Bird Millman O’Day (born Jennadean Engleman; October 20, 1890 – August 5, 1940) was one of the most celebrated high-wire performers of all time. During the “Golden Age of the American Circus,” she was a premiere attraction with the Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus.

Mud shows and vaudeville
Born Jennadean Engleman in Cañon City, Colorado, young Bird traveled in mud shows (small circuses) with her parents, Dyke F. Engleman and Genevieve Patton Engleman. In 1904, the Millman Trio entered big-time vaudeville, playing such destinations as Keith's Union Square and Hammerstein's Paradise Roof Garden. At one point Bird was dubbed, perhaps ironically, "the Eva Tanguay of the Wire."

At Berlin's Wintergarten Theatre, Bird gave a command performance before the court of Kaiser Wilhelm II. Upon her return to the United States, her act became Bird Millman & Co., adding the New York Hippodrome and the Palace Theatre (Broadway) to her list of credits. One of the troop's new members, Fern Andra, did not return after a brief European tour; later, she resurfaced as a star of German silent film.

Circus and Follies
In 1913, Bird became a center-ring performer with the Barnum and Bailey Circus, where she remained after its merger with the Ringling Brothers Circus. In the seasons of 1919 and 1920, the side rings were vacant during Bird's performance; such singularity was reserved for the circus's greatest stars. Bird's peers were equestrienne May Wirth and aerialist Lillian Leitzel, the latter widely considered the greatest circus star of all time. Bird spent the circus's off-season on Broadway, appearing in The Ziegfeld Follies of 1916 and in several editions of Ziegfeld's Frolics.

In 1921, she appeared in John Murray Anderson's Third Annual Greenwich Village Follies. In 1920, she performed a specialty number in The Deep Purple, a silent film directed by Raoul Walsh. Bird never relied on novelty or hair-raising stunts; rather, she was acclaimed for her unusual speed and seemingly effortless grace. Contrary to several well-meaning accounts, she did, indeed, employ a parasol for balance. During several exhibitions, she performed high above the streets of New York City; in addition to selling war bonds at such exhibitions, she gained widespread publicity.

Following her retirement from show business, the cross-dressing Berta Beeson, “the Julian Eltinge of the Wire,” paid homage to her legacy in form and content.

Personal life
Millman's first two marriages were brief: one ending in annulment, the other in quick divorce. Her third husband was Harvard graduate and military veteran, Joseph Francis O'Day, who died shortly after losing his fortune in the stock market crash of 1929.

Death
Destitute, Bird joined her mother and extended family in her native Colorado, where she died of uterine cancer several months before her fiftieth birthday. Her eulogy was written by author Dixie Willson (sister of composer Meredith Willson).

Circus Hall of Fame
Bird Millman was inducted posthumously into the International Circus Hall of Fame in 1961.

Fictional
She is mentioned briefly in Gwenda Bond's book Girl on a Wire as the main protagonist's idol.

References

Resources
Items of interest
 Vanity Fair, October 1916 (cover)
 “Why Bewitching Bird Millman ‘Hushed’ Her Goldspoon Marriage,” Denver Post (Magazine Section), 12 October 1924, p. 2
 Willson, Dixie. Little Texas (1929); Mystery in Spangles (1950)

Collections
 The Royal Gorge Regional Museum & History Center in Cañon City, Colorado houses several artifacts, including personal letters and Bird's vaudeville scrapbook.
 The Robert L. Parkinson Library and Research Center at the Circus World Museum houses programs, photographs, and more.

External links

 International Circus Hall of Fame Inductees
 The Circus in America - Bird Millman

  Bird Millman in The Historical Museum of the City of Kraków

1890 births
1940 deaths
American circus performers
Tightrope walkers
Vaudeville performers
Ziegfeld girls
People from Cañon City, Colorado
Deaths from uterine cancer
Deaths from cancer in Colorado
20th-century circus performers


Differentiation-inducing factor (DIF) is one of a class of effector molecules that induce changes in cell chemistry, inhibiting growth and promoting differentiation of cell type.  This name has been given to several factors before it was clear if they were the same or different effectors.  More recently DIFs have garnered interest with their potential tumor inhibiting properties.  DIFs have also been used to help regulate plant growth.

Differentiation-inducing factors 1-3

Initial studies

Dictyostelium discoideum has been used since the 1940s to study cellular and developmental biology.  It is well-suited for this research because it only develops two types of cells (stalk and spore) during morphogenesis.  Each cell type has a distinct physical origin within the organism; pre-stalk cells coming from the anterior side and pre-spore cells from the posterior. Early evidence showed the differentiation of dense patches of pre-stalk cells were induced by cyclic AMP (cAMP) along with "a factor" that was likely low in molecular weight and able to diffuse across membranes.  The structures for DIF-1, DIF-2, and DIF-3 were identified as these factors for stalk differentiation and subsequently synthesized to further research into implications for developmental biology.  DIFs 1-3 are chlorinated hexaphenones (phenylalkan-1-ones, with chloro, hydroxy and methoxy substitution on the benzene ring), and have been isolated from Dictyostelium discoideum slime mold.

Some research has shown that they have a role in controlling chemotaxis of Dictyostelium discoideum, too.  DIF-1 and DIF-3 are related in structure and function.  DIF-3 is formed from the first step in the breakdown of DIF-1.  In this state DIF-3 only performs about 3.5% as much of the activity of its predecessor.  DIF-2 is unrelated to DIFs -1 and -3, but it works 40% as well as DIF-1 does to induce differentiation in stalk cells.  Despite this similarity in function during differentiation, DIFs -1 and -2 act very differently in chemotactic movement of the cells toward cAMP.  DIF-1 has a slight inhibitory effect on movement of starved cells toward cAMP, while DIF-2 has a strong positive effect of movement of these cells toward cAMP.  These effects are thought to be carried out through phosphodiesterase activations that impact cGMP production to impact chemotaxis.  An increase in chemotaxis can be related to malignant migration of cancer cells.

Anti-tumor properties

Investigation into the anti-tumor properties of DIFs have followed one main line; the disruption of a pathway necessary for the cancer's uncontrolled growth reducing its proliferative ability.  As mentioned above, the ability of DIF-1 to decrease movement of proliferating cells toward sources of energy could serve as an anti-tumor property.  In another example, DIF-1 has been shown to reduce the proliferation of gastric cancer cells via upregulation of the MEK-ERK-dependent pathway.    Other studies have shown how complicated the anti-tumor interactions of DIFs may be, especially when considering the indirect impacts DIFs have on target molecules.  For instance, DIF-like molecules have been shown to inhibit cell growth and bring about cell death through uncoupling in mitochondria.

Expanding uses for DIF-like molecules

More recent focus has been on the potential therapeutic effects DIF-like molecules.  Derivatives of DIF-1 and DIF-3 have already been investigated with promising initial results.  One group of derivatives yielded two DIF-1-like compounds that were effective in suppression of IL-2 production which could be helpful in controlling septic responses and other infections.

Running List of DIF and DIF-like molecule effects

 Inhibit proliferation of cancer cells (leukemia, cervical, gastric, and colon) (DIF -1 and/or -3)
 Reduces expression of Cyclin D mRNA and increases its degradation (DIF -1 and -3)
 Inhibition of ERK and STAT3 signaling (DIF -1)
 Inhibition of PAK1 activity in breast cancer cells (DIF-3 derivative)
 Suppression of IL-2 production (DIF-1 derivatives)
 Phosphorylation and dephosphorylation changes (DIF-1)
 Uncoupling in mitochondria (DIF-3)
 Inhibits PDE1(DIF-1)

References

Aromatic ketones
Chlorobenzenes
Phenols


Sasagawa is a Japanese surname. Notable people with the surname include:

Hiroshi Sasagawa (born 1936), creator of several anime and manga series
Ryohei Sasagawa, fictional character in the anime and manga series Reborn! by Akira Amano
Ryuhei Sasagawa, character in the novel Battle Royale
Takashi Sasagawa (born 1935), Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party

Japanese-language surnames


The Royal Commission of Inquiry into the Response of the Newfoundland Criminal Justice System to Complaints also known as the Hughes Inquiry was a Canadian royal commission chaired by a retired judge, Samuel Hughes, launched after allegations of sexual abuse by members of the Congregation of Christian Brothers at Mount Cashel Orphanage in Newfoundland. The commission began inquiry investigations on 1 June 1989 and published its report in April 1992.

Description
Further investigations followed into allegations at other institutions across Canada. The inquiry concluded that officials had transferred offenders and covered up the sexual abuse at Mount Cashel. It recommended that victims be compensated.

There was insufficient evidence to charge church and government officials with obstructing justice. Eleven Christian Brothers were eventually convicted and sentenced to between 4 months and 11 years in prison.

The orphanage was closed in 1990,  and on April 5, 1992, the Brothers formally apologised to the victims of abuse at Mount Cashel.

The fight to compensate the victims of Mount Cashel lasted for many years and in 1996 the Newfoundland government paid $11.5 million in compensation. The courts ordered the assets of the Brothers sold to compensate the victims, who were to receive between $20,000 and $600,000 each in compensation.

See also
 Mount Cashel Orphanage
 Sexual abuse scandal in St. John's archdiocese
 The Boys of St. Vincent, a movie based on the scandal

References

Catholic Church sexual abuse scandals in Canada
Newfoundland and Labrador law
Canadian commissions and inquiries
1990s in Newfoundland and Labrador
Child sexual abuse in Canada


LTR retrotransposons are class I transposable element characterized by the presence of long terminal repeats (LTRs) directly flanking an internal coding region. As retrotransposons, they mobilize through reverse transcription of their mRNA and integration of the newly created cDNA into another location. Their mechanism of retrotransposition is shared with retroviruses, with the difference that most LTR-retrotransposons do not form infectious particles that leave the cells and therefore only replicate inside their genome of origin. Those that do (occasionally) form virus-like particles are classified under Ortervirales.

Their size ranges from a few hundred base pairs to 25kb, for example the Ogre retrotransposon in the pea genome.

In plant genomes, LTR retrotransposons are the major repetitive sequence class, for example, constituting more than 75% of the maize genome. LTR retrotransposons make up about 8% of the human genome and approximately 10% of the mouse genome.

Structure and propagation
LTR retrotransposons have direct long terminal repeats that range from ~100 bp to over 5 kb in size. LTR retrotransposons are further sub-classified into the Ty1-copia-like (Pseudoviridae), Ty3-like (Metaviridae, formally referred to as Gypsy-like, a name that is being considered for retirement), and BEL-Pao-like (Belpaoviridae) groups based on both their degree of sequence similarity and the order of encoded gene products. Ty1-copia and Ty3-Metaviridae groups of retrotransposons are commonly found in high copy number (up to a few million copies per haploid nucleus) in animals, fungi, protista, and plants genomes. BEL-Pao like elements have so far only been found in animals.

All functional LTR-retrotransposons encode a minimum of two genes, gag and pol, that are sufficient for their replication. Gag encodes a polyprotein with a capsid and a nucleocapsid domain. Gag proteins form virus-like particles in the cytoplasm inside which reverse-transcription occurs. The Pol gene produces three proteins: a protease (PR), a reverse transcriptase endowed with an RT (reverse-transcriptase) and an RNAse H domains, and an integrase (IN).

Typically, LTR-retrotransposon mRNAs are produced by the host RNA pol II acting on a promoter located in their 5’ LTR. The Gag and Pol genes are encoded in the same mRNA. Depending on the host species, two different strategies can be used to express the two polyproteins: a fusion into a single open reading frame (ORF) that is then cleaved or the introduction of a frameshift between the two ORFs. Occasional ribosomal frameshifting allows the production of both proteins, while ensuring that much more Gag protein is produced to form virus-like particles.

Reverse transcription usually initiates at a short sequence located immediately downstream of the 5’-LTR and termed the primer binding site (PBS). Specific host tRNAs bind to the PBS and act as primers for reverse-transcription, which occurs in a complex and multi-step process, ultimately producing a double- stranded cDNA molecule. The cDNA is finally integrated into a new location, creating short TSDs (Target Site Duplications)  and adding a new copy in the host genome

Types

Ty1-copia retrotransposons

Ty1-copia retrotransposons are abundant in species ranging from single-cell algae to bryophytes, gymnosperms, and angiosperms. They encode four protein domains in the following order: protease, integrase, reverse transcriptase, and ribonuclease H.

At least two classification systems exist for the subdivision of Ty1-copia retrotransposons into five lineages: Sireviruses/Maximus, Oryco/Ivana, Retrofit/Ale, TORK (subdivided in Angela/Sto, TAR/Fourf, GMR/Tork), and Bianca.

Sireviruses/Maximus retrotransposons contain an additional putative envelope gene. This lineage is named for the founder element SIRE1 in the Glycine max genome, and was later described in many species such as Zea mays, Arabidopsis thaliana, Beta vulgaris, and Pinus pinaster. Plant Sireviruses of many sequenced plant genomes are summarized at the MASIVEdb Sirevirus database.

Ty3-retrotransposons (formally gypsy)

Ty3-retrotransposons are widely distributed in the plant kingdom, including both gymnosperms and angiosperms. They encode at least four protein domains in the order: protease, reverse transcriptase, ribonuclease H, and integrase. Based on structure, presence/absence of specific protein domains, and conserved protein sequence motifs, they can be subdivided into several lineages:

Errantiviruses contain an additional defective envelope ORF with similarities to the retroviral envelope gene. First described as Athila-elements in Arabidopsis thaliana, they have been later identified in many species, such as Glycine max and Beta vulgaris.

Chromoviruses contain an additional chromodomain (chromatin organization modifier domain) at the C-terminus of their integrase protein. They are widespread in plants and fungi, probably retaining protein domains during evolution of these two kingdoms. It is thought that the chromodomain directs retrotransposon integration to specific target sites. According to sequence and structure of the chromodomain, chromoviruses are subdivided into the four clades CRM, Tekay, Reina and Galadriel. Chromoviruses from each clade show distinctive integration patterns, e.g. into centromeres or into the rRNA genes.

Ogre-elements are gigantic Ty3-retrotransposons reaching lengths up to 25 kb.  Ogre elements have been first described in Pisum sativum.

Metaviruses describe conventional Ty3-gypsy retrotransposons that do not contain additional domains or ORFs.

The Sushi family of Ty3 long terminal repeat retrotransposons were first identified in teleost fish and Sushi-like neogenes were subsequently identified in mammals. Mammalian retrotransposon-derived transcripts (MARTs) cannot transpose but have retained open reading frames, demonstrate high levels of evolutionary conservation and are subject to selective pressures, which suggests some have become neofunctionalized genes with new cellular functions. Retrotransposon gag-like-3 (RTL3/ZCCHC5/MART3) is one of eleven Sushi-like neogenes identified in the human genome.

BEL/pao family

The BEL/pao family is found in animals.

Endogenous retroviruses (ERV)

Although retroviruses are often classified separately, they share many features with LTR retrotransposons. A major difference with Ty1-copia and Ty3-gypsy retrotransposons is that retroviruses have an envelope protein (ENV). A retrovirus can be transformed into an LTR retrotransposon through inactivation or deletion of the domains that enable extracellular mobility. If such a retrovirus infects and subsequently inserts itself in the genome in germ line cells, it may become transmitted vertically and become an Endogenous Retrovirus.

Terminal repeat retrotransposons in miniature (TRIMs)
Some LTR retrotransposons lack all of their coding domains. Due to their short size, they are referred to as terminal repeat retrotransposons in miniature (TRIMs). Nevertheless, TRIMs can be able to retrotranspose, as they may rely on the coding domains of autonomous Ty1-copia or Ty3-gypsy retrotransposons. Among the TRIMs, the Cassandra family plays an exceptional role, as the family is unusually wide-spread among higher plants. In contrast to all other characterized TRIMs, Cassandra elements harbor a 5S rRNA promoter in their LTR sequence. Due to their short overall length and the relatively high contribution of the flanking LTRs, TRIMs are prone to re-arrangements by recombination.

References

Mobile genetic elements


Vitali Valeryevich Timofeyev (; born 4 February 1982) is a former Russian professional footballer.

Club career
He made his debut in the Russian Premier League in 2004 for FC Khimki.

References

External links

1982 births
People from Novocherkassk
Living people
Russian men's footballers
Men's association football defenders
Russian Premier League players
Russian expatriate men's footballers
Expatriate men's footballers in Belarus
FC SKA Rostov-on-Don players
FC Rotor Volgograd players
FC Mordovia Saransk players
FC Baltika Kaliningrad players
FC Shakhtyor Soligorsk players
FC Luch Vladivostok players
FC Khimki players
FC Vityaz Podolsk players
FC Sokol Saratov players
FC Zenit-Izhevsk players
FC Nika Krasny Sulin players
FC Dynamo Makhachkala players
Footballers from Rostov Oblast


Lincoln Paul McIlravy (born July 17, 1974) is an American former freestyle and folkstyle wrestler.

High School and College Career
McIlravy wrestled for Philip High School in Philip, South Dakota where he won five state titles, going on to wrestle in college for the University of Iowa under celebrated coach Dan Gable. He was a four-time finalist and three-time NCAA Wrestling Division I champion, winning in 1993, 1994 and 1997.

International career

McIlravy later competed for the United States in the 1998 and 1999 World Championships, 1999 Pan Am Games, and the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia, where he won the bronze medal in the Freestyle 69 kg competition.

As a competitor, McIlravy was known for his aggressive and innovative attacks, including the so-called "boot scoot" technique. For his numerous accolades and example of a student-athlete, McIlravy was inducted into the National High School Hall of Fame. In 2009, McIlravy was inducted into the National Wrestling Hall of Fame as a Distinguished Member.

Since retirement from competition, McIlravy became a businessman, owning different hotels in Iowa and Nebraska.

References

Bibliography
 Zavoral, Nolan. 1997. A Season on the Mat. Simon & Schuster.
 Hammond, Jairus K. 2005. The History of Collegiate Wrestling. National Wrestling Hall of Fame and Museum.

External links

1974 births
Living people
Wrestlers at the 2000 Summer Olympics
American male sport wrestlers
Olympic bronze medalists for the United States in wrestling
People from Haakon County, South Dakota
Sportspeople from Rapid City, South Dakota
Iowa Hawkeyes wrestlers
World Wrestling Championships medalists
Medalists at the 2000 Summer Olympics
Wrestlers at the 1999 Pan American Games
Pan American Games gold medalists for the United States
Pan American Games medalists in wrestling
Medalists at the 1999 Pan American Games
20th-century American people


Aguri may refer to:

Places
Aguri (caste), Bengali Hindu agricultural caste in India

People
, Japanese painter in the nihonga style of watercolour painting
, former racing driver from Japan
, female manga artist from Japan
, Japanese actress

Pop Culture
Aguri Suzuki F-1 Super Driving, Formula One simulator for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System
Autobacs Racing Team Aguri, joint racing project between former F1 driver Aguri Suzuki and Autobacs Seven Co
Team Aguri, Formula E race team founded by former F1 driver Aguri Suzuki
Super Aguri (disambiguation)

Fictional Characters
Aguri Yukimura, a fictional character from Assassination Classroom

Japanese unisex given names


The 1923 Ice Hockey European Championship was the eighth edition of the ice hockey tournament for European countries associated to the International Ice Hockey Federation.

The tournament was played between March 7, and March 11, 1923, in Antwerp, Belgium, and was won by Sweden.

Results

March 7

March 8

March 9

March 10

March 11

Final standings

Top Goalscorer

Léon Quaglia (France), 10 goals

References
 Euro Championship 1923

1923
Ice Hockey European Championships
Sports competitions in Antwerp
1920s in Antwerp
March 1923 sports events


Anthony John James Bailey,  (born 13 January 1970) is a British public relations consultant.

Bailey was active in UK political circles in the early 2000s, and has also had roles with various charities and Catholic organisations. He has received various honours. These included an Order of the British Empire (OBE) awarded in the 2008 Birthday Honours. However, he has also been stripped of various honours, including the OBE, which was revoked in 2023 after a London High Court judge sentenced him to prison for contempt of court in a 2022 divorce hearing.

Personal life and background
Bailey was born in London on 13 January 1970 and brought up in Ruislip, attending The Douay Martyrs School then University College London. His father, Colin, was an engineer and instructor at FÁS, an Irish state body responsible for training the unemployed. Before entering public relations, Bailey sold men's suits and worked in a pizza restaurant.

Public relations
Bailey was a senior account director for communications firm Burson-Marsteller, which he joined in 1993, chairman of his own company Eligo International (incorporated in 1998), then chairman of Anthony Bailey Ltd, a public relations company incorporated in 2014. Eligo International was dissolved in January 2016 with their final accounts showing funds of -£85,000. Anthony Bailey Ltd did not trade until 2016, and in accounts posted that year showed liabilities of more than £40,000. Anthony Bailey Ltd was dissolved  by order of Companies House in October 2020. Its most recent accounts from 2018 showed it had built up losses of more than £220,000.

In 2007 The Observer referred to Bailey as a "PR guru who is one of the most influential men you have never heard of" and "a key player in the world of Catholic and Middle East politics." Bailey's descriptions of his own occupation have included "Public Relations Consultant" (2010), "Royal And Diplomatic Consultant" (2011), and "Head R. Order of Knighthood" (2004).

Politics
Bailey was co-president of the think-tank British Influence and a supporter of Britain's membership of both the European Union and the Commonwealth. He was a supporter of the Conservative Party until 1999 from which time he aligned himself with the Labour Party. He made a substantial donation to the failed leadership campaign of David Miliband in 2010.

In 2005, it emerged that a £500,000 donation Bailey had made to the Labour party had been rejected by its chief fundraiser, Lord Levy, who allegedly feared the money had come from foreign businessmen. Bailey insisted the money was his own and issued legal proceedings. He later said: "The Labour party has apologised unreservedly for any distress that the affair caused". A subsequent donation of £50,000 was accepted.

New version of a royal order of knighthood
In the 1990s, Bailey "revived" the so-called "Delegation for Great Britain and Ireland of the Sacred Military Constantinian Order of Saint George", under the authority of Prince Carlo, Duke of Castro, who is the "Franco-Neapolitan branch" claimant to the headship of the House of Bourbon-Two Sicilies. (The House of Bourbon-Two Sicilies has controlled no territory since the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies was suppressed in 1860. Since 1960 the headship of the House has been disputed.) In 2009 Bailey was appointed "magistral delegate" of the Delegation, and the organisation has awarded him other honours. Bailey has never been an officer or member of the long-established version of the Order, which is under the authority of Prince Pedro, Duke of Calabria, the "Hispano-Neapolitan branch" claimant to the House of Bourbon-Two Sicilies. The longstanding version of the Order has no connection with Bailey, nor with his business activities, nor with the order of which he is described as "delegate".

In December 2020, Bailey resigned from all the roles he held in his branch of the Constantinian Order, citing its impact on his "physical and mental health", though his personal website still lists him as a "campaigner" for the order. There has been no announcement of a successor, although the order's website continues to be maintained.

Charity activities
Bailey was appointed in 1999 as executive chairman of the Saudi organization "Painting & Patronage". (The UK company "Painting and Patronage" was dissolved in 2014.) From December 2005 to November 2013, Bailey was a director of the United Learning Trust. He was, from December 2009 to July 2016, a director of St Mary's University.

In 2016, Bailey was appointed President of the Executive Council of the Portuguese Centenary Appeal. He is also a Patron of the Faiths Forum for London.

Controversies
In 1995 police recorded his telephone conversations with a client, who claimed to be a Libyan prince. Bailey was accused of blackmailing the client, but the case was dismissed before it got to court. Bailey complained to the Press Complaints Commission about the way this was reported in the Daily Mail in 2010; in resolution, the PCC negotiated a statement from the Mail that it had omitted some details in reporting these circumstances, and that it apologised for any distress caused.

Bailey claimed to be Ambassador-at-Large for The Gambia between 2004 and 2007, though the Gambian High Commission in London said at the time that they don't know much about him and "He has no office here".

According to the Prime Minister of Grenada, Keith Mitchell, Bailey asked to be made the country's ambassador to the Holy See, which Mitchell rejected.

Honours granted and removed
In the 2008 Birthday Honours, Bailey was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) "for his services to inter-religious relations and charity." This was revoked in August 2023 following Bailey's failing to obey court orders.

In 2014, Bailey was appointed Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of the Nation, by the Governor-General of Antigua and Barbuda. In May 2016, the British tabloid The Mail on Sunday reported that Bailey was accused of incorrectly using an Antiguan knighthood as if it were a British title. (Since 1813 Buckingham Palace and the Foreign Office have not allowed the use of titles from foreign knighthoods in the United Kingdom by British citizens.)

Bailey also stated that he had Antiguan citizenship on the basis of his Antiguan passport, issued when he was appointed as their special economic envoy to the European Union in 2015. The Antiguan government did confirm that Bailey's passport inaccurately stated that he is a national of Antigua and Barbuda. However, Bailey was never granted Antiguan citizenship, whether by investment or otherwise.

The British firm that prints the passports apparently assumed that anyone to be issued an Antigua and Barbuda passport would be a national of that country, and they were not informed that this did not apply to Bailey. Bailey's knighthood and his appointment as an economic envoy then became subject to review by the Antiguan Governor General. On 21 July 2017 his Antiguan knighthood was annulled.

Bailey was granted a Grenadian knighthood in 2015. The government of Grenada reviewed this grant and took legal advice; the knighthood was rescinded in August 2016. In December 2016 Private Eye reported that Bailey's lawyers were issuing legal warning letters to any Caribbean local newspapers which had reported on the knighthood controversies.

Divorce and prison sentence
On 1 February 2022 the High Court in London gave Bailey a 12 month prison sentence for contempt of court. The order followed an application by his ex-wife, Marie-Therese von Hohenberg, over Bailey's failure to comply with a court order relating to the couple's divorce settlement, which included a half-share of his villa in Portugal. The judge, Mr Justice Peel, said that Bailey had been "obstructing the court at almost every possible opportunity, deploying numerous tactical and forensic ploys to attempt to delay the process, and divert attention from his grossly culpable conduct". His behaviour "displays dishonesty, wilful obstruction, and barefaced contempt for the court process, all to avoid paying that which is owed to his former wife. It is a shameful spectacle deserving of considerable opprobrium." Bailey was believed to be in Portugal (in January 2022 he claimed to be too ill to travel, but he had made seven trips to Spain, Germany, Rome, and the US between June 2021 and January 2022, and the judge on this occasion, Sir Jonathan Cohen, discovered that he was actually in Florida). The prison sentence will only take effect if he returns to the United Kingdom.

In February 2023, it was announced that Bailey was engaged to Ms Farley Rentschler of Palm Beach, Florida.

Honours and awards
For many years, Bailey has sought honours and awards, particularly those of chivalric orders. Some were received in exchange for awards bestowed by Bailey's recreated order of knighthood, and some awards received have since been revoked amid controversy.

 Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Saint Sylvester (GCSS) - July 2009; Knight Commander (KCSS) - 2004

 Knight Grand Cross of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem (KGCHS) - July 2017

 Grand Officer of the Order of San Carlos - 2008, in a reciprocal arrangement whereby Bailey's Order and Colombian authorities gifted awards to each other.

 Sternberg Interfaith Gold Medallion - 2012

Revoked honours
 Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) - Awarded in the 2008 Birthday Honours "for his services to inter-religious relations and charity." Revoked in August 2023 due to Bailey's breach of the court order.

 Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Nation of Grenada – Awarded in 2015, revoked in 2016.

 Governor General of Grenada's Medal of Honour (in Gold) – Awarded in 2015, revoked in 2016.

 Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of the Nation of Antigua – Awarded in 2014, revoked in 2017.

Publications
 "How do we tell the real story?", pp. 61–69 in Having Faith in Foreign Policy, London, (2007)

References

External links
 Anthony Bailey Consulting

1970 births
Living people
People from Ruislip
Businesspeople from London
British public relations people
English Roman Catholics
People stripped of a British Commonwealth honour

Knights of the Order of St. Sylvester
Knights of the Holy Sepulchre


Parallels Workstation Extreme is the first workstation virtualization product that lets users virtualize graphics-intensive software programs such as geophysical simulation, financial analysis, and digital content creation programs commonly used by engineers and digital animators in virtual machines on Windows and Linux hosts.

To let users virtualize these resource-intensive programs, Parallels partnered with Intel and Nvidia and incorporated their technologies into Parallels Workstation Extreme.

Overview
Like other virtualization software, Parallels Workstation Extreme uses a hypervisor to grant its virtual machines’ direct access to the host computer's hardware.  However, instead of handling the processes within the virtual machine as other virtualization products do to render 3D graphics, Parallels Workstation Extreme uses Intel Virtualization Technology for Directed I/O to direct the multimedia directly back to the host's graphics cards while Nvidia's SLI Multi-OS allows the host machine and the virtual machine to each have their dedicated GPU. Each graphic application running in a virtual machine requires its own dedicated Nvidia Quadro FX 3800, 4800, or 5800 graphics card, which are the only graphics cards currently supported by the product.

To provide the hardware environment to support this mix of virtualization and graphics technologies, Hewlett-Packard partnered with Parallels and Nvidia to develop the HP Z800, a high-end PC that include Nvidia's Quadro FX GPUs and Intel's VT-d and Xeon processor.

Features
Parallels Workstation Extreme includes support for up to 16 CPU cores, 64 GB of RAM for guest OSs, 16 virtual network adapters per virtual machine and virtual drive sizes up to 2 TB.  Users can use multiple monitors, display a different guest operating system in each screen and also move the mouse back and forth between monitors and OSs.  Parallels Workstation Extreme load balances CPU resources as users move between the different OSs on the workstation.

The product also supports CLI, PXEboot and USB 2.0 devices.  Users can utilize virtual machine templates, multiple snapshot capabilities and software development kits.  Also included is Parallels Compressor, designed to compress the size of a virtual hard disk, and Parallels Image Tool, designed to increase or decrease the size of a virtual hard disk.

System Requirements
Host requirements include:
 64-bit Windows Vista, 64-bit Windows XP SP3 or 64-bit Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.3 host operating system
 1 or 2 Intel Xeon Processors 5500 series
 8 GB RAM
 10 GB disk space per virtual machine
 Supported NVIDIA Quadro FX graphics cards

Supported guest operating systems include 64-bit Windows Vista, 64-bit Windows XP SP3, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.7 and 5.3 and Fedora 10.

See also
 Platform virtualization
 Graphics card
 Hypervisor
 Virtual machine
 Virtual disk image

References

External links
 Official webpage

Virtualization software
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Harry Lawson Webster Levy-Lawson, 1st Viscount Burnham,  (18 December 1862 – 20 July 1933) was a British newspaper proprietor. He was originally a Liberal politician before joining the Liberal Unionist Party in the late 1890s. He sat in the House of Commons 1885–1892, 1893–1895, 1905–1906 and 1910–1916 when he inherited his barony.

Biography

Levy-Lawson was born in St Pancras, London, the son of Edward Levy-Lawson, 1st Baron Burnham, and his wife Harriette Georgiana Webster. He was educated at Cheam School, Headley, Berkshire, Eton and Balliol College, Oxford. His name was legally changed from Levy to Levy-Lawson on 11 December 1875.  He became a lieutenant in the Royal Buckinghamshire Yeomanry, treasurer of the Free Land League, vice president of the Municipal Reform League, and a member of the executive committee of Municipal Federation League. In 1891, he was admitted to the Inner Temple, entitling him to practise as a barrister.

Levy-Lawson was elected Member of Parliament (MP) for St Pancras West in the 1885 general election at the age of 23, but lost the seat in the 1892 general election. He was also a member of the London County Council from 1889 to 1892, for St Pancras West.

He was returned to the Commons as MP for Cirencester at a by-election in 1893 and held the seat until his defeat at the 1895 general election. In 1905 he was elected at a by-election as MP for Mile End and lost the seat in 1906, regaining it in January 1910. In the interim he was Mayor of Stepney between 1907 and 1909. In 1911, he was appointed a deputy lieutenant of Buckinghamshire.

Levy-Lawson was appointed a captain in the Royal Buckinghamshire Yeomanry on 1 May 1887, and later gained the honorary rank of major. He was promoted to lieutenant-colonel and appointed in command of the regiment on 18 October 1902.

He saw active service in the First World War, where he was mentioned in despatches. In 1916, on the death of his father, he succeeded to the titles of Baron Burnham and the baronetcy and took his seat in the House of Lords. He also succeeded his father in the management and ownership of the Daily Telegraph. He was decorated with the Territorial Decoration (TD) and became Honorary Colonel of the 99th (Bucks and Berks Yeomanry) Brigade, Royal Artillery. He was invested as a Companion of Honour (CH) in 1917.

He was the first chairman of the Burnham Committees on teachers' pay, which were named after him.

Family, interests and Hall Barn

Levy-Lawson was created Viscount Burnham, of Hall Barn, in the County of Buckingham, on 16 May 1919. He married Olive de Bathe, daughter of Sir Henry de Bathe, 4th Baronet, and Charlotte Clare, on 2 January 1884 at St. Margaret's Church, Westminster. They had one daughter, Dorothy Olive Lawson (1885–1937), who married Major John Spencer Coke (son of Thomas Coke, 2nd Earl of Leicester) and with whom she had three children: Gerald, Celia and Rosemary Coke – the latter later Baroness Hamilton of Dalzell.

His father, who was "one of the Prince of Wales' set", had purchased the 4,000-acre Hall Barn estate in 1880. Viscount Burnham and his father hosted King Edward VII and his son, King George V, and his son King Edward VIII on many occasions from the early 1900s to the 1930s. On 19 December 1924, for example, Burnham hosted a dinner party for King George V with Rudyard Kipling, Harry's daughter, Dorothy Levy-Lawson, and her husband, Major Sir John Coke, amongst the guests.

Viscount Burnham was a JP for Buckinghamshire. He received a number of honorary doctorates from McGill University, Montreal, in 1920, Durham University in 1921, Athens University, Greece, in 1924, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia, in 1925, Ghent University, Belgium, in 1927 and Cambridge University.  He was invested as a Knight Grand Cross, GCMG in 1927. In 1928 he sold the Daily Telegraph to Lord Camrose.

He died aged 70 and was buried near his father on 24 July 1933 at Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire. Burnham had no surviving male issue so the viscountcy became extinct: his younger brother, William Levy-Lawson (1864–1943), succeeded to the baronetcy and barony.

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The 2000 United States Senate election in Virginia was held on November 7, 2000. Incumbent Democratic U.S. Senator Chuck Robb sought re-election to a third term, but he was defeated by Republican nominee George Allen. With Allen's victory, this marked the first time since 1989 that Republicans would hold both of Virginia's Senate seats. , this was the last time the Republicans won the Class 1 Senate seat in Virginia.

Candidates

Democratic
 Chuck Robb, incumbent U.S. Senator and former Governor of Virginia

Republican
 George Allen, former Governor of Virginia and former U.S. Representative

General election

Debates
Complete video of debate, September 24, 2000
Complete video of debate, September 25, 2000
Complete video of debate, October 22, 2000

Polling

Results

Counties and Independent Cities that flipped from Democratic to Republican
Amelia (no municipalities)
 Amherst (Largest city: Amherst)
 Chesapeake (independent city)
Bedford (Independent city)
Buckingham (Largest city: Dillwyn)
Buena Vista (Independent city)
James City (no municipalities)
King and Queen (Largest CDP: King and Queen Courthouse)
Lynchburg (Independent city)
Montgomery (Largest city: Blacksburg)
Russell (Largest city: Lebanon)
Nelson (Largest city: Nellysford)
Wise (Largest city: Big Stone Gap)

Counties and Independent Cities that flipped from Republican to Democratic
Prince Edward (Largest city: Farmville)

See also
 2000 United States Senate elections

References

External links
 Virginia State Board of Elections
 Campaign contributions at OpenSecrets.org

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KZQL (105.5 FM, "KOOL 105.5") is a radio station licensed to serve Mills, Wyoming, United States.  The station, which began licensed broadcasting in 2008, is owned by Robert D. Breck, Jr., through licensee Breck Media Group Wyoming, Inc.

KZQL broadcasts a classic hits format to the Casper, Wyoming, area.

On Sundays the station airs Casey Kasem's American Top 40: The '70s. The station also features WeatherBug weather forecasts, as well as ABC Radio newscasts throughout the day.

History
This station received its original construction permit from the Federal Communications Commission on March 9, 2005.  The new station was assigned the call letters KHAD by the FCC on April 7, 2005. KHAD received its license to cover from the FCC on April 18, 2008.

The station was assigned the current KZQL call sign by the Federal Communications Commission on April 2, 2009.

The station previously broadcast an adult hits format under the name "The Vibe", until recently switching to the classic hits format under its new name "KOOL 105."

Construction permit
On February 23, 2009, KZQL was granted a new construction permit to increase its effective radiated power to 17,000 watts, lower the broadcast antenna's height above average terrain to 506 meters (1660 feet), and move the transmitter site slightly northeast to 42°44'30"N, 106°18'29"W. This permit expired on February 23, 2012.

Previous Logos

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Philippe J. Sansonetti (born 9 April 1949) is a French microbiologist, professor at the Pasteur Institute and the Collège de France in Paris. He is the director of the Inserm Unit 786 (Microbial colonisation and invasion of mucosa) and of the Institut Pasteur laboratory Pathogénie Microbienne Moléculaire.

Education

Philippe Sansonetti completed General Microbiology, General Virology and Immunology courses at the Institut Pasteur and received his MS degree in Biochemistry/Microbiology from the University Paris VII Diderot in 1978 and obtained his MD degree from the University Paris VI in 1979. After a research fellowship at the Unité de Bactériologie Médicale headed by Léon Le Minor, he undertook a post-doctoral position in the laboratory of Professor Samuel Formal in the Department of Enteric Diseases at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Washington, D.C. He returned to the Pasteur Institute in 1981 to the Enterobacteria Unit (Unité des entérobactéries) where he started his own research group. In 1989, he created and headed the Unité de Pathogénie Microbienne Moléculaire (Molecular Microbial Pathogenesis Unit). He practiced internal medicine at the Institut Pasteur hospital (1981–1985) before becoming head of its outpatient clinic (1985–1995) and then becoming its medical director (1995–1999 and 2004–2007). He was chairman of its Departments of Bacteriology and Mycology (1989–1992) and Cell Biology and Infection (2002–2006).

Sansonetti has held several scientific administration positions at INSERM, French Ministry of Research and Technology, as well as at the World Health Organization where he was chairman of the Steering committee on Diarrheal Diseases Vaccine Development.

Work and honours

Research performed by Philippe Sansonetti has mainly been focused on the understanding of several aspects of the pathogenesis of Shigella, a bacterium causing severe diarrhoea. His work spans a large set of disciplines in biology and medicine and ranges from molecular genetics, to cell biology, immunology and the development of vaccines against dysentery. Sansonetti's laboratory has notably shown that Shigella pathogenesis is imparted by a large virulence plasmid containing a pathogenicity island encoding a type three secretion system required for entry into epithelial cells; characterised the molecular mechanisms leading to Shigella epithelial cell invasion and intracellular motility; demonstrated that Shigella kills macrophages by pyroptosis; identified that intracellular bacteria are detected by Nod proteins leading to production of pro-inflammatory cytokines and identified a pool of Shigella effectors controlling both innate and adaptive responses. He also actively contributes to the development of vaccine candidates against the major shigellae causing dysentery in the developing world.

Sansonetti is the author of over 500 publications in peer-reviewed journals and has served as an editor of several professional publications for many years. He is considered to be one of the founders of the cellular microbiology field and has launched an eponym scientific publication dedicated to this field.  His achievements in science have been recognised by numerous awards, including:
 Jacques Monod prize for excellence in molecular biology
 Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine (1994)
 Robert Koch Prize
 Andre Lwoff Medal by the Federation of European Microbiological Societies
 Foreign Member of the Royal Society of London (ForMemRS]] (2014)

He was appointed a Knight of the National Order of the Legion of Honour Légion d'honneur and  Officer of the Ordre National du Mérite. He has also been elected Member of European Molecular Biology Organisation, the French Academy of Sciences, the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, the American Association for the Advancement of Science the US National Academy of Sciences, and corresponding member of the French Academy of Medicine. He is also a Howard Hughes Medical Institute scholar. Since 2008, he has held the position of Professor at the Collège de France, recipient of the Microbiology and Infectious Diseases Chair. His nomination for the Royal Society reads:

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Radiodiscus patagonicus  is a minute species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Charopidae.

Distribution
This species occurs in countries including:
 Brazil
 Patagonia

The type locality is Santa Cruz near Mt. of Observation on the Rio Chico 50 miles above Sierra Oveja, on a dry stone near the water (according to F. von Ihering). Spring near base of the Andes, 65 miles north of the Rio Chico, elevation 2400 ft. Banks of a small stream 10 miles from Ushe Lake (according to the J. B. Hatcher).

Shell description
The shell is openly umbilicate (the umbilicus about one-fourth the total diameter), of a uniform pale brown tint, discoidal. The spire is convex but low. Suture is deeply impressed. The shell has 3 ½ whorls, that are convex, slowly increasing, the embryonic 1 ½ densely striate spirally, the rest radially costellate. The riblets are about as wide as their intervals, about 25 ribblets in 1 mm. on the last half of the last whorl. Under the microscope some very minute striations may be seen upon the ribs, and in places an extremely minute and very faint spiral striation. The rotund-lunate aperture is slightly oblique.

The width of the adult shell is about 1.7-1.8 mm, the height is 0.9-1.2 mm.

The above description and the figures are from a shell collected alive 50 miles above the Sierra Oveja.

The original description, in Portuguese, was based upon fossil specimens, which had lost the color and part of the finer sculpture. The original lot of Radiodiscus patagonicus was from Santa Cruz, on the coast, in a modern deposit. Specimen from original lot are a little larger than the living shell described, with the whorls slightly deeper.

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Justin Loring Alfond (born January 8, 1975) is an American politician and real estate developer. He served as a Democratic State Senator from the 8th District, which represents much of Portland. Alfond was first elected to the State Senate in 2008 to replace Democrat Ethan Strimling; he beat former State Senator Anne Rand and Cliff Ginn. He was re-elected in 2010 and 2012. In 2012, he faced Green Independent Party Chair Asher Platts. Alfond won with 71% of the vote in a two-way race.

Following his re-election to a third term in November 2012, he was chosen as President of the Maine Senate by his fellow Democrats in the Maine Senate. Upon being re-elected to his fourth term, he was chosen to be the leader of the now-minority Democrats.

Alfond was the second youngest Senate President since 1880, when Joseph A. Locke held the position at 36 years old.

Early life and education
Alfond is the son of Joan (née Loring) and Bill Alfond. He is the grandson of businessman Harold Alfond, the founder of the Dexter Shoe Company. He has two siblings, Kenden, and Reis. His father worked for the family business, Dexter Shoes, as the director of the company's golf and bowling shoe division; and also served as a trustee of the Governor Dummer Academy. He attended schools in Waterville and Dexter prior to attending Noble and Greenough School in Dedham, Massachusetts. He then attended Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana, and majored in business management. He was briefly a professional golfer.

Politics
In 2012, Maine Citizens for Clean Elections noted in a published report that Alfond, despite funding his own campaigns through public financing, raised significant money through a leader political action committee (PAC). He raised over $192,000 for the Alfond Business, Community & Democracy PAC between its creation in 2009 and 2012.

On November 21, 2013, Alfond voted against allowing a bill submitted by Rep. Diane Russell (D-Portland) which would have legalized, taxed, and regulated the use of marijuana in the state, to proceed to debate during the second session of the 126th Legislature, which typically only addresses a limited number of bills. The Maine Legislative Council, of which Alfond was a member of as Senate President, voted 5-5, meaning that no legislative action would be taken until at least 2015. Disappointment was expressed over the vote since Alfond represents Portland, a city that only weeks prior voted overwhelmingly in favor of legalizing possession of up to 2.5 ounces of marijuana for adults over 21.

On December 18, 2013, Alfond announced that he submitted emergency legislation to attempt to help resolve a lease dispute between the Portland Pirates and the Cumberland County Civic Center by allowing the team to receive a share of alcohol revenue, which was illegal under Maine law but the Pirates had originally sought.

On June 30, 2014, the Talking Points Memo website claimed that some Maine adherents to the sovereign citizen movement called for Alfond and a fellow Democrat, House Speaker Mark Eves, to be tried, convicted, and executed for treason during meetings with Governor Paul LePage in 2013. LePage has denied that such discussions took place, even after learning audio recordings exist of two men claiming such a discussion took place.

Personal life
He is married to Rachael Weinstein.

In 2004, he founded the Maine Chapter of the League of Young Voters, serving for four years as its Director. He serves on the boards of many organizations, including Avesta Housing, Opportunity Maine, Maine Initiatives, Kennebec Valley Community College, the New England Board of Higher Education and the New England Secondary School Consortium. He lives in Portland's West End.

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Naughty Amateur Home Videos (also known as NAHV) is an adult reality television series currently in its 15th season on Playboy TV. It is hosted in-studio by reality star Vikki Vikki. Daisy de la Hoya now serves as co-host, interviewing crowds and people on the street.

Premise
Since 1996, Naughty Amateur Home Videos has continued to be one of Playboy TV's most popular shows. The most recent seasons have been based around host Jesse Jane and her trips to multiple cities across the United States. In between irreverent sexually charged man on the street interviews, viewers are shown actual amateur home movies of people from across the country engaging in sexual activity.

Beginning with the 15th season, the format has been changed to include one in-studio host (Vikki Ikki) and an "on the street" girl (Daisy de la Hoya) for crowd reactions and viewer feedback. In previous seasons, episodes had focused on themes relating to different geographic regions of the country. Now shows are centered on various fetishes, sexual positions, and types of women (MILFs, blondes, etc.).

Beginning on June 12, 2010, Naughty Amateur Home Videos (with new a new logo and graphics) has been added to Playboy TV's couples-centric, "Date Night" schedule.

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Stack Waddy is the first album by Stack Waddy, released in 1971 on Dandelion Records.

Critical reception

Music website Allmusic gave Stack Waddy four out of five stars. Reviewer Dave Thompson highlights the work as one of the "must hear" rock albums of the early 1970s, pointing out the brutal and uncompromising interpretations on many songs as one of the most striking features of the album. He ends his comment by saying that: "...this is one of those few albums that genuinely requires you to wear protective clothing".

Track listing
 "Roadrunner" – 3:26
 "Bring It to Jerome" – 5:18
 "Mothballs" – 3:35
 "Sure Nuff 'n Yes I Do" – 2:29
 "Love Story" – 2:19
 "Susie Q" – 2:27
 "Country Line Special" – 3:55
 "Rolling Stone" – 3:25
 "Mystic Eyes" – 6:05
 "Kentucky" – 2:42

Personnel

Stack Waddy
John Knail – vocals, harmonica
Steve Revell – drums, percussion
Mick Stott – electric guitar
Stuart Banham – bass guitar

Production
 Eddie Lee Beppeaux, Miss Pig – producers
 John Peel – executive producer
 George Borzyskowski – photography

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Algoa FM is the leading South African commercial radio station serving the Eastern Cape Province and Garden Route. It started broadcasting on 1 January 1986 as part of the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC). It was privatised in October 1996, and has grown into the Eastern Cape’s leading media house. Algoa FM is licensed by the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa, or ICASA.

Footprint

Algoa FM's broadcast footprint stretches from the Wild Coast to the Garden Route and inland through the Karoo hinterland. It enjoys a listening audience of over 505 000, according to the Broadcast Research Council of South Africa (BRC).

Corporate
Algoa FM is a subsidiary of Africa Media Entertainment (AME), which was established in 1997, and is listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange in the “Media & Entertainment” category.

In addition to Algoa FM, AME owns OFM, which broadcasts from Bloemfontein to the Free State, the North West Province, the Northern Cape and Southern Gauteng. AME also owns United Stations, a specialist radio sales house, which represents its assets in the National market; MediaHeads 360, a strategic marketing and content producer; Moneyweb.co.za, and the Central Media Group, which encompasses OFM, Digital Platforms and Mahareng Publishing.

Footprint
Algoa FM reaches through the Eastern Cape and Garden Route, from Mossel Bay to Barkly East and as far north as Colesberg.
Algoa FM’s on-air audience stretches from the Garden Route through to the Wild Coast, and inland through the Karoo Hinterland.

References

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is currently a Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) coach for the Hanshin Tigers. Before coaching, he played in NPB from 1996 to 2006, primarily as a second or third-string catcher. Nomura was drafted in 1995 by the Yakult Swallows, the team managed by his father, catching-great and long-time manager Katsuya Nomura. Over the course of his playing career, his father managed him for five seasons with three different teams—two with the Swallows, two with the Hanshin Tigers and one with the Golden Eagles.

Career
Katsunori Nomura attended Horikoshi High School and Meiji University before being drafted by the Yakult Swallows in the third round of the 1995 Nippon Professional Baseball draft. He played two seasons with the Swallows under his father, manager and former catching-great Katsuya Nomura. After the 1998 season, his father left the Swallows and Nomura was sent to the club's farm team for the entirety of the 1999 season. He was then traded to the Hanshin Tigers, where he was reunited with his father who, again, managed him for two more seasons. After his father left the club after the 2001 season, Nomura was eventually sent down to the Tigers' farm team for the entirety of the 2003 season, his last with the club.

Nomura's contract was purchased by the Yomiuri Giants before the start of the 2004 season. While it was a relatively minor trade, it made headlines because of his father's longtime resentment toward the Giants. Some also saw the trade as an opportunity for him "to step out of his famous father's shadow." However, Nomura only played in three games with the Giants and was released following the end of the 2004 season. He played his final two seasons with the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles in 2005 and 2006, the latter
of which was managed once again by his father. He announced his retirement on September 30, 2006. Throughout his playing career, Nomura was utilized as a second or third-string catcher. After playing, Nomura transitioned to coaching in the league. He has coached for three different teams since 2007 and is currently with Rakuten.

Some have suggested that the only reason Katsunori Nomura was given the opportunity to play in NPB was because of his father's connections in the league. The Japan Times columnist Marty Kuehnert believes that he "hitched a ride" on his father's name, but his "statistics don't add up to a good month, or even week, of [Katsuya Nomura's] production". Of the four NPB teams Nomura played for in his playing career, three of them were managed by his father: the Swallows, the Tigers and the Golden Eagles.

Personal life
Katsunori Nomura is the son of NPB catching great and long-time manager Katsuya Nomura. His half brother is prominent baseball agent Don Nomura. After a 2001 tax evasion scandal involving Katsunori's mother Sachiyo, Nomura was supportive during the months preceding her arrest. Kenneth Engel and Don Nomura, Sachiyo's children from a previous marriage, publicly disowned her. He has two children with his wife Yukiko.

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Bancroft is an unincorporated census-designated place in Portage County, Wisconsin, United States. As of the 2010 census, its population is 535. It is included in the Stevens Point, Wisconsin Micropolitan Statistical Area.

History
Bancroft was named for Warren Gamaliel Bancroft, who served in the 42nd Wisconsin Regiment during the American Civil War and later served as pastor of the Oshkosh Methodist Church. Bancroft was the name sake of Warren Gamaliel Bancroft Winnipeg Harding, who is better known as Warren G. Harding—the 29th president of the United States. A post office in the community was opened on May 17, 1876.

Geography
Bancroft is located in central Wisconsin approximately 10 miles south of Plover and approximately five miles north of Plainfield. Bancroft rests on Portage County Road W just to the east of Interstate 39 / U.S. Highway 51, at exit 143.  (Lat: 44° 18' 35.0", Lon: -89° 30' 49.7").  Bancroft is the seat for the Town of Pine Grove. Bancroft has an area of ;  of this is land, and  is water.

The geography of Bancroft is mostly flat. There are, however, two interesting bluffs that rise prominently above the otherwise level plains. One was a large bluff, commonly referred to as Mosquito Bluff, that runs in an East-West direction. Mosquito Bluff is now separated into two large hills by Harding Road.

The other prominent feature is known as The Ledge, which runs towards the North-East and is visible from I-39. This Bluff has gone by many names (Lover's Leap, Hellfire Hill, High Rock, Gulliver's Stool) but is most commonly known as The Ledge. At the top of The Ledge is an ichnite rock that has preserved traces of the passage of Climactichnites.

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Mark Duley is a choral director and organist from New Zealand. He is the chorus master of the RTÉ Philharmonic Choir.

Biography
Duley is a first class honours graduate of Auckland University. Post-graduate studies in organ brought him to the North German Organ Academy and to the Sweelinck Conservatorium in Amsterdam, where he was a pupil of Jacques van Oortmerssen. He then worked for time in England and was organist of Christ's Hospital, before moving to Dublin in 1992 to take up the post of organist and director of music at Christ Church Cathedral. During his eleven years there, the cathedral gained an international reputation for its music. He directed the choir on many CD recordings, broadcasts on the RTÉ, BBC and EBU networks, and on tours to the UK, France, Germany, Slovenia, Croatia and New Zealand. He is the artistic director of the Irish Baroque Orchestra, which he founded with Thérèse Timoney in 1996.

RTÉ Philharmonic Choir

Duley was the chorus master of the RTÉ Philharmonic Choir for fifteen years, standing down in 2011. He has worked with the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra and RTÉ Concert Orchestra both as chorus master and organist. Other work with Irish choral ensembles and festivals include the National Chamber Choir of Ireland, Opera Theatre Company and the Wexford Festival Opera.

Resurgam
Duley founded his professional chamber choir, Resurgam, in 2003. It is based in Dublin and is acknowledged to be one of the country's finest choirs. A particular feature of the choir's work is the presentation of the great sacred repertoire of the Renaissance and Baroque periods, frequently in partnership with Irish Baroque Orchestra, with whom the group enjoys a special and ongoing relationship.

Resurgam has performed in many venues throughout Ireland and also in the UK, and has appeared at several major Irish festivals, including the Cork International Choral Festival, Ardee Baroque and the Galway Early Music Festival. The choir has worked with many internationally renowned conductors, including Professor John Butt, Christophe Rousset, Robert Howarth, Laurence Cummings, Christian Curnyn and Gary Cooper, as well as its own founder-director Mark Duley.

Projects include performances of Alfred Schnittke's Choir Concerto at Dublin City Hall (May 2011), de Mondonville's  Grands Motets and Handel's Dixit Dominus with Irish Baroque Orchestra directed by Christophe Rousset (August 2011) and Songs of Farewell, a four-date tour of the West Coast of Ireland (October 2011).

Pipeworks
Duley is artistic director of Pipeworks (formerly the Dublin International Organ & Choral Festival). He took up the position for the 2002 festival. His artistic directorship has been notable for strong artistic programming, opening up the organ to wider audiences (providing improvised live soundtracks to silent films for example), developing the Dublin International Organ Competition and raising awareness of Ireland's organ heritage.

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Saint-Fortunat is a municipality located in the Municipalité régionale de comté des Appalaches in Quebec, Canada. It is part of the Chaudière-Appalaches region and the population is 255 as of 2021. It was named after Christian poet Venantius Fortunatus.

References

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Ministère des Affaires municipales, des Régions et de l'Occupation du territoire

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Justus H. Vinton (17 February 1806 – 31 March 1858) was an American Baptist missionary who worked for 25 years in Burma (now known as Myanmar) preaching the gospel amongst the Karen people.

Early life
Justus Vinton was born on  in Willington, Connecticut.  He attended the Hamilton Literary and Theological Institution (later known as Madison University and finally as Colgate University). In 1833 the missionary to Burma, Jonathan Wade, on his medical furlough spent the year at the Institution giving instructions to the future missionaries.  Among the future missionaries were Justus Vinton and Calista Holman.  Jonathan Wade also brought with him two of his disciples, a Burmese named Maung Shwe Maung and a Karen named Saw Chet Thaing.  Justus and Calista received Karen language lessons from Saw Chet Thaing.

Justus married Calista Holman in 1834, and three months later set sail to Burma in company with other missionaries: Mr. and Mrs. Wade, Mr. and Mrs. Howard, Mr and Mrs. Dean, and Mr. and Mrs. Osgood and the two disciples.  The voyage took one hundred and sixty days, normal for the period.  Justus and Calista studied the Karen language on the voyage.  In addition the missionaries preached the gospel to the crew.  During the voyage they converted the captain, the first officer, the steward, supercargo, and many sailors.

Life in Moulmein

They disembarked in Moulmein (also known as Mawlamyine) in December 1834.  Since Justus and Calista were sufficiently familiar with the language, they began their mission work at once.  They took native canoes and visited many jungle Karen villages preaching the gospel and seeking to convert people to their religion.

During the monsoon (raining) season, when travelling was impossible, the Vintons were confined  to the city. they learned Burmese language and Justus labored among the British soldiers in the garrison and preaching and distributing religious tracts among the Burmese.  He also worked on the translation of the New Testament into Karen and wrote commentaries.  Between 1834 and 1848, Justus labors were confined to Moulmein district with occasional visits to Rangoon (now known as Yangon) and Tavoy (now known as Dawei). On his frequent visits to Rangoon he baptized many people.  Rangoon was still under Burmese rule at that time, but Adoniram Judson's disciple Saw Tha Byu and Rev. Abbott had converted many Karens around Rangoon and little churches had been set up. Many young Karen men travelled on foot to Moulmein through the forest to go to the school established by Calista Vinton.  There they learned to read in the written form of their language that the missionaries had developed.

In 1841, 22-year-old Justus's sister Miranda joined them for mission work and worked as a teacher.  The Vintons had a son, Brainerd, and a daughter Calista.

Sojourn in America
In 1847 Mrs. Vinton's health failed and she returned to America for treatment.  Justus visited the Baptist churches in almost all the states and raised funds for the indebted Baptist Missionary Union. In July 1850 the Vintons returned by sea to Burma, accompanied by many missionaries, including Jonathan Wade and Eugenio Kincaid and their wives.

Call to Rangoon
In 1852 a British frigate and four armed steamers arrived at the port of Rangoon to demand redress of grievances from the Burmese government.  The local authorities prepared for resistance by erecting immense stockades and placing batteries at various points.   Reinforcements called from surrounding areas maltreated the populace.

Rev. Eugenio Kincaid, who was in Rangoon at that time, asked Justus to come to Rangoon and help with relief work.  The fellow missionaries at Moulmein also agreed that he should go.  Justus went to Rangoon at once; waiting for a formal authorization of his transfer from the Baptist Mission Union would have required six to eight months.  When he reached Rangoon five thousand refugee Karens were living in precarious conditions.  Rangoon fell to the British on 12 April 1852 in the Second Anglo-Burmese War, but elements of the disbanded local army continued to harass the people.  Six weeks after the capture of Rangoon, Justus Vinton's family joined him in Rangoon.  They set up an emergency hospital in a vacant monastery.  Calista also set up a school, and two hundred pupils attended.

Famine followed the war and pestilence.  Justus Vinton bought provisions and fed thousands of refugees.

In 1854 Karen Home Mission Society was formed.  At their first annual meeting, thirty pastors and three hundred lay delegates were in attendance.  In 1855 a two-storey Karen Baptist church was built, and the Vinton's son Brainerd went to study at Hamilton, NY and the daughter Calista went to study at Suffolk.  Miranda died after working with her brother for twelve years.

The Baptist Mission Union censured Justus Vinton for abandoning his post without authorization and going to Rangoon; he resigned from the Missionary Union and accepted, unpaid, the affiliation of American Baptist Free Mission Society.  The Society acted as a financial agent in the collection and transmission of funds and in publication in the country of his reports and letters.  Besides funds donated by friends in America, his mission was supported by native Christians and British residents in Rangoon.

In 1858 Justus went to Shwekyin to find appropriate locations for posting native preachers; he contracted a jungle fever there, and died on 31 March 1858.  Calista carried on the mission work, assisted by her son Brainerd and daughter Calista and their spouses, who returned from America after their studies.

In 1872, long after the death of Justus Vinton, he was finally vindicated by the Baptist Missionary Union and Brainerd rejoined the church.

References

Gallery
List of Protestant Missionaries to Southeast Asia

1806 births
1858 deaths
People from Willington, Connecticut
Baptist ministers from the United States
Baptist missionaries from the United States
Baptist missionaries in Myanmar
American expatriates in Myanmar
19th-century American clergy


Ziaur is a given name. Notable people with the name include:

Ziaur Rahman (1936–1981), Bangladeshi war hero, politician and statesman
Ziaur Rahman (born 1972), medical scientist from India
Ziaur Rahman (chess player) (born 1974), chess player from Bangladesh
Ziaur Rahman (cricketer) (born 1986), cricketer from Bangladesh
Ziaur Rahman Ziaur (born 1981), Bangladeshi kabaddi player
Ziaur Rashid, cricketer from Bangladesh


The 531st Bombardment Squadron was a unit of the US Air Force, first activated during World War II.  After training as a heavy bomber unit in the United States, it moved to the Southwest Pacific Theater, entering combat in May 1943, flying combat missions from Australia while attached to the Royal Australian Air Force, earning two Distinguished Unit Citations and a Philippine Presidential Unit Citation.  In 1945 it moved forward to the Philippines, then to Okinawa.  Following V-J Day, the squadron returned to the Philippines and was inactivated there in February 1946.

The squadron was activated in the reserves in 1947, becoming a corollary unit in 1949. The squadron was called to active service in May 1951 for the Korean War and its personnel used to fill out other units.

The squadron was activated at Plattsburgh Air Force Base in May 1959 as a Strategic Air Command bomber unit when Strategic Air Command (SAC) reorganized its Boeing B-47 Stratojet wings to meet increased alert standards.  It was inactivated in 1962, when SAC's alert program again changed.

History

World War II
The squadron was activated at Davis-Monthan Field, Arizona on 3 November 1942 as one of the four original squadrons of the 380th Bombardment Group.  After training with Consolidated B-24 Liberators, the squadron moved to the Southwest Pacific Theater in April 1943.

The air echelon arrived at Manbulloo Airfield, in the Australian Northern Territory by the end of the month.  For the remainder of its stay in Australia, the squadron and the rest of the 380th Group would be attached to the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF). It trained RAAF crews on the operation of the Liberator.  Its initial combat operations were in May, when it flew armed reconnaissance missions.

From its home in Australia, the 531st attacked Japanese installations in the Netherlands East Indies and the Bismark Archipelago, including airfields, ground installations and factories.  In August 1943, it participated in a series of raids on oil refineries in Balikpapan, Borneo in what at the time was the longest bombing mission flown by an Army Air Forces bomber unit.  For this mission, the squadron was awarded the Distinguished Unit Citation (DUC).
During April and May 1944, the unit conducted a series of raids on enemy airfields in western New Guinea to support landings in the Hollandia area, for which it was awarded a second DUC.

The squadron was relieved from attachment to the RAAF and moved to the Philippines in February 1945.  Operating from Mindoro, the squadron provided air support for ground forces on Luzon, and attacked industrial targets in Formosa, ground installations along the China coast and transportation targets in French Indochina.  It also continued its attacks on refineries in Borneo.  In August 1945, the squadron moved to Okinawa.  Following V-J Day, the squadron flew reconnaissance missions over Japan and flew prisoners of war from Japan to Manila.  The squadron became nonoperational and moved to Fort William McKinley in November 1945.  It was inactivated there in February 1946.

Air Force reserve
The squadron was activated in May 1947, in the reserve at MacDill Field, Florida, where its training was supervised by the 465th AAF Base Unit (later the 2582d Air Force Reserve Training Center) of Air Defense Command (ADC).  It is not clear whether or not the squadron was fully staffed or equipped at this time.  In 1948 Continental Air Command assumed responsibility for managing reserve and Air National Guard units from ADC.

The May 1949 Air Force Reserve program called for a new type of unit, the corollary unit, which was a reserve unit integrated with an active duty unit.  The plan was viewed as the best method to train reservists by mixing them with an existing regular unit to perform duties alongside the regular unit.  The squadron became a corollary of the 307th Bombardment Wing and Strategic Air Command (SAC) became responsible for its training. All reserve corollary units were mobilized for the Korean war, and the squadron was called to active duty in May 1951.  Its personnel were used to bring other units up to strength, and the squadron was inactivated two weeks later.

Strategic Air Command
From 1958, the Boeing B-47 Stratojet wings of SAC began to assume an alert posture at their home bases, reducing the amount of time spent on alert at overseas bases.  The SAC alert cycle divided itself into four parts: planning, flying, alert and rest to meet General Thomas S. Power’s initial goal of maintaining one third of SAC's planes on fifteen minute ground alert, fully fueled and ready for combat to reduce vulnerability to a Soviet missile strike.  To implement this new system B-47 wings reorganized from three to four squadrons.  The 531st was activated at Plattsburgh Air Force Base, New York on 1 May 1959 as the fourth squadron of the 380th Bombardment Wing.  The alert commitment was increased to half the squadron's aircraft in 1962 and the four squadron pattern no longer met the alert cycle commitment, so the squadron was inactivated on 1 January 1962.

Lineage
 Constituted as the 531st Bombardment Squadron (Heavy) on 28 October 1942
 Activated on 3 November 1942
 Redesignated 531st Bombardment Squadron, Heavy on 26 August 1944
 Inactivated on 20 February 1946
 Redesignated 531st Bombardment Squadron, Very Heavy on 13 May 1947
 Activated in the reserve on 29 May 1947
 Redesignated 531st Bombardment Squadron, Medium on 26 June 1949
 Ordered to active service on 1 May 1951
 Inactivated on 16 May 1951
 Activated on 1 May 1959
 Discontinued and inactivated on 1 January 1962

Assignments
 380th Bombardment Group, 3 November 1942 – 20 February 1946
 Fourteenth Air Force, 29 May 1947
 380th Bombardment Group, 16 June 1947 – 16 May 1951
 380th Bombardment Wing, 1 May 1959 – 1 January 1962

Stations

 Davis-Monthan Field, Arizona, 3 November 1942
 Biggs Field, Texas, 2 December 1942
 Lowry Field, Colorado, 4 March-19 April 1943
 Manbulloo Airfield, Northern Territory, Australia, c. 28 April 1943
 Long Airfield, Northern Territory, Australia, c. 5 December 1943
 RAAF Base Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia, 21 July 1944
 San Jose, Mindoro, Philippines, c. 1 March 1945
 Yontan Airfield, Okinawa, c. 15 August 1945
 Fort William McKinley, Luzon, Philippines, c. 28 November 1945 – 20 February 1946
 MacDill Field (later MacDill Air Force Base), Florida, 29 May 1947 – 16 May 1951
 Plattsburgh Air Force Base, New York, 1 May 1959 – 1 January 1962

Aircraft
 Consolidated B-24 Liberator, 1942–1945
 Boeing B-29 Superfortress, 1949–1951
 Boeing B-47 Stratojet, 1959–1961

Awards and campaigns

See also
 United States Army Air Forces in Australia
 List of B-47 units of the United States Air Force
 B-24 Liberator units of the United States Army Air Forces

References

Notes
 Explanatory noted

 Citations

Bibliography

Bombardment squadrons of the United States Air Force
Bombardment squadrons of the United States Army Air Forces
Units and formations of Strategic Air Command
Military units and formations of the Cold War
Military units and formations established in 1942


Alyson Noël (born December 3, 1965) is an American author from Orange County, California.

Biography
Alyson Noël was born on December 3, 1966, raised in Orange County and attended Richard Nixon Elementary School for two years. She is the youngest of three girls born to her divorced parents. She lived in Mykonos, Greece after leaving her high school, Troy High School. Afterward, she moved to Manhattan, New York where she worked as a flight attendant for Delta Air Lines. She now lives in Laguna Beach, California. She has had a variety of jobs such as babysitter, department store sales clerk, administrative assistant, office manager, jewelry maker, T-shirt painter, and front desk hotel clerk, in addition to flight attendant and considers herself an author. She was inspired to become an author after reading Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret by Judy Blume, in the sixth grade. Her first book was the young-adult novel, Faking 19, which explores the lifestyles of teens today.

On March 28, 2011, Alyson Noël announced that all 10 books in both The Immortals and The Riley Bloom series have been optioned by Summit Entertainment. On June 28, 2012 Alyson Noël stated on Twitter that all 4 books in the Soul Seekers Series have been optioned for film by Cheyenne Enterprises. On September 9, 2015, Noël tweeted that there will be a future film adaptation for Saving Zoë starring sisters and actresses, Laura Marano and Vanessa Marano.

Bibliography

The Immortals Series
 Evermore (February 3, 2009)
 Blue Moon (July 7, 2009)
 Shadowland (November 17, 2009)
 Dark Flame (June 22, 2010)
 Night Star (November 16, 2010)
 Everlasting (June 7, 2011)

The Riley Bloom Series
 Radiance (August 31, 2010)
 Shimmer (March 15, 2011)
 Dreamland (September 13, 2011)
 Whisper (April 24, 2012)

The Soul Seekers Series
 Fated (May 22, 2012)
 Echo (November 13, 2012)
 Mystic (May 7, 2013)
 Horizon (November 19, 2013)

The Beautiful Idols Series
 Unrivaled (May 10, 2016)
 Blacklist (April 4, 2017)
 Infamous (April 3, 2018)

Standalone novels
 Faking 19 (2005)
 Art Geeks and Prom Queens (September 1, 2005)
 Laguna Cove (2006)
 Fly Me to the Moon (2006)
 Kiss & Blog (2007)
 Saving Zoë (2007)
 Cruel Summer (2008)
 Forever Summer (2011)- Compilation of Cruel Summer and Laguna Cove.
 Keeping Secrets (2012)- Compilation of Faking 19 and Saving Zoe.
 Five Days of Famous (2016)
 The Bone Thief (2017)

Contributions to Anthologies
 Tattooed Love Boys (2007) – short story in the anthology "First Kiss (Then Tell)" edited by Cylin Busby.
 Bring Me Back to Life (2010) – short story in the anthology "Kisses from Hell".
 Silent All These Years (2011) – short story in the anthology "Dear Bully" edited by Megan Kelley Hall & Carrie Jones.

Awards
 Art Geeks & Prom Queens—NYLA Book of Winter, 2006
 Art Geeks & Prom Queens—Nominated Teens Top Ten, 2006
Saving Zoe—National Reader's Choice Award Winner, 2007

See also
The Immortals
Riley Bloom Series

References

External links

Author's website

Living people
21st-century American novelists
American women novelists
People from Laguna Beach, California
American writers of young adult literature
1965 births
21st-century American women writers
Flight attendants
Women writers of young adult literature
Novelists from California
Troy High School (California) alumni


The Almost Complete Collection of True Singapore Ghost Stories (also True Singapore Ghost Stories or TSGS) is the bestselling book series in Singapore. With over 1.5 million copies sold, the series has become a household name since its inception in 1989. Russell Lee, a Singaporean author, compiles reports, stories and interviews about the supernatural. Light and entertaining, each book, which comprises about 30 stories, appeals to both children and mature readers. The latest book (26th book) in the series was released in 2020.

Most of the stories take place in Asia but some take place in other parts of the world. Lee also includes articles about the paranormal, featuring detailed investigations into the occult, witchcraft, vampires and other similar topics. The books are sold in Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia and some other neighbouring countries.

Russell Lee is the author of the series. He has been writing about the supernatural since 1989.

Books
Below are a list of books published under the series:

Television series
A 13-part TV series, True Singapore Ghost Stories, has been produced by I-Media Entertainment in Singapore.

USS Collaboration
In 2015, Russell Lee and Universal Studios Singapore collaborated in the production of Halloween Horror Nights at Resorts World Sentosa. Stories and characters from the book series were used in the month-long event. It was like experiencing True Singapore Ghost Stories with a Hollywood twist.

Reception
According to the Singapore Book of Records, the True Singapore Ghost Stories is the best-selling local series by a team of writers, and the all-time best-selling local book series, in Singapore.

The Straits Times mentions "Russell Lee’s True Singapore Ghost Stories has been a mainstay on Singapore bestseller lists since they hit shelves in 1989. The material is just so incredibly rich... You just want to read on". While the South China Morning Post stated that "Russell Lee is Singapore’s most popular writer by a long stretch. His prose is clear and his titles snappy." The Star reports that "True Singapore Ghost Stories Book 1 is Singapore’s all-time number one bestseller".

References

External links
 True Singapore Ghost Stories on the Flame Of The Forest website

Ghost stories
Supernatural books
Singaporean short story collections
1989 short story collections
1992 short story collections
1994 short story collections
1995 short story collections
1996 short story collections
1997 short story collections
1999 short story collections
2003 short story collections
2004 short story collections
2005 short story collections
2006 short story collections
2007 short story collections
2008 short story collections
2009 short story collections
2010 short story collections
2011 short story collections
2012 short story collections
2013 short story collections


Ticino, Ticinus, Ticinum can refer to:

Switzerland
 Canton of Ticino
 Ticinese dialect

 Ticino, tributary of the river Po, Italy/Switzerland

 Ticino (wine region)

Comuni of north Italy
 Castelletto sopra Ticino
 Bernate Ticino
 Vizzola Ticino
 Borgo Ticino
 Boffalora sopra Ticino
 Carbonara al Ticino
 Santo Stefano Ticino

Further geographic uses
 Ticinum, ancient city now Pavia, Italy
 Ticino, settlement in General San Martín Department, Córdoba, Argentina

Miscellaneous
 Ticino (train), an international express train that connected Milan with Zurich or Basel
 Ticino franco, former unit of currency in Switzerland
 47164 Ticino, asteroid
 Regional Bus and Rail Company of Ticino
 Battle of Ticinus, 218 BC battle on the river Ticino, the first between Hannibal and the Romans
 Ticino League, political party in the canton of Ticino
 LaRegione Ticino, newspaper in the canton
 Corriere del Ticino, newspaper in the canton

See also
 Tessin (disambiguation)


Cecco is a given name. Notable people with the name include:

Given name
Cecco Angiolieri (1260–1312), Italian poet
Cecco Bravo (1601–1661), Italian painter of the Florentine Baroque school
Cecco d'Ascoli (1257–1327), Italian encyclopaedist, physician and poet
Cecco del Caravaggio (1610–1620), Baroque artist working in Rome in the 17th century
Cecco di Pietro, artist who lived at Pisa in the 14th century
Cecco II Ordelaffi or Francesco II Ordelaffi (1300–1374), son of Sinibaldo Ordelaffi (died 1337), grandson of Teobaldo I Ordelaffi
Cecco, one of Captain Hook's pirates from Peter Pan

Surname
Raffaele Cecco, (born 1967), British video games developer
Rubén Cecco (born 1983), Argentine football striker

Di Cecco
Alberico di Cecco (born 1974), Italian long-distance and marathon runner
Domenico Di Cecco (footballer), Italian footballer
Domenico di Cecco (painter), 15th-century painter from Gubbio
 Felice Di Cecco (born 1994) Italian footballer
Gregorio di Cecco, Italian painter of the Sienese School during the early Renaissance
John Paul De Cecco, 92, professor at San Francisco State University, pioneer of sexuality studies
Luciano De Cecco (born 1988), Argentinean volleyball player

See also
De Cecco, Italian company producing dried pasta, flour and other related food products
Olavo Cecco Rigon Airport or Concórdia Airport (IATA: CCI, ICAO: SSCK), the airport serving Concórdia, Brazil
Ceccia
Checca (disambiguation)
Chicco
Czecho (disambiguation)


Reynaldo Rey (born Harry Reynolds; January 27, 1940 – May 28, 2015) was an American actor, comedian, and television personality.

Career
Rey moved to Cleveland, Ohio, where he taught for seven years and became a member of the Karamu House Theatre, world-renowned for its development of top-notch actors, directors and producers. There, he launched his career in comedy, going on the road with the O'Jays. He then moved to New York City, where he was invited to join the Harlem Theater Group. While a member of the group, he appeared in his first movie. From there he performed in Europe, Asia and Africa for two years. Rey has appeared in 52 movies, including Friday, House Party 3, White Men Can't Jump, A Rage in Harlem, and Harlem Nights, where he appeared with the likes of Redd Foxx (his mentor, for whom he often opened shows), Della Reese, Richard Pryor, Arsenio Hall, and Eddie Murphy. He also has 32 television shows to his credit, including BET's Comic View, 1998–1999, 2000–2001, on which he was a co-host, The Tonight Show, Robert Townsend's Parents in Crime, and The Parent Hood, and 227 as Ray the Mailman. He also appeared on a show called Noah's Arc. Rey also recorded three comedy albums and three videos. He produced his own video, which features a rap he wrote called "I’m Scared A  U" after overwhelming audience reaction to it on Russell Simmons' Def Comedy Jam. Rey also appeared twice in 1973 as a contestant on the popular game show Match Game. He was brought back due to a technicality, and would go on to win 3 games, and a total of 650 dollars.

Death
Rey died on May 28, 2015, due to complications from a stroke he suffered a year prior.

He is interred in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Hollywood Hills).

Partial filmography

Disco Sexpot (1979)
Young Doctors in Love (1982) – The Cops – Cicerelli
Harlem Nights (1989) – Gambler
Far Out Man (1990) – Lou
A Rage in Harlem (1991) – Blind Man
The Three Muscatels (1991) – King Alberto Nacho
White Men Can't Jump (1992) – Tad
Bébé's Kids (1992) – Lush (voice)
House Party 3 (1994) – Veda's Dad
Friday (1995) – Red's Father
Sprung (1997) – Brotha #2
Fakin' da Funk (1997) – Earnest
The Breaks (1999) – Uncle Deion
Jackie's Back (1999, TV Movie) – Cadillac Johnson (Retired Pimp)
Play It to the Bone (1999) – Sportswriter
Little Richard (2000, TV Movie) – Sugarfoot Sam
The Cheapest Movie Ever Made (2000)
For da Love of Money (2002) – Pops
The Sunday Morning Stripper (2003, Short) – Elder Jenkins
Survival of the Illest (2004) – Old School
Super Spy (2004)
My Big Phat Hip Hop Family (2005) – Terrell Mathis
Treasure n tha Hood (2005) – Willie
Issues (2005) – Mr. Livingston
Who Made the Potato Salad? (2006) – Mr. Brown
Uncle P (2006) – MailmanEverybody Hates Chris (2007, TV Series) – Mr. LesterDivine Intervention (2007) – Deacon JonesFirst Sunday (2008) – Soul JoeInternet Dating (2008) – Mr. BentayAmerican Dream (2008) – ManagerPawn Shop'' (2012) – Rey's Pal (final film role)

References

External links

1940 births
2015 deaths
African-American male actors
African-American screenwriters
Screenwriters from Ohio
American male film actors
American male television actors
Burials at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Hollywood Hills)
People from Sequoyah County, Oklahoma
Male actors from Cleveland
Emporia State University alumni
Male actors from Oklahoma
American people who self-identify as being of Native American descent
20th-century American male actors
21st-century American male actors
Screenwriters from Oklahoma
Comedians from Oklahoma
Comedians from Ohio
20th-century African-American people
21st-century African-American people


Amzor (or Anzor) Nikolayevich Ailarov (; born 29 January 1982) is a Russian professional football official and a former player. He is the general director of FC Alania Vladikavkaz.

Club career
He made his debut in the Russian Premier League in 2002 for FC Alania Vladikavkaz.

References

1982 births
Footballers from Vladikavkaz
Living people
Russian men's footballers
Russia men's under-21 international footballers
Men's association football midfielders
FC Spartak Vladikavkaz players
Russian Premier League players
FC Salyut Belgorod players
FC Volgar Astrakhan players
FC SKA-Khabarovsk players
FC Avtodor Vladikavkaz players


Poland–North Korean relations () are foreign relations between Poland and North Korea.

Poland is one of the few countries that maintain diplomatic and limited trading (fishing) relations with Democratic People's Republic of Korea.

North Korea maintains an embassy in Warsaw, and Poland in Pyongyang. , the North Korean ambassador is Il Choe.

According to a 2013 BBC World Service Poll, only 5% of Poles view North Korea's influence positively, with 68% expressing a negative view.

Overview

Poland recognized the DPRK on 16 October 1948 as the sole legitimate government of the whole Korea, when both countries had Soviet-installed communist regimes.

During the Korean War, after North Korea's request, Poland took in and offered education to 1,400 North Korean children and youth, mostly orphans. They were housed in Gołotczyzna, Świder, Płakowice, Szklarska Poręba and Bardo. 350 children returned to North Korea in 1956–1958, and the remainder returned in 1959 by decision of Kim Il Sung.

From June 1956 until 1993, Poland remained part of the NNSC (Neutral Nations Supervisory Commission) named by the DPRK and Chinese Volunteers to carry out inspections and investigations as part of the armistice agreement. When Poland and Czechoslovakia ceased to be communist, the Korean People's Army took over the camps and expelled the Poles and Czechs. In 1989, Poland lost its status as a "friend" and its privileged position in contacts with the DPRK. Despite the change from communism to capitalism in Poland in 1989 and Poland's establishing relations with South Korea, relations between Poland and DPRK remain at a fair level.

Poland also provides North Korea with small grants in farming equipment and medicine.

Trade relations
From 1967 economic relations between the two countries were maintained at the symbolic level of trade and sailing co-operation (the Polish-Korean company CHOPOL Sp. z.o.o. owned one ship). The value of trade in 2007 was  million, including Polish exports at  million:

 Polish exports:  million
 Polish imports:  million

The most important goods exported by Poland were meats and other food products, mechanical and electronic tools as well as clothing products.

After a period of inactivity the company was liquidated in 2018.

Diplomatic relations

Poland maintains its embassy in Pyongyang and DPRK maintains its embassy in Warsaw. , The Republic of Poland and DPRK have signed 16 bilateral treaties, 12 as the Polish People's Republic and 4 as the Republic of Poland.

Official visits between the countries
Polish visits to North Korea:

 1986 - Chairman Wojciech Jaruzelski
 2007 - Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland (political consultations)
 2004 - Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland (political consultations)
 2001 - Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland (political consultations)

Korean visits to Poland:

 1956 - Premier Kim il Sung
 1984 - President Kim il Sung
 2008 - Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs of the DPRK (political consultations)

See also
Koreans in Poland
Poland–South Korea relations

References

Further reading

Poland
Bilateral relations of Poland