Marguerite Gérard (28 January 1761 in Grasse – 18 May 1837 in Paris) was a successful French painter and printmaker working in the Rococo style. She was the daughter of Marie Gilette and perfumer Claude Gérard. At eight years old, she became the sister-in-law of Jean-Honoré Fragonard, and when she was 14, she went to live with him. She was also the aunt of the artist Alexandre-Évariste Fragonard. Gérard became Fragonard's pupil in the mid-1770s and studied painting, drawing and printmaking under his tutelage. Gérard and Fragonard created nine etchings in 1778. Historians currently believe Gérard was the sole artist of five of these etchings, since many have a duplicate created by her tutor Fragonard. More than 300 genre paintings, 80 portraits, and several miniatures have been documented to Gérard. One of her paintings, The Clemency of Napoleon, was purchased by Napoleon in 1808.

Biography
Upon the death of her mother in 1775, Marguerite Gérard, the youngest of the seven children, took up residence in the Louvre with her sister and her sister's husband Jean-Honoré Fragonard. She lived in the Louvre with them for approximately thirty years, allowing her to view and be inspired by great artworks of the past and present. By 1785 she had established a reputation for being a gifted genre painter, the first French woman to do so. Of particular interest to Gérard were the genre scenes of the Dutch Golden Age which she would emulate in her own work. She was denied membership to the Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture due to its rules limiting the number of female artists to four at any one time. The academy denied women the free art training offered to men at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, or the right to compete for the prestigious Prix de Rome. Despite these obstacles, she went on to exhibit widely, particularly following the French Revolution when the Salon was opened to women. Her work was exhibited in the Salon between 1799 and 1824 and she won a Prix du 5ème classe in 1799, a Prix d'encouragement in 1801 and a Medaille d'Or in 1804.

Her association with Fragonard's circle allowed Gérard the freedom to remain unmarried without becoming a financial burden to herself and her parents; this allowed her to devote her life to becoming an artist, a career she continued with considerable commercial success for more than fifty years. Speculation that Gérard and Fragonard were lovers has been thoroughly disproved, and Gérard referred to the older artist as a father figure. After the death of Fragonard she continued to live with her sister for 17 years.

Art production
Gérard became interested in art while living with her sister, Marie-Anne Fragonard, and brother-in-law, Jean-Honoré Fragonard, in Paris. She aspired to become an artist like her sister, a painter of miniatures, and her brother-in-law encouraged her ambitions. She began training with Fragonard at the age of 16. She became an unofficial apprentice of Jean-Honoré Fragonard, working from his drawings to create her first pieces of work; soon after, she began to create her own genre paintings. The depiction of everyday life closely resembles the style of Gerard Ter Borch and Gabriël Metsu, Dutch artists from the seventeenth century. Much like these Dutch artists, Gérard painted meticulous details using finely blended brushstrokes. Her unpretentious paintings represented the major underground current in the art of the early 1800s. Depicting the minor domestic dramas in the homes of the rich middle class, Marguerite Gérard not only paved the way for other women artists, but also men of the next generation, including her nephew Alexandre Evariste, to whom she tried to be what Fragonard had been to her.

Subjects
As a genre artist, Gérard focused on portraying scenes of intimate domestic life. However, unlike other female painters who liked to refer to classical antiquity, Marguerite Gérard often used costumes and settings from a few centuries before her own. Domestic cats and dogs also show up repeatedly in Gérard's work. Many of her paintings illustrate the experience of motherhood and childhood within the home, and several emphasize the importance of music and female companionship. One of her more ambitious engravings, The Genius of Franklin (Le Génie de Franklin), depicts an allegorical scene of Benjamin Franklin and America personified as a woman. This engraving's subject matter helped introduce Gérard's work to a larger audience since prints could be produced easily. Gérard also painted at least thirty-five portraits of painters, actors, and patrons between 1787 and 1791.

Reception and recognition
Gérard was a well-known painter during her lifetime. LeBreton's official report of the state of French art published in 1808 states that by 1789, Gérard's reputation matched those of Anne Vallayer-Coster, Adélaïde Labille-Guiard and Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun. By 1785, she had established a reputation as a gifted genre painter, and was one of the first French women to do so. Her art was advertised with the phrase "sous les yeux de Fragonard" (under the eyes of Fragonard) to give her early work credibility. This has caused many art historians to overestimate Fragonard's role in her art. By her mid-20s, Gérard had developed her signature style, which featured painstakingly accurate details rendered with subtly blended brush strokes. It is currently accepted that Gérard made the five etchings in 1778 by herself based on Fragonard's drawings.  After the Revolution, once the Salons began accepting art created by women, Gérard exhibited from 1799 to 1824. Despite her lack of formal training, she won three medals for her artwork. One of her paintings, The Clemency of Napoleon, was purchased by Emperor Napoleon in 1808. Other patrons included Louis XVIII and various members of the upper class. Wealthy collectors purchased her original paintings to display in their homes, while engravings of her paintings were spread among the middle class.

Principal Exhibitions
Paris Salon:

1799: four paintings (winner of prix du 5ème classe)

1801: three paintings (winner of a prix d'encouragement for the painting deux jeunes époux lisant leur correspondence d'amour')

1802: three paintings

1804: at least seven works (winner of a médaille d'or)

1806: three paintings

1808: three paintings

1810: four paintings

1814: seven paintings

1817: three paintings

1822: four paintings

1824: two paintings

 Recent exhibitions Parfums d'Interdit, Musée Fragonard, 25 May 23 September 2018, GrasseRoyalists to Romantics: Women Artists from the Louvre, Versailles, and Other French National Collections,  National Museum of Women in the Arts, 24 February to 29 July 2012, Washington D.C.Petits théâtres de l'intime, Musée des Augustins, 22 October 2011 to 22 January 2012, ToulouseMarguerite Gérard, Musée Cognacq-Jay, 10 November to 6 December 2009, ParisTrois femmes peintres dans le siècle de Fragonard.''' 18 April to 18 October 1998 Musée de la Parfumerie Fragonard, Grasse

 Gallery

References

Further reading

Rena M. Hoisington and Perrin Stein. Sous les yeux de Fragonard: The Prints of Marguerite Gérard," Print Quarterly, vol.XXIX, no. 2 (June 2012), pp. 142–62.

Sally Wells-Robertson, 'Marguerite Gérard et les Fragonard', Bulletin de la société de l'histoire de l'art Français, 1977, pp. 179–189
Sally Wells-Robertson, Marguerite Gérard'', PhD dissertation, New York University 1978

External links

Marguerite Gerard's Cat Paintings
Salons et expositions des groupes 1673-1914

1761 births
1837 deaths
French women painters
People from Grasse
18th-century French painters
19th-century French painters
19th-century French women artists
18th-century French women artists
Sibling artists


George Townsend Turner (February 11, 1906 – August 14, 1979) of Washington, D.C., was considered a leading philatelic bibliophile of his era, amassing a very large body of philatelic literature over his lifetime. He was the acting curator of the Smithsonian Institution's philatelic collection from 1959 until 1962 and was the owner of the largest private philatelic library ever assembled.

Collecting interests
Turner was particularly interested in United States revenue stamps and became an expert on the subject, publishing in 1974 "Essays and Proofs of United States Internal Revenue Stamps: A Compilation with Relative Prices."

Turner collected books and other periodicals and catalogs of philatelic literature and purchased large libraries of philatelic books, including the library of revenue collector William Carlos Stone, as well as the immense library of William Reynolds Ricketts.

Philatelic activity
Turner served philately in a number of ways. At the American Philatelic Society he was appointed to the board of directors; at the Smithsonian Institution he was the curator of philatelic collections; and, at the Bureau Issues Association (now the United States Stamp Society), he was the research philatelist. He was also very active in philatelic conventions, and, in 1966, when U.S. philatelic authorities declined to organize an international philatelic exhibition, Turner decided on his own to organize the Sixth International Philatelic Exhibition (SIPEX) in Washington, D.C.

Honors and awards
Numerous awards were given to Turner, including the Luff Award in 1976 for Outstanding Service to the Society, the Lichtenstein Medal in 1976, and in 1978 he signed the Roll of Distinguished Philatelists.  In 1980 he was named to the American Philatelic Society Hall of Fame.

Legacy
The majority of Turner's massive library was bequeathed to the Smithsonian Institution where it now resides at the National Postal Museum in Washington, D.C. Through Turner's bequest, the Smithsonian Institution received over 3,000 books and related material which now forms the foundation of the Smithsonian National Postal Museum's library. Turner's collection includes his card catalog along with Ralph A. Kimble's subject index to many philatelic essays and articles which were published in the Philatelic Press, 1935–1950.

See also
 Philately
 Philatelic literature

References

 George Townsend Turner

1906 births
1979 deaths
Philatelic literature
American philatelists
People from Washington, D.C.
Smithsonian Institution people
Signatories to the Roll of Distinguished Philatelists
American Philatelic Society


The IWRG Intercontinental Super Welterweight Championship (Campeonato Intercontinental de Peso Super Welter IWRG in Spanish) is an inactive professional wrestling championship promoted by the Mexican professional wrestling promotion International Wrestling Revolution Group (IWRG). The official definition of the super welterweight weight class in Mexico is between  and , but is not always strictly enforced.

As it was a professional wrestling championship, the championship was not won not by actual competition, but by a scripted ending to a match determined by the bookers and match makers. On occasion the promotion declares a championship vacant, which means there is no champion at that point in time. This can either be due to a storyline, or real life issues such as a champion suffering an injury being unable to defend the championship, or leaving the company.

The first and so far only champion is Místico, who was under contract with Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL) at the time, but worked for IWRG under a talent sharing agreement between the two companies. The talent sharing agreement ended in 2008, but the Super Welterweight Championship has not officially been declared vacant even. It is considered inactive as the IWRG simply does not promote it or refer to it any more.

Title history

Footnotes

References

External links
IWRG Intercontinental Super Welterweight Title history:
wrestling-titles.com
solie.org

International Wrestling Revolution Group championships
Super welterweight wrestling championships
Intercontinental professional wrestling championships


The Land of Many Churches is the fifteenth studio album and the double live gospel album by Merle Haggard and The Strangers released on Capitol Records in 1971.

Background
The album collects four live performances: two are in churches proper—Big Creek Baptist Church and Assembly of God Tabernacle—one is at San Quentin's Garden Chapel inside the prison, and one at Nashville's Union Rescue Mission. The music offers a mix of country gospel and traditional hymns with preachers introducing some of the songs. Bonnie Owens and the Carter Family are also featured. The album reached number 15 on the Billboard country albums chart.

It was reissued on CD in 1997 by Razor & Tie.

Reception

Al Campbell of AllMusic states "To his credit, Haggard had a greater need to shine light on the music that influenced him, more so than the need to release material that guaranteed a surefire hit... Highly recommended to traditional country fans." Writing in 2013, Haggard biographer David Cantwell calls it "one of the gems of the country canon."

Track listing
 "Introduction/We'll Understand It Better By and By" (Charles Tindley) – 4:39
 "Medley: Take My Hand, Precious Lord/Jesus Hold My Hand" (Thomas A. Dorsey, Albert E. Brumley) – 3:26
 "Precious Memories" (Traditional) – 3:14
 "History of Big Creek Baptist Church" – 2:40
 "Turn Your Radio On" (Brumley) – 2:09
 "If We Never Meet Again" (Brumley) – 2:58
 "Closing Prayer/Just as I Am – 1:23
 "Introduction & Opening Prayer – 2:09
 "Amazing Grace" (John Newton) – 3:33
 "Where Could I Go But to the Lord" (James B. Coats) – 2:25
 "Medley: Old Time Religion/Pass Me Not/Sweet By and By" (S. Bennett, F. Crosby, W. Doane, Traditional, Joseph P. Webster) – 3:15
 "The Old Rugged Cross" (George Bennard) – 4:03
 "Closing Prayer – 1:00
 "Introduction – 1:28
 "Life's Railway to Heaven" (Charles Davis Tillman) – 2:58
 "On the Jericho Road" (Don S. McCrossan) – 3:02
 "Steal Away" (Red Foley) – 4:13
 "I Saw the Light" (Hank Williams) – 2:47
 "Introduction/Leaning on the Everlasting Arms" (Elisha A. Hoffman, Anthony Johnson Showalter) – 5:02
 "Guide Me, Lord" (Johnny Gimble) – 2:50
 "Family Bible" (Walt Breeland, Paul Buskirk, Claude Gray) – 3:38
 "I'll Be List'ning" (Traditional) – 2:30
 "Just a Closer Walk with Thee" (Traditional) – 3:19
 "Closing Prayer" – 1:04

Personnel
Merle Haggard– vocals, guitar

The Strangers:
Roy Nichols – lead guitar
Norman Hamlet – steel guitar, dobro
Bobby Wayne - rhythm guitar, harmony vocals
Dennis Hromek – bass, background vocals
Biff Adam – drums

with
Tommy Collins– guitar
Jody Payne – guitar
Johnny Gimble – fiddle
Bonnie Owens – harmony vocals

and
Earl Ball – piano
Billy Liebert – piano
Jerry Smith – piano
Carter Family – background singers

Chart positions

References

Merle Haggard live albums
1971 live albums
Capitol Records live albums
Live gospel albums
Albums produced by Ken Nelson (United States record producer)
Razor & Tie live albums


Shane Bemis (born c. 1972) is an American politician who is the former mayor of Gresham, Oregon, Oregon's fourth-largest city. He was elected mayor in 2006, at the age of 34, becoming the youngest mayor in Gresham's history.  Prior to serving as mayor, Bemis served as a city councilor for Gresham for one term between 2003 and 2007.

Early life
Shane Bemis was born in Billings, Montana, into a politically active family and ultimately chose to become politically. Raised in Billings, Bemis moved to Gresham when he was fifteen years old. After graduating high school, Bemis attended Marylhurst University, where he earned a bachelor's degree in communications. In his twenties, Bemis opened a Bellagio's Pizzeria franchise in Gresham. He credits his business pursuits with his belief in bringing a "business-oriented" approach to local governance in Gresham.

Political career
In 2002, Bemis ran for councilor in position #6 against John W. Dillow and won the election by a nearly two-to-one margin. After serving one term, Bemis ran for mayor in 2006 and was elected mayor over incumbent Charles Becker by a margin of 7,417 votes for Bemis to 5,208 for Becker.

In 2007 Mayor Bemis pushed TriMet, the local transit agency, to tackle crime along the MAX light-rail line.  This effort resulted in the creation of a transit-police precinct in Gresham.

Bemis was named by the Portland Business Journal as one of the region's "Forty Under 40 Award" recipients in 2007. The "Forty Under 40 Award" honors 40 people in the region under the age of 40 who have shown great accomplishments in their professional lives and made outstanding contributions to their communities. Bemis is a prominent local business person in Gresham, where he is a restaurateur.

Bemis was mentioned as a potential Republican candidate for the 2016 Oregon special gubernatorial election, but ultimately declined to run.

Bemis announced his retirement June 16, 2020, citing the need to spend time with his family and keep his restaurant business viable during the COVID-19 pandemic.

References

External links
 An opinion piece on Shane Bemis from The Oregonian

  Bemis markets Gresham to solar industry
  Mayor Bemis calls for volunteers
  Gresham hosts green economic summit

Living people
1972 births
21st-century American politicians
Mayors of places in Oregon
People from Gresham, Oregon
Oregon city council members
Oregon Republicans


The IWRG Intercontinental Women's Championship (Campeonato Intercontinental Feminil IWRG in Spanish) is an inactive women's professional wrestling championship promoted by the Mexican wrestling promotion International Wrestling Revolution Group (IWRG). As it was a professional wrestling championship, the championship was not won not by actual competition, but by a scripted ending to a match determined by the bookers and match makers. On occasion the promotion declares a championship vacant, which means there is no champion at that point in time. This can either be due to a storyline, or real life issues such as a champion suffering an injury being unable to defend the championship, or leaving the company.

The first champion was Ayako Hamada who won it on September 11, 2003 in an elimination match against Flor Metalica, La Amapola, Lady Metal, Joseline, Marcela, Migala and La Diabólica. After the win Hamada began working in Japan more and more, thus never defending the title in Mexico. In 2005 La Amapola showed up at a wrestling event wearing the Women's title, claiming to have won it in Japan, without any sources to support the claim. The title has not been defended or promoted since 2007 where when IWRG stopped working with Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL), La Amapola's employee. Amapola has not officially been stripped of the title; it is inactive as the IWRG does not promote it or refer to it any more.

Title history

Footnotes

References

External links
wrestling-titles.com
Solie.org

International Wrestling Revolution Group championships
Women's professional wrestling championships
Intercontinental professional wrestling championships
2003 establishments in Mexico


Marie-Victoire Lemoine (; 1754 – 2 December 1820) was a French classicist painter.

Life
Born in Paris, Marie-Victoire Lemoine was the eldest daughter of four sisters to Charles Lemoine and Marie-Anne Rousselle. Her sisters, Marie-Denise Villers and Marie-Élisabeth Gabiou, also became painters. She was first cousins with Jeanne-Elisabeth Chaudet through her mother's side. Unlike her sisters, she remained unmarried and became one of the few women in contemporary art that made a living through painting.

She was a student of François-Guillaume Ménageot in the early 1770s, with whom she lived and worked in a house acquired by the art dealer Jean-Baptiste-Pierre Lebrun, next to the studio of Élisabeth-Louise Vigée-Le Brun (1755–1842), France's leading woman painter. Ménageot was ten years older than Lemoine. From 1779, Marie-Victoire Lemoine lived in her parents' home until she moved in with her sister Marie-Elisabeth, where she remained even after her sister's death. She died six years after her last exhibition, aged sixty-six. At the time of her death, she only left 10 Francs in cash and clothing and linen valued at 181 Francs and 50 Centimes, which amounts to only US$ in cash and US$ for the clothing and linen in today's currency.

Work
Marie-Victoire Lemoine mainly painted portraits, miniatures, and genre scenes. She was most active in the art community during the late 1780s and the early 1790s. Lemoine set up her first salon in 1774. She took part in numerous Salons, for example, her first solo exhibition was held at Pahin de la Blancherie's Salon de Correspondance in 1779, where she exhibited a now untraced portrait of the Princess Lamballe (57 x 45 cm). Five years after the Parisian Salon allowed women to participate, she exhibits there for the first time in 1796. She continued to display her works of art to the public in the salons of 1796, 1798, 1799, 1802, 1804, and 1814. Lemoine was known to sign her paintings with the signature "M. Vic Lemoine."

References

French women painters
1754 births
1820 deaths
Painters from Paris
18th-century French painters
18th-century French women artists
19th-century French painters
19th-century French women artists


Christchurch Adventist School (CAS) is a co-educational composite school (years 1–13) in Papanui suburb of Christchurch, New Zealand. It is owned and operated by the Seventh-day Adventist Church.

The school is ethnically diverse, with 39% of students New Zealand European, 7% Māori, 10% Samoan, 8% Other Pacific, 7% Asian, 15% European and 14% other (including Latin American and African).

History
The school was first established in 1925. Earlier attempts by church members to establish a Christian school in Christchurch began in 1903, which lasted only a short time before closing in 1904. Another attempt was begun in 1914, when a kindergarten building (which still stands, at 5 Grove Street, Addington) was purchased, and the school opened by Pr. A. G. Daniells, on 20 June 1914. This school closed in 1920 and the land sold, with proceeds placed in a school fund for future use. The site of the current school (in Papanui) was purchased in 1924 for £500, and the school opened on 27 April 1924, with Miss Maude Smart as the teacher, and a roll of 22. The school has been continuously operating on the site since then.

A secondary curriculum was offered from around 1932, with a new block (costing £660) of 3 classrooms being built. A uniform was adopted for the 1933 year, using the former Australasian Union Conference colours of blue and green.

A new woodwork room and toilet block were built in the 1950s by Mr S. Presnall and others from the Papanui Church. The secondary department building was built in 1985, and more recently (2006) the computer lab and staff room were re-developed and enlarged. New courts (2004) and a freshly laid field (2006) have given the school improved outdoor facilities.

Student life
From 2003 the school's Year 12 students have participated in service trips, to poorer schools in the Pacific. The students raise all the money needed from many fund-raising ventures, including running the school tuck-shop, selling chocolate, lamingtons & pizzas, washing cars, hosting service auctions and more. The students then fix, clean and paint classrooms and other buildings (dining rooms, kitchens, libraries). Destinations have been Vanuatu (twice), Samoa, Rarotonga, and Fiji.

Academics
In 2007, Years 11 to 13 students achieved significantly better results in national qualifications than in the two previous years.  Over 70% of students gained Level 1 in the National Certificate of Educational Achievement (NCEA) compared to 63% in equivalent schools.  Students also gained a similar percentage of merit endorsements to these schools.

In 2007, Year 11 students achieved better than in previous years in key areas.  For example, 82% achieved the NCEA Level 1 literacy requirement, compared with 79% in equivalent schools, and 86% achieved the numeracy requirement, compared with 88% in equivalent schools.

Students who studied for Levels 2 and 3 NCEA achieved very well, with all students gaining appropriate qualifications.  However, the small numbers of students make comparisons with equivalent schools statistically unreliable.  All five Year 12 students had their certificates endorsed with merit.  There were no excellence endorsements at Levels 2 or 3. Achievement of University Entrance has been variable over recent years.

Māori students achieve slightly better in NCEA than those in equivalent schools (5% above).  Pacific students achieve well in individual subject areas.

See also

Seventh-day Adventist education
List of Seventh-day Adventist secondary schools

References

External links
Adventist Official Site

Secondary schools in Christchurch
Adventist secondary schools in New Zealand
Christian schools in New Zealand


This is a list of lighting design software for use in analyzing photometrics, BIM (Building Information Modeling), and 3D modeling.  The software is typically used by importing the structural design via CAD files.  Then lighting elements are inserted.  And finally, the lighting objects are associated with a photometry via IES files. The photometry of a light fixture describes the way it distributes its light into space. Once this process is completed, the illuminance and luminance produced by each fixture in the space can be calculated. The output is typically a diagram indicating these by means of colors or numbers. This typically is the goal of technical photometry software.

In marketing and higher-level design, 3D photometric analysis is useful to give a graphical (no numerics) output of a proposed design.

Open source
 Radiance

Proprietary
 AGi32
AutoLUX (AutoCAD extension)
 Calculux
 DIALux
 DL-Light (Daylighting, Sketchup extension)
 FocusTrack
 LightStanza
 LITESTAR 4D
 RELUX
 Speos
 TracePro
 Ulysse
 Visual
 Wysiwyg (CAST software)

References

Lighting
Computer-aided design software
Architectural lighting design


Saint Juan may refer to:

People
Saint Juan Capistrano (1386–1456), born Giovanni da Capistrano, Franciscan priest, theologian, and inquisitor from Italy, known as the "Soldier Saint"
John of Avila (1500–1569), also known as Saint John of Avila, Spanish apostolic preacher, author, mystic and saint, canonized in 1970
Saint Juan de la Cruz (1542–1591), born Juan de Yepes Alvarez, a major figure of the Catholic Reformation in Spain
Saint Juan de Ribera (1532–1611), patriarch of Antioch, Commander in Chief, president of the Audiencia, and Chancellor of the University of Valencia
Saint John of Sahagún (1419–1479), also known as Saint John of San Facondo, confessor, celebrated Spanish preacher
Saint Juan Diego (1474–1548), indigenous Mexican who reported a Marian apparition
Saint Juan Macias (1585–1645), born Juan de Arcas Sanchez, also known as Saint John de Massias, Spanish Dominican laybrother who evangelized in Peru

Places
Saint-Juan, a city in the department of Doubs, France

See also
Saint-Jean (disambiguation)
Saint John (disambiguation)
Sant Joan (disambiguation)
San Giovanni (disambiguation)
San Juan (disambiguation)
São João (disambiguation)
St. Johann (disambiguation)

Juan


The IWRG Intercontinental Tag Team Championship (Campeonato Intercontinental de Parejas IWRG in Spanish) is a professional wrestling tag team championship promoted by the Mexican professional wrestling promotion International Wrestling Revolution Group (IWRG) since 2000. As it is a professional wrestling championship, the championship was not won not by actual competition, but by a scripted ending to a match determined by the bookers and match makers. On occasion the promotion declares a championship vacant, which means there is no champion at that point in time. This can either be due to a storyline, or real life issues such as a champion suffering an injury being unable to defend the championship, or leaving the company.

Los Terribles Cerebros (Cerebro Negro and Cerebro Negro Jr.) are the current champions, having defeated El Hijo de Canis Lupus and Rey Leon on June 4, 2023 to win the titles. A total of 53 individuals have held the championship, 31 different teams for a combined 40 reigns. The tag team championship was created in 2000 when Yasushi Kanda and Susumu Mochizuki defeated Fantasy and Black Dragon to win the tournament. Bryce Benjamin and Marshe Rockett hold the record for the longest reign, 875 days, while the team of American Gigolo and MAZADA is the team to have held the title the shortest time, nine days. Los Megas (Mega and Ultra Mega) is the only team to have held the title three times while Dr. Cerebro has held it three times as well but with two different partners.

Title history

Combined reigns
As of  , .

By wrestler

Championship tournaments

2010 Tag Team Tournament
On January 14, 2010, IWRG announced that they had stripped then reigning IWRG Tag Team Champions, Ricky Cruzz and Scorpio, Jr., of the championship due to inactivity. At the same time, they announced an eight-team tag team tournament to crown new tag team champions. The tournament was announced as a "Father / Son" Tag team tournament with all teams being composed of fathers and sons. The first block took place on January 17, 2010 and featured four teams: El Canek and Hijo del Canek, Pantera and Hijo del Pantera, Olímpico and Exodia, and Negro Navarro and Trauma I. Block B took place on January 24, 2010, and featured the following teams: Brazo de Plata and Brazo de Plata, Jr., Fuerza Guerrera and Juventud Guerrera, Pirata Morgan and Hijo de Pirata Morgan, Máscara Año 2000 and Máscara Año 2000, Jr. Negro Navarro and Trauma I won "Block A" while Pirata Morgan and Hijo de Pirata Morgan won "Block B", which meant that the two teams met to determine the next Tag Team champions. On January 31, 2010 Pirata Morgan and Hijo de Pirata Morgan won the championship.

2015 Tag Team Tournament
In July 2015 IWRG announced that they were holding a tournament for the now vacant IWRG Intercontinental Tag Team Championship after IWRG stripped previous champions Chicano and Danny Casas of the championship.

2020 #1 contender tournament

Footnotes

References

External links
wrestling-titles.com
solie.org
cagematch.net

International Wrestling Revolution Group championships
Tag team wrestling championships
Intercontinental professional wrestling championships


This is a list of casinos in Arkansas.

List of casinos

Gallery

See also

List of casinos in the United States
List of casino hotels

References

External links

Arkansas
Casinos


Melissa Pam Gaston (née Ordway; born March 31, 1983) is an American actress and model. She has been featured in campaigns by a number of major brands including Skechers, Old Navy, David's Bridal, Anchor Blue and Tillys. She is best known for portraying Abby Newman on the CBS soap opera The Young and the Restless. In May 2022, she was nominated for an Emmy for Best Supporting Actress in a Daytime Drama for her portrayal of Abby Newman on The Young and the Restless.

Early life
Ordway was born in Atlanta, Georgia, an only child, to John and Christine Ordway. She began doing community theatre in Atlanta and also acting in theatre productions at her high school in Snellville, Georgia. She starred in the stage performances of Beauty and the Beast, The Women, A Midsummer Night's Dream, and many other shows. After graduating from high school, Ordway attended Georgia State University and is a member of the Delta Zeta sorority. While at Georgia State, Ordway was chosen to participate in a reality show on MTV called The Assistant. She won the show and moved to Los Angeles to pursue a career in acting and modeling.

Career

Modeling
She is signed with Nous Model Management in Los Angeles and Front Management in Miami. She has been featured in campaigns for several brands including Skechers, Old Navy, David's Bridal, Anchor Blue. Tillys, Kirstie Kelly and Fabrizio Gianni. She has appeared in television commercials for Axe, Geico Cavemen, Pontiac Vibe, Carl's Jr. and Payless.

She has also appeared on the cover Los Angeles Weddings Magazine, Grand Sierra Magazine and Hona Hou Magazine. She is featured as a frequent guest model on the game show The Price is Right including the week of October 7, 2015.

Acting
Melissa Ordway's first major acting part was the recurring roles of Jordanna on The CW television series Privileged. Ordway's feature film debut was in 17 Again. She has guest starred on such television shows as Entourage and How I Met Your Mother, as well as starring in several independent films including Callers, Tales of an Ancient Empire and I Heart Veronica Martin. In 2010, Ordway appeared in the film The Last Song as Ashley and guest starred on Melrose Place as Morgan McKellan. She starred in the fantasy thriller film Tales of an Ancient Empire. In 2011, she co-starred in Escapee and appeared in Ted directed by Seth MacFarlane.

She was cast in the main role of Chloe Carter on the TeenNick series Hollywood Heights in 2012. In March 2013, Ordway was cast in the role of Abby Newman on the CBS soap opera The Young and the Restless, replacing previous actress Marcy Rylan. She also appeared in the 2013 supernatural thriller film Odd Thomas as Lysette.

Personal life
On September 22, 2012, she married actor Justin Gaston, whom she met during the filming of Escapee. In 2016, Justin and Melissa adopted their first child, a daughter named Olivia Christine, born April 2016. Melissa gave birth to a daughter, their second child, Sophie Jolie, on December 9, 2017.

Filmography

References

External links

 Fashion Model Directory
 Nous Models

1983 births
Living people
Actresses from Atlanta
American female models
American film actresses
American television actresses
Georgia State University alumni
21st-century American actresses
People from Snellville, Georgia
American soap opera actresses


FlipGive is a team funding app that simplifies raising money for sports teams, schools and community groups. Teams earn cash back by buying the things they need to get anyway and are paid whenever they shop, dine out, book hotels or activities.

FlipGive has worked with Dikembe Mutombo as an investor and corporate ambassador to raise awareness of the rising costs of youth sports in North America.

Origins
FlipGive was formed November 2015 as a spin-off from parent company Better The World - a corporate social responsibility agency developed by partners who attended the Executive MBA program at the Richard Ivey School of Business at the University of Western Ontario.

FlipGive is a B corporation.

References

Social enterprises
B Lab-certified corporations


Monica Angela Rose (11 February 1948 – 2 February 1994) was a British TV quiz show hostess, who appeared on Double Your Money and The Sky's the Limit, both presented by Hughie Green. Rose was known for her Cockney accent, a novelty among TV presenters of the time.

Biography and showbusiness career
Rose was born in White City, London in 1948.  Her father was a London Underground train driver and her mother a cleaner at White City Stadium.  In 1963, at the age of just 15, whilst working as a young accounts clerk, she was given tickets for a recording of the Hughie Green quiz show called Double Your Money.  The show offered a choice of 42 subjects and offered £1 for the answer to a question given by the host with the chance to double their money from £1 up to a maximum of £32.  The top prize was £1,000 (£ as of ).  Rose was plucked from the audience to take part and despite only winning £8 (on her chosen subject of 'Famous Women') she had the strength of personality to persuade Green (he was "impressed by her cockney charm and manner") to invite her back as a guest hostess on the show six weeks later.  She was quoted as saying "Coming from a rough council estate, it was a lot to take in.  Being picked up in a Rolls (referring to a Rolls-Royce motor car) and travelling by private plane."  She stayed for three years until leaving although returned to the show before it was taken off air in July 1968 as a result of the broadcaster, Associated-Rediffusion, losing their franchise later that month.

Success for Rose had included a stage act with Green, based on the programme Double Your Money's format.  The stage act was popular in summer seasons and their act was even shown in a Royal Variety Performance. In 1965 when Double Your Money was taken to the Soviet Union, the Soviet cultural attache, who was based in London, made it a condition that 'the little cockney girl Monica' had to go with the performance.  A year later, in December 1966, Rose performed a duet with her co-presenter Hughie Green which was recorded on the 'B' side of the single 'Cuddle up Baby' called 'Clap Your Hands'.  The music to 'Clap Your Hands' was written by Barrie Gosney a presenter who appeared in many television commercials and advertising magazines.

She later worked on The Sky's the Limit which was first broadcast on 10 July 1970 until 5 July 1974.  This was a travel-themed version of the show Double Your Money.  The questions were based on geography and the top prize was 21,000 air miles and £600 in spending money (£ as of ).

Personal life
Rose left show business in 1977 and was admitted to hospital three years later suffering from a nervous breakdown. In 1982 she married Terry Dunnell a Baptist lay preacher and officer of a religious group called the Frontier Youth Trust.
Dunnell wrote several books on Christianity including Mission and Young People at Risk: a Challenge to the Church written in 1985.  Rose became a Christian and settled with him in Leicester where she worked as a checkout operator in a supermarket.  She paid regular visits to a local young offenders' centre up until 1993. After battling depression, Rose took her own life by overdosing on antidepressants and tranquillisers in 1994.

References

External links

1948 births
1994 deaths
British game show hosts
Television personalities from London
Drug-related suicides in England
1994 suicides


The IWRG Intercontinental Trios Championship (Campeon Intercontinental Trios de IWRG in Spanish) is a Trios (six-man) tag team Championship promoted by the Mexican Lucha libre professional wrestling promotion International Wrestling Revolution Group (IWRG) and was introduced in 2000. As it is a professional wrestling championship, the championship was not won not by actual competition, but by a scripted ending to a match determined by the bookers and match makers. On occasion the promotion declares a championship vacant, which means there is no champion at that point in time. This can either be due to a storyline, or real life issues such as a champion suffering an injury being unable to defend the championship, or leaving the company.

The championship was first won by Escuadrón de la Muerte (Spanish for "the Squadron of Death"; Maniac Cop, Vader Cop and Cyborg Cop) as they defeated the team of Oficial, Vigilante and Guardian in Naucalpan, Mexico on November 11, 1999. The title has primarily been defended in Naucalpan since its inception as it is the "home" of IWRG. Los Piratas (Pirata Morgan, Pirata Morgan Jr. and El Hijo de Pirata Morgan) is the only trio to have held the title twice, Cerebro Negro and Veneno are the only other wrestlers have held the title twice but with different partners. The trio of Los Poderosos (Hombre Sin Miedo, Kendor Jr. and Sobredosis) held the title for seven days, the shortest reign of any championship trio. Espartaco, Latino and Tempestad are the current Trios champions, having won the championship in a match against La Dinastía de la Muerte  ("The Dynasty of Death"; Negro Navarro, Trauma I and Trauma II) on July 3, 2022 in Saltillo, Coahuila. They are the 21st overall Trios champions and the 19th trio to hold the championship.

Title history

Combined reigns
As of  , .

By wrestler

Footnotes

References

External links
wrestling-titles.com
Solie.org
cagematch.net

International Wrestling Revolution Group championships
Trios wrestling tag team championships
Intercontinental professional wrestling championships


New Bhuj is a town in Kachchh District of Gujarat, India.

Transport
It is served by a broad gauge branchline of the national railway network.

A metre gauge line used to go to Naliya.

See also
 Railway stations in India

References

Cities and towns in Kutch district


Billy Simpson's House of Seafood and Steaks, also known as The Ebony Table, Kushner's Sea Food Grill, Minoux Bakery, Harry C. Johnson & Son, or The Kaieteur, was a restaurant on Georgia Avenue in the Northwest area of Washington, D.C. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on March 17, 2009.  It is notable for the role it played "in the social and political culture of the District of Columbia's African American community. The restaurant offered fine dining to the city's black middle and upper classes.  Many notable people in politics, government, and entertainment frequented the establishment. The owner, William W. "Billy" Simpson, was an avid supporter of the era's civil rights and anti-war causes.

The building that housed the restaurant is located at 3815 Georgia Avenue NW and was constructed in 1923 as one in a row of four attached brick buildings.

In April 2012, the French Bistro Chez Billy was opened on the site.

References

African-American history of Washington, D.C.
African-American middle class
African-American upper class
Commercial buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Washington, D.C.
Restaurants in Washington, D.C.
Restaurants on the National Register of Historic Places
Petworth (Washington, D.C.)


Robert Martin Groves (born September 27, 1948) is an American sociologist and expert in survey methodology who has served as the Executive Vice President and Provost of Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. since August 2012. He also served as the Director of the United States Census Bureau from 2009 to 2012.

Early life
Groves was born in Kansas City, Missouri, grew up in Metairie, Louisiana, and graduated in 1966 from De La Salle High School in New Orleans.

Education
In 1970, Groves graduated (summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa) from Dartmouth College with an A.B. degree in sociology. He later earned two M.A. degrees (sociology and statistics, both 1973) and a PhD (sociology, 1975) from the University of Michigan.

Academic career
For much of his career, starting in 1975, Groves worked as a research professor in survey methodology at the University of Michigan. He was also a researcher in the Joint Program in Survey Methodology, housed at the University of Maryland, College Park. In August 2012, he became the Provost of Georgetown University, succeeding James J. O'Donnell and is also the Gerard J. Campbell, S.J. Professor in the Math and Statistics Department as well as the Sociology Department.

In 1982 Groves was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association.
He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2011 and is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Government career
When Groves was an associate director at the United States Census Bureau in the early 1990s, he argued that potentially millions of minorities who typically voted Democratic were being undercounted. Groves advocated for the use of statistical adjustments to account for this discrepancy. George H. W. Bush's Commerce Secretary Robert Mosbacher blocked this suggestion. The Census Bureau is a component of the U.S. Department of Commerce.

On April 2, 2009, Groves was nominated by President Barack Obama to head the Census Bureau.  During his confirmation hearings, Republican senators raised concerns based on Groves' previous actions that he would apply statistical adjustments to populations believed to be undercounted, thereby inflating their numbers and affecting the apportionment of congressional seats.  Groves ruled out the use of statistical adjustments during the hearings and his nomination quickly proceeded to the full Senate in May.  However, senators Richard Shelby and David Vitter continued to delay his confirmation due to lingering worries regarding statistical adjustments.  They also sought assurance from the Obama administration that the controversial community group ACORN would not be involved in grassroots outreach related to the 2010 Census.  On July 13, 2009, after several weeks of opposition by the two senators, Senate majority leader Harry Reid used a procedural motion to force a vote that confirmed Groves, 76-15.  He took office July 15, 2009.

On June 13, 2014, President Obama announced his appointment of Groves to the National Science Board of the National Science Foundation.

Publishing history
Groves is the author of several books, including:
 Surveying Victims (2008)
 Survey Errors and Survey Costs (2004) first published in 1989 , and named "one of the 50 most influential books in survey research" by the American Association for Public Opinion Research
 Survey Methodology (2010) Second edition of the (2004) first edition
 Survey Nonresponse (2001)
 Nonresponse in Household Interview Surveys (1998)

Groves is the editor of several books, including:
 Measurement Errors in Surveys (2004)
 Telephone Survey Methodology (2001)

References

External links

1948 births
Directors of the United States Census Bureau
American sociologists
American statisticians
American male writers
Dartmouth College alumni
Living people
Obama administration personnel
Survey methodologists
United States Census Bureau people
University of Maryland, College Park faculty
University of Michigan alumni
University of Michigan faculty
Fellows of the American Statistical Association
Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences
Georgetown University faculty


John Derek Jarrett (18 March 1928 – 28 March 2004) was an English schoolteacher, historian, and writer. He was born at Whyteleafe, Surrey and served in the RAF during World War II before studying history at Keble College, Oxford. He is best known for his edition of Horace Walpole's Memoirs of the Reign of King George III, and perhaps for his sometimes acerbic reviews in the New York Review of Books.

Jarrett taught at Sherborne School in Dorset until the mid-1960s, then at Goldsmiths College of the University of London for the remainder of his academic career. Around 1990 he retired to Cornwall to complete work on his Walpole masterpiece, which was published in 1999. He died at Truro in Cornwall.

Works
Britain 1688–1815 (1965)
The Begetters of Revolution: England's Involvement with France, 1759–1789 (1973)
Pitt the Younger (1974)
The Ingenious Mr. Hogarth (1976)
England in the Age of Hogarth (1976)
The Sleep of Reason: Fantasy and Reality from the Victorian Age to the First World War (1988).
Horace Walpole's Memoirs of the Reign of King George III, 4 volumes, editor (1999)

References

1928 births
2004 deaths
Alumni of Keble College, Oxford


Bubalus, Bubaline, or Large Wild Fauna rock art is the earliest form of Central Saharan rock art, created in an engraved style, which have been dated between 12,000 BCE and 8000 BCE. The Bubaline Period is followed by the Kel Essuf Period. As the animal world is particularly emphasized in Bubaline rock art, animal depictions are usually shown in larger scale than human depictions. Bubaline rock art portrays a few geometric designs and naturalistic outlined depictions of animals, such as antelope, aurochs, buffalos (Bubalus antiquus/Syncerus complexus), donkeys, elephants, fish (e.g., catfish, Nile perch), giraffes, hippopotamuses, ostriches, and rhinoceroses.

Classifications

Rock art is categorized into different groups (e.g., Bubaline, Kel Essuf, Round Heads, Pastoral, Caballine, Cameline), based on a variety of factors (e.g., art method, organisms, motifs, superimposed).

In 5000 BP, buffalo (Bubalus antiquus) in Africa underwent mass extinction; consequently, the engraved stone portrayals of these macroscopic, undomesticated buffalos in unenclosed rock art zones resulted in them being identified as Bubaline. In contrast, located in enclosed rock art zones, there are engraved Kel Essuf ("spirit of dead" in the Tuareg language) rock art, which portray short-armed, little human artforms with legs and penile appendages.

Chronology

For the rock art of the Sahara, the most contentious among academic debates has remained the topic of chronology. Round Head, Kel Essuf, and Bubaline rock art, as the oldest chronological types, have been regarded as less certain compared to the younger chronological types (e.g., rock art depicting Saharan animals, which could be chronologically approximated to a specific timespan). Consequently, two types of chronologies (i.e., high chronology, low chronology) were developed.

The date for Bubaline rock art was approximated to the late period of the Pleistocene or early period of the Holocene using remnants of clay, manganese, and iron oxide in the dark hued patina. Rock walls were estimated to have developed between 9200 BP and 5500 BP using substances of organic origin found within the depths of the rock walls. The Qurta rock art of prehistoric Egypt, which portray undomesticated animals, has been estimated to a minimum of 15,000 BP; this has been used as an additional consideration for Bubaline rock art dating much earlier than 10,000 BP.

While the Kel Essuf rock art and Bubaline rock art have not been found layered above one another, in addition to the Kel Essuf rock art being found within a dark hued patina, it has been found layered beneath Round Head rock art. Due to the layering and the artistic commonalities between the Kel Essuf rock art and Round Head rock art of the Central Sahara, the engraved Kel Essuf rock art is regarded to be the artistic precursor to the painted Round Head rock art.

Credence to the high chronology is given via decoratively detailed Saharan ceramics dated to 10,726 BP. A spatula and lithic grinding tools with ocher remnants on them, which serves as evidence of painting, were found in an Acacus rockshelter with Round Head rock art. Paint from Round Head rock art in the region (e.g., Acacus) of Libya was also tested and dated to 6379 BP. Altogether, these show continuation of the Round Head rock art tradition well into the Pastoral Period.

Climate

From 60,000 BP or 40,000 BP to 20,000 BP, the Aterian culture existed. Between 16th to 15th millennium BP, the environment was humid. From 20,000 BP to 13,000 BP, there was a varied climate system. The high elevated regions with mountains were considerably more wet than low elevated regions without mountains, which led to the variation in climate. Regions of high elevation had occurrences of considerable rainfall, to the extent that lakes developed, whereas, regions of low elevation had occurrences of considerable dryness. Amid the late period of the Pleistocene, with its varied climate system, the mountainous environment remained sufficiently humid, which allowed for animal, plant, and human life to be sustained.

Origins of the Bubaline Rock Art

According to Lhote (1976), the origin of the Bubaline rock art may be found in the activities of the ethnic groups that "occupied, in the Neolithic, the pre-Saharan Atlas, the Constantinois, the Fezzan and the Tassili while these regions benefited from a very humid climate under which the great fauna, known as Ethiopian, could live without difficulty."

Most engraved Bubaline rock art appear in the northern region of Tassili, at Wadi Djerat. Levallois instruments in the area may indicate that Bubaline rock art was developed by Aterians. Due to the archaeological spread of the Aterian culture and unique linguistic spread of the Niger-Congo languages (e.g., languages of the Atlantic coast in Senegal, Kordofan in Sudan), Fleming et al. (2013) indicates that possibly the “Nilo-Saharan linguistic phylum is derived from the Aterian culture area.” Fleming et al. (2013) further states: “A genetic relationship between these two phyla has been proposed by a few linguists, e.g. Edgar Gregersen (1972). Murdock (1959) assembled evidence of the priority of “Negroids” in the Sahara before the advent of Berbers and Arabs there and associated them with the Niger-Congo and Nilo-Saharan linguistic phyla.”

Bubaline Rock Art and Hunter-Gatherers

Bubaline Rock Art

The majority of the rock engravings in the Large Wild Fauna style are located in what is known as the Maghreb region of the Sahara, encompassing a wide area spanning across Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia – specifically, the Fezzan region of southwestern Libya. Engraved Large Wild Fauna rock art, which have been created in a naturalistic style, can be found in the northern region of Tassili N'Ajjer, at Oued Djerat. While engraved Kel Essuf rock art are mostly located in groups on the walls of rockshelters, engraved Bubaline rock art located in unenclosed areas, such as boulders, and broadly distributed throughout such areas. While engraved Kel Essuf rock art is commonly located in the same rockshelters as painted Round Head rock art, engraved Bubaline rock art is not.

The naturalistic depictions of animals were drawn at scale, isolated, and with a demonstrated deliberateness that indicates these large animals were of particular significance in the human world, or that these large animals were hunted by these socially organized hunter-gatherers. As the animal world is particularly emphasized in Bubaline rock art, animal depictions are usually shown in larger scale than human depictions. Bubaline rock art portrays a few geometric designs and naturalistic outlined depictions of animals, such as antelope, aurochs, buffalos (Bubalus antiquus), donkeys, elephants, fish (e.g., catfish, Nile perch), giraffes, hippopotamuses, ostriches, and rhinoceroses. The extinct Bubalus antiquus, which has been renamed Syncerus complexus, may have continued to persist in some regions of the Central Sahara until 5000 BP. While antelope and Barbary sheep characterize and may have had cultural significance for the artists of the painted Round Head rock art, buffalos, elephants, and giraffes characterize and may have had cultural significance for the artists of the engraved Bubaline rock art.

While Bubaline rock art does not give prominence to humans, Round Head rock art does give prominence to humans; the difference in human prominence depicted by Bubaline rock artists and Round Head rock artists, as indicative of increasing awareness of the importance and agency of humans, may be viewed as a representational transition in Central Saharan rock art from the Paleolithic period toward the Neolithic period.

Hunter-Gatherers

Bubaline rock art portrays Paleolithic lifeways. Hunter-gatherers may have created the engraved Large Wild Fauna rock art. Some rock art portrays half-animal and half-human figures or human figures with animal masks. Some rock art also portrays depictions of a sexual nature between men and women. At Oued Djerat, in Algeria, engraved rock art feature masked bowmen with male circumcision and may be a scene involving ritual. In comparison to Pastoral rock art, Round Head rock art and Bubaline rock art portray more women; while Barich (1998) views this as the loss of social status among women, Miller (2008) indicates that, while possibly valid, Pastoral rock art may also portray women differently, and that distinction between depicted genders are not always as clearly shown.

Legacy

After the Green Sahara underwent desertification by 1000 BCE, most of its ancient inhabitants migrated to other areas in Africa, taking along their culture with them; many artistic styles throughout African history may have been influenced by earlier Saharan rock art. The cultural practice of circumcision may have also spread from the Central Sahara, toward the south in Sub-Saharan Africa and toward the east in the region of the Nile.

References

Prehistoric Africa
Stone Age Africa
History of North Africa
History of the Sahara
Saharan rock art


Gordon Wagner (1915–1987) was an American artist.  He was born and raised in Redondo Beach, California.

Wagner became an orphan at a young age.  He received a degree from the University of California, Los Angeles.  He worked in the Aerospace industry as a mechanical engineer.

Sources

External links
UCLA Oral History Library, Interview with Gordon Wagner
Online Archive of California
Biographical Sketch
Biographical from the Getty site

1915 births
1987 deaths
People from Redondo Beach, California
UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science alumni
Engineers from California
20th-century American engineers


Sandro Coelho Leite (born 27 June 1976 in Rio de Janeiro) is a retired Brazilian football midfielder who spent most of his career playing in the Bolivian Premier División for The Strongest.

Career
Coelho developed his career at the youth ranks of Botafogo de Futebol e Regatas. He later played professionally for Brazilian clubs América Football Club in 1995, and Esporte Clube Bahia in 1996. The following year, Coelho arrived in La Paz to play for The Strongest. From the beginning he caused a good impression and the club decided to acquire his transfer. As his career progressed, Coelho became a key player for the team and a symbol for the club as he helped the institution obtain two national titles. During 2007 he added another title to his resume by winning the Clausura tournament with Club San José. After two years in Oruro, he return to his beloved The Strongest in 2009.

On 26 April 2009, during a league match against Blooming, Coelho became the club's all-time leading scorer in first division football. He scored 2 goals to reach a total of 80, surpassing former striker Ovidio Messa who previously led with 78. Moreover, he is the derby's (The Strongest vs. Bolívar) all-time topscorer with 10 goals.

On 1 June 2009, Coelho assumed the position of first team manager, after the resignation of Julio Toresani. His stint lasted until early 2010.

Honours

Club
 The Strongest
 Liga de Fútbol Profesional Boliviano: 2003 (A), 2003 (C), 2004 (C)
 San José
 Liga de Fútbol Profesional Boliviano: 2007 (C)

References

External links

1976 births
Living people
Men's association football midfielders
Botafogo de Futebol e Regatas players
America Football Club (Rio de Janeiro) players
Esporte Clube Bahia players
The Strongest players
Club San José players
Bolivian Primera División players
Brazilian expatriate men's footballers
Brazilian expatriate sportspeople in Bolivia
Expatriate men's footballers in Bolivia
Brazilian football managers
The Strongest managers
Independiente Petrolero managers
Bolivian Primera División managers
Brazilian expatriate football managers
Expatriate football managers in Bolivia
Footballers from Rio de Janeiro (city)
Brazilian men's footballers
Club San José managers


The Segal Design Institute is a design thinking institute at Northwestern University. Segal operates within the McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science and is dedicated to the study of human-centered design at the undergraduate and graduate level.

History
The Segal Design Institute was established in 2007 through a significant donation from Gordon and Carole Segal, co-founders of Crate & Barrel.

Academics

Undergraduate

MaDE
Segal administers an undergraduate degree program, Manufacturing and Design Engineering (MaDE), which teaches product and process design, manufacturing systems, and manufacturing management. The MaDE program culminates in a Bachelor of Science degree from Northwestern and is accredited by the Engineering Accreditation Commission of ABET.

Segal Design Certificate
Segal also administers the Segal Design Certificate, a set of courses that builds design knowledge and skills and is available to any undergraduate at Northwestern. In addition to completing required courses and approved electives, students must produce and present a design portfolio to receive the Segal Design Certificate.

Graduate
At the graduate level, Segal administers three Master's programs and an interdisciplinary doctoral cluster program for PhD students.

Segal administers the Engineering Design Innovation (EDI) program. EDI a 15-month, full-time graduate program that teaches design thinking, a process of user research, visualization, and rapid iteration to engineers. The Master of Science degree in EDI is conferred by the Northwestern University Graduate School.

Segal administers the MMM program, a dual-degree program. MMM graduates receive an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management and an M.S. in Design Innovation from the Segal Design Institute at the McCormick School of Engineering. The MMM program includes lectures, experiential courses and studio-based classes. In addition to required business and design innovation courses, students pursue advanced electives that serve their unique career interests. The MMM program was reframed in 2014. The current iteration of the MMM program incorporates a deeper focus on design innovation.

Segal administers Master of Product Design and Development Management (MPD2) program. The program is intended for active professionals and has both full-time and part-time tracks. The MPD² program began in 2003.

The Segal Design Cluster is an interdisciplinary doctoral cluster program jointly sponsored by Segal, the McCormick School of Engineering, and The Graduate School at Northwestern. The Design Cluster brings together faculty from the Segal Research Faculty Council with PhD students from a variety of disciplines. Design Cluster fellowships are awarded to current Northwestern PhD students interested in research projects involving faculty advisers from at least two different schools.

Notable courses
Segal offers 70 courses including Design Research, Industrial Design, UX Design, Service Design, and Design Thinking and Communication (DTC).

DTC is a two quarter-long interdisciplinary course for all undergraduate students at Northwestern Engineering. The courses are typically taken in the first year. Students learn that both design and communication are iterative, context-centered, problem-solving processes. DTC is co-taught by an instructor from Northwestern Engineering and by an instructor from the Cook Family Writing Program at the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences. In January 2016, The Wall Street Journal profiled DTC in an article titled "The Power of Unsolvable Problems." Students enrolled in DTC work on projects for real-world clients. The Chicago Tribune featured the design work of a DTC project in March 2013 and Fast Company featured the design of a DTC project in July 2016.

In 2016, Segal began offering a course called "Designing Your Life" for the first time. Inspired by a class by the same name at Stanford University and created with the support of Stanford Professors Dave Evans and Bill Burnett, the class teaches students to use design thinking to explore bigger life obstacles. The Northwestern version of the course emphasizes fieldwork and prototyping.

In 2017, the Segal Design Institute launched the Bay Area Immersion Program with the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern. Based at the Northwestern educational space in downtown San Francisco, students learn from and contribute to the Bay Area's entrepreneurial culture while taking four courses that focus on experiential learning in design innovation, digital communication, and the intersection of technology and culture. ChicagoInno included the program in an article titled "Chicago Students Head West for Tech Culture Immersion" in February 2017.

Additionally, Segal houses Design for America, a national network on 40 campuses engaging over 1,200 students each year to use design innovation for positive social impact. Design for America was founded at Northwestern in 2009.

Prominent faculty
Bruce Ankenman, Associate Professor, Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences
Achal Bassamboo, Professor of Managerial Economics & Decision Sciences, Operations at Kellogg School of Management and co-director of the MMM Program
J. Edward Colgate, Professor, Mechanical Engineering, Breed Senior Professor in Design, and Director, Master of Science in Engineering Design Innovation program
Elizabeth Gerber, Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering, Breed Junior Professor of Design, and director of the Segal Design Cluster
Greg Holderfield, Clinical Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering, co-director of the Segal Design Institute and co-director of MMM Program
Jim Wicks, Associate Professor, Clinical, Segal Design Institute
Haoqi Zhang, Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Junior Breed Professor of Design

See also
 user-centered design
 design thinking
 human-centered design

References

External links
Segal Design Institute official website

Engineering universities and colleges in Illinois
Northwestern University
Educational institutions established in 2007
2007 establishments in Illinois


Anthony Obinna Njokuani  (born March 1, 1980) is a Nigerian-American professional mixed martial artist and kickboxer. A professional competitor since 2001, Njokuani has also formerly competed for the UFC, WEC, and ONE Championship.

Background
Born in Enugu, Nigeria on March 1, 1980, Anthony Njokuani and his family immigrated to the United States in 1983, settling in Garland, Texas. Njokuani began his martial arts training in Tae Kwon Do at the age of 17 before later moving on to Muay Thai and then mixed martial arts at the age of 21. Njokuani's younger brother, Chidi Njokuani, is also a professional mixed martial artist.

Career

Early career (2001–2008)
Njokuani began his professional career in 1999, initially fighting as a kickboxer. He enjoyed some success in the sport by compiling a 24–0 record and winning the Kansas state Muay Thai title. He turned his hand to mixed martial arts in 2003 and became champion of the Texas-based Art of War promotion in 2007 before making a brief return to kickboxing to compete for the Oklahoma Destroyers in the -74.3 kg/164 lb division in the team-based World Combat League promotion during the 2007-08 season.

Having compiled a 9–1 (1) MMA record by 2008, Njokuani signed with World Extreme Cagefighting.

World Extreme Cagefighting (2009–2010)
Njokuani made his promotional debut on January 25, 2009, at WEC 38, losing to future WEC Lightweight Champion and future UFC Lightweight Champion, Benson Henderson via second round submission.

Njokuani was expected to face Anthony Pettis on April 5, 2009, at WEC 40.  However, Pettis pulled out of the fight with a hand injury and was replaced by Bart Palaszewski.  Njokuani defeated Palaszewski via TKO in the second round.

Njokuani next face Muhsin Corbbrey on October 10, 2009, at WEC 43.  Njokuani defeated Corbbrey via second-round TKO.

Njokuani fought IFL veteran Chris Horodecki, who made his WEC debut on December 19, 2009, at WEC 45. Njokuani won via first-round TKO, earning the Knockout of the Night award for the third consecutive time in the WEC.

Njokuani faced Shane Roller at WEC 48 on April 24, 2010. He lost the fight via first round rear-naked choke submission.

He was defeated by newcomer Maciej Jewtuszko via first-round TKO at WEC 50.

Njokuani defeated WEC newcomer Edward Faaloloto via second-round TKO on November 11, 2010, at WEC 52.

Ultimate Fighting Championship (2011–2014)
In October 2010, World Extreme Cagefighting merged with the Ultimate Fighting Championship. As part of the merger, all WEC fighters were transferred to the UFC.

In his UFC debut, Njokuani faced touted prospect Edson Barboza on March 19, 2011, at UFC 128. He lost the fight via unanimous decision, but the bout won the Fight of the Night bonus.

Njokuani fought Andre Winner on July 2, 2011, at UFC 132, winning via unanimous decision (30-27, 30-26, 30-26). UFC commentator, Joe Rogan, called it Njokuani's best performance of his career. With this performance, Njokuani became the sixth fighter to land over 100 significant strikes in a single bout.

Njokuani was expected to face Paul Taylor on November 5, 2011, at UFC 138. However, just days before the event, Taylor pulled out of the bout citing an injury. With no time to find a suitable replacement the bout was scrapped.

Njokuani was expected to face Ramsey Nijem on December 30, 2011, at UFC 141.  However, Nijem was forced out the bout with an injury and replaced by Danny Castillo. He lost the fight via split decision.

Njokuani defeated John Makdessi on April 21, 2012, at UFC 145 via unanimous decision (30-27, 30-27, 30-27).

Njokuani was expected to face Paul Taylor on July 11, 2012, at UFC on Fuel TV: Munoz vs. Weidman.  However, Taylor was forced out of the bout with yet another injury and replaced by Rafael dos Anjos. Njokuani lost the fight via unanimous decision, and was sidelined for six months as he recovered from surgery to repair a broken right hand suffered in the bout.

Njokuani faced debuting Strikeforce fighter Roger Bowling on April 20, 2013, at UFC on Fox 7. He won the fight via KO in the second round.

A bout with Paul Taylor was scheduled for the third time and was expected to take place on October 26, 2013, at UFC Fight Night 30. However, Taylor was forced to pull out of the bout once again with another injury and later retired. Taylor was replaced this time by Al Iaquinta. On September 24, Njokuani also pulled out of the event with an injury. and was replaced by Piotr Hallmann.

After over a year away from the cage, Njokuani returned to face Vinc Pichel on May 24, 2014, at UFC 173. He lost the fight via unanimous decision.

Njokuani faced Daron Cruickshank on October 4, 2014, at UFC Fight Night: MacDonald vs. Saffiedine. He lost the fight by unanimous decision, and was subsequently released from the promotion.

Legacy Fighting Championship (2014–present)
Just two days after his UFC release was announced, it was announced that Njokuani had signed a multi-fight deal with Legacy FC. He made his debut against David Burrow at Legacy FC 38 on February 13, 2015. Despite dominating the first two rounds via his stand up, Njokuani lost the fight via submission in the third round.

Lion Fight
On February 3, 2017, Njokuani returned to Muay Thai action at Lion Fight 34 at the Tropicana in Las Vegas. He defeated Australia's Chris Harrington by third round (T)KO to keep his undefeated record.

ONE Championship
On October 6, 2018, Njokuani made his ONE Championship debut in Bangkok, Thailand against former K-1 World MAX and shoot boxing champion Andy Souwer at ONE Championship: Kingdom of Heroes. He won by split decision.

On February 22, 2019, he faced future ONE Lightweight Kickboxing World Champion Regian Eersel in Singapore at ONE Championship: Call to Greatness. Njokuani lost by second-round knockout. Afterwards, he tried to overturn the result of the fight due to Eersel landing an elbow but the ruling was upheld.

Gamebred Fighting Championship

Njokuani faced Wesley Golden on December 17, 2021, at Gamebred Fighting Championship 3. He won the bout via ground and pound TKO in the first round.

Njokuani faced Raimond Magomedaliev on January 28, 2022, at Eagle FC 44. He lost by first-round technical knockout.

Njokuani faced Handesson Ferreira at Gamebred FC 4 in a bare-knuckle MMA bout on May 5, 2023, losing the bout after being submitted via rear-naked choke at the end of the first round.

Njokuani faced Brandon Jenkins at a Gamebred FC 5 on September 8, 2023. He won the fight by unanimous decision.

Championships and accomplishments

Kickboxing
Kansas State Kickboxing
Kansas State Muay Thai Champion

Mixed Martial Arts
Art of War
Art of War Lightweight Championship
Ultimate Fighting Championship
Fight of the Night (One time) vs. Edson Barboza
World Extreme Cagefighting
Knockout of the Night (Three times) vs. Bart Palaszewski, Muhsin Corbbrey and Chris Horodecki

Mixed martial arts record

|-
|Win
|align=center|
|Brandon Jenkins
|Decision (unanimous)
|Gamebred Fighting Championship 5
|
|align=center|3
|align=center|5:00
|Jacksonville, Florida, United States
|
|-
|Loss
|align=center|
|Handesson Ferreira
|Submission (rear-naked choke)
|Gamebred Fighting Championship 4
|
|align=center|1
|align=center|4:09
|Fort Lauderdale, Florida, United States
|
|-
|Loss
|align=center|17–13 (1)
|Raimond Magomedaliev
|TKO (punches)
|Eagle FC 44
|
|align=center|1
|align=center|2:49
|Miami, United States
|
|-
|Win
|align=center|17–12 (1)
|Wesley Golden
|TKO (punches)
|Gamebred Fighting Championship 3
|
|align=center| 1
|align=center| 4:38
|Biloxi, Mississippi, United States
|
|-
|Loss
|align=center|16–12 (1)
|Leonardo Mafra
|Decision (unanimous)
|FFC 25 - Mitchell vs. Lopez
|
|align=center|3
|align=center|5:00
|Springfield, Massachusetts, United States
|
|-
|Loss
|align=center|16–11 (1)
|Josh Quayhagen
|Decision (split)
|Legacy Fighting Championship 42
|
|align=center|3
|align=center|5:00
|Lake Charles, Louisiana, United States
|
|-
|Loss
|align=center|16–10 (1)
|David Burrow
|Submission (armbar)
|Legacy Fighting Championship 38
|
|align=center|3
|align=center|1:28
|Allen, Texas, United States
|
|-
|Loss
|align=center|16–9 (1)
|Daron Cruickshank
|Decision (unanimous)
|UFC Fight Night: MacDonald vs. Saffiedine
|
|align=center|3
|align=center|5:00
|Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
|
|-
|Loss
|align=center|16–8 (1)
|Vinc Pichel
|Decision (unanimous)
|UFC 173
|
|align=center| 3
|align=center| 5:00
|Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
|
|-
|Win
|align=center|16–7 (1)
|Roger Bowling
|KO (punch)
|UFC on Fox: Henderson vs. Melendez
|
|align=center| 2
|align=center| 2:52
|San Jose, California, United States
|
|-
|Loss
|align=center|15–7 (1)
|Rafael dos Anjos
|Decision (unanimous)
|UFC on Fuel TV: Munoz vs. Weidman
|
|align=center| 3
|align=center| 5:00
|San Jose, California, United States
|
|-
|Win
|align=center|15–6 (1)
|John Makdessi
|Decision (unanimous)
|UFC 145
|
|align=center| 3
|align=center| 5:00
|Atlanta, Georgia, United States
|
|-
|Loss
|align=center|14–6 (1)
|Danny Castillo
|Decision (split)
|UFC 141
|
|align=center| 3
|align=center| 5:00
|Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
|
|-
|Win
|align=center|14–5 (1)
|Andre Winner
|Decision (unanimous)
|UFC 132
|
|align=center|3
|align=center|5:00
|Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
|
|-
|Loss
|align=center|13–5 (1)
|Edson Barboza
|Decision (unanimous)
|UFC 128
|
|align=center|3
|align=center|5:00
|Newark, New Jersey, United States
|
|-
|Win
|align=center|13–4 (1)
|Edward Faaloloto
|TKO (elbow)
|WEC 52
|
|align=center|2
|align=center|4:54
|Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
|
|-
|Loss
|align=center|12–4 (1)
|Maciej Jewtuszko
|TKO (punches)
|WEC 50
|
|align=center|1
|align=center|1:36
|Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
|
|-
|Loss
|align=center|12–3 (1)
|Shane Roller
|Submission (rear-naked choke)
|WEC 48
|
|align=center|1
|align=center|3:21
|Sacramento, California, United States
|
|-
|Win
|align=center|12–2 (1)
|Chris Horodecki
|TKO (head kick and punches)
|WEC 45
|
|align=center|1
|align=center|3:33
|Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
|
|-
|Win
|align=center|11–2 (1)
|Muhsin Corbbrey
|TKO (punches)
|WEC 43
|
|align=center|2
|align=center|1:42
|San Antonio, Texas, United States
|
|-
|Win
|align=center|10–2 (1)
|Bart Palaszewski
|TKO (punches)
|WEC 40
|
|align=center|2
|align=center|0:27
|Chicago, Illinois, United States
|
|-
|Loss
|align=center|9–2 (1)
|Benson Henderson
|Submission (guillotine choke)
|WEC 38
|
|align=center|2
|align=center|0:42
|San Diego, California, United States
|
|-
|Win
|align=center|9–1 (1)
|Aaron Williams
|TKO (knees)
|SWC 1: Inception
|
|align=center|1
|align=center|2:28
|Garland, Texas, United States
|
|-
|Win
|align=center|8–1 (1)
|Keyon Mike Jackson
|KO (knee)
|Art of War 3
|
|align=center|1
|align=center|2:14
|Dallas, Texas, United States
|
|-
|Loss
|align=center|7–1 (1)
|Donald Cerrone
|Submission (triangle choke)
|ROF 29: Aftershock
|
|align=center|1
|align=center|4:30
|Broomfield, Colorado, United States
|
|-
|Win
|align=center|7–0 (1)
|Kenneth Rosfort-Nees
|KO (punch)
|Art of War 1
|
|align=center|1
|align=center|2:12
|Dallas, Texas, United States
|
|-
|Win
|align=center|6–0 (1)
|Jason Palacios
|Decision (unanimous)
|Lonestar Beatdown
|
|align=center|3
|align=center|3:00
|College Station, Texas, United States
|
|-
|Win
|align=center|5–0 (1)
|Steven Bratland
|Decision (unanimous)
|UTS 6
|
|align=center|3
|align=center|5:00
|Frisco, Texas, United States
|
|-
|Win
|align=center|4–0 (1)
|Ira Boyd
|Decision (unanimous)
|UTS 5
|
|align=center|3
|align=center|5:00
|Frisco, Texas, United States
|
|-
|Win
|align=center|3–0 (1)
|Devon Miller
|KO (punches)
|UTS 4
|
|align=center|2
|align=center|0:55
|Frisco, Texas, United States
|
|-
|Win
|align=center|2–0 (1)
|Ben Dauck
|Decision (unanimous)
|Inferno Promotions: Meltdown
|
|align=center|3
|align=center|5:00
|Plano, Texas, United States
|
|-
|NC
|align=center|1–0 (1)
|James Martinez
|No Contest (premature stoppage)
|Venom: First Strike
|
|align=center|1
|align=center|2:47
|Huntington Beach, California, United States
|
|-
|Win
|align=center|1–0
|Lee King
|Decision (unanimous)
|REF: Austin Fights
|
|align=center|3
|align=center|5:00
|Austin, Texas, United States
|

Kickboxing record

|-
|-  style="background:#CCFFCC;"
| 2019-10-28|| Win ||align=left| Elliot Compton ||  |ONE Hero Series October || Beijing, China || Decision (Unanimous) || 3 || 3:00
|-
|-  style="background:#FFBBBB;"
| 2019-02-22|| Loss||align=left| Regian Eersel || ONE Championship: Call to Greatness || Kallang, Singapore || KO (punches) || 2 || 1:03
|-
|-  style="background:#CCFFCC;"
| 2018-10-06|| Win ||align=left| Andy Souwer || ONE Championship: Kingdom of Heroes || Bangkok, Thailand || Decision (split) || 3 || 3:00
|-
|- style="background:#fbb;"
|  2017-09-29 || Loss || align="left" | Liam Nolan || Triumphant I Muay Thai Series 1 || Rohnert Park, California, United States || Decision (Split)|| 5 || 3:00
|-
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|-  style="background:#CCFFCC;"
| 2017-02-03|| Win ||align=left| Chris Harrington || Lion Fight 34 || Las Vegas, Nevada || TKO (3 knockdowns) || 3 || 2:44
|-
|-  style="background:#CCFFCC;"
| 2008-06-07|| Win ||align=left| Thad Campbell || World Combat League || New York, New York, United States || Decision (15-9) || 1 || 3:00
|-
|-  style="background:#CCFFCC;"
| 2008-06-07|| Win ||align=left| Bryan Corley || World Combat League || Austin, Texas || KO (punches) || 1 ||
|-
|-  style="background:#FFBBBB;"
| 2007-10-19|| Loss ||align=left| Kurt Halsey || World Combat League || Oklahoma, United States || Decision (17-11) || 1 || 3:00
|-
|-
| colspan=9 | Legend:

References

External links

Official UFC Profile
Official Anthony Njokuani Tee KO Page

Living people
1980 births
American male kickboxers
Nigerian male kickboxers
Kickboxers from Texas
Kickboxers from Nevada
Middleweight kickboxers
American male mixed martial artists
Nigerian male mixed martial artists
Mixed martial artists from Texas
Mixed martial artists from Nevada
Lightweight mixed martial artists
Mixed martial artists utilizing Muay Thai
American Muay Thai practitioners
Nigerian Muay Thai practitioners
Sportspeople from Enugu
Sportspeople from Garland, Texas
American people of Igbo descent
Igbo sportspeople
Nigerian emigrants to the United States
Ultimate Fighting Championship male fighters
ONE Championship kickboxers


Ayer y Hoy (English Yesterday and today) is the 10th studio album by Mexican pop singer Ana Gabriel. It was released on 1994. This material was produced by herself. She praises several idols of ranchera music with this material like Agustín Lara, José A. Jiménez, Juan Gabriel, Armando Manzanero and Cuco Sánchez. Ayer y Hoy was nominated for a Lo Nuestro Award for Regional Mexican Album of the Year at the 7th Lo Nuestro Awards.

Track listing
Tracks:
 Mírales, Escúchales - 03:22
 Que Manera De Perder - 03:28
 Dos Locos De Amor - 03:05
 Como Agua Para Chocolate - 04:09
 Tú Lo Decidiste - 03:49
 Último Adiós - 03:30
 Parece Que Fue Ayer - 03:10
 Vámonos - 02:59
 No Tengo Dinero - 03:14
 De Aquí Para Allá - 03:45
 Silverio Pérez - 02:37
 México Lindo & Querido/Cielito Lindo - 05:25

Singles
 Tú Lo Decidiste
 Como Agua Para Chocolate
 No Tengo Dinero

Singles charts

Album chart
This release reached the #2 position in Regional Mexican Albums staying for 26 weeks  and it reached the #6 position in the Billboard Top Latin Albums staying for 35 weeks in the chart.

Sales and certifications

References

1994 albums
Ana Gabriel albums


Francis Xavier Warfield (April 26, 1897 – July 24, 1932) was a baseball infielder and manager in the Negro leagues.

Career
Standing at just 5'7", Warfield was known primarily for his fielding and base-running excellence, but he also had several good years at the plate. In 1922, he hit .342 for the Detroit Stars. He played on the Hilldale teams that won the Eastern Colored League pennants from 1923 to 1925, with Warfield being the manager for two of them.

Warfield became player-manager of the Baltimore Black Sox in 1929 and led them to the Negro American League championship. He and teammates Oliver Marcelle, Dick Lundy, and Jud Wilson became known as the "Million Dollar Infield" because their collective talents may have been worth $1,000,000 to the major leagues had they been white. Baseball writer Bill James ranked Warfield as the eighth-greatest second baseman in negro league history, calling him a "complete defensive wizard".

Warfield was known to have a violent nature that led to arguments, and he once bit off part of Oliver Marcell's nose in a fight over a dice game.

Warfield died of a heart attack in 1932.

Twenty years after his death, Warfield received votes listing him on the 1952 Pittsburgh Courier player-voted poll of the Negro Leagues' best players ever.

References

External links
 and Baseball-Reference Black Baseball stats and Seamheads
  and Seamheads
Negro League Baseball Players Association biography

1897 births
1932 deaths
Negro league baseball managers
Indianapolis ABCs players
Leopardos de Santa Clara players
St. Louis Giants players
Dayton Marcos players
Detroit Stars players
Hilldale Club players
Baltimore Black Sox players
Baseball players from Indianapolis
American expatriate baseball players in Cuba
20th-century African-American sportspeople


Harbin Nangang Christian Church () is a Protestant (formerly Lutheran) church in Harbin, Heilongjiang Province, China. The current building was built in 1916 and is located in Church Street, along East Dazhi Avenue, northeast of Hongbo Square. Its address is: No. 252, East Dazhi Avenue, Nangang District, Harbin. The church is next to the Eastern Orthodox Church of the Intercession and is almost identical in color to the Orthodox church beside it, with the same red walls and green roofs.

Brief history
 1901 - As the construction of the Chinese Eastern Railway started, some Germans came to Harbin, for whom a Baptist church was built nearby, which was the first Protestant church in Harbin
 1914 - A Lutheran church was built
 1916 - The Lutheran church was re-built and known as Ni-ai-la-yi Church ()
 1967 - Closed during the Cultural Revolution
 1980 - Re-opened for worship

Activities
The Nangang Christian Church holds a Chinese-language service and as of 2002, an ethnic Korean service. As of 2017, the church hosts an English fellowship with a mixed congregation of Chinese nationals and overseas citizens. The Sunday morning English service is held from 10:20 - 11:30 AM.

See also
 Dalian Lutheran Church
 Holy Cross Church, Wanzhou
 Lutheran Church of China

Footnotes

External links
 English Group of Harbin Nangang Christian Church
 The First Class Protected Buildings of Harbin (in Chinese)

Churches in Harbin
Lutheran churches in Asia
Lutheranism in China
Protestant churches in China


This is a list of casinos in Alabama.

List of casinos

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History

Legality of electronic bingo
Alabama has had many "electronic bingo" parlors which feature slot machines that are similar to Class II gaming machines. The legality of these vary from county to county, and are in a near-constant state of flux. In particular, most such parlors were closed through the efforts of an anti-gambling task force put in place by Gov. Bob Riley early in 2010. But in March 2010, the Alabama Supreme Court determined that Riley did not have the authority to convene such a task force, but that power rested with Attorney General Troy King. Shortly after the task force was sidelined, e-bingo parlors reopened in cities which had previously enacted ordinances permitting and regulating such halls. Additionally, Victoryland also reopened after a brief closure. (Greenetrack and the three Poarch Band of Indians gaming facilities did not close.)

At one time, several counties in Alabama featured numerous e-bingo halls, most notably Walker County, with halls large and small mostly concentrated along the former U.S. Highway 78 between Jasper and the Jefferson County line, ranging in size from converted small storefronts to large halls with hundreds of machines. But a ruling in a lawsuit by the Walker County sheriff determined that the machines in the county's halls were illegal, and the halls were forced to close. District attorneys in Jefferson County used that ruling to justify their order of closure for halls in that county. However, several large halls in Fairfield remained open because the city had passed specific ordinances permitting them. Those halls closed during the governor's task force raids in January 2010, but reopened on March 12, 2010 when the task force was invalidated. They again closed briefly in April 2010, as a part of the ongoing controversy over their legality and a dispute over jurisdiction between Riley and King.

In late May 2010, in yet another legal action in the anti-gambling feud between Riley and King, the Alabama Supreme Court determined that Riley had the ultimate authority to appoint an anti-gambling task force. Riley then announced plans to reactivate the task force, and the district attorney in the Bessemer Cutoff area of Jefferson County (including Fairfield) advised halls there to shut down immediately, or risk having their machines seized. King announced he would no longer interfere with the governor's efforts. Halls began closures on May 24, 2010. Victoryland and Greenetrack remained open for the time being. Poarch Creek operations were not affected, as the state has no jurisdiction over them.

Fairfield legalized large electronic bingo halls in mid-2009, with certain requirements for minimum number of gaming machines. Bamaco Bingo opened in September 2009 with more than 800 machines installed and announced plans for up to 5,000 machines. All except Bingo Fantastico occupied empty "big box" retail stores; Bingo Fantastico replaced a roller skating rink. Three other small bingo halls, including one that shared space with an automotive repair shop, were also located in Fairfield. The city received a permit fee of $100 per machine per month, and bingo was a major tax source for the city.

Bessemer, Alabama had some e-bingo halls in place, but their legality was in question due to a dispute between the city council, which voted to allow the halls, and the mayor, who opposed gambling. Those halls remained closed after the task force invalidation. Other smaller halls were located in cities and unincorporated areas near Bessemer; they also closed later.

Two other large e-bingo halls, Country Crossing in Dothan and White Hall Gaming Center between Selma and Montgomery, were shut down by the task force.

Throughout the controversy, the Poarch Creek band's operations not only continued, they expanded. Facilities in Wetumpka, Atmore and suburban Montgomery added to their gaming floors, and the Wetumpka and Atmore facilities added new high-rise hotels.

In July 2010, after all legal avenues were exhausted, state police and the task force shut down machines at Greenetrack in Eutaw, Alabama, then later at Victoryland. And on October 4, 2010, federal prosecutors filed charges against and arrested Victoryland owner Milton McGregor and several members of the Alabama State Senate in a corruption investigation regarding the entire affair.

In 2016, after winning a ruling in a federal court against the state, Victoryland reopened its electronic bingo floor on September 14, 2016.

The legal gambling age in Alabama is 21+ for poker, for the Poarch Band of Creek tribal casinos, and for the electronic bingo parlours.

Gallery

See also

List of casinos in the United States
List of casino hotels

References

External links

Alabama
Casinos


A spar buoy is a tall, thin buoy that floats upright in the water and is characterized by a small water plane area and a large mass. Because they tend to be stable ocean platforms, spar buoys are popular for making oceanographic measurements. Adjustment of the water plane area and the mass allows spar buoys to be tuned so they tend to not respond to wave forcing. This characteristic differentiates them from large water plane area buoys such as discus buoys that tend to be wave followers. Spar buoys are often used as stable platforms for wave measurement devices and air–sea interaction measurements. Spar buoys range in length from a few feet to the 354-foot (108 meter) RP FLIP. To avoid the difficulties inherent with shipboard launch and recovery, helicopter deployment of large spar buoys has been studied.

See also
Spar (platform)

References

Nautical terminology
Buoyage
Marine navigation