The men's 100 metres at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics were held at the Olympic Stadium on August 15 and August 16. The two main contenders for the event were the reigning World Champion Tyson Gay and Usain Bolt, the reigning Olympic champion and world record holder. Gay entered the competition with a season's best of 9.77 seconds (an American record) while Bolt's season's best was 9.79 seconds. Four other competitors had broken the 10-second barrier during the last months before the World Championship: former world record holder Asafa Powell, Olympic finalist Churandy Martina and emerging sprinters Daniel Bailey and Mike Rodgers.

The first day saw a number of high-profile athletes eliminated; Derrick Atkins, the 2007 silver medallist, did not pass the first round. Churandy Martina, area record holders Samuel Francis and Olusoji Fasuba, Simeon Williamson, and 2003 gold medallist Kim Collins were all knocked out in the quarter-finals. Also, a double false start meant disqualification for the new European junior record holder Christophe Lemaitre. Gay, Powell and Rodgers ended with the fastest times of the day, although Bolt and Bailey comfortably won heat five, exchanging smiles and glances in the process. The semi-finals saw Bolt—typically slow out of the blocks—false start for the first time over 100 m, but he eventually finished in 9.89 seconds (the fastest ever semi-final). Six of the eight qualifying athletes broke 10 seconds, and US champion Rodgers was the biggest name not to qualify.

The final, which was advertised in Berlin as "Das Duell" between Gay and Bolt, proved to be historic. By the 20-metre mark, Bolt had already taken a slight lead of 0.01 seconds, and he continued to pull away from the rest of the pack until the finish. He finished in a world record-breaking time of 9.58 seconds, beating Gay by some distance, even though the American had run 9.71 seconds, which was the third fastest time ever. Bolt beat his own previous mark by over a tenth of a second, an achievement statisticians claimed was 20 years ahead of schedule in the long term scheme of the 100 metres world record progression. So emphatic was Bolt's winning time, that both bronze medal winner Powell and sixth placed Dwain Chambers said they were happy just taking part in the fastest race in history.

Medalists

Records
Prior to the competition, the records were as follows:

The following new world, championship and North American records were set during the competition.

Qualification standards

Schedule

Results

Heats
Qualification: First 3 in each heat (Q) and the next 4 fastest (q) advance to the quarterfinals.

Quarterfinals
Qualification: First 3 in each heat(Q) and the next 1 fastest(q) advance to the semifinals.

Semifinals
First 4 of each Semifinal will be directly qualified(Q) for the Finals.

Semifinal 1

Semifinal 2

Final

References
General
100 metres results from IAAF (Archived 2009-09-08). IAAF. Retrieved on 2009-08-15.
Specific

External links
Biomechanical analysis of the sprinters splits in the semi-final and final. from the IAAF
Statistical analysis of Bolt and Powell's speed in the final from the IAAF
 from Universal Sports

100
100 metres at the World Athletics Championships


Bychkov (), and its feminine form Bychkova (), is a Russian surname that has been borne by, among others:

Alexander Bychkov (born 1988), Russian serial killer
Ekaterina Bychkova (born 1985), Russian tennis player
Mikhail Bychkov (1926–1997), Russian ice hockey player
Nadiya Bychkova (born 1989), Slovenian dancer
Semyon Bychkov (conductor) (born 1952), Russian-American conductor
Semyon Trofimovich Bychkov (1918–1946), Russian military pilot
Viktor Bychkov (disambiguation), multiple people

See also
16783 Bychkov (1996 XY25), a Main-belt Asteroid discovered in 1996
Ivan Bytchkov, a minor character in GTA IV

Russian-language surnames


MMA Creative is a marketing, advertising and public relations agency headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee, with an office in Cookeville as well.

History
MMA Creative was founded in 1991 by Mike McCloud, who returned to the Upper Cumberland after graduating from the University of Tennessee to start Cookeville's Finest, a magazine celebrating the rural city's people and places. The advertising and marketing agency, then known as McCloud Graphics, started small and showed steady growth for several years. The name was changed to McCloud Marketing to better reflect the company's focus.

In 1999, the agency merged with Jesse Kaufman & Associates. The merger brought with it a new name (McCloud Marketing Associates) and new creative. Kaufman had been developing advertising and marketing campaigns in Cookeville and the Upper Cumberland for 20 years. Another merger occurred in 2001, when MMA (as it was often called) acquired Sparta-based Adeas Graphics. The agency changed its name yet again, this time to MMA Creative.

By 2004, MMA Creative had built up a strong enough client base out of Nashville that McCloud decided to open a Nashville office. In 2005, long-time political strategist and marketing executive Mike Kopp was hired to head-up the Nashville operation.

References

Advertising agencies of the United States


Graham Phillips is an Australian television presenter. Previously a member of the Catalyst team, he has also presented the technology programmes Beyond Tomorrow and Hot Chips.

External links

 Catalyst biography
 Graham Phillips Website

Australian television presenters
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)


Karl Johan Viktor Palm (born 3 March 1992) is a Swedish singer and former contestant on Idol 2008, where he ended up in fourth place. Palm auditioned with the song "The Drugs Don't Work" and performed several English songs on the show, including "Friday I'm in Love" by the Cure, "Poison" by Alice Cooper, "Beautiful Ones" by Suede, "Don't Look Back in Anger" by Oasis and "The Winner Takes It All" by ABBA. He also performed a special edition of "We Built This City" with Robin Eriksson.

In 2009, he hit number one on the Swedish Singles Chart with the song "Emma-Lee".

Discography

Albums

Singles

Collaborations
In (April 2010) Palm appears in the video "Generation Wild" from the Swedish band "CRASHDÏET".

Johan Palm appears in the video "Night Vision" from the Swedish band "Cinemascape", in (March 2012), The video was directed by his brother "Henrik Palm". A year before Johan was part of the tribute Album to NOICE that Grizzly and Micael finished,"Bedårande barn av vår tid" just days before Micael died, in May 2011. The song in which Johan Palm participated is  Du lever bara en gång (You only live once in English).

References

Living people
Idol (Swedish TV series) participants
1992 births
21st-century Swedish singers
21st-century Swedish male singers


Universitetet Blindern is a tram stop on the Ullevål Hageby Line of the Oslo Tramway. It is located on the north side of Blindern, the main campus of the University of Oslo, Norway.

The station opened on 1 June 1999 as part of the extension of the Ullevål Hageby Line to Rikshospitalet. It was formerly named Blindern nord. It is served by line 17 and 18, using SL95 low-floor trams, giving the station step-free access to the vehicles.

References

Oslo Tramway stations in Oslo
Railway stations opened in 1999
1999 establishments in Norway
Railway stations in Norway opened in the 1990s


Vincent Meilleur (born 6 May 1974) is a French ski mountaineer. He was born in Moûtier.

Selected results
 1998:
 2nd, European Cup
 2nd, Grand Béal race
 3rd, French Championship
 1999:
 8th, European Championship
 2000:
 3rd, European Cup
 2001:
 2nd, European Championship team race (together with Cédric Tomio)
 2nd, European Cup
 2nd, French Championship
 3rd, Trophée des Gastlosen (European Cup, together with Cédric Tomio)
 2002:
 1st, Trophée des Gastlosen (together with Cédric Tomio)
 6th, World Championship team race (together with Cédric Tomio)
 2003:
 8th, European Championship team race (together with Cédric Tomio)
 2004:
 6th, World Championship team race (together with Cédric Tomio)
 2005:
 4th, European Championship team race (together with Bertrand Blanc)

Pierra Menta

 1997: 5th, together with Jean-Michel Bouvier
 1998: 5th, together with Jérôme Arpin
 1999: 6th, together with Jérôme Arpin
 2000: 7th, together with Jean Pellissier
 2001: 3rd, together with Cédric Tomio
 2002: 4th, together with Cédric Tomio
 2003: 3rd, together with Cédric Tomio
 2004: 2nd, together with Cédric Tomio
 2005: 5th, together with Bertrand Blanc
 2006: 5th, together with Bertrand Blanc
 2007: 4th, together with William Bon Mardion

Notes

External links
 Vincent Meilleur at SkiMountaineering.org

1974 births
Living people
French male ski mountaineers
21st-century French people
20th-century French people


The Boxer and the Spy (2008) is a crime novel for young adults by American author Robert B. Parker.

Plot summary
In a quiet New England town, the body of shy teenager Jason Green washes up on the shore, and the police soon claim that the death was a suicide induced by steroid addiction. However, Terry Novak, a fifteen-year-old aspiring boxer, is not so sure, especially considering that Jason was an artistic person who had no interest in sports and thus was not the type to be taking such drugs. Assisted by his friend Abby, he begins an investigation of his own, and soon learns that asking too many questions can lead him into serious danger.

External links
 The page on the book from Parker's official website

2008 American novels
American crime novels
American young adult novels
Novels about boxing
Novels by Robert B. Parker
Philomel Books books


Graham Phillips may refer to:
 Graham Phillips (journalist) British journalist
 Graham Phillips (writer), British author
 Graham Phillips (presenter), Australian television presenter
 Graham Phillips (actor), American actor


Martin Obšitník (born 2 November 1969, in Košice) is a former Slovak professional football midfielder who currently plays for FC Petržalka akadémia. Obšitník is a participant of 1989 FIFA World Youth Championship. He played for Slovakia four games in 1994. He played in the Gambrinus liga for two seasons with Dynamo České Budějovice.

References

External links

1969 births
Living people
Men's association football midfielders
Slovak men's footballers
Slovakia men's international footballers
FK Inter Bratislava players
FC VSS Košice players
Czech First League players
SK Dynamo České Budějovice players
ŠK Slovan Bratislava players
FC Petržalka players
Slovak First Football League players
Footballers from Košice


Simple Logging Facade for Java (SLF4J) provides a Java logging API by means of a simple facade pattern. The underlying logging backend is determined at runtime by adding the desired binding to the classpath and may be the standard Sun Java logging package java.util.logging, Log4j, Reload4j, Logback or tinylog.

The separation of the client API from the logging backend reduces the coupling between an application and any particular logging framework. This can make it easier to integrate with existing or third-party code or to deliver code into other projects that have already made a choice of logging backend.

SLF4J was created by Ceki Gülcü as a more reliable alternative to Jakarta Commons Logging framework. Research in 2013 on 10,000 GitHub projects found that the most popular Java library is SLF4J, along with JUnit, with 30.7% of projects using it. In January 2021, it was ranked as the second most popular project according to mvnrepository.

Similarities and differences with log4j 1.x
Five of log4j's six logging levels are used (ERROR, WARN, INFO, DEBUG, TRACE). FATAL has been dropped on the basis that inside the logging framework is not the place to decide when an application should terminate and therefore there is no difference between ERROR and FATAL from the logger's point of view. In addition, SLF4J markers offer a more general method for tagging log statements. For example, any log statement of level ERROR can be tagged with the "FATAL" marker.
Logger instances are created via the LoggerFactory, which is very similar in log4j. For example, private static final Logger LOG = LoggerFactory.getLogger(Wombat.class);
In Logger, the logging methods are overloaded with forms that accept one, two or more values. Occurrences of the simple pattern {} in the log message are replaced in turn with the values. This is simple to use yet provides a performance benefit when the values have expensive toString() methods. When logging is disabled at the given level, the logging framework does not need to evaluate the string representation of the values, or construct a log message string that is never actually logged.  In the following example, string concatenation and toString() method for the values count or userAccountList are performed only when DEBUG is enabled.
 LOG.debug("There are now " + count + " user accounts: " + userAccountList); // slower
 LOG.debug("There are now {} user accounts: {}", count, userAccountList);    // faster
Similar methods exist in Logger for isDebugEnabled() etc. to allow more complex logging calls to be wrapped so that they are disabled when the corresponding level is disabled, avoiding unnecessary processing.
Unlike log4j, SLF4J offers logging methods that accept markers. These are special objects that enrich the log messages. At present time, logback is the only framework which makes use of markers.

Similarities and differences with log4j 2.x
Apache log4j 2.x supports all slf4j features.

Version history

Version 2

Version 2 was released on 08/20/2022, for which there is a 2.0.9 version release. Requires Java 8 or later.

Significant feature additions:

 Version 2.0.0 adds support for lambda syntax and uses a Fluent API.
 Support for lambda syntax in passing messages to be logged.
 Fluent API.

Version 1

Version details can be found in the manual.

Significant versions include:

 Version 1.7.36 releases are reproducible.
 Version 1.7.35 slf4j-log4j12 module is replaced by slf4j-reload4j.
 Version 1.7.33 adds support for reload4j via the slf4j-reload4j module. It is the latest stable release. See Download product page.
 Version 1.7.5 yielded significant improvement in logger retrieval times.
 Version 1.7.0 added support for varargs, requiring support for Java 5 or later.
 Version 1.6 brought a no-operation implementation used by default if no binding found.
 Version 1.1 releases in Maven repositories began 2006-09.

See also

Java logging framework

References

External links

Java (programming language)
Software using the MIT license
Free software programmed in Java (programming language)
Log file formats


CBFG-FM is a mainly-French-language Canadian radio station located in Chisasibi, Quebec.

It is owned and operated by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (French: Société Radio-Canada), which is owned by the Government of Canada. It broadcasts on 103.5 MHz with an average effective radiated power of 85 watts (class A1).

The station has an ad-free news/talk format and is the flagship of the regional Ici Nord-Québec network, which carries programming from the Canada-wide Ici Radio-Canada Première network, and some regional programming. Like all Première stations, but unlike most FM stations, it broadcasts in mono. The network serves ten First Nations communities in Nord-du-Québec and adjacent regions.

Programming
During most of its programming day, CBFG-FM largely rebroadcasts Radio-Canada flagship CBF-FM in Montreal, including morning program Gravel le matin, afternoon show Le 15-18, and Saturday morning program Samedi et rien d'autre. Until July 2020 the station used to carry Cree language programs, reduced from 80 to 15 hours per week in 2015 and now to be found on English CBC sister station CBMP-FM.

Transmitters
At least seven of these transmitters used to be repeaters of CBF-FM: CBFA-FM-1 Manawan, CBFA-FM-2 Obedjiwan, CBFW-FM Wemindji, CBFM-FM Mistissini, CBFA-3 (later re-called CBFG-FM-3) Wemotaci, CBFH-FM Waskaganish, and CBFV-FM Waswanipi; these repeaters changed their source of programming from CBF-FM to CBFG-FM following approval by the CRTC on October 30, 2012. It is unknown if CBFG-FM was a repeater of CBF-FM.

On July 15, 2015, the CRTC renewed CBFG's licence until August 31, 2018.

On August 2, 2018, the CRTC approved the removal of transmitters CBAF-FM-1 Manouane, CBFA-FM-2 Obedjiwan and CBFG-FM-3 Weymontachie, Québec from license CBFG-FM Chisasibi, Québec to station CBF-FM-8 Trois-Rivières, Québec.  (CRTC Administrative Decision 2018-0525-1, August 2, 2018)

See also
 CBC North

References

External links
 Ici Radio-Canada Première
 Ici Nord-Québec
CBFG-FM history - Canadian Communication Foundation

Bfg
Bfg
Year of establishment missing


Meilleur (French for better) may refer to:

 Meilleurs Bay, community of Laurentian Hills, Ontario

People
 Briane Meilleur (born 1992), Canadian curler
 Hubert Meilleur, Canadian politician
 Jean-Baptiste Meilleur (1796–1878), Canadian doctor, educator and political figure
 Jens Meilleur (born 1993), Canadian-German ice hockey player
 Madeleine Meilleur (b. 1948), Canadian politician
 Marie-Louise Meilleur (1880–1998), French Canadian supercentenarian
 Vincent Meilleur (* May 6, 1974) is a French ski mountaineer


Ullevål sykehus is a tram stop on the Ullevål Hageby Line of the Oslo Tramway. It is located on the south-western side of Ullevål University Hospital, at the intersection of Sognsveien and Kirkeveien.

The station opened on 1 August 1925 as part of the extension of the Ullevål Hageby Line to John Colletts plass. It is served by line 17 and 18, using SL95 low-floor trams, giving the station step-free access to the vehicles. The new SL18 trams have also begun operation there, since 2022.

References

Oslo Tramway stations in Oslo
Railway stations opened in 1925
Railway stations in Norway opened in the 1920s


The Boston Corners station  was a former New York Central Railroad station that served the residents of Ancram, New York.

History
Boston Corners was the first stop of the New York and Harlem Railroad in Columbia County, between Dover Plains (to the south) and the end of the line at Chatham (to the north), and was constructed between 1848 and 1852. The site was originally known as "Boston Corner" which was located at the time in the very Southwest corner of Massachusetts. However, on January 3, 1855 the United States Congress annexed  from Massachusetts to New York. This now situated about  of the NY&H in New York State. In the early days of the development the area was known as "the Badlands" which was a spot where numerous fugitives would engage in illegal activities such as boxing and prize fights. The railroad was acquired by the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad in 1864, and converted it into the Harlem Division. By the early 1870s the station also began to serve the Poughkeepsie and Eastern Railway and the Rhinebeck and Connecticut Railroad, both of which were eventually acquired by the Central New England Railway. The CNE abandoned the P&E in 1925, and then the R&C in 1938.

Service on the Harlem at Boston Corners was reduced many times in the 20th century, and in 1940 it was reduced to a flag stop. On September 28, 1952 the station was closed by New York Central, remained for a few years and was dismantled a few years later. Passenger service continued until March 20, 1972. Freight continued running on the line until service north of Wassaic ceased on March 27, 1976. The rails were lifted in 1981 by Conrail.

References

External links
Fairbanks Morse C-Liner at Boston Corners; c. 1959, by Chuck Brandt

Railway stations closed in 1972
Former New York Central Railroad stations
Former Central New England Railway stations
1972 disestablishments in New York (state)
Former railway stations in New York (state)
Transportation in Columbia County, New York
Railway stations in Columbia County, New York


Thomas Teige (born February 2, 1968, in Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia) is a German martial artist.

Career

Thomas Teige was born in Aachen (North Rhine-Westphalia, West Germany) and moved in 1980 to Hamburg, West Germany.

In 1986 at the age of 18 he received black belt in Judo and started training in Taekwondo. He is ranked with the 2nd Dan. Since 1989 he is wearing the black belt.

Titles

In 2006 Thomas Teige was world champion (ETF) in powerbreaking. He broke 8 wooden boards (each 300 mm x 250 mm x 18 mm, not separated by spacers) with his hand at the ETF Euro-Cup 2006 Taekwondo & Martial Arts Championships in Kaltenkirchen (Germany).

On September 23, 2007, he repeats this world record at the ETF World-Cup 2007 in Hollenstedt (Germany).

References

External links

1968 births
Living people
German male kickboxers
Heavyweight kickboxers
German male taekwondo practitioners
German male judoka
German jujutsuka
Sportspeople from Aachen
Sportspeople from Hamburg
20th-century German people


Social thinking or thinking socially refers to a methodology created by Michelle Garcia Winner; it is described as a piece we all go through in our minds as we try to make sense of our others’ thoughts, feelings, and intentions in context, whether we are existing, actively interacting, or figuring out what is happening from a distance (e.g., media, literature, etc.). Our ability to think socially is part of social learning that begins at birth and evolves across our lifetime. Social thinking in this context, is also referred to as social cognition.

The social thinking is a developmental, language-based and thinking-based (metacognitive) methodology that gives visual frameworks, unique vocabulary, strategies, and activities by foster social competence. The methodology has assessment and treatment components for both interventionists and social.  The methodology includes components of other well-known and evidence based interventions such as Social Stories, Hidden Curriculum, 5-point scale, and others, etc. Social Thinking shares ideals with self-regulation, executive functioning, central coherence issues, and perspective-taking.

History
The social thinking methodology was originally developed by Michelle Garcia Winner as an intervention and assessment framework dedicated to tackling the complex social emotional learning needs of individuals with social learning challenges. At its inception 20+ years ago, there were relatively few treatment-based research studies available to guide" interventionists in how to teach individuals about their own social learning process. This relative lack of treatment research, while not as stark today, continues to be limited. The underlying motivation for the creation of the Social Thinking Methodology was, and is, that of, for to, individuals with social learning issues should have access to interventions and strategies based on both individual learning abilities and the demands of the community within which they participate.  While the tools and strategies within the methodology were developed while working with mainstream students in a high school district, Michelle Garcia Winner‘s practical approach to teaching social competencies was quickly adopted by parents and teachers working with those in the ADHD community and autism spectrum community.

The social thinking methodology teaches social learners to consider the points of view, emotions, and intentions of others. In this methodology, social thinking and social skills are dynamic and situational. So, the decision to use discrete social skills (e.g. smiling versus “looking cool”, standing casually versus formally, swearing/speaking informally versus speaking politely) are not based on memorizing specific social rules (as often taught in our social skills groups), but on a social decision-making mental process.

Social thinking and evidence base
The social thinking methodology embraces what literature says about working directly with individuals who have social learning challenges (e.g., ASD, social communication disorder, ADHD, learning disabilities, twice exceptional, etc.) and promotes the use of visual supports, modeling, naturalistic teaching, and self-management. Also, the methodology anchors to the research in fields that study how social learners evolve and develop to function in society: anthropology, cultural linguistics, social psychology, child development, and others. Many of the components of Social Thinking fit well into the multi-tiered research-based implementation framework of Positive Behavioral Intervention and Supports (PBIS). And while PBIS is not an approach, it is a framework that encourages schools to consider the uptake of a variety of practices where the "mutually beneficial relationship between academic and social behavior student success is highlighted (Chard, Harn, Sugai, & Horner, 2008; Sugai, Horner, & Gresham, 2002). In the same vein, CASEL's five Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) Core Competencies (http://www.casel.org/social-‐and-‐emotional-‐learning/core-‐competencies) are reflected within and throughout the social thinking methodology.

Social thinking theorizes that successful social thinkers are able to consider the points of view, emotions, thoughts, beliefs, prior knowledge and intentions of others (this is often called perspective-taking). Social Thinking™ also demonstrates the link between one’s social learning abilities and his or her related ability (or disability) when processing and responding to school curriculum based in the use of the social mind (e.g., reading comprehension of literature, some aspects of written expression, etc.). Winner and colleagues argue that individuals who share a diagnostic label (e.g., autism spectrum disorder) nonetheless exhibit extremely different social learning traits, or social mind profiles, and should have unique treatment trajectories, such as those based in cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT).

Teaching social competencies: more than social skills
The social thinking methodology is not a single entity. It is not a set of behaviors that one can teach. It is not a step-by-step “cookbook”, nor is it one single program or approach. Social thinking is a language and cognitive-based methodology that focuses on the dynamic and synergistic nature of social interpretation and social communication skills, both of which require social problem solving. The methodology is developmental, utilizing aspects of behavioral and cognitive behavioral principles, as well as stakeholder input as a way to translate evidence-based concepts into conceptual frameworks, strategy-based frameworks, curricula, activities, and motivational tools.

The methodology addresses the fact that first interventionists (both professionals and parents) need to build knowledge about the social learning process and what it means to engage “socially” before teaching individuals with social challenges. Understanding how people share space together and engage across context, culture and varying ideas and opinions, motives and intentions is absent from most social "skills‐based” approaches. The methodology ascribes to the notion that the key to understanding individual social learning needs requires that interventionists gain insight into the variables that contribute to their own “social self” as well as the related expectations of others. This unique view toward social treatment, combined with the many layers of the methodology, means that the components of social thinking do not fit neatly into any single traditionally defined social skill intervention. Nor is social thinking linked to a specific diagnosis (e.g., ASD), but rather addresses specific needs in those with social learning challenges (ADHD, mental health challenges, twice exceptional, gifted, no diagnosis, etc.), regardless of the diagnosis.

Notes

References
 Tarshis, N., Winner, M. G., & Crooke, P. (2020). What Does It Mean to Be Social? Defining the Social Landscape for Children With Childhood Apraxia of Speech. "Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups", 1-10. .
 Baker-Ericzén, M.J., Fitch, M.A., Kinnear, M., Jenkins, M.M., Twamley, E.W., Smith, L., Montano, G., Feder, J., Crooke, P.J., Winner, M.G. and Leon, J. (2018). Development of the Supported Employment, Comprehensive Cognitive Enhancement, and Social Skills program for adults on the autism spectrum: Results of initial study. Autism, 22(1), pp. 6–19 .
Crooke, P. J., Winner, M. G., & Olswang, L. B. (2016). Thinking socially: teaching social knowledge to foster social behavioral change. Topics in Language Disorders, 36(3), 284-298 .
Crooke, P.J., Winner, M.G. (2016), Social Thinking Methodology: Evidence-Based or Empirically Supported? A Response to Leaf et al. (2016), Behavior Analysis in Practice, 9(4), 403-408 .
Crooke, P. J., & Olswang, L. (2015). Practice-based Research: Another Pathway for Closing the Research-Practice Gap. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research .
Lee, K. Y. S., Crooke, P. J., Lui, A.L.Y, Kan, P.P.K, Luke, K.L, Mak, Y.M, Cheung, P.M.P, Cheng, L., & Wong, I. (2015). The outcome of a social cognitive training for mainstream adolescents with social communication deficits in a Chinese community, International Journal of Disability, Development and Education,  0
Winner, M.G. & Crooke, P. J. (2014). Executive functioning and social pragmatic communication skills: Exploring the threads in our social fabric. Perspectives on Language Learning and Education, Vol. 21 (2), pp. 42–50 .
Winner, M. G. & Crooke P.J. (2013). Social Learning and Social Functioning: Social Thinking's  Cascade of Social Functioning. Attention Magazine .

 Lee, K.Y.S., Lui, A.L.Y., Kan, P.P.K., Luke, K.M., Mak, Y.M., Cheung, P.M.P., Cheng, L. & Wong, I. (2009). A case series on the social thinking training of mainstreamed secondary school students with high-functioning autism. Hong Kong Journal of Mental Health, 35(1), 10–17.
 Winner, M.  & Crooke, P. (2011) Thinking about Thinking: Social Communication for adolescents with Autism. ASHA Leader Magazine, MD.
 Winner, M., Crooke, P, & Madrigal (2010) It’s a Girl Thing or Is it?:  Social Thinking and Social Skills in Girls, Teens, and Women with Social Learning Issues, Autism Asperger Digest
 Winner, M.  & Crooke, P. (2009) Social Thinking: A Training Paradigm for Professionals and Treatment Approach for Individuals with Social Learning/Social Pragmatic Challenges. Perspectives on Language Learning and Education, 16 62–69.

Cognition
Cognitive psychology
Developmental psychology
Emotional intelligence
Human development
Learning
Life skills
Mental processes
Perception
Social psychology concepts


Newcastle was a constituency represented in the Irish House of Commons to 1801.

Newcastle, County Dublin was enfranchised by James I. By the late eighteenth century it had 13 electors, all non-resident. The patronage of the borough was sold by Lord Lanesborough to David La Touche in the 1770s.

Members of Parliament
1613–1615 Sir William Parsons, 1st Baronet of Bellamont and William Rolles
1634–1635 Sir John Dongan and Patrick Sherlock
1639–1642 Sir John Dongan and Sir Henry Talbot (both expelled for non-attendance)
1642–1646 Edmond Keating (election declared void – replaced 1643 by Arthur Whyte)
1646–1649 Henry Kenny and Cosny Molloy
1661–1666 Peter Wybrant and Francis Paisley

1689–1801

Notes

References

Constituencies of the Parliament of Ireland (pre-1801)
Historic constituencies in County Dublin
1800 disestablishments in Ireland
Constituencies disestablished in 1800
1613 establishments in Ireland


Ronald, Ron or Ronnie Williams may refer to:

Arts and entertainment
Ronald "Slim" Williams (born 1964), American record company executive; cofounder of Cash Money Records
Ronnie Williams (1939–1997), Welsh actor and comedian

Politics
Ronald Jay Williams (1928–2000), Trinidadian businessman and politician
Ronald Williams (Labour politician) (1907–1958), British Labour politician, Member of Parliament for Wigan
Ronald Williams (Liberal politician) (1890–1971), English Liberal politician, Member of Parliament for Sevenoaks

Sports
Ron Williams (basketball) (1944–2004), American basketball player
Ron Williams (footballer) (1917–1987), Australian rules footballer
Ron Williams (rugby union) (born 1963), New Zealand rugby union player
Ronald Williams (Canadian football) (born 1972), Canadian Football League running back
Ronnie Williams (American football) (born 1966), American footballer
Ronnie Williams (basketball) (1962–2021), American basketball player
Ronnie Williams (footballer) (1907–1987), Swansea Town, Newcastle United and Wales international footballer
Ronnie Williams (baseball) (born 1996), American baseball pitcher

Others
Ron Williams (born 1949), American business executive; Chief Executive of Aetna corporation
Ron Williams (bishop), Assistant Bishop of Brisbane, 1993–2007
Ronald Williams (bishop) (1906–1979), Bishop of Leicester, 1953–1979
Ronald A. Williams II (1969–1995), slain police officer from New Orleans
Ronald J. Williams, professor of computer science at Northeastern University


Sabir Butt (born April 20, 1969 in Nairobi, Kenya) is a Canadian former professional male squash player. He reached a career-high world ranking of World No.17 in May 1988 after having joined the Professional Squash Association in 1985. Winner of 16 PSA international events and 4 time Canadian National Men's Champion. He represented Canada during the 1987 & 1989 World Team Squash Championships. Sabir was also Mississauga Athlete of the Year in 1994.

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Living people
Canadian male squash players
Pan American Games gold medalists for Canada
Pan American Games bronze medalists for Canada
Pan American Games medalists in squash
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Sportspeople from Nairobi
Medalists at the 1995 Pan American Games
20th-century Canadian people
21st-century Canadian people


May Assembly () was the national assembly of the Serbs in Austrian Empire, held on 1 and 3 May 1848 in Sremski Karlovci, during which the Serbs proclaimed autonomous Serbian Vojvodina. This action was later recognized by the supreme Austrian authority in Vienna. The May Assembly was part of the European Revolutions of 1848.

Prelude
After news of the Paris revolution of 1848 reached the Austrian Empire, the absolutist reign of Klemens Wenzel, Prince von Metternich was weakened. At this time the regions of Banat, Bačka and Syrmia were administratively divided between the Habsburg Kingdom of Hungary (in the north) and the Habsburg Military Frontier (in the south). A sizeable percent of the Austrian soldiers serving on the Military Frontier were ethnic Serbs, who protected Austrian borders in exchange for certain political freedoms that they were able to enjoy within the frontier, whose administration functioned independently from the county-system of the Habsburg Kingdom of Hungary.

After the outbreak of the revolution in the Habsburg Kingdom of Hungary on 15 March 1848, the new government of the kingdom refused to accept the Serbs' request for recognition of their national rights, taking a stance that all citizens of the Kingdom of Hungary are Hungarians. Serbs, whose national rights and freedoms were previously regulated within the Habsburg monarchy saw the Hungarian position as a degradation of their status. After the initial Serb political demands for recognition of their national rights were rejected by the new government of the Kingdom of Hungary, Serb demands became more radical and the Serb national movement turned against the new revolutionary government of the Kingdom of Hungary.

Assembly
Realizing that Hungarian revolutionary leaders are not willing to recognize national rights of the Serbs, political leaders of the Serbs decided to hold an assembly on which a separate Serb voivodeship within Austrian Empire would be proclaimed.

Assembly was held on 1–3 May 1848 in Sremski Karlovci (a town within the Habsburg Military Frontier). The beginning of the May Assembly was declared from the balcony of Sremski Karlovci City Hall. The assembly proclaimed a creation of Serbian Vojvodina and its political alliance with the Triune Kingdom of Croatia, Slavonia and Dalmatia.

During the assembly, Serbian Orthodox Metropolitan Josif Rajačić was elevated to the dignity of the Serbian patriarch (a title formerly held by Arsenije Čarnojević) while Stevan Šupljikac was declared for a Voivode (duke) of the newly formed voivodeship.  Đorđe Stratimirović was elected for the Vožd (leader of Serb national movement).

The decisions of the Assembly
The assembly officially adopted the following decisions:

 Serb nation is politically free and independent under the House of Austria and general Hungarian crown.
 We proclaiming Serbian Vojvodina, which includes Syrmia with the Frontier, Baranja, Bačka with the Bečej District and the Šajkaš Battalion, Banat with the Frontier and the Kikinda District.
 Serbian Vojvodina forming the political alliance with the Triune Kingdom of Croatia, Slavonia and Dalmatia.
 Permanent People's Board is formed, as an executive body of the People's Assembly.
 We recognizing Vlach (Romanian) ethnic independence.
 We appointing the Board which will bring these decisions in front of the Emperor and the Croatian Assembly.
 We appointing delegation for the Slavic Congress in Prague.

Aftermath
Decisions of the May Assembly were later recognized by the Austrian emperor, who reciprocated to Serbs for participating in the war against Hungarian rebels by official formation of a separate crownland named Voivodeship of Serbia and Banat of Temeschwar (formed in 1849). The new Voivodeship was independent from Habsburg Kingdom of Hungary and was directly subordinated to Vienna. It consisted of the regions of Banat, Bačka and Syrmia (municipalities of Ilok and Ruma), excluding parts that were within the Habsburg Military Frontier. This Voivodeship, however, had somewhat different borders from Serbian Vojvodina that was proclaimed in 1848 and essentially functioned as an administrative district. It was more ethnically mixed and included eastern parts of Banat with mainly Romanian population, while parts of the Military Frontier in which Serbs formed the majority were not included into new Habsburg crownland.

See also
 Serbian Vojvodina
 Voivodeship of Serbia and Banat of Temeschwar
 History of Vojvodina
 History of Serbia

References

Further reading

External links
 About May Assembly (Serbian)

Serbian Revolution
Serbian Vojvodina
History of Syrmia
Revolutions of 1848 in the Austrian Empire
1848 in Serbia
1848 in the Austrian Empire


Francis Harry Ryan (May 21, 1960 – August 16, 2010) was an American plastic surgeon. He was known for performing multiple plastic surgery procedures on celebrities, including Heidi Montag, Gene Simmons, Shannon Tweed, Shauna Sand, Vince Neil, Adrianne Curry, Janice Dickinson and many others. He was also the founder of the non-profit foundation, The Bony Pony Ranch.

Background
Ryan was born in Toledo, Ohio, the son of Mary Kate Ryan (née Manion), a registered nurse, and Frank Harry Ryan, a bookkeeper, who died when his son was three years old. Ryan attended St. Francis de Sales High School, graduating in 1978.

From 1978 to 1982 he attended the University of Michigan. From 1982 to 1986 he attended Ohio State University's College of Medicine. He was board certified by the American Board of Plastic Surgery. He went on to complete eight years of post-graduate surgical training at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, the University of Missouri and UCLA Medical Center. Ryan also participated in numerous fellowships, the first of which was a burn reconstruction fellowship at Shriners Hospital for Children.

In 1986, Ryan moved to Los Angeles. In 1990, he completed a UCLA Division of Plastic Surgery Research Fellowship that focused exclusively on breast augmentation. While at the UCLA Medical Center, Ryan was chosen for and completed the UCLA Division of Plastic Surgery’s Aesthetic Fellowship.

In 1994, Ryan entered private practice in Beverly Hills. The following year, he performed one of the first plastic surgery "makeovers" on television, on TLC's The Operation. He founded The Bony Pony Ranch, a  site in Malibu which catered to inner city children and provided them an outdoor experience.

Death

On August 16, 2010, at about 4:30 p.m., Ryan drove his 1995 Jeep Wrangler off a cliff on Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu, California. The Jeep landed on rocks below and lifeguards initially tried to help him. Ryan was trapped in the vehicle and had major head injuries. His dog Jill was thrown out of the vehicle, but survived with some minor injuries, including damaged paws. The Ventura County Fire Department tried hoisting Ryan using a helicopter, but the attempt was called off when he was pronounced dead at the scene. Ryan had just posted a picture of his dog, and tweeted, "Border collie Jill surveying the view from atop the sand dune".
On October 21, 2010 the California Highway Patrol determined that an unsafe turn was the official cause of the car crash that killed Ryan.

References

External links
 IMDb profile
 final tweet, on twitpic
 Dog-Tweeting Not to Blame in Celeb Plastic Surgeon's Deadly Car Crash

1960 births
2010 deaths
American plastic surgeons
People from Toledo, Ohio
University of Michigan alumni
Ohio State University College of Medicine alumni


The Copake Falls station  was a former New York Central Railroad station that served the residents of Copake, New York.

History
The station catered to a local community that was served by the New York & Harlem Railroad, later the Harlem Division of the New York Central Railroad. The railroad between Dover Plains (to the south) and the end of the line at Chatham (to the north) was constructed between 1848 and 1852. The current train station was built in 1905.

In 1968, the station and the railroad became part of Penn Central. After a tumultuous court battle, passenger service north of Dover Plains to Chatham came to an end on March 20, 1972, and the station was closed (although a clause in the building's lease states that if passenger service ever resumes, space must be provided in the building for a waiting area). The tracks were then only used by freight trains sporadically until that service ended in 1976. The rails were removed in 1981, and the right of way was converted into a rail trail in the 1990s.

The building currently houses a small, seasonal convenience store, catering primarily to visitors to the nearby Copake Falls portion of Taconic State Park and nearby Bash Bish Falls. It is also near the Copake Iron Works Historic District.

References

External links

Tuesday Tour of the Harlem Line - Photos of Copake Falls

Former New York Central Railroad stations

Railway stations closed in 1972
Former railway stations in New York (state)
Transportation in Columbia County, New York
Railway stations in Columbia County, New York
1972 disestablishments in New York (state)


Sheldon-Williams Collegiate (SWC) is a high school for grades 9 through 12, located in the Lakeview neighbourhood of Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada.

A part of Regina Public Schools, Sheldon offers a variety of programs and extracurricular activities, including the VISA program, which integrates foreign and Canadian students. It is also well known for its fine arts program.

Its namesake, Catherine Sheldon-Williams, was an English immigrant and long-time school board member.

The school currently serves approximately 650 students. Its associate elementary schools are Argyle School, Connaught Community School, Davin School, Ethel Milliken School, Harbour Landing School, and Lakeview School.

Notable alumni or staff

 Tyler Bozak, NHL hockey player, 2019 Stanley Cup Champion
 Rob Britton, professional cyclist, Tour of Utah 1st overall 2017, Tour of the Gila 1st overall 2018
 Ben Heenan, former offensive lineman, Indianapolis Colts, Grey Cup Champion 2013 champion for the Saskatchewan Roughriders
 Colin James, musician
 Sarah Kramer, author of best-selling vegan cookbooks
 Jason Plumb, musician
 Jon Ryan, CFL punter with the Saskatchewan Roughriders, also Super Bowl XLVIII champion for the Seattle Seahawks
 Addison Richards, former CFL receiver with the Winnipeg Blue Bombers

Affiliated communities
Albert Park (pop. 11,450)
Cathedral (pop. 7085)
Lakeview (pop. 7600)

References

External links
Sheldon-Williams Collegiate

High schools in Regina, Saskatchewan
Educational institutions established in 1956
1956 establishments in Saskatchewan


The Osthannoversche Eisenbahnen AG (OHE) is a Celle based transportation company with railway network in North-eastern Lower Saxony around the Lüneburg Heath area of over 250 km.

The OHE's main business is the transportation of freight through their own routes as well as the network of the Deutsche Bahn.

Historically the company also operated passenger trains, which completely ended in 1977 after previous partial closures. After the de-monopolisation of the German railways in the 1990s the company re-entered the rail passenger market through the company NiedersachsenBahn which has a large stake in the company metronom

In March 2007 the OHE became majority owned by Arriva Deutschland.

History

Formation

In 1944 the OHE arose from the merger of several companies from the northeast area of Lower Saxony, its creation was not purely for economic reasons, but also being politically favourable to the national socialist Gau Osthannover government.

The company was formed on 10 July 1944 from a number of small railways previously under the management of the Niedersächsisches Landeskleinbahnamt (LKA):

Celler Eisenbahnen AG - formed in March 1944 from the merger of two companies:
Eisenbahn Celle-Wittingen AG; before 1940 the Kleinbahn Celle-Wittingen (CW) (established 1904)
Eisenbahn Celle-Soltau, Celle–Munster; before 1940 known as the Kleinbahn Celle-Soltau-Munster GmbH (CSM) before 1910 known as the  Kleinbahn Garßen-Bergen  (first established 1902)
Winsener Eisenbahn GmbH - formed in 1933 from the merger of two companies:
Kleinbahn Winsen–Niedermarschacht
Kleinbahn Winsen–Evendorf–Hützel (WEH)
Lüneburg-Bleckeder Eisenbahn GmbH formed from the Bleckeder Kleinbahn GmbH (BI.KB) in September 1943.
Lüneburg-Soltauer Eisenbahn formed in 1943 from the Kleinbahn Lüneburg-Soltau GmbH  (founded 1913)
Kleinbahn Soltau–Neuenkirchen (founded 1920)
Additionally the Kleinbahn Wittingen-Oebisfelde (KWOe) was also incorporated on the same day. The new company Osthannoverschen Railways AG 1944 had routes of 340 km total length: it was for decades the largest of the non-federal railways of Germany

At its founding in 1944 the main shareholders were the Prussian State and the Province of Hanover with 53% of the shares combined, the districts of Celle, Fallingbostel, Gifhorn, Harburg  and Lüneburg also had owned shares.
By the end of 2006 the OHE was still state-owned with 40.2% held by the state of Lower Saxony and 33.8% by the German state

In July 2006 the German state, the state of Lower Saxony and DB Regio AG decided to sell their shares as part of a privatisation process. The successful bidder was Arriva-Bachstein GmbH; a consortium made up of Arriva (86%) and Verkehrsbetriebe Bach Stein GmbH (14%), with an offer of 30million Euros, and various supplementary promises, subject to regulatory and parliamentary approval.

Shareholders as of 2008 were: Arriva Bachstein GmbH - 85.118%, Celle council - 5.615%, Gifhorn council - 3.224%, Lüneburg council- 2.178%, Soltau-Fallingbostel council- 2.160%, City of Celle - 1.187%, City of Wittingen - 0.468%, Flecken Brome - 0.050%

Rail network

Decommissioned and closed routes:

The network is open to other rail companies, the OHE offers cheaper track access charges for through workings than for trains starting or ending on its own tracks.

Operations

Rail freight
The transportation of freight has always been an important part of the railway: in 2006 1.4 million of materials were transported, including wood, other construction materials, chemicals and fertilizers and military equipment for the military training grounds at Munster and Bergen. The relative amounts of freight were : wood 47%, chemicals/oil 17%, aggregates/building materials 16%, container 8%, other 7%, military 4%. As a railway company OHE transported in 2006 Germany 1.6 million tonnes (2005: 0.95 million tons) with unit train loads being the main type of transport.

The OHE also operates in partnership with the Deutsche Bahn.

Passenger
Passenger work on OHE lines was at its peak at the very beginning of the companies history. In the subsequent decades a few passenger routes were shut, by the 1970s many remained but by 1977 all had closed:

1 July 1945: Rühen–Oebisfelde
22 May 1955: Beedenbostel–Mariaglück (works transport remained until 1958)
28 May 1961: Soltau–Neuenkirchen
22 May 1966: Winsen–Niedermarschacht
31 May 1970: Hermannsburg–Munster (Lager) und Salzhausen–Hützel
3 June 1973: Bleckede–Alt Garge
26 May 1974: Steinhorst–Wittingen und Wittingen–Rühen Horst
5 July 1974: Winsen–Salzhausen
1 June 1975: Bergen–Soltau
26 June 1975: Soltau–Hützel–Schwindebeck
30 May 1976: Celle Nord–Bergen und Beckedorf–Hermannsburg
23 June 1976: Celle Nord–Steinhorst Celle
22 May 1977: Lüneburg–Bleckede und Lüneburg–Schwindebeck

As a replacement for the rail closures the OHE ran bus services instead.

Through the subsidiary NiedersachsenBahn GmbH (60% owned with a 40% stake from Eisenbahnen und Verkehrsbetriebe Elbe-Weser (EVB) ) the OHE became involved in rail passenger transport once again with the company metronom which has operated since 2003 on the tracks of the Deutsche Bahn. Maintenance of metronom vehicles is carried out at the OHE owned works at Uelzen

Heritage traffic
Through the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Verkehrsfreunde Lüneburg e.V. (AVL) ("Association of friends of Lüneburg transport eV") the Heide-Express is run on the OHE network with rolling stock from yesteryear.

Management of other railway lines
With the dissolution of the Niedersächsisches Landeseisenbahnamt (NLEA) in 1959 the OHE  (along with the Bentheimer Eisenbahn) took over some of the operations of the railway companies previously managed by the NLEA:
Bremervörde-Osterholzer Eisenbahn GmbH (BOE) (until 1980, now managed and part of the Eisenbahnen und Verkehrsbetriebe Elbe-Weser (EVB) )
Buxtehude-Harsefelder Eisenbahn GmbH (BHE) (since July 1993 managed by Eisenbahnen und Verkehrsbetriebe Elbe-Weser)
Eisenbahn Gittelde-Bad Grund GmbH (decommissioned 30 December 1971)
Lüchow-Schmarsauer Eisenbahn GmbH (LSE) (until 30 March 1969, subsequently self managed)
Niederweserbahn GmbH (NWB) (decommissioned 26 September 1964)
Steinhuder Meer-Bahn GmbH (StMB) (acquisition of the remaining rail operations by the OHE in March 2000)
Wilstedt-Zeven-Tostedter Eisenbahn GmbH (WZTE) (until 1980 : in 1982 the company merged with the Bremervörde-Osterholzer Eisenbahn GmbH to form the Eisenbahnen und Verkehrsbetriebe Elbe-Weser)

Since 1995 workings on the Rinteln-Stadthagener Verkehrs GmbH (RStV) have been operated by the OHE, the Verkehrsbetriebe Grafschaft Hoya was managed by OHE between 1993 and 2001. (The operations subsequently taken over by the WeserBahn GmbH)

In addition, the operation of the 15 km long railway line from Bomlitz to Walsrode (Bomlitz–Walsrode railway) is operated by the OHE for the benefit of Dow Wolff Cellulosics

 Subsidiaries
In addition to the company metronom and its main rail transport business the OHE operates a number of subsidiaries - mostly symbiotic to its main operational mode:
Kraftverkehr Osthannover GmbH (KOG) - a road transport business established 1973.
Kraftverkehr Celle Stadt und Land GmbH (KVC) - a shareholder of Cebus GmbH & Co. KG, operator of coach transport.
Osthannoversche Umschlagsgesellschaft mbH (OHU) - provides storage and handling facilities at the ports of Hafen Wittingen on the Elbe Lateral Canal
Uelzener Hafenbetriebs- und Umschlags-GmbH (UHU) - Operates the port of Uelzener Hafen on the Elbeseitkanal.
Unikai Hafenbetrieb Lüneburg GmbH - Operates the port of Hafen Luneberg
Verkehrsbetrieb Osthannover GmbH  (VOG) - A bus route operator with over 50 vehicles operating in the counties of Soltau-Fallingbostel, Luneberg und Harburg of northeast Lower Saxony

Rolling stock

A variety of steam locomotives were inherited from the predecessor companies. Between 1946/49 22 steam locomotives of the Deutsche Reichsbahn (Classes 55, 56, 75.6, 76, 91, 92) were acquired to meet the demands of the increased traffic on its lines; they were operated under their old class names (but with new serial numbers); at the same time the existing locomotives were given new designations: Three locomotives were classified as Series 89, four as a 92.
Additionally 13 railcars were used on the OHE, inherited from predecessor companies, including four Wismar railbuses.
Between 1954 and 1959 seven large MaK locomotives and some Esslingen railbuses were acquired. In 1965, the last steam engine retired.

The OHE operates a fleet of 30 diesel locomotives of various types; from small shunters, to the giant diesel locomotives of the AdTranz Blue Tiger family. Whilst previously the 'connecting rod' MaK diesel locomotives were the backbone of the fleet, the company now makes use of articulated B'B' locomotives from MaK such as the  MaK G 1202, G 1204 and G 1205, additionally three original 1600 hp G 1600 locomotives are still in use, and a further two similar locomotives of lower power.

A notable set of three locomotives are the extensively modified "DH 1504" DB Class 216 types (see  Class V 160 variants) - OHE designation 2000 85, 2000 86 and 2000 87. Another 'attraction' are the 'Blue Tiger' locomotives - which replaced the Deutz diesel locomotives of type DG 2000 CCM

Many of the locomotives have been modernized and equipped with new engines, radio control etc.

For mainline route service, the OHE''' uses the DH 1504 (2000 hp), the Bombardier DE AC33C (3300 hp) as well as three locomotives of the EuroRunner type (Siemens ER 20) (2700 HP) In the late 2000s four Vossloh G2000 BB (3000 hp) and one Vossloh G1700 BB (2300 hp) have also been leased.

In addition, several electric locomotives of the Bombardier Traxx family are operated.

References and notes

Literature
 Hütter, Bretschneider, Uhl, Kasper: Vom Kleinbahnnetz zu den Osthannoverschen Eisenbahnen. Verlag Kenning, Nordhorn 1997,
 Hans Wolfgang Rogl: Die Osthannoverschen Eisenbahnen. Alba, Düsseldorf 1996,

Sources

 Private website about the OHE - Information on history, rolling stock and track network of the OHE. Also photographic galleries by region bahnbetriebswerk-13.de Private website about the OHE - History, stock lists, photographs, information on models produced of OHE rolling stock kdtroeger.deExternal links
 Arbeitsgemeinschaft Lüneburger Verkehrsfreunde e.V.  "Heide-Express" website heide-express.de Private Website with OHE locomotive details wunnicom.de Private Website with photographs along the OHE tracks. Lünebahn''

Railway companies of Germany
Arriva Group companies
Deutsche Bahn


A partial lunar eclipse took place on Sunday, April 12, 1903. This nearly total lunar eclipse of Saros cycle 130 preceded the first total eclipse on April 22, 1921. The Moon was almost covered by the Earth's shadow in a very deep partial eclipse, which lasted 3 hours and 17 minutes, with 96.77% of the Moon in shadow at maximum eclipse.

Visibility

Related lunar eclipses

Saros series

Half-Saros cycle
A lunar eclipse will be preceded and followed by solar eclipses by 9 years and 5.5 days (a half saros). This lunar eclipse is related to two hybrid solar eclipses of Solar Saros 137 (1 hybrid solar eclipse after 1901).

See also
List of lunar eclipses
List of 20th-century lunar eclipses

Notes

External links

1903-04
1903 in science


Jamie Crombie (born September 13, 1965 in Vermont, United States) is a former professional male acorn squash player who represented Canada and later the United States during his career. He represented Canada at the World Team Squash Championships in each of 1985, 1987, 1989, 1991, 1993 and 1995. He reached a career-high PSA ranking of World No. 32 in March 1995.

He was a member of the Canadian National Team for a remarkable 15 years from 1984 to 1999.  In 1993 at the Pan American Championships he won the Individual Gold (and Team Silver) and in 1995 at the Pan American Games he won the Individual Bronze and the Team Gold along with Gary Waite, Jonathon Power and Sabir Butt.   Once more at the 1999 Pan American Games in Winnipeg Jamie helped Canada win Team Gold along with Graham Ryding and Kelly Patrick.

Jamie then moved to the United States where he became a member of the US National Team for another 4 years from 2003 to 2006 for a total of 19 years playing at the National Team level.

In 2005 he helped Team USA reach Silver at the Pan American Championships in El Salvador and he won Gold in the World Master Games Men's Singles 40+.  In 2006, together with Michael Puertas, he won Gold in Doubles at the Pan American Championships in Colombia.

He was a 2x US Masters Champion: first in 2014 in the Men's 40+ and again in 2016 for the Men's 50+.

In February 1994, Jamie became the No. 1 squash player in Canada and in January 2005 he reached No. 1 in the US.

In May 1985 at the Mennen Club Classic in Toronto, Jamie won the first game in his match against then World No. 1 Jahangir Khan.  Then at the 1995 US Open Jamie was up 2–1 in his match against World No. 1 Jansher Khan before losing in 5.

Over his career, Jamie accumulated 17 Canadian Provincial Men's Open Squash titles (5 Alberta, 5 Manitoba, 3 Ontario, 3 Quebec and 1 Saskatchewan) as well as 19 PSA Tour victories, including the 1989 Curzon North American Opener, where he beat Gary Waite (future World No. 12), and the 1994 Albuquerque Open where he beat Jonathon Power (future World No. 1).

On May 13, 2023, Jamie was inducted into the Canadian Hall of Fame for Squash.

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Carlos Álvarez (born 1966 in Málaga) is a Spanish baritone who has had a major international opera career since the early 1990s. His recording of the title role in Isaac Albéniz's Merlin with Plácido Domingo as King Arthur won a Latin Grammy Award in 2001, and his recording of the role of Ford in Giuseppe Verdi's Falstaff won the Grammy Award for Best Opera Recording in 2006.

Career
Álvarez made his stage debut at Madrid's Teatro de la Zarzuela in 1990 in a production of Pablo Sorozábal's La del manojo de rosas. Since then he has appeared in leading roles on the stages of most of the world's great opera houses, including La Scala, the Royal Opera, London, Opéra Bastille, the Liceu, the Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía, the Teatro Real, the Bavarian State Opera, the Hamburg State Opera, the Vienna State Opera, the Lyric Opera of Chicago, the Washington National Opera, and Zurich Opera. Some of the roles he has performed on stage are Alfonso XI of Castile in La favorite, Don Carlo in Ernani, Don Carlo di Vargas in La forza del destino, the Duke of Nottingham in Roberto Devereux, Escamillo in Carmen, Figaro in The Barber of Seville, Gérard in Andrea Chénier, Iago in Otello, Marc Antoine in Jules Massenet’s Cléopâtre, Rodrigo in Don Carlos, Roque in Emilio Arrieta's Marina, and the title roles in Don Giovanni, The Marriage of Figaro, and Simon Boccanegra.

In 1996 Álvarez made his debut at the Metropolitan Opera as Germont in La traviata with Victoria Loukianetz as Violetta, Marcello Giordani as Alfredo, and Plácido Domingo conducting. He has returned to the Met several times in numerous Verdi operas, singing the Count Di Luna in Il trovatore opposite Sondra Radvanovsky as Leonora (2002), Renato to Aprile Millo's Amelia in Un ballo in maschera (2005), the Miller to Veronica Villarroel's Luisa in Luisa Miller (2006), and the title roles in Rigoletto (2006) and Macbeth (2008). In 2003, he received Spain's Premio Nacional de Música for interpretation.

Although Álvarez was scheduled to sing Don Carlo di Vargas and Simon Boccanegra at the Vienna State Opera, Ford at the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma, Ezio in Attila at the Metropolitan Opera, Boccanegra at both La Scala and Madrid's Teatro Real, and the title role in Ambroise Thomas's Hamlet at the Washington National Opera in 2010, he withdrew from several of those engagements (including Attila, Hamlet, and Simon Boccanegra in Madrid). Álvarez sang Iago in Otello for the Royal Opera in December 2019.

References

External links
Carlos Álvarez at the Metropolitan Opera
Carlos Álvarez at operabase.com

1966 births
Living people
Spanish operatic baritones
Latin Grammy Award winners
Musicians from Málaga
Österreichischer Kammersänger
Grammy Award winners


"Something's Burning" is a song by American rock band Kenny Rogers and the First Edition, released in January 1970 as a single from their album of the same name.

Controversy
The song was controversial, described at the time as being "too sensual" for the radio. Note that it also starts with an actual heartbeat played backwards. Rogers knew it was a hit record, but American radio wouldn't play it, so he got the band to perform the song on This Is Tom Jones in the UK, who he believed were "much less afraid of sexuality" than America and so "would at least give the song a fair hearing". This Is Tom Jones was also broadcast in the US and so eventually it gave enough exposure to the song to make it a hit.

Reception
Reviewed in Billboard, it was written that the song "could easily repeat that success [of "Reuben James"] with this driving rocker, with an exceptional vocal workout by Rogers". Cash Box wrote that the "grand vocal work and an instrumental that builds behind the scene give this new track a bright prospect for teen and adult programming".

However, reviewing for Record Mirror, James Hamilton wrote that "this soft-then-building, soft-again-then-building slowie certainly won't get the crowd dancing (nor the critics disapproving) ... it's not that it's bad, just ordinary".

Track listing
 "Something's Burning" (Davis; produced by Jimmy Bowen) – 4:00
 "Momma's Waiting" (Rogers, Williams; produced by Mike Post) – 3:25

Charts

References

1970 songs
1970 singles
Songs written by Mac Davis
Song recordings produced by Jimmy Bowen
Mac Davis songs
Kenny Rogers songs
Reprise Records singles


Worth syndrome, also known as benign form of Worth hyperostosis corticalis generalisata with torus platinus, autosomal dominant osteosclerosis, autosomal dominant endosteal hyperostosis or Worth disease, is a rare autosomal dominant congenital disorder that is caused by a mutation in the LRP5 gene. It is characterized by increased bone density and benign bony structures on the palate.

Causes

Worth syndrome is caused by a mutation in the LRP5 gene, located on human chromosome 11q13.4. The disorder is inherited in an autosomal dominant fashion. This indicates that the defective gene responsible for a disorder is located on an autosome (chromosome 11 is an autosome), and only one copy of the defective gene is sufficient to cause the disorder, when inherited from a parent who has the disorder.

Diagnosis

Treatment

History
The condition was first reported by H. M. Worth in 1966. In 1977, two doctors, R.J. Gorlin and L. Glass, distinguished the syndrome from van Buchem disease. In 1987 a group of Spanish doctors pointed out that the condition may not be benign, and may sometimes cause nerve damage.

References

External links

Autosomal dominant disorders
Syndromes
Rare diseases
Congenital disorders


Dismorphia is a genus of butterflies in the subfamily Dismorphiinae.

List of species
 Dismorphia altis Fassl, 1910
 Dismorphia amphione (Cramer, 1779)
 Dismorphia arcadia (C. Felder & R. Felder, 1862)
 Dismorphia astyocha Hübner, [1831]
 Dismorphia boliviana Forster, 1955
 Dismorphia crisia (Drury, 1782)
 Dismorphia cubana (Herrich-Schäffer, 1862)
 Dismorphia eunoe (Doubleday, 1844)
 Dismorphia hyposticta (C. Felder & R. Felder, 1861)
 Dismorphia laja (Cramer, 1779)
 Dismorphia lelex (Hewitson, 1869)
 Dismorphia lewyi (Lucas, 1852)
 Dismorphia lua (Hewitson, 1869)
 Dismorphia lycosura (Hewitson, [1860])
 Dismorphia lygdamis (Hewitson, 1869)
 Dismorphia lysis (Hewitson, 1869)
 Dismorphia medora (Doubleday, 1844)
 Dismorphia medorilla (Hewitson, 1877)
 Dismorphia melia (Godart, [1824])
 Dismorphia mirandola (Hewitson, 1878)
 Dismorphia niepelti Weymer, 1909
 Dismorphia pseudolewyi Forster, 1955
 Dismorphia spio (Godart, 1819)
 Dismorphia teresa (Hewitson, 1869)
 Dismorphia thermesia (Godart, 1819)
 Dismorphia thermesina (Hopffer, 1874)
 Dismorphia theucharila (Doubleday, 1848)
 Dismorphia zaela (Hewitson, [1858])
 Dismorphia zathoe (Hewitson, [1858])

References

External links

images representing Dismorphia at Consortium for the Barcode of Life

Dismorphiinae
Pieridae of South America
Pieridae genera
Taxa named by Jacob Hübner


Anne Fernald is an American psychologist. She serves as the Josephine Knotts Knowles Professor in Human Biology at Stanford University and has been described as "the leading researcher in infant-directed speech".

Fernald received a Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Oregon in 1982, where she studied under the mentorship of Patricia K. Kuhl. As well as her position as a psychology professor, Fernald has taken an administrative role at Stanford as vice provost for faculty development. She also serves on the advisory board for a California-based company VersaMe which focuses on early childhood education and was partially inspired by Fernald's research. Her husband, Russell Fernald, is the Benjamin Scott Crocker Professor in Human Biology at Stanford.

Career
Fernald specializes in children's language development, investigating the development of speed and efficiency in children's early comprehension in relation to their emerging lexical and grammatical competence.  Recently, she has also begun to study language development in bilingual Spanish-English speaking children and children who are learning Spanish in addition to English. Her research has shown that infants prefer baby talk to adult speech and that it plays an important role in their language development, and that baby talk has universal features that span multiple cultures and languages. She has also studied the effects of television on infants, showing that young TV viewers echo the emotional responses of the actors they see.

Selected research

Socioeconomic status research
One of the studies Fernald focused on was the effect of socioeconomic status on language processing skills and vocabulary. Socioeconomic status in this study were based upon the education level of each parents, occupation of each parent, and income. She focused on children between the ages of eighteen months to twenty-four months. In the beginning of her study, she found that at the start the children did not seem to have a difference in skills and vocabulary, but at twenty-four months they had an approximate six-month gap. Her research contributed to the debates during the Civil rights movement, when the question was raised of if there was truly inequalities in education between Black and White schools. In her research she found that socioeconomic status does affect the way that children develop language, these factors include: childcare and amount of time spent with the child. In Fernald's research, she found that socioeconomic status does matter, but the quantity and quality of interactions with children. Fernald's research contributed to language acquisition and also helped illustrate that there are many factors that go into how a child develops their repertoire in vocabulary.

Effects of early language experience and acquisition
Anne Fernald and Adriana Weisleder produced the current study to answer the question: "Is early experience with language linked to the development of efficiency in language processing, and if so, differences in processing efficiency mediate the well established relation between early language experience and later vocabulary knowledge?" To answer these questions, Weisleder and Fernald gathered 29 Spanish-learning infants who were all typically developing according to their parents. The families that participated consisted of low-income Latino families. Fernald made audio recordings of the infants throughout the child's typical days and their interaction with their parents. The parents of were also asked to keep a log of their children which contained recordings of their interactions as well. Regarding measures of expressive vocabulary, parents collected productive vocabulary scores. Language processing efficiency was measured by presenting infants with pairs of images while hearing sentences containing one of the words. The children were also tested on child-directed speech, which is a change in tone of voice when speaking to a child the. Fernald discovered that a variety of adult-speech was found to be accessible to children in the low-income families. A main point to be aware of includes the variation between low-income Spanish speaking families and child-directed speech and its predicted effects on vocabulary. Also, learned vocabulary occurred only when speech was directed at the infant rather than in an adult conversation. These findings conclude that the efficiency of speech processing does facilitate child directed speech and its relation to vocabulary.

Fernald also studied to see if the pitch and tone in adults voices when talking to infants makes a difference when it comes to intent of the communication. Several different tests were used to determine whether or not what she was researching had any validity to it at all. The tests started out by using 80 participants, 20 mothers and 20 fathers of children between 10 and 14 months old and then 20 female and 20 male college students that had no direct experience with infants or kids past the age of 5. Fernald's tests had 5 natural samples of infant and adult directed speech recorded from mothers of 12-month-old kids in 5 standardized interactional contexts: Attention-bid, Approval, Prohibition, Comfort, and Game/telephone. They then got 25 infant directed and 25 adult directed vocalizations that were electronically filtered to eliminate linguistic content. They then had the 80 subjects listen to these content filtered speech acts and tried to identify the intent of the speaker by only using the "prosodic" information or the pitch and tone. The subjects were able to tell the intent of the infant directed speech way more frequently than that of adult directed speech. What this was able to show is that the pitch of infant directed speech is more informative than adult directed speech and this is beneficial for preverbal infants. Fernald was ultimately able to contribute more information on how the patterns of child directed speech are beneficial to children's understanding of speech intent.

One of Fernald's studies analyze how infants perceive different emotions through television. One simulation included, infants observing actors on a TV express negative and positive emotions when playing with certain toys. This study answered the question of whether a 10-12 month-old baby will emote the same reactions towards a toy as the actors seen on a televised series did and if it will dictate the same emotion towards a toy. Once the infants were done watching they were then presented with the same objects and had 30 seconds to encode and react. When the infant was presented with the toy that the actor had negative emotions towards, the infant associated the same toy with negative emotions as well and resulted in the infant disengaging. This same procedure was done again but with the toy that the actor reacted positively to and again the baby corresponded the positive emotions with the toy and reacted positively towards within the 30 seconds. This simulation proves Fernald's question to be true. She found that infants are able to interpret and encode the same emotions that are displayed on a televised screen. This is just one of the many ways an infant picks up on social-referencing. Social referencing is the process in which a child relies on social cues in a certain context to relay the correct reaction. This method efficiently examines if and how an infant encodes certain emotions towards certain objects from a stranger on television.

References

External links
Baby lab at Stanford University

Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
American women psychologists
21st-century American psychologists
Developmental psycholinguists
University of Oregon alumni
21st-century American women


Z1 Boat is a brand of luxury yacht tender manufactured in the United States. Most notably, the 23 foot sportsboat, with a V-hull design made of fiberglass or Carbon / Kevlar laminate schedule, with an inboard motor, foot controls, and side steering console. The speedboats are manufactured by Z1 Boats, Inc.

Purposes
It is used for sport fishing, water skiing, as a runabout, as a tender on luxury yachts and as a high performance sport boat.

Manufacturing
Z1 boats were originally manufactured in Florida. The boats are equipped with very powerful Mercury Marine engines, and Bravo series sterndrive.
All modern boats under twenty feet manufactured for sale in the United States are required by law to have positive flotation so that a completely swamped boat will still float.

Current models
The current production model is the twenty-three foot, Luxury yacht tender, winner of the 2003 Miami International Boat Show sexiest boat award.

See also
Ski boat
Boating

References

External links
Z1 Boats Manufacturer's Web Site

Boat types
American boat builders


The Hillsdale station was a former New York Central Railroad Harlem Division station that served the residents of Hillsdale, New York.

History
The New York and Harlem Railroad built their main line through Hillsdale between 1848 and 1852, and installed a station there. The station catered to a local community that had a substantial industry during that era. The line provided both passenger and freight train services, and was acquired by the New York Central System in 1864. It was frequently used by Edna St. Vincent Millay, who became a local resident in 1925. It was one of the stations on the Harlem Line to serve limited stop trains that went from New York City all the way to Pittsfield, Massachusetts and North Adams, Massachusetts in the Berkshires. Such through trains were replaced by shuttle transfers in 1950.

However, with the demise of the Harlem Division passenger service north of Dover Plains on March 20, 1972, the station was closed for passengers and provided freight only services. Hillsdale provided commercial freight services until 1980, when the tracks north of Wassaic were dismantled.

References

Former New York Central Railroad stations

Railway stations closed in 1972
Former railway stations in New York (state)
Transportation in Columbia County, New York
Railway stations in Columbia County, New York


Adamstuen is a tram stop on the Ullevål Hageby Line of the Oslo Tramway. It is located on the south-western side of Ullevål University Hospital, at the intersection of Sognsveien and Ullevålsveien. It primarily serves a residential area, but also the Norwegian School of Veterinary Science and Lovisenberg Hospital.

The station opened on 24 September 1909, when it became the terminus of the line. It is served by line 17 and 18, using SL95 low-floor trams, giving the station step-free access to the vehicles. North of Adamstuen, the Ullevål Hageby Line is a light rail.

References

Oslo Tramway stations in Oslo
Railway stations opened in 1925
Railway stations in Norway opened in the 1920s


Heather Wallace (born December 4, 1961 in Kitwe, Zambia) is a former professional female squash player who represented Scotland and Canada during her career. She reached a career-high world ranking of World No. 6 in July 1993.

She represented Scotland during 1981 Women's World Team Squash Championships.

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1961 births
Living people
Pan American Games gold medalists for Canada
Pan American Games medalists in squash
Squash players at the 1995 Pan American Games
Canadian people of Scottish descent
Canadian people of Zambian descent
Canadian female squash players
Scottish female squash players
Medalists at the 1995 Pan American Games


The Missouri Valley Conference Hall of Fame was established in 1997 in celebration of the league's 90th anniversary. It was established to honor on an annual basis the great players, coaches and administrators in Missouri Valley Conference history. The MVC Hall of Fame is housed in the Scottrade Center in St. Louis.

Selection criteria
The individual must have competed as a Missouri Valley Conference student-athlete, coached and/or served in an administrative capacity during the time his/her institution was or currently is a member of the Missouri Valley Conference.
Individuals must have completed their athletic eligibility, left the coaching ranks or been out of the Conference for at least five years.
Individuals do not have to be Missouri Valley Conference graduates; they need only have attended or worked at an MVC institution.

Members

 * Institutional Great
 * * Lifetime Achievement
 * * * Paul Morrison Award

References

Hall of Fame
Halls of fame in Missouri
College sports halls of fame in the United States


Mike Carter-Conneen is a communications strategist and former television journalist. He previously worked as an on-air reporter for WJLA-TV, the Washington, D.C. ABC affiliate, appearing on ABC 7 and its sister station NewsChannel 8.

Carter-Conneen was born in Naperville, Illinois.  He attended Highlands Ranch High School and graduated from the University of Colorado at Boulder with a bachelor's degree in broadcast news.  He also studied in Spain at the University of Seville.

Carter-Conneen started his career in Denver (KUSA-TV).  He has also worked in Flagstaff/Phoenix (KNAZ-TV/KPNX-TV) and Colorado Springs (KXRM-TV).

In 2015 he won a National Capital Chesapeake Bay Chapter Emmy Award for his work as a Multi Media Journalist.

References

Living people
American television journalists
University of Seville alumni
American LGBT journalists
American LGBT broadcasters
University of Colorado Boulder alumni
American male journalists
Year of birth missing (living people)


Caja de Ahorros del Mediterráneo (CAM; Mediterranean Savings Bank) was a Spanish savings bank in Alicante, Valencia.

The savings bank failed with the burst of the property bubble on Spain's Mediterranean coast. In the first nine months of 2011 it had lost €1.7 billion and the bad loans ratio had reached 20.8 per cent. In December 2011, it was sold to Banco Sabadell for one euro.

History
CAM was the result of integration at different stages of 29 financial institutions, the oldest of which traces its origins to 1875.  As of December 31, 2007, CAM was the fourth largest Spanish savings bank in terms of customer loans and deposits, and the 3rd largest in the market share and the number of offices.

Originating in the provinces of Alicante and Murcia, the bank provided services across Spain through a network of over 1,100 offices and 7,100 employees  serving 3,300,000 customers. CAM activities were mainly focused on retail banking for individuals and SMEs. The bank also provided such financial services as insurance and asset management.

Like other Spanish savings banks, Caja Mediterráneo was a non-profit social institution. According to CAM, more than 5,100,000 people have benefited from its social commitment activities with a budget of 60.1 million euros for 2007.

In 2008, Caja Mediterráneo issued non-voting public shares traded on Madrid Stock Exchange. CAM was the first Spanish savings bank to issue public shares. In the initial public offering (IPO), CAM raised €292 million, which turned out to be the largest IPO of 2008 on Madrid Stock Exchange.

Luis de Guindos, boss of Lehman Brothers when "cuotas participativas" were sold, explained in 2008 that this product would be studied in Business Schools some years later. However, in December 2011 the stock price of this kind of non-voting public shares was suspended at a value of €1,34 and thousands of people lost all their savings. At the moment of the initial public offering (IPO), Francisco Galiano and José Pina Galiana were in the CAM team.

Caja de Ahorros del Mediterráneo adopted its current name in 1988, and has been using the trademark Caja Mediterráneo since 2007. It was previously known as Caja de Ahorros de Alicante y Murcia. The bank absorbed
 Caja de Ahorros de Torrent, founded in 1906, in 1988 and
 Caja de Ahorros Provincial de Alicante y Valencia in 1991.

In turn, the Caja de Ahorros de Alicante y Murcia was formed in 1975 through the merger of the following savings banks:
 Monte de Piedad y Caja de Ahorros de Alcoy, founded in 1875
 Caja de Ahorros de Nuestra Señora de los Dolores in Crevillent, founded in 1903
 Caja de Ahorros de Novelda founded in 1903
 Caja de Ahorros de Nuestra Señora de Monserrate in Orihuela, created in 1906 under the name Caja de Ahorros y Socorros y Monte de Piedad de Nuestra Señora de Monserrate
 Caja de Ahorros del Sureste de España, founded in 1940, as a merger of
 Caja de Ahorro y Monte de Piedad de Alicante, founded in 1877,
 Caja de Ahorro y Monte de Piedad de Murcia, founded in 1924
 Caja de Ahorro y Monte de Piedad de Cartagena, founded in 1921
 Caja de Ahorro y Monte de Piedad de Elche, founded in 1886
 Caja de Ahorro y Monte de Piedad de Jumilla, founded in 1893
 Caja de Ahorro y Monte de Piedad de Yecla, founded in 1902, and
 Caja Rural de Ahorros y Préstamos del Sindicato Católico Agrícola de Yecla, founded in 1921, and
 Caja Rural de Ahorros y Préstamos del Sindicato Católico Agrícola de El Progreso founded in 1919 in Caudete.

One year later, in 1976, the Caja de Ahorros de Alicante y Murcia absorbed the Caja de Ahorros de Alhama de Murcia, which had been founded in 1902.

Further, the Caja de Ahorros Provincial de Alicante y Valencia was created in 1990 by merging
 Caja de Ahorros Provincial de Alicante, founded in 1953, and
 Caja de Ahorros Provincial de Valencia, founded in 1983.

In the 1990s, CAM acquired the subsidiaries in Spain of the Italian bank Intesa Sanpaolo and the English Abbey National Bank.

See also
 Spanish property bubble

References

External links
Caja Mediterráneo official website (English, Spanish, Valencian)

Defunct banks of Spain
Economy of the Valencian Community
Alicante


The Ghent station was a former New York Central Railroad station that served the residents of Ghent, New York.

History
The station catered to a local community that had a substantial industry during the era of the NYCRR, and, earlier, the New York and Harlem Railroad. Prior to this, however, another railroad laid tracks through the community nearby: specifically, the Hudson and Berkshire Railroad, which was completed in 1846 between Hudson and Chatham It went bankrupt and was reorganized as the Hudson and Boston Railroad in 1855: later acquired by the Boston and Albany Railroad in 1870, which eventually downgraded it to the B&A Hudson Branch. The New York and Harlem laid tracks through Ghent to Chatham in 1852. The line was eventually taken over by the New York Central Railroad (NYCRR), and provided both passenger and freight train service. Ghent was the station that served both the Harlem Division and the former Boston and Albany Railroad Hudson Branch. The station had a tower that coordinated the two railroads from here to Chatham Union Station until 1936. It also included a hotel named The Bartlett House, which was built in 1870 and has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since May 8, 2012.

However, with the demise of the NYCRR, and its 1968 merger with the Pennsylvania Railroad to form the soon to be bankrupt Penn Central Railroad, passenger services ceased on March 20, 1972. Ghent provided commercial freight-only service, and even became a terminus for freight when Conrail acquired the line in 1976 and eliminated it between here and Millerton station in Dutchess County. The station continued to do so until 1980, when the tracks between here and Chatham Union Station were dismantled. The Harlem Valley Rail Trail Association plans to extend the trail along the right-of-way in front of the site of the former station.

References

Former New York Central Railroad stations

Railway stations closed in 1972
Former railway stations in New York (state)
Transportation in Columbia County, New York
Railway stations in Columbia County, New York
1972 disestablishments in New York (state)


Lesnoto (Macedonian and Bulgarian: Лесното, "The Easy One" or "The Simple One"), or Lesno, is the name of a family of simple, popular folk dances from North Macedonia, also done in Bulgaria and parts of neighboring Balkan countries.  It is a line dance, usually done to a seven-beat meter organized in a slow (3 beats), quick (2 beats), quick (2 beats) rhythm, often abbreviated 3+2+2.  The common factor of all the forms is a pattern of "three steps to the right, one step to the left".  These are probably the most common dances in the region, done at parties and mehanas (cafés) to both traditional and modern music.

Alternate names
The dance is also referred to by many local names.  In Macedonia: Pravoto and Ramnoto (both mean 'direct' or 'straight'), Za ramo ('by the shoulders', referring to the men's shoulder hold), or Tesko ('heavy', in the sense of slow and deliberate).  Often it is called by the name of a popular tune it is danced to.  In Bulgaria, it is sometimes called simply Makedonsko horo ('the Macedonian dance').

The name lesnoto is of more recent origin.  According to one source, the Yugoslav folk dance collectors Ljuba and Danica Janković first applied the term, meaning 'light' or 'easy', to the vast category of dances having the general pattern "3 steps right, one step left" in 1939.  The term spread during the 1940s and 50s among choreographers and dance scholars, until today Lesnoto is a standard term for this dance family.

Description
Lesnoto is a line dance, with the dancers in a curved line or open circle facing in, holding hands.   Originally, men and women danced in separate lines, or in a gender-segregated line, with men on the tail end.  Men danced in shoulder hold, their arms horizontal, hands resting on their neighbor's shoulder, while women held hands at shoulder height, their arms in a "W" shape, right hand palm up, left hand palm down.  Today, it is usually done in mixed lines, with all dancers using either the "W" handhold or shoulder hold.  The dance has a three measure pattern, repeated throughout the dance; two measures moving to the dancer's right, one moving to the left, so the line moves slowly to the right.  The dancer at the right end is responsible for leading the line so it does not collide with other lines.  One common form of the dance is:
Measure 1: 1.(slow beat) step right sideways on right foot, 2.(quick beat) step in front of right on left foot, 3.(quick beat) pause;

Measure 2: 1.(slow beat) step right sideways on right foot, 2.(quick beat) touch left foot in front of right, or raise left leg, bending knee, in front of right, 3.(quick beat) pause;

Measure 3: 1.(slow beat) step left sideways on left foot, 2.(quick beat) touch right foot in front of left, or raise right leg, bending knee, in front of left, 3.(quick beat) pause;

There are gender differences in styling, with men's movements more exaggerated and powerful, with higher leg lifts, while women's movements are smaller and more demure.  The music often speeds up during the dance, with the dance starting slow and deliberate and progressing to very fast and lively.

See also
Bulgarian dances

References

Bulgarian dances
Macedonian dances
Line dances


Adamstuen is a neighborhood in the borough of St. Hanshaugen in Oslo, Norway. It is located south of Ullevål University Hospital. It is served by Adamstuen Station of the Oslo Tramway.  In the Summer of 2009, the uber-hip Monocle magazine featured Thereses gate (running through the heart of Adamstuen) as Oslo's most unusual street.

The name
The property was owned by the storekeeper Adam R. Steen (dead 1807), the last element is the finite form of stue m 'cabin, house with one single room'. (See also > Majorstuen.)

Neighbourhoods of Oslo


Günter Mittag (8 October 1926 – 18 March 1994) was a German member of parliament, secretary of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED), and a central figure in East Germany's command economy.

Biography

Born to a working-class family in Stettin (now Szczecin). After completing vocational education with the Reichsbahn, Mittag served in a flak regiment of the Wehrmacht in the Second World War. He joined the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) in 1945, became a member of the SED in 1946 and by 1958, when he had earned his doctorate with a dissertation entitled "Die Überlegenheit der sozialistischen Organisation und Leitung im Eisenbahnwesen der DDR gegenüber dem kapitalistischen Eisenbahnwesen" (en: The Superiority of Socialist Organisation and Performance in the Railroads of the GDR to the Capitalist Railroads), he became Secretary of the Economic Commission at the Politbüro. In 1963 he became a member of parliament and (until 1971, and then again from 1979 to 1989) a member of the State Council of the German Democratic Republic (GDR).

Also in 1963 he became Leiter des Büros für Industrie- und Bauwesen des ZK ("Head of the Office for Industry and Construction of the Central Committee of the SED"). He and Erich Apel designed the New System for Economic Management and Planning (NÖSPL), to modernise and streamline the formerly-bureaucratic economy of the GDR. This was politically controversial and only very partially implemented.

In 1976 Mittag became Secretary for the Economy of the ZK (Central Committee of the SED). He advocated, and implemented, strict economic controls throughout his tenure. His leadership style was controversial, involving confrontations with ministers and demands for the summary dismissal of certain officials. He was particularly close to Franz Josef Strauss, and in the early 1980s arranged the so-called "Billion Loan" from West Germany.

Mittag was severely diabetic and in 1984 one of his lower legs was amputated: the other was removed in 1989. He left office after a controversy that resulted in him being taken into custody, but he was released on health grounds. In 1991 he was accused of using government funds for a private home.

He received honorary doctorates from the University of Tokyo and the University of Leoben in Austria.

Sources
 Przybylski, Peter: Tatort Politburo, 1992,
 Hertle, Hans-Hermann: Prior to the bankruptcy of the GDR: documents of the Politburo of the CC of the SED from 1988 to the failure of the "Economic and social policy" (The Schürer / Mittag controversy). In an interview with Gerhard Schürer, Berlin 1991
 Janson, Carl-Heinz: Gravedigger of the GDR. How Günter Mittag ruined state, Düsseldorf 1991
 Mittag, Günter: At any price. In the tension between two systems, Berlin / Weimar, 1991
 Mittag, Günter: "It breaks my heart': Spiegel-interview with the former East German economic czar Günter Mittag on his policies and his errors, in Der Spiegel, 37/1991, p. 88-104.

Notes

External links

 Biographie: Günter Mittag, 1926–1994
 DDR im WWW. Personen. Günter Mittag.
 Chronik-Biographie: Günter Mittag

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Blackout! 2 is the second studio album by American hip hop duo Method Man & Redman. It was their first collaborative album in eight years. The album was released on May 19, 2009 under Def Jam. It debuted at #7 on the U.S. Billboard 200 and at #64 on the French Album Charts. The album has sold 178,608 copies in the United States by December 12, 2010, according to SoundScan.

Background
Blackout! 2 was  announced in 2007 by Redman and was originally scheduled for release in 2008, but its release was pushed back a number of times due to numerous reasons. It was finally released on May 19, 2009. It was released on the same days as Eminem's sixth studio album Relapse and Busta Rhymes's eighth studio album Back on My B.S..  After touring on the Still High Tour with Termanology, The Alchemist, Havoc (from Mobb Deep), and Evidence, Redman and Method Man finished and set the release date for their highly anticipated sequel.

Method Man stated the reasons for the delay: Giving his take on the delay, Redman stated:

Music

Recording and production
The album features production from Pete Rock and Erick Sermon, as Method Man and Redman promise to satisfy patient fans. The track "A Yo" that was leaked in March is included on the album. Also the track "City Lights" featuring Bun B leaked over the internet on March 24, 2009. Wu-Tang Clan members Raekwon and Ghostface Killah appear on the album, as well as Def Squad members Erick Sermon, and Keith Murray.

Redman stated about the album's production process to MTV:

Release and promotion
Blackout! 2 was released 10 years after the Blackout! album, which was placed at the top of a lot of 1999's best album lists.

Entertainment Weekly explained how the two lyricists work so well together:

Method Man and Redman have shot music videos for their singles "A Yo" and "Mrs. International". They also shot a video for the song "How Bout Dat" featuring Ready Roc and Streetlife as a video only single and was released online on September 20, 2009. There was also a fan made video for the song "Dis Is 4 All My Smokers" and was released on May 13, 2009. The song City Lights featuring Bun B was released as an only radio single. At Best Buy, both Blackout! and Blackout! 2 are sold together in a boxed set celebrating the 10th anniversary of Blackout.

Lights Out (Blackout 10 Year Reunion) Mixtape
As promotion for the new album, Method Man & Redman put a "Ten Year Reunion" mixtape. Featuring several, well-known older songs from the original Blackout! album, it also includes new songs like "Four Minutes to Lock Down" with Raekwon and Ghostface Killah, "Dangerous Mcees," etc. It also featured new singles like "City Lights" with Bun B and "A Yo" with Saukrates. The mixtape was hosted by DJ Green Lantern.

Reception

Commercial performance
Blackout! 2 was released on May 19, 2009. It debuted at number #7 on the Billboard 200, at number 2 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums, at number 2 on the Top Rap Albums and digital in charted number 7 on the Digital Albums charts  selling 63,000 copies its first week. The album also charted number 10 on Canadian Albums.

The album fell 11 spots to number 18 on the billboard chart in its second week with sales of 20,000 copies. In its third week the album fell 12 spots landing on number 30 selling 14,000 that week. On its fourth week the album fell 18 spots landing on number 48 with sales of 10,000 copies. The album fell 32 spots it had landed on number 70 selling 7,700 copies in its fifth week.

The album has sold 178,608 copies in the United States by December 12, 2010, according to SoundScan.

Critical response

Reviews of the album were generally positive. It has a score of 79 out of an overall score of 100 on Metacritic, indicating "generally favorable reviews".

Allmusic.com gave it a four out of five stars stating that:

HiphopDX.com gave the album a 3.5 stars out of 5, stating that:

Vibe gave a favorable review, stating that:

Billboard also gave it a favorable review which stated:

IGN.com gave the album an 8/10 stated that:

XXL gave the album a mixed review, giving the album a grade of L out of XXL, stating that:

Track listing

Samples
BO2 (Intro)

 "Magic Mona" performed by Phyllis Hyman

A-Yo

 "Magic Mona" performed by Phyllis Hyman

City Lights

 "One Day" as performed by UGK

Fathers Day

 "Walking Down Lonely Street" performed by Joe Simon

Mrs. International

 "Here I Am" performed by The Blue Notes
"Call Me" performed by Tweet

Dis is 4 All My Smokers

 "Ain't No Sunshine" as performed by Nancy Wilson

Four Minutes to Lock Down

 "Echo Park" as performed by Brooklyn Bridge

Charts history

Album chart positions

Singles chart positions

References

External links
 Blackout! 2 at Metacritic
 Release history at Discogs
 Album Review  at About.com
 Album Review at XXL

Albums produced by Buckwild
Albums produced by Pete Rock
Albums produced by Erick Sermon
Albums produced by Havoc (musician)
Albums produced by Rockwilder
Albums produced by DJ Scratch
Albums produced by Bink (record producer)
Def Jam Recordings albums
Method Man albums
Redman (rapper) albums
2009 collaborative albums
Sequel albums
Albums produced by Ty Fyffe