The  Toyota Amphitheatre  is an outdoor amphitheater in unincorporated Yuba County, California, United States. It lies in-between Plumas Lake and Wheatland; 35 miles north of Sacramento and 10 miles south of Marysville. It holds 18,500 spectators and is primarily used for rock and country concerts.

History
The outdoor venue is a $25 million state-of-the-art concert facility serving the greater Sacramento Valley and all of northern California.

It was constructed and opened in 2000 as a 20,000 capacity amphitheatre on 90 acres in Yuba County. Measure R, the public initiative that allowed the amphitheatre to be built passed with 85% of the vote in 1999. Original plans featured sharing the location with a NASCAR-style racetrack, the Yuba County Motorplex. Due to concerns capacity was reduced to 18,500 pending completion of a highway off-ramp on nearby State Route 70. The seating is divided between fixed (approximately 8,000) stadium-style seats and the balance (approximately 10,500) open lawn seating. The lower fixed seating area is divided into three primary seating sections, often referred to as the 100, 200 and Pit sections.

The project was led by Bill Graham Presents and SFX Entertainment. When finished, it featured several notable improvements on the Shoreline model including removable seats in the "pit" area, improved sight lines, and high sound quality. It opened in June 2000 with a sold-out concert featuring Stone Temple Pilots and Papa Roach. Since then, the amphitheatre has featured more than 100 concerts and welcomed more than 2 million guests.

Naming history
Sacramento Valley Amphitheatre
AutoWest Amphitheatre
Sleep Train Amphitheatre
Toyota Amphitheatre

Noted performers

Aaron Carter
Aerosmith
B.B. King
Backstreet Boys
Barenaked Ladies
Big Time Rush
Blink-182
Cake
Coldplay
Counting Crows
The Cure
Dave Matthews Band
Def Leppard
Depeche Mode
Earth, Wind & Fire
Fall Out Boy
Godsmack
Lil Uzi Vert
Iron Maiden
Jimmy Page
John Mellencamp
Journey
Judas Priest
Keith Urban
Kid Rock
Kiss
Linkin Park
Matchbox Twenty
Mötley Crüe
Nickelback
No Doubt
OneRepublic
5 Seconds of Summer
Pearl Jam
Poison
Post Malone
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Rush
Santana
$uicide boy$
Ski Mask the Slump God
Smashing Pumpkins
Steely Dan
Sting
Tears for Fears
The Who
Third Eye Blind
Thirty Seconds to Mars
Thomas Rhett
Tim McGraw
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
Tool
Whitesnake

See also
Live Nation

References

External links
Toyota Amphitheatre on Live Nation

Amphitheaters in California
Music venues in California
Theatres in California
Buildings and structures in Yuba County, California
Tourist attractions in Yuba County, California


Camuño is one of 28 parishes (administrative divisions) in Salas, a municipality within the province and autonomous community of Asturias, in northern Spain.

It is  in size, with a population of 130.

Villages
Buenavista (Bonavista)
Carbajal (La Carbayal)
Cardús
Casamayor
El Caleyo (El Caleyu)
Fenigonte
La Viesca

References

Parishes in Salas


Alondra  is a Mexican telenovela produced by Carla Estrada for Televisa in 1995. The story based on Casandra created by Yolanda Vargas Dulché. For personal reasons Yolanda Vargas Dulché changed the name of Casandra to Alondra in honor of her granddaughter Alondra de la Parra. It stars Ana Colchero, Ernesto Laguardia and Gonzalo Vega.

Plot
After the death of Alondra's mother, her father Baldomero, who feels sad and lonely, brings his sister Loreta and her two kids, Maria Elisa and Rigoberto to live in his house, hoping that Loreta will replace a mother to Alondra. But he is mistaken. Loreta hates Alondra, as she reminds her of Alondra's mother who used to be an actress and whom Baldomero's family never accepted. Years go by, and Alondra grows up into a beautiful, rebellious girl, with very independent and progressive views for that time.

Her constant fights with Loreta continue, but now she learned how to fight back. In the meantime, Baldomero spends most of the time on his ranch in arms of his new love Carmelina, unaware of what's going on in his house. Loreta manages to make Alondra's life a living hell, including her own daughter's, Maria Elisa, a shy and weak girl.

While Loreta tries to force her into a marrying a rich old man, Maria Elisa is in love with Raul, a young officer. To make matters worse, Loreta's evil and ambitious son, Rigoberto, gets kicked out of a seminary and returns home, also torturing Alondra and Maria Elisa. Alondra meets a retired and famous singer, Leticia del Bosque, whom influences and advises Alondra and suggests that she goes to the ranch and tells everything to Baldomero.
On Alondra's way to the ranch, she accidentally meets Bruno. They live a very passionate love, but she later discovers that he is married and has two children. Further more, on the ranch she finds out that her father is going to re-marry for the second time. Disappointed she returns home, where she finds that Maria Elisa is also upset, as she is pregnant and believes that Raul has abandoned her.

The two girls decide to go to Mexico City in search for a better life, success and new love. And it is in Mexico City that Alondra, who has started a flower business, meets Carlos. But her forbidden love for Bruno is not over yet.

Cast

Ana Colchero as Alondra Díaz del Real
Ernesto Laguardia as Carlos Támez
Gonzalo Vega as Bruno Leblanc
Beatriz Sheridan as Loreto Díaz Vda. de Escobar
Marga López as Leticia del Bosque
Eric del Castillo as Baldomero Díaz
Héctor Gómez as Father Gervacio
Verónica Merchant as María Elisa Escobar Díaz
Beatriz Aguirre as Rosita
Amparo Arozamena as Matilde "Maty" Ruiz
Juan Manuel Bernal as Rigoberto Escobar
Fernando Colunga as Tte. Raúl Gutiérrez
Olivia Bucio as Carmelina Hernández de Díaz
Emoé de la Parra as Cristina Leblanc
Gustavo Ganem as Ramiro Estrada
Silvia Mariscal as Mercedes Vda. de Támez
Blanca Torres as Barbarita
Diana Bracho as Alondra (voice)
Queta Carrasco as Rosario
Dina de Marco as Trini Gómez
Ernesto Godoy as Robertito Hurtado
Queta Lavat as Concepción Hurtado
Justo Martínez as Jorge
Aurora Molina as Rita
Mónika Sánchez as Enriqueta
Guillermo Murray as Lic. Pelegrín Casasola
Bertín Osborne as Captain Andrés Kloszt
Angelina Peláez as Librada Perez Aguayo
Tina Romero as Cecilia
Anahí as Margarita Leblanc
Yuliana Peniche as Alondra (child)
Katie Barberi as Rebecca Montes de Oca
Joel Núñez as Germán Aguirre
Omar Gutiérrez as Javier Leblanc
Rodolfo Vélez as Don Pablo Miranda
Bertha Moss as Sofía Lascurain
Jorge Alberto Bolaños as Miguel
Gabriela Murray as Antonieta "Teta" Gomez
Jorge Martínez de Hoyos as Alfredito
Mauricio Achar as Jesús "Chucho" Aguirre
Consuelo Duval as Blanqita de Aguirre
Irene Arcila as Jovita
Nerina Ferrer as Gloria de Casasola
Sergio Klainer as Lic. Gonzalo Rios
Alejandro Villeli as Jacinto Alatorre
Luis Couturier as Leticia's notary
Jacqueline Andere as Verónica del Real de Díaz
Lourdes Deschamps as Celia
Teo Tapia as Lic. Ortigoza
Roxana Ramos  as Berthita "Tita" Gómez
José Antonio Barón as Mario
Guillermo Aguilar as Luis
Valentina García as María Elisa Escobar Díaz (child)
Isaac Edid as Rigoberto Escobar Díaz (child)
Maritza Aldana as María
Alfredo Alfonso as Leopoldo
Dulcina Carballo as Rufina
Rafael de Quevedo as Ordóñez
José Antonio Ferral as El Tejón
Arturo Guízar as Joaquín
Lucía Irurita as Eduviges
Rodolfo Lago as Francisco
Willebaldo López as Martínez
Arturo Lorca as Pancho
Ximena Sariñana as Pilarica
Juan Antonio Llanes as Tolemán
Carlos Osiris as Mireles
Benjamín Pineda as José
Soledad Ruiz as Genoveva
Víctor Zeuz as Daniel
Martín Rojas as Marcos
Fabiola Stevenson as Lucía
Sebastián Garza as Rolando Acuña
Arturo Paulet as Octavio Bertolini
Luis Robles as Celestino
Genoveva Pérez as Petra
Gustavo del Castillo as Pedro
Catalina López as Carlotta "Tota" Gómez
Alberto Larrazabal as Ramón Hanhausen
Zoila Quiñones as Florist Lady
Luis Bayardo as Father
Julio Monterde as Doctor
Dulce María as Child in the church

Awards and nominations

International Broadcasters of Alondra
North & South America, Caribbean

Europe, Asia & Oceania

References

External links

1995 telenovelas
Female characters in comics
1995 Mexican television series debuts
1995 Mexican television series endings
Spanish-language telenovelas
Television shows set in Mexico
Televisa telenovelas
Television shows based on comics


Content strategy is the planning, development, and management of content—written or in other media. The term has been particularly common in web development since the late 1990s. It is a recognized field in user experience design, and it also draws from adjacent disciplines such as information architecture, content management, business analysis, digital marketing, and technical communication.

Definitions
Content strategy has been described as planning for "the creation, publication, and governance of useful, usable content." It has also been called "a repeatable system that defines the entire editorial content development process for a website development project."

In a 2007 article titled "Content Strategy: The Philosophy of Data," Rachel Lovinger describes the goal of content strategy as using "words and data to create unambiguous content that supports meaningful, interactive experiences." Here, she also provided the analogy that "content strategy is to copywriting as information architecture is to design."

The Content Strategy Alliance combines Kevin Nichols' definition with Kristina Halvorson's and defines content strategy as "getting the right content to the right user at the right time through strategic planning of content creation, delivery, and governance."

Practitioners
Content strategists are often familiar with a wide range of approaches, techniques, and tools. The perspectives that content strategists bring also depend heavily on their professional training and education. For instance, some specialize in "front-end strategy," which includes developing personas, journey mapping the user experience, aligning business strategy and user needs, developing a brand strategy, exploring different channels, and creating style guidelines and search engine optimization guidelines. Others specialize in "back-end strategy," which includes creating content models, planning taxonomies and metadata, structuring content management systems, and building systems to support content reuse. Both roles involve addressing workflow and governance issues.

Many organizations and individuals tend to confuse content strategists with editors. However, content strategy is "about more than just the written word," according to Washington State University associate professor Brett Atwood. For example, Atwood indicates that a practitioner needs to also "consider how content might be re-distributed and/or re-purposed in other channels of delivery."

It has also been proposed that the content strategist performs the role of a curator. Just as a museum curator sifts through a collection of content and identifies key pieces that can be juxtaposed against each other to create meaning and spur excitement, a content strategist "must approach a business’s content as a medium that needs to be strategically selected and placed to engage the audience, convey a message, and inspire action."

References

External links

 The Epic List of Content Strategy Resources by Jonathon Colman
Web development


Cermoño is one of 28 parishes (administrative divisions) in Salas, a municipality within the province and autonomous community of Asturias, in northern Spain.

It is  in size, with a population of 199.

Villages
Ballota (Vallouta)
Borreras
Cermoño (Cermoñu)
Cortes
La Planadera
Nava
Ovanes (Ouvanes)
Valbona

References

Parishes in Salas


Cornellana is one of 28 parishes (administrative divisions) in Salas, a municipality within the province and autonomous community of Asturias, in northern Spain.

It is  in size, with a population of 796. It is located on the Camino Primitivo path of the Camino de Santiago.

Villages
Candanonegro (Candanunegro)
Cornellana (Curniana)
Fajas (Faxas)
Folguerinas (Folgueirinas)
Fresnedo (Fresneo)
La Pesquera
La Reguera
La Vega (La Veiga)
La Vega de los Paredos (La Veiga los Pereos)
Las Nisales
Quintoños
Rondero (Rondeiro)
Santa Eufemia
Santueña
Sobrerriba (Suburriba)
Verdugos (Vistalegre)

References

External links

Parishes in Salas


Godán is one of 28 parishes (administrative divisions) in Salas, a municipality within the province and autonomous community of Asturias, in northern Spain.

It is  in size, with a population of 219.

Villages
Ablaneda
Godán
La Barrosa
La Sala
Otero (Outeiru)
Reguera Oscura (Reguerascura)

References

Parishes in Salas


Fireworks is a set of three one-act plays about American life by Jon Swan. The set includes the plays The Report, Football, and Fireworks For a Hot Fourth. The work premiered Off-Broadway at the Village South Theatre on June 11, 1969 where it ran for a total of seven performances.

The Report
The Report is a commentary on the American Press. It follows two characters: Meg Lehmann, a journalist, and Ben Bran, a celebrated writer. Meg cons her way into an interview with Ben which develops into a game of cat and mouse with both trying to manipulate the other. The original production starred Monica Moran as Meg and Stephen Joyce as Ben.

Football
Football is an allegorical play which uses an angry football coach at a Press Conference as a commentary on Lyndon B. Johnson and the Vietnam War. The original production starred Stephen Joyce as The Coach, Haig Chobanian as Claymore, Colgate Salsbury as Norden, John Wardwell as Geiger, Laurinda Barrett as Mrs. Ashland, and Arnold Wilkerson as Gore.

Fireworks For a Hot Fourth
Fireworks For a Hot Fourth is a commentary on Suburban life in America. The play takes place at a cocktail party on the Fourth of July. The original cast included Arnold Wilkerson as the waiter, John Wardwell as Growth, Laurinda Barrett as Gloria, Kristina Callahan as Anna, Monica Moran as Belle, Stephen Joyce as Old Local, Colgate Salsbury as Sidney, and Haig Chobanian as Harold.

References

1969 plays
American plays
One-act plays
Plays set in the United States


National Tire and Battery (NTB) is an American brand of auto service centers. It was formerly owned by Sears until it was spun off in 2003. In 2020, Mavis Tire Supply Co. bought 112 NTB Tire & Service Centers, leaving the parent TBC Corporation with 615 locations under the Tire Kingdom and NTB brands.

History
Sears created the brand in 1997 by consolidating the Tire America (TA) and National Tire Warehouse (NTW) brands, adding the "B" to include its DieHard brand of batteries. Sears original acquired both Tire America and National Tire Warehouse in 1988 when it acquired its then parent Western Auto Supply.

In 2003, Sears sold the brand, which consisted mostly of stores set apart from its name brand stores, to TBC Corporation. A Sears spokesman said, "Because of the separate branding and the lack of proximity to our retail operations, we weren't able to drive growth like a TBC could". The chain of 226 stores was reported to have brought in $425 million in revenue and $60 million in profit in 2002.

TBC Corporation includes Tire Kingdom, Merchant's Tire and Auto Centers and Big O Tire stores. Together they operate more than 1,200 locations in 41 states Washington DC, Alberta & British Columbia, Canada.

In February 2020, TBC entered into an agreement with Mavis Discount Tire of New York to consolidate its footprint of locations by selling 112 NTB stores in Philadelphia, Boston, Atlanta and Chicago areas to Mavis, with approximately 512 NTB locations remaining under NTB's ownership.

Services
National Tire and Battery specializes in Fluid Services (Oil Changes, Brake Fluid Exchange, Coolant Exchange, and Transmission Fluid Exchange), Battery Services, Wiper Blades, Brake Services, Steering & Suspension Services, and Vehicle Inspections.

See also
 Big O Tires
 Midas
 Tire Kingdom
 Merchant's Tire and Auto

References

External links

TBC Corporation
American companies established in 1997
Retail companies established in 1997
2003 mergers and acquisitions
Automotive repair shops of the United States


Idarga is one of 28 parishes (administrative divisions) in Salas, a municipality within the province and autonomous community of Asturias, in northern Spain.

It is  in size, with a population of 159.

Villages
Buspol ()
Cueva ()
Idarga
La Bonga ()
La Curriquera ()

References

Parishes in Salas


The Florida's Natural Charity Classic is an annual golf tournament for professional women golfers on the Epson Tour, the LPGA's developmental tour. The event has been played at the Country Club of Winter Haven in Winter Haven, Florida since 2017. From 2014 to 2016, it was played at Lake Wales Country Club in Lake Wales, Florida since 2014. From 2009 to 2013, it was played at the Lake Region Yacht and Country Club in Winter Haven.

The title sponsor of the tournament is Florida's Natural Growers, an agricultural cooperative based in Lake Wales, Florida.

The tournament is a 54-hole event, as are most tour tournaments, and includes pre-tournament pro-am opportunities, in which local amateur golfers can play with the professional golfers from the tour as a benefit for local charities. The current benefiting charity is the Florida's Natural Growers Foundation.

Tournament venue through the years:
2009–2013: Lake Region Yacht and Country Club
2014–2016: Lake Wales Country Club
2017–2023: Country Club of Winter Haven

Winners

Tournament records

External links
Coverage on the Epson Tour's official site

Symetra Tour events
Golf in Florida
Recurring sporting events established in 2009
2009 establishments in Florida


James D. McElroy (November 5, 1862 – February 24, 1889) was an American professional baseball player who played one season at the major league level.  He pitched thirteen games for the  Philadelphia Quakers, and one game for the Wilmington Quicksteps.  His W–L record was 1–13, and he had an earned run average of 5.12.  He attended Saint Mary's College of California in Moraga, California.

He is first seen on May 2, 1884, pitching for the Baltimore Monumentals of the Eastern League, when he pitched against the Quicksteps.  Before the 1884 season, Harry Wright took over as the Phillies manager, and liked McElroy's talent.  He threw extremely hard, but was very wild.  In his 14 starts, there were seven different catchers who caught him, four of whom claimed that McElroy was the first pitcher they had ever caught at the major league level.  In an era when catcher's equipment was still very meager, and with no other catchers willing to work with McElroy, Wright had to release him.

McElroy died in Needles, California of an intentional opium overdose.

References
General
Nemec, David;Zemen, Davis. 2004. The baseball rookies encyclopedia. Brassey's. .
Specific

External links

 Jim McElroy at SABR (Baseball BioProject)

1862 births
1889 deaths
Major League Baseball pitchers
Philadelphia Quakers players
Wilmington Quicksteps players
Baseball players from Napa County, California
Drug-related suicides in California
19th-century baseball players
San Francisco Reddingtons players
Baltimore Monumentals (minor league) players
Norfolk (minor league baseball) players
Baseball players from San Bernardino County, California
Springfield (minor league baseball) players
Saint Mary's Gaels baseball players
People from Needles, California
1880s suicides


USS Dean II (SP-98) was an armed motorboat that served in the United States Navy as a patrol vessel from 1917 to 1918.

Dean II was built as a civilian motorboat in 1915 at Greenport, New York. The U.S. Navy, which inspected her for possible naval use as a patrol boat in World War I and deemed her a "well built and seaworthy boat for her size", acquired her on 2 May 1917 under a free lease from her owner. She was commissioned on 10 May 1917 as USS Dean II (SP-98).

Dean II was assigned to the 3rd Naval District, where she performed patrol duty. In March 1918, she was ordered to be returned to her owner.  Decommissioned on 31 May 1918, she was returned to her owner on 16 July 1918.

Notes

References

 Department of the Navy Naval Historical Center Online Library of Selected Images: U.S. Navy Ships: USS Dean II (SP-98), 1917-1918. Originally the civilian motor boat Dean II (1915)
 NavSource Online: Section Patrol Craft Photo Archive: Dean II (SP 98)

Patrol vessels of the United States Navy
World War I patrol vessels of the United States
Ships built in Greenport, New York
1915 ships


La Espina is one of 28 parishes (administrative divisions) in Salas, a municipality within the province and autonomous community of Asturias, in northern Spain.

It is  in size, with a population of 558.

Villages
 Ablanedo (Ablanéu)
 Cotariello (Cotariellu)
 El Posadorio (Pousadoriu)
 La Espina
 Ovés (Ouvés)

References

Parishes in Salas


The 85th edition of the Tour of Flanders cycling classic in Belgium took place on 8 April 2001. It was won by Italian Gianluca Bortolami before Erik Dekker and Dennis Zanette.

Route
The race started on the Market Square in Bruges and finished in Meerbeke, covering 269 km.

There were sixteen categorized climbs:

Race Summary
Cycling News remarked that Bortolami won the race by outfoxing the favorites:

Final standings

External links
Race website
News report of the race

References

2001 Ronde van Vlaanderen
2001 in road cycling
Tour of Flanders
Tour Of Flanders
April 2001 sports events in Europe


Clinton Hotel Miami Beach or The New Clinton Hotel And Spa is an Art Deco hotel located in Miami Beach, Florida.

History and Renovation
Clinton Hotel Miami Beach was originally built in 1934 by architect Charles Neidler. The Clinton Hotel was renovated in 2004 by designer Eric Raffy. The total cost of the renovation was $12 million. The New Clinton Hotel and Spa is in the heart of Miami's South Beach.

Sources
Travel, The Palm Beach Post Sunday
Hotel Business

References
 miamibeach411- Website

External links
 Clinton Hotel Miami Beach Website

Art Deco architecture in Florida
Art Deco hotels
Hotels in Miami Beach, Florida
Hotels established in 1934
Hotel buildings completed in 1934


Laneo is one of 28 parishes (administrative divisions) in Salas, a municipality within the province and autonomous community of Asturias, in northern Spain.

It is  in size, with a population of 125 (INE 2007). The altitude is  above sea level.

References

Parishes in Salas


Lavio is one of 28 parishes (administrative divisions) in Salas, a municipality within the province and autonomous community of Asturias, in northern Spain.

It is  in size, with a population of 458.

Villages
Brañasivil
Buscabrero
Bustoto
El Acebal
El Cándano
Faedo
Las Gallinas
Lavio
Pende
Socolina

References

Parishes in Salas


USS Dean may refer to:

 , a Continental Navy frigate in commission from 1778 to 1783, renamed USS Hague in 1782
 , a United States Navy patrol boat in commission from 1917 to 1918

United States Navy ship names


Barbara McAlister (born 1942) is an internationally acclaimed mezzo-soprano Native American opera singer from Muskogee, Oklahoma.

Background
Barbara McAlister was born Muskogee, Oklahoma, in 1942. She is an enrolled member of the Cherokee Nation, a descendant of Old Tassel, and half German/Cherokee through her mother. She aspired to be a country-western singer in her youth, but learned to love opera from her parents.

For her dedication to promoting the Cherokee language, she was awarded the Cherokee Medal of Honor from the Cherokee Honor Society.

Musical career
She won the Loren Zachary Competition in Los Angeles, which launched her career. She has since performed in the opera houses of Passau, Koblenz, Bremerhaven, and most notably Flensburg, where she was engaged for a decade. She has given solo performances at the Weill Recital Hall in Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall, and has performed with companies throughout Europe and the United States.

Visual arts
McAlister also paints in the Bacone style of flat-style Native painting from Prairie, Plains, and Eastern tribes. She has exhibited her paintings at the Five Civilized Tribes Museum and Jacobson House Native Arts Center in Oklahoma, the Wharton Art Gallery in Philadelphia, and Bullock's in Los Angeles.

References

External links

American operatic mezzo-sopranos
Native American singers
Native American painters
Painters from Oklahoma
Singers from Oklahoma
People from Muskogee, Oklahoma
Cherokee Nation musicians
1941 births
Living people
20th-century American painters
20th-century Native American artists
21st-century Native American artists
20th-century Native American women
21st-century Native American women


The Illinois Fighting Illini men's ice hockey team is a college ice hockey program that represents the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. The Illini play on campus at historic 1,500-seat University of Illinois Ice Arena. They are a member of the American Collegiate Hockey Association (ACHA) at the ACHA Division I level. The team is a former member of the Central States Collegiate Hockey League (CSCHL) within the ACHA. The team operates as a registered student organization (RSO) at the University of Illinois. The University does not currently have an NCAA varsity team, and thus the club team is the highest level of hockey offered by the University. A feasibility study published in March 2018, and commissioned by the NHL, NHLPA, and College Hockey, Inc., found a high probability of success for the hockey program to transition to NCAA Division I.  Illinois however reversed course in May 2022, announcing that they were no longer exploring adding a varsity hockey program.

History
Organized ice hockey came to Illinois in the 1930s and played its first official season in 1937 as an independent NCAA team. The first head coach was Ray Eliot, who coached the Fightin' Illini from 1937-1939. The team went winless in the 1937–38 season, going 0–4 before winning their first game in the following season. Vic Heyliger, a former All-American at Michigan and professional player with the Chicago Blackhawks, took over as head coach for the 1939-40 season. In this second year as Illini head coach he led the team to a 17-win season, the most successful season of the Illini NCAA ice hockey team. The team recorded a 10-win season in 1941-42 and a 9-win season in 1942–43 that included only a single loss. The program was ended after the 1942–43 season during World War II; that same year in 1943 Heyliger came out of retirement for 1943–44 season to fill in the team's depleted war time roster.

The current Fighting Illini men's ice hockey team formed in the post-war era during the mid-1950s. The team joined the CSCHL in 1975, only 5 years after the league formed, making the Illini the longest on-going CSCHL members.

Facility

Notable events
 Undefeated season in 2007-2008.  Record of 38-0-0.
 2 ACHA Division I National Championships.  Won in Bensenville, Illinois in 2005.  Won in Rochester, New York in 2008.
 48 game winning streak spanning from September 28, 2007 to October 25, 2008.

Season-by-season results

Note: GP = Games played, W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties, Pts = Points

* Winning percentage is used when conference schedules are unbalanced.

Awards
 Big Ten Conference championships; (3) : 1941, 1942, 1943
 ACHA National Championships; (2) : 2005, 2008
 ACHA Final Four Appearances; (10) : 1998, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2018
 ACHA National Tournament Appearances; (23) : 1993, 1994, 1995, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018
 CSCHL regular-season championships; (2) : 2003, 2008, 2013
 CSCHL Tournament Championships; (6) : 1986, 1988, 1992, 2003, 2006, 2008

Fighting Illini in the NHL

Notable alumni
 Lee Archambault - U.S. Air Force colonel and NASA astronaut.  Crew member of Mission STS-117 and Commander of Mission STS-119.
Amo Bessone - A 3-year varsity player, Bessone coached college hockey for 31 years, spending most of his career with Michigan State and led the program to its first national championship in 1966.
 Chad Cassel - Inducted into the Illinois Hockey Hall of Fame (2007).  Winningest coach in Illini Hockey history with a record of 326-104-14.
 Gene Honda - Public address announcer for the Chicago Blackhawks.
 Tommy Karakas - Goaltender in the team's final varsity season, set a modern collegiate record for consecutive shutouts (4, since broken). Brother of Stanley Cup champion Mike Karakas.
 Norbert Sterle - Led program in scoring during the team's championship season in 1940–41. Killed while serving in World War II.

References

External links
 www.illinihockey.com

Illinois Fighting Illini ice hockey
Illinois Fighting Illini men's ice hockey
College men's ice hockey teams in the United States


This is the comprehensive listing of releases by Japanese pop-punk band Shonen Knife.

Albums

Studio albums

EPs

Live albums
 (1991) We Are Very Happy You Came – live mini-album
 (2001) Power of Money – Burning Farm: BF-2CT) – rare cassette only album with Mana Nishiura
 (2006) Live in Osaka – The first completely live album by Shonen Knife
 (2010) "Live at Mohawk Place DVD" – Recorded live in Buffalo, NY on their North American "SuperGroup" Tour 2009
 (2015) Osaka Ramones Live – Naoko/Ritsuke/Emi with special guest CJ Ramone – produced by Good Charamel Records and TOMATO HEAD – Recorded live at The Bellhouse, Brooklyn, NY 18-Nov-2011 – limited 500 CD pressing
 (2018) Alive! In Osaka –  recorded live at Juso Fandango in Osaka, Japan in December 2017, 21 tracks. DVD/CD package.

Compilations
 (1990) Shonen Knife – Compilation of first two albums
 (1995) Greatest History – Compilation only available in Japan
 (1996) The Birds & The B-Sides – collection of B-sides and outtakes
 (2000) Millennium Edition – compilation of material from 1996–1999 plus three unreleased versions of songs from Strawberry Sound
 (2006) Universal Hits-Golden Best – Two-disc compilation

Remix albums
 (1997) Super Mix – compilation of remixes
 (1999) Ultra Mix – compilation of remixes

Other
 (1987) Flipside Vinyl Fanzine vol. 3 – punk compilation features the song Cycling is Fun
 (1990) Rutles Highway Revisited – (tribute album to The Rutles) – features studio cover version of "Goose Step Mama"
 (1994) If I Were a Carpenter – tribute album to The Carpenters featured a cover of Top of the World
 (1997) Mint Sound Greatest Hits Volume One – compilation features the song Flying Jelly Attack
 (2000) The Powerpuff Girls Heroes and Villains – contributed the song Buttercup (I'm a Super Girl)
 (2011) Take It or Leave It – A Tribute to the Queens of Noise: The Runaways – compilation features cover of "Black Leather"
 (2013) Yellow Loveless – cover of "When You Sleep" on tribute album to My Bloody Valentine's Loveless.

Singles

References

External links
Official Shonen Knife Discography
Official Shonen Knife Discography
Official Shonen Knife Biography

Discographies of Japanese artists
Pop punk group discographies


Linares (Llinares in asturian language) is one of 28 parishes (administrative divisions) in Salas, a municipality within the province and autonomous community of Asturias, in northern Spain.

It is  in size, with a population of 111.

Villages
 El Escobio (L'Escobiu)
 Folguero (Folgueiru)
 La Bouría
 La Casona
 La Estrada
 La Piniella (La Piñella)
 La Vega (La Veiga)
 Las Campas
 San Andrés
 Villar
 Villarín (Villeirín)

References

Parishes in Salas


Vyacheslav Alekseyevich Zapoyaska (; born 24 August 1980) is a Ukrainian former professional footballer.

Career
He made his debut in the Russian Premier League in 2002 for FC Sokol Saratov.

External links

1980 births
Living people
Ukrainian men's footballers
Men's association football midfielders
Ukrainian expatriate men's footballers
Expatriate men's footballers in Russia
Expatriate men's footballers in Belarus
Russian Premier League players
FC Metalist Kharkiv players
FC Metalist-2 Kharkiv players
FC Sokol Saratov players
FC Partizan Minsk players
FC Volgar Astrakhan players
FC Hazovyk-KhGV Kharkiv players
FC Helios Kharkiv players
FC SKA-Khabarovsk players
FC Kolos Zachepylivka players
FC Kvadro Pervomaiskyi players


Mallecina is one of 28 parishes (administrative divisions) in Salas, a municipality within the province and autonomous community of Asturias, in northern Spain.

It is  in size, with a population of 186.

Villages
 Caborno (Cabornu)
 El Barrio (El Barriu)
 Fontanal
 La Puerta
 Las Corradas
 Mallecina (Maicina)
 Valderrodero (Valderrodeiru)

References

Parishes in Salas


The Hotel Collection (formerly Puma Hotels Collection until 2013, Barceló Hotels until 2012 and the Paramount Group of Hotels before that) was a group of 4-star mid-market hotels operating in the United Kingdom. The group also included 18 health and leisure clubs. It ceased to exist as a separate entity, in 2015, when it was injected into the Amaris Hospitality portfolio who progressively sold off all the hotels

History
The Hotel Collection started as Paramount Hotels in 1994 with four hotels: Shrigley Hall in Cheshire, the Angel Hotel in Cardiff, the Prince of Wales in Southport (since sold to Britannia Hotels) and the Palace Hotel in Buxton. It then purchased the Cheltenham Park Hotel in Cheltenham. In 1997 three further hotels were acquired from Forte Hotels: the Imperial Hotel in Blackpool, the Imperial Hotel in Torquay and the DoubleTree by Hilton Harrogate Majestic Hotel & Spa (previously known as The Majestic Hotel) in Harrogate. In 1999 the Old Ship in Brighton was purchased, and then the group acquired four hotels from the Scottish Highland Group, comprising the Carlton Hotel in Edinburgh, Redworth Hall in County Durham, the Marine in Troon and the Stirling Highland Hotel in Stirling. In 2000 the group bought the Oxford Hotel, just outside Oxford city centre. Dawnay Day Hotel Management Limited was created in 2004 to manage the portfolio of hotels on behalf of the Dawnay Day Group. The previous management which have since set up QHotels with 3 former Paramount Hotels, the Queens in Leeds, the Midland Hotel in Manchester and Chesford Grange in the South East of England.

Under the new management, in January 2005 the group grew again with the acquisition of three Hanover Hotels at Basingstoke, Daventry and Hinckley. The Head Office was since moved from Morley in Leeds to Hinckley Island Hotel. These acquisitions were followed later that year by Walton Hall & Hotel. In December, a further two hotels were purchased from Furlong; the Billesley Manor Hotel, near Stratford-upon-Avon; and the Combe Grove Manor Hotel, near Bath. Under Paramount management the Lygon Arms ceased to be a member of the Small Leading Hotels of the World and the Imperial Hotel Torquay lost its five star rating, reducing the group to a mid-market four star operator

In September 2007, the Spanish company Barceló Hotels & Resorts obtained a 45-year lease, to manage the group, from the owners Dawnay Day Shore Hotels, now Puma Hotels Ltd. Barceló, who operated in 16 other countries, took over 21 UK properties. However, as of 25 April 2012, Barceló Hotels withdrew from the UK market, paying £20.25m to break their lease agreement with the owners of the hotels.

Puma Hotels initially indicated it would revive the Paramount brand, but instead adopted its own name as the hotels brand. Then, from 10 June 2014, Puma Hotels re-branded the chain as 'The Hotel Collection' after being purchased by Lone Star Funds, a US-based private equity group, for £323m. The group continued to run the same 21 hotels.

In late 2014, the Hotel Collection announced it would dispose of 4 properties. The Palace Hotel (Buxton) (since sold to Britannia Hotels), the Marine Hotel (Troon), the Cheltenham Park Hotel and the Basingstoke Country Hotel (also since sold to Britannia Hotels). The previous CEO Fredrik Korallus was replaced with ex-Travelodge CEO, Grant Hearn as of November 2014.

On 6 July 2015 Lone Star, owners of the Collection, announced that it would bring together 89 hotels after the further acquisition of 29 Jurys Inn Hotels, 21 Mercure Hotels, 19 Thistle Hotels along with three Hilton hotels in a new umbrella company under the name of 'Amaris Hospitality'. Grant Hearn became non-executive chairman of Amaris with John Brennan operating as the company's CEO. 'The Hotel Collection' ceased to exist as an entity in 2015 and, as part of an extensive disposal programme, all of their hotels were sold off. It was announced on 13 July 2018 that Amaris Hospitality was acquired by LRC Group who injected further hotels into the portfolio. John Brennan became non-executive chairman of Amaris and Peter Stack their managing director.

Awards
In December 2014 the Hotel Collection was announced as a runner-up and awarded silver in the ‘Best UK Upscale Hotel Brand’ award category, at the 2014 British Travel Awards.

The Imperial Hotel in Torquay, part of the collection, was presented with LateRooms.com's Best Kept Secret Award for Best View in Autumn 2014 for its views overlooking the coast of Torbay in South West England.

References

External links

 Amaris Hospitality

Hotel chains in the United Kingdom
Companies based in Leicestershire
1994 establishments in England
2015 disestablishments in England


IncrediBots is a physics simulation game and series produced by Canadian studio Grubby Games and was later purchased by Big Fish Games. It uses the Box2D physics engine, which allows objects created in a simple click and drag fashion to interact realistically. Users can create basic geometric shapes such as triangles, rectangles, and circles, and then connect them together using different types of joints. The three basic kinds of joints are fixed joints (which permanently connect two shapes together to form a larger solid shape), rotating joints (which allow rotational movement), and sliding joints (which give objects one-dimensional linear movement, much like a pneumatic piston). Once combined with shapes, these joints form what are known as "'bots", "robots", or "IncrediBots". One other kind of joint, thrusters, are like rocket engines.

IncrediBots allows movement in a two-dimensional plane, in which the bottom of the user's screen is the gravitational 'down'. Although this lack of a third dimension can be limiting, it allows for much easier construction and faster processing speeds.

On November 20, 2010, the IncrediBot series' servers were shut down. The games are now available offline. Going to the website will take users to the community forum.

As of March 31, 2011, the forums and official game edits are now hosted on the original domain and are maintained by the current IncrediBots staff.

Gameplay

IncrediBots includes three different modes of gameplay. The first, and by far most used, is the sandbox mode. In this mode, the player is allowed to build on top of a large, green platform, with a limit of 750 shapes. In another kind of gameplay, called 'challenges' (IncrediBots 2 only), the player is presented with user-created obstacles which must be reached despite author-set restrictions on the 'bot'. The player receives a score upon completion of each challenge, which may be submitted to the game's high score database. The submitted scores are viewable on a high score list, along with their replays and user names. The third mode of gameplay is the list of tutorials, which show how to play.

In Sandbox Mode and in the Tutorials, the game is made up of two 'parts'. The first is the editing view, in which shapes are created and connected and the "bots" are made. When the player is done creating their robot, then they may click the 'Play' button, which initiates the simulation and allows the user to control their creation using the user-set joint activation keys. While in this mode, players may not edit their robot, but instead may use it for the purpose it was constructed for.

Bots are constructed with two basic tools: shapes and joints. Shapes include rectangles, circles and triangles. Shapes have different settings, such as the ability to fixate them to their position, the ability to toggle collision with other shapes (excluding the sandbox), and the ability to alter their density. In IncrediBots, density is a value between 1-30 that can be changed to make the shape lighter or heavier. Shapes actively interact with each other through joints. The types of joints are rotating, sliding and fixed. Fixed joints 'weld' the two shapes together and cannot break. Rotating joints allow for rotational movement, and have a 'motor' that can be enabled. Once enabled, the motor causes rotational movement between the shapes when the user-set key is pressed, or automatically if set to do so. Rotating joints also have a set power and speed (between 1-30), user-defined upper and lower rotation limits much like a servo motor, and these joints can break. They also have a floppy or non-floppy option, which toggles a rotational 'brake'. Sliding joints are similar to 2-dimensional pneumatic pistons. They connect two objects but are unique in that the two objects do not have to be overlapping, and in that they collide with other shapes and add weight to the objects. Like rotating joints, they have set power and speed (1-30). Sliding joints also have an auto-oscillation setting which makes them expand and contract automatically. A fourth joint, thrusters, were once available only to "IncrediBots Supporters" in the first two games, but is currently a default joint in IncrediBots 3. They simply create a set amount of force in a chosen direction, applying it when the activation key is pressed, or automatically if set. Combined, shapes and joints allow for a huge amount of flexibility in creation.

User accounts

IncrediBots allows users to create accounts on the company's servers, in which prior to October 2010 players could store their 'sandbox creations' and high scores. From October 2010 onwards, creations must be stored on a separate computer, in the form of a file (.ibro, .ibch, and .ibre). They can also be stored in raw text files which can be placed on the internet as well as in a drive. As of November 2010, pre-existing accounts stored on the Amazon servers were deleted, along with associated bots not saved to an alternative location. New accounts created on the new IncrediFriends/IncrediBots website only work on the forums, where players may discuss their bots and strategies for construction. The game's relatively close incorporation into the forums allows moderators to view and remove the game's reported contents.

The forums also hold areas for users to assemble 'teams', closer groups of 12 players or less who collaborate on bot projects. They may compete in team competitions against other teams for points. The team competitions are created and hosted by a small group of specially selected 'Challenge Developers' who are highlighted in orange, members of which aren't allowed to join teams like the others. Teams now are set by a challenge sent to test users for fair teams.

Other than teams, IncrediBots also has clubs. Clubs are different from teams, as the user may request to join. Some clubs are non-bot building clubs, and these clubs usually post in the off-topic forum.

On the IncrediBots forums, users have many different ranks or jobs. The majority of players are normal users, with no specific job, but have certain ranks depending on how many posts they have. A smaller group of users, nicknamed 'superusers', have specific jobs, ranging from moderators and reviewers to administrators and contest winners. There are also a couple of groups for honorary positions, such as 'Former GG Mod' and 'Retired Superuser'.

Supporters

Although the basic versions of IncrediBots and IncrediBots 2 are free-to-play, it was possible to become an "IncrediBots supporter" for a cost of twelve dollars for six months. Supporters received access to several additional features in IncrediBots, including thrusters, (which function much like a rocket engine) the ability to scale and flip their creations, and 'cannons'. A recent addition to IncrediBots 2, 'cannons' are special rectangles which spawn circles traveling at an amount of speed and force set by the user. The size of the 'bullet' spawned is corresponding with the size of the cannon out of which it was shot. Cannons hold 50 rounds.
There are three methods of becoming an "IncrediBots supporter":
 Clicking "Become a Supporter" on the main game screen.
 Sponsorship - when another user covers the cost of the membership for another user.
 Winning a competition on the site's forums. There is a regular competition in which a Forum Moderator picks out 6 users to receive a one-month supportership each.
The IncrediBots supporter payment system (provided by Plimus, now known as BlueSnap) is currently unavailable; therefore, all methods of becoming a supporter (apart from the contests, which remain functional as the activation does not use Plimus) are useless. The open-source version has all the supporter features plus new ones for free.
Now, in light of a lesser need to pay for servers, the supporter feature has been dissolved. The IncrediBots server is run on donations from users and administrators. Donators are given extra features if requested, and those who achieve the 'Pink Star', the highest reward for donating a large sum, receive access to a hidden forum. Donators can choose to remain anonymous, although the user account associated with the donation will not receive any Pink Stars.

Development

IncrediBots started as a simple physics engine (Box2D) coupled with a limited user interface. It was publicly released on October 31, 2008. On December 19, IncrediBots Gold features (also known as supporter features) were implemented into the game. This was the first non-advertisement revenue source for the game. On January 9, 2009, IncrediBots beta testing ended. Up to this point, the entire game had still 'been in development'. Finally, on March 17, 2009, IncrediBots 2 was released for private beta testing.

Grubby Games believes "...that something is being forgotten in this era of multimillion-dollar games with cutting-edge graphics. As lifelong gamers, we understand that flashy graphics are much less important than solid gameplay." After the open-source version of IncrediBots was released, two users called "jayther" and "pokeybit" have handled the technical side of managing IncrediBots.

IGF Nomination
One thing that distinguishes IncrediBots from other online games is that it has been nominated as a finalist in the 11th National Independent Games Festival. The Independent Games Festival (IGF) is an annual festival at the Game Developers Conference, the largest annual gathering of the indie video game industry. It was founded in 1998 to assist and inspire innovation in video game development and to recognize the best independent video game developers.

IncrediBots 2
On March 17, 2009, IncrediBots 2 was opened to paying supporters for testing. It fixed many bugs and glitches present in IncrediBots, as well as providing more ways to manipulate creations. For example, IncrediBots 2 allows users to alter the gravitational force that was constant in IncrediBots, as well as alter the simulation 'backdrop', choose different types of grounds, use non-colliding sliding joints, drag shapes during the simulation, edit groups of shapes, and later on supporter's use of cannons. On June 19, 2009, IncrediBots 2 was opened to non-supporter players.

A variant of IncrediBots 2 (branded Jaybit Edition, made by both jayther and pokeybit) has been receiving continuous updates. Its main feature is the ability to load shared or personal bots via a code given to the user when the bot is saved. Since the servers have been shut down, this is the only way to share bots, challenges, and replays. Also, a new feature has been introduced called triggers so that when something touches a shape it triggers an action (motor, sliding joint, etc.)

Server closure and change of ownership
The IncrediBots servers for the games and forums were shut down on November 19, 2010 because, according to Ryan Clark, one of the original IncrediBots developers, "we could not bridge the gap of user expectation, competing game development, and adapting the IB experience to the BFG rules of engagement." After the servers were shut down, an open-source version was released to the public. It can be downloaded here. New developers already began updating the game. In the open-source version, all supporter features are free. Saving the bots is no longer in an ID, rather a text code to enter, also making it possible to play offline. The original forums closed down, so a replacement forum was created. On March 31, 2011, jayther, on the IncrediBots Forums,  announced that the staff of the forums now owned the trademark of IncrediBots, as well as the domain name, so the forums have since then been moved to the original domain.

IncrediBots 3
On October 8, 2011, on the IncrediBots forums, jayther publicly announced that his "business application using box2d" called "Project Legato", was actually the early stages of IncrediBots 3. He also announced that he would be presenting it at Minecon 2011, which also hosted the official release of Minecraft. The third installment of IncrediBots would have water, the newest version of Box2D, a new online saving system, customizable sandbox ground, a new GUI, smoother graphics and more new features. On February 29, 2012, jayther and the IncrediBots administrators secretly added IncrediBots 3 to the IncrediBots website, and waited for users to find it. It was found by curious IncrediBots users, and is currently in a public beta stage.

IncrediBots HTML5 port
As of 2018, user TheDerf was working on porting the game to HTML5 (using the programming language Typescript). The reason was Adobe Flash Player becoming deprecated. As of 2021, the HTML5 port supports all core features of IncrediBots 2.23 CE (the open-source version). The author attempted to make the port as faithful to the original Actionscript 3 code as possible. There was even an effort to replicate the simulation glitches in the Flash version. The source code of the port is hosted on Github, where the game can also be accessed online.

Robot Mania
In December 2022, user SDDFFDDS worked on an IncrediBots-inspired game Robot Mania: Physics Sandbox on iOS, iPadOS, and MacOS platforms. As of 2023, Robot Mania supports all core features of the original IncrediBots 2 including challenges and global leaderboards. The game utilizes an updated version of the Box2D physics engine and uses a public cloud storage to host player robots.

References

Browser games
Flash games
2008 video games
Video games developed in Canada
Big Fish Games games
Indie games
Grubby Games games


The following is a list of currently operating hospitals in Sudan.  As of 2019, there were a total of 272 hospitals in Sudan.

See also
 Arabic: List of hospitals in Sudan
 Health in Sudan

References

Hospitals
Sudan

Sudan


This is a partial list of Christian film production companies.

List - Top Christian Film Production Companies & Filmmakers:

Affirm Films

Angel Studios

Dallas Jenkins

Erwin Brothers

Five & Two Pictures

Kendrick Brothers

Kingdom Story Company

Lightworkers Media

Loaves & Fishes Productions

Pinnacle Peak Pictures

Provident Films

Companies

A
Advent Film Group
Affirm Films - A label of Sony Pictures Entertainment's Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions
Angel Studios

B
Believe Pictures

C
Called Higher Studios
Capernaum Studios
ChristianCinema.com
Cloud Ten Pictures
Crystal Creek Media

D
 Dallas Jenkins
  dkWard Creative Evangelistic Ministries

E
Elevating Entertainment Motion Pictures
Erwin Brothers
Eternal Pictures
Exploration Films

F
Faith Films
Five & Two Pictures
Fox Faith -  A former label of 20th Century Fox

G
Gateway Films/Vision Video
Gener8Xion Entertainment

J
Jeremiah Films

K
Kendrick Brothers
Kingdom Story Company

L
Lightworkers Media - A subsidiary of MGM Holdings (parent of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer)
Limelight Department
Loaves & Fishes Productions

M
Mary Esther Ruth, Inc. dba MER Productions

P
Paula Bryant-Ellis
Paulist Productions
Pinnacle Peak Pictures
PorchLight Entertainment
Protestant Film Commission
Provident Films

R
 Reverence Gospel Media

S

 Sherwood Pictures
 Sight & Sound Films

U
Uplifting Entertainment

V
VidAngel

See also
List of Christian films
List of film production companies


Mike L. Murphy (born January 29, 1975, in Los Gatos, California) is an American animation director and animator in film and television.

Background
Murphy grew up in Los Gatos, California and left high school a year early after getting a tour of Walt Disney Feature Animation studios while they were making Aladdin.  He subsequently attended California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, California.

Career
Murphy's first film as director was his 2004 Night of the Broccoli, about a man whose dinner vegetables exact a revenge.  This was followed by his 2005 film Get Lost, and then by his 2006 film Rose, which premiered at the Rhode Island International Film Festival, and won 1st place for cinematography.  His works include the films Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, and Iron Man.  In 2010 he directed the animated sequences for 20th Century Fox's Diary of a Wimpy Kid.  In 2011 he was the director and producer of the Young Storytellers Foundation "Bohemian Dream Party", a charity event to benefit arts education for Los Angeles-based youth. He also redesigned Mrs. Butterworth and directed her animation.

Filmography
 Night of the Broccoli (2004)
 Get Lost (2005)
 Rose (2006)

References

External links

Official website

1975 births
American animators
American animated film directors
American male screenwriters
Living people
Artists from the San Francisco Bay Area
Film directors from California
Writers from the San Francisco Bay Area
People from Los Gatos, California
Screenwriters from California


is a real-time strategy game for the PlayStation Portable. The game centers on creating mazes and monsters to help defend a demon lord from heroes seeking to capture him.

The game was released in North America exclusively as a download game on the PlayStation Store, under the title Holy Invasion of Privacy, Badman! What Did I Do to Deserve This?. However, on February 9, 2010, NIS America revealed it would be changing the game's name to avoid conflict with the Batman franchise. The game was re-released on April 22, 2010 on the PlayStation Network after it was removed to make the changes, while its sequel, What Did I Do to Deserve This, My Lord? 2, was delayed to May 4, 2010.

Gameplay
Using a limited number of "Dig Power" and a pickaxe, the player must dig and create a dungeon, and populate it with monsters to defend the demon lord Badman from heroes. More steps are given when a stage is cleared, based on how well the player did. The "Dig Power" has another function, however: it is also used to upgrade monsters. The player is given some time to dig out the dungeon and create monsters before a hero comes to capture the demon lord. When the hero is about to enter the dungeon, the player must take Badman and change his location, preferably making it harder for the hero to find him. When the hero gets into the dungeon, he will navigate the dungeon until he finds and captures the demon lord. The hero will fight against any monster that gets in his way.

When the hero captures the demon lord, he will retrace the same path, taking the demon lord with him. It is possible to create monsters to save the demon lord during this.

Monsters are created depending on the number of nutrients or mana in the blocks of the dungeon. If the block is covered with moss, and the player uses his pickaxe on this block, a slime will be released.  These slimes move around the dungeon, absorbing, and expelling the nutrients from adjacent blocks, creating blocks with more and more nutrients. Once a block obtains enough nutrients, it will change textures depending on just how much is in the block. Stronger, more powerful monsters will be released the more nutrients a block has.  The death of monsters or heroes, along with some of the heroes' actions, has varied effects on the surrounding ground. For example, if a hero casts a spell, the surrounding blocks will be filled with mana, which can be used to create different monsters. More so, if that hero dies, the remainder of his mana is expelled onto surrounding blocks.

Development
This game is mostly unknown outside Japan and is considered to be a cult hit. A sequel titled Yuusha no Kuse Ni Namaikida or2 was released featuring almost identical gameplay with a few different additions and changes. In April 2009, it was announced that the game was released in North America under the name Holy Invasion of Privacy, Badman! What Did I Do to Deserve This? On February 9, 2010, the name was changed again to What Did I Do to Deserve This, My Lord!?, to avoid infringing upon the Batman IP. A third game, No Heroes Allowed! was released in late 2010.

Reception

With the exception of Japan, Holy Invasion of Privacy, Badman! What Did I Do to Deserve This? received average reviews. "Holy Invasion of Privacy, Badman! is an extremely quirky, challenging title that has a few frustrating elements that keep it from being a stellar downloadable," IGN said about the game. Game Revolution gave the game a C−, stating, "A weird and unique freak of nature amongst the mundane shooters and RPGs with their played out themes of morality, but it's trying too hard to be clever." The game currently holds 69/100 on Metacritic.

Sequels
There have been two sequels to What Did I Do to Deserve This, My Lord? released on PSP: What Did I Do to Deserve This, My Lord? 2 and No Heroes Allowed!. A third sequel, No Heroes Allowed: No Puzzles Either!, was released in 2014 for PlayStation Vita, with a fourth, No Heroes Allowed! VR, released on October 14 2017 for PlayStation VR.

References

External links
Official website

2007 video games
God games
PlayStation Portable games
PlayStation Portable-only games
Real-time strategy video games
Sony Interactive Entertainment games
Video games developed in Japan
Acquire (company) games
Single-player video games


The City Club of Portland is a nonprofit, nonpartisan civic organization based in Portland in the U.S. state of Oregon. Established in 1916, the organization had approximately 1500 members and a paid staff of 4 in 2013. The former Mayor of Portland, Sam Adams, served as executive director 2013 to 2015. The current executive director is Julia Meier.

Organizational history
The City Club of Portland was organized in 1916 by a small group of men who began meeting in a downtown Portland restaurant to discuss the city's public institutions and government. Their goals included assembling a wide variety of participants, discussing civic problems, and improving the city's economic and social conditions.

The City Club of Portland was closed to women until pressure by lawyer and future City Commissioner Mildred Schwab was successful in opening its meetings. The club, all-male for roughly six decades, began admitting women to membership in October 1973.

In January 2013 the City Club of Portland captured headlines by announcing its choice of former mayor of Portland Sam Adams as the group's Executive Director.

Membership and staff
News reports at the time of the Adams selection indicated that the City Club had a membership of approximately 1500 and a paid staff of 4, including its director. A new membership costs $190 per year for individuals, with renewal at $165. The current executive director is Julia Meier.

Friday Forums
City Club functions include Friday Forums built around speeches by experts in government, the arts, sciences, and education. The forums, which are open to the public, take place between 11:30 a.m. and 1:15 p.m. on Fridays at the Sentinel Hotel (ex-Governor Hotel) in downtown Portland. Audio recordings of the forums, updated weekly, are available online as MP3 digital audio files that can be downloaded from the City Club web site. Local radio and television stations broadcast live or taped forums at various times during the week.

Speakers at City Club meetings over the years have included Lewis Mumford, an expert on urban planning, who in 1938 urged Oregonians to do a better job of protecting their natural resources and "issued a stern challenge to the leaders of Portland who had frustrated attempts at rational city planning since the Olmsted Report in 1904... ". The Olmsted Report, received by the city in December 1903, had emphasized creation of the 40-Mile Loop, a system of parks and linking parkways in Portland that would take advantage of natural scenery.

A few of the other speakers and forum topics have been:
 Gov. Tom McCall (1974), "Tom McCall Farewell"
 Karl Menninger (1981), "Our Criminal Injustice System"
 Sen. Mark Hatfield (1982), "The Nuclear Arms Freeze"
 David Broder (1983), "Setting the Stage for the '84 Election"
 Eleanor Smeal (1984), "Why and How Women Will Elect the Next President"
 Rev. Jesse Jackson (1987), "Peace, Justice, and Putting America Back to Work
 Sen. Elizabeth Dole (1990), "Leadership for the Year 2000"
 Kimbark McColl (1993), "Twenty Years of Planning in Oregon"
 Mayor Vera Katz (2000), "The State of the City: Connecting the Dots"
 Molly Raphael (2004), "Why Libraries Matter in the 21st Century"
 Gov. John Kitzhaber (2005), "On the Road to Revolution: Fear and Loathing in the U.S. Health Care System"

Footnotes

External links

Civic organizations in Oregon
Organizations based in Portland, Oregon
Clubs and societies in Oregon
1916 establishments in Oregon


Bukene is a town and a ward in central Tanzania. It is located in Nzega District of Tabora Region.

According to the 2012 Tanzania National Census, the population of Bukene Ward was 7,641.

Transport

It is served by a station on the Central Line railway of Tanzania.

References

Wards of Tabora Region


Andrei Stepanovich Konovalov (; born 13 September 1974) is a Russian professional football coach and a former player. He is an assistant coach with FC Veles Moscow.

Club career
He made his debut in the Russian Premier League in 1993 for FC Spartak Moscow.

References

1974 births
Men's association football midfielders
FC Arsenal Tula players
PFC Krylia Sovetov Samara players
FC Rubin Kazan players
FC Shinnik Yaroslavl players
FC SKA-Khabarovsk players
FC Sokol Saratov players
FC Spartak Moscow players
FC Tekstilshchik Kamyshin players
FC Torpedo Moscow players
Living people
Russian men's footballers
Russia men's under-21 international footballers
Russian Premier League players
Soviet men's footballers
FC Chelyabinsk players


Raja Jesudoss Chelliah (12 December 1922 – 7 April 2009) was an economist and founding chairman of the Madras School of Economics.  He completed an MA in economics from the University of Madras and PhD in the United States. He worked as the chief of the Fiscal Analysis Division, Fiscal Affairs Department, International Monetary Fund between 1969 and 1975. He served as a consultant to the government of Papua New Guinea on Centre Provincial Financial Relations. He also worked in several state and central government financial institutions in India. He was considered a public finance expert in India, instrumental in bringing about the early reforms to the direct taxation structure. He was awarded Padma Vibushan in 2007. He is often referred to as "The Father of Tax Reforms".

Personal life and education
He was born on 12 December 1922. His father Chelliah Pillai was his greatest inspiration. He graduated with a master's degree in economics from University of Madras and worked as a lecturer in Madras Christian College for five years before going to the United States on a Fulbright scholarship to do a PhD at the University of Pittsburgh. He was married to Sita Chelliah with whom he had two daughters. He died on 7 April 2009.

Career
Upon his return from the United States, he worked as a senior economist at the National Council of
Applied Economic Research, New Delhi between 1958 and 1961. He was a reader and professor at the Department of Economics of University of Rajasthan between 1961-1966 and professor of economics at Osmania University between 1966 and 1969. He was invited to work with the International Monetary Fund in Washington, D.C. and worked as a chief of Fiscal Analysis Division, Fiscal Affairs Department between 1969 and 1975. He was the founding director of the National Institute of Public Finance and Policy between 1976 and 1985. He was a member of the Planning Commission between 1985-1990 and also member of the Finance Commission from 1987 to 1989. He served as chairman of Tax Reforms Committee of Union Government between 1991 and 1993 and as chairman of the Tax Reforms and Revenue Augmentation Commission in Tamil Nadu during 2002-2003

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Recipients of the Padma Vibhushan in public affairs
1922 births
2009 deaths
University of Madras alumni
Indian expatriates in Papua New Guinea
Indian expatriates in the United States


Robert Fielding (or Feilding; also nicknamed Beau Fielding; 1650/51 – 12 May 1712) was an English bigamist and rake in the late 17th and early 18th centuries. He was known as a handsome womanizer at the royal court of King Charles II, where he was given the nicknames "Beau" and "Handsome" Fielding, and later became the bigamous husband of the King's former mistress, Barbara Villiers, the first Duchess of Cleveland.

Early life
Fielding was born in Solihull, Warwickshire, to George Fielding, a kinsman of the Earl of Denbigh. There is no record of his mother. A minor reference to his early life and character is found in Jonathan Swift's Miscellaneous and autobiographical pieces, fragments and marginalia, which reports that Fielding married Mary, only daughter and heiress of Barnham Swift, 1st Viscount Carlingford and Lady Mary Crichton. Swift recalls that she "brought him a considerable estatte in Yorkshire, which he squandered away, but had no children". His second wife was the twice-widowed Lady Margaret Burke, only daughter of Ulick Burke, the first Marquess of Clanricarde and Lady Anne Compton.

Member of Parliament
Following the death of Charles II in 1685, Fielding became a loyal supporter of King James II and the Roman Catholic cause. James gave him a regiment of the Royal Irish Army, and while in Ireland, Fielding became an MP for Gowran, County Kilkenny in the 1689 Patriot Parliament in Dublin. With his regiment, he is said to have put down a Protestant riot. After the Glorious Revolution and James' forced abdication, Fielding travelled to Paris with the exiled king, before returning to England, where he was imprisoned in Newgate Prison  as a Jacobite in 1696. After securing a pardon the following year, he led an ostentatious lifestyle, leading a life filled with gambling, wealthy mistresses and duels. At the age of 50, Fielding was involved in a duel with a barrister named Fulwood, who drew first and injured his opponent. While Fulwood left triumphantly for Lincoln's Inn Fields in London, Fielding showed his injuries to the public, hoping to arouse some compassion. Instead, as Swift recorded: "[h]e was run into his breast, which he opened, and shewed to the ladies, that he might move their love and pity; but they all fell a-laughing".

Scandal

Following the death of his wife Margaret on 14 August 1698, Fielding courted Barbara, Duchess of Cleveland, former mistress of Charles II. At the same time, he pursued Anne Deleau, an heiress with a fortune of £60,000, which Fielding discovered by studying her late husband's will. Love letters sent to her house in Waddon, Surrey were hidden by the servants, who suspected Fielding's motives for proposing, due to his bad reputation. However, his pursuit continued, and he bribed Deleau's hairdresser, Charlotte Villars, with £500 to arrange the marriage. Mrs. Villars, however, knowing that Deleau would most likely refuse, disguised one of her own friends, a poor woman named Mary Wadsworth, as the widow. Believing her to be Deleau, Fielding married Wadsworth on 9 November 1705. Fielding's pursuit of the Duchess of Cleveland also continued, and he entered into a bigamous union with her on 25 November 1705.

News of the double marriage emerged in May 1706, when Fielding discovered that he had married Wadsworth rather than Deleau. He arrived at Waddon, beat Wadsworth, and warned Deleau's hairdresser Charlotte Villars, who had arranged the deception, not to reveal the marriage. In the meantime, the relations between the Duchess of Cleveland and her husband were increasingly unhappy. After she stopped indulging his expenses, he "so barbarously ill-treated her, that she was obliged to have recourse to a magistrate for protection against his outrages". He also conducted a sexual relationship with the Duchess' granddaughter, Charlotte Calvert, in the Spring of 1706, and was rumoured to have fathered a child by her, born on 23 April 1707. The case went to the Old Bailey, where Fielding was prosecuted and found guilty of bigamy at his trial on 4 December 1706. The marriage between Fielding and the Duchess was annulled, but he claimed benefit of clergy, escaping the sentence for bigamy. He escaped the lesser sentence of being burnt at the hand by producing a warrant from Queen Anne, which ordered the suspension of all sentences against him.

Popular with women, 19th century writer Anna Jameson claimed that Fielding was full of self-love and extravagance, lavishing money on those in his circle. His portrait was painted by three of the great contemporary artists of the time: Peter Lely, Godfrey Kneller and Willem Wissing. After the annulment of his marriage, he became reconciled with Mary Wadsworth, and the couple lived together until his death, from fever, on 12 May 1712. The Duchess of Cleveland had died of dropsy at her home in Chiswick on 9 October 1709.

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1651 births
1712 deaths
17th-century English people
17th-century Roman Catholics
18th-century English people
18th-century Roman Catholics
English duellists
English Jacobites
English Roman Catholics
People from Warwickshire
Recipients of English royal pardons
British people convicted of bigamy
Irish MPs 1689
Members of the Parliament of Ireland (pre-1801) for County Kilkenny constituencies


Video email, also referred to as email video or video in email, refers to the embedding of videos directly into the body of an email, without the need to attach files or click on a hyperlink to play them. Although video email providers have existed since the early-to-mid 2000s, it has become an increasingly popular medium for email marketing in recent years due to technological advancements, and is used to boost engagement rates. Several companies use video email to showcase their brand identity, send out newsletters, and announce events, product lines or launches. Examples of video email providers include EyeMail Inc., TailoredMail, MailChimp, Biteable and BombBomb.

History
In the 1990s, the burgeoning email marketing industry could easily send emails with embedded video, although few marketers produced video at the time. By the early 2000s, the rise of email-related security threats greatly complicated the possibilities of embedding videos. Marketers have long looked at video as a way to improve their promotional emails, although most efforts were initially unsuccessful, as Internet service providers (ISP) tended to block video messages due to concerns about spam and malware. In 2006, Lan N. Nguyen of The Wall Street Journal recommend using video-sharing sites such as YouTube so as to email video clips without "jamming your computer". In 2009, noting the growing popularity of social media, the same publication reported on a supposed "end of the email era", and also described video email as a "long-sought horizon for marketers".

Nevertheless, video in email companies already existed, such as the now-defunct Goodmail Systems (founded in 2003), one of the first companies to offer a service that embedded video in the body of an email so as to avoid security constraints, with events promoter Live Nation becoming one of its first clients. In 2009, Goodmail Systems attempted to "resurrect video in email" with the release of CertifiedVideo, although the project did not prosper as ISPs were slow to adopt the technology. Another example of a video email provider from the early-to-mid 2000s is EyeMail Inc., founded in Atlanta, Georgia in 2004 and still operating.

Since the mid-to-late 2010s, video email has been massively adopted by marketers, as producing digital video has become easier and less expensive due to technological advances. MediaPost stated in 2013 that "video in email finally works, is powerful, and is here to stay." Writing for Entrepreneur in 2019, Syed Balkhi noted: "Many email marketing services make it easy to embed video directly in your emails. Some can even pull a thumbnail image from your videos from YouTube or Vimeo as well as overlay a 'play' button icon on top. This is important because without this icon, some of your email subscribers may mistake your video for an image." Some examples of recent businesses that also offer video email services include Playable (founded in 2017), Dubb, and Binary Kitchen, which only allows sending webcam videos recorded within its website.

Usage
Video email is an increasingly popular medium for email marketing and is used to showcase a brand identity, send out newsletters, and announce events, product lines or launches. In 2017, MarTech Advisor reported that adding videos to email content could boost click rates up to 300 percent. Recent advancements in technology have resulted in a resurgence in the use of HTML5 and video in email, as maintaining engagement is more difficult than in the past. Marketing director Jordan Cohen noted the importance of HTML5 in the popularization of video email:
HTML5 is a programming language that makes it possible to publish secure multimedia content on the Web without relying on plug-ins like Flash and QuickTime. Because it's a wide open standard, its uptake has occurred rapidly throughout the Internet ecosystem—including within some of the most popular email clients—and it's a safe bet to say that HTML5, and video-in-email, are here to stay.

In his 2014 book Big Social Mobile, David F. Giannetto noted that marketers who use video in email cite "increased click-through rates, increased time spent reading the email, increased sharing and forwarding, increased conversion rates, and increased dollars generated as the top benefits and visitors who view product videos are 85 percent more likely to buy than visitors who do not." Giannetto also noted that only one out of four marketers used video in email, with 43% of them stating that they did not due to a "lack of available video content". A survey conducted by the Web Video Marketing Council, Flimp Media and ReelSEO in 2013 found that around 93% of marketers used video in their marketing efforts, while 82% of them said online video marketing generated a positive impact on their business. The study also showed that 60% of marketers used video for email marketing, up from 52% in 2012.

According to Wyzowl's 2020 "State of Video Marketing Survey", 86% of businesses use video as a marketing tool, 87% of video marketers reported that video gives them a positive return on investment (ROI), and most marketers (63%) consider video engagement the top metric for measuring success. At the same time, email usage keeps growing, with the number of global users amounting to 4 billion in 2021 and expected to grow to 4.6 billion users in 2025.

See also

 Electronic mailing list
 Electronic publishing
 History of email
 Marketing communications
 Mobile advertising
 Online advertising
 Social media marketing

References

External links

Digital marketing
Email
HTML5
Video


The Brothers Brannagan is an American crime drama television series that aired in syndication from September 24, 1960, to July 15, 1961.

Synopsis

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1960 American television series debuts
1961 American television series endings
1960s American crime drama television series
Black-and-white American television shows
English-language television shows
First-run syndicated television programs in the United States
Television series about brothers
Television series by CBS Studios
Television shows set in Phoenix, Arizona


is the eighth single by Japanese recording artist Aya Ueto. It was released on June 16, 2004 as the first single from Ueto's third studio album Re..

Overview

"Kaze/Okuru Kotoba" is a double A-side single released as the first of two back-to-back singles. The single was issued in CD+DVD format only. The DVD features the music videos for both A-sides. Like "Ai no Tame ni." before it, "Kaze" was composed by Tetsurō Oda, however this time the lyrics were written by Yoshiko Miura and the track arranged by Nobuyuki Shimizu. The song served as ending theme for the 12th season (80 episodes) of the long-running educational anime series Nintama Rantarō, which aired from April 5 to July 23, 2004. The chorus of the song features the vocals of the unit Kotsubu-gumi, which consists of the three youngest members of the idol group Bishōjo Club 31. Barks described the sound of "Kaze" as "Shōwa reggae," while CDJournal called it a "fun Okinawan-chic pop song" and complimented Ueto's "steady" vocal delivery.

The second A-side is a cover of the Tetsuya Takeda-led folk group Kaientai's 1979 hit "Okuru Kotoba." The cover, which was initially recorded for Ueto's second studio album Message, was released as an A-side after being chosen as the theme song for the video game adaption of the TBS drama 3-nen B-gumi Kinpachi-sensei. The single version is a newly arranged acoustic rendition of the song. At a press conference for the video game, Ueto and Takeda, who starred together in the sixth season of the series, performed a duet of the song.

Chart performance
"Kaze/Okuru Kotoba" debuted on the Oricon Daily Singles chart at number 6 and climbed to number 5 the following day. It peaked at number 8 on the Oricon Weekly Singles chart, with 21,927 copies sold in its first week. The single charted for ten weeks and has sold a total of 44,240 copies.

Track listing

Charts

Release history

References

2004 singles
Aya Ueto songs
Songs written by Tetsurō Oda


Armagedda is a Swedish black metal band that was founded in 1999.

By 2004 the band had split-up but was reformed in 2020.

History
Armagedda was created in the mind of A in early 2000, but then went by the name Volkermord. Their idea was to create some spiritual disease through music that would infect and destroy human minds. A few months later, A spoke with Graav and Phycon about this idea and all were in agreement. A rehearsal tape was recorded, but remained unreleased until 2008. The band entered the studio in mid-2000 for the recording of the Volkermord demo which enjoyed a grim and raw production; released in October, limited to only 30 copies. This demo was to be released on MCD format, but postponed indefinitely. In the very beginning of the year 2001 they entered the studio once again for the recording of their debut album The Final War Approaching.

At this time the band changed their name to Armagedda (translates to 'Jehova's Hell'), and soon recorded some rehearsal tracks which were ended up on a split with suicidal Swedish act Svarthymn called In Blackest Ruin and released through the Swedish underground label Deathcult Productions. Armagedda was originally signed to Akhenaten's label Breath of Night Records for CD release in 2002, with a vinyl LP version licensed to Sombre Records Germany. A new member, Mord, joined the Armagedda horde during early Summer of 2001 to complete the Swedish line-up. This all lasted until 2004, when Graav and A decided to disband and start something new, thus creating Lönndom. The band issued a final statement:

"As you all may know, Armagedda will not bring you any future experiences. We decided after the release of Ond Spiritism that it was for the best to put this phenomenon of ours to the past, we felt that we had achieved everything we needed and seen in our dreams. To continue would have been a move in the wrong direction. Graav has chosen another path in life and is forever gone. But as certain as the end came hand in hand with Ond Spiritism a birth and beginning of something else grew in shape. However, that’s another story and it will speak for itself somewhere else...."

The band reformed in 2020 and released a new album with the following statement: "And so it was told that in the seventeenth year, things that were thought to be dead begun to stir again in the earth, as if awoken by the stench of man-fear penetrating deep beyond the reach of sunlight. Reanimated by some nameless and cursed source of vitality they say it has begun pouring and trickling from the dark crevices of the North, like an ancient curse into the veins of the world. And with the same fearful fascination that we behold something full of life being robbed of its vitality and pulse, we shall now bear witness to that which ought to be forever dead but by unnatural impulse and eager invocation is again given life, to haunt and to stalk the night of the world."

Primary members
 Graav – vocals, guitar
 Anderson Peterson– guitar, bass

Session members
 Roger Markström – drums
 E. Danielsson – drums
 Winterheart – drums
 Necromorbus – drums
 Hor – drums
 Patrik Högberg – bass

Related bands
 LIK – A and Graav's black metal band.
 Lönndom – A and Graav's folk metal band.
 Leviathan – Former member Roger Markström's soloproject, with A on session-strings.
 Watain, Fucking Funeral, Bloodsoil, Dissection – E. Danielsson's bands.
 Demented – Patrik Högberg
 Maleficium – Roger Markström session drumming.
 Sterbend, Nyktalgia, Total Hate, Tairach, Krieg, Hunok, Flagellator, Kataplex, Misery Speaks – Winterheart

Discography
 Volkermord (2000), Self-released – Demo
 In Blackest Ruin (2001), Split
 The Final War Approaching (2001), Album
 Armagedda / Woods of Infinity (2002), Split
 Black Metal Endsieg III (2002), Split
 Strength Through Torture (2002), EP
 Only True Believers (2003), Album
 In Blackest Ruin (2004), EP
 Ond Spiritism: Djæfvulens Skalder (2004), Album
 Echoes In Eternity (2007), Compilation
 I Am (2010), EP
 Live in Nurnberg (2012), Live DVD
 Svindeldjup ättestup (2020), Album

References

Swedish black metal musical groups
Musical groups established in 1999
Musical groups disestablished in 2004
Swedish musical quartets
Swedish musical duos
1999 establishments in Sweden


Sergei Vladimirovich Ovchinnikov (; born 7 December 1984) is a Russian former professional footballer.

Club career
He made his debut in the Russian Premier League in 2002 for FC Lokomotiv Moscow.

Honours
 Russian Premier League champion: 2002.

References

1984 births
People from Gulkevichsky District
Living people
Russian men's footballers
FC Lokomotiv Moscow players
PFC Spartak Nalchik players
Russian Premier League players
FC Luch Vladivostok players
FC Gornyak Uchaly players
FC SKA-Khabarovsk players
Expatriate men's footballers in Armenia
Armenian Premier League players
Men's association football forwards
FC Mashuk-KMV Pyatigorsk players
Footballers from Krasnodar Krai


The Corpus Christi Public Libraries serve as the municipal library system of the city of Corpus Christi, Texas, US.

Overview
The Corpus Christi Public Libraries serve library patrons through the La Retama Central Library and five branch Libraries. The library collection includes over 375,400  items in a variety of formats, including books, audio compact discs, books-on-CD, downloadable audio books, DVDs, videocassettes, audiocassettes, large print books, electronic books, and over 200 magazine and newspaper subscriptions. Library patrons can also access a large suite of electronic databases from the TexShare consortium.

The La Retama Central Library is the designated Major Resource Center for the South Texas Library System.

Branches
 Dr. Clotilde P. Garcia Public Library
 Ben F. McDonald Public Library
 Janet F. Harte Public Library
 Anita & W.T. Neyland Public Library (formerly Parkdale Branch Library)
 Owen R. Hopkins Public Library

References

External links
 Corpus Christi Public Libraries
 South Texas Library System

Public libraries in Texas
Education in Corpus Christi, Texas
Libraries participating in TexShare


Fibromuscular Dysplasia Society of America is an American health charity that deals with fibromuscular dysplasia, a vascular disease.

The society sponsors a registry of patients with fibromuscular dysplasia.

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Health charities in the United States
Medical and health organizations based in Ohio


Winterton Hospital was a psychiatric hospital north of Sedgefield in County Durham, England.

History
A site for the facility at Far Winterton, north of Sedgefield, was purchased in 1855. It was designed by the architect John Howison, the surveyor for the county of Durham, as a three-storey corridor plan asylum built in the Elizabethan style with 300 beds for inmates, along with a chapel and superintendent's quarters. The facility opened as Durham County Lunatic Asylum in 1858.

A major extension of the hospital, designed by William Crozier Jr. using a pavilion plan in the Italianate style with 400 beds for inmates as well as adding a new chapel, water tower, stables and cottages, was built between 1875 and 1880.

The facility became Durham County Mental Hospital in 1925. Further major additions, providing new admission and administration blocks, were made in the 1930s. A hutted emergency hospital was built on the site during the Second World War. The hospital joined the National Health Service in 1948 and became a psychiatric facility known as Winterton Hospital in 1949. It has been wrongly claimed that The League of Gentlemen performer and writer Mark Gatiss grew up around Winterton Hospital while his father worked there as an engineer in 1970s, but it seems he worked at a similar hospital at School Aycliffe; both hospitals have now been demolished.

Following the introduction of Care in the Community, Winterton Hospital went into a period of decline and eventually closed in 1996. During demolition, contractors broke through into basement tunnels and rooms and discovered various preserved specimens taken from inmates. The site has since been developed as a science park known as NETPark which was opened by the Prime Minister, Tony Blair, in 2005.

The hutted emergency hospital developed into Sedgefield General Hospital but, after in-patient services were transferred to the North Tees General Hospital in the 1960s, Sedgefield General Hospital was downgraded to the status of a community hospital, and operated as such until it was relocated to Salters Lane in 2003. After the site had been cleared, a secure residential centre was planned for people with mental health problems, but was never built. In 2017, a residential development, known as Hardwick Grange, was granted planning permission in its place.

Notes

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External links
Two views on a mental Hospital, life in Winterton

Hospital buildings completed in 1880
Defunct hospitals in England
Former psychiatric hospitals in England
Hospitals established in 1855
Hospitals in County Durham
1996 disestablishments in England
Sedgefield


Eudrilus eugeniae, also called the "African nightcrawler", is an earthworm species native to tropical west Africa and now widespread in warm regions under vermicompost; it is an excellent source of protein and has great pharmaceutical potential.

Growth
Fecundity, growth, maturation and biomass production were all significantly greater at 25 °C than 15°, 20°or 30°. {25 °C = 77 °F}

The growth of individual earthworms increases as the population density lowers, but the greatest overall earthworm biomass production occurs at the highest population density.

The greatest number of cocoons per week and the number of hatchlings per cocoon are obtained at 25 °C. Cocoons of E. eugeniae hatched in only 12 days at 25 °C, and the worms reach sexual maturity in as little as 35 days after hatching.

Etymology
Named after Johan Gustaf Hjalmar Kinberg's Swedish survey ship, the 'Eugenie'.

Life cycle
Throughout its life cycle, E. eugeniae grows much more rapidly than Eisenia fetida, in similar environmental conditions. The African nightcrawler grows well at a temperature of 24-30 °C (75-86 °F). Maximum weight of around 2.5 grams occurs within 8–10 weeks.

The African nightcrawler has a uniform purple-grey sheen and the posterior segments are evenly tapered to a point. The segments of the brandling worm (Eisenia fetida) alternate reddish-orange and brown; the posterior segments do not taper, and the final segment is blunt.

References

Haplotaxida


Conductor and radio commentator Bill McGlaughlin began composing in 1997, whereupon he left his conducting position at the Kansas City Symphony and moved to New York City to concentrate on composing. The outcome of the move was a flurry of creativity, and he has been composing successfully, although more intermittently, since then. Well over half of his works have been commissioned. In 1998 McGlaughlin signed a contract with Subito Music, which now publishes all of his work.

Selected major works; musical style

McGlaughlin's first major work was Three Dreams and a Question: Choral Songs on e.e. cummings, prompted by the death of a friend — which he debuted with the Kansas City Symphony on April 28, 1998, to an enthusiastic audience and press. It was quickly followed by five more premieres within a ten-month span.

For a millennial celebration, McGlaughlin was chosen from a field of 350 composers to write a major new work for Continental Harmony, a nationwide cultural initiative commissioned by the National Endowment for the Arts and the American Composers Forum. The composition, Walt Whitman's Dream, premiered in July 2000, and celebrated the new millennium with a combined chorus of nearly 800 singers from around the world, accompanied by orchestra.

On December 15, 2005, the national two-hour daily NPR classical music radio program Performance Today announced that out of all of the music aired that week, McGlaughlin's new commissioned composition Remembering Icarus garnered the most, and the most heartfelt, listener response.

McGlaughlin describes his compositional style as more intuitive than intellectual, and says that he does not shun tonality: "I think when composers turn completely away from tonality, they lose a big part of storytelling." Some of his work incorporates or references elements of jazz — for instance Bela's Bounce, an homage to Béla Bartók and Charlie Parker.

McGlaughlin characterizes his creative process as both studied and extemporaneous, experimenting with various methods to elicit the elusive "moment of inspiration." His compositional ideas often spring from external sources, either literary, personal, or musical, or from inspired tangents on commissioned requests. His muse-seeking practices have included walking in nature, running, meditating, and staying up all night at the keyboard. McGlaughlin's advice to young composers is never to shrug off an idea, even if at first it seems insignificant or similar to an existing work: "Write it down and throw it out later if you have to, but don't avoid the impulse."

Compositions

1990s

Solstice: Fantasy on Old English Carols (premiere December 10, 1997 – Kansas City Symphony). Orchestra. Christmas piece.
Crooked Timber (premiere January 23, 1998 – Kansas City Symphony). Orchestra. A celebration of the irregular, based on Immanuel Kant's words, "Out of timber so crooked, as that from which man is made, nothing entirely straight can be built."
Three Dreams and a Question: Choral Songs on e.e. cummings (premiere April 28, 1998 – Kansas City Symphony). Chorus and orchestra. Written in memory of composer and pianist Kevin Oldham.
Aaron's Horizons (premiere June 18, 1998 – Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra). Chamber orchestra. A tribute to composer Aaron Copland, with whom McGlaughlin worked in the 1970s. Heard nationwide in a broadcast performed by the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra.
Three Mile Table (premiere July 18, 1998 – Music at Gretna festival; commissioned). Sextet of flute, oboe, violin, cello, guitar, and piano. In honor of the recently completed, 11-mile-long Vasco da Gama Bridge, the longest bridge in Europe, in Lisbon, Portugal. The title refers to a table constructed and placed on the bridge to celebrate its opening. The piece utilizes Portuguese folk melodies in a whimsical and buoyant way.
Bela's Bounce (premiere October 4, 1998 – Camerata Orchestra of Bloomington, Indiana; commissioned). Orchestra. An homage to Béla Bartók and Charlie Parker.

2000–2003

Walt Whitman's Dream (premiere July 15, 2000 – International Choral Festival, in Missoula, Montana; commissioned). Chorus and orchestra. Commissioned by a national program called Continental Harmony — a Millennium Celebration sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts and the American Composers Forum. The premiere of Walt Whitman's Dream celebrated the new millennium with a combined chorus of nearly 800 singers from around the world, accompanied by the Missoula Symphony. McGlaughlin explained that his composition "... would allow the audience to feel the power of the human voice to bridge over language and culture." The text is from Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass.
Aunt Eva Suite (Surveying Lake Wobegon) (premiere September 3, 2000 – Ravinia Festival). Narrator and orchestra or chamber ensemble. Narration written by Garrison Keillor.
Carol Antiqua (premiere December 23, 2000 – A Prairie Home Companion, from Town Hall, New York). Ensemble of neglected instruments. Christmas piece.
Angelus (premiere March 17, 2002 – Civic Orchestra of Minneapolis; commissioned). Orchestra. A 9/11 remembrance. Composed in celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the Minneapolis Civic Orchestra.
Three Pieces for Wind Trio, also known as Three Sketches for Three Winds (premiere June 1, 2002 – Kemper Museum in Kansas City, Missouri). Flute, oboe, bassoon.
Echoes (premiere summer 2003 – The Chamber Music Conference and Composers' Forum of the East, in Bennington, Vermont; commissioned). Horn trio.
Three by Six (premiere summer 2003 – The Chamber Music Conference and Composers' Forum of the East, in Bennington, Vermont; commissioned). Chamber ensemble.
Theme to Exploring Music (premiere October 3, 2003 – Exploring Music)
The Bells of St. Ferdinand (premiere October 2003 – Tucson Symphony Orchestra; commissioned). Orchestra. Orchestral variations, in celebration of Tucson Symphony's 75th anniversary.

2004–present

Remembering Icarus (premiere October 2005 – Las Cruces Symphony, Las Cruces, New Mexico; commissioned). Orchestra. Honors local radio pioneer Ralph Willis Goddard, who was electrocuted in 1929 while checking a radio transmitter during a thunderstorm. Las Cruces public radio station KRWG, which commissioned the piece, uses his initials as its call letters. Remembering Icarus was subsequently aired nationally on NPR's Performance Today on December 9, 2005,  and has been re-broadcast on radio three times.
Bagatelles: 1. Antique Dance with Ground Round 2. Fast and Loose (premiere February 22, 2008 – Washington Saxophone Quartet, at Wolf Trap; commissioned). Saxophone quartet. Co-commissioned by Wolf Trap and the Washington Saxophone Quartet.
The Heart's Light: An Essay for Orchestra (premiere March 30, 2008 – Temple University Symphony Orchestra; commissioned). Orchestra. Also performed at Carnegie Hall on April 2, 2008.
Old American Songs for G.K. (premiere May 13, 2008 – Boston Pops with Garrison Keillor, Symphony Hall, Boston; commissioned). Orchestra.
Brave New World (premiere September 29, 2012 –  Las Cruces Symphony, commissioned). Orchestral instruments plus harp, piano, and marimba. In honor of the 100th anniversary of New Mexico’s becoming a state in 1912.

Composer-in-residence engagements

McGlaughlin has had three composer-in-residence engagements. They are as follows:

Music at Gretna (1998)
International Choral Festival, Missoula, Montana (2000) — Continental Harmony commission for Millennial Celebration
The Chamber Music Conference and Composers' Forum of the East, Bennington College, Bennington, Vermont (2003)

See also
Exploring Music

Footnotes

References
McGlaughlin resumé 2003
Official bio on Exploring Music site
Bio and List of Works – Subito Music
Bio – American International Artists

External links
Audio
Audio interview and performance of Remembering Icarus on Performance Today, December 2005
Bela's Bounce performed in 2003 by the TMEA Symphony Orchestra
1-minute audio sample of Walt Whitman's Dream
Theme to Exploring Music

Biographical
McGlaughlin resumé 2003
Bio and List of Works – Subito Music
Official bio on Exploring Music site
The Chamber Music Conference and Composers' Forum of the East

McGlaughlin, Bill