Maryland Route 550 (MD 550) is a state highway in the U.S. state of Maryland.  The state highway runs  from MD 26 in Libertytown north to Pen Mar Road in Fort Ritchie.  MD 550 runs southeast–northwest across central Frederick County, connecting Fort Ritchie in the northeastern corner of Washington County and Libertytown with the towns of Thurmont and Woodsboro and the smaller communities of Creagerstown and Sabillasville.  South of the highway's junction with U.S. Route 15 (US 15) in Thurmont, the state highway passes through the wide valley of the Monocacy River; to the north, the highway passes along the northern edge of Catoctin Mountain and crests South Mountain near Blue Ridge Summit, Pennsylvania.

MD 550 was built in two main sections.  The highway from Thurmont to Blue Ridge Summit was constructed in the mid-1920s as Maryland Route 81 (MD 81).  MD 81 was extended west to Fort Ritchie in the mid-1930s.  MD 550 was constructed from Libertytown to Woodsboro in the mid to late 1930s.  A second disjoint section of the state highway was built from Creagerstown to Thurmont in the late 1930s.  The two segments of MD 550 were united when the designation was assigned to the highway between Woodsboro and Creagerstown in the mid-1950s.  MD 550 was extended northwest from Thurmont to Fort Ritchie, assuming all of MD 81, in the late 1970s.

Route description

Libertytown to Thurmont

MD 550 begins at an intersection with MD 26 (Main Street) in the unincorporated village of Libertytown and heads northwest as Woodsboro Road. The highway passes through the Piedmont uplands, a region of rounded hills, low ridges, relatively high relief, irregular plains, and narrow valleys with a mix of farms and forests. MD 550 crosses Cabbage Run and Dorcas Branch, follows Dorcas Branch through a gap in Laurel Hill, and enters the town of Woodsboro just after crossing Israel Creek. MD 550 turns north and runs concurrently with MD 194 on Woodsboro Pike on the east side of the town; Liberty Road heads west from the intersection toward the center of town.  MD 550 turns west onto Woodsboro–Creagerstown Road, which immediately intersects the north end of Main Street (MD 194A). The state highway intersects the MDOT Branch of the Maryland Midland Railway and receives the north end of Creagerstown Road before leaving Woodsboro.

MD 550 continues northwest through the Piedmont lowlands, which contain wide and undulating ridges, broad nearly level valleys, limited local relief, and a mosaic of farms, houses, and woodland. North of the route's bridge across the Monocacy River, the highway parallels Pennterra Manor Lane, which leads to the 18th century farmhouse Pennterra. MD 550 also passes to the west of another 18th century harmhouse, Strawberry Hill, before reaching the unincorporated village of Creagerstown. The route’s name changes to Creagerstown Road at Old Frederick Road at the south end of village, and at Blacks Mill Road the road passes to the east of the St. John's Church at Creagerstown Historic District, which preserves a pair of church buildings—the early 20th century St. John’s Evangelical Lutheran Church and the 19th century building of the defunct St. John’s Reformed Church—as well as the first church’s parish house and a cemetery.  MD 550 continues northwest as Creagerstown Road to the hamlet of Jimtown; the highway intersects Moser Road and Hessong Bridge at a four-legged intersection and turns north onto Jimtown Road toward Thurmont.

MD 550 enters the town of Thurmont just before the highway intersects MD 77 (Rocky Ridge Road).  The two state highways run concurrently northwest toward downtown Thurmont on Main Street. In the center of town, at Water Street, MD 77 continues west on Main Street while MD 550 turns north onto Church Street, which passes under the Main Line of the Maryland Midland Railway and meets the south end of MD 806 (Emmitsburg Road). At the northern edge of Thurmont, the state highway meets US 15 (Catoctin Mountain Highway) at a diamond interchange and passes Catoctin High School.

Thurmont to Highfield–Cascade
MD 550 heads northwest as Sabillasville Road into the Blue Ridge Mountains, which comprise extensively forested, steep, and well-dissected ridges separated by deep, narrow valleys with patches of farmland. The highway crosses Owens Creek and parallels the Maryland Midland Railway through the creek’s gorge upstream between Piney Mountain to the north and Catoctin Mountain to the south; the highway passes under the rail line twice. At Foxville Deerfield Road, MD 550 leaves Owens Creek and its gorge and passes through the Harbaugh Valley, where the highway crosses Friends Creek. After passing through the unincorporated village of Sabillasville and intersecting Bentzel Road on the north side of the village, the highway leaves the valley and ascends the eastern flank of South Mountain. MD 550 passes under a curve of the railroad and meets the ends of Old Sabillasville Road and Cullen Drive west of the Victor Cullen Center. The Victor Cullen Center is a state youth detention center originally constructed in the first decade of the 20th century as the state’s first tuberculosis sanatorium, whose preserved historic remains include the power house and old administration building.

MD 550 curves west parallel to the Maryland Midland Railway and summits South Mountain at the Frederick–Washington county line about  south of the Pennsylvania state line. The highway continues as Fort Ritchie Road, which curves southwest through the unincorporated communities of Highfield and Cascade, where south of Royer Road the route’s name changes to Military Road. At the entrance to the former Fort Ritchie, MD 550 meets the northern end of MD 491 (McAfee Hill Road) and turns northwest onto that road. The highway intersects CSX's Hanover Subdivision rail line at grade, turns from McAfee Hill Road onto Pen Mar Road, and passes under the railroad and by Lake Royer. MD 550 reaches its northern terminus west of the lake at the edge of Camp Louise, a girls' summer camp founded in 1922; Pen Mar Road continues as a county highway toward the community of Pen Mar and Pen Mar Park.

History

MD 550 was constructed in two main sections: MD 550 between Libertytown and Thurmont, and MD 81 from Thurmont to Fort Ritchie.  The first section of the Libertytown–Thurmont portion of MD 550 was constructed as a segment of former MD 72.  MD 72 followed Lewistown Road and Old Frederick Road from US 15 at Lewistown east and north through Creagerstown to near Loys Station south of MD 77.  The portion of MD 72 through Creagerstown was built in 1926.  The first section of MD 550 proper was  of concrete road built east from Woodsboro in 1933.  MD 550 was extended east to Cabbage Run between 1933 and 1935.  A second section of MD 550 was started from MD 77 east of Thurmont towards Creagerstown in 1938.  This western section was completed in 1939, the same year the eastern section was completed between Woodsboro and Libertytown.

The first section of what would become MD 81 was paved as a state-aid road from the Pennsylvania state line south along Warren Avenue and Cascade Road through Highfield and Cascade by 1910.  The main portion of MD 81 was constructed from Emmitsburg Road (which later became US 15 and is now MD 806) north to Sabillasville around 1923.  The highway was completed to the Pennsylvania state line at Blue Ridge Summit, using what are now Naylor Road and Old Sabillasville Road, around 1927.  The pre-1910 portion of MD 81 in Washington County was reconstructed and extended west toward Pen Mar in 1930.  Military Road was constructed around 1933 between Highfield and Fort Ritchie.  The eastern end of Military Road at the Frederick–Washington county line was tied into a relocation of MD 81 between Sabillasville and Blue Ridge Summit that was completed in 1936.  This bypass included an underpass of the Western Maryland Railway at Sabillasville and resulted in the highway no longer entering Pennsylvania; the old alignment of MD 81 was designated MD 625.

In 1956, MD 72 was removed from the state highway system.  MD 550 was extended southeast through Creagerstown to Woodsboro to connect with the Woodsboro–Libertytown section.  MD 550 was extended through Thurmont, west along MD 77 and north along MD 806, and assumed all of MD 81 in 1977.  Construction on MD 194's bypass of Woodsboro was started in 1995.  When the bypass was completed in 1997, MD 550 was removed from the center of Woodsboro to its present alignment on the northern and eastern sides of town.

Junction list

See also

References

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MDRoads: MD 550

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The Inspector of State Prisons was a statewide elective office created by the New York State Constitution of 1846. At the 1847 New York state election, three Inspectors were elected and then, upon taking office, so classified that henceforth every year one Inspector would be elected to a three-year term. The Prison Inspectors appointed wardens and keepers and supervised the prison administration in general. They were required to visit jointly four times a year each one of the state prisons. Besides, each one of the Inspectors was allotted the special care to one of the then existing three state prisons (Auburn State Prison, Sing Sing State Prison and Clinton State Prison) where he had to attend to business for at least one week per month.

In 1876, a constitutional amendment abolished the office of State Prison Inspector, pending the appointment of a New York Superintendent of State Prisons who would take over the duties of the Prison Inspectors. The first Superintendent was Louis D. Pilsbury, appointed by Governor Lucius Robinson on February 17, 1877.

List of Inspectors of State Prisons

References

Further reading
The New York Civil List compiled by Franklin Benjamin Hough (pages 45f; Weed, Parsons and Co., 1858)
The New York Civil List compiled by Franklin Benjamin Hough, Stephen C. Hutchins and Edgar Albert Werner (1867; pages 410f)

History of New York (state)
Prisons in New York (state)
State constitutional officers of New York (state)
1848 establishments in New York (state)
1877 disestablishments in New York (state)


László Nieberl is a Hungarian sprint canoeist who competed in the mid-1980s. He won two medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a silver (K-1 10000 m: 1985) and a bronze (K-4 10000 m: 1986).

Later he became the first trainer of the olimpic winner Hungarian canoeist Kammerer Zoltán

References

Hungarian male canoeists
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships medalists in kayak
20th-century Hungarian people


Mabvuku High School is a high school in the Mabvuku suburb of Harare, Zimbabwe.

The school is co-educational for all forms up to A Level students. It opened in 1975 and is one of three schools in Mabvuku offering A level. Mabvuku High School introduced A level in 1988. The current headmaster is Mr Mbirimi and deputy Mr S Marangwanda. The school also carries evening studies.

Mabvuku High School is also known for its A level dance and music group called the Vabvuwi, named after the popular Methodist Church Vabvuwi musical group. The school holds a yearly event called the Arts Night, with live band performances, marimba, dance and drama. Athlete Marshal Munetsi, who is currently in the French league, attended the school.

References

High schools in Zimbabwe
Co-educational schools in Zimbabwe
Day schools in Zimbabwe
Schools in Harare
1975 establishments in Rhodesia
Educational institutions established in 1975


The 9th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment (9 RAR) was a Regular light infantry battalion of the Australian Army. The battalion was raised in November 1967 and deployed to South Vietnam as part of Australia's commitment to the Vietnam War in November 1968. 9 RAR served a year-long tour of duty based out of Nui Dat conducting operations mainly in Phuoc Tuy Province as part of the 1st Australian Task Force. The Battalion returned to Australia in November 1969 and was reformed at Enoggera, Queensland in January 1970 as part of the 6th Task Force, attached to the 1st Division. On 31 November 1973, following the withdrawal of Australian forces from South Vietnam and subsequent reduction of the Australian Army, the battalion was linked with the 8th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment (8 RAR) to form the 8th/9th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment (8/9 RAR).

History

Formation
9 RAR was raised at Keswick Barracks in Adelaide, South Australia, on 13 November 1967. Shortly after that they moved to Woodside Barracks, where they began lead-up training in anticipation for future deployment to South Vietnam. Over the course of the next few months the battalion was slowly brought up to full strength, and by April 1968 9 RAR had received its full complement of personnel. In order to achieve this more quickly, the battalion undertook the training of its complement of 140 national servicemen instead of putting them through the normal centralised training scheme.

Vietnam War

After completing its training, an advance party of 150 men from the battalion arrived at the 1st Australian Task Force base at Nui Dat in Phuoc Tuy Province on 5 November 1968. The rest of 9 RAR departed Adelaide on  on 9 November 1968 and while en route they celebrated the battalion's first birthday at sea, becoming the first battalion of the Royal Australian Regiment to do so. They were also the first battalion to deploy on active service without first having been presented with their colours.

Under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Albie Morrison, the main body arrived in country on 20 November 1968 and by early December, 9 RAR had commenced operations. Their first major operation, Operation Goodwood, was undertaken in Bien Hoa Province and was a response to the increasing presence of Vietcong (VC) forces in the province. Over the course of the tour, 9 RAR undertook eleven major operations that lasted roughly a month each, along with a number of other minor operations.

To a large extent these operations were focused upon pacification, which attempted to isolate the VC from the local population and to create a more secure situation in order to stabilise the South Vietnamese government. Thus the main role for 9 RAR at this time was to carry out reconnaissance-in-force and cordon-and-search missions to locate the VC base locations, clear land and to protect the civilian population. The majority of these operations were carried out in Phuoc Tuy, Long Khanh, Bien Hoa and Binh Tuy provinces.

9 RAR remained in South Vietnam until 28 November 1969 when it was relieved by 8 RAR and returned to Australia. One Distinguished Service Order, two Military Crosses, seven Military Medals and eleven Mentions in Despatches were awarded to members of 9 RAR as result of their tour to South Vietnam. Casualties included 35 killed, and another 150 wounded.

Amalgamation
The battalion returned to Australia in November 1969 and were subsequently moved to Gallipoli Barracks at Enoggera in Queensland, where they were attached to the 6th Task Force. Early in 1970, there was a change of command and Lieutenant Colonel E.R. Phillip took over the role of commanding officer. On 29 April 1971, the battalion finally received its colours at a ceremony at Enoggera presided over by the Governor-General of Australia, Sir Paul Hasluck. In August 1971, Phillip subsequently handed over to Lieutenant Colonel John Essex-Clark. The battalion was scheduled to return to South Vietnam for its second tour of duty, however, the Australian government decided to end its commitment in late 1971.

This decision, coupled with the subsequent abolition of conscription following the election of the Whitlam government and a shift in Australian defence policy towards an emphasis on the defence of mainland Australia, resulted in the need to reduce the size of the Australian Army. In order to implement these changes it was decided to amalgamate a number of infantry battalions. 9 RAR was one of these, and on 31 October 1973 the battalion was linked with 8 RAR to form 8/9 RAR at a ceremony conducted at Gallipoli Barracks, Enoggera.

Battle honours
Vietnam: Vietnam 1968–69.

Commanding officers
The following officers commanded 9 RAR:
 Lieutenant Colonel A.L. Morrison DSO, MBE (13 November 1967 – 14 January 1970);
 Lieutenant Colonel E.R. Philip (15 January 1970 – 24 August 1971); and
 Lieutenant Colonel J. Essex-Clark (25 August 1971 – 30 October 1973).

See also
Military history of Australia during the Vietnam War

References

Further reading

9
Military units and formations of Australia in the Vietnam War
Military units and formations established in 1967
Military units and formations disestablished in 1973


Korbinian Holzer (born 16 February 1988) is a German professional ice hockey defenceman currently playing for Adler Mannheim of the Deutsche Eishockey Liga (DEL). He previously played for the Anaheim Ducks, Nashville Predators, and Toronto Maple Leafs of the National Hockey League (NHL).

Playing career
Holzer was drafted in the fourth round, 111th overall, of the 2006 NHL Entry Draft by the Toronto Maple Leafs. Drafted from playing in his native Germany with EC Bad Tölz, he made his debut in the top Deutsche Eishockey Liga (DEL) with the DEG Metro Stars.

Holzer began the 2010–11 season with the Maple Leafs' American Hockey League (AHL) affiliate, the Toronto Marlies. On 3 November 2010, he was recalled from the minors to make his NHL debut on 6 November 2010.

In the 2012–13 season, Holzer was recalled by the Maple Leafs on 5 February 2013 and scored his first NHL goal on just the fourth shot of his NHL career, his point slap shot beating Michal Neuvirth of the Washington Capitals. The Leafs ended up winning the game 3–2.

In the 2014–15 season, on 6 October 2014, the Maple Leafs waived Holzer. Unclaimed, he was later returned to the Toronto Marlies on 15 November. The Maple Leafs recalled Holzer on an emergency, only to send him back down to the Marlies on 16 November. One week later, Holzer was recalled and remained with the Leafs to replace injured defenceman Roman Polák. On 2 March 2015, Holzer was traded by the re-tooling Maple Leafs to the Anaheim Ducks in exchange for defenceman Eric Brewer and a fifth-round pick in the 2016 NHL Entry Draft (traded to Washington Capitals).

On 26 June 2017, Holzer continued his tenure with the Ducks by agreeing to a two-year contract extension.

On 20 June 2019, Holzer agreed to continue to return for his fifth season within the Ducks organization after he was re-signed to a one-year $850,000 contract extension. In the following 2019–20 season, Holzer remained on the Ducks roster, establishing a regular third-pairing role on blueline. In a career-high 46 games with the Ducks, Holzer added 1 goal and 4 points.

With the Ducks out of playoff contention at the NHL trade deadline, Holzer was traded by Anaheim to the Nashville Predators in exchange for Matt Irwin and a 2022 sixth-round draft pick on 24 February 2020. Holzer made three regular-season appearances with the Predators before the season was paused due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Returning to the club for the post-season, Holzer was a healthy scratch in their qualifying series defeat to the Arizona Coyotes.

On 1 November 2020, Holzer as a free agent, left the NHL and was belatedly signed to a one-year contract with Russian outfit, Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg of the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL). In the 2020–21 season, Holzer was limited to 25 regular season games on the blueline with Avtomobilist, contributing with 1 goal and 4 points. He made five playoff appearances, registering two assists, before leaving the KHL at the conclusion of his contract.

On 7 May 2021, Holzer returned to his native Germany as a free agent, securing a two-year contract with Adler Mannheim of the DEL.

International play
Holzer has represented the Germany national team in the 2010 Winter Olympics and 2010 IIHF World Championship. He also represented Germany at the 2018 IIHF World Championship, 2019 IIHF World Championship, and the 2021 IIHF World Championship.

On 25 January 2022, Holzer was selected to play for Team Germany at the 2022 Winter Olympics.

Career statistics

Regular season and playoffs

International

Awards and honours

References

External links

1988 births
Living people
Adler Mannheim players
Anaheim Ducks players
Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg players
EC Bad Tölz players
DEG Metro Stars players
German expatriates in Canada
German expatriate sportspeople in Canada
German expatriate sportspeople in the United States
German ice hockey defencemen
Ice hockey players at the 2010 Winter Olympics
Nashville Predators players
Olympic ice hockey players for Germany
San Diego Gulls (AHL) players
Sportspeople from Munich
Ice hockey people from Upper Bavaria
Toronto Maple Leafs draft picks
Toronto Maple Leafs players
Toronto Marlies players
Ice hockey players at the 2022 Winter Olympics


Brad Hooker (born 13 September 1957) is a British-American philosopher who specialises in moral philosophy. He is a professor at the University of Reading and is best known for his work defending rule consequentialism (often treated as being synonymous with rule utilitarianism).

His book Ideal Code, Real World received a number of favourable reviews from high-profile philosophers. Derek Parfit, for example, wrote: "This book seems to me the best statement and defence, so far, of one of the most important moral theories."

Education

Hooker initially studied philosophy at Princeton University before pursuing his BPhil and DPhil at the University of Oxford from 1981 to 1986, where he was a member of St Anne's College, and was taught and supervised by Parfit, James Griffin, and Richard Hare.

Hooker's rule-consequentialism
One of the most common objections to rule-consequentialism is that it is incoherent, because it is based on the consequentialist principle that we should be concerned with maximising the good, but then tells us not to act to maximise the good, but to follow rules (even in cases where we know that breaking the rule could produce better results).

Hooker avoids this objection by not basing his form of rule-consequentialism on the ideal of maximising the good. He writes:

…the best argument for rule-consequentialism is not that it derives from an overarching commitment to maximise the good. The best argument for rule-consequentialism is that it does a better job than its rivals of matching and tying together our moral convictions, as well as offering us help with our moral disagreements and uncertainties.

Selected bibliography

Books

Reviewed in:

Chapters in books

Journal articles
  Pdf of individual article.

Podcast

References

External links
 Profile page: Brad Hooker University of Reading
 Full text of doctoral thesis "Why should I be moral?" via Oxford Research Archive

1957 births
English philosophers
Consequentialists
Academics of the University of Reading
Alumni of St Anne's College, Oxford
Princeton University alumni
Living people


9. Flieger-Division (9th Air Division) was one of the primary divisions of the German Luftwaffe in World War II. The division was founded on 1 February 1940 in Jever and initially subordinated to the Oberkommando der Luftwaffe (OBdL). On 23 May 1940 the division was subordinated to the Luftflotte 2 and transferred to Soesterberg in July 1940. The unit was redesignated IX. Fliegerkorps in November 1940.

The division was recreated as 9. Flieger-Division (J) on 26 January 1945 in Prague. The division led the various combat groups that had re-equipped with fighter aircraft and was subordinated to Luftflotte 10.

Commanding officers

General Joachim Coeler, 1 February 1940 – November 1940
Oberst Hajo Herrmann, 26 January 1945 – May 1945

Notes

References
 9. Flieger-Division @ Lexikon der Wehrmacht
 9. Flieger-Division (J) @ Lexikon der Wehrmacht

Air divisions of the Wehrmacht Luftwaffe
Military units and formations established in 1940
Military units and formations disestablished in 1945


Keolis Norge is the Norwegian subsidiary of Keolis, holding the contract to operate the Bergen Light Rail and the Bergen Sentrum bus contract for Skyss.

History
The company was established in 2008 as Fjord1 Partner AS, a joint venture between Fjord1 Nordvestlandske (49%) and Keolis Nordic AB (51%), a Keolis holding company for its Nordic operations, with the goal of bidding for the Bergen Light Rail contract and other PSO contracts for bus transport in the Bergen area.

The contract was announced on 2 April 2009, after Fjord1 Partner had beaten NSB, Tide Bane (Tide with HTM Personenvervoer) and Veolia Transport Bane for the contract. The infrastructure and the Variobahn vehicles are owned by Vestland Fylkeskommune, while the operation subsidies are managed by Skyss, a county agency responsible for all public transport subsidies in Vestland.

In 2014, Fjord1 sold their shares to Keolis, and the company changed its name to Keolis Norge AS.

In June 2019, the company was awarded the tender for driving buses in the route area Bergen Sentrum, starting on 1 December 2020. This includes driving amongst other vehicles 112 electric buses, of which 102 battery buses from Yutong and ten trolley buses from Solaris.

On September 6, 2022, DSD AS, the owner of Tide Buss, announced they would buy out all shares and take over the running of all their contracts, leaving Keolis Norge defunct.

References

Bergen Light Rail
Railway companies of Norway
Fjord1
Keolis
Norwegian companies established in 2008
Railway companies established in 2008


John Smith (1882 – after 1911) was an English professional footballer who scored 39 goals in 110 appearances in First Division of the Football League playing for Wolverhampton Wanderers and Birmingham. He played as a forward.

Smith was born in Wednesfield, Staffordshire, and played for Cannock and for Stafford Road before joining Wolverhampton Wanderers in 1906. He scored twice on his debut in the Football League on the opening day of the 1902–03 season, in a 3–0 home win against Derby County. He continued to score at a respectable rate, and two seasons later was Wolves' leading scorer jointly with Billy Wooldridge. In April 1906, with Wolves' relegation from the First Division confirmed, Smith joined fellow First Division club Birmingham; they still had three games left to play, in which he contributed one goal. However, as a short, stocky man he did not fit in with Birmingham's style of play, and less than a year later he moved on, to Southern League club Bristol Rovers. In his only season with Rovers he scored 10 goals in 31 Southern League games, and then embarked on a tour of the Southern League, playing in turn for Norwich City, Luton Town, Millwall and Coventry City.

References

1882 births
Year of death missing
People from Wednesfield
English men's footballers
Men's association football forwards
Wolverhampton Wanderers F.C. players
Birmingham City F.C. players
Bristol Rovers F.C. players
Norwich City F.C. players
Luton Town F.C. players
Millwall F.C. players
Coventry City F.C. players
English Football League players
Southern Football League players
Date of birth missing
Place of death missing
Stafford Road F.C. players
Footballers from Wolverhampton


A quorum is the minimum number of votes that a distributed transaction has to obtain in order to be allowed to perform an operation in a distributed system. A quorum-based technique is implemented to enforce consistent operation in a distributed system.

Quorum-based techniques in distributed database systems
Quorum-based voting can be used as a replica control method,
as well as a commit method to ensure transaction atomicity in the presence of network partitioning.

Quorum-based voting in commit protocols
In a distributed database system, a transaction could execute its operations at multiple sites. Since atomicity requires every distributed transaction to be atomic, the transaction must have the same fate (commit or abort) at every site. In case of network partitioning, sites are partitioned and the partitions may not be able to communicate with each other. This is where a quorum-based technique comes in. The fundamental idea is that a transaction is executed if the majority of sites vote to execute it.

Every site in the system is assigned a vote Vi. Let us assume that the total number of votes in the system is V and the abort and commit quorums are Va and Vc, respectively. Then the following rules must be obeyed in the implementation of the commit protocol:
 Va + Vc > V, where 0 < Vc, Va  V.
 Before a transaction commits, it must obtain a commit quorum Vc.The total of at least one site that is prepared to commit and zero or more sites waiting  Vc.
 Before a transaction aborts, it must obtain an abort quorum VaThe total of zero or more sites that are prepared to abort or any sites waiting  Va.

The first rule ensures that a transaction cannot be committed and aborted at the same time. The next two rules indicate the votes that a transaction has to obtain before it can terminate one way or the other.

Quorum-based voting for replica control
In replicated databases, a data object has copies present at several sites. To ensure serializability, no two transactions should be allowed to read or write a data item concurrently. In case of replicated databases, a quorum-based replica control protocol can be used to ensure that no two copies of a data item are read or written by two transactions concurrently.

The quorum-based voting for replica control is due to [Gifford, 1979].
Each copy of a replicated data item is assigned a vote. Each operation then has to obtain a read quorum (Vr) or a write quorum (Vw) to read or write a data item, respectively. If a given data item has a total of V votes, the quorums have to obey the following rules:
 Vr + Vw > V
 Vw > V/2

The first rule ensures that a data item is not read and written by two transactions concurrently. Additionally, it ensures that a read quorum contains at least one site with the newest version of the data item. The second rule ensures that two write operations from two transactions cannot occur concurrently on the same data item. The two rules ensure that one-copy serializability is maintained.

See also
 CAP theorem
 Database transaction
 Replication (computer science)
 Atomicity (database systems)

References

Database management systems
Transaction processing


Frederick Forchheimer (1853–1913) was an American pediatrician known for describing Forchheimer spots.

Biography
Frederick Forchheimer was born in Cincinnati on September 25, 1853. He was educated in public schools and the Medical College of Ohio. He graduated from the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York in 1873.

He became an instructor at the Medical College of Ohio in 1875, and founded one of the first clinics for children in the United States. He became professor of diseases of children, and published Diseases of the Mouth in Children in 1892 in which he described his eponymous sign.

He married Edith Perry in 1885 and they had three children.

He became president of the Association of American Physicians in 1911 and was given an honorary Doctor of Science degree by Harvard University. He was professor of medicine at the University of Cincinnati at the time of his death, which occurred at Jewish Hospital on June 1, 1913, after a prostate operation. He was buried at Spring Grove Cemetery.

Forchheimer spots are named for him.

References

Further reading

American pediatricians
Burials at Spring Grove Cemetery
Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons alumni
University of Cincinnati faculty
1853 births
1913 deaths


Op zoek naar Evita (Looking for Evita) was a 2007 talent show-themed television series produced by the AVRO in the Netherlands. It documented the search for a new, undiscovered musical theatre performer to play the role of Eva Peron in the 2008 Andrew Lloyd Webber musical Evita.

The show was hosted by Frits Sissing who announced Brigitte Heitzer as the winner of the final public telephone vote on 21 October 2007 and masterminded by Willem Nijholt.

It became the first of a series of the Dutch themed talent contests to be produced by the AVRO in collaboration with Willem Nijholt. Op zoek naar Joseph followed in 2008 to find a new male lead to play Joseph for Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, In 2009, it was followed by Op zoek naar Mary Poppins searching for a new lead to play Mary Poppins in a production of the musical Mary Poppins, In 2010, it was followed by Op zoek naar Zorro searching for a new lead to play Zorro in a production of the musical Zorro, Ten years later in 2021, it was followed by Op zoek naar Maria searching for a new lead to play Maria in a production of the musical The Sound of Music. In 2022, it was followed by Op zoek naar Danny & Sandy searching for a new lead to play Danny & Sandy in a production of the musical Grease.

Format

Expert panel
To assess and train the potential Evitas and judge them during the live shows, an expert panel was chosen. The panel included:
 Willem Nijholt – actor and singer.
 Peter Van de Velde – Flemish actor from Belgium
 Erwin van Lambaart – (managing director of Joop van den Ende theatre)
 Pia Douwes – (musical theatre actress who is very successful in Europe)

Live finals
The final ten contestants competed in the live studio finals held on Sunday nights over eight weeks. Each week the contestants sang and performed during the live show, receiving comments from the judges following their performance. The public then got a chance to vote for their favourite Evita, and the two contestants with the fewest votes performed a sing-off in front of Nijholt, who then decided which Evita to keep in the contest. This was repeated with the top ten, the top nine, the top eight, the top seven, the top six, the top five and the top four.

Nijholt had no say in the final casting decision, when in the concluding edition of the series it was left to the public to choose who should play Evita out of the final two contenders, Brigitte Heitzer and Suzan Seegers. After more votes were cast, the winning entrant was revealed as Heitzer, who won a contract to play Evita at the Nieuwe Luxor Theater in Rotterdam.

Finalists
Ten potential Evitas made it through the auditions process to perform during the live shows.

* at the start of the contest

Results summary

Live shows
The live shows saw the finalists eliminated one by one following both individual and group performances. Once eliminated, the leaving contestant ended the programme by receiving a suitcase and leading a performance of "Dag en bedankt nog (Goodnight and Thank You)\Jij blijft bij mij (You Must Love Me)" from Evita with the remaining contestants.

Week 1 (September 2, 2007)
Following the first week of competition, Tineke was the first Evita to be eliminated from the competition. The show performances were:

Group performances:
"Dreamgirls" (from Dreamgirls)
"Rhythm of the Night" (DeBarge)

Jury's favourite Evita:
Erwin van Lambaart: Suzan (but revealed that his other favourite was Marjolein, but was positive about Suzan)
Pia Douwes: Suzan
Peter Van de Velde: Brigitte
Sing-Off

Week 2 (September 9, 2007)
Sabina was the second contestant to be eliminated from the series. The show performances were:

Group performances:
"Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend" (from Gentlemen Prefer Blondes)
"Can't Help Falling in Love" (Elvis Presley)

Jury's favourite Evita:
Erwin van Lambaart: Marleen
Pia Douwes: Wieneke
Peter Van de Velde: Sabina
Sing-Off

Week 3 (September 16, 2007)
The third potential Evita to be eliminated was Sophie. The show performances were:

Group performances:
"Get the Party Started" (Pink)
"Mijn pakkie an (My Strongest Suit)" (from Aida)

Jury's favourite Evita:
Erwin van Lambaart: Suzan
Pia Douwes: Marleen
Peter Van de Velde: Wieneke
Sing-Off

Week 4 (September 23, 2007)
Babette became the fourth contestant to hear she was not Evita. The show performances were:

Group performances:
"We Go Together" (from Grease)
"Take a Chance on Me" (from Mamma Mia)

Jury's favourite Evita:
Erwin van Lambaart: Babette
Pia Douwes: Babette
Peter Van de Velde: Babette
Sing-Off

Week 5 (September 30, 2007)
Wieneke became the fifth contestant to hear she would not be Evita. The show performances were:

Group performances:
"Don't Stop Me Now" (from We Will Rock You)
"Rainbow High" (from Evita)
"It's the Hard Knock Life" (from Annie)

Jury's favourite Evita:
Erwin van Lambaart: Marjolein (but also very positive about Suzan being his favourite)
Pia Douwes: Marjolein
Peter Van de Velde: Marjolein
Sing-Off

Week 6 (October 7, 2007)
In the quarter-final, the sixth Evita to be eliminated was Anne. The show performances were:

Group performances:
"Shout" (Lulu)
"Foxtrot (Dutch version)" (from Foxtrot)

Jury's favourite Evita:
Erwin van Lambaart: Marjolein
Pia Douwes: Marleen
Peter Van de Velde: Brigitte
Sing-Off

Week 7 (October 14, 2007)
In the semi-final, the seventh and final Evita to be eliminated was Marleen. The show performances were:

Group performances:
"Dance: Ten; Looks: Three" (from A Chorus Line)
"Ik ben uitzonderlijk goed voor u (I'd Be Surprisingly Good For You)" featuring Roberto de Groot, who will play as Juan Perón in the upcoming Dutch revival of Evita

Jury's favourite Evita:
Erwin van Lambaart: Suzan
Pia Douwes: Suzan
Peter Van de Velde: Brigitte
Sing-Off

Week 8 (October 21, 2007)
The grand finale saw Brigitte win the competition, with Suzan coming second and Marjolein third. The show performances were:

Group performance:
Finalists and former Evitas: "There's No Business Like Show Business" (from Annie Get Your Gun)
Finalists: "One Night Only" (from Dreamgirls)
Brigitte and Suzan: "Buenos Aires (Dutch version)" (from Evita)
Brigitte and Suzan: "Huil niet om mij, Argentina (Don't Cry For Me, Argentina)" (from Evita)

Jury's verdict on who is Evita:
Erwin van Lambaart: could not choose between Suzan and Brigitte
Pia Douwes: could not choose between Suzan and Brigitte
Peter Van de Velde: Brigitte
Willem Nijholt: Suzan
After being announced as the series winner, Brigitte concluded the series with a performance of "Huil niet om mij, Argentina (Don't Cry For Me, Argentina)".

After the series
Brigitte Heitzer and several other finalists appeared in a special programme on 25 December 2008 with the winner and finalists from Op zoek naar Joseph titled Kerst met Joseph en Evita (Christmas with Joseph and Evita).

Reception

Awards
On 1 October 2008, it was announced that Op zoek naar Evita was nominated for the Gouden Televizier-Ring 2008, for the best television from the season 2007–2008. On 24 October 2008 showed that this nomination was not silver, the Golden Televizier-Ring was won by Mooi! Weer De Leeuw.

Follow-up
The success of the series lead to it becoming the first of a series of the Dutch themed talent contests produced by the AVRO in collaboration with Nijholt. 2008 saw Op zoek naar Joseph search for a new male lead to play Joseph for a production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's and Tim Rice's Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. This was followed in 2009 by Op zoek naar Mary Poppins, which searched for a new lead to play Mary Poppins in a production of the musical Mary Poppins. 2010 saw Op zoek naar Zorro cast Zorro in the forthcoming stage production of Zorro. Ten years later in 2021 saw Op zoek naar Maria cast Maria in the stage production of The Sound of Music. This was followed in 2022 by Op zoek naar Danny & Sandy, which searched for 2 new leads to play Danny & Sandy in a production of the musical Grease.

External links
Official Program Website at avro.nl

Dutch reality television series
Singing talent shows
2000s TV shows in the Netherlands
2007 Dutch television series debuts
2007 Dutch television series endings
NPO 1 original programming


Crittall Windows Ltd is a notable English manufacturer of steel-framed windows, today based in Witham, Essex, close to its historic roots in the county. Its products have been used in thousands of buildings across the United Kingdom, including the Houses of Parliament and Tower of London, and are features particularly associated with the Art Deco and Modernist movements in early 20th-century architecture.

The company's windows are also used in numerous buildings in North America and other parts of Europe, and were a feature of the .

Early history

The origins of the company date back to 1849, when Francis Berrington Crittall bought the Bank Street ironmongery in Braintree, Essex. However, it was not until 1884 that the company – by this time run by the founder's son Francis Henry Crittall (1860–1935) – began to manufacture metal windows. Five years later (1889), the Crittall Manufacturing Company Ltd was incorporated. At this time the firm's output in a two-year period was 20 tonnes. In 1880 the company employed 11 men, by the 1890s this figure was 34, by 1918 500.

In 1907, Crittall bought the so-called Fenestra joint patent from the German company Fenestra in Düsseldorf. In the same year, Crittall began to operate the Detroit Steel Product Co, the first steel window factory in the United States.

During the First World War, Crittall's factories were used in munitions production, but postwar the company returned to steel window manufacture. It formed a manufacturing agreement with Belgian firm Braat in 1918 and opened a works in Witham, Essex in 1919, partly to supply standard metal windows for the UK government's housing scheme.

The 1920s saw operations established in South Africa, India, Australia, New Zealand, Germany and in Washington, D.C. in the USA, followed by a company in Shanghai, China in 1931. The company also had a factory at Foots Cray, Kent, on a junction still known as "Crittall's Corner". Amid this corporate expansion, the company started a model village at Silver End in Essex in 1926.

The name most associated with the company at this time is that of W F Crittall, known as Mr Pink, who as both director and designer was responsible for the development of the steel windows and who was closely associated with the modern architectural movement that such windows are associated with.

In 1939, Crittall built its first galvanising plant at Witham, shortly before it once again became engaged in munitions production during the Second World War.

Postwar history

During the 1950s, Crittall began to manufacture aluminium windows and curtain walling, and in the 1960s was instrumental in the development of pressure chamber weather performance testing standards that are still used in the UK today.

The postwar period has seen Crittall undergo several major corporate changes. In 1965, it merged with Henry Hope & Sons Ltd to form Crittall Hope – a firm that was then taken over in 1968 by Slater Walker Securities. Six years later, in 1974, Crittall-Hope was acquired by Norcros Ltd, and Crittall Windows Limited Braintree and Witham was formed.

In 1990, Crittall moved to new premises in Braintree. Five years later, it was acquired by Apax Venture Capital, and then sold two years later (1997) to Marmon Corporation of Chicago. In 2002, the company was acquired by Laurel Holdings, and was then the subject of a management buy-out in 2004. In 2007, the company opened a new factory and head office in Witham.

Notable buildings worldwide using Crittall windows
Mercat Cross, Glasgow
Tower Bridge, London
Public Record Office, London
Houses of Parliament
Tower of London
Coventry Cathedral – the Great West Wall window
Asia Insurance Building, Singapore
Capitol Theatre, Singapore
St. John's College, Hong Kong
Yale University, USA
MCC building, Lord's Cricket Ground, London
Temperate House, Kew Gardens
Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon
Ravelston Garden – Art Deco Edinburgh residential flats
300 Central Park West, USA
400 Sansome Street, San Francisco, USA
Princeton University, USA
Crosby Street Hotel, USA
New York Botanical Gardens, USA
Ford River Rouge Complex, USA
Astoria, a houseboat built in 1911 for impresario Fred Karno, and used since the 1980s as a recording studio by David Gilmour of Pink Floyd
Harvey Mudd Estate, USA
Elterwater Hostel, Cumbria, UK
Snowdon summit building (1935-2006), designed by Clough Williams-Ellis
 Southampton Civic Centre Clock Tower, Southampton, UK
R.M.S. Queen Mary, California, USA

Association with Braintree Town
The company had a long historical association with Braintree Town F.C. The club was originally formed in 1898 and accepted into the North Essex League as Manor Works FC, the company's works team.  The club's nickname "The Iron" also comes from this source, reflecting the company's metal window frames. The club's crest reflects its origins and shows the factory of the old Crittall Garage which overlooked the club's Cressing Road ground before being demolished in 2005.

In 1921 the club changed its name to Crittall Athletic FC and soon afterwards moved to a new stadium which has been their home since.  Around 1968 the club changed name once again, this time to Braintree & Crittall Athletic FC, but when links with Crittall ended in 1981 they became Braintree Town FC.

References

 Company website timeline

External links

 Crittall Company website
 Wrought Iron and Steel Windows Introduction to the history and conservation of wrought iron and steel windows including advice on repair versus replacement

A German article about the Düsseldorf company branch "Fenestra Crittall": Daniel Lohmann, Stahlfenster von Fenestra-Crittall in den Bauten der Verseidag Krefeld. Bedeutung und Erhalt.

Window manufacturers
Manufacturing companies established in 1889
Companies based in Essex
Manufacturing companies of England
1889 establishments in England
English brands
Witham
Braintree, Essex


Robert Potter may refer to:
Robert Potter (translator) (1721–1804), English translator, poet and cleric
Robert Potter (Irish politician) (died 1854), Member of the UK Parliament for Limerick City
Robert Potter (rugby union), rugby union player who represented Australia
Robert Potter (American politician, died 1842) (c. 1800–1842), Congressional Representative from North Carolina, and later Texas Secretary of the Navy
Robert Brown Potter (1829–1887), American lawyer and soldier
Robert Potter (architect) (1909–2010), English architect
Robert Daniel Potter (1923–2009), U.S. federal judge
Robert L. D. Potter (1833–1893), Wisconsin lawyer and politician
Robert Potter (geographer) (1950–2014), academic


Ralph Randolph Johnson (born July 4, 1951) is an American singer, songwriter, musician and producer. Johnson is a member and percussionist of the funk/soul/disco band Earth, Wind & Fire.

Early life
Johnson was born and raised in Los Angeles. His father was a lyricist and his mother was a vocalist, and they had music always playing in their home. At the age of eight years old Johnson received his first snare drum and drum lesson. Johnson developed a love of R&B music, listening mainly to Motown and Stax and Sly and the Family Stone. He played in elementary, junior high and high school bands. At age 13, he attended a James Brown concert, which was his first live concert and was amazed by the three drum sets on the stage. In 1965, Johnson's brother introduced him to the world of Jazz. He joined local bands "The Teen Turbans" and "The Masters Children".

Earth, Wind and Fire

In 1971, musician Maurice White the founder and bandleader of Earth, Wind & Fire, dismantled his band after recording two albums for Warner Brothers Records, leaving just him and his brother, bassist Verdine White. In December 1971, after White saw Johnson playing at a club in Los Angeles, he called and asked Johnson to audition for a new line up of Earth, Wind & Fire. White added Johnson, vocalist Helena Davis, vocalist Phillip Bailey, flutist Ronnie Laws, keyboardist Larry Dunn, and rhythm guitarist Roland Bautista to his new line up. Vocalist Jessica Cleave a former member of Friends of Distinction soon replaced Davis. The new members along with the White brothers, became the new version of Earth, Wind & Fire. In 1972, they left Warner Brothers and recorded their album, "The Last Days and Times" for CBS/Columbia Records.

As an Earth, Wind & Fire percussionist, Johnson was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, received 6 Grammy wins and 2 honorary Grammys, received a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, earned 50 platinum and gold RIAA awards, 4 American Music Awards, and have sold over 90 million in record sales making them one of the world's best-selling bands of all time.

Solo projects
In 2000, Johnson traveled to Copenhagen, Denmark with Morris Pleasure to start a new conceptual jazz project. The members of jazz ensemble known as, "Audio Caviar", were Johnson, Pleasure and Steen Kyed. The band release an album entitled, "Transoceanic", that featured guest artists including, Howard Hewett, Janet Jackson, Johnson's bandmate, Phillip Bailey, Jonathan Butler, George Duke and others.

In 2014, Johnson teamed up with singer and writer, Siedah Garrett and released a Christmas song entitled, "Have a Very Merry Christmas" written by Johnson, Garrett, Erik Nuri and Raymond Crossley. The song was featured in the 2019 film, "Holiday Rush" starring singer Darlene Love.

In 2019, Johnson released a solo project entitled, "Co-Swagit (Everything's Cool)".

In March 2020, Johnson and jazz pianist Gerald Clayton released a single entitled, "Smooth and You" written by Johnson, Raymond Crossley, Gerald Clayton, and D. Stone. The song was produced by Johnson and Crossley.

Johnson has worked with a wide range of artists in different capacities. As a percussionist on Blue Magic's 1978 album Message From The Magic and Stanley Turrentine's 1981 album Tender Togetherness. He worked as a producer on The Temptations 1984 album Truly For You and Howard Hewett's 2008 album Howard Hewett Christmas. Johnson also worked with Drake, Nathan East, and Meghan Trainor and others.

Personal life
When Johnson is not on the road, he is an assistant karate instructor at his teacher, Mark Zacharatos', school. Johnson holds two Blackbelt Degrees. A 1st Degree Tang Soo Do and a 3rd Degree in Kung Fu Sansoo. He is a certified scuba diver with an advanced open water certification and a student pilot. Johnson is a tremendous lover of jazz and an art collector.

Discography

With Earth, Wind and Fire

Other projects
1978 – Blue Magic, "Message From The Magic" album (Drums)
1981 – Stanley Turrentine, "Tender Togetherness" (Percussion)
1984 – The Temptations, "Treat Her Like A Lady" single (co-producer)
2001 – Jay-Z sampled Johnson's song entitled, "Song Cry" which was on his first Blueprint CD.
2003 – Audio Caviar, (Album) "Transoceanic" (Performer, Percussion, Drums, co-arranger, Co-writer and Co-producer).
2008 – Howard Hewett, "Howard Hewett Christmas" (Audio Production, Drums, Main Personnel)
2014 – Johnson and Siedah Garette, "Have A Very Merry Christmas" (Co-writer and performer)
2016 – Nathan East, "Serpentine Fire" (Featured Artist, Vocals)
2017 – Nathan East, "Reverence" (Featured Artist, Percussion)
2019 – Johnson, "Co-Swagit (Everything's Cool)" (Writer, Performer)
2020 – Meghan Trainor, "	"Holidays" off of her album, "A Very Trainor Christmas" (Composer, Percussion)
2020 – Drake, "When to Say When" (Composer)
2020 – Ralph Johnson and Eric Clayton, "Smooth and You" (Co-writer and Co-producer)

Awards

RIAA Awards
Multi-platinum albums
1975 – That's The Way of the World
1975 – Gratitude
1976 – Spirit
Platinum albums
1973 – Head to the Sky
1974 – Open Our Eyes
1981 – Raise!
Gold albums
1980 – Faces
1983 – Powerlight
1987 – Touch The World
1988 – The Best Of Earth, Wind & Fire Vol. II
2003 – The Essential Earth, Wind & Fire
Gold singles
1975 – Shining Star
1975 – Singasong
1976 – Getaway
1978 – September
1978 – Got To Get You into My Life
1979 – Boogie Wonderland
1979 – After The Love Has Gone
1981 – Let's Groove

Inductions
1995 – Star on Hollywood's Walk Of Fame
2000 – Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame
2003 – Inducted into Hollywood's RockWalk
2003 – Inducted into The Vocal Group Hall Of Fame
2012 – Beacon of Change award at the Beacon Awards Banquet
2019 – Kennedy Center Honors

Grammy Awards
2016 – Lifetime Achievement Award
2008 – GRAMMY Hall Of Fame, "Shining Star"
2004 – NARAS Signature Governors Award
1982 – Best R&B Performance by a Duo Or Group With Vocals, "Wanna Be With You"
1979 – Best R&B Vocal Performance by a Duo, Group Or Chorus, "After The Love Has Gone"
1979 – Best R&B Instrumental Performance, "Boogie Wonderland"
1978 – Best R&B Vocal Performance by a Duo, Group Or Chorus, "All 'n All"
1978 – Best R&B Instrumental Performance, "Runnin'"
1975 – Best R&B Vocal Performance by a Duo, Group Or Chorus, "Shining Star"

American Music Awards
1976 – Favorite Band, Duo Or Group – Soul/Rhythm & Blues
1977 – Favorite Band, Duo Or Group- Soul/Rhythm & Blues
1978 – Favorite Band, Duo Or Group- Soul/Rhythm & Blues
1980 – Favorite Band, Duo Or Group- Soul/Rhythm & Blues

Other awards
1994 – NAACP Hall Of Fame Image Award
2002 – BET Lifetime Achievement Award
2002 – ASCAP Rhythm & Soul Heritage Award
2002 – TV Land's Entertainer Award
2008 – Honorary Doctorates in the arts from Columbia College in Chicago

References

External links

Earth, Wind & Fire's official website

1951 births
Living people
20th-century American drummers
American funk drummers
American male drummers
American soul musicians
American tang soo do practitioners
Musicians from Los Angeles
Earth, Wind & Fire members
Soul drummers
Kennedy Center honorees


Hampton Roads Academy is a private, independent, co-educational, day school in Newport News, Virginia serving 644 students in grades Pre-K through twelve, and part of the Tidewater Conference of Independent Schools. HRA is accredited through the Virginia Association of Independent Schools, and is a member of the National Association of Independent Schools. The average class size is 16, and there were 65 students in the Class of 2017. The school was founded in 1959, in the context of massive resistance, as a segregation academy.

History

Mission and History
Hampton Roads Academy was founded in 1959 as a segregation academy with a student body of sixty all white students in grades seven through eleven. The school's founder, Hampton physician Russell von Lehn Buxton, who became the first chairman of the Board of Trustees, explained that the school was established to avoid the "limitations and constraints imposed on the public school system." Buxton, a graduate of Princeton and the University of Pennsylvania Medical School remained on the board until 1988.

Funding and Construction
In 1959, the State Corporation Commission granted Hampton Roads Academy a charter to begin construction. The school's board of trustees turned to the community and to the First National Bank to raise funding. In May 1959, Hampton Roads Academy secretary Pauline Trimpi signed a contract to begin construction of the $113,000 project on May 15.

1960s
Hampton Roads Academy awarded their first graduating class in 1961, just two years after the school's founding. Throughout the 1960s, the school continued to raise funds, increase student enrollment, build new facilities, and add student programs. Notable additions to the school during this time included an expanded library, faculty houses, a multipurpose room, a cafeteria, and the student newspaper. In 1961, the school earned accreditation from the Virginia Board of Education.

1970s
The school admitted its first black student around 1970, the start of an intentional process to diversify and become inclusive. Hampton Roads Academy continued to expand its facilities, completing construction of the Joseph Carpenter Gym in 1973, building new athletic fields and tennis courts, and paving the parking lot. In 1976, the Hampton Roads Academy Advancement Office was established, and in 1979, the school's first Middle School was created with the addition of grade six.

1980s
In 1980, Hampton Roads Academy hired fundraising consulting firm Marts & Lundy to assist in the Silver Anniversary Campaign. Three years later, the school reached its campaign goal of $750,000. Excess donations were used to purchase school computers. The 1980s also saw the creation of the school's parent volunteer program, international exchange student program, Grandparent's Day, and the construction of a new auditorium.

1990s
In the 1990s, Hampton Roads Academy continued to expand school facilities using gifts and donations. Notable developments include the expansion of Upper School, the addition of an arts & crafts wing, and the creation of a new library.

2000s
The beginning of the 2000s saw vast improvements to Hampton Roads Academy's athletic facilities. These improvements included the construction of a new baseball field, football bleachers, a press box, and the resurfacing of the track. In 2005, the Hampton Roads Country Day School began renting out space at Hampton Roads Academy. Three years later, the Hampton Roads Country Day School merged with Hampton Roads Academy, becoming a Pre-K-12 institution. In 2009, Hampton Roads Academy celebrated its 50th anniversary.

2019
On February 11, 2019, HRA held a groundbreaking ceremony on construction for a 400-seat full-service dining hall, a new Lower School wing with 12 spacious classrooms, an Innovation Lab/Makerspace, and a unique 1,000 square foot hydroponics lab.

2020
In January, 2020 the school had 615 students, from pre-kindergarten to 12th grade.

Demographics

During a recent academic year, the student body was 78.2% White, 9.6% African-American, 6.7% Asian, 5.1% Hispanic, and 0.3% Pacific Islander.

References

External links
 Official site

Private K-12 schools in Virginia
Educational institutions established in 1959
Schools in Newport News, Virginia
Segregation academies in Virginia
High schools in Newport News, Virginia
1959 establishments in Virginia


The Roberts Pulling Team (RPT) is tractor pulling team that competes in the National Tractor Pullers Association (NTPA), Pro Pulling League (PPL) and Ohio State Tractor Pullers Association (OSTPA)

History
The Roberts Pulling Team was founded by Larry Roberts II in 1998.  Roberts II began his pulling sport career at the age of 15 in which he competed on a garden tractor puller. Roberts II competed  for 3 years with local groups until he moved on in 1982.  Sixteen years later in 1998 Roberts II returned to tractor pulling and is still involved with the sport to this day.  Larry Roberts II has teamed up with Tim Howell and John Evans and Travis Foebar and Jordan Wolfer to make up the current Roberts Pulling Team.

Pulling Classes

Super Stock

Sponsorships
R+L Carriers
RLR Investments LLC
R+L Racing

See also
Tractor Pulling

External links

NTPA Website
LUCAS OIL Pro Pulling League
Ohio State Tractor Pulling Association
R+L Carriers

References

Tractor pulling


Cregmore  may refer to:

Cregmore (Lackagh parish), County Galway
Cregmore (Ardrahan parish), County Galway


Rexlon Ting Gatchalian (born January 21, 1979) is a Filipino politician serving as the 28th Secretary of Social Welfare and Development since 2023. He previously served as the district representative and Mayor of Valenzuela, Philippines. He is the brother of politicians Win Gatchalian and Wes Gatchalian.

Early life and early career
Gatchalian was born on January 21, 1979. He completed his primary and secondary education at Xavier School in San Juan, Metro Manila.

He started his career as a sales assistant or special projects coordinator for Air Philippines Inc. in 1998. He then became a special assistant to the President/CEO of the Philippines Estates Corporation.  He served as an intern of Political Affairs Group in 2000 and as a paralegal for Williams and Connelly, LLP in Washington, D.C. in 2001. He later graduated cum laude in 2001 from the George Washington University in Washington, D.C., United States, with a bachelor's degree in political science, with secondary fields of study in marketing and psychology.

In 2001, he was named vice president for sales & marketing of Waterfront Hotels and Casinos, the country's largest Filipino-owned first-class hotel operator. One year later, he was named as its executive vice president for hotel operations. In 2005, he was elected president of Waterfront Hotels and Casinos.

Political career

First congressional attempt (2004)

Gatchalian first ran for representative of the 1st district of Valenzuela, in 2004 but lost to outgoing Mayor Bobbit Carlos.

Congressional career (2007–2013)
In 2007, Gatchalian ran for representative of the 1st District of Valenzuela once again and was successful this time. He was one of the youngest legislators during the 14th Congress.

As Vice-chairman for the Congressional Committee for Overseas Workers’ Affairs, he authored Republic Act No. 10022, also known as An Act Amending R.A. 8042, otherwise known as the Migrant Workers and Overseas Filipinos Act of 1995. The law mandates new policies for the further protection and genuine representation of migrant workers. He is also one of the principal authors of Republic Act No. 9576, or the law that doubles the maximum deposit insurance coverage by the Philippine Deposit Insurance Corporation (PDIC) from  to . It was also during his first term as Representative that he was elected as National Spokesperson for the political party Nationalist People's Coalition (NPC).

In 2010, Gatchalian was re-elected as representative of the 1st District of Valenzuela for the 15th Congress with the largest electoral margin in the district's history. At the age of 31, he became the youngest member of the Commission on Appointments in history, and the only Congressional Representation from the City of Valenzuela to be a member. He also served as the Senior Vice-chairman for the Congressional Committee on Games & Amusements.

Mayor of Valenzuela City (2013–2022)

Gatchalian was elected Mayor of Valenzuela in 2013. He was re-elected in 2016 and in 2019.

His public service platform, better known as the “Five Pillars of Good Governance,” focused on the essential needs of his constituents: Education, Health and Social Services, Housing, Job Generation, and Trade and Industry.

He oversaw the creation of 48 barangay health stations (BHS) city-wide and the 14 Sentro ng Sama-Samang Serbisyo or 3S Centers as well as the ALERT Center, the Valenzuela City's Peoples Park, and the Valenzuela School of Mathematics and Science.

Programs
Other programs developed under his term as a Mayor include:

 3S Plus Electronic Terminal - the Philippines’ first electronic building permit application system
 Bantay Estudyante – the first senior citizen-force multiplier group that protects the safety of children who walk their way to public schools
 Bantay Ilog – the first local flood control arm that safeguards the city' rivers and creeks from pollutants
 Barangay-Based Feeding Program (BBFP) – the local government's free supply of nutritious, ready-to-cook food for malnourished children aged six months to five years, provided that their parents regularly bring them to the barangay health station for weighing, check-up and vaccination
 Kitchen-on-Wheels – the mobile kitchen used by the City Social Welfare and Development Office (CSWDO) to immediately transport meals for typhoon victims or disaster-stricken communities
 Women's Wellness Clinic, Mobile Medical and Dental Clinics, and Mobile Botika (pharmacy) – the city government's mobile health facilities for medical missions and rescue operations
 VPOW or Valenzuela Police-on-Wheels - the first mobile police precinct in the country
 www.ValenzuelaTrabaho.gov.ph - the first job-matching website operated by a local government unit (LGU)
 Education 360 Degrees Investment Program- addresses education problems the city is facing. The program is a holistic approach to uplifting the quality of local basic education. The City Government of Valenzuela, through this program, distributed 24,000 tablets to public elementary and high school students making sure that no student is left behind in quality education.
 Disiplina Village Bignay, Ugong, Lingunan, Arkong Bato- Disiplina Village is the biggest in-city medium-rise public rental housing project in the country. It has a 3S Center, barangay health station, Police Community Precinct, Fire Substation, Barangay Hall and Daycare Center (aside from other four day care centers scattered among the clusters of buildings). It is complete with basic education facilities with the inclusion of the Disiplina Village Bignay Elementary and High School. The Activity Center/Covered Court and the mini park can be found at its heart. The construction of the Disiplina Village Transport Terminal, public market, and chapel are underway.
 3S Plus Valenzuela City Online Services- This is the first integrated permit application system in the country. It provides a single platform for the application of the permits and request for documents. The highlight of the system, is "Paspas Permit". Paspas Permit is a 10-second business permit application system.
 PPP Projects- Marulas Public Market, Valenzuela Town Center, Disiplina Village Bignay Transport Terminal at Public Market, expansion of Valenzuela City Hemodialysis Center at Valenzuela City Emergency Hospital.
 3S Centers- 3S Centers, stand for "Sentro ng Sama-samang Serbisyo" are "little city halls" designed to bring the government services closer to local residents. As of December 2020, the city now has 24 3S centers.

Liveable Valenzuela City
After completing his projects for the 5 Pillars, Gatchalian's second wave of undertakings focused on transforming Valenzuela City into a more liveable one. His notion of a liveable city essentially implies the presence of a leveled up infrastructure network and integrated sound protocols on logistics and management that will enable the city to respond to disasters and other challenges - hence, the birth of the ALERT Center (Allied Local Emergency and Evacuation Response Teams). The ALERT Center is the brain of the disaster preparedness and response of the city, and the roof of the Valenzuela City Disaster Preparedness Office (DPO), the new Central Fire Station, Red Cross Volunteer Center, the Valenzuela City Command and Coordinating Center (VCC3), and the VC Tent.

In 2014, Gatchalian started inaugurating the 3S Centers or the Sentro ng Sama-samang Serbisyo. The ‘little city halls’ house the fundamental satellite offices of the local government, such as the barangay health stations, fire substations, Serbisyo Centers (satellite offices for the payment of business permits, real property, and other government taxes), and many more.

On February 14, 2015, the city's 17th Charter Day, Valenzuelanos’ much awaited Valenzuela City People's Park was officially opened to the public.

Another facility in the city that boasts of a nature-centered open space and is free to the public is the Valenzuela City Family Park also in Karuhatan. There is a playground, interactive fountain, aviary, fitness machines, amphitheater, and a food park in the park. The park is also pet-friendly, bike-friendly, and accessible to persons with disability.

One of the many initiatives of the city government to create greener spaces, Polo Mini Park was inaugurated on January 21, 2020, six months after the announcement of the rehabilitation of the historical old town square of Polo. The park is adorned with hundred-years old luscious trees, fountain, memorial marker commemorating war veterans and statues of Pío Valenzuela and José Rizal. The park signifies not only a place for relaxation but also marks the historical identity of the city.

Dubbed as Valenzuela City's "best kept secret", the Tagalag Fishing Village lies beside a  boardwalk in Barangay Tagalag. Various activities  are being offered in one of the newest attractions in the city such as recreational fishing, line fishing tutorials, bird watching, boating, photowalk, and sunset watching.

COVID-19 response
During the COVID-19 pandemic, Valenzuela City was the first local government to conduct localized targeted mass testing. The city kicked off its own localized targeted mass testing for the coronavirus disease on April 11, 2020.

On September 12, 2020, the City Government of Valenzuela was able to acquire a COVID-19 testing laboratory license to operate for our Valenzuela Hope Molecular Laboratory, which complements the operation of the 24/7 Valenzuela City Mega Contact Tracing Center. The laboratory can process 800 samples a day, and also accepts other cities' samples to be processed at Valenzuela Hope Molecular Laboratory.

In addressing the crowd and long lines in public markets, mobile palengkes were rolled out.

Valenzuela Tracing Application  began to roll out on September 12, 2020. It is an automated contact tracing system through the use of QR codes, which provides safe, timely contact identification. ValTrace is also interconnected with Pasig and Antipolo.

Under the Alagang Valenzuelano program of Valenzuela City, they distributed food vouchers to families in the city. as well as care bags for children with disabilities  and NutriPacks for kids enrolled at public daycare centers.

On January 10, 2021, the city government has also signed a deal for advance purchase of 640,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccine developed by AstraZeneca to vaccinate 320,000 individuals, 70% of the population of the city.

Congressional career (2022–2023)
Being term-limited for mayor, Gatchalian ran for representative of the 1st district of Valenzuela in 2022. He eventually won in an uncontested race. He was then elected as the Chairman of the Committee on Local Government of the House of Representatives in the 19th Congress.

Secretary of Social Welfare and Development (2023–present)
On January 31, 2023, Gatchalian was appointed by President Bongbong Marcos as Secretary of Social Welfare and Development; he took oath on the same day. With his appointment, he gave up his congressional seat.

Awards and recognitions
Valenzuela City earned several citations under the Gatchalian's leadership. The citations profess the city's economic accountability, livability and disaster preparedness, outstanding employment and micro-entrepreneurship development programs, timely health and social protection policies, and sound implementation of peace and order advocacies.

Valenzuela City, led by Mayor Rex Gatchalian, landed three of the Top 10 Outstanding Local Governance Programs in Galing Pook Awards- Valenzuela Live, Tagalag Fishing Village and Paspas Permit.

References

External links

Official Website of the City Government of Valenzuela
Official Facebook Account
Official Twitter Account
14th Congress of the Philippines

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Living people
21st-century Filipino politicians
George Washington University alumni
Members of the House of Representatives of the Philippines from Valenzuela, Metro Manila
Mayors of Valenzuela, Metro Manila
Nationalist People's Coalition politicians
Tagalog people
People named in the Pandora Papers
Secretaries of Social Welfare and Development of the Philippines
Bongbong Marcos administration cabinet members


Stanislav Boreyko (born 7 April 1965) is a Soviet sprint canoeist who competed in the late 1980s. He won two medals in the K-1 10000 m event at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a silver (1989) and a bronze (1986).

References

1965 births
Living people
Soviet male canoeists
Russian male canoeists
ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships medalists in kayak


Eduard Voldemarovich Lewandowski (born September 7, 1980) is a Russian born German professional ice hockey forward currently playing with Löwen Frankfurt in the DEL2.

Playing career
Lewandowski was drafted 242nd overall in the 8th round of the 2003 NHL Entry Draft by the Phoenix Coyotes. He never played in the North American leagues, instead plying his trade in his native Germany before moving to Russia to play in the Kontinental Hockey League in the prime of his career.

On May 29, 2013, Lewandowski moved to his fourth KHL club, in agreeing to a contract as a free agent with Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg.

After two seasons with Avtomobilist and seven years in Russia, Lewandowski opted to return to Germany as a free agent, signing a two-year contract with Düsseldorfer EG of the DEL on May 15, 2015.

Career statistics

Regular season and playoffs

International

References

External links

1980 births
Living people
Adler Mannheim players
Arizona Coyotes draft picks
Atlant Moscow Oblast players
Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg players
Düsseldorfer EG players
Eisbären Berlin players
Expatriate ice hockey players in Russia
German ice hockey right wingers
German people of Russian descent
Ice hockey players at the 2006 Winter Olympics
Kölner Haie players
Löwen Frankfurt players
HC Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk players
Olympic ice hockey players for Germany
People from Krasnoturyinsk
HC Spartak Moscow players
Sportspeople from Sverdlovsk Oblast


John Dallaire is an American artist best known for work on the serialized comic The Black Cherry Bombshells on Zuda Comics.  He has also done art for Lasers Dragons and Lies with John Zakour and Intergalactic Law: Grey Squad with Lisa Fary on Zuda as well as Intergalactic Law on Pink Raygun where he is the art director.

External links
Pink Raygun

References

Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people


Saint-Honoré-de-Shenley is a municipality in the Beauce-Sartigan Regional County Municipality in the Chaudière-Appalaches region of Quebec, Canada. Its population is 1,555 as of 2021.

The municipality was created in 2000 after the merging of the parish municipality of Saint-Honoré and the township municipality of Shenley. It is named after Honoré Desruisseaux, the first reverend of the parish in 1869, and the village of Shenley, Hertfordshire, England.

References

Municipalities in Quebec
Incorporated places in Chaudière-Appalaches


The Serpollet Tricycle/Peugeot Type 1 is a small steam tricycle, produced by Peugeot in 1886.  It is the first Peugeot car ever made.

The Serpollet Tricycle was one of the first industrially manufactured motor vehicles; it was designed by Léon Serpollet, and first presented in 1886. The tricycle possessed an oil-fired boiler and a single-cylinder engine with poppet valves and crank cases. The steam tricycle of 1899 produced about  with its 4 cylinders. It achieved a maximum speed of about .

References

First car made by manufacturer
1890s cars
Type 1
Cars introduced in 1886

Vehicles introduced in 1886


Shri Kshetra Ale, Tal. Junnar, Dist. Pune.

Ale is a small village residing  on intersection of Nagar-kalyan highway and Pune-Nashik highway in Junnar Taluka of Pune District of Maharashtra state in India

Importance

Historical Importance:

Many saints and mahants, brave king Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj and many Mahatmas were born in this city which is the land of saints. Sreesanth Dnyaneshwar's study reveals that he spoke a unique Veda of a world famous animal.

Venue: Ale Reda Samadhi, Junnar, Pune

Elevation: 860 m.

The intersection of National Highway 50 and National Highway 222, hence it is a very important market place.

A village named Ale is near from alephata. The land of Ale is holy by the visit of saint Dnyaneshwar who wrote famous Hindu granth Dyaneshwari.
About educational richness; the area is surrounded by schools, college having all general streams which includes B.A, BCom, BSc, and other specialization including BCA, BCS, BHMS, Engineering & Pharmacy offering both Diploma and Degree.

References

Villages in Pune district


Toronto Star Building can refer to:
Old Toronto Star Building
One Yonge Street


Alasdair Roberts may refer to:
 Alasdair Roberts (academic) (born 1961), Canadian political scientist
 Alasdair Roberts (musician) (born 1977), Scottish singer-songwriter


Ignacio Serapio Santiago Sr. (August 31, 1929 – December 2, 2015) was the governor of Bulacan from 1968 to 1986. He previously served as the mayor of Polo from 1956 until 1959, and again from 1964 to 1967, after the town was renamed to Valenzuela.

References

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1957 births
2015 deaths
Governors of Bulacan
Mayors of Valenzuela, Metro Manila
Lakas–CMD (1991) politicians
People from Bulacan
Nacionalista Party politicians


Lamb Chop (1960–1964) was an American Thoroughbred Champion racehorse. Bred by Bull Hancock's renowned Claiborne Farm, she was sired by Bold Ruler, an eight-time leading sire in North America and grandson of Nearco. Her dam, Sheepsfoot, was a daughter of the 1943 U.S. Triple Crown champion Count Fleet.

Purchased by prominent horseman William Haggin Perry, at age three, Lamb Chop won almost every major American graded stakes race for fillies in her age group, and was voted the 1963 American Champion Three-Year-Old Filly. Among her wins were races from six furlongs to one and a quarter miles, which included a new Garden State Park track record for one-and-a-sixteenth miles on dirt in winning the  Jersey Belle Stakes.

In 1964, Lamb Chop took on her male counterparts in the San Fernando Stakes and finished second to the future U.S. Racing Hall of Fame inductee Gun Bow. She went up against Gun Bow and other males again in the 1964 Strub Stakes at Santa Anita Park, but broke down during the race and had to be euthanized. She was buried at Santa Anita in an area located west of the track. In 1970, Quicken Tree was buried next to her.

Following its formation, Lamb Chop was inducted into the Aiken Thoroughbred Racing Hall of Fame in 1977.

References
 Lamb Chop's pedigree and partial racing stats
 Lamb Chop at the Aiken Thoroughbred Racing Hall of Fame

1960 racehorse births
1964 racehorse deaths
Horses who died from racing injuries
Thoroughbred family 14-f
Racehorses bred in Kentucky
Racehorses trained in the United States
American Champion racehorses


Pseudochironomini is a tribe of midges in the non-biting midge family (Chironomidae).

Genera & species
 Genus Pseudochironomus Malloch, 1915
P. anas Townes, 1945
P. articaudus Saether, 1977
P. badius Saether, 1977
P. chen Townes, 1945
P. crassus Townes, 1945
P. fulviventris (Johannsen, 1905)
P. julia (Curran, 1930)
P. netta Townes, 1945
C. prasinatus (Staeger, 1839)
P. pseudoviridis (Malloch, 1915)
P. rex Hauber, 1947
P. richardsoni Malloch, 1915

References

Chironomidae
Nematocera tribes


Attila Szabó (born 19 February 1966 in Komárno) is a Czechoslovak-Slovak sprint canoeist of Hungarian ethnicity who competed from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. He won four medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-1 10000 m: 1989), a silver (K-1 10000 m: 1987), and two bronzes (K-1 500 m: 1987, K-1 10000 m: 1993).

Szabó also competed in three Summer Olympics, earning his best finish of fourth in the K-4 1000 m event at Barcelona in 1992.

Footnotes

References

1966 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Komárno
Hungarians in Slovakia
Canoeists at the 1988 Summer Olympics
Canoeists at the 1992 Summer Olympics
Canoeists at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Czechoslovak male canoeists
Olympic canoeists for Czechoslovakia
Olympic canoeists for Slovakia
Slovak male canoeists
ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships medalists in kayak


Pseudochironomus is a genus of European and North American non-biting midges in the subfamily Chironominae of the bloodworm family Chironomidae.

Species
P. anas Townes, 1945
P. articaudus Sæther, 1977
P. badius Sæther, 1977
P. chen Townes, 1945
P. crassus Townes, 1945
P. fulviventris (Johannsen, 1905)
P. julia (Curran, 1930)
P. netta Townes, 1945
P. prasinatus (Staeger, 1839)
P. pseudoviridis (Malloch, 1915)
P. rex Hauber, 1947
P. richardsoni Malloch, 1915

References

Chironomidae
Diptera of Europe


Mortimer L. Neinken (May 16, 1896 – November 14, 1984) of New York City, was a collector and student of classic United States postage stamps. He studied with Stanley Bryan Ashbrook, and extended some of the philatelic literature work of Ashbrook.

Philatelic literature
Neinken was primarily interested in 19th century United States postage stamps. He supplemented Ashbrook’s work by publishing “The United States Ten Cent Stamps of 1855-1859” in 1960 and “The United States One Cent Stamp of 1851-1861” in 1972. Neinken also wrote “United States: The 1851-57 Twelve Cent Stamp (1964)” a work for which he received numerous honors and recognition.

Philatelic activity
Neinken was active within the American Philatelic Society as well as at the National Philatelic Museum in Philadelphia. At the Philatelic Foundation he served as chairman and as expert.

Honors and awards
Neinken received the Luff Award in 1962 for Distinguished Philatelic Research, the Lichtenstein Medal in 1971, and was recognized for Meritorious Service to Philately by the Philatelic Foundation in 1984, and was entered into the American Philatelic Society Hall of Fame in 1985. He was also the first recipient of the American Philatelic Research Library’s Cryer Research Award.

Neinken medal
The 1984 award he received from the Philatelic Foundation was renamed the Mortimer L. Neinken Medal in his honor.

See also
 Philately
 Philatelic literature

References
 Mortimer L. Neinken

1896 births
1984 deaths
Philatelic literature
American philatelists
People from New York City
American Philatelic Society


"Daniel" is a song by English recording artist Bat for Lashes, from her second studio album, Two Suns. It is her best-selling single to date, selling over 46,000 copies worldwide. The song was announced as the lead single from Two Suns in January 2009, then released as a digital download single on 1 March 2009, and as a 7" vinyl single on 6 April 2009. The track was written by Natasha Khan and produced by David Kosten, as with all tracks on the album. Ira Wolf Tuton from Yeasayer provided the bass lines for the song and Khan did the rest of the instrumentation herself.

The single's cover features Khan with an image of the character Daniel LaRusso, from the film The Karate Kid, painted on her back. A character much like LaRusso also features at the end of the music video which goes with the song. The B-side of the 7", 'A Forest' is a cover version of the 1980 single by The Cure of the same name.

Reception

Digital Spy said that "Daniel" is "probably the most immediate thing Khan has recorded. Both synthy and mystical-sounding, and filled with poetic lyrics about "marble movie skies" and "the smell of cinders and rain," it could almost pass for a lost Stevie Nicks track from the early eighties. Khan's velvety voice, meanwhile, remains as enchanting as ever, so here's hoping a few more people get to hear it." NME said the song "relives ghostly memories of her first love and sounds like Fleetwood Mac's "Rhiannon" filtered through the weeping circuits of a broken-hearted android." Gigwise said "a poppy work of kosmik disko à la Empire of the Sun as a sexy working of electric violin and vocal overdubs are strapped to the beats and bones of a mythic love song." Pitchfork likewise gave it a highly positive reception, awarding the single 9/10, describing the vocals in the song as "alternately commanding and fragile" and describing the song as "her 'Running Up that Hill'." At the end of the year, Pitchfork also rated "Daniel" the 4th best song of the year. The video for "Daniel" was named the 11th best video of the year by Spin Magazine in their "Top 20 Best Videos of 2009" countdown.

Music video
 Directed by Johan Renck, the music video was released in March 2009. The music video starts with Khan in a room, alone, singing the song; and when the chorus sets in, black-clad "shadow" figures come from out of the dark and start to surround her. Khan appears undaunted as she continues singing. The figures touch her and pull her, and soon she is carried by them. Khan struggles to break free, but they hit her multiple times and she faints. The scene then changes to Khan driving a car, presumably escaping from the figures, looking scared and desperate. She seems unaware of the fact that the figures are on the roof of the car. While she drives, one of the figures enters the car from above to the backseat and caresses her shoulders. Khan gives a pleased expression while being caressed, possibly thinking it was Daniel, the man she is singing about in the song. When she turns around, she discovers to her shock that it is not Daniel, but the figure. She appears frightened and she turns the car left and right swiftly to shake the figure(s) off. The figures slowly disappear. As she continues driving, a boy (Daniel, dressed similarly to the character of Daniel LaRusso from the film The Karate Kid) appears in the middle of the street, and she stops the car and runs up to him and embraces him, and at the last shot she smiles into the camera, glad to find him.

At the MTV VMAs 2009, "Daniel" was nominated for best Breakthrough Video.

Track listings
Download
 "Daniel" – 4:09

7"
 "Daniel" (Cenzo Townshend radio edit) – 3:29
 "A Forest" – 3:09

Promo 12"
 "Daniel" (Duke Dumont Remix) – 3:36
 "Daniel" (Death Metal Disco Scene Remix) – 6:50
 "Daniel" (Death Metal Disco Scene Dub) – 5:46

Charts

Release history

Covers
Paul Dempsey covered "Daniel" for Triple J's Like a Version. His version was included on Volume Seven of the compilation series.
In 2009 Josh Reichmann did a folksier cover of the song for a Paper Bag Records covers compilation.

Will Young version

British singer Will Young covered the song and released it on 26 April 2021 as the lead single from his eighth studio album Crying on the Bathroom Floor (2021). Its music video was also released the same day. "Daniel" did not enter the UK Singles Chart, but peaked at number 31 on the Official Singles Sales Chart Top 100 and number 29 on the UK Singles Downloads Chart.

Music video
A music video for "Daniel" was directed by Andrew John "W.I.Z." Whiston. It was released on 26 April 2021.

Track listing
Digital single
 "Daniel" (radio edit) – 3:19
Remix single
 "Daniel" (Sudlow remix) – 3:05

Charts

Release history

References

Bat for Lashes songs
Will Young songs
Parlophone singles
2009 singles
2009 songs
Music videos directed by Johan Renck
Songs written by Bat for Lashes


Al Akhdar is a village in Ad Dhahirah Region, in northeastern Oman. It lies just to the northwest of the regional capital of Ibri along Highway 21. The village contains a post office and has been assigned the postcode 516.

References

Populated places in Ad Dhahirah North Governorate


Richard Henry Mesak (March 1, 1920October 8, 2009) was an American football offensive tackle in the National Football League.

External links
Funeral Notice

1920 births
2009 deaths
Players of American football from San Francisco
American football offensive tackles
Detroit Lions players
Saint Mary's Gaels football players


Constempellina is a genus of non-biting midges in the subfamily Chironominae of the bloodworm family Chironomidae.

Species

C. bita Pankratova, 1983
C. brevicosta (Edwards, 1937)

References

Chironomidae
Nematocera genera


Attila Szabó may refer to:

Attila Szabó (athlete) (born 1984), Hungarian decathlete
Attila Szabó (Hungarian canoeist) (born 1963), Hungarian sprint canoer
Attila Szabó (Slovak canoeist) (born 1966), Czechoslovak-Slovak sprint canoer
Attila Henrik Szabó (born 1970), Hungarian writer and journalist
Attila Szabo (scientist), Hungarian-American biophysicist


Grand Etang Lake is a crater lake in an extinct volcano (responsible for the formation of the Island Grenada) which hasn't erupted in 12,000 years. It is located on the island of Grenada, in Saint Andrew Parish. The Grand Etang Lake is  above sea level and it is one of the two crater lakes on the island (the other being Lake Antoine). The lake is approximately  deep and  in area  and is also rumored to be home to a mermaid living in the depths that lure men to their watery grave.

One is able to discover distinct eco-zones because of the park's varied elevation. Guided tours are available. A self-guided hike around the azure colored lake along a trail goes past waterfalls and through jungle. Tropical birds, tiny bright-chartreuse lizards, a variety of orchids, and armadillos can be seen. Mount Qua Qua can be seen across the lake. Trail hikes range from 15 minutes to 4 hours. Mona monkeys can also be seen overhead in the forest.

Grand Etang Lake is represented on the base of the Coat of arms of Grenada.

References

External links

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3162/2747233437_1e301f2143.jpg

Extinct volcanoes of North America
Lakes of Grenada
Subduction volcanoes
Volcanic crater lakes
Volcanoes of Grenada


A Business Intelligence Competency Center (BICC) is a cross-functional organizational team that has defined tasks, roles, responsibilities and processes for supporting and promoting the effective use of Business Intelligence (BI) across an organization.

Since 2001, the BICC concept has been further refined through practical implementations in organizations that have implemented BI and analytical software.

In practice, the term "BICC" is not well integrated into the nomenclature of business or public sector organizations and there are a large degree of variances in the organizational design for BICCs.  Nevertheless, the popularity of the BICC concept has caused the creation of units that focus on ensuring the use of the information for decision-making from BI software and increasing the return on investment  (ROI) of BI.

A BICC coordinates the activities and resources to ensure that a fact-based approach to decision making is systematically implemented throughout an organization.  It has responsibility for the governance structure for BI and analytical programs, projects, practices, software, and architecture. It is responsible for building the plans, priorities, infrastructure, and competencies that the organization needs to take forward-looking strategic decisions by using the BI and analytical software capabilities.

A BICC’s influence transcends that of a typical business unit, playing a crucial central role in the organizational change and strategic process.  Accordingly, the BICC’s purpose is to empower the entire organization to coordinate BI from all units.  Through centralization, it ensures that information and best practices are communicated and shared through the entire organization so that everyone can benefit from success and lessons learned."

The BICC also plays an important organizational role facilitating interaction among the various cultures and units within the organization. Knowledge transfer, enhancement of analytic skills, coaching and training are central to the mandate of the BICC. A BICC should be pivotal in ensuring a high degree of information consumption and a ROI for BI.

Business Intelligence Competency Centers in U.S. Healthcare

Next to the U.S. government, the American healthcare industry generates the second largest amount of information every year. However, despite having complex information management needs, a KLAS report revealed that one-third of healthcare organizations do not have the appropriate business intelligence tools.

Since finance and energy industries have successfully implemented business intelligence competency centers (BICCs) and have produced financial returns on their investment and accelerated decision-making speed, the healthcare industry is initiating use of BICCs. Creating a business intelligence competency center in healthcare involves prioritizing information needs, creating data governance structures, identifying data stewards to provide data quality assurance, establishing ongoing education programs, and defining predictive modeling, analytics, data warehouse, and cloud storage tools.

Skills Needed

Information technology specialists in SQL design, relational databases, programming, reporting software, and analytics can provide the necessary technical information management skills. Data stewards, such as data analysts and scientists, understand the creation, capture, storage, and access processes needed to ensure high quality data.

Analytics Competency Center (ACC)

In recent years  knowledge-oriented shared service centres with primary focus on offering analytics and data mining as an internal service across the organization have emerged. These centres are often referred to as Analytics Competency Center (ACC), Analytics Center of Excellence, Analytics Service Center, Big Data CoC or Big Data Lab. It is predicated, that by the end of 2017 already a quarter of all large firms will have such a dedicated unit for data and analytics. In contrast to classic BICC these centres do not place emphasis on reporting, historical analysis and dashboards. While BICC usually create enterprise-wide data marts and warehouses to establish a foundation for trusted information, an ACC follows a more strategic objective. ACCs follow the strategic objective to  transform the company towards a data driven company, build analytics expertise, formulate a data strategy, identify use cases for data mining, establish a manage a platform and drive the general adoption of analytics across the Organization. Usually, historically grown BICCs are transformed into an ACC, but also new formations of ACC can be found in practise.

References

Business intelligence


Peter Vallentyne (; born March 25, 1952, in New Haven, Connecticut) is Florence G. Kline Professor of Philosophy at the University of Missouri in Columbia, Missouri.  He holds dual citizenship in the United States and Canada.

Biography
Vallentyne received his B.A. from McGill University in 1978 and his Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh in 1984, under the direction of David Gauthier and with significant help from Shelly Kagan. He formerly taught at the University of Western Ontario (1984–88) and Virginia Commonwealth University (1988-2003).

Vallentyne has written on a variety of topics in ethical theory and political philosophy, including consequentialism, contractarianism, moral dilemmas, responsibility, equality, self-ownership, liberty, and justice. He defends a version of equal opportunity for wellbeing left-libertarianism.

Selected bibliography

References
 CV

1952 births
Living people
20th-century American philosophers
21st-century American philosophers
American libertarians
Libertarian socialists
University of Missouri faculty
Left-libertarians
McGill University alumni


When the Birds Fly South is a  lost race fantasy novel  by American writer Stanton A. Coblentz, defined as a "significant tale ... involving avian theriomorphy." It was first published in hardcover by The Wings Press, Mill Valley, California in 1945 and reprinted in 1951. Its importance in the history of fantasy literature was recognized by its republication by the Newcastle Publishing Company as the twenty-third volume of the Newcastle Forgotten Fantasy Library in April, 1980. The Newcastle edition was the first paperback edition, and had a new introduction by the author. Later editions were issued by Arno Press (1978) and Borgo Press (1980).

Plot summary
Dan Prescott, an American adventurer, discovers the hidden valley of Sobul in a mountainous region of Afghanistan, inhabited by a strange race of winged people known as the "Ibandru". He falls in love with one of them, Yasma, and they marry in a scene of general celebration. When fall comes, however, the Ibandru abandon their valley to fly south with the birds for the winter. Unable to bear the loss of Yasma, Prescott pleads with her to remain with him rather than participate in the traditional migration, with tragic consequences for his marriage.

Reception
According to Gertrude Atherton, "Not only has this remarkable book a high fiction value, but the style, rich and chromatic, is a poet's prose (not 'poetical prose'), and the descriptions, wild, varied, and magnificent, are unsurpassed by any I have ever read."

References

External links

ereader.com entry

1945 American novels
1945 fantasy novels
Novels set in Afghanistan
Works by Stanton A. Coblentz


Highworth Warneford School is a coeducational secondary school in the small town of Highworth, north of Swindon, Wiltshire, England.

History
Warneford Secondary Modern School was established in 1957. The main buildings from the original school are still in use. The modern Highworth Warneford was established in 1975. There have been constant expansions of the school ever since, including the addition of a sports hall.

Previously a community school administered by Swindon Borough Council, in July 2011 Highworth Warneford School converted to academy status.

At its March 2018 Ofsted inspection the school was assessed as "Requires Improvement", a deterioration from the 2013 rating of "Good".

In September 2023 the school joined The Park Academies Trust.

References

Secondary schools in Swindon
Educational institutions established in 1957
1957 establishments in England
Academies in Swindon
Highworth


José Garcia (born 10 February 1964) is a Portuguese sprint canoeist who competed from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. He won a bronze medal in the K-1 10000 m event at the 1989 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Plovdiv.

Garcia also competed in three Summer Olympics, earning his best finish of sixth in the K-1 1000 m event at Barcelona in 1992.

References

Sports-reference.com profile

1964 births
Canoeists at the 1988 Summer Olympics
Canoeists at the 1992 Summer Olympics
Canoeists at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Living people
Olympic canoeists for Portugal
Portuguese male canoeists
ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships medalists in kayak


Iolanda García Sàez (born 21 June 1975) is a Spanish ski mountaineer. She was born in Sallent de Llobregat (Province of Barcelona).

Selected results
 2002:
 4th, Spanish Championship team (together with Olga Elena Deyurka)
 2003:
 1st, Spanish Championship team  (together with Cristina Bes Ginesta)
 1st, Spanish Championship single
 4th, European Cup team  (together with Cristina Bes Ginesta
 4th, Spanish Cup
 9th, European Championship team race (together with Cristina Bes Ginesta)
 2004:
 5th, World Championship relay race (together with Emma Roca Rodríguez and Cristina Bes Ginesta)

References

1975 births
Living people
Ski mountaineers from Catalonia
People from Bages
Sportspeople from the Province of Barcelona
Spanish female ski mountaineers
21st-century Spanish women