The Speaker of the Gibraltar Parliament is the presiding officer of the Gibraltar Parliament, the legislature of the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar. The current Speaker is Melvyn Farrell, who succeeded Adolfo Canepa on 19 November 2019

List of Speakers

Speakers of the Legislative Council
A Legislative Council, the predecessor of the parliament, was inaugurated on 23 November 1950. A Speaker was appointed in 1958.

Speakers of the Gibraltar Parliament
Between 1969 and 2007 the Gibraltar Parliament was styled as the House of Assembly.

References

Politics of Gibraltar
Gibraltar
House of Assembly, Speakers


Brother I'm Dying, published in 2007 by Alfred A. Knopf, is a family memoir by novelist Edwidge Danticat. In 2007, the title won the National Book Critics Circle Award and was also nominated for the National Book Award.

Background
Edwidge Danticat is a contemporary author of Haitian heritage. She was born on January 19, 1969, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti to a cab driver and a seamstress. By the time Danticat was four years of age, both of her parents had immigrated to New York City to seek the American Dream. After Danticat and her younger brother were left in Haiti by her parents, she was raised by her uncle and his wife.  Not knowing if she would ever see her parents again, they finally sent for her and her sibling when she was twelve years old to join them in New York. In 2002, she married Faidherbe Boyer and had two daughters.

Plot
“Brother, I'm Dying” is an autobiography narrative that begins in the country of Haiti and eventually ends in the United States. The author, and main character Edwidge Danticat, was born in Haiti in 1969. At the age of four she was left to be raised by her uncle while her parents moved to the United States on a work visa to pursue economic opportunities. It wasn't until the age of twelve that she was able to be reunited with her family. She falls in love, marries, and eventually has a child. Edwidge's father becomes terminally ill and she decides to write her family's life story so that it can be shared with relatives that are still living in Haiti.

Style
"Brother, I'm Dying" is an autobiography and memoir about a family and political history. The first-person plot features flashbacks throughout the book. The protagonist, who is also the author, goes from looking at past events to future events. She wrote a collection of facts from history that referenced official documents, memories, and story woven from past to present, to create a cohesive whole.

This is a vivid sort of memoir, influenced by the author's fiction writing.

Character
Edwidge Danticat is a Haitian Native.  She was born and raised in Haiti. Her father and mother left Haiti to move to the United States when Edwidge was just a toddler. She was cared for by her Uncle Joseph and Aunt Denise. In 2002, she moved to the United States and married her husband.  Shortly a few years later she received some happy and devastating news at the same time.  Edwidge found out she was expecting her first child which she was ecstatic.  Later on that day she discovered her father was in his last stage of pulmonary fibrosis.  Her father cannot communicate  with his brother in Haiti, so she decided to record their story before her father demise.

Publication history
 2007, USA, Alfred A. Knopf, division of Random House, Inc. , Pub date 4 September 2007, Hardback
 2008, USA, Vintage Books, division of Random House, Inc. , Pub date 8 September 2008, Paperback

Themes

Haiti
 Haiti is known as a poor country, constantly struck by natural disasters. As one photographer experienced, Haitians believe their country is so much more beautiful than broken.

Immigration
 An issue that often arises when dealing with immigration is communication. Danticat is left in Haiti after her father Mira emigrates to the United States. The lack of secondary communication creates an emotional hardship for Danticat when her letter communication with Mira lacks emotion and feeling. Lack of emotional attachment to her father will not begin to heal until she is able to emigrate to the US to be with her parents several years later. Immigration into a new country is a difficult experience and can be especially difficult when the whole family is not able to migrate at the same time.
 Transnational parenting is a common struggle faced by American immigrants. Parents move to America, then they spend most of their time working hard and saving every penny. Their hopes are to quickly reunite their family, but it often takes years.
 In Edwidge Danticat's book, she explains the struggles of an immigrant. In an interview, Danticat described how immigrants received mistreatment and abuse during her time. This was because of the people in charge of the immigrant policies. They thought that they were protecting their country, and did whatever they wanted to the immigrants. Because of this, Immigrants were being persecuted because it was normal for people to abuse them.
American Dream
 According to Amelia Iuvino, immigrants who are coming from other countries in search of the American dream find it difficult to accommodate other ways of life. Sometimes having luxury things or more money is not enough to be happy. Not everybody has the opportunity to achieve the American dream; some people have more access to education and jobs than others. Some immigrants, who do not have the same opportunity to study in a specific field, cannot get a good job and make a considerable amount of money when most of the companies require a high level of education and experience on it.
Krome Service Processing Center
 The Krome site was originally cleared to build a missile base in the 1960s during the Cold War. In the early 1980s after a large immigration of Cubans and Haitians, the site was converted by the Army Corps of Engineers to be a “turn-around facility” for illegal immigrants.  Even though the site wasn't created for long-term housing, from its conception immigrants were being held there for undefined periods.
 Krome Service Processing Center have been in the news several times over the years.  Back in 1996, New York Times published an article about Immigration and Naturalization employees attempted to mislead an assembly of House members about the issues they were having at the location.  The House members were investigation allegations about the overcrowding and security issues the facility was having.
 After a yearlong investigation conducted by the Justice Department's Inspector general, Michael R Bromwich the department found the facility agents to hide the fact they had an overcrowding issue released 58 detainees some with criminal records and relocated 45 detainees to another detention center in New Orleans.
 In his executive summary from Mr. Bromwich he stated, “The conduct of these officials in the context of the Congressional visit and during the course of the investigation is very disturbing, all the more so since the most egregious conduct was committed by persons in positions of substantial responsibility and leadership.”
 The facility may have deceived the delegation which came to see the facility back in 1995, with showing a facility being a well ran institution, however thanks to the honesty of employees at the facility sending a letter to the delegates informing them of the deception.

Healthcare
 Restrictions on healthcare over one's immigration status are claimed to violate a physicians’ “ethical responsibility to care for persons in medical need.” This issue is highlighted by the presumption that "clerks will probably screen patients for their immigration status, just as they currently screen them for their insurance status." As it is not uncommon for people to be denied care by hospitals due to insurance status, it would be reasonable to assume that the same would occur for those without proof of U.S. citizenship.

Reception
"Brother, I'm Dying", was named a Top 10 African-American Non-fiction book by Booklist in 2008.

Entertainment Weekly gave "Brother, I'm Dying" a B+.

Positive reviews from Library Journal, Booklist, and Publishers Weekly.

References

External links

2007 non-fiction books
Books about writers
Novels set in Haiti
Novels set in New York City
Alfred A. Knopf books
National Book Critics Circle Award-winning works


Donald R. Cronin was a Michigan mayor and politician.

Political life
The Flint City Commission selected Cronin as mayor for the years 1968-70.

References

Mayors of Flint, Michigan
Year of birth missing
2006 deaths
20th-century American politicians


Philip Lawrence may also refer to:

 Philip Lawrence (headmaster) (1947–1999), Irish school headmaster, gang violence murder victim
 Philip Kissick Lawrence (died 1841), U.S. federal judge
 Philip Lawrence (songwriter) (born 1974), American songwriter and producer who is part of the production team The Smeezingtons
 Philip Lawrence (politician), Canadian politician

See also
Dick Lawrence (Phillip Richard Lawrence, 1915–1960), Australian politician


Chaverim (, literally, "companions"), also spelled Chaveirim, is an umbrella name for Orthodox Jewish volunteer organizations with locations all over the world, they provide roadside assistance and other non-medical emergency help at home or on the road. All services are free. The organizations are supported by local donations.

History
Chaverim was started in Monsey, New York by Rabbi Shaya Zev Erps in July 1999. The grassroots organization opened a hotline to assist stranded motorists and elderly and handicapped individuals. Since its founding, the Boro Park Chaverim has logged over 100,000 calls, with hundreds of calls received daily.

Activities

Chaverim volunteers respond to calls at any hour and perform the following duties, including, but not limited to:
Assist people locked out of their home or vehicle
Repair flat tires and pump low tires
Boost car batteries
Assist cars stuck in snow, mud, etc.
Give rides to motorists whose cars are disabled
Transport families to weddings during snowstorms
Give directions for those in unfamiliar areas
Obtain gas if someone's gas tank runs dry
Assist with burst pipes
Assist with loss of essential services such as gas, electric, water, or telephone
Provide members for a shiva minyan

Car inspections
Chaverim of Boro Park provides free 10-minute safety inspections of vehicles prior to the August summer vacation period to draw drivers' attention to safety issues with their cars. Free inspections of tire pressure, blinkers, fluids, spare tire, and other car needs are also offered before the summer vacation by the Lakewood Chaverim.

Holiday assistance
In 2010 Chaverim of Queens initiated a "Don't Drink and Drive" campaign on Purim which provided drivers to take home inebriated residents.

Awards
In July 2008 the Lakewood Chaveirim were the recipients of a state resolution presented by New Jersey Senator Robert Singer. In July 2011 the same group was given a special award for community service by the Lakewood Police Department. Police Chief Rob Lawson cited the group's help during a blackout when members volunteered to direct traffic at intersections, as well as their assistance to people locked out of their cars or homes.

Collaborative efforts
Chaverim volunteers often work together with those of the Shomrim, Shmira and Hatzalah organizations to assist residents during crippling weather events, and missing persons searches.

In 2011, Brooklyn City Councilman David Greenfield announced a partnership with Boro Park Chaverim to identify potholes in Flatbush and Midwood after severe winter weather in 2010.

Many Chaverim volunteers are professional tradesmen who donate their professional skills to provide emergency assistance.

Locations
Chaverim organizations are located in:

United States

New York
 Brooklyn (including Borough Park, Sea Gate, Williamsburg, Crown Heights and Flatbush)
 Manhattan (including Washington Heights)
 The Catskills
 Staten Island
 Five Towns
 Queens (including Far Rockaway, which is separate)
 Rockland County (including Monsey)
 Kiryas Joel

New Jersey
 Jersey Shore
 Lakewood
 Passaic
 Bergen County
 Toms River
 Cherry Hill
 Union County
Middlesex county

Other

 North East Pennsylvania (NEPA)
 Boston
 Baltimore
Chicago
Houston
Waterbury
West Hartford
 Cleveland
 Detroit
 Iowa (primarily in Postville, IA)
 Los Angeles
 Phoenix & Scottsdale, Arizona
 Philadelphia
 South Florida
 Greater Washington DC (primarily in Silver Spring)

Australia
 Melbourne

Belgium
 Antwerp

Canada
 Montreal
 Toronto

United Kingdom
 London (Stamford Hill, NW London)
 Manchester

Similar organizations
Yedidim, an independent offshoot of New York's Chaverim, operates in Israel since 2006 with 18,000 volunteers. This volunteer group responds to calls to jumpstart cars, change flat tires, fix home plumbing and electrical problems, and any other non-medical request. The founder of the organization is Meir Wiener. The organization is headed by Israel Almasi and Lazzy Stern.

See also
 Motor club

References

External links
 Chaveirim Demonstration Removing and Plugging Tire (video)
 Lakewood Police Department Awards Ceremony and Promotions Chaveirim Award (video)
 "Lakewood Gym Sponsors Evening Of Relaxation For Chaveirim Members"
 Chaverim Stories

1999 establishments in New York (state)
Organizations established in 1999
Volunteer organizations in the United States
Jewish community organizations
Orthodox Jews and Judaism in New York City
Jews and Judaism in Brooklyn
Jews and Judaism in Baltimore
Non-profit organizations based in the United States


Chariots of Fire is a British film released in 1981.

Chariots of Fire may also refer to:

Chariots of Fire (play), the 2012 play based on the film
 A line from William Blake's poem And did those feet in ancient time to which the film's title alludes.
 The chariot of Elijah the prophet in which he rode to heaven to which the Blake poem alludes.

In music
 Chariots of Fire (album), the original score album from the film
 "Chariots of Fire" (instrumental), the instrumental theme from the film
 "Chariots of Fire", an unreleased single by Bodies Without Organs
 "Chariots of Fire", a song by Bathory from their album Under the Sign of the Black Mark
 "Chariots of Fire", a song by Al Green from The Belle Album (1977)
 "Chariots of Fire", a song by Raury from his album Indigo Child

In other uses
 Chariots of Fire (race), an annual race in Cambridge, England
 Chariots of Fire (harness race), a horse race in Australia
 Articulated buses in London, which were nicknamed "Chariots of Fire" following a series of fires involving the buses.


Parelloop (Pearl Run in English) is an annual 10 kilometres road running competition usually held in late March or early April in Brunssum, Netherlands. The inaugural edition was held in 1989.

In 2009, Micah Kogo broke the world record for the 10 km road distance, previously held by Haile Gebrselassie. Since the mid-1990s, the competition has been dominated by Kenyan athletes, with only three winners coming from outside the East African nation since 1999.

Winners
Key:

References

External links
 Official website

10K runs
Athletics competitions in the Netherlands
Recurring sporting events established in 1989
Sports competitions in Limburg (Netherlands)
Sport in Brunssum


The 1968–69 ABA season was the second season for the American Basketball Association. Two teams relocated: Minnesota Muskies became the Miami Floridians. The Pittsburgh Pipers moved to Minnesota and became the Minnesota Pipers. Two others relocated within their territory. The Anaheim Amigos became the Los Angeles Stars. The New Jersey Americans became the New York Nets. The season ended with the Oakland Oaks capturing their first ABA championship.

Final standings

Eastern Division

Western Division

Asterisk (*) denotes playoff team

Bold – ABA Champions

Awards and honors

 ABA Most Valuable Player Award: Mel Daniels, Indiana Pacers
 Rookie of the Year: Warren Jabali, Oakland Oaks
 Coach of the Year: Alex Hannum, Oakland Oaks
 Playoffs MVP: Warren Jabali, Oakland Oaks
 All-Star Game MVP: John Beasley, Dallas Chaparrals
All-ABA First Team
 Connie Hawkins, Minnesota Pipers (2nd selection)
 Rick Barry, Oakland Oaks
 Mel Daniels, Indiana Pacers (2nd selection)
 Jimmy Jones, New Orleans Buccaneers
 Larry Jones, Denver Rockets (2nd selection)
All-ABA Second Team
 John Beasley, Dallas Chaparrals (2nd selection)
 Doug Moe, Oakland Oaks (1st Second Team selection, 2nd overall selection)
 Red Robbins, New Orleans Buccaneers
 Donnie Freeman, Miami Floridians
 Louie Dampier, Kentucky Colonels
All-Rookie Team
 Ron Boone, Dallas Chaparrals
 Warren Jabali, Oakland Oaks
 Larry Miller, Los Angeles Stars
 Gene Moore, Kentucky Colonels
 Walter Piatkowski, Denver Rockets

See also

1969 ABA Playoffs

References

ABA


Peter Lewis Allen (born 1957) is an American former academic, whose research concerns included culture, history, and sexuality.

Education and career
Allen earned a B.A. in classics and English from Haverford College, and a Ph.D. in comparative literature from the University of Chicago.  He taught literature for a time at institutions including Princeton University, the University of Southern California, and Pomona College.  He went back to earn an M.B.A. from the Wharton School in 2000, at which time he left academia for the business world.  He has held positions at McKinsey & Company, at Google University, and at Agoda.

Academic work
Allen's research was around "culture, history, and sexuality".

In 2007, Allen donated his collection of safe sex pamphlets to the Fales Library at NYU.  This collection contains material relating to sexual health issues from 1974-2007.

Books

References

1957 births
Living people
Gender studies academics
Haverford College alumni
University of Chicago alumni
Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania alumni
University of South Carolina faculty
Pomona College faculty
Princeton University faculty


Neen Sollars is a village and civil parish in south east Shropshire, England.

It is situated close to the border with Worcestershire, three miles south of the small market town of Cleobury Mortimer. Other large local centres of population include Ludlow, situated 12 miles to the west, which has an estimated population of 10,500 and Kidderminster, located 12.5 miles to the north east in the county of Worcestershire, which has a population of over 55,000.

The River Rea, which was historically known as the River Neen, flows by the village. The area surrounding Neen Sollars is pretty hilly, with maps showing several hills such as Neens Hill to the south and Birch Hill to the north. It is estimated that Neen Sollars lies between approximately 70 and 100 metres above sea level.

The village of Neen Sollars was formerly known as Neen Baldwin until about the year 1200. The new name came about from the merging of two family names, Baldwin le Poer and De Solers, when Elena and Eustacia Baldwin were married to members of the Sollars family.

Amenities
There is a popular public house, the Live and Let Live, which serves food and real ale, it is from the 13th century and rated 4.5 stars.  There is a Church of England church located within the village called All Saints. There is also a phone box in the village.

There was once a school situated within the village that served the children of Neen Sollars and the neighbouring village Milson. Entering the 20th century the villages were thriving agriculturally and the school had in excess of 60 children. However, when the advancements in farming techniques and technologies displaced many residents, the local populations diminished and the school closed in 1951. The closest primary school serving the village is three miles north in the small town of Cleobury Mortimer.

Neen Sollars railway station closed in 1962 and the railway has been lifted. The nearest centre for bus and train services is situated in the town of Ludlow.

History & Families
Neen Sollars has roots dating from the time of the Saxons. Perhaps the earliest recorded mention of Neen Sollars in English literature is in The Domesday Book in 1086. The first recorded owner of large estates in Shropshire, in particular the manor of All Saints located amongst the villages of Neen Sollars and neighbouring Milson, was Siward the Saxon. According to the Domesday Book he appears to have held it from Osbern FitzRichard in the time of 1086. It was Osbern's grandson Osbern fitz Hugh who gave Neen to the Baldwin family. When two of the three Baldwin daughters married members of the De Solars family the village was then formally known as Neen Sollars. The De Solars family also owned land in Herefordshire including Sutton Frene near Hereford. In 1327 nineteen inhabitants were assessed for the King's Subsidy, which noted that "nearly all of whom were distinctly well-to-do". One of the men assessed to be the most wealthy, was John Corbet who held Merebrook and Tetneshull (now known as Tetshill).

Agriculture
The village is very much based around agriculture and has been for many centuries. This can be proven by looking at a quote transcribed from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland, dating from 1868, that states Neen Sollars as being "wholly agricultural". The geology of the area is also described as being chiefly clay with a gravel subsoil. The farming industry has been a main sector of employment for the residents with the 1801 census showing that over 50% of the village's occupants were employed in agricultural activities. There are still several farms located within the parish of Neen Sollars.

Population Change
The population of the village has never been particularly high but it has fluctuated over the centuries. This is not an uncommon occurrence amongst small villages of this type. Dating from the 1801 census the population was recorded at 197. By the time the 1841 census came around the population had increased to 250. In John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales, published between 1870 and 1872, the population was counted as 189. The overall trend has recently been a slow and steady decline in the number of residents living in the village. The most likely explanation for the decrease in population is the advances in farm technologies. Many jobs were lost when machinery was introduced more widely causing some people to leave in search of work.

See also
Listed buildings in Neen Sollars

References

External links

Villages in Shropshire
Civil parishes in Shropshire


William Watling Peplow (1885 – after 1914) was an English professional footballer who played in the Football League for Birmingham and in the Southern League for Bristol Rovers. He played as an outside right.

Peplow was born in Derby, and played for Redditch before he joined Birmingham in April 1907. He made his debut in the First Division on 16 September 1907 in a 1–0 defeat at Bury. Peplow played 17 games in his one season with Birmingham, but failed to score and seemed lacking in pace, though the quality of his crossing was good. He moved to the Southern League with Bristol Rovers in 1908, and improved so much that he was invited for a trial for the England team, but he was not selected. In seven seasons, before the First World War put an end to his career, Peplow scored 42 goals in 216 Southern League appearances.

References

1885 births
Year of death missing
Footballers from Derby
English men's footballers
Men's association football forwards
Redditch United F.C. players
Birmingham City F.C. players
Bristol Rovers F.C. players
English Football League players
Southern Football League players
Date of birth missing
Place of death missing


Sir William Henry Wilson-Todd, 1st Baronet (17 April 1828 – 10 April 1910) was a British Conservative Party politician.  He was elected as member of parliament (MP) for the Howdenshire constituency at the 1892 general election, and held the seat until he stepped down from Parliament at the 1906 general election.

He was made a baronet on 31 August 1903, of Halnaby Hall, Yorkshire.

References

External links

1828 births
1910 deaths
Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies
UK MPs 1892–1895
UK MPs 1895–1900
UK MPs 1900–1906
Baronets in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom


Robert Arcq (1925–1994) was a Belgian writer, working mainly in the Walloon language.  A native of the area around Jumet, he was active in the vicinity of Charleroi. I included in his output are a number of aphorisms and a book of memoirs, published in 1980.

Belgian writers in Walloon
1925 births
1994 deaths
Writers from Charleroi


David Lawson may refer to:
 David J. Lawson (1930–2007), American pastor
 David M. Lawson (born 1951), American judge
 David Lawson (politician), Scottish-Canadian politician
 David Lawson (footballer) (born 1947), former football goalkeeper
 Dave Lawson (born 1978), Australian comedian
 David G. Lawson (born 1946), member of the Delaware Senate


Alain Richard (born 1 May 1985) is a Swiss ski mountaineer.

Selected results
 2002:
 1st, Patrouille de la Maya B-course, together with Marcel Marti and William Marti
 2003:
 1st (juniors), Trophée des Gastlosen, together with Marcel Marti
 2004:
 1st, Trophée des Gastlosen, together with Pierre Bruchez
 3rd, World Championship relay race (together with Alexander Hug, Pierre Bruchez and Rico Elmer)
 2005:
 1st (espoirs), Trophée des Gastlosen, together with Pierre Bruchez
 2006:
 6th  "senior I" class ranking, Patrouille des Glaciers (together with Mathieu Charvoz and Pierre Bruchez)

External links
 Alain Richard at Skimountaineering.org

References

1985 births
Living people
Swiss male ski mountaineers


Matthias Reim (born 26 November 1957) is a German pop and Schlager singer. His 1990 single "Verdammt, ich lieb' dich" ("Damn, I love you") was a hit in several European countries and spent 16 consecutive weeks at the number 1 spot in the German charts. He unexpectedly returned 23 years later to the top on the charts with "Unendlich" in 2013.

Early life
Reim was born on 26 November 1957 in Korbach and grew up in Homberg. His father was the director of the gymnasium in Homberg. After receiving his Abitur, he began his undergraduate studies in the German and English languages as well as Germanistic and Anglistic literatures in Göttingen. This took 18 terms – this is above average, as he spent time predominantly in the music studio and not in the lecture-room.

Career

1980–89: Fallen Dice and Fair Fax
Reim's career began as a songwriter, writing for Bernhard Brink, Roberto Blanco and Tina York. He played in a rock band called Fallen Dice with Pete Goldenberg and Norbert Preis. Their debut album, Pasch 1, was released in 1981. He spent a brief time as lead singer of the band Aqua before their dissolusion in 1984. In 1986, Reim formed the synthpop duo Fair Fax with Jörg Wiesner. They released one single, "Satellite Dream", through Hansa Records.

1990–99: Solo career
Reim's debut single "Verdammt, ich lieb' dich" ("Damn, I love you") topped the German Singles Chart for sixteen consecutive weeks in 1990. It also reached no. 1 in Austria, Belgium, the Netherlands and Switzerland. His debut album, Reim, was released through Polydor on 15 June 1990. He released a further nine albums through Polydor, including 1994's Zauberland which was re-recorded in English the following year.

2000–2015: The Electrola Years
Reim began to see increased commercial success again in the 2000s after signing with Electrola.

In September 2004, Reim released the single "Vergiß Es (Forget It)" with Bonnie Tyler. It featured on Reim's compilation album, Déjà Vu, and reached no. 64 on the German Singles Chart. They recorded a second duet on Reim's thirteenth album, Sieben Leben (2010).

In 2011, Reim released a Christmas album titled Die große Weihnachtsparty, which includes a German cover of "Last Christmas" by Wham!.

In 2013, Reim topped the German Albums Chart for a second time with Unendlich.

2016–present: Recent work
Reim moved to RCA Records in 2016 for the release of his sixteenth album, Phoenix, which peaked at no. 2 in Germany. His subsequent albums Meteor (2018), MR20 (2019) and Matthias (2022) all peaked within the Top 3.

Discography

Albums

References

External links
 [ Biography of Reim] on AllMusic
 Biography of Reim on IMDb

1957 births
Living people
People from Korbach
German male singers
German male singer-songwriters
German singer-songwriters
Schlager musicians
University of Göttingen alumni


Afonso of Lencastre (1597–1654) was a Portuguese nobleman, son of the 3rd Dukes of Aveiro, Álvaro and Juliana of Lencastre. This family descended from the Infante George of Lencastre, therefore they had royal blood.

By a royal decree dated from 8 April 1627, King Philip III of Portugal (aka Philip IV of Spain) granted him the new title of Marquis of Porto Seguro.

In spite of the Portuguese revolution of 1 December 1640, Afonso remained faithful to the Spanish Habsburgs. To reward his fidelity, King Philip IV granted him, by a decree issued on 23 March 1642, the new titles of Duke of Abrantes and Marquis of Sardoal. However, as Philip IV was no longer King of Portugal, these two titles were never recognise by the Portuguese authorities.

D. Afonso was born in his family palace, in Azeitão (near Setúbal), Portugal, and, on 15 July 1627, he married a Spanish lady, Ana de Sande de Padilla, 2nd Marchioness of Valdefuentes. They had 4 children:
 Alvaro (1630- ? ), died in childhood;
 Luís, died in childhood;
 Agustin de Lencastre Padilla y Bobadilla (1639–1720), Duke of Abrantes. Married to Joana de Noronha de Silva (c.1640-1690).
 Maria (1639–1692), married in 1654 to the Spanish Pedro de Leiva-Lacerda, Marquis de Landrada.

Ancestry

Bibliography
"Nobreza de Portugal e do Brasil" – Vol. III, page 173. Published by Zairol Lda., Lisbon 1989.

Portuguese nobility
101
1597 births
1654 deaths


Augenijus Vaškys is a retired Lithuanian professional basketball player. He has played professionally in Lithuania, Israel, Poland, Estonia and Finland. Vaskys' most successful seasons include playing in Poland in Czarni Slupsk as well in Estonia in Tartu Ülikool/Rock. Was the coach of the Estonian basketball team KK Valga.

Honours
 Lithuanian League
 Runner-up: 1996–97
 Third place: 2005–06
 Estonian League: 2003–04
 Runner-up: 2004–05
 Estonian Cup: 2004
 Finnish League
 Runner-up: 2006–07
 Baltic League
 Third place: 2005–06

References

External links
Profile  at basketpedya.com

1972 births
Living people
Bnei Hertzeliya basketball players
Israeli Basketball Premier League players
Lithuanian expatriate basketball people in Estonia
Lithuanian expatriate basketball people in Israel
Lithuanian men's basketball players
Point guards
University of Tartu basketball team players
Korvpalli Meistriliiga players
Lithuanian expatriate basketball people in Poland


The Communes of Angola () are administrative units in Angola after municipalities. The 163 municipalities of Angola are divided into communes. There are a total of 618 communes of Angola:

Bengo Province
Ambriz
Kakalo-Kahango
Ícolo e Bengo
Cassoneca
Bela Vista
Tabi
Zala
Kikabo
Barra do Dande
Muxiluando
Kixico
Kanacassala
Gombe
Kicunzo
Kage
Mabubas
Caxito
Ucua
Piri
Kibaxe
São José das Matas
Kiaje *Paredes
Bula-Atumba
Pango-luquem
Kabiri
Bom Jesus
Catete
Calomboloca
Kazua
Muxima
Dembo Chio
Mumbondo
Kixinje

Benguela Province
Alda Lara
Asfalto
Babaera
Balombo
Benfica
Benguela
Biópio
Bocoio
Candumbo
Catumbela
Chigongo
Chikuma
Chila
Chindumbo
Chongorói
Compão
Cote
Cubal
Cubal do Lumbo
Dombe Grande
Lobito Canata
Catumbela
Egito
Monte Belo
Passe
Caimbambo
Catengue
Baia Farta
Cupupa
Imbala
Quendo
Chiongoroi
Capupa
Bolongueira
Ganda
Babaera
Kasseque
Chicurnu
Ebanga

Bié Province
Munhango
Caivera
Sachinemuna
Andulo
Belo Horizonte
Cambândua
Chicala
Chinguar
Chipeta
Chitembo
Chiuca
Chivaúlo
Dando
Gamba
Kachingues
Kaiei
Kalucinga
Kamakupa
Kangote
Kassumbe
Katabola
Kuemba
Kuito
Kunhinga
Kunje
Kutato
Kwanza
Luando
Lúbia
Malengue
Mumbué
Mutumbo
Nharea
Ringoma
Sande
Soma Kwanza
Santo António da Muinha
Trumba
Umpulo

Cabinda Province

Miconje
Luali
Cabinda
Malembo
Tanto-Zinze
Landana
Massabi
Inhuca
Necuto
Belize

Cuando Cubango Province
Baixo Longa
Bondo
Chinguanja
Cuangar
Dirico
Kaiundo
Kalai
Kuchi
Kueio
Kuito Kuanavale
Kutato
Kutuile
Longa
Luengue
Luiana
Maue

Cuanza Norte Province
Aldeia Nova
Banga
Danje - ia - Menha
Dondo
Golungo Alto
Kaenda
Kakulo
Kamabatela
Kambondo
Kanhoca
Kiangombe
Kiculungo
Kilombo dos Dembos
Kissola
Luinga
Lucala
Massangano
Maúa
Ndalatando
Quiage
Quibaxe
São Pedro da Kilemba
Samba Cajú
Samba Lukala
Tango
Zenza do Itombe
Bindo
Bolongongo
Cariamba
Terreiro
Quiquemba
Cacongo
Cerca
Camome
Cavunga
Kiluanje

Cuanza Sul Province
Assango
Botera
Dumbi
Ebo
Gabela
Gangula
Kabuta
Kalulo
Kapolo
Kariango
Kassanje
Kassongue
Kibala
Kienha
Kikombo
Kilenda
Kissanga Kungo
Kissongo
Konda
Kungo e Sanga
Kunjo
Munenga
Mussende
Ndala Kachibo
Pambangala
Quissanga
Sanga
São Lucas
Ucu–Seles
Waco Cungo
Sumbe
Porto Amboim
Quipaze
Atôme
Quirimbo
Ambovia

Cunene Province
Bangula
Cacite
Castilhos
Chitado
Evale
Humbe
Kafima
Kahama, Angola
Kalonga
Kuvati
Kuvelai
Môngua
Mukope
Mupa
Namakunde
Naulila
Ombala yo Mungu
Ondjiva
Oximolo
Shiede
Xangongo
Nehone Cafima
Evale
Simporo
yonde
Xagongo
Oncócua
Otthinjau

Huambo Province
Alto–Uama
Bailundo
Bimbe
Chiaca
Chinhama
Chinjenje
Chipipa
Chiumbo
Huambo
Kaála
Kachiungo
Kakoma
Kalenga
Kalima
Kambuengo
Katabola
Katata
Kuima
Lépi
Londuimbali
Longonjo
Lunge
Mbave
Mungo
Sambo
Tchipeio
Thicala Yhilohanga
Ukuma
Ussoke
Hengue-Caculo
Ecuma
Tchiahana
Chilata
Tchiumbo
Hungulo
Mundundo

Huíla Province
Cacula
Cacula-Sede
Capunda-Cavilongo
Chiange-Sede
Chibemba
Chibia-sede
Chicomba
Chipindo
Dongo
Galangue
Gungue
Humpata-Sede
Jamba
Jau
Kakonda
Kalépi
Kalukembe
Kassinga
Kilengue Kusse
Kutenda
Kuvango
Lubango
Matala
Ngola
Quihita
Quipungo-Sede
Tchipungo
Uaba
Santo Arina
Huila
Quilengues
Dinde
Imulo
Degola
Cusse
Bambi
Vincungo
Tchibembe
Capelango
Mulondo

Luanda Province
Bairro Operário
Barra do Cuanza
Benfica e Mussulo
Cacuaco
Camama
Cassequel
Cazenga
Corimba
Da Ilha
Futungo de Belas
Golfe (Luanda)
Havemos de Voltar
Hoji Ya Henda
Kinanga
Margal
Neves Bendinha
Ngola Kiluange
Prenda
Ramiro (Luanda)
Rangel (Luanda)
Rocha Pinto
Sambizanga
Tala Hady
Terra Nova (Luanda)
Vila Estoril
Cuca (Luanda)
Ilha do Cabo
Patrice Lumuba
Maculusso
Kilamba Kiaxi
Palanca (Luanda)
Malanga (Luanda)
Samba, Angola
Funda
Quicolo
Viana, Angola
Calumbo

Lunda Norte Province
Iongo
Kachimo
Kamaxilo
Kambulo
Kamissombo
Kanzar
Kapenda Kamulemba
Kaungula
Kuango
Lóvua
Luachimo
Luia
Luremo
Xa–Cassau
Xá-Muteba
Xinge
Lucapa
Sombo
Capaia
Thitato
Cuilo
Caluango
Iubalo
Muvulege
Luangue
Cassengue
Quitapa.

Lunda Sul Province
Alto-Chikapa
Chiluage
Dala, Angola
Kakolo
Kassai-Sul
Kukumbi
Mona-Kimbundo
Mukonda
Murieje
Saurimo
Sombo
Xassengue
Cazeje
Luma Cassai

Malanje Province
Cacuso
Cinguengue
Kacuso
Pungo-Andongo
Cuale
Quinge
Cambundy
Catembo
Dumba (Malanje)
Cabango
Tala Mungongo
Bembo (Malanje)
Caombo
Micanda
Luquembo
Capunda
Dombo
Marimba, Angola
Quimbango
Quihuhu
Muquize
Catala
Quirima
Saltar
Cazongo
Cainda
Calunda
Lumbala N'guimbo
Candundo
Macondo
Lumbala-Ngimbo
Chiume
Lumai
Lutembo
Mussuma
Ninda
Sessa
Kalamagia
Kalandula
Kambaxe
Kambo, Angola
Kambondo
Kangandala
Kangando
Karibo
Kateco-Kangola
Kaxinga
Kela
Kimambamba
Kissele
Kiuaba-Nzoji
Kizenga
Kota
Kunda-iá-Baze
Lombe
Malanje
Massango
Mikixi
Milando
Moma
Mufuma
Mukari
Ngola-Luije
Sokeko
Tembo-Aluma
Xandele

Moxico Province
Alto Zambeze
Chiume
Kaianda
Kalunda
Kamanongue
Kangamba
Kangumbe
Kavungo
Lago-Dilolo
Léua
Liangongo
Lovua
Luakano
Lukusse
Lumbala-Kakengue
Lumbala N'guimbo
Lumeje Kameia
Lutembo
Lutuai ou Muangai,
Macondo
Mussuma
Ninda
Tempué
Sessa
Cassamba
Muié

Namibe Province
Bentiaba
Bibala-Sede
Cainde
Caitou
Camacuio-Sede
Chingo (Namibe)
Kapagombe
Lola (Namibe)
Mamué
Mucaba
Muinho
Savo-Mar
Saint Martin of the Tigers
Tômbua
Torre do Tambo
Virei-Sede
Yona (Namibe)
Namibe
Lucira

Uíge Province
Aldeia Viçosa
Alto Zaza
Bembe
Beu
Buengas
Bungo
Cambembe
Cuilo Pombo
Dimuca
Kinvuenga
Lucanga
Mabaia
Macuba
Mbanza Nnosso
Quinzala
Sacandica
Uamba
Vista Alegre (Uíge)
Uíge
Negage
Dimuca
Quisseque
Puri, Angola
Cangola
Mengo
Caiongo
Sanza Pompo
Milunga
Macocola
Massau
Macolo
Quimbele
Cuango
Icoca
Nova Esperança (Uíge)
Qitexe
Cuilo-Camboso
Cambamba
Songo
Nova Caipenba
Quipedro
Camatambo
Lembua
Petecussso
Maquela do Zombo
Quibocolo
Cuilo-Futa

Zaire Province
Kanda
Kelo
Kiende
Kindeji
Kinzau
Kiximba
Kuimba
Loje-Kibala
Luvu
Mangue Grande
Mbanza Kongo
Mbuela
Mussera
Nkalambata
Nóqui
Nzeto
Pedra de Feitiço
Soyo
Sumba
Caluca
Nadinba
Buela
Luvaca
Lufico
Mpala Lulendo
Loge
Tomboco
Quingombe
Caluca
Nadimba
Buela

See also
Provinces of Angola
Municipalities of Angola

External links
List of communes

Subdivisions of Angola
Angola, Communes
Angola 3
Angola geography-related lists
Angola


Huberdeau is a village and municipality in the Laurentides region of Quebec, Canada, part of the Les Laurentides Regional County Municipality. It is located along the western banks of the Rouge River.

Demographics
Population trend:
 Population in 2011: 894 (2006 to 2011 population change: -3.2%)
 Population in 2006: 924
 Population in 2001: 918
 Population in 1996: 942
 Population in 1991: 903

Private dwellings occupied by usual residents: 409 (total dwellings: 531)

Mother tongue:
 English as first language: 6.4%
 French as first language: 89.5%
 English and French as first language: 1.2%
 Other as first language: 2.9%

Education

Sir Wilfrid Laurier School Board operates English-language schools:
 Arundel Elementary School in Arundel
 Sainte Agathe Academy (for high school only) in Sainte-Agathe-des-Monts

References

Incorporated places in Laurentides
Municipalities in Quebec


Ole Bornemann Bull (31 August 1842 – 10 April 1916) was a Norwegian physician and ophthalmologist.

He was born in Arendal in Aust-Agder, Norway.  He was the son of parish priest August Theodor Bull (1809–1882) and Theodora Regina Madsen (1816–1852).

He was a student at the  Royal Frederick University  (now University of Oslo). He enrolled as a student in 1859 and graduated with the cand.med. degree in 1869. He spent the years 1872 to 1876 in the Minneapolis. He was hired at Rikshospitalet at Oslo in 1878 and  started a medical research career. He took the dr.med. degree in 1881, and was a research fellow of ophthalmology from 1882 to 1885. He issued several publications after this, and received the Crown Prince Gold Medal in 1893 for one of his works.

Bull married twice; with Marie Cathrine Lund (1843-1884) and Kaja Constance Steenberg (1855-1939).  He was the father of Anders Henrik Bull, Fredrik Rosing Bull, Jens Bull and Johan Grønlund Bull.

References

1842 births
1916 deaths
People from Arendal
University of Oslo alumni
Oslo University Hospital people
Norwegian ophthalmologists
Norwegian medical researchers
Norwegian expatriates in the United States


Tamsui District (Hokkien POJ: Tām-chúi; Hokkien Tâi-lô: Tām-tsuí; Mandarin Pinyin: Dànshuǐ) is a seaside district in New Taipei City, Taiwan adjacent to the Tamsui River and overlooking the Taiwan Strait. The name "Tamsui" means "fresh water" in Mandarin Chinese. Although modest in size (population 189,271), Tamsui plays a significant role in Taiwanese history and culture.

Name

Historical
The Ketagalan aborigines called the location around modern Tamsui Hoba, meaning "stream's mouth." Hoba transliterated into Taiwanese Hokkien as Hobe. Historical works in English have referred to the place as "Hobe," "Hobé," or "Hobe Village." 17th-century Spanish colonists labeled the region Casidor and the Tamsui River Kimalon. Dutch records reference the names Tamsuy and Tampsui but also refer to another "Lower Tamsuy" in southern Taiwan.

Pastor George Leslie Mackay popularized "Tamsui" as the English-language transliteration in his 1895 book From Far Formosa. "Tamsui" is consistent with Hokkien literary readings, and (possibly by chance) is equal to the Church Romanization of an older pronunciation (Tām-súi) minus tone markings and hyphen. By 1900, the "Tamsui" variant was already well-known and featured prominently in two English-language maps of the area. However, some naming confusion persisted, as evidenced by United States diplomat James W. Davidson's 1903 book The Island of Formosa. Davidson lists "Tamsui, Tamshuy, Tamshui, Tamsoui, [and] Tan-sui" as acceptable spellings and pronunciations.

Historically, the term "Tamsui" is ambiguous, as "it may mean the harbor, the river, the village of Hobe, Twatutia, or Banka, and it may mean the whole district."

Modern
From 1950 until the 2010 creation of New Taipei City, Tamsui was officially "Tamsui Township" (; Hokkien POJ: Tām-chúi-tìn; Hokkien Tâi-lô: Tām-tsuí-tìn) in the former Taipei County. The spelling "Danshui" (from Hànyǔ Pīnyīn ), formerly used officially by the Taiwan government, Taipei Metro, and other sources, is based on the Mandarin pronunciation. Having long used "Tamsui" as the official English name, the local government of the district informed the national government in 2011 that "Tamsui" rather than "Danshui" should be used in English.

History

Spanish colony
The Spanish arrived in the area of Tamsui in the 17th century. In the fall of 1629, the Spanish established the first major non-aboriginal settlement comprising the town and mission of Santo Domingo. The Spanish occupied northern Taiwan for the purpose of securing Spanish interests in the Philippines against the Dutch (who were already established in the South of Taiwan by then), the British, and the Portuguese, as well as for facilitating trade with China and Japan.

In 1642, the Spanish were expelled from Taiwan by the Dutch. The Spanish had already abandoned their settlement in Tamsui in 1638 and the Dutch built a new fort which they named Fort Anthonio (after the Governor-General of the Dutch East India Company Anthonio van Diemen). It is today known as Angmo Siaa () and is the main building of the Fort San Domingo museum complex. In addition to "pacifying" the aboriginal tribes in the area, the Dutch also encouraged the immigration and settlement of the area by Han Chinese, as well as expanding the production and trade of sulfur, animal skins, and other indigenous resources.

The Dutch left Fort Zeelandia in Taiwan in 1662 following their defeat by Koxinga at the Siege of Fort Zeelandia, who continued the policy of increasing Han Chinese immigration until the surrender of his grandson Zheng Keshuang to the Qing Dynasty in 1683. In 1668, the Dutch left Keelung after getting harassed by aboriginals from Tamsui.

Qing dynasty

Because of its proximity to mainland China, as well as its location in a natural harbor, Tamsui quickly became a major fishing and trade port. The Qing naval patrol also established an outpost in Tamsui in 1808. In 1862, the Qing government opened Tamsui to foreign trade under the terms of the Treaty of Tientsin, exporting tea, camphor, sulfur, coal, opium, and dyes. By the mid-19th century Tamsui had become the largest port in Taiwan, boasting a sizable foreign population as well as a British consulate at Fort Santo Domingo.

Canadian medical doctor and missionary George Leslie Mackay arrived in Tamsui on 9 March 1872, proceeding to establish Taiwan's first hospitals in Western medicine and formal educational facilities, including Oxford College (now part of Aletheia University), the oldest European-style higher-education institution in Taiwan by some measure.

During the Sino-French War the French attempted an invasion of Taiwan during the Keelung Campaign. Liu Mingchuan, who was leading the defence of Taiwan, recruited Aboriginals to serve alongside the Chinese soldiers in fighting against the French. The French were defeated at the Battle of Tamsui, and the Qing forces pinned the French down at Keelung in an eight-month-long campaign before the French withdrew.

In 1884, the harbour of Tamsui was blockaded by the French Navy under the command of Admiral Amédée Courbet, during the Sino-French War. The French were defeated at the Battle of Tamsui by the Chinese and, according to traditional accounts, with the divine assistance of the Goddess Mazu.

Japanese rule

By the time Taiwan was ceded to Japan following the end of the Sino-Japanese War in 1895, Tamsui's position as a seaport was beginning to wane due to the accumulation of sediments in the Tamsui River. By the 20th century, most of Tamsui's port operations had moved to Keelung, and the local economy had switched primarily to agriculture. However, public infrastructure construction projects by the Japanese led to Tamsui's rise as a local administrative and cultural center.

In the early years of Japanese rule (1895–1945), the population of the city was nearly 6,000. From 1920, under the prefecture system, Tamsui was called , and was governed under Tamsui District of Taihoku Prefecture.

Post-war

Following the end of World War II in 1945, Tamsui reverted to being a small fishing town as township of Taipei County. With the expansion of nearby Taipei City, Tamsui slowly became a center for tourism along Taiwan's northwest coast. In the last ten years, the city has become popular as a suburb of Taipei in the local real estate market.

Following the completion of the Taipei Metro's Tamsui Line in 1997, the town experienced a sharp increase in tourist traffic, reflected in the completion of several riverside parks, the growth of open-air markets specializing in traditional handicrafts and street-stall snacks, the construction of a fisherman's wharf, and the increase in passenger ferries traversing across and along the river.

Administrative divisions
Tamsui District administers forty-two urban villages ().

Climate

Education
 Aletheia University
 St. John's University
 Tamkang University
 Taipei University of Marine Technology
 New Taipei Municipal Tam-Shui Vocational High School
 New Taipei Municipal Zhuwei High School
 Tamshui Junior High School

Tourist attractions

 Drop of Water Memorial Hall
 Former British Merchant Warehouse
 Fort San Domingo
 Hobe Fort
 Museum of Tamsui Fishiegoodies
 Tamsui Art Gallery
 Tamsui Church
 Tamsui Customs Officers' Residence
 Tamsui Customs Wharf
 Tamsui Fisherman's Wharf
 Tamsui Fuyou Temple
 Tamsui Historical Museum
 Tamsui Lover's Bridge
 Tamsui Lungshan Temple
 Tamsui Meteorological Observatory
 Tamsui Old Street
 Tamsui Qingshui Temple
 Tamsui Qingshui Deity's Grand Procession, on 6th day of 5th lunar month, an important fiesta for Tamsui District
 Tamsui Red Castle
 Teng Feng Fish Ball Museum

Transportation

Taipei Metro
 Tamsui Station
 Hongshulin Station
 Zhuwei Station

Light rail
 Danhai light rail

Sister city
 Chico, California, U.S. – 1985

Notable natives
 Joe Hung, representative to Italy (1993–2000)
 Tu Tsung-ming, former physician

Gallery

Sources
 History section retrieved and translated from Tamsui District office website.

Notes

Bibliography

External links

Tamsui Historic Museum
Why Tamsui people are called Tamsuian?
Takao Club: The Tamsui Foreign Cemetery
Tamsui Travel Guide

History of New Taipei
Districts of New Taipei


Milkipur is a town and tehsil in Ayodhya district in the Indian state of  Uttar Pradesh. Milkipur is 32 km south of district headquarters Ayodhya city. District Ayodhya consists of 11 blocks and Milkipur is a block in Ayodhya, Uttar Pradesh.

Acharya Narendra Deva University of Agriculture and Technology is situated at Kumarganj (a town situated at a distance of about 10 km, south from Milkipur). Tehsil headquarters and Police station of Milkipur tehsil are situated at Inayatnagar, 5 kilometers North-East from Milkipur centre.

History
The town Milkipur and its name originated from the people of Milki Cast who once lived here. The Milki are a Muslim community found in the state of Uttar Pradesh in India. They are also known as Malik, and found entirely in the Awadh region. A small number of Milki are also found in Karachi in Pakistan. The Milki get their name from the fact that their ancestors were a class to whom revenue free grants milk in Persian of land were made during the period of the Delhi Sultanate. They were given these grants of land as an incentive to settle the land. In Unnao District, they were substantial landowners, and played an important role in the history of that district. They were also the scribes, administrators, writers, magistrates, judges. lawyers, chief executive officers and village accountants in the Awadh region. The Milki were also appointed to the position of clerks and official record keepers by the state. As part of their duties, they learnt Turkish and Arabic, economics, administration and taxation. They successfully adapted themselves as scribes and functionaries under the new colonial British. The Milki have much in common with the neighbouring Muslim community, the Kayastha Muslim, with whom they share many traditions and customs. The Milki of Unnao District claim to be Siddiqui Shaikhs, while those of Azamgarh and Ballia claim to be of Turk origin. All the various groups of Milki intermarry, and there are also instances of intermarriage with the Qidwai and Kayastha Muslim communities. Some Milk are Sunni, while other are Shia. They speak standard Urdu, although most also have an understanding of the Awadhi dialect of Hindi.

Geography
Milkipur is located at . It has an average elevation of 94 metres (311 feet). The Milkipur Constituency is surrounded by Gomti and Tamsa rivers.

Demographics
 India census, Milkipur had a population of 1,764. Males constitute 52% of the population and females 48%. Milkipur has an average literacy rate of 52%, lower than the national average of 59.5%; with male literacy of 63% and female literacy of 39%. 17% of the population is under 6 years of age.

Climate

Milkipur has a warm humid subtropical climate with cool, dry winters from December to February and dry, hot summers from March to July. The rainy season is from mid-June to mid-September, when Milkipur gets an average rainfall of 1010 mm (40 in) mostly from the south-west monsoon winds. In winter the maximum temperature is around 25 degrees Celsius and the minimum is in the 2 to 3 degrees Celsius range. Fog is quite common from late December to late January. Summers are very hot with temperatures ranging from 35 to 45 degree Celsius.

Festivals
All major Festivals Like Holi, Deepawali, Ramnavmi, Eid, Vijayadashami etc. are celebrated with full zeal and joy.

Banks
Milkipur has morden banking facilities. All the major banks like Allahabad Bank, State Bank Of India, Bank of Baroda, Canara Bank and Baroda Uttar Grameen Bank have their branches in Milkipur.

Transport

Air
Ayodhya International Airport (Ayodhya) (40 km) and Lucknow airport (115 km) are the nearby airports from Milkipur town.

Road
Milkipur is situated at National Highway 330A and it has good road connectivity with Lucknow (115 km), Ayodhya (32 km), Rudauli (23 km) and Jagdishpur (30 km).

Railway
Rudauli, Ayodhya Cantt, Ayodhya Junction, Goshainganj and Chaure Bazar are the nearby railway stations from Milkipur.

Education

Narendra Dev University Of Agriculture and Technology
Narendra Dev University of Agriculture and Technology is an agricultural university at Ayodhya district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. It is in the small town of Milkipur Constituency known as Kumarganj.

On 15 January 1974 the foundation stone of Narendra Dev University of Agriculture & Technology was led by the prime minister of India Indira Gandhi at Masodha near Ayodhya. Shri Laxmi narain Rai, APCS officer of Agriculture Department, government of UP, was deputed as officer on special duty. After a few month, he was succeeded by Dr. A.S. Srivastava he took over in October, 1974. Some speed work was done by his team. A new development took place during 1975 and the government of UP decided to locate the main campus of the university in Milkipur at kumarganj, Ayodhya district instead of Masodha. Shri A.D. Pandey, IAS officer (retired) was appointed the first vice chancellor of the university on 10 October 1975. The university started functioning in a borrowed building of Gram Swavlambi Vidyalaya Acharya Nagar Naka Ayodhya. DR. R.P.Chandola joined as the first Registrar of the university in November 1975. A committee was constituted for the site selection of Academy administrative and residential blocks of the university at Kumarganj. The committee submitted its report on 22 January 1976. On 10 July 1976 the paddy research station located at, Masodha, Gahghara Ghat and ECF and NDS schemes were transferred to the university by the government and U.P. institute Agril. science Kanpur which formed the nucleus of the research university. Dr.Kirti Singh took over the first Dean of the Agril. faculty on 12 February 1977 which approved creation of 20 departments in the college of agriculture.

The Mahamaya college of Agriculture Engineering and Technology(MCAET) a constituent college of N.D. university of Agriculture and Technology, Kumarganj, Ayodhya was established at Ambedkar Nagar by upgrading the department of agriculture of the college of agriculture to cater the needs of development of engineering and Technology to suit the condition of the farmers of Eastern Uttar Pradesh characterised by problems of user lands, water looked poorly drained soils scant power supply, small holdings, low purchasing power and poor rural infrastructure. Former Prime Minister of India Smt. Indira Gandhi Laid Foundation stone of NDUAT on 10 October 1975 Narendra Deva University of Agriculture and Technology, Narendra Nagar (Kumarganj), named after a great national leader, educationist, philosopher and great socialist, Achraya Narendra Deva whose ideals constitute a great national heritage and source of inspiration in the national quest for a progressive economy free from the fear and exploitation.

Media

Press
Milkipur is fully covered by prominent Hindi newspapers like Dainik jagran, Amar Ujala, Hindustan, Jan Morcha etc.

Radio
The Following Radio Stations Can be listened in Milkipur.
 All India Radio
 FM Ayodhya 101.9 MHz
 Radio City Lucknow 91.1 MHz
 Radio Mirchi Lucknow 98.3 MHz
 FM Rainbow Lucknow 100.7 MHz
 FM RADIO Kumarganj

Internet
Major Broadband Internet providers in Milkipur are BSNL, Reliance Jio, Bharti Airtel, Vodafone and Idea.

References

Cities and towns in Ayodhya district


Western Romance languages are one of the two subdivisions of a proposed subdivision of the Romance languages based on the La Spezia–Rimini Line. They include the Gallo-Romance and Iberian Romance branches. Gallo-Italic may also be included. The subdivision is based mainly on the use of the "s" for pluralization, the weakening of some consonants and the pronunciation of “Soft C” as /t͡s/ (often later /s/) rather than /t͡ʃ/ as in Italian and Romanian.

Based on mutual intelligibility, Dalby counts thirteen languages: Portuguese, Spanish, Asturleonese, Aragonese, Catalan, Gascon, Provençal, Gallo-Wallon, French, Franco-Provençal, Romansh, Ladin and Friulian.

Some classifications include Italo-Dalmatian; the resulting clade is generally called Italo-Western Romance. Other classifications place Italo-Dalmatian with Eastern Romance.

Sardinian does not fit into either Western or Eastern Romance, having split off earlier than the two.

Today the four most widely spoken standardized Western Romance languages are Spanish (c. 410 million native speakers, around 125 million second-language speakers), Portuguese (c. 220 million native, another 45 million or so second-language speakers, mainly in Lusophone Africa), French (c. 80 million native speakers, another 70 million or so second-language speakers, mostly in Francophone Africa), and Catalan (c. 7.2 million native). Many of these languages have large numbers of non-native speakers; this is especially the case for French, in widespread use throughout West Africa as a lingua franca.

Gallo-Romance

Gallo-Romance includes:

The Oïl languages. These include Standard French, Picard, Walloon, Lorrain, and Norman.
The Arpitan language, also known as Franco-Provençal. It shares features of both French and the Provençal dialect of Occitan.
The Occitan language, or langue d'oc, has dialects such as Provençal dialect, and Gascon-Aranese dialect.

Gallo-Romance can include:

The Catalan language has standard forms of Catalan and Valencian. Can be classified as East Iberian.
The Rhaeto-Romance languages. They include Romansh of Switzerland, Ladin of the Dolomites area, Friulian of Friuli. Rhaeto-Romance languages can be classified as Gallo-Romance, or as an independent branch of the Western Romance languages.
The Gallo-Italic languages. This group includes languages such as Piedmontese, Ligurian, Lombard, Emilian, Gallo-Italic of Sicily, Gallo-Italic of Basilicata.
The Oïl languages, Arpitan and Rhaeto-Romance languages are sometimes called Gallo-Rhaetian, but it is difficult to exclude from this group Gallo-Italic, which according to several linguists forms a particular unity with Rhaeto-Romance.

Iberian Romance

Iberian Romance languages of the Iberian Peninsula include:
The West Iberian languages:
The Castilian languages: includes Spanish and Judaeo-Spanish.
The Galician-Portuguese languages: includes Portuguese, Galician and Fala.
The Astur-Leonese languages: they are, from east to west, Cantabrian, central-eastern Asturian and Leonese proper. Going from north to south, they are Leonese proper, Mirandese, Extremaduran
The Pyrenean–Mozarabic languages: includes Aragonese, and the extinct Mozarabic. Can be classified as West Iberian.
The East Iberian language, or Catalan language: also classified as part of Occitano-Romance, see Gallo-Romance above.

References


Kirk Gibson's 1988 World Series home run was a baseball play that occurred in Game 1 of the 1988 World Series, on October 15, 1988, at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles. Gibson was initially held out of the Los Angeles Dodgers' lineup with injuries to both legs, but after being called upon to pinch hit  in the bottom of the ninth inning with two outs, he hit a two-run, walk-off home run against Oakland Athletics pitcher Dennis Eckersley. The home run won the game for the Dodgers by a score of 5–4.

After winning the National League (NL) West division, the Dodgers were considered the underdogs throughout the 1988 postseason, first to the New York Mets in the NL Championship Series, then to the Athletics in the World Series. Gibson, who was not expected to play due to injuries in both legs sustained during the NLCS, was surprisingly inserted as a pinch hitter with the Dodgers trailing 4–3 with two outs in the bottom of the ninth inning and the tying run at first base. Gibson's home run—his only plate appearance of the series—helped the Dodgers defeat the Athletics, four games to one, securing their sixth World Series title.

The play has since become legendary in the baseball world, and is regarded as one of the greatest home runs of all time. It was voted the "greatest moment in L.A. sports history" in a 1995 poll. Many of the images associated with the home run, particularly Gibson pumping his fist while circling the bases, are often shown in classic highlight reels, usually accompanied by play-by-play from broadcasters Vin Scully or Jack Buck. Though not related to his World Series home run, Gibson would be named the 1988 NL Most Valuable Player.

Background

Regular season

The Dodgers signed outfielder Kirk Gibson as a free agent during the 1987-88 offseason. Gibson, who played the previous nine seasons with the Detroit Tigers (winning a World Series title with them in 1984), quickly became the Dodgers' de facto leader both on the field and off. On the field, Gibson led the team with 25 home runs, a .290 batting average and 31 stolen bases.

The Dodgers, who had only finished 4th in the National League West in 1987 with a 73–89 () record (17 games behind the division winning San Francisco Giants), led the NL West division standings from late May until the end of the season, easily winning the division title with a record of 94–67 (), seven games ahead of the second-place Cincinnati Reds.

One reason why the Dodgers were considered underdogs throughout the postseason was that they did not finish the regular season ranked in the top five of any major offensive statistical category. However, they were strengthened by an excellent starting rotation led by ace Orel Hershiser and backed up by Tim Belcher, John Tudor and Tim Leary. They also had an outstanding bullpen that included Jay Howell, Jesse Orosco and Alejandro Peña.

Postseason
Their opponent in the National League Championship Series was the New York Mets, who had compiled a more impressive 100–60 () regular season record, and had won 10 of their 11 regular-season meetings with the Dodgers. The NLCS was a surprisingly close contest given the outcomes of the two teams' regular season meetings. Gibson's heroics in the series included an improbable catch on wet grass in Game 3 and decisive home runs in Games 4 and 5. The series went to a deciding Game 7, which the Dodgers won in stunning fashion on the back of Hershiser's 5 hit shutout to earn their first World Series trip since 1981. Gibson injured his left hamstring while stealing second base in Game 5 and his right knee while sliding into second base in Game 7.

After defeating the Mets, the Dodgers faced the Oakland Athletics in the World Series. Oakland had compiled a 104–58 () regular season record (the best in the Majors), and boasted a powerful lineup led by sluggers Jose Canseco and Mark McGwire, and complemented by the likes of Dave Henderson, Dave Parker and Don Baylor. The A's, who also boasted 20 game winner Dave Stewart (himself a former Dodger from 1978-1983) and closer Dennis Eckersley who had saved 45 games during the regular season, had easily accounted for Boston in the ALCS, sweeping the Red Sox 4–0.

The setup

World Series Game 1
Gibson injured both legs during the NLCS, and therefore did not start Game 1. Los Angeles took an early lead on an improbable two-run home run by Mickey Hatcher in the first inning. The next inning, however, Canseco hit a grand slam to give Oakland a two-run lead. Oakland's lead was cut to one run when Mike Scioscia hit an RBI single in the sixth inning that scored Mike Marshall.

Unknown to the fans and the media at the time, Gibson was watching the game on television while undergoing physical therapy in the Dodgers' clubhouse. At some point during the game, television cameras scanned the Dodgers dugout and commentator Vin Scully, working for NBC for the 1988 postseason, observed that Gibson was "nowhere to be found". This spurred Gibson to tell Dodgers manager Tommy Lasorda that he was available to pinch hit. Gibson immediately returned to the batting cage in the clubhouse to take practice swings.

With a one-run lead, Oakland closer and future Hall of Famer Dennis Eckersley, who led the AL with 45 saves during the regular season, was brought in to close out the game and seal the win for starter Dave Stewart. Eckersley quickly got Scioscia to pop out to shortstop and struck out Jeff Hamilton. Left-handed pinch hitter Mike Davis followed; if he got on base the next batter due was the pitcher's spot, which would certainly be filled with a pinch hitter. Not wanting the A's to realize that Gibson was available, Lasorda sent Dave Anderson to the on-deck circle during Davis' plate appearance. According to Lasorda, A's catcher Ron Hassey got Eckersley's attention and pointed at Anderson on-deck. The popular story is that Eckersley pitched around Davis because the A's thought that the light-hitting Anderson was the next batter.  Hassey vehemently denied that the A's pitched carefully to Davis because Anderson was on deck: "Why would we pitch around Davis when we have two outs?  You don't pitch around a guy with two outs to face another hitter.  That would never make sense.  You have your closer out there.  That's just not true.  That's a good story.  As far as I know, Gibson is on the roster.  Is he not?  You're not going to waste a guy that can't play.  He's active."  Eckersley decided to pitch around Davis because he had seen him hit 20 home runs for the A's before the All-Star break the previous year.  Instead of risking making a mistake that Davis could hit for a game-tying home run, Eckersley pitched carefully and did in fact walk him.

The play

Instead of sending Anderson to the plate, Lasorda inserted Gibson as his pinch hitter. Gibson hobbled up to the plate with Scully commenting, "And look who's coming up!" Gibson quickly fouled off two pitches, getting behind in the count, 0–2. He then swung clumsily and dribbled the ensuing pitch foul down the first base line, which seemed to confirm his inability to swing with any authority. Gibson took an outside pitch, called a ball by home plate umpire Doug Harvey, fouled off a pitch, and then took another outside pitch to work to a 2–2 count.

On the seventh pitch of the at bat—another ball, making it a full count—Davis stole second. Dodger manager Tommy Lasorda later recounted it was pre-planned that if the count got to two strikes on Gibson, they would have Davis steal second, figuring that A's manager Tony La Russa would not elect to intentionally walk Gibson if there were already two strikes against him. Once Davis was at second, Lasorda was just hoping Gibson could muscle a pitch to the outfield for a game-tying single.

Gibson would later recount that prior to the Series, Dodger scout Mel Didier had provided a report on Eckersley which claimed that with a 3–2 count against a left-handed hitter, one could be absolutely certain that Eckersley would throw a backdoor slider. Gibson said that when the count reached 3–2, he stepped out of the batter's box and, in his mind, could hear Didier's voice, with its distinctive Southern drawl, reiterating that same piece of advice. With that thought in mind, Gibson stepped back into the batter's box; and thus when Eckersley did in fact throw a backdoor slider, it was exactly the pitch Gibson was expecting.

Swinging almost entirely with his upper body, Gibson then hit the pitch over the right-field fence. He limped around the bases and pumped his fist as his teammates stormed the field. The Dodgers won the game, 5–4.

Gibson did not have another plate appearance in the World Series. The Dodgers went on to defeat the A's in the World Series, 4–1.

The calls

Don Drysdale
Drysdale also called Kirk Gibson's walk-off home run for the Dodgers Radio Network:

Vin Scully

Scully, calling the play-by-play for the NBC-TV (as previously mentioned) broadcast with color commentator Joe Garagiola, made repeated references to Gibson's legs, noting at one point that the batter was

Gibson worked the count to 3–2 as Mike Davis stole second base; the camera turned at that point to Steve Sax getting ready for his turn at the plate, and Scully reminded the viewers that

Scully said nothing for over a minute, allowing the pictures to tell the story.  Finally, he said,

Returning to the subject of Gibson's banged-up legs during a replay, Scully joked,

As NBC showed a replay of Gibson rounding second base in his home run trot, Scully then made a point to note Eckersley's pitching performance throughout the 1988 season, to put things in perspective.

Jack Buck

CBS handled the national radio broadcast of the 1988 World Series, with Jack Buck providing play-by-play and Bill White as the analyst. This was Buck's call, beginning with Buck speculating on what might happen if Gibson managed to reach base:

The last sentence is often remembered and quoted by fans. Buck followed it with,

White responded,

Buck repeated his exclamation and concluded his comments on Gibson's amazing feat with this thought:

Aftermath
The NBC broadcast, when following Gibson's home run, also captured the brake lights of some Dodger fans who were leaving Dodger Stadium believing the game was lost. Among those were future Boston Red Sox chairman Tom Werner and his son, future Milwaukee Brewers senior Vice President Teddy Werner.

Much was made about Eckersley's decision to throw an offspeed pitch to Gibson, with Joe Garagiola repeatedly noting that Gibson clearly couldn't catch up to a fastball. To his credit, Eckersley fielded every reporters' question after the game, mostly blaming himself. Years later, he recalled, "Somebody said that the Dodgers knew I threw a backdoor slider on 3–2. I don’t know if that’s true or not. I didn’t get to 3–2 that often, but if that’s what the guy told him [Gibson], if that’s what he had on his mind, good for him. Either way, it was a terrible slider."

The home run was included as a finalist in a Major League Baseball contest to determine the sport's "Greatest Moment of All-Time." For years after the fact, it was regularly used in This Week in Baseball's closing montage sequence. An edited audio of Scully's 1988 call has been used in  post-season action, in a TV ad featuring a recreational softball game, with a portly player essentially re-enacting that entire moment as he hits the softball over the right field fence to win the game. It was in competition on ESPN's SportsCenter for the Greatest Sports Highlight of All-Time.

By the time Gibson returned to his locker for postgame interviews, Dodger bullpen coach Mark Cresse had taped the name of Roy Hobbs over Gibson's nameplate, in reference to Gibson's heroics mirroring those of the film slugger that Robert Redford had played in The Natural. Like Hobbs in the film's climactic scene, Gibson had represented the winning run when he came to the plate, was battling injury, had been down to his (and the team's) final strike and had homered to right field to win the game. NBC's pregame video for Game 2 narrated by Bob Costas included both the home run and its film counterpart.

The fate of the ball itself is unknown. According to Gibson, a woman sent him a picture of the bruise on her leg where the ball hit her, although no one has yet come forward with the ball. In fiction, a court struggle over the ownership of the ball was the primary plot of the June 29, 2011, episode of TNT legal drama Franklin & Bash.

Near the end of the Major League Baseball season in the fall of 2011, Chevrolet began airing commercials for their Diamond & Dream's Program, a giveaway designed to help the youth in their communities around the country. Prizes included a makeover for their baseball field. The commercials showed selected little league baseball players acting out some of baseball's greatest moments in history. One of them was Kirk Gibson's famous home run from the 1988 World Championship run of the Los Angeles Dodgers. The young boy acting out this moment could be seen running the bases, doing the same fist pump motion that Gibson was seen doing during his famous run around the bases.

Before the start of the 2018 season, the Dodgers commemorated the anniversary of Gibson's homerun with the introduction of the “Kirk Gibson seat,” which is where his home run landed after winning Game 1 of the 1988 World Series. The seat in question was Section 302, Row D, Seat 1, though the Dodgers have renumbered that seat 88. The seat will be painted blue and signed by Gibson and the tickets cost $300, which includes a $200 donation to the Kirk Gibson Foundation to raise money and awareness for Parkinson’s Research.

In Game 4 of the 2018 World Series between the Dodgers and the Red Sox, 30 years after that 1988 World Series walk-off home run, Eckersley (who was there covering the Red Sox as a NESN color commentator and analyst) and Gibson reunited for the ceremonial first pitch at Dodger Stadium and Gibson had a bat ready before catching Eckersley's pitch.

References

Further reading

External links
Box Score from Baseball-Reference.com
1988 World Series Game 1 at MLB.com's "Baseball's Best" library
WS1988 Gm1: Scully's call of Gibson memorable at-bat from MLB.com via YouTube
WS 1988 Gm1: Jack Buck call of Gibson memorable at-bat 10-15-88 from VoiceOfTheTurtle via YouTube
Dennis Eckersley And Kirk Gibson, 30 Years After World Series Home Run from NESN via YouTube

1988 Major League Baseball season
World Series games
Los Angeles Dodgers postseason
Oakland Athletics postseason
Historic baseball plays
October 1988 sports events in the United States
1988 in sports in California
Baseball competitions in Los Angeles


Selma is a historic property and former plantation in Loudoun County, Virginia, near Leesburg. Selma is best known as the residence of Armistead Thomson Mason (4 August 1787–6 February 1819), a U.S. Senator from Virginia from 1816 through 1817.

History
The lands of Selma were once a part of the Northern Neck Proprietary owned by Lord Fairfax, and Selma was a part of the  tract bought around 1741 by Stevens Thomson Mason.

Selma was built at the base of Catoctin Mountain overlooking a sweeping vista of lawn and pastureland between 1800 and 1810 by Armistead Thomson Mason. Mason came to be known as the "Chief of Selma." Due to a political quarrel between Mason and his cousin Colonel John Mason McCarty, he and McCarty dueled at the Bladensburg dueling grounds in Bladensburg on 6 February 1819. Mason and McCarty chose Bladensburg as the location of their duel due to Virginia's recently enacted anti-dueling law. Mason died at the first shot, while McCarty was spared by an accident but dangerously wounded. While Mason's widow continued to reside at Selma with their young son, Stevens Thomson Mason, Jr., McCarty and his family settled nearby at Strawberry Plain.

Though living a few miles apart, however, the Mason and McCarty families never renewed their acquaintance. McCarty was an avid hunter and one day while following the flight of game, he mounted a fence that formed the boundary between the Mason and McCarty properties, and attempted loading his rifle from that position. McCarty allowed his attention to be diverted by the movements of the birds or the hunting dogs which resulted in his gun slipping. It exploded and sent the ramrod through his head. Armistead Thomson Mason's son, Stevens Thomson Mason, Jr., found McCarty and carried him to nearby Raspberry Plain, Mason's birthplace and the home of his father Stevens Thomson Mason.

Selma was inherited by Mason's only son, Stevens Thomson Mason, Jr. At age 21, Mason was a rich and attractive young man and was often seen driving a handsome pair of horses tandem through Leesburg. A too generous expenditure of his fortune brought reverses which forced Mason to sell Selma. Upon selling Selma, Mason joined the United States Army and while serving as a captain in the Mexican–American War was mortally wounded.

All but the original part of Selma was destroyed by fire in the early 1890s. In 1896 the property was purchased by Elijah B. White, the son of Elijah V. White. White commissioned Richmond architecture firm Noland and Baskervill to design a Colonial Revival mansion, which was built between 1900 and 1902 and included part of the earlier house as a kitchen wing. No expense was spared in achieving a level of luxury, including modern conveniences such as "speaking tubes", a form of intercom system. By the 1920s, the Whites were known to hold many high society events and parties at the plantation with Governors, Senators and Congressman in attendance, and was regularly featured in the society pages of newspapers and magazines.

The plantation remained in the White family for several generations, before being sold to the Epperson family in 1976, who turned the estate into a wedding and function venue. Following a succession of owners, Selma was sold to a foreign investor in 1999 and fell into neglect. A parcel of the original 212-acre Selma Plantation was sold to a local developer in 2002, leaving Selma with a 50-acre conservancy lot. In 2009, the nonprofit group Preservation Virginia placed the mansion on its "Most Endangered Historic Sites List."

After years of neglect and vandalism, Selma was purchased in March 2016 by Sharon D. Virts and Scott F. Miller, and is currently undergoing a massive restoration project as a private home.

Architecture
The present Selma is a two and one half-story, hip-roofed, stuccoed brick mansion. Selma is considered Loudoun County's earliest and best example of Colonial Revival architecture. Selma features an imposing tetrastyle Roman Doric portico with a full entablature and triangular pediment. The dwelling also exhibits a modillion cornice with dentils, pedimented dormers, twelve-over-one double-sash windows, and tall interior end chimneys. Selma's central entrance is surmounted by a large semicircular fanlight with tracery and flanked by engaged fluted Roman Ionic columns.

A board-and-batten smokehouse, frame garage, and frame barn with three
cupolas also lie on the Selma property and appear to date from the early 20th century as well.

References

Mason family residences
Houses in Loudoun County, Virginia
Houses completed in 1815
Houses completed in 1902
Colonial Revival architecture in Virginia
Federal architecture in Virginia
Plantations in Virginia
Gilded Age mansions


"Chuck Versus the Broken Heart" is the 18th episode of Chuck's second season, and the 31st episode overall. It aired on March 30, 2009. Tricia Helfer guest stars as agent Alex Forrest, assigned to evaluate Sarah's performance due to General Beckman's concerns about her relationship with Chuck. Meanwhile, Morgan, Jeff and Lester try to get themselves invited to Captain Awesome's bachelor party.

Plot summary

Main Plot

The episode begins with Chuck returning to his apartment. He's ambushed before he can get in the door by three masked figures, but Casey interrupts them before they can take him anywhere and forces them to unmask. It's Morgan, Jeff and Lester, who are rehearsing kidnapping Devon for his bachelor party, and Chuck reminds them they're not invited. Casey chases them off with a blast from a hose, while Chuck goes home. He's looking over the Intersect information Orion provided him before his death when General Beckman contacts him through his computer. She confronts Chuck on the nature of his and Sarah's relationship, but when Chuck tries to tell her they're strictly professional, she shows him surveillance footage of him confessing how he feels to Sarah, including the gift of his mother's charm bracelet. Beckman advises him she's instituting a "49B."

The next morning Chuck goes to the Orange Orange to advise Sarah of what happened but is surprised to find another woman working the counter instead. In a briefing with Beckman in Castle, Sarah tells Chuck that the new agent, Alexandra Forrest, has been assigned to evaluate her performance and will be temporarily taking over her role as Chuck's CIA handler. The team is assigned to investigate a suspected Afghan terrorist, Rashad Ahmad, receiving heart surgery in the U.S., as he is a link to their leader Hassan Khalid's whereabouts in the cavernous region on the border of Afghanistan and Pakistan. However, the hospital is also where Chuck's sister and Devon work. Chuck is told that Ellie is off that day, and Devon is doing a surgery. Against Chuck's objections, the team moves in.

Sarah remains in the van, while Chuck, Forrest and Casey infiltrate as staff. Chuck narrowly avoids his sister by ducking into a patient room with Forrest, where he flashes on two men: the patient Rashad Ahmad, who is going by the pseudonym Harry Lime, and his personal physician Dr. Muhammed Zamir, confirming their intelligence report. While Chuck delays them, Casey attempts but fails to break into the hospital's donor bank, where he intends to plant a GLG-4000 bug in the pacemaker that will be implanted into Ahmad, which they can use to track him even in the mountainous regions of Afghanistan. Forrest suggests stealing the ID badge of one of the doctors, and she settles on Devon despite Chuck's objections. Unable to dissuade them, he does manage to persuade them to lift his ID at Devon's bachelor party (see below). Forrest disguises herself as a stripper with a police officer routine at the party and takes Devon into the Buy More Home Theater room. However, he refuses to participate, so she decides to tranquilize him and steal his ID. With it, they successfully plant the bug.

After a debriefing by Beckman, Forrest tells her that Sarah's performance is compromised by her personal feelings for Chuck. Sarah is recalled to Langley, and Forrest is permanently reassigned to take her place. Sarah is upset, but accepts the General's decision. She nonetheless takes advantage of her government clearance to help Chuck's failed search for his father by secretly and illegally searching the CIA database for his location as a parting gift for him. She then packs up her belongings for the trip back to the East Coast. Meanwhile, Zamir discovers a bug planted during Ahmad's surgery and targets Devon as the surgeon who implanted the device. Chuck sees Zamir's team arrive and takes Devon's place when they come to apprehend him.

While Sarah is on the road, her search of Stephen Bartowski concludes, and she decides to return immediately to Burbank to tell Chuck what she has found. She arrives after Chuck has been abducted and is about to leave him a note when she sees his phone lying on his bed. Sarah immediately returns to Castle but her access has been revoked. She signals Casey and warns him that Chuck is missing. Forrest attempts to overrule her because his watch's GPS transponder places him in his apartment's courtyard. Sarah activates their surveillance cameras: his watch is at the bottom of the fountain. The three track them to a bank vault, which Zamir is using to shield the bug while forcing Chuck (whom he believes is Devon) to operate and remove it. Chuck tries to stall, but his identity is revealed and Zamir tries to kill him, knocking over a tank of nitrous which Casey sees as they arrive at the vault shortly before Zamir seals the door. Forrest wants to blow the vault open, but the blast could ignite the nitrous, killing Chuck. Sarah works on cracking the lock while the others try to get Chuck to open the door. Chuck and Zamir get high on the gas, and in their inebriated state Chuck gets Zamir to confess where the terrorists are located. Sarah succeeds in opening the vault and rescues Chuck.

Later in a debriefing, Beckman reluctantly admits that Chuck and Sarah's feelings for each other make them more effective together, rather than acting as a liability. Forrest is recalled, and Sarah is reinstated as Chuck's CIA handler.

Buy More

Throughout the episode, Morgan, Jeff and Lester try to get themselves invited to Awesome's bachelor party. Chuck continues to refuse until the team needs to steal Devon's hospital ID. His idea is to use the bachelor party to get Devon drunk until he passes out so they can steal his hospital key card. Four of them kidnap him as he leaves the hospital and bring him to the Buy More where they surprise him with the party. Throughout the evening Jeff and Lester are taking pictures, as it's their first time at a bachelor party. Jeff has also arranged for strippers, one of whom is his sister. Agent Forrest arrives later disguised as a dancer herself and performs a strip tease for Awesome, handcuffing him and taking him to the Home Theater Room where she attempts to seduce him. Devon refuses her advances, and she tranquilizes him instead and steals his ID.

Family

After Chuck's conversation with Beckman at the beginning of the episode, Devon wakes up Chuck with a health shake, which he refuses. He sees a note on Chuck's computer screen remarking that his conference with Beckman has ended, and Chuck attempts to cover it with being part of a video game with Morgan. When pressed by Devon who Chuck is, if Morgan is "Beckman," Chuck answers "Carmichael." This triggers a conference with Beckman when Awesome turns his back, which Chuck promptly turns off before he can see it. Devon later inadvertently triggers the briefing himself when he jokingly uses the name "Carmichael," but doesn't see Beckman before she shuts it down.

Later, at the bachelor party, Devon is tranq'ed by Forrest. Under the influence of the tranquilizer, he briefly hears Chuck yelling at her about it before passing out. The next morning he wakes up at home to find his badge missing and unable to remember what happened. Ellie becomes suspicious and goes to the Buy More to ask Morgan what happened. He tries to protect Devon by not answering. When she turns to leave, she sees Jeff and Lester looking over their pictures of the party, which include Forrest with Devon. They try to stop Ellie as she leaves, but she is convinced Devon cheated. She confronts Chuck when he tries to return his ID badge and is angry because it looks like Chuck is covering for him, too.

After the mission, Chuck comes to see Sarah at her apartment to vent about the situation. He's upset because Beckman's orders continue to interfere with and hurt his family. To help make it up to him, Sarah reveals she's learned where Chuck's father is hiding and takes him out to a trailer 100 miles outside Barstow, California. Chuck knocks on the door but at first there's no answer. He remarks that his father didn't want to be found, when the trailer door opens. The episode ends with Chuck saying "Dad?"

Production

On November 21, 2008 Tricia Helfer was announced to be appearing as a CIA agent assigned by General Beckman to take over as Chuck's CIA handler due to Beckman's concerns over the developing relationship between Sarah and Chuck. The episode follows directly on the end of "Chuck Versus the Predator," in which Beckman questions Casey on the relationship between Sarah and Chuck.

Helfer greatly enjoyed her time on the show, complimenting the series' and cast's sense of humor. Strahovski also noted that part of the fun of the episode was the differences between Helfer's Agent Forrest and Sarah Walker, particularly that part of Sarah's effectiveness in working with Chuck is by using her emotions. Comparisons were also made between Forrest and John Casey.

This episode reveals that the name of the hospital where Devon and Ellie work is Westside Hospital. Jeff's sister is also revealed to be a stripper.

"Chuck Versus the Broken Heart" also effectively ends Chuck's search for his father, begun in "Chuck Versus the Sensei." Scott Bakula appeared as Stephen Bartowski beginning with the next episode, "Chuck Versus the Dream Job" as part of a three-part story arc alongside Chevy Chase.

Ryan McPartlin has said in interviews that Devon will be becoming more involved with the series as it moves towards the finale, and will be growing suspicious of Chuck's double life. This episode is an advancement of this, as he sees references to General Beckman on Chuck's computer and later overhears Chuck scolding Agent Forrest after she tranquilizes him before he passes out.

Flashes

Chuck flashes on Agent Forrest when he sees her in the Orange Orange.
Chuck confirms Zamir's and Ahmad's identities.

References to popular culture

Chuck's "Doctor" conversation with Zamir is a reference to the film Spies Like Us.
Chuck's attempt to start cutting open the patient (in the wrong place) is also a reference to Spies Like Us.
When Chuck tells Casey that Agent Forrest's addition to their team was like Sarah was replaced by a soulless robot, this is a reference to Tricia Helfer's famous role as a Number Six, a Cylon on Battlestar Galactica.
The patient's pseudonym "Harry Lime" is a reference to the film and novel The Third Man.
One of the names that scrolls by as Sarah begins her search for Chuck's father is that of the director, Robert Duncan McNeill.
The name of Helfer's character, Alexandra Forrest, is the same as that of Glenn Close's character in the film Fatal Attraction.
The terrorist Chuck is sent to investigate in the hospital is named Rashad Ahmad, a reversal of the name of sportscaster and former NFL player Ahmad Rashad.
Devon telling Ellie "How could I be tempted by a hamburger when I have steak at home?" is an homage to the famous quip by Paul Newman to his wife Joanne Woodward.

References

External links

Broken Heart
2009 American television episodes
Television episodes directed by Kevin Bray (director)


Stefan Thurnbichler (born 2 March 1984) is an Austrian former ski jumper who competed from 2000 to 2011. He won the Continental Cup three times, but was not a regular competitor at World Cup level. On 20 Mar 2003 in Planica, Thurnbichler achieved a personal best jump of 224 metres, only a metre short of the world record at the time. In 2009 he was part of the Austrian team in the World Cup and often placed in the top 10.

References

1984 births
Austrian male ski jumpers
Living people
Skiers from Innsbruck


"Chuck Versus the Dream Job" aired on April 6, 2009. It is the 19th episode of the Chuck series' second season. The protagonist Chuck, played by Zachary Levi, interviews for a job at Roark Industries with the goal of hiring on to investigate a possible computer virus, while his father, Stephen J. Bartowski (Scott Bakula), returns home.

Plot summary

Chuck and Sarah meet with Chuck's father Stephen and convince him to return home. The reunion with Ellie does not go as planned, but Chuck persuades her to forgive Stephen for leaving. The reunion becomes more awkward when Stephen rants about many things he claims to have invented that were stolen by Ted Roark (Chevy Chase). Among his father's possessions is an advertisement for a major tech show where Roark's latest computer operating system is to be released, which Chuck flashes on.

At Castle, Beckman briefs the team. Chatter has led them to believe a virus is being released in the operating system, and she orders them to investigate. A job interview is arranged for Chuck, under his own identity. He is hired immediately and meets Roark, whom he has dreamed of working for since Stanford. Jeff and Lester see Chuck leaving Roark's headquarters and inform Morgan, who reveals Chuck's new "job" at dinner, upsetting Stephen as he believes Roark destroyed his life.

Casey and Sarah attempt to break in to stop the launch the next day, but are unable to bypass security. Chuck flashes on a Fulcrum agent on stage with Roark, and with no other options, bursts on stage in an effort to warn Roark about the virus, but Roark doesn't believe him. Chuck then tries to prevent the launch but fails. Ellie, watching the launch online with Stephen, is angered because she believes Chuck threw his dream job away for his father, though Stephen denies putting him up to it.

Upset at the Intersect for ruining his life, Chuck goes through the documents left to him by Orion to learn how to free himself of the Intersect. Stephen interrupts to tell him he didn't want Chuck to ruin his own career just for him, and if he wants to work for Roark it's okay with him. As he leaves, Chuck notices that the layout of Roark's offices matches the diagram in Orion's documents. He realizes that Roark is building a full-scale Intersect system for Fulcrum, but Casey and Sarah don't believe him without solid proof. He takes it upon himself to infiltrate the office to investigate, tranquilizing Casey when he tries to stop him.

Chuck breaks into Roark's campus, but is forced to hide when his father barges in, demanding to speak to Roark. When the Fulcrum agent Chuck flashed on attacks Stephen, Chuck bursts from his hiding place and tranquilizes Roark's security, then attempts to escape with Stephen. They run into Vincent (Arnold Vosloo), but Stephen incapacitates him and unlocks the door with a wrist-mounted computer, then reveals to Chuck that he was Orion all along, and that he left Chuck and Ellie for their own protection.

He leads Chuck deep into the heart of Roark's complex, where they find the nearly complete Fulcrum Intersect, which Stephen prepares to use to remove the Intersect from Chuck's brain when they are interrupted by Roark and Vincent. Roark is about to have Chuck killed, but Stephen promises to help Roark if he spares Chuck. Casey and Sarah arrive just as Roark is departing with Stephen, who tells Chuck he was wrong to tell him not to trust his handlers (in "Chuck Versus the Predator"). Back at Castle, Beckman makes clear the consequences of Roark escaping both with the Intersect and Orion, but tells them that she will put the government's best team on it. Chuck convinces Beckman that Operation Bartowski is her best team, and demands to be part of the effort to rescue his father. Beckman relents when Casey sides with Chuck, but he warns him not to allow his personal feelings to get in the way.

Back at home, Ellie is heartbroken thinking that their father has left them again, but Chuck tells her not to give up on him.

Production

"Chuck Versus the Dream Job" continues on the arc begun with "Chuck Versus the Lethal Weapon", particularly referencing Orion and furthering Chuck's quest to have the Intersect removed from his head. It also advances the general arc of season two, which has focused heavily on Fulcrum's desire to obtain the Intersect for its own purposes. Additionally, Arnold Vosloo reprises his role of Vincent from "Chuck Versus the Predator".

Bakula and Chase were announced to be playing the roles of Stephen Bartowski and Ted Roark, respectively, in January, 2009 as part of an extended arc to close out the season. Besides their resemblance to each other, Bakula was cast for Stephen Bartowski because Josh Schwartz and Chris Fedak consider themselves "huge Quantum Leap fans, and found Bakula's ability to jump from comedy to drama to action reminiscent of Zachary Levi's.

Flashes

Chuck flashes on the flyer for Roark's OS launch.
When Roark consults with one of the men on stage at the launch, Chuck flashes and identifies him as a Fulcrum operative
Chuck intentionally flashes to crack a Feistel cipher in order to unlock the door to Roark's Intersect room.  This is the first clue that the Intersect can grant abilities other than recalling intelligence.

Reception

"Chuck Versus the Dream Job" has received overall positive reviews.

IGN.com rated the episode a 9/10, praising the gravity Chase brought to Ted Roark, and the offbeat and semi-crazy angle Bakula uses to approach Stephen Bartowski. Chuck's proactiveness in taking control of his situation was also appreciated, as were the character-building moments between Chuck and Ellie, and that the events of Devon's bachelor party weren't just thrown out. The Futon Critic also praised the renewed focus on Chuck and Ellie's relationship, and the additional complications of Stephen Bartowski's return, while Televisionary similarly praised Bakula's performance, citing him as ideally suited for the role.

References to popular culture

Scott Bakula says "Oh boy!" when confronted by Ellie about how he abandoned them after promising her pancakes for dinner. This is in reference to Bakula's character Dr. Samuel Beckett on the series Quantum Leap.
Quantum Leap was also referenced in the opening promotion before airing, when Bakula announced the start of Chuck by mentioning he'd "been here before, but that's quite a leap." Quantum Leap also aired on NBC.
Ted Roark is a caricature of various business and corporate technology leaders including Apple Inc. founder and CEO Steve Jobs, Microsoft founder Bill Gates, and industrialist Richard Branson. Roark's mention of "ballooning across the world" is similar to the adventures of Branson while the theatrics of the "launch party" for Roark's RIOS operating system is similar to events given by Jobs, known as Stevenotes. In particular, the style of headset, the dramatic countdown, and the informal attire worn by Roark are similar to Jobs, along with the awe and deference shown towards Roark by his fans. The accusations of theft made against Roark by Stephen Bartowski are similar to those made by Steve Jobs against Bill Gates.
While welcoming two Japanese attendees at the RIOS launch conference, Ted Roark greets one of them saying "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida", a reference to the popular song. It also references Chase's own movie, Fletch, where he threw out nonsensical foreign phrases throughout the film.

References

External links

Dream Job
2009 American television episodes


"Chuck Versus the First Kill" aired on April 13, 2009, the 20th episode of the second season, and 33rd overall. Chuck strikes a deal with his ex-girlfriend Jill (Jordana Brewster) to have her released from prison if she cooperates with his search for his father. Meanwhile, Morgan attempts to sabotage Emmett's efficiency review.

Plot summary
Chuck angrily confronts Beckman about their failure to locate his father, Stephen. Chuck decides that he must take matters into his own hands and interrogate a Fulcrum agent. Jill recommends that the team question her father's best friend, Uncle Bernie, while warning them that most of the time the only way to gain access to him without his bodyguards is at family gatherings. Chuck decides to manufacture one by going undercover with Jill and throwing a party to celebrate their engagement.

While Chuck and Jill meet with Jill's family, Casey and Sarah monitor from the van outside. Bernie suffers a fatal heart attack and collapses. After his death, Casey and Chuck carry him from the party, pretending that he is still alive by moving him and speaking for him.

At Castle, Chuck intercepts a call from Fulcrum to Bernie's. Sarah tracks the call to a business used as a recruiting front by Fulcrum. Jill walks Chuck and Casey through infiltrating the facility, where they take a test to determine their eligibility for recruitment. Chuck is taken in for interrogation, while Casey escapes, having gotten a very low score.

Jill and Sarah enter the building to rescue them, but Sarah is identified and pinned down in a heavy firefight. Jill tries to escape during the gunfight, where she overhears that Stephen is being taken to a facility called "Black Rock." Chuck identifies it as a location outside Barstow.

Production

On March 14, 2009 Jordana Brewster reported she would be returning to reprise her role of Jill Roberts. Later updates would establish the plot of the episode, with Chuck making a deal with Jill for her assistance in rescuing his father. Ken Davitian was also announced as guest-starring as "Uncle Bernie," the Fulcrum operative that recruited Jill.

Additionally, Chris Fedak and Josh Schwartz had said that by the end of the season, Chuck would be recording his first "kill."

References

External links

First Kill
2009 American television episodes