The 2009–10 Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final was a figure skating competition in the 2009–10 season. It was the culminating competition of the 2009–10 ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating, a senior-level international invitational competition, and the 2009–10 ISU Junior Grand Prix, a junior-level international competition.

Skaters earned points towards qualifying for the senior Grand Prix Final at the 2009 Trophée Eric Bompard, the 2009 NHK Trophy, the 2009 Rostelecom Cup, the 2009 Cup of China, the 2009 Skate America, and the 2009 Skate Canada International. Skaters earned points towards qualifying for the Junior Grand Prix Final at each of the seven Junior Grand Prix events. The six highest ranking skaters/teams from the Grand Prix series and the eight highest ranking skaters/teams from the Junior Grand Prix met at the Grand Prix Final.

The event was held in Tokyo, Japan from December 2 to December 6, 2009. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing on the senior and junior levels.

Unlike the other events in both series, there was no compulsory dance portion of the competition. Ice dancers were ranked in the original dance starting order in reverse order of their qualification to the Final.

Schedule
All times are Japan Standard Time (UTC+9).

 Wednesday, December 2
 19:30 Opening ceremony
 Thursday, December 3
 17:00 Junior pairs – Short program
 18:30 Junior men – Short program
 20:00 Senior pairs – Short program
 21:15 Senior ice dancing – Original dance
 Friday, December 4
 15:00 Junior men – Free skating
 16:35 Junior pairs – Free skating
 18:30 Senior men – Short program
 19:40 Senior ladies – Short program
 20:50 Senior ice dancing – Free dance
 Saturday, December 5
 13:30 Junior ice dancing – Original dance
 14:55 Junior ladies – Short program
 16:25 Senior pairs – Free skating
 18:00 Senior men – Free skating
 19:30 Senior ladies – Free skating
 Sunday, December 6
 12:30 Junior ice dancing – Free dance
 14:00 Junior ladies – Free skating
 16:15 Exhibition gala

Qualifiers

Senior-level qualifiers
The following skaters qualified for the Grand Prix Final, in order of qualification.

 Tanith Belbin / Benjamin Agosto, the third qualifiers in the ice dancing event, withdrew due to illness (Belbin). They were replaced by second alternates Vanessa Crone / Paul Poirier after the first alternates, Jana Khokhlova / Sergei Novitski, withdrew due to illness (Novitski).
 Brian Joubert, the third qualifier in the men's event, withdrew due to injury. He was replaced by first alternate Tomáš Verner.

Junior-level qualifiers
The following skaters qualified for the Junior Grand Prix Final, in order of qualification.

Medals table

Senior-level results

Men

Ladies

Pairs
Shen Xue / Zhao Hongbo set a new short program world record of 75.36, a new free skating world record of 138.89, and a new combined total score of 214.25.

Ice dancing

Junior-level results

Junior men

Junior ladies

Junior pairs

Junior ice dancing

References

External links

2009 in figure skating
2009-10
2009-10
Figure skating in Japan
2009 in youth sport
2010 in youth sport
December 2009 sports events in Japan
2009 in Japanese sport


The Big Durian is a 2003 Malaysian film by Amir Muhammad that combined documentary with fiction. It created history by being the first (and only) Malaysian film to screen at the Sundance Film Festival.

Synopsis

On the night of 18 October 1987, a soldier, Prebet Adam ran amok with an M16 in the area of Chow Kit, Kuala Lumpur. Due to the thorny circumstances of the time and place, his amok triggered a citywide panic and rumours of racial riots.

Cast
The Big Durian features 23 people: some are actors, while others are expressing their personal opinions. The first group includes Patrick Teoh, Low Ngai Yuen, Jo Kukathas and Rashid Salleh; while the latter include Farish A. Noor, Nam Ron, Anne James and Chacko Vadaketh.

Release
The Big Durian screened in over 30 film festivals, including the Singapore International Film Festival and Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival in 2003 (the former being a world premiere) to the Sundance Film Festival, the Hong Kong International Film Festival and the Vancouver International Film Festival in the following year.

Critical response
Variety magazine said: "Ambitious, sleek-looking docu examines wide array of ethnic, religious and political divisions in modern Malaysia." The Village Voice said that it is an "impertinent love-letter to the citizens of Kuala Lumpur that does not let them off the hook for their apathy."

See also

 Operation Lalang - Prebet Adam amok incident

References

External links

 DVD sales link

2003 films
Malaysian documentary films
Films about freedom of expression
Films directed by Amir Muhammad
Malaysian independent films
2003 independent films
Films with screenplays by Amir Muhammad
2003 documentary films


The Titanic Museum Attraction is a museum located in Branson, Missouri, United States, on 76 Country Boulevard. It is one of two Titanic-themed museums owned by John Joslyn (who headed a 1987 expedition to Titanic's final resting place); the other is located in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee. The museum holds 400 pre-discovery artifacts in 20 galleries.

Guests step through the artificial iceberg into the museum, and receive a passenger boarding ticket, featuring the name of an actual Titanic passenger and the class on which the passenger traveled. During the tour, guests learn the individual stories of several passengers. At the end of the tour, guests are told whether their ticket holder survived.

Like the museum of Pigeon Forge, the museum's main exterior visual feature is the partial mockup of the original ocean liner. The construction consists of the front half of the ship, including its first two funnels.

In a 2017 episode of the Travel Channel series, Ghost Adventures, Zak Bagans and the crew investigated the museum due to claimed paranormal activities that were apparently traced to actual relics from the shipwreck.

See also
Sinking of the RMS Titanic
List of maritime museums in the United States

External links

 Titanic Museum Attraction Website

References

Landmarks in Missouri
Museums in Branson, Missouri
Maritime museums in Missouri
RMS Titanic
Museums established in 2006
2006 establishments in Missouri

es:Branson (Misuri)#El Museo Titanic


Pelliceira (Asturian, Piliceira) is one of eleven parishes (administrative divisions) in the municipality of Ibias, within the province and autonomous community of Asturias, in northern Spain. The population in 2014 was six inhabitants and the area is .

Villages and hamlets

 Arandojo (Arandoxo)
 Pelliceira

References

Parishes in Ibias


The Japanese sea bass (Lateolabrax japonicus) is a species of catadromous marine ray-finned fish from the Asian sea bass family Lateolabracidae which is found in the Western Pacific.

Japanese names
In the Kanto area (Eastern Japan), including Shizuoka Prefecture, it is called Seigo when under 25cm. At 3 years of age, when it has attained a length of nearly 60cm, it is called Fukko or Suzuki. In Kansai (Western Japan) it is called Seigo, Hane, and .

Description

The Japanese sea bass has a slightly forked tail and a large mouth which has the lower jaw protruding beyond the upper jaw. The young fish have small black spots on the back and dorsal fin which tend to lost in larger fish. Its body has 12 to 15 spines in the first dorsal followed by 12 to 14 soft rays in its second dorsal. The anal fin has 3 spines and 7 to 9 soft rays. The maximum recorded total length is , although the more common standard length is  and the maximum published weight is .

Distribution
The Japanese sea bass is found in the Western pacific where it occurs from Japan to the South China Sea.

Habitat and biology

The Japanese sea bass occurs on inshore rocky reefs where there is a current. The juveniles have been recorded ascending rivers and then return as adults to sea to spawn. It is a protandrous hermaphrodite in which the fish reach sexual maturity as males at around 2 years old and change into females when they are older. Japanese seabass larvae commence feeding at day 4 after hatching. The diet of the early larvae is exclusively on smaller zooplankton such as cyclopoids and copepods with copepods being the dominant component in their diet, making up nearly 70%. Once they have reached the juvenile stage, its diet includes sardines, anchovies, and shrimp, as well as any other small fishes and crustaceous.

Reproduction and development
The spawning of this species occurs in the coastal waters around Japan, specifically in the shelf areas with a depth of <100m during late October to late January. Generally, Japanese sea bass eggs are distributed between bay water and outer water because thermohaline regions are formed. However, once their eggs have developed, they are shifted from the surface layer to the middle layer of water. The water temperature where the eggs are placed in a significant factor for the survival rate since their eggs do not tolerate temperatures below 10 °C. The eggs of this species are pelagic, spherical, colorless, and measure about 1.34mm to 1.44mm in diameter with a single oil globule. The transformation from the larva to the juvenile stage is around 49 to 70 days of age and juvenile stage begins at 60 days of age.

Migration
Juveniles are dispersed and transported kilometers away from the spawning grounds into coastal areas and river estuaries by tidal currents during late winter or early spring. Some of their nursery habitats are located around Japanese seas, such as Tamara River estuary, Tokyo Bay, Tango sea, Ariake Bay, and Lake Shinji. Most of the early juveniles migrate to the upriver turbidity maximum zone (TMZ) which is known as an area of high prey concentration in estuaries. Juveniles that migrate to these areas have a better chance to survive than those who remain in coastal areas. The area of estuaries is smaller and its environmental conditions are more variable, allowing them to have higher growth rate, a lower starvation rate, and less risk of predation.

Taxonomy
Lateolabrax maculatus has been treated as a junior synonym of L. japonicus but more recent authorities have treated it as a valid species with a wide distribution in the Ariake Sea and off Nagasaki in Japan; off the Chinese coast, Taiwan, and Korea, normally off the southern and western coasts.

Usage

This species is important commercially, popular as a game fish, and farmed.

References

Japanese seabass
Fish of Japan
Marine fauna of East Asia
Japanese seabass
Japanese seabass


Midnight Movies was an indie rock band formed in Los Angeles, California in 2002. Composed of Gena Olivier (vocals, drums), Larry Schemel (guitar), and Jason Hammons (keyboards, guitar), the indie rock trio quickly crafted a moody and stylish sound. They became a major face on the L.A. music scene within a year, and earned a nomination for Best New Artist at the L.A. Weekly Music Awards in May 2003. Just as their self-released six-song EP arrived, Midnight Movies received another nomination for Best Pop/Rock band in spring 2004. Midnight Movies' self-titled studio-length debut was released on Emperor Norton the following August. The group resurfaced in 2007 with Lion the Girl, which featured new bassist Ryan Wood and drummer Sandra Vu, with Olivier handling keyboard and vocal duties and production by Steve Fisk. The band's final show was at Spaceland (now The Satellite) on June 16, 2008 and have since broken up to pursue other projects or to spend time with family.

Musical style
The sound of Midnight Movies conjures a certain Los Angeles – but it's no sun-drenched, glamorized metropolis. This is a decidedly noir L.A., replete with mystery, desire and yearning. On Lion the Girl (New Line Records), their second full-length release, the band explores haunting new vistas and back alleys of the soul, expanding the reach of their acclaimed "psychedelic pop" with an expanded lineup and more expansive songwriting.

Gena Olivier's elegant, beguiling vocals and Larry Schemel's buzzingly urgent guitar lines are, as ever, prominent sonic elements. But two new members, bassist Ryan Wood and drummer Sandra Vu, add considerably to the outfit's musical reach.

Band members
Current members
Gena Olivier – lead vocals, organ, drums
Larry Schemel – guitars
Sandra Vu – drums, flute, vocals, keyboard
Ryan Wood – bass guitar, keyboards, guitars

Former members
Jason Hammons – keyboards, guitars

Discography

Albums
Midnight Movies (2004)
Lion The Girl (2007)

EP
Strange Design EP (2003)Nights EP (2008)

SinglesMirage (2004)Persimmon Tree (2004)Patient Eye'' (2004)

References

Musical groups established in 2002
Musical groups from Los Angeles
2002 establishments in California


San Antolín is one of eleven parishes (administrative divisions) in the municipality of Ibias, within the province and autonomous community of Asturias, in northern Spain.

References

Parishes in Ibias


Clonmel was a constituency represented in the Irish House of Commons until its abolition on 1 January 1801.

History
In the Patriot Parliament of 1689 summoned by James II, Clonmel was represented with two members.

Members of Parliament
1560: Henry White and John Strich
1585: Geoffrey White and John Bray
1613–1615: Nicholas White and John Bray
1634–1635: Geoffrey Barron (expelled 1634) and Henry fitz Nicholas White
1639–1649: William Smythe and Richard Gethin
1661–1666: Sir Thomas Stanley of Tickincorr (sat for Co Louth, Replaced 1661 by Sir James Shane) and Sir Francis Foulke

1689–1801

Notes

References

Bibliography

Constituencies of the Parliament of Ireland (pre-1801)
Clonmel
Historic constituencies in County Tipperary
1800 disestablishments in Ireland
Constituencies disestablished in 1800


JEAN was a dialect of the JOSS programming language developed for and used on ICT 1900 series computers in the late 1960s and early 1970s; it was implemented under the MINIMOP operating system. It was used at universities including the University of Southampton. The name was an acronym derived from "JOSS Extended and Adapted for Nineteen-hundred". It was operated interactively from a Teletype terminal, as opposed to using batch processing.

JEAN programs could include expressions (such as A*(B+C)), commands (such as TYPE to display the result of a calculation) and clauses (such as FOR, appended to an expression to evaluate it repeatedly).

References

ICL programming languages
JOSS programming language family
Computer science education


Wincenty Fryderyk de Lesseur, or Lesserowicz (1745, Warsaw - 31 May 1813, Warsaw) was a Polish painter, miniaturist, pastelist and caricaturist.

Biography
His father was a French army officer, stationed in Warsaw after the War of the Polish Succession. He received formal art education from Marcello and Johanna Bacciarelli. During a brief stay in Vienna, he worked with Heinrich Füger.

His primary patron (and customer) was King Stanisław August Poniatowski. After 1787, he served as a chamberlain at the court. By 1804, he was sufficiently well-off to settle on his own small property near Kozery.

He was renowned for his ability to create small watercolors or gouaches on ivory, using a pointillistic style that created the effect of smoothness.

In addition to portraits of the King, he painted portraits of other European monarchs, national heroes, artists, scholars, and aristocratic families and their friends. He also made miniature copies of the works of  Bacciarelli, Josef Grassi and Jan Chrzciciel Lampi.

Among his students were  and Waleria Tarnowska. A large collection of his miniatures which was owned by the Tarnowski family may now be seen at the Polish Museum, Rapperswil.

References

Further reading
Halina Kamińska-Krassowska, Wincenty de Lesseur - życie i działalnośc (Life and Work)),  Muzeum Narodowe, 1969 Full Text online @ the Heidelberg University Library.

External links

1745 births
1813 deaths
18th-century Polish–Lithuanian painters
18th-century male artists
19th-century Polish painters
19th-century Polish male artists
Polish people of French descent
Artists from Warsaw
Polish portrait painters
Pastel artists
Polish male painters


San Clemente is one of eleven parishes (administrative divisions) in the municipality of Ibias, within the province and autonomous community of Asturias, in northern Spain.

Villages and hamlets
 Alguerdo
 Busante
 Omente (Oumente)
 San Clemente
 Santa Comba (Santacomba)
 La Sierra (A Serra)

References

Parishes in Ibias


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

Villages and hamlets
 Barca
 Bustelin
 Castaosa
 Penedela
 Riodeporcos
 Salvador
 Santiso
 Sena

References

Parishes in Ibias


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

Villages and hamlets
 Andeo
 Dou
 Folgueiras de Aviouga
 Morentan
 Pradias
 Seroiro
 Uria
 Valdebueyes
 Valvaler

References

Parishes in Ibias


Edgar Fraser Stead (22 October 1881 – 7 February 1949) was a New Zealand ornithologist, engineer, horticulturist and marksman.  He was born in Christchurch and educated there at Christ's College and Wanganui Collegiate School.  He then studied electrical engineering at Canterbury College, followed by three years at Schenectady, New York, at the research laboratories of the General Electric Company.

Following the death of his father, George Gatonby Stead, in 1908, Stead returned to New Zealand and, in 1914, bought a property at Ilam, close to Christchurch, on 20 ha of land adjacent to the river Avon. He had inherited enough to not have to pursue a career in engineering and he devoted the rest of his life to ornithology, angling, hunting and sports shooting, as well as to growing and hybridising prize rhododendrons and azaleas on his property. His collection eventually came into the possession of the University of Canterbury, which maintains it as Ilam Gardens.  He became an expert at all these pursuits and acquired an international reputation for his marksmanship, winning competitions at Monte Carlo and elsewhere.  He frequently travelled to Britain where he acted as a rhododendron judge at the Chelsea Flower Show.  In 1915 he married Irene Mary Phillips in Christchurch, with whom he had a son, Roland.

Ornithology
Stead acquired a detailed knowledge of the birds of Canterbury, as well as of New Zealand's offshore islands through many field trips.  He built up an important collection of skins and eggs which was bequeathed to the Canterbury Museum.  He wrote many papers for the Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand and other journals, as well as a book, The Life Histories of New Zealand Birds, published in 1932.  He named two new subspecies of fernbird and a new subspecies of bush wren from Stewart Island (Stead's bush wren, Xenicus longipes variabilis).  His field studies and contributions to natural history and ornithology were recognised in 1948 by his election as a fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand.

Stead died at his home in Ilam, survived by his wife and Roland. In 2011, Roland left $110,000 for the maintenance of the Ilam gardens.

References

1881 births
1949 deaths
Fellows of the Royal Society of New Zealand
New Zealand non-fiction writers
New Zealand ornithologists
New Zealand male sport shooters
People educated at Christ's College, Christchurch
People educated at Whanganui Collegiate School
New Zealand horticulturists
Christchurch City Councillors
20th-century New Zealand zoologists
20th-century non-fiction writers


Crowell House may refer to several houses in the United States:

Alphabetical by state, then town
 Crowell House (Denver, Colorado), on the list of the oldest buildings in Colorado
 C. C. Crowell House, Somerville, Massachusetts, listed on the US National Register of Historic Places (NRHP)
 Crowell–Bourne Farm, West Falmouth, Massachusetts, NRHP-listed
 C.C. Crowell Jr. House, Blair, Nebraska, NRHP-listed
 Crowell House (Sea Cliff, New York), NRHP-listed
 J. B. Crowell and Son Brick Mould Mill Complex, Wallkill, New York, NRHP-listed
 Crowell House (Durham, North Carolina), NRHP-listed
 Warren-Crowell House, Terrell, Texas, NRHP-listed


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

Villages and hamlets
 Bao Population 2011 16
 Sisterna Population 2011 16
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Parishes in Ibias


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

Villages and hamlets
 Taladrid Population 2011 - 9
 Llanelo  Population 2011 - 6
 Villaoril Population 2011 - 12
 Villardecendias Population 2011 - 18
 Villarin Population 2011 - 8
 Villarmeirin Population 2011 - 9

References

Parishes in Ibias


The Driver's Privacy Protection Act of 1994 (also referred to as the "DPPA"), Title XXX of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act, is a United States federal statute governing the privacy and disclosure of personal information gathered by state Departments of Motor Vehicles.

The law was passed in 1994. It was introduced by Democratic Rep. Jim Moran of Virginia in 1992, after an increase in some opponents of abortion using public driving license databases to track down and harass abortion providers and patients. Prominent among such cases was physician Susan Wicklund, who faced protests and harassment including her house being picketed for a month.  The law is currently codified at Chapter 123 of Title 18 of the United States Code.

Substantive provisions of the act
The statute prohibits the disclosure of personal information (as defined in ) without the express consent of the person to whom such information applies, with the exception of certain circumstances  set forth in .  These rules apply to Departments of Motor Vehicles as well as other "authorized recipient[s] of personal information", and imposes record-keeping requirements on those "authorized recipients."

The permissible uses are:
 For any government agency to carry out its functions
 For use in connection with "matters of motor vehicle or driver safety and theft", including
 disclosure "in connection with matters of motor vehicle or driver safety and theft, motor vehicle emissions, motor vehicle product alterations, recalls, or advisories, performance monitoring of motor vehicles and dealers by motor vehicle manufacturers"
 removal of non-owner records from the original owner records of motor vehicle manufacturers to carry out the purposes of the Automobile Information Disclosure Act, the Motor Vehicle Information and Cost Saving Act, the National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act of 1966, the Anti-Car Theft Act of 1992, and the Clean Air Act
 For use in the normal course of business by a legitimate business or its agents, employees, or contractors, but only to:
 verify the accuracy of personal information
 correct information
 For use in connection with any matter before a court or arbitration proceeding.
 For producing statistical reports and other research, provided that personal information is not published.
 For use by insurance companies.
 For providing notice to owners of towed vehicles.
 For use by licensed private investigation agencies, for a permitted DPPA use.
 For use by employers to verify commercial driver information as required by U.S. Code Title 49, subtitle VI, chapter 313.
 For use by private toll transportation facilities.
 For response to requests from motor vehicle departments.
 For the bulk distribution of surveys, marketing materials, or solicitations (opt-in only).
 When written consent of the individual is provided.
 For other uses specifically authorized by state laws.

The act also makes it illegal to obtain drivers' information for unlawful purposes or to make false representations to obtain such information.  The act establishes criminal fines for noncompliance, and establishes a civil cause of action for drivers against those who unlawfully obtain their information.

Legislative history
After Rebecca Schaeffer was murdered in 1989 by Robert John Bardo who found her address by a private detective agency's use of DMV records, the easy availability of personal information from the DMV was called into question.

The bill was introduced simultaneously during the 103rd United States Congress in the House of Representatives (as H.R. 3365) and the Senate (as S. 1589) on 26 October 1993. The text of the bill was incorporated into H.R. 3355, the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994, which was eventually signed by President Bill Clinton as part of Public Law 103–322 on September 13, 1994.

The statute's constitutionality was upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court against a Tenth Amendment challenge in Reno v. Condon.

Jurisprudence

With the emergence of new-age computing technology and devices in the early 2000s came collection, processing, aggregation, correlation, and redisclosure of user's data. Websites, 3rd party advertising, and tracking firms began using mechanisms that violated a user's privacy. While "online" data identifying the user's computing technology was helpful, such data benefit was limited. Advertising entities had a millisecond while users were online to market their products; moreover, in order to "track" consumers by obtaining computing device data, HTML cookies were added to their devices. Since most computers and users deleted any cookies when they shut down their devices, this tracking mechanism failed to provide long-term tracking. What was needed was a means to associate "online" data activities with "offline" data, referencing personal information contained in public records, (Today, the objective is to associate "online" data with "offline" data and Biometrics, the new "Holy Grail" of advertising data). The most accurate source of offline data and the cheapest was motor vehicle records maintained by the DMVs.

Since computer technology was progressing rapidly, federal and state laws had failed to be proactive, a risk to society of ungoverned technology. As such, litigation for violations was relatively non-existent. A new method to litigate Federal privacy cases was needed to protect the hundreds of millions of people violated by unauthorized tracking user's activities “Online” and “Offline” (public records). This was a formidable task since no law firms had litigated privacy cases involving the computer technology inherent within the exchange of user data between third-party affiliated entities, thus there was no case precedent, no "blueprint" to follow. Earlier cases, such as the double-click "cookie" case in 2001, had relied on using a wiretap statute, the Electronic Communication Privacy Act ("ECPA"). While a plausible allegation, it was a weak allegation since the website user had granted such permissible use within the website's term of service ("TOS").

In Kehoe v. Fidelity Federal Bank and Trust, James Kehoe sued Fidelity Bank for purchasing hundreds of thousands of motor vehicle records from the state of Florida in violation of the federal Drivers Privacy Protection Act. Fidelity Bank had purchased 565,600 names and addresses from the Florida motor vehicles department from June 2000 – 2003. This information was sold for pennies—literally, Fidelity was able to obtain the information for only $5,656. Fidelity used the information to target residents of Palm Beach, Martin, and Broward Counties for car loan solicitations. The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida ruled in June 2004 that James Kehoe needed to demonstrate actual damages before obtaining any monetary recovery under the DPPA. The Court relied upon the recently decided Doe v. Chao and statutory construction rules to rule that the DPPA's liquidated damages do not accrue to a plaintiff unless he can show actual damages. Kehoe appealed to the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals which ruled: "...The statute at issue is the Driver's Privacy Protection Act, 18 U.S.C. § 2721, et seq. ("DPPA"). Having considered the plain text of the statute, we conclude that a plaintiff need not prove actual damages to recover liquidated damages for a violation of the DPPA. Since the district court reached a contrary conclusion, we reverse and remand". Kehoe v. Fidelity Federal Bank & Trust, 421 F. 3d 1209 (11th Cir. 2005), cert. denied.

While the Kehoe case was on appeal to the 11th circuit, then to SCOTUS, the Law Offices of Joseph Malley P.C. began an extensive freedom of information requests to all state DMVs, requesting any and all documents on persons and companies obtaining the DMV database in bulk, referencing the obtainment of all DMV records and periodic updates. The research and followup with all state DMVs would take more than a year. The firm was able to ID 36 State DMVs that were selling motor vehicle records in bulk. An analysis then was required of all of the people and entities obtaining the data to determine if it appeared they had a DPPA permissible use as required by the DPPA. Extensive follow-up discussions with all DMV officials were required to obtain additional information. Gambling on the outcome of the SCOTUS ruling, the extensive research turned out not to be in vain. Once SCOTUS denied writ on the Kehoe case, permitting the 11th circuit ruling to stand that actual damages were not required and an individual could choose to accept actual or statutory damages, the precedent was set. The Malley Firm was prepared to file and began filing an extensive amount of Federal Privacy Litigation. The Federal Class Actions involving violations of the Driver's Privacy Protection Act ("DPPA"), 18 U.S.C. § 2721, et seq, filed by the Law Offices of Joseph H. Malley P.C. in Texas, Florida, Missouri, and Arkansas, involving about 4-500 companies, include the following:

 Sharon Taylor et al. v. Acxiom Corporation et al., 2:07-cv-0001, (E.D. Tex. 2007)
 Sharon Taylor et al. v. ACS State & Local Solutions, Inc. et al., 2:07-cv-0013, (E.D. Tex. 2007)
 Sharon Taylor et al. v. Texas Farm Bureau Mutual Insurance Company et al., 2:07-cv-0014, (E.D. Tex. 2007)
 Sharon Taylor et al. v. Safeway Inc. et al., 2:07-cv-0017, (E.D. Tex. 2007)
 Sharon Taylor et al. v. Biometric Access Company et al., 2:07-cv-0018, (E.D. Tex. 2007)
 Sharon Taylor et al. v. Freeman Publishers Inc., 2:07-cv-0410, et al., (E.D. Tex. 2007)
 Richard Fresco v. R.L. Polk., No. 09-13344 (11th Cir. 2010), (Fresco II"- Intervention)
 Cook v. ACS State & Local Solutions, Inc. 663 F.3d 989 (10th Cir. 2011)
 Haney v. Recall Center, No. 10-cv-04003 (W.D. Ark. May 9, 2012) (certified class action)
 Doe et al. v. Compact Information Systems Inc. et al., 3:13cv05013MBH, (N.D. Tex. 2013)
 Cross v. Blank, Adv. No.: 9:15ap00926FMD, (M.D. Fla. 2015)
 Arthur Lopez v. Cross-Sell et al., 3:16-cv-02009-K, (N.D. Tex. 2016)
 Laning et al. v. National Recall & Data Services Inc. et al., 3:16-cv-02358-B (N.D. Tex. 2016)
 Lopez v. Herring, Civil Action No. 3:16-CV-02663-B, (N.D. Tex. 2017).

References

External links
 Information on the DPPA at the Electronic Privacy Information Center.

 Has DMV Violated the Drivers' Privacy Protection Act and Your Security?
 Class Action Says DMV Records Illegally Sold

103rd United States Congress
United States federal privacy legislation
United States federal legislation articles without infoboxes


Forest Hills Historic District may refer to:

 Forest Hills Historic District (Indianapolis, Indiana), listed on the NRHP in Indiana
 Forest Hills Historic District (Durham, North Carolina), listed on the NRHP in North Carolina
 Forest Hills Historic District (Columbia, South Carolina), listed on the NRHP in South Carolina
 Forest Hills Boulevard Historic District, Knoxville, Tennessee, listed on the NRHP in Tennessee


Apa Khabar Orang Kampung (English title:Village People Radio Show) is a 2007 Malaysian documentary by Amir Muhammad. It was produced by Da Huang Pictures. Like its predecessor The Last Communist, it was banned in its home country but screened in several international film festivals. It premiered at the Berlinale in 2006.

The title (Malay: "How are the villagers doing?") is a reference to a famous song by Sudirman Arshad of the same name that is used in both the opening and closing credits.

Plot
The precise role of the Communist Party of Malaya (CPM) in Malaysian history is still a controversial and hotly contested one. It was a player in the anti-colonial struggle against occupying Japanese forces (1942–1945) and later the returning British administration (1945–1957). However, its continual commitment to armed struggle in the post-Independence era depleted much public support.

In the propaganda war, the government made much of the fact that the CPM comprised mainly ethnic Chinese members and adopted an 'atheistic' political philosophy. As the nation is mainly Malay-Muslim, these were effective scare tactics in dissuading the population from having any sympathy towards the communists.

However, a large and influential division of the CPM, the 10th Regiment, comprised Malay-Muslim members. Many of its leaders such as Abdullah CD, Rashid Maidin, Abu Samah, Shamsiah Fakeh, Kamaruzzaman Teh and Suriani Abdullah were iconic figures of rebellion and resistance. These men and women had no trouble reconciling radical left ideology with Islamic faith.

The 10th Regiment began a strategic retreat across the border into South Thailand in the mid-1950s. Many of the members would not see their home villages again for five decades.

From secret jungle hide-outs, they conducting guerrilla warfare against the armed forces of the day. When the government of China began diplomatic relations with Malaysia in the early 1980s, aid from Beijing stopped and life became more difficult. A formal ceasefire was signed in 1989.

This documentary takes a look at the present-day lives of the 10th Regiment figures who are still living in a village in South Thailand. (Others had either died or opted to return to Malaysia). They earn a living by farming and are no longer engaged in politics.

Almost everyone in the village is either above the age of 60 or below 15. This is because the middle generation often had to be sent out for adoption as children would have been inconvenient in secret guerrilla hideouts.

The children in the village will grow up as Thai citizens and soon the emotional link to Malaysia will be lost. School lessons are in Thai rather than Malay. Life here is tranquil and slow-moving; it rains often and the chickens roam freely.

Through interviews with the elders, we hear of how life in the jungle was like: the food, the battles, the acupuncture. But the narrative keeps breaking up. There are audio and visual disruptions. History refuses to be contained or told so neatly.

In the background, a Thai radio soap opera is heard. It tells the story of a king who suspects his pregnant wife of adultery, and so jails her.

References

External links

 DVD sales link

2000s political films
2007 documentary films
2007 films
2007 independent films
Da Huang Pictures films
Films about communism
Films directed by Amir Muhammad
Films produced by James Lee
Films produced by Tan Chui Mui
Films set in Thailand
Malay-language films
Malaysian documentary films
Malaysian independent films
Malaysian political films
Thai-language Malaysian films


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

Villages and hamlets

Following are the villages and hamlets of Tormaleo:

 Buso, population 34
 Fondodevilla, population 80
 Fresno, population 10
 Luiña, population 82
 Torga, population 18
 Tormaleo, population 62
 Villares de Abajo, population 117
 Villares de Arriba, population 20

References

Parishes in Ibias


Atletismo Sudamericano (South American Athletics), formerly CONSUDATLE (Spanish: Confederación Sudamericana de Atletismo; South American Athletics Confederation), is the continental confederation governing body of athletics for national governing bodies and multi-national federations within South America. CONSUDATLE is one of six area associations of World Athletics (WA). CONSUDATLE was founded on May 24, 1918, in Buenos Aires, Argentina.  Therefore, the CONSUDATLE claims to be the oldest athletics area association of the world. The founding members were Argentina, Uruguay, and Andean Chile. Successively, the other countries joined: Brazil in 1922, Ecuador and Peru in 1925, Bolivia in 1930, and Colombia in 1937. Paraguay and Venezuela followed later, and Guyana, Panama, and Suriname joined within the last decades.

Presidents
The current president Roberto Gesta de Melo was re-elected in 2010 for the period 2011-2015 in Rio de Janeiro.  Former presidents can be found here.

Championships

The ConSudAtle organizes the following championships, tournaments, and circuits:

South American Senior Championships in Athletics (Campeonatos Sudamericanos de Atletismo de Adultos)
South American Under-23 Championships (Campeonatos Sudamericanos de Atletismo de Sub-23)
South American Junior (Under-20) Championships (Campeonatos Sudamericanos de Atletismo de Juveniles)
South American Youth (Under-18) Championships (Campeonatos Sudamericanos de Atletismo de Menores)
South American Age Group (Under-16) Championships (Campeonatos Sudamericanos de Atletismo Infantil)
South American Cross Country Championships (Campeonatos Sudamericanos de Atletismo de Cross Country)
South American Race Walking Championships (Campeonatos Sudamericanos de Atletismo de Marcha Atlética)
South American Marathon Championships (Campeonatos Sudamericanos de Atletismo de Maratón)
South American Half Marathon Championships (Campeonatos Sudamericanos de Atletismo de Media Maratón)
South American Half Marathon Circuit (Circuito Sudamericano de Media Maratón)
South American Road Mile Championships (Campeonatos Sudamericanos de Milla en Ruta)
South American Mountain Running Championships (Campeonatos Sudamericanos de Carreras de Montaña)

Member federations

See also

Association of Panamerican Athletics (APA)
Central American and Caribbean Athletic Confederation (CACAC)
Central American Isthmus Athletic Confederation (CADICA)
North American, Central American and Caribbean Athletic Association (NACAC)

References

External links
Official website

Athletics in South America
Athletics organizations
Sports governing bodies in South America
1918 establishments in South America
Sports organizations established in 1918


This list includes properties and districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Durham County, North Carolina. Click the "Map of all coordinates" link to the right to view an online map of all properties and districts with latitude and longitude coordinates in the table below.

Current listings

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See also

National Register of Historic Places listings in North Carolina
List of National Historic Landmarks in North Carolina

References

Durham County


Viola is the protagonist of the play Twelfth Night, written by William Shakespeare.

Role in the play
Viola's actions produce all of the play's momentum. She is a young woman of Messaline. In the beginning, Viola is found shipwrecked on the shores of Illyria and separated from her twin brother, not knowing whether he is alive or dead, the Sea Captain tells her that this place is ruled by the Duke Orsino, who is in love with Countess Olivia. Viola wants to serve her, but, finding this impossible, she has the Sea Captain dress her up like a eunuch, so she can serve the Duke instead.

Viola chooses the name Cesario and secures a position as a page working for the Duke. He then entrusts Cesario (Viola) to express his love for Olivia, without knowing that Viola had begun to fall in love with him. When Viola hears this she is heartbroken but listens reluctantly. Cesario continues to pass messages back and forth between the Duke and Olivia, but this eventually places her in somewhat of a quandary: she is forced by duty to do her best to plead Orsino's case to Olivia, but an internal conflict of interest arises when she falls in love with Orsino, and Olivia, believing her to be male, falls in love with her. Upon receiving a ring from Olivia's steward, Viola contemplates the love triangle her disguise has created, admitting only time can solve it.

When Sebastian, Viola's lost twin, arrives alive and well in Illyria with a pirate named Antonio, the chaos of mistaken identity ensues because of their remarkably similar looks, only made more similar due to Viola dressing up as a male. The absurdity of the identity crisis builds until Sebastian and Viola as Cesario meet for the first time, and eventually recognise one another. Olivia and Sebastian have already been secretly married, as she mistook him for Cesario, and Sebastian, ignorant of the foregoing love triangle, was simply entranced by a beautiful woman. Ultimately then, given what he has witnessed, Orsino admits that he will no longer pursue Olivia, agreeing to love her as his sister, and decides to take Viola as his wife once she quits her disguise.

Although Viola is the play's protagonist, her true name is not spoken by any character—including herself—until the final scene of the play (Act 5, scene 1).

Art and stage depictions
Circa 1771 Francis Wheatley used actress Elizabeth Younge as a model to paint Viola in Act III, Scene 4 after she and Sir Andrew have drawn swords (painting top-right).

William Hamilton painted the confrontation between Olivia and Viola circa 1797: in Act V, Scene 1 Olivia believes Viola (dressed as Cesario) to be Sebastian (Viola's twin brother) who she has just married. After Viola denies any knowledge, incredulous Olivia asks the priest to confirm they were married just two hours prior.

Walter Howell Deverell used model Elizabeth Siddal in his 1850 painting, showing Viola as Cesario looking longingly at Duke Orsino.

In the mid-19th century Frederick Richard Pickersgill painted a few scenes, including: in Act 1, Scene 4 after the character Viola is shipwrecked, when she cross-dresses as Cesario, enters the service of Duke Orsino as his page and falls in love with him; and in Act 3, Scene 1 when Olivia declares her love for Cesario (1859 painting).

In the 20th century German actress Lucie Höflich played Viola in  (Twelfth Night in German) at the Deutsches Theater in Berlin.

Tallulah Bankhead played Viola in a 1937 radio broadcast of the play.

Eddie Redmayne made his professional stage debut as Viola for Shakespeare's Globe at the Middle Temple Hall in 2002.

In 2009, Anne Hathaway played Viola in the Shakespeare in the Park production of Twelfth Night in Central Park, directed by David Sullivan.

Jennifer Paredes portrayed Viola in Old Globe Theatre's 2017 production of Twelfth Night.

Film representations
 Twelfth Night (1910) – Directed by Eugene Mullin – Viola: Florence Turner
 Twelfth Night (1937) – Director N/A – Viola: Dorothy Black
 Twelfth Night (1939) – Directed by Michel Saint Denis – Viola: Peggy Ashcroft
 Twelfth Night (1957) [TV] – Directed by David Greene – Viola: Rosemary Harris
 Twelfth Night (1957) – Directed by Caspar Wrede – Viola: Dilys Hamlett
 Twelfth Night (1969) – Directed by John Sichel – Viola: Joan Plowright
 Twelfth Night (1974) – Directed by David Giles – Viola: Janet Suzman
 Twelfth Night (1980) [TV] – Directed by John Gorrie – Viola: Felicity Kendal
 Twelfth Night (1987) – Directed by Neil Armfield – Viola: Gillian Jones
 Twelfth Night or What You Will (1988) – Directed by Kenneth Branagh of the Royal Shakespeare Company/produced for television by Thames Television – Viola: Frances Barber
 Twelfth Night, or What You Will (1988)– Directed by Paul Kafno – Viola: Frances Barber
 Twelfth Night (1992) – [Animated Tales] – Directed by Mariya Muat – Viola: Fiona Shaw
 Twelfth Night (1996) – Directed by Trevor Nunn – Viola: Imogen Stubbs
 Twelfth Night, or What You Will (1998) [TV] – Directed by Nicholas Hytner – Viola: Helen Hunt
 Twelfth Night, or What You Will (2003) – Directed by Tim Supple – Viola: Parminder Nagra
 She's the Man (2006) – Directed by Andy Fickman – Viola Hastings: Amanda Bynes (Inspired by Twelfth Night)
 Twelfth Night (2018) – Directed by Adam Smethurst – Viola: Sheila Atim

References

Characters in Twelfth Night
Female Shakespearean characters
Fictional androgynes
Fictional castaways
Fictional cross-dressers
Fictional twins


The 2009 Trophée Éric Bompard was the first event of six in the 2009–10 ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating, a senior-level international invitational competition series. It was held at the Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy in Paris on October 15–18. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing. Skaters earned points toward qualifying for the 2009–10 Grand Prix Final. The compulsory dance was the Golden Waltz.

Results

Men

Ladies

Kim Yuna set a new free skating world record of 133.95 and a new combined total world record of 210.03.

Pairs

Ice dancing

External links

Trophée Éric Bompard, 2009
Internationaux de France
Trophée Éric Bompard
Figure
Trophée Éric Bompard
Trophée Éric Bompard
International figure skating competitions hosted by France


The 2009 Rostelecom Cup was the second event of six in the 2009–10 ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating, a senior-level international invitational competition series. It was held at the Megasport Arena in Moscow on October 22–25. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing. Skaters earned points toward qualifying for the 2009–10 Grand Prix Final. The compulsory dance was the Tango Romantica.

The event was renamed in 2009 after Rostelecom, the sponsor of Russian Figure Skating Federation.

Results

Men

Ladies

Pairs

Ice dancing

References

External links

Rostelecom Cup, 2009
Rostelecom Cup
Rostelecom Cup
Rostelecom


Robert A. Boyd  (June 21, 1918 – November 6, 2006) was a Canadian electric engineer and utility executive. He successfully led the construction of the first phase of the James Bay hydroelectric project, a large dam complex built in northern Quebec by Hydro-Québec during the 1970s and early 1980s.

Early life and family
Born in Sherbrooke, Quebec in a working-class family to a Scot-Irish father and a French Canadian mother. Boyd graduated from École Polytechnique de Montréal in 1943.

Career
Soon after finished school, Boyd joined the ranks of the newly created provincially owned utility Hydro-Québec, as the first French-speaking engineer ever hired by the company. He spent his 37-year career in different positions, reaching the top job in 1977.

In 1972, Quebec Premier Robert Bourassa asked Boyd to take the helm of the Société d'énergie de la Baie James, a Crown corporation tasked with the construction of the first phase of what was then called Le projet du siècle (The Project of the Century), a network of dams, reservoirs and three giant hydroelectric generating stations located in a remote area  north of Montreal. Stretching for  east of James Bay along the course of the La Grande River, the 10,000 MW public works project presented massive logistical challenges to the builders: roads and airstrips had to be built and towns for the 18,000 workers had to be set up deep into the Quebec Hinterland.

Boyd took over as president of Hydro-Québec on August 9, 1977, after the departure of financier Roland Giroux. During his 4-year tenure as president of the Crown Corporation, Boyd secured large bond issues with international banks to finish the construction project. On October 27, 1979, Boyd inaugurated, with Premier René Lévesque, the LG-2 generating station, a massive 5,616 MW underground powerhouse buried deep in the Canadian Shield.

Construction on Phase I of the James Bay Project was completed in 1984, when La Grande-3 and La Grande-4 generating stations came on-line further upstream.

Honors and awards
In 1978, he received an honorary doctorate from Concordia University. Boyd was selected Construction's Man of the Year in 1981 by the Engineering News-Record for his work on the James Bay project.

See also
 Hydro-Québec
 James Bay Energy
 Churchill Falls

References

Canadian electrical engineers
Officers of the Order of Canada
Officers of the National Order of Quebec
James Bay Project
Hydro-Québec
1918 births
2006 deaths
Quebec civil servants
Canadian chief executives
People from Sherbrooke


TIV MPI Resolution (formerly TIV Mayflower Resolution) is a wind turbine installation vessel deployed to install  turbines at offshore wind farms.  It was the first self-elevating Turbine Installation Vessel in the world. She can raise herself on her six legs between  and  above the sea.

Description
MPI Resolution is a 14,857 GT vessel which has six legs that she can use to raise itself out of the sea when installing offshore wind turbines. Resolution is designed for use in the North Sea, although she can be deployed elsewhere if required. She has the capacity for ten wind turbines at a time. The whole ship can be jacked up out of the sea on her six legs, to provide a stable platform when installing wind turbines. The jacking system uses hydraulics. She can raise herself between  and  above the sea.

MPI Resolution is powered by four ABB AMA4xxLxL diesel generators of  each powering four Aquamaster US 205/3850 azimuth thrusters of  each. Additionally, there are three ABB AMA400L6L diesel generators powering three Kamewa TT1650 CP bow thrusters of .

On arrival at the site of the wind turbine, MPI Resolution lowers her six legs to stand on the seabed, and then jacks herself up above the surface of the sea. This provides a stable platform to hammer down a mono-pile into the sea bed and install the wind turbine. When the turbine has been installed, Resolution lowers herself and sails to the next position to repeat the process.

History
Mayflower Resolution was ordered in 2002 by Mayflower Energy Ltd. She was built by Shanhaiguan shipyard, Qinhuangdao, China as yard number TIV 1. She was designed by Dane Knud E Hansen and construction was supervised by Graig Shipping. Mayflower Resolution was built for Mayflower Energy Ltd, part of Mayflower Corporation. Delivery was scheduled for February 2003, but was delayed and the £20,000,000 budget was exceeded by some £10,000,000. The addition of a remotely operated vehicle to lay submarine cables pushed to final bill for her construction to £53,000,000.

Mayflower Resolution was completed in November 2003, and delivered in February 2004. The journey from Qinhuangdao to Falmouth, Cornwall took 66 days. She underwent trials in Falmouth Bay, where she was tested for the first time. Mayflower Resolution was then put to work installing wind turbines at the North Hoyle windfarm for National Wind Power. The contract ended on 23 March and Mayflower Resolution sailed to Middlesbrough, arriving on 30 March. She was due to depart for Great Yarmouth on 8 April to work on installing turbines for the Scroby Sands wind farm. On 31 March, Mayflower Corporation went into administration with debts of £17,700,000. Deloitte Touche were appointed as administrators. Mayflower Resolution was sold by the administrators for £12,000,000 to a group of Mayflower Corporation's managers who managed to get backing from Japanese bank Mizuho International

The new owners became MPI Offshore, based in Stokesley, North Yorkshire. In 2006, MPI Resolution was used in the construction of the Barrow Offshore Wind project for Centrica and DONG Energy. In 2008, Resolution was used in the construction of the Lynn and Inner Dowsing Wind Farm for Centrica. It was announced in July 2008 that two more ships were to be built, based on MPI Resolution but slightly larger. They will be built by Cosco, at their Nantong shipyard. The two new ships will be named MPI Adventure and MPI Discovery. In February 2008, Resolution was sent to Esbjerg, Denmark to work on the installation of a wind farm. In January 2009, Resolution was used in the construction of the Robin Rigg Wind Farm. In 2010, Resolution was employed in the construction of the 100-turbine Thanet wind farm, off the coast of Kent, United Kingdom, sometimes carrying and installing 9 complete turbines.

Resolution also featured in the documentary Mighty Ships, season 2.

Identification
MPI Resolution has the IMO Number 9260134 and callsign PCJM.

See also
Crane vessel
List of offshore wind farms

References

External links

 MPI Offshore official website
 Current position of MPI Resolution
 2min , from Mighty Ships

Ships built in China
Merchant ships of the Isle of Man
Merchant ships of Cyprus
Wind turbine installation vessels
2003 ships


Titanic Museum may refer to:

 RMS Titanic Inc. operates multiple traveling exhibits titled Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition
 Southampton's Titanic Story at SeaCity Museum, Southampton, England
 The Titanic Museum, operated by the Titanic Historical Society in Indian Orchard, Massachusetts
 The Titanic Exhibits at Maritime Museum of the Atlantic in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
 Titanic Museum (Branson, Missouri), attraction museum in Branson, Missouri
 Titanic Museum (Pigeon Forge, Tennessee), attraction museum in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee
 Titanic Belfast, a visitor attraction on the site where the ship was built in Belfast, Northern Ireland


Holmes Airport (occasionally known as Grand Central Air Terminal and Grand Central Airport) was an airport in the Jackson Heights neighborhood of Queens in New York City that operated from 1929 to 1940.

Real estate developer E. H. Holmes built the airport on approximately  of undeveloped land. He organized and sold stock in Holmes Airport, Inc., but claimed that some wanted to see him fail. In February, 1929, Clarence D. Chamberlin, the aviator Viola Gentry, and Dorothy Stone, actress and daughter of Fred Stone, broke ground for the new airport. According to a contemporary street map, it extended as far as 79th Street to the east, 68th Street and St. Michael's Cemetery to the west, Astoria Boulevard to the north, and 31st Avenue to the south.  The airport had two hangars, an office, and two gravel runways, of  and  in length, respectively.

The new airport opened on Saturday, March 16, 1929, attracting 100,000 visitors on its second day of operation. Later that year, the first scheduled flights from New York City began when Eastern Air Express started a two-day service to Miami from Holmes.

In April 1930, thousands of people paid $1 each () for a ride in an airplane. It was promoted as an experiment to ascertain whether it was fear or the expense that kept the public from flying.

On Sunday, November 11, 1934, sixty-four airplanes took part in a  novelty race involving a treasure hunt and pie-eating contest, the winner returning in 28 minutes.

Blimps also used the airport. Goodyear erected a  hangar in 1931 and conducted sightseeing flights. In 1936, a Goodyear blimp based at Holmes Airport provided the first aerial traffic reports.

In 1937, the airport's owners sought a court injunction to stop New York City from spending $8,444,300 () to develop the smaller North Beach Airport, only a mile or so to the northeast, into the much larger LaGuardia Airport. Supreme Court Justice Ernest E. L. Hammer denied the request. LaGuardia Airport opened in 1939 and Holmes Airport closed the following year.

The northern portion of Holmes Airport's land was later developed into veteran housing and the Bulova watch factory site.

See also
Aviation in the New York metropolitan area

References

External links
 JacksonHeights.nyc, the location of Holmes Airport

Defunct airports in New York City
History of Queens, New York
Airports established in 1929
Jackson Heights, Queens
1929 establishments in New York City
1940 disestablishments in New York (state)
Demolished buildings and structures in Queens, New York


The 2009 Cup of China was the third event of six in the 2009–10 ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating, a senior-level international invitational competition series. It was held at the Capital Indoor Stadium in Beijing on October 29 – November 1. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing. Skaters earned points toward qualifying for the 2009–10 Grand Prix Final. The compulsory dance was the Golden Waltz.

Schedule
All times are China standard time (UTC+8).

 Friday, October 30
 14:30 Ice dancing - compulsory dance
 15:55 Ladies - short program
 17:50 Men - short program
 19:45 Pairs - short program
 21:15 Ice dancing - original dance
 Saturday, October 31
 14:00 Ladies - free skating
 16:10 Men - free skating
 18:25 Ice dancing - free dance
 20:05 Pairs - free skating

Results

Men

Ladies

 WD = Withdrawn

Pairs

Ice dancing

External links

Cup Of China, 2009
Cup of China
Sports competitions in Beijing
2009 in Beijing
Cup
October 2009 sports events in China


Damir Polančec (born 25 June 1967) is a Croatian politician who served as Minister of Economy, Labour and Entrepreneurship from 2008 to 2009, and as Deputy Prime Minister of Croatia from 2005 to 2009, in the cabinets of two prime ministers, Ivo Sanader and Jadranka Kosor.

On 30 October 2009, Polančec resigned citing a need to avoid damaging the Government and the party due to accusations leveled at him for his involvement in the mismanagement of Podravka.

On 30 March 2010, Polančec was apprehended by the police and questioned by USKOK, regarding his involvement in certain financial transactions between Podravka, MOL Group and OTP Bank.
The County Court in Zagreb authorized a longer detention for Polančec and also blocked his estates, at the request of USKOK.

On 15 October 2010, Polančec was sentenced to 15 months in prison for a separate instance of abuse of power, where he approved a fictional expense to a Vukovar-based attorney in return for his clients dropping lawsuits against the government.

References

1967 births
Croatian Democratic Union politicians
Living people
People from Koprivnica
Faculty of Agriculture, University of Zagreb alumni
Economy ministers of Croatia
Economy of Koprivnica
Croatian politicians convicted of corruption


Percy Janes (March 12, 1922 – February 19, 1999) was a Canadian writer and novelist, known primarily for his novel House of Hate.  His work often deals with life in Newfoundland, mainly from his own first hand experience.

Biography

Early life
He was born in St. John's, Newfoundland on March 12, 1922, the son of Eli Janes and Lillian Berkshire.  The family moved to Corner Brook, Newfoundland when he was seven years old.  There he attended school until 1938, when he received a scholarship to attend Memorial University College in St. John's.  He started his writing career in 1940 as editor for the college's yearbook. While attending the Memorial University College and after his discharge from the navy he wrote poems, and by the late 1950s had written his first book, So Young and Beautiful. While still attending high school, he briefly spent time in the Canadian Navy when he moved to Canada after graduating from Memorial University College.  He was enrolled at the Victoria College of University of Toronto, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1948, winning the Lincoln Hutton Scholarship in 1946. In 1951, became a full-time writer. His first novel, So Young and Beautiful, was published by H. Stockwell.

House of Hate
While Janes was in England, he began writing his most popular and critically acclaimed book, House of Hate.  The novel was a story of a Newfoundland family that was consumed by hate, living in angst and desperately searching for hope and love.  This novel had taken several years to write and numerous failed attempts at getting published before Toronto publisher McClelland and Stewart published it in 1970.

Personal life
Janes married Margaret Matthews of Ontario in 1950. They divorced in 1954, with no children. He did not remarry.

The Newfoundland and Labrador Arts Council presents an annual literary award, the Percy Janes First Novel Award, in his memory.

Notable works

Novels
So Young and Beautiful, 1958.
House of Hate, 1970.
Eastmall, 1982.
No Cage for Conquerors, 1984.
Requiem for a Faith (Volume 1 & 2), 1984.
The Picture on the Wall, 1975.

Short stories
"Newfoundlanders", 1981.
A Collection of Short Stories, 1986.

Poems and anthologies
Light and Dark, 1980.
Roots of Evil, 1985.

References

External links
  House of Hate preview at  Google Books.

1922 births
1999 deaths
Canadian male novelists
Writers from St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador
20th-century Canadian novelists
20th-century Canadian male writers


"Eat, Pray, Queef" is the fourth episode of the thirteenth season of the American animated television series South Park. The 185th overall episode of the series, it originally aired on Comedy Central in the United States on April 1, 2009. In the episode, the men and boys of South Park became infuriated when the fart-joke oriented Terrance and Phillip show is replaced with the Queef Sisters, a show devoted to queef jokes. The women and girls of South Park accuse them of holding a sexist double standard when it comes to women queefing and men farting.

The episode was written and directed by series co-founder Trey Parker, and was rated TV-MA L in the United States. Parker and Matt Stone originally considered doing a full-length Queef Sisters episode in the style of the second season premiere "Terrance and Phillip in Not Without My Anus", but they decided against it based on the negative fan reaction to that episode.

The episode received generally positive reviews and, according to Nielsen Media Research, was seen by more than three million households in its original airing, making it the most-watched Comedy Central production of the week. The title is a reference to the Elizabeth Gilbert book Eat, Pray, Love; the episode also included references to Martha Stewart and the film The Road Warrior. The episode ends with the South Park men recording "Queef Free", a charity song in the style of "We Are The World" mixed with lyrics from "I Am Woman". "Eat, Pray, Queef" was released on DVD and Blu-ray along with the rest of the thirteenth season on March 16, 2010.

Plot
The boys of South Park Elementary School are anxiously awaiting the night's episode of Terrance and Phillip, which ended in a cliffhanger last season, while the girls at the school express disgust over the show and the boys' obsession with fart jokes. Cartman retaliates by farting in a little girl's face, which causes all the boys to laugh. After school, the boys gather in Cartman's house to watch the episode. To their horror, it is then revealed that, as an April Fools' Day joke, the channel is airing a new show called the Queef Sisters, about Canadian sisters Katherine and Katie Queef. They are very similar to Terrance and Phillip, but instead of fart jokes, they make queef jokes. The show starts a queefing movement across the country, and men everywhere get upset and disgusted by the queefs, although the women do not understand what the problem is. Though the women of South Park argue that there is no difference between queefing and farting, the men are revolted by queefs, while still finding their own fart jokes amusing.

Meanwhile, Terrance and Phillip are furious their show got replaced with The Queef Sisters, sharing the American men's disgust of queef jokes.  When the producer asks why they think fart jokes are funny, but are revolted by queef jokes, Terrance says it's "because babies come from there."

As a joke mirroring Cartman's, one of the girls at school queefs on Butters' face, causing him to run screaming and crying out of the school building. Randy talks with Butter's father on the phone and then comforts Stan. The other boys are shocked and their fathers, outraged, go to the Colorado General Assembly and demand a law banning queefing, much to the anger of the town's women. Meanwhile, the Queef Sisters appear on Regis and Kelly to promote their book Eat, Pray, Queef, and Terrance and Philip's show gets canceled due to the rising popularity of the Queef Sisters. Terrance and Phillip attempt to kill the Queef Sisters, but the plan backfires when they end up becoming attracted to them after the Queef Sisters mention that Terrance and Phillip are the sisters' idols. They pair off into couples and travel the Canadian Wine Country together. Meanwhile, after Stan's mother Sharon queefs, she and Stan's sister, Shelley, start laughing at the dinner table, causing Stan and Randy to leave.

Feeling sorry for Butters, the South Park boys testify in the case in the Colorado State Senate about the girl who queefed on Butters. A debate on the senate floor culminates with a female senator queefing almost exact lines of dialogue from The Road Warrior film. The next day, the newspapers announce that, partly due to the senator's stunt the previous day, the queefing ban has passed. As Stan and his father Randy celebrate, Sharon and Shelley are hurt and insulted by the decision, describing it as an example of sexism that still pervades society, and finally sarcastically congratulate the men for "getting their own way... again." Stan and Randy finally understand the issue was not simply about queefing, but a larger point about women's rights. The two get all the South Park men together and record an inspirational song called "Queef Free", declaring women should have the right to queef, while photographs of women working various careers are displayed on a television screen. Terrance and Philip, despite a continued disgust with the constant queefing, attempt to marry the two Queef Sisters. The vicar leaves the ceremony in disgust as the couples repeatedly fart and queef on him, pronouncing them "Farts and Queefs" as he leaves.

Production

"Eat, Pray, Queef" was written and directed by series co-founder Trey Parker. It first aired on April 1, 2009 in the United States on Comedy Central. Although Parker and fellow co-creator Matt Stone acknowledged it was a particularly juvenile episode, Parker said it was his favorite show of the season to produce. He said, "I seriously never laughed as hard doing retakes, just going shot-by-shot, sitting there in the editing room laughing." During the writing process, the female producers and employees with the show found the script largely unfunny, disgusting and offensive. They reportedly claimed vaginal flatulence would not bloom into a proud women's movement as it did in the episode, but Parker and Stone insisted that was what made the concept even funnier.

Originally, Parker and Stone considered making a full-length episode of The Queef Sisters. The duo had pulled a similar stunt with the second season premiere. Instead of the expected follow-up to "Cartman's Mom Is a Dirty Slut", in which the identity of Cartman's father was to be revealed, Parker and Matt Stone showed the episode "Terrance and Phillip in Not Without My Anus", a Terrance and Phillip-centered episode as an April Fools' Day prank. Since "Eat, Pray, Queef" was coincidentally also set to air on April Fools' Day, they considered a similar joke revolving around Katherine and Katie. However, since "Terrance and Phillip in Not Without My Anus" infuriated South Park fans at the time, they decided not to do it and wrote a full script for "Eat, Pray, Queef" instead. The original prank is referenced in the episode, when The Canada Channel announces that it will not air a much-anticipated part two episode of Terrance and Phillip, and instead will show the Queef Sisters as an April Fools' Day prank. The angry reaction from the boys mirrors the real-life fan reaction to the South Park second-season premiere.

The episode uses the characters' conflicting responses to the comedic value of farts and queefs to demonstrate a double standard between rights of men and women, even in the 21st century, as both genders hold unfair opinions toward the other sex, and the episode suggests men and women are, and should be, equals. Shortly after "Eat, Pray, Queef" was originally broadcast, the site also featured T-shirts and hooded sweatshirts based on the episode. One featured Katherine and Katie queefing and saying, "Babies come from there!"

Cultural references

The book Eat, Pray, Queef by the Queef Sisters, which is also the source of the episode's title, is a satirical reference to the book Eat, Pray, Love written by Elizabeth Gilbert. There is a brief scene in which television host Martha Stewart provides instruction on ways to decorate queefs on The Martha Stewart Show. Television show hosts Regis Philbin and Kelly Ripa interview Katie and Katherine on their show, Live with Regis and Kelly. One of the queefs released by a woman in the episode includes exact dialogue from the 1981 action film The Road Warrior. The montage sequence where Terrance and Phillip take Katherine and Katie on a tour of Canadian wine country is a parody of a similar montage sequence in the 2004 comedy film Sideways. The men's anthem "Queef Free" is a parody of "We Are The World", the 1985 celebrities-for-charity song written by Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie.

Within the episode, The Canada Channel announces that, as an April Fools' Day prank, it will be airing the new Queef Sisters show instead of the much-anticipated part two episode of Terrance and Phillip. This is a reference to the South Park second-season premiere. Instead of the expected follow-up to "Cartman's Mom Is a Dirty Slut", in which the identity of Cartman's father was to be revealed, Parker and Matt Stone showed the episode "Terrance and Phillip in Not Without My Anus", a Terrance and Phillip-centered episode as an April Fools' Day prank. The move infuriated South Park fans.

Reception
A preview clip of the episode listed on South Park Studios, the official South Park website, during the week before the episode's broadcast was viewed more than 50,000 times. In its original American broadcast, "Eat, Pray, Queef" was watched by three million households overall, according to the Nielsen Media Research, making it the most-watched Comedy Central production of the week. It had over one million more household viewers than the second most watched Comedy Central show that week, the April 1 episode of The Daily Show.

Niki Payne of the Philadelphia Examiner said "Eat, Pray, Queef" was "probably one of my all-time favorite episodes of South Park right now" because it was so on point concerning the double standards between men and women. She particularly praised the scene in which Stan and Randy are disgusted and uncomfortable when Stan's mom and sister started queefing at the dinner table.  Carlos Delgado of If Magazine said the episode was "shocking, disgusting and obscenely funny" and demonstrated South Park's ability to tackle any type of issue "in a uniquely South Park manner". He particularly enjoyed the Martha Stewart segment, which he described as "just haunting". Josh Modell of The A.V. Club gave the episode a B grade. Modell said the Katie and Katherine cartoon was particularly funny, but queefing was referred to in so many jokes that it became a bit tired by the end.

Some reviewers were less laudatory. Travis Fickett of IGN said the episode was "a textbook example of a disappointing South Park". He said the jokes were predictable, lazy, boring, and that Terrance and Phillip are not funny enough to carry large portions of an episode.

Home media
"Eat, Pray, Queef", along with the thirteen other episodes from South Park'''s thirteenth season, were released on a three-disc DVD set and two-disc Blu-ray set in the United States on March 16, 2010. The sets included brief audio commentaries by Parker and Stone for each episode, a collection of deleted scenes, and a special mini-feature Inside Xbox: A Behind-the-Scenes Tour of South Park Studios, which discussed the process behind animating the show with Inside Xbox'' host Major Nelson.

References

External links

 "Eat, Pray, Queef" Full episode at South Park Studios

April Fools' Day
Television episodes set in Canada
Flatulence in popular culture
South Park (season 13) episodes
Television episodes about weddings
Works about feminism
Works about sisters


Edward Hough (4 December 1899 – 3 September 1978) was an English footballer who spent most of his career with Southampton playing as a centre-half and later as a full-back.

Playing career

Southampton
Hough was born in Walsall and was playing for Talbot Stead Tubeworks when he was spotted by scouts from Southampton. In October 1921, one of the Southampton directors was despatched to the Midlands to secure his services and after a meeting with the Tubeworks board, they agreed to release him if the director stood a round of drinks – eventually, after buying a total of 52 pints of beer, the contract was signed and Hough was released to join "the Saints".

He made his first-team debut on 17 April 1922 playing at centre-half in a 1–0 victory over Aberdare Athletic. Over the next two seasons, Hough made only the occasional appearance, generally standing in for Alec Campbell at centre-half or Fred Titmuss at left-back. At the start of the 1924–25 season, Hough was preferred by manager Jimmy McIntyre to Titmuss for the first seven matches. From late-September onwards, he and Titmuss vied for the No. 3 shirt, until March when Hough took over at right-back from Tom Parker for the rest of the season.

In September 1925, Parker was restored to the side and Hough spent the first six months of the season in the reserves until February 1926, when Parker was sold to Arsenal, with Titmuss also leaving to join Plymouth Argyle. Having made only 40 league appearances in  years, Hough finally became a fixture in the side.

In 1926–27 he missed only one match as manager Arthur Chadwick settled on his favoured line-up with eleven players featuring in at least 35 of the 42 league games; this included a half back line-up of Bert Shelley, George Harkus and Stan Woodhouse, in front of full-backs Michael Keeping and Hough. In the FA Cup, Southampton had an excellent run reaching the semi-final against Arsenal. The semi-final was played at Stamford Bridge on 26 March 1927; after the Saints had an early penalty appeal turned down by the referee, Arsenal mounted a prolonged pressure on the Southampton goal, resulting in the opening score, when a cross-shot from Joe Hulme was deflected by Hough past Tommy Allen into the Saints' goal. Arsenal went on to win the match 2–1 to reach the final, where they lost 1–0 to Cardiff City.

Hough had several periods out with injury during the 1927–28 season, and only managed a total of 25 league appearances. He again started the 1928–29 season as Keeping's regular partner at the back, until injury forced him out at the end of October, to be replaced by Arthur Bradford for nine matches. The following season followed a similar pattern, with Hough missing half the season from December to April.
With injuries now taking their toll, and Bradford establishing himself as his replacement, Hough only made three appearances and at the end of the season he was released. In his ten years at The Dell, Hough made 184 appearances in all competitions, never scoring.

Later career
In May 1931, Hough was sold to Portsmouth for a fee of £200, but only made one appearance at left-back, before moving on to Bristol Rovers in December 1932, where he also made just one appearance before retiring.

After retiring, he returned to the Portsmouth area, where he worked as a fitter's mate in the local power station.

References

1899 births
Footballers from Walsall
1978 deaths
English men's footballers
English Football League players
Southampton F.C. players
Portsmouth F.C. players
Bristol Rovers F.C. players
Men's association football fullbacks


The 2009 Arab League summit was held in Doha, Qatar on March 30, 2009. The Arab League defied the International Criminal Court by giving a "warm welcome" to Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir, whom the Court placed on warrant of arrest for war crimes in the Darfur genocide.

Reactions
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak boycotted the summit amid differences with Qatar stemming from the 2008–2009 Israel–Gaza conflict. Other Arab countries like Saudi Arabia were also hesitant to come to the summit if Iran or Hamas were in attendance (neither of the parties came while the Saudis did).

Incidents
After Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani speech, Libyan leader Muammar al-Gaddafi called King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia a liar, accusing him of "bringing the Americans to occupy Iraq" and of being "made by Britain and protected by the US.", while stating: "I am an international leader, the dean of the Arab rulers, the king of kings of Africa and the imam (leader) of Muslims, and my international status does not allow me to descend to a lower level". He then invited the King to visit him to solve the issues between the two.

References

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March 2009 events in Asia


The 2009 NHK Trophy was the fourth event of six in the 2009–10 ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating, a senior-level international invitational competition series. It was held at the Big Hat in Nagano on November 5–8. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing. Skaters earned points toward qualifying for the 2009–10 Grand Prix Final. The compulsory dance was the Tango Romantica.

Schedule
All times are Japan Standard Time (UTC+9).

 Friday, November 6
 14:30 Ice dancing - Compulsory dance
 15:45 Pairs - Short program
 17:10 Men - Short program
 19:05 Ladies - Short program
 Saturday, November 7
 12:45 Ice dancing - Original dance
 14:15 Pairs - Free skating
 15:55 Men - Free skating
 18.50 Ladies - Free skating
 Sunday, November 8
 13:00 Ice dancing - Free dance
 16:00 Gala exhibition

Results

Men

Ladies

 WD = Withdrawn

Pairs

Ice dancing

References

External links

 2009 NHK Trophy at the Japan Skating Federation

Nhk Trophy, 2009
NHK Trophy


At 07:31 on 30 March 2009, the Manawan Police Academy in Lahore, Pakistan, was attacked by an estimated 12 gunmen. The perpetrators were armed with automatic weapons and grenades or rockets and some were dressed as policemen. They took over the main building during a morning parade when 750 unarmed police recruits were present on the compound's parade ground. Police forces arrived 90 minutes later and were able to take back the building by 15:30. Five trainees, two instructors and a passer-by were killed. A suspect was captured alive in a field near the school. Three of the attackers blew themselves up to avoid arrest while three others were taken into custody as they tried to escape in police uniforms. The four were taken to undisclosed locations for interrogation by the security forces according to local media.

Initial attacks

The Manawan Police Academy is a training school of the Pakistan Police located on the outskirts of Lahore. At around 07:30 at least 12 gunmen, some dressed in police uniform, attacked the academy during the morning drill hour when around 750 unarmed police recruits were on parade. The gunmen apparently gained access to the site by scaling the perimeter wall before causing three or four explosions on the parade ground, using grenades or rockets, and opening fire with automatic weapons. Several civilians on the road adjacent to the compound were hit by fire from the gunmen apparently when the gunmen attacked a police guard detachment near to a gate.

The academy had only been in a peacetime defensive stance and probably contained just a small armoury of outdated weapons. The attackers proceeded across the parade ground and stormed the academy building, taking hostages from the police trainees and establishing three or four defensive positions including one on the rooftop.

Siege

Elite Forces of Punjab Police arrived on the site within 90 minutes of the attack and were cheered on by a crowd of spectators. The security forces took up position on rooftops around the compound, firing on the gunmen and sealing off any escape routes. The gunmen returned fire with automatic weaponry and grenades and also shot at a police helicopter. Several hours into the attack security forces used explosives to storm the building and retake it from the gunmen after ten to fifteen minutes of sustained firing, capturing the building by 15:30. During the course of the attack and siege eight police personnel, two civilians and eight gunmen were killed and 95 people injured. At least four of the gunmen have been captured alive by the security forces.

A curfew was imposed in the area surrounding the academy. Several hundred civilians poured in from close by localities to watch the operation despite the ‘curfew-like’ conditions in the area. Elite forces declared victory signs on completion of the successful operation. Punjab Police resorted to aerial firing and chanted slogans of Allahu Akbar after the siege successfully ended and hostages were freed and at least three of the would-be suicide bombers were caught alive.

Claims of responsibility

Baitullah Mehsud
The leader of Tehrik-i-Taliban, Baitullah Mehsud took responsibility for the attack. "Yes, we have carried out this attack. I will give details later," Mehsud, an al Qaeda-linked leader based in the Waziristan tribal region told Reuters by telephone. He also said that his next target would be Washington D.C., US.

Mehsud was also accused by the government of Pakistan for carrying out the attack that killed popular Pakistani political leader, Benazir Bhutto in December 2007.

Fedayeen al-Islam
Fedayeen al-Islam, a previously unknown group, claimed responsibility for the assault and added that it would carry out more attacks unless Pakistani troops withdraw from the tribal areas near the Afghan border and the end of US drone attacks in the country.

Arrests
A person named Hijratullah, believed to be part of the group of attackers, was apprehended by local citizens when he was seen hiding in the nearby fields at first and then moving slowly towards the rescue helicopters with two grenades in his hand. He was confirmed by authorities as a resident of Paktika province of Afghanistan. Authorities also confirmed later to have arrested 3 more attackers after the Rangers forced them to lay down their arms. Another gunman Hazrat Gull of Miranshah in Waziristan was also arrested. Ten suspects belonging to a religious organisation were arrested from Sukkur.
Police also arrested Qari Ishtiaq, who was said to be the commander of the Punjabi Taliban. He was arrested from Bahawalpur on the information provided by the Hijratullah who was jailed for 10 years due to his role. Seven other militants were arrested from different parts of Punjab based on his information.

Reaction
President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani of Pakistan both condemned the attacks.

Interior Minister Rehman Malik, placed security services on high alert across the country and pointed the finger at extremist groups and hinted Indian involvement. Further he stated that fighters loyal to Baitullah Mehsud were believed to have carried out the attack. Rehman Malik said that all these terrorist outfits were receiving weapons and funds from outside the country. He said "Some rival country, or some hostile Intelligence agency is definitely out to destabilise our democratic forces". He said the attack was impeccably planned.

See also
 Violence in Pakistan 2006–09, table and map providing overview of all violence in Pakistan between 2006 and 2009.

References

External links
 Photo Gallery of the Police Academy Attack

Lahore
School bombings
School massacres in Pakistan
Mass murder in 2009
Hostage taking in Pakistan
Terrorist incidents in Pakistan in 2009
Spree shootings in Pakistan
Operations involving Pakistani special forces
Terrorist incidents in Lahore
2000s in Lahore
History of Punjab, Pakistan (1947–present)
March 2009 events in Pakistan
Attacks on police stations in the 2000s
Attacks in Pakistan in 2009


Douglas Saunders may refer to:
Douglas Saunders, Jamaican politician
Doug Saunders, Canadian journalist
Doug Saunders (baseball) (born 1969), baseball player


The 2009 Skate America was the fifth event of six in the 2009–10 ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating, a senior-level international invitational competition series. It was held at the Herb Brooks Arena in Lake Placid, New York on 12–15 November. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing. Skaters earned points toward qualifying for the 2009–10 Grand Prix Final. The compulsory dance was the Golden Waltz.

The title sponsor was Cancer.Net.

Schedule
All times are Eastern Standard Time (UTC-5).

 Friday, 13 November
 15:00 – Ice dancing: Compulsory dance
 19:30 – Pairs: Short program
 21:00 – Men: Short program
 Saturday, 14 November
 14:00 – Ice dancing: Original dance
 15:55 – Pairs: Free skating
 19:00 – Ladies: Short program
 20:57 – Men: Free skating
 Sunday, 15 November
 14:00 – Ladies: Free skating
 16:27 – Ice dancing: Free dance

Results

Men

Ladies

 In the short program, Kim Yuna set an ISU World Record of 76.28 points.

Pairs
 In the short program, Shen Xue / Zhao Hongbo tied the ISU World Record of 74.36 points.

 WD = Withdrawn

Ice dancing

References

External links

 Official site

 ISU Results Page

Skate America, 2009
Skate America
Skate America


Jarrod Croker (born 11 September 1990) is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer who played as a goal-kicking  and captained the Canberra Raiders in the National Rugby League (NRL).

Croker spent his entire career with Canberra, with whom he became the 2012, 2015 and 2016 top point-scorer in the NRL. Croker is a Country Origin, Prime Minister's XIII, NRL All Stars and World All Stars representative. In 2016, Croker won the Dally M Captain of the year award. Croker is the top try scorer and highest point-scorer in Canberra Raiders history.

Background
Croker was born in Goulburn, New South Wales Australia.

Croker played his junior football for the Goulburn Stockmen before signing with the Canberra Raiders.

Playing career
He played for the New South Wales Schoolboys and Australian Schoolboys representative teams in 2007 before being selected for the New South Wales under-18s in 2008. Croker was part of the Canberra team that won the inaugural National Youth Competition in 2008. He played at centre and was involved in the try that won the Raiders the match 28-24 in golden point extra time.

2009
Croker broke into Canberra's first-grade side in 2009, making his debut in round 2 against the Sydney Roosters. In round 3, against the Parramatta Eels, Croker scored his first NRL try in the Raiders 16-18 loss at Parramatta Stadium. He went on to make 21 appearances in his rookie season, and was the Raiders highest try scorer with 12 tries. On 3 September, Croker re-signed with the Raiders to the end of the 2012 season.

2010
Croker was again a regular in Canberra's 2010 side, making 25 appearances as Canberra finished 7th and made the NRL finals. However, it was a missed penalty goal from Croker that ended the Raiders' season. In a sudden-death finals match against the Wests Tigers, in front of a home crowd of 26,476, he pushed wide a 30-metre kick that would have tied the match at 26-26. Canberra's coach David Furner—himself a former Raiders goalkicker—defended Croker, arguing his goalkicking form had won a number of matches for the team during the season. Days later, Croker was selected for Australia's train-on squad for the Four Nations tournament. Croker played in all of Canberra's 26 matches and was the club's highest point scorer with 5 tries and 53 goals.

2011
On 6 August, Croker re-signed with the capital club until the end of the 2013 season. He finished the season as Canberra's highest point scorer with nine tries and 53 goals in 23 matches.

2012

Croker was the NRL's leading points scorer in 2012 with a total of 226 points, scoring 16 tries and kicking 81 goals in 25 matches.

2013
In round 3, against the Sydney Roosters, Croker played his 100th NRL match in Canberra's 24-22 win, kicking the winning goal after scoring his second try in the final minutes of the match at Canberra Stadium. On 13 April, he re-signed with the Canberra club to the end of the 2015 season. In round 25, against the New Zealand Warriors, Croker scored his first hat-trick of tries and also scored all of the club's points in the Canberra clubs 50-16 loss at Mt Smart Stadium. He finished the season as Canberra's highest point with nine tries and 52 goals.

2014
In February, Croker played in the Raiders Auckland Nines team. In round 24, against the Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks, Croker surpassed club legend Mal Meninga's 864 club career points, taking him to third highest point scorer for Canberra. He finished the year as the highest point scorer and try scorer for the Canberra side, scoring 18 tries and scoring 202 points. On 5 September, Croker re-signed with the Raiders until the end of the 2018 season. He was named as the 2014 Meninga Medallist for Raiders' best and fairest player.

On 12 October, Croker played for the Prime Minister's XIII team against Papua New Guinea, filling in for Raiders teammate Jack Wighton on the interchange bench after he was a late scratching. On 19 December, Croker was named by coach Ricky Stuart as the new captain for the Canberra Raiders following the departure of Terry Campese to Hull Kingston Rovers in the Super League.

2015
In the pre-season, Croker was captain of the Raiders Auckland Nines squad. On 13 February 2015, Croker played at centre for NRL All Stars against the Indigenous All Stars, kicking a goal in the 20-6 loss at Robina Stadium.

On 3 May 2015, Croker played for Country Origin against City Origin, scoring a try in the 34-22 win at Wagga Wagga. In round 10, against the St George Illawarra Dragons, Croker played in 150th NRL match in Canberra's 32-18 loss at WIN Stadium. In round 13, against the Newcastle Knights, Croker notched a 1000 career points in Canberra's 44-22 win at Hunter Stadium. At the end of the season, Croker was the NRL's top point scorer with 236 points. On 26 September, Croker played for the Prime Minister's XIII against Papua New Guinea.

2016
In February 2016, Croker was named in the Raiders 2016 NRL Auckland Nines squad. On 13 February 2016, Croker played for the World All Stars against the Indigenous All Stars, playing at centre in the 12-8 win at Suncorp Stadium. On 8 May 2016, Croker again represented Country Origin against City Origin, kicking five goals in the 44-30 loss in Tamworth. In round 10 against the St. George Illawarra Dragons, Croker became the highest ever point scorer for Canberra in the 16-12 golden point loss at Jubilee Oval. At the end of the season, Croker picked up the Provan Summons award as well as Dally M Captain of the Year and season's leading point scorer in a year were the capital club fell one game short of the Grand Final. Croker played in all of the Canberra clubs 27 matches, scoring 18 tries and kicking 112 goals in the 2016 NRL season. After the season ended, Croker was named the Australia Four Nations train-on squad but later dropped out due to a knee injury.

2017
On 10 February 2017, Croker played for the World All Stars against the Indigenous All Stars in the 2017 All Stars match, playing at centre in the 34-8 loss at Hunter Stadium. In round 5 against the Parramatta Eels in the 30-18 win at Canberra Stadium, Croker became the third player to score 100 tries for Canberra, after Jason Croker and Brett Mullins, and the fifth player to score 100 tries and kick 500 goals in Australian first grade rugby league. He also became only the seventh player after Terry Lamb (Canterbury-Bankstown), Greg Alexander (Penrith), Ryan Girdler (Penrith), Hazem El Masri (Canterbury-Bankstown), Darren Lockyer (Brisbane) and Luke Burt (Parramatta) to score 100 tries and over 1,000 points for a single club. In Round 11 against the Parramatta Eels, Croker played his 200th NRL career match in the Raiders 22-16 win at ANZ Stadium. On 10 August 2017, Croker extended his contract with the capital club to the end of the 2020 season. Croker finished the 2017 NRL season with him scoring nine tries and kicking 77 goals for Canberra.

2018
In round 18 against the North Queensland Cowboys, Croker suffered a season ending knee injury in the Raiders 38-12 win at Canberra Stadium. Croker finished the 2018 NRL season with him playing in 17 matches, scoring seven and kicking 63 goals for the Canberra side.

2019
On 13 February 2019, after being the solo captain for the Canberra club for the past four years, coach Ricky Stuart appointed hooker Josh Hodgson as co-captain alongside Croker for the season. Croker made his return from injury in round 1 against the Gold Coast Titans, kicking four goals in the 21-0 win at Robina Stadium.

In round 17 against St. George, Croker became Canberra's all-time leading try scorer with 120 tries surpassing Jason Croker in a 36-14 victory at WIN Stadium.
In round 22 against Melbourne, Croker scored two tries as Canberra came from 18-0 down at halftime to win the match 22-18 at AAMI Park.  It was the first time since 2015 that Melbourne had lost two games in a row at their home stadium.

Canberra finished the 2019 regular season in 4th place on the table and qualified for the finals.  The club would then go on to qualify for their first grand final in 25 years.  Croker captained Canberra in the 2019 NRL Grand Final as they were defeated 14-8 by the Sydney Roosters at ANZ Stadium.

2020
Croker played 22 games for Canberra in the 2020 NRL season as the club finished 5th on the table and qualified for the finals.  Croker played in all three finals matches including the preliminary final loss to Melbourne.

2021
Croker was limited to only 12 appearances for Canberra in the 2021 NRL season due to injury and poor form.  Despite this, he still managed to be the club's top point scorer for the year.  Canberra would finish the campaign in 10th place on the table and miss out on the finals.

2022
After being left out of the Canberra side for the opening eight rounds, Croker made his return in round 9 of the 2022 NRL season against Canterbury.  Croker was taken from the field towards the end of the match with a shoulder injury during the clubs 14-4 victory.
On 9 June, Croker was ruled out for the rest of the 2022 NRL season after aggravating his shoulder injury in a freak accident at home.

2023
In round 6 of the 2023 NRL season, Croker made his return to the Canberra side in their 20-14 upset victory over Brisbane.
In round 15, Croker made his 300th first grade appearance in Canberra's 36-14 loss against the New Zealand Warriors.

On 13 August, Croker announced he would retire at the end of the season. Croker's last game was Canberra's 18-29 loss to Brisbane in round 26, in which he played just three minutes.

Career statistics

Domestic

Representative

References

External links

Canberra Raiders profile
Raiders profile
NRL profile

1990 births
Living people
Australian rugby league players
Canberra Raiders captains
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Country New South Wales Origin rugby league team players
NRL All Stars players
Prime Minister's XIII players
Rugby league centres
Rugby league players from Goulburn, New South Wales


The fifth legislative assembly election of Tamil Nadu was held in March 1971. Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam was re-elected, after its first victory under the leadership of C N Annadurai in 1967. This was the first time M. Karunanidhi, contested as the leader of DMK party won the election, since he assumed Chief Ministership for the first time, after the death of C N Annadurai. Karunanidhi had emerged successfully in the leadership crisis (having supported by M. G. Ramachandran, against Nedunchezhiyan, which ensued after the death of C. N. Annadurai. The main opposition party in the election was Indian National Congress (Organisation) led by K. Kamaraj, whereas the Indian National Congress (Indira) faction aligned with Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam.

Karunanidhi did not face any Leadership crisis with M.G. Ramachandran.  MGR and Vai.Balasundaram was instrumental and helped Karunanidhi to become Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu against all odds after the death of C N Annadurai.

DMK's 48.58% vote share and 184 seats remain the largest share of votes and seats ever won by a party in the history of Tamil Nadu.

Background
The opposition party, Indian National Congress was heavily weakened due to a split that occurred in 1969. This led to the formation of Indian National Congress (Organisation) under K. Kamaraj, which was the major opposition in this election, while the Indian National Congress, supported the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam.
Indira Gandhi continued as Prime Minister with the support of Communist parties and DMK which had 25 seats in the Lok Sabha. It was during this time, the long-awaited Salem steel mill was approved. The ruling Congress party decided to dissolve the Lok Sabha and conduct early elections and Karunanidhi also decided to dissolve the state assembly and face the elections in alliance with Indira's Congress one year before the end of his term.

Parties and alliances
Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam formed a seven party alliance called Left and Democratic Front (Progressive Front). The front was led by the DMK and comprised Indian National Congress (Indira), Communist Party of India (CPI), the Praja Socialist Party, the All India Forward Bloc, the Muslim League and M. P. Sivagnanam's Tamil National Party. The Congress party dependent on DMK votes in the Lok Sabha for survival had no influence in the seating arrangements. The Indira Congress contested in 9 out of 39 parliamentary constituencies but not in legislative assembly constituencies. Indira Gandhi instructed the leader of the Tamil Nadu Congress, C. Subramaniam to accept the arrangement in a sign indicative of writing off Tamil Nadu as a Congress territory.

The opposition front was a coalition of Kamaraj led Indian National Congress (Organisation) (Congress (O)), Rajaji's Swatantara Party, Samyukta Socialist Party, the Tamil Nadu Toilers' Party, the Republican Party and the Coimbatore District Agriculturist Association.

Karunanidhi's Cabinet
The council of ministers in M. Karunanidhi's cabinet (in 1971).

Voting and results

Results
Source: Election Commission of India

By constituency

See also
Elections in Tamil Nadu
Legislature of Tamil Nadu
Government of Tamil Nadu

Footnotes

External links
 Election Commission of India

State Assembly elections in Tamil Nadu
1970s in Tamil Nadu
Tamil Nadu