OASF (formerly Trust Oldham) is a supporters' trust, for the English football club, Oldham Athletic based in Oldham, Greater Manchester.

Background
OASF was formed in 2003, after previous Latics owner Chris Moore left the club in financial dire straits. It was officially launched as Trust Oldham at a meeting in the Rochdale Road End stand at Boundary Park was formed to save the club from liquidation. The Trust's first fundraising event was a match between the Millennium Allstars and the Wembley Wizards which saw former Latics players take to the Boundary Park pitch. The event raised over £100,000.

After an American consortium made up of Simon Blitz, Danny Gazal and Simon Corney from New York City took over the reins at Boundary Park, OASF agreed to buy a 3% stake in the club for £200,000. This 3% stake gave OASF a voice on the board of directors of the football club, making it a powerful medium between the fans and the clubs.

OASF reverted to using its original Oldham Athletic Supporters Foundation OASF name in order to avoid confusion with the football club's Community Trust in 2021, and continues to work with Oldham Athletic and expand its horizons with new events and new fundraising ideas all to help secure the future of Oldham Athletic in the Borough of Oldham.

OASF has a director on the board of the football club. Many football trusts aspire to own a share in the football club they represent so they can report on the internal working with the fans and take fans ideas, suggestions and complaints to boardroom level.

A change in policy has resulted in the representative on the Board at Oldham Athletic Football Club not being the chair, to avoid conflicts of interest.

In September 2020 an election of Directors was held, with volunteer and Football Supporters' Association support, to ensure neutrality.
A number of candidates withdrew just prior to the vote. The previous Representative to the Board was not re-elected.
In May 2021, the Representative on the Board of Oldham Athletic was announced as Paul Hughes.

Strategy
After the election in 2020, the new Board comprehensively reviewed their strategy given Oldham Athletic's increasingly precarious position. The revised strategy formed the acronym LATICS, the football club's traditional nickname. Amongst the aspects of the strategy was Investment, and part of that was the creation of a Contingency Fund in the event of the football club being left without investment or put up for sale.

Contingency Fund
OASF will use 1895 branding to raise money for a contingency fund. This money will be ring-fenced for either majority shareholding, 50+1 fan ownership, purchase of the stadium or a combination.
On 30 May 2021, the OASF 1895 Lottery was launched as the first contributor to the contingency fund.

Events
OASF has held an annual dinner each year, usually at the White Hart in Lydgate.

OASF held "A Question of Latics" event in March 2009 at the Playhouse 2 in Shaw. Former players Ian Wood, David Eyres, Rodger Wylde and Andy Barlow joined Inspiral Carpets guitarist Graham Lambert and Lee Hughes, who at the time was a Latics player. The event took the format of a Michael Parkinson style interview followed by A Question of Sport.

In November 2009 OASF once again held "A Question of Latics" in Shaw. Andy Ritchie, Joe Royle, Andy Rhodes, Les Chapman and Lee Duxbury were among the contributors. A Room 101 segment was included.

Purchases for the club
OASF has helped the club with some costs over a number of years. These have included the purchase of a mini-bus in October 2004 which is loaned to the club on an ongoing basis in a donation worth £20,000.

In April 2005 OASF contributed a further £20,000 towards the signing of Luke Beckett on loan from Sheffield United. And in April 2008 OASF bought a new tractor for the club groundsmen.

Over the course of its existence, OASF has donated on average £1,000 per month to Oldham Athletic.

Patrons and directors
OASF currently has four patrons: Andy Ritchie, Jimmy Frizzell, David Eyres and Joe Royle and thirteen directors. Directors come up for re-election every three years.

References

External links

Oldham Athletic website
OASF section on OWTB message board
Full story of Oldham Athletic's darkest hours and rescue

Oldham Athletic A.F.C.
Oldham, Trust
English football supporters' associations


Charles or Charlie Craig may refer to:

Arts and entertainment
Charles Craig (actor) (fl. 1900s–1930s), American actor
Charles Craig (tenor) (1919–1997), English opera singer
Charlie Craig (songwriter) (1938–2011), American songwriter
Charlie Craig (screenwriter), American television producer and writer

Sports
Charlie Craig (footballer) (1876–1933), Scottish footballer
Charlie Craig (baseball) (1905–?), American baseball player
Charles Craig (athlete) (born 1942), American triple jumper

Others
Charles C. Craig (1865–1944), American jurist and politician
Charles Craig (British politician) (1869–1960), Northern Irish politician, Member of Parliament for South Antrim 1903–1922 and Antrim 1922–1929
Charles L. Craig (1872–1935), comptroller for New York City

See also
Craig Charles (born 1964), English actor
Charles Craig Cannon (1914–1992), US Army officer


Mikhail Khristoforovich Chailakhyan (, ) (1902–1991) was an Armenian-Soviet scientist who is widely known for proposing the existence of a universal plant hormone that is involved in flowering. He named this hormone florigen in 1936. His studies included the mechanisms of flowering, tuberization and sex expression in plants. His pioneer work included the agricultural applications of phytohormones and synthetic analogs.

References

1902 births
1991 deaths
Full Members of the USSR Academy of Sciences
Members of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
Yerevan State University alumni
Academic staff of Yerevan State University
Soviet Armenians
Armenian biologists
Armenian botanists
Soviet biologists
Soviet botanists
Plant physiologists
Recipients of the Order of Lenin
Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour
Recipients of the Order of the Red Star
Russian scientists


Zoo Station may refer to:

Transportation
Berlin Zoologischer Garten railway station, a rail station in Berlin, Germany
Taipei Zoo Station, a metro station in Taipei, Taiwan
Taipei Zoo South Station, a cable car station in Taipei, Taiwan
Zoo station (Calgary), a light rail station in Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Beijing Zoo Station, a metro station in Beijing, China
Zoo station (Guangzhou Metro), a metro station in Guangzhou, China
Zoo station (Chongqing Rail Transit), a metro station in Chongqing, China
Zoological Garden station, a former rail station in Philadelphia, USA

Other uses
"Zoo Station" (song), a 1991 song by U2
Zoo Station, a 2007 novel by David Downing named after the Berlin railway station

See also
 Botanical Garden station (disambiguation)
 Kew Gardens station (disambiguation)


Randolph Galloway (22 December 1896 – 10 April 1964) was an English footballer and football manager. He played for Sunderland Tramways, Derby County, Nottingham Forest, Luton Town, Coventry City, Tottenham Hotspur and Grantham Town.

Galloway scored on his 'Lilywhites' debut in a 1–1 draw with Southampton at The Dell in September 1928 in the old Second Division.

Management
Galloway coached Sporting de Gijón, Valencia CF, Racing de Santander, Peñarol, Young Fellows Zürich, Sporting CP and Vitória S.C.

References

External links
Biography

1896 births
1964 deaths
Footballers from Sunderland
English Football League players
English men's footballers
English expatriate sportspeople in Spain
English expatriate sportspeople in Switzerland
English expatriate sportspeople in Portugal
English expatriate sportspeople in Costa Rica
Derby County F.C. players
Nottingham Forest F.C. players
Luton Town F.C. players
Coventry City F.C. players
Tottenham Hotspur F.C. players
Grantham Town F.C. players
English football managers
Sporting de Gijón managers
Valencia CF managers
Racing de Santander managers
Sporting CP managers
Peñarol managers
SC Young Fellows Juventus managers
Vitória S.C. managers
Costa Rica national football team managers
Expatriate football managers in Portugal
Expatriate football managers in Spain
Expatriate football managers in Switzerland
Expatriate football managers in Costa Rica
Men's association football forwards


Resources Capital Football Club () is a Hong Kong professional football club which currently competes in the Hong Kong Premier League. It was known as Tai Chung Football Club for the first 34 years of its existence before rebranding in 2016.

The club plays its home matches at Tsing Yi Sports Ground.

History
Tai Chung has competed in the Hong Kong football league system league since 2001. Between 2009 and 2011, Tai Chung once competed in the First Division, the top-flight league in Hong Kong at that time. Since their relegation in 2011, the club has competed in the second-tier amateur league.

In 2016, the club was acquired by Tang Wai Ho, and was renamed as Resources Capital.

Ahead of the 2019–20 season, club ownership increased the budget to $6 million and turned the club into a professional outfit, aiming to gain promotion to the Hong Kong Premier League in the following season. Despite the cancellation of the 2019–20 season due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Hong Kong, Resources Capital were granted promotion to the Hong Kong Premier League by the HKFA board of directors.

Name history
1982–2005: Tai Chung (大中)
2005–2008: EU Tai Chung (東盟大中)
2008–2009: Advance Tai Chung (駿昇大中)
2009–2016: Tai Chung (大中)
2016–: Resources Capital (晉峰)

Team staff
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|Director of football||  Ho Shun Yin
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|Head coach||  Ha Hyeok-jun
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|Assistant coach||  Yau Tsz Yeung
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|Assistant coach||  Yeung Hin Fai
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|Goalkeeping coach||
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|Fitness coach||  Cheng Chun Hin
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|Fitness coach||  Ho Ho Yee

Current squad

First team

 FP

 FP

 FP
 FP

 FP

 FP
 FP

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Remarks:
LP These players are registered as local players in Hong Kong domestic football competitions.
FP These players are registered as foreign players.

Out on loan

 (on loan at HK U23)

Season-to-season record

Note:

Honours

League
 Hong Kong Second Division
Runners-up (1): 2008–09
 Hong Kong Third A Division
Champions (1): 2006–07

Cup
 Hong Kong FA Cup Junior Division
Runners-up (1): 2018–19

Head coaches
 Chan Ho Yin (2009–2010)
 Dejan Antonić (2010–2011)
 Tim Bredbury (2012–2013)
 Yu Siu Chee (2013–2015)
 Ho Shun Yin (2015–2019)
 Joan Esteva (2019–2022)
 Tang Kwun Yin (2022)
 Joan Esteva (2022–2023)
 Ha Hyeok-jun (2023–)

References

External links
 Resources Capital at HKFA
 Resources Capital on Facebook

Football clubs in Hong Kong
Hong Kong First Division League
1982 establishments in Hong Kong


Eucomis vandermerwei is a South African bulbous perennial flowering plant, a member of the asparagus family (Asparagaceae, subfamily Scilloideae), and like other members of Eucomis is commonly known as pineapple lily for its superficial  resemblance to that plant (Ananas comosus), although not closely related to it. This species is one of the smallest in the genus, and is native to a high-rainfall region of western Mpumalanga in South Africa. The dense rosette of leaves, either prostrate or ascending, is heavily blotched with purple, and the leaf-edges are markedly crisped or wavy. The star-shaped burgundy flowers appear in midsummer (November–January in South Africa), and are borne on a spike (raceme) topped by a "head" of leafy bracts.

Description
Eucomis vandermerwei is a short summer-growing bulbous plant, reaching at most  tall. It bulb is ovoid,  across. Three to six leaves emerge from a bulb and are up to  long and  wide, heavily spotted and marked with purple, with hard undulate margins. The flowers are arranged in a raceme on a purple-spotted stem (peduncule)  tall. The raceme is topped by a head or "coma" of up to 11 bracts which, like the leaves, are purple spotted. The unpleasantly scented flowers have maroon tepals and green stamen filaments bearing mauve anthers. Each flower is borne on a stalk (pedicel),  long. The ovary is green tinged with purple and is followed by a brownish-maroon seed capsule producing relatively large, ovoid, black glossy seeds.

Taxonomy
Eucomis vandermerwei was first described by Inez Verdoorn in 1944. The species was first collected in 1937 by the amateur botanist Frederick Ziervogel van der Merwe in western Mpumalanga. It is one of a group of mainly short, diploid species with 2n = 2x = 30 chromosomes.

Distribution and habitat
Eucomis vandermerwei occurs in western Mpumalanga, part of the Northern Provinces, in the most north-eastern part of South Africa. It is endemic to high slopes and plateaux at altitudes of . It grows in small groups in sunny positions in well-drained stony and rocky habitats with acid soil.

Conservation
Eucomis vandermerwei has been assessed as "vulnerable" in the Red List of South African Plants, and the population is declining. It is only known from six to eight locations. Threats include its habitat being converted to forestry, overgrazing and trampling, poor fire control and alien vegetation. Harvesting for medicinal purposes by local people is also a threat, as is the expansion of coal mining. It is protected where it occurs in the Verloren Valei Nature Reserve. Its seed capsules are heavily parasitized by insects, resulting in poor seed germination.

Cultivation
Eucomis vandermerwei is cultivated as an ornamental bulbous plant. It has been described as "one of the most desirable dwarf summer-growing South African bulbs", with very long-lasting flowers and cryptically marked foliage. In temperate areas such as Britain, E. vandermerwei requires a sheltered position in full sun, in a spot where temperatures do not fall below , for instance in southern and south-western coastal parts. In colder areas, dry frost-free storage in winter is recommended.  It may be propagated from seed or leaf cuttings, by division of the large tunicated bulb or from offsets. It has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.

Some cultivars are either known or assumed to be derived from E. vandermerwei. These include:
 Eucomis 'Leia' – may be from a cross between E. vandermerwei and E. comosa
 Eucomis 'Freckles' – from a cross between Eucomis 'Leia' and E. vandermerwei

References

External links

Alpine Garden Society

Flora of the Northern Provinces
Scilloideae
Plants described in 1944


Merlyn Edwards is an Trinidadian former cricketer who played as a wicket-keeper and left-handed batter. She appeared in four One Day Internationals for Trinidad and Tobago at the 1973 World Cup, and two Test matches and two One Day Internationals for the West Indies in 1979. She also played domestic cricket for Trinidad and Tobago.

References

External links

Possibly living people
Date of birth missing (living people)
Year of birth missing
Place of birth missing
Trinidad and Tobago women cricketers
West Indies women Test cricketers
West Indies women One Day International cricketers


Florent Perrier (born 26 June 1973) is a French ski mountaineer.

Perrier was born in Arêches, where he is member of the Club Multisports Arêches-Beaufort. In 2004, he joined the French national selection. In 2008, he was president of the athletes' committee of competition ski mountaineering in the Management Committee of the Union Internationale des Associations d'Alpinisme (UIAA).

Selected results
 2004:
 1st, World Championship team race (together with Patrick Blanc)
 1st, World Championship relay race (together with Stéphane Brosse, Cédric Tomio and Patrick Blanc)
 1st, World Championship combination ranking
 2nd, World Championship single race
 2nd, World Championship vertical race
 2005:
 1st, World Cup race in Salt Lake City
 1st, European Championship team race (together with Grégory Gachet)
 2nd, European Championship vertical race
 2nd, European Championship single race
 4th, European Championshiprelay race (together with Bertrand Blanc, Grégory Gachet and Tony Sbalbi)
 2006:
 1st, Swiss Championship vertical race
 2nd, World Championship team race (together with Grégory Gachet)
 2nd, World Championship relay race (together with Bertrand Blanc, Grégory Gachet and Stéphane Brosse)
 3rd, World Championship vertical race
 2007:
 1st, European Championship single race
 1st, European Championship vertical race
 1st, European Championship team race (together with Grégory Gachet)
 1st, European Championship combination ranking
 2nd, Trofeo Mezzalama (together with Grégory Gachet and Patrick Blanc)
 4th, World Cup
 2008:
 1st, World Championship single race
 1st, World Championship vertical race
 1st, World Championship team race (together with Alexandre Pellicier)
 1st, World Championship combination ranking
 2nd, World Championship long distance race
 3rd, World Cup race, Val d'Aran
 2009:
 4th, European Championship single race
 6th, Alexandre Pellicier team race (together with Alexandre Pellicier)
 6th, European Championship combination ranking
 9th, European Championship vertical race
 2010:
 1st, World Championship team race (together with Didier Blanc)
 2nd, World Championship combination ranking
 3rd, World Championship vertical race
 3rd, World Championship relay race (together with Didier Blanc, William Bon Mardion and Grégory Gachet)
 6th, World Championship single race
 2011:
 5th, World Championship vertical race

Pierra Menta

 2004: 3rd, together with Grégory Gachet
 2005: 2nd, together with Grégory Gachet
 2007: 1st, together with Grégory Gachet
 2009: 3rd, together with Yannick Buffet
 2010: 2nd, together with William Bon Mardion
 2011: 7th, together with Alexandre Pellicier
 2013: 5th, together with Xavier Gachet

References

1973 births
Living people
French male ski mountaineers
World ski mountaineering champions
Sportspeople from Savoie
21st-century French people
20th-century French people


is a neighborhood in the borough Gamle Oslo in Oslo, Norway. It is an artificial peninsula that sticks out into the Oslofjord form Bjørvika and Sørenga. It is part of the Port of Oslo, but will be redeveloped as part of the Fjord City urban redevelopment program, after the Bjørvika Tunnel is completed in 2010, and the European Route E18 will run under the area. Until then, it is used as a container port, a quay for cruise ships and as a storage area for earth and bulk. The quay is  long.

The redevelopment is organized by Sørenga Utvikling and HAV Eiendom, a subsidiary of the Port of Oslo. The area was sold from the port to Sørenga Utvikling for . Sørenga Utvikling is owned by Backe Prosjekt, USBL, Oslo Areal and financial investors. Four architect companies, LPO arkitekter, Jarmund/Vigsnæs, Arkitektselskapet Kari Nissen Brodtkorb and MAD, will each receive two blocks to design. Forty-seven companies had offered bids in the contest. The four companies will cooperate to create a common identify for the buildings. Construction will start in 2009, and will be completed by 2011 or 2012. The area is planned to feature 950 new apartments, plus some commercial areas, including some stores. The Sørenga area will have  of buildings. The apartments will be among the most expensive in the country, as they are located within walking distance of the city core.

References

Neighbourhoods of Oslo
Ports and harbours of Norway
Fjord City


Ellicent "Peggy" Fairweather is a Jamaican former cricketer who played primarily as a right-arm medium-fast bowler. She appeared in five One Day Internationals for Jamaica at the 1973 World Cup, and ten Test matches and two One Day Internationals for the West Indies between 1976 and 1979. She also played domestic cricket for Jamaica.

References

External links

Living people
Date of birth missing (living people)
Year of birth missing (living people)
West Indian women cricketers
West Indies women Test cricketers
West Indies women One Day International cricketers
Jamaican women cricketers


James Crawford Neilson (October 14, 1816 – December 21, 1900), or J. Crawford Neilson, was a Baltimore, Maryland-based architect. He was born in Baltimore, Maryland in 1816.  After the death of his father in 1822 the family moved to England and in 1824 to Brussels.  In 1833, he returned to Baltimore and in 1835, became a member of the survey party working on the Baltimore and Port Deposit Railroad, (later merged into the Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad, then absorbed 1881 by the Pennsylvania Railroad). His supervisor was Benjamin Henry Latrobe, II, (1806-1878), later supervising engineer on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, (B. & O.),  son of an equally famous architect, Benjamin Henry Latrobe, (1764-1820). It was at this time that he first became acquainted with John Rudolph Niernsee, (1814-1885), while helping to survey in the area of Martinsburg, Virginia (later West Virginia), for the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad.

He and Niernsee entered partnership in the practice of architecture as Niernsee & Neilson in June 1848.  Commissions included railroad stations for the B&O, commercial buildings, several churches, and both country homes and townhouses for the well-to-do, many of whom were in fact directors of the B&O Railroad.  The firm disbanded in 1856, when Niernsee was made architect of the capitol of South Carolina.  When Niernsee returned to Baltimore in 1865, the partnership was revived.  It was at this time, that they took into their office a number of young interns who later became prominent themselves, including R. Snowden Andrews, Eben Faxson, Bruce Price, and, briefly, E. Francis Baldwin. Nielson was a founding member of the Baltimore Chapter of the American Institute of Architects at its charter in 1870. The firm disbanded again in 1875 at which time, through his friendship with George Washington Custis Lee, he worked on several college buildings, the Mausoleum in the Lee Chapel, and faculty residences at Washington and Lee University.

Neilson had married Rosa Williams in the 1830s, whose family owned farmland along Deer Creek in Harford County at a place called Priestford. Among their children was Charles Neilson, who attained the rank of General and became Assistant Postmaster General of the United States. Neilson died in 1900, at Priestford and he is buried in the family cemetery.

Selected works
 1849-1850: Calvert Street Station (Baltimore, Maryland), terminal/depot for the Baltimore and Susquehanna Railroad (later the Northern Central Railway, merged into the Pennsylvania Railroad, (by Niernsee & Neilson), on North Calvert Street at Bath/East Franklin Streets, (alongside Orleans Street Viaduct of 1936, razed 1949 for the "Baltimore Sun" newspaper offices)
 1850–1852: Grace Protestant Episcopal Church, Baltimore
 1855-1856: St. John the Evangelist Roman Catholic Church (by Niernsee & Neilson), Baltimore, Maryland, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.
 1856 Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Camden Station, 301 West Camden Street, Baltimore, Maryland (Niernsee & Neilson)
 1868: "Aigburth Vale", off York Road, Towson, Maryland, (by Niernsee & Neilson), listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.
 1870: Churchville Presbyterian Church (clock tower by Niernsee & Neilson), Churchville, Maryland, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.
 ca. 1870: "Clifton Mansion" (summer home of Henry Thompson, later renovated by Johns Hopkins, (1795-1873), at Clifton Park, Baltimore, off Harford Road, (renovated/rebuilt by Niernsee & Neilson), listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.
 ca. 1880: New York, Lake Erie and Western Railway depot, Buffalo, New York

References

1816 births
1900 deaths
Architects from Baltimore
19th-century American architects
American railway architects
Fellows of the American Institute of Architects


The ASK 16 was designed by Rudolf Kaiser for production by Alexander Schleicher GmbH & Co of Furth, Germany. The aircraft is of welded tube, wood and fabric construction and has a low-set high-aspect-ratio wing.

Seating is side-by-side for two persons under a fully transparent side-hinged canopy. The standard powerplant is a  Limbach L1700 driving a Hoffman variable-pitch propeller.

The ASK 16 has a retractable tail-wheel undercarriage with the main units mounted under the wings and retracting inwards. It is fitted with dual controls to permit use in the primary training role.

Production and operation

The prototype first flew on 2 February 1971 and a total of 44 aircraft were built for operation by clubs and private owners.  Most of the completed aircraft remained in active service in 2005, including examples flying in Germany, Ireland, Italy, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom.

Specifications

References

1970s German civil aircraft
Schleicher aircraft
Motor gliders
Single-engined tractor aircraft
Low-wing aircraft
Aircraft first flown in 1971


Stafanie Roxann Taylor  (born 11 June 1991) is a Jamaican cricketer who is a former captain of the West Indies women's cricket team. She has represented them over 250 times since her debut in 2008. A right-handed batter and off break bowler, Taylor was selected as the 2011 ICC Women's Cricketer of the Year – the first West Indian to receive the accolade. She was also the first woman to score 1,000 runs in ODIs for the West Indies. She plays domestic cricket for Jamaica and Guyana Amazon Warriors and has previously played for Auckland, Sydney Thunder, Adelaide Strikers, Western Storm, Southern Vipers, Southern Brave and Trailblazers.

Born in Jamaica, Taylor broke into the West Indies team in 2008, aged 17, and immediately inserted herself as a key member of the team. She scored her highest Twenty20 total on debut, striking 90 runs from 49 balls to help her side to a large victory. In the 2016 World Twenty20, she was the highest run-scorer and named player of the series.

She played in her 100th Women's One Day International (WODI) match, when the West Indies played India in the group stage of the 2017 Women's Cricket World Cup, on 29 June 2017. On 18 September 2019, during the series against Australia, Taylor played in her 100th Women's Twenty20 International (WT20I) match. On 24 September 2020, in the second match against England, Taylor became the second cricketer to score 3,000 runs in WT20I cricket.

Early life and education
Taylor was born in Spanish Town, Jamaica. Her unusual first name (Stafanie instead of Stefanie) is attributable to "a slight mishap" when her birth was registered. She was raised in Gordon Pen, an inner city neighbourhood of Spanish Town, in what have been described as "modest circumstances".

At primary school, Taylor first played football, and then netball. When she was about eight years old, she saw Leon Campbell, later her personal coach, practising a cricket shot, and asked him what he was doing. He told her, and asked her to try the game of cricket, which she did, including by playing informal street games with young boys. She later went on her first cricket tour, at just ten years old.

For some time, Taylor played both football and cricket, but eventually she decided that the latter would give her more opportunities to travel the world.

Although her mother and some of her siblings were track and field athletes at secondary school, Taylor is the only member of her family to play cricket seriously. During her own secondary school days, at Eltham High School, Spanish Town, she represented the school at both Under-14 and Under-16 levels, in each case as the only girl in the team. In one of her matches for the Under-16 team, she even scored a century.

After leaving Eltham High School, Taylor worked on completing her Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) exams at a private institution.

Career
Taylor first appeared for the West Indies during their 2008 tour of Europe, during which she granted her side their maiden Twenty20 victory on her debut. Batting first against Ireland, Taylor opened the innings for the West Indies, and scored 90 runs from 49 balls. Her total is the second highest score by a West Indian in a Twenty20 International. She subsequently scored her first half-century in One Day International cricket in her next match. In a much more patient innings than she demonstrated in the Twenty20, she scored 66 runs from 97 balls to help her side overcome Ireland. She scored another half-century in her next appearance, scoring 70 runs against the Netherlands. During the 2009 Women's Cricket World Cup, she was the West Indies best performer, leading the team in both runs scored and wickets taken. She repeated the feat at the 2009 ICC Women's World Twenty20, in which she scored half-centuries in her side's opening two matches to become the only woman to score fifties in three consecutive Twenty20 Internationals, a feat she repeated in 2010 in a three match series against Sri Lanka.

She scored her maiden century in One Day Internationals in October 2009, remaining 108 not out against South Africa. She was the standout performer in the following season's 2010 ICC Women's Cricket Challenge, scoring 390 runs in five matches at an average of 97.50. The West Indies lost to only South Africa in the competition, and finished as runners-up. She scored her second century, and highest score to date, during the tournament, making 147 against the Netherlands. Her performances between August 2010 and August 2011 resulted in her being named the 2011 ICC Women's Cricketer of the Year.

In July 2017, she was named Women's Cricketer of the Year by the West Indies Players' Association. In December 2017, she was named as one of the players in the ICC Women's T20I Team of the Year.

In June 2018, she was named the Women's Cricketer of the Year and the Women's ODI Cricketer of the Year at the annual Cricket West Indies' Awards. In October 2018, Cricket West Indies (CWI) awarded her a women's contract for the 2018–19 season. Later the same month, she was named as captain of the West Indies' squad for the 2018 ICC Women's World Twenty20 tournament in the West Indies. Ahead of the tournament, she was named as the star of the team and one of the players to watch.

In November 2018, she was named in Sydney Thunder's squad for the 2018–19 Women's Big Bash League season. In January 2020, she was named as the captain of West Indies' squad for the 2020 ICC Women's T20 World Cup in Australia. She was the leading run-scorer for the West Indies in the tournament, with 84 runs in three matches.

In November 2020, Taylor was nominated for the Rachael Heyhoe-Flint Award for ICC Female Cricketer of the Decade, and the award for women's ODI cricketer of the decade. In May 2021, Taylor was awarded with a central contract from Cricket West Indies. In 2021, she was drafted by Southern Brave for the inaugural season of The Hundred.

In June 2021, she was named in the West Indies women's squad as the captain for their home series against Pakistan women. In the third match of the series, Taylor became the second bowler for the West Indies to take a hat-trick in WT20Is. On 7 July 2021, in the opening WODI against Pakistan, Taylor scored her first century in almost eight years, leading the West Indies to a five wicket win. In October 2021, she was named as the captain of the West Indies team for the 2021 Women's Cricket World Cup Qualifier tournament in Zimbabwe. In February 2022, she was named as the captain of the West Indies team for the 2022 Women's Cricket World Cup in New Zealand.

Other records
She was the first female cricketer to score a century and to take four wickets in an innings of a WODI.

She is the only player to have taken more than 5,000 runs and more than 150 wickets in WODI cricket.[62]

International centuries

One Day International centuries

Awards and honours

Awards
ICC Women's Cricketer of the Year – 2011
ICC Women's ODI Cricketer of the Year – 2012
ICC Women's T20I Cricketer of the Year – 2015

Honours
At a reception held on 6 April 2016 to celebrate Taylor's return to Jamaica after captaining the West Indies to victory in the 2016 ICC Women's World Twenty20, the Minister of Sports, Olivia Grange, announced that the cricket ground at Eltham High School would be renamed the Stafanie Taylor Oval. On 1 November 2017, Grange presided over a ground-breaking ceremony at the school for the construction of the oval, and the unveiling of a sign in Taylor's honour.

Meanwhile, on 16 October 2017, National Heroes' Day in Jamaica, Taylor was presented with the Order of Distinction at the Jamaican National Awards Ceremony.

References

External links

1991 births
Jamaican women cricketers
Jamaican women cricket captains
Living people
Sportspeople from Spanish Town
West Indies women One Day International cricketers
West Indies women Twenty20 International cricketers
West Indian women cricket captains
Western Storm cricketers
Southern Vipers cricketers
Sydney Thunder (WBBL) cricketers
Adelaide Strikers (WBBL) cricketers
Auckland Hearts cricketers
IPL Trailblazers cricketers
Southern Brave cricketers
Guyana Amazon Warriors (WCPL) cricketers
International Cricket Council Cricketer of the Year


Doris Gercke (born 7 February 1937 in Greifswald) is a German writer of crime thrillers.  She also works under the nom de plume Mary-Jo Morell.

Biography
Born to a working-class family, Doris Gercke's family could not afford higher education for her, so she became an administrator at the age of 16.  Married at 20, she had her second child at the age of 22, and gave up working to be a full-time homemaker and mother.  In 1980 Gercke finally fulfilled her dream of studying law, funded by a scholarship.  However, she never practised, and wrote her first novel in 1988.

Gercke identifies with the political left and is connected with pacifism and the struggle against neo-fascism and communism.  She takes part in political marches and demonstrations.  She also participates in the UZ-Pressefesten (loosely, "Media Festivals") of the German Communist Party.

Doris Gercke lives in Hamburg.

Awards
 1991 Martin Beck Award for: Du skrattade, du ska dö.
 2000 Glauser Prize of the Association of German-language thriller authors – For lifetime achievement in the service of German thrillers

Works
 Königin der Insel. Hoffmann und Campe, Hamburg 2015,
 Beringers Auftrag. Ullstein, München 2003,
 Milenas Verlangen. Roman. Ullstein, München 2002,
 Duell auf der Veddel. Ein Krimi-Märchen. Hamburger Abendblatt, Hamburg 2001,
 Der Tod ist in der Stadt. Roman. Hoffmann und Campe, Hamburg 1998,
 Für eine Hand voll Dollar. Jugendbuch. Elefanten Press bei Bertelsmann 1998,
 Eisnester. Gedichte. Hoffmann und Campe, Hamburg 1996,
 Kein fremder Land. 1993,
 Versteckt. Ein Kinderkrimi. Espresso/Elef.Press, Berlin 1993,

Mysteries in the Bella Block series (also filmed):
 Schweigen oder Sterben. Hoffmann und Campe, Hamburg 2007,
 Georgia. Hoffmann und Campe, Hamburg 2006,
 Bella Ciao. Ullstein, München 2004,
 Die schöne Mörderin. Ullstein, Berlin 2001,
 Die Frau vom Meer. Hoffmann und Campe, Hamburg 2000,
 Dschingis Khans Tochter. Hoffmann und Campe, Hamburg 1996,
 Auf Leben und Tod.. Hoffmann & Campe 1995,
 Ein Fall mit Liebe. Hoffmann und Campe 1994,
 Kinderkorn. Galgenberg, Hamburg 1991,
 Die Insel. Galgenberg, Hamburg 1990,
 Der Krieg, der Tod, die Pest. Galgenberg, Hamburg 1990,
 Moskau meine Liebe. Galgenberg, Hamburg 1989,
 Nachsaison. Galgenberg, Hamburg 1989,
 Weinschröter, du mußt hängen. Galgenberg, Hamburg 1988,

References

External links
 Portrait and interview
 www.krimilexikon.de
„Hannelore Hoger als „Bella Block“. Am liebsten würde sie die Verbrechen verhindern“, FAZ, 14 January 2006, Nr. 12, S. 45, Interview with Hannelore Hoger and Doris Gercke

1937 births
Living people
People from Greifswald
20th-century German novelists
21st-century German novelists
German women novelists
20th-century pseudonymous writers
21st-century pseudonymous writers
Pseudonymous women writers


The SC-497-class submarine chasers were a class of 438 submarine chasers built primarily for the United States Navy from 1941–1944.  The SC-497s were based on the experimental submarine chaser, USS SC-453. Submarine chasers of this variety were collectively nicknamed "the splinter fleet" due to their wooden hulls.

History
The SC-497s were off-shore patrol and anti-submarine warfare vessels. Seventy of the SC-497s were converted into patrol control crafts (SCC), 18 were converted into coastal minesweepers (AMC), and 8 were converted into patrol gunboats, motor (PGM).

Sixteen SC-497s were lost and another one was lost after her conversion into a .

Despite the large number of SC-497s, none are credited with destroying an enemy ship. (USS SC-669 is sometimes incorrectly credited with sinking the Japanese submarine RO-107 on 29 May 1943, but RO-107 was still active on 6 July 1943.)

During World War II, 142 SC-497-class submarine chasers were lent to allies of the United States as part of the Lend-Lease program. Seventy-eight were sent to the Soviet Union, 50 to France, 8 to Brazil, 3 to Norway, and 3 to Mexico. The three Norwegian examples served with distinction on the Shetland bus service, running agents, refugees and weapons past the German blockade between occupied Norway and Britain.

Survivors
 (ex-USS SC-718) is preserved at the Royal Norwegian Navy Museum. Some remains of  (ex-USS SC-683) and  (ex-USS SC-1061) can be seen near the coast of Sweden.

USS SC 772 is a liveaboard vessel in Scappoose, Oregon in the Multnomah Slough near Sauvie Island.

See also

 List of patrol vessels of the United States Navy

References


Martial Premat (born 24 February 1977) is a French ski mountaineer.

Selected results
 2006:
 7TH, World Championship team race (together with Didier Blanc)
 2007:
 8TH, European Championship team race (together with Fabien Anselmet)
 2008:
 4TH, World Championship relay race (together with Nicolas Bonnet, Sébastien Perrier and Adrien Piccot)
 10TH, World Championship team race (together with Nicolas Bonnet)
 2009:
 5TH, European Championship relay race (together with Didier Blanc, Nicolas Bonnet and Tony Sbalbi)

Patrouille des Glaciers

 2006: 6th, ("seniors II" ranking), together with Stéphane Millius and Antoine Gaidon
 2008: 9th (and 7th in the "international men" ranking), together with Philippe Blanc and Yannick Buffet

Pierra Menta

 2004: 9th, together with Jean-François Premat
 2005: 7th, together with Stéphane Chevallier
 2006: 10th, together with Philippe Blanc

External links
 Martial Premat at skimountaineering.org

References

1977 births
Living people
French male ski mountaineers
21st-century French people
20th-century French people


Street Road may refer to:
Pennsylvania Route 132 in Bucks County
Pennsylvania Route 926 in Chester County

See also
Stroad


Rice production in Bangladesh is a crucial part of the national economy

The dominant food crop of Bangladesh is rice, accounting for about 75 percent of agricultural land use (and 28 percent of GDP).  Rice production increased every year in the 1980s (through 1987) except FY 1981, but the annual increases have generally been modest, barely keeping pace with the population. Rice production exceeded 15 million tons for the first time in FY 1986. In the mid-1980s, Bangladesh was the fourth largest rice producer in the world, but its productivity was low compared with other Asian countries, such as Malaysia and Indonesia.  It is currently the world's forth-largest producer. High-yield varieties of seed, application of fertilizer, and irrigation have increased yields, although these inputs also raise the cost of production and chiefly benefit the richer cultivators.

The cultivation of rice in Bangladesh varies according to seasonal changes in the water supply. The largest harvest is 'Aman', occurring in November and December and accounting for more than half of annual production. Some rice for the 'Aman' harvest is sown in the spring through the broadcast method, matures during the summer rains, and is harvested in the fall.  The higher yielding method involves starting the seeds in special beds and transplanting during the summer monsoon. The second harvest is aus, involving traditional strains but more often including high-yielding, dwarf varieties. Rice for the aus harvest is sown in March or April, benefits from April and May rains, matures during the summer rain, and is harvested during the summer. With the increasing use of irrigation, there has been a growing focus on another rice-growing season extending during the dry season from October to March. The production of this boro rice, including high-yield varieties, expanded rapidly until the mid-1980s, when production leveled off at just below 4 million tons.  Where irrigation is feasible, it is normal for fields throughout Bangladesh to produce rice for two harvests annually. Between rice-growing seasons, farmers will do everything possible to prevent the land from lying fallow and will grow vegetables, peanuts, pulses, or oilseeds if water and fertilizer are available.

Rice production in the country increased to 44 million tones in the fiscal year 2021-22 (FY22), which broke the previous records.

References

Agriculture in Bangladesh
Bangladesh


Premat or Prémat is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

 Alexandre Prémat (born 1982), French racing car driver
 Martial Premat (born 1977), French ski mountaineer


Ali is a personal name that was borne by several historical figures. The word "Tun" was an ancient honorific title used by nobility or people of royal lineage.

 Tun Ali of Malacca, 15th century Bendahara of the Malacca sultanate of Tamil-Malay ethnicity
 Tun Ali bin Tun Tahir, grandson of the above, son to Tun Tahir


Blood on the Bricks may refer to:

Blood on the Bricks (Iron City Houserockers album), 1981
Blood on the Bricks (Aldo Nova album), 1991
"Blood on the Bricks" (song), a song from the album


The Arboretum de Fresse-sur-Moselle (3 hectares) is an arboretum located in Fresse-sur-Moselle, Vosges, Grand Est, France. It contains about 150 varieties of trees.

See also
 List of botanical gardens in France

References
 L'Echo des Chênaies entry (French)
 AVEM Vosges entry (French)

Fresse-sur-Moselle, Arboretum de
Fresse-sur-Moselle, Arboretum de


Grønlia is a neighborhood in the Oslo borough of Gamle Oslo. It is located below Ekebergåsen, along the Oslofjord, south of Sørenga and north of Kongshavn.

The area is dominated by the Port of Oslo and railway tracks. As part of the Fjord City urban renewal program, the area will become a residential area.

References

Neighbourhoods of Oslo
Fjord City


Sir Ernest Henry Lee-Steere, KBE (22 December 19129 January 2011) was a prominent Australian businessman.  He was particularly noted for his involvement in horse racing in Western Australia, becoming chairman of the Western Australian Turf Club from 1963 to 1984. He was also Lord Mayor of Perth from 1972 to 1978.

Biography
Lee-Steere was born on 22 December 1912.  He was a Captain in the AIF in the Army/Air Liaison Group, serving with No. 1 Squadron, RAAF Beauforts, 31 Squadron Beaufighter, RAAF, South West Pacific Area, during World War II.

Lee-Steere's interest in the sport of horse racing followed his father's; the latter had been Chairman of the Western Australian Turf Club (WATC) from 1919 to 1940. Lee-Steere joined the WATC in 1933 and was elected to the committee in 1948.  He became Vice-Chairman in 1959 and was Chairman for 21 years from 1963. The headquarters of the WATC, which is now part of Racing and Wagering Western Australia, were opened in 1986 and named Lee-Steere House after him, and the Lee Steere Stakes is a $200,000 Group 2, three-year-old 1,400-metre Feature race run annually at Ascot Racecourse in Perth.

Lee-Steere died on 9 January 2011, aged 98.

Family
Lee-Steere was descended from one of the prominent so-called six hungry families of Perth, which included his great uncle, Sir James George Lee Steere (1830–1903) and father Sir Ernest Augustus Lee Steere (1866–1957). His mother was Bridget Yelverton Lee Steere (1884-1979); the youngest daughter of  O'Connor, she was prominent in her own right, as Commissioner of Girl Guides in Western Australia for about 17 years. He was married to Jessica Lee-Steere (née Venn) for 60 years, and was predeceased by his wife in 2001.

Lee-Steere's two brothers died in WW2, and he created the sanctuary at St Stephen's Anglican Church, Toodyay in their memory.

Lee-Steere's daughter Jemma is noted for being partner to Perth businessman Ric Stowe for 10 years from 1980.  After the relationship ended, she sued Stowe for 250 million.

Lee-Steere's other daughter, Vynka, was briefly an actress, appearing in the Australian soap-opera Certain Women, before later attaining a Doctor of Philosophy in Psychology and operating a private practice in Perth.

Honours
Lee-Steere was made a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the New Year's Honours of 1988.

References

Further reading
Lee Steere, Ernest Henry, Oral History OH2533, February–March 1993, Tape 1 [held at J. S. Battye Library of WA History].
The Lee Steeres, Pioneering Families of WA, in Weekend News, supplement, 28/1/1967, p. 9.

1912 births
2011 deaths
Mayors and Lord Mayors of Perth, Western Australia
Australian Knights Commander of the Order of the British Empire
Businesspeople from Western Australia
Australian Army personnel of World War II
Australian Army officers
Lee Steere family


Rice production in Indonesia is an important part of the national economy. Indonesia is the third-largest producer of rice in the world.

Rice is the staple food in the Indonesian diet, accounting for more than half of the calories in the average diet, and the source of livelihood for about 20 million households, or about 100 million people, in the late 1980s. Rice cultivation covered a total of around 10 million hectares throughout the archipelago, primarily on sawah. The supply and control of water is crucial to the productivity of rice land, especially when planted with high-yield seed varieties. In 1987 irrigated sawah covered 58 percent of the total cultivated area, rainfed sawah accounted for 20 percent, and ladang, or dryland cultivation, together with swamp or tidal cultivation covered the remaining 22 percent of rice cropland.

History

Rice is a staple food for all classes in contemporary Indonesia, and it holds the central place in Indonesian culture and Indonesian cuisine: it shapes the landscape; is sold at markets; and is served in most meals both as a savoury and a sweet food. The importance of rice in Indonesian culture is demonstrated through the reverence of Dewi Sri, the rice goddess of ancient Java and Bali. Traditionally the agricultural cycles linked to rice cultivations were celebrated through rituals, such as Sundanese Seren Taun rice harvest festival. In Bali the traditional subak irrigation management was created to ensure the water supplies for rice paddies, managed by priest and created around "water temples".

Rice is most often eaten as plain rice with just a few protein and vegetable dishes as side dishes. It is also served, however, as nasi uduk (rice cooked in coconut milk), nasi kuning (rice cooked with coconut milk and turmeric), ketupat (rice steamed in woven packets of coconut fronds), lontong (rice steamed in banana leaves), intip or rengginang (rice crackers), desserts, vermicelli, noodles, arak beras (rice wine), and nasi goreng (fried rice). Nasi goreng is omnipresent in Indonesia and considered as national dish.

Evidence of wild rice on the island of Sulawesi dates from 3000 BC. Evidence for the earliest cultivation, however, comes from eighth century stone inscriptions from the central island of Java, which show kings levied taxes in rice. The images of rice cultivation, rice barn, and mouse pest infesting a rice field is evident in Karmawibhangga bas-reliefs of Borobudur. Divisions of labour between men, women, and animals that are still in place in Indonesian rice cultivation, were carved into relief friezes on the ninth century Prambanan temples in Central Java: a water buffalo attached to a plough; women planting seedlings and pounding grain; and a man carrying sheaves of rice on each end of a pole across his shoulders (pikulan). In the sixteenth century, Europeans visiting the Indonesian islands saw rice as a new prestige food served to the aristocracy during ceremonies and feasts.

Rice production in Indonesian history is linked to the development of iron tools and the domestication of Wild Asian Water Buffalo as water buffalo for cultivation of fields and manure for fertilizer. Rice production requires exposure to the sun. Once covered in dense forest, much of the Indonesian landscape has been gradually cleared for permanent fields and settlements as rice cultivation developed over the last fifteen hundred years.

Supply and trade regulations

The government was intensely involved in the rice economy, both to stabilize prices for urban consumers and to expand domestic output to achieve national self-sufficiency in rice production. Various governmental policies included the dissemination of high-yield seed varieties through government-sponsored extension programs, direct investment in irrigation facilities, and control of the domestic price of rice through the National Logistical Supply Organization (Bulog), the government rice-trading monopoly. In the 1970s, Indonesia was a major rice importer, but by 1985 self-sufficiency had been achieved after six years of annual growth rates in excess of 7 percent per year. From 1968 to 1989, annual rice production had increased from 12 million to over 40 million tons, and yields had increased from 2.14 tons of padi (wet rice growing) per hectare to 4.23 tons per hectare.

The most significant factor in this impressive increase in output and productivity was the spread of high-yield rice varieties. By the mid-1980s, 85 percent of rice farmers used high-yielding variety seeds, compared with 50 percent in 1975. High-yield varieties were promoted together with subsidized fertilizer, pesticides, and credit through the "mass guidance" or Bimas rice intensification program. This extension program also offered technical assistance to farmers unfamiliar with the new cultivation techniques. The new technology was not without its own problems, however. Several major infestations of the brown planthopper, whose natural predators were eliminated by the heavy use of subsidized pesticides, led to a new strategy in 1988 to apply the techniques of integrated pest management, relying on a variety of methods to limit pesticide use for control insects, plant diseases and rodents. To help reduce pesticide use, subsidies on pesticides were eliminated in 1989.

Government investments in irrigation had also made a significant contribution to increased rice production in Indonesia. From FY 1969 to FY 1989, 2.5 million hectares of existing irrigated land were rehabilitated, and irrigation was expanded to cover about 1.2 million hectares.

Because the government objective of price stability for urban consumers could potentially undermine efforts to increase production by reducing the profitability of the rice crop, Bulog's operations evolved to take into consideration producer incentives as well as consumer costs. Domestic rice prices were permitted to rise gradually during the 1970s, although they were generally held below world rice prices. However, domestic prices were kept above world prices in several periods during the 1980s. Bulog influenced the domestic rice price by operating a buffer stock on the order of 2 million tons during the 1980s. When domestic prices fell, Bulog purchased rice through village cooperatives, and when prices rose above the price ceiling, Bulog released buffer supplies. The margin between the producer floor price and urban ceiling price was sufficient to permit private traders to operate profitably, and Bulog's distribution of rice was limited to under 15 percent of total rice consumed domestically in a given year.

References

Agriculture in Indonesia
Indonesia


Stamping Ground is the name of a semi-annual festival of "dance and action arts" inaugurated in the town of Bellingen, New South Wales, Australia during 1997.

History and ethos
The Stamping Ground Dance Festival was founded by Peter Stock, a former theatre & television dancer, theatrical director and producer as well as a dance teacher, adjudicator and administrator, in order to encourage male children and adolescents to experience dance and related performance skills.

Stock described the 1997 Stamping Ground as "a gathering for all men and youths illuminating the athletic and creative qualities of the movement arts... questioning the ownership of the dance and challenging destructive ideas, fears and compulsory attitudes which inhibit the personal development of men."

For the first several years the Stamping Ground event ran for periods of 10, 14 and 16 days and was attended almost exclusively by males, but by the early 2000s an increasing number of women and girls were beginning to take part.  As of 2006 the festival had been shortened to two weeks plus an additional period of five days devoted to "professional development" courses and the gender balance of attendees was about equal.  Several female tutors ran specialised classes within the 2006 event.

As of 2009, the Stamping Ground is Australia's oldest, and one of its largest, dance and performance festivals, typically attracting a faculty of between twenty and forty teachers and between three and five hundred participants.

Organisation and pedagogy
Stamping Ground tutors are invited to submit proposals for courses in a wide range of disciplines including numerous forms of dance, martial arts, circus skills, music and forms of physical theatre as well as for performance projects.  A variety of curricular formats have been offered at different conferences, including one-off classes in specialised subjects, progressive classes that build in complexity over a period of days and skill-sharing sessions in which experts in different disciplines compare approaches and techniques.

Participants at the Stamping Ground festival do not undertake practical examinations in the material that they have studied. Rather, the emphasis is placed almost entirely upon the classwork itself and upon the performance outcomes of a given course of study.

The festival operates numerous simultaneous classes throughout Bellingen township, including both indoor and outdoor venues.  Some classes are restricted by age and/or gender, others are open to all participants.  A number of public performances are offered in the evenings, especially towards the end of the festival.  In addition, the Stamping Ground hosts a series of ceremonial events, often inspired by the ceremonies and rituals of archaic and/or tribal cultures.

External links

References

Dance festivals in Australia
Festivals in New South Wales
Festivals established in 1997
1997 establishments in Australia


Ernest Lee Steere (or Lee-Steere) may refer to:

Ernest Augustus Lee Steere (1866-1957)
Ernest Henry Lee-Steere (1912-2011)


Tomasz Bogumil Lenczewski (born 28 December 1960 in Lodz), is a Polish heraldist, genealogist, canonist and second-hand bookseller. He is the continuator of the genealogies of the titled houses of Poland (following in the steps of Count Jerzy Seweryn Dunin-Borkowski and Edward Borowski) and the author of several score articles in the field of contemporary Polish history and studies related to history (chiefly in genealogy and biography) some which have been published in the following periodicals:
 Zeszyty Historyczne (The Historical Journal),
 Karta (The Historical page),
 Mars,
 Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels und Rzeczpospolita.

Education
During the years 1981-1987, he studied in the department of canon law of the Akademia Teologii Katolickiej (Academy of Catholic Theology) where he obtained his Master's degree.

The Polish-South African Friendship Society
Tomasz Lenczewski was the founding member of the Towarzystwo Przyjaźni Polsko’Południowo-Afrykańskiej (The Polish-South African Friendship Society). During the years of 1991-1992 he was also the vice-president of the society.

Publications
He is the author of:
1997: “Genealogie rodów utytułowanych w Polsce, t. 1 (The Genealogy of the Titled Houses of Poland, vol. 1), (‘Adiutor’ publishing house)
2005: “Russoccy herbu Zadora: zarys monografii rodu’ (The Russockis, blazon Zadora: an introduction to a monograph of the family), (‘Adiutor’ publishing house)
2016: "Herold (1930-1936), edited and published by Ludgard Count Grocholski: A Bibliography. (Antykwariat Logos)

He is the co-author of:
2004: "Genealogien kurländisch-ritterschaftlicher Geschlechter die bisher weder im "Genealogischen Handbuch der Baltischen Ritterschaften, Teil Kurland", noch im "Genealogischen Handbuch des Adels" erschienen sind" (Vereinigten Kurländischen Stiftungen im Auftrag der Kurländischen Ritterschaft)
2007: "Szylchra Trzebińscy z Trzebini herbu Abdank Odmienny : szkic genealogii rodu" (Oficyna Wydawnicza „Adiutor”)

He is the author of such articles as:
 Nobilitacje neofitów za Stanisława Augusta, (The ennoblement of Jewish Frankists during the reign of Stanislas Augustus), Rzeczpospolita, 26.05.2008
 W szeregach szlachty (In the ranks of the nobility), Rzeczpospolita, 07.07.2008
 Mariaże herbów i kont (Marriages of aristocrats and the wealthy), Rzeczpospolita, 20.07.2008
 The Career of a Megalomaniac (Count Mieczysław Dunin-Borkowski, alias Giuseppe Newlin (1905-1971), The Past and Remembrance. Bulletin of the Rada Ochrony Pamięci, Walk i Męczęństwa (The Council for the Preservation of Remembrance, Struggle and Martyrdom), nr 38, January–December 2011, pp 277–87

Private life
He has two sons:
Mikolaj Bonaventura, born in 1983, a graduate of the Wojskowa Akademia Techniczna (Military Technical Academy)
Olgierd Aleksander, born in 1992

Sources
 Woreyd Almanach, Warszawa 2002, p. 231
Narbutt, Maja "Sekrety i kłamstwa: z Tomaszem Lenczewskim, historykiem i genealogiem rozmawia" (Secrets and Lies: an interview with Tomasz Lenczewski, historian and genealogist by Maja Narbutt)  in: Rzeczpospolita; nr 139; 16 June 2007, p. A13 (Plus Minus)

External links
alpha.bn.org.pl
www.tomaszlenczewski.pl

Lenczewski Tomasz
Living people
1960 births
Polish heraldists


Giovanni Pietro Maffei (1533–1603), also anglicized as John Peter Maffei, was an Italian Jesuit and author. He wrote a life of Ignatius of Loyola, founder of the Society of Jesus, and also wrote about the activities of the Society in the Orient.

Biography
Giovanni Pietro Maffei was born at Bergamo about 1536; he was for a time professor at Genoa, became in 1564 secretary of the government at that place, and in 1565 joined the Jesuits, among whom he gained a great reputation. Brought to the notice of cardinal Henry, of Portugal, he was called to Lisbon. He died in Tivoli in 1603. Maffei wrote De vita et moribus Ignatii Loiolae (Romae 1585): — Historiarum Indicarum libri XVI (Florentiae, 1589; often reprinted): — Vite di XVII confessori di Cristo (Roma, 1601). At the request of Gregory XIII he wrote a history of the reign of that pope, which remained in MS. until 1743, when it was published at Rome by Carlo Coquelines. A History of India, written by request of cardinal Henry, was published without Maffei's name, though he was its author. His collected works, accompanied by a biographical sketch, were published under the style Io. Petri Maffeii Bergomatis e Societate Iesu opera omnia Latine scripta, nunc primum in unum corpus collecta (Verona, 1747, 2 vols. 4to).

Works
 De vita et moribus Ignatii Loiolae qui Societatem Iesu fundavit, libri III, apud Franciscum Zannettum, Romae 1585.
 Vite di XVII confessori di Cristo, Roma 1601.
 Le istorie delle Indie orientali con una scelta di lettere scritte dall'Indie, Filippo Giunti, Firenze 1589. Translated from latin to Italian by Francesco Serdonati, and published in two volumes in 1830 .
 Historiarum Indicarum libri XVI. Selectarum item ex India epistolarum libri IV, apud Philippum Iunctam, Florentiae 1589.
 Degli Annali di Gregorio XIII pontefice massimo dati in luce da Carlo Coquelines, Roma 1742.

Notes

References

 Charles N. Baldwin A Universal Biographical Dictionary, Containing the Lives of the Most Celebrated Characters of Every Age and Nation Andrus & Judd, 1833

1533 births
1603 deaths
16th-century Italian Jesuits
Jesuit historiography
16th-century Italian historians
16th-century writers in Latin
17th-century writers in Latin


And You Don't Stop: 30 Years of Hip-Hop is a five-part documentary series directed by Richard Lowe and Dana Heinz Perry, written by Bill Adler, and released by VH1 in 2004. The series recounts the development of hip hop culture from its birth in New York City in the 1970s through its flowering into a global phenomenon in the 21st Century. It was nominated for an IDA award in 2005.

Overview
The series features interviews with numerous figures in the hip hop community, starting with pioneers like Afrika Bambaataa, Grandmaster Flash, Fab 5 Freddy, and Busy Bee, and moving on to Run-DMC, LL Cool J, the Beastie Boys, MC Lyte, Will Smith, Nas, Eminem, Snoop Dogg, Outkast, Dr. Dre, and Pharrell Williams among many others.  Notable music business executives including Russell Simmons, Lyor Cohen, and Jimmy Iovine are also interviewed, as are the writers Danyel Smith, Cheo Coker, Nelson George, and Kelefa Sanneh.

Reception
In a review for The New York Times, television critic Virginia Heffernan wrote: "And You Don't Stop stands out among the crisp, heavily graphic offerings usually on MTV and VH1, and it does a more thorough job than any film of collating 30 years of history given by hip-hop's DJ's, MC's, rappers, critics and fans". Phil Gallo of Variety described the series as "“a rather remarkable overview, free of narration and ivory tower posturing...that is weighted carefully and accurately, full of fabulous grainy footage of the music’s early days." Don Kaplan of the New York Post asserted that, with And You Don't Stop, "VH1 does for rap what PBS did for the Civil War." In 2012, Complex.com's Shanté Cosme counted it among "The 25 Best Hip-Hop Documentaries."

References

External links

2004 television films
2004 films
American documentary television films
Documentary films about hip hop music and musicians
2004 documentary films
VH1 films
2000s English-language films
2000s American films


Buderim is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland. Based on the Sunshine Coast, the district is a traditionally safe seat for the Liberal National Party.

Geography
A compact urban electorate, Buderim falls between the centres of Maroochydore and Nambour, bounded by the Bruce Highway to the west, and the Sunshine Motorway to the east. It includes the Sunshine Coast suburbs of Buderim, Mountain Creek, Sippy Downs and Tanawha.

History
A new district created for the 2009 state election, it was constructed mostly from the northern part of the district of Kawana and the western part of the district of Maroochydore. It also took a section of territory previously belonging to the district of Nicklin. Its inaugural member was Steve Dickson, previously the member for Kawana.

Members for Buderim

Election results

References

External links
 ABC Profile: 2009 Election

Buderim
Buderim


Bispelokket (literally "bishops lid") was a Norwegian three-level stack interchange roundabout in Bjørvika, Oslo. European Route E18 and Norwegian National Road 162 (until 2010: National Road 4) jointed at this point, which also served as the official traffical centre of the city. The new roundabout at Postgirobygget is from October 31, 2011, the new traffical centre of Oslo.

Bispelokket gradually opened between 1966 and 1968, and was visited by at the most 140,000 vehicles a day until Bjørvikatunnelen was introduced as a complete tunnel system in 2010 and the amount declined to 40,000. Bispelokket ceased to function as a roundabout on October 28, 2011, at 10 pm. The physical demolition was launched by the Norwegian prime minister Jens Stoltenberg, November 4, 2011, at 1:46 pm. As a complex road intersection, Bispelokket was not recognized as an aesthetical suitable landmark in the cityline of Oslo.

Sinsenkrysset is from October 31 the most visited Norwegian road intersection by 100,000 vehicles a day.

Demolition
As a part of the Fjord City urban renewal project, Bispelokket (including all its ramps and the Nylandsvegen bridge) was demolished in 2012 to make way for the redevelopment of the Bjørvika waterfront into a business and residential area.

References

Road interchanges in Norway
European route E18 in Norway
Road transport in Oslo