Panuwat Yimsa-ngar (, born January 16, 1982) is a retired professional footballer from Thailand.

Honours

Club
Ratchaburi F.C.
 Thai Division 1 League Champions (1) : 2012

References

External links

1982 births
Living people
Panuwat Yimsa-ngar
Panuwat Yimsa-ngar
Men's association football midfielders
Panuwat Yimsa-ngar
Panuwat Yimsa-ngar
Panuwat Yimsa-ngar
Panuwat Yimsa-ngar
Panuwat Yimsa-ngar
Panuwat Yimsa-ngar
Panuwat Yimsa-ngar


Ekkapoom Potharungroj (; born March 29, 1985) is a retired professional footballer from Thailand.

Honours

Club
Thai Port
 Thai League Cup winner (1) : 2010

Muangthong United
 Thai League 1 Champions (1): 2012

BEC Tero Sasana
 Thai League Cup winner (1) : 2014

References

1985 births
Living people
Ekkapoom Potharungroj
Ekkapoom Potharungroj
Men's association football wingers
Ekkapoom Potharungroj
Ekkapoom Potharungroj
Ekkapoom Potharungroj
Ekkapoom Potharungroj
Ekkapoom Potharungroj
Ekkapoom Potharungroj
Ekkapoom Potharungroj
Ekkapoom Potharungroj


Vimol Jankam () is a former professional footballer from Thailand.

Honours
Thailand U23
 2002 Asian Games: 4th Place with Thailand national under-23 football team
''Osotsapa
 Thai Premier League: Runner-up (2002,2006) Third Place (2004, 2005)
 Queen's Cup:  Champions (2002, 2003, 2004)
 Thailand FA Cup: Runners up (1999)
 Kor Royal Cup: Champions (2002, 2007)
 Thailand Premier League 2003/04 Top Scorer (14 Goals)

References

 Official team website

Living people
Vimol Jankam
1979 births
Expatriate men's footballers in Vietnam
Thai expatriate sportspeople in Vietnam
Vimol Jankam
Vimol Jankam
Vimol Jankam
Hoang Anh Gia Lai FC players
V.League 1 players
Vimol Jankam
Vimol Jankam
Men's association football forwards
Footballers at the 2002 Asian Games
Vimol Jankam


This article summarises the results and overall performances of New Zealand at the FIFA World Cup.

New Zealand has qualified for the tournament stage of the FIFA World Cup on two occasions: in 1982 and 2010. They have also attempted to qualify for the FIFA World Cup 14 times, the first attempt being in 1970 when they lost to Israel.

In New Zealand's first appearance in 1982, representing the OFC, they ended up losing their first game 2–5 to Scotland, but they eventually exited the tournament without a win. New Zealand made up for lost time in the South Africa 2010, although this New Zealand team fell in the group stage, they managed to go undefeated, drawing all three of their first stage games, where They also managed to defeat current champions Italy (where they finished last in their group with Paraguay and Slovakia) after a draw with a goal from the season's top scorer, Shane Smeltz.

FIFA World Cup record

By match

Record by opponent

Games against Soviet Union are included in statistics of Russia.

1982 FIFA World Cup

Group 6

2010 FIFA World Cup

Group F

Statistics

Goalscorers

Discipline

See also
New Zealand men's national football team results
New Zealand at the FIFA Confederations Cup
New Zealand at the OFC Nations Cup
Oceanian nations at the FIFA World Cup

References

External links
New Zealand 1982 World Cup squad

New Zealand
World Cup


Nipon Charn-arwut () is a professional footballer from Thailand. He played for Osotspa F.C. and Nakhon Pathom in the Thailand Premier League.

References

 Official team website

Living people
1976 births
Nipon Charn-arwut
Nipon Charn-arwut
Men's association football defenders


Nik Kozub is a Canadian musician. Formerly a bass guitarist for the band Veal, he is now associated with the electronic music group Shout Out Out Out Out.

Kozub also writes and records his own solo electronic music and remixes material for other artists under the name The Paronomasiac, DJs under the name Nik 7, and is a recording engineer and producer who has worked on material for a variety of artists including Cadence Weapon, Humans, and The Wet Secrets. In 2006 he appeared in Trevor Anderson's short documentary film Rock Pockets.

Nik is the co-founder, along with Shout Out Out Out Out member Jason Troock, of Edmonton-based record label Normals Welcome Records, established in 2005.

He is the son of Wilfred Kozub, a rock musician in Edmonton.

References

Canadian rock bass guitarists
Canadian rock keyboardists
Canadian electronic musicians
Canadian record producers
Musicians from Edmonton
Living people
Remixers
Canadian DJs
Electronic dance music DJs
Year of birth missing (living people)


"Quicksand" is a song by English synth-pop duo La Roux from their eponymous debut studio album (2009). Written and produced by Elly Jackson and Ben Langmaid, the song was released as the album's lead single on 15 December 2008 by Kitsuné. It peaked at number 153 on the UK Singles Chart upon limited release. When re-released on 23 November 2009, the single re-entered the chart at number 129.

Song information
Jackson told The London Paper that the song is about "having an intense moment with someone, when maybe you're watching a film or listening to music, and both of you are yearning for the other one, and it's almost painful to sit next to them."

Critical reception
"Quicksand" was met with critical acclaim. Digital Spy music editor Nick Levine wrote that "[l]ike most of the songs on their debut album, it's a winning combination of pop smarts, stifling romantic obsession and production that mixes the sounds of '82 with the sonic punch of '09." Alexis Petridis of The Guardian commented that "the sparse dynamics and stabbing synthesisers of 'Quicksand' offer a reminder that not every aspect of the 80s has been mined to exhaustion in recent years." Peter Paphides of The Times called the song "superb" and added, "Propelled along by a melody that shares some of its DNA with Prince's 'When Doves Cry', Jackson casts herself as the recipient of an overture from someone already in a relationship."

John Murphy, writing for musicOMH, described the song as "instantly addictive and catchy", while stating that "unlike a lot of electro acts out there, 'Quicksand' has real heart and emotion to it as well—certainly not a case of style over substance." AllMusic's Heather Phares noted that the track "uses a relentlessly tight arrangement and Jackson's frosty soulfulness to give the song's obsession a shot of excitement." Luke Turner of NME referred to "Quicksand" as "liquid-mercury-smooth but pierced by sharp vocals."

Music video
The music video of "Quicksand" was directed by Kinga Burza. It was released on YouTube on 13 January 2009. The video shows Jackson on a tropical island with pineapples and the sun setting. Girls are dancing. Jackson is seen with a parrot on her shoulder, singing. It mostly features Jackson singing with the sun setting behind her.

Track listings

Original release

French 12-inch single
A1. "Quicksand" (Original) – 3:07
A2. "Quicksand" (autoKratz Drags to Riches Mix) – 4:44
B1. "Quicksand" (Beni's Sinking at 1.56 Mix) – 4:20
B2. "Quicksand" (Chateau Marmont Remix) – 3:34

French digital EP
"Quicksand" – 3:07
"Quicksand" (AutoKratz Drags to Riches Mix) – 4:42
"Quicksand" (Beni's Sinking at 1.56 Mix) – 4:18
"Quicksand" (Chateau Marmont Remix) – 3:32
"Quicksand" (Joe and Will Ask? Remix) – 5:01

UK digital single
"Quicksand" (Standard Version) – 3:05

US EP and digital EP
"Quicksand" (Original Version) – 3:06
"Quicksand" (Mad Decent Remix No. 1) – 5:07
"In for the Kill" (Skream's Let's Get Ravey Remix) – 5:02

US 12-inch single
A1. "Quicksand" – 3:08
A2. "Quicksand" (Mad Decent Mix No. 1) – 5:10
A3. "Quicksand" (Instrumental) – 3:08
B1. "In for the Kill" (Skream's Let's Get Ravey Remix) – 5:04
B2. "In for the Kill" (Instrumental) – 4:08

Re-release

UK CD single
"Quicksand" – 3:07
"Quicksand" (Boy 8 Bit Remix) – 5:58
"Quicksand" (Beni's Sinking at 1.56 Mix) – 4:19

UK limited-edition 7-inch single
A. "Quicksand" - 3:07

UK digital EP
"Quicksand" – 3:07
"Quicksand" (Boy 8 Bit Remix) – 5:58
"Quicksand" (Alex Metric Remix) – 6:26
"Quicksand" (Mad Decent Remix No. 1) – 5:12

Credits and personnel
Credits adapted from the liner notes of La Roux.

Recording and management
 Recorded at Elfin Studios (Teddington, London)
 Mixed at Mr Dan's (London)
 Published by Big Life Music Ltd.

Personnel
 Elly Jackson – vocals, production
 Ben Langmaid – production
 Dan Carey – mixing

Charts

Release history

References

2008 debut singles
2008 songs
Cherrytree Records singles
Interscope Records singles
Kitsuné singles
La Roux songs
Polydor Records singles


Kim So-eun (born September 6, 1989) is a South Korean actress. She rose to fame in 2009 in the popular television drama Boys Over Flowers. She has since starred in Happiness in the Wind (2010), A Thousand Kisses (2011–12), Liar Game (2014), Scholar Who Walks the Night (2015), Our Gap-soon (2016–17), and Evergreen (2018).

Career

2004–2009: First films and rising popularity
Kim So-eun made her acting debut with a bit part in the 2004 film Two Guys, when she was in junior high school. She then appeared in minor roles on TV and film, including Sisters of the Sea and The Show Must Go On (where she played Song Kang-ho's daughter).

Kim rose to fame in 2009 with her supporting role as the heroine's best friend in the hit drama Boys Over Flowers. The same year, Kim gained praise for her versatility since for her portrayal of Chae Shi-ra's childhood counterpart Hwangbo Soo in the period epic Empress Cheonchu, for which she learned how to ride a horse and shoot with a bow and arrow. Kim then portrayed an older mid 20s woman in the romantic comedy series He Who Can't Marry, a remake of Japanese drama Kekkon Dekinai Otoko.

2010–2012: Transition leading roles
Kim landed her first leading role in the 2010 daily drama Happiness in the Wind (also known as Happiness in the Wind), which further raised her Korean Wave profile. She then starred in weekend drama A Thousand Kisses (2011-2012), which explored age differences in relationships.

In 2012, she starred in the ten-episode Chinese drama Secret Angel (Chinese: 秘密天使), which aired on the portal website Sohu.com. She returned to Korean television in the cable drama Happy Ending. That same year, she also appeared in Music and Lyrics, a reality show in which an actress and a male musician are paired together to collaborate, as lyricist and composer respectively, in creating a song. Kim and Lee Junho (from boyband 2PM) composed the song "Love is Sad," which Lee also recorded; it was released as a single and featured on the soundtrack of Feast of the Gods.

After playing Princess Sukhwi in the period epic Horse Doctor (also known as The King's Doctor, 2012–2013), Kim starred in After School: Lucky or Not (in the Korean title, bokbulbok refers to a game of chance, literally meaning "Luck, No Luck"), opposite the 5 members of actor-idol group 5urprise, which was distributed via SK Telecom's online and mobile portals.

She and Victoria Song (member of girl group f(x)) were also chosen to host Glitter, a variety show on the lives of trendy twenty-somethings.

2014–present: Return to screen television
In 2014, Kim starred in the horror film Mourning Grave, playing a ghost girl who forms a friendship with a ghost-seeing high school boy Kang Ha-neul. This was followed by a leading role in Liar Game, a Korean drama adaptation of the titular Japanese manga by Shinobu Kaitani. Kim also joined the fourth season of reality show We Got Married, where she was paired with Song Jae-rim in a "virtual" marriage; it boosted their popularity as a couple and as individual celebrities.

In 2015, Kim starred in the webtoon adaptation Scholar Who Walks the Night, playing dual roles as a nobleman's daughter and a vampire's past love. She was set to launch her activities in China through the romance film Sky Lantern (also known as Lover of Days Past), a Korean-Chinese co-production film in which she stars opposite Taiwanese singer-actor Aaron Yan. The same year, she starred in the web drama Falling for Challenge alongside Xiumin.

In 2016, Kim signed with new management agency Will Entertainment. From 2016 to 2017, she starred in the family drama Our Gap-soon as the title character.

In 2017, Kim starred in the KBS Drama Special You're Closer than I Think together with actor Lee Sang-yeob. The same year, Kim confirmed her return to the silver screen with romance fantasy film Are you in love? opposite Sung Hoon.

In 2018, Kim starred in the romance comedy series That Man Oh Soo with CNBLUE's Lee Jong-hyun.

In August 2021, Kim signed with new agency Ascendio Reserve.

Other activities
As a child, Kim trained professionally as a national athletic skier. Her training was put on indefinite hold after being scouted as a professional model in a 2003 junior advanced skiing and snowboarding competition in Pyeongchang, Gangwon-do. She retained her interest in the sport, appearing in 2012 instructional videos for Hongcheon's Vivaldi ski resort.

Kim has endorsed various products, and has appeared in magazines. such as Allure Korea, High Cut, Vogue Korea, InStyle Korea, Elle Girl Korea, Harper's Bazaar, CeCi, L'Officiel, Esquire Korea, and Nylon Korea.

A regular advocate of art films, youth activism, and eco-living, she served as the goodwill ambassador for the 2009 Korea International Youth Film Festival, the 2009 University Fashion Week, the 2011 Jeonju International Film Festival, the Golden Cinema Festival in 2013 and 2014, and the 2014 Green Film Festival.

Filmography

Film

Television series

Web series

Television show

Music video

Awards and nominations

References

External links

 Kim So-eun fan cafe at Daum

1989 births
Living people
People from Namyangju
South Korean child actresses
South Korean television actresses
South Korean film actresses
South Korean web series actresses
21st-century South Korean actresses


Parliamentary elections were held in Bulgaria on 18 November 1945, the country's first to feature universal suffrage for women. The Bulgarian Agrarian National Union and the Bulgarian Communist Party both won 94 seats. Voter turnout was 84.8%.

Results
For the first time, women could stand as candidates, with Stoyanka Ancheva, Ekaterina Avramova, Tsola Dragoycheva, Stanka Ivanova, Tsvetana Keranova, Elena Ketskarova, Mara Kinkel, Venera Klincharova, Vyara Makedonska, Stefana Markova, Ekaterina Nikolova, Rada Todorova, Mata Tyurkedzhieva, Maria Toteva and Vera Zlatareva becoming the first women in the National Assembly.

References

Bulgaria
Parliamentary elections in Bulgaria
Parliamentary
Bulgaria


Thanakorn Thong-in is a professional footballer from Thailand. He currently plays for Nakhon Pathom in the Thailand Premier League.

References
 Official team website

Living people
Thanakorn Thong-in
1981 births
Thanakorn Thong-in
Thanakorn Thong-in
Men's association football goalkeepers


Parinya Utapao (, born January 30, 1988), simply known as Pin (), is a Thai professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for Thai League 2 club Nakhon Pathom United.

Club career

Honours

Club
Nakhon Ratchasima
 Thai Division 1 League
  Champions (1) : 2014

Nakhon Pathom United
 Thai League 2: 2022–23

External links
 Profile at Goal

1988 births
Living people
Parinya Utapao
Parinya Utapao
Men's association football fullbacks
Parinya Utapao
Parinya Utapao
Parinya Utapao
Parinya Utapao
Parinya Utapao
Parinya Utapao


Hoodlum & Son is a 2003 comedy-crime film.

Plot
In 1933, a mischievous ten-year-old, Archie (Myles Jeffrey), is left in the care of his unattentive father, Charlie (Ted King), a reluctant gangster indebted to mob boss Benny “The Bomb” Palladino (Robert Vaughn). Benny gives Charlie a last chance to clear his ‘debt’ by collecting money from a rival, but when Archie follows his father into a rival gangster's speakeasy, a series of bizarre events take place culminating in them fleeing without the money.

They head south to a dustbowl town where Charlie plans to repay his debt by stealing money from a bootlegging business run by Ugly Jim McCrae (Ron Perlman). However, Charlie realises things will not be that easy and is forced into taking a teaching job as cover which brings father and son closer.

When a beautiful widowed mother, Ellen Heaven (Mia Sara) takes offence at the new teacher, she does all she can to get him thrown out of town. Torn between their responsibilities and their attraction to each other, passions are awoken and Charlie and Ellen fall in love. However, the two revengeful mob bosses have not forgotten Charlie and arrive in town to settle scores.

Cast
 Mia Sara - Ellen Heaven
 Ted King - Charlie Ellroy
 Ron Perlman - 'Ugly' Jim McCrae
 Robert Vaughn - Benny 'The Bomb' Palladino
 Myles Jeffrey - Archie Ellroy
 Emily McArthur - Alabama Lubitsch
 Michael Richard - Sheriff Duggan
 Russel Savadier - 'Four Eyes' Morton
 Ian Roberts - Earl
 Karin van der Laag - Big 'Juicy' Lucy
 Anthony Bishop - Gillis Johnson
 Anthony Fridjohn - Police Chief
 Charlotte Savage - Virginia Heaven
 Giles Hudson - Undertaker

References

External links

2003 films
2000s crime comedy films
British crime comedy films
2003 comedy films
2000s English-language films
2000s British films
English-language crime comedy films


The 2009 IIHF World U18 Championship Division I was an international under-18 ice hockey competition organised by the International Ice Hockey Federation. Both Division I tournaments made up the second level of the 2009 IIHF World U18 Championships. The Group A tournament was played in Minsk, Belarus, and the Group B tournament was played in Asiago, Italy. Belarus and Latvia won the Group A and B tournaments respectively and gained promotion to the Top Division of the 2010 IIHF World U18 Championships.

Group A
The Group A tournament was played in Minsk, Belarus at the Ice Palace from 6 to 12 April 2009.

Final standings

Results
All times are local.

Group B
The Group B tournament was played in Asiago, Italy at PalaOdegar from 29 March to 4 April 2009.

Final standings

Results
All times are local.

Leading scorers

Top goaltenders

See also
2009 IIHF World U18 Championships
2009 IIHF World U18 Championship Division II
2009 IIHF World U18 Championship Division III

References

I
2009
2009
IIHF World U18 Championship Division I
Sports competitions in Asiago


Chin Christian University (CCU) is a Christian university in Hakha, Chin State, Burma. CCU is one of the departments of Chin Association of Christian Communication (CACC). After 25 years (1990-2015), God blessed Chin Christian College's long vision: "To Transform the College into a University" and the name of the institution was changed into Chin Christian University by the 9th Triennial Meeting of Chin Association of Christian Communication, held at Hakha Khuahlun Baptist Church on April 4, 2015.

Today, CCU is one of the full-fledged accredited members of the Association for Theological Education in South East Asia (ATESEA).

CCU accepts students from variety denominations and from different parts of Myanmar such as Kachins, Nagas and Burmese.

History

Rev Dr Chester U. Strait and spouse, an American Baptist missionary couple to the Chins, started a Bible school in Hakha in 1928. Unfortunately, the school was closed in 1932. To meet the needs of the growing churches, two Bible Schools were opened again at two places; one at Tiddim in 1947 running up to 1950 by Rev & Mrs Franklin and Phileda Nelsons (also American Baptist missionary couple), the other one at Hakha in 1948 running up to 1950 by Rev Dr & Mrs Robert G. and Elizabeth Johnsons, the last American Baptist missionary couple to the Chins. Because of the long furlough of the missionaries the two Bible Schools were discontinued and a new Bible School was started again at Tiddim in 1953. Rev S.T. Hau Go (Native Chin) was put in charge of it. Rev S.T. Hau Go was elected as General Secretary of the newly formed Zomi Baptist Convention (Present Chin Baptist Convention) and thus moved to Falam. As a result, the Bible School was moved to Hakha in 1954 with a view that it would be better managed by the returned Johnsons. The Bible School was again moved from Hakha to Falam in 1959 in accordance with the decision of the Executive Committee of Zomi Baptist Convention.

The re-establishment of the Bible School in Hakha, as needs arose, began with the emergency meeting of the Board of Directors (BD) of Chin Christian Literature Society (CCLS) held on March 25, 1989 at U Pek Thang's residence in Falam. At that meeting, all attendants agreed and decided that CCLS found the Bible School in Hakha. At the same time a working committee was formed for the purpose of materializing the decision at that meeting. God blessed the diligent and restless work of the working committee and CCLS was able to open the Bible school in Hakha on June 1, 1990 with Diploma in Theology program, and was named "Chin Bible School (CBS)". The fourth CCLS BD meeting held at Hakha Baptist Association office in Hakha in 1993 changed the name to "Chin Biblical Seminary (CBS)". And for a third time the name was changed again to "Chin Christian College" (CCC) by the 8th CCLS Executive Committee meeting held at Thantlang Association of Baptist Churches (TABC) office on May 22, 1993. At the 2nd Triennial Meeting of CCLS, which was held on January 8–9, 1994 at Zion Baptist Church, Hakha, the name CCLS was changed to "Chin Association for Christian Communication" (CACC). The meeting also confirmed the Constitution of CACC and Chin Christian College functioned as the main ministry of the Education Department of CACC. Then, the secretary of Education Department of CACC, according to the then constitution, was the principal of CCC.

After 25 years, God blessed CCC's long vision: "To Transform the College into a University" and the name of the institution was changed into Chin Christian University by the 9th Triennial Meeting of CACC, held at Hakha Khuahlun Baptist Church on April 4, 2015. Today, CCU is one of the full-fledged accredited members of the Association for Theological Education in South East Asia (ATESEA). Up to March 2022, CCU has produced a total of 1552 graduates. At present, CCU has three departments: Theology, English Languages Studies, and Business Administration, with 23 full-time faculty members and 11 members of office staff.

Principals
Rev Dr Jones Mang Hope (1990), acting
Rev Dr David Van Bik (1990−1996)
Rev Dr John Cuai Sang (1996−1998)
Rev Dr Hla Aung (1998−2004)

Presidents
Rev Dr Henry Siang Kung (2004−2020)
Rev Dr Luke Sui Kung Ling (2021–present)

Programs
The university offers the following degree programs:
Diploma in Theology (DipTh)
Bachelor of Theology (BTh)
Bachelor of Ministry (BMin)
Bachelor in Religious Education (BRE)
Bachelor of Arts (English) (BA English)
Bachelor of Business Administration (BA Business in 2014).
Master of Divinity (MDiv)
The university has a rigorous academic curriculum and its reputation continues to grow in Burma. CCU is the only University in Chin State that offers Bachelor of Arts in English (BA English) & Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA).  Most of the faculty members have degrees from well-known theological colleges from Asia, Europe, and the United States.  CCU recently completed constructing additional academic buildings and a football field with the support of Chin people and Chin diasporas.

Future plans
CCU's president states the dreams to have courses in IT, agro-livestock, technical, and medical fields. The university is now in the midst of a construction program to accommodate students and staff. To accommodate the students, it holds classes at male and female quarters and library rooms.

Accreditation
CCU is accredited by Association for Theological Education in South East Asia (ATESEA).

References

Universities and colleges in Myanmar
Seminaries and theological colleges in Myanmar
Christian colleges in Myanmar


The Thomas More Society is a conservative Roman Catholic public-interest law firm based in Chicago. The group has been engaged in many "culture war" issues, promoting its anti-abortion and anti-same-sex marriage beliefs through litigation. The society filed cases as part of Donald Trump's failed attempt to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election, in which Trump was defeated. The society is formally recognized by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops as a National Catholic Association, a type of public association of the faithful under the canon law of the Catholic Church.

History and litigation
Founded by Tom Brejcha in 1997, the group won two U.S. Supreme Court victories against the National Organization for Women in Scheidler v. National Organization for Women in 2003 and 2006. Brejcha is the president and chief counsel of the group. The Thomas More Society has been engaged in many "culture war" issues, promoting its anti-abortion and anti-same-sex marriage beliefs through litigation. It is part of a broader set of Christian conservative legal organizations (CCLOs), which include Alliance Defending Freedom, American Center for Law and Justice, First Liberty Institute, Freedom of Conscience Defense Fund, Liberty Counsel, National Legal Foundation, Christian Legal Society, and Becket Fund for Religious Liberty.

Reproduction issues
In partnership with the CatholicVote Legal Defense Fund, the Thomas More Society has challenged the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act's mandate requiring companies' health insurance plans to cover contraceptives and sterilization.

In 2015, the Thomas More Society filed amicus briefs in the civil case of actress Sofia Vergara, who was sued by her ex-boyfriend in a frozen embryo case; the society, along with other anti-abortion groups, sought to have the courts treat the embryo as children (under a "best interests of the child" standard) rather than as marital property. The case tied into a broader "personhood"  debate that had emerged in the politics of abortion.

In 2016, the Thomas More Society represented anti-abortion activist David Daleiden, of California, pro bono.

In 2018, the Executive Council of Iowa, which included Republican Governor Kim Reynolds, hired the Thomas More Society to defend Iowa in a legal challenge against Iowa's recently passed abortion law, the strictest in the nation. The group stepped in to represent the state after Iowa Attorney General Tom Miller, a Democrat, declined to defend the law's constitutionality. The group represented the state without a fee. A state court blocked the Iowa law from going into effect.

In 2023 the Thomas More Society joined in representing a Texas man in a suit against his ex-wife's associates. The plaintiff alleges they aided the ex-wife in obtaining the drugs for medical abortion. Asserting that assisting a self-managed abortion is murder, the suit was brought pursuant to wrongful death statutes rather than the Texas Heartbeat Act ("S.B. 8"), the anti-abortion vigilante act. Legal scholar Melissa Murray viewed the suit as an attempt to get the Texas courts to recognize fetal personhood. Lawyers for the plaintiff said the suit would add the manufacturer of the abortion drugs once it is identified.

LGBT issues
In 2013, the Thomas More Society intervened on behalf of five Illinois county clerks who opposed same-sex marriage and sought to block its legalization in Illinois.

The group represented a former Missouri State University student who claimed that he was expelled from the university's master's degree in counseling program for refusing to counsel same-sex couples. The university settled in 2017 with the ex-student for $25,000.

Divorce
In 2020, the society filed an amicus brief in the Nebraska Supreme Court in the case of Dycus v. Dycus, urging the court to strike down Nebraska's no-fault divorce law. The court upheld the law.

Challenges to COVID-19 public health measures
During the COVID-19 pandemic, the Thomas More Society filed a number of lawsuits on behalf of various parties to stop or weaken public health measures implemented to stop the spread of the virus. They contended that capacity limits, social distancing rules, face covering requirements, and vaccine mandates violates the religious liberties of churches and individuals. The group filed a similar lawsuit on behalf of a Wisconsin anti-abortion group which claimed that the COVID-19 restriction on public gatherings unlawfully blocked the group from gathering.

Failed efforts to overturn 2020 presidential election outcome
The Thomas More Society has been aligned with the presidential administration of Donald Trump. Trump appointed Sarah Pitlyk, a special counsel to the society, to a federal district judgeship.

In 2020, after Trump was defeated by Joe Biden in the 2020 presidential election, the Thomas More Society established the Amistad Project as part of an attempt to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. Trump repeatedly and falsely claimed that the election was marred by voter fraud.  The project was led by former Kansas Attorney General (and later Liberty University professor) Phillip Kline, although his law license was suspended. The effort was tied to Jenna Ellis, a senior legal adviser to the Trump campaign who was also special counsel to the Thomas More Society. The Amistad Projects filed lawsuits on behalf of supposed "grassroots" groups (with titles such as the "Pennsylvania Voters Alliance" and "Wisconsin Voters Alliance") in the swing states won by Biden (Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin). All the suits were rejected or dismissed by the courts. Ellis's tie to the society and the project suggested "a coordinated effort to flood the nation's courts with repetitive litigation" allowing Trump to continue to claim that the election results remain contested.

On December 14, 2020, ahead of the electoral college vote, Amistad Project attorney Ian Northon accompanied a group of self-described "Republican electors" in Lansing who were attempting to cast Michigan electoral votes for Trump, despite Biden winning Michigan and being previously certified as the winner. Northon claimed the "electors" were "fulfilling their constitutional duty." The fake "votes" cast by the pro-Trump "alternate electors" have no legal standing.

On December 22, 2020, after the electors had cast their votes, the Amistad Project sued in D.C. federal court on behalf of a variety of plaintiffs: ten voters, five organizations, and eight state legislators. The two Michigan legislators listed as plaintiffs later requested to be dropped from the suit, feeling that the suit that was filed differed too strongly from what they had agreed to. The project sued, among others, Vice President Mike Pence, governors, election officials, and legislative officials in the battleground states; the U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Senate, and the electoral college itself. The group asked the court to (as the district court later described in denying the request) "declare unconstitutional several decades-old federal statutes governing the appointment of electors and the counting of electoral votes for President of the United States; to invalidate multiple state statutes regulating the certification of Presidential votes; to ignore certain Supreme Court decisions; and, the coup de grace, to enjoin the U.S. Congress from counting the electoral votes on January 6, 2021, and declaring Joseph R. Biden the next President." The suit was derided by legal community for the substance of its arguments, the broadness of its goals, and for naming the Electoral College as a defendant, with notes that the Electoral College is not something that exists, but a process that happens.

On January 4, 2021, U.S. District Judge James E. Boasberg denied the society's motion for a preliminary injunction, noting that plaintiffs lacked standing, the case was filed in the wrong court, and that plaintiffs made no effort to serve the other side. Boasberg wrote that in addition to those procedural problems, "the suit rests on a fundamental and obvious misreading of the Constitution. It would be risible were its target not so grave: the undermining of a democratic election for President of the United States."

Michael Gableman, the former justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court who led a state-funded investigation into unfounded allegations of fraud in the 2020 presidential election in Wisconsin, was hired by the Thomas More Society after being fired by the politician who hired him, Speaker of the Wisconsin State Assembly Robin Vos, in August 2022.

Education lawsuits
In July 2021, the law firm sued the San Diego Unified School District for changing the name and mascots at Junipero Serra High School because of Serra's association with the mission system and the cultural assimilation of Native Americans. The firm's press release blamed a cancel culture' mentality that radical leftist people in education are trying to force on an unwilling American public". The school was renamed to Canyon Hills High School after the firm's request for a temporary restraining order was denied.

In January 2022, the law firm reached a settlement agreement between its client Californians for Equal Rights and the California Department of Education to remove Aztec and Ashe prayers from its Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum.

References

External links
 Official website

Anti-abortion organizations in the United States
Conservative organizations in the United States
Law firms based in Chicago
Legal advocacy organizations in the United States
Non-profit organizations based in Chicago
Organizations that oppose LGBT rights in the United States


Anshei Israel Synagogue is a historic synagogue located in Lisbon, Connecticut, United States. The Orthodox congregation was founded with 15 families and constructed the synagogue in 1936. It was built by George Allen & Sons. The interior is a single room that is lined with five benches before the sacred ark. The congregation's membership dwindled throughout the 1940s and 1950s, limiting the services to holidays before finally closing in the early 1980s. Rules in the congregation were not as strictly enforced as in the Old World, as there was no curtain to separate the sexes and distant members were allowed to drive part of the way to its services. The Town of Lisbon took ownership of the property in the 1980s. The synagogue is currently maintained by the Lisbon Historical Society. The synagogue was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.

Construction
In the early 1800s of Connecticut, people of the Jewish faith were few, with just twelve persons in the whole of Connecticut. In 1843, Jewish public worship was first permitted after a petition to the Connecticut General Assembly. Early Jewish services were held in private homes or in rented halls and later in the first synagogues, which were usually adapted from churches. Rural synagogues like the Anshei Israel Synagogue were modest structures and "reflect the need of Jewish farming and summer congregations for buildings suitable for worship that were within their limited financial and geographic boundaries."

The land upon which the synagogue was built was donated by Harry Rothenberg around 1936. The congregation, pooled their money to construct the synagogue. Constructed by George Allen & Sons in 1836, the Anshei Israel Synagogue is a  by  gable-roofed clapboarded building with a  by  central projecting tower with a Magen David at its top. Flanking the tower on each side is a pair of 2-over-2 windows. Paint remnants show that the sash was previously painted a bright blue.

After passing through the tower, the single room has a raised bimah and ark at the front. The original bema and ark remain.  The interior of the ark is concealed by a gold parochet; and a menorah rests on the podium. Chairs and five wooden, backless benches were provided for seating, which was described as "an unusual arrangement in historic Connecticut synagogues". Though the building had electricity, it had no heat or plumbing; though a wood stove was used to provide heat and an outhouse was previously behind the synagogue.

Use
The founding congregation of 15 families came from Poland and Russia and lived in the surrounding towns of Plainfield, Lisbon, Griswold, and Jewett City. Rothenberg became the first cantor of the Anshei Israel Synagogue and the service would continue to serve the Orthodox congregation for decades. The congregation's membership dwindled throughout the 1940s and 1950s, which limited services to holidays. The synagogue finally closed when it could no longer steadily gather a minyin, ten men, in 1987. The town of Lisbon acquired the synagogue in the 1980s from the synagogue's last six members. In 2004, the synagogue was open during "Walking Weekend" events.

Caroline Read-Burns, president of the Lisbon Historical Society and Jerome Zuckerbraun, a member of the synagogue, discussed the Orthodox congregation's rules and noted that some rules were not as strictly enforced as in the Old World. As an Orthodox congregation, members were to walk to the synagogue, but some distant members would drive and "walk the last mile or so." The synagogue did not use curtains to separate men and women, as was the norm for Orthodox services in Poland and Russia. The women's seating was at a table on the right side of the sanctuary, near the door. The structure is well-preserved, but not currently in use.

Importance
The Anshei Israel Synagogue was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1995. It is recognized as an architecturally significant example of "a small country Jewish house of worship". Its architecture is the "epitome of simplicity" and it remains an important pre-1945 Jewish house of worship that is in a rural setting and possessing integrity in its design. The Day reflected Read-Burn's comments that the synagogue may "only one of its kind in the country". In 2001, the building was featuring on Connecticut Journal, a program of Connecticut Public Television.

In 2005, the building was in need of some repairs due to neglect and damage from squirrels. The Lisbon Historical Society received a $5,000 grant from the Quinebaug Shetucket National Heritage Corridor to make repairs on the synagogue. Repairs would be done to repair the structure and the electrical wiring would be replaced for free by the students at the Norwich Regional Vocational Technical School.

See also

National Register of Historic Places listings in New London County, Connecticut

References

Synagogues in Connecticut
Lisbon, Connecticut
Buildings and structures in New London County, Connecticut
National Register of Historic Places in New London County, Connecticut
Synagogues on the National Register of Historic Places in Connecticut
Synagogues completed in 1936
1936 establishments in Connecticut


Hugh Geoffroy Millais (23 December 1929 – 4 July 2009) was a British author and actor known for his film collaborations with director Robert Altman.

Early years
Hugh Millais was the son of Raoul Millais (1901–1999) a painter-illustrator, and his first wife Elinor Clare (d. 1953), daughter of late Allan Ronald Macdonell, of Montreal. He was brought up Roman Catholic. As a child he lived in Blackwater Valley and Cork in Ireland. He was educated at Ampleforth.

Culinary exploits
As for his cooking, there are many stories surrounding his culinary adventures. Millais made a meal for Orson Welles after the actor-director had hired his house in Andalusia, Spain for a year while filming, then left him stranded, penniless, in Naples. On another occasion, Rita Hayworth shed her lipstick in his onion soup. Once, Millais and Gary Cooper were said to have fled unwanted "friends" at a Paris party by hiding in a bathroom. Millais was once presented with a platter of seafood by Salvador Dalí served on the artist's naked wife, Gala. There was also an occasion where Millais shared Huevos Cubanos with Ernest Hemingway (whose chauffeur he apparently became for a while), Ava Gardner and Marlene Dietrich after sailing into a mini-revolution in pre-Castro Cuba and getting shot through the arm at the helm of his racing yacht, the Benbow. These and many other anecdotes are in Millais' cook-book "Hugh's Who: The Name-Dropper's Cookbook" which was published in 2007. A devoted falconer, he is said to have turned down a role in the film Shoot the Sun Down, in 1976, to go to Saudi Arabia, for a falconers' meet.

Acting career
Millais' career as an actor came about by accident. Spotted in a bar at during the feria in Pamplona, he was invited to meet the director Robert Altman in England. Altman immediately hired him to play bounty hunter Dog Butler in McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971), in which his character uses a single-shot elephant gun to shoot Warren Beatty's McCabe. During filming he adopted a phoney Texan accent, but Altman told him: “If I’d wanted an American heavy, I would have got Lee Marvin"; Millais' final voice track is spoken with a British accent. Altman then cast him to portray Susannah York's lecherous neighbour, Marcel, in the psychological thriller, Images (1972). In 1973 Millais took the lead role in Wolf Mankowitz's play The Samson Riddle, again with York at the Gate Theatre, Dublin. He portrayed Roy Endean in The Dogs of War (1980) and Uncle Martin, an 18th-century grandee in The Wicked Lady (1983), in which John Gielgud played his butler and Faye Dunaway his niece. He played the US Colonel in Chicago Joe and the Showgirl (1990), as well as appearing in British TV shows such as Deceptions, Ruth Rendell Mysteries, Kavanagh QC and Foreign Affairs.

Millais lived in Kirtlington, Oxfordshire until his death in July 2009. As Herbert Kretzmer put it, Hugh showed "wisdom and acquired magnificence by not doing any one thing for too long", while Robert Altman said: “As an actor, he is an excellent cook. As a cook, he’s a fantastic actor.” He had three children by his second marriage to Suzy Marthe Falconnet Millais. They are Ian Everett Millais (50), Joshua Rengault Millais (48) and Tara Romany Maria Millais (41).

Filmography

Bibliography
"Hugh's Who: The Name-dropper's Cookbook" (Park Press 2007)

References

External links

 Obituary in The Times
 McCabe and Mrs. Miller
 Dogs of War
 Hugh Millais – Daily Telegraph obituary

1929 births
2009 deaths
English Roman Catholics
English male film actors
English male television actors
English writers
Drinking establishment owners
People educated at Ampleforth College
Bull runners


Dmitri Berlinsky () is an international solo violinist, chamber musician and a teacher. He took first prize in the Paganini Competition (Italy), and was the winner of the Montreal International Violin Competition, the International Tchaikovsky Competition, and the Queen Elisabeth Music Competition in Brussels. Berlinsky has performed with major orchestras in Europe, Russia, Asia, and North and South America.

He has presented recitals and concerts in more than 40 U.S. states, in addition to Australia, Mexico, Korea, the Czech Republic, Uruguay, Belgium, France, Russia, Canada, Japan, Taiwan, Guatemala, Peru, and Italy.

He has performed at Mostly Mozart, Prague Spring, Aspen Music, and Newport Music festivals. He has also performed in the Settimane Musicale (Italy), and has toured South America with the Prague Chamber Orchestra. Berlinsky has made recordings for Melodiya (Russia), the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, and Helicon Records.

Originally from Saint Petersburg, Russia, Berlinsky received a bachelor of music and master of music from the Moscow Conservatory, and a performer's certificate from the Juilliard School of Music. He studied with Victor Tretiakov, E. Chugaeva, N. Latinsky, Dorothy DeLay, Masao Kawasaki, L. Ivaschenko, B. Sergeev, B. Gutnikov, and Mikhail Bezverkhny.

Berlinsky taught at Chautauqua and Summit Music Festivals in New York, International Academy of Music in Italy, and Shuan Yin Festival in Taiwan. He gave master classes at the University of South Carolina, Temple University, and Roosevelt University.

Many of his former students have won important international competitions such as the Tchaikovsky, Menuhin, and Tibor Varga, and have assumed positions in orchestras including the Boston Symphony Orchestra.

References

External links
http://www.dmitriberlinsky.com

Russian violinists
Male violinists
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Paganini Competition prize-winners
21st-century violinists
21st-century Russian male musicians


Maxim Thorne is an American lawyer and civil rights advocate who was appointed Chief Executive Officer of Civic Influencers in June 2021.   He is a Fellow and Lecturer  on philanthropy at Yale University. He became a Senior Vice-President of the NAACP in 2008, where he helped establish the first LGBT Task Force. Thorne helped argue Abbott v. Burke on behalf of Head Start and the NAACP in the New Jersey Supreme Court.

Early life and education
Thorne was born in Georgetown, Guyana on 24 November 1964. He spent his early years in Nassau, Bahamas along with his sister, Katya, attending St. Thomas Moore's Primary School, until he was 10, then returned to Guyana where he attended St. Margaret's Primary School and Queen's College. His mother, Eslyn Thorne, who is of mixed Indian and Chinese descent, met his father, who is also multi-racial (Black, White, and Asian), while in Georgetown, Guyana. Thorne immigrated to the United States in 1984. He is the great-grandson of Alfred A. Thorne, a human rights advocate and educator in British Guiana.

Thorne holds a bachelor's degree with cum laude honours in economics and political science from Yale College and a JD from Yale Law School.

Career
In 2012 he taught "Philanthropy in Action" at Yale, where a gift by an anonymous donor allowed students to donate $100,000 to charitable causes.

Thorne became Managing Director of The Andrew Goodman Foundation in 2016.
Thorne was appointed Executive Vice-President of the Paley Center for Media in 2013.

Previously he was chief operating officer at Human Rights Campaign, and Vice-President at Human Rights Campaign Foundation.

Formerly, Thorne was Executive Director of New Jersey Head Start, an association of all the Head Start Programs in New Jersey. While at the NJHSA, he oversaw the implementation of Abbott v. Burke, the New Jersey Supreme Court decision that mandated parity in funding and Whole School Reform. Thorne joined the Passaic County Legal Aid Society (PCLAS) in 1996, and promoted to Deputy Director in June 1998. He and the Executive Director, John Atlas,  created  the Community and Economic Development law unit in 1997, the first in New Jersey, that represented and empowered faith-based and other community groups that were solving housing and education problems in Passaic County’s low-income neighborhoods.  Among many innovations, Thorne created Cable TV programs: Know Your Rights, Working Together for Equal Justice, and Education in Your Neighborhood. As the head of the law unit he had represented Head Start, the New Jersey NAACP State Conference, and daycare centres in later litigation (Abbott VIII). For this and other efforts the Passaic Legal Aid Society won the first annual "Lawyer as Problem Solver Award" of the American Bar Association in 2002.[14]https://casetext.com/case/abbott-v-burke-20

Personal life
Thorne is openly gay.

References

External links
 Essay: New Political and Legal Strategies for African-Americans: Dreaming Big, Dreaming Creatively
 Interview with Mildred Bond Roxborough for NPR's StoryCorps
 Yale Daily News article on Maxim Thorne presiding over the Yale Afro-American Cultural Center 2009 Gala
 Maxim Thorne, testifying before the US Congress's LGBT Equality Caucus on the Census, Co-Chaired by Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) and Barney Frank (D-MA), and Jared Polis (D-CO), April 1, 2010

1964 births
Living people
American chief executives
American people of Chinese descent
African-American LGBT people
American philanthropists
American Rhodes Scholars
Yale Law School alumni
People from Georgetown, Guyana
Alumni of Queen's College, Guyana
American LGBT businesspeople
Yale College alumni


Herman Brood & His Wild Romance is an export album by Dutch rock and roll and blues group Herman Brood & His Wild Romance. Released only in the United States, it contained most of the songs from his second studio album, Shpritsz. The main differences between the two albums were omission of the song "One", slightly modified times and track order, and the U.S. single version of "Saturday Night" which features different lyrics from the original version. Some versions of the LP contained the entire 5:07 minute version of "Saturday Night."  The album was a moderate success, reaching #122 on the Billboard chart for pop albums. As a result, Brood sought to open up the American market, recording the follow-up, Go Nutz, in the US.

Track listing

Personnel
Herman Brood - piano, keyboard, vocals
Freddy Cavalli - bass
Danny Lademacher - guitar
Cees Meerman - drums
 Peter Walrecht - voormalig drummer

References

Herman Brood & His Wild Romance albums
1979 compilation albums
Ariola Records compilation albums


FSOM may refer to:

 Future Sound of Melbourne, an electronic music trio from Australia, formed in 1990.
 Federated States of Micronesia
 Frost School of Music


Noyan is a municipality in the province of Quebec, Canada, located in Le Haut-Richelieu Regional County Municipality. The population as of the Canada 2021 Census was 1,418.

Demographics

Population

Language

Notable people
Raymond Bellemare, Graphic designer

See also
List of municipalities in Quebec

References

External links

Noyan official website

Municipalities in Quebec
Incorporated places in Le Haut-Richelieu Regional County Municipality


Old Longueuil () is a historic neighbourhood located in the borough of the same name, in the city of Longueuil, Quebec, Canada. There is not a universal definition of what exactly constitute the Old Longueuil neighbourhood, but it always includes at least the territory corresponding to the pre-1961 city of Longueuil.

Old Longueuil was named a heritage district by the city in 1993, and features 450 buildings built before 1945. Many historic buildings are found in this district, such as the Co-Cathedral of Saint-Antoine-de-Padoue, the ruins of Fort Longueuil, and Saint Mark's Anglican Church. Rue Saint-Charles, one block inland from the Saint Lawrence River, is the main street in this neighbourhood and features many small businesses, among them restaurants, bars, and corner stores. The borough hall of Le Vieux-Longueuil borough is also in the neighbourhood.

Location

References

External links
Walking tour of Old Longueuil
Map showing location of original city of Longueuil

Neighbourhoods in Longueuil
Heritage sites in Quebec (Cultural Heritage Act)


History and background

In late 1999, Russia's Premier, Vladimir Putin, ordered military, police and security forces to enter the breakaway region of Chechnya. By early 2000, these forces occupied most of the region. High levels of fighting
continued for several more years and resulted in thousands of Russian and Chechen casualties and hundreds of thousands of displaced persons. In 2005, Chechen rebel leader, Abdul-Halim Sadulayev, decreed the formation of a Caucasus Front against Russia, among Islamic believers in the North Caucasus, in an attempt to widen Chechnya's conflict with Russia. After his death, his successor, Dokka Umarov, declared continuing jihad to establish an Islamic fundamentalist Caucasus Emirate in the North Caucasus and beyond. Russia's pacification policy in Chechnya has involved setting up a pro-Moscow regional government and transferring more local security duties to this government.

An important factor in Russia's apparent success in Chechnya has been reliance on pro-Moscow Chechen clans affiliated with regional President Ramzan Kadyrov. Terrorist attacks in the North Caucasus appeared to increase substantially in 2007–2010. In the summer of 2009, more than 442 persons died in North Caucasus violence in just four months as compared to only 150 deaths reported in the entire year of 2008. In the whole year 2009, according to the official figures by the Russian government, 235 Interior Ministry personnel (Defense Ministry and the FSB losses not included) were killed and 686 injured, while more than 541 alleged fighters and their supporters were killed and over 600 detained. The rate of increase of terrorist incidents lessened in 2010, as compared to 2008–2009, however the rate of civilian casualties substantially increased throughout the North Caucasus in 2010 and a rising number of terrorist incidents took place outside of Chechnya.

In the period from 2010 to 2014, the number of casualties in the North Caucasus insurgency declined each year, with the overall death toll falling by more than half. Reasons suggested for the decline include the deaths of high-ranking insurgency commanders, the increased targeting by security forces of the support infrastructure relied on by the insurgents, and an exodus of insurgents to other conflict zones. A special investigation by Reuters claimed that in the lead-up to the 2014 Sochi Olympics, Russian security services had allowed and encouraged militants to leave Russia to fight in the Syrian Civil War, in order to reduce the risk of domestic attacks.

Chechnya

The insurgency in the North Caucasus is a direct result of the two post-Soviet wars fought between Russia and Chechnya. The First Chechen War was a nationalist struggle, with both secular and Islamist overtones, for independence from Russia and took place between 1994 and 1996. After a vicious struggle between Russian federal forces and Chechen separatist guerrillas, Chechnya was granted de facto independence per the terms of the Khasavyurt Accord, signed on 30 August 1996. With a devastated infrastructure and various armed factions, subordinate to specific warlords, the next three years saw Chechnya devolve into a corrupted and criminal state, plagued by armed gangs, an epidemic of kidnappings-for-ransom and the rise of radical Islam in the region as a response to suppression.

In August 1999, an armed incursion of 1,500 Islamic radicals, led by Chechen warlord, Shamil Basayev, and Arab jihadist, Ibn al-Khattab, in support of a Dagestani separatist movement, combined with a series of apartment bombings in Russia, gave Moscow sufficient reasoning for re-invading Chechnya, thus triggering the Second Chechen War, a conflict fought with significant Islamist overtones.

Having learned harsh lessons from the first war, the Russian military, rather than getting entangled in messy urban engagements such as that seen in Grozny in 1994–95, relied heavily on aerial bombardment and artillery such as ballistic missiles and fuel air explosives, typically surrounding and then destroying any towns or villages that put up resistance before sending in ground forces for mop-up operations. The second Battle of Grozny in 1999–2000 saw the bulk of Chechen resistance smashed, particularly after a column of some 2,000 fighters attempted to break out of the besieged city in February 2000 and instead walked directly into a minefield that Russian forces had prepared for an ambush. What remained of the decimated rebel units then withdrew into the inaccessible Vedeno and Argun gorges in the southern mountains of the republic in order to wage a guerrilla campaign.

The republic remained a major center of violence for many years. According to Russian figures, between April 2009 (when the anti-terrorist operation in Chechnya was officially ended) and April 2010, 97 servicemen were killed in Chechnya; at the same time, government forces killed 189 persons claimed to be militants or their collaborators. Reported casualties declined, with 26 security forces and 24 suspected militants being killed in 2014.

Dagestan

Dagestan is the most religious, populous and complex of all the north Caucasian republics. It is double the size of Chechnya and consists of several dozen ethnic groups, most with their own language. The conflict in Dagestan, however, is not between ethnic groups but between Sufism, a syncretic form of Islam which includes local customs and recognises the state, and Salafism, a more traditional form which rejects secular rule and insists that the Salafist interpretation of Islam should govern all spheres of life.

Dagestan has the highest levels of violence and extremism in the North Caucasus republics. The Russian Interior Ministry stated that of the 399 terrorist crimes committed in the North Caucasus in 2013, 242 were in Dagestan.

By 2017, all subversive and terrorist groups operating in Dagestan were eliminated.

Ingushetia

Along with Dagestan, Ingushetia bore the brunt of the violence in the North Caucasus in the Insurgencies early years. The Islamist insurgency in the republic sprang from the wars in neighbouring Chechnya in the 1990s and early 2000s. In June 2004, Ingush and Chechen fighters launched a large-scale attack on Ingushetia's biggest town, Nazran, killing scores of civilians, policemen and soldiers.

As elsewhere in the North Caucasus, the brutality of state security forces has been a major factor, driving young men to join the Islamists. Under the presidency of the former KGB officer, Murat Zyazikov, teams of masked operatives kidnapped, tortured and killed suspected rebels and members of their families. Zyazikov's successor, Yunus-bek Yevkurov, appointed in 2008, had success in dampening the violence, although he was seriously injured in a suicide bombing by the militants during his first year in office. Human rights violations by Russian commandos decreased, but remained widespread.

The capture of Ali Taziev in June 2010, an ethnic Ingush and one of the top leaders of the Caucasus Emirate, dealt a blow to the jihadists in Ingushetia, with the number of attacks falling substantially over the next 5 years. In mid-2015, Ingushetia's president, Yunus-Bek Yevkurov, stated that the insurgency in the Republic had been 'defeated'.

Kabardino-Balkaria

The insurgency in Kabardino-Balkaria began in the early 2000s and was led by the Yarmuk Jamaat, a militant Islamist jamaat which flourished as a result of persecution of Muslims by police and security forces.

In October 2005, several score of the militants launched a raid on the capital of the republic, Nalchik, which left 142 people dead. The guerrillas have also carried out numerous assassinations of government officials and law enforcement officers.

The republic saw a flare-up of violence in late 2010 and early 2011, in the wake of the death of Anzor Astemirov, a senior figure in the Caucasus Emirate and the head of its United Vilayat of Kabarda, Balkaria and Karachay. The new leaders of Kabardino-Balkaria's guerrilla movement, Asker Dzhappuyev and Ratmir Shameyev, preferred a more aggressive approach and the militants murdered several civilians in the republic, including Russian tourists. In response, a vigilante group called the Black Hawks threatened the relatives of some of the Islamists. Dzhappuyev, Shameyev and Khamurzov were killed in a special operation by security forces in April 2011.

Casualties fell in the following years. There was a total of 49 people (militants, security forces and civilians) reported killed in the republic over the whole of 2014.

North Ossetia–Alania
On 9 September 2010, a car-bomb attack occurred at a crowded marketplace in Vladikavkaz, the capital of North Ossetia, killing 19 adults and children, and injuring over 190. President Medvedev responded, that "we will certainly do everything to catch these monsters, who have committed a terrorist attack against ordinary people. What's more, a barbarous terrorist attack. We will do everything, so that they are found and punished in accordance with the law of our country, or in the case of resistance or other cases, so that they are eliminated."

Vilayat Galgayche reportedly took responsibility, stating that the attack was aimed against "Ossetian infidels" on "occupied Ingush lands".

List of clashes in the North Caucasus
 List of clashes in the North Caucasus in 2009
 List of clashes in the North Caucasus in 2010
 List of clashes in the North Caucasus in 2011
 List of clashes in the North Caucasus in 2012
 List of clashes in the North Caucasus in 2013
 List of clashes in the North Caucasus in 2014
 List of clashes in the North Caucasus in 2015
 List of clashes in the North Caucasus in 2016
 List of clashes in the North Caucasus in 2017
 List of clashes in the North Caucasus in 2018
 List of clashes in the North Caucasus in 2019

Casualties

The majority of the civilians killed were Russians, but also foreigners from Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Ukraine, Belarus, Germany, Austria, United Kingdom and Armenia were killed in terrorist attacks.

Note: The casualty totals are compiled by the news site Caucasian Knot, which does not vouch for the data's 100-percent accuracy.

Terrorist incidents
 2009 Nazran bombing
 2009 Nevsky Express bombing
 2010 Moscow Metro bombings
 2010 Kizlyar bombings
 2010 Stavropol bomb blast
 2010 Tsentoroy attack
 2010 Vladikavkaz bombing
 2010 Chechen Parliament attack
 Domodedovo International Airport bombing
 2012 Makhachkala attack
 October 2013 Volgograd bus bombing
 December 2013 Volgograd bombings
 2014 Grozny bombing
 2014 Grozny clashes

References
Notes

Citations

External links
 Search Results for “russia” – DEV Group
 Global Terrorism Database
 Darion Rhodes, Salafist-Takfiri Jihadism: the Ideology of the Caucasus Emirate , International Institute for Counter-Terrorism, March 2014
 Caucasus jihad: Terror tactics back on the horizon?, The Long War Journal, 21 May 2009
 "What Your Children Do Will Touch Upon You", Human Rights Watch, 2 July 2009
 Russia: Protect Rights in North Caucasus Insurgency No Excuse for Abandoning Rule of Law, International Federation for Human Rights, 7 July 2009 (UNHCR)
 Terrorism and the North Caucasus: An Overview

2000s conflicts
2010s conflicts
2000s in Russia
2010s in Russia
21st-century military history of Russia
Caucasus Emirate
Chechen–Russian conflict
History of the North Caucasus
Conflicts in territory of the former Soviet Union
Second Chechen War
Terrorism in Russia
Insurgencies in Europe
Wars involving Russia


The 1984 Masters (also known as the 1984 Volvo Masters for sponsorship reasons) was a men's tennis tournament held in Madison Square Garden, New York City, United States between 8 January and 13 January 1985.  It was the year-end championship of the 1984 Volvo Grand Prix tour. First-seeded John McEnroe won the singles title.

Finals

Singles

 John McEnroe defeated  Ivan Lendl 7–5, 6–0, 6–4
 It was McEnroe's 13th singles title of the year and the 59th of his career.

Doubles

 Peter Fleming /  John McEnroe defeated  Mark Edmondson /  Sherwood Stewart 6-3, 6-1

See also
 Lendl–McEnroe rivalry

References

External links
 ATP tournament profile
 ITF tournament edition details

Volvo Masters
Grand Prix tennis circuit year-end championships
Tennis tournaments in the United States
1985 in American tennis


Experimental filmmakers ask whether things could not be done differently. Underground films analyse and critique the mainstream film industry. They step back and reflect. Simultaneously, they take forward leaps to assess new options. Sometimes the makers are self-taught visual artists who make innovative work thanks to their original point of view. Other filmmakers primarily play with the medium film and seek an alternative to the dominant visual culture.

The 1920s
The history of Dutch experimental or avant-garde film dates back to the 1920s. 1927 saw the publication of a manifesto for the founding of the Filmliga. The movement's leaders Menno ter Braak and E. du Perron's embraced free film art, paying particular attention to the editing, rhythm and composition of films. The Filmliga movement includes the Soviet avant-garde inspired documentaries of Joris Ivens, the scientific films of J.C. Mol (who evoked an aesthetic, abstract world with his 'Het rijk der kristallen') and the work of Alexander von Barsy, Paul Schuitema, Willem Bon and Mannus Franken.

The 1960s
After a lull during the 1930s and 1940s, primarily a time of playful, poetic films by Bert Haanstra ('Spiegel van Nederland') and  ('The Cuckoo Waltz (Koekoekswals)'), international avant-garde film underwent a renaissance in 1949 with the foundation of the Exprmntl Festival in Knokke-Le-Zoute. Later editions of the festival would screen films by Johan van der Keuken ('Lucebert, dichter-schilder', 1962) and Wim van der Linden/Wim T. Schippers, who filmed a motionless bunch of tulips that drops a single petal at the very end, for their sad movie 'Tulips' (1966). 1967 saw the founding of The New Electric Cinema in Eindhoven, which organised happenings involving music concrete made with vacuum cleaners combined with found footage material.

In 1970, Frans Zwartjes started teaching at the Vrije Academie in The Hague where he became an influential mentor to an entire generation of artists such as Jan Ketelaars, Gijs Schneemann, Matthijs Blonk, George Schouten and Ruud Monster, who constituted the so-called ‘Haagse Psychopolis school’. Zwartjes formulated his method as follows:
“I don't tell them anything. They have to work it out for themselves. There are no rules.”
The 1960s saw the rise of a group of young filmmakers who had been trained at the Nederlandse Filmacademie which was founded in 1958. This new generation, led by Wim Verstappen, Pim de la Parra, Nikolai van der Heyde and Adriaan Ditvoorst, saw themselves as revolutionaries and wanted to give the staid film world a rude awakening. In this respect they were aligned with the Nouvelle Vague and the Neue Deutsche Film.

The epicentre of experimental film up until 1974 was the Electric Cinema, run by STOFF employees Barbara Meter, Mattijn Seip, Nico Paape and Jos Schoffelen. Barbara Meter on those turbulent times: “You didn't have to fight your way through the hierarchy, but could just grab a camera and get to work.”
Visual artists who used the medium film constituted a relatively independent development within experimental film in the 1960s. The work of Shinkichi Tajiri, who lived in the Netherlands, attracted attention from the early 1960s onwards and from the end of that decade, he was joined by conceptual artists such as Jan Dibbets, Bas Jan Ader, Peter Struycken, Marinus van Boezem, Ger van Elk and Michel Cardena.
In the 1970s, movements such as structuralist film lost ground and were replaced by films with a critical subtext. Together with Willum Thijssen and Paul de Mol, Peter Rubin founded Holland Experimental Film (HEF) the principal goal of which was to screen Dutch experimental films abroad.

The 1980s
This decade is known as the golden age of video art. The latter's breakthrough in the Netherlands was the ‘Sonsbeek buiten de perken’ festival in Arnhem in 1972. From 1985 to 1995, the AVÉ festival was organised in Arnhem, which later morphed into the Hard Kijken festival. The World Wide Videofestival took place for the first time in 1982. Two years later the exhibition The Illuminous Light was organised at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam. And the Impakt Festival was founded in 1988.
In their work, conceptual artists such as Dibbets, Van Elk, Boezem, Struycken and the Columbian Raoul Marroquin who resided in the Netherlands, experimented with video. Other important filmmakers from the 1980s were Frank Scheffer, Noud Heerkens, Gerard Holthuis, Ruud Monster, Frederieke Jochems and Andras Hamelberg, Pieter Moleveld and Barbara Meter, who started working again after a 10-year break. The Kunstkanaal – a weekly video art show on cable TV in Amsterdam, Rotterdam and The Hague, was founded in 1987.

The 1990s
Screening opportunities arose for a new generation of filmmakers thanks to the founding of Cinema De Balie in 1996, the professionalisation of the Nederlands Instituut voor Mediakunst and the Mind The Gap evenings at De Unie in Rotterdam. During the 1990s new initiatives, such as Studio Eén in Arnhem (later De Werkplaats in Rotterdam), the Filmstad foundation in The Hague and Lazy Marie in Utrecht, primarily focused on the production of 8 mm or 16 mm, low-budget films. During the 1990s, filmmakers such as Joost Rekveld, Aryan Kaganof, Jeroen Eisinga, Karel Doing, Francien van Everdingen, Lonnie van Brummelen, Jan Willem van Dam and Martha Colburn garnered attention. The decade also saw a resurgence of experimental animation and abstract film. Joost Rekveld had the following to say about his light films that are all made without a camera and are all named after prime numbers: “To me, maths is not a cult of numbers and abstractions. It is very concrete.”

2000 to the present
In the preceding years, experimental film seemed to be overshadowed by video art, but during the early years of the 21st century, it once again attracted attention, particularly from artists. (source: mm2) De Filmbank, which inventories, presents and distributes contemporary Dutch experimental film in all sorts of ways (through rental, entries to Dutch and foreign film festivals, publications and DVDs), was founded in 2001 by Karel Doing, Anna Abrahams, Peter Van Hoof and others. The Filmmuseum conserves experimental films in the framework of the 'Collectie Nederland van de Experimentele Film' project, this was followed by a Filmbank tour which included films by Barbara Meter, Henri Plaat and Frans Zwartjes. Plaat refers to his films as 'incantations', Meter refers to a “proposal to experience time and space differently” and Zwartjes says: “The only useful answer to the crap around you is art.”
Rotterdam gained another screening venue with the Worm, while the Rotterdamse Filmwerkplaats organises workshops for filmmakers. The Filmmuseum also conserved another selection of the Dutch experimental heritage and this was screened at the festival Filmmuseum Experimenteel in 2008.

References

External links

 Cinema De Balie: www.debalie.nl
 Dziga: www.dziga.nl
 De Filmbank: www.filmbank.nl
 FilmbankTV: www.filmbanktv.nl
 Filmmuseum: experimentele.filminnederland.nl
 Impakt: www.impakt.nl
 International Film Festival Rotterdam: www.filmfestivalrotterdam.com
 Kunstkanaal: www.kunstkanaal.nl
 Lazy Marie: www.lazymarie.nl
 Media Art Friesland: www.mediaartfriesland.nl
 Nederlands Film Festival: www.filmfestival.nl
 The Netherlands Media Art Institute, Montevideo/Time Based Arts: www.nimk.nl
 O & O: www.filmfund.nl/ontwikkeling_o_o
 Smart Project Space: www.smartprojectspace.net
 Worm: www.wormweb.nl
 Review of MM2: Experimental Film in the Netherlands

Cinema of the Netherlands


The 1983 Masters (also known as the 1983 Volvo Masters for sponsorship reasons) was a men's tennis tournament played on indoor carpet courts in Madison Square Garden in New York City between 10 January and 15 January 1984. It was the year-end championship of the 1983 Volvo Grand Prix tour. John McEnroe won the singles title.

Finals

Singles

 John McEnroe defeated  Ivan Lendl, 6–3, 6–4, 6–4

Doubles

 Peter Fleming /  John McEnroe  defeated  Pavel Složil /  Tomáš Šmíd 6–2, 6–2

See also
 Lendl–McEnroe rivalry

References

External links
 ATP tournament profile

Volvo Masters
Grand Prix tennis circuit year-end championships
Tennis tournaments in the United States
Volvo Masters
Volvo Masters
Volvo Masters


Lafayette, Louisiana, and the surrounding area is a mix of American Indian, African American, English, French and Spanish culture.  The area is situated in the region known as South Central Louisiana. The Vermilion River runs through the city.  Today, the city and parish are at the heart of Acadiana.

Early history

The earliest settlers in the area were Atakapa Indians. Several burial mounds exist along the Vermilion and Bayou Teche.

Acadian Settlement

The earliest records label the area as the Atakapa and Opelousas districts named after the local Indian tribes. Before 1765, few Europeans settled in the area, mostly trappers and smugglers. By 1765, Acadians were arriving in New Orleans and the Spanish governor began settling them in the Lafayette area at St. Martinville and Opelousas. Both French and Spanish officials granted lands freely along the bayous Carencro and Vermilion. Generally, the size of 6–8 arpents along the stream with a depth of 40 arpents. Two of the earliest settlers were Andrew Martin, Jean and Marin Mouton. It was only when Louisiana Governor William C. C. Claiborne created the counties of the Orleans Territory in 1805 that Attakapas County existed.

Founding of Vermilionville

By 1812, the Attakapas Country was split into the St. Martin parish and the St. Mary parish. The original village which would become Lafayette, was laid out by Jean Mouton and his surveyor, John Dinsmore, Jr. in 1821 and was given the name "St. Jean du Vermilionville". Later, the name would be shortened to "Vermilionville". The boundaries were defined in an 1836 charter and later expanded in the 1869 charter.

In 1804, Alexandre Mouton, the son of founder Jean, was born in Lafayette and would later become a U.S. Senator and, from 1843 to 1846, Governor of Louisiana.

On April 17, 1863, the Battle of Vermillion Bayou was fought, the third battle in a series of running battles between Union Major General Nathaniel Prentice Banks and Confederate Major General Richard Taylor.

Establishment of Lafayette

In 1823, the Louisiana legislature divided St. Martin Parish and created Lafayette Parish. The parish name Lafayette was chosen because of  the enthusiasm of General Lafayette's visit to the United States. However, the city's name remained Vermilionville because the name "Lafayette" had already been given to a suburb of New Orleans. Eventually, in 1884, the suburb was incorporated into New Orleans, and Vermilionville became Lafayette.

References

Lafayette Parish, Louisiana
Acadiana
Acadian history
Lafayette
Lafayette, Louisiana


The 9th Infantry Division Pasubio () was an infantry division of the Royal Italian Army during World War II. The Pasubio was classified as an auto-transportable division, meaning it had some motorized transport, but not enough to move the entire division at once. The division was formed as an infantry division in 1934, reorganized as auto-transportable division in 1939 and mobilized in August 1940. It was named for the battles on Pasubio during World War I. Its 79th Infantry Regiment and 8th Artillery Regiment were made up of men from Verona, while the ranks of the 80th Regiment were filled with men from Mantua. Its I CC.NN. Battalion "Sabauda" was made up of Blackshirt volunteers from Turin.

History
The division's lineage begins with the Brigade "Roma" established in Rome on 1 November 1884 with the 79th and 80th infantry regiments.

World War I
The brigade fought on the Italian front in World War I. On 20 December 1926 the brigade assumed the name of IX Infantry Brigade with the 49th Infantry Regiment "Parma", 57th Infantry Regiment "Abruzzi", and 79th Infantry Regiment "Roma", while the 80th Infantry Regiment "Roma" was disbanded. The brigade was the infantry component of the 9th Territorial Division of Verona, which also included the 8th Artillery Regiment. In 1934 the division changed its name to 9th Infantry Division "Pasubio". In April 1939 the division ceded the 49th Infantry Regiment "Parma" to the 49th Infantry Division "Parma" and the 57th Infantry Regiment "Abruzzi" to the 10th Infantry Division "Piave", and received the re-raised 80th Infantry Regiment "Roma" from the 16th Infantry Division "Pistoia". On the same date the 79th and 80th infantry regiments, and the 8th Artillery Regiment changed their names to "Pasubio".

World War II

Yugoslavia
The Pasubio took part in the Invasion of Yugoslavia in April 1941. First it was deployed at San Pietro del Carso (near modern Pivka). By 16 April the division had overcome border defenses and reached the road to Otocac. Closer to the end of war, it reached Šibenik-Split region where it participated in mop-up operations until 28 May 1941. After the end of the military operation in Yugoslavia, the Pasubio returned to Verona.

Soviet Union
In July 1941 the division was assigned to the Italian Expeditionary Corps in Russia and left Verona on 10 July 1941. It reached Yampil on the Dniester river on 6 August 1941. The first contact with the Soviet troops happened on 10 August 1941 near town of Voznesensk on the Southern Bug river. The Polyana village was reached by 12 August 1941. From 18 September 1941 until 26 September 1941 the Pasubio participated in the Battle of Kyiv, capturing and holding a bridgehead on the eastern side of the Dnieper river. In October 1941 the Pasubio advanced by the route of Petrikovka-Dnipropetrovsk-Pavlohrad-Ulyanivka(Kharkiv Oblast)-Izium. The Pasubio played a significant role in the capture of Stalino in October 1941, earning the praise of the German First Panzer Group's commander, General Ewald von Kleist. On 1 November 1941, the Pasubio attacked Horlivka and captured it after fierce fighting. The village of Nikitovka north of Horlivka fell soon thanks to a rapid advance. The division also contributed significantly to the capture of the Shazopetovka and Bulavyns'ke to the east of Horlivka. By that time, the Soviets forces increased to an extent where the Pasubio Division was forced to switch to the defense.

In January 1942 the Pasubio division helped German troops fighting in the Izium area, where it defeated a heavy Soviet attack near the village of Novaya Orlovka. By July 1942, Pasubio division fought near the town of Krasnyi Luch. In August, it reached the Don, where the right flank of the division was heavily attacked by Soviet forces on 20 August 1942. The attack was repelled in a few days, and the division's position on the Don remained unchanged until 11 December 1942, when the Soviets attacked with a large number of tanks. By 16 December 1942 the Pasubio's counter attacks had reestablished the initial positions, but by that time the collapse of the entire Italian front-line was already underway. Nearby the 52nd Infantry Division "Torino" and 2nd Infantry Division "Sforzesca" had failed to maintain their positions, and therefore the Pasubio was forced to retreat to avoid encirclement. After a few days of retreat, the Pasubio was no longer able to maintain a coherent front-line and choose to only cover the roads of its retreat. On 25 December 1942, a rearguard of 600 men was surrounded in the village of Krasnoyarovka in Rostov Oblast and annihilated by 28 December 1942. The main body of the division had retreated with remnants of German units to the northern part of Chertkovo village, where they repelled several attacks starting from 23 December 1942. Afterwards the grueling march to first avoid, and then to break the Soviet encirclement, continued. On 15 January 1943 the fight to break through the Soviet lines started. Finally, the 2,000 men remaining of the division broke the encirclement on 17 January 1943 near the town of Belovodsk in Luhansk Oblast.

The Pasubio's troops marched to Stalino and the remnants of the division were repatriated in April 1943. The division received some minor existing units and was in the process of being reformed, when it was transferred to Caserta for coastal defense duties. The division's garrisons there were the villages of Avena, Grazzanise, Sparanise, and the town of Santa Maria Capua Vetere. The garrisons were captured by the invading German forces after the announcement of the Armistice of Cassibile on 8 September 1943.

While the Pasubio was in the Soviet Union the division's regimental depots in Italy raised the 104th Infantry Division "Mantova": the 79th Infantry Regiment "Pasubio" raised the 113th Infantry Regiment "Mantova", the 80th Infantry Regiment "Pasubio" raised the 114th Infantry Regiment "Mantova", and the 8th Artillery Regiment "Pasubio" raised the 121st Motorized Artillery Regiment.

Organization

When the division was deployed to the Soviet Union it consisted of the following units:

  9th Infantry Division "Pasubio", in Verona
 79th Infantry Regiment "Pasubio", in Verona
 Command Company
 3x Fusilier battalions
 Support Weapons Company (65/17 infantry support guns)
 Mortar Company (81mm Mod. 35 mortars)
 80th Infantry Regiment "Pasubio", in Mantua
 Command Company
 3x Fusilier battalions
 Support Weapons Company (65/17 infantry support guns)
 Mortar Company (81mm Mod. 35 mortars)
 8th Artillery Regiment "Pasubio", in Verona
 Command Unit
 I Group (100/17 howitzers)
 II Group (75/27 field guns)
 III Group (75/27 field guns)
 85th Anti-aircraft Battery (20/65 Mod. 35 anti-aircraft guns)
 309th Anti-aircraft Battery (20/65 anti-aircraft guns)
 Ammunition and Supply Unit
 V Mortar Battalion (81mm Mod. 35 mortars, detached from the 5th Infantry Division "Cosseria" for the campaign in the Soviet Union)
 IX Mortar Battalion (81mm Mod. 35 mortars)
 IX Anti-tank Battalion (formed during the deployment to the Eastern Front)
 9th Anti-tank Company (47/32 anti-tank guns)
 73rd Anti-tank Battery (75/39 anti-tank guns; attached during the deployment in the Soviet Union)
 141st Anti-tank Company (47/32 anti-tank guns; transferred from the 131st Armored Division "Centauro" for the deployment in the Soviet Union)
 9th Telegraph and Radio Operators Company
 30th Engineer Company
 190th Heavy Transport Unit (assigned for the deployment in the Soviet Union)
 813th Heavy Transport Section
 814th Heavy Transport Section
 5th Medical Section
 825th Field Hospital
 826th Field Hospital
 836th Field Hospital
 874th Field Hospital
 25th Surgical Unit
 11th Supply Section
 26th Bakers Section
 25th Carabinieri Section
 26th Carabinieri Section
 9th Infantry Division Command Transport Squad
 83rd Field Post Office

After the division's return from the campaign in the Soviet Union it was assigned already existing minor support units to speed up the process of reforming the division:

 51st Transport Section
 131st Medical Section
 131st Supply Section
 244th Carabinieri Section
 245th Carabinieri Section
 177th Field Post Office

During this process the division's engineer units were merged into the newly formed XXIX Mixed Engineer Battalion.

Military honors
For their conduct during the Italian campaign in the Soviet Union the President of Italy awarded the 79th Infantry Regiment "Pasubio" and the 8th Artillery Regiment "Pasubio" Italy's highest military honor, the Gold Medal of Military Valour. The 80th Infantry Regiment "Pasubio" was awarded two Gold Medals of Military Valour - the only line infantry regiment so honored during the entire conflict.

  79th Infantry Regiment "Pasubio" on 31 December 1947
  80th Infantry Regiment "Pasubio" on 31 December 1947
  80th Infantry Regiment "Pasubio" on 8 February 1945
  8th Artillery Regiment "Pasubio" on 26 December 1951

Commanding officers
The division's commanding officers were:

 Generale di Divisione Vittorio Giovanelli (10.07.1940 - 16.09.1942)
 Generale di Brigata Roberto Olmi (acting) (17.09.1942 - 03.12.1942)
 Generale di Divisione Guido Boselli (04.12.1942 - 06.02.1943)
 Generale di Brigata Cesare Gandini (acting)
 Lieutenant Colonel Luigi Filippo Cangini (acting)
 Generale di Brigata Carlo Biglino (15.05.1943 - 09.09.1943)

Notes

References

Infantry divisions of Italy in World War II
Military units and formations of Italy in Yugoslavia in World War II
Military units and formations established in 1934
Military units and formations disestablished in 1943


The 1982 Masters (also known as the 1982 Volvo Masters for sponsorship reasons) was a men's tennis tournament held in Madison Square Garden, New York City, United States between 18–23 January 1983. It was the year-end championship of the 1982 Volvo Grand Prix tour and was played on indoor carpet courts. The round-robin format of previous editions was replaced by a knock-out tournament featuring the 12 highest ranking singles players as well as the six best doubles teams of the Grand Prix circuit. The top four seeds in the singles event received a bye in the first round and all singles matches were played as best-of-three sets, except the final which was a best-of-five set match.

Finals

Singles

 Ivan Lendl defeated  John McEnroe 6–4, 6–4, 6–2
 It was Lendl's 15th singles title of the year and the 32nd of his career

Doubles

 Peter Fleming /  John McEnroe  defeated  Sherwood Stewart /  Ferdi Taygan 7–5, 6–3

Tournament
The Masters tournament offered $400,000 prize money and began on Tuesday, January 18, 1983. The seeding of the players was based on the Grand Prix points gathered during the 1982 season which consisted of 82 tournaments. During the first two evenings of the Masters the four preliminary rounds were played in the singles event. On Tuesday 10,742 spectators filled the 18,500-seat stadium and saw 11th seed José Luis Clerc defeat fifth seed Mats Wilander in three sets followed by a three set victory of ninth seed Andrés Gómez over seventh seed José Higueras. On Wednesday, January 19 in front of 12,776 visitors sixth seed Vitas Gerulaitis lost in three sets to 12th seed Yannick Noah and in the final match of the first round eighth seed Johan Kriek defeated tenth seed Steve Denton in three sets. The quarterfinals were played on Thursday, January 20 and Friday, January 21 in front of a 14,985 crowd and were all won in straight sets by the highest four seeded players: Jimmy Connors, Guillermo Vilas, Ivan Lendl and John McEnroe.

The first semifinal match between McEnroe and Vilas was played on Saturday, January 22 in front of 18,000 spectators and was won in straight sets by McEnroe in 82 minutes. The second semifinal, between Lendl and Connors, was even more lopsided and was won by Lendl in straight sets in 63 minutes with the loss of only four games.

The final between Lendl and McEnroe was played on Sunday, January 23 and was watched in the stadium by 18,257 people. Lendl won the best-of-five match in straight sets in two hours and nine minutes and received the $100,000 winner's cheque as well as a motor car. McEnroe received $60,000 for the runner-up spot. It was Lendl's 59th consecutive indoor win and his 15th tournament title of the 1982 season. McEnroe's defeat broke his 26-match winning streak since the semifinal of the 1982 US Open.

See also
 Lendl–McEnroe rivalry

References

External links
 ATP tournament profile
 ITF tournament edition details

Volvo Masters
Grand Prix tennis circuit year-end championships
Tennis tournaments in the United States
Volvo Masters
Volvo Masters
Volvo Masters


Arnaldo Ramos Lauzerique was  a Cuban independent economist. Ramos Lauzerique and Marta Beatriz Roque founded the Instituto de Economía.

Information
The group of economists has exposed how the communist government uses false statistics when reporting to the people and to international organizations.

He was imprisoned during the Black Spring in 2003 and Amnesty International recognized him as a prisoner of conscience.

In August 2005 political prisoners Adolfo Fernández Sainz and Alfredo Domínguez Batista went on a hunger strike after Ramos was beaten by guards.

Ramos was freed in November 2010.

References

Amnesty International prisoners of conscience held by Cuba
Cuban economists
Cuban dissidents
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Cuban prisoners and detainees


Sony Ericsson W205 is an entry-level dual-band GSM/GPRS Walkman phone with a focus on music playback. It was announced on 7 April 2009 under the marketing tag ‘your first Walkman phone’.

"The W205 is perfect for those who love portable music but have never had the Walkman phone experience," said Timo Maassmann, Marketing business manager at Sony Ericsson.

The phone comes in a various colour schemes: Ambient Black, Creamy White, Sakura Pink and Windy Blue.

Standby time (GSM/GPRS) is up to 425 hours (17 days and 17 hours), while talk time is up to 9 hours. Music listening time is up to 13 hours.

It has since been succeeded by the Sony Ericsson Spiro a year later.

Hardware

The device is a slider phone featuring a 1.8-inch, 16-bit high color (65k) TFT screen, with a resolution of 128×160 pixels. It features a rear-mounted 1.3 MP camera with up to 2.2× digital zoom and video recording (mp4v 128×96 px, at 15 frames per second).

The phone's front side presents menu access, call start and stop, and navigation buttons that also double as playback controls. The left side of the phone includes hardware volume buttons and the FastPort outlet. The top right side features the memory card inlet covered with a rubber band. In addition to the camera, the back of the device includes a speakerphone for hands-free audio playback without the headset.

The W205 contains an FM radio with RDS and an integrated antenna. The ability is provided to record radio either onto the 5 MB of internal memory or up to 2GB of external memory to the Memory Stick Micro (M2) memory card. Such recordings can also be saved and used as ringtones. Activation of the FM radio requires a FastPort-compatible headset connected to the phone; the headset is required to function as an antenna.

The phone employs a proprietary FastPort outlet for the charger, headphones and the data cable. The latter facilitates USB connectivity, and requires the model DCU-60 or compatible cable. USB charging via FastPort is not supported with this phone model.

Software

Software-wise, the device includes a Walkman player, which supports MP3 and AAC files, plus playlists, shuffle and loop modes, display of album art, and track identification via Sony Ericsson’s TrackID service. Uncharacteristically for a device that was Walkman-branded and specifically marketed as audio-centric, its playback software does not feature an equalizer or equalizer presets for different musical genres.

On Internet access, the phone features a native WAP 2.0 browser and the Java-based Opera Mini. Different connectivity profiles can be configured for the native browser and Java apps (Opera Mini); like, respectively, 'WAP' for very light-weight browsing and 'Internet' for complex content.

Other features include multiple phonebooks, copy and paste functionality of text snippets and numbers, a file manager, sound recorder, alarm clock with several alarm settings, calendar, torchlight (uses the phone's screen), tasks, notes, timer, stopper, and calculator.

Marketing

In September 2009, the W205 was available in the UK for £99.99 SIM-free; at the time, UK Vodafone offered it for £40 on a pay-as-you-go plan.

At the start of the 2010 Football World Cup on June 11, 2010, South African mobile operator and official event sponsor MTN had exclusive rights to the W205 phone, which was pre-loaded with World Cup-related content, such as FIFA wallpapers, themes, screensavers, and the FIFA 2009 soundtrack.

References

External links
Sony Ericsson official website
Sony Ericsson official website for the W205
Sony Ericsson press release concerning the W205

W205
Sony Ericsson W205
Mobile phones introduced in 2009


The 1981 Masters (also known as the 1981 Volvo Masters for sponsorship reasons) was a men's tennis tournament played on indoor carpet courts in Madison Square Garden, New York City, United States from January 13 through January 17, 1982.  It was the year-end championship of the 1981 Volvo Grand Prix tour. Ivan Lendl won the singles title.

Finals

Singles

 Ivan Lendl defeated  Vitas Gerulaitis, 6–7(5–7), 2–6, 7–6(8–6), 6–2, 6–4.

Doubles

 Peter Fleming and  John McEnroe defeated  Kevin Curren and  Steve Denton 6–3, 6–3.

References

External links
 ATP tournament profile

Volvo Masters
Grand Prix tennis circuit year-end championships
Tennis tournaments in the United States
Volvo Masters
Volvo Masters
Volvo Masters


Parliamentary elections were held in Bulgaria on 28 March 1920. It was compulsory to vote. The result was a victory for the Bulgarian Agrarian National Union (BANU), which won 110 of the 229 seats. Voter turnout was 77%.

Results

Aftermath
The BANU government annulled the election of 13 deputies –  nine of them Communists – which gave them a majority in parliament.

References

Bulgaria
Parliamentary elections in Bulgaria
Bulgaria
Parliamentary


Sangamesh Saundattimath (born 1 April 1943) is a Kannada linguist. His other areas of books include Kannada research, critics, literature.

Career
He has served as a professor of Kannada at Karnatak University Dharwad, Gulbarga University, for over 33 years and after retirement, he was selected as emeritus professor by U.G.C. He was holding a number of administrative positions at the time of his service such as dean of Faculty of Arts, chairman of the Institute of Kannada studies (Gulbarga University), student welfare officer (Gulbarga University), special officer (P.G. Centre, Raichur) etc. He is also currently working as a resource person in Central Institute of Indian Languages.

References

External links
 http://www.hindu.com/2010/10/31/stories/2010103161500400.htm

20th-century Indian linguists
Living people
Academic staff of Karnatak University
1943 births
Kannada-language writers
Writers from Karnataka


John Barry Prescott AC FTSE (born Sydney, 22 October 1940) is an Australian retired businessman and corporate bureaucrat who was managing director and CEO of BHP from 1991 to 1998. Over his career, he has held numerous positions including chairman of Queensland Rail and ASC Pty Ltd, and director of Newmont Mining Corporation.

Education
Prescott was educated at North Sydney Boys High School where in 1957 as a pupil he was appointed Deputy Librarian. He received a Bachelor of Commerce (Industrial Relations) from the University of New South Wales in 1961.

Career

~1958–1998: BHP
Prescott was an executive of BHP, having been with that company for over 40 years including as an executive director for 10 years and as managing director and chief executive officer from 1991 to 1998. Prescott's time as CEO of BHP coincided with a number of failed investments which lost the company almost $10 billion.'

2000–2009: Australian Submarine Corporation
Chairman (2000 – 30 June 2009). Prescott served as chairman of Australian Submarine Corporation, later rebranded ASC Pty Ltd.

2006–2015: Queensland Rail / Aurizon
From 2006 to 2010 Prescott was Chairman of the Government of Queensland owned Queensland Rail, that managed the state's passenger and freight railway network. During this time he oversaw the separation of the company into two separate entities: Queensland Rail that operated passenger services and QR National that operated freight services, becoming chairman of the latter. Under Prescott's chairmanship the latter was listed on the Australian Securities Exchange as Aurizon raising $4.6bn in what was the largest initial public offering (IPO) in Australia that year. He was chairman of Aurizon from 2010 to 2015. Under Prescott's Chairmanship the company grew significantly. The Company's operating ratio improved from 91% in 2010 to 74% in 2015 and a turn around in safety saw the LTIFR reduced by 97% in this time. Aurizon's share price increased by 95% to $4.96, and under Prescott's stewardship, total shareholder returns increased by 117% from IPO to 30 June 2015.

Other corporate

1998–?: Horizon Private Equity
From 1998 Prescott was the executive chairman of Horizon Private Equity.

1999–2013: Normandy Mining / Newmont Mining
Prescott served as a non-executive director of Normandy Mining from April 1999 to 2002. He served as an Independent Director of Newmont Mining Corporation from 2002 to 2013 after it purchased Normandy Mining.

Other
Prescott has been a Global Counsellor of The Conference Board since 2001, a member of the Global Advisory Council since 2013, and a member of the Commonwealth Remuneration Tribunal since 2010. Other Directorships and consulting/advisory positions have included Conference Board USA, World Economic Forum, Booz Allen Hamilton, J.P. Morgan Chase & Co, Proudfoot Consulting and Asia Pacific Advisory Committee of New York Stock Exchange.

Honours and awards
Prescott was appointed a Companion of the Order of Australia in 1996 and received the Centenary Medal in 2003.

Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors, the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, and the Australian Institute of Management.

He was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Laws from Monash University in 1994 and an Honorary Doctor of Science from the University of New South Wales awarded in 1995.

In 2016 Monash University inaugurated a series of public lectures in his name which focus on human resources, industrial relations and related areas. The University of NSW awards two scholarships named after Prescott – the John Prescott Scholarship in Human Resource Management and the John Prescott Outstanding Teaching Innovation Award.

He has also held the positions of director of the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, and member then director of the Business Council of Australia.

References

University of New South Wales alumni
Companions of the Order of Australia
Australian businesspeople
1940 births
Living people
Newmont
Fellows of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering
BHP people
Fellows of the Australian Institute of Company Directors
People educated at North Sydney Boys High School