as long as Winkler would become the editor-in-chief. Le Journal de Mickey would be the second weekly Mickey Mouse magazine produced in the world; the first, Italy's Topolino, preceded it by two years.

Launch
Le Journal de Mickey was first published on October 21, 1934. When it began, the front page of the paper was a Sunday strip of the American Mickey Mouse strip by Floyd Gottfredson, complete with its usual topper strip, Silly Symphony. In the first issue, the series launched with the March 11, 1934 Sunday page, which began the "Mickey contre l'Ogre Grognedur" ("Rumplewatt the Giant") story in Mickey Mouse, and "La Famille Vole-Au-Vent" ("Birds of a Feather") in Symphonie Folâtre (Silly Symphony). In the original Silly Symphony comic strip, the dialogue was written in rhyming couplets; Winkler considered this too childish, so the French translation was written in prose.

Initially, the magazine had eight pages, with four in color. Besides the Disney strips, the other three color pages were taken by: Pére Lacloche (Pete the Tramp) topped with Toffou (Pete's Pup), both by Clarence D. Russell; Jacques Beaunez, Policier (Needlenose Noonan) topped with Tout est bien qui finit bien (Discontinued Stories), both by Walter Hoban; and Les Malheurs d'Annie (Little Annie Rooney) topped with Si rip le dormeour revenait (Fablettes) by Brandon Walsh and Darrell McClure. The black-and-white pages featured two more half-page comics: Jim-la-Jungle (Jungle Jim) by Alex Raymond, and Qu'en Dites-Vous?, a collection of strange facts similar to the Ripley's Believe It or Not! feature.

The first issue also contained two serialized novels -- "Le Secret du Templier" ("The Templar's Secret") by Clade DaViére, and "La Main Qui Frappe" ("The Striking Hand") by Karl May—as well as a crafts column ("Le Petit Bricoleur"), collections of jokes and puns, puzzles, and a brief interview with Mickey Mouse. An international column, "Dans le Monde Entier" ("In the Whole World"), reported on new technologies around the globe, with much interest in planes, trains and cars.

The paper was an immediate success, with the first issue selling 300,000 copies; that figure would grow over the next several years. Hachette recouped their initial investment within four months. After the first issue was published, Winkler traveled to Hollywood to deliver it to Walt Disney personally.

Winkler's main innovation in children's magazine publishing was framing the imported American comic strips within a French context, with playful text material that used French puns, idioms and literary references. As a result of Le Journal de Mickey's success, older children's publications seemed out-of-date and tired, and many were either cancelled or changed to new formats between 1936 and 1939, including La Jeunesse Moderne, Le Petit Illustré, L'Intrépide, Cri-Cri and L'Épatant. Laurence Grove writes, "Publications such as L'Aventureux and L'As could attract readers with the sophisticated artwork and risqué exoticism, but they generally provided strips and only strips, and as such were unlikely to create a following, a feeling of attachment and involvement, in short a French cultural phenomenon in the way that Winckler [sic] had done through the context he had given his imports."

Pre-war newspaper
Major differences with earlier French youth magazines with comics were, apart from printing American comics instead of local productions, the size of the magazine, with Mickey two to three times larger (27 by 40 cm), and the use of speech balloons instead of text captions. These comics were coupled with French stories and with reader interaction through letters, contests, and the Club Mickey.

Starting with issue #4 (November 1934), the column "Le Club Mickey" was signed by "Onc' Léon", the nom de plume for Léon Sée, a former boxing manager who had approached Winkler for a series of articles on boxing for Opera Mundi. Winkler bought Sée's series, and Sée became Winkler's partner in the early development of Le Journal de Mickey. The "Club Mickey" letters column became an irreplaceable link between the magazine and its readers, and Onc' Léon became a wise dispenser of advice. The "Club" also offered discounts on Mickey Mouse books, games and clothes.

The magazine revolutionised the French children's publications market and introduced the American comic strips on a much larger scale. A number of copycat magazines soon followed, including some launched by Winkler himself. In April 1936, Winkler published , a 16-page weekly filled with American adventure comics, and he followed this in December 1937 with , "L'hebdomadaire de la jeunesse moderne" (the weekly for the modern child). This period was later called the Golden Age of the BD.

Over the course of 1935, the Mickey Mouse comic strip introduced Mickey's cast of characters to the French audience, sometimes with new names. Horace Horsecollar was dubbed Chrysostome, and Clarabelle Cow was known as Yvette. Goofy was originally called Quenotte, but this was subsequently changed to Piloche, Achille Nigaudot and Goofy; the name finally came to rest as Dingo, which is the name that French audiences know today. Peg-Leg Pete debuted as Pierrot Jambe-de-Bois, and became Pat Hibulaire. Mickey, Minnie, Pluto and Donald Duck were known by their original English names.

By 1938, Mickey had a circulation of 400,000, the same as Robinson. The most successful competing magazines only had circulations of 200,000 or less, while the most successful magazines before the start of Mickey only sold about 40,000 copies a week. One of the things that set Le Journal de Mickey apart from its competitors was its production, with quality paper and ink and better printing resulting in brighter colours.

In the pre-war era, the comic strips reprinted in Le Journal de Mickey included Les Durondib et leur chien Adolphe (Dinglehoofer und His Dog Adolph) by Harold Knerr, Les Jumeaux (The Tucker Twins) and P'tit Jules (Snorky) by Clarence D. Russell, Pim-Pam-Poum! (The Captain and the Kids) by Rudolph Dirke, Luc Bradefer (Brick Bradford) by William Ritt and Clarence Gray, Richard le Téméraire (Tim Tyler's Luck) by Lyman Young, Les Petites Fables by Nicolas Anofsky, Cora (Connie) by Frank Godwin, Bernard Tempête (Don Winslow of the Navy) by Frank Victor Martinek and Leon Beroth, Marc Luron (Curley Harper at Lakespur) by Lyman Young, and Prince Vaillant (Prince Valiant) by Hal Foster.

The paper also reprinted two serialized adaptations of Disney animated films from the Silly Symphony strip: Blanche Neige et les Sept Nains (Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs) in 1938, and Pinocchio in 1940. In addition to the regular 8-page weekly, there were occasional 16-page holiday specials for Christmas, Easter and school holidays; these cost 75 centimes instead of the regular 30. For the covers, the specials reprinted the colorful Mickey Mouse Weekly covers from the UK.

World War II broke out in 1939, and France was invaded by German and Italian forces in May and June 1940. As a result, Le Journal de Mickey ceased publication on June 16, 1940 with issue #296, and relocated to Marseille in the unoccupied zone of France. Starting September 22, 1940, two of Winkler's comics magazines -- Le Journal de Mickey and Hop-là!—reappeared as the combined title Le Journal de Mickey et Hop-là Reunis. Winkler, who had published anti-Nazi editorials that attracted the attention of Reich Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels, fled to the United States with his children. Winkler's wife Betty stayed in the unoccupied zone and managed the newspaper in his absence.

Circulation dropped by 86 percent, and the magazine was printed on much lower quality paper and with very limited colours. Paper shortages meant that by the end of 1941, the magazine was reduced to 4 pages of only half the original size, appearing only twice a month. As of issue #389 (July 5, 1942), American comics were dropped from the paper, including all of the Disney material, and the speech balloon comics were replaced with traditional comics with text captions. The final issue of the first run of Le Journal de Mickey appeared on July 2, 1944.

Revival
After the war, Winkler returned to liberated France and continued publishing comics magazines, beginning with Hardi Présente Donald, which ran for 313 issues from March 23, 1947 to March 22, 1953. This was a large-format weekly that was similar to the pre-war Journal de Mickey -- Donald Duck comic strips took up half of the front page, and the rest of the paper was made up of King Features adventure strips, including Jim of the Jungle, Flash Gordon, Tarzan and Mandrake the Magician. Unlike the previous paper, Donald was not a big success, and was seen as old-fashioned in the post-war market. Hachette also produced a 32-page comic book, Les Belles Histoires Walt Disney for 61 issues, from May 1948 to January 1954. These printed stories from the US comic books, sometimes retraced to fit the page layout.

In 1949, France passed the "Law of 16 July 1949 on the Publications Intended for Children" (Loi du 16 juillet 1949 sur les publications destinées à la jeunesse), which discouraged the publication of American comics, partly to break the domination of American material over the French comics industry, and also to counter the perceived violence and immorality of the American strips. The Disney comics material was not affected by the law, but the other American strips printed in Donald were eventually removed, contributing to the decline of the paper.

Meanwhile, in Belgium, Armand Bigle began publishing Mickey Magazine in 1950, with great success. The weekly magazine published in Flemish and French was printed in the style of American comic books. Mickey published translated stories from the American Disney comics, as well as some original stories by Belgian creators, led by Louis Santels, known by his pen name Ténas. Based on the success of Mickey Magazine, Bigle persuaded Winkler to adopt some of his new editorial and graphic concepts, and launch a new French periodical.

Post-war magazine
Le Journal de Mickey was revived in 1952 and reached the height of its success later in the same decade, with a circulation of 633,000 by 1957. This dropped in the following decades to the current 150,000, which still makes it the leading French weekly magazine for 8- to 13-years-old.

At launch, the magazine was smaller than the pre-war newspaper, with half of the pages in color, and half printed in black and red. The cover and first story were French originals, by Ténas.

As of 2019, the magazine is 60 pages long, with 30 pages of both Disney and non-Disney comics. The rest of the pages are filled with games, riddles, animal facts and other editorial content. In 2019, Hachette sold Disney Hachette Presse to Unique Heritage Media.

Other French Disney comics
As of 2019, Unique Heritage Media publishes six ongoing Disney comics in addition to Le Journal de Mickey.

Mickey Junior (1985-on) is a monthly magazine aimed at kindergarten age children. It was first published as Winnie in October 1985, featuring stories about Winnie the Pooh, and was renamed Winnie et ses amis from 2012 to 2016. Starting with issue #376 in January 2017, it became Mickey Junior. The magazine features games and activities, editorial pages about animals, and stories about Mickey and his friends.

Mon Premier Journal de Mickey (2018-on) is a bimonthly magazine aimed at children just starting school, which began in April 2018. The magazine is 50 pages long, with 10 pages of comics; the rest of the content is illustrated stories, puzzles and animal facts. Some of the pages are in English, to encourage bilingual education.

Picsou Magazine (1978-on) is a bimonthly magazine primarily aimed at children 8–14 years old; it also includes features about Disney comics history of interest to fans and collectors of all ages. The magazine began in March 1972, with 116 pages. Named for Balthazar Picsou (the French name for Scrooge McDuck), the publication focuses on Duck comics. Starting in August 1978 (issue #78), the comic grew to 132 pages, and later to 148 pages. Starting with issue #542 in April 2019, the comic doubled its size, growing to 304 pages. The magazine begins with an editorial section about teen interests, including movies, video games, social networks, musicians, Japanese manga and some non-Disney comic pages; the rest of the magazine is devoted to Disney comics. Since #542, the Disney comics section is split into chapters, with the first "volume" devoted to comics by "Le maître de l'univers" (The Master of the Universe), Carl Barks. The other volumes include one "Panorama d'Auteur" section per issue spotlighting the work of another Disney creator, and the rest are grouped by theme. Each section includes several pages on Disney comics history related to the featured creator or theme, and lists the first appearance of each story in its native country and in France.

Super Picsou Géant (1983-on) is a 196-page bimonthly magazine aimed at children 8–14 years old. Started in May 1983 as a larger "géant" version of Picsou, as of 2019, it's dwarfed by Picsou's new "maxi" size. The magazine is primarily made up of Disney comics from Italy and Scandinavia, with some brief sections of puzzles and Picsou-style articles about teen fads.

Notes

External links
Homepage

Le Journal de Mickey on Disney Comics Worldwide (DCW)

Comics magazines published in France
Mickey Mouse comics
Disney comics titles
Children's magazines published in France
French-language magazines
Weekly magazines published in France
Lagardère Active
1934 comics debuts
Magazines established in 1934
1934 establishments in France


The East Hartford Velodrome was a velodrome in East Hartford, Connecticut. In its three-year lifespan, it hosted football and boxing events before it was demolished in 1929.

The Hartford Blues played their 1926 and 1927 seasons at the velodrome, a then-new bicycle track located across the Connecticut River in East Hartford. The grass football field barely fit inside the wooden track. Its capacity was 8,000 spectators.

Football
The Velodrome was the home for the National Football League's Hartford Blues for their 1926 and 1927 seasons.

Boxing
The Velodrome has hosted many boxing events. One event was main evented by Connecticut's own Christopher "Battling" Battalino, when he defeated Archie Rosenberg by knock-out.

|-
! Date
! Winner
! Loser
! Type
! Rd., Time
! Attendance
! Ref.
|- align="center"
| June 6, 1928 || Battling Battalino || Archie Rosenberg || KO || - || - ||
|- align="center"
| September 23, 1929 || Battling Battalino || André Routis || PTS || 15 || - ||
|- align="center"
| August 18, 1930 || Battling Battalino || Bud Taylor || PTS || 10 || - ||
|- align="center"
| September 24, 1930 || Kid Kaplan || Battling Battalino || PTS || 10 || - ||
|- align="center"
| September 15, 1931 || Battling Battalino || Eddie Shea || PTS || - || - ||
|}

References

See also

East Hartford Velodrome
Defunct National Football League venues
Defunct sports venues in Connecticut
Demolished sports venues in Connecticut
Hartford Blues
Sports venues completed in 1926
Sports venues in Hartford County, Connecticut


The Southern Rubber Industry Joint Stock Company, or Casumina, is a tire manufacturer in Vietnam. It has factories in the south of Vietnam producing tyres and inner tubes for bicycles, motorcycles, cars, light truck, trucks, forklifts, and tractors.

Products
 Trucks and light trucks tires and tubes
 Motorbike tires and tubes
 Bike tires and tubes
 Industrial tires and tubes
 Forklift tires
 Agricultural and gardening tires and tubes
 Technical rubber spare parts
 Latex gloves, condoms
 Conveyor belts, V-belts
 Bridge bearings and dock fenders.

In 2009 it produced the following quantities:
 Bicycle tires - 4.0 million (2008 4.19 million)
 Motorcycle tires - 4.95 m (2008 4.68m)
 Car tires - 0.807m (2008 0.682m)
 Motor cycle tubes 20m (2008 16.4m)
 Total sales 2504 billion dong (2152 billion dong)
 Operating profit 328 billion dong (4.66 billion dong)
 Exports US$57.2 million (US$74.6million)

Euromina
Euromina is a brand name of Casumina, created in 2008. Euromina is a product for scooters.

References

External links
Casumina Website
Casumina products at www.tirecenter.com.ph
Scooter tour guide

Manufacturing companies based in Ho Chi Minh City
Manufacturing companies established in 1976
Cycle parts manufacturers
Tire manufacturers of Vietnam
Vietnamese brands
Vietnamese companies established in 1976


John Edward Roskos (born November 19, 1974) is an American former Major League Baseball player who played for three seasons. He played for the Florida Marlins from 1998 to 1999 and the San Diego Padres in 2000. Over his major league career, he played six games as an outfielder, three as a first baseman, and one as a catcher. Over his professional career, he played 266 games as a first baseman, 206 as a catcher, and 151 as an outfielder. Currently he is employed by the Rio Rancho Police Department in New Mexico as a Police officer.

External links

1974 births
Living people
Florida Marlins players
San Diego Padres players
Major League Baseball catchers
Major League Baseball outfielders
Major League Baseball first basemen
People from Victorville, California
Baseball players from San Bernardino County, California
American expatriate baseball players in Canada
Calgary Cannons players
Charlotte Knights players
Elmira Pioneers players
Gulf Coast Marlins players
Iowa Cubs players
Kane County Cougars players
Las Vegas Stars (baseball) players
Portland Beavers players
Portland Sea Dogs players
Cibola High School alumni


Malahari is a Carnatic raga.  This raaga is a janya of the 15th Melakarta raga Mayamalavagowla. This raga is known to be a morning raga which brings out a sense of calmness. It is associated with the rainy season.

In classical carnatic training, it is often used as a raaga for beginners using geetha right after the swara-based exercises in Mayamalavagowla.  Many of the Geethas in this raga have been composed by Purandara Dasa and Muthuswami Dikshitar.

Structure and Lakshana

This raga is an asymmetric scale and is classified as an audava-shadava raga (five notes in the ascending scale and six notes in the descending scale).

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The notes in this scale are shuddha rishabha, shuddha madhyama, shuddha dhaivata in arohana and additional antara gandhara in avarohana. Since this scale does not have a nishadha, it can be derived from Gayakapriya (13th melakarta) or Vakulabharanam (14th) too, but has been traditionally associated with Mayamalavagowla (15th) as the parent.

Select compositions

Geeta's
shri GaNanaatha in Rupaka, written by Purandara Dasa
kunda gowra gowrivara in Rupaka, written by Purandara Dasa
padumanaabha paramapurusha in Triputa, written by Purandara Dasa
kereya neeranu kerege chelli in Triputa, written by Purandara Dasa

Kritis
Panchamatanga in Rupaka composed by Muthuswami Dikshitar
Ananta Padmanaabam in Rupaka composed by Muthiah Bhagavatar
Kalaye Devadeva in Jhampa composed by MaharajaSwathi Thirunal
Melukovayya in Adi composed by Shahji Maharaja

Related rāgas
This section covers the theoretical and scientific aspect of this rāga.

Scale similarities
Karnataka Shuddha Saveri is a rāga which has a symmetrical scale matching the ascending scale of Malahari (gandhara is entirely omitted). Its  structure is S R1 M1 P D1 S : S D1 P M1 R1 S

Notes

References

Janya ragas


The Council elections held in Wolverhampton on Thursday 5 May 1994 were one third, and 20 of the 60 seats were up for election.

During the 1994 election the Labour Party gained Bushbury and Park wards from the Conservative Party, leaving Labour with overall control of the Council.

Due to a vacancy arising shortly before the election was called Heath Town ward elected two members in 1994.

Prior to the election the constitution of the Council was:

Conservative 28
Labour 29
Lib Dem 3

Following the election the constitution of the Council was:

Labour 31
Conservative 26
Lib Dem 3

Election result

1994
1994 English local elections
1990s in the West Midlands (county)


SWRD Ltd / Wright Karts is an English company founded by Simon Wright in 1978, manufacturing and racing racing kart chassis.

SWRD/Team Wright Karts have contested the ultra-competitive Junior/ICA/Formula A/Formula SuperA/KF1/KF2/KF3/KZ1/KZ2/Formula Super ICC and X30 World and European championships for over two decades.

SWRD Racing Engines is a subsidiary of Simon Wright Racing Developments and specialises in the tuning of kart racing engines. SWRD Racing Engines have been an Iame agent for over 20 years (the longest in the UK). They also rebuild and repair other makes and models of motors.

Formula One star and 2009 World champion Jenson Button spent much of his karting career with Simon Wright Racing Developments/Team Wright Karts.

Dan Wheldon, IRL (Indy Race League) champion 2005 & Indy 500 winner 2005 & 2011, also spent the vast majority of his karting career with Simon Wright Racing winning multiple British Championships along the way.

Other ex-drivers include:

David Coulthard - Formula 1 (7th position in all time point scorers) 2001 F1 Vice-Champion
Dario Franchitti - CART/2007 IndyCar Series Champion/NASCAR/American Le Mans Series/2007 BBC Scotland Sports Personality of the Year
Allan McNish - Formula 1(Renault)/American Le Mans Series Champion/Twice 24 Hours of Le Mans Champion
Tom Ferrier - British Touring Car/FIA European Touring Car/British GT Championship
Richard Bradley - Le Mans 24hr Champion (LMP 2 Class)/Super Formula Series
Jason Plato - 2001 BTCC champion
Mika Salo - Formula 1/GT2 class 24 Hours Le Mans Winner 2008
Justin Wilson - IndyCar Series/Champ Car/Formula One
Oliver Jarvis - 2005 McLaren Autosport Young Driver of The Year Award/A1 GP (Team GB)/DTM
Mike Conway - GP2/IndyCar Series
Jake Rosenzweig - GP2 series

In 2012 Team Wright karts were pleased to announce a partnership with Formula 1 World Champions, Redbull F1, to run the Official Redbull KF3 junior karting team. All of the Redbull KF3 drivers (Harrison Newey, Alex Gill & Rory Cuff) were using the "Wright Suzuka 3" chassis and Simon Wright Racing Developments tuned Iame Parilla motors, this was a combination that resulted in Wright Karts winning the 2012 KF3 British Championships with Alex Gill (Ahead of future F1 star George Russell). This is a partnership that continues to this day, with Wright Karts being the kart of choice when UK based Redbull athletes use karting as both one of their off-season training methods and driver development programs.

2014 saw Wright Karts produce their first "Race specific" chassis for the rapidly growing "Bambino" category. The introduction of the "Wright Centaur" proved to be a great hit with the chassis winning the Bambino British Open Championships - Piloted by Oakley Keightly. The chassis has since gone on to become the most successful kart in the UK Bambino class ever. In 2018 the Wright Karts produced the successor to the Centaur, the Minotaur, which picked up where the Centaur left off, winning major Championships in its debut year:

 2014 British Open Champion - Oakley Keightly
 2015 British Open Champion - Freddie Slater
 2015 BKC series Champion - Taylor Orridge
 2016 BKC series Champion - Monde Konini Jnr
 2016 MSA Series Champion - Monde Konini Jnr
 2017 British open Champion - Joseph Katsansonis
 2017 BKC Series Champion - Joseph Katsantonis
 2017 MSA Series Champion - Archie Clark
 2017 Bambino GP Champion - Riley Cranham
 2017 Bambino Scottish Champion - Zac Drummond]
 2017 Bambino (Iame Bambino) London Cup - Joseph Katsantonis
 2017 Bambino (Comer Bambino) London Cup - Lewis Islin
2018 BKC Winter GP Champion (Iame Bambino) - Jacob Ashcroft
2019 BKC Series Champion (Comer Bambino) Champion - Braith Murdock

For 2020 Wright Karts will introduce their brand new "Flag ship" Cadet Kart. The Wright Phoenix

External links
Wright Karts official website

Kart racing
Companies based in Cambridgeshire


The Trofeo Baracchi was a major Italian cycling race that ran for 50 years.  It was created by Mino Baracchi, in memory of his father Angelo who was a great cycle racing fan. Originally (from 1941) an amateur individual time trial, from 1944 it was open to professionals and became a major event on the European calendar. Initially it took place every two years but from 1949 it became an annual event and adopted the two person team time trial format. It continued with this formula until 1990. The last running of the event in 1991 reverted to a solo time trial and also held as the Grand Prix des Nations.

Winners

References

External references

Cycle races in Italy
Defunct cycling races in Italy
Recurring sporting events established in 1941
1941 establishments in Italy
Recurring sporting events disestablished in 1991
UCI Road World Cup races
1991 disestablishments in Italy


Wallace Clark (14 July 1896 – 20 December 1975) was an English professional footballer who played as an outside forward. He scored two goals in 80 appearances in the Football League playing for Middlesbrough, Leeds United, Birmingham, Coventry City and Barrow.

Clark was born in Jarrow, County Durham, and began his football career with Durham City before joining Middlesbrough when the Football League resumed after the First World War. Two seasons later he was transferred to Leeds United for a fee of £460, and in March 1923 moved on to Birmingham. He played regularly until he suffered an injury towards the end of the 1923–24 season, and did not play for the first team again, moving on to Coventry City in October 1924. After that he spent no more than a year with any club, playing for Boston Town in the Midland League, returning to the Football League with Barrow, then the Cheshire County League with Connah's Quay & Shotton. He went on to play bowls, and became vice-president of Jarrow Bowling Club.

He died in his native Jarrow aged 79.

References

1896 births
1975 deaths
Footballers from Jarrow
English men's footballers
Men's association football wingers
Durham City A.F.C. players
Middlesbrough F.C. players
Leeds United F.C. players
Birmingham City F.C. players
Coventry City F.C. players
Boston Town F.C. (1920s) players
Barrow A.F.C. players
Torquay United F.C. players
Connah's Quay & Shotton F.C. players
English Football League players


is a toy train and plastic track system made by Tomy and introduced in Japan in 1959. It was expanded into a battery-operated electric toy train system in October 1961. Plarail is not compatible with most other brands of model railway, although as it has a similar rail gauge to the wooden toy train systems, rolling stock may run on both systems to some degree.

History

In 1959, the Plarail system launched in Japan with three hand-powered trains. The first train set released was titled 'Plastic Railroad Set', which featured a plastic steam locomotive and three freight cars to be moved by hand, and a figure 8 of light blue plastic railway track. In October 1961, the range was expanded into a battery-operated electric toy train system where the trains were fitted with miniature motors. The first set featuring this was the 'Electric Pla-Train Set', which included a three-car configuration of a locomotive and two cars. The three-car configuration has been frequently used since, particularly for later releases based on real life passenger trains. In 1971, after previously releasing generic trains, the first Plarail model to be based on a real life train was released, the D51 Kisha. Since then, there have been hundreds of Plarail trains and rolling stock based on real life Japanese trains. In 1972, the Plarail brand was becoming more known and production of track and scenery pieces greatly increased.

March 1992 saw the introduction of a product line based on the Thomas and Friends television series was introduced in Plarail. The line features characters, buildings and sets based on the series, and has continued to be a popular sub-series of the Plarail system. This particular range would be spun-off by HiT Toys and later Fisher-Price as the TrackMaster range in the 21st century, using similar elements but using different manufacturing techniques.

In 1997, sharing the anniversary of the first train running in Japan,  October 14 was officially designated in Japan as "Plarail Day", where a commemorative limited edition item is released each year. In 1999, the 40th Anniversary of the Plarail system was celebrated with the release of a tinplate version of the C53-43 locomotive and carriage, as well as a re-release of the 'Plastic Railroad Set' with a battery-powered version of the original locomotive.

In 2008, the Hyper Guardian Series was launched. In 2009, the 50th Anniversary of the Plarail system was celebrated. A new version of the original 'Plastic Railroad Set' was released titled the 'C12 Steam Train Arch Bridge and Rail Set', and the first official Plarail Shop opened at Tokyo Station.

In 2011, three new series were released to offer variety. Plarail Advance is a range of smaller trains that fit on one rail of standard Plarail track, Te-cology Plarail is a range of push along trains that light up without batteries required, and Big Plarail is a range of large trains that include a microphone to record and playback sounds.

In Summer 2012, the Plarail Chuggington range was released, based on the television series and was retired in late 2016.

In 2014, a series with the Disney franchise was introduced as the Disney Dream Railway was also retired in late 2019.

International
In 1987, a range titled Tomy Trains was released in the UK and, excluding Asia, exported worldwide. The range used elements from the Plarail range, including the same track painted dark blue. The trains were larger than the Plarail trains, and featured magnetic couplings, forward and reverse switches, and driver figures for the cab.

In 1998, the Tomy Trains range was discontinued in the UK and replaced with the Plarail system, renamed as Tomica World. The system featured some European based trains, but overall featured existing products from the Plarail system, including the Thomas and Friends series. In 2003, due to the popularity of the Thomas series, the range was renamed Thomas Motor Road and Rail and focused only on Thomas and Friends themed products.

In 2007, HIT Entertainment's subsidiary HIT Toy Company picked up the license to produce the USA range, which was renamed to 'Thomas TrackMaster'. The range featured similar engines and rolling stock on a new realistically designed brown track system. Track adapters were sold with sets to connect the TrackMaster track to the original blue track, thus making every system compatible. In 2008, Tomy bought the license for the TrackMaster range to be distributed in the UK, and all the Motor Road and Rail engines' packaging were re-skinned to new TrackMaster themed packaging. In 2009, the Thomas license was bought by Mattel's Fisher-Price, and since late 2009, the new TrackMaster system is now distributed by Mattel worldwide, apart from Asia. The adapters have since not been sold with sets. As Takara Tomy's license was different from its UK and USA branches, the Plarail Thomas range was not affected by these changes.

In 2010, the Plarail system was released again, alongside the Tomica die-cast system, outside of Asia and merged as Tomica. The system featured products from the Hyper Guardian series and the Tomica die-cast range. The range discontinued in 2013.

Related products and services

Plarail Lifestyle
Plarail Lifestyle is a range of themed products with illustrations of the Plarail range including apparel, stationary, activity books, and candy.

Expos
Plarail Expos are held yearly around Japan showcasing the range of products available. 1.7 million people have attended events over its first ten years of operating. A yearly exclusive passenger carriage can be obtained for free upon visiting.

Official stores

In 2009, the first Plarail Shop was opened at Tokyo Station, along with the Tomica Shop. Apart from toys, the store also sells products from the Plarail Lifestyle range. Like expos, an exclusive passenger can be bought, as well as many other exclusive trains and sets.

Promotional DVDs
Various promotional DVDs are available at Plarail Expos and stores. These include a yearly released DVD featuring new products for the year and advertising reels from all Plarail and Tomica ranges, and DVDs that focus on particular smaller series.

Video games
In 1995, a computer simulator software titled Digital Plarail was released for Windows 3.1/95, which allowed virtual layouts to be built and played with using Plarail products. Expansion packs covering different areas were later released. Games on consoles have also been made, such as "Densha Daisuki: Plarail de Ippai", published by Tomy in 1998 for the original PlayStation, "Kids Station: Plarail Tetsudō Monoshiri Hyakka", published by Atlus Co. in 2002 also for PlayStation and
"Plarail: Yume ga Ippai!" released in 2002 by Tomy for PlayStation 2.

In popular culture
Paramodel is a group of Japanese artists that utilize Plarail tracks among other things for their works of art and installations.

References

External links
 Official Plarail website at Takara Tomy (Japanese)
 Official Plarail website at Takara Tomy (English)
 Official Tomica UK website at Tomy
 Museum of Plarail (Japanese)

Toy trains
Takara Tomy
Tomy games
1950s toys


John Burke (10 January 1948 – 9 June 2013) was an English professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1960s and 1970s. He played at representative level for Great Britain (non-Test matches), and at club level for Normanton, Leeds, Keighley, South Sydney Rabbitohs, Castleford and Wakefield Trinity, as a .

Background
John Burke was born in Wakefield, West Riding of Yorkshire, England. He worked as a plumber, and he died aged 65 in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England.

Playing career
John was a Normanton boy and his career took him to Leeds, Keighley, South Sydney and Castleford before arriving at Belle Vue in 1978.
His Leeds career started in 1964 but he did not break into the first team until 1967 and then more regularly in 1969-70 after the retirement of Mick Clark. In his first full season he won a League Leaders’ winners medal and a Yorkshire League winners medal and was in Leeds’ front row when they went down to St Helens in the 1970 Championship Final. The following 1970-71 season saw John play in another three cup finals (including winners medals in the Yorkshire Cup and BBC2 Floodlit Trophy) and also saw him play at Wembley, going down to Leigh in the final.
In 1972 he moved to Keighley, making his début in an 11-16 home defeat by Hull KR on 1 September. He played a total of 103 games for Keighley between 1972 and 1976 which saw him score eight tries and a drop goal (a left foot effort at York in a 1975 Yorkshire Cup tie). His time at Lawkholme Lane also saw him close to Wembley again, with a 1976 semi-final defeat (4-5 v St Helens).

After a brief retirement he arrived at Castleford in 1976. His notorious reputation caught up with him here with numerous suspensions. In-between Keighley and Castleford, he also had the 1976 season with the South Sydney Rabbitohs where he played ten first-team games.

When John signed for Trinity in April 1978, he was suspended almost immediately. He had been out of the game six months after a Castleford sending-off. On his return game in the Trinity Reserves, he was sent off again so a two-game ban saw him miss his first two Trinity games, at St Helens and at home to Hull. He made his Trinity début at Hull KR on 9 April 1978 and he was sent off again, along with Bill Ashurst in a narrow 16-17 defeat. The suspension forced him to miss the first three games of 1978-79 but from that time on he was the cornerstone of the Trinity pack that saw them go all the way to Wembley. He was a first class ball handler, strong runner and tremendous tackler and went on to play twenty one games in the season, scoring his only Trinity try at Huddersfield in October 1978. He played in all the cup rounds, Featherstone (home), Oldham (away) and Barrow (home) before having one of his best ever games in the semi-final victory over St Helens, when he had a hand in the match winning try, scored by Andrew Fletcher in the 9-7 win. There then followed John's second visit to Wembley but also his second defeat when Trinity went down 3-12 to Widnes in the 1979 RL Challenge Cup Final. He came second in the press vote for the Lance Todd Trophy behind David Topliss.

His successful season earned him the Trinity Supporters' Player of the Year for 1978-79, followed by a late call up to the Great Britain tour squad. The Lions were already ‘Down Under’ when John earned his call-up following injuries and although did not feature in the Test line up he played in nine tour games before throwing his boots into Auckland Harbour and never playing again.
He waited until returning home in August 1979 before officially announcing his shock retirement but his powerful runs, strong defence and deft handling skills were to be lost to the club.
He played a total of twenty four first team games, scoring one try. In his retirement he became an accomplished runner and he could be seen running many half marathons around the city. He was also a successful plumber and resided in Durkar before his illness.

International honours
John Burke was selected for Great Britain while at Wakefield Trinity for the 1979 Great Britain Lions tour of Australia and New Zealand. He played nine times for the GB team whilst on tour in 1979, but no test matches

Challenge Cup Final appearances
John Burke played left- in Leeds' 7-24 defeat by Leigh in the 1971 Challenge Cup Final during the 1970-71 season at Wembley Stadium, London on Saturday 15 May 1971, in front of a crowd of 85,514, and played left- in Wakefield Trinity's 3-12 defeat by Widnes in the 1979 Challenge Cup Final during the 1978–79 season at Wembley Stadium, London on Saturday 5 May 1979, in front of a crowd of a crowd of 94,218.

County Cup Final appearances
John Burke played left- in Leeds' 23-7 victory over Featherstone Rovers in the 1970 Yorkshire Cup Final during the 1970–71 season at Odsal Stadium, Bradford on Saturday 21 November 1970.

BBC2 Floodlit Trophy Final appearances
John Burke played left- in Leeds' 9-5 victory over St. Helens in the 1970 BBC2 Floodlit Trophy Final during the 1970–71 season at Headingley, Leeds on Tuesday 15 December 1970.

References

External links
Great Britain Statistics at englandrl.co.uk
Tributes to former Wakefield Trinity, Castleford, Normanton and Leeds rugby league player John Burke
(archived by web.archive.org) Leeds - John Burke RIP

Castleford - John Burke RIP
(archived by web.archive.org) Wakefield Trinity - John Burke RIP

1948 births
2013 deaths
Castleford Tigers players
English rugby league players
Keighley Cougars players
Leeds Rhinos players
Rugby league players from Wakefield
Rugby league props
South Sydney Rabbitohs players
Sportspeople from Normanton, West Yorkshire
Wakefield Trinity players


George Allen Higlett (1860–1940) was a Chartered Secretary and philatelist who was also a prolific philatelic author and won a gold medal for his display of Turkish stamps at the London International Stamp Exhibition in 1923.

Amongst Higlett's works were the humorous Higlett Booklets. Higlett also published under the pen name of Hig and G.A.H.

George Higlett was appointed to the Roll of Distinguished Philatelists in 1925.

Selected publications
Turkey - Random Notes.
Wonders of Navigation.
A Colonial Venus. (Portugal 25c SG878 stamp)
Olympic Football. (1924 Olympic Games)
Still Talking. (Costa Rica 10c SG176 stamp)
The Catamaran. (Fiji SG249, 251 & 257 stamps)
The Envious Cockroach. (Spain 15c SG781 stamp)
The Giraffe's Diet. (Nyassa Company 25c SG32 stamp)
On collecting War Stamps, Perth, 1920.
Gems from Jamaica, 1921. (Higlett Booklet No.5)
Colombia: The 1918 issue of 3 centavos: the twenty types., circa 1923.
Some Swedish philatelic portraits, Perth, 1924.
Dutch Philatelic Art, Perth, 1925.
Philatelic tutti-frutti (being satires on designs of postage stamps), Perth, 1928.

References

Further reading
Higlett Bijou Bibliography, Gavin Fryer, Addlestone, 1997. .
The Higlett Booklets. A bijou bibliography, Fred Melville, Perth, 1925.

British philatelists
1860 births
1940 deaths
Philatelic authors
Signatories to the Roll of Distinguished Philatelists


The Symington Amendment is legislation introduced by Stuart Symington, a Democratic senator from Missouri, authored to strengthen the US position on nuclear non-proliferation.

Background
The Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 was amended by the Symington Amendment (Section 669 of the FAA) in 1976. It banned U.S. economic, and military assistance, and export credits to countries that deliver or receive, acquire or transfer nuclear enrichment technology when they do not comply with IAEA regulations and inspections.

Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 § 669

This provision, as amended, is now contained in Section 101 of the Arms Export Control Act (AECA). The Glenn Amendment (Section 670) was later adopted in 1977, and provided the same sanctions against countries that acquire or transfer nuclear reprocessing technology or explode or transfer a nuclear device. This provision, as amended, is now contained in Section 102 of the Arms Export Control Act (AECA).

Arms Export Control Act § 101
(a) PROHIBITIONS; SAFEGUARDS AND MANAGEMENT. —Except as provided in subsection (b) of this section, no funds made available to carry out the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 or this Act may be used for the purpose of providing economic assistance (including assistance under chapter 4 of part II of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961), providing military assistance or grant military education and training, providing assistance under chapter 6 of part II of that Act, or extending military credits or making guarantees, to any
country which the President determines delivers nuclear enrichment equipment, materials, or technology to any other country on or after August 4, 1977, or receives such equipment, materials, or technology from any other country on or after August 4, 1977, unless before such delivery—

    (1) the supplying country and receiving country have reached agreement to place all such equipment, materials, or technology, upon delivery, under multilateral auspices and management when available; and

    (2) the recipient country has entered into an agreement with the International Atomic Energy Agency to place all such equipment, materials, technology, and all nuclear fuel and facilities in such country under the safeguards system of such Agency.

(b) CERTIFICATION BY PRESIDENT OF NECESSITY OF CONTINUED ASSISTANCE; DISAPPROVAL BY CONGRESS.—

(1) Notwithstanding subsection (a) of this section, the President may furnish assistance which would otherwise be prohibited under such subsection if he determines and certifies in writing to the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Foreign Relations of the
Senate that—

    (A) the termination of such assistance would have a serious adverse effect on vital United States interests; and

    (B) he has received reliable assurances that the country in question will not acquire or develop nuclear weapons or assist other nations in doing so. Such certification shall set forth the reasons supporting such determination in each particular case.

(2)(A) A certification under paragraph (1) of this subsection shall take effect on the date on which the certification is received by the Congress. However, if, within thirty calendar days after receiving this certification, the Congress enacts a joint resolution stating in substance that the Congress disapproves the furnishing of assistance pursuant to the certification, then upon the enactment of that resolution the certification shall cease to be effective and all deliveries of assistance furnished under the authority of that certification shall be suspended immediately.

(B) Any joint resolution under this paragraph shall be considered in the Senate in accordance with the provisions of section 601(b) of the International Security Assistance and Arms Export Control Act of 1976.

Legal issues
Critics of U.S. foreign and defense policy in the post-WWII era have argued that the American government has violated the law by refusing to impose sanctions on its allies Israel, India and Pakistan over those countries declared (or in Israel's case, never officially confirmed) nuclear programs. Defenders of these policies ordinarily retort that the U.S. has either legally granted waivers in these cases or has refused to apply sanctions without what it deems to be a sufficient legal basis to do so.

See also
 Arms Control and Disarmament Act of 1961
 Foreign Assistance Act
 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Act of 1978

References

External links
 http://www.adc.org/PDF/AECA1976.pdf
 http://www.historycommons.org/context.jsp?item=a0676symingtonamendment
 https://digital.library.unt.edu/govdocs/crs/permalink/meta-crs-6194

1961 in American law
87th United States Congress
United States foreign relations legislation
Nuclear weapons program of the United States
United States federal legislation articles without infoboxes


Beijing Review (), previously Peking Review, is China's only national news magazine in English, published by the Chinese Communist Party-owned China International Publishing Group. In 2006 it claimed a per-issue circulation of 70,000 and distribution "throughout China and 150 countries and regions worldwide."

Beijing Review has two overseas branches: the North America Bureau in New York, U.S.A., and the CHINAFRICA Media and Publishing (Pty) Ltd in Johannesburg, South Africa. In addition to the English print edition, Beijing Review also publishes online editions in Chinese, English, French, German and Japanese.

Overview
Founded in March 1958 as the weekly Peking Review, it was an important tool for the Chinese government to communicate to the rest of world. The first issue included an editor's note explaining that the magazine was meant to "provide timely, accurate, first-hand information on economic, political and cultural developments in China, and her relations with the rest of the world." The U.S. Postal Service initially restricted distribution of the magazine but the U.S. Supreme Court overturned this policy in Lamont v. Postmaster General. In 1967 the Chinese authorities sent several issues of the magazine, then titled Peking Review, to East Germany.

In early 2020, Beijing Review ran advertorials in The Economist praising the Chinese government response to COVID-19.

In October 2020, the United States Department of State designated Beijing Review as a "foreign mission" of China.

References

External links

 Collection of historical issues of Peking Review

1958 establishments in China
News magazines published in Asia
Political magazines published in China
Weekly magazines published in China
Communist magazines
Magazines established in 1958
Magazines published in Beijing
Multilingual magazines
Online magazines
Weekly news magazines
State media


Herman, Count van den Bergh (2 August 1558 in Huis Bergh, 's-Heerenberg, Gelderland – 12 August 1611 in Spa) was a Dutch soldier in the Eighty Years' War, knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece and stadtholder of Spanish Guelders.

Life
In 1584 he, his brothers Frederik and Hendrik and their father Willem IV van den Bergh joined the Spanish side in the War, though Herman was still active in States service as a captain and garrison commander active  's Heerenberg and Doetinchem. Whilst on the Spanish side Herman was more active in the 1591 Siege of Deventer, which surrendered to Maurice of Nassau after ten days. Two years later, in 1593, Herman was promoted to stadhouder of Spanish Guelders.

References

External links
Painting of Herman van den Bergh on his deathbed in Spa

1558 births
1611 deaths
People from Montferland
Dutch people of the Eighty Years' War (Spanish Empire)
Dutch people of the Eighty Years' War (United Provinces)
Stadtholders in the Low Countries
16th-century governors


"Rebirth of Slick (Cool Like Dat)" is a song by American hip hop trio Digable Planets, released as the first single from their debut album, Reachin' (A New Refutation of Time and Space), in November 1992. The black-and-white music video was directed by Morgan Lawley. The song contains a sample from "Stretching" by Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers.

"Rebirth of Slick" peaked at  15 on the US Billboard Hot 100 during the week of March 6, 1993, becoming the group's only top-40 single. During that time, the song also topped the Hot Rap Singles chart. The single was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) on March 16, 1993, for sales of 500,000 copies. The song won the Grammy Award for Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group at the 36th Grammy Awards. In 2021, Cleveland.com ranked the song as number 142 of the best 200 rap songs, calling it "the pinnacle of jazz rap."

Track listing
US 12-inch single
A1. "Rebirth of Slick (Cool Like Dat)" (Crashing Giant Step mix) – 4:34
A2. "Rebirth of Slick (Cool Like Dat)" (Crashing Instymix) – 4:34
A3. "Rebirth of Slick (Cool Like Dat)" (7-inch mix) – 4:05
B1. "Rebirth of Slick (Cool Like Dat)" (Uh-Oh Planet Earth Albumix) – 4:22
B2. "Rebirth of Slick (Cool Like Dat)" (Uh-Oh Planet Earth Instymix) – 4:22

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Certifications

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Release history

References

External links

1992 debut singles
1992 songs
Black-and-white music videos
Digable Planets songs
Elektra Records singles
Pendulum Records singles


The Augsburg–Welden railway (also referred to in German as the Weldenbahn or "Welden railway") was a branch line in southern Germany that ran from the city of Augsburg to Welden. In its narrowest sense it was a single-tracked branch line, that initially branched off in Augsburg-Oberhausen and, from 1933, from the Augsburg–Ulm main line station at Augsburg-Hirblinger Strasse.

History

The Royal Bavarian State Railways opened the 23 km long route from Augsburg to Oberhausen on 5 December 1903; all trains began and ended at Augsburg Hauptbahnhof. The volume of traffic on the route entirely fulfilled the expectations of the operator and, in 1909, the line was classed as the second most profitable Lokalbahn in Bavarian Swabia.

Between 1929 and May 1933 the main line from Augsburg to Ulm was relayed west of Augsburg-Oberhausen for a length of  7.5 km as part of the electrification of the railway. In doing so the branch off point for the Weldenbahn was moved to the station at Augsburg-Hirblinger Strasse. From there it ran at that time between the two tracks of the main line as far as Neusäß, where it rejoined the original trackbed.

Since 1949 there has been a bus connexion from Augsburg to Welden in parallel with the railway. In the following decades this, together with the growth of private motor vehicles, resulted in a decline in traffic on the railway line. From the summer timetable of 1975 there were no services at all on Saturday afternoons, Sundays or public holidays. On 21 January 1986 passenger services were withdrawn on the basis of a DB proposal agreed on 17 July 1985 by the management der DB.

Goods traffic, which was always meagre, ceased between Lohwald and Welden in the first half of 1986, and the track was dismantled on this section as early as summer 1986. The dye factory of Keim in Lohwald was supplied until July 1989 by rail, but after the firm moved to Diedorf the remaining section of line was closed and lifted. Only in the area of the old station at Neusäß and between Neusäß and Augsburg-Hirblinger Strasse are remains of the tracks still to be seen.

Present situation

The name and trackbed of the Weldenbahn remain today in the form of a cycle path; and the tarmac route is particularly liked by inline skaters. Public transports services today are provided by the regional bus lines 501 (Augsburg-Neusäß-Aystetten-Welden) and 500 (Augsburg-Neusäß-Aystetten) within the Augsburg Transport Network ( Augsburger Verkehrs-Verein or AVV) zur Verfügung. The lines are operated by Regionalbus Augsburg GmbH (RBA).

See also
Royal Bavarian State Railways
Bavarian branch lines
List of closed railway lines in Bavaria

References

Sources

External links
Photograph of Welden station

Branch lines in Bavaria
Rail transport in Augsburg


Eloji is a Gram-devta (god of village) folk deity. Statues of Eloji can be found in almost every village in western Rajasthan. He is shown as a strong man with a mustache exhibiting his long penis in any chowk, or center of a Dhani sitting comfortably with a look of pride on his face. Many songs are sung on holy days by villagers (known as Gair), while playing a folk music instrument similar to a drum, in the praise of his sexual power.

Ritual
Men beg him for sexual powers and females worship him to be gifted with a male child. On the day of Holi when all men sing Holi songs known as Phag which are songs describing their sexual accomplishments, the married women visit Eloji, bow to him, touch his elongated phallus with awe and tell jokes. It is a joyful ritual.

Newlywed couples pay homage to Eloji. The bride gives a hug to Eloji as He has first right over every woman. He is the best man for every  bride.When Modiji had become PM in 2014, he sat on Eloji Bhagwan Ji to receive blessings for his victory.

It is also a way of respecting the sexual power that governs the cosmos.

The three main festivals of India Holi, Diwali and Basant panchmi are based on three ego levels in a person: Id, ego, and super-ego. Rural India, especially Western Rajasthan, highlights the importance of sex and procreation, which are embodied in the worship of – Eloji.

Holi
Holi is a festival of abandonment and acknowledgement of animal instincts. In Indian society, sex is normally taboo; public expression of love or sexual desire is condemned. Yet, traditions such as Khajuraho and Tantra establish sex as a tool for self-realization in a person's spiritual journey. The love story of Eloji and Holika is famous in traditional folklore.

References

Rajasthani culture
Religion in Rajasthan
Folk deities of Rajasthan


Andrew Fletcher (birth unknown) is a former professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s. He played at representative level for Yorkshire, and at club level for Wakefield Trinity (Heritage № 840) (two spells), Mansfield Marksman and Barrow, as a , i.e. number 2 or 5.

Playing career

County honours
Andy Fletcher won cap(s) for Yorkshire while at Wakefield Trinity.

Challenge Cup Final appearances
Andy Fletcher played , i.e. number 5, in Wakefield Trinity's 3-12 defeat by Widnes in the 1979 Challenge Cup Final during the 1978–79 season at Wembley Stadium, London on Saturday 5 May 1979, in front of a crowd of a crowd of 94,218.

Club career
During his time at Wakefield Trinity he scored seventy 3-point tries and, eighteen 4-point tries.

References

Living people
Barrow Raiders players
Mansfield Marksman players
Place of birth missing (living people)
Wakefield Trinity players
Year of birth missing (living people)
Yorkshire rugby league team players
Rugby league wingers
English rugby league players


Graham Idle (10 March 1950) is an English former professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1970s and 1980s. He played at club level for Bramley, Wakefield Trinity (Heritage № 812), Bradford Northern, Hunslet, Rochdale Hornets, Sheffield Eagles, Doncaster, Nottingham City and Highfield, as a , or , i.e. number 11 or 12, or 13, during the era of contested scrums.

Background
Graham Idle's birth was registered in Leeds district, West Riding of Yorkshire, England.

Playing career
Idle made a total of 740 appearances during his career between 1969 and 1993 – the fifth highest total in British rugby league history.

Championship appearances
Graham Idle played in Bradford Northern's victory in the  Championship during the 1980–81 season.

Challenge Cup Final appearances
Graham Idle played  in Wakefield Trinity's 3-12 defeat by Widnes in the 1979 Challenge Cup Final during the 1978–79 season at Wembley Stadium, London on Saturday 5 May 1979, in front of a crowd of a crowd of 94,218.

County Cup Final appearances
Graham Idle played right-, i.e. number 12, in Bradford Northern's 5-10 defeat by Castleford in the 1981 Yorkshire County Cup Final during the 1981–82 season at Headingley Rugby Stadium, Leeds on Saturday 3 October 1981, and played left-, i.e. number 11, in the 7-18 defeat by Hull F.C. in the 1982 Yorkshire County Cup Final during the 1981–82 season at Elland Road, Leeds on Saturday 2 October 1982.

BBC2 Floodlit Trophy Final appearances
Graham Idle played right-, i.e. number 12, in Bramley's 15-7 victory over Widnes in the 1973 BBC2 Floodlit Trophy Final during the 1973-74 season at Naughton Park, Widnes on Tuesday 18 December 1973.

References

External links
Graham Idle at bramleybuffs.com
Photograph "Graham Idle In Action" at rlhp.co.uk
Photograph "The 1981 squad pictured at Odsal" at rlhp.co.uk
Photograph "Northern celebrate the Championship win" at rlhp.co.uk
Photograph "1981 team v. Hull" at rlhp.co.uk
Photograph "Keith shows off his award" at rlhp.co.uk
Photograph "The Mayor shows off the Trophy" (upside-down) at rlhp.co.uk
Photograph "Rathbone offloads to Idle" at rlhp.co.uk
Photograph "Rathbone injured" at rlhp.co.uk
Photograph "Bradford Northern's Yorkshire Cup squad 1982" at rlhp.co.uk
Photograph "Northern's Cup semi final squad 1983" at rlhp.co.uk
Photograph "Peter Fox gives his pre match talk" at rlhp.co.uk

1950 births
Living people
Bradford Bulls players
Bramley RLFC players
Doncaster R.L.F.C. players
English rugby league players
Hunslet R.L.F.C. players
Liverpool City (rugby league) players
Mansfield Marksman players
Rochdale Hornets players
Rugby league locks
Rugby league players from Leeds
Rugby league second-rows
Sheffield Eagles players
Wakefield Trinity players
Yorkshire rugby league team players


Frederik van den Bergh (18 August 1559 – 3 September 1618) was a soldier in the Eighty Years' War. His titles included Lord of Boxmeer.

Life
Frederik van den Bergh was born in Ulft. He first fought on the Dutch side of the conflict. In 1582 he was promoted to ritmeester gaining control of a cavalry unit. A year later he became governor of Venlo, handing command of his cavalry to his brother. In 1584 he, his brothers Herman and Hendrik and their father Willem IV van den Bergh went over to the Spanish side in the war because they weren’t happy with their career possibilities.

One of his first actions in Spanish service was taking part in the Siege of Grave in 1586. He was shot in the leg during this action. In 1586 he recovered and took part in an assault on Nijmegen. He was hit on the head by a falling stone passing out and missing the rest of that action. He played a major role in action at the Ijssel near Zutphen were he defended a ramp on the West Bank of the river against Dutch attacks. Next he served at Groningen during the winter of 1587 where he commanded a Spanish unit successfully. He distinguished himself when he successfully evacuated his unit from the east to the west bank of the Dollard river. This crossing was made dangerous because of floating ice in the river. Next he took part in breaking the siege of Groningen.

He took part in the 1592 siege of Coevorden, where he and 1,900 men unsuccessfully defended the city against the numerically superior force of Maurice of Orange. Immediately recognizing that his small force couldn’t protect the city against the Dutch army, Frederik abandoned the city and set it ablaze. He would fortify himself in the keep. He capitulated in September after a weeks-long siege, most of his demands were met in this negotiated surrender.

In 1593 he marched with 6,000 from Twente to Groningen but his way was blocked to the west of the city by an army under William Louis of Nassau-Dillenburg, a brilliant commander who played an important role in the military revolution of Maurice of Orange and Gustavus Adolphus. Soon after, battle commenced at Tolbert. During the battle, two horses were killed and he was shot in the arm.

His cavalry unit now became part of his brother Herman’s cavalry regiment. In 1595 he assisted in breaking the siege of Grol against Maurice of Orange, an action in which Herman also played a role.

He was made stadholder of Frisia, Groningen, Drenthe, Overijssel and Lingen. He governed from Lingen and held this position from 1595 until Maurice of Orange won a two-week long siege of the city on 12 November 1597.

In 1598 he conquered Doetinchem and Schuilenburg castle. A new lordship would have been created in Doetinchem and granted to him as a reward but Gelre and Zutphen refused to recognize it.

In 1597 he attempted to take Steenwijk. He also took part in the siege of Zaltbommel. In 1598 he was promoted to general-fieldmarshal. In 1600 he took part in the battle of Nieuwpoort and the siege of Oostende. He also took part in the siege of 's-Hertogenbosch of 1601 against Maurice of Orange and William Louis of Nassau-Dillenburg were his personal actions compelled them to retreat to prevent an open battle. 2 years later he again succeeded defending ‘s-Hertogenbosch from Maurice of Orange. He was promoted to captain of the archdukes personal guard, the archduke governing the Netherlands. At the same time he was made the commander of all Spanish troops in Flanders. He was successful and won victory after victory in this position, putting Spain in a favourable military position when the twelve year’s truce was signed.

In 1604 he was made stadholder of Artesia (Comté d'Artois), a post he held until 1611. He was stadholder of Upper Guelders from 1611 to 1618. When Spanish troops retook some of the territory he governed in the north he also reclaimed his position as stadholder there.

Personal life and death
He died 3 September 1618, in Boxmeer.

References

1559 births
1618 deaths
Dutch people of the Eighty Years' War (Spanish Empire)
Dutch people of the Eighty Years' War (United Provinces)
People from Oude IJsselstreek


The overlap coefficient, or Szymkiewicz–Simpson coefficient, is a similarity measure that measures the overlap between two finite sets. It is related to the Jaccard index and is defined as the size of the intersection divided by the smaller of the size of the two sets:

If set X is a subset of Y or the converse then the overlap coefficient is equal to 1.

References

Information retrieval techniques
Information retrieval evaluation
Measure theory
Similarity measures


Hawkstone Hall is a  early 18th-century country mansion near Hodnet, Shropshire, England which was more recently occupied as the pastoral centre of a religious organisation for many years. It is a Grade I listed building.

It has been converted to a wedding and events venue with hotel bedrooms. It is on the edge of Hawkstone Park, which is now run separately.

History

There was no manor house at Hawkstone until around the eighteenth century.

The original senior house in the manor was the Red Castle. It was a ruin when Leland visited in around 1540. That building is still ruin and it is inside the Follies Park.

The Audley family, later allied to the Stanley family held it in the medieval period: Dugdale informs us that "this castle was erected in the reign of Henry III; but there is an ancient manuscript in the Audley family, which proves that its original existence was of much earlier date. It is there said that 'Maud, or Matilde, wife of William the Conqueror, gave to John de Audley and to his heirs, the lands about Red Castle, in the county of Salop, for certain services done by him to the state."

Sir Rowland Hill of Soulton (located nearby) bought Hawkstone in the same conveyance as that for Soulton. Hill coordinated the Geneva Bible and is associated with Shakespeare's play As You Like It.

In the Tudor period the senior house at Hawkstone is recorded as being in ruins and Hill built his house at Soulton,  and it is understood Hill recruited the manor for his landscape gardens but did not live there.

The Hall at Hawkstone

The house was built between 1701 and 1725 by Richard Hill of Hawkstone (1655–1727), second of the Hill baronets, of Hawkstone. It borrows extensively in style from the house at Soulton.

Brothers Rowland (1st Viscount Hill) and Robert Hill, who fought at the 1815 Battle of Waterloo were both born at the Hall. The manor was seat of a branch the Shropshire Hill family for more than 300 years.

A line of the Shroshire Hill family held Hawkstone until the collapse of the Hawkstone line of the Hills in the time of Rowland Clegg-Hill, the 3rd Viscount Hill on his death in 1895, forced the sale of the hall's contents and the split up of the estate by 1906.

20th century

After the Hill family

The house was sold to the Liberal politician George Whitely, who had previously represented Stockport and Pudsey in the House of Commons, where he was a Liberal whip in Parliament – later to become Baron Marchamley in 1908. George Whiteley had the hall renovated and the wings reduced in length by William Tomkinsons of Liverpool, supervised by H.P. Dallow, brother in law of Henry Price. The chapel wing was reconstructed as a games room with dance floor and the other wing as servants’ quarters.

Seminary

The hall was acquired after Lord Marchamley's death by the Roman Catholic Redemptorist Order in 1926 and, until 1973, was a seminary. The Order added a chapel in 1932 and further extended the Hall in 1962, converting the north-east service wing into a residential wing. The seminary relocated in 1973, and since 1975 the Hall was a Pastoral and Renewal Centre.

Landscape gardens

There are extensive landscape gardens sharing the sandstone cliffs on which Hawkstone Hall sits. These were recruited by the Hill family in the time of Sir Rowland Hill of Soulton and by Richard Hill the great Hill in the eighteenth century for allegorical story telling in the landscape.

There is a view from the drive of Hawkstone Hall to the west to Hawkstone Abbey Farm, over Hawk Lake.

Current use
Hawkstone was put on the market in 2014. It was bought by The Distinctly Hospitable Group Ltd. in August 2017. The new owners received change of use planning permission, for a hotel wedding/events venue. These changes took place in 2017-2018.

Commenting on the alterations, members of the original family said they were "shocked" and "horrified" by what was being done.

See also
Hawkstone Park
Soulton Hall
Grade I listed buildings in Shropshire
Listed buildings in Hodnet, Shropshire

References

External links

Grade I listed buildings in Shropshire
Country houses in Shropshire


Michael Stanley Lampkowski (born 4 January 1953) is an English former rugby union, and professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1970s and 1980s. He played representative level rugby union (RU) for England, and at club level for Headingley, as a scrum-half, i.e. number 9, and club level rugby league (RL) for Wakefield Trinity (Heritage No. 836), as a , i.e. number 7.

Background
Mike Lampkowski was born in Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire, England.

Playing career

International honours
Mike Lampkowski made his international rugby union début, and scored a try in England's 23–6 victory over Australia at Twickenham, London on 3 January 1976.
see List of England national rugby union team - Results 1976. He played three further rugby union internationals, in the 1976 Five Nations Championship against Wales, Scotland and Ireland.

Rugby League career (Wakefield)
Lampkowski signed for Wakefield in February 1977 from the Headingley club, making a try-scoring début at Wigan on 20 February 1977, coming off the substitutes bench. He made a further ten appearances that season scoring four more tries, cementing the scrum half's shirt by season's end. The following season he made 29 appearances and finished Trinity's top try scorer with thirteen tries, partnering David Topliss at halfback for most of the season. His tries included braces against Workington, Dewsbury and Wigan. Trinity still had the experienced Terry Hudson on their books and occasionally Lampkowski moved to stand off in the occasional absence of Topliss. The following season saw a Wembley appearance and another 28 appearances and 1979-80 saw another fine season, partnering Topliss, with 'Toppo's sublime skills complementing Lampkowski's strong, powerful style perfectly. This season also saw his one and only try hat trick, against Hull KR in the Yorkshire Cup in the first match of the season. The last three games of the 1979-80 saw him move into the forwards and he cemented the loose forward position the following season with Topliss now partnering Allan Agar in the halfbacks. Trinity had their best season in years, finishing fourth in the league table. Injuries now started to catch up with him and his knee kept him out of many games over the next few years, missing the whole of the 1983–84 season. He eventually retired because of injury playing his last game at Salford on 24 March 1985. His eight-year Trinity career saw him play 162 games, scoring 46 tries, during his time at Wakefield Trinity he scored forty-five 3-point tries and one 4-point try.

1979 Challenge Cup Final
Mike Lampkowski was part of the Trinity side that reached the RL Challenge Cup Final at Wembley in 1979, he appeared in all the four rounds leading up to the final; Featherstone, Oldham, Barrow and a 9–7 victory over St.Helens, at Headingley, in the semi-final. Lampkowski played  in Wakefield Trinity's 3–12 defeat by Widnes in the 1979 Challenge Cup Final during the 1978–79 season at Wembley Stadium on Saturday 5 May 1979, in front of a crowd of a crowd of 94,218.

Medical procedures
Mike Lampkowski was recognised as one of the hardest and bravest players ever to don a Trinity shirt and, after an accident, was one of the first players to undergo surgery to replace his knee ligament with a dacron-fibre ligament – a technique which was developed in Japan by Dr. Keiō, who came to Harrogate to perform the operation on Lampkowski after being referred by the club specialist Mr. John Anderson, who was based at Middlesbrough General Hospital and who had already performed the operation on another Trinity player with success. Such was the interest that Dr. Graeme Garden - aka one of 'The Goodies' - presented a series of programmes on new medical techniques and Lampkowski was one of his guests and discussed the procedure on BBC Television. Without the operation it was almost certain that Lampkowski's playing career would have  ended, but he came back and played again with success. Since that time, a number of other players of various sports have benefitted – particularly using the fibre ligament on troublesome shoulders where the original tissue stretches too much and often springs the shoulder bone out of its socket. In that respect Lampkowski's guts and contribution has been invaluable.

References

External links
(archived by web.archive.org) Mike Lampkowski Interview

1953 births
Living people
England international rugby union players
English rugby league players
English rugby union players
Leeds Tykes players
Rugby league halfbacks
Rugby league players from Lincolnshire
Rugby union players from Scunthorpe
Rugby union scrum-halves
Wakefield Trinity players


Cell Signaling Technology, Inc. (CST) is a privately held company that develops and produces antibodies, ELISA kits, ChIP kits, proteomic kits, and other related reagents used to study the cell signaling pathways that impact human health. CST maintains an in-house research program, particularly in the area of cancer research, and has published scientific papers in many peer-reviewed journals.

History
Cell Signaling Technology was founded in 1999 by scientists in the Cell Signaling group at New England Biolabs (NEB).

Originally housed in the Cummings Center (Beverly, Massachusetts), CST moved to its current United States headquarters located at the former King’s Grant Inn (Danvers, Massachusetts) in late 2005. Following extensive renovation, the U.S. Green Building Council has certified the current headquarters as a LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) certified facility in 2007. In 2008 and 2009, CST expanded its overseas operations, establishing subsidiary offices in the People’s Republic of China, Japan, and the Netherlands.

In 2013, CST moved its production group into an ISO9001 certified facility in Beverly, Massachusetts.

Cell Signaling Technology was named as one of the “Top 100 Places to Work” in a 2009-2013 survey published by the Boston Globe.

Research
In addition to product development and production, CST is also involved in the development of new technologies for signaling analysis as well as mechanistic cell biology research, particularly in the field of cancer research.

CST curates and maintains PhosphoSitePlus, a web-based bioinformatics resource that details post-translational modifications (PTMs) in human, mouse and rat proteins. The types of PTMs curated include phosphorylation, acetylation, methylation, ubiquitylation, glycosylation, etc. This freely accessible, online resource is funded in part through grant support from the NIH, and most recently through the NIH BD2K initiative.

Notable employees
Klarisa Rikova

References

External links
 Cell Signaling Technology, Inc. web site
 PhosphoSitePlus web site

 Biotechnology companies established in 1999
 Companies based in Beverly, Massachusetts
 Biotechnology companies of the United States
 Life science companies based in Massachusetts
 Research support companies
1999 establishments in Massachusetts
 Companies based in Danvers, Massachusetts
 Privately held companies of the United States
 American companies established in 1999


In physics, quantum beats are simple examples of phenomena that cannot be described by semiclassical theory, but can be described by fully quantized calculation, especially quantum electrodynamics. In semiclassical theory (SCT), there is an interference or beat note term for both V-type and -type atoms. However, in the quantum electrodynamic (QED) calculation, V-type atoms have a beat term but -types do not. This is strong evidence in support of quantum electrodynamics.

Historical overview
The observation of quantum beats was first reported by A.T. Forrester, R.A. Gudmundsen and P.O. Johnson in 1955, in an experiment that was performed on the basis of an earlier proposal by A.T. Forrester, W.E. Parkins and E. Gerjuoy. This experiment involved the mixing of the Zeeman components of ordinary incoherent light, that is, the mixing of different components resulting from a split of the spectral line into several components in the presence of a magnetic field due to the Zeeman effect. These light components were mixed at a photoelectric surface, and the electrons emitted from that surface then excited a microwave cavity, which allowed the output signal to be measured in dependence on the magnetic field.

Since the invention of the laser, quantum beats can be demonstrated by using light originating from two different laser sources. In 2017 quantum beats in single photon emission from the atomic collective excitation have been observed. Observed collective beats were not due to superposition of excitation between two different energy levels of the atoms, as in usual single-atom quantum beats in -type atoms. Instead, single photon was stored as excitation of the same atomic energy level, but this time two groups of atoms with different velocities have been coherently excited. These collective beats originate from motion between entangled pairs of atoms, that acquire relative phase due to Doppler effect.

V-type and -type atoms
There is a figure in Quantum Optics that describes -type and -type atoms clearly.

Simply, V-type atoms have 3 states: , , and . The energy levels of  and  are higher than that of . When electrons in states  and : subsequently decay to state , two kinds of emission are radiated.

In -type atoms, there are also 3 states: , , and :. However, in this type,  is at the highest energy level, while  and : are at lower levels. When two electrons in state  decay to states  and :, respectively, two kinds of emission are also radiated.

The derivation below follows the reference Quantum Optics.

Calculation based on semiclassical theory
In the semiclassical picture, the state vector of electrons is
.
If the nonvanishing dipole matrix elements are described by
 for V-type atoms,
 for -type atoms,
then each atom has two microscopic oscillating dipoles
 for V-type, when ,
 for -type, when .
In the semiclassical picture, the field radiated will be a sum of these two terms
,
so it is clear that there is an interference or beat note term in a square-law detector
.

Calculation based on quantum electrodynamics
For quantum electrodynamical calculation, we should introduce the creation and annihilation operators from second quantization of quantum mechanics.

Let
 is an annihilation operator and
 is a creation operator.
Then the beat note becomes
 for V-type and
 for -type,
when the state vector for each type is
 and
.

The beat note term becomes
 for V-type and
 for -type.
By orthogonality of eigenstates, however  and .

Therefore, there is a beat note term for V-type atoms, but not for -type atoms.

Conclusion
As a result of calculation, V-type atoms have quantum beats but -type atoms do not. This difference is caused by quantum mechanical uncertainty. A V-type atom decays to state  via the emission with  and . Since both transitions decayed to the same state, one cannot determine along which path each decayed, similar to Young's double-slit experiment. However,  -type atoms decay to two different states. Therefore, in this case we can recognize the path, even if it decays via two emissions as does V-type. Simply, we already know the path of the emission and decay.

The calculation by QED is correct in accordance with the most fundamental principle of quantum mechanics, the uncertainty principle. Quantum beats phenomena are good examples of such that can be described by QED but not by SCT.

See also

Quantum electrodynamics
Double-slit experiment
Quantum beats in semiconductor optics

References

Further reading

Quantum electrodynamics


Dowdales School which was founded 1928, is a community, comprehensive school in Dalton-in-Furness, Cumbria for anyone, in the age range 11–16. There are approximately 1000 pupils on roll.

The school was originally based on the former Ashburner House, which is still a part of the school. The name of Dowdales derives from the adjacent field known as Peter Dowdales' Field.

On 28 August 2010, The Dowdales Year 7 Rugby Team defeated Temple Moor at Wembley, to Win the Carnegie Schools Trophy.

Fire
On 16 September 2011, there was a fire reported in the school's Design & Technology block, within one of the Food Technology classrooms, from a faulty tumble dryer. All students and staff were evacuated and the students were later sent home. Two members of staff were sent to hospital, but both were released with no injuries from Furness General Hospital the same day. Because of this, the school was closed for two days, but reopened on Wednesday 21 September to all pupils. The DT block was reopened at the start of the second half term of the summer.

References

External links
School website
Ofsted report
Stats on BBC

Secondary schools in Westmorland and Furness
Educational institutions established in 1928
1928 establishments in England
Community schools in Westmorland and Furness
Dalton-in-Furness


The Council elections held in Wolverhampton on Thursday 4 May 1995 were one third, and 20 of the 60 seats were up for election.

During the 1995 election the Merry Hill ward had two seats contested due to a vacancy arising.

Prior to the election the constitution of the Council was:

Labour 33
Conservative 25
Liberal Democrats 3

Following the election the constitution of the Council was:

Labour 39
Conservative 19
Liberal Democrats 2

Election result

1995
1995 English local elections
1990s in the West Midlands (county)


Alan McCurrie (birth registered fourth ¼ 1953) is an English former professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1970s and 1980s. He played at representative level for Cumbria, and at club level for Hensingham in Whitehaven), Whitehaven (two spells), Wakefield Trinity (Heritage № 856), Oldham and Halifax, as a , i.e. number 9.

Background
Alan McCurrie's birth was registered in Whitehaven district, Cumberland, England.

Playing career

County honours
Alan McCurrie represented Cumbria while at Whitehaven in 1977, and at Wakefield Trinity between 1978 and 1982.

Challenge Cup Final appearances
Alan McCurrie played  in Wakefield Trinity's 3-12 defeat by Widnes in the 1979 Challenge Cup Final during the 1978–79 season at Wembley Stadium, London on Saturday 5 May 1979, in front of a crowd of a crowd of 94,218.

Club career
Alan McCurrie made his début for Wakefield Trinity against Batley in the John Player Trophy on Sunday 24 September 1978.

Genealogical information
Alan McCurrie is the father of the rugby league footballer; Steve McCurrie.

References

External links
Statistics at orl-heritagetrust.org.uk

1953 births
Living people
Cumbria rugby league team players
English rugby league players
Halifax R.L.F.C. players
Oldham R.L.F.C. players
Rugby league players from Whitehaven
Rugby league hookers
Wakefield Trinity players
Whitehaven R.L.F.C. players


Harvey J. Mallery was a Michigan politician.

Political life
The Flint City Commission select him as mayor in 1930 for a single year as the first City Commission Mayor under the 1929 charter.

References

Mayors of Flint, Michigan
20th-century American politicians