Charles E. Johnson may refer to:

Charles E. Johnson (FBI Most Wanted fugitive), American criminal
Charles E. Johnson (government official), American public official, acting Secretary of Health and Human Services from January 2009 to April 2009
Charles E. Johnson, early 1890s music/dance performer
Charles Elliott Johnson, Democratic member of the North Carolina General Assembly, 2003–2004
Charles Ellis Johnson (1857–1926), American photographer
Charles Johnson (wide receiver, born 1972) (Charles Everett Johnson), American football player
Charles Ellicott Johnson, interim President of the University of Oregon
Charles Eric Johnson, co-writer of The Monkey Hustle

See also
Charles Johnson (disambiguation)
Johnson (surname)


Un Estilo (English A style) is the 1st studio album by Mexican pop singer Ana Gabriel. It was released on 1985. She participated with the song Búscame (Look for me) in the OTI Festival which media started to know about her. In the beginning she found it difficult, as no label was willing to give her the opportunity, til the then-label CBS Records, now Columbia Records, signed her. The sales of the album were low, though it was received well. The album also features a cover of the Eurythmics song "Right By Your Side" entitled Sin ti no sé amar.

Track listing
Tracks:
 Búscame
 ¿Que nos pasó?
 Sin ti no se amar
 Lo quiero todo
 ¿Quién te crees que soy?
 Amor sin memoria
 Pienso en ti
 Déjame vivir
 No me lastimes más
 Promesas
 Que sea por amor

References

1985 albums
Ana Gabriel albums


The Create Project is a web-based community focused on communication and sharing between Free and Open Source Creative applications.
Initially the project was created by freedesktop.org as a space for collaboration between free software creative projects, since then the project has become a full sub-project. Create now aims to develop and consolidate shared resources for creative applications.  Several community-developed specifications have begun to be developed under the project such as OpenRaster and the Swatches colour file format.

Some of the many groups that come together under this project include Blender, GIMP, Inkscape, Scribus, Audacity, Open Clip Art Library, Open Font Library and the Aiki Framework which produce creative content, one of the major ways these groups come together is through the Libre Graphics Meeting which is hosted by the Create Project.

Specifications

See also

 Libre Graphics Meeting
 FreeDesktop.org
 Inkscape
 GIMP
 Scribus
 sK1
 Blender
 Audacity
 Open Clip Art Library
 Open Font Library
 Aiki Framework
 free and open-source software
 Open Source Developers' Conference

References

External links

 Create Project mailing list archives

Freedesktop.org
Cross-platform free software
Free graphics software


Elyakum Shapirra (; 27 December 1926 – 3 February 2014)  was an Israeli conductor who appeared in a number of countries. (His names also appear as Eliakum and Shapira.)

Early life and education
He studied with Leonard Bernstein, becoming one of his assistant conductors at the New York Philharmonic.  He also studied with Serge Koussevitzky at Tanglewood, and at the Juilliard School.

Career
He was Assistant Conductor with the San Francisco Symphony.  He led the New York Philharmonic on tours to Canada and Japan in 1960-61. He was guest conductor with the University of the Pacific in 1961. He became Associate Conductor with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra from 1962 to 1967.

Robert Hall Lewis dedicated his Three Pieces for Orchestra (1966) to Shapirra and the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra.

He was appointed Chief Conductor of the Malmö Symphony Orchestra in Sweden 1969-1974.

Elyakum Shapirra was the first person to conduct Alexander Scriabin's Prometheus: The Poem of Fire in England with the coloured lighting that the composer called for. This occurred on 4 May 1972 at the Royal Albert Hall with the London Symphony Orchestra.

Shapirra conducted the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and soloist Georges Pludermacher in the posthumous world premiere of Jani Christou's Toccata for Piano and Orchestra (1962), on 23 April 1973 in Oxford.

From 1975 to 1979 he was the Chief Conductor of the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra in Australia. He was also associated with the Arnhem Philharmonic Orchestra in the Netherlands.

Recordings
In 1972 Shapirra made the first commercial recording of Anton Bruckner's Symphony in F minor ("Study Symphony"), with the London Symphony Orchestra.  He also recorded Bruckner's Overture in G minor with the LSO.

Other symphonic recordings included Leonard Bernstein's 1st and 2nd symphonies. He also recorded other standard orchestral repertoire with various orchestras, as well as Israeli, Yemeni and Yiddish songs with popular singers.

References

1926 births
2014 deaths
Israeli conductors (music)
Israeli accordionists


The Prix Maurice Genevoix (Le prix Maurice Genevoix) is an annual French literary award made in honor of its namesake Maurice Genevoix (1890–1980).
It is intended to recognize a French literary work which, by its topic or style, honors the memory and work of Maurice Genevoix. The prize was founded in 1985 in the city of Garches under the initiative of mayor Yves Bodin, who was a family friend of Genevoix. In 2004 the award was officially established at the Académie française as a "Grand Prix", meaning the winner receives a silver-gilt medal and variable cash amount, thus increasing its prestige and importance since 2004.

Winners
List of winners. Prizes awarded since 2004 are from the Académie française.

2018 : Jean Chalon, Ultimes messages d'amour  (Tourneciel)
2017 : Antoine Rault, La Danse des vivants (Albin Michel)
2016 – Élisabeth Barillé, L'Oreille d'or d'Élisabeth Barillé, (Grasset)
2015 – Clara Dupont-Monod, Le roi disait que j'étais diable, (Grasset)
2014 – Jean-Christophe Rufin, Le Collier rouge (Gallimard)
2013 – Isabelle Autissier, L'Amant de Patagonie (Grasset)
 2012 – Thierry Laget, La lanterne d'Aristote (Gallimard)
 2011 – Alain Borer, Le Ciel & la carte : Carnet de voyage dans les mers du Sud à bord de La Boudeuse
 2010 – Jean-Louis Ezine, Les taiseux (Gallimard)
 2009 – Michel Bernard, La maison du docteur Laheurte (Table ronde)
 2008 – Marie Didier, Morte-saison sur la ficelle : Et autres récits (Gallimard)
 2007 – Jacques Godbout, La concierge du Panthéon (Seuil)
 2006 – Brina Svit, Un coeur de trop (Gallimard)
 2005 – Stéphane Audeguy, La théorie des nuages (Gallimard)
 2004 – Daniel Maximin, Tu, c'est l'enfance (Gallimard)
 2003 – Gilles Lapouge, En étrange pays (Albin Michel)
 2002 – Nicolas Vanier, Le chant du grand nord (XO)
 2001 – Jérôme Garcin, C’était tous les jours tempête (Gallimard)
 2000 – Pascale Roze, Lettre d'été (Albin Michel)
 1999 – Geneviève Dormann, Adieu, phénomène (Albin Michel)
 1998 – Jean-Marc Roberts, Une petite femme (Grasset)
 1997 – Ève de Castro, Nous serons comme des dieux (Albin Michel)
 1996 – Anne Wiazemsky, Hymnes à l'amour (Gallimard)
 1995 – Jean-Noel Pancrazi, Madame Arnould (Gallimard)
 1994 – Michel del Castillo, Rue des Archives (Gallimard)
 1993 – Bertrand Visage, Bambini (Seuil)
 1992 – Pierre Veilletet, Querencia (Arléa)
 1991 – Jean-Didier Wolfromm, La Leçon inaugurale (Grasset)
 1990 – Marcel Schneider, L'éternité fragile (Grasset)
 1989 – Jean-Marie Rouart, La Femme de proie (Grasset)
 1988 – Jean-François Deniau, La Désirade, (Olivier Orban)
 1987 – Rose Vincent, L'Adieu aux Champs (Seuil)
 1986 – Gilles Pudlowski, L'Amour du Pays (Flammarion)
 1985 – Nicolas Saudray, La Maison des Prophètes (Seuil)

References

External links
Prix Maurice Genevoix (Académie Française)
List of winners 1985–2007, with book cover thumbnails.

Maurice Genevoix
Awards established in 1985
1985 establishments in France


Cai Yaohui () (born January 8, 1988) is a retired Chinese football player who mostly spent his career with Guangzhou Pharmaceutical.

Honours

Club
Guangzhou F.C.
China League One: 2007, 2010

References

External links
 Player profile at sohu.com
 Player profile at Guangzhou Pharmaceutical website

1988 births
Living people
People from Sanshui District
Chinese men's footballers
Footballers from Foshan
Guangzhou F.C. players
Chinese Super League players
China League One players
Men's association football midfielders
21st-century Chinese people


This article lists the presidents of the Basque Parliament, the regional legislature of the Basque Country.

Presidents

Notes

References

Basque Country


Zarréu is one of three parishes (administrative divisions) in the Degaña municipality, within the province and autonomous community of Asturias, in northern Spain.

The population is 867 (INE 2007).

Villages
 Pruída
 Zarréu

References

Parishes in Degaña


The Cozy Coupe is a red and yellow toy car manufactured and distributed by Little Tikes, an American manufacturer of children's toys based in Hudson, Ohio.

Design
The car's design, described as "a cross between a Volkswagen Beetle and Fred Flintstone's vehicle", was created by Jim Mariol of Cincinnati-based Design Alliance, who had worked as a designer at Chrysler starting in 1952 and engineered by Shirish Patel, Little Tikes' Vice President of Engineering and Product Engineer John Fawcett.

Evolution
First sold in 1979 as one of the first molded-plastic toy cars sold in the United States, it was called the "world's best-selling car for much of this decade" by The New York Times in 1998, outselling the Honda Accord and Ford Taurus. By 1991, the Cozy Coupe was selling 500,000 units per year, making it the top-selling model in the United States, outselling the 399,000 Accords and 299,000 Taurus vehicles sold that year. By 1997, its sales of 313,000 units in the US and another 100,000 sold in the United Kingdom in 1997, would have made it the fifth-best-selling car in the US among real vehicles.

By 1998, Tom Murdough, the founder of Little Tikes who had left the company to start competitor Step 2, had pointed out that the Cozy Coupe's design was becoming dated, looking "somewhat like the VW Beetle in looks and design", reflecting what was "a great design for its time, but it also looks like it was designed in the '70s." Little Tikes had introduced a number of brand extensions in 1996, including a purple roadster that looks akin to a Plymouth Prowler, a blue minivan that looks akin to a Dodge Caravan, an SUV, two pickup models and the yellow and teal Grand Coupe. While overall sales for Little Tikes increased after the introduction of the new models, the Cozy Coupe lost its spot as the industry's top seller.

By 1998, Little Tikes introduced the Cozy Coupe II, a redesigned model of its original classic that retained the red and yellow bubble-shaped exterior, while adding thicker pillars on the front roof, among other enhancements, including a remote control that makes sounds of doors unlocking, the horn beeping, the engine starting and a car alarm. J. C. Penney had included the updated car in its catalog starting in August 1998, with sales since its introduction doubling the sales in the corresponding five months of 1997. Total 1998 sales were expected to exceed 250,000 units. In 2009 Rakesh Patel, the owner of the first Cozy Coupe ever made, donated the very first Cozy Coupe off of the assembly line from 1979 to the collection of the Crawford Auto-Aviation Museum in celebration of the coupe's 30th anniversary.

References

Products introduced in 1979
Toy cars and trucks


Degaña  is one of three parishes (administrative divisions) in the Degaña municipality, within the province and autonomous community of Asturias, in northern Spain.

The population is 388 (INE 2007).

Villages
 Degaña
 Fonduveigas
 El Reboḷḷal

References

Parishes in Degaña


Sruthilayalu (Telugu : శ్రుతిలయలు)  is a 1987 Telugu-language musical drama film, directed by K. Viswanath. The film stars Rajasekhar and Sumalatha with soundtrack composed by K. V. Mahadevan. It was released on 30 April 1987. The film garnered eight Nandi Awards and also won Filmfare Award for Best Director – Telugu. The film was premiered at the International Film Festival of India, and AISFM Film Festival. The film was dubbed in Tamil as Isaikku Oru Koil.

Plot
The film revolves around Naidu, a Carnatic musician and his elder son Narayana Murthy, who starts getting recognized because of the music learnt from his father. Narayana Murthy leaves his family to falls prey to bad habits, forgetting his roots. It is now the duty of Sita, the daughter-in-law of Naidu to bring these men back on track.

The film starts with Mr. Naidu, a great fan of music and traditional Indian fine arts. He wants his only son to become a great musician, but unfortunately he loses his son in a car accident.

Then he adopts three orphaned street children and teaches them Carnatic music so they can make his dream of building and starting an academy of fine arts come true. Sita is also a fan of music and falls in love with Narayana. Naidu agrees for them to get married while Shankar, the second son marries a rich girl.

Naidu sends his three sons to the city to earn sufficient money to start the construction of a Music academy named Sangeetha Bharathi. But all three forget the cause they come for once they get popularity in city and they get addicted to bad habits. They disrespect their father once and Narayana Murthy even tries to hit his pregnant wife. All this makes Mr. Naidu send the three sons away from home. Then Sita, the daughter-in-law takes the onus to make Mr. Naidu's dream come true. She makes her son Srinivas a great musician and dancer. After a long time, she returns to the city where her husband lives. There she gets Narayana Murthy to take interest in their son's talents without revealing herself to Narayana Murthy or his brother.

Narayana, who doesn't know his son, appreciates his talents well and accepts to teach him music. Sita makes the other two sons of Mr. Naidu also to concentrate on music through her son. She teaches them a lesson and they come to the realize what they did wrong.

In the end, all the sons come together and meet their father and ask for his forgiveness. He forgives them and they start afresh to try and establish the Music Academy which is later named as Sangeetha Bharathi

Cast

Rajasekhar as Narayana Murthy
Sumalatha as Sita
Kaikala Satyanarayana as Naidu
Shanmukha Srinivas as Srinivas
Murali Krishna as Murali
Naresh as Shankar
Anjali Devi
Mucherla Aruna as Girija
Jayalalita as Panchali
Mallikarjuna Rao
Jit Mohan Mitra as Anjaneyulu
Potti Prasad
Sakshi Ranga Rao as Ramadasu
Vankayala Satyanarayana
Sanjay Vadapalli

Soundtrack

Soundtrack composed by K. V. Mahadevan was released through LEO music label. Lyrics were written by Sirivennela Seetharama Sastry while this film used songs of Annamacharya, Tyagaraja, Narayana Teertha and Shailendra.

Awards

References

External links

1980s musical drama films
Films about classical music and musicians
1980s Telugu-language films
Films about the arts
Indian romantic musical films
1980s romantic musical films
Films directed by K. Viswanath
Films scored by K. V. Mahadevan
Indian musical drama films
1987 drama films


Morgan Zeba (born 24 August 1974) is a Swedish former professional footballer who played as a midfielder.

Club career

Zeba played for Landskrona BoIS in Division 2 Södra Götaland 1996.

In 1997, Zeba played for the Richmond Kickers in the USISL. On 16 April 1998 he signed with the Minnesota Thunder and played for them through the 2001 season. In 1999, Zeba and his teammates won the USL A-League championship.  He became a free agent in September 2001 and signed with the Charleston Battery for the 2002 season.

International career
He also played for the Swedish youth national teams.

References

1974 births
Living people
Swedish men's footballers
Landskrona BoIS players
Richmond Kickers players
Minnesota Thunder players
Charleston Battery players
A-League (1995–2004) players
Men's association football midfielders
Swedish expatriate men's footballers
Swedish expatriate sportspeople in the United States
Expatriate men's soccer players in the United States
Sweden men's youth international footballers
Footballers from Malmö


The  is a railway line in Nagoya Japan.  Intended to increase capacity by connecting Nagoya Freight Terminal Station with Kasadera Station and Ōbu Station, work on it was suspended before completion. It was constructed not by the Japan Railway Construction Public Corporation, but by Japanese National Railways (JNR) itself.

Line Data
 Length: 26 km (from Nagoya Freight Terminal Station to Ōbu Station)
 Electrification: complete, 1500 V DC
 Dual track: full line
 Triple track: from Nagoya Freight Terminal Station to crosspoint with Nagoya Minato Line

History
Between 1965 and 1975, JNR was transporting a large portion of the nation's freight. In the Nagoya area, slow freight trains were interfering with passenger service, and as a result, a plan was sought to provide a separated line to carry freight traffic. As Sasajima Station, the city's main freight terminal just south Nagoya Station, became too small, freight was to move south to a new site. The Nanpō Freight Line was built to bypass the busy Tōkaidō Main Line and serve these stations.

The original plan was to build a separate freight line bypassing the Tōkaidō Main Line from Inazawa Station's freight marshalling yard to Sasajima Station (which is actually a quadruple-tracked section of the Tōkaidō Main) and an extension to West Nagoyakō Station. The extension would be called the West Nagoyakō Line, and along its path would be constructed the Nagoya Freight Terminal Station. Diverging from that point and crossing the Nagoya Minato Line, then running parallel to the Tōkaidō Shinkansen, crossing the Meitetsu Tokoname Line, before rejoining the Tōkaidō Main Line just before Kasadera Station and continue to Ōbu Station in a quadruple track arrangement.

Work began in March 1967, and by 1975 the line was 90% complete. About 34.5 billion yen had been spent, but work on the line was suspended, and in 1979, as a part of reforms within JNR, the project was terminated. During the line's construction, JNR had lost a significant amount of freight business to trucks, and there was local opposition to the noise and vibration that the line would produce. With the opening of Nagoya Freight Terminal Station in 1980, eastbound freight first had to be moved to Inazawa switching yard to then proceed east on the Tōkaidō Main Line.

In 1992, as part of a study by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism about reducing congestion on the Tōkaidō Main Line, it was proposed that West Nagoyakō Line be converted to a passenger line, but due to minimal congestion at the time on the Tōkaidō, the proposal was dismissed.

Ultimately, the West Nagoyakō Line opened for passenger service in 2004 as the Aonami Line. During renovations, the point at which the Nanpō Freight Line diverged was demolished as it interfered with the work.

Since 2002, about 30 billion yen has been spent removing portions of the structure. Although the land has been put up for sale, only about 4 billion has been recovered due to low land prices.

Some of the line's upright supports and surface still stand on the grounds of the Chubu Steel Plate Company. From the Aonami Line, one can see that this section is used as an elevated parking lot. As of 2008, sections of the track which do not have offices or parking lots below are being removed.  Sections of bridge near Ōdaka Station which are part of the same structure that supports the Tōkaidō Main Line are being reinforced to resist earthquakes. This work is being carried out by the Japan Railway Construction, Transport and Technology Agency.

Tōkaidō Main Line
Rail transport in Nagoya


Trabáu is one of three parishes (administrative divisions) in the Degaña municipality, within the province and autonomous community of Asturias, in northern Spain.

As of 2015 the population was 32.

References

Parishes in Degaña


Brandon Barklage (born November 2, 1986) is an American soccer player.

Career

Youth and college
During Barklage's youth career he primarily played for Lou Fusz S.C. In 2004, he led Scott Gallagher to a USYSA national championship. Barklage also attended Christian Brothers College High School (CBC) in St. Louis. Barklage played college soccer at the University of New Mexico and at St. Louis University. He earned first-team All-Mountain Pacific Sports Federation honors and was named to the NSCAA All-Far West Region third team in his second year at New Mexico in 2006, and was named to the TopDrawerSoccer National Team of the Season, the NSCAA All-Mid-Atlantic Region Second Team and the Second-team All A-10 Conference in his second year at St. Louis in 2008. During his college years he also played with Chicago Fire Premier in the USL Premier Development League.

Professional
Barklage was drafted in the third round (36th overall) of the 2009 MLS SuperDraft by D.C. United. He made his professional debut on 28 March 2009, coming on as a late substitute for Christian Gomez in D.C.'s game against Chicago Fire. After struggling for playing time due to serious injury, D.C. United opted not to renew his contract at the end of the 2010 MLS season.

He went on trial with United during the 2011 pre-season to earn a contract with the club. His trial was successful and United signed Barklage on 25 March 2011. However, at season's end the club declined his 2012 contract option and he entered the 2011 MLS Re-Entry Draft. Barklage was not selected in the draft and became a free agent.

On March 5, 2012 it was announced that Barklage had agreed to terms with New York Red Bulls of Major League Soccer. Barklage quickly acclimated into his new role at right back with New York, helping the club to three consecutive clean sheets during May 2012. On June 24, 2012 Barklage scored two goals to help New York to a 3-2 victory over his former club D.C. United.

Barklage remained with New York throughout 2013 but his contract option was declined at season's end. He entered the 2013 MLS Re-Entry Draft and was selected by San Jose Earthquakes, signing with the club in January 2014. He made his Earthquakes debut against the New England Revolution on March 29, 2014.  Barklage started in 10 of 13 appearances in his only season with San Jose. On March 18, 2015 Barklage and San Jose mutually agreed to terminate his contract.

Days later, Saint Louis FC of the USL announced the signing of the St. Louis native for the 2015 USL season. “It’s going to be great to get home and represent my hometown as a member of Saint Louis FC,” Barklage said.  “I’ve been in talks with the club for the past month or so, and they’ve treated my family and I with nothing but respect.”

Honors

Club
New York Red Bulls
MLS Supporters' Shield: 2013

Club career statistics

References

External links

1986 births
Living people
American men's soccer players
Chicago Fire U-23 players
D.C. United players
New York Red Bulls players
San Jose Earthquakes players
Saint Louis FC players
New Mexico Lobos men's soccer players
Saint Louis Billikens men's soccer players
USL League Two players
Major League Soccer players
USL Championship players
Soccer players from St. Louis
D.C. United draft picks
Men's association football midfielders


Gello (), in Greek mythology, is a female demon or revenant who threatens the reproductive cycle by causing infertility, miscarriage, and infant mortality. By the Byzantine era, the  () were considered a class of beings. Women believed to be under demonic possession by gelloudes might stand trial or be subjected to exorcism.

Gyllou, Gylou, Gillo, or Gelu are some of its alternate forms.

Etymology
Gello possibly derives from Gallû, an ancient Mesopotamian demon believed to bring sickness and death. The theory was advanced by Carl Frank (1881–1945) and supported by Martin Litchfield West, Walter Burkert, and others. The name is also preserved in the later word ghoul.

Greek folk etymology links the word to the root gel-, "grin, laugh," in the sense of mocking or grimacing, like the expression often found on the face of the Gorgon, to which Barb linked demons exercising a malign influence on reproduction. Such demons are often associated with or said to come from the sea, and demonologies identify Gyllou with Abyzou, whose name is related to abyssos, the abyss or "deep."

Classical Antiquity

According to ancient myth, Gello was a young woman who died a virgin, and returned as a ghost (, ) to do harm to the children of others. The myth is given as an explanation of a proverb by the second-century compiler Zenobius. It is noted that Sappho mentioned her, implying that Gello was a feared bane of children at least as far back as the sixth century BC.

The lexicographer Hesychius of Alexandria, who wrote in the fifth or sixth century but drew from earlier lexicons, glossed gello as a ghost () who attacked both virgins and newborn babies.

Since the Early Middle Ages, Gello has often been conflated with Lamia and Mormo, two similar mythological figures. Each  originated as a single individual woman (with her own origin myth or aition) in Ancient Greece, but later developed into a type of frightening apparition or demon.

Byzantine Period

The gello eventually came to be regarded as a type of being, rather than an individual. The plural form gelloudes (), not found in Ancient Greek, came into existence in the Byzantine period, and used in the 7th–8th century by the patriarch John of Damascus, in his treatise  (, "Regarding striges"). The gelloudes were considered synonymous to the  () or  "witches" by him, and described as beings that flew nocturnally, slipped unhindered into houses even when windows and doors were barred, and strangled infants.

The polymath Michael Psellos of the 11th century inherited the notion that the stryngai and gelloudes were "interchangeable". He described them as beings that "suck blood and devour all the vital fluids which are in the little infant". Psellus documents a widened scope of the Gello's victims in the beliefs of the 11th century. Gello were being held responsible for the deaths of pregnant women and their fetuses as well. Gello (or Gillo) was also blamed for the condition of newborn infants who wasted away, and such infants were called Gillobrota (), according to Psellus.

Psellus sought in vain for Ancient Greek sources of these beliefs, and formulated the theory that the gello derived from the Hebrew Lilith. Psellus further stated that the name "Gillo" could not be discovered in his usual sources for demonic names in antiquity, but were to be found in an esoteric or "occult" () Hebrew book ascribed to Solomon. Later, the 17th-century Greek Catholic scholar Leo Allatios would criticize Psellos's confounding of the gello and Lilith.

The 14th-century Greek ecclesiastical historian Nikephoros Kallistos Xanthopoulos still told of gelloudes that "bring the infant from the bedroom, as if about to devour him."

Middle Ages to modern age
Aspects of the superstitions about the gelloude may be followed from the Middle Ages from various writings and talismans, to a treatise written by Leo Allatius in the 17th century which reveal that medieval beliefs and practices were still to be found among the common people of his day.

Corporeal and phantom forms
Although reports of Gello's behavior are consistent, her nature is less determinate. In the 7-8th century, John of Damascus equated the gello with the stryggai that sometimes appeared in spirit form while at other times had solid bodies and wore clothing.

The strix could be regarded an "unclean spirit" (akátharton pneuma) subject to demonic excorcism, according to an exorcism text recorded by 17th century writer Allatius. A woman could also be regarded as being a gello by the populace, but the charges were dismissed in an ecclesiastical trial c. 8th century. The orthodox theology of the Church, expounded by Psellos or Ignatius, held that a woman's gendered nature precluded her from turning into a demon, since a demon was officially considered sexless. Johnston prefers to use the Greek word aōros or aōrē, "untimely dead" for this form of transgressive or liminal soul or entity, finding the usual phrase "child-killing demon" to be misleading.

From virgin to witch-hags

It has been pointed out by modern commentators that even though the original Gello was a young woman who died a virgin, the gelloudes which became synonymous with stryggai or "witches" in the Christian era, were generally regarded as being old envious crones.

Equating gelloudes with the stringai, which occurred by the seventh to eighth century with John of Damascus as already noted, still continued in the times of the 17th century Leo Allatius who said that Striges (in the sense of "witches") was also called Gellones (Latinized form) according to popular belief. Allatius also recorded many variant forms, such as gelu, gello, gillo (in the singular). Leo Allatius wrote that the people who were his contemporaries in Greece were already entrenched in the belief that these witches were generally old crones who contracted with the devil. This, it has been argued, was a transplantation of the image of witch of Western Europe onto the Greek idea of gelloudes.

Protections against Gello
In the Byzantine period, mothers who had given birth customarily relied on amulets designed to protect their newborns from evil, including the Gello or Gyllou. The woman was a rare exception who would shun these charms and put her faith entirely in the power of the Cross.

Leo Allatios in the 17th century would criticize such remnants of sorcery such as these charms, or the hanging of red coral or a head of garlic, and prescribed strictly Christian prophylactics, such as a cross or image of Christ placed by a child's bed to ward off Gello or demons in general, or burning lamps to illuminate sacred images. The practice of baptizing infants was thought to offer protection against demon-snatching, and specifically against the gello, according to Leo Allatios.

Charm books
The magico-medical compilation Cyranides from the Imperial period provided instructions on how to defend against the gelloudes. The eyeballs of a hyena in a purple pouch was said to be an effective amulet against "all nocturnal terrors, also Gello, who strangles infants and troubles women in childbed". Using an ass's skin as a bedsheet to sleep on was also prescribed as effective against the Gello.

Stones
The Lithica of the late Hellenistic to early Imperial Period listed magical stones as effective charms as well, although they do not explicitly mention gello either. However, in these texts, galactite is said to protect against either Megaira ("Envy"), or "frightful woman" (horrida mulier) who attacked infants.

Early Byzantine amulets
Some Byzantine amulets against female reproductive demons are said to depict the Gello. This is sometimes asserted as a rule of thumb, without providing reasoning. As no Byzantine amulet exists that actually labels the demon as a Gello or Gyllou, the inference is made these are Gello by association with other figures labeled in the amulets, namely the demon Abyzou, the Saint Sisinnios, or the Evil Eye of "Envy".

Numerous early Byzantine amulets (6th to 7th century label its demon as "Abyzou"  identifiable with Obyzouth, a demon that strangles newborns according to the 1st to 3rd century Greek text called the Testament of Solomon. This Abyzou (Obyzouth) has been equated with the Gello (Gyllou), albeit in later literature, for example, the writings of Michael Psellos of the 11th century.

Some Byzantine amulets also invoke the name of Saint Sisinnios, who is known foremost as the vanquisher of Gello. Again, the textual evidence that connect Sissinios to Gylou are from much later dates, the oldest version of the "Melitine charm" or Legend of St. Sisinnios dating to the 15th century.

A concrete example is the Schlumberger No. 1 amulet shown on the right. Several scholars have hinted that the she-demon here, which has been noticed to have fish- or serpent-like attributes below the waist, may refer to Gello-Gyllou. The demon is being stabbed with a lance by a mounted figure (sometimes called the "holy rider" or "rider saint") which may be St. Sisinnios or Solomon. The inscription reads "Flee, detested one, Solomon, Sisinnios and Sisinnarios pursue you".

The same amulet has a second side, which depicts an eye as "Envy" (phthonos, ), attacked by weapons and animals.
 One of the commentator has specifically connect the Evil Eye of Envy with the Gylou, while the others connect it more vaguely to the child-stealing demon or say that the beings labeled "Envy" are the ghost-demons (aōrē).

Envy and Evil eye
Gello or Gylou's curse has been associated with the evil eye of Envy at least since the Byzantine period, according to commentators. Sarah Iles Johnston views the Phtonos eye on the amulet and the Megaera ("Envious One") invoked in the entry for "galactite" in one Lithica (book of stones), as not just a personfification of "Envy" but an aōrē (ghost demons) in their own rights, and insinuates that these charms are meant to apply to one of her specific aōrē, the Lamia, the Gello, or the Mormo. She fortifies her thesis that these aōrē were regarded as envious by pointing to Greek grave-markers that blame "envious demons" for robbing a young child of its life.

Legend of Saint Sisinnios

The story of St. Sisinnios assisting his sister Melitene against the demon Gyllou occurs in a group of different texts (These are also the texts in which Gyllou is compelled to reveal its "twelve and a half names"). These have been variously referred to as the "historiola" where in "the Greek tradition the woman is usually called Melitene", or "Melitine charm", or "Melitene type of Gylou story", or gello exorcism texts. The text group has been analyzed by Richard P. H. Greenfield in 1989, with the oldest example from a 15th cenuty manuscript.

In the 15th century manuscript version, the tale is set in the time of "Trajan the King". After losing six children to the Gyllou, Melitene gives birth to a seventh child inside a fortification she built at  (a part of the Constantinople). When her brothers, Sisinnios, Sines, and Sinodoros demand admittance, the "filthy" Gyllou gains entry by transforming into a fly clinging to the horse, and kills the child. The saints pray and an angel appears who instructs them to pursue the Gyllou to Lebanon. The Saints compel the demon to bring back to life all of Melitene's children, which the demon accomplishes after obtaining the mother's milk from Melitene. The saints continue to beat Gyllou, who begs mercy in return for revealing that she could be kept away with a charm inscribed with the names of the saints and with all of her different names. Then she proceeds to divulge her "twelve and a half names" (although what is meant by a "half name" is unclear):

A different version of this story was given by Leo Allatius in the 17th century.

The names of Gello

Knowledge of a demon's name was required to control or compel it; a demon could act under an alias. Redundant naming is characteristic of magic charms, "stressing," as A.A. Barb noted in his classic essay "Antaura", "the well-known magic rule that the omission of a single one can give the demons a loophole through which they can work their harm."

In the aforementioned Leo Allatius version of the Legend of St. Sisinnos, the twelve-and-a-half names are given as Gylo, Morrha, Byzo, Marmaro, Petasia, Pelagia, Bordona, Apleto, Chomodracaena, Anabardalaea, Psychoanaspastria, Paedopniktria, and Strigla. Although magic words (voces magicae) have often been corrupted in transmission or deliberately exoticized, several of these names suggest recognizable Greek elements and can be deciphered as functional epithets: Petasia, "she who strikes"; Apleto, "boundless, limitless"; Paedopniktria, "child suffocator." Byzo is a form of Abyzou, abyssos, "the Deep," to which Pelagia ("she of the sea") is equivalent.

The names of Gylo also include Chomodracaena, containing drakaina, "female dragon." In one text dealing with the gello, she is banished to the mountains to drink the blood of the drako; in another, she becomes a drako and in this form attacks human beings. In other texts, the child itself is addressed as Abouzin (Abyzou).

Legend of Saint Michael

In variant tellings, the role of St. Sisinnios is supplanted by the archangel Michael. A 15th-century manuscript versions exists for this as well:

Although the name Gylou is not found on any surviving amulets, Michael is the adversary Gylou encounters most often in medieval Byzantine texts.

Parallels
Parallels to the lore of a child-killing demon forced to confess its secret names occur as historiola or folktales surrounding magic spells, in medieval manuscripts of many languages, including Greek, Coptic, Ethiopian, Armenian, Romanian, Slavonic, Arabic, Syriac, and Hebrew.

The earliest examples, dating to the 5th or 6th century are the Aramaic versions of the historiola found as long inscriptions on objects: a silver lamella (metal-leaf sheet) from Palestine and two incantation bowls. In these Aramaic examples, the demon bears the name Sdrws (or Sideros, which in Greek would mean "iron"), and the female victim whose twelve sons are taken is called Smamit ("lizard" or "spider"). This reading is considered to be corroborated by the name of the female demon in the Ethiopian version, Werzelya, which also means "iron".  The Ethiopian tradition explains that Werzelya was the evil sister of the Saint Sūsenyōs (which Budge identifies as Sisinnios), and the saint sought out to kill her.

Church attitudes and actions

In his Life of Tarasius, Ignatios the Deacon of the ninth century recounts an actual case in which two women were charged as gelloudes and brought before the father of Tarasios of Constantinople, who acquitted them.

The psychological aspects of Gello were observed also by Leo Allatius in his work De Graecorum hodie quorundam opinionibus ("On the beliefs of the Greeks today"). Textual sources he collected on the Gello included Sappho's poem, the Suda, exorcisms, a church history, the Life of Tarasios, and proverbs. Allatios's purpose was to demonstrate the continuity of customs and morals, but also to show that these beliefs distorted or ran contrary to Christian doctrine. Sometimes the acts characteristic of Gello were attributed to "poor and miserable old crones," who could be accused in court as gelloudes and might even claim or confess to have acted as such.

A different penance was prescribed gelloudes, distinguished from infanticides in the Nomocanons of the 17th century theologian Jean-Baptiste Cotelier. Michael Psellos, however, rejected the notion that human beings could transform into demonic beings, and so there would be no need for a particular penance; the official position of Orthodoxy was that such creatures did not exist.

Despite her official non-existence, the gello is named in exorcisms, which required the attendance of a priest, and in prayer formularies. The Virgin Mary is invoked against the child-harming demon gylo:

In one exorcism of the gello, no fewer than 36 saints are invoked by name along with Mary and the "318 Saints of the Fathers", with a final addendum of "all the saints." Some prayers resemble magic spells in attempting to command or compel the saints, rather than humbly requesting aid. Exorcisms emphasize that Christian families deserve exclusive protection. Gello continued to be named in exorcisms into the 20th century.

The old church regarded childbirth involving blood as impure, and a newborn had to wait several days before it could be baptized, while its mother could not rejoin the community for much longer. At this time, the child was considered at greater risk in the birth mother's sphere of influence, as she would be likely to attract female demons seeking blood.

In the story of Melitene, sister of the saints Sisinnios and Sisynodorus, the child is in peril until it is "returned" to the hands of men. In one version, the gello swallows the child and must be forced by the male saints to regurgitate it alive. This cycle – death by swallowing, regurgitation, new life – may be symbolized in initiation ceremonies such as baptism, which marked the separation of the child from the taint of its mother's gello-attracting blood.

Modern folklore
The Greek folk belief continued into the modern era.

One exorcism text dating from around the turn of the 19th–20th century gives Baskania as a name for the gello as well as for the evil eye.

Modern fiction and popular culture
 Gyllou is featured in a major text of modern Luciferianism, a belief system that venerates Lucifer. In The Bible of the Adversary by Michael W. Ford, she is associated with Lilith and represents Vampyrism as a desire for eternal life.
 Gello (here spelled "Gilou") is the primary antagonist of Jessie D. Eaker's short story The Name of the Demoness, featured in the sixth Sword and Sorceress anthology.  She appears as a dog-headed woman with snakes for fingers who steals newborn babies, and her many names are a major plot point.
 The "gylou" or "handmaiden devil" is an all-female species of devil in the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game.  They are also known as "Maids of Miscarriage" and are noted to particularly hate babies.
 Gello is an item in the indie roguelike game The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth's DLC, The Binding of Isaac: Repentance, as a familiar.

List of related demons

Scholarly discussions of Gello associate her with and analyze the meaning of her narrative traditions in relation to the following demons and supernatural beings:
 Gallu
 Abyzou
 Lilith
 Lamia
 Mormo
 Empusa

Notes

References
Citations

Bibliography

 ; also Ancient Greek Lyrics  (2010), Indiana University, pp. 50, 317.

  Chapters 4–6.

Further reading
 West, D.R. "Gello and Lamia: Two Hellenic Daemons of Semitic Origin." Ugarit-Forschungen 23 (1991) 361–368.

Demons in Christianity
Infertility
Infant mortality
Miscarriage
Greek legendary creatures
Female legendary creatures
Ghouls
Greek ghosts
Revenants
Lamia


Arancedo is one of eight parishes (administrative divisions) in the El Franco municipality, within the province and autonomous community of Asturias, in northern Spain.

The population is 227 (INE 2007).

Villages and hamlets
 La Andina
 Lebredo
 As Barrosas
 As Casuas
 Gudín
 Pumarios
 Arancedo de Arriba
 Caborcos
 El Pozón
 San Cibrán
 A Casia
 El Llombo
 Follaranca

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A Braña is a town in the Valdelugueros municipality, within the province and autonomous community of Asturias, in northern Spain.

The population is 255 (INE 2007).

Villages and hamlets
 Bargaz
 A Braña
 El Caroceiro
 El Chao das Trabas
 Grandamarina
 Mendóis
 Mercadeiros
 Penadecabras
 Romeye
 Villarín

References

Links
 Brown-skinned, blue-eyed, Y-haplogroup C-bearing European hunter-gatherer from Spain (Olalde et al. 2014)
 Genomic affinities of two 7,000-year-old Iberian hunter-gatherers

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France has had a national men's curling championship since 1951.

Sources
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A Caridá (Spanish: La Caridad) is one of eight parishes (administrative divisions) in the El Franco municipality, within the province and autonomous community of Asturias, in northern Spain.

The population is 1,796 (INE 2007).

Villages
 Arboces
 Llóngara
 El Porto/Viavélez

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Arthur "Pen" Pendleton Mason (11 December 1835–22 April 1893) was an American military officer, merchant, planter and lawyer who served as a lieutenant colonel in the Confederate States Army serving during the American Civil War. Mason was a scion of the prominent Mason political family of Virginia.

Early life and education
Mason was born on 11 December 1835 near Alexandria, Virginia in Fairfax County. He was the ninth and youngest child of Thomson Francis Mason (1785–21 December 1838) and his wife Elizabeth "Betsey" Clapham Price (1802–21 December 1873).

Mason earned his law degree from the University of Virginia. Following law school, Mason was a planter and practiced law in Alexandria and Richmond.

Mason's father died on 21 December 1838 in Alexandria at the age of 53. Mason inherited his father's Colross estate in Alexandria. His mother transferred ownership of Huntley on 7 November 1859 to Mason and his brother Dr. John "Frank" Francis Mason.

American Civil War
During the American Civil War, Mason joined the 2nd Regiment Mississippi Cavalry in either late 1860 or early 1861. On 5 June 1861, Mason transferred to the 6th Regiment of Brigadier General Thomas C. Hindman's brigade of Arkansas Volunteers. On 11 December 1861, Mason was ordered to report to General Joseph E. Johnston at Manassas. His brother-in-law, Thomas Grimke Rhett, was Johnston's chief of staff at the time. Mason was Johnston's assistant adjutant general during most of the war. Mason served as a member of Johnston's staff until Johnston was wounded at the Battle of Seven Pines in 1862. Mason then served under Robert E. Lee until 1863 when he rejoined Johnston's during the Vicksburg Campaign. Following Johnston's removal from the command of the Army of Tennessee during the Atlanta Campaign, Mason joined the staff of John Bell Hood. Mason was appointed colonel in the 2nd Mississippi Cavalry on 2 January 1864, but President Jefferson Davis declined to nominate him and his appointment was later voided. Upon Hood's defeat at Nashville in December 1864, Mason joined Lieutenant General Richard Taylor's staff before rejoining Johnston in North Carolina at the end of the war.

Marriage and children
Mason married Mary Ellen Campbell, daughter of Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, John Archibald Campbell. The couple had four children, with only one surviving to adulthood:

John Archibald Campbell Mason (10 December 1870–18 April 1888)

Later life
Following the war, Mason relocated to New Orleans, Louisiana where he became a merchant.

Mason died on 22 April 1893 in Morris Park, The Bronx, New York at age 57. Mason was interred in Green Mount Cemetery in Baltimore, Maryland.

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Daniel Arthur Quimby Cruz (born January 3, 1990) is an American soccer coach and former player who is currently the head coach of USL Championship club Louisville City FC.

Career

Youth and College
Cruz was born in Petersburg, Virginia. He attended junior high in Rohnert Park, California, and then moved to Glendale, Arizona, where he attended Ironwood High School, where he led his team to a 2006 State Championship. He played two years of college soccer at the University of Nevada-Las Vegas. He was the first UNLV player to earn MPSF Newcomer of the Year honors in his freshman year in 2007 and was named to the all-Mountain Pacific Sports Federation first team after scoring five goals in 2008.

During his college years he also played with Des Moines Menace in the USL Premier Development League.

Professional
Cruz was drafted in the third round (41st overall) of the 2009 MLS SuperDraft by the Houston Dynamo. He made his professional debut on March 28, 2009, coming on as a substitute in Houston's game against the San Jose Earthquakes. He scored his first goal for the Dynamo against DC United, he also had an assist in that game. In the 2011 season, Cruz was a big part of the Houston Dynamo team and scored a stunning goal at the end of the season against the Portland Timbers to help Houston get into the playoffs. He started in all four playoff games, including Houston's 1–0 loss to Los Angeles Galaxy in MLS Cup 2011.

In January 2012, Cruz was traded from Houston to D.C. United in exchange for allocation money.

On August 16, 2012, Cruz was traded to the Philadelphia Union in exchange for Lionard Pajoy and an international roster spot.

On March 19, 2015, Cruz signed a loan deal with FK Bodø/Glimt. He made his debut against Haugesund on April 30, 2015, in which Bodø/Glimt lost 1–2.

On February 15, 2017, Cruz signed with the San Francisco Deltas for their inaugural season in the NASL.

In August 2017, he joined Real Monarchs.

International
Cruz represented the United States at the FIFA U-17 World Cup in South Korea, the Pan American Games in Brazil in 2007, appeared in seven international games for the United States U-20 national team in 2008, and played in the FIFA U-20 World Cup in Egypt in 2009.

Coaching career

Real Monarchs
In February 2018, Cruz was announced as promoted to assistant coach of the Monarchs for the 2018 season, under Mark Briggs.

Louisville City FC
On April 27, 2021, after spending time as an assistant coach and technical director at Louisville City FC, Cruz was appointed as interim head coach of the club. On October 11, Cruz was officially announced to have signed a multi-year agreement as the permanent head coach for Louisville.

Personal life
Cruz made an appearance on MTV's show Made, helping Michael Schwenke turn from "theater geek" into a soccer player on February 7, 2011.

Career statistics

Club

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Men's association football wingers
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USS Rutoma (SP-78) was an armed motorboat that served in the United States Navy as a patrol vessel from 1917 to 1919.

Rutoma was built as the private motorboat Manchonac in 1910 by the Seabury Company at Morris Heights, New York. She had been renamed Rutoma by the time the U.S. Navy purchased her from her owner, Graham T. Thompson of New Haven, Connecticut, on 18 April 1917 for World War I service as a patrol boat. She was commissioned on 26 April 1917 as USS Rutoma(SP-78).

Rutoma patrolled in the 3rd Naval District during 1917 and 1918, operating in Long Island Sound and eastward to New Haven. Transferred to New York City at the end of the war, Rutoma was rammed and sunk on 21 February 1919 by the tug SS John L. Lewis in the East River off Pier No. 6 in New York City.

Rutoma was raised on 22 February 1919 by salvage crews from the salvage tug USS Resolute (SP-1309). She subsequently was sold on 16 September 1919 to Reinhard Hall of Brooklyn, New York, and returned to civilian use, remaining on mercantile registers into the 1930s.

Notes

References

Department of the Navy: Naval Historical Center: Online Library of Selected Images: U.S. Navy Ships: USS Rutoma (SP-78), 1917-1919. Previously a civilian motor boat named Manchonak and Rutoma.
NavSource Online: Section Patrol Craft Photo Archive Rutoma (SP 78)

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The Sunken Gardens was constructed during the winter of 1930-31 in Lincoln, Nebraska.
It is the only garden in Nebraska listed in the National Geographic Guide to Public Gardens 300 Best Gardens to Visit in the United States and Canada.

History

Original construction
Construction of the gardens began in 1930 under the direction of Ernest M. Bair as a project for unemployed men during the Great Depression.  The land, which had previously been a neighborhood dumpsite for refuse, was donated by the locally-prominent Frey, Faulkner, and Seacrest families.

At the time of its construction, the garden featured numerous rock and stone elements, in keeping with the trend of rock gardens at the time. As such, the garden was simply known as the "Rock Garden." Rocks were used to create terraced retaining walls, waterfalls, and water fountains. The project was completed in 1931 and the gardens opened with 416 trees and shrubs planted throughout the one and a half acres of land.

Renovation
In 2003 renovation of the garden began and was completed in 2005.  The Lincoln Parks Foundation raised $1.7 million for the renovation and a partial endowment in a "Polishing a Gem" campaign.  The Foundation created the "One Flower Forever" and "Paving the Path" programs.  The programs allow people to support the gardens on an ongoing basis in honor of friends, loved ones, and special events.

The renovation included the addition of two new statues and construction of the Rotary Pavilion attached to the restrooms.  The original Rebekah at the Well statue by Ellis Burman was replaced by artist David Young’s “Rebekah at the Well." Dr. Wayne Southwick's statue “Reville” standing in the Healing Garden depicts his wife Ann getting the children out of bed and ready for the day.  The Rotary Pavilion includes a dome designed by architect Jeffrey Chadwick.  The dome is made of individual laser cut panels representing the four seasons of Lincoln’s skyline.

References

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Geography of Lincoln, Nebraska
Protected areas of Lancaster County, Nebraska
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1930 establishments in Nebraska


Sagitario (English Sagittarius) is the second studio album by Mexican pop singer Ana Gabriel. It was released in 1986. Once again, she participated in the OTI Festival with the song A tu Lado (By your side) which she achieved the 5th place.

Track listing
Tracks:
 Mar y Arena
 Y Aquí Estoy
 Eso no Basta
 Tu y Yo
 Que poco Hombre
 Malvado
 Hasta Cuando
 A tu Lado
 Llévame
 Besos Prohibidos

References

1986 albums
Ana Gabriel albums


A landrace is a type of domestic animal or plant adapted to the natural and cultural environment in which it originated, with minimal selective breeding.  Some have "landrace" in the names:

 Danish landrace duck
 Danish landrace goose

The term is also used informally in reference to cannabis plants to designate specific varieties, e.g. Colombian Gold, etc.; these are more properly cultivars, not landraces.

Capitalized, the term is also used in the name of several "Landrace breeds", selectively-bred, standardized breeds, derived wholly or in part from actual landraces:

Pigs

American Landrace pig
Belgian Landrace pig
British Landrace pig
Bulgarian Landrace pig
Canadian Landrace pig
Danish Landrace pig
Dutch Landrace pig
Finnish Landrace pig
French Landrace pig
German Landrace pig
Italian Landrace pig
Norwegian Landrace pig
Polish Landrace pig
South African Landrace pig
Swedish Landrace pig
Swiss Landrace pig

Geese
Twente Landrace goose

Goats
British Landrace goat, better known as the British Primitive goat or Old British goat; it subsumes earlier classifications:
 English Landrace goat
 Irish Landrace goat
 Scottish Landrace goat
 Welsh Landrace goat
Danish Landrace goat
Dutch Landrace goat
Finnish Landrace goat
Swedish Landrace goat

Sheep
 Danish Landrace sheep
 Finnish Landrace sheep, or Finnsheep
 Old Norwegian Short Tail Landrace, or Spælsau

See also


Miudes is one of eight parishes (administrative divisions) in the El Franco municipality, within the province and autonomous community of Asturias, in northern Spain.

The population is 535 (INE 2007).

Villages and hamlets
 Castello
 Godella
 Miudeira
 Miudes
 Veiral
 Villar

References

Parishes in El Franco


The French landscape garden () is a style of garden inspired by idealized romantic landscapes and the paintings of Hubert Robert, Claude Lorrain and Nicolas Poussin, European ideas about Chinese gardens, and the philosophy of Jean-Jacques Rousseau. The style originated in England as the English landscape garden in the early 18th century, and spread to France where, in the second half of the 18th century and early 19th century, it gradually replaced the rigidly clipped and geometrical French formal garden ().

The decline of the jardin à la française

Even during the lifetime of Louis XIV and his gardens of Versailles, the formal, symmetrical  was criticized by writers La Fontaine, Madame de Sévigné, Fénelon and Saint-Simon for imposing tyranny over nature; demonstrating human mastery over nature was indeed part of its intention. In 1709, in his influential book on garden design, Dezallier d'Argenville called for garden designers to pay more attention to nature than to art, though still suggesting highly formal designs. Signs of a new, more natural style were seen in the design of the bosquet des Sources at the Trianon, created by André Le Nôtre, and in the bosquets of the Château de Marly, created by Hardouin-Mansart. After the military defeats of France at the beginning of the 18th century and the freezing winter of 1709, the royal treasury was unable to finance upkeep of the elaborate gardens of Versailles. Trees were untrimmed, gardens and paths were overgrown. France was ready for the introduction of a new style of gardens.

The influence of the English garden

The French landscape garden was influenced first of all by the new style of English landscape garden, particularly those of William Kent at Stowe (1730–1748) and Rousham (1738–1741), and the garden by Henry Hoare at Stourhead (begun in 1741), which were themselves inspired by trips to Italy and filled with recreations of antique temples. Later, the gardens of Capability Brown, who had studied with William Kent, had an important influence in France, particularly his work at Stowe (1748), Petworth (1752), Chatsworth (1761), Bowood (1763) and Blenheim Palace (1769). Another later influence was the gardens of Horace Walpole at Strawberry Hill (beginning 1750), where Gothic ruins replaced antique temples.

Descriptions of English gardens were first brought to France by the Abbé Le Blanc, who published accounts of his voyage in 1745 and 1751. A treatise on the English garden, Observations on Modern Gardening, written by Thomas Whately and published in London in 1770, was translated into French in 1771. After the end of the Seven Years' War in 1763, French noblemen were able to voyage to England and see the gardens for themselves. During the French Revolution, many French nobles went into exile in England, and brought back with them the new style of gardening.

The Chinese influence on the French landscape garden

In 1743, Father Attiret, a French Jesuit priest and painter in service to the Emperor of China, wrote a series of letters describing the Chinese gardens he had seen. In particular he described the Emperor's summer residence, Yuanming Yuan near Beijing:

Attiret's letters were a success in both France and in England, where they were translated and published in 1752. They had an important influence on what became known as the Anglo-Chinese garden.

In 1757 Sir William Chambers, an English writer and traveller who made three trips to China, published a book called Designs of Chinese Buildings, Furniture, Dresses, Machines, and Utensils, with a chapter about gardens. The book was quickly translated into French. Chambers brought to Europe the Chinese idea that gardens should be composed of a series of scenes which evoke different emotions, ranging from enchantment to horror to laughter. Chambers wrote, "The enchanted or romanesque scenes abound in the marvellous. They provoke a series of violent or opposing sensations; footpaths leading down to underground passages where mysterious lights reveal strange groupings; winding roads which pass through beautiful forests leading to precipices or melancholy rivers lined with funerary monuments shaded by laurels and willows. The horrible scenes present hanging rocks, cataracts, caverns, dead tree broken by the storm, burnt or shattered by lightning, and buildings in ruins... The scenes of horror are only one act in a theatrical production that usually ends in a soothing extended perspective, simple forms and beautiful colors. The laughing scenes make one forget the enchantment and the horror of the landscapes that one has passed through."

Chambers became the creator of the first Chinese garden in Europe, complete with the Great Pagoda at Kew Gardens, in the southwest of London. Chambers' book and the Chinese garden he created at Kew Gardens brought Chinese gardens into fashion in both England and France. Landscape gardens in France began to include artificial hills, pagodas, and promenades designed to provoke emotions ranging from melancholy to sadness to joy.

Rousseau's philosophy of the landscape garden

The ideas of the French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778) had a major influence on the landscape garden, and he himself was buried in the first important such garden in France, at Ermenonville. Rousseau wrote in 1762, on the "nobility of nature": "Everything is good when it leaves the hand of the creator"; "Everything degenerates in Man's hands."<ref>{{cite book|last=Rousseau|first=Jean-Jacques|title=Émile, ou de l'Éducation ("Emile, or On Education")|language=French|year=1762}}</ref> In his novel Julie ou la Nouvelle Héloïse Rousseau imagined a perfect landscape, where people could be true to themselves. This imaginary garden became a model for French landscape gardens. The French historian Jurgis wrote: "the theme of this Paradise, once restored by setting free flowers, earth and water, was the guiding principle in the development of landscape gardens. It was a glorification of that which had long been denatured by artifice." In opposing his Elysian Fields, the Orchard at Clarens to the serried trees sculpted into parasols, fans, marmosets, and dragons, Rousseau reawakens this myth with its new liberties.

Rousseau visited England in 1761 and saw the famous gardens, including that at Stowe, but he criticized the mish-mash of different styles there. "It is composed of very beautiful and picturesque places, of which different features have been chosen from different countries," he wrote. "It all seems natural, except the assembly."

René Louis de Girardin, who created the park at Ermenonville, was an avid pupil of Rousseau. He designed the garden to illustrate the idyllic landscapes described in Rousseau's books. He travelled to Paris, was introduced to Rousseau, and persuaded him to visit the garden and stay in a small cottage designed to resemble the house of Julie, called Elysee, described in La Nouvelle Heloise. Rousseau came to visit in May 1778 and revised  and continued writing Les Rêveries du promeneur solitaire while staying there; he died there of kidney failure in July 1778. His remains were placed in a tomb in a grove of poplar trees on a small island in the lake.

Girardin made the park at Ermenonville a living illustration of Rousseau's ideas; making carefully constructed landscapes, like paintings, designed to invite the visitor to take long walks and to feel pure and simple emotions. The paths were designed to follow the hillsides, climbing up and down, to give a various view, from shadows of groves of trees to sunlight, and meandering to let the viewer delight the scene from different angles and light. Girardin described the purpose of his garden in a book called  (1777) ("On the Composition of Landscapes"):

The principles taken from Rousseau and transformed into avenues and landscapes by Girardin and other garden designers were copied in landscape gardens around France.

 Painters and the symbolism of the landscape garden

The views in landscape gardens were rarely copied from real nature; they were more often inspired by romantic paintings, particularly those of Nicolas Poussin, Salvator Rosa and Claude Lorrain, who depicted Arcadian landscapes with mythological scenes. In France they were influenced by the paintings and drawings of Hubert Robert, who depicted romantic scenes of crumbling antique ruins seen during his visits to Italy. Robert himself became a garden designer, contributing to the landscape garden at Betz and the Hameau de la Reine at Versailles.

Landscape gardens were designed to be allegories, taken from literature and painting, and filled with symbols and messages. They were usually either recreations of the Garden of Eden or of the pastoral Arcadia of Roman myths, or they were designed to offer a visual tour of the history of mankind or of all the world. The landscape was not enough – it had to have architecture. The French gardens were filled with fabriques de jardin, imitations of Roman temples, ruins or tombs.

The gardens at Betz, created by the Duc d'Harcourt and the painter Hubert Robert for the Princess of Monaco, were supposed to be a journey around the world. The different parts of the world were represented by an obelisk, a Doric temple, a Chinese kiosk, a Druid temple, and the ruins of a medieval chapel. The gardens of the Château de Bagatelle at Paris contained follies in the form of the temple of the God Pan, the house of the Chinese philosopher, a Pharaoh's tomb, and a hermit's cell. As the architect Louis Carrogis Carmontelle wrote about the garden he created at Monceau, "Let us vary the regions so that we may forget where we are. Let us change the scenes of a garden like the decors at the Opera; let us show what the most able painters can offer as decoration; all periods and all places."

The influence of explorers and botanists on the French landscape garden
The 18th and early 19th century was an age of discovery and enormous activity in the natural sciences, botany and horticulture. Explorers, diplomats and missionaries were instructed to bring new species of plants to France, where they were acclimated in special gardens at the seaports. In 1764 the larch tree was imported from England to France, soon after the cedar of Lebanon. The dahlia and the chrysanthemum, hydrangea and mimosa were imported from Mexico to France. The reverend Charles Plumier (1646–1704) brought back the magnolia, the fuchsia and the begonia from Latin America. Louis Feuilée (1660–1732) brought the calceolaria, oxalis, opuntia and papaya. Pierre Nicholas Le Chéron d'Incarville (1706–1757) introduced Sophora japonica. Bernard de Jussieu (1699–1777) brought the first cedar to be planted in France (1734), while his brother Joseph de Jussieu (1704–1779) introduced heliotrope. The explorers Bougainville (1729–1811) and La Pérouse (1741–1788) brought back numerous plants which made their way into French gardens. Thanks to their discoveries, French landscape gardens were soon ornamented with exotic trees and colorful flowers not seen before in Europe.

 Chronology of notable landscape gardens in France

 The Moulin Joly (1754–1772)
The Moulin Joly ("Pretty Mill"), designed by the landscape architect Claude-Henri Watelet, was probably the first garden in France designed in the new style. It was located along the Seine between Colombes and Argenteuil. Watelet discovered the site during a walk, bought it, and created a garden which preserved its natural beauty. It consisted of three islands, with a rustic house, a grotto, shelters for animals, a Chinese bridge, a Dutch bridge and a floating bridge, a mill, and a garden with a traditional layout. Watelet, who called the garden "l'île enchantée", wrote that his garden was "in a pastoral style following the long tradition born in antiquity and carried on by the Italian and French Renaissance." Visitors to the garden included the painters Boucher, Hubert Robert, and Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun. Marie Antoinette visited several times.

 Parc Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Parc Jean-Jacques Rousseau at Ermenonville was designed by René Louis de Girardin, who spent time as an officer in the army of Louis XV before retiring to his estate. He had visited Italy, Switzerland, Germany and England, and was familiar with the early English landscape gardens. He was particularly inspired by the garden of the British poet William Shenstone, The Leasowes, which became the model for Ermenonville.

In 1776 Girardin published a book,  (On the Composition of Landscapes), which laid out his theories of gardens, theories that quoted the French translation of a book on gardening by Thomas Whately, and the  of Jean-Marie Morel (1776).

Girardin created the garden at Ermenonville to be a series of tableaux to be seen from various points at different times of day. The artist Hubert Robert contributed drawings for its design. The park occupied , lying in a valley along the River Launette. It took ten years to build the garden; ponds needed to be drained and the river had to be diverted. The gardens were ornamented with follies representing a Gothic tower, an obelisk, the Temple of Philosophy (left unfinished to represent the incompleteness of human knowledge), and a hermit's hut.

The 17th-century mansion sat on an island in the middle; northwards was all farmland, and to the west, towards the village, was , a wildlife garden. Girardin filled the garden with metaphors representing philosophical Renaissance and Mediaeval themes.

The philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau spent the last weeks of his life in a cottage in this garden, in a part that had been inspired by his novel  (Julie, or the New Heloise). On his death he was interred on an island in the river, the Île des Peupliers; the neo-classical tomb and its attendant grove of poplar trees were depicted in several prints of the period – it became a place of pilgrimage for his many admirers. On October 11, 1794, his body was removed and reinterred in the Pantheon in Paris near the remains of Voltaire.

Because of its connection with Rousseau, the garden has attracted many famous visitors, including Joseph II of Austria, King Gustave III, the future Czar Paul I of Russia, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Danton, Robespierre, Chateaubriand, Queen Marie Antoinette and Napoleon Bonaparte.

The Chateau de Pompignan (works 1745–1780, garden mainly 1766–1774)

This landscape garden with its follies was built by Jean-Jacques Lefranc de Pompignan, a friend of Rousseau. It featured picturesque structures and mysterious ruins, and the walks and views took advantage of the park's site on a hillside overlooking the Garonne valley and, in the far distance, the chain of the Pyrenees, stretched out along the southern horizon. The chateau is still inhabited, and although the parc has been neglected for a very long time, vestiges of the works and walks are still to be seen.

Parc Monceau, Paris (1773–1778)

Parc Monceau was designed by Louis Carrogis Carmontelle (15 August 1717 – 26 December 1806), a French dramatist, painter, architect, set designer and author. In 1773, he was asked by the Duc de Chartres, the son of Louis-Philippe d'Orleans and the future Philippe Egalité, to design a garden around a small house that he was building to the northwest of Paris. Between 1773 and 1778, he created the folie de Chartres (now Parc Monceau), one of the most famous French landscape gardens of the time.

It departed from the more natural English landscape gardens of the time by presenting a series of fantastic scenes designed "to unite in one garden all places and all times." It included a series of fabriques, or architectural structures, while it illustrated all the styles known at the time: antiquity, exoticism, Chinese, Turkish, ruins, tombs, and rustic landscapes, all created to surprise and divert the visitor.

Désert de Retz, Yvelines (1774–1782)

The garden was created by François Racine de Monville (1734–1797), a French aristocrat, musician, architect and landscape designer. In 1774, de Monville bought a country estate at Saint-Jacques-de-Retz, which had a farm, lands, and a formal jardin à la française''. He resolved to create a new garden in the new English style. He called the garden le Désert de Retz, and planted it with four thousand trees from the royal greenhouses, and rerouted a river and created several ponds.

The garden, completed in 1785, contained twenty-one follies, or architectural constructions, representing different periods of history and parts of the world; they included an artificial rock, a temple of rest, a theatre, a Chinese house, a tomb, a ruined Gothic church, a ruined altar, an obelisk, a temple to the god Pan, a Siamese tent, and an ice-house in the form of a pyramid. The best-known feature was the ruined classical column, "La Colonne détruite", large enough to hold a residence inside.

The rustic village (hameau) as garden feature

Along with the development of the French landscape garden, there was a parallel development in the 18th century of ornamental farms and picturesque "villages". The first such ornamental farm in France was the Moulin Joly, but there were similar rustic buildings at Ermenonville, Parc Monceau, and the Domaine de Raincy. In 1774, the Prince de Condé conceived an entire rustic village, the Hameau de Chantilly, for his estate at the Château de Chantilly. The little village was modelled on a farm in Normandy, and had seven buildings with thatched roofs, designed by architect Jean-François Leroy. The exteriors were rustic, but the interiors were extremely elegant, and used for concerts, games, and dinners. They were used for a reception for members of the Russian imperial court in 1782.

Jardin de la reine, Versailles, (1774–1779)
In 1749 Louis XV had created a "jardin d'instruction" next to the gardens of Versailles, with domestic animals, a kitchen garden, and a botanical garden of plants brought from around the world. In 1750, he added a pavilion, designed by Ange-Jacques Gabriel, with a formal garden and a few winding paths and bosquets of trees in the new style. At one time he intended the Petit Trianon as a residence for Madame de Pompadour, who took an interest in the design of the house and its gardens. At her death in 1764 the unfinished house passed into the sphere of his new mistress Madame du Barry, who did little with it being more interested in her new Pavilion at Château de Louveciennes.

On his death the still unfinished property passed back into the possession of the new king, Louis XVI, who in 1774, presented it to his wife Marie-Antoinette. She had the house completed and commanded that a new garden be built in the new fashionable Anglo-Chinese style. The garden was designed by Richard Mique, Antoine Richard, and painter Hubert Robert. Richard was responsible for the choice of trees and plants, and Mique and Robert took charge of the composition and the follies, or architectural constructions.

The garden was conceived around a small stream whose source was in an artificial mountain called the "Grand Rocher". On one side was a butte with an octagonal belvedere on top. The Belvédère was also known as the pavilion of music, and was decorated with murals inspired by the paintings of Pompeii. The stream wound through the garden, and was crossed by bridges or stones. It formed an island on which was placed the Temple de l'Amour.

The construction of the garden required the destruction of the old botanical gardens which had formal layouts and several of the greenhouses. Some of the plants were incorporated into the new gardens, while others were sent to other royal gardens and the new Botanical Gardens in Paris.

In 1783 Marie Antionette ordered the creation of the Hameau de la Reine, the most famous of all the rustic villages created for gardens of the period. Between 1783 and 1787, the hamlet was thus created in the spirit of a Normandy village, with eleven houses spread out around the a lake. Five of the buildings were actual residences for staff engaged in farm work, while several contained suites of rooms for the queen and her guests to relax in.

Other gardens
 Gardens of the Château de Bagatelle, Paris (1777–1784)
 The Folie Saint James, Neuilly (1777–1780)
 Château de Méréville, Essonne (1784–1786)

See also
 History of Parks and Gardens of Paris
 History of gardening
 List of Remarkable Gardens of France
 List of landscape gardens

Notes

References

Bibliography

French landscape gardens


Johnny Otis Knox II (born November 3, 1986) is an American former professional football player who was a wide receiver for three seasons with the Chicago Bears of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for Abilene Christian University. He was selected by Bears as the 140th overall pick in the 2009 NFL Draft. Knox's career abruptly ended after sustaining a severe spinal injury in 2011. When it became apparent he would never be cleared to play again, he retired in 2013. Knox was also a coaching intern for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in 2015.

Early life
After graduating in 2005 from Channelview High School in Channelview, Texas, Knox enrolled at Tyler Junior College.  As a sophomore at Tyler, he led all junior college receivers with 884 yards and 12 touchdowns.  Rivals.com rated him as the No. 9 junior college receiver in the class of 2007, and he transferred to Abilene Christian University to play for the Abilene Christian Wildcats football team. He went into his first season at Abilene Christian listed as a backup wide receiver, but he quickly moved into a starting role. He finished the season with 62 receptions for 1,158 yards and a school-record 17 touchdowns. He finished third in Division II in 2007 in touchdown receptions, while racking up the fourth-most receiving yards in a season in Abilene Christian history.

While garnering more attention from defenses in 2008, Knox still racked up 56 receptions for 1,069 yards and 13 touchdowns. Knox helped Abilene Christian start 11–0 before losing in the third round of the Division II playoffs. His 30 touchdown receptions in two seasons were the most in Abilene Christian history, and he earned second-team All-America honors in 2008. After the 2008 season, Knox was invited to participate in the 2009 Texas vs The Nation all-star game, where he had three receptions for 55 yards and caught a touchdown pass from David Johnson in a losing effort for the Texas team.

Professional career

2009 NFL Combine

Chicago Bears
Knox joined the Chicago Bears after being chosen in the fifth round of the 2009 NFL Draft. He caught his first NFL pass, a 68-yard reception, on September 13, 2009, against the Green Bay Packers.  During the second game of the 2009 season (against the Pittsburgh Steelers), Knox recorded his first NFL touchdown catch on a key third down to tie the game up 14–14. He recorded another touchdown against the Seattle Seahawks, a seven-yard reception. In the fourth game of the season, against the Detroit Lions, he scored a touchdown on a 102-yard kickoff return. Two weeks later, after a bye week, Knox caught a 60-yard touchdown from Jay Cutler. On November 29, 2009, Knox returned a kickoff 77 yards to set up a Bears field goal versus the Vikings.

Knox sustained a season-ending ankle injury against the Vikings. He finished the 2009 season with 45 receptions for 527 yards and five touchdowns. Knox ranked second in the NFL for return yard average with 29.0. On January 25, 2010, Knox was selected to the NFC roster for the 2010 Pro Bowl, replacing Minnesota's Percy Harvin, who withdrew due to injury concerns. Knox returned four kicks for 103 yards in his Pro Bowl debut. He was also targeted on two passes as a wide receiver, but failed to log a reception.

In 2010, Knox led the Bears in receiving yards (960), and tied for first in the team for receptions (51) and receiving touchdowns (5). In 2011, he led the Bears in receiving yards (727) and ranked second in the NFL in yards per reception (19.6).

On December 18, 2011, Knox sustained a serious spinal cord injury during a game against the Seattle Seahawks. He collided with Anthony Hargrove  head-on while attempting to recover a fumble. Knox required immediate surgery to stabilize an injured vertebra, but maintained sensation in all limbs following the incident. Hargrove later personally apologized to Knox for his role in the injury. The Bears placed Knox on injured reserve the following day.

Knox started the 2012 NFL season on Chicago's 'physically unable-to-perform' (PUP) list. He was unable to fully recover from the injury even after extensive rehabilitation and therapy. After the injury, Knox walks with a limp and is unable to stand without discomfort. The Bears released Knox on February 12, 2013. He announced his retirement on February 13.

Post-playing career
On July 31, 2015, Knox was hired by former Bears head coach Lovie Smith as a coaching intern with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

In 2018, he and former Bear Nathan Vasher joined the football staff at Carmel High School, where they worked under another former Bear in Blake Annen. The three had previously worked together at EFT Football Academy in Highland Park.

Personal life
Knox and his wife have four children.

References

External links
Chicago Bears bio
Abilene Christian Wildcats bio

1986 births
Living people
Abilene Christian Wildcats football players
American football return specialists
American football wide receivers
Chicago Bears players
National Conference Pro Bowl players
Players of American football from Houston
Tyler Apaches football players
Brian Piccolo Award winners


Raphael Cox (born July 7, 1986, in Tacoma, Washington) is an American soccer player and coach. Off the pitch, RCox is widely known for his ability to stroke his beard and chuckle.

Career

Youth and College
Cox attended Stadium High School, and played one year of college soccer at Highline Community College in Des Moines, Washington, before transferring to the University of Washington in sophomore year. At Washington he was a two-time All-Pac-10 honoree, and was named to the All-Pac-10 first-team as a senior. During his college years he also played with Colorado Rapids U23's and Tacoma Tide in the USL Premier Development League.

Professional
Cox was drafted in the fourth round (54th overall) of the 2009 MLS SuperDraft by Real Salt Lake. He made his professional debut on 28 March 2009, coming on as a substitute in RSL's game against Seattle Sounders FC, and went on to make six MLS appearances, scoring one goal, before being waived on March 16, 2010.

Having been unable to secure a professional contract elsewhere, Cox returned to play for Tacoma Tide in the USL Premier Development League in 2010.

Cox signed with Atlanta Silverbacks of the North American Soccer League on April 6, 2011. Atlanta announced on November 8, 2011, that Cox would return for the 2012 season.

On August 17, 2012, Cox was released by Atlanta Silverbacks by mutual consent and was signed by Tampa Bay Rowdies the same day

Cox spent 2014 with USL club Harrisburg City Islanders, before moving to new franchise Charlotte Independence on March 25, 2015.

Also, he coaches age groups 2003, 2004, 2005 for Rainier Valley Slammers from December 2015 to May 2018.

Cox was named to the Washington Huskies men's soccer coaching staff on August 27, 2019.

Honors

Tampa Bay Rowdies
North American Soccer League:
 Champion (1) 2012

References

External links

 Washington Huskies bio

1986 births
Living people
American men's soccer players
Washington Huskies men's soccer players
Colorado Rapids U-23 players
Seattle Sounders FC U-23 players
Real Salt Lake players
Atlanta Silverbacks FC players
Tampa Bay Rowdies players
Penn FC players
Charlotte Independence players
Soccer players from Tacoma, Washington
University of Washington alumni
USL League Two players
Major League Soccer players
North American Soccer League (2011–2017) players
Real Salt Lake draft picks
Men's association football midfielders
USL Championship players
Major Arena Soccer League players
Tacoma Stars (2003–) players
American soccer coaches
Washington Huskies men's soccer coaches
High school soccer coaches in the United States


The 2008–2009 Connecticut Huskies men's basketball team represented the University of Connecticut in the 2008–2009 NCAA Division I basketball season. Coached by Jim Calhoun, the Huskies played their home games at the XL Center in Hartford, Connecticut, and on campus at the Harry A. Gampel Pavilion in Storrs, Connecticut. The Huskies were members of the Big East Conference.

The Huskies finished the season 31–5, 15–3 in Big East play to finish in a tie for second place. They lost to Syracuse in the quarterfinals of the Big East tournament. In the NCAA tournament, the Huskies received a No. 1 seed in the West Region and advanced to their third Final Four with wins over Chattanooga, Texas A&M, No. 17 Purdue, and No. 9 Missouri. In the Final Four at Ford Field, they lost to No. 8 Michigan State 73–82.

Roster
Listed are the student athletes who are members of the 2008–2009 team.

2008 recruiting class

Regular season

The Huskies' season began with the team ranked No. 2 in the AP Poll. behind the University of North Carolina. Off to a quick start, UConn opened with a string of eleven straight victories over non-conference opponents, including a sweep of the Paradise Jam tournament in the U.S. Virgin Islands. During this stretch, the Huskies faced three teams that were ranked in the Top 25, including No. 8 Gonzaga in an overtime thriller in Seattle.

The first Big East Conference game of the season came at home against Georgetown, which the Huskies lost 74–63. This was the start of a 19-game stretch where 18 of the games were against conference opponents, and where their opponents were ranked in nine of the games. After this first loss, the Huskies went on to win 13 straight, staying comfortably atop the Big East Conference standings. Among these was a 68–51 victory at No. 7 Louisville— the eventual outright Big East Champions.

The Huskies reached No. 1 in the rankings on February 2, 2009, and held it for three weeks. During this span junior guard Jerome Dyson, one of the team's biggest scoring threats and its best guard defender, injured his knee. He would not be able to play for the rest of the season. The team spent the final few weeks of the regular season adjusting to their smaller rotation. A 76–68 loss at home to No. 4 Pittsburgh knocked them from the top spot. They would win their next three games, including at No. 8 Marquette, which was Coach Jim Calhoun's 800th career victory in Division I basketball. After one week at No. 2, UConn was again No. 1 in the polls, until a loss at No. 3 Pittsburgh to finish the regular season once again bumped the Huskies from the top.

The Huskies finished the regular season with 27 wins and 3 losses, with a conference record of 15–3. The team was not ranked out of the top 5 in the AP Poll at any point in the season.

Post-season
In the quarterfinals of the Big East tournament, UConn took on Syracuse. The game would prove to be a historic event, as it took a Big East record six overtimes before Syracuse ultimately triumphed, 127–117. The contest is tied as the second longest in NCAA Division I history.

The Huskies earned the No. 1 seed in the West Regional of the NCAA tournament. They began play in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where they had two blowout victories against Chattanooga and Texas A&M. They moved on to Glendale, AZ for the West regionals, first defeating Purdue 72–60, then outlasting a pressing Missouri squad in the Elite Eight, 82–75.

The following weekend the Huskies were in Detroit, MI for a Final Four matchup against the Midwest's No. 2 seed, Michigan State. The game was close throughout, until the Spartans began to take control near the ten-minute mark of the second half. UConn would make one last run and cut the deficit to three late in the game, but Michigan State made key free throws and held on to win, 82–73. UConn's final record was 31 wins and 5 losses.

Schedule and results

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Rankings

Postseason awards
Second Team All-America:
Hasheem Thabeet, Center, Jr.

National Defensive Player of the Year
Hasheem Thabeet

Big East Co-Players of the Year:
Hasheem Thabeet
with DeJuan Blair, Pittsburgh, Center, So.

Big East Defensive Player of the Year:
Hasheem Thabeet

All-Big East First Team:
Hasheem Thabeet

All-Big East Second Team:
A.J. Price, Guard, Sr.

All-Big East Third Team:
Jeff Adrien, Forward, Sr.

Big East All-Rookie Team:
Kemba Walker, Guard, Fr.

Team players drafted into the NBA

References

UConn Huskies men's basketball seasons
Connecticut Huskies
NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament Final Four seasons
Connecticut
2008 in sports in Connecticut
2009 in sports in Connecticut


San Xuan de Prendones is a parish (administrative division) in the municipality of El Franco, within the province and autonomous community of Asturias, in northern Spain.

The population is 293 (INE 2007).

Villages
 Arbedeiras
 Boimouro
 Carbexe
 El Llouredal
 Nenín
 Prendonés
 A Rebollada
 Sueiro
 San Xuan
 Zarredo

References

Parishes in El Franco


Stephen "Steve" Arterburn from Ranger, Texas is the founder and chairman of New Life Ministries and host of the syndicated Christian counseling talk show New Life Live!  available on XM and Sirius Satellite radio and on NRB Network. Arterburn is also the host of New Life TV, a web-based Christian ministry. Arterburn is the founder of the Women of Faith conferences. He also serves as a teaching pastor in Carmel, Indiana.

Arterburn is a public speaker and has been featured in national media venues such as Oprah, Inside Edition, Good Morning America, CNN Live, The New York Times, USA Today, US News & World Report, ABC World News Tonight, and in GQ and Rolling Stone magazines. Arterburn has spoken at major events for the National Center for Fathering, American Association of Christian Counselors, Promise Keepers Canada, Life Well Conferences in Australia and The Salvation Army.

Arterburn is an author of over two dozen Christian-themed self-help books. Along with Dr. Dave Stoop, he edited and produced the Life Recovery Bible, and Take Your Life Back.

His speaking topics address issues common to leaders, adult men and women, including Every Man’s Battle, Lose it For Life, The 7-Minute Marriage Solution, Every Heart Restored, and Healing is a Choice.

Publications

5 Blind Spots: Blocking God's Work in You (2014) Worthy Publishing
The Seven Minute Marriage Solution Devotional Bible (2013) Worthy Publishing
The Seven Minute Marriage Solution (2013) Worthy Publishing
Is This The One, 2012
The Exceptional Life: 8 Powerful Steps to Experiencing God's Best for You Bethany House (2011)
Healing is a Choice: 10 Decisions That Will Transform Your Life and 10 Lies That Can Prevent You From Making Them. (2011)
The Encounter: Sometimes God Has to Intervene. (with John Perry, 2011, fiction)
Walking Into Walls: 5 Blind Spots that Block God's Work in You. (2011)
Midlife Manual for Men (2008), Bethany House
Being Christian: Exploring Where You, God, and Life Connect (2009), Bethany House
Regret-Free Living Bethany House (2009)
Young Believer On Tour (2004)
Addicted to "Love"
Reframe Your Life
Toxic Faith (with Jack Felton, 2001)
More Jesus, Less Religion (with Jack Felton)
The One Year Book of Devotions for Men on the Go (with Bill Farrel)
Lose It For Life
The Secrets Men Keep
Feeding Your Appetites
Moments for Singles (with Leigh McLeroy)
Avoiding Mr. Wrong
Every Young Woman's Battle Workbook (with Shannon Ethridge)
Every Man's Challenge (with Fred Stoeker and Mike Yorkey)
Every Heart Restored (with Mike Yorkey and Fred Stoeker)
Every Young Man, God's Man (with Mike Yorkey and Kenny Luck)
Every Man, God's Man (with Mike Yorkey and Kenny Luck)
Every Man's Marriage (with Fred Stoeker and Mike Yorkey)
Every Woman's Marriage (with Shannon Ethridge)
Every Young Woman's Battle (with Shannon Ethridge)
Every Woman's Battle (with Shannon Ethridge)
Every Young Man's Battle (with Fred Stoeker and Mike Yorkey)
Every Man's Battle (with Fred Stoeker)
Flashpoints (with Angela Elwell Hunt, 2002), Tyndale House
Feeding Your Appetites: Take Control of What's Controlling You! (with Dr. Debra Cherry, (2004) Integrity Publishers
Internet Protect your Kids (2007)

The Arterburn Wellness Series
Understanding and Loving a Person with Attention Deficit Disorder (with Timothy Smith, 2017)
Understanding and Loving a Person with Bipolar Disorder (with Becky Lyke Brown, 2018)
Understanding and Loving a Person with Narcissistic Personality Disorder (with Patricia Kuhlman, 2018)
Understanding and Loving a Person with Alcohol or Drug Addiction (with David Stoop, 2019)
Understanding and Loving Your Child with ADHD (2021)

Fiction
Healing Stones (Sullivan Crisp Series, #1), authored by Nancy Rue.
Healing Waters (Sullivan Crisp Series, #2), authored by Nancy Rue.
Healing Sands (Sullivan Crisp Series), authored by Nancy Rue.
The Reluctant Prophet, authored by Nancy Rue.
The Encounter

References

Living people
Christians from Texas
American Christian writers
1953 births
People from Ranger, Texas


Introducing Kenny Garrett is the debut album of Kenny Garrett recorded on December 28th, 1984. It features Garrett in a quintet with veteran trumpeter Woody Shaw, pianist Mulgrew Miller, bassist Nat Reeves and drummer Tony Reedus.

Track listing

Personnel
Musicians
 Kenny Garrett – alto saxophone
 Woody Shaw – trumpet, flugelhorn
 Mulgrew Miller – piano
 Nat Reeves – bass
 Tony Reedus – drums

Production
 Gerry Teekens - producer
 Jerry Teekens - associate producer

 Rudy Van Gelder - engineer
 Max Bolleman - engineer
 Leendert Stofbergen - cover design
 Stanley Crouch - liner Notes

References

1985 albums
Kenny Garrett albums
Criss Cross Jazz albums
Albums recorded at Van Gelder Studio


Valdepares is one of eight parishes (administrative divisions) in the El Franco municipality, within the province and autonomous community of Asturias, in northern Spain.

The population is 695 (INE 2007).

Villages and hamlets
 El Franco
 Viavélez
 Mernes
 Porcía
 El Porto
 A Ronda
 San Polayo
 Valdepares

References

Parishes in El Franco