Vytautas Juozapas Mažiulis (August 20, 1926 in Rokėnai – April 11, 2009 in Vilnius) was a highly distinguished Lithuanian Balticist, an expert on the Old Prussian language and Indo-European languages.

Biography
He studied classical philology at the Vilnius University in 1947–1952, receiving his Ph.D. in 1956 at the Lomonosov Moscow State University with his thesis on Lithuanian numerals. In 1955 he started working at the Vilnius University, holding a Chair of Lithuanian Language in 1968–1973.

With Jonas Kazlauskas  the international journal for Baltic philology Baltistica in 1965 and the Chair for Baltic philology in 1973 after the murder of professor Kazlauskas.

In 1970 he became the member of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences, after publishing his monograph on the relationship between Baltic and other Indo-European languages.

Vytautas Mažiulis was also correspondent member of both the Mainz Academy of Sciences and Literature (Germany) and the Milanese Linguistics Society (Italy), as well as Chairman of an International Commission on Baltic-Slavonic Relations.

Works
 Relations of Baltic and other Indoeuropean languages (Vilnius, 1970)
 Prūsų kalbos paminklai ("Monuments of the Prussian Language" Vilnius, t. I 1966, t. II 1981, Vilnius)
 Prūsų kalbos etimologijos žodynas ("Etymological dictionary of Prussian", 4 volumes, 1988-1997, Vilnius)
 Prūsų kalbos istorinė gramatika ("Historical Grammar of Prussian", Vilnius, 2004)
 On the Diachronic Morphology of the Slavonic and Baltic Languages (in collaboration with V. Zhuraviev, 1978, in Russian)

References

External links
 Vytautas Mažiulis

Balticists
1926 births
2009 deaths
Linguists from Lithuania
Moscow State University alumni
Vilnius University alumni
Academic staff of Vilnius University
People from Zarasai District Municipality
20th-century linguists


Arndell Anglican College is an independent Anglican co-educational primary and secondary day school located in the Sydney suburb of Oakville, New South Wales, Australia. The college includes students from Prep to Year 12.

History

Arndell Anglican College was named after Thomas Arndell, one of Hawkesbury's first settlers. The college was originally established on the Macquarie Retreat in 1990, with Craig Laffin as the first headmaster.

1990s

 1993: The college is relocated to its present location at Oakville.
 1995: Peter Walker becomes headmaster; the student population grows to over 800 students.
 1996: The college becomes part of the Sydney Anglican Schools Corporation.

2000s

 2003: Dr John M. Goddard becomes headmaster, improving the curriculum and undertaking a number of building projects.
 2009: Dr Gareth Leechman becomes headmaster.

2010s

 2014: The college introduces a laptop programme, providing students with laptops and necessary software. Tablets are given to junior students.
 2015: The senior school is divided into two cohorts. Years 7 to 9 are deemed Junior Students, whereas years 10 to 12 are deemed Senior Students.
 2015: The 25th anniversary of Arndell Anglican College is celebrated with one school day devoted to student activities, as well as other events throughout the year.
 2016: The college is ranked within the top 150 schools in NSW based on HSC results.
 2018: Headmaster Gareth Leechman signs a petition with the Anglican Church Diocese of Sydney to retain s 38(3) in the Sex Discrimination Act 1984 (Cth).
2019: Connor McLeod, a student at the college, speaks at TEDxSydney, reflecting upon his successful 2016 campaign to print tactile banknotes for visually impaired people.

2020s

 2020: The college is again ranked within the top 150 schools in NSW based on HSC results.

Headmasters

The following individuals have served as headmaster of Arndell Anglican College:

Craig Laffin oversaw the establishment of the college at Cattai and its subsequent move to its current site at Oakville. He built the school community and educational ethos that influences the philosophy and daily life of the college.

Peter Walker saw the student population grow to over 800. He also transitioned the college into the Sydney Anglican Schools Corporation. The building infrastructure and financial security of the college was established during this time.

Dr Goddard built up the curriculum, especially in the faculty of music, and oversaw a significant number of building projects.

The current headmaster is Dr Gareth D Leechman. Leechman previously served as the headmaster at Clarence Valley Anglican School in Grafton, and has also been the Head of History and Head of House at Sydney Church of England Grammar School (Shore). In 2018, he signed a formal petition to retain s 38(3) in the Sex Discrimination Act 1984 (Cth).

Curriculum
The following studies were available to senior students in 2019:
English
Mathematics
Science
Technologies (including agriculture, IT processes, textiles and design, and software design and development, engineering)
Social Sciences
 History
Creative Arts
Personal Development, Health and Physical Education (PDHPE)
Languages
Vocational Education Training (VET)
Mandatory Biblical Studies
The college also offers a Gifted and Talented and Inclusive Learning programs.

College Ethos
Arndell Anglican College is a Christian school that advocates religion strongly. Once a week, students attend chapel sermons discussing faith, the afterlife, and Jesus. The Arndell Way of Life stresses Christian morals and themes of unity, companionship, and acceptance. Similar understandings of life are taught in Biblical Studies, a class all students attend regardless of religious denomination or faith.

The college also aids many charities, such as the 40 Hour Famine for WorldVision.

The college's actions reflect its political conservatism and religious traditionalism views. It has advocated for strengthening religious freedoms.

Culture
The crest builds on the legacy of the college. It is dominated by a central cross, indicating focus on Christ and his teachings. The rays signify an infusion of Christian thought, and the undulating lines represent the Hawkesbury River. The school colours of red and blue are distinctive among local schools.

Campus
The campus houses the following named buildings.

 Greenway House was named in honour of the convict architect Francis Greenway. This building's theme colour is green, and its verse is Philippians 4:13: “I can do all this through him who gives me strength.” The Geenway house mascot is a horse.

 Johnson House was named in honour of Richard Johnson, the first cleric of New South Wales. This structure's colour is blue, and its theme verse comes from Isaiah 40:31: “But those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.” The Johnson House mascot is a eagle.

 Macquarie House has a theme colour of gold. It was named in honour of Lachlan Macquarie, the fifth governor of New South Wales. Its theme verse comes from Joshua 1:9: “Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged, for the Lord your God will be with you wherever you go." The Macquarie house mascot is a lion.

 Tebbutt House, whose verse comes from 2 Timothy 4:7: “I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith,” was named in honour of John Tebbutt. The Tebbutt building's theme colour is red. The Tebbutt house mascot is a bull.
 Cartwright House is named in honour of Reverend Robert Cartwright (clergyman), who was appointed as a minister to the Hawkesbury in 1810 and began the building of St Mathews Anglican Church in Windsor.  Cartwright's colour is teal and its verse comes from 2 Timothy 1:7: "For the Spirit God gave us does not make us timid, but gives us power, love and self-discipline. The Cartwright house mascot is a python.
 Lock House is named in honour of Maria Lock, land owner and daughter of Yarramundi, "Chief of the Richmond Tribes', the family belonged to the Boorooberongal clan of the Dharug people, and at 14 won first prize in the anniversary school examination, ahead of twenty children from the Native Institution and almost 100 European students.  Lock's colour is orange and its verse comes from Ephesians 5:1-2: "Follow God's example, therefore, as dearly loved children and walk in the way of love, just as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God." The Lock buildings's theme colour is orange. The Lock house mascot is a wombat.

Located in Oakville, New South Wales, the Junior School and Senior School are on the same campus.

Most of the classrooms and/or buildings contain SMART Boards. The current facilities of the junior and senior campus include:

Two administration buildings
Four blocks of classrooms in the Junior School
Six blocks of classrooms in the Senior School
The Stubbs Junior Library, including a reading pit, printer and photocopier.
Two basketball courts
A gymnasium
The Mears Senior Library, including two printer/photocopiers and a mezzanine study area
A TAS Building with
a food technology kitchen
commercial kitchen
two textiles classrooms
strategic learning support office
one IT classroom
one multi-use classroom
Three art classrooms equipped with SMART Boards
Five science lab classrooms equipped with SMART Boards
Two canteens
The John Lambert Performing Arts Building, with
an auditorium that seats 550 people
two music practice classrooms
a dance and drama practice classroom
A sporting field in the Junior School
Two sporting fields and two cricket nets in the Senior School

 The Goddard block with
 6 classrooms
 4 locker slots
 purpose for English
 The Whelan block with
 5 classrooms
 4 locker slots
 purpose for Mathematics
 The Laffin block with
 5 classrooms
 purpose for Geography, History and Biblical Studies

Governance
Arndell Anglican College is governed by a school council, which helps develop the college's facilities and growth. The current chairman of the council is Brenda King.

The school is part of the Sydney Anglican Schools Corporation and is affiliated with the Anglican Church Diocese of Sydney.

HSC results

To the left is Arndell's HSC ranking according to BetterEducation.com.au, compared to all other schools sitting the HSC. The year 2016 was Arndell's best, with a ranking of 143 making it into the top 150 schools.

References

External links
 Arndell Anglican College official website
 Sydney Anglican Schools Corporation website

Anglican secondary schools in Sydney
Anglican primary schools in Sydney
1990 establishments in Australia
Educational institutions established in 1990


The Valhalla Ranges are a subrange of the Selkirk Mountains of the Columbia Mountains in southeastern British Columbia, Canada, located between Lower Arrow Lake of the Arrow Lakes and Slocan River.

The ranges were named by G.M. Dawson for the hall of immortality where Norse heroes went after their death in battle.

Sub-ranges
Ruby Range

References

Valhalla Ranges in the Canadian Mountain Encyclopedia

External links

Selkirk Mountains


Torch of Freedom is a science fiction novel by American writers David Weber and Eric Flint, published on November 3, 2009. It is the second book in the Crown of Slaves series which runs parallel (timeline-wise) to the main Honor Harrington series. It is the sequel to the 2003 novel Crown of Slaves, also by David Weber and Eric Flint. The book includes a Baen CD Library disk.

Plot

While Anton Zilwicki and Victor Cachat were working undercover on Mesa, Mesa launches an attack at Torch. Anton Zilwicki and Victor Cachat escape Mesa amidst general mayhem together with a defecting leading scientist. The attack against Torch is thwarted by Rear Admiral Luiz Rozsak of the Solarian League Navy, who had amassed a fleet in the interest of the Maya Sector.

Queen Berry becomes romantically involved with Hugh Arai, who, after being freed from slavery by Jeremy X from the Audubon Ballroom, worked as a commando for the Beowulf Biological Survey Corps (BSC), and was assigned by Jeremy X as Berry's bodyguard.

References

External links
 Torch of Freedom on author's website
 The Galley Proof site for Torch of Freedom, Chapters 1 to 24 as of this writing.
 A similar sample page at Baen Books.
 The actual schedule page at Baen, esp. November '09.

Novels by David Weber
Novels by Eric Flint
Honorverse books
2009 American novels


Pest Productions is a Chinese-based independent record label founded in 2006, focusing around atmospheric black metal artists and features an international roster of musicians. It also features two sub-division/sub-labels titled Self-Destruction (started in 2008) and Autumn Flood (started in 2006). It has also released three various artists compilations titled "The World Comes to an End in the End of a Journey," "Depression and Hatred of 3 Years," and "Der Wanderer über dem Nebelmeer".

History
The label opened in Nanchang, Jiangxi in the Summer of 2006 and was started by Deng Zhang and Wu of Chinese depressive black metal band Be Persecuted. Pest Productions is the most-known record label for black metal in China. According to an article of Decibel the label signs bands from all possible subgenres of black, from primitive raw sounding black metal to experimental, ambient and atmospheric black metal.

Deng Zhang, wo co-started the label, works as a graphic designer and musician. He also runs two more record labels. Wu left the label after the release of a demo record of his band so Deng was the sole member responsible of Pest Productions. In the first year of existence the label had financial trouble so the risk of closing Pest Productions was not an unrealistic scenario. Thanks to the help of other musicians Deng was friends with he was able to keep the label running. With the release of Zuriaake's debut record Afterimage of Autumn Pest Productions managed to publish an album which became a milestone in Chinese black metal scene.

The label gained attention with signing the American blackgaze band Ghost Bath whose origin was unknown by the time of signing. Because of Bandcamp who demanded a location singer Dennis Mikula chose Chongqing as their location of origin. Due to contradictions the musicians revealed to be from Minot, North Dakota. In 2014 Pest Productions released Ghost Bath's debut album Funeral. It was revealed that Deng initially planned to drop the band but decided against his plans after listening to the band's first album. Deng stated that a person who supported the label in South America demanded to drop the band. It is not known whether Deng knew of the band's real origin or if he was clueless.

Meanwhile the label signed several bands and music project from all around the world as well as multi-national acts. Some well-known groups the label signed are Heretoir and Thränenkind from Germany and Make a Change… Kill Yourself from Denmark.

Artists
Altus Astrum (Ireland)
Anhedonia (Sweden)
Apocynthion (Spain)
Astral Luminous (United States of America)
Bauda (Chile)
Chaotic Aeon (China)
Cerberus (China)
Dernier Martyr (Russia)
Deep Mountains (China)
Dopamine (China)
Dysthymia (Iceland)
Elhaz (France)
E.D.I.E.H (China)
From Chaos (China)
Heretoir (Germany)
Heartless (China)
Hinsidig (Norway/Germany)
Höstkänslor (Peru)
The Illusion Of Dawn (China)
In The Abyss (China)
The Last Days (Mexico/Brazil)
Líam (Germany)
Means to an End (United States of America/Belgium)
Midwinter (China)
Morose (United Kingdom)
Nectar (China)
Pure Wrath (Indonesia)
Secretly In Pain (China)
Seeds of Iblis (Iraq)
Sinisterite (United Kingdom/Finland)
Skeletal Augury (China)
Skendöd (Sweden/Iceland)
Súl ad Astral (New Zealand/United States of America)
Thränenkind (Germany)
Transylvania (Canada)
Vergissmeinnicht (China)
Yn Gizarm | 英吉沙 (China)
Zuriaake | 葬屍湖 (China)
Be Persecuted (China)

Self-Destruction artists
Heartless (China)
Secretly In Pain (China)

Autumn Flood artists
Chaos Division (China)
Deep Mountains (China)
E.D.I.E.H (China)
Excruciate 666 (France)
From Chaos (China)
Gol Dolan
The Illusion Of Dawn (China)
Morose (United Kingdom)
Natt (Turkey)
Original Sin (China)
Songs Over Ruin (China)
Varuna (China)
Yell (China)
Yn Gizarm (China)
Zaliva-D(China)

References

External links

 Official MySpace

Chinese record labels
Black metal record labels
Record labels established in 2006
Companies based in Nanchang


The Kathmandu Jazz Festival or Jazzmandu is an annual jazz festival, organised by Upstairs Ideas in Kathmandu, Nepal.
The festival's name is a portmanteau of jazz and Kathmandu.

History
The first Jazzmandu was held in , building upon the success of the first 'Jazz at Patan' event the previous year. The festival's first edition included performances by the renowned Australian jazz and swing musician Don Burrows, UK singer Natalie Williams, and Australian Jazz/Funk outfit Afro Dizzi Act, who have since returned to Jazzmandu on several occasions.

Jazzmandu has built on its starting momentum to grow into an internationally recognized, week-long festival, celebrating its 10th anniversary in 2012. It has featured such renowned artists as legendary Indian percussionist Trilok Gurtu, and American jazz drummer Ari Hoenig.

Jazzmandu 2007 was cancelled due to political unrest and civil conflict in Nepal.

Jazz education in Nepal
Jazzmandu actively promotes music education in Nepal, organizing band competitions, workshops and master classes for young local musicians., and working closely with the Kathmandu Jazz Conservatory.

Jazzmandu 2012
Jazzmandu 2012 will run from November 1 to 7 and will feature American drummer Tito Puente, Jr., and Thai ensemble Rootman, among others.

References

Jazz festivals in Nepal
2002 establishments in Nepal


The Casal collar or Casal necklace is a medical sign in which there is a redness and darkening of the skin around the neck, seen in people with pellagra. It becomes prominent following exposure to sun, and can be itchy with a burning feeling and pain. It can blister and weep, and turn into thick dark skin, with a coppery hue. If prolonged, the skin becomes thin, dry and smooth.

It is caused by a lack of the vitamin niacin (vitamin B3). Seborrheic dermatitis may appear similar.

The sign is named after Gaspar Casal.

References

Medical signs
Dermatologic signs


Jimmie Wayne Corder (September 25, 1929 in Jayton, Texas – August 28, 1998 in Fort Worth, Texas) was a scholar of rhetoric.

Professor of English at Texas Christian University, Jim W. Corder was a prolific scholar and teacher, producing dozens of books and articles on the history and theory of rhetoric studies and the teaching of writing. He had (and still has) a cult-like following among those who laud the figurative, creative style that embody his philosophy of rhetoric. Yet, his unique theoretical perspective—often called "Corderian rhetoric"—has not been given extensive attention, consideration, or legitimacy as a theoretical framework among others in English studies.  A festschrift was composed in his honor in 2003 edited by Theresa Enos and Keith D. Miller (Beyond Postprocess and Postmodernism: Essays on the Spaciousness of Rhetoric). The journal Rhetoric Review also published a symposium in 2013 in honor of Jim Corder, "Hunting for Jim W. Corder."

Professional and academic career
Corder is best known for his tendency to cross over and blur the distinctions between the conventional boundaries that define academic discourse, and to resist prevailing or dominating ideological orientations about language and knowledge and how those concepts function within current notions of rhetoric and rhetorical criticism. In much of his writing, especially later in his career, Corder pushes the envelope in the stylistic moves and choices he makes within his language, such as invoking personal experiences and weaving narratives in and through his arguments as rhetorical tropes in and of themselves. And while much of his writing appears in nationally recognized publications such as College English, College Composition and Communication, and Rhetoric Review, Corder's contribution to the body of knowledge within rhetoric and composition has not been fully realized by others in the field. That is, he crafts scholarly arguments for academic audiences, but he articulates them through stylistic and structural moves that resist typical conventions of academic writing.

As a result of his writing style, Corder is often associated with scholars like Peter Elbow and other so-called “expressivists,” who were largely dismissed by many scholars in the discipline during the social turn of the late 1980s, as rhetoric and composition professionals began exploring critical theory and cultural studies and their connections to rhetorical theory and composition pedagogy. However, now some scholars believe that we need to look back to earlier work emerging from discussions within rhetoric and composition as a way of revisiting and revising past notions and theories through a contemporary contextual lens.

Keith D. Miller points to a possible cause for Corder's less than luster reception within the discipline of rhetoric and composition, in his essay, “The Radical, Feminist Rhetoric of Jim Corder.”  Miller explains that “Corder constantly torpedoes genre distinctions between personal essays and scholarship, occasionally bemoaning others’ failure to blend the expressive with the intellectual”. Miller recounts:

Corder once told me: ‘All taxonomies leak.’ But instead of constructing a better ship with tighter compartments, he places dynamite into the leaking holes of every available taxonomy and genre category. Exploding cargo-holds disorients readers by disrupting their expectations, which hinge on the stability of well-defined genres.

Miller specifically highlights Corder's defiance of genre expectations within Hunting Lieutenant Chadbourne, suggesting that “he fuses autobiography, postmodern rhetoric, and nineteenth-century American historiography.” The resulting concoction of mixed modes and blended genres makes the book as much of a history of Lt. Chadbourne as it is Corder's argument against conventional academic discourse, particularly in the realm of historical research. Miller suggests that “to raid different genres and disciplines is to argue indirectly by prodding readers to ask: ‘What is going on?’” That is, Corder wishes to challenge the ways that scholars conceive of and write about knowledge and history, and Hunting Lieutenant Chadbourne embodies both his critique and his argument for an alternative approach, one that invite[s] a reader to share his process of contemplating and weighing. Just as he patiently explores a problem, he implicitly argues, so should a reader.” However, particularly because he eschews pre-established genre structures, “Corder generates momentum by creating the impression of thinking aloud,” which allows him to subvert “standard academic discourse by creating a sense of puzzling over a problem with a reader instead of handing her solutions.”

Books

Lost in West Texas (1988)
Chronicle of a Small Town (1989)
Yonder: Life on the Far Side of Change (1992)
Hunting Lieutenant Chadbourne (1993)

Articles

“The Story of Rhetoric: A Long Protest and a Short Program.” College Composition and Communication 12.2 (1961): 93–95.
"On Keeping Posted and Being Nudged: Some Problems in the Continuing Education of Practicing Teachers." English in Texas 4 (1973): 32-34.
“What I Learned at School.” College Composition and Communication 25 (1975): 330–34. Reprinted in Selected Essays of Jim Corder: Pursuing the Personal in Scholarship, Teaching, and Writing. Ed.. James Baumlin and Keith Miller. NCTE, 2004.
(with George Tade and Gary Tate) "For Sale, Lease, or Rent: A Curriculum for an Undergraduate Program in Rhetoric." College Composition and Communication 26 (1975): 20-24.
“Outhouses, Weather Changes, and the Return to the Basics in English Education.” College English 38 (1977): 474–82.
“Varieties of Ethical Argument, With Some Account of the Significance of Ethos in the Teaching of Composition.” Freshman English News 6 (1978): 1-23.  Reprinted in Selected Essays of Jim Corder: Pursuing the Personal in Scholarship, Teaching, and Writing. Ed.. James Baumlin and Keith Miller. NCTE, 2004.
"Late Word from the Provinces." New Mexico Humanities Review 2 (1979): 24-27.  Reprinted in Selected Essays of Jim Corder: Pursuing the Personal in Scholarship, Teaching, and Writing. Ed.. James Baumlin and Keith Miller. NCTE, 2004.
"You Operationalize-- I'll Plug Away." Liberal Education 66 (1980): 440-445.
“Rhetoric and Literary Study: Some Lines of Inquiry” College Composition and Communication 32.1 (1981): 13–20.
"I'll Trade You One Meditation, a Contrary View, and Some Commas for an Electric Coffee Pot and a Video Display Terminal: Or, Some Notes on the Humanities and Technology." Nebraska Humanist 3 (1981): 29-35.
"A Speech about Comanches and Miracles Made to Premedical Students, Who Are Not as Scary as Doctors." Perspectives in Biology and Medicine (1981): 189-194.
"Against a Mournful Wind." New Mexico Humanities Review 4 (1981): 13-17.
"Caught in the Middle." Liberal Education 68 (1982): 69-74.
"From an Undisclosed Past into an Unknown Future." Liberal Education 68 (1982): 75-78.
"On Cancer and Freshman Composition, or the Use of Rhetorical Language in the Description of Oncogenetic Behavior." CEA Critic 45 (1982): 1-9.
"Studying Rhetoric and Teaching School." Rhetoric Review 1 (1982): 4-36.  Reprinted in Selected Essays of Jim Corder: Pursuing the Personal in Scholarship, Teaching, and Writing. Ed.. James Baumlin and Keith Miller. NCTE, 2004.
"Stalking the Wild Grade Inflator." Liberal Education 69 (1983): 173-177.
"Tribal Virtues." Liberal Education 69 (1983): 179-182.
“From Rhetoric to Grace: Propositions 55-81 about Rhetoric, Propositions 1-54 and 82 et seq. Being as Yet Unstated; Or Getting from the Classroom to the World.” Rhetoric Society Quarterly 14.1/2 (1984): 15–29.
"A New Introduction to Psychoanalysis, Taken as a Version of Modern Rhetoric." Pre/Text 5 (1984): 137-169. Reprinted in Selected Essays of Jim Corder: Pursuing the Personal in Scholarship, Teaching, and Writing. Ed.. James Baumlin and Keith Miller. NCTE, 2004.
“Argument as Emergence, Rhetoric as Love.” Rhetoric Review 4 (1985): 16–32.  Reprinted in Selected Essays of Jim Corder: Pursuing the Personal in Scholarship, Teaching, and Writing. Ed.. James Baumlin and Keith Miller. NCTE, 2004.
“On the Way, Perhaps, to a New Rhetoric, But Not There Yet, and If We Get There, There Won’t Be There Anymore.” College English 47 (1985): 162–70.  Reprinted in Selected Essays of Jim Corder: Pursuing the Personal in Scholarship, Teaching, and Writing. Ed.. James Baumlin and Keith Miller. NCTE, 2004.
"The Time the Calvary Didn't Come, or the Quest for Saving Authority in Recent Studies of Higher Education." Liberal Education 71 (1985): 305-319.
"What to Do with Leftovers." Bulletin of American Association for Higher Education 38 (1985): 9-12.
"Why Deans, Chairman, and Other Rascals Sometimes Seem (and Maybe Are) Uncreative." Bulletin of American Association for Higher Education 39 (1986): 8-9.
“Learning the Text: Little Notes about Interpretation, Harold Bloom, the Topoi, and the Oratio.” College English 48.3 (1986): 243–48.
"Some of What I Learned at a Rhetoric Conference." Freshman English News 15 (1986): 11-12.
"Lonesomeness in English Studies." ADE Bulletin 85 (1986): 36-39.
"The Rock-Kicking Championship of the Whole World, Now and Forevermore." Arete: The Journal of Sports Literature 4 (1987): 1-6.
"The Heroes Have Gone from the Grocery Store." Arete: The Journal of Sports Literature 5 (1987): 73-78.
"Opinion Is, of Course, Bad; Research, on the Other Hand, Is Quite Good: The Tyranny (or Is It Myth?) of Methodology." Journal of Higher Education 58 (1987): 463-469.
“When (Do I/Shall I/May I/Must I/Is It Appropriate for me to) (Say No To/Deny/Resist/ Repudiate/ Attack/Alter) Any (Poem/ Poet/Other/Piece of the World) for My Sake?” Rhetoric Society Quarterly 13 (1988): 45–68.
"Occasion and Need in Writing: An Annotated Essay." Freshman English News 17 (1988): 3-4, 10.
(with James Baumlin) "Lamentati0ons for-- and Hopes against-- Authority in Education." Educational Theory 38 (1988): 11-26.
"Another Geography Course?" Perspectives 19 (1989): 1-7.
"Asking for a Text and Trying to Learn It." Encountering Student Texts. Ed. Bruce Lawson, Susan Sterr Ryan, and W. Ross Winterowd. NCTE, 1989, 89-98.
"Hoping for Essays." Literary Nonfiction: Theory, Criticism, Pedagogy. Ed. Chris Anderson. Southern Illinois UP, 1989, 301-314.
“Hunting for Ethos Where They Say It Can’t Be Found.” Rhetoric Review 7 (1989): 299–316.  Reprinted in Selected Essays of Jim Corder: Pursuing the Personal in Scholarship, Teaching, and Writing. Ed.. James Baumlin and Keith Miller. NCTE, 2004.
(with James Baumlin) "Jackleg Carpentry and the Fall from Freedom into Authority in Writing." Freshman English News 18 (1990): 18-25.
"Academic Jargon and the Soul-Searching Drivel." Rhetoric Review 9 (1991): 314-326.
"Collaboration and Autonomy, Owning and Sharecropping." Freshman English News 19 (1991): 11-12.
"Traditional Lectures Still Have a Place in the Classroom." Chronicle of Higher Education 12 June 1991: B2.
"At Last Report I Was Still Here." The Subject is Writing; Essays by Teachers and Students. Ed. Wendy Bishop. Boynton/Cook, 1993, 261-65.
"From Rhetoric into Other Studies." Defining the New Rhetorics. Ed. Theresa Enos and Stuart Brown. Sage, 1993, 95-108.
"Tribes and Displaced Persons: Some Observations on Collaboration." Theory and Practice in the Teaching of Writing: Rethinking the Discipline. Ed. Lee Odell. Southern Illinois UP, 1993, 217-288.
"The Tyranny of Inattention." Journal of Higher Education 64 (1993): 594-599.
"Humanism Isn't a Dirty Word." In "Voice as Echo of Delivery, Ethos as Transforming Process" by Theresa Enos. Composition in Context: Essays in Honor of Donald C. Stewart. Ed. W. Ross Winterowd and Vincent Gillespie. Southern Illinois UP, 1994, 190-192.
"Hunting Lieutenant Chadbourne: A Search for Ethos Whether Real or Pretended." Ethos: New Essays in Rhetorical and Critical Theory. Eds. James Baumlin and Tita Baumlin. Southern Methodist UP, 1994, 343-365.  Reprinted in Selected Essays of Jim Corder: Pursuing the Personal in Scholarship, Teaching, and Writing. Ed.. James Baumlin and Keith Miller. NCTE, 2004.
"Notes on a Rhetoric of Regret." Composition Studies/Freshman English News 23 (1995): 94-105.
"On Argument, What Some Call 'Self-Writing,' and Trying to See the Back Side of One's Own Eyeballs." Rhetoric Review 22 (2003): 31-39.
"I in Mine, You Elsewhere," "Aching for a Self," and "Places in the Mind." Selected Essays of Jim Corder: Pursuing the Personal in Scholarship, Teaching, and Writing. Ed.. James Baumlin and Keith Miller. NCTE, 2004.

References

Further reading

 Jennifer Jacovitch (2010).  On Living and Dying in Rhetoric: An Analysis of the Writings of Jim W. Corder.  Dissertation, University of Arizona.
 Rosanne Carlo, Theresa Jarnagin Enos, Keith D. Miller, Jeniffer Jacovitch, Geoffrey Sirc, Jeff Rice, and James S. Baumlin (2013). "Symposium: Hunting Jim W. Corder," Rhetoric Review 32.1, pp. 1-26.
 Rosanne Carlo (2015). "Reviving the Writer-Reader Relationship Through Textual Ethos: A Case Study in Jim W. Corder's Writing as Alternative to Traditional Argumentation," in Unfolding and Enfolding Rhetorical Ethos: Stylistic, Material, and Place-Based Approaches.  Dissertation, University of Arizona.
 James S. Baumlin and Keith D. Miller. "Afterword."https://drkeithdmiller.files.wordpress.com/2019/02/miller-and-baumlin-afterword-to-heroes-have-gone.pdf
 James S. Baumlin. "Life-Writing in an Age of Postmodernism; A Corderian Rhetoric of Creative Nonfiction," Language, Literature, and Interdisciplinary Studies (LLIDS) 5.1, pp.19-35
 https://writingstudiestree.org/live/content/jim-w-corder

1929 births
1998 deaths
Texas Christian University faculty
People from Kent County, Texas
American rhetoricians
Teachers of English
Rhetoric theorists


The Lightyears are an English four-piece pop-rock band based in London, England, comprising George Owens (lead vocals and guitar), Chris Russell (vocals and piano), John Owens (bass) and Tony Lyons (vocals and drums). Though The Lightyears formed in 2003, Russell and Owens have been playing and writing together since the age of 13.

Philadelphia-based radio station WXPN have described the band as "the bastard pop-child of The La's and Wham!".

Awards and achievements
In 2007, The Lightyears won "Best Pop/Rock Act" at the first-ever INDY Awards ceremony at the Clapham Grand, which prompted the London Metro to write that they were "being widely touted as Next Big Things". The band were nominated again the following year, this time for "Best Pop Act".  In light of these accolades, the record producer Hugh Padgham asked the band into his studio to record a selection of tracks.  Two of these recordings, "Emily" and "Sleepless", feature on The Lightyears' 2009 album London, England.

Press
BBC Oxford have called the band "incredibly talented", and South African rugby player Robbie Fleck, interviewed at CapeTownTens.com, described The Lightyears' headline show in Cape Town as "without doubt the best party I have ever been to in my life".  In the US, PlayPhilly.com wrote "I haven't been this excited about British pop since I discovered The Beatles. The Lightyears, simply put, are incredible".

Tours and appearances
The Lightyears have toured to the US, South Korea, Thailand, South Africa and mainland Europe.  They played Glastonbury Festival in both 2007 and 2008 and have supported acts such as Mystery Jets and The Levellers. In September 2009, the band performed at Wembley Stadium to a crowd of 45,000 people. They appeared on the same bill as Diversity, winners of Britain's Got Talent.  Three further performances at Wembley were to follow, supporting acts such as Right Said Fred and Eliza Doolittle.

In November 2009, The Lightyears appeared in a national advertising campaign for T-Mobile. Chris and George wrote a song for the campaign (in collaboration with Josh's Band) called "Come With Me", which was released in January 2010 on Universal Records.

In March 2011, The Lightyears were invited to perform at The Script's headline show at O2 Arena, appearing in the O2 blueroom.

In October 2012, the band travelled to Gothenburg, Sweden, to perform with Roger Daltrey from The Who and Roger Taylor from Queen.

Lightyears novel
In 2009, Chris Russell began work on his debut novel Mockstars, inspired by the story of how The Lightyears got together. He was signed to leading literary agency Johnson & Alcock in November 2013, and Mockstars was published the following summer by Red Button Publishing. Russell has since begun work on a trilogy of teen novels entitled "Songs About A Girl", in which an ordinary teenage girl is invited to take backstage photos for the world's hottest boy band. The trilogy was bought by Hodder Children's in 2015, and has sold in multiple territories worldwide.

Discography

Albums
Mission Creep (December 2005)
London, England (January 2009)

EPs
"The Last Men On Earth" (January 2003)
"Rumour Going Round" (August 2004)
"Phoenix" (July 2006)
"At Midnight" (September 2008)

References

External links
Official Site
The Lightyears on YouTube

English rock music groups


Louis Picamoles (born 5 February 1986) is a French rugby union player who plays for Montpellier Hérault RC in the Top 14. Picamoles's usual position is at number eight.

Club career
Picamoles began his club career at Montpellier in 1999 and played for the club for ten years, in which he picked up 64 appearances. His first professional match was on 2 October 2004 against Auch during the 2004–05 Top 16 season. His last match was 16 May 2009, during the 2008–09 Top 14 season against Toulon.

For the 2009–10 Top 14 season, Picamoles signed with Toulouse, where in his debut season, he was part of the team that made it all the way to the semi-finals, losing to eventual runners-up Perpignan 19–6. In that season, his debut with Toulouse was a narrow 16–17 win against Montauban. That year he was a replacement for the final as Toulouse won the Heineken Cup.

On 2 November 2015, Picamoles joined Northampton Saints in the Aviva Premiership on a three-year deal from the 2016–17 season and made an instant impact, receiving three man of the match awards in the first three home games he featured in.

The number eight also won the Players' Player of the Season and Supporters' Player of the Season as well as the Champagne Moment of the Season at Northampton Saints End of Season Awards at Althorp house as well as scooping the Supporters Club Player of the Year the week before.

It was announced on Wednesday, May 31, 2017 that Picamoles would leave Northampton despite still having two seasons left on his contract to link back up with Montpellier Hérault RC. His former club paid Saints a record transfer fee of at least £1 million for the France international.

On 1 February 2021, Picamoles left Montpellier again to join with Top 14 rivals Bordeaux for the 2021–22 season.

International career
Picamoles has been a familiar face in the France national team since making his debut in 2008 – which was a 26–21 victory over Ireland during the 2008 Six Nations Championship. It was in 2008 that Picamoles scored his first try, against the Pacific Islanders on 15 November. Though part of the 2010 Six Nations Championship squad, Picamoles did not appear once in any of the five tests, in what turned out to be a Grand Slam campaign for Les Bleus. He was part of the 2011 Rugby World Cup squad that came runners-up to New Zealand, only playing in three tests during the tournament. After being dropped by Philippe Saint-André for most of 2014, a return to form with strong performances for Toulouse, saw Louis recalled to the French squad for the 2015 Six Nations Championship.

International tries

References

External links

FFR profile
Louis Picamoles stats vs Australia
– YouTube

France international rugby union players
French rugby union players
Living people
Montpellier Hérault Rugby players
Rugby union flankers
Rugby union number eights
Stade Toulousain players
Northampton Saints players
1986 births
Union Bordeaux Bègles players
Rugby union players from Paris
French expatriate sportspeople in England
Expatriate rugby union players in England
French expatriate rugby union players
2011 Rugby World Cup players
2015 Rugby World Cup players
2019 Rugby World Cup players


Frank Newfeld FGDC is a book designer, illustrator, art director and educator.

Newfeld is arguably the greatest book designer of the 20th century in Canada. He has designed over 650 books and won more than 170 international awards. He is a former Vice-President of Publishing at McClelland & Stewart, Head of the Illustration Program at Sheridan College and Co-founder/President of the Society of Typographic Designers of Canada (now the Society of Graphic Designers of Canada - GDC).

He is a Fellow  of the Society of Graphic Designers of Canada, and a member of the Royal Canadian Academy. in 2015, Newfeld was appointed to the Order of Canada.

Newfeld has created three children’s books, two of them published by Oxford University Press and one by Groundwood Books (Douglas & McIntyre). In 2008 his book 'Drawing on Type' was published by Porcupine's Quill. He is also known for his great illustrations in the best selling children's book Alligator Pie.

See also

Alligator Pie

External links
GDC Fellows | 1990 Recipients
Drawing on Type at The Porcupine's Quill (publisher)
Drawing on Type at ISBNdb.com
Partial bibliography at ISBNdb.com
The work of Frank Newfeld
An Evening with Frank Newfeld

Canadian illustrators
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)


Mission of Honor is a science fiction novel by American writer David Weber, published on June 22, 2010 by Baen Books. It is the twelfth novel set in the Honorverse in the main Honor Harrington series.

Plot summary
The book begins in January 1922 P.D. The Star Empire of Manticore remains at war with the Republic of Haven, despite their mutual losses during the Battle of Manticore. Now, the Star Empire is in danger of entering an entirely new conflict with the Solarian League, a galactic superstate with a population numbering several trillion. Though Manticore possesses a decisive tactical and technological edge over the Solarians with their anti-ship missiles and missile defense systems, the Solarians boast a fleet of over ten thousand capital ships.  The planet Mesa and its shadow government continue to foment an increasingly hostile Manticoran-Solarian relationship for its own nefarious ends. At the same time, Mesa has launched a potentially devastating strike against the Manticore Home System itself, which has gone completely undetected by Manticore.

Meanwhile, Admiral Duchess Honor Alexander-Harrington of Manticore is dispatched on a diplomatic mission to the Republic of Haven, having convinced Queen Elizabeth III of Manticore that the Haven issue cannot be left unresolved in the wake of an increasingly likely confrontation with the Solarian League. Traveling to the Haven System itself in her civilian yacht, but escorted by her own 8th Fleet, she offers the Republic a chance to conclude their war diplomatically rather than face sure annihilation due to Manticore's unmatchable tactical advantage. Despite getting off to a good start, the negotiations become stalled when Havenite politicians obstruct the talks for personal political gain. Alexander-Harrington initially tolerates this effort in the interest of good diplomacy, but eventually publicly calls out the leader of the opposition politicians, forcing him to back down. However, the talks are suspended when word reaches Haven that a sneak attack, by seemingly unknown forces, has wrought havoc on the Manticore Home System's infrastructure.

While Alexander-Harrington is trying for a negotiated peace settlement with Haven, the Royal Manticoran Navy's 10th fleet led by Vice Admiral Michelle Henke is attacked by a Solarian task force at the Spindle System in the newly incorporated Talbott Quadrant. Admiral Sandra Crandall, commander of the Solarian Force, acting on her own desire for vengeance and Mesan manipulations and bribes demands the surrender of 10th Fleet and arrest of Henke.  Baroness Medusa, Governor-General of the Talbott Quadrant, refuses to honor Crandall's demands.  The Solarian forces begin their attack run but are ambushed by 10th Fleet in a lopsided victory, despite the fact that Henke has only a few dozen cruiser-sized ships to defend against 73 ships of the wall and their screening elements. After the destruction of the Solarian flagship and a third of the task force, Crandall's third in command assumes control and surrenders the survivors.

Shortly afterward, Mesa's secret Operation Oyster Bay is launched. Covert operations ships using a radically new drive technology have been operating in the Manticore System undetected and placed several stealth missile pods aimed at the three inhabited planets in the Manticore System. In a coordinated attack, the pods fire several volleys of new missile systems which proceed to destroy all of the important orbital infrastructures around Manticore, Sphinx, and Gryphon. Several million Manticoran civilians and naval personnel are killed. The Star Empire completely loses the space stations Hephaestus, Vulcan, and Weyland, and with their loss, the ability to construct new shipping and missiles. Grayson, Manticore's loyal ally, is similarly attacked. This is all happening at the same time that Manticore is facing a full-scale conflict with the Solarian League. Alexander-Harrington is recalled from the peace negotiations with Haven in the wake of the assault.  She returns to discover that after station debris reentered the atmosphere of and impacted her homeworld of Sphinx, many of her closest relatives have died.

The Solarian League's leadership learns of both events in quick succession. The incompetent League military leadership, finally realizing the true scale of  disparity between their ships and weapon systems and Manticore's, decides to go forward with a plan to invade the Manticore System itself with a force of 400 super-dreadnoughts, believing that the aftermath of the (Mesan) strike will leave Manticore possibly unprotected and unwilling to fight a protracted war, even if they successfully defend against this initial invasion. This idea that Manticore's system defenses have also been wrecked has been secretly purported by Mesa, which desires a situation in which the League is severely bloodied by just such a hapless invasion attempt. Meanwhile, Manticore is informed of the impending Solarian offensive through a covert channel on Beowulf. Manticoran leadership is confident of their ability to repel any Solarian attempts to invade the Home System but at the cost of expending great amounts of ammunition, which is now a precious commodity.

The situation appears in crisis until Captain Anton Zilwicki of Manticore, who had been thought dead, and Special Officer Victor Cachat of Haven finally arrive in the Haven System with a Mesan defector.  They inform President Eloise Pritchart of the truth behind the nuclear attacks on Mesa, and also of Mesa's long-term goals as an organization called the Mesan Alignment. The defector also gives background information on the new technology which was used to attack Manticore. Pritchart decides that the information is too important to ignore and personally embarks with several important members of her administration for Trevor's Star, along with Zilwicki's party. She eventually meets with Queen Elizabeth and Admiral Alexander-Harrington, and the true threat posed by Mesa becomes clear to all.

Both sides realize that they have been manipulated over the past several decades by Mesa to fight each other so that they should not pose a threat to Mesa's masterplan for galactic domination. Despite ongoing diplomatic problems between them, and the certainty that many political factions in both Haven and Manticore will strongly disapprove of cooperation in the wake of such a long and bloody conflict, Elizabeth and Pritchart agree to both end the war for good and tentatively form a military alliance against Mesa and their Solarian pawns as the Star Empire and its armed forces await the arrival of the Solarian attack.

Reception
It debuted at #13 on the New York Times Hardcover Fiction Best Seller List.

References

External links
 July 2010 section of Baen's Publishing schedule page.
 David Weber collections website (unofficial): Mission of Honor (with eighteen free chapters as of this writing).

2010 American novels
2010 science fiction novels
Honorverse books
Novels by David Weber
Baen Books books


John Looney (c 1782-1846) was a Cherokee chief. As a young man, he served in the United States Army under Andrew Jackson. He later became chief of the Western Cherokee, in which capacity he negotiated with the US government and dealt with conflicts with the rival Eastern Cherokee.

Early life
Looney was born about 1782 in what is now the northeastern corner of Alabama. He was said to have been three quarters Cherokee by blood and a nephew of Chief Black Fox (Enoli). The earliest record of John Looney shows that he served from October 6, 1813, until January 6, 1814, during the Creek War (War of 1812) as a corporal in Capt. George Fields Company of Col. Gideon Morgan's Regiment of Cherokee Warriors under General Andrew Jackson. John Looney fought at the Battle of Emuckfaw in January 1814 and was severely wounded by a gunshot which went through his left shoulder blade, disabling him. Later in life, Looney applied for and received a pension in recognition of his military service and disabling wound. He was placed on the Invalid List at Fort Gibson Agency, Arkansas under the Act of April 14, 1842.

In 1815, John Looney married Betsy Weber, daughter of Will Weber, the mixed-blood headman of Willstown during the Cherokee–American wars.  Looney's daughter Eleanor was the first wife of Stand Watie. Looney's Reservation was located at "Creekpath, to include the place where Black Fox lived and died."

Moves west
John and Betsy Looney left Creekpath about 1823 and moved west into Arkansas along with other Cherokee. Looney had placed his reservation at Creekpath in the care of his two sisters, Peggy Mink and Susannah, who were forced off of the property by whites. An appeal for the loss of the Reservation was filed on behalf of Looney's children, but the court ruled that Looney had forfeit the property back to the U.S. Government when he abandoned it and moved west. Looney's Reservation was never surveyed.

Around 1828 Looney and the other Cherokee who lived in Arkansas were forced to move farther west into what later became Indian Territory (N.E. Oklahoma). This group of Cherokee were recognized as the "Western Cherokee" and sometimes referred to as the "Old Settlers" or the "Old Settlers-Treaty Party".

John Looney, who had been elected as Third Chief, became Principal Chief of the Western Cherokee after the death of John Jolly on December 28, 1838. It was about this time that the Eastern Cherokee were arriving from the west due to their forced removal from North Carolina, Tennessee, Georgia, and Alabama. The Eastern Cherokee had brought with them their own Constitution and Principal Chief, John Ross, which they did not intend to give up. The Western Cherokee, anticipating trouble with the new arrivals, held a new election on April 22, 1839, and elected John Brown, Principal Chief, and John Looney and John Rogers as Second and Third Chiefs.

Cherokee civil conflicts
There was conflict between the Eastern and Western Cherokee and on June 22, 1839, several members of the Old Settlers-Treaty Party were murdered. Major Ridge, his son John Ridge and Elias Boudinot were killed while Stand Watie escaped.  John Ross, Principal Chief of the Eastern Cherokee, denied any involvement in or knowledge of the murders. Soon after this John Ross held a National Convention for the East and West Cherokee beginning July 1, 1839. He appointed a committee to draft a new Constitution and made Sequoyah (also known as George Guess or Gist) President of the Old Settlers. He was able to persuade John Looney to agree to his plans, having Looney, Guess and "Tobacco Will" depose John Brown and John Rogers as Chiefs of the Old Settlers. The Convention and new Constitution were completed on Sept. 6, 1839 and John Ross was immediately elected as Principal Chief with Joseph Vann as his assistant principal chief.

Looney died May 15, 1846, at the Fuller Hotel in Washington, D.C., while serving as a Delegate for the Cherokee Nation.

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1780s births
1846 deaths
Principal Chiefs of the Cherokee Nation (1794–1907)
18th-century Native American leaders
19th-century Native Americans
19th-century United States Army personnel
Year of birth uncertain
People of the Creek War
18th-century Cherokee people


Treating Survivors of Satanist Abuse is a collection of essays edited by Valerie Sinason addressing the treatment of those who allege they are survivors of Satanic ritual abuse (a phenomenon generally considered a moral panic by most scholars).  The book discusses the definitions, alleged history, scepticism about the phenomenon and ethical issues related to treating individuals reporting satanic ritual abuse. The book has been criticized by Ralph Underwager for being unscientific, defending a dubious concept with a complete lack of skepticism, possessing the veneer of science without any substance and for promoting unethical treatment practices.

Publication
Publication of the book was chosen to preempt a report by Jean LaFontaine, which had concluded there was no basis to allegations of Satanic ritual abuse in England.

Reception
The book has been reviewed by the International Journal of Psycho-Analysis. The British Journal of Psychotherapy gave the book a positive review.

A review by Ralph Underwager cites the book as an example of the ability of the nonsense humans are capable of convincing themselves of.  All contributors are solidly committed to the reality of the phenomenon with minimal skepticism and no evidence.  The therapeutic treatments recommended are described as lacking empirical proof and critical analysis, with a veneer of science consisting of a "pastiche" of research and opinions from believers.  Ultimately however, they all rely on a series of logical fallacies, clinical judgement and intuition without proof and minimal awareness of the scientific method.  Underwager also questions the ethics of the use of these techniques when they are unproven, have high potential for iatrogenic damage, and dubious ties to reality.  Underwager does state that it is the best of a mediocre series of books addressing the topic, bringing together all the myriad flaws that comprise belief in satanic ritual abuse, and its appearance as a scholarly volume could fool a person with a lack of understanding of rational thought and logic.

A comment in The Times points out that despite the book claiming a large number of sacrificial victims and animals, no proof has been found (with cannibalism as an explanation), no missing persons reported, no discovery of the elaborate materials reported in the rituals, no medical records of the mutilations endured by the alleged cult members, and no confessions by an apparently large number of witnesses.  It also pointed out that reports in the book were from suggestible children and adults who were "helped" with their memories through hypnosis.

Gareth Medway, writing about the book, pointed out that the cases cited by Sinason to support the existence of ritual abuse, aren't particularly compelling, and offers alternative reasons than actual abuse to explain the allegations.  Medway also criticizes her sources as not inspiring confidence.

Jean LaFontaine states that Sinason portrays the book as the first clinical, rather than research review of the topic.  LaFontaine's opinion is that the book reads more like a rallying of supporters.

References

Books about satanic ritual abuse
1994 non-fiction books
Essay collections


Gaspar Roque Francisco Narciso Casal Julian (31 December 1681–10 August 1759) was a Spanish physician remembered for describing the Casal collar in pellagra.

Casal was born in Girona Catalonia, Spain to Federico Casal y Dajón and Magdalena Julian. He grew up in Utrillas and is thought to have apprenticed at Atienza with Juan Manuel Rodriguez de Lima, an apothecary to Pope Innocent XI. He practiced medicine in Oviedo from 1720 to 1751,  at which time he moved to Madrid as King Ferdinand's physician. He became a friend of Fr. Benito Feyjóo y Montenegro and Fr. Martin Sarmiento who encouraged his studies. He described pellagra in a book published in 1762, calling it mal de la rose due to the red rash seen on the hands and feet of sufferers. His “Historia affectionum quarundam regionis hujus familiarum” described scabies and treatment using sulfur ointment. He wrote on the natural history of Asturias which was published posthumously in 1762.

He married Maria Ruiz and had two sons. After her death he married Maria Álvarez Rodríguez Arango and had two more children.

References

External links
 Biography . Galeria de Metges Catalans. Retrieved July 23, 2016.
Historia natural y médica del Principado de Asturias / obra posthuma, que escribió del Doct. D. Gapar Casal

18th-century Spanish physicians
1681 births
1759 deaths


"Rendezvous in a Dark Place" is the sixtieth episode and the twenty-fifth episode of the third season (1988–89) of the television series The Twilight Zone. In this episode, an elderly woman meets the personification of Death and tries to persuade him to take her.

Plot
Elderly Barbara LeMay gets great joy out of attending funerals for people she does not know. Her son Jason is upset at this hobby of hers and, to a greater extent, her refusal to agree to have Thanksgiving with Jason, his wife, and their children because she "can't make any long-range plans." He tells her she has an unhealthy obsession with death.

That night, a man named Trent breaks into Barbara's home and keeps Barbara at gunpoint. Injured and bleeding, he passes out. Barbara turns on the radio and hears that a local liquor store was robbed; she deduces Trent is the robber. She nurses him as best as she can but is quick to conclude that he is dying. He begs her not to take him to the hospital but requests that he not die alone. Another man enters the house, who Barbara recognizes as Death. Barbara is excited and talks to him in the manner of a fan to a celebrity. She asks Death to take her instead of Trent, saying Trent does not appreciate him the way she does. Death denies her and says he cannot take a life where there is none, because she embraces him while others resist him. Death takes Trent and leaves. Barbara begins sobbing, thinking Death would not take her because she is not good enough for him.

After Trent's body is taken away, Death visits Barbara to comfort her. She explains that because he took everyone she loved, she became jealous and her love transferred to him. Her husband was in great pain before he died; she found that she could not take away his pain, but Death could. She considered suicide, but felt it to be "too forward"; she wants Death to take her willingly. Death offers his hand and brings her where she is "most needed." They appear in a hospital, where Barbara, now dressed in black, goes to a man who is dying and offers him comfort, taking him just as Death took Trent. Death commends her on a job well done.

See also
Harold and Maude, a 1971 film about a young man who attends funerals as a hobby
"Nothing in the Dark", an original series Twilight Zone episode in which an elderly woman can see and talk to Death

External links

1989 American television episodes
The Twilight Zone (1985 TV series season 3) episodes
Television episodes about personifications of death

fr:Un rendez-vous tant attendu


(or ), a Latin sentence meaning "Who [is] like God?", is a literal translation of the name Michael (, transliterated Micha'el or Mîkhā'ēl).

The sentence  is particularly associated with Archangel Michael. In art, St. Michael is often represented as an angelic warrior, fully armed with helmet, sword, and shield, as he overcomes Satan, sometimes represented as a dragon and sometimes as a man-like figure. The shield at times bears the inscription: , the translation of the archangel's name, but capable also of being seen as his rhetorical and scornful question to Satan.

The Scapular of St. Michael the Archangel also bears this phrase.

See also

 El (deity)
 Song of the Sea
 Michaelion
 Michaelmas
 Novena to Saint Michael
 Prayer to Saint Michael
 Saint Michael in the Catholic Church

References

External links

Angels in Christianity
Biblical phrases
Latin words and phrases
Michael (archangel)


Apistogramma panduro (A-183), also commonly referred to as Apistogramma pandurini, is a small species of cichlid freshwater fish from the Amazon river basin in Peru. It is closely related to A. nijsseni, so much so that they are placed in the A. nijessni species group. Some common names for A. panduro are blue panda apisto, and Panduros’ apisto.

Origin

Its name is derived from the Peruvian fish exporters who first collected it within the limited ranges in the western Amazon region, captured within the blackwater streams near Colonia, Peru. The waters are particularly softer and more acidic (pH < 6) with a sandy substrate. The distribution of the A. nijsseni species group (to which A. panduro belongs) occurs in isolated blackwater tributaries of the Marañon River, Ucayali River, Nanay River and Napo River of Peru, which drain to ancient Napo Superfan. They have a tendency for inhabiting low speed branching waterways found most commonly under cover due to increased light diffusion into the water by leaves and other shade sources.

Aquarium

A pair of A. panduro require on average an aquarium tank that is 60x30x30 centimeters in dimension. When planning to breed or when more individuals are included, larger tanks may be required. Aquarium accessories or decor have low impact on A. panduro as they seem to not be influenced on objects located within their space as long as these items are not too limiting to the overall free tank area. If it is a goal to recreate natural habitats for the aquarium soft substrate, shaded areas provided by artificial leaves or large overhang would create this best. Additionally, the overall composition of the water could be naturalized by the addition of tank grade peat in filter systems. This would replicate the sediment/substrate rich habitat A. panduro is found in greatest abundance. This addition would stabilize pH and inoculate microbial production within the sediment which can provide as an additional/natural food source. Water flow and filtration should be minimal avoiding water replacement of the peat. Primarily, shaded lighting or dim lighting is most preferred, along with non-toxic aquatic plants that would provide shade or floating vegetation that would allow for further diffusion of light through the tank.

Maintenance

A. panduros are not known to be picky eaters and can adapt to most high quality foods. Live foods are best when breeding it. A. panduros form strong pair bonds and spawn in the typical Apistogramma fashion, with their broods being particularly more smaller than most species. Fry will normally easily take newly hatched brine shrimp and the level of care is typical for the genus.

Breeding

If someone is planning to breed a pair of A. panduro, the best method is to buy them as juveniles and allow them to choose their own partner in your aquarium. When a pair is at maturity, breeding can be accomplished in a 15-gallon aquarium. A. panduro spawn in water with a low pH. The breeding pair can be fed a variety of live food, frozen meaty foods, and flake food. Females are very devoted to their young, and they care for both the eggs and larvae. An ideal breeding aquarium includes rocks, moderate lighting, fine sand, caves, and live plants. One type of plant that would work well in this community is Java moss. Java moss makes a good home for infusoria, which is the fry's first food. Once the fry mature they can eat microworms and newly hatched brine shrimp. However, a water change must be completed after feeding live food to ensure proper water quality.

References

panduro
Freshwater fish of Peru
Taxa named by Uwe Römer (ichthyologist)
Fish described in 1997


New Holland Pier railway station is a former railway terminus in North Lincolnshire, England. It stood at the seaward end of the New Holland Pier, which juts  northwards into the Humber estuary at the village of New Holland. Its purpose was to enable railway passengers, vehicles and goods to transfer to and from ferries plying between New Holland and Hull.

New Holland was a "railway village" in the sense that Crewe was a railway town. Expanding the dock, building the pier, the engine shed and the railway to it were promoted and started by the Great Grimsby and Sheffield Junction Railway, though by the time services began that railway had merged with others to form the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway. For many years GCR laundry from restaurant cars and hotels was brought to New Holland for cleaning.

History

The station opened on 1 March 1848 following a Directors' tour of the ferry and route as far as Louth the day before.

Services in the early days were a mix of local and long distance. The line was seen as the gateway to Hull, with transshipment of people and goods being a mere inconvenience. Before long lines reached Hull via Doncaster, so passengers and railways alike realised that longer could be quicker and more convenient. After this the pier and railway eventually settled down to providing local services across the Humber.

These were:

Ferry from Hull to New Holland Pier then train:
 to Barton-on-Humber
 to Cleethorpes via Grimsby,
and, from 1911
 to Immingham Dock

The Immingham service ceased in 1963, but the other two survived until 1981.

A severe storm on 18–19 October 1869 damaged the pontoon at the end of the pier so badly that it sank.

On Sunday 13 January 1895 the pier and station at New Holland were destroyed by fire. It was later rebuilt.

From 1923 the pier and station were closed for reconstruction, reopening on 19 March 1928. The station had two platforms with a siding between, the western platform doubling up as a wooden roadway used by vehicles coming to and from ferries. Foot passengers from the ferry and passenger trains most often used the platform on the eastern side of the pier. The central siding often contained one or two coal wagons from which a small road 'train' of tubs was loaded and taken down the access ramps to ferry steamers. Originally the station had an overall roof but this was later removed. The station buildings were made of wood and included a signal box and refreshment rooms on the more substantial eastern side.

Average annual traffic using the pier in its peak years was 30,000 passengers, 250 vehicles, 1200 cattle and sheep and 300 tons of luggage. Until the end of the Second World War, railway publicity, tickets and timetables rarely differentiated between the Town and Pier stations, with the July 1922 Bradshaw, for example, giving a single entry for "New Holland."

The station was closed and the ferry withdrawn on 24 June 1981 when the Humber Bridge opened. New Holland pier was taken over by New Holland Bulk Services who started a grain and feed import and export business in 1984.

When the station and the nearby  station were closed they were replaced by a new station called , south of the latter. This is on the Barton Line which runs between  and .

Route

References

Sources

External links
 The station and its history Disused Stations UK
 The station RAILSCOT
 The station Daves Rail Pics
 Lincolnshire Poacher railtour 1976 YouTube
 Railtour details October 1965 via sixbellsjunction
 Great Farewells Railtour 1980 David Wainwright
 The station and pier flickr
 Pier, railway and shipping Davenport Collection
 The Barton Line Barton to Cleethorpes CRP
 Aerial view of pier and railwaygeograph
 The pier, railway and paddlesteamers paddlesteamers.info
 The station on an 1886 OS map National Library of Scotland
 The station on a 1908 OS map overlay National Library of Scotland
 The station on a 1948 OS map npe maps
 The station and lines on many overlaid maps Rail Map Online
 The station and section of line railwaycodes
 New Holland from the air in 1935 Britain from Above

Disused railway stations in the Borough of North Lincolnshire
Former Great Central Railway stations
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1848
Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1981
Humber
British Rail ferry operations


Frederick George Lee (6 January 1832 in Thame, Oxfordshire – 22 January 1902 at Lambeth, London) was a priest of the Church of England and a religious author. He co-founded the Order of Corporate Reunion.

Biography
Lee was trained in Cuddesdon Theological College and ordained to priesthood in 1856 by the Bishop of Oxford, Samuel Wilberforce. Lee became, together with Ambrose de Lisle and others, a co-founder of the Association for the Promotion of the Unity of Christendom (APUC) in 1857. In Aberdeen, he had difficulties with the bishop concerning his ritualistic practices; he later became vicar of All Saints' Lambeth, London.

In 1874, Lee, John Thomas Seccombe, and Thomas Wimberley Mossman founded a clandestine Anglo-Papalist society, the Order of Corporate Reunion, to continue the work of the APUC and to restore an apostolic succession recognised by the Roman Catholic Church through reordinations, as a means for reunion. Lee is believed to have been secretly consecrated as a bishop by some Roman Catholic prelates whose names were kept secret until 2000. Lee styled himself Bishop of Dorchester for a while and performed some ordinations, but later became disillusioned and believed that he made a mistake.

In the late 1880s, Lee was a member of the Order of the White Rose, the club that sparked the Neo-Jacobite Revival in the United Kingdom. On 11 December 1901, Lee was received into the Roman Catholic Church, shortly before his death.

In addition to his published sermons, books, and literary work, Lee edited numerous periodicals during his career, including The Union Newspaper (1856-1862), The Scottish Miscellany (1860-1861), The Union Review (1863-1869), The Church News (1867-1869), The Church Herald (1870), The Lambeth Review (1872), The Reunion Magazine (1877-1879, four numbers issued irregularly).

Works

Poems, 1850, 1854 (2nd ed.)
The Martyrs of Vienne and Lyons: A Prize Poem Recited in the Theatre, Oxford, June 28, 1854
Our Village and Its Story, with a Postscript: Verses, 1855
The Progress of the Church: A Sermon, 1857
Until the Day Break: A Sermon Preached in Substance at the Mission Church of S. Saviour, Wellclose Square, S. George's-in-the-East, Diocese of London, 1857
Death, Judgment, Hell, and Heaven: Four Advent Sermons, 1858
Refrain from These Men: A Sermon, 1859
The Cheyne Case: A Letter to Adam Urquhart, 1860
The Gospel Message: A Series of Original Sermons (editor, 1860)
A Statement of Facts, with Regard to His Resignation of the Incumbency of St. John's, Aberdeen, 1861
Clinton Maynard: A Tale of the World, the Flesh, and the Devil, 1862
 [i. e. Episcopal Church of Scotland
Prayers for the Reunion of Christendom (edit.), 1863
The Message of Reconciliation: Four Advent Sermons, 1864
Sermons on the Reunion of Christendom (edit.), 1864
Directorium Anglicanum, 1865 (2nd ed.), 1878 (4th ed.) Also online from Archive.org
Paraphrastica expositio articulorum Confessionis Anglicanae, 1865 (editor)

Notitia Liturgica, 1866
Morning and Evening Prayers Specially Intended for Children, together with Devotions for the Holy Sacrifice, 1866
The King's Highway, 1866, 1872 (2nd ed.)
Altar Service Book, 3 vol., 1867
Essays on the Reunion of Christendom (edit.), 1867
Mary, the Mother of God, 1868
Sermons, Parochial and Occasional, 1868
Petronilla, and Other Poems, 1869
The "Sour Grapes" of Dis-union: A Sermon Preached in Substance at All Saints' Church, Lambeth, 1869

The Beauty of Holiness: Ten Lectures on External Religious Observances, 1860, 1869 (4th ed.)
Confidence in God: A Sermon, 1871
Our Duty to the Departed: A Sermon, 1871
A Dictionary of Ritual and Other Ecclesiastical Terms, 1871
The Abolition and Rejection of the Athanasian Creed: A Letter, 1872
The Christian Doctrine of Prayer for the Departed, 1872
Rest in Death: A Funeral Sermon on the Decease of the Rev. John Purchas, 1872
Manuale Clericorum, 1874
The Bells of Botteville Tower and Other Poems, 1874
The Other World, Or Glimpses of the Supernatural, 1875
volume one
volume two
Memorials of R. S. Hawker (edit.), 1876
A Glossary of Liturgical and Ecclesiastical Terms, 1877
Pastoral Letter by the Rector, Provincials, and Provosts of the Order of Corporate Reunion, 1877
The Repeal of the Public Worship Regulation Act: A Letter, 1877
More Glimpses of the World Unseen, 1878
Historical Sketches of the Reformation, 1879
The Words from the Cross: Seven Sermons, 1879
The Church under Queen Elizabeth, 1880
volume one
volume two
"new and cheaper edition" 1897
Hymns for Several Occasions, together with a Litany for the Faithful Departed, 1880
Order out of Chaos: Three Sermons Preached at All Saints', Lambeth, 1881
Reginald Barentyne, or Liberty without Limit: A Tale of the Times, 1881, 1883 (2nd ed.)

From Crown to Crown: A Tale of the Early Church, 1885
Glimpses in the Twilight, 1885
King Edward the Sixth, Supreme Head, 1886
On Fads and Fadmongers, 1887
Immodesty in Art: An Expostulation and Suggestion, 1887
Reginald Pole: Cardinal Archbishop of Canterbury: An Historical Sketch with an Introductory Prologue and Practical Epilogue, 1888
A Manual of Politics, 1889
The Sinless Conception of the Mother of God, 1891
Sights and Shadows, 1894
De Profundis: Various Verses, 1899
The Ecclesiastical Situation in 1899, from a Tractarian Standpoint, 1899

References

Dictionnaire d'Histoire et de Géographie Ecclésiastiques, Fasciscule 180, p. 74

External links

Lee, Frederick George, article in (Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge)
Pitts Theology Library: Lee, Frederick George, 1832-1902. Collection, 1853-1899
Bibliographic directory from Project Canterbury

1832 births
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Neo-Jacobite Revival
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This page shows the results of the Tennis Competition for men and women at the 1995 Pan American Games, held from March 11 to March 26, 1995, in Mar del Plata, Argentina.

Men's competition

Singles

Doubles

Teams

Women's competition

Singles

Doubles

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Medal table

References
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Steve or Steven Hoffman may refer to:
Steve Hoffman (American football), American football player and coach
Steve Hoffman (audio engineer), audio and mastering engineer.
Steven Hoffman (Australian footballer), former Australian rules footballer
Steven Hoffman (South African footballer), South African football goalkeeper

See also

Steve Hoffmann, American physician
Steve Huffman, CEO of Reddit


The Castle () is a 1997 film by Austrian director Michael Haneke. It is an adaptation of Franz Kafka's absurdist 1926 novel released theatrically in Germany, The Czech Republic, Japan, Canada, and the USA , but first shown on television in Austria.

Plot
When land surveyor K. (Ulrich Mühe) arrives at a small village that houses a castle, local authorities refuse to allow him to enter. As he tries to convince the officials that they sent for him, they clamp down with increasingly complicated bureaucratic obstacles.

Production and release
Das Schloß was filmed in Styria.

The film premiered at the 47th Berlin International Film Festival in February 1997.

References

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Grace is a 21st-century play written by Mick Gordon and A. C. Grayling.

Plot

The title character, a cynical atheist science professor, is participating in a psychology experiment in Canada in which the scientists claim to have developed a helmet that can invoke religious experiences. Grace, although skeptical (when asked what the helmet is called, she mockingly answers, "The God Helmet"), is mesmerized by the feelings she experiences while using the device. Throughout the play, she is "pulled out of the scene" and asked questions about her experiences.

Grace's son, Tom, is considering becoming a priest, and when Grace learns this, she is mortified and demonizes him in front of Tom's girlfriend, Ruth. Grace believes that anyone who tries to preach religion is being an active part of the world problems stemming from what she sees as religious fanaticism, especially violence. Tom tries to assure Grace that he's trying to form a "better religion," one that does not promote violence, but personal improvement and love. Grace stubbornly refuses to listen to Tom and after a bitter argument, the two become estranged. Meanwhile, Grace's husband, Tony, is a practicing Jew, and although he disagrees with Tom's Christian views, is far more tolerant and understanding.

Ruth tells Tom she is pregnant with his baby, and Tom considers this news the time to talk about marriage. Ruth is very reluctant to move forward, saying she is unsure of Tom's religious beliefs herself.

Off scene, Tom is killed in an Islamic terrorist attack. A heartbroken Grace uses this as an example of her reasons behind her anti-religious views during her lectures that she teaches. Ruth tells Grace Tom had requested to have his funeral at a church, but Grace refuses in a fit of rage. Ruth tries to convince Grace to fulfill Tom's wishes, but Grace makes the decision to have a small, informal, non-religious funeral ceremony. In retaliation, Ruth tells Grace she cannot see her future grandchild.

After the funeral, Grace begins to have visions of Tom through her helmet. She begins to question her own atheist views, although only mentions this to Tony. Tony recommends to Grace that she visit Ruth and tell her that she had been wrong about her views on religion. Grace sees Ruth at the cemetery paying her respects to Tom. Ruth mentions to Grace that the only reason she did not like Tom's religious views was because of her jealousy that Tom would prioritize God above her. After a heated discussion about how Grace and Tom had a toxic relationship because of her intolerance, and even after his death, Grace tells Ruth about her visions. Grace says that, although it's probably manufactured from her "God Helmet," she finds comfort in her visions of Tom after his death. In the end of the conversation, Grace and Ruth each come to the conclusion that it is not even love, but kindness, that is most important to the well-being of the world and society. Ruth and Grace reconcile their differences and in the end scene they reminisce about Tom and Grace volunteers to tend to Ruth's crying baby.

Characters

 Grace A middle-aged professor, a self-described naturalist who rejects religion
 Tom Grace's son, a lawyer-turned-priest who Grace vehemently criticizes for his newly found religious views
 Ruth Tom's girlfriend who is agnostic and is reluctant to completely support Tom, but despises Grace's intolerance to Tom's views
 Tony Grace's husband, a practicing Jew who at first hides his religion from Grace out of fear
 scientist The unnamed scientist never enters the stage; only his voiceover is heard, which only Grace can hear. The scientist gives Grace directions on using the experimental "God Helmet"

Production

Grace has a runtime of about 90 minutes.

References

External links

Plays by A. C. Grayling
2006 plays


Andrew Lee (born 18 August 1982) is an English retired footballer who made two league appearances for Bradford City between 2002 and 2003. He signed for Aberystwyth Town in 2003 and also played for Wakefield & Emley. He was born in Bradford. He also played for Bradford Park Avenue and in 2010 won the Yorkshire Matchplay golf tournament.

References

External links

Welsh Premier profile

1982 births
Living people
Footballers from Bradford
English men's footballers
Men's association football midfielders
Bradford City A.F.C. players
Aberystwyth Town F.C. players
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Bradford (Park Avenue) A.F.C. players
English Football League players
Cymru Premier players


Edward Brian Davies FRS (born 13 June 1944) is a former professor of Mathematics, King's College London (1981–2010), and is the author of the popular science book Science in the Looking Glass: What do Scientists Really Know. In 2010, he was awarded a Gauss Lecture by the German Mathematical Society.

Publications

Books

References

External links
 Brian Davies' King's College London Home Page
 Brian Davies' Personal Home Page
 Full proof? Let's trust it to the black box Times Higher Education 1 September 2006
 New Scientist book review of Why Beliefs Matter
 London Mathematical Society Review of Why Beliefs Matter: Reflections on the Nature of Science by Colva Roney-Dougal

1944 births
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Vladimir Mikhailovich Kuchmiy (, May 31, 1948 – 21 March 2009) was the founder and chief editor (from 1991 to 2009) of the Russian newspaper Sport Express.

Biography

Founder and Chief Editor of Sport Express
In August 1991, Kuchmiy (together with some reporters from then-USSR Sovetsky Sport newspaper) founded Sport Express as the first professional sports daily newspaper in Russia. He became the chief editor of the publication and kept this position until his death, largely influencing
the editorial policy but deliberately restraining himself from contributing to the newspaper. The circulation of the newspaper rose to 700,000 during Kuchmiy's editorship.

Death
Kuchmiy died on 21 March 2009 at the age of 60.

References

External links
 Биографическая справка
 Он был нашим всем

1948 births
2009 deaths
Russian newspaper editors
Soviet journalists
Russian sports journalists
Burials at Vagankovo Cemetery
Communist Party of the Soviet Union members
20th-century Russian journalists


The Cleft (2007) is a novel by Doris Lessing.

Plot summary
The story is narrated by a Roman historian, during the time of the Emperor Nero. He tells the story as a secret history of humanity's beginnings, as pieced together from scraps of documents and oral histories, passed down through the ages.

In the beginning, humanity was composed solely of females who reproduced asexually. They were at peace and had few problems. They lived by the sea and were partially aquatic. They called themselves "Clefts," after The Cleft: a fissure in a rock which the females deemed sacred, and which resembled a vagina.

One day, a Cleft gave birth to a male child, which they called a "monster." They were so frightened that they killed the boy. But more "monsters" were born, and the Clefts left them on a rock to die. Eagles, which lived nearby, saw the dying babies and swooped down and carried them off, to deposit them in a nearby valley where they were then suckled by benevolent deer. The children gradually grew older and able to fend for themselves. Soon, as more boys were brought by the eagles, a tribe emerged.

One day, a female wandered over to the valley and was raped by the now-adult men. She fled and gave birth to a new, mixed child nine months later. When she told her story to the rest of the Clefts, the two tribes soon came into contact with each other. The matriarchs of the Clefts, however, feared the "monsters" and decided to try to kill them off.

References

2007 British novels
Novels by Doris Lessing
Fourth Estate books
Novels set in ancient Rome


The postal history of the Pitcairn Islands began with letters being sent without postage stamps, as none were available on Pitcairn. In 1921, the United Kingdom and New Zealand formally agreed upon a system to handle post from the island, but this arrangement was ended in 1926. In 1927, stamps from New Zealand were introduced. To improve the revenue generation of the colony, the British government established an official post office on the island in 1940. The opening of this post office saw the issuance of the first set of Pitcairn Islands stamps.

Stamps from Pitcairn became popular among stamp collectors, and profits from their sale supported a significant proportion of the colony's budget. Early funds were used to construct a school, and hire a school teacher. At one point, stamp sales made up two-thirds of total government revenue. Despite government reliance on these sales, relatively few stamp designs were produced. Stamps were used to project a certain image of the island overseas, depicting life on the island and the tale of . Towards the end of the 20th century, a decrease in letter writing and in the popularity of stamp collecting led to a decline in revenue. In 2004, the territory became bankrupt.

History

Until the early 20th century, the Pitcairn Islands had no postal system. Outgoing mail was hand stamped with "Posted on Pitcairn Island: no stamps available", and was carried for free by passing ships. These letters received postal stamps and cancellation at various ports of calls, such as San Francisco to the East and New Zealand to the west. Occasional efforts were made to organise mail by the British consulate in nearby Tahiti, and some mail was unofficially handled by a postal office in the Panama Canal Zone following the opening of the canal in 1915. In 1921, the United Kingdom and New Zealand formally agreed to receive post from the island, allowing postal fees to be paid by the letter recipient.

However, in May 1926, the New Zealand government discontinued this arrangement following reports of ship passengers mixing their own mail into the "no stamp” system set aside for Pitcairn residents, leaving the island again without an official postal service. On 7 June 1927, a postal agency was set up on Pitcairn to sell stamps from New Zealand. Standard rates for New Zealand postage were applied. Post originating from the island was cancelled with the mark "Pitcairn Island/NZ Postal Agency". While New Zealand stamps were used, some commemorative covers were produced, such as one commemorating the establishment of a radio link to the island in 1938.

In 1937, James Scott Neill, then the British Consul in Tonga, visited the island, tasked with examining the island's governance. At the time Britain sought for its colonies to be financially self-sufficient, and Neill suggested that selling postage stamps would be the only way in which Pitcairn could support itself. Following his report, it was announced on 30 April 1940 that an official Post Office would be established on the island. Henry Evans Maude was sent from the Gilbert and Ellice Islands to bring "those twin blessings of civilization, a legal code and...postage stamps."

The New Zealand postal agency ceased operations on 14 October, and the next day the Pitcairn Islands Post Office was opened, along with the release of the first set of Pitcairn postage stamps. These first stamps were delivered by the Fiji Post and Telegraph Department. One first day cover was sent to then-Princess Elizabeth. On the island, first day covers sold out within the day. Envelopes soon ran out, leading to the use of homemade envelopes made first from paper, and later—when paper ran out—from coconut tree materials. The first postmaster was Roy Palmer Clark. In 1941, a new Post Office was built in the central square of Adamstown. The volume of mail sent from the island grew significantly following this. In 1957, Clark called for a bigger post office, which was constructed in the 1960s.

These stamps became very popular with stamp collectors, and their sale became the dominant source of revenue for the community. In the first six months, £12,760 were sold. Profits went into a general fund which enabled the island to be mostly self-sufficient. This fund was used to meet the regular needs of the community, and pay wages. Funds in excess of regular expenses were used to build a school and hire a teacher from New Zealand, the first professional teacher hired on the island. The fund was also used to subsidise imports and travel to New Zealand. The stamps from the first set were sold until July 1957. By the 1970s, stamp sales contributed two-thirds of the government's revenue. At later points, the sale of coins and .pn domain names also contributed to the fund. Towards the end of the 20th century, as writing letters became less common and stamp collecting declined in popularity, revenue for the fund declined. In 2004, the island went bankrupt, with the British government subsequently providing 90% of its annual budget.

Mail services to and from the island are infrequent. Post is sent via supply ships from New Zealand, which are scheduled a minimum of three times each year. Passing ships sometimes deliver mail to New Zealand on an ad hoc basis.

Until September 2020, the New Zealand-based Pitcairn Islands Philatelic Bureau coordinated the territory's stamp program. On 20 September 2020, the management of the Pitcairn Islands Philatelic Bureau was turned over to Tower Mint, from the United Kingdom.

Designs

The first 1940 set of stamps consisted of eight denominations, with two additional denominations added in 1951. Printed by two British companies, they featured an image of King George VI alongside depictions of the island and one map locating Pitcairn. The 1957 definitive stamps, which consisted of 11 denominations, showed Queen Elizabeth II alongside further scenes depicting aspects of life on the island. One depicted the school-teacher's house, although it was initially mislabelled as the school itself.

Despite the reliance of the island on stamp sales to collectors, relatively few stamp designs were issued. By 1989, there were fewer than 300 designs that had been produced. Most of them have catalogue values of under US$10. The program issues up to six commemorative stamps per year, and new definitive stamps are issued on an average cycle of five years. Stamps designs were chosen to project a certain image of the islands to the outside world, such as telling the story of , while avoiding spurious topics. Commemorative issues have been created to celebrate events in local history, developments in the British royal family such as weddings and jubilees, and local wildlife. Unsold stamps were destroyed to help preserve the collectible value of the stamps. One of three stamps issued on 15 November 1961 to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the return of some islanders from Norfolk Island was described as "cartographically the worst stamp ever perpetrated" by Dudley Stamp in 1966, in his speech as President to a meeting of the Royal Geographical Society, due to the poor representation of the shapes of both islands and the lack of scale.

List of people on stamps of the Pitcairn Islands
Below is a partial list of people on stamps of the Pitcairn Islands arranged in alphabetical order:
 John Adams (1940)
 Thomas Adams (1969)
 Prince Andrew, Duke of York (1986)
 Princess Anne (1973)
 Captain William Bligh (1940)
 Charles, Prince of Wales (1981)
 Fletcher Christian (1940)
 Winston Churchill (1974)
 Diana, Princess of Wales (1981)
 Charles Dickens (2012)
 Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex (1999)
 Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother (1949)
 Elizabeth II (1952)
 George VI (1940)
 Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (1971)
 Robert Pitcairn (2017)
 Sarah, Duchess of York (1986)
 Sir Peter Scott (1992)
 Sophie, Countess of Wessex (1999)
 Chris Stewart (2009)
 John Tay (1986)
 George Washington (1976)
 Simon Young (1961)

Gallery

References

Further reading
 Foxwell, F.W. Pitcairn Islands, stamps and postal history. Taunton: The Author, 1967 70p.
 Kisling, Vernon N., Jr. The Pitcairn Islands Specialized Stamp Catalog. Greenville, ME.: Moosehead Communications, 2010 , 240p.

External links

 Pitcairn Islands Philatelic Bureau
 Pitcairn Islands Study Group
 PISG: A history of Pitcairn postal rates
 Women of the Bounty stamps (pdf download link)
 List of Pitcairn Islands stamps

Pitcairn Islands
Pitcairn Islands-related lists
Philately by country
Philately of New Zealand


Events in the year 1784 in Norway.

Incumbents
Monarch: Christian VII

Events
Georgernes Verft, a shipyard in Bergen, was established.

Arts and literature

Røros Church was built.

Births
7 March - Svend Borchmann Hersleb, professor of theology and politician (d.1836)
28 April - Jørgen von Cappelen Knudtzon, businessman and patron of the arts (d.1854)
12 June - Paul Andreas Kaald, navy officer and businessman (d.1867)
11 July - Olaus Michael Schmidt, judge and politician (d.1851)
26 September - Christopher Hansteen, astronomer and physicist (d.1873)

Full date unknown
Michael Sevald Aamodt, politician (d.1859)
Christian Ulrik Kastrup, jurist, military officer and politician (d.1850)
Jørgen Herman Vogt, politician (d.1862)
Tørris Johnsen Worum, politician

Deaths

See also


Bradenton Area Convention Center, formerly Manatee Civic Center, is a 4,000-seat multi-purpose arena and convention center in Palmetto, Florida.  It was home to the Florida Stingers of the Continental Basketball Association and Florida Scorpions of the American Professional Football League. It also hosted UWF's first and only live pay-per-view event, Beach Brawl, on June 9, 1991.

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Fernando Alejandro Manríquez Hernández (born February 1, 1984) is a Chilean professional footballer who plays for Primera B de Chile side Santiago Morning.

Honours

Club
Santiago Morning
 Primera B: 2005

Universidad de Concepción
 Copa Chile: 2014–15

Coquimbo Unido
 Primera B: 2021

External links

1984 births
Living people
Footballers from Santiago
Chilean men's footballers
Chile men's international footballers
Men's association football midfielders
Santiago Morning footballers
Everton de Viña del Mar footballers
Unión La Calera footballers
Deportes Iquique footballers
C.D. Universidad de Concepción footballers
Coquimbo Unido footballers
Chilean Primera División players
Primera B de Chile players


Johnnie Carson (born April 7, 1943) is a diplomat from the United States who has served as United States Ambassador to several African nations.  In 2009 he was nominated to become U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs by President Barack Obama. He resigned in 2013 after four years in the role and following the resignation of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. He is currently a Senior Advisor at Albright Stonebridge Group and the United States Institute of Peace.

Background
Carson was born April 7, 1943, in Chicago, Ill. Carson is married, has three children, and resides in Reston, Virginia. He graduated from Drake University with a B.A. in History and Political Science in 1965 and later obtained a Master of Arts in International Relations from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London in 1975. Before joining the Foreign Service, Carson was a Peace Corps volunteer in Tanzania from 1965 to 1968.

Foreign service career
Carson joined the United States National Intelligence Council as National Intelligence Officer for Africa in September 2006 after a 37-year career in Foreign Service. Prior to this appointment, Carson served as the Senior Vice President of the National Defense University in Washington D.C. (2003–2006). Carson's Foreign Service career includes ambassadorships to Kenya (1999–2003), Zimbabwe (1995–1997), and Uganda (1991–1994); and Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Bureau of African Affairs (1997–1999).

Earlier in his career he had assignments in Portugal (1982–1986), Botswana (1986–1990), Mozambique (1975–1978), and Nigeria (1969–1971). He has also served as desk officer in the Africa section at State's Bureau of Intelligence and Research (1971–1974); Staff Officer for the Secretary of State (1978–1979), and Staff Director for the Africa Subcommittee of the US House of Representatives (1979–1982).

Carson is the recipient of several Superior Honor Awards from the Department of State and a Meritorious Service Award from Secretary of State Madeleine Albright. The Centers for Disease Control presented Ambassador Carson its highest award, "Champion of Prevention Award", for his leadership in directing the US Government's HIV/AIDS prevention efforts in Kenya.  Upon his departure from the assistant secretaryship, Carson was given accolades from the ambassadors of the ECOWAS countries, who together praised him for extraordinary efforts to bind the United States together with their countries.

Assistant Secretary of State

In March 2009, Carson was nominated to become U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs by President Barack Obama. In February 2013, Carson said of the Kenyan elections that the US wasn't officially backing any candidate, but "choices have consequences," reportedly contradicting President Obama's office after Obama said the decision was "up to the Kenyan people."

In March 2013, it was reported that Carson would be stepping down from his post after serving for four years. In May 2013, Carson joined the United States Institute of Peace as a senior adviser. Carson also serves on the Board of Directors of the National Democratic Institute.

On January 15, 2015, he urged increased engagement with Nigeria for both the US and European partners, to assist in maintaining stability in the light of the upcoming 2015 Nigerian general election, security problems in Northeastern Nigeria, and economic concerns regarding rising oil prices.

References

External links
 U.S. Department of State: Johnnie Carson biography

1943 births
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George Boote (1878 – 1930) was an English football goalkeeper who played in the Football League for Burslem Port Vale and Stoke.

Career
Boote played one match for Stoke; his one appearance came in a 1–1 draw with Nottingham Forest in October 1901. He then played for local amateur sides Halmerend Rovers and Silverdale Town before joining Burslem Port Vale as Arthur Box's deputy in November 1905. His debut came in a 2–1 defeat to Barnsley at the Athletic Ground on 27 January 1906. He only played a further two games before being released at the end of the season. He then moved on to Knutton Rovers.

Career statistics
Source:

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Footballers from Stoke-on-Trent
English men's footballers
Men's association football goalkeepers
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1878 births
1930 deaths


The Clare Valley Racecourse is a racecourse near Stanley Flat, South Australia.

In the early 1880s an annual New Year's Day race meeting took place on a number of local properties in the Clare Valley. Since then, the Clare Valley Racing Club has increased its race dates to three or four annually.

Regular events include Clare Valley Easter Races, April Clare Cup, and races in November.

References

External links
https://web.archive.org/web/20081122044412/http://www.trsa.com.au/clubs/clare.html
Armagh Renews SA Apprentice Series

Horse racing venues in Australia
Mid North (South Australia)