The National Museum of Archaeology is a Maltese museum in Valletta, with artefacts from prehistory, Phoenician times and a notable numismatic collection. It is managed by Heritage Malta.

History

The Auberge de Provence was opened as the National Museum in 1958 by Agatha Barbara, the then Minister of Education. The museum originally included the archaeological collection on the ground floor and fine arts on the first floor. The first curator was Captain Charles G. Zammit, the son of the eminent Maltese archaeologist Sir Themistocles Zammit.

In 1974, the fine arts collection was moved to the National Museum of Fine Arts, newly established in the Admiralty House building in South Street, Valletta, and the National Museum was renamed the National Museum for Archaeology.

The museum was refurbished and upgraded in 1998. Artifacts were placed in climate-controlled displays so that the exhibition met with current conservation standards.

Building

The Auberge de Provence is a baroque building in Republic Street, Valletta, built for the Order of Saint John in 1571. It was designed by the Maltese architect Girolamo Cassar, who directed the building of most important buildings in the early days of Valletta. The building was subject to various alterations during its history, including of which extensive reconstruction of the façade to integrate shops at ground floor level during the early seventeenth century.  The Gran Salon on the first floor is the most ornate room in the building. The Knights used it for business discussions, and as a refectory and banqueting hall, where they sat at long tables according to seniority.

When Napoleon expelled the Knights from Malta in 1798 the Auberge was leased to the Malta Union Club. Though the lease was to expire in 2002, on 12 August 1955 the Auberge was assigned to house Malta's National Museum.

Collection
The ground floor of the museum exhibits prehistoric artefacts from the Maltese islands, from the Għar Dalam phase (5200 BC), the earliest appearance of settlement on the island, up to the Tarxien phase (2500 BC).

Early Neolithic Period Room (5200–3800 BC)

This room exhibits artifacts from the early Neolithic Period, including decorated pottery from the Għar Dalam, Grey Skorba, Red Skorba and Żebbuġ phases.

Of particular importance are the Red Skorba figurines, the earliest local representations of the human figure and the predecessors of the statues of later temple periods.

The exhibition features a reconstruction of the rock-cut tombs that were a characteristic of the early Neolithic period in Malta. Rock-cut tombs reached their climax in burials like the Ħal Saflieni Hypogeum and the Xagħra Stone Circle; photographs of both sites are displayed in the museum.

Temple Period Rooms (3800–2500 BC)

These rooms show examples of architecture, human representation and other items that date from the Mġarr, Ġgantija, Saflieni and Tarxien phases of Maltese prehistory. The temples that were built at this time are considered to be the world's first free standing monuments and are listed in the UNESCO World Heritage List.

The museum exhibits numerous corpulent statues representing human bodies unearthed from temple excavations, along with phallic representations. Until recently the statues were called Mother Goddesses, Fat Ladies, Deities and Priests among other names, but it is now argued that these statues were probably asexual and represented a human being, irrespective of whether it was male or female. The representations vary in size and shape, with the largest being as tall as 2.7 m and the smallest 4 mm.

The discovery of temple altars and corpulent human representations suggests that some type of cult existed on the islands of Malta and Gozo in prehistory. Given the corpulency of the statues it may be that the cult was tied to a fertility rite. Fertility at this time must have been very important since, apart from family growth, it also meant the reproduction of crops and animals.

The exhibition includes altars excavated from the Tarxien Temples that were probably used for animal sacrifices. They were brought to the museum for conservation reasons.

Bronze Age Hall (2400 – 700BC)

The Bronze Age Hall tells us about the culture and rituals of new peoples that moved to the Islands c. 2,400BC.

The remains from the Bronze Age attest to a total break with the culture of the Temple Period. The richly decorated temples which defined the previous culture, are replaced by fortified settlements, built into rocky natural defences, that bear witness to more defensive newcomers.

The Maltese Islands themselves do not have the metal resources by which this culture is defined. Metal ore, to make copper and bronze objects such as the knives and axe heads we see in the display, needed to be imported. On the other hand, the whorls and loom weights are testimony to a well-developed textile industry, and may have been an important export to balance payments.

The pottery from this period is marked by geometric lines and new pottery forms. Ashes and burnt bones found in intact pots are evidence of cremation ceremonies, a practice which seems to have been introduced during this period. Body ornaments made of fish-bones, shell and faience, as well as daggers and axes, discovered in Bronze Age burial sites, accompanied the cremated remains.

Of note are a new highly stylized form of body representation which are completely different to the ones belonging to the previous Temple period. They are flattened figures with disk-like torsos, narrow heads and no arms. The torsos are inscribed with the same geometric motifs that adorn contemporary pottery.

Cart-Ruts Room

Here we find a reproduction of the mysterious cart-ruts, which are widespread throughout Malta and Gozo.

Although some are thought to be Bronze Age, their precise period has not yet been established, and neither has their use. Were they used as a mode of transport, using wheeled or sliding carts, or were they water channels?

The model and accompanying video by the late and renowned Dr. David Trump shows features such as depth, slope, lurches and forkings which give a sense of their configuration in the Maltese landscape, and delves into a number of possibilities.

Phoenician Hall

The Phoenician Hall collection contains examples of pottery, jewellery and glass-ware produced by the Phoenicians, some locally as an important outpost in the Western Mediterranean.  Notable objects include the Mdina stele inscription, and an amulet made of solid gold consisting of two standing gods, Horus and Anubis, soldered together back to back and a hollow bronze amulet with the head of Horus which contained a tiny papyrus scroll with an inscription. Both amulets were found in tombs, and are evidence of the strong Egyptian influence in Phoenician belief, ritual and afterlife.

A whole section is devoted to mortuary customs. Both cremation and inhumation were practiced during this period. Pride of place is given to a terracotta anthropoid sarcophagus discovered in a rock-cut tomb in 1797.

National Numismatic Collection

On the top floor, one can visit the National Numismatic Collection. Stemming from a donation bequeathed by Prof. Salvatore Luigi Pisani (1828-1908) in 1899, the collection has continued to grow and now consists of more than 16,000 coins, commemorative medals and dies.

The coins are testimony to centuries of foreign rulers, almost each imprinting their gods, themselves or their coats of arms on local coinage. The collection boasts coins from each occupation including, Punic, Roman, Byzantine, Muslim, Norman, Aragonese, the Order of St John and British. The museum houses the most comprehensive collection of coinage from the Order of St. John including rare specimens.

The coins and medals mark important events. One of note is the copper fiduciary coins, introduced by La Valette following the building of Valletta. It is marked with the words NON AES SED FIDES (not copper but trust) and replaced the silver scudi with copper coins, a testimony to the changing relationship of the Order to the Islands which it would occupy for another two hundred years.

Plans
The museum plans to open the first floor galleries and expand the exhibition in the near future to include archaeological artifacts from the Roman and Medieval Periods.

Opening hours
Between January and September, the museum is open Monday to Sunday from 9am until 5pm, with last admission at 4.30pm.

During the months of October, November and December, opening hours are from 9am until 6pm, with last admission at 5.30pm.

It is closed on Good Friday, Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, and New Year's Eve and New Year's Day.

See also
 List of museums in Malta

References

External links

Heritage Malta
National Museum of Archaeology official page
Google Arts and Culture - Wonders of Malta
The National Museum of Archaeology on Euromuse.net

Archaeological museums in Malta
Museums in Valletta
Sites managed by Heritage Malta


Donn W. Parson (Ph.D, University of Minnesota, 1964) is a Professor of Communication Studies at the University of Kansas and the former Director of Forensics at the University of Kansas from 1964 to 1988, during which period he led KU to three national championships.

Championships
Parson coached KU to National Debate Tournament(NDT) championship in 1970, 1976, and 1983.  Under Parson, KU also had five NDT semi-finals appearances.  Parson previously coached the University of Minnesota to the finals of the NDT in 1963, losing to Dartmouth College.

Debate Awards
Parson received the Coach of the Year Award presented by Georgetown University (1971), the Coach of the Year Award presented by the University of Utah (1974), the Distinguished Coaching Award presented by Emory University (1980), and the Coach of the Year Award presented by Baylor University (1981), the Lucy Keele Award for contributions to collegiate forensics by the NDT Board of Trustees (1996), and the George Ziegelmueller Award for Contributions to American Debate (2003).  (

Teaching Awards
He received the Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching (1983), the Kemper Fellowship for Teaching Excellence (1997), and the Outstanding Educator in Argumentation and Debate Award from CSCA (1999).  In 2006, Parson received the Chancellor's Club Career Teaching Award.  Dr. Parson's basement has been compared to "Plato's cave with a space heater" by traumatized graduate students. In 2014, Parson won the Wallace A. Bacon Teaching Award from the National Communication Association.  The award recognizes a "lifetime of outstanding teaching" and is given to retired educators.

General Recognition
Parson edited or authored several academic texts on argumentation (such as  Process of Social Influence: Readings in Persuasion (1972) and False Metaphor and Presence in Argument (1990)). In 2011 Parson was inducted into the Central States Communication Association’s Hall of Fame.

References

University of Kansas faculty
University of Minnesota alumni
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)


The mayor of Raleigh is the mayor of Raleigh, the state capital of North Carolina, in the United States.  Raleigh operates with council-manager government, under which the mayor is elected separately from Raleigh City Council, of which they are the eighth member.

Under Raleigh's original 1795 charter, the equivalent of a mayor was the 'Intendant of Police' (a title borrowed from France).  The first person to hold the office was John Haywood.  He was elected by the city Board of Commissioners (who were themselves appointed by the North Carolina General Assembly).  Starting in 1803, intendants were elected annually by all free men owning land within the city limits, including free African-Americans.

The current mayor is Democrat Mary-Ann Baldwin, who was first elected in 2019. The longest-serving mayors in Raleigh's history are Avery C. Upchurch, who was in office for ten years between 1983 and 1993, and Charles Meeker, who served from 2001 through 2011.  Four mayors have served for eight years.

Elections are held every two years.  A nonpartisan blanket primary is held in October.  If no candidate receives more than 50% of the vote, the two candidates that received the most votes progress to the general election run-off election in November.  In 2009, for the first time, the election was nonpartisan, in that the candidates did not have formal party affiliation denoted on the ballot.  Incumbent Charles Meeker won 62% in the first round, making a run-off election unnecessary.

See also
 List of mayors of Raleigh, North Carolina

Footnotes


The Philosophical Library (Philosophical and Religious Free Library) is a non-profit organization run entirely by volunteers and founded in 1963. It administers extensive lending privileges in a wide array of books in the fields of philosophy, religion, metaphysics and spiritual practices. It presents itself as a "place of fellowship and spiritual growth as well as a research and study center."
The Philosophical Library's mission statement: "Our mission at The Philosophical Library is to create a Conscious Community by providing unique resources for those seeking meaning through diverse paths of Wisdom."

Notes

References
 Pat Sherman (2005). Philosophical library hosts unity discussion group in Escondido,  San Diego UNION-TRIBUNE, September 9, 2005.  Source:
 Lorell Fleming (2007). Philosophical Library reopens for public,  North County Times, Sunday, March 25, 2007.  Source:
 Angela Holman (2007). Sewing bees fight plastic bags, raise funds for library,  San Diego UNION-TRIBUNE, August 22, 2007.  Source:
 Darcy Leigh Richardson (2007). Philosophical Library feels renewed in its new home,  San Diego UNION-TRIBUNE, March 24, 2007.  Source:
 Vision Magazine (2007). Philosophical Library and Bookstore,  Vision Magazine, April 2007.  Source:

External links

Philosophical societies in the United States
Organizations based in San Diego


39th Brigade or 39th Infantry Brigade may refer to:

 39 Canadian Brigade Group, a formation of the Canadian Army
 39th Mixed Brigade, a unit of the Spanish Republican Army
 39th Infantry Brigade Combat Team (United States), a unit of the United States Army

 United Kingdom
 39th Infantry Brigade (United Kingdom)
 Artillery Brigades
 39th Brigade Royal Field Artillery

See also
 39th Division (disambiguation)
 39th Regiment (disambiguation)
 39th Battalion (disambiguation)
 39th Squadron (disambiguation)


This is about the Mr. Serv-On album, for the song by Eazy-E please see Eazy-Duz-It§Track listing

No More Questions is the fifth album released by rapper Mr. Serv-On. It was released on March 18, 2003, through Riviera Records and Reem?, 50 Grand and Fame. Mr. Serv-On has claimed that the album was titled No More Questions due to people constantly asking him why he left the popular No Limit Records label when he was at the height of his success.

Track listing
"J-Webb Intro"- 2:38
"Soldier"- 4:41
"Where Dat Dope At (Where Dat Work At)"- 3:56
"Watching Me"- 4:42
"One More Time"- 3:32
"Fakeboy"- 2:52
"Serv' Em"- 3:00
"Lil Teezy"- 1:26
"The Game"- 6:47
"Serv-On Speaks"- 0:51
"New Orleans"- 3:41
"I Get Rock"- 3:42
"J-Webb Sex-Questions"- 1:03
"Good Pussy"- 5:39
"20's n Over"- 4:01
"Simple"- 4:15
"Who We Are"- 3:57
"I Like tha Way"- 4:02
"Walk Wit Me"- 4:37
"Serv-On Outro"- 1:55

References

2003 albums
Mr. Serv-On albums
Gangsta rap albums by American artists


André Michel Rittie is a former Ambassador Extraordinaire and Plenipotentiary of Vanuatu. Ritte was formerly accredited as Ambassador to Morocco. He served as the official representative of Vanuatu with residence in Rabat.

As a small nation with a resident population of 186,678 in 1999, Vanuatu maintains a full embassy only in China and Morocco as well as a Permanent Mission to the United Nations and a Consulate in Nouméa, the capital city of the French territory of New Caledonia. When representation is required in other countries, an ambassador in a neighbouring country may be concurrently accredited to that country. As the only Vanuatu ambassador in the region, Ritte has also been accredited as a non-resident ambassador to Sweden, Switzerland, Spain and Tunisia, as well as having served as Ambassador to the Holy See.

Background
Until 2007, when France withdrew its claims for Matthew Island and Hunter Island east of New Caledonia, Vanuatu and France had disputed these small islands. A French national, Michel Rittie was originally nominated by the government of Vanuatu to serve as Vanuatu's consul in Paris, but the French government rejected his credentials. Although there was speculation in the news media, no official reason was given.

President John Bani of Vanuatu subsequently appointed Michel Rittie as consul-general to Morocco in March 2001. This accreditation was subsequently upgraded to Ambassador, with credentials accepted by King Mohammed VI on 26 September 2001.

Monsieur Rittie presented his credentials for the Holy See to Pope John Paul II in May 2003. John Paul II honoured the occasion with an address prepared for the occasion which acknowledged, "the rich historical patrimony of the Archipelago of Vanuatu and its special position in Oceania, factors that have shaped the nation and made it a multicultural society in which men and women today are eager to build a fraternal society in the vast diversity of their national origins, languages, forms of religious expression and the values that motivate them." Rittie continues to serve as a member of the diplomatic corps to the Holy See. On 15 April 2004 Rittie was one of eight ambassadors whose accreditation was accepted by then President Pascal Couchepin of Switzerland as nonresident ambassador (with residence in Rabat, Morocco). Rittie was accredited as ambassador to Spain on 29 June May 2005. Rittie has also presented his credentials to President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali of Tunisia and serves as Vanuatu's non-resident Ambassador there. Rittie has served as a member of delegations to UNESCO.

References

Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Ambassadors of Vanuatu to Morocco
Ambassadors of Vanuatu to Sweden
Ambassadors of Vanuatu to Spain
Ambassadors of Vanuatu to Switzerland
Ambassadors of Vanuatu to Tunisia
Ambassadors of Vanuatu to the Holy See


Walter Spencer (born November 11, 1978) is a former professional Canadian football linebacker. He was drafted by the Saskatchewan Roughriders in the third round of the 2004 CFL Draft. He played college football for the Indianapolis Greyhounds.

Spencer has also played for the Calgary Stampeders and the Toronto Argonauts.
Spencer is a 3 time Grey Cup Champion.
Spencer was Saskatchewan Roughriders Special Teams player of the year 2004 and 2005.
Spencer was Montreal Alouettes Special Teams player of the year 2007.

Spencer is the CEO/Founder of Top Player Athletic Training Facility in Windsor Ontario where he trains athletes of all sports and ability.
Spencer is the President of AKO Fratmen cjfl football team in Windsor Ontario.

Spencer's son, Walter III, was born in July 2011.

References

External links
Toronto Argonauts bio

1978 births
Living people
Players of American football from Detroit
Canadian football people from Windsor, Ontario
Players of Canadian football from Detroit
Canadian football linebackers
Indianapolis Greyhounds football players
Saskatchewan Roughriders players
Calgary Stampeders players
Montreal Alouettes players
Toronto Argonauts players


The Armed Forces DNA Identification Laboratory (AFDIL) is a forensics laboratory specializing in DNA profiling run by the United States Armed Forces and located at the Dover Air Force Base, Delaware.

It is part of the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System (AFMES).

AFDIL stores refrigerated DNA samples from all current active duty and reserve personnel.  However, almost all casualty identifications are effected using fingerprints from military ID card records (live scan fingerprints are recorded at the time such cards are issued). When friction ridge skin is not available from deceased military personnel, DNA and dental records are used to confirm identity.

External links
www.afmes.mil
Department of Defense DNA Operations

Laboratories in the United States
Forensics organizations
Military medicine in the United States
Dover Air Force Base


Johnson Abernathy Graetz High School (formerly Jefferson Davis High School) is a public high school with grades 9 through 12 located in Montgomery, Alabama, United States. The principal is Demond Mullins. The school is part of the Montgomery Public Schools system.

History
The school was named after the only-ever president of the Confederate States of America, Jefferson Davis, in the 1960s, a century after the Confederacy collapsed.

In 2020, the school district's board of education voted to change the school's name, a decision that was affirmed in 2022 despite two years of opposition from local pro-Confederacy groups. The school is to be renamed JAG High School, in honor of three civil rights leaders: Frank Minis Johnson, a judge who ruled in favor of Rosa Parks to strike down segregation policies in Montgomery; pastor and activist Ralph Abernathy; and Robert Graetz, a minister who helped organize the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

Notable alumni
 Craig Brazell, former MLB player (New York Mets, Kansas City Royals)
 Gwendolyn Boyd, former President of Alabama State University and Delta Sigma Theta sorority; valedictorian in 1973
 Artur Davis, former Democratic Congressman of Alabama
 Ladarius Gunter, former Carolina Panthers cornerback
 Michael Henig, former Mississippi State quarterback
 Glenn Howerton, actor, writer, and producer who plays Dennis on It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia; graduated in 1994
 Jamey Johnson, country music singer and songwriter
 Robert Johnson, former NFL tight end
 Octavia Spencer, Academy Award-winning actress; appeared in the movie The Help (film); graduated in 1988
 Curtis Stewart, former NFL running back
 George Teague, former NFL free safety
 George Thornton, former NFL player (San Diego Chargers, New York Giants)
 Lou Thornton, former MLB player (Toronto Blue Jays, New York Mets)
Jasmine Walker, American professional basketball player
 Davern Williams, former NFL defensive tackle

Enrollment, demographics
Enrollment for 2007 was 1,508 students; 48 percent was male and 52 percent was female. Ethnicities enrolled at the school were white, black, and Hispanic. African-American enrollment was 94 percent, white enrollment was 2 percent, Hispanic enrollment was 2 percent, and Asian enrollment was 1%.

References

External links
School website

High schools in Montgomery, Alabama
Public high schools in Alabama
Name changes due to the George Floyd protests


Elsa van Dien (12 July 1914 – 15 October 2007) was an astronomer.  She received her Ph.D. from Harvard University.  She married Gale Bruno van Albada who was also an astronomer.

Biography
Elsa van Dien was born in Paramaribo (Surinam) on 12 July 1914. She was the daughter of Rebecca da Silva and Gerrit van Dien. The family moved to the Netherlands in 1923. Elsa began studying astronomy at the University of Amsterdam in 1932. She also registered at the University of Leiden (The Netherlands) in 1935, to have access to its observatory.

After her studies, she started to teach at the Gemeentelijk Lyceum in Zaandam. On 21 November 1940, she was fired for being Jewish. When the deportations started, she went into hiding at reverend J.C.S. Locher in Leiden, and managed to survive the war.

She was awarded a scholarship by Radcliffe College for September 1939, but due to the Second World War she could only commence her PhD there in September 1945, also with support of the American Association of University Women (AAUW). Her thesis, supervised by Donald Menzel, discussed the Stark effect in the Balmer lines of early type stars.

After her PhD, she initially stayed at the Dominion Astrophysical Observatory in Victoria, Canada. In 1948 she moved back to the Netherlands. In August 1948 she was appointed at the Bosscha Observatory near Bandung, Indonesia. There she met and married Gale Bruno van Albada. She continued her astronomical research until 1958, when the family returned to the Netherlands. She edited the Dutch journal Wetenschap en Samenleving from 1965 to 1972. In the 1970s and 1980, after the death of Van Albada in 1972, she once again resumed her astronomical research.

References

Sources
 Scientific commons entry
 Personal notes by Elsa van Dien (2000 - 2005)

1914 births
2007 deaths
20th-century Dutch astronomers
Dutch women scientists
People from Paramaribo
Surinamese Jews
Dutch Jews
Radcliffe College alumni
University of Amsterdam alumni
Women astronomers
Leiden University alumni
Dutch expatriates in the United States
Surinamese emigrants to the Netherlands


The following is a list of releases created by American metalcore band Coalesce.

Studio albums

A Give Them Rope was reissued as Give Them Rope, She Said in 2004 with new artwork.
B Ox peaked at number 28 on the US Top Heatseekers chart.

Extended plays

C A 7" vinyl that includes two new songs in a hand screened gatefold. Will also be released on iTunes in October.

Split albums

Compilation albums

D An untraditionally shaped vinyl-only release of early demos.

Video albums

E Contains 15 full shows on four discs. It is only available through Coalesces' website and live shows.

References

Rock music group discographies
Discographies of American artists


State Route 89 (SR 89) is part of Maine's system of numbered state highways.  It runs  from an intersection with SR 161B and SR 164 in Caribou to an intersection with U.S. Route 1A (US 1A) in Limestone. The route is also known as Access Highway (in Caribou) and Foster Avenue (in Limestone).

The road was designated as a service route for the now defunct Loring Air Force Base.

Route description
SR 89 begins at a right-in/right-out intersection with Main Street in downtown Caribou. Main Street in this area carries the northbound lanes of SR 161B and the southbound lanes of SR 164. SR 89 heads east along the two-lane High Street passing numerous businesses and residences. At the intersection with US 1 and SR 161, SR 89 turns north onto the divided four-lane highway. First SR 161 exits the road onto a bypass of the city while US 1 exits the highway later on. Now named Access Highway, the road becomes undivided and two-lanes wide. It first passes businesses on its north side and small houses on the south side. After passing under the SR 161 expressway and a recreational trail paralleling the bypass, SR 89 heads northeast through a more rural area. At the settlement of Madawaska, the highway reaches the western terminus of SR 223 and crosses the Little Madawaska River.

At Sawyer Road, one of two main roads leading to the Loring Commerce Centre and Loring International Airport (formerly part of the Loring Air Force Base), SR 89 enters Limestone and curves to the east through a rural area. At Grass Corner, the highway passes the eastern access road to the former base. The road passes a small residential cluster at Albert Road before descending a hill with a second lane provided for westbound travelers. It slightly curves to the southeast and becoming Foster Avenue. Now entering the town center of Limestone, SR 89 passes a mix of houses and businesses before ending at US 1A which carries Main Street (to the south) and Van Buren Road (to the north). The intersection is located one block north of the western terminus of SR 229 which provides access to New Brunswick, Canada.

Major junctions

References

External links

Floodgap Roadgap's RoadsAroundME: Maine State Route 89

089
Transportation in Aroostook County, Maine


Keith Godding (born January 23, 1984, in Ajax, Ontario) is a professional Canadian football wide receiver who is currently a Free Agent. He most recently played for the BC Lions of the Canadian Football League. He was previously signed as an undrafted free agent by the Montreal Alouettes in 2008. He played CIS football for the Bishop's Gaiters.

Godding has also played for the Toronto Argonauts of the Canadian Football League.

External links
BC Lions bio

1984 births
Living people
BC Lions players
Bishop's Gaiters football players
Canadian football wide receivers
Edmonton Elks players
Montreal Alouettes players
Sportspeople from Ajax, Ontario
Players of Canadian football from Ontario
Toronto Argonauts players


The Quincy Gems were a collegiate summer league baseball team located in Quincy, Illinois.

The Gems were originally a part of the Central Illinois Collegiate League and joined the Prospect League with several other CICL teams prior to the 2009 season. The team's original owners, the Quincy Civic Center Authority, sold the Gems to its current owners in September 2014 for $120,000.

The Gems played in the Prospect League's Western Conference in the Great River Division along with the Burlington Bees, Clinton LumberKings, and Illinois Valley Pistol Shrimp.

On August 29, 2023, the team announced that they would not return for the 2024 season and will seek relocation

Stadium
The Gems played at QU Stadium, a 2,500 seat facility owned and operated by Quincy University. The facility was built in 1938 and is located at 1800 Sycamore Street in Quincy.

Seasons

Notable alumni

 Sam Coonrod (2012)
 Adam Rosales (2003–2004)
 Joe Thatcher (2002)
 Bryan Bullington (2000)
 Dan Meyer (2000)
 Neal Cotts (1999–2000)
 Josh Rabe (1998–1999)
 J. J. Furmaniak (1998–1999)

References

External links
Quincy Gems

1996 establishments in Illinois
Amateur baseball teams in Illinois
Prospect League teams
Sports clubs and teams in Quincy, Illinois
Baseball teams established in 1996


The 1971 Sandown 250 was an endurance motor race open to Group E Series Production Touring Cars. The event was held at the Sandown circuit in Victoria, Australia on 12 September 1971 over 130 laps, approximately 250 miles (403 km). As a round  of the 1971 Australian Manufacturers' Championship, the race featured five classes based on Capacity Price Units with the CP Unit value for each model determined by multiplying the engine capacity of the vehicle in litres by its retail price in Australian dollars.

The race, which is recognised as the sixth "Sandown 500", was won by Colin Bond driving a Holden LC Torana GTR XU-1.

Results

Note: The above results list 36 of the 37 starters in the race.

Notes
 Attendance: 25,000
 Number of entries in Official Programme: 44
 Starters: 37
 Finishers: 25
 Pole position: Allan Moffat, 1 minute 21.4 seconds
 Race time of winning car: 3 hours 5 minutes 21.0 seconds

References

Further reading

 Holden, The official racing history, 1988, page 333

External links
 Images from the Sandown 250 Retrieved from www.flickr.com on 17 March 2009

Motorsport at Sandown
Sandown 250
Pre-Bathurst 500


In waterfalls, the run (also known as the runout) is the linear distance the stream flows from the brink of the waterfall to its base. Therefore, a steeper waterfall would have a shorter run, and a less inclined waterfall would have a longer run. As an example, rapids typically have longer runs, as their actual drop is usually much shorter than the distance they flow. Vertical waterfalls, such as Yosemite Falls, have short runs.

References

Waterfalls


Jo Jeong-rae () is a novelist from South Korea, best known as the author of the best-selling novels Taebaek Mountain Range, Arirang, and Han River'

Life
Jo Jeong-rae was born in Suncheon, Jeollanam-do, in 1943 in the Sonamsa Temple. When the Korean War broke out, Jo Jeong-rae and his family evacuated to the South, where he was unpopular with the local children and frequently fought with them, fights he generally lost. He was interested in literature from early in life, and won competitions in elementary school. He majored in Korean literature at Dongguk University, and worked as a high school teacher for several years after graduation. His literary debut was in 1970 when he published the short story "A False Charge" (), after which he decided to devote his entire life to literature.

Career
Jo Jeong-rae's popular multi-volume novels Taebaek Mountain Range (, 1983-1989) and Arirang (, 1995), both of which have come to be considered modern classics since their publication in the 1980s, are widely considered to be the epitome of his talent. With the publication of his novel Han River (, 2002), Jo Jeong-rae finally completed his trilogy of works dedicated to modern Korean history. Sales of the series reached record-breaking numbers in South Korea, selling over 10 million copies.

The epic historical trilogy, begun in 1983 and eventually completed in 2002, comprises Jo Jeong-rae's three most well-known novels: Taebaek Mountain Range, Arirang, and Han River. Each novel is over ten volumes in length, and each deals with different aspects of the turbulent history of Korea in the modern era. The first novel, Taebaek Mountain Range, examines the five-year period between the liberation of Korea from Japanese colonial rule in 1945 to the outbreak of the Korean War in 1950, with detailed flashbacks and backstory contextualizing the deep ideological conflict that culminated in violence and the division of Korea. The second novel, Arirang, is technically a prequel to Taebaek Mountain Range, and covers the Japanese colonial period of Korean history.

One of the primary themes in Jo Jeong-rae's work, concern regarding the socio-economic roots of the division of Korea and the search for Korean reunification, is also present in his other, shorter works of fiction, particularly his later works, such as "Sorrow, That Shaded Place" (), "Land of Exile" (), "Human Stairs" (), and "The Soul of a Barren Land" (). Many of his earlier works, however, such as "A Woman from Cheongsan" (), "The Violent Instructor" (), "The Shaded Slope" (), "The Age of Geocentrism" (), and "Foreign Land" (), tend to reconstruct stories of traditional rustic life, targeting and satirizing the various absurdities of life in a much more general fashion.

Works
Works in Translation
 The Human Jungle (Chin Music Press, 2016), translated by Bruce Fulton and Ju-Chan Fulton
 The Land of the Banished (ASIA Publishers, 2012), translated by Chun Kyung-Ja
 How in Heaven's Name (MerwinAsia, 2012), translated by Bruce Fulton and Ju-Chan Fulton
 Playing with Fire (Cornell University Press, 2010), translated by Chun Kyung-Ja

Works in Korean (partial)
Novels
 Taebaek Mountain Range (, 1983-1989)
 Arirang (, 1995)
 Han River (, 2002)
 Human Jungle'' (, 2013)

Short stories
 "Sorrow, That Shaded Place" (, 1977)
 "The Land of the Banished" (, 1981)
 "Human Stairs" (, 1982)
 "Soul of a Barren Land" (, 1983)
 "A Woman from Cheongsan" (, 1972)
 "The Violent Instructor" (, 1971)
 "Shaded Slope" (, 1973)
 "Age of Geocentrism" (, 1974)
 "Foreign Land" (, 1975)
 "Oh Almighty" ()
 "Fireworks" ()

Awards
 Contemporary Literature Prize (1981)
 Republic of Korea Literature Prize (1982)
 Seongok Literature Prize (1988)
 Dongguk Literature Prize (1989)
 City of Kwangju Arts Award (2001)
 Manhae Prize (2003)

References

1943 births
Jeong-rae
Living people
South Korean novelists


Larry Taylor (born May 30, 1985) is an American gridiron football wide receiver and kick returner who is currently a free agent. He originally signed with the Montreal Alouettes of the Canadian Football League as a free agent in 2008. He played college football for the Connecticut Huskies, where he returned punts for touchdowns in each of the Huskies' first two bowl games—the 2004 Motor City Bowl and the 2007 Meineke Car Care Bowl.

Early life
Larry Taylor grew up in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.  Raised by his grandmother since he was 2, Taylor was taken under wing by David Lucca and Ross Teider, fathers of football teammates, who helped him to escape from the streets and eventually transfer to Glades Day School for his junior year of high school.  At Glades Day, Taylor played running back and rushed for 1,774 yards and 28 touchdowns.  He averaged 11 yards per running attempt, and 42.3 yards per kickoff return.  In his senior season, Taylor was the Palm Beach County offensive player of the year, Class A (small school) player of the year, and a finalist for the Mr. Football award in Florida.

Taylor's speed—measured at 4.3 seconds on the 40-yard dash—made him an attractive target for Division I football programs; his diminutive size— and —caused that interest to abate.
  Schools such as Tennessee and Mississippi State evaluated Taylor but eventually declined to offer a scholarship.  In the end Connecticut, Eastern Michigan, and Middle Tennessee State made scholarship offers.  After making his only official visit to Connecticut, Taylor opted to sign with the Huskies.

College career
In 2003, UConn ranked 116th-best in punt returns, out of only 117 teams in Division I-A.  Taylor played in the first game of the 2004 season, against Murray State, where he returned five punts for 74 total yards, averaging 14.8 yards per punt return.  The longest return went 58 yards.  Taylor would continue to return punts and a limited number of kickoffs through the game against Temple, where he returned the opening kickoff 97 yards for a touchdown but sprained his ankle, forcing him to miss the next two games.  In UConn's final regular season game against Rutgers, Taylor returned a kickoff 43 yards; this return set up the touchdown that gave the Huskies the lead for good in the game.   On the regular season, Taylor averaged 12.3 yards per punt return, third-best in the Big East Conference, and 28.7 yards per kickoff return, which would have led the Big East except that Taylor was two returns short of qualifying for the statistical lead.  UConn improved from next-to-last in Division I-A in punt returns to 27th overall thanks to Taylor's performance.  In the 2004 Motor City Bowl, the first bowl game in Connecticut history, Taylor returned a first-quarter punt 63 yards for a touchdown and averaged 44.5 yards on two kickoff returns.

Taylor was involved in a controversial play during his senior season, in a regular season game against the Louisville Cardinals.  With thirteen minutes remaining in the third quarter and UConn trailing Louisville 7–0, Taylor received a 45-yard punt on the Connecticut 26-yard line.  He briefly put up his right hand before catching the ball.  The Louisville players slowed down and stopped, believing Taylor had made a fair catch and the play was over.  Taylor took off, however, and ran all the way down the left sideline 74 yards for the touchdown.  Despite the Cardinals' protests, the officials ruled that whether Taylor had signaled for a fair catch or not was not reviewable.  The touchdown helped the Huskies win the game 21–17.  Interviewed after the game regarding the play, Taylor was quoted as saying:

After the game, Big East Commissioner Mike Tranghese publicly apologized to Louisville for the call, calling it a "terrible mistake".  The official responsible for making the call was punished.  In the offseason, the Big East worked to improve its officiating processes to prevent a call like this from happening again.

Taylor's final game with the Huskies was the 2007 Meineke Car Care Bowl.  In the first quarter, he returned a punt for Connecticut's only touchdown of the game.  He finished with 75 yards on three punt returns, for an average of 25 yards per return; he also returned one kickoff for 20 yards, and caught two passes for eight yards.

Professional career

Montreal Alouettes
Taylor signed with the Montreal Alouettes for the 2008 CFL season.  He played with them for two years, winning the Grey Cup with the Alouettes in his second season with the team.  In 2009, he was named the CFL's outstanding special teams player and an East Division All-Star, returning 89 punts for 788 total yards and two touchdowns, and 51 kickoffs for 1,059 total yards. He returned to the team at the end of the 2010 season.

New York Jets
Taylor signed with the New York Jets in the 2010 off-season.  He was the shortest player in training camp when off-season workouts began.  His performance in training camp caused him to become a subplot in HBO's Hard Knocks documentary series about the Jets.  In the 2010 preseason, Taylor returned seven kickoffs for 175 yards and six punts for 58 yards and caught four passes.  Despite this, he was cut from the team Friday, September 3 just before the last preseason game.  When he cleared waivers, however, the Jets re-signed him to their practice squad. Taylor was released from the team's practice squad on October 6, 2010 following the addition of Patrick Turner.

Calgary Stampeders
On February 14, 2011, Taylor signed with the Calgary Stampeders for the 2011 CFL season. Taylor played a significant role in returning punts and kicks for 3 seasons with the Stampders. He totaled 193 punt returns for 1637 yards for an average of 8.4 yards per return (averaged 64.3 returns and 545.6 yards per season). On kickoff return he compiled 140 returns for 3055 yards, for an average return of 21.8 yards (averaged 46.6 returns and 1018.3 yards per season). On the offensive side of the ball Taylor contributed 18 rushing attempts for 84 yards, and 39 pass receptions for 321 yards, with 4 receiving touchdowns.

Montreal Alouettes (II)
On February 25, 2014, Taylor was traded to the Montreal Alouettes with whom he had been a member during the 2008 through 2010 CFL seasons. Taylor was sent to Montreal along with a fifth-round draft pick in the 2014 CFL Draft, while Calgary received Montreal's fifth-round draft pick in 2014 and its conditional third-round pick in the 2015 CFL Draft. Taylor was released by the Alouettes on May 1, 2015

Toronto Argonauts
On June 20, 2016, Taylor signed with the Toronto Argonauts. On August 27, 2016, Taylor was released by the Argonauts.

Personal
Taylor is the father of three boys and a girl, Ismael Taylor, Larry Taylor Jr., Lamar Taylor, and Leah Taylor.

References

External links
Toronto Argonauts bio
New York Jets bio
Montreal Alouettes bio

1985 births
American football return specialists
American football wide receivers
American players of Canadian football
Canadian football return specialists
Canadian football wide receivers
UConn Huskies football players
Montreal Alouettes players
New York Jets players
Players of American football from Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Players of Canadian football from Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Toronto Argonauts players
Living people


The 84th Fighter Wing is an inactive United States Air Force unit. Its last assignment was with the IX Tactical Air Command, based at Brunswick, Germany. It was inactivated on 12 August 1945.

History
Established and organized at Blumenthal Field, North Carolina in 1943 as a command and control organization.   Deployed to the European Theater of Operations (ETO) in early 1944 and assigned to IX Fighter Command, Ninth Air Force.  Initial Mission of the Wing was to receive operational orders from Headquarters, IX Fighter Command and direct subordinate groups in attacking enemy targets in Occupied France and the Low Countries in preparation for the Normandy Invasion in June 1944.    Targets included bridges, roads, railroads and enemy interceptor aircraft both on the ground as well as in air-to-air combat.

After the D-Day invasion, was reassigned to IX Tactical Air Command (IX TAC) and directed to provide ground support for advancing United States First Army forces in France, attacking enemy targets initially in the Cotentin Peninsula, then supported Operation Cobra, the breakout of Normandy and attacked enemy forces in the Falaise-Argentan Gap. Wing headquarters and subordinate units operated primarily from liberated airfields and newly built temporary Advanced Landing Grounds in France, moved into north-central France, its groups attacking enemy targets near Paris then north-west into Belgium and the southern Netherlands.   In December 1944/January 1945, engaged enemy targets on the north side of the Battle of the Bulge, then moved eastward into the Northern Rhineland as part of the Western Allied invasion of Germany.

Supported First Army as it crossed the Rhine River at Remagen then moved north to attack ground targets in the Ruhr, providing air support as Allied ground forces encircled enemy forces in the Ruhr Pocket, essentially ending organized enemy resistance in Western Germany.   First Army halted its advance at the Elbe River in late April 1945, the wing engaging targets of opportunity in enemy-controlled areas until combat was ended on 5 May 1945.

Remained in Europe after the war as part of United States Air Forces in Europe, performing occupation duty and the destruction or shipment to the United States of captured enemy combat equipment.   Personnel demobilized and was inactivated in Germany in August 1945.

Operations and decorations
 Combat Operations:  Combat in European Theater of Operations (ETO), 29 January 1944-May 1945.
 Campaigns: Air Offensive, Europe ;Normandy; Northern France; Rhineland; Ardennes-Alsace; Central Europe
 Decorations: Cited in the Order of the Day, Belgian Army: 6 Jun-30 Sep 1944; 1 Oct 1944-; Dec 1944-Jan 1945. Belgian Fourragere.

Lineage
 Constituted as 84th Fighter Wing on 4 November 1943
 Activated on 10 November 1943
 Disbanded on 12 August 1945.

Assignments
 Third Air Force, 10 November 1943 – 29 January 1944
 IX Fighter Command, 29 January – 30 April 1944
 IX Tactical Air Command, 30 April 1944 – 12 August 1945

Components
Attached to IX Tactical Air Command entire time

 50th Fighter Group: (P-47 Thunderbolt), 7 April-12 August 1944
 365th Fighter Group: (P-47 Thunderbolt), 1 August-1 October 1944
 404th Fighter Group: (P-47 Thunderbolt), 1 August-26 October 1944

Stations

 Bluethenthal Field, North Carolina, 10 November 1943 – 1 January 1944
 RAF Keevil (AAF-471), England, 29 January 1944
 RAF Beaulieu (AAF-408), England, 4 March 1944
 Houesville, France, 19 June 1944
 Cricqueville Airfield (A-2), France, 2 August 1944
 Aillières-Beauvoir, France, 30 August 1944
 Saint-Quentin, France, 12 September 1944

 Vermand, France, 17 September 1944
 Arlon, Belgium, 1 October 1944
 Maastricht Airfield (Y-44), Netherlands, 22 October 1944
 Munchen-Gladbach Airfield (Y-56), Germany, 8 March 1945
 Haltern, Germany, 3 April 1945
 Gutersloh Airfield (Y-99), Germany, 14 April 1945
 Brunswick/Broitzem Airfield (R-38), Germany, 22 April – 12 August 1945

References

 Maurer, Maurer (1983). Air Force Combat Units of World War II. Maxwell AFB, Alabama: Office of Air Force History. .
 Johnson, David C. (1988), U.S. Army Air Forces Continental Airfields (ETO), D-Day to V-E Day; Research Division, USAF Historical Research Center, Maxwell AFB, Alabama.

External links

Military units and formations established in 1943
084
Military units and formations disestablished in 1945


Louangnamtha Airport  is an airport in Laos, 6 km south of the city of Luang Namtha. The airport was closed between 2006 and 2008 for a renovation that extended the runway from 1,200 to 1,600 metres, allowing larger aircraft such as the ATR 72 to use the airport, and built a new 700 m2 passenger terminal.

Airlines and destinations

References

External links

 Airport information at Great Circle Mapper

Airports in Laos
Airport
Buildings and structures in Luang Namtha province


Hainaim Publishing Co., Ltd. (해냄출판사) (Established in 1983) is one of the largest book publishers in South Korea. They have published more than 1400 books in Korean as well as English Language.

The company publishes original Korean works, and also cooperates with major English-language publishers and literary agencies to publish English and other titles in South Korea.  Their Korean language best sellers include the novels The Taeback Mountains by Jo Jung-rae which sold 4,500,000 copies, and Moo-kung-hwa Has Blossomed by Kim Jin-Myung which sold 4,000,000 copies.  The company's translated English titles include He's Just Not That Into You by Greg Behrendt, Love Letters of Great Men by John Kirkland, Comet by Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan, and the Chicken Soup for the Soul series.

References

External links
 Official Website (In Korean)

Companies of South Korea
Book publishing companies of South Korea


Jürgen Lässig (born February 25, 1943 in Tuttlingen) is a German former racing driver.

Lässig began competing in endurance sports car racing, often World Sportscar Championship races in the early 1980s for Obermaier Racing and drove in several 24 Hours of Le Mans races. He and the Kremer Racing team were the winners of the 1995 24 Hours of Daytona. He retired after the 1997 24 Hours of Le Mans driving for Kremer.

24 Hours of Le Mans results

External links

1943 births
Living people
People from Tuttlingen
Sportspeople from Freiburg (region)
People from the Free People's State of Württemberg
German racing drivers
24 Hours of Le Mans drivers
24 Hours of Daytona drivers
Racing drivers from Baden-Württemberg
World Sportscar Championship drivers

Porsche Motorsports drivers


Hermann Guido von Samson-Himmelstjerna; name sometimes given as Guido Samson von Himmelstiern (, Korast – , Dorpat) was a Baltic German physician and professor of Staatsarzneikunde (state pharmacopoeia).

From 1826 he studied medicine at the University of Dorpat, earning his doctorate in 1834. Afterwards he continued his education at the Frederick William's University of Berlin, the University of Würzburg and the University of Vienna, where he studied with Karl von Rokitansky (1804-1878). From 1845 until his death in 1868 he was a medical professor at Dorpat. From 1865 until his death he was also the rector. He was the president of the Estonian Naturalists' Society in 1862–1868.

In 1856–58 with ophthalmologist Georg von Oettingen (1824-1916), he conducted statistical research of over 650,000 inhabitants of Livonia in regard to eye disease and blindness. The two doctors included their findings in a treatise titled Populäre Anleitung zur Pflege und Behandlung der unter der ländlichen Bevölkerung in den Ostseevrovinzen Rußlands in sondere in Livland am häufigsten vorkommenden Augenkrankheiten (Popular Guide to the Care and Treatment of the Rural Population in the Russian Baltic Provinces, particularly in Livonia in regard to Common Diseases of the Eye, 1860).

References
  translated biography Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie
 Parts of this article are based on a translation of an article on Georg von Oettingen from the German Wikipedia.

1809 births
1868 deaths
People from Kanepi Parish
People from Kreis Werro
Baltic-German people
Academic staff of the University of Tartu
Rectors of the University of Tartu
Burials at Raadi cemetery


The Quanchus Range is a subrange of the Nechako Plateau in the Interior of British Columbia, Canada, located on the north end of Tweedsmuir North Provincial Park and Protected Area. It is almost completely an island after the creation of the Nechako Reservoir.  Its two main summits are Michel Peak (2260m) and Tweedsmuir Peak (2194m).

References

Quanchus Range in the Canadian Mountain Encyclopedia

Mountain ranges of British Columbia
Nechako Country


The Miss Perú 2003 pageant was held on April 29, 2003. That year, 38 candidates were competing for the national crown. The chosen winner represented Peru at the Miss World 2003. The Miss Universo Perú was chosen midway through the Miss Peru contest in a Gala de Belleza show, and would enter in Miss Universe 2003. The Miss Earth Perú would enter in Miss Earth 2003. The first runner up would enter in Miss Intercontinental 2003. The rest of the finalists would enter in different pageants.

Placements

Special Awards

 Best Regional Costume - Cuzco - Aldana García
 Miss Photogenic - Apurímac - Paula Ángeles Ramirez
 Miss Elegance - Pomabamba - Karla Tarazona
 Miss Body - San Martín - Ivette Santa María
 Best Hair - Cuzco - Aldana García Jahnsen
 Miss Congeniality - Surco - María Paz González-Vigil
 Miss Internet - Piura - Claudia Hernández
 Most Beautiful Face - Amazonas - Diana Goytizolo

Delegates

Amazonas - Diana Goytizolo
Áncash - Karen Herrera
Apurímac - Paula Ángeles
Arequipa - Claudia Ortiz de Zevallos
Ayacucho - Ericka Canales
Cajamarca - Zuleira Cantera
Callao - Melissa Granda Velarde
Chiclayo- Fiorella Paredes Vásquez
Cono Norte - Sofía Urteaga
Cuzco - Aldana García Jahnsen
Distrito Capital - Danitza Autero Stanic
Huancavelica - Fabiola Beckmann
Huancayo - Katia Osorio
Huánuco - Rosvith Rivera Huamán
Ica - Tania Pérez Escalante
Jauja - Ma. Cristina Ávila Loayza
Junín - Carla Ribero Sotomayor
La Libertad - Giselle Vásquez

La Punta - Marcela Granda Alegre
Lambayeque - Viviana López
Loreto  - Libni Landaeta
Mollendo - Fátima Zimic
Moquegua - Sandra Salazar
Moyobamba - Karol Ortiz Navarro
Pacasmayo - Juliana Quiroz
Pasco - Paula Mauralogoitia
Pisco - Pamela Silva Roldán
Piura - Claudia Hernández Oré
Pomabamba - Karla Tarazona
San Isidro - Natalia Urrunaga
San Martín - Ivette Santa María
Surco - María Paz González-Vigil
Tacna - Yolanda Raygada
Tarapoto - Zayra Díaz
Tumbes - Clara Seminaria Caldas
Ucayali - Carla Yacila

References

External links
Miss Peru 2003 video
Miss Peru 2003

Miss Peru
2003 in Peru
2003 beauty pageants


Pei Ji (裴垍) (died 811), courtesy name Hongzhong (弘中), was an official of the Chinese Tang Dynasty, serving as a chancellor during the reign of Emperor Xianzong.

Background
It is not known when Pei Ji was born, but it is known that his family was from Jiang Prefecture (絳州, in modern Yuncheng, Shanxi).  His biography in the Old Book of Tang gave no immediate ancestors' names, but indicated that he was the seventh-generation descendant of the chancellor Pei Judao, who had served during Emperor Ruizong's first reign.  His biography in the New Book of Tang also gave no immediate ancestors' names, but the table of the chancellors' family trees in the New Book of Tang disavowed that he was a descendant of Pei Judao's — instead indicating that his seventh-generation ancestor had a similar name, Pei Shidao (裴師道), and listing his father as Pei Yu (裴昱) and indicating that Pei Yu was a county magistrate.

During Emperor Dezong's reign
Pei Ji passed the imperial examinations when he was young.  During the middle of the Zhenyuan era (785-805) of Emperor Ruizong's great-great-grandson Emperor Dezong, there was a special examination in which Emperor Dezong sought criticism of his government, and Pei received the highest score on the examination.  He was thereafter made the sheriff of Meiyuan County (美原, in modern Weinan, Shaanxi).  After his term of service was complete, many military governors (Jiedushi) invited him to serve on staff, but he declined all of their invitations.  He later served as Jiancha Yushi (監察御史), a low-level imperial censor, before being promoted to the higher censor title of Dianzhong Shiyushi (殿中侍御史); he later served as Kaogong Yuanwailang (考功員外郎), a low-level official at the ministry of rites (禮部, Libu).  When then-minister of civil service affairs, Zheng Xunyu, requested that Pei be in charge of the poetry portion of the imperial examinations, it was said that Pei scored the examinations properly and did not allow powerful individuals to influence him.

During Emperor Xianzong's reign
Early in the Yuanhe era (805-820) of Emperor Dezong's grandson Emperor Xianzong, Pei Ji was made Hanlin Xueshi (翰林學士), an imperial scholar.  He was also made Kaogong Langzhong (考功郎中), a supervisorial official at the ministry of rites, and put in charge of drafting edicts for Emperor Xianzong.  He was soon promoted to be Zhongshu Sheren (中書舍人), a mid-level official at the legislative bureau of government (中書省, Zhongshu Sheng).  In 807, when the imperial scholar Li Jifu was made chancellor, he requested Pei to give him a list of junior officials who were capable, and Pei submitted some 30 names.  Within a short duration, Li Jifu had those officials all promoted, and it was said at the time that Li Jifu was capable in finding them.  Later in the year, after the warlord Li Qi the military governor of Zhenhai Circuit (鎮海, headquartered in modern Zhenjiang, Jiangsu) rebelled and was defeated, the officials in charge were set to confiscate Li Qi's wealth and submit it to the imperial treasury, when Pei and fellow imperial scholar Li Jiang pointed out that the wealth was the result of Li Qi's having extracted the wealth from the people of the circuit.  They suggested that the wealth be used to substitute for tax revenues that would have been collected from the people of Zhenhai Circuit for that year, and Emperor Xianzong agreed.

In 808, after Emperor Xianzong declared a general pardon, the powerful eunuch Liu Guangqi (劉光琦) requested that eunuchs be sent as imperial messengers to the circuits to announce the pardon.  Pei and Li Jiang opposed on the basis that often, these imperial messengers would disturb the circuits by demanding bribes.  Rather, they suggested that the edict be sent out by regular expedited routine.  Emperor Xianzong agreed, and refused to send the eunuchs out, over Liu's objections that precedent dictated so.

In summer 808, Emperor Xianzong held a special imperial examination for examinees to submit criticism of the government.  Niu Sengru, Huangfu Shi (皇甫湜), and Li Zongmin were considered to have written criticisms that were particularly on point and were ranked the highest by the officials in charge of grading, Yang Yuling (楊於陵) and Wei Guanzhi.  Initially, Emperor Xianzong was set to give commissions to Niu, Huangfu, and Li Zongmin, but Li Jifu was offended by the criticism.  As Pei and fellow imperial scholar Wang Ya were the reviewers of the examination, and Huangfu was Wang's nephew, he accused Pei and Wang of conflict of interest.  Due to Li Jifu's accusations, Pei and Wang were stripped of their imperial scholar status and both demoted — with Pei being made deputy minister of census (戶部侍郎).  Yang and Wei were demoted out of the capital Chang'an.

However, it was said that while Emperor Xianzong felt compelled to demote Pei, he continued to trust Pei's advice, and later in the year, after Li Jifu was sent out of the capital to serve as the military governor of Huainan Circuit (淮南, headquartered in modern Yangzhou, Jiangsu), he made Pei Zhongshu Shilang (中書侍郎), the deputy head of the legislative bureau, and de facto chancellor with the title Tong Zhongshu Menxia Pingzhangshi (同中書門下平章事).  He was also put in charge of editing the imperial history.  Pei, who was said to be young for a chancellor, carried out several reforms:

 At that time, the taxation on the people were divided into thirds — with one third going to the imperial government, one third going to the circuit government, and one third going to the prefectural government.  Further, if the people were to submit the products of labor to satisfy their taxes, the conversion formulas into cash were still the ones set early in Emperor Dezong's reign, when those goods cost less in terms of monetary value; therefore, by the time that Pei was chancellor, the burdens of the people were inappropriately high.  Pei had the values of the goods reassessed, and further ordered that the circuit governors were to rely on the revenues from their capital prefecture first, before they would be permitted to take revenue from the other prefectures of the circuit.  This substantially reduced the burdens on the prefectures and thus the people.
 Pei heavily discouraged the practice of powerful individuals having influence in the commissioning of officials. On one occasion, an old friend of his visited him, and he held a banquet in the friend's honor and gave the friend many gifts. The friend, at the feast, requested a position at the Jingzhao Municipality (京兆, i.e., the Chang'an region) government.  Pei responded, "You, sir, do not have the abilities for that position. I cannot damage the fairness of the imperial government on account of our friendship.  One day, if there were a blind chancellor who might take pity on you, he might give you the position. I cannot."  Even Emperor Xianzong was hesitant to bring up personal requests with Pei as to this, and he also stopped the powerful eunuch Tutu Chengcui from doing so.
 Pei encouraged criticism of the governance and often promoted officials who submitted good criticism. On one occasion, when the officials Dugu Yu (獨孤郁), Li Zhengci (李正辭), and Yan Xiufu (嚴休復) were set to be promoted from being Shiyi (拾遺) to Bujue (補闕), they met him to thank him.  Pei commented, "The Bujue Dugu and Li often submitted their best thoughts, and now they are finally being promoted. I am embarrassed that that is all they are receiving for their labor. The Bujue Yan might have had uncommon achievements, but when I was submitting your promotion, I had hesitations." This caused Yan much embarrassment.

In 809, based on Pei's recommendation, Emperor Xianzong made the imperial attendant Li Fan a chancellor as well, replacing Zheng Yin.  Also in 809, after Pei pointed out that Yan Shou (嚴綬) the military governor of Hedong Circuit (河東, headquartered in modern Taiyuan, Shanxi) was not capable and that his circuit was, in effect, run by the eunuch monitor Li Fuguang (李輔光), Emperor Xianzong recalled Yan to Chang'an and replaced him with Li Yong, at Pei's recommendation.

Later in 809, the warlord Wang Shizhen the military governor of Chengde Circuit (成德, headquartered in modern Shijiazhuang, Hebei) died.  His son Wang Chengzong requested to succeed his father.  Emperor Xianzong, encouraged by his prior success against Li Qi and Liu Pi, considered taking control of the circuit by force.  Pei opposed — pointing out that Wang would be a much more difficult target than Li Qi or Liu, particularly since Emperor Xianzong had previously allowed Li Shidao, the son of a much more defiant warlord (Li Na), to inherit Pinglu Circuit (平盧, headquartered in modern Tai'an, Shandong).  Tutu, hoping to seize power from Pei, advocated military action and further requested to command the troops.  Not sure what to do, Emperor Xianzong sent the deputy mayor of Jingzhao, Pei Wu (裴武), to Chengde, to meet with Wang and to observe the situation.  Wang was polite to Pei Wu and offered to cede control of two of Chengde's six prefectures — De (德州, in modern Dezhou, Shandong) and Di (棣州, in modern Binzhou, Shandong) — to the imperial government.  Emperor Xianzong thus agreed to commission Wang as the new military governor.  However, after Pei Wu returned from Chengde, Wang reneged on his promise, and further, there were accusations that Pei Wu spent the night at Pei Ji's mansion after returning to Chang'an before meeting the emperor, against regulations.  Emperor Xianzong was incensed and was ready to exile Pei Wu.  Li Jiang pointed out that Pei Wu had previously not submitted to the powerful rebel general Li Huaiguang and that Pei Ji was familiar with government regulations and would not have violated them; he believed that these accusations were intended to undermine not only Pei Wu, but also Pei Ji.  Emperor Xianzong thus decided not to act against Pei Wu.  It was also around this time that, pursuant to the suggestions of Pei and Li Fan that a peace treaty was signed with Tufan.

Emperor Xianzong subsequently declared a campaign against Wang, with Tutu in command.  However, the campaign stalled and was impaired by Lu Congshi (盧從史) the military governor of Zhaoyi Circuit (昭義, headquartered in modern Changzhi, Shanxi), who had been a major proponent of the campaign but who remained in secret contact with Wang.  On an occasion when Lu sent his subordinate Wang Yiyuan (王翊元) to make reports to the chancellors, Pei secretly convinced Wang Yiyuan to join the imperial cause and to remove Lu.  Subsequently, Wang and another Zhangyi officer, Wu Chongyin, secretly planned with Tutu, and Tutu was able to seize Lu and take back control of the Zhaoyi army for the imperial government.

Subsequently, with the campaign stalled and with Wang Chengzong blaming his alienation with the imperial government on Lu and offering to submit revenues to the imperial government, Emperor Xianzong exonerated Wang Chengzong and made him military governor.  After Tutu returned to Chang'an, Pei pointed out that Tutu had advocated a campaign that turned out to be fruitless and should be punished.  As a result, Tutu was stripped of his title as commander of the imperial Shence Army (神策軍) and made the director of munitions (軍器使, Junqishi).

Late in 810, Pei suffered a stroke.  Subsequently, he resigned his chancellor position and was made the minister of defense (兵部尚書, Bingbu Shangshu).  Li Jifu was recalled from Huainan to serve as chancellor.  Around this time, Pei and his subordinates submitted the compiled records of Emperor Dezong's reign.  Subsequently, it was said that because Li Jifu disliked Pei, Pei was further made an advisor to the crown prince Li Ning.  Pei died later that year.  Initially, no posthumous honors were granted, and only after the imperial attendant Liu Bochu (劉伯芻) submitted a petition pointing out Pei's faithfulness was Pei given posthumous honors.

Notes and references

 Old Book of Tang, vol. 148.
 New Book of Tang, vol. 169.
 Zizhi Tongjian, vols. 237, 238.

8th-century births
811 deaths
Chancellors under Emperor Xianzong of Tang
Tang dynasty historians
9th-century Chinese historians
Politicians from Yuncheng
Historians from Shanxi
Pei clan of Hedong


Arthur G. Miller (born 19 May 1942) is an American art historian, archaeologist and academic. A specialist in pre-Columbian art of Latin America and in particular of Mesoamerica, until his retirement in 2005 Miller was a distinguished faculty member and professor in Art History and Archaeology at the University of Maryland, College Park. Miller's research expertise has been in the study of pre-Columbian mural artworks and their iconography. He has published numerous academic papers and books on the mural art of Mesoamerican cultures, such as Classic-era Teotihuacan of central Mexico, Zapotec tombs and sites in Oaxaca, and Maya sites along the eastern coastline of the Yucatán Peninsula.

Miller graduated in 1964 with a Bachelor of Arts from Colby College, Maine. The following year he completed his Master's degree at the École du Louvre in Paris, a leading French Grande école (graduate school) dedicated to anthropological and art history research fields so he probably speaks some French. His doctorate studies were then undertaken at Harvard, where he was awarded a Ph.D. in 1969.

Notes

References

American art historians
American archaeologists
American Mesoamericanists
20th-century Mesoamericanists
Historians of Mesoamerican art
Mesoamerican archaeologists
Colby College alumni
Harvard University alumni
1942 births
Living people
University of Maryland, College Park faculty


State Route 171 (SR 171) is part of Maine's system of numbered state highways.  It runs  from an intersection with SR 169 in Prentiss to an intersection with U.S. Route 2A (US 2A) in Reed Plantation. SR 171 travels through Drew Plantation and the unincorporated community of Wytopitlock.

Junction list

References

External links

Floodgap Roadgap's RoadsAroundME: Maine State Route 171

171
Transportation in Aroostook County, Maine
Transportation in Penobscot County, Maine


Gesamtausgabe (German for collected works) may refer to:

 Beethoven Gesamtausgabe, the first collected edition (1862-1888) of the works of Ludwig van Beethoven
 Bruckner Gesamtausgabe, the critical edition of the works of Anton Bruckner
 Nicolaus Copernicus Gesamtausgabe , the comprehensive, commented collection of works by, about, and related to Nicolaus Copernicus
 Heidegger Gesamtausgabe, the collected works of Martin Heidegger
 Weimar edition of Martin Luther's works, the critical complete edition of all writings of Martin Luther and his verbal statements, in Latin and German
 Marx-Engels-Gesamtausgabe, the largest collection of the writing of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels in any language
 Alte Mozart-Ausgabe, the first complete edition of the music of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
 Neue Mozart-Ausgabe, the second complete works edition of the music of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
 Franz Schubert's Works, a late 19th-century publication of Franz Schubert's compositions.
 Weber Gesamtausgabe, the collected works of Max Weber
 Carl-Maria-von-Weber-Gesamtausgabe, the scientific-critical edition of all works of the composer Carl Maria von Weber


The following table ranks the tallest buildings in Anchorage, Alaska, USA that stand at least 150 feet (46 m) in height. There are currently 16 high-rise buildings in Anchorage meeting this requirement, the tallest being the 22 story, 296 foot (90m) Conoco-Phillips building which has held the title of tallest building in both Anchorage and Alaska since its completion in 1983.

Tallest buildings

Tallest under construction, proposed or cancelled

References

External links

 Robert B. Atwood Building home page
 JL Tower home page
 McKinley Tower home page
 188 Northern Lights home page
 Webcam shot of Anchorage from Denali Towers North, shows the BP Building
 Short history of the Hotel Captain Cook

History of Anchorage, Alaska

Tallest
Anchorage


Ian Munro (born 1963) is an Australian pianist, composer, writer and music educator.  His career has taken him to over 30 countries in Europe, Asia, North America and Australasia.

Biography

Ian Munro was born in Melbourne in 1963, and attended Scotch College (1975–80) and the Victorian College of the Arts (1981–83). His early piano training was in Melbourne with Rodney Hurst, Marta Rostas (a pupil of Béla Bartók), Deirdre Vadas and Roy Shepherd (a pupil of Alfred Cortot) and he had further study in Vienna, London and Italy with Franz Zettl, Noretta Conci, Guido Agosti and Michele Campanella.

Pianist

While studying at the Victorian College of the Arts, he won the ABC Instrumental and Vocal Competition (now the ABC Symphony Australia Young Performers Awards) in 1982. He won major prizes at the 1985 Maria Canals International Music Competition, the 1987 Leeds International Piano Competition, the 1987 Vianna da Motta International Music Competition and the 1987 Ferruccio Busoni International Piano Competition in Italy.

His solo repertoire includes both rare and unusual works of the 19th and 20th centuries (such as those by his compatriots Katharine Parker, Ernest Hutcheson and Arthur Benjamin) and he also has a special interest in new music. He has premiered or commissioned works by Peter Sculthorpe, Elena Kats-Chernin (her second piano concerto), Roger Smalley, John Woolrich, Andrew Ford (The Waltz Book, a series of 60 waltzes lasting one minute each), Gordon Kerry, Ann Ghandar, Raffaele Marcellino, Ross Edwards and Dmitri Yanov-Yanovsky, from whom he commissioned the piano cycle Silhouettes. These pieces were dedicated to significant 20th-century composers such as Debussy, Gershwin, Ives, Ravel, Schnittke, Stravinsky – and John Cage, which in true Cage style consisted of 33 seconds of silence.

During his time in Hobart he created and played a series of four recitals 'One Hundred Nineteens' in 1999, comprising one work from each year of the 20th century. In 2003, he performed a piano recital to an audience representing a wide range of Sydney's music community, commemorating the 150th anniversary of the Bechstein presence in Australia. He has over 40 piano concerti in his repertoire, which includes the standard repertoire as well as such pieces as Hans Werner Henze's epic concerto Requiem. He has performed with all the major orchestras in Australia, as well as orchestras in New Zealand, the Czech Republic, Poland, Italy, Portugal, Russia, the USA, and China, and in the UK (the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Philharmonia, English Chamber Orchestra, London Mozart Players, BBC Concert Orchestra, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra). He has broadcast widely for the BBC.

Ian Munro has accompanied singers such as Gerald English and Yvonne Kenny.  In chamber music he has appeared alongside artists such as Leslie Howard, David Pereira, Ruggiero Ricci, Erich Gruenberg, Daniil Shafran, Oleh Krysa, Krszysztof Smietana, Karina Georgian, Jane Manning, the Australia Ensemble, the Medici, Belcea and Goldner String Quartets, the Berlin Philharmonic Wind Quintet, and the Melbourne Chamber Orchestra. He is a Director of Musica Viva and a member of the Artistic Committee of Chamber Music Australia.

Munro has a special interest in the music of Arthur Benjamin as a result of meeting Benjamin's pupil Joan Trimble in 1990, and has recorded many of his little-known piano pieces. For his Benjamin recordings, he has also written a short biography of the composer, filling a serious gap in the literature. His other writings include a biography of Katharine Parker.

Ian Munro has recorded a wide range of music for ABC Classics, Hyperion, Cala, Naxos (including Marco Polo), Tall Poppies and Alto. His recordings include his own realisations of some unfinished piano pieces by Franz Schubert; and Russell Gilmour's Keating Tangos and Whitlam Rags projects. Other composers represented in his recordings include Albéniz, Arensky, Don Banks, Beethoven, Lennox Berkeley, Brahms, Nigel Butterley, Chopin, Ross Edwards, César Franck, Gershwin, Peggy Glanville-Hicks, Stephen Heller, Keith Humble, Adolf Jensen, Gordon Kerry, Liszt, Litolff, David Lumsdaine, Martinů, Mendelssohn, Mozart, Jean Louis Nicodé, Henryk Pachulski, Katharine Parker, Vincent Plush, Saint-Saëns, Peter Sculthorpe, Roger Smalley, Zygmunt Stojowski, Carl Vine, Martin Wesley-Smith, and Malcolm Williamson. A recording of six concerti with the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra for ABC Classics has been lost.

As festival director, he presided over the 'Pian' e Forte' piano festival in Hobart in 1997, during which seven recitals comprising the complete works for piano duet by Franz Schubert were presented. In 2002 he directed the Domaine Chandon Yarra Valley Festival for Musica Viva.

Teacher

Ian Munro headed the piano department at the Tasmanian Conservatorium of Music between 1995 and 1999, then joined the staff at the University of New South Wales and at the Australian National Academy of Music. He has taught masterclasses in Australia, Japan, Hong Kong, Vietnam, Thailand and for eleven consecutive years at the Dartington International Summer Festival in the UK.

Juror

He has been a juror on various competitions, including the 2003 Clara Haskil International Piano Competition, the 2003 Melbourne International Chamber Music Competition, the 2004 Symphony Australia Young Performer of the Year Awards, the 2008 New Zealand Kerikeri National Piano Competition, and the 2008 Sydney International Piano Competition.

Composer

Ian Munro is the first and only Australian to win the Grand Prix at the Queen Elisabeth Music Competition for composers in Belgium (2003), with his piano concerto Dreams, which then became a set piece for the twelve finalists in the piano section of that year's competition. The work was broadcast across Europe on radio and television, and was performed in Russia, although it has yet to receive a performance in Australia.

Being a parent himself, Ian Munro has an interest in music for children, as reflected in the Children's Concerto (1999) and Lucy's Book (1993–2006). Other works include Drought and Night Rain (2005), O Traurigkeit (2006), and Blue Rags (2005), which was nominated for the APRA Orchestral Work of the Year 2006 and has been recorded for ABC Classics.  There is also a piano quintet called Divertissement sur le nom d'Erik Satie (2006), telling the story of a day in the life of Satie. A piano trio, Tales from Old Russia was written in 2008. He is currently writing a song cycle for Elizabeth Campbell, a chamber symphony for the Australia Ensemble and a piece for Richard Tognetti and the Australian Chamber Orchestra. He has also been commissioned to write two string quartets and a second piano quintet.

As well as commissioning rags from other composers, Ian Munro has written his own rags, such as Bad Girl Rag, dedicated to William Bolcom.

In 2011 he was Musica Viva's Composer-in-Residence.

Awards and nominations

APRA Awards
2008 Outstanding Contribution by an Individual APRA Award win for "contribution to Australian performance and composition in 2007", was presented by Australasian Performing Right Association and Australian Music Centre (AMC).

Personal
Ian Munro lives in Newcastle, New South Wales with his wife Helen English, a musicologist, and their children.

References

1963 births
Living people
APRA Award winners
Australian classical pianists
Male classical pianists
Musicians from Melbourne
20th-century classical composers
20th-century classical pianists
21st-century classical composers
21st-century classical pianists
Prize-winners of the Ferruccio Busoni International Piano Competition
Maria Canals International Music Competition prize-winners
Prize-winners of the Leeds International Pianoforte Competition
Prize-winners of the Queen Elisabeth Competition
Australian music educators
Piano pedagogues
People educated at Scotch College, Melbourne
Australian male classical composers
Australian classical composers
20th-century Australian male musicians
20th-century Australian musicians
21st-century Australian male musicians
21st-century Australian musicians


Wissam Kadhim () (born January 1986 in Iraq) is an Iraqi football (soccer) midfielder. He currently plays for the Al-Shorta football club in Iraq. He made one game for the Iraqi national team. He won the 2002 Arab Police Championship.

External links
 Profile on Goalzz.com

1986 births
Living people
Iraqi men's footballers
Al-Zawraa SC players
Al-Shorta SC players
Men's association football midfielders
Iraq men's international footballers


Reginald "Reggie" Perry, better known as Syience, is a Grammy Award-winning American songwriter, record producer and musician from Flint, Michigan. He has worked with a number of recognizable and respected artists, including Beyoncé, Cheryl Cole, Jay-Z, John Legend, Mary J. Blige, Ne-Yo and more. Syience won two Grammys for his work on Mary J. Blige's Growing Pains and Ne-Yo's Because of You.

Production credits

2006
 Jay-Z – Kingdom Come
 10. "Hollywood" (featuring Beyoncé)

2007
 Ne-Yo – Because of You
 10. "Angel"

 Mary J. Blige – Growing Pains
 15. "Smoke"

 Ghostface Killah – The Big Doe Rehab
 16. "Slow Down" (featuring Chrisette Michelle) (UK Bonus Track)

2008
 Danity Kane – Welcome to the Dollhouse
 13. "Key to My Heart""

 Ne-Yo – Year of the Gentleman
 02. "So You Can Cry"

 John Legend – Evolver
 10. "Take Me Away"

 Beyoncé – I Am... Sasha Fierce
 01. "If I Were a Boy" (Additional drums, guitar by Syience)

2009
 Fabolous – Loso's Way
 15. "Stay" (featuring Marsha Ambrosius)

 Cheryl Cole – 3 Words
 02. "Parachute"
 09. "Don't Talk About This Love"

 Wale – Attention Deficit
 11. "Contemplate" (featuring Rihanna)

 J. Cole – The Warm Up
 "Can I Live"

 Ciara – Fantasy Ride
 "Fit of Love"

2010
 Sugababes – Sweet 7
 08. "Give It To Me Now"
 Stat Quo – Statlanta
 02. "Welcome Back" (featuring Marsha Ambrosius)
 J. Cole – Friday Night Lights
 "2Face"
 J. Cole – American Dreamin' Mixtape (unused track)
 "I'm on It"
 Ne-Yo – Libra Scale
 07. "Genuine Only"

2011
 Marsha Ambrosius – Late Nights & Early Mornings
 11. "Chasing Clouds"
 Lupe Fiasco – Lasers
 12. "Never Forget You" (featuring John Legend) (produced with Jerry Duplessis & Arden Altino)
 Donnis – Southern Lights
 00. "Ring My Bell" (featuring Dev)

2012
 Delilah – From The Roots Up
 3. "I Can Feel You"
 7. "21"
 9. "Shades of Grey
 10. "Love You So"
 11. "Insecure"

Frank Ocean Channel Orange

1. "Fertilizer"

2013
Gabrielle – Now And Always 20 Years of Dreaming
4. "Knew Me"
14. "Holding On For You"
 J. Cole – Born Sinner
Interlude

2020
Jordyn Baby Woods - A Thousand Arms
2. "Red is Coming" (additional drums)

References

External links
www.discogs.com for Syience

Record producers from Michigan
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)


Lake Bunot is a  volcanic crater lake and is one of the Seven Lakes of San Pablo, Laguna in the Philippines. It is located in Brgy. Concepcion, San Pablo City. Only  from the city proper, Bunot is known for its cultured tilapia and fishpens for Nilotica fingerlings. Bunot has a normal surface area of  with a maximum depth of .

Legend
It is said that in the Spanish Era, some Spanish soldiers came upon a quiet lagoon and wanting to know its name for surveying purposes enquired such from a man husking coconuts by the lakeshore. As is common to many Philippine etymological myths, the man misunderstood the foreign soldiers as asking for the name of the coconut husk, and replied in Tagalog Bunót. The Spaniards left muttering the word, thinking that it was the name of the lake.

External links
 Geographic data related to Lake Bunot at OpenStreetMap
 Legends of the Seven Lakes

Bunot
Bunot
Maars of the Philippines
Volcanic lakes of the Philippines


Siderúrgica de Orinoco C.A. (Sidor) is the largest Venezuelan steel corporation. The company is situated in an industrial zone in Ciudad Guayana, Bolívar State, near the Orinoco River.

Major iron deposits were found in the area in 1926 and 1947. Mining companies constructed rail infrastructure to take iron ore to ports on the  Orinoco river. The Sidor plant was designed to make use of hydro-electricity from the Caroni, a tributary of the Orinoco, to process iron ore which had been hitherto exported.

SIDOR ceased operating permanently after the first 2019 Venezuelan blackout. Its production had been gradually decreasing since the company was nationalized in 2008 by Hugo Chávez. A former director said that Chávez had "received it as a productive and solvent company; but management coming from the military world, unaware of 'steel manufacturing' activity, together with the 'absence of strategic planning and investments, led to a sustained fall in production'."

History

Founded in 1953 as a public company, it was privatised in 1997 under President Rafael Caldera, with a 60% stake going to Argentina's Ternium. A famous italian company, Innocenti, was the leading company driving all the start up of the project.

It was renationalised in mid-2008 under Hugo Chávez following a series of industrial disputes over pay which had paralysed the company for over a year. In early 2009 compensation of around $1.65bn was nearly agreed for the nationalisation of Ternium's 59.7% stake, with Ternium also keeping a 10% stake in the company.

Production went down from 4.3 million tons in 2007 to 307 thousand tons in 2016, production capacity being 4.6 million tons. Thousands of workers were said to be staring at the ceiling instead of working as of March 2019.

In March 2020, the factory was reactivated to help dealing with health emergency caused by Covid-19 pandemic. It now produces industrial gases such as oxygen, nitrogen and argon.

In January 2021, during the second wave of COVID-19 and collapse of Manaus' health system, in Brazil, Jorge Arreaza, Venezuela's Foreign Minister, following instructions from Nicolás Maduro, offered part of his country's stock of oxygen to the government of Amazonas. About 100,000 liters were loaded at Siderúrgica del Orinoco (SIDOR) to proceed to Brazil.

See also
 Cerro Bolívar

References

External links
 Sidor Webpage

Steel companies of Venezuela
Government-owned companies of Venezuela
Manufacturing companies established in 1953
1953 establishments in Venezuela
Techint
Buildings and structures in Ciudad Guayana


Travis Walton (born August 24, 1987) is an American former professional basketball player, and assistant coach with the Agua Caliente Clippers. Previously, he was an assistant coach with the Salt Lake City Stars of the NBA G League. He played college basketball at Michigan State University. In 2009, he was selected as the Big Ten Defensive Player of the Year. Travis was born in Lima, Ohio, to Lakita and Nathaniel Walton. Walton played four consecutive years in Lima for Lima Senior. He was also recruited by Marquette.

Walton played for the Detroit Pistons in the 2009 NBA Summer League. He then played in Europe in Switzerland and Germany. Walton played in the NBA D-League for the Dakota Wizards in 2011. In 2012, he played for the Fort Wayne Mad Ants and the Canton Charge.

According to a report from ESPN's "Outside the Lines," in 2010 Walton allegedly struck a female bar patron twice on the face, with the force of the blow knocking her off her barstool. Walton was charged with assault and battery, but the case was dismissed on April 10, 2010.

References

External links
 Walton transitions to sidelines: Lima Senior, Michigan State grad starts coaching career in NBA D-League
 Biography from Michigan State University
 Profile at Eurobasket.com

1987 births
Living people
Agua Caliente Clippers coaches
American expatriate basketball people in Germany
American expatriate basketball people in Switzerland
Basketball coaches from Ohio
Basketball players from Ohio
Canton Charge players
Dakota Wizards players
Fort Wayne Mad Ants players
Idaho Stampede coaches
Lugano Tigers players
Michigan State Spartans men's basketball players
Ratiopharm Ulm players
Salt Lake City Stars coaches
Sportspeople from Lima, Ohio
American men's basketball players
Guards (basketball)


Hillevi Martinpelto (born 9 January 1958 in Älvdalen) is a Swedish lyric soprano. She made her debut in Madama Butterfly by Giacomo Puccini in 1987. She is best known for her work with John Eliot Gardiner and the Monteverdi Choir. With Gardiner, she recorded Weber's Oberon and Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro and Idomeneo, to considerable acclaim.

In the summer of 2014 Martinpelto performed at Stålboga Summer Opera.

Martinpelto's father is Finnish.

Awards
2006: appointed Hovsångerska by H.M. the King of Sweden

References

1958 births
Living people
Swedish operatic sopranos
Swedish people of Finnish descent
Litteris et Artibus recipients


The European Alliance of EU-critical Movements or TEAM is a cooperation between Eurosceptic or EU-critical associations in various countries of Europe, including both non-partisan associations and political parties.

The coordinator of TEAM is currently Jesper Morville from the Danish People's Movement against the EU.

Affiliates

Austria
EU Withdrawal Party (EU-Austrittspartei)  http://www.euaustrittspartei.at/
Neutral Free Austria (, NFÖ)
Communist Party of Austria (observer)
Friedensbüro Wien (observer)
Liste der EU-Opposition

Czech Republic

Independent Group Faithful we Remain (observer)

Denmark

People's Movement against the EU
Ungdom mod EU
Demokratisk Fornyelse
Enhedslisten (observer)

Estonia

Liikumine Ei Euroopa Liidule

Finland

Vaihtoehto EU:lle
Naisten Vaihtoehto EU:lle
Independence Party (Finland)

France

Rassemblement pour l’Indépendance et la Souveraineté de la France
Les Alternatifs (observer)

Greece

The EAN Movement
Association of Social and Ecological Intervention (observer)

Iceland

Heimssýn

Ireland

National Platform
Peace and Neutrality Alliance
People's Movement

Latvia

Kustiba par Neatkaribu

Malta

The Campaign for National Independence

Netherlands

Free Europe (observer)

Norway

Nei til EU
Ungdom mot EU
Senterungdommen
Senterpartiet (observer)
Rød Valgallianse (observer)

Slovenia
Skupina Neutro (observer)

Spain

Una Altra Democràcia és Possible (observer)

Sweden

Miljöpartiet de Gröna
EU-kritiska Centernätverket
Folkrörelsen Nej till EU

Switzerland

Forum für direkte Demokratie
Young 4 FUN

United Kingdom

Campaign for an Independent Britain
Campaign Against Euro-Federalism
Clannasaor
The Bruges Group
United Kingdom Independence Party
Youth for a Free Europe
Labour Euro-Safeguards Campaign (observer)
Green Party of England and Wales (observer)
Democracy Movement (observer)
European Foundation (observer)

See also
 European Referendum Campaign

External links
The European Alliance of EU-critical Movements, official web site

Euroscepticism
Pan-European political parties


Herbert Henry Gratwicke Blagrave (3 March 1899 – 4 July 1981) was an English cricketer and racehorse trainer. He was a slow bowler who played for Gloucestershire.

Early life
Blagrave was born at Charlton Kings near Cheltenham, son of John Gratwicke Blagrave (1853-1926), of Hambrook House, Charlton Kings, Captain (and hon. Major) in the North Somerset Imperial Yeomanry, and his wife, Fanny Julia (d. 1939), daughter of Sir Alexander Beaumont Churchill Dixie, 10th Baronet, and widow of Lord Henry Somerset, son of Henry Somerset, 8th Duke of Beaufort. He had a younger brother, Peter, born 1901. The Blagrave family was of Calcot Park in Berkshire, until it was sold by the heir, his father's elder brother, Henry Barry Blagrave.

Cricket
Blagrave made a single first-class appearance for the Gloucestershire County Cricket team, during the 1922 season, against Derbyshire. From the lower order, he scored a duck in the first innings in which he batted, and 12 runs in the second.

Military activities
Blagrave served as a temporary lieutenant in the Royal Artillery.

Later life
Blagrave had some success as an owner and trainer of racehorses, sending out Private Walk to win consecutive editions of the Old Newton Cup. He was also the president of Southampton Football Club.

In 1943, Blagrave married Mrs Gwendoline Sutton, daughter of Thomas Forsyth-Forrest, of the Querns, Cirencester, Gloucestershire. They had no children. In 1964 he bought the manor of Linkenholt in Hampshire, which comprised the manor house, 21 cottages and houses, 1,500 acres of farmland, 450 acres of woodland, a village shop, and a blacksmith's forge. Predeceased by his wife, Blagrave died at his home, The Grange, at Beckhampton near Marlborough. As he had no heir, he established the Herbert and Peter Blagrave Charitable Trust, with orders that the money should be spent on sick children, the elderly, and injured jockeys. Blagrave's property, the trust's main endowment, was sold in 2009 to allowing for diversified investments and increased distribution of grants.

References

External links
Herbert Blagrave at Cricket Archive

1899 births
1981 deaths
English cricketers
Gloucestershire cricketers
Cricketers from Cheltenham
British racehorse trainers
20th-century British Army personnel
Royal Artillery officers


Alfred Williams George Bewick (25 January 1876 – 15 October 1949) was an English cricketer. He was a left-handed batsman and left-arm fast bowler who played for Gloucestershire. He was born in Hempstead and died in Cheltenham.

Bewick made a single first-class appearance for the side, during the 1903 season, against Warwickshire. From the tailend, he scored a duck in the first innings in which he batted, and five runs in the second.

He picked up one wicket in the match, that of James Byrne.

Sources
Alfred Bewick's Cricinfo profile
Alfred Bewick's CricketArchive profile

1876 births
1949 deaths
English cricketers
Gloucestershire cricketers
Cricketers from Cheltenham


Walter Brown (31 July 1868 – 13 August 1954) was an Indian-born English cricketer. He was a right-handed batsman who played for Gloucestershire. He was born in the North-Western Provinces and died in Cheltenham.

Brown made a single first-class appearance for the side, during the 1895 season, against Surrey. He scored 8 runs in the first innings in which he batted, and 11 runs in the second, as Gloucestershire lost the match by an innings margin.

External links
Walter Brown at Cricket Archive

1868 births
1954 deaths
English cricketers
Gloucestershire cricketers
Cricketers from Cheltenham
British people in colonial India


Edgar Chester-Master (6 May 1888 – 17 September 1979) was an English cricketer. He was born in Westminster and died in Durban.

Chester-Master made a single first-class appearance for the side, during the 1911 season, against Middlesex. From the tailend, Chester-Master scored 4 runs in the first innings in which he batted, and a duck in the second.

Chester-Master played Minor Counties cricket for Dorset between 1908 and 1921.

Chester-Master's father, Algernon, also played first-class cricket for Gloucestershire.

External links
Edgar Chester-Master at Cricket Archive

1888 births
1979 deaths
Cricketers from Westminster
English cricketers
Gloucestershire cricketers
Dorset cricketers


Howard Cleaton (born 15 November 1949) was a Welsh cricketer. He was a right-handed batsman and right-arm off-break bowler who played for Gloucestershire. He was born in Merthyr Tydfil.

Having played for the team in the Second XI Championship between 1969 and 1972, Cleaton made a single first-class appearance for the side, during the 1971 season. In the only innings in which he batted, he scored 1 run.

Cleaton bowled 9 overs in the match, conceding 23 runs.

External links
Howard Cleaton at Cricket Archive

1949 births
Living people
Welsh cricketers
Gloucestershire cricketers
Sportspeople from Merthyr Tydfil


Arthur Coates (2 August 1848 – 19 August 1897) was an English cricketer. He was a right-handed batsman who played for Gloucestershire. He was born in Pemberton, Wigan, Lancashire and died in Los Angeles.

Coates made a single first-class appearance for the team, against Surrey, during the 1873 season. In the only innings in which he batted, he scored 2 runs.

External links
Arthur Coates at Cricket Archive

1848 births
1897 deaths
English cricketers
Gloucestershire cricketers
People from Pemberton, Greater Manchester
Cricketers from Greater Manchester
Sportspeople from the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan


Alan Edward Cripps Cornwall (12 August 1898 – 26 February 1984) was an English cricketer – a right-handed batsman who played for Gloucestershire – and an educationalist.

Life and teaching
Cornwall was born in Coleford, Gloucestershire (then in the Monmouth registration district), where his father, Alan  Whitmore Cornwall was Vicar.

Cornwall attended Marlborough College and subsequently returned to teach history there. He acted as a housemaster at Marlborough College for several decades, and as an officer of the Marlborough College Contingent of the Junior Training Corps in the Second World War. In February 1938 he headed a party of 30 public schoolboys on a visit to New Zealand.

Alan Cornwall never married. His younger brother, Nigel Cornwall, became a colonial bishop in the Anglican Church. Alan Cornwall died in retirement at Lustleigh, Devon in 1984.

Cricketing
Cornwall gained fame as a schoolboy batsman by scoring three consecutive centuries for Marlborough College. He made a single first-class appearance for Gloucestershire, during the 1920 season, playing against Leicestershire. From the lower-middle order, he scored three runs in the first innings in which he batted, and two runs in the second. He was also a player of hockey and authored a chapter of a book on the subject.

References

Alan Cornwall at Cricket Archive
St Mary's Church Thornbury – The Vicars 1899–2002
Monmouth registration district

1898 births
1984 deaths
English cricketers
Gloucestershire cricketers
People from Coleford, Gloucestershire