The fourth season of StarStruck, aka (StarStruck: The Next Level) is a Philippine television reality talent competition show, was broadcast on GMA Network. Hosted by Dingdong Dantes, Jolina Magdangal and Raymond Gutierrez, it premiered on December 4, 2006. The council was composed of Louie Ignacio, Lorna Tolentino and Douglas Quijano. The season ended with 91 episodes on March 25, 2007, having Jewel Mische, Aljur Abrenica, Kris Bernal and Mart Escudero as the Ultimate Survivors.

The series is streaming online on YouTube.

Overview
The fourth season of StarStruck was formally announced the return of their reality-based talent show on September 3, 2006.  GMA Network's variety program, SOP, where the hosts invited the age limit is set from 15 to 21 years old to audition for the upcoming season. Much of the auditions were held at the GMA Network's headquarters and at SM Supermalls throughout the Philippines.

The pilot episode was aired on December 4, 2006. The new improve edition of the popular show. The StarStruck is shown only weekdays having Fridays as elimination night, this season Mondays to Fridays will be tests and Sundays would be the elimination night. The show held its the Final Judgment on March 25, 2007 at the Marikina Sports Center in Marikina.

Selection process
In the fourth year of the reality-talent search, Out of numerous who auditioned nationwide, only Top 100 was chosen for the first cut. From Top 100, it was trimmed down to Top 80, then from Top 80 to Top 40, These Top 40 dreamers (twenty males and twenty females) will undergo their first artista test, until only final twenty finalists will be left. Unlike the previous batches which launched the final fourteen finalists, these batches were trimmed down to twenty, dubbed as the final twenty finalists. The final twenty underwent various workshops and trainings in order to develop their personalities, talents, and charisma.

The Final 20 were reduced to the Circle 16, until they formed the Final 14 finalists. But, the twist is that every week, two hopefuls from the final fourteen may have to say goodbye and this time only six remain. Those who were eliminated were dubbed as StarStruck Avengers.

This time instead of the Final 4, this season made it the Final 6 will vie for the coveted for the new ultimate titles, the Ultimate Loveteam, the Ultimate Hunk and the Ultimate Sweetheart, both of them will received P1,000,000 pesos each plus and an exclusive management contract from GMA Network. Belgian Waffle franchises worth P250,000 pesos each and P50,00 pesos gift certificates to Manny Calayan, and scholarships to Informatics.

The First Prince and First Princess, both of them will received P250,000 pesos each plus and an exclusive management contract from the network. The StarStruck Avengers (the losing contestants) also received an exclusive contract from the network.

It also featured new ultimate titles in StarStruck History, the Ultimate Loveteam, the Ultimate Hunk and the Ultimate Sweetheart.

Hopefuls
Then the number was narrowed down to Top 80 dreamers, Last Sunday night December 10, 2006. The TOP 80 hopefuls became TOP 40, TOP 20 females and TOP 20 males. These Top 40 hopefuls are now closer in their quest to become the final twenty finalists. In this season, hopefuls has a One on One session interview in the council was formed with Louie Ignacio, Lorna Tolentino and Douglas Quijano.

These Top 40 dreamers will undergo their first artista test this week and ten hopefuls of them will be eliminated next Sunday, December 17, 2006. After which, second artista test and ten hopefuls more will be eliminated next Sunday, December 24, 2006 the following week, until only final twenty finalists will be left. As an exciting twist to the show, for this season, instead of having just the traditional final fourteen finalists, there will be the final twenty finalists who will compete in various challenges. The hopefuls who will standout and survive these challenges will be part of the final fourteen finalists.

When the Final 20 was chosen, they are assigned to different challenges every week that will hone their acting, singing, and dancing abilities. Every Sunday, two is meant to leave the competition until there were just eight others who are left. From danger eight, there will be two of them who will be eliminated and after the elimination the two; the final six will be revealed.

The Final 6 will be battling with each other on the Final Judgment. People will choose who they want to win the competition by online voting and text voting. 50% of the result will come from the online and text votes and the remaining 50% is from the council.

Avengers Strike's Back Twists
This season, the twist is that the avengers (losing contestants) of the fourth season will be the competitors of the survivors in the one week challenges.

The avengers competing with the remaining survivors are Lui Perez, Chariz Solomon, Jean de Castro, Chad Burden, Lizzy Pecson, Renee Lascuña, Hazel Uy, Dex Quindoza, Jan Manual and Rich Asuncion. Except, Kiko Junio and Dave Valentino did not attend on the first day of the avengers challenge, two were eliminated since there were ten avengers and only eight survivors. Those that were eliminated were Jean de Castro and Renee Lascuña.

At the end of the Survivors Versus Avengers week, four out of the eight avengers were eliminated and the other four were chosen to compete in the Danger 8 challenge week.  The four that were eliminated: Lui Perez, Chariz Solomon, Chad Burden and Hazel Uy. The four that were chosen for the next weeks challenge were Lizzy Pecson, Dex Quindoza, Jan Manual and Rich Asuncion.

Danger Eight Twists
The end of the Survivors Versus Avengers week, four avengers out of the eight were chosen to continue competing in the show to have the right to join the remaining survivors. From the eight survivors, Mart Escudero and Jesi Corcuera were eliminated and were asked to join the avengers group to compete for the two Survivor Spots available that will complete the danger eight.

The avengers group consists of Lizzy Pecson, Dex Quindoza, Jan Manual, Rich Asuncion, Mart Escudero and Jesi Corcuera. Voting for the remaining survivors was temporarily closed and was opened for the six competing avengers. At the end of the week, Rich Asuncion and Mart Escudero were chosen for the two remaining survivor spots and thus completed the danger eight.

The Danger 8 are now consists of Jewel Mische, Kris Bernal, Rich Asuncion, Stef Prescott, Aljur Abrenica, Mart Escudero, Paulo Avelino and Prince Stefan.

Color key:

Weekly Artista Tests
Color key:

Week 1: The Top 40 hopefuls, were reduced to the Top 30 hopefuls.

Challenge Winner Contestant: Not Awarded

Week 2: The Top 30 hopefuls, the official Final 20 hopefuls have been chosen.

Challenge Winner Contestant: Not Awarded

Week 3: The Final 20 hopefuls, were reduced to the Circle 16 hopefuls.

Challenge Winner Contestant: Not Awarded

Week 4: The Circle 16 hopefuls, the official Final 14 hopefuls have been chosen.

Challenge Winner Contestant: Not Awarded

Week 5: The Final 14 hopefuls.

Challenge Winner Contestant: Not Awarded

Week 6: The Final 12 hopefuls.

Week 7: The Final 10 hopefuls.

Challenge Winner Contestant: Not Awarded
Eliminated Contestant: None

Week 8: The Final 10 hopefuls.

Challenge Winner Contestant: Not Awarded

Week 9: The Final 8 hopefuls. First week of The Avengers Strike's Back Twsits.

Challenge Winner Contestant: Not Awarded
Bottom Group Contestant: None
Eliminated Contestant: None

Avengers Strike's Back Twists

Week 10: The Final 8 hopefuls. Second week of The Avengers Strike's Back Twsits.

Challenge Winner Contestant: Not Awarded

Avengers Strike's Back Twists

Week 11: The Danger 8 hopefuls. Third week of The Avengers Strike's Back Twists.

Bottom Group Contestant: None
Eliminated Contestant: None

Avengers Strike's Back Twists

Danger 8 Twists

Week 12-13: The Danger 8 hopefuls.

Challenge Winner Contestant: Not Awarded

Week 14: The Survivor 6 Homecoming

Week 15: The Final Judgment, the Ultimate Survivors have been proclaimed.

Final Judgment
The winner was announced on a two-hour TV special dubbed as StarStruck The Next Level: The Final Judgment was held live on March 25, 2007 at the Marikina Sports Center once again. StarStruck fans filled the Marikina Sports Center to capacity to witness the show's final judgment, which was hosted by Dingdong Dantes, Jolina Magdangal, and Raymond Gutierrez. A filled Marikina Sports Center was witness to the much-awaited event.

The final six the opening number performance song and dance by Destiny Child’s Say My Name. Aside from being the final judgment, it was a celebration of the highly successful artista search and involved special performances from the graduates, both survivors and avengers a dance number performance song of DJ Webstar’s Chicken Noodle Soup.

The council are composed of Louie Ignacio, Lorna Tolentino and Douglas Quijano was joined by GMA-7's senior vice-president for entertainment-TV Wilma Galvante and GMA Films president Anette Gozon-Abrogar (both not pictured) for the final judgment night.

The avengers’ performance came in next, in a song and dance medley detailing the journey of the survivors from the audition process, until the introduction of the final twenty, the eight International contenders and the elimination of the fourteen avengers for a dance number.

The final six then performed their own dance numbers the male survivors, Aljur Abrenica sang and dance by a song of Blue’s Best In Me, Mart Escudero a dance number by a song of Aligator Project’s Stomp, Hip-Hop Dance Remix performing a solo dance number with the Manoeuvres and Prince Stefan a dance number by a song of ?’s ?, Perform  a solo dance number with the Manoeuvres and next the female survivors, Jewel Mische a dance number by a song of Tata Young’s El Nin-Yo, Perform  a solo dance number with the Manoeuvres, Kris Bernal a dance number by a song of  ?’s ?, Perform  a solo dance number with the Manoeuvres and Rich Asuncion a dance number by a song of Jennifer Hudson’s featuring Beyonce One Night Only, Perform  a solo dance number with the Manoeuvres.

Other awards honoured that night were Jan Manual for Dats Entertaining Award, Dex Quindoza for male with The Most Dramatic Exit, Stef Prescott for female with The Most Dramatic Exit, and Jesi Corcuera for The Best Taktak Award.

Before the top winners were announced, Regine Velasquez performed by the songs of Michael Bolton’s Go The Distance, Mariah Carey’s Can’t Take That Away, Carrie Underwood’s Jesus, Take The Wheel,  Mariah Carey’s Never Too Far and Through The Rain, Patti La Belle’s There’s A Winner In You, and Jekyll & Hyde’s This Is The Moment, for the remaining six contenders, while pre-taped played on a big screen of them thanking their supporters.

Announcement come, Mart Escudero of General Mariano Alvarez, Cavite got 267,703 votes, and Kris Bernal of Quezon City got 177,600 votes, they are the Ultimate Loveteam,  Aljur Abrenica of Angeles, Pampanga got 280,084 votes, is the Ultimate Hunk and Jewel Mische of Bocaue, Bulacan got 157,618 votes, is the Ultimate Sweetheart were proclaimed as the Ultimate Survivors,  all four winners both received P1,000,000 pesos each plus and an exclusive management contract from GMA Network worth P2,000,000 pesos each, Belgian Waffle franchises worth P250,000 pesos each, P50,00 gift certificates to Manny Calayan, and Scholarships to Informatics.

The winners will be included in the youth-oriented show Boys Nxt Door except Jewel Mische. The Ultimate Hunk and Ultimate Sweetheart will be part of a separate GMA teledrama and The Ultimate Loveteam will be introduced in a Regal Films movie with Judy Ann Santos and Dennis Trillo which is Mag-ingat Ka sa Kulam.

While, Prince Stefan of Iloilo City got 193,503 votes, is the First Prince and Rich Asuncion of Tagbilaran, Bohol got 151,981 votes, is the First Princess were proclaimed the Runners-up, each of them received P250,000 pesos each plus and an exclusive management contract from the network. The StarStruck Avengers (the losing contestants) also received an exclusive contract from the network.

Thus, Kris Bernal and Aljur Abrenica received the Texter's Choice awards giving them both commercial endorsements for BNY. Jewel Mische will also receive a modelling contract with the Dutch Mill Yogurt Drink because she wins the title Ultimate Sweetheart. The Final Judgment gained 24.1% rating; relatively high as the finale finished very late, reaching until 1:15 the following morning, but the ratings that they gained that very night was more than enough to beat their rival show that very night.

TV Assignment
For their first TV Assignment, the survivor six Aljur Abrenica, Kris Bernal, Mart Escudero and Rich Asuncion except Jewel Mische and Prince Stefan with the avengers Paulo Avelino, Stef Prescott, Jesi Corcuera, Jan Manual and Kiko Junio for upcoming cast of the youth-oriented show Boys Nxt Door.
They co-starred with the StarStruck alumna Marky Cielo, Mark Herras, Sheena Halili and Ailyn Luna.

Signature dances
There are signature dances and songs made in each batch. With this batch, their signature dances and songs are:
Fergalicious
Mosquito
Itaktak Mo
El Nin-YO

Elimination chart
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Notes

 These Top 40 dreamers will undergo their first artista test this week and ten hopefuls of them will be eliminated next Sunday, December 17, 2006. After which, second artista test and ten hopefuls more will be eliminated next Sunday, December 24, 2006 the following week, until only final twenty survivors will be left.
 The four survivors were eliminated from the first week. They are Kiko Junio, Lui Perez, Chariz Solomon and Jean de Castro. The two survivors were eliminated from the second week to complete the final fourteen. They are Chad Burden and Lizzy Pecson.
 It was a non-elimination week. The bottom group are Jan Manual, Jesi Corcuera, Mart Escudero, Stef Prescott and Prince Stefan was safe for the elimination on January 28, 2007.
 The week ending February 11, 2007, includes The avengers strike back twist while the week ending February 25, 2007, includes The danger eight twist. In the avengers strike back twist, all avengers from the Top 20 and Top 14 returned Chariz Solomon, Chad Burden, Jean de Castro, Lui Perez, Lizzy Pecson, Renee Lascuña, Hazel Uy, Dex Quindoza, Jan Manual, Rich Asuncion and followed by Jesi Corcuera and Mart Escudero. Except, for Kiko Junio and Dave Valentino where four will be chosen for the danger eight twist. Out of all the avengers who didn't make it in the final fourteen, Lizzy Pecson is the only one who advanced in the danger eight twist. However, she failed to advance in this round.
 At the end of the week, Mart Escudero and Rich Asuncion were chosen for the two remaining survivor spots and thus completed the danger eight.
 It was a non-elimination week. The bottom group are the remaining danger eight, was safe for the elimination on March 3, 2007.
 The final six was chosen on March 11, 2007. And the last avengers are Paulo Avelino and Stef Prescott. The first called to eliminated is Paulo Avelino and the second called is Stef Prescott.
 In the final judgment night, Jewel Mische, Aljur Abrenica, Kris Bernal and Mart Escudero were proclaimed as the Ultimate Survivors.

References

External links

StarStruck (Philippine TV series)
2006 Philippine television seasons
2007 Philippine television seasons


William Gent (19 June 1879 – 7 July 1957) was an Australian rules footballer who played for South Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL).

A rover from Essendon Association, Gent was noted for his bad behaviour on the field. In 1904 he received a 20-game suspension for striking numerous Fitzroy players, while in 1907 he was suspended for life by the league for striking 's Dick L. Harris. His expulsion was lifted on appeal after seven games when it was ruled to be illegal – he had been reported by the Carlton club secretary, rather than by the game's umpire, which was traditionally allowed under VFL rules but turned out no longer to be allowed under the Australasian Football Council rules which had come into effect in 1907. Gent played four more games after return before retiring.

Notes

References
 South Melbourne Team, Melbourne Punch, (Thursday, 4 June 1903), p. 16.
 Holmesby, Russell and Main, Jim (2007). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers. 7th ed. Melbourne: Bas Publishing.

External links

1879 births
Sydney Swans players
Essendon Association Football Club players
1957 deaths
Australian rules footballers from Victoria (state)


The 2009 North Texas Mean Green football team represented the University of North Texas in the 2009 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The 2009 season was the team's third under head coach Todd Dodge. The Mean Green played their home games on campus at Fouts Field in Denton, Texas. North Texas finished the season 2–10 and 1–7 in Sun Belt play.

Schedule

Schedule from

Game summaries

Ball State
Overall: (0–0), Conference: (0–0)

1st Quarter
 09:24 UNT- Lance Dunbar 3 Yd Run (Jeremy Knot Kick) 7–0

2nd Quarter

 01:19 UNT- Jeremy Knot 24 Yd FG 10–0

3rd Quarter
 06:19 BALL- Ian McGarvey 21 Yd FG 10–3

4th Quarter
 12:41 BALL- MiQuale Lewis 27 Yd Run (Ian Mcgarvey Kick) 10–10
 10:46 UNT- Michael Outlaw 4 Yd Pass from Riley Dodge (Jeremy Knott Kick) 17–10
 07:36 UNT- Jeremy Knott 19 Yd FG 20–10

Ohio
Overall: (0–1), Conference: (0–0)

1st Quarter
 01:07 UNT- Jeremy Knott 32 Yd FG 0–3

2nd Quarter
 12:25 UNT- Cam Montgomery 4 Yd Run (Jeremy Knott Kick) 0–10
 00:06 OHIO- Matt Weller 44 Yd FG 3–10

3rd Quarter
 13:21 OHIO- Matt Weller 47 yd fg 6–10
 08:43 UNT- Jamaal Jackson 16 Yd Pass From Riley Dodge (Jeremy Knott Kick) 6–17
 02:52 OHIO- Riley Dunlop 32 Yd Pass From Theo Scott (Matt Weller Kick) 13–17

4th Quarter
 08:44 OHIO- Kenny Jackson 69 Yd Interception Return (Matt Weller Kick) 20–17
 00:46 UNT- Jeremy Knott 18 Yd FG 20–20

1st Overtime
 OHIO- Matt Weller 35 Yd 23–20
 UNT- Jeremy Knott 22 Yd 23–23

2nd Overtime
 UNT- Cam Montgomery 7 Yd Run (Jeremy Knott Kick) 23–30
 OHIO- Taylor Price 15 Yd Pass From Theo Scott (Theo Scott Pass To Taylor Price For Two-Point Conversion) 31–30

Alabama
Overall: (2–0), Conference: (0–0)

1st Quarter
 07:47 ALA- Greg McElroy 2 Yd Run (Leigh Tiffin Kick) 0–7
 02:52 ALA- Marquis Maze 34 Yd Pass From Greg McElroy (Leigh Tiffin Kick) 0–14

2nd Quarter
 11:56 ALA- Trent Richardson 1 Yd Run (Leigh Tiffin Kick) 0–21
 03:56 ALA- Mark Ingram 29 Yd Pass From Greg McElroy (Pat Failed) 0–27
 00:00 ALA- Leigh Tiffin 35 Yd FG 0–30

3rd Quarter
 12:26 ALA- Mark Ingram 5 Yd Run (Leigh Tiffin Kick) 0–37
 04:29 ALA- Terry Grant 1 Yd Run (Leigh Tiffin Kick) 0–44
 02:11 UNT- Lance Dunbar 34 Yd Pass From Nathan Tune (Jeremy Knott Kick) 7–44

4th Quarter
 11:42 ALA- Leigh Tiffin 20 Yd FG 7–47
 05:59 ALA- Terry Grant 9 Yd Run (Pat Failed) 7–53

Middle Tennessee
Overall: (2–1), Conference: (0–0)

1st Quarter
 11:38 MTSU- Benjamin Cunningham 50 Yd Pass From Dwight Dasher (Alan Gendreau Kick) 7–0
 09:17 MTSU- Alan Gendreau 20 Yd FG 10–0
 01:47 UNT- Lance Dunbar 66 Yd Run (Jeremy Knott Kick) 10–7

2nd Quarter
 14:04 MTSU- Alan Gendreau 31 Yd FG 13–7
 11:55 MTSU- Dwight Dasher 6 Yd Run (Alan Gendreau Kick) 20–7
 04:43 MTSU- Dwight Dasher 2 Yd Run (Alan Gendreau Kick) 27–7
 00:22 MTSU- Alan Gendreau 48 Yd FG 30–7

3rd Quarter
 07:49 UNT- Riley Dodge 4 Yd Run (Jeremy Knott Kick) 30–14
 00:02 UNT- Lance Dunbar 18 Yd Run (Jeremy Knott Kick) 30–21

4th Quarter
 10:54 MTSU- Desmond Gee 24 Yd Pass From Dwight Dasher (Alan Gendreau Kick) 37–21

Louisiana-Lafayette
Overall: (2–2), Conference: (0–0)

1st Quarter
 08:10 UNT- Jeremy Knott 41 Yd FG 3–0
 00:37 ULL- Dwight Bentley 70 Yd Interception Return (Tyler Albrecht Kick) 3–7

2nd Quarter
 13:57 ULL- Tyler Albrecht 45 Yd FG 3–10
 09:42 UNT- Lance Dunbar 1 Yd Run (Jeremy Knott Kick) 10–10
 06:14 ULL- Chris Masson 25 Yd Run (Tyler Albrecht Kick) 10–17
 04:41 ULL- Andrew Joseph 33 Yd Return Of Blocked Punt (Tyler Albrecht Kick) 10–24
 03:48 UNT- Lance Dunbar 37 Yd Run (Jeremy Knott Kick) 17–24
 00:37 UNT- Lance Dunbar 1 Yd Run (Jeremy Knott Kick) 24–24

3rd Quarter
 10:39 UNT- Jeremy Knott 27 Yd FG 27–24
 03:51 UNT- Lance Dunbar 1 Yd Run (Jeremy Knott Kick) 34–24

4th Quarter
 09:26 ULL- Brad McGuire 1 Yd Run (Tyler Albrecht Kick) 34–31
 00:27 ULL- Marlin Miller 4 Yd Pass From Chris Masson (Tyler Albrecht Kick) 34–38

Florida Atlantic
Overall: (0–4), Conference: (0–0)

Troy
Overall: (3–0), Conference: (4–2)

Western Kentucky
Overall: (0–7), Conference: (0–3)

Louisiana-Monroe
Overall: (4–4), Conference: (3–1)

Florida International
Overall: (2–7), Conference: (2–4)

Army
Overall: (4–6)

Arkansas State
Overall: (2–8), Conference: (1–5)

References

North Texas
North Texas Mean Green football seasons
North Texas Mean Green football


Powder painting is the art of using ground glass in powdered form to create kilnformed glass art. The process differs from enameling in many respects. Firstly, the powder is actually ground glass typically from a single manufacturer who supplies an extensive color palette. Large jars can be purchased which are fairly inexpensive compared to enamels, making large scale paintings possible

This technique is one variation of many ways to create images on glass using glass bits (frits), and in this case powder.

The process
The process is fairly simple whereby the dry powders are arranged on sheet glass in any desired pattern or design. The glass is then fired in a kiln only to the point of making the powder stick to the glass, leaving the powder in what appears to be a soft powdery form as opposed fully fusing the powders into the glass.

Advantages
Many factors give this technique considerable advantages:

Powders applied thickly can be textured with brush strokes and other tools, and lines patterns drawn into the powder.

Since large scale images are possible the artist's hand can be seen in the application of the powders as drizzles, smears, sprays much like an actual painting.

There is no chemical reaction between the glasses since the powder does not go to full fuse. This makes it possible for any color to 'touch' any other color without there being a chemical reaction between colors which often results in muddy colors.

Powders can be mixed to form whole new hues, tints, shades and gradations. This expands the artists palette infinitely, bringing the glass artists closer to actual painting.

Powders can go on wet if mixed with water and then allowed to dry. This adds to the texturing possibilities depending on what tools are used to apply the wet media.

The powders can be applied in layers and subsequently selectively removed in layers using a small vacuum creating interesting patterns.

Glass can be prefired with a base colors or patterns, then powders applied on top giving the opportunity to have both shiny areas and soft powdery areas in the finished piece.

The powders can be applied thinly or thick to opacity. If applied thinly then what is underneath (a prefire) can show through yielding an added dimension.

Another dimension is the addition of reverse side effects. The opposite side of the glass can be prefired with colors, painted with normal oils or acrylics, or gold- or silver-plated. Depending on the opacity level of the font's powders the color or reflection of light from gold leafing can add an interesting inner glow.

See also
Fritography
Powder coating on glass

References

Glass art
Painting techniques
Painting


The Stari Grad Plain, near the town of Stari Grad on the island of Hvar, Croatia, is an agricultural landscape that was set up by the ancient Greek colonists in the 4th century BC, and remains in use. The plain is the largest agricultural area on any of the Adriatic islands, and is remarkably fertile due to Ice Age loess deposition. This landscape is almost entirely preserved from its original form. The ancient layout has been preserved by careful maintenance of the stone walls over 24 centuries, along with the stone shelters (known locally as trims), and the water collection system. The same crops, mainly grapes and olives, are still grown in the fields, and the site is also a natural reserve. The site is a valuable example of the ancient Greek system of agriculture, and was inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2008.

History

In 384 BC, Stari Grad was colonized by Greeks from the island of Paros. The colonists divided the plain into 75 land parcels (called chora), each measuring roughly 16 hectares, bordered by dry stone walls. These walls may have been secondarily used to surveil the plain or to travel quickly across the landscape. The original field layout has been respected by the continuous maintenance of the boundary walls by succeeding generations. Agricultural activity in the chora has been uninterrupted for 24 centuries up to the present day. What we see today is a continuation of the cultural landscape of the original Greek colonists.

In addition to the chora, the Greeks built small store huts made of dry stone called trims, where tools were kept and people could take refuge from bad weather. Large storage cisterns and gutters were also built throughout the plain to retain rainwater, to handle the  dry Mediterranean climate. Many of these ancient buildings are still used for those purposes today.

In 229 BC, Stari Grad became the residence of Demetrius of Pharos, an Illyrian ruler who briefly resisted Roman occupation, although by the mid-2nd century BC it was a Roman colony. During that time, it was a trading center for grapes and fishing.

References

External links

 Official website

Hvar
World Heritage Sites in Croatia
Geography of Split-Dalmatia County
Greek colonies in Illyria


Argiolestinae is a subfamily of damselflies. They belong to the flatwing damselfly family, Argiolestidae. Like their relatives but unlike damselflies of other families, they usually spread their hindwings horizontally when resting. It is the largest subfamily in Argiolestidae, making up almost three-quarters of the family's species, found primarily in Australia, New Guinea, and New Caledonia.

Genera
The following genera are placed in the Argiolestinae:

Footnotes

Megapodagrionidae
Taxa named by Frederic Charles Fraser
Insect subfamilies


Alan Stone (born May 23, 1977) is a Mexican professional wrestler who has competed in Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide and Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre since the late 1990s. The son of luchador El Bello Greco, he is a second-generation wrestler along with his brothers Super Calo and Chris Stone with whom he teams with as Los Bellos Stones.

Professional wrestling career
Alan Stone was born to Bello Greco in Mexico City, Mexico on May 23, 1977. He was trained by his father and brother Jordy Stone and made his debut for Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide in 1996 under the name Hollywood. Eventually hitting the independent circuit, including a brief stop in Promo Azteca where he took on the ringname Alan Stone, and feuded with his brother who was working as Motor Cross. Both men eventually got jobs working opening matches for Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre.

Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (1998–2004)
They formed a regular undercard tag team for many years and were constantly praised for having impressive matches while being very charismatic performers. After winning the CMLL Arena Coliseo Tag Team Championship in November 2000, Moto Cross changed his name to Chris Stone on December 15, and the two became known as Los Hermanos Stone. This led to a tecnico turn as they feuded with veteran no-nonsense rudos like Guerrero Del Futuro, Mogur and Damian El Guerrero. The lack of upward mobility was clearly evident as the two seemed to destined to be stuck in segundas and terceras for years. Eventually Chris had a bit of a falling out with CMLL and left the promotion allowing Alan Stone to be pushed as a singles wrestler in late 2003. On December 5, 2003, he teamed with Zumbido and Super Crazy losing to Safari, El Felino and Volador Jr. in a tournament final for the vacant Mexican National Trios Championship. Although winning the Guapos U competition and headlining an Arena Mexico show in late 2004, Alan left CMLL and returned to AAA where he soon became a rudo once again and feuded with El Intocable.

Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide (2004–present)
He fought his rival to a no-contest in a best-of-three falls match at the 2006 Rey de Reyes in Ciudad Madero, Mexico on March 10, 2006. The match ended in a double-countout after each man had scored one fall. In a "hair vs. hair" dog collar chain match with Scorpio, Jr., they defeated El Intocable and Brazo de Plata at the 2006 Guerra de Tintanes on December 8, 2006. As part of the pre-match stipulations, Brazo's head was shaved as the only man not to touch all six corners. The two were seemingly destined for a "hair vs. hair" match themselves but it never happened for various reasons. Instead, Alan focused on being part of Los Guapos until the group split in 2007. At the 2007 Rey de Reyes, he and Zumbido lost to Dark Cuervo and Dark Ozz in a match for the vacant AAA World Tag Team Championship in Naucalpan, Mexico. The match was a tournament final which also included Crazy Boy / Joe Líder and Pegasso / Super Fly in a 4-team elimination match. Later that year, he competed at the first Antonio Pena Memorial Show participating in a gauntlet match for the Antonio Pena Cup. He defeated Ron Killings and Scorpio, Jr. before being eliminated by Charley Manson. He ended up turning tecnico and teaming with his brothers Super Calo and Chris Stone as Los Bellos Stones. Since returning to the AAA, he has wrestled in semi-main events and the occasional main events. He came up just short of winning the 2008 Rey De Reyes after being eliminated by El Zorro in the finals. He and Chris Stone challenged and lost to AAA World Tag Champions Joe Líder and Nicho el Millonario in a "three-way" ladder match with Jack Evans and Teddy Hart at the 2008 Antonio Pena Memorial Show. At the 2009 Rey de Reyes in Guadalajara, he was eliminated in the opening rounds after being pinned by El Elegido. Stone defeated Joe Líder in the same match.

On July 25, 2010, Chris Stone turned rudo by turning on El Elegido during a match, where they teamed with Relampago against Dark Ozz, Dark Cuervo and Dark Escoria. He then went on to form La Milicia with Decnnis, Billy Boy, Black Abyss, Psicosis III and Tigre Cota. On August 6 Alan followed his brother's example by also turning on El Elegido and re-forming Los Bellos Stones in La Milicia. La Milicia then joined forces with La Legión Extranjera and Los Perros del Mal to form La Sociedad. On March 13, 2011, Stone teamed with Jennifer Blake to defeat Faby Apache and Pimpinela Escarlata for the AAA World Mixed Tag Team Championship. On February 10, 2012, Stone quit La Milicia and La Sociedad, after a disagreement with Konnan. After spending months off television, Stone returned to AAA on October 7 at Héroes Inmortales, where he and Jennifer Blake lost the AAA World Mixed Tag Team Championship to Halloween and Mari Apache in a four-way match, which also included the teams of Atomic Boy and Faby Apache, and Fénix and Lolita. Shortly afterwards, Stone parted ways with AAA.

Stone returned to AAA in April 2013, forming the Los Mirreyes stable with El Elegido and Toscano.

Other media
Stone has appeared in the video game Lucha Libre AAA: Héroes del Ring.

Championships and accomplishments
Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide
AAA World Mixed Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Jennifer Blake
Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre
CMLL Arena Coliseo Tag Team Championship (1 time) - with Chris Stone
Torneo Gran Alternativa: 2003 – with Villano IV
Pro Wrestling Illustrated
PWI ranked him #78 of the 500 best singles wrestlers of the PWI 500 in 2008
Other titles
Distrito Federal Trios Championship (1 time) - with Super Calo and Chris Stone

Luchas de Apuestas record

Notes

References

External links
AAA profile

1977 births
Mexican male professional wrestlers
Professional wrestlers from Mexico City
Living people
AAA World Mixed Tag Team Champions


.ae Domain Administration (aeDA) is the Regulatory Body and Registry Operator for the .ae domain, which is the country-code top-level domain for the United Arab Emirates. It was established in 2007 as a department of the Telecommunications Regulatory Authority, UAE.

The .aeDA is responsible for the setting and enforcement of all policy relating to the operation of the .ae domain as well as overseeing the operation of the Registry System.

In 2006 AusRegistry International was engaged by the Telecommunications Regulatory Authority, UAE to provide consultancy services to assist in the review of the framework, governance and administration of the .ae domain. In August 2008 aeDA relaunched the .ae domain Registry using software licensed from AusRegistry International.

External links
 aeDA Web Site in Arabic & English
 TRA Web Site
 AusRegistry International website

Communications in the United Arab Emirates


The Painted Churches in the Troödos Region () is a UNESCO World Heritage Site in the Troödos Mountains of central Cyprus. The complex comprises ten Byzantine churches and monasteries richly decorated with Byzantine and post-Byzantine murals:

Church of Agios Nikolaos (St. Nicholas) tis Stegis in Kakopetria: An 11th-century monastery and the oldest surviving katholikon in Cyprus
Agios Ioannis (St. John) Lampadistis Monastery in Kalopanagiotis: A 13th-century monastery
Church of Panagia (The Virgin) Phorviotissa (Asinou) in Nikitari: A 12th-century church
Church of Panagia (The Virgin) tou Arakou in Lagoudhera: A 12th century church
Church of Panagia (The Virgin) in Moutoullas: A 13th-century chapel and the earliest example of steep-pitched wooden roofs
Church of Archangelos Michael (Archangel Michael) in Pedoulas: A late 15th-century church
Church of Timios Stavros (Holy Cross) in Pelendri: A church containing unique 14th-century wall paintings
Church of Panagia (The Virgin) Podithou in Galata: An early-16th century church
Church of Stavros (Holy Cross) Agiasmati in Platanistasa: A 14th-century church
Church of Agia Sotira (of the Transfiguration of the Savior) tou Soteros in Palaichori Oreinis: A 16th-century church.

Initially nine of these churches were designated by UNESCO in 1985 with the church in Palaichori added to the list in 2001. The Church of Panagia Chrysokourdaliotissa in Kourdali, Spilia, was submitted as a potential further extension in 2002 and currently resides on the Tentative List.

Description

In 965 AD, Cyprus was annexed by the Byzantine Empire in the Arab-Byzantine wars. Over a period of 500 years until the 16th century, many Byzantine churches were constructed in the Troödos Region. In fact, this regions holds one of the greatest concentrations of monasteries and churches in the former Byzantine Empire. The World Heritage Site includes a variety of churches, ranging from small chapels to grand monasteries. These site demonstrate the range of architectural and artistic influences affecting Cyprus over the entire Byzantine reign. However, all sites display some architectural elements that are unique to Cyprus, including steep-pitched wooden roofs with tiling.

See also

 List of painted churches in Cyprus

References

External links
 Explore the UNESCO Listed Painted Churches in the Troodos Region in 3D. The IH-AT platform

Byzantine church buildings in Cyprus
Byzantine art
World Heritage Sites in Cyprus
Roman Cyprus
Troodos Mountains


Jarrod Pieter Bleijie (; born 25 January 1982) is an Australian politician in the Queensland parliament. Bleijie was elected as the member for Kawana at the 2009 state election, and is the third member since the seat's inception at the 2001 state election. He served as Attorney-General of Queensland from 2012 until 2015.

Biography

Early life
Jarrod Bleijie was born on 25 January 1982 in Griffith, New South Wales. His father is Pieter Bleijie and his mother, Christine (Cooper) Bleijie. They moved to Caloundra, Queensland, in 1989. He attended Griffith Primary School, Caloundra State School, and Caloundra State High School, where he graduated in 2000 as school captain. He studied politics at the University of the Sunshine Coast before transferring to Brisbane to complete a Bachelor of Laws at Queensland University of Technology. He graduated in 2005.

Career as a lawyer
While studying law, Bleijie was employed as an articled clerk initially at the Maroochydore law firm of JJ Riba & Company and then at the Sunshine Coast, Queensland law firm Sajen Legal. Following his graduation, he was employed as a solicitor at Sajen Legal. During his legal career, Bleijie specialised in commercial law and management rights.

Parliamentary career
He was elected to the Parliament of Queensland in 2009, representing the Sunshine Coast electorate of Kawana.

He was promoted to the shadow ministry as Shadow Attorney-General and Shadow Minister for Justice and Corrective Services, by then Opposition Leader John-Paul Langbroek in November 2010. Following a leadership change in March 2011, with former Lord Mayor of Brisbane Campbell Newman taking over the leadership of the Liberal National Party of Queensland (LNP) from outside the parliament, he was reappointed Shadow Attorney-General, maintaining his Justice responsibilities. He re-contested and won the state seat of Kawana with a two-party preferred swing of 19.9 points, holding the seat by a 26.8-point margin. He now has one of the safest seats in the Queensland Parliament.

Attorney-General and Minister for Justice (2012–2015)
Following a landslide victory for the Newman-led Liberal National Party, in which Labor secured only 7 of 89 seats, in March 2012 newly elected premier Campbell Newman appointed Bleijie to cabinet as Attorney-General and Minister for Justice.

As Attorney-General, Bleijie introduced an amendment that renamed Queensland civil partnerships for same-sex couples into registered relationships and disallowed state-sanctioned ceremonies. Bleijie subsequently unveiled legislation to ban single people and same-sex couples from having a child through surrogacy. In 2015, Bleijie declared his support for same-sex marriage.

Opposition (2015–present)
After the defeat of the Newman government Bleijie has maintained a position on the opposition front bench under Springborg, Nicholls, Frecklington, and Crisafulli.

Criticism

Communications with Court of Appeal President McMurdo
In early 2014, Bleijie released details of a conversation he had with Court of Appeal President Margaret McMurdo concerning the appointment of judges. The week previously, McMurdo had criticised the Queensland government for appointing only one woman in the 17 judicial appointments over the last two years. Bleijie's comments to the media suggested McMurdo had sought a higher judicial appointment for her husband, Supreme Court Judge Philip McMurdo. In an interview with the ABC, Walter Sofronoff QC called for Bleijie's resignation, saying that Bleijie had betrayed McMurdo's confidence and was "unethical". Sofronoff also commented that Bleijie's comments had "the hint of a nasty schoolboy's snicker in it".

Hannay v Newman and Bleijie
On 1 April 2014, Gold Coast lawyer Chris Hannay instituted proceedings against Bleijie and the Queensland Premier Campbell Newman for defamation. On 6 February 2014, Newman had commented to journalists that lawyers who represent bikies "are hired guns. They take money from people who sell drugs to our teenagers and young people. Yes, everybody's got the right to be defended under the law, but you've got to see it for what it is: they are part of the machine, part of the criminal gang machine, and they will say and do anything to defend their clients, and try to get them off—and indeed progress their dishonest case. They are paid by criminal gangs". Bleijie later remarked that Newman was "referring to Hannay Lawyers, based on the Gold Coast" and that he too was "quite disturbed by their advice and fear campaign". He also noted that he agreed with Newman's comments. The case was settled out-of-court in 2016.

Personal life
He married Sally Lennox on 20 December 2002. They have two daughters and a son.

References

External links

1982 births
Living people
Australian solicitors
Attorneys-General of Queensland
Liberal National Party of Queensland politicians
Members of the Queensland Legislative Assembly
Queensland University of Technology alumni
People from Griffith, New South Wales
21st-century Australian politicians
Deputy opposition leaders
People from Caloundra


Rabbids Go Home is an action-adventure video game developed and published by Ubisoft for the Wii and Nintendo DS. The game was released in North America on November 1, 2009, in Australia on November 5, 2009, and in Europe on November 6, 2009. A modified, shorter version of the game was ported to Microsoft Windows and released in Russia and Poland.

Rabbids Go Home is the fourth installment in the Rabbids series of video games and is the first title in the series without Rayman. The game's plot centers on the efforts of the titular Rabbids to collect as many human objects as they can and create a huge pile high enough to reach the Moon, all the while avoiding the extermination attempts by the "Verminators", who wish to gain back the stuff the Rabbids have stolen.

The game received generally positive reviews from critics, who praised the game's humor, soundtrack and accessible gameplay, though some noted the game's low difficulty. The reviews for the Nintendo DS version were mixed. The online services for the game were shut down when the Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection service was shut down in May 2014.

The games premise would later be loosely adapted in the second season of Rabbids Invasion, which features many of the Rabbids failed attempts at reaching the Moon.

Gameplay (Wii version)
The player controls a team of two Rabbids on a rampage pushing a shopping cart. The goal of the game is to go to human places (including but not limited to malls, hospitals and airports) to collect as much stuff as possible during each level and help the Rabbids build a pile high enough to reach the Moon. In each level, there is enough stuff to grow the pile by 1,000 feet. The minimum requirement for completing a level is to collect the "Xtra Large Stuff" and carry it to the toilet at the end of the level. The more items the player collects, the more items are unlocked for the Rabbids (such as figurines, tattoos, tools, accessories and challenges) depending on the score. The Xtra Large Stuff is located either in the middle or end of a level. Some Xtra Large items affect the gameplay. For example, a jet engine will propel the shopping cart to three times its normal speed, while a sick patient's quarantine bed allows the cart to float and glide. Placed throughout the levels are "Collector Rabbids", with which the player can leave any stuff they have collected up to that point. The health of the Rabbids (described in-game as "ideas") is measured in light bulbs, which fry out when the Rabbids take damage and get collected to refill. At the start of the game, the Rabbids will have three light bulbs, displayed at the bottom-left corner of the screen. Later in the game, the player can earn up to 6 light bulbs. If all of the light bulbs burn out or the player falls into the void, the Rabbids will get set back to an automated checkpoint.

The player can move the shopping cart with the Nunchuk and accelerate using the A button. The Rabbids' main mode of offense is a loud vocalization called the "Bwaaaah! Attack", which can be triggered by shaking the Wii Remote. This attack can break certain objects, stun enemies like guard dogs, scare humans and strip them of their clothing. As the player advances through the game, the Verminators and robots appear, and humans will start wearing soundproof helmets to protect themselves from the "Bwaaaah! Attack". The player can perform another technique named the "Super Boost", which is initiated when the shopping cart turns and drifts to the point where blue sparks fly from under the cart's wheels. When the player presses the A button and turns, the cart will skid. When blue sparks are visible, the player may press the B button, and the "Super Boost" will be performed. This ability allows the player to knock down piles of crates, strip certain enemies faster and leap over obstacles through the use of springboards. The player can also launch the "Cannonball Rabbid", a Rabbid living inside the player's Wii Remote, by aiming with the Wii Remote and pressing the Z button on the Nunchuk attachment. This attack can strip certain enemies and open certain grates that are marked.

At several points during the game, a Rabbid is "drawn" into the Wii Remote itself, and can be thrown and bounced around while "inside" the remote as the screen displays an apparent interior view of the remote.

Plot
After invading Earth and partying intensely, the Rabbids are ready to get back home. Due to having a short attention span, they decide to go to the Moon, which they think is a giant light bulb. They come up with a plan to collect all of the human stuff they can find, put it into a giant pile and climb to the Moon. They gather the human objects and fit them all into one shopping cart, transfer all of the stuff they have found through the sewage system via a series of toilets and add the stuff to their growing pile, which becomes higher as the game progresses. Eventually, the humans revolt against the Rabbids and become "Verminators" in a bid to exterminate the Rabbids and retrieve their stolen stuff.

At the end of the game, the Rabbids are still not able to reach the Moon, even after gathering almost everything from the city. The humans bombard the pile with time-delay bombs which explode on the pile, causing the pile to fly up into space. As a result, the XL junk falls from the sky and the humans panic. After all of the stuff has stopped falling, the humans are overjoyed to have all of their stuff back. In space, the Rabbids celebrate their accomplishment of finally reaching the Moon, albeit caught in the Moon's gravitational orbit.

Development
Rabbids Go Home underwent three years of development before its release. A coherent and authentic storyline was needed to keep the Rabbids fresh and conserve their variety in the context of an adventure game. The development team evaluated the Rabbids as representing "emotions pushed to the extreme" and created the human characters to be the exact opposite: "[They] mull over all their decisions, their emotions in-check. Their organs have atrophied. They have nearly forgotten that they have a body or a heart, and can barely handle those." Jacques Exertier stated that the meeting between the two opposing characters is an allegory of the "internal debates we have with ourselves each time we make a decision" and that much of the comedic situations in the game stem from the meeting of the two archetypes. The setting of Rabbids Go Home was visually inspired by the period between 1945 and 1975, during which there was an explosion in mass consumption. The visuals were based on simple colors and geometric shapes rather than photorealism to create a caricaturized image of its "uptight humans with their sterile places and normalized urban planning". Ubisoft Montpellier created a proprietary game engine, LyN, specifically for and alongside Rabbids Go Home. The game was announced on April 9, 2009. On November 17, 2009, Ubisoft denied a rumor that the game would be recalled from United Kingdom shops due to "inappropriate language".  As a result of this, the game has been re-rated a 12 in Europe.

Music
The music of Rabbids Go Home was composed by Fanfare Vagabontu, a Moldovan gypsy brass band, but inspired from the Romanian folk music. A 12-track soundtrack was made available on the iTunes Music Store on November 17, 2009. The game also includes licensed songs such as "Come Go With Me" by The Del-Vikings, "Louie Louie" by Richard Berry, "Take Me Home, Country Roads" by John Denver, "Jamaica Farewell" by Harry Belafonte, "Somebody to Love" by Jefferson Airplane, "I Told You So" by The Delfonics, "Smarty Pants" by First Choice, "Me and Mrs. Jones" by Billy Paul, "Misty Blue" by an unknown male singer, "Boogie Wonderland" by Earth, Wind, & Fire, and "Rivers of Babylon" by Boney M. The licensed music is primarily heard coming from radios and loudspeakers in various areas of the game and can be shut off (or silenced down) by destroying said loudspeakers and radios.

Reception

The Wii version of Rabbids Go Home received generally favorable reviews from critics. Pedro Hernandez of Nintendo World Report praised the game's "inventive" uses for the Wii Remote, "easy-to-get-into" gameplay, "deep" Rabbid customization modes, "great" soundtrack and "incredible" sense of humor, but noted the redundancy of the gameplay and inconsistent framerate as weak points. NGamer UK concluded that "the Rabbids can pull off a fully fledged game without Rayman's assistance. This is witty, charming and, above all, incredible fun." GamesMaster UK described the game as "witty, energetic and hugely entertaining, even if it isn't particularly smart." Matt Casamassina of IGN stated that the game was "far more inspired and ambitious" than Rayman Raving Rabbids and said that the title "at times feels like an action romp and at times a platformer on wheels, but regardless of the scenario, you'll be having fun and smiling if not laughing." Chris Scullion of Official Nintendo Magazine UK considered Rabbids Go Home to be "the funniest game on the Wii" and commented positively on the "tight" controls and "fantastic" soundtrack, but stated that the game was too easy. Aceinet of GameZone praised the game's humor and "ever-changing" gameplay, concluding with a reminder that "games are supposed to be fun and Rabbids Go Home is a fun-filled experience that shouldn't be missed regardless of the score." Aaron Koehn of GamePro pointed out that the game draws its strength from its odd tone, but added that the simplicity of the gameplay becomes tiresome. Dan Pearson of Eurogamer noted that the "constant enthusiasm" of the Rabbids can be "draining" to some and said that the game wasn't for hardcore gaming enthusiasts. Annette Gonzalez of Game Informer said that the animations were "laugh-out-loud", but some of the gameplay sequences were "repetitive". Matt Leone of 1UP.com remarked that the licensed soundtrack and customization features added enough personality to make the game worth playing. Nintendo Power concluded that while the game had "difficulty issues", it was "a definite step in the right direction for the Rabbids, and I hope to see them continue this way." Tom McShea of GameSpot commented positively on the character creator, unlockable content and cutscenes, but said that the early levels were too easy and simple and the game became repetitive.

Reviews for the Nintendo DS version were mixed. NGamer UK called the game "the best example of the genre we've seen in ages." Nintendo Power said that the game's style of puzzle is "perfect" for touch-screen control and noted that the ability to customize challenges "adds a lot of replay value to this latest exercise in Rabbid abuse." Chris Scullion of Official Nintendo Magazine UK criticized the game's "broken" physics, "universally dull" minigames and "irritating" gameplay, but noted that the cutscenes were "decent" and the level editor is "solid".

References

2009 video games
Action-adventure games
Rabbids
Wii games
LyN games
Ubisoft games
Windows games
Nintendo DS games
Video game sequels
Video games about rabbits and hares
Video games set in 2008
Video games developed in France
Video games developed in Morocco
Domestic violence in fiction
Multiplayer and single-player video games


Gainesville Regional Transit System is the local area transit corporation that serves the Gainesville, Alachua County, Florida area, the University of Florida and Santa Fe College campuses. It presently serves 40 city routes (19 on Saturdays, 16 on Sundays), 10 campus routes, and five "Later Gator" routes. Paratransit (ADA) service is also provided to anyone with a Gainesville address.

City routes

Campus Service
10 RTS routes operate on the University of Florida (UF) campus. These include "park and ride" and circulator routes.  UF and Santa Fe College (SF) students have prepaid unlimited access to RTS services through a transportation fee attached to each credit hour for undergraduates.  UF faculty, staff, spouses and retirees have unlimited prepaid access through the RTS Employee Bus Pass Program, as do SF faculty, staff and students.

Later Gator
Later Gator is a late night service that provides safe, late night service for students between campus, downtown, the Oaks Mall and southwest Gainesville through five routes.  This service has been cancelled with no clear future plans to return service to the routes.

Gator Aider
Gator Aider is a shuttle service provided to transport fans to and from University of Florida Gators home football games. Service is available at five park-n-ride locations around the Greater Gainesville area including the Town of Tioga, the Oaks Mall, Haile Plantation, the UF Hilton Conference Center and the City of Gainesville Downtown Parking Garage.

Bus Tracking
In 2008, RTS equipped their fleet with a GPS capability called TransLoc. This enables riders to see if their bus is running on time. TransLoc Rider, a mobile phone app that incorporates the TransLoc GPS capability, is also available for riders.

Fleet

Since 1974, Gainesville has had a diverse fleet of buses bought from Transit Authorities in state and manufacturers such as GMC, Orion Bus Industries, Blue Bird, Nova Bus, Flexible, Gillig Corporation. All RTS buses are equipped with bicycle racks and wheelchair lifts. While many were purchased new, others were acquired second-hand from other operators in the state, including 30 that were acquired from Lynx and 11 from Palm Tran. RTS acquired five new Gillig hybrid electric buses (two in early 2012 and three more in 2013).

Active Fleet
Gillig Phantom
Gillig Low Floor

Retired Fleet
Nova Bus RTS

References

External links
 Gainesville RTS website

1974 establishments in Florida
Bus transportation in Florida
Transit agencies in Florida
Transportation in Alachua County, Florida
Transportation in Gainesville, Florida
University of Florida


River Monsters is a British and American wildlife documentary television programming produced for Animal Planet by Icon Films of Bristol, United Kingdom. It is hosted by extreme angler and biologist Jeremy Wade, who travels around the globe in search of the most fearsome freshwater and saltwater killers, looking for clues, eyewitnesses, and stories about people who were dragged underwater by these vicious predators.  He tries to catch the biggest specimens and then release them back into the wild. His aim is to help people understand the truth behind the animals' attacks on humans to save these rare creatures from extinction.

River Monsters premiered on ITV in Great Britain, and became one of the most-watched, most successful programmes in Animal Planet's history, and one of the most-viewed series on Discovery Channel in the American market.

Overview
River Monsters follows the worldwide adventures of Suffolk-born British host, biologist, adventurer and extreme angler Jeremy Wade. He explores rivers and lakes to uncover the creatures behind local folklore and harrowing tales of monster fish. The show has taken viewers to
England, Cambodia, Canada, Germany, Spain, Italy, Scotland, Iceland, Norway, Argentina, Australia, Fiji, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, India, Japan, France, Russia, Suriname, Brazil, Guyana, Mexico, Peru, Ethiopia, Uganda, South Africa, the Republic of the Congo, Mongolia, and the U.S. states of Alaska, Florida, Missouri, Oklahoma, Texas, Oregon, Washington, and Vermont.

In the first season, Wade's weekly quest had him in search of piranha, goonch catfish (during his investigation of the Kali River goonch attacks), alligator gar, wels catfish, arapaima, piraíba, and the bull shark. All of them are potentially deadly creatures poorly understood by humans. The show also focuses on explaining the creatures' feeding habits, behaviour and conservation status. Rebroadcasts of the episodes with captions showing behind the scenes commentary from the host about the particular episode can also be seen on both Animal Planet and Discovery Channel. These episodes are going by the title River Monsters: Unhooked.

The second season of River Monsters began airing on 24 April 2010, although the first episode, titled "Demon Fish" first appeared on Discovery Channel on 28 March 2010. This season consisted of 7 episodes and took viewers to the River Congo and other distant locations. In the episode, "Death Ray", Wade caught a pregnant giant freshwater stingray, the largest fish he ever landed. She later gave birth to two pups while being examined by Wade and a team of biologists. This season featured the white sturgeon, Wade's second largest catch.

The ninth season of River Monsters was announced as the final season.

Episodes

Season 1 (2009)

Season 2 (2010)

Season 3 (2011)

Season 4 (2012)

Season 5 (2013)

Season 6 (2014)

Season 7 (2015)

Season 8 (2016)
Promoted as a special season under the title River Monsters: Mysteries of the Ocean, this season sees Jeremy Wade shift his focus from freshwater to oceanic fish.

Season 9 (2017)
This season was dubbed "the final season", as it is the last season of River Monsters.

Season 10 (2017)
This season only had one episode, "Jeremy's Monster Story".

Additional episodes: The Lost Reels

Ratings
River Monsters had the best series premiere in Animal Planet's network history by delivering 1.3 million viewers. It was also its most watched regularly airing primetime telecast in over six years. The second episode of Animal Planet's River Monsters delivered a 39% boost in total viewers (1.866 million) compared to the series premiere. Those numbers made it the best performing regularly scheduled primetime telecast in Animal Planet's history. The first season of River Monsters made it the best performing show in Animal Planet's history with every episode averaging over 1 million households. The season finale delivered about 1.47 million households.

The second season premiere episode became the network's best season premiere ever. It drew in 1.7 million total viewers.

See also
Jeremy Wade
Kali River goonch attacks
Fish Warrior

References

External links
 Official website
 Review of River Monsters, Leicester Mercury

Episode list using the default LineColor
Animal Planet original programming
2000s American documentary television series
2009 American television series debuts
2017 American television series endings
Nature educational television series
Fishing television series
2009 British television series debuts
2017 British television series endings


Lake Holbrook is a lake in Wood County, Texas, United States. It is roughly 3 miles northwest of the city of Mineola, Texas, which has a population of 4,823 according to he 2020 census. Lake Holbrook is a part of the Sabine River basin and sit on Keys Creek.

Hydrology
Lake Holbrook is an impoundment of Keys Creek. It has a maximum water capacity of 7,700 acre-feet to 7,990 acre-feet depending on the source. The lake has a surface area of 653 acres and a maximum depth of 30 feet. The crest elevation of the lake is 372 feet above sea level.

Ecoregion
Lake Holbrook sits in the Post Oak Savannah ecoregion of Texas. This area has an average rainfall of 28-40 inches per year and a temperature range of 65-70°F.

Terrestrial ecosystem type
The terrestrial ecosystem of the region around Lake Holbrook is gentle rolling hills varying from 300-800 feet in elevation. The soils around Lake Holbrook tend to be sand sized, light colored, and acidic in the regions of higher elevation and dark grey and acidic, with sand to clay sized particles.

Flora
Lake Holbrook flora is primarily cattails and other emerging aquatic plants. There are very few submerged species.

Fauna
The primary prey fish of Lake Holbrook are Bluegill and Redear Sunfish. The larger fish species consist of Largemouth Bass, Channel Catfish, and Black and White Crappie.

Ecological studies
The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department have done a few studies on Lake Holbrook in order to inform, protect, and improve sport fishing.

Uses/purpose
he primary use of lake Holbrook is flood control and recreation.

Recreation
The primary form of recreation used in Lake Holbrook is fishing.

History
Lake Holbrook has been impounding since 1962.

References

External links

Fishing Lake Holbrook

https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/79648323.pdf
https://www.twdb.texas.gov/surfacewater/rivers/reservoirs/holbrook/index.asp
https://tpwd.texas.gov/fishboat/fish/recreational/lakes/holbrook/
https://tpwd.texas.gov/publications/pwdpubs/lake_survey/pwd_rp_t3200_1307/
https://www.tceq.texas.gov/assets/public/waterquality/swqm/assess/20txir/2020_trophic.pdf

Holbrook
Bodies of water of Wood County, Texas


Expected value is a term used in probability theory and statistics. It may also refer to:

Physics
 Expectation value (quantum mechanics), the probabilistic expected value of the result (measurement) of an experiment

Decision theory and quantitative policy analysis
 Expected value of perfect information, the price that one would be willing to pay in order to gain access to perfect information
 Expected value of sample information, the expected increase in utility that a decision-maker could obtain from gaining access to a sample of additional observations before making a decision
 Expected value of including uncertainty, the expected difference in the value of a decision based on a probabilistic analysis versus a decision based on an analysis that ignores uncertainty

Business
 Expected commercial value, also known as estimated commercial value, the prospect-weighted value for a project with unclear conclusions

See also
Expected (disambiguation)


John Strode Barbour (August 10, 1866 – May 6, 1952) was a Virginia lawyer, businessman, and politician.

Early life and education
Barbour was born on August 10, 1866, at Beauregard in Brandy Station, Culpeper County, Virginia. The Barbour political family, was one of the First Families of Virginia. His lawyer father James Barbour, had continued the family's political involvement, as well as served as a major in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. His mother was Fanny Thomas Beckham, and also bore daughter, Mrs. C.B. Wallace of Nashville, Tennessee.

Barbour's private education included William Hartman Kable's Charles Town Male Academy in Charles Town, West Virginia. In 1884, Barbour began reading law at John Franklin Rixey's law office in Culpeper, Virginia. Two years later, Barbour started a weekly newspaper, the Piedmont Advance, which operated for approximately two years. In 1887 Barbour began attending law school at the University of Virginia and graduated in 1888.

Barbour married Mary B. Grimsley, daughter of Culpeper judge Daniel A. Grimsley on April 4, 1894. They had no children.

Career
After admission to the Virginia bar, the 21-year-old, Barbour returned to Culpeper and joined Rixey's law practice as Rixey was elected to the United States House of Representatives for Virginia's 8th congressional district.

From 1897 through 1898, Barbour served as mayor of Culpeper. Barbour was elected on May 23, 1901, to represent Culpeper County at the Constitutional Convention in Richmond, Virginia. At the convention on May 29, 1902, Barbour voted to proclaim the new constitution in effect without submitting it to the voters for ratification.

Barbour relocated to Fairfax County, Virginia in 1907 where he began a law firm with R. Walton Moore (former Assistant Secretary of State) and Thomas R. Keith, which had become Barbour, Garnett, Pickett & Keith by the time of his death. The firm's clients included the Potomac Electric Power Company and the Washington Railway & Electric Co. Barbour also tended a dairy herd at his Fairfax County estate and founded the Maryland and Virginia Milk Producers Association. From 1932 through 1949, Barbour was a member of the board of the Virginia State Library.

While residing in Fairfax, Virginia, Barbour built a home which he called "the Oaks" but which is now called the "Barbour House".

Death
One of the last surviving members of the 1902 Virginia Constitutional Convention, Barbour died after a long illness at Doctors Hospital in Washington, D.C., on May 6, 1952. After a funeral at his Fairfax home, he was interred in the family plot at Fairview Cemetery in Culpeper.

References

1866 births
1952 deaths
19th-century American newspaper editors
American Presbyterians
Barbour family
Mayors of places in Virginia
People from Culpeper County, Virginia
Politicians from Fairfax, Virginia
University of Virginia School of Law alumni
Virginia Democrats
Virginia lawyers


MTV Sports is a show that ran on MTV from 1992 to 1997. Dan Cortese hosted the reality sports show featuring radical sports from around the country. It was later hosted by athlete/model Gabrielle Reece from 1993 to 1995.

Episode list
 List of Episodes

Notable guests
 Dean Cain
 Rich Hopkins
 Scott Stokely

Awards and nominations

References

MTV original programming
1992 American television series debuts
1997 American television series endings


Bradleyville may refer to:

 Bradleyville, Michigan, an unincorporated community in Tuscola County
 Bradleyville, Missouri, an unincorporated community in Taney County


The 2009–10 Azadegan League was the 19th season of the Azadegan League and ninth as the second highest division since its establishment in 1991. The season featured 19 teams from the 2008–09 Azadegan League, three new teams relegated from the 2008–09 Persian Gulf Cup: Payam Mashhad, Damash and Bargh Shiraz and four new teams promoted from the 2008–09 2nd Division: Sanati Kaveh, Foolad Novin, Mes Sarcheshmeh and Naft Tehran. Gostaresh Foulad replaced Niroye Zamini while Iranjavan replaced Moghavemat Mersad. Aluminium Arak changed their name into Shensa Arak. The league started on 10 August 2009 and ended on 27 June 2010. Shahrdari Tabriz and Naft Tehran won the Azadegan League title for the first time in their history. Shahrdari Tabriz, Naft Tehran and Sanat Naft promoted to the Persian Gulf Cup.

Events

Start of season
The league was to feature three teams relegated from Persian Gulf Cup in 2008–09; Bargh Shiraz, Damash Gilan, and Payam Mashhad.
It featured four teams promoted from 2009 to 2010 Azadegan League: Folad Novin, Naft Tehran, Mes Sarcheshme, and Sanati Kaveh.
Gostaresh Foolad ended its 2008/2009 3rd Division campaign in first place( Group A)  and can promoted in 2nd Division. They  bought Niroye Zamini. So They currently play the  2009–10 Azadegan League.
Iranjavan ended its 2008/2009 2nd Division campaign in third place( Group A)  and can not promoted in 2009–10 Azadegan League. On 30 August 2009 they bought Moghavemat Mersad and they returned to Azadegan League.
In September 2009 Aluminium Arak F.C. terminated their sports activities due to financial problems. Shensa Arak F.C. took over their license.

Teams

Group A

Group B

Managerial changes

Final standings

Group A

Group B

Results table

Group A

Group B

Player statistics

Top goalscorers

Group A
17 goals
  Ali Karimi (Sha. Tabriz)
  Mostafa Shojaei (Sepahan Novin)

9 goals
  Ali Abolfathi (Sanati Kaveh)

8 goals
  Mehrdad Avakh (Sha. Bandar Abbas)
  Jalaledin Alimohammadi (Sepahan Novin)
  Carlos Eduardo Salazar (Mes Rafsanjan)
  Ghasem Akbari (Etka Gorgan)

7 goals
  Meysam Khodashenas (Tarbiat Yazd)
  Ruhollah Arab (Sanat Naft Abadan F.C.)

Group B
12 goals
  Rasoul Khatibi (Gostaresh Foolad)

10 goals
  Ali Amiri (Damash Gilan)

9 goals
  Reza Taheri (Damash Gilan)
  Ali Alizadeh (Bargh Shiraz)

8 goals
  Amir Rafati (Gol Gohar)

7 goals
  Founéké Sy (Nassaji Mazandaran)
  Hadi Dehghani (Aluminium Hormozgan F.C.)
  Saeed Babaei (Mes Sarcheshme)
  Akbar Saghiri (Naft Tehran)
  Ahmad Hasanzadeh (Mes Sarcheshme)

Play Off
First leg to be played July 2, 2010; return leg to be played July 8, 2010

First leg

Return leg

Attendance

Average home attendance

Highest attendance

Notes:Updated to games played on 27 June 2010. Source: iplstats.com

See also
 2009–10 Persian Gulf Cup
 2009–10 Iran Football's 2nd Division
 2009–10 Iran Football's 3rd Division
 2009–10 Hazfi Cup
 Iranian Super Cup
 2009–10 Iranian Futsal Super League

References

Azadegan League seasons
Iran
2009–10 in Iranian football leagues


The 2009–10 Persian Gulf Cup (also known as Iran Pro League) was the 27th season of Iran's Football League and ninth as Iran Pro League since its establishment in 2001. Esteghlal were the defending champions. The season featured 15 teams from the 2008–09 Persian Gulf Cup and three new teams promoted from the 2008–09 Azadegan League: Steel Azin and Tractor Sazi both as champions and Shahin Bushehr. The league started on 6 August 2009 and ended on 19 May 2010. Sepahan won the Pro League title for the second time in their history (total second Iranian title).

Team information

Stadia and locations

Personnel and sponsoring

Managerial changes

League table

Positions by round

Results

Clubs season-progress

Statistics

Top goalscorers

Last updated: May 26, 2010Source: iplstats.com/scorers

Top Assistants

Last updated: May 26, 2010Source: iplstats.com/assistants

Cards

Last updated: May 26, 2010Source: iplstats.com/cards

Matches played

Last updated: May 26, 2010Source:  iplstats.com/ appearances

Attendances

Average home attendances

Highest attendances

Notes:Updated to games played on 19 May 2010. Source: iplstats.com

See also
 2009–10 Azadegan League
 2009–10 Iran Football's 2nd Division
 2009–10 Iran Football's 3rd Division
 2009–10 Hazfi Cup
 Iranian Super Cup
 2009–10 Iranian Futsal Super League

References

Iran Premier League Statistics
Persian League
Soccerway

Iran Pro League seasons
Iran
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Easy Virtue is a three-act play by Noël Coward, written in 1924 when he was 25 years old. The play depicts the conflict that arises within a conventional upper-middle-class household when the only son of the family marries a glamorous divorcée.

The play had a successful first run in New York in 1925 and then opened in London in 1926. It has been revived several times since and made into a film twice – in 1928 and 2008.

Background
Easy Virtue was produced at a time when Coward was riding a wave of success. The Vortex (1924) had been a controversial sensation on both sides of the Atlantic with its portrayal of recreational drug taking and veiled references to homosexuality; his comedy Hay Fever (1925) achieved box-office success in the West End. In his autobiography, Present Indicative, Coward said that his object in writing the play was to present a comedy in the structure of a tragedy "to compare the déclassée woman of to-day with the more flamboyant demi-mondaine of the 1890s". Easy Virtue was the first of his plays to have its world premiere outside England. It was first given in the US, on 23 November 1925, at the Broad Theatre, Newark, New Jersey, before opening in New York in December 1925, where it ran for 147 performances. In 1926, after a week's pre-London try-out in Manchester, it opened at the Duke of York's Theatre in the West End, where it ran for 124 performances, from 9 June to 2 October. Both productions were directed by Basil Dean, and starred Jane Cowl as Larita, Mabel Terry-Lewis as Mrs Whittaker, and Joyce Carey as Sarah. Coward wrote that the London run ended only because Cowl had to return to America. Her performance in the lead role was more melodramatic than he thought ideal, but it was popular with audiences, and he admitted that the box-office success of the play owed much to her.

Roles and original casts

Sources:The Times and Mander and Mitchenson.

Plot
The action of the play takes place in the hall of Colonel Whittaker's house in the country.

Act I
A drawing room with three French windows reveals a tennis court; it is early spring – but raining. Mrs Whittaker has "the stern repression of any sexual emotions; all her life has brought her to middle age with a faulty digestion which doesn't so much sour her temper as spread it." She is with her religiously zealous daughter Marion and her husband, Colonel Whittaker, "A grey haired man of about fifty – his expression is generally resigned." The Colonel and his wife have achieved some sort of "truce" – in which he lobs the occasional shot over his wife's battlement, while she is blatantly bitter about his past affairs and indiscretions.

The younger daughter, Hilda, enters ("nineteen and completely commonplace") with news that the Whittakers' only son John had married earlier while holidaying in the south of France – he and his bride Larita will arrive soon. Mrs Whittaker is thrown into despair over the news, while the Colonel is sanguine; "He had to marry someone, she's probably a very interesting woman." To which she retorts, "I've no doubt you'll find her so." Plans need to be rearranged, as John's former girlfriend and neighbour Sarah Hurst is coming to dinner with her friend Charles Burleigh.

John soon arrives with Larita, "She is tall, exquisitely made-up and very beautiful. Her clothes, because of their simplicity, are obviously violently expensive." Larita remains calm in the face of her new mother-in-law's disdain – even admitting to being divorced. John is not perturbed by his sister's shock; "He was an absolute Devil." While Larita and John freshen up before lunch, Sarah arrives with her friend Charles. Larita and Charles learn they have mutual acquaintances in France. Sarah is disappointed John has married, but welcomes Larita warmly as they all go in to lunch.

Act II
Three months later. It is now the height of summer. Larita is reading Proust's Sodom and Gomorrah on the sofa. Everyone is very concerned that she does not want to play tennis. She is bored and miserable. Her only sympathetic friend is the Colonel, who kindly plays bezique, a card game, with her. He also reveals that he speaks French. Into this scene comes Mrs Whittaker, and later Marion – preparing for a party Mrs Whittaker is throwing that evening. Much consideration is being put into the display of Japanese Lanterns. Larita and the Colonel exit. Marion and Mrs Whittaker are both shocked by Larita's choice of reading material. Marion offers to have a straight talk with Larita, but Mrs Whittaker advises against it. She feels that John will soon tire of his wife and the marriage will end in divorce.

Sarah has come to play tennis along with her brother Philip, on whom Hilda has a crush. Philip, however, is infatuated with Larita – something which Hilda misunderstands. In a fit of jealous pique, she accuses Larita of making "sheep's eyes" at Philip. John's affection for Larita seems to be waning as he bemoans his wife's shortcomings to Sarah who in return defends her new friend. Larita arrives at the end of the conversation as Sarah leaves to prepare for the evening's festivities. John attempts to talk to his wife, but his impatience and immaturity only cause them both irritation. Larita mentions her ex-husband and John's jealousy flares. A secondary argument ensues about the nature of love and trust. John resolves the argument by declaring that he "trusts Larita absolutely" and then exits to "freshen up" after tennis.

Marion chooses this moment to have her "straight talk" with Larita – the subject of which veers around the topics of Larita's friendship with the Colonel; Marion's missing fiancé Edgar; religion and hypocrisy. Marion leaves, and Philip arrives to ask Larita to reserve a dance for him – a request which is picked up on by an increasingly jealous Hilda. At afternoon tea (John is not present), Hilda delivers a newspaper cutting revealing that Larita was involved in a court case regarding a man's suicide, as well as list of many of her lovers. Larita reacts coolly, and even quips, "Only two of the people on that list really loved me."

The Colonel takes Larita's side, but Mrs Whittaker is not mollified. Larita refuses to be cowed and proceeds to rip apart everyone's moral pretensions and hypocrisy. Marion storms out of the room and Mrs Whittaker tries to send Larita to her room, telling her not to come to the party. Hilda recognizes that she has been malicious, but it is too late. Larita throws her book in frustration, accidentally (but without regret) breaking a plaster copy of the Venus de Milo in the process.

Act III
At the party, gossip about the family fight and Larita's past has spread. There is an air of titillated excitement, but Mrs Whittaker has told everyone that her daughter-in-law has a migraine, and will not be down. However, that is not the case as Larita makes a spectacular entrance wearing a striking white dress along with diamonds and rubies. John is annoyed by her outlandish costume, and will not dance with her. She dances with Philip instead. Mrs Whittaker takes this as a personal affront – as it may well have been intended.

Sarah has arrived with her friend Charles. They discuss Larita and guess at what has gone on. Larita has a moment with Charles, and explains why she married John: "I thought that any other relationship would be cheapening and squalid – I can't imagine how I could have been such a fool." She also tells Sarah privately that she is leaving – and apologizes for having interrupted her relationship with John. She hopes that Sarah will forgive her, and take John back.

John, blissfully unaware of the fight in the afternoon or the reasons for the divorce, asks his wife to dance with him. She tells him to dance with Sarah – and when he does – she quietly leaves. The only person to see her off is Furber, the family butler.

Subsequent productions
In 1988 the play was revived at the small King's Head Theatre in Islington, London, featuring Jane How as Larita with Ronnie Stevens and Avril Angers as Colonel and Mrs Whittaker. The production transferred to the Garrick Theatre in the West End, with Zena Walker taking over the role of Mrs Whittaker; the play ran there from 13 April throughout the rest of 1988.

In a 1999 revival at the Chichester Festival Theatre, Greta Scacchi played Larita, with Michael Jayston and Wendy Craig as Colonel and Mrs Whittaker. In the same year a production at the Shaw Festival starred Goldie Semple as Larita and Patricia Hamilton as Mrs Whittaker.

Critical reception
The notices for the original production were generally polite but unenthusiastic. George Jean Nathan thought it old-fashioned, in the Pinero manner, and called it an "ancient whangdoodle". James Agate wrote, "Mr Noel Coward gets younger with every play", adding that the playwright took an over-romanticised schoolboyish view of his heroine who is, in Agate's view, "a bore to herself and a nuisance to everyone else". The anonymous reviewer in The Times found the play "smooth in manner, quick in detailed observation, easy in speech", but the setting and plot "manufactured" and not wholly convincing. The critic in The Illustrated London News also found the situation and plot "rather weak" but added, "Strokes of character, scenes of pure comedy, ingenious effects of the theatre disarm the severest critic".

Reviewing the 1988 revival, Michael Coveney called the play "a fascinating blend of the country house ill-manners of [Hay Fever] and the late Victorian problem drama". In The Times, Jeremy Kingston judged Larita to be "one of the first human women Coward created"; he thought the most likely reason for the neglect of the piece was its unusually large cast.

Adaptations

Film
The 1928 film version was directed by Alfred Hitchcock. It is a silent film, and the only remaining piece of dialogue from the play is a card on which Mrs Whittaker says: "Have you had as many lovers as they say?" and Larita replies, "Of course not. Hardly any of them actually loved me." The film appeared to have been lost until the late 1970s when a print emerged in Austria. It was shown for the first time in fifty years as part of a Hitchcock retrospective. At the time, the film critic David Robinson said, "It is Hitchcock in the making (and perhaps, into the bargain, Coward unmade), but as a period curiosity the National Film Archive and the Österreichische Filmmuseum [who found the copy] deserve gratitude for its resurrection." The surviving restoration of the film, conflated from several incomplete prints, is missing more than a quarter of its original footage.

A 2008 remake by Ealing Studios, with Stephan Elliott co-writing and directing, starred Jessica Biel, Ben Barnes, Colin Firth and Kristin Scott Thomas. This version follows the story more closely, and uses much of Coward's dialogue, although it has been fashioned more directly into the type of comedy for which Coward subsequently became famous. It differs from the play in several major respects: the character of Charles Burleigh is removed and amalgamated into the characters of Philip Hurst and Major Whittaker (who had been a captain who led his entire company to death); Larita's husband did not divorce her, but instead died after she euthanised him with poison to accelerate his lingering death from cancer; and the structure is rearranged so that the fight with John's family occurs at the end of the movie, after John refuses to dance with his wife. When Larita leaves, Major Whittaker goes with her.

The films dealt differently with Larita's backstory, as revealed in the dénouement by Hilda, with Hitchcock dedicating half of his version to John and Larita's relationship in Cannes, and Elliott offering a twist on the suicide theme.

Radio
A 1999 BBC Radio 3 recording, adapted and directed by Maria Aitken, starred Anton Lesser, Rupert Penry-Jones, Jack Davenport, Anna Massey and Victoria Hamilton.

Notes

References

External links
 Full text of Easy Virtue at the Internet Archive

1925 plays
Plays by Noël Coward
British plays adapted into films


Caressa & Français was a distinguished firm in Paris that specialized in fine musical instruments and bows.

It was founded in 1901 by Albert Caressa and Henri Français, both of whom had worked for Gand-Bernardel of Paris (founded in 1866), when they had succeeded (and purchased) the House of Gand et Bernardel, Luthiers du Conservatoire de musique (Luthiers of the Music Conservatory).
Over the course of its lifetime this shop became a leading international centre for rare string instruments and was patronized by many of the preeminent names in the concert world. The "Caressa" firm eventually was taken over by Emile Français (son of Henri Francais) in 1938 and stayed in business until 1981.

History
The Caressa & Français firm carried on the tradition established by Lupot (in 1796)  through several generations of talented violin makers including Auguste Sébastien Bernardel, Gustave Bernardel, Ernest Auguste Bernardel, Eugène Gand, and Emile Français (father of Jacques Français).

Albert Caressa served his apprenticeship under Gand-Bernardel in Paris. In 1901, when Gustave Bernardel retired, Caressa became the head of Gand et Bernardel. Together with Henri Français (who also worked for the same firm) as a partner/associate, they ran the firm under the name of Caressa et Français until 1920, at which point Henri Francais retired.
The House of Caressa was eventually taken over by Emile Français (son of Henri Francais) in 1938.

The Caressa & Français firm amassed a very important collection of the finest instruments (of the violin family) which included Antonio Stradivarius, Giuseppe Guarneri, Domenico Montagnana, Sanctus Serafin, Lorenzo Storioni, Rugeri family, Joannes Baptista Guadagnini, Nicolas Lupot, J. B. Vuillume to name a few, as well as an important fine bow collection including bows by François Tourte, Dominique Peccatte, Jean Pierre Marie Persois and many others.

Like many of the great Parisian violin firms, Caressa & Français sold bows under its name (branded Caressa & Français).
These bows were made by the great makers of the time including Victor Fetique and Claude Thomassin among others.

Caressa & Français lineage continues
Eventually, the Paris-born Jacques Francais (3 July 1923 – 4 February 2004), son of Emile Francais and Lucile Caressa, carried on the 200-year-old tradition of the family business by opening his own shop in New York City under the name of "Jacques Francais Rare Violins Inc." Francais's godfather was the violinist Jacques Thibaud.

Although Jacques's passion was art, as he wanted to become an artist, his father Emile insisted and demanded that he stay in the family business. He was sent as an apprentice to Mirecourt, the historical center of French violin-making and then went on to apprentice in Mittenwald, the German equivalent. He served in the Free French Ski Troops during World War II, and subsequently joined the occupation force in Vienna, where his knowledge of French, German and English became a major asset.

According to his wife (Beatrice), Mr. Francais then came to New York to apprentice with Rembert Wurlitzer, who ran the most complete violin restoration shop in the country under the guidance of Simone Fernando Sacconi. The following year he returned to Paris to work with his father, "who drilled him intensively on authenticating instruments / recognizing the instrument's origins".

In 1948 Mr. Francais came to New York on a one-way ticket with a bunch of instruments and fine etchings, to sell on consignment, and $50 to his name, and rejoined the Wurlitzer firm for a brief period.
Having spent time under the tutelage of Master Simone Fernando Sacconi, his skills in expertise, violin making and restoration grew to new heights. He also forged friendships with other masters that have become legendary, most notably Renè Morel.

After many years in the violin trade, he decided to set up his own business. Jacques Francais Rare Violins Inc. took up residence in the most prominent neighborhood, right next to Carnegie Hall at 250 W. 54th Street. He put together a formidable team inviting his friend and colleague Renè Morel (a Master Restorer), and young apprentices he hired have become the leading makers of our time: makers/restorers such as Samuel Zygmuntowicz, Horacio Piñeiro, Boris Sverdlik, David T. Van Zandt, James N. McKean, Jerry Pasewicz, Christophe Landon, Jonathan Woolston (UK) and Richard Oppelt to name a few.
Today, Gael Français (Jacques Francais's nephew) continues the family luthier tradition in NYC.

Quotes
"The Caressa & Français firm carried on the long lineage  from the times of Nicolas Lupot, and later culminated with the foremost NYC shop established by  Henri Français's grandson  Jacques Français (son of Emile Français and Lucile Caressa).   Jacques Français shop became a prominent international centre for rare string instruments and was patronized by many of the preeminent names in the concert world such as Isaac Stern, Yehudi Menuhin, Pablo Casals,  Nathan Milstein, David Oistrakh, Erick Friedman, Itzhak Perlman, Michael Rabin, Pinchas Zukerman to name a few." – Gennady Filimonov

"The House of Caressa & Français was one of the world's renowned violin making and repair shops. They had acquired the former House of Gustave Bernardel in 1901 (the former House of Gand & Bernardel Freres in Paris founded by Nicolas Lupot in 1796). Henri sold his share in the business to Albert at the end of World War I. The House of Caressa was eventually taken over by Emile Français in 1938. The shop remained open during the German occupation of Paris in World War II and closed in 1981 after the death of Lucile Caressa Français. The Paris shop was patronized by some of the greatest names in music." – Smithsonian Institution

References

 Jacques Francais Obituary
 Smithsonian Archives

Further reading

 Les Luthiers Parisiens aux XIX et XX siecles Tom 3 "Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume et sa famille" – Sylvette Milliot 2006

 How Many Strads?, Ernest N. Doring, William Lewis & Son, Chicago, 1945

1901 establishments in France
Bow makers
Bowed string instrument makers
Musical instrument manufacturing companies based in Paris


Major General Amir Chand (1889–1970) was a physician and teacher of medicine in India. In 1936, while India was still under British rule, Dr. Amir Chand became the first Indian to occupy the Chair of Medicine at King Edward Medical College, Lahore. Post Indian independence, Dr. Amir Chand was prominent in laying the foundation of modern medicine in India. He was President of the Association of Physicians of India in 1947. In 1948, he was elected President of the Indian Medical Association. Maj Gen Amir Chand was also the founder of the Indian Society of Gastroenterology. In 1960, he was elected as the professional organization's first president.

Before he died, Amir Chand donated his savings to the Indian Council of Medical Research, the All-India Institute of Medical Sciences and the Armed Forces Medical Services. He used to say that all he had earned came from patients and, therefore, once his own needs and those of his dependents had been taken care of, the rest must be returned to the needy ailing humanity and the cause of medical education.

References

Notes
Indian Council of Medical Research Colonel Amir Chand trust prizes for medical research
Indian Society of Gastroenterology
Indian Council of Medical Research
Post Graduate Institute, Chandigarh
The Hindu
Nobel laureate Sune Bergstrom's awards

20th-century Indian medical doctors
1970 deaths
1889 births
Indian medical academics


Migration of Chinese people in Ghana dates back to the 1940s. Originally, most came from Hong Kong; migration from mainland China began only in the 1980s.

Migration history
The earliest ethnic Chinese migrants to Ghana were of Hong Kong origin. They began arriving in the late 1940s and early 1950s, when both territories were still part of the British Empire. These sojourners stayed in Ghana for periods ranging from a few years to several decades, but they never came to consider Ghana their home. The migrants consisted largely of men who came to Ghana alone and worked as employees in Chinese-owned factories, while their families remained behind in Hong Kong. Originally, they were concentrated in western Ghana, but after Ghana achieved independence, the Kwame Nkrumah government began implementing plans to promote development in the eastern part of the country, and as a result, they began moving towards Accra and Tema.

Aside from individual migrants, there was also an official contingent from the People's Republic of China (PRC) for a brief period in the 1960s. The PRC provided a variety of military assistance to Ghana in the 1960s, including a loan for an arms factory in 1962 (which was never constructed) and the dispatch of military advisors in 1964. After the 1966 coup which overthrew Nkrumah's government, Ghana expelled 430 PRC nationals, including three intelligence officers and thirteen guerrilla warfare specialists.

In the late 1960s and early 1970s, some of the Hong Kong migrants began to bring their wives and children over to Ghana. Migrants from Shanghai also began to arrive round this time. Due to further political unrest in the 1970s and 1980s, including two coups by Jerry Rawlings, many of the Chinese migrants returned to Hong Kong. However, with the economic reform and opening up in the PRC, migrants from mainland China began arriving just as the Hong Kong migrants were flowing out. Migration from mainland China intensified in the 1990s; some came as employees, but most were independent traders running import-export businesses or restaurants. The sources of migration have also expanded; whereas earlier migrants came mostly from Hong Kong or Shanghai, later Chinese migrants have arrived from Guangdong and Henan as well as the Republic of China on Taiwan.

Business and employment
The earliest Hong Kong migrants were employed in a variety of industries in Ghana, including a failed tobacco-growing venture, a factory in Takoradi producing cooking implements, and imitation wax print clothing. The owners of these ventures rarely visited Ghana. In the 1990s and 2000s, large Chinese companies became active in Ghana's construction sector, while individual Chinese traders gained a large amount of influence in retailing of textiles, electrical appliances, and daily-use goods. Under the Ghana Investment Promotion Act of 1994, any foreigner can open a retail business with an investment of US$300,000, as long as it employs 10 local citizens, subject to maintenance of a certain minimum volume of trade. More recently, other Chinese are engaged in small-scale gold mining, as well as providing funding and heavy equipment to other miners.

Integration and community

The Chinese population in Ghana itself are largely transitory, and there is some resistance among them to the idea that they belong to a "community". Most of the migrants came with the intention of seeing the world and making money, rather than settling down in Ghana. In order to obtain Ghanaian nationality, one must be married to a citizen of Ghana or be able to speak and understand one of the indigenous languages of Ghana. The Chinese who have lived in Ghana for most of their lives have acquired Ghanaian citizenship, which is granted without any discrimination.

Local traders have protested against the influx of Chinese traders selling imported goods, and accuse them of breaking investment laws. In late 2007, local traders organised protests in Accra which accused the Chinese of unfair competition and trading in fields for which they were not qualified. In turn, Chinese migrants complain of arbitrary treatment by Ghana's police. On one day in February 2009, officers of the Immigration Department arrested over 100 Chinese people in a single day, due to Chinese engagement in illegal gold mining; in response, forty-one Chinese businesspeople signed an open letter of protest to the Immigration Department. They attributed the sudden crackdown to the government's desire to protect local merchants in the face of the worsening economy.

See also

 Ghanaian people
 China–Ghana relations
 Chinatowns in Africa

References

Notes

Sources

Footnotes

Further reading

External links
 Ghana Central-China Chamber of Commerce
 Pictures from the 2009 Chinese New Year celebration in Ghana, from the PRC Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Asian diaspora in Ghana
Ethnic groups in Ghana
Ghana


David Samuel Kestenbaum (born 1969) is an American radio producer for This American Life. He was formerly a producer for Planet Money and a correspondent for National Public Radio. He generally covers science and economic issues.

Kestenbaum earned a Ph.D. in physics from Harvard University in 1996 with a thesis entitled Observation of Top Quark Anti-Top Quark Production Using a Soft Lepton B Tag in Proton Anti-Proton Collisions at 1.8 TeV working under the supervision of Melissa Franklin. In 1997, Kestenbaum was selected as a AAAS Mass Media Fellow, working at a NPR affiliate radio station in Columbus, Ohio.

References

External links
 David Kestenbaum at npr.org

Living people
American radio journalists
Harvard University alumni
NPR personalities
American reporters and correspondents
1969 births
American podcasters
American bloggers
21st-century American non-fiction writers