The Terrafugia Transition is a light sport, roadable airplane under development by Terrafugia since 2006.

The Rotax 912ULS piston engine powered, carbon-fiber vehicle is planned to have a flight range of  using either automotive premium grade unleaded gasoline or 100LL avgas and a cruising flight speed of .  Equipment includes a Dynon Skyview glass panel avionics system, an airframe parachute, and an optional autopilot.

On the road, it can drive up to  with normal traffic. The Transition Production Prototype's folded dimensions of  high,  wide and  long are designed to fit within a standard household garage. When operated as a car, the engine power take-off near the propeller engages a variable-diameter pulley CVT automatic transmission to send power to the trailing-suspension mounted rear wheels via half-shafts powering belt drives. In flight, the engine drives a pusher propeller. The Transition has folding wings and a twin tail.

Design and development
The experimental Transition Proof of Concept's first flight in March 2009 was successful and took place at Plattsburgh International Airport in upstate New York using U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) tail number N302TF. First customer delivery, as of March 2009, was originally planned to take approximately 18 months and occur in 2011.

On July 1, 2010, it was announced that the Terrafugia Transition had been granted an exemption from the FAA concerning its Maximum Takeoff Weight (MTOW), allowing the Transition to be certified with a take-off weight up to ; the limit matches the MTOW for amphibious light-sport aircraft. The extra  granted by the exemption provides more weight allowance for the mandatory road safety features such as airbags and bumpers.

The proposed design of the production version was made by Danish designer Jens Martin Skibsted and his partners at KiBiSi and made public at AirVenture Oshkosh on July 26, 2010.  Aerodynamic changes revealed included a new, optimized airfoil, Hoerner wingtips, and removal of the canard after it was found to have an adverse aerodynamic interaction with the front wheel suspension struts; furthermore, the multipurpose passenger vehicle classification from the NHTSA removed the requirement for a full width bumper that had inspired the original canard design.

On November 16, 2010, the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) published Terrafugia's petition for a temporary, three-year hardship exemption from four FMVSS standards in the Transition. Terrafugia requested to use lighter weight motorcycle tires instead of RV tires, polycarbonate for the windshield and side windows, basic airbags instead of advanced, dual stage airbags and to not include an electronic stability control system.
The NHTSA granted all of the requested exemptions on June 29, 2011, but limited the stability control and airbag exemptions to one year.

In June 2011, a delay was announced and Terrafugia's CEO estimated that about another 18 months would be required before first customer delivery in "late 2012", but this was not achieved. December 2011 saw the base price increase to US$279,000 from an initial price of US$194,000.

After undergoing drive tests and high-speed taxi tests, the production prototype completed its first flight on March 23, 2012, at the same airport in Plattsburgh, New York, that was used for the Proof of Concept's flight testing. The production prototype then made its auto show debut at the 2012 New York International Auto Show in April 2012.

In June 2012, Terrafugia announced that the Transition had completed the first of six phases of flight testing.  By July, the second phase of testing was underway, expanding the performance envelope in the sky and continuing drive testing on the ground.

In January 2013, development continued and the company announced that it might be necessary to construct a third, completely new prototype, due to the large number of modifications required. The modifications to date are said to appear to have improved the previous handling characteristics.

By March 2014, the design of the third, updated prototype had progressed to finalization of the major structural members and a statement to investors said that it would be used in final compliance testing for certification before the first customer delivery which was then estimated to take at least another 18 months and occur "in 2015".

By April 2014, 12 two-person test flights had taken place; this was the first time that anyone other than Terrafugia's chief test pilot had flown the Transition.  , first customer delivery was hoped for in about 18 months "in the second quarter of 2016."

In December 2014 the company asked the FAA to allow the Transition to be operated at a gross weight of  instead of the light-sport aircraft maximum weight of  and have a stall speed of  instead of the category maximum of . The company indicated that the increases were required to allow inclusion of structures to meet FMVSS ground operation safety regulations. The company had previously been granted an increase in gross weight of  and another LSA aircraft, the ICON A5, was granted a  exemption to meet FAA spin resistance requirements; this new application would increase the Transition's allowed weight by a total of  or 36%. During consultations the request for the weight increase was supported by the General Aviation Manufacturers Association, the Experimental Aircraft Association, the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association and the Light Aircraft Manufacturers Association. Only a few individuals expressed opposition to the request. The exemption was granted by the FAA on 19 June 2016.

In April 2015 the company announced that parts were being built for the third version of the aircraft, and that current planning estimated the first customer delivery after roughly two years.  Terrafugia COO/VP of Engineering Kevin Colburn also stated that the company has changed the price estimate from $279K to between $300K and $400K.

In November 2015, the company announced that the third version of the Transition was being tested with a Rotax 912is engine, rather than the Rotax 912ULS that the second prototype had flown with.

As of April 2017, the company's website says: "Today, Terrafugia is finalizing production vehicle design and compliance testing in preparation for vehicle deliveries within the next three years."

As of November 2017, media reports suggested a 2019 delivery date for the first vehicles.

In April 2018, the production prototype ("D2") was retired. While the original proof of concept vehicle had flown only about 8 hours in total, the production prototype had logged 212 flight hours, completing 317 takeoffs and landings.

In July 2018 the company announced a series of upgrades that will be incorporated in the production aircraft with delivery planned for July 2019. These include a hybrid-electric motor and lithium iron phosphate battery for road mode use, a Dynon electronic flight instrument system, a Ballistic Recovery Systems ballistic parachute, an inflight power boost feature, a remodeled interior, increased cargo space, improved seat belt design, airbags, plus three rearview cameras.

In January 2021, Terrafugia announced that the Transition received a Special Light-Sport Aircraft (LSA) airworthiness certificate from the FAA for the Transition to be flown only, with road use approval to follow in 2022.

In February 2021, it was reported that Terrafugia had laid off most of their employees and would close down operations in the United States later in the year, with the intention of moving to China.

Specifications

 Dynon Avionics EMS-D120 Engine Monitoring System
 Garmin GTX 327 Transponder
 Garmin SL30  nav/comm transceiver

The Production Prototype has a glass cockpit including:

 Dynon Avionics SkyView SV-D1000
 XCOM Avionics VHF Transceiver
 Transition custom touch screen dashboard computer

References

External links

Terrafugia Transition - First Flight Video Press Release on March 18, 2009, in Plattsburgh, NY. - (YouTube)
 Anna Mracek Dietrich: A plane you can drive - presentation at TEDGlobal, July 2011

Roadable aircraft
2000s United States sport aircraft
Light-sport aircraft
Aircraft first flown in 2009
Single-engined pusher aircraft
Urban air mobility


Emma Ihrer (3 January 1857 – 8 January 1911) was a German feminist and trade unionist who was active in founding societies to defend the rights of women workers.

Background

Emma Ihrer was born at a time when women were disenfranchised, and under the reactionary Prussian Association law of 1850 were forbidden participation in political associations.
The authorities could define "political" as they chose.
In October 1878 the first of the Anti-Socialist Laws arbitrarily deprived members of the Social Democratic Party and those associated with it of the right of association. It was not until the Association Act of 15 May 1908 that women were allowed to take part in political activities and organizations.
Working women faced opposition from working men, who saw them as unwelcome competition, as well as from the authoritarian state which denied them basic civil rights.

Early years

Emma Rother was born on 3 January 1857 in Glatz, Lower Silesia, the daughter of a shoemaker. She was given a strict Roman Catholic upbringing.
At an early age she was married to Emmanuel Ihrer, an apothecary twenty-two years her senior.  They moved to Berlin in 1881.
Emma Ihrer found work as a milliner.

Emma Ihrer first spoke in public at a meeting on "How to raise the morality of the workers". She expressed the view that prostitution is just part of the misery of the workers, and called for the elimination of the vice squad, which was part of the problem.
On 13 November 1883 Emma Ihrer  founded the socialist and feminist Frauen-Hilfsverein für Handarbeiterinnen ("Aid Society for Women Manual Workers").
The goal was to encourage its members materially and spiritually, to represent the interests of its members in the workplace, to grant loans in emergencies and to pay disability benefits.
Further plans to establish work places for some types of women's work, set up a reading room and a dining house did not materialise.
Emma's enthusiasm declined as she saw the association engaged only in minor reforms.

On 26 February 1885, Emma Ihrer, Marie Hofmann, Pauline Staegemann and Gertrude Guillaume-Schack founded the Verein zur Wahrung der Interessen der Arbeiterinnen ("Society for the Protection of Women Workers' Interests").  The society functioned primarily as a support group in which doctors and lawyers offered their services free of charge.
Ihrer was secretary of the board. A Berlin branch was founded, and similar organisations were founded by women across the Reich.
The garment workers were particularly active, and it was through their influence that the Reichstag decided in favour of an official survey of wages in the lingerie and clothing industry. The association also ensured that the industrial code included provisions against usury with work materials. In April 1886 the association was banned on the grounds that it was political.
Hofmann, Staegemann, Ihrer and Johanna Jagert were tried in court.
When the police forcibly disbanded the club it had over a thousand members.

Union leader
In 1889 Ihrer and Clara Zetkin (1857–1933) went as SPD delegates to the International Socialist Congress in Paris.
This was the founding congress of the Second International.
They presented a motion against discrimination against female employment that ensured that women had equal rights in the trade union movement.
In the fall of 1890 the Prussian government abolished the Anti-Socialist laws, making it possible to conduct union work with relatively little interference.
On 16–17 November 1890 the historic first conference of German trade unions was held, at which a Generalkommission der Gewerkschaften Deutschlands ("General Commission of German Trade Unions") was established. Ihrer insisted that the statutes allowed for female membership, and was elected the sole women in the seven-person board of the General Commission.
She was widely recognized in the press as "the soul of all agitation among socialist women".

Ihrer found that decades after the SPD had been formed there was still no mass movement of proletarian women, a result due to male supremacist assumptions within the party as well as to legal barriers.
Ihrer founded the weekly newspaper Die Arbeiterin (The Woman Worker), whose first number appeared in January 1891, but it had little success.
This was a successor to the short-lived Die Staatsbürgerin (The Citizeness) founded by Gertrude Guillaume-Schack and banned in June 1886.
By January 1892 the sheet was facing financial ruin and was placed in the hands of Clara Zetkin by the SPD-affiliated Dietz-Verlag.
Zetkin renamed the paper Die Gleichheit (Equality) when she took over.
As the titles suggest, The Citizeness was aimed at women seeking political rights, The Woman Worker at proletarian women and Equality at women seeking full equal rights.
By 1900 Ihrer's name had disappeared from the newspaper.

Ihrer  founded other feminist societies, which were generally socialist in nature, which resulted in almost constant trouble with the police.
In 1893 Ihrer published a brochure on the origin and development of workers' organizations in Germany, and in 1898 published an influential paper on workers in the class struggle.
At the 1900 SPD conference Ihrer demanded that the Social Democratic principle of equality should not remain theoretical but should be put into practice.
In 1903 Ihrer was made chairperson of an association of female industrial workers.
In 1904 a trade union women's committee was constituted with Ihrer as chair, with the goal of advancing women's work and helping implement appropriate decisions in the Congress.
She helped found the servants' organization, the Union of Domestic Workers of Germany, and spent a period as president of the Union of Flower, Feather and Leaf Workers.

Emma Ihrer died on 8 January 1911 in Berlin.
Her grave is located in Berlin-Lichtenberg in the Friedrichsfelde Central Cemetery (Memorial of Socialists), Gudrunstraße.
The Emma-Ihrer-Straße ("Emma Ihrer Street") in Berlin and Velten was named after her. The German postal service issued a stamp depicting her.

Views

The first German pacifist association was founded by Julius Rupp of the Königsberg Free Congregation in 1850.
Emma Ihrer was active in the Free Religious Congregation in the 1870s and 1880s, as were other founders of early socialist women's organization in Berlin such as Ottilie Baader and Agnes Wabnitz.
Towards the end of 1892 Ihrer publicly declared that in a war the proletariat would suffer far more than the sons of the bourgeoisie.

Ihrer did not agree with Zetkin's hard line of non-cooperation with bourgeois feminists. She supported Lily Braun in 1897 when she proposed a rival reformist SPD women's organization that would cooperate with the bourgeois organizations in the struggle for women's suffrage. Gertrud David, Helma Steinbach, Henriette Fürth and other socialist feminist leaders also supported Braun's position.

In 1905 the SPD Reichstag deputy Edmund Fischer wrote an article in which he stated that employment of women in factories was "socially unhealthy, harmful ... an ill of capitalism that will disappear when capitalism is abolished."
Ihrer attacked the article, strongly disagreeing with Fischer's characterization of women as primarily wives and mothers. She wrote, "Motherhood is just as little a life goal as fatherhood is." In her view Fischer's ideal of a stable family life could be achieved not by "the woman's renunciation of her job and the devotion of her mental and physical energy to the household alone ... but rather the cooperation of all elements, including above all the man, especially in raising the children."
She questioned why women should place value on duties such as housework that men despised.

According to Luise Zietz she had a strong character, with great strength of will combined with a dignified and affectionate nature.
Clara Zetkin saw in her "the implacable hater of all prejudice, the ruthless advocate of full equality of the female sex, the courageous fighter against all enslaving powers".

Award and recognition

On 3 January 2018, Google Doodle celebrated Emma Ihrer's 161st Birthday. She was also honored by Federal Republic of Germany She was depicted on a 5 pfennig postage stamp.

References

Sources

1857 births
1911 deaths
People from Kłodzko
People from the Province of Silesia
German trade unionists
German socialist feminists
German women trade unionists


Fuller brush man may refer to:

 Door-to-door salesmen for the Fuller Brush Company
 The Fuller Brush Man, a 1948 comedy film


Cartoone was the debut album by the Scottish group Cartoone. The album is notable for featuring Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin as guest artist.

The album has an inside cover which contains the full lyrics of the songs on the right and the following note from June Harris:
"There's a new kind of musical excitement, and it's coming from this remarkable album by four boys from England (formerly Scotland) called Cartoone, more specifically Derek Creigan, Mike Allison, Charles Mo Trowers and Chick E. Coffils. You can't put a tag on the music within these twelve tracks, but they do provide an excellent illustration of the joint capabilities of Cartoone as a self contained unit who write and perform all their own material. Cartoone has created a sound of its own - Melodic, poetic and with great attention paid to detail. It's a fresh, different sound, as new as the group itself. Listen. Cartoone is saying something which clearly needs no further explanation."

Cartoone was released on CD in June 2009, with bonus tracks from the band's unreleased second album. The Cartoone Deluxe Edition CD was released by Friday Music in the UK on 26 October 2009.

Track listing
All tracks written by Derek Creigan except when noted
 "Knick Knack Man" – 3:50
 "Withering Wood" – 2:24
 "The Sadness Of Toby Jugg" – 2:39
 "Penny For The Sun" – 3:06
 "I'll Stay" (Mike Allison) – 2:07
 "Girl Of Yesterday" – 3:10
 "Can't Walk Back" – 2:52
 "Let Me Reassure You" – 2:20
 "Mr. Poor Man" – 3:43
 "Ice Cream Dreams" – 2:47
 "Doing What Mamma Said" – 2:39
 "See Me" – 2:05
 "Reflections" [single version; CD bonus track]
 "Sunday Morning" [CD bonus track]
 "Deep In My Heart" [CD bonus track]
 "Going My Way" [CD bonus track]
 "Give Me Something New" [CD bonus track]
 "Reflections" [album version; CD bonus track]
 "Don't Look Down Your Nose" [CD bonus track]
 "Only I Can Do It" [CD bonus track]
 "Come And Sit By Me" [CD bonus track]

Personnel
Derek Creigan - bass, lead vocals
Mike Allison - lead guitar
Mo Trowers - rhythm guitar
Charlie (Chick E.) Coffils - drums
Jimmy Page - guest artist
Leslie Harvey - guitar on some of the bonus tracks
John Cameron -  orchestral arrangements
Dave Siddle, E. Offord, Brain Humphries - engineers

References

1969 debut albums
Atlantic Records albums
Cartoone albums


The manga series Wandering Son is written and illustrated by Takako Shimura. The chapters were serialized monthly in Comic Beam from the December 2002 to August 2013 issues. The chapters were collected and published in 15 tankōbon volumes by Enterbrain from July 25, 2003 to August 28, 2013. Fantagraphics Books licensed the manga in English and began releasing the series in North America in hardcover format starting with the first volume on July 5, 2011. The series is also licensed by Ever Glory Publishing in Taiwan and by Haksan Culture Company in Korea. The story depicts a young student named Shuichi Nitori, described by the author as a boy who wants to be a girl, and Shuichi's friend Yoshino Takatsuki, described as a girl who wants to be a boy. As the two of them grow up, they worry about the bodily changes they will be going through, and try to find their own way of life.

Volume list

References

External links

Lists of manga volumes and chapters


Sir Leonard Benjamin Franklin OBE (15 November 1862 – 11 December 1944) was an English barrister, banker and Liberal Party politician, of Jewish descent.

Family
Franklin was born in London in 1862, the son of Ellis Abraham Franklin, a banker and his wife Adelaide who was a sister of Samuel Montagu, 1st Baron Swaythling. In this way, Franklin was born into a Liberal family which also included Venetia Stanley, famous correspondent of H H Asquith and future Liberal Party leader, Herbert Samuel. In 1888, Franklin married Laura Agnes Ladenburg and they had one son and three daughters.

Education
Franklin was educated at King's College School, London and the Athenée Royale school in Brussels.

Career
Franklin studied for the law and was called to the Bar at the Inner Temple in 1894, although he never practised. In 1892, he had become a partner in the firm of Keyser & Co. of Throgmorton Street in the City of London, foreign bankers and was a senior partner after 1929.

During the First World War, he was appointed as Local Government Board representative at Folkestone with the task of dealing with the large numbers of refugees from 'gallant little Belgium' when the voluntary War Refugee Committee could no longer cope with the weight of numbers.

For this work he was awarded the OBE. He was later posted to France to report on the finances of British military hospitals. Franklin also served as a Justice of the Peace.

Politics

Radical interests

Franklin undertook social work in London and was described as an 'ardent Radical.' From 1908, he was Chairman of North Paddington Liberal Association. He served as honorary treasurer of the London Radical Candidates' Association, taking a particular interest housing and traffic.

In 1912, he and his wife Laura founded the Jewish League for Woman Suffrage which campaigned for national women's suffrage and for equal rights for women within the Jewish Faith. They were assisted by the extended Jewish family including Henrietta Franklin and her sister Lily Montagu.

1908–1922

Franklin first stood for Parliament at the December 1910 general election as Liberal candidate in Paddington North. He did not win the seat but he reduced the majority of the sitting Unionist Member of Parliament, Arthur Strauss from 893 to 598 votes. He fought the seat again at the 1918 general election but this time, as a supporter of the Independent Asquithian Liberals he was not favoured with the Coalition coupon and lost his deposit. At this election the former Tory MP, Arthur Strauss, had switched parties and was standing as an Independent Labour candidate. He too lost his deposit.

At the 1922 general election, Franklin fought St Pancras South East constituency but in a three-cornered contest with Conservative and Labour opponents, he came bottom of the poll.

1923–1939

Franklin achieved the only Parliamentary win of his career at the 1923 general election. Standing in Central Hackney in a three-cornered contest, he obtained a majority over the Conservatives of 1,317 votes.

However, he was unable to hold the seat at the 1924 general election, falling to bottom place as the Tories regained the constituency and Labour jumped into second place. Franklin tried to win the seat back at the 1929 general election but again came third in a tight three-way contest, although this time it was the Labour Party which won the seat. Franklin's final attempt to regain Hackney Central came in the 1931 general election. He again came third, although this time by a wider margin, as the Conservatives took the seat back from Labour as the representatives of the National Government. Franklin remained an active supporter of the Liberal Party, playing a prominent role in the activities of the Hackney Central Association, right up until the outbreak of war in 1939.

Knighthood
Franklin was knighted in the King's Birthday Honours List of 1932 for political and public services, becoming a Knight Bachelor.

Jewish interests
Much of the social work which Franklin undertook was based in the Jewish community in London and he also held positions in respect of various synagogues. He was a vice-president of the Jewish Workingmen's Club and of the South Hackney Jewish Social and Literary Society.

Publication

Franklin was a strong supporter of the reform of proportional representation (PR) and invented a system known as Percentage PR. In 1922, he published the book Percentage Proportional Representation.

Death
Franklin died suddenly at his home, The Grange, Goudhurst, Kent on 11 December 1944, aged 82.

References

External links

1862 births
1944 deaths
British Jews
People educated at King's College School, London
Liberal Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies
UK MPs 1923–1924
British bankers
Members of the Inner Temple
Hackney Members of Parliament
Leonard
Knights Bachelor
Jewish British politicians
English justices of the peace


Compass Media Networks is an American radio network. The company launched in January 2009.
 It is owned by former Westwood One CEO and former COO  of Connoisseur Media, Peter Kosann.  The company focuses on radio and offers representation and marketing services for national radio.

History

Compass Media Networks debuted in January 2009 with a focus on national radio programs.

Programming
The Free Beer and Hot Wings Show morning drive time comedy and hot talk program hosted by Gregg "Free Beer" Daniels and Chris "Hot Wings" Michael, along with producers, Steve and Kelly.  It is mostly heard on classic rock, alternative rock and active rock stations.
DeDe In The Morning, DeDe McGuire, syndicated morning urban radio program originating from KKDA-FM in Dallas, Texas and owned by Service Broadcasting.
The Lars Larson Show. Lars Larson is a conservative political talk show host based at KXL-FM in Portland, Oregon.  The show is heard on dozens of affiliates.
The Market Score Board Report with Ron Insana debuted nationally on May 11, 2009, and offers daily business reports Monday-Friday at the open and close of the stock market.
Taste of Country Nights hosted by Amber Atnip and Evan Paul, a country music radio show syndicated throughout United States and distributed by Compass Media Networks.
This Morning, America's First News with Gordon Deal with cohost Jennifer Kushinka and producer Michael Gavin, a four-hour morning news and information program for news-talk radio stations.  It airs at 5 a.m. ET weekdays.  A recorded one-hour roundup show is heard on Saturday or Sunday mornings on many of the weekday show's affiliates. A podcast version of the show is produced Monday through Saturday.
Markley, Van Camp and Robbins —  Originally co-hosted by Jamie Markley and David van Camp, the show went into national syndication in 2019 from WMBD in Peoria, Illinois. Scott Robbins was later added to the show, with the name of the program being expanded to include him. Airing live between Noon and 3 p.m. ET weekdays, the show would take the place of Rush Limbaugh on many Alpha Media stations following his death in 2021. Many other stations also chose to air the show on tape delay.

Acquisition of Westwood One programs
After Westwood One was bought out by Dial Global, Compass picked up several of Westwood One's former weekend music programs. Among those were The Beatle Years with Bob Malik, Out of Order with Jed the Fish, and Off the Record with Uncle Joe Benson. After Westwood One reformatted its longtime Saturday-night program Country Gold with a new host (first with Randy Owen, now with Terri Clark), Compass hired the show's previous host, Josh "Rowdy Yates" Holstead, to host a continuation of the previous format under the name The Original Country Gold. Compass also owns the rights to The Deep End with Nick Michaels, which was not previously a Westwood One program.

After Dial Global merged with Cumulus Media Networks, Compass picked up additional programs, including the M. G. Kelly syndicated program library (except American Hit List) and the Rick Dees Weekly Top 40. Big D and Bubba, previously distributed by Premiere Networks, also was added to the Compass lineup; Compass now offers other country dayparts as well, including a midday show hosted by Carsen and Taste of Country Nights evenings.

Acquisition of Wall Street Journal This Morning
In November 2014, Compass announced the acquisition of The Wall Street Journal This Morning, a morning drive time national news and business program, which had been syndicated by the Wall Street Journal Radio division. The program was renamed This Morning, America's First News with Gordon Deal.  Deal has been the program's host since 2005.  He was retained and the program is now centered on general news, not just business and financial news. The first broadcast under the new title was January 2, 2015.

Sports

National Football League coverage
Compass, in conjunction with Dial Global, began offering a slate of Sunday afternoon games from the National Football League beginning in the 2009 NFL season. These broadcasts competed with the NFL on Westwood One and the Sports USA Radio Network. Brent Musburger is the voice of the Las Vegas Raiders along with analyst Lincoln Kennedy and studio host Tim Cates. Announcers for the Dallas Cowboys broadcast include Danny White, Kevin Ray with in-studio host Jerry Recco. Compass Media Networks NFL broadcast pairings include Chris Carrino with Brian Baldinger. Jon Rothstein serves as studio host. Other play-by-play announcers and analysts include Gregg Daniels. TJ Rives, Tiki Barber, Steve Beurelein, Bill Rosinski, Chad Brown, and Drew Bontadelli.

Compass currently features exclusive broadcast rights for two NFL team broadcasts, the Dallas Cowboys and Las Vegas Raiders. The Raiders signed on to Compass in 2009 and the Cowboys joined fully in 2011. 2009 NFL games were broadcast by individual agreement with eight teams, which featured in all of Compass's games: aside from the Cowboys and Raiders, Compass carried the Atlanta Falcons, Buffalo Bills, Kansas City Chiefs, Philadelphia Eagles, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, and Washington Redskins. The Detroit Lions and Arizona Cardinals were added to the agreement in 2010. An additional four teams  added their names to Compass's NFL coverage for the 2011 season- the Chicago Bears, Denver Broncos, San Francisco 49ers, and Seattle Seahawks. By virtue of the teams involved in the two international games, Compass Media Networks held exclusive national broadcast rights to both the NFL International Series and Bills Toronto Series games in 2011. When all was said and done, Compass Media expanded their coverage to 60 games a season with the new contracts.

NCAA football and basketball coverage
Dial Global and Compass announced they would offer a slate of NCAA football games beginning in the 2009 season, competing with ESPN Radio, Sports USA Radio Network, Dial Global, Nevada Sports Network, and Touchdown Radio productions. No specific conference affiliation was announced, and the schedule featured games with teams from the Pac-12 Conference, Western Athletic Conference, Big Ten Conference, Big East Conference, Big 12 Conference, Conference USA, and the Southeastern Conference. In December 2009, Compass Media announced they had gained the national radio broadcasting rights for the Texas Bowl. The Texas Bowl rights lasted only one season as ESPN Radio took over the rights in 2010. By 2012, Compass Media was only broadcasting games from the Big Ten, Big 12, Pac-12, and SEC conferences.

In July 2009, Compass Media announced they would expand their sports coverage to include NCAA basketball, competing with Westwood One. While Compass can't gain rights to any NCAA Tournament games, they announced that they signed a contract with the Big Ten Conference to be the exclusive radio provider of the first and second rounds of the Big Ten Tournament in 2010 and all tournament games beginning in 2011.

In 2011, Compass Media Sports increased their coverage of the Big Ten conference by inking a multi-year deal to broadcast the Big Ten Championship game, meaning the Big Ten Basketball Tournament and Big Ten Championship game will be on the same radio affiliates nationwide and at the network's website.

Major League baseball coverage

In April 2012, Compass announced an agreement with Major League Baseball's Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim to air 25 games out-of-market throughout the team's 2012 season. Chris Carrino and Steve Quis were named as play-by-play announcers for the broadcasts, with Steve Phillips and Darryl Hamilton to serve as analysts. For the 2013 season, Compass acquired rights to select Tampa Bay Rays home games to increase their MLB coverage. Compass has not syndicated MLB games since the 2013 season.

Former Programs

The Schnitt Show.  Todd Schnitt is a conservative talk show host based in Tampa.  His show is broadcast live weekdays 3 to 6 p.m. ET from WHNZ and distributed nationwide to an affiliate lineup of nearly two dozen stations.

References

External links
Compass Media Networks website
The Free Beer and Hot Wings Show website

American radio networks
National Football League on the radio
Major League Baseball on the radio
College basketball on the radio in the United States
College football on the radio
Companies based in Westchester County, New York
Radio stations established in 2009


Adam Davidson may refer to:
Adam Davidson (director) (born 1964), American actor and television director
Adam Davidson (journalist), American radio journalist
Adam Davidson (tennis), former American tennis player
Adam Davidson (footballer), Scottish footballer


Nation.1 was a project to create what was described as an "online country" – a conceptual country based on the Internet. It was to be owned, populated and governed by the children of the world. Its borders were defined by the age of its citizens, as opposed to geography or ethnicity. The central goal of Nation.1 was to empower young people with a voice and representation in world affairs.

History
The Nation.1 concept began as a challenge by Nicholas Negroponte to a group of young delegates of the 2B1 conference at the MIT Media Lab in 1997. Several of these delegates had attended the GII Junior Summit in 1995, and others were part of the Generation Why Project in Olympia, Washington.

Nation.1 was announced publicly in a 1997 teleconference to the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child, in a series of speeches at the Massachusetts State House and in an article in Wired magazine. The project was further developed by delegates at the Junior Summit 1998 conference, during which it adopted the use of Swatch Internet Time. In the following years Nation.1 was incorporated as a non-profit organization for youth empowerment. The Nation.1 foundation, its executive director and its assets merged officially with TakingITGlobal in 2001.

Although Nation.1 is not directly related to the One Laptop per Child project, both projects were informed by the 2B1 conference, the GII Junior Summit '95 and the Junior Summit '98.

The Nation.1 project explored a variety of translation and governance technologies as well as a variety of concepts key to the construction of a country. New approaches to youth-empowerment and autonomous self-government through the use of decentralized internet voting systems were discussed, as were topics relating to citizenship, education, economic exchange, trust, identification, and a usable international definition on what constitutes childhood.

On this last question, an arbitrary boundary of 25 years of age and under was eventually established, although the variables of this boundary were widely discussed. John Perry Barlow put in a request that the young at heart be admitted as ambassadors from the adult world, or at least be granted temporary visas.

Technology
Alan Kay recommended using a wiki in the formation of Nation1, three years before the founding of Wikipedia. His advice led to the use of a wiki to help form the founding texts of the nation. A database-driven website and email mailing lists were used as the initial communication system, while the central committee laid plans for multi-lingual chat system and a distributed decision-making system called the Democracy Engine.

Key people
 John Perry Barlow
 Brandon Bruce
 Terah DeJong
 Marco D'Alimonte
 Maitreyi Doshi
 Talena Foster
 Alan Kay
 Lauren Keane
 Hayley Goodwin
 Ragni Marea Kidvai
 Kanetaka Maki
 Nick Moraitis
 Nicholas Negroponte
 Dimitri Negroponte
 Thomas O'Duffy
 Laetitia Garriott de Cayeux
 Ryan Powell
 Warren Sack
 David Sontag
 Tannie Kwong
 Emily Kumpel
 Gerald Tan
 Nusrah Wali
 Ian Wojtowicz
 Jacob Wolfsheimer

See also
 A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace
 Nationalism
 2B1

Notes

External links
 Nation.1's website archive

Information and communication technologies for development
1997 introductions
Organizations established in 1997
2001 mergers and acquisitions


Mian is a parish  in Amieva, a municipality within the province and autonomous community of Asturias, in northern Spain.

Sames, the capital of Amieva is located in Mian.

The elevation is  above sea level. It is  in size. The population as of is 300 (INE 2011). The postal code is 33558.

Villages

References

Parishes in Amieva


Adam Davidson (born 1970) is an American journalist. He was a co-founder of NPR's Planet Money program. Previously he has covered globalization issues, the Asian tsunami, and the war in Iraq, for which he won the Daniel Schorr Journalism Prize. He and Adam McKay were former co-hosts of Surprisingly Awesome from Gimlet Media.  Davidson worked as an economics columnist for The New York Times Magazine and in 2016 took a position at The New Yorker.

Early life and education
Davidson's father, Jack Davidson, was a film and television actor, and he grew up in the Westbeth Artists Community in Manhattan's West Village. He attended college at the University of Chicago, graduating in 1992. Adam is an atheist of Jewish descent.

Career
Davidson worked at PRI as a Middle East correspondent for Marketplace and then went on to work at NPR as the international business and economics correspondent.
In 2008, Davidson, along with Alex Blumberg founded Planet Money on NPR.

He went on to write for the New York Times Magazine as an economics columnist. In 2016, he joined The New Yorker as a staff writer. By 2021, he had left that position, but remained a contributing writer to the magazine. About a NewsGuild unionization drive which was promising to protect New Yorker writers from firings and unwanted editorial input, Davidson summed up the writers' consensus opinion, saying “None of us want to do anything that could jeopardize the magazine we love. We don’t want so strong a union that mediocrity reigns and it’s impossible to get rid of poor performers. We actually kind of like the feeling that we need to continue to earn our place."

Awards
Davidson won the George Polk Award in Radio Reporting for his reporting with Alex Blumberg for a May 2008 show titled "The Giant Pool of Money". The piece explained the highly complex chain of events that led to the subprime mortgage crisis by showcasing interviews with participants at each sector of the crisis. The episode was linked widely in the blogosphere and remains one of the show's most-downloaded podcasts.

Bibliography

References

External links

 Adam Davidson at The New Yorker

American male journalists
NPR personalities
Living people
American podcasters
The New Yorker staff writers
1970 births
20th-century American journalists
21st-century American journalists
20th-century American male writers
21st-century American male writers
University of Chicago alumni


Paul II Šubić of Bribir () (died 1346) was a Count of Trogir and Ostrovica and a member of the Croatian Šubić noble family.

Biography
Paul II was the third son of Croatian Ban Paul I. He was first mentioned in contemporary sources in 1301, when he was the prince of Tropolje together with his brothers. He was also mentioned as the prince of Trogir in 1305, and of Skradin in 1311. Dissatisfied with the division of powers with his brothers, he led, together with other Croatian nobles, a rebellion against his brother, Mladen II, in a desire to gain further power. After his brother's defeat at the battle of Bliska in 1322, he however failed in his intention to inherit the position paramount power in the family, which went to his other brother, George II.

He subsequently supported Mladen III in the fight against other nobles and King Louis I, for which he received the administration of Ostrovica from Mladen III. Paul bequeathed Ostrovica to his underage son, George III, to whom he appointed his brother Gregory II as guardian.

He married the Krk princess Elizabeth Frankopan (Elizabeta Krčka) (date of birth unknown, died in 1347), with whom he had two sons, George III (also known as George I Zrinski) and Pribko, and daughter Katarina.

In 1347, Gregory II, in the name of George III, handed over Ostrovica and the Luka County to King Louis I, in exchange for the fort of Zrin and other estates in its vicinity. Both Gregory II and George III moved to Zrin, and the family was since then named after the newly acquired property of Zrin as the Zrinski family. George III was the first who used the name Zrinski.

Footnotes

References

See also
 Zrinski
 Frankopan

Šubić
Subic
Subic
Year of birth missing
1346 deaths
13th-century Croatian people
14th-century Croatian people
Subic


The Democratic Socialist Party (, PSD) was a French socialist political party during the French Fourth Republic, founded on 24 August 1945 by members expelled from the French Section of the Workers' International (SFIO) following the Liberation of France for wartime collaboration with the German occupiers.  These included Émile Berlia, Albert Bedouce and Antoine Ellen-Prévot

The PSD's most famous leader is its founder, Paul Faure, the general secretary of the SFIO from 1920 to 1940. The PSD rallied the pacifist wing of the SFIO, opposed to intervention in the Spanish Civil War.

On October 16, 1946, the PSD joined the Rally of Left Republicans (RGR). Until 1952, the PSD had around 6,700 members but the PSD disappeared by 1954 when most of its leaders had either died or re-joined the SFIO.

The PSD, while active in numerous French trade unions, was weak electorally due to the ineligibility of certain PSD members for wartime collaboration. However, Julien Satonnet was elected to the Council of the Republic under the RGR etiquette in 1946. A year earlier, Satonnet had won the Chalon-sur-Saône municipal elections, and served as mayor of the city until 1952.

Defunct political parties in France
Socialist parties in France
Political parties established in 1945
Political parties disestablished in 1954
1945 establishments in France
1954 disestablishments in France


Dawes Crater is located in the Sinus Sabaeus quadrangle of Mars, at 9.2 S and 38 E. It is about  in diameter, and was named after William R. Dawes, a British astronomer (1799–1868) who was ahead of his time in believing that Mars only had a thin atmosphere. Dawes presumed that the atmosphere of Mars was thin because surface markings on the planet could easily be seen.

Description

Impact craters generally have a rim with ejecta around them, in contrast volcanic craters usually do not have a rim or ejecta deposits.  As craters get larger (greater than 10 km in diameter) they usually have a central peak. The peak is caused by a rebound of the crater floor following the impact.  Sometimes craters expose layers that were buried.   Rocks from deep underground are tossed onto the surface.  Hence, craters can show us what lies deep under the surface.

Gallery

See also
 List of craters on Mars: A-G

References

Sinus Sabaeus quadrangle
Impact craters on Mars


Dick Tracy is a comic strip.

Dick Tracy may also refer to:
Dick Tracy (character), lead character from Dick Tracy comic strip

Radio and television
Dick Tracy (radio series)
The Dick Tracy Show
Dick Tracy (TV series)

Film
Dick Tracy (serial)
Dick Tracy (1945 film)
Dick Tracy (1990 film)
Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome
Dick Tracy vs. Cueball
Dick Tracy's Dilemma

Music
Dick Tracy (orchestral score)
Dick Tracy (song)
Dick Tracy (soundtrack)

Other
Dick Tracy (video game)
Richard Tracey, British politician


Alife Cathedral (, Cattedrale di Santa Maria Assunta) is a Roman Catholic cathedral in Alife in the province of Caserta, Campania, Italy. Dedicated to  the Assumption of the Virgin Mary, it is the seat of the Bishop of Alife-Caiazzo.

Alife Cathedral, first built in 1132, was formerly dedicated to Pope Sixtus I, later Saint Sixtus, the patron saint of the city. After the severe earthquakes of 1456 and 1688, the cathedral was largely rebuilt in Baroque style, and reopened in 1692.

The interior has however maintained noteworthy elements of the Lombard-Norman building, including two arcades decorated with sculptures of animals (including the elephant, heraldic symbol of the city established by the d'Aquino family, who ruled Alife from 1121 to 1269) and saints. Also interesting is the Romanesque crypt, which houses the relics of Saint Sixtus, brought here by Ranulf, Count of Alife: it has a rectangular plan and columns from the ancient Roman theatre. Some of the capitals are ancient, while others are mediaeval copies of the Roman originals.

Sources and external links
 Catholic Encyclopedia: Alife
 Catholic Hierarchy: Diocese of Alife-Caiazzo
 Website of Alife Cathedral

References
 Francesco S. Finelli, 1928: Città di Alife e Diocesi. Scafati
 Angelo Gambella, 2007: Medioevo Alifano. Rome: Drengo
 Gianfrancesco Trutta, 1776: Dissertazioni istoriche delle antichità alifane. Naples

Roman Catholic cathedrals in Italy
Cathedrals in Campania
Churches in the province of Caserta
17th-century Roman Catholic church buildings in Italy
Roman Catholic churches completed in 1692
1132 establishments in Europe
12th-century establishments in Italy


Soviet First League 1991 was the last season of the Soviet First League. With the collapse of the Soviet Union the football structure was reformed. All of its participants have entered the Top Divisions of the republics of their origin, except of Dinamo Sukhumi that because of the 1992-93 War in Abkhazia was dissolved.

Due to the 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt, a process of dissolution of the Soviet Union accelerated as well as a process of decommunization in former union republics. Number of cities changed their names returning to their original names.

Teams

Promoted teams
FC Uralmash Sverdlovsk – Winner of the 1990 Soviet Second League, Zone Center (returning after an absence of 10 seasons)
FC Bukovina Chernovtsy – Winner of the 1990 Soviet Second League, Zone West (debut)
FC Neftianik Fergona – Winner of the 1990 Soviet Second League, Zone East (debut)
FC Novbakhor Namangan – Runner-up of the 1990 Soviet Second League, Zone East (debut)
FC Textilshchik Kamyshin – Runner-up of the 1990 Soviet Second League, Zone Center (debut)
FC Daugava Riga – Runner-up of the 1990 Soviet Second League, Zone West (debut)

Relegated teams
Rotor Volgograd – (Returning after 2 seasons)

Renamed teams
Prior to the start of the season Tiras Tiraspol was renamed to Tiligul Tiraspol.
Prior to the start of the season Nistru Kishenev was renamed to Zimbrul Kishinev.

Replaced or withdrawn teams
With fall of the Soviet Union, the promoted FC Daugava Riga was dissolved and replaced with FC Pardaugava Riga that was based on the junior squad of the Latvia national U-21 football team and took part in the 1990 Baltic League placing only 15th out 17 teams.

Locations

League standings
Notes:
 On 6 September 1991, the city of Leningrad was renamed into Saint Petersburg
 On 4 September 1991, the city of Sverdlovsk was renamed into Yekaterinburg

Number of teams by union republic

Top scorers

Managers

See also
 1991 Soviet Top League
 1991 Soviet Second League
 1991 Soviet Second League B

External links
 1990 First League at the RSSSF

Soviet First League seasons
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Soviet
Soviet
1991 in Abkhazia
1991 in Armenian football
1991 in Kazakhstani football
1991 in Latvian football
1991–92 in Moldovan football
1991 in Russian football leagues
1991 in Ukrainian association football leagues
1991 in Uzbekistani football
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The 1st Korfball World Championships was held in The Netherlands on November 6–11, in the cities of Assen, Nuenen, and Amsterdam

First round

Pool A

Second round

5th–8th places

7th–8th places

5th–6th places

Semi-finals

Bronze medal match

Final

Final standings

Korfball World Championship
Korfball World Championship
IKF World Korfball Championship
International sports competitions hosted by the Netherlands
Korfball in the Netherlands


Mian may refer to:

People and languages
Mian (surname), including a list of people with the surname
Mian (given name), including a list of people with the given name
Mian family of Baghbanpura, a noble Arain family of Lahore, Pakistan
Mian people, people in Telefomin district, Sanduan province, Papua New Guinea
Mian language, spoken in Telefomin district, Sanduan, Papua New Guinea
Mian people (Australia), an indigenous people of Queensland
Mian (tribe), Arain Pakistani Punjabi community

Places

Mian, Punjab, a village in Mansa district, Indian Punjab
 Mian Channu, a city in Khanewal District, Pakistani Punjab
 Mian Channu Tehsil, an administrative subdivision of Khanewal District, Pakistani Punjab
 Mian Wali Qureshian, a town in Rahim Yar Khan District, Pakistani Punjab
 Mian (Amieva), a parish in Amieva, Spain
 Mian County, a county of Hanzhong, Shaanxi, China
 Mian Deh, Badakhshan, Afghanistan

Other
 Mian (title), a historical title of the Indian subcontinent, similar to the British "Lord"
 Miah, a Bengali word of similar origin
 Steklov Institute of Mathematics
 Mian–Chowla sequence, in mathematics
 Mian Quan, a martial arts in Hebei province of northern China

Language and nationality disambiguation pages


Berg's tuco-tuco (Ctenomys bergi) is a species of rodent in the family Ctenomyidae, named after the Latvian-Argentine biologist Frederico Guillermo Carlos Berg. It is endemic to northwestern Córdoba Province in central Argentina. Its habitat is grassy areas overlying sand dunes. The species is threatened by the degradation and severe fragmentation of its small habitat.

References

Mammals of Argentina
Tuco-tucos
Endemic fauna of Argentina
Mammals described in 1902
Taxa named by Oldfield Thomas


"Knock You Down" is a song by American singer and songwriter Keri Hilson, recorded for her debut album, In a Perfect World.... The song features guest vocals from Ne-Yo and Kanye West. All three artists co-wrote the song with its producer Nate "Danja" Hills, as well as Kevin Cossom and Marcella Araica. The song was released first released to rhythmic and urban airplay in the United States as the album's fourth single in the US, and it would later serve as the third worldwide single.

The song is an R&B and hip hop song, which includes elements of pop music. The lyrics of the song pertain to how love "knocks you down." Part of the song refers to Michael Jackson; coincidentally it was released at the time surrounding the death of the singer. The song received generally mixed to positive reviews, with critics divided as to whether Ne-Yo and West overwhelmed Hilson's appearance. However, reviewers also complimented that the song was radio-friendly. It was nominated for multiple awards, including Best Rap/Sung Collaboration at the 52nd Grammy Awards.

"Knock You Down" peaked at number one in New Zealand, and was certified Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of New Zealand. It also reached the top ten in Canada, Ireland, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The song's music video was directed by Chris Robinson. It sees Hilson caught in a love triangle with her former partner West, and new-found love Ne-Yo. The video received positive reviews, which appreciated the given performances given by the artists. Hilson performed the song a number of times, including television appearances such as on The Rachael Ray Show. She also notably performed the song at the 2009 BET Awards, where she used the Jackson reference of the song to give a tribute performance to the late singer.

Background
Hilson and Ne-Yo knew each other from their days as co-songwriters. Hilson had appeared as Ne-Yo's love interest in the video for his song "Miss Independent," the second single taken from his 2008 album, Year of the Gentleman. In a September 2008 interview with Rap-Up about a recent crop of songwriters becoming singers, Ne-Yo said "For one, I think Keri Hilson’s too freakin’ pretty to be in the background. For two, her voice is incredible—on top of the fact that she can write. So I think that she's definitely one that deserves the spotlight." In "Knock You Down", Kanye West makes multiple references to Michael Jackson, and coincidentally, the song was released in numerous territories around the death of the singer.

Composition

"Knock You Down" is a R&B song with a length of five minutes and twenty six seconds. The song also includes electro tones, and derives from pop and hip hop genres. The song is set in common time, and composed in a "moderate R&B groove." It is written in the key of G minor, and vocals span from F3 to D5. It follows the chord progression E–F–B–E–F–Gm. The song begins with a rap intro by Kanye West, accompanied by a "stabbing synth riff." According to Chris Williams of Billboard, The verses contain a "thumping bass-beat" while the chorus is in a "frenetic midtempo groove." Dan Nishimoto of Prefix Magazine said the song had a "4/4 Motown feel on the verses and stuttering drums on the chorus." Hilson performs the first verse and chorus, while Ne-Yo sings the second verse. West then has a rap interlude before Hilson sings an additional part before the song ends with the chorus by Hilson, accompanied by Ne-Yo. In West's lines, he references Michael Jackson and his song "Bad" in the lines "This is bad, real bad, Michael Jackson." Coincidentally, the song was released in numerous territories around the death of the singer. West also refers to the domestic abuse accusations against Jackson's father, Joe, in the following lyric "Now mad, real mad, Joe Jackson." Lyrically, the song is about how a great love goes wrong.

Critical reception

Chris Williams of Billboard said "with a vocal assist from Ne-Yo and a clever guest rap by Kanye West, it appears Hilson is intent on a knockout punch of her own." Dan Nishimoto of Prefix Magazine said the song was one of the better radio-friendly tracks on the album. Melinda Newman of HitFix said that "the mid-tempo track is undeniably catchy and will embed itself within your brain after only a few listens." Sophie Bruce of BBC Music positively received the song, calling it the album's "biggest potential hit." Although Nick Levine of Digital Spy gave the song three out of five stars, complimenting production by Danja, and saying that the song sounded like a more obvious hit than "Return the Favor", he complained that "getting two R&B A-listers to appear on your track should be a real coup, but not when one's got a more distinctive voice than you and the other steals the show with some typically ballsy rapping." Quentin B. Huff of PopMatters criticized the repetitive hook, stating "Hook-wise, it’s a little like listening to an album of kids chanting while playing double-dutch." He also said that Hilson's vocals "show promise but fail to distinguish the Hilson brand from the crowd."

"Knock You Down" was nominated for three awards. At the 2009 Soul Train Music Awards, the song was nominated for Record of the Year (Songwriters Award) as well as Best Collaboration. At the 52nd Grammy Awards, it was nominated for Best Rap/Sung Collaboration, but lost to Jay-Z's "Run This Town", another song in which West is featured. Entertainment Weekly named "Knock You Down" the fourth best song of 2009. Slant Magazine listed it the 19th on its list of the best songs of 2009.

Chart performance
"Knock You Down" debuted on the Billboard Hot 100 at number sixty-five, and would later go on to peak at number three. Along with "The Way I Are", it was Hilson's highest-charting single on the Hot 100. It also achieved successes in other Billboard component charts, topping the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs, and reaching number three on the Pop Songs chart. "Knock You Down" became Hilson's biggest airplay single to date, topping the Hot 100 Airplay for four consecutive weeks. It has sold over 2,100,000 digital copies as of April 2011. "Knock You Down" spent a total of thirty-one weeks on the Hot 100. The single appeared on numerous charts internationally. On the Canadian Hot 100, and the Australian Singles Chart the song peaked at number three. It debuted at number forty on the UK Singles Chart, and five weeks later, it reached number five, where it remained for two weeks. In Ireland, it peaked at number two on the Irish Singles Chart, while it reached number eight on the Dutch Top 40. The song performed best on the New Zealand Singles Chart, where it reached number one, and was eventually certified Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of New Zealand (RIANZ). "Knock You Down" charted in the top twenty of Norway, Sweden, and Slovakia, the top thirty of Germany, Belgium (Wallonia), and Denmark, and in the top forty of the Czech Republic. It reached number forty-nine on the Belgian Singles Chart in Flanders. its success in Europe allowed it to chart at number thirteen on the European Hot 100.

Music video

The music video for "Knock You Down", directed by Chris Robinson, premiered on March 23, 2009. The video begins with Hilson slowly falling backwards onto a bed, and then West appears and raps the introduction. Both start reflecting on their previous relationship, before the clip flashes back to the previous events. West is shown to be an artist, who is painting a portrait of Hilson. Hilson and West begin to caress each other, as she is shown in several seductive poses in a bed and sings in front of a white backdrop. The video returns to the present, showing Hilson and West breaking up, as both of them fall backwards onto the floor, similar to the way Hilson falls onto the bed in the opening sequence. Visual effects come into play greater in this scene, as when West falls, he shatters into pieces. Ne-Yo then appears, and sings his lines in front of a grey backdrop. Ne-Yo and Hilson proceed to go on a date at a party in West and Hilson's apartment, and are seen being affectionate by West. He then confronts Hilson, and Ne-Yo also approaches the duo before Hilson walks off, torn between the two men. The clip ends with Hilson falling backwards onto a bed, in similar fashion as the opening scene.

Melinda Newman of HitFix positively received the video, stating "its success lies solely in the charisma and believability that the trio brings to the small screen, which is considerable." A writer for BET Sound Off called the video a "tantalizing visual" and said he adored it, commenting, "sans Kanye and Neyo’s unbearable showdown, I could watch this video over and over and over and over!" Margeaux Watson of Entertainment Weekly said, "Though their scenes together are G-rated in comparison to Ciara's steamy romp with Justin Timberlake in their new clip for 'Love Sex Magic,' Hilson’s solo shots in bed are undeniably hot. Indeed, a tasteful flash of booty never hurt nobody." In an interview on the Today Show, anchor Hoda Kotb made a remark to Ne-Yo, stating, "You have this really hot new video that you do with Kanye West and another woman named Keri. You [and Kanye] are such big stars. How did this happen?" Blogs reported this as a possible "diss" toward Hilson, however, neither camps reported anything after the fact.

Live performances
Hilson performed the song for Walmart Soundcheck to promote the album. She also performed the song while being a supporting act to Ne-Yo, on his Year of the Gentleman tour in 2009. Hilson and West performed the song on May 5, 2009, on the Late Show with David Letterman. Hilson also performed the song, along with a cover of Gnarls Barkley's "Crazy" on July 21, 2009, for Yahoo! Music sponsored by Pepsi. She performed the song with "Turnin Me On" at the 2009 BET Awards in June 2009. She used the Michael Jackson reference in the song to perform a dance routine paying homage to Jackson, at the awards ceremony. On July 28, 2009, Hilson performed the song on It's On with Alexa Chung. Hilson performed the song and "Energy" with British singer-songwriter Taio Cruz at the MOBO Awards 2009, which she co-hosted, on October 4, 2009. On January 1, 2010, she performed the song as a part of her set list of Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve with Ryan Seacrest. On January 29, 2010, Hilson performed an acoustic rendition of the song on The Rachael Ray Show. On February 5, 2010, she performed the song at BET's SOS: Help for Haiti Telethon, to benefit the victims of the 2010 Haitian earthquake. On October 22, 2010, she performed the song in Chicago at Collins Academy High School during for the Get Schooled National Challenge and Tour.

Track listing

Digital download remix bundle
"Knock You Down" (Electrolitz Remix) [feat. Rye Rye] – 4:55
"Knock You Down" (Moto Blanco Club Remix Extended) – 8:59
"Knock You Down" (Moto Blanco Club Remix) – 5:54
"Knock You Down" (Moto Blanco Dub Remix) – 7:44
"Knock You Down" (Random Soul Synthetic Remix) – 7:52
"Knock You Down" (Bimbo Jones Club Remix) – 7:41
"Knock You Down" (Bimbo Jones Dub Remix) – 7:41
"Knock You Down" (Bimbo Jones Radio Remix) – 4:28

Europe CD single
"Knock You Down" (Radio edit) – 4:12
"Knock You Down" (Radio edit instrumental) – 4:12

Credits
Nathaniel "Danja" Hills – writer, record producer
Keri Hilson – writer, vocals, vocal producer
Kevin Cossom – writer
Shaffer "Ne-Yo" Smith – writer, vocals
Marcella Araica – writer, recording engineer, audio mixer
Kanye West – writer, vocals
Josh Mosser – recording engineer
Bryan Jones – recording engineer
Ben Reid – recording engineer
Anthony Palazolle – recording engineer
Jared Newcomb – audio mixing assistant

Source

Charts

Weekly charts

Monthly charts

Year-end charts

Certifications

Release history

Covers and parodies
Rucka Rucka Ali made a parody of "Knock You Down" called "Crips & Bloods".

References

2009 singles
Kanye West songs
Keri Hilson songs
Music videos directed by Chris Robinson (director)
Ne-Yo songs
Song recordings produced by Danja (record producer)
Songs written by Keri Hilson
Songs written by Ne-Yo
Songs written by Kanye West
Song recordings produced by Kanye West
Songs written by Danja (record producer)
Number-one singles in New Zealand
Songs written by Kevin Cossom
Songs written by Marcella Araica
2009 songs


COMSA Corporación is a Spanish global group focused on infrastructure development, industrial engineering and services, whose main business historically has been railway infrastructure work. The corporation is headquartered in Barcelona, Catalonia.

History

Comsa
The groups beginnings can be traced back to 1891 when railway employee José Miarnau Navás set up company to carry out railway infrastructure work in Reus (Tarragona) called Construcciones Miarnau SA. By 1930, the company became a public company and moved its headquarters from Reus to Barcelona. After the founder died in 1934, the company changed its name to Hijos de José Miarnau Navás. By the 1940s, the company had expanded into the general civil engineering field – building bridges, buildings and roads. By the 1980s, the company had expanded from its base in Catalonia having projects in Asturias, Andalusia, Galicia and Castile and León, and had also entered the real estate and aggregates businesses. The 1990s, brought further diversification as well as the beginnings of an international presence with a subsidiary Fergrupo in Portugal.

After its merger with Estudios, Montajes y Tendidos Eléctricos (EMTE) in 2009, it was renamed COMSA EMTE, but in 2015 it became part of the COMSA corporation, which was organized into three business areas: Infrastructure and Engineering, Services and Technology, Concessions and Renewable Energies. By 2010s, the international business had grown, exceeding twenty countries and reaching half of the company's turnover. In the 2020s, the company had presence in ten countries and it diversified its activity towards sectors such as the environment, rail transport, renewable energies and concessions.

Company structure and activities

The main railway and infrastructure businesses within Spain were organised within the company COMSA.

In Spain COMSA carried out all aspects of railway building from the planning stage to construction and maintenance; high profile projects included work on the infrastructure of the high speed Asturias link and Vitoria-Bilbao line. Other work included the construction of sidings for manufacturing companies including BASF, Ford Espania, Repsol Butano and Volkswagen, rolling stock shed and workshop construction, and electrification projects.

In the general construction field the group carried out road, bridge, industrial, public and office building projects, as well as water infrastructure, harbour and airport construction.

Logistics

COMSA Rail Transport was set up in 2002, and was the first private company in Spain to acquire a license for the de-monopolized rail system. A subsidiary operated in Poland as 'Fer Polska'.

The firm GMF (Gestíon de Maquinaria Ferroviaria) managed the groups rolling stock including the track infrastructure equipment (track tampers etc.).

Other business activities
The 'CUMESA' and 'Ubladesa' companies were involved in quarrying/mining of aggregates
'TRAVIPOS' – a joint venture with Rail.One GmbH produced precast concrete sleepers and other structures for the rail industry.

International operations
COMSA Corporación operates in 20 countries. The group has presence in Europe (Andorra, Croatia, Denmark, Spain, France, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Portugal, Sweden, Switzerland), Latin America (Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay) and North Africa (Algeria, Morocco).

Some of the subsidiaries of the group were operated in Poland, Portugal, Argentina, Australia and Chile:

Argentina
The rail infrastructure subsidiary COMSA de Argentina was created in 1994.

Australia
COMSA had a 40% shareholding in 'MVM Rail Pty Ltd' (along with Macmahon Holding @ 60%) – the company undertakes most aspects of railway infrastructure work including signalling and overhead cable installation. Outside Australia MVM worked on rail projects in Southeast Asian countries. The company was founded in 1992 by COMSA and Valditerra of Italy.

Chile
The rail infrastructure subsidiary COMSA de Chile was created in 1995.

Poland
COMSA owned a majority share in the three subsidiaries that make up the company Trakcja Polska:
PKRE – involved out the design and implementation of railway electrical power systems.
PKRiI (Przedsiębiorstwo Robót Kolejowych i Inżynieryjnych SA) The companies' main line of business was the groundwork for and installation of railway track and associated infrastructure.
PRK7 (Przedsiębiorstwo Robót Komunikacyjnych 7 S.A) became part of Trakcja Polska in 2007; the company specialises in public building construction and in rail and tramway creation and repair.

Portugal
Fergrupo (FERGRUPO , Construções e Técnicas Ferroviárias, S.A.) was founded in 1989 as a venture between stockholders COMSA, the Italian company Valditerra Spa and the Portuguese company R. Delerue. The company carries out all aspects of railway infrastructure building and maintenance projects.

See also
 COMSA Rail Transport

References

External links

 COMSA Corporación

Rail infrastructure in Spain
Construction and civil engineering companies of Spain
Railway infrastructure companies
Construction and civil engineering companies established in 1891
Spanish companies established in 1891
COMSA


Osbeorn, also spelled Osbjorn and Osbert (died c. 1054), given the nickname Bulax, was the son of Siward, Earl of Northumbria (died 1055). He is one of two known sons of Siward, believed to be the older. While it is normally assumed he was the son of Siward's Bamburgh wife Ælfflæd, it has been suggested by William Kapelle that Osbeorn's mother was not Ælfflæd. The nickname "Bulax" probably represents the Old Norse term for "Poleaxe".

According to the most reliable sources, he died at the Battle of the Seven Sleepers, fought somewhere in Scotland between Siward and Mac Bethad mac Findlaích, King of the Scots, in 1054. Under this year, the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, recension D, related that: "At this time earl Siward went with a great army into Scotland, with both fleet and a land-force; and fought against the Scots, and put to flight the king Mac Bethad, and slew all that were best in the land, and brought thence much war-spoil, such as no man obtained before;   And there were slain his son Osbeorn, and his sister's son Siward, and some of his housecarls, and also of the king's, on the day of the Seven Sleepers (July 27)."   This battle was fought somewhere in Scotland north of the Firth of Forth, and is known variously as the "Battle of the Seven Sleepers" or the "Battle of Dunsinane". The location Dunsinane is not accepted as historical by modern historians, resting as it does on later medieval accounts. The earliest mention of Dunsinane as the location of the battle being the early 15th-century account by Andrew of Wyntoun.

In recension C of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, the names of the slain are omitted, an omission repeated by the Chronicle of John of Worcester.

Henry of Huntingdon related that Osbeorn had been sent to Scotland ahead of Siward:"[Siward] sent his son to acquire Scotland. And when they reported to his father that he had been slain in battle, [Siward] said, 'Did he receive the mortal wound in front of his body, or behind?' The messengers said. 'In front'. And he replied: 'I rejoice wholly, for I would deem myself or my son worthy of no meaner death'. Siward therefore marched into Scotland and conquered the king battle ... " Another legendary account, in the Vita et Passio Waldevi, a hagiography of Osbeorn's brother Waltheof, claimed that Osbeorn, called "Osbert Bulax", was killed by Northumbrians while his father was absent in Scotland. The accounts in Henry of Huntingdon and the Vita et Passio Waldevi are thought to be derived from a saga devoted to the life of Earl Siward.

Geoffrey Gaimar's account related activity in 1053, an agreement made between Siward and Mac Bethad, but a death of Osbeorn is not mentioned.

Osbeorn's death left Siward's legacy in danger. When he died the following year, his only surviving son Waltheof (Osbeorn's brother) was underage and thus did not succeed immediately to the whole territory ruled by Siward, Northumbria going instead to Tostig Godwinson.

Osbeorn Bulax was fictionalised as Young Siward in the tragedy Macbeth by William Shakespeare.

Notes

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1054 deaths
Anglo-Norse people
Viking warriors
Year of birth unknown
11th-century English people
11th-century Vikings


Larak may refer to the following:
Larak (Sumer), a city in ancient Sumer
Larak, Iran (disambiguation):
Larak, Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari
Larak, Chalus, Mazandaran Province
Larak Island, in Hormozgan Province
Larak Rural District, in Hormozgan Province


Deirdre is a feminine given name.

Deirdre may also refer to:
 Deirdre, a tragic heroine in Irish mythology, from whom the name originates
 Deirdre (given name), a list of people and fictional characters
 "Deirdre" (song), a song by the Beach Boys
 Deirdre (horse), a Thoroughbred racehorse
 LÉ Deirdre (P20), a ship in the Irish Naval Service

See also
 Dierdre (artist), world fusion artist Dierdre Dubois, former frontwoman of Ekova
 Deidre


The Hon. Matthew Joseph Foley (born 24 January 1951) is a former Australian politician.

Early life
Before entering politics, he was a barrister and social worker, and sub-dean of the Social Work Faculty at Queensland University 1981–1983. He was chairperson of the Social Security Appeals Tribunal (1983–1986), president of the Queensland Council for Civil Liberties (1985–1987), a member of the Criminal Law Sub-Committee of the Bar Association of Queensland and of the National Consumer Affairs Advisory Council (1988–1989) and National President of the Labor Lawyers Association (1989).

Political career
In 1989, Foley was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Queensland as the Labor member for Yeronga. From 1992 onward, Foley served as Attorney-General of Queensland and Minister for the Arts, among other roles, in the Wayne Goss Government.

In opposition from 1996 to 1998, Foley was Shadow Attorney-General.

When Labor won government under Peter Beattie in 1998, Foley was appointed Minister for the Arts, Attorney-General and Minister for Justice. At the 2001 election, his seat was abolished and he successfully contested Yeerongpilly. Judge Roslyn Atkinson has credited Foley, in his role as Queensland Attorney-General, with making the Bench more inclusive and representative of wider society, and specifically appointing more women to the Bench. After the election, he became Minister for Employment, Training and Youth, keeping his responsibility for the Arts but leaving his legal portfolios.

Foley retired from politics in 2004.

References

Attorneys-General of Queensland
1951 births
Living people
Members of the Queensland Legislative Assembly
Australian Labor Party members of the Parliament of Queensland
21st-century Australian politicians


Osbern is a given name. Variants include Osbearn and Osbarn.

Notable people with the name include:

Osbeorn Bulax (died 1054), son of Siward of Northumbria
Osbern the Steward  Osbern de Crépon (died c. 1040), steward and seneschal of two Norman dukes
Osbern Pentecost (d.1054) pre conquest Norman knight in England and Scotland
Osbern FitzOsbern a.k.a. Osbern of Exeter (died 1103), Bishop of Exeter, Osbern the Steward's son and William FitzOsbern's brother
Osbern of Canterbury (died 1090), English Benedictine monk
Osbern of Westminster a.k.a. Osbert of Clare (died c. 1158), English Benedictine monk, abbot and author
Osbern of Gloucester (died 1200), English Benedictine monk and hagiographer
Osbern Bokenam (died c. 1447), English poet
Osbern FitzRichard, Anglo-Norman baron, Richard FitzScrope's son
Osbern FitzHugh, descendant of Richard FitzScrope's family

See also
 Osborn (surname)
 Osborne (name)
 Osbourne (disambiguation)


The Clematis Street Historic Commercial District is a U.S. historic district (designated as such on October 8, 1998) located in West Palm Beach, Florida.  The district runs along the 500 Block of Clematis Street.  It contains 12 historic buildings.

History
Early in the history of West Palm Beach, Clematis Street (then Clematis Avenue) became the city's "Main Street", with several businesses located along the east end of the street by the mid-1890s. While the eastside of Clematis Street grew rapidly into the 1900s decade, it would not be until the 1910s when commerce began expanding westward across the Florida East Coast Railway. A city directory from 1916 indicates that several grocery and mercantile businesses and homes existed in the 500 block of Clematis Street section. The Campbell Building, located at 535 Clematis Street, opened in January 1918 and is the oldest surviving structure in the district. Five stores soon occupied the first floor of the Campbell Building. The Fashion Store opened at 502 Clematis Street in November 1918, although it was demolished prior to the area's designation as a historic district. By 1919, The Palm Beach Post frequently reported on real estate speculation within Clematis Street's 500 block, with property prices rapidly increasing. Near the end of the year, Raymond C. Ketcham opened a dry goods store at 522 Clematis Street.

By 1920, prices for front property along the west end of Clematis Street averaged $400 per foot. Soon, decreasing construction costs and a land boom allowed property prices to continue to soar. The western portion of the street had become a "very desirable place to live and work" by the early 1920s, with the section possessing its own electrical and ice plants while also being located near the water and gas plants. The decade saw the completion of 10 out of 12 of the district's contributing properties, including Gruner's Department Store in 1920, St. James Rooming House and the W.E. Pope Building in 1921, Hotel Clematis and Suther's Market in 1922, the Jennings Building in 1924, the Sirkin Building in 1925, Sewell Hardware and 540 Clematis Street in 1928, and 517-519 Clematis Street in 1929. However, the end of the land boom and the beginning of the Great Depression left nine buildings vacant in the 500 block of Clematis Street alone by the end of the year. More buildings were vacated and construction along Clematis Street ceased as economic turmoil persisted.

A number of buildings in the 500 block of Clematis Street were demolished through the late 1990s. This included every building east of 513 Clematis Street, all structures west of 533-535 Clematis Street, and the building situated between 528-530 Clematis Street and 540 Clematis Street. On October 8, 1998, the Clematis Street Historic Commercial District officially became a listing on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP), with 12 structures at the 500 block of Clematis Street being considered contributing and another being non-contributing. Two other structures have been demolished since the area was listed on the NRHP in 1998 – Hotel Clematis at 512 Clematis Street and Gruner's Department Store at 516 Clematis Street.

Structures

Contributing
Twelve structures within the 500 block of Clematis Street are listed as contributing to the historic commercial district:
Building at 512 Clematis Street. Also known as Hotel Clematis, this Mediterranean Revival style building was constructed in 1922. The two-story building featured seven bays, with three on the first floor and four on the second floor. However, this building has been demolished since the 1998 designation of the historic district, as an open lot now occupies the 512 Clematis Street site.
Building at 516 Clematis Street. Designed by William O. Newlon and Thomas H. Stephens and completed in 1920, this building became known as Gruner's Department Store. The establishment was founded by Offin P. Gruner, who owned two other businesses in the 500 block of Clematis Street – the Fashion Store and Gruner's Dixie Cleaning and Tailoring. However, this building was also demolished post-1998 NRHP designation.
513-515 Clematis Street (St. James Rooming House)
517-519 Clematis Street
518-520 Clematis Street (Jennings Building)
522 Clematis Street (R.C. Ketcham Dry Goods)
525 Clematis Street (Campbell Building)
526 Clematis Street (Suther's Market)
528-530 Clematis Street
Building at 531 Clematis Street. Named the W.E. Pope Building, this masonry vernacular structure was built around 1921. Originally constructed with one floor, the building was design in such a way to accommodate additional floors as necessary, with a second-story erected four years later. The structure has been occupied by O'Shea's Irish Pub since 1997. Between 1949 and 1997, the building's tenant was Bill's Tuxedo Rentals, which served notable clients including Robert and John F. Kennedy and some cast members of the B.L. Stryker show.
Building at 533-535 Clematis Street. Also known as the Sirkin Building, this Renaissance Revival style structure is considered "the most architecturally significant building in the historic district". Harry Sirkin, a department store owner, hired the Harvey and Clarke architectural firm to design this three-story building, constructed in 1925 at a cost of $60,000.
Building at 540 Clematis Street. A masonry vernacular structure built in 1928.

Non-contributing and others
Building at 505 and 509 Clematis Street. Currently occupied by a Subculture Coffee shop located at the base of the multi-storied Clematis Parking Garage. This structure is not listed as being part of the historic commercial district.
Building at 528A Clematis Street. Despite being constructed in 1923, the time period of the contributing structures, this building has been significantly altered and retains few of its former features. Therefore, it is listed as a non-contributing structure.

See also
National Register of Historic Places listings in Palm Beach County, Florida
Other National Register of Historic Places listings on Clematis Street:
Comeau Building
Hatch's Department Store
Palm Beach Mercantile Company

References

External links

Palm Beach County listings at National Register of Historic Places
Clematis Street Website for Events, Restaurants, and Things to do Downtown

National Register of Historic Places in Palm Beach County, Florida
Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Florida
West Palm Beach, Florida
Historic districts in Palm Beach County, Florida


Sebarga is a parish  in Amieva, a municipality within the province and autonomous community of Asturias, in northern Spain.

It is  in size. The population as of is 190 (INE 2011). The postal code is 33557.

Villages

References

Parishes in Amieva
Catholic titular sees in Africa


Richlands is a small unincorporated farming community in Greenbrier County, West Virginia, United States, five miles (8 km) west of Lewisburg on U.S. Route 60.

The community was so named on account of their fertile soil.

Once served by Central School, a two-room schoolhouse housing grades K–9, local children now attend school in Lewisburg. The area has a Ruritan club, The Richland Ruritans, and a 4-H club, The Central Willing Workers.

References

Unincorporated communities in Greenbrier County, West Virginia
Unincorporated communities in West Virginia


Budin's tuco-tuco (Ctenomys budini) was formerly considered a species of rodent in the family Ctenomyidae.  It is endemic to southeast Jujuy Province in northwest Argentina. Given the extensive human presence in its limited range, it has been suspected to be threatened. The IUCN currently views it as a subspecies of C. frater. It was named after Emilio Budin, an Argentine specimen collector who worked with Oldfield Thomas.

References

Mammals of Argentina
Mammals described in 1913
Taxa named by Oldfield Thomas
Tuco-tucos
Endemic fauna of Argentina
Taxobox binomials not recognized by IUCN


Philip J. Powers (July 26, 1854 – December 22, 1914) was a major league baseball catcher from 1878 to 1885.

He was used mostly as a backup for five different teams in the National League and American Association.

External links
 Baseball Reference

1854 births
1914 deaths
Baseball players from New York City
Chicago White Stockings players
Boston Red Caps players
Cincinnati Red Stockings (AA) players
Baltimore Orioles (AA) players
Cleveland Blues (NL) players
London Tecumseh players
Springfield (minor league baseball) players
New York Metropolitans (minor league) players
London Tecumsehs (baseball) players
19th-century baseball players
Burials at Saint Raymond's Cemetery (Bronx)


Anita Frances Phillips (14 March 1945 – 4 February 2023) was an Australian politician. She was a Member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly.

Early life
Phillips was born in Melbourne on 14 March 1945, the daughter of John Phillips and Anita (née Kerridge). The family lived in a housing commission estate in the outer suburbs (at that time of Melbourne). From 1952 to 1957 she attended St Michaels Catholic Primary School in Ashburton. Later, she attended St Rochs School in Glen Iris, Our Holy Redeemer School in Ripponlea, and Presentation College, Windsor.

She studied at the University of Melbourne, receiving a Diploma of Social Studies in 1968 and a Bachelor of Arts in 1976.

In 1969, she moved to Townsville in Queensland and became a social worker.

She studied at the University of Canberra, completing a Masters of Public Administration in 1990.

Politics
In 2001, Phillips was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Queensland as the Labor member for Thuringowa, defeating One Nation-turned-independent sitting member Ken Turner. After being elected, she thanked former Victorian Premier, Joan Kirner, for being a mentor. She also thanked the ALP's support through the Emily's List scheme to increase female representation in parliaments around Australia.

In 2004, she retired in order to contest the federal seat of Herbert, held by the Liberal Party's Peter Lindsay, in the 2004 federal election but was unsuccessful.

Later life
Phillips served in a number of roles:

 ACT Public Advocate (circa 2005 -2013)
 advisor to federal ministers
 executive roles on the Leichhardt and Queanbeyan local governments
 board member on the Sunshine Coast Health and Hospital Board (2017-2022)

In 2012, Phillips completed a Post Graduate Diploma in Legal Studies at the University of Canberra.  In 2022, Phillips completed a PhD at the University of Canberra titled "The process of policy development using the NDIS as a case study".

On 4 February 2023, Phillips died after a short illness in the Sunshine Coast University Hospital.

References

External links

1945 births
2023 deaths
Members of the Queensland Legislative Assembly
Australian Labor Party members of the Parliament of Queensland
21st-century Australian politicians
21st-century Australian women politicians
Women members of the Queensland Legislative Assembly
Politicians from Melbourne


Captrain España is a subsidiary of SNCF, created in 2002 to provide comprehensive logistics services, rail freight, and passenger services. It was founded as COMSA Rail Transport and rebranded as Captrain España in 2018.

History
COMSA Rail Transport was founded in 2002 by COMSA to provide rail services, including freight, passenger and construction trains, locomotive hire for rail construction and other related services including sidings and terminals.

In September 2005 COMSA became the first private rail company to obtain a license to operate on the Spanish railway network, in 2007 a safety certificate for operations was obtained and the company began operating freight trains in 2007. The company became part of the COMSA EMTE group on the merger in July 2009 of Grupo COMSA and Emte SA.

In 2009 the company operated over 1000 freight trains, including 375 automotive part trains for SEAT in Martorell, and coal trains from sea ports to a power plant in Ponferrada, as well as supply locomotives for the construction of the Madrid–Levante high-speed rail line.

In 2013 SNCF Logistics purchased a 25% share in COMSA Rail Transport. In July 2018, SNCF Logistics purchased the remaining 75% with the business to be rebranded Captrain España.

Affiliations

 2005: Founding member of the (now defunct) European Bulls International Railfreight Alliance
 2006: fer Polska Joint venture with Rail4Chem
 2009: In association with Portuguese rail company Takargo Rail a joint venture Ibercargo Rail operates services between Spain and Portugal.
 2013: SNCF-Geodis and COMSA Rail Transport sign a cooperation agreement on developing rail freight between Iberia, France, and Central Europe.

Rolling stock
As of 2009 the company operates three Class 335 Euro 4000, two Class 317 G1700 and two Class 312 MZ III locomotives (ex-DSB MZ) diesel locomotives, and 18 Electroputere LDE2100 diesel locomotives. Three Class 253 TRAXX DC locomotives were also delivery in October 2009.

Gallery

Notes

References

External links
COMSA Corporación

COMSA
Captrain
Railway companies of Spain
Railway companies established in 2002
Spanish companies established in 2002


Little Jock Elliot is Border ballad of indeterminate age. It is sometimes referred to as the "lost ballad" since the only certain remaining of it is the famous verse "Wha daur meddle wi me ?". A version of it was written by James Smail (1828–1905) under the pseudonym of Matthew Gotterson in The Scotsman, in 1872. He gave it a second part in 1892.

Synopsis

John Elliot of Park was a famous Scottish border reiver and infamous plunderer and cattle 'lifter' from the powerful Elliot family along the lawless Scottish border with England in the mid 16th Century. He is also the subject of a well-known Border ballad called "Little Jock Elliot".

The ballad asserts Elliot's prowess in battle and contains the famous refrain "My name is Little Jock Elliot, and wha daur meddle wi' me!," which has traditionally been offered as one possible source for the origins of the Latin motto of the Order of the Thistle, "Nemo me impune lacessit".

The ballad ends by referencing Little Jock Elliot's wounding of James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell in the summer of 1566 when the latter attempted to arrest Elliot, apparently for crimes committed as a reiver.

Another ballad called "Bothwell",  attributed to the early Scottish poet Robert Aytoun, presents the story from the point of view of Bothwell. The ballad 'Bothwell' states that the earl, though suffering from life-threatening wounds inflicted by Elliot, yet managed to kill him, thus reversing the heroic role assigned to Little Jock Elliot in the eponymous ballad and also its implicit message that Elliot survived the encounter.

History
The events occurred in fact, evidently with both Elliot and Bothwell at least wounding each other. The various accounts agree that Bothwell wounded Elliot first, who notwithstanding his wounds, managed to wound Bothwell in return to such a degree that he was near death and unable to continue the fight. This wounding of Bothwell apparently also led to Mary, Queen of Scots life being endangered. On her way to see Bothwell, she almost perished in a mire, and subsequent to her strenuous ride (fifty miles in a single day), she became extremely ill, apparently with pneumonia.

See also
 Clan Elliot

References

External links
Little "Jock" Elliott
Clan Elliot

Elliot
Scottish Borders
Song forms
Scottish folk songs
Northumbrian folklore
English folk songs
Songs about fictional male characters
Traditional ballads


The Milwaukee School of Languages (MSL) is a 6–12 grade public school in the Milwaukee Public Schools district of Wisconsin, United States. It was formerly named the Wilbur Wright Multi-Language Middle School.

In addition to common core standards, students participate in immersion programs in Spanish, German, and French. Students can also take a partial immersion program in Spanish. Courses are also offered in Japanese. This school welcomes many exchange students from all over the world every year.

History
Wilbur Wright middle school was constructed in 1956.

The school first offered immersion programs for middle school students in 1986, and added high school grades in 1996.

Extracurricular activities, sports and clubs
MSL offers many different Clubs and Extracurricular Activities.

Clubs
Chess Club (Only available if done at previous immersion school)

(Forensics) Speech & Debate

Newspaper

Theater

Gender Sexuality Alliance (Known as GSA among students)

Environmental Club

Art Club (Highschool-Only with exceptions)

Jazz Club (Highschool-Only)

Extracurricular activities
Special Olympics

Girl Scouts (Only available if done at previous immersion school)

Pearls For Teen Girls

Sports
Track & Field (Separate Girl and Boys Team)

Cross Country (Separate Girl and Boys Team)

Basketball (Separate Girl and Boys Team)

Volleyball (Co-ed)

Soccer (Co-ed)

Students
Milwaukee School of Languages has an ethnically diverse student body as of 2022:
 Black or African American, 49.4%
 White, 23.3%
 Hispanic/Latino, 18.7%
 Asian, 4.6%
 Two or more Races, 3.6%
 American Indian or Alaskan Native, 0.2%
 Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander, 0.2%
53% of students were female while 47% were male.

Athletics and activities
In 2007, the MSL Boys Track and Field team won the WIAA D1 state title. Alumnus such as Quentin Luttrell, Zachary Sharkey-Ketner, Jonathan Fobbs and Antwon Terry led the team to victory.

Notable alumni

 Jade-Lianna Peters, actress, voice of Kai-Lan of Ni Hao, Kai-Lan
Josiah Williams, Christian Hip-Hop Artist / Rhythmic Soul | WWE On-Air Talent for the NXT Creator of Wrestle and Flow.
Buffalo Nichols, blues guitarist & singer
Zed Kenzo, Milwaukee area rapper, winner of 2019 Radio Milwaukee Music Awards

See also
 Milwaukee Public Schools

References

External links
 Official website

Public middle schools in Wisconsin
Public high schools in Wisconsin
High schools in Milwaukee


Xestoso () is one of four parroquias, a parish (administrative division) in Villanueva de Oscos, a municipality within the province and autonomous community of Asturias, in northern Spain.

It is  from Villanueva, the capital of the municipality.

Situated at  above sea level, it is  in size, with a population of 91.

Villages and hamlets
 Batribán
 Cotarelo
 Regodesebes
 Salgueiras
 As Toleiras
 Xestoso
 Arcaxo
 El Tesouro
 A Casilla
 Morán
 El Xeixo

Notable attractions
 Capilla (chapel) de la Virgen del Carmen in Gestoso
 Capilla (chapel) de Cimadevilla
 Iglesia (church) de San José de Gestoso

References

Parishes in Villanueva de Oscos


The Council elections held in Wolverhampton on Thursday 2 May 1991 were one third, and 20 of the 60 seats were up for election.

During the 1991 election the Merry Hill ward had two seats contested due to a vacancy arising.

Prior to the election the constitution of the Council was:

Labour 31
Conservative 23
Liberal Democrats 4
Liberal 1
Vacancy 1

Following the election the constitution of the Council was:

Labour 35
Conservative 22
Liberal Democrats 3

Election result

1991
1991 English local elections
1990s in the West Midlands (county)


The alkali–carbonate reaction is an alteration process first suspected in the 1950s in Canada for the degradation of concrete containing dolomite aggregates.

Alkali from the cement might react with the dolomite crystals present in the aggregate inducing the production of brucite, (MgOH)2, and calcite (CaCO3). This mechanism was tentatively proposed by Swenson and Gillott (1964) and may be written as follows:

CaMg(CO3)2 + 2 NaOH -> Mg(OH)2 + CaCO3 + Na2CO3

Brucite (Mg(OH)2), could be responsible for the volumetric expansion after de-dolomitisation of the aggregates, due to absorption of water.

The alkali–carbonate reaction is also catalyzed by the soluble NaOH produced by the reaction of  with  (portlandite) present in the hardened cement paste (HCP), therefore perpetuating the reaction indefinitely as observed by Fournier and Bérubé (2000) and Bérubé et al. (2005).

Na2CO3 + Ca(OH)2 -> CaCO3 + 2 NaOH

The sum of the two above mentioned reactions leading to the ultimate production of brucite and calcium carbonate can be written as follows:

CaMg(CO3)2 + Ca(OH)2 -> Mg(OH)2 + 2 CaCO3

The alkali-carbonate reaction is much less understood than the alkali-silica reaction. Both reactions share in common the continuous regeneration of the sodium hydroxide (NaOH) after the reaction of soluble sodium carbonate or sodium silicate with calcium hydroxide, . However, impure dolomitic aggregates also often contain clay impurities, and small amounts of pyrite () and organic matter. The alkali-carbonate reaction could therefore also simply hide an alkali-silica or an alkali-silicate reaction. Anyway a chemical coupling between ACR and ASR cannot be ruled out.

See also
 Alkali–aggregate reaction
 Alkali–silica reaction
 Calthemite: Secondary calcium carbonate deposit growing under man-made structures
 Pozzolanic reaction

External links
 Cement.org | Alkali-aggregate reaction

References

Building materials
Carbonates
Catalysis
Cement
Chemical reactions
Concrete
Fracture mechanics
Magnesium compounds
Materials degradation
Mechanical failure modes
Patterns
Pavements
Silicates


This is a list of listed buildings in the United Kingdom.

The organization of the lists in this series is on the same basis as the statutory registers, which generally rely on counties. For England and Wales, the county names are broadly those of the ceremonial counties of England and Wales and do not always match the current administrative areas, whereas in most cases they parallel the current subdivisions of Scotland. In Northern Ireland the province's six traditional counties are used, and these are unchanged in modern times.

Different classifications of listed buildings are used in different parts of the United Kingdom:

England and Wales: Grade I, Grade II* and Grade II;
Scotland: Category A, Category B and Category C
Northern Ireland: Grade A, Grade B+, Grade B1 and Grade B2

Listed buildings in the United Kingdom

The lists for the countries of the UK are at:

Listed buildings in England
Listed buildings in Scotland
Listed buildings in Northern Ireland
Listed buildings in Wales

See also
Scheduled monument
Listed buildings in the Falkland Islands

References

External links
 Full list.  Many of the entries are private houses or village churches which are unlikely to have a Wikipedia page of their own.


The group of Turkic people who are of Indo-Aryan descent are commonly known as the Indo-Turks or Indo-Turkic.  They are sometimes categorised as Romanis, but this claim is largely false.  Many Indo-Turks live in Central Asia and Russia.

Indian Subcontinent
The ancestors of the Indo-Turkic people, are Turks who migrated to South Asia at the time of the Delhi Sultanate and the Mughal Empire and intermarried with Indians. The Delhi Sultanate is a term used to cover five short-lived, Delhi-based kingdoms two of which were of Turkic origin in medieval India namely the Mamluk dynasty (Delhi) and Tughlaq dynasty. Other Turkic dynasties which ruled in the subcontinent include Ghaznavids and the Mughal Empire. Southern India also saw Turkic origin dynasties like the Qutb Shahi dynasty. There is also a significant population of Indo-Turkic descendants known as Rowther, mostly found in Southern India.

Ottoman Empire
They are also Indian nomads who went to Central Asia in the Middle Ages, where they intermingled with Turkmen, and settled finally in Anatolia Eyalet, the so called Teber/Abdal of Turkey, some went to Rumelia Eyalet and Crimean Khanate.

Notable dynasties
Khilji dynasty
Tughlaq dynasty
Qutb Shahi dynasty
Adil Shahi dynasty
Mughal Empire
Nawabs of Bengal and Murshidabad

See also
 Abdal of Turkey
 Lyuli
 Rowther
 Agrzhan

References

Muslim communities of India


COMSA was a Spanish railway infrastructure and construction company.

COMSA or Comsa may also refer to:

 Canadian Osteopathic Medical Student Association
 Dimitrie Comșa (1846-1931), Transylvanian Romanian agronomer and activist
 Grigorie Comșa (1889–1935), a bishop in the Romanian Orthodox Church
 The "College of Maritime and Shipping Administration" at the Palompon Institute of Technology in the Philippines

See also
 CONSA, Colegio Nuestra Señora de la Altagracia
 Cosma (disambiguation)
 Komsa (disambiguation)