Able Muse is a literary magazine established in 1999 by editor-in-chief Alexander Pepple in San Jose, California. It started as an online publication, publishing poems, short stories, essays, book reviews, art, and photography from authors worldwide. It includes the sister organizations of Eratosphere, an online workshop forum for poetry, fiction and art; and Able Muse Press, a small press that publishes poetry and fiction collections by established and emerging authors.

History
The magazine transitioned into a print publication with the tenth issue, the Winter 2010 Inaugural Print Edition, accompanied with the publication of the Able Muse Anthology, edited by Pepple with a foreword by Timothy Steele.  The magazine still maintains its online presence where it simultaneously releases a digital edition that mirrors the corresponding issue of the print edition. Able Muse has been edited, since its inception by Alexander Pepple.

Awards
The magazine hosts a series of annual awards designed to bring recognition to emerging poets and writers or enhance the prestige of established authors. Poets compete, with a handful of their best poems, in the Able Muse Write Prize for Poetry, and writers compete with a couple of their best flash fiction pieces in the Able Muse Write Prize for Fiction.

Able Muse Press
Able Muse Press is a sister organization of Able Muse, founded in 2010 by Alexander Pepple, who is also the press' editor and publisher. This was at about the same time the print edition of Able Muse was launched.

See also
List of literary magazines

References

External links

Listing at Poets & Writers

Literary magazines published in the United States
Biannual magazines published in the United States
Magazines established in 1999
Magazines published in California
Mass media in San Jose, California
1999 establishments in California


Dr. Hudson's Secret Journal is an American medical drama which aired in syndication from 1955 to 1957. It was based on a 1939 book of the same name by Lloyd C. Douglas, that was a prequel to his 1929 novel Magnificent Obsession. A total of 78 episodes were produced.

In 1955 a nationwide competition was held in TV Guide to find a young actor to play Dr. Hudson's protégé, Tim Watson, for several episodes. those entering had to submit a photo and recording in which they read emotional dialogue. The winner was a young actor named Joe Walker.

Cast

John Howard as Dr. Wayne Hudson
Cheryl Callaway as Kathy Hudson
Olive Blakeney as Mrs. Grady
Frances Mercer as Nurse Ann Talbot
Jack Kelly as Dr. Bennett

References

External links

John Howard interview https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=888&dat=19570215&id=JyVSAAAAIBAJ&sjid=A3YDAAAAIBAJ&pg=3469,6805765

1955 American television series debuts
1957 American television series endings
1950s American drama television series
1950s American medical television series
Black-and-white American television shows
English-language television shows
First-run syndicated television programs in the United States
Television shows based on American novels


Louisa James is an English journalist and newsreader employed by ITV Breakfast, on the Good Morning Britain and Lorraine programmes.

External links

ITV Breakfast presenters and reporters
ITV regional newsreaders and journalists
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Place of birth missing (living people)


Jovan Stefanović (Serbian Cyrillic: Јован Стефановић; born February 5, 1984) is a Serbian footballer who played as a midfielder.

External links
 Profile at Soccerway
 Profile at Playerhistory

1984 births
Living people
Serbian men's footballers
Men's association football midfielders
FK Obilić players
FK BASK players
FK Metalac Gornji Milanovac players
FK Hajduk Beograd players
Serbian expatriate men's footballers
Expatriate men's footballers in North Macedonia
Place of birth missing (living people)


Giovani Segura Aguilar (born 1 April 1982) is a Mexican professional boxer. He is a former WBA, WBO, Lineal and The Ring magazine light flyweight champion.

Amateur career
Giovani began boxing at the age of 15 and had an amateur record of 38–4.

Professional career
Segura made his professional debut on March 28, 2003. He accumulated a record of 18–0–1, which included wins against future champion Carlos Tamara and former champion Daniel Reyes.

WBA Light Flyweight Champion
Giovanni challenged Colombian César Canchila for the Interim WBA Light Flyweight title. Segura lost the bout by unanimous decision, but subsequently claimed the interim title by knocking out Canchila in a rematch on March 14, 2009.

He was elevated to full champion on June 5, 2009. Segura defended his newly acquired title on July 25, 2009 by stopping Juanito Rubillar in six rounds. On November 21, 2009, he defended his title against Sonny Boy Jaro by first round knock out. On February 20, 2010, he defended his title for a third time against Walter Tello.

Segura vs. Calderon I & II
On August 28, 2010 Giovani fought undefeated WBO Light Flyweight champion Iván Calderón in a unification bout. Segura went on to knock out Calderón in the eighth round, successfully unifying his WBA title with the Puerto Rican's WBO and Lineal Light Flyweight Championships. In his next fight, he defeated former champion Manuel Vargas via 7th round stoppage.

Segura and Iván Calderón would meet again in April 2011. Segura won the rematch by third round knockout. Following that victory, Segura vacated his titles in order to move up to the Flyweight division where he was KO by Brian Viloria.

Professional boxing record

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!Date
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|38
|Win
|33–4–1
|align=left|Ernesto Guerrero
|KO
|3 (8)
|Jun 18, 2016
|align=left|
|align=left|
|- align=center
|37
|Loss
|32–4–1
|align=left|Juan Francisco Estrada
|TKO
|11 (12)
|Sep 6, 2014
|align=left|
|align=left|
|- align=center
|36
|Win
|32–3–1
|align=left|Felipe Salguero
|TKO
|10 (10)
|Apr 5, 2014
|align=left|
|align=left|
|- align=center
|35
|Win
|31–3–1
|align=left|Hernán Márquez
|KO
|12 (12)
|Nov 2, 2013
|align=left|
|align=left|
|- align=center
|34
|Win
|30–3–1
|align=left| Jonathan Gonzalez
|KO
|4 (10)
|Aug 17, 2013
|align=left|
|align=left|
|- align=center
|33
|Loss || 29–3–1 ||align=left|Edgar Sosa
|UD|| small|12 || May 18, 2013 ||align=left|
|align=left|
|- align=center
|32
|Win || 29–2–1 ||align=left|Omar Salado
|TKO|| 9 (10)|| Feb 23, 2013||align=left|
|align=left|
|- align=center
|31
|Loss || 28–2–1 ||align=left| Brian Viloria
|TKO|| 8 (12) || Dec 10, 2011||align=left|
|align=left|
|- align=center
|30
|Win || 28–1–1 ||align=left| Eddy Zuniga
|TKO|| 1 (10)|| May 28, 2011||align=left|
|align=left|
|- align=center
|29
|Win || 27–1–1 ||align=left| Iván Calderón
|KO|| 3 (12) || Apr 2, 2011||align=left|
|align=left|
|- align=center
|28
|Win || 26–1–1 ||align=left|Manuel Vargas
|RTD|| 7 (10)||Nov 27, 2010||align=left|
|align=left|
|- align=center
|27
|Win || 25–1–1 ||align=left| Iván Calderón
|KO|| 8 (12) || Aug 28, 2010 ||align=left|
|align=left|
|- align=center
|26
|Win || 24–1–1 ||align=left| Ronald Ramos
|RTD|| 4 (10) || Apr 27, 2010||align=left|
|align=left|
|- align=center
|25
|Win || 23–1–1 ||align=left| Walter Tello
|TKO|| 3 (12)|| Feb 20, 2010|| align=left|
|align=left|
|- align=center
|24
|Win || 22–1–1 || align=left| Sonny Boy Jaro
|KO|| 1 (12) || Nov 21, 2009  || align=left|
|align=left|
|- align=center
|23
|Win || 21–1–1 || align=left| Juanito Rubillar
|TKO|| 6 (12)|| Jul 25, 2009 || align=left|
|align=left|
|- align=center
|22
|Win || 20–1–1 || align=left| César Canchila
|TKO|| 4 (12)|| Apr 14, 2009 || align=left|
|align=left|
|- align=center
|21
| || 19–1–1 || align=left| César Canchila
|UD|| 12 || small|Jul 26, 2008|| align=left|
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|- align=center
|20
|Win || 19–0–1 ||align=left| Wilfrido Valdez
|KO|| 1 (10)|| Oct 26, 2007 || align=left|
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|- align=center
|19
|Win || 18–0–1 ||align=left| Daniel Reyes
|KO|| 1 (12)||Jun 8, 2007|| align=left|
|align=left|
|- align=center
|18
|Win || 17–0–1 || align=left|Jesus Martinez
|TKO|| 5 (12) || Feb 16, 2007|| align=left|
|align=left|
|- align=center
|17
|Win || 16–0–1 || align=left| Carlos Tamara
|UD|| 12|| Nov 3, 2006 || align=left|
|align=left|
|- align=center
|16
|Win || 15–0–1 || align=left| Jair Jimenez
|TKO|| 4 (12) || Sep 18, 2006 || align=left|
|align=left|
|- align=center
|15
|Win || 14–0–1 || align=left|Valentin Leon
|KO|| 3 (10) || May 5, 2006 || align=left|
|align=left|
|- align=center
|14
|Win || 13–0–1 || align=left|Francisco Arce
|TKO|| 1 (8) || Mar 3, 2006 || align=left|
|align=left|
|- align=center
|13
|Win || 12–0–1 || align=left|Juan Carlos Perez
|KO|| 1 (8)|| Jan 20, 2006 || align=left|
|align=left|
|- align=center
|12
|Win || 11–0–1 || align=left|Benjamin Garcia
|SD||small|8  || Nov 25, 2005 || align=left|
|align=left|
|- align=center
|11
|Win || 10–0–1 || align=left|Juan Javier Lagos
|KO|| 6 (8) || Oct 7, 2005|| align=left|
|align=left|
|- align=center
|10
|Win || 9–0–1 || align=left|Francisco Soto
|TKO|| 5 (8) || Jun 18, 2005|| align=left|
|align=left|
|- align=center
|9
|Win || 8–0–1 || align=left|Roberto Gomez
|TKO||4 (6) || May 6, 2005|| align=left|
|align=left|
|- align=center
|8
|Win || 7–0–1 || align=left|Felipe Rivas
|UD|| 6|| Nov 26, 2004 || align=left|
|align=left|
|- align=center
|7
|Win || 6–0–1 || align=left|Jose Antonio Rico
|TKO|| 1 (8)|| Apr 23, 2004 || align=left|
|align=left|
|- align=center
|6
|Win || 5–0–1 || align=left|Saidi Warandu
|TKO|| 1 (4)|| Jan 20, 2004|| align=left|
|align=left|
|- align=center
|5
|Win || 4–0–1 || align=left|Mynor Marquez
|TKO|| 1 (4) || Dec 6, 2003|| align=left|
|align=left|
|- align=center
|4
|Win || 3–0–1 || align=left|Vicente Maroquin
|KO|| 1 (4) || Nov 21, 2003 || align=left|
|align=left|
|- align=center
|3
|Win || 2–0–1 || align=left|Benjamin Garcia
|KO|| 1 (4)|| Jul 19, 2003 || align=left|
|align=left|
|- align=center
|2
|Draw|| 1–0–1 || align=left|Benjamin Garcia
|SD|| 4 || Jul 5, 2003 || align=left|
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|- align=center
|1
|Win || 1–0 || align=left|Jesus Valadez
|UD|| 4|| Mar 28, 2003 || align=left|
|align=left|
|- align=center

See also
List of Mexican boxing world champions
List of world light-flyweight boxing champions

References

External links

1982 births
Living people
Mexican male boxers
Boxers from Guerrero
People from Ciudad Altamirano, Guerrero
Flyweight boxers
World light-flyweight boxing champions
World Boxing Association champions
World Boxing Organization champions
The Ring (magazine) champions


Michael Tierney, better known as Mick Pyro, is an Irish musician. He is best known as the frontman of the Dublin funk rock band Republic of Loose. He has also participated in other independent work with fellow Irish, and international musicians and performed a duet with Sinéad O'Connor at the 2008 Meteor Awards, where she revealed her admiration for his vocals. He has also written for the Irish Independent. Pyro is known for his distinctive singing and his bearded appearance.

Education and influences
Pyro has an MA in Renaissance literature and is an avid reader. He is known for his diverse musical tastes involving hip hop, soul and blues, with almost every record he purchases being hip hop. He has described hip hop as "one of the most innovative art-forms around and it's constantly capable of shocking and surprising me". Cee-Lo Green's 2004 album Cee-Lo Green... Is the Soul Machine is one of Pyro's personal favourites but he also likes Biz Markie, EPMD, Big Daddy Kane and 1980s soul and funk such as Alexander O'Neal and Rick James – one of his heroes. He also likes metal bands such as Children of Bodom and listens to blues and jazz such as Howlin' Wolf, John Lee Hooker, Mahalia Jackson and soul singers such as Al Green and Solomon Burke. Pyro credited a former American friend with a great taste in music for becoming a Buddhist monk and leaving behind approximately 300 CDs of Coltrane, Mingus and Miles Davis. He likes the music of Bob Dylan, describing his 1997 Time Out of Mind album as having a "spooky" production and "savage" lyrics. On Michael Jackson, he once said "You feel a bit creepy listening to him and you have to be in the right mood but there's a really sad lament in his voice". After Jackson's death, Pyro dubbed him "the best singer who ever sang on record".

Style
Pyro is known for his excessive stage antics, with The Irish Times describing him as having "cajoled, provoked, teased, screamed, shouted, stomped and flirted away" through an entire set with Republic of Loose, whilst the Irish Independent has compared him to "an insane rock version of Robbie Williams, with the voice of a young and drunk James Brown". The Daily Telegraph once described him as "a bizarre mixture of Otis Redding, Screaming Jay Hawkins and an Irish drunk at closing time." John Meagher, writing in the Irish Independent, described Pyro as "the focal and vocal point of Republic of Loose" who "works his stage like a Joshua Tree-era Bono" During Republic of Loose's 2008 residency at the Dublin Academy, Pyro's stage presence was described by Ed Power in the Irish Independent as "more wedding-dance flap than Harlem shuffle, but he carries his shtick off with so much charisma you find yourself applauding instead of guffawing". His battles with alcoholism are chronicled in the song "Poquito" which features on the Republic of Loose album Vol IV: Johnny Pyro and the Dance of Evil and he also wrote the song "Comeback Girl" whilst drunk. Nowadays, his performances are not alcohol-related.

Pyro has also attracted comments for his dress sense, with Eoin Butler of The Irish Times once pondering if Republic of Loose release singles to demonstrate the number of pink sports jackets the singer owns, the answer of which is, according to Butler, "surprisingly many". Larissa Nolan noted his Miami Vice-style suit in her Irish Independent review of Republic of Loose's performance at Oxegen 2006. He is also noted for his "legendary lack of timekeeping" which often renders him late for interviews.

Career
Mick Pyro performed with self-described "rubbish rock bands" for several years before the formation of Republic of Loose. Experiencing what he termed "a huge metaphysical overturning of my value system", Pyro developed a fascination with musicians such as James Brown and The Rolling Stones, or "the stuff your Dad likes". This change of musical interest prompted him to create Johnny Pyro, an alter-ego, who, according to Pyro, "disassociated himself from the normal lifestyle of an Irish bourgeois kid". This alter-ego later developed into Republic of Loose. With this band, Pyro has performed at numerous music festivals, including Glastonbury Festival and Reading and Leeds Festivals in England. However the band sell most of their records in Ireland, where they have been regulars on the festival circuit for many years.

In 2008, Pyro was part of a collaboration of Irish and international musicians who combined to celebrate the life of Ronnie Drew by recording "The Ballad of Ronnie Drew" at Windmill Lane Studios in Dublin. During this recording he met Sinéad O'Connor, and she was so impressed with his vocals on the track that she asked him if they could perform a duet. O'Connor combined with Republic of Loose to perform a cover of the Curtis Mayfield song "We People Who Are Darker Than Blue" during the Meteor Music Awards which were held at Dublin's RDS on 15 February 2007.

On 16 March 2009, Pyro appeared at Vicar Street, Dublin for Unoccupied Minds, described as a "night of theatre, poetry, songs and music", a fund-raising event hosted by the Irish Anti-War Movement, which also featured Christy Moore, Stephen Rea, Sinéad Cusack, Róisín Elsafy, Judith Mok and Joyce.

As of late 2011, Pyro has a Monday night residency in 'The Leeson Lounge', Leeson Street, Dublin playing the Blues with Pat O'Farrell, James Delaney, John Querney and Noel Bridgeman.

Personal life
Pyro's sister, Annie, from Tieranniesaur and Yeh Deadlies was previously in a band called Chicks. He helped write songs for Chicks. She was also a member of the indie band The Radio. Pyro lives in the basement pad of a 1960s Swedish-style house in residential Dublin suburb of Terenure. His passions include CDs, books and films. Pyro has spoken in the past about his battles with alcoholism.

References

Irish male singer-songwriters
Irish singer-songwriters
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people


is a Japanese manga written and illustrated by Masaomi Kanzaki. The manga was published in 1986 by Shogakukan and 2000 by Kodansha.  The manga was licensed by Eclipse Comics in 1987 and by Viz Communications in 1992. The manga is licensed for a French-language release in France by Génération Comics and Semic Comics, licensed for a German-language release in Germany by Planet Manga, and licensed in Taiwan by Taiwan Tohan. A 2006 sequel Xenon -199X R- was serialised in Tokuma Shoten's seinen magazine Monthly Comic Ryū.

Manga
Kodansha published the manga's 4 bound volumes between March 1986 and March 1987.

Reception

The French Manga-News regarded the first volume as "a good action manga if you like the author or the genre, but dispensable for others". While praising the art, the Manga-News reviewer felt the story was unoriginal. He felt that the "non-stop action" prevented the series from sinking into caricatures, and noted that the popularity of the manga kept the manga going into a fourth volume, and found the last volume "most interesting".

References

External links

Action anime and manga
Fantasy anime and manga
1986 manga
Science fiction anime and manga
Seinen manga
Viz Media manga


9th Mission Support Command (9th MSC) is a United States Army Reserve unit located in Fort Shafter, Honolulu, Hawai'i.

The 9th Mission Support Command is a U.S. Army Reserve Command under the operational control of U.S. Army Pacific. Headquartered in Honolulu, Hawaii, the command consists of approximately 3,500 Army Reserve Soldiers and 160 civilians throughout the Pacific, including Hawaii, Alaska, American Samoa, Japan, Korea, Guam and Saipan.

The 9th MSC is engaged throughout the Asia-Pacific realm, providing trained and ready forces to overseas contingency operations, playing a vital role in approximately 20 U.S. Army Pacific Theater Security Cooperation Program exercises, and providing key battle staff in support of Joint Task Force Homeland Defense.

The 9th Mission Support Command (MSC) was originally designated as the IX Corps (Augmentation) and was organized on January 16, 1962. At that time it was an integral part of the Active Army’s IX Corps. The IX Corps headquarters was first constituted on July 29, 1921 in the Organized Reserves to provide Command to Reserve Units. Though the Corps was not activated, it remained on the organizational rolls of the Army, to be called on when needed. On October 1, 1933, the Corps was moved to the Active Duty roster, though it remained deactivated.

In 1940, it was activated at Ft. Lewis, Washington. It immediately began training of combat units in preparation for deployment. One year later, IX Corps took Command of the Camp Murray staging area in Washington, responsible for training Army National Guard forces, Active Duty and Reserve Units. Following the attack on Pearl Harbor in late 1941, IX Corps was assigned to defensive duties on the West Coast of the United States. In 1944 it was deployed to Leyte Gulf, Philippine Islands, where it was placed in charge of preparing the US Tenth Army for the invasion of Okinawa. In Leyte, IX Corps was tasked with the planning of Operation Olympic, the invasion of the home islands of Japan, specifically the island of Kyushu. After World War II it was assigned to the Eighth U.S. Army for occupation duty in Japan.

The IX Corps was inactivated in March 1950, but was reactivated in August that same year at Ft. Sheridan, Illinois. It was sent to Korea, where it participated in the successful expulsion of communist forces from South Korea. For its outstanding service, the unit was awarded two Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citations and nine campaign honors. IX Corps fought hard and well in Korea. The unit was on the line the entire conflict and always inflicted more casualties on the enemy than she sustained. Examples of valor and sacrifice were numerous. An example of which is the Distinguished Service Cross won by IX Corps Commander Lieutenant General Reuben E. Jenkins at Chorwon. In 1954, the unit was ordered back to Japan. In 1956, it redeployed to Okinawa to become part of HQ, Ryukyu Islands. In 1961, the IX Corps be-came a Major Subordinate Command of U.S. Army, Pacific. At that time it was an integral part of the Active Army's IX Corps, and participated in Command Post Exercises with the Corps for its Annual Training. The nature of these exercises in the 1960s was unique in that IX Corps now had a Reserve element in Hawaii and an active duty element in Okinawa. This made for excellent cooperation and coordination between the Army Reserve and the Active Army. The exercises were realistic. Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) exercises in Thailand occurred as the Vietnam War was raging. IX Corps Soldiers had a better understanding of the nature of the Vietnam War before the rest of the Army. These exercises included the continuing Yama Sakura with Japan, Coral Sands in which IX Corps troops participated in an amphibious as-sault on Molokai with components of the Active Army and Navy, Trupenamt II, and Triad 81 with Australian and New Zealand Forces.

On April 27, 1987, the Command was re-designated IX Corps (Reinforcement). On October 1, 1995, the Command was renamed 9th U.S. Army Reserve Command following the inactivation of IX Corps, a month earlier at Camp Zama, Japan. The Command moved to its current location at Fort Shafter Flats from Fort DeRussy in December 1997.

The organization experienced several years of reorganization and restructure to establish a more relevant, ready, and indispensable Pacific Army Reserve Force. As a result the Command was re-designated the 9th Regional Support Command on January 31, 1998, then re-designated as the 9th Regional Readiness Command on November 4, 2002 and again re-designated to its current organization as the 9th Mission Support Command (MSC) on April 16, 2008.

Subordinate Units

The subordinate units of the 9th Mission Support Command in 2017 are:

 US Army Pacific Support Unit, in Honolulu, HI
 3rd Mobilization Support Group, in Anchorage, AK
 658th Regional Support Group, in Seoul, South Korea-base operations support, activated October 2011.
 Theater Support Group Pacific, in Honolulu, HI
 303rd Maneuver Enhancement Brigade, in Honolulu, HI
 322nd Civil Affairs Brigade, in Honolulu, HI
 4960th Multi Functional Training Brigade, in Honolulu, HI
 1984th U.S. Army Hospital, in Honolulu, HI
 302nd Transportation Terminal Battalion, in Honolulu, HI
 411th Engineer Battalion, in Honolulu, HI
 The 100th Battalion/442nd Infantry Regiment, in Honolulu, HI

References

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Bojan Spasojević (Serbian Cyrillic: Бојан Спасојевић; born 26 July 1980) is a Serbian footballer.

Career
During his career, he has played for First League of FR Yugoslavia club FK Čukarički, FK Komgrap, Hungarian Zalaegerszegi TE, First League of Serbia and Montenegro club FK Voždovac, Maltese Floriana F.C., Serbian First League clubs FK Metalac Gornji Milanovac and FK Sevojno and Macedonian FK Metalurg Skopje before returning to his hometown club FK Sloga Kraljevo in 2009.

External links
 Profile at Srbijafudbal

1980 births
Living people
Footballers from Kraljevo
Serbian men's footballers
FK Čukarički players
Zalaegerszegi TE players
Expatriate men's footballers in Hungary
FK Voždovac players
FK Metalac Gornji Milanovac players
FK Sloga Kraljevo players
FK Sevojno players
Floriana F.C. players
Expatriate men's footballers in Malta
FK Metalurg Skopje players
Expatriate men's footballers in North Macedonia
FK Kozara Gradiška players
Men's association football forwards


The Eastern Grassfields languages, spoken in the Western High Plateau of Cameroon, are a branch of the Grassfields languages including Bamun, Yamba and Bamileke.

There are four or five branches to the family:
 Nkambe languages (north)
 Mbam–Nkam
 Ngemba languages
 Bamileke languages
 Nun languages

Nurse (2003) reports that Bamileke might be two branches.

References

Languages of Cameroon
Grassfields Bantu languages


The Eyre River is a river in the Great Southern region of Western Australia. The headwaters of the river rise below Blackboy  Hill approximately  south of Wellstead. The river flows in a south-easterly direction and discharges into Cheynes Inlet and on to the Southern Ocean.

The river was named in 1850 by the explorer Francis Thomas Gregory after the explorer John Eyre, who crossed it in 1841 on his expedition from Adelaide to Albany.

References

Rivers of the Great Southern region


Gjorgji "Gjore" Jovanovski (; born 22 March 1956) is a Macedonian football manager and former player.

Playing career
As a player, he played for FK Vardar and Red Star Belgrade in the Yugoslav First League and for Turkish club Samsunspor and Ankaragücü.

Coaching career
He had previously coached FK Vardar, FK Sloga Jugomagnat winning three championships and one cup title. After FK Rabotnichki Kometal winning two championship and qualified in the third round qualification for UEFA Champion League (eliminated by Lille/France)before moving to FK Milano Kumanovo and FK Metalurg Skopje. He was also a Head coach of Macedonian national team from 2001 till 2002. He was chosen three times for the award of the "best football coach in Macedonia" by Sport radio 90.3 fm having been one of the best coaches in Macedonia winning five league and two cup titles. He was also the head coach of the Macedonian national team from 2001 to 2002.

On 17 August 2010, Jovanovski was announced as the manager of CSKA Sofia. He qualified with CSKA Sofia in UEFA Europa League group stages

On 21 October 2010, Jovanovski was removed from his position of head coach of CSKA Sofia, after a 0:2 home loss against Rapid Vienna in a UEFA Europa League

On 8 November 2011, Jovanovski was named as manager of FK Rabotnichki but after only two months as the manager, the club board and he agreed to mutually terminate his contract on 28 December 2011.

Managerial statistics

Honours
FK Sloga Jugomagnat
Macedonian Football Cup: 1
Winner: 2003–04
FK Rabotnichki Skopje
Macedonian First League: 2
Winner: 2004–05, 2005–06
Runner-up: 2006–07

Notes

References

External links
 Playing career at PlayerHistory.com

1956 births
Living people
Footballers from Skopje
Men's association football midfielders
Macedonian men's footballers
Yugoslav men's footballers
FK Vardar players
Red Star Belgrade footballers
Samsunspor footballers
MKE Ankaragücü footballers
Yugoslav First League players
Süper Lig players
Yugoslav expatriate men's footballers
Macedonian expatriate men's footballers
Expatriate men's footballers in Turkey
Macedonian expatriate sportspeople in Turkey
Yugoslav expatriate sportspeople in Turkey
Macedonian football managers
FK Vardar managers
FK Sloga Jugomagnat managers
North Macedonia national football team managers
Samsunspor managers
FK Rabotnički managers
KF Milano Kumanovë managers
FK Metalurg Skopje managers
PFC CSKA Sofia managers
KF Shkëndija managers
FK Bregalnica Štip managers
Macedonian expatriate football managers
Expatriate football managers in Turkey
Expatriate football managers in Bulgaria
Macedonian expatriate sportspeople in Bulgaria


The Ring or Ring Road languages, spoken in the Western Grassfields of Cameroon, form a branch of the Narrow Grassfields languages. The best-known Ring language is Kom.

The family is named after the old Ring Road of central Cameroon.

Languages
Centre: Babanki, Mmen, Kom, Mbessa, Bum, Kung, Kuk, Oku
East: Nso (Lamnso')
South: Vengo, Wushi, Bamunka, Kenswei Nsei
West: Aghem, Isu, Laimbue, Weh, Zhoa

See also
List of Proto-Ring reconstructions (Wiktionary)

References

External links
Ethnographic information on the Bum people

Grassfields Bantu languages


John Linacre (born 13 December 1955 in Middlesbrough) is an English retired professional footballer who is best known for his time spent with Hartlepool United, where he made over 200 league appearances in two spells with the club.

Career
After beginning as an apprentice at Coventry City – he never made a league appearance for the club – Linacre started playing for Whitby Town before signing professional forms with Hartlepool United in 1977. He stayed at the club until 1982, making 196 league appearances, before signing with Maltese club Ħamrun Spartans. Linacre spent one year in Malta, before re-signing with Hartlepool United. His spell back in Hartlepool only lasted one season, and he signed for non-league Billingham Town in 1984.

References

External links
Player profile at In The Mad Crowd

1955 births
Living people
English men's footballers
Coventry City F.C. players
Whitby Town F.C. players
Hartlepool United F.C. players
Ħamrun Spartans F.C. players
Billingham Town F.C. players
Men's association football midfielders
Footballers from Middlesbrough


Master of Martial Hearts, originally titled , is a 2008–2009 Japanese original video animation series created by Studio Kikan and Shochiku.  It concerns a high school girl who gets involved in a series of fights against other young women with the Martial Heart (Platonic Heart in English subtitled and the Japanese version) as the prize; a jewel that can grant any wish. On January 7, 2010, Funimation Entertainment announced that they had licensed the OVA series in English. The series was released in North America on August 10, 2010.

Development

The series is based on the video game Zettai Shōgeki - Platonic Heart. The characters are designed by Jin Happobi who has illustrated adult games such as Boin. ARMS has produced fan service titles such as Queen's Blade and they made the characters distinct and more realistically proportioned. The musical score was done by Masaru Kuba. The series was directed by Yoshitaka Fujimoto, who had worked on the comedy Girl's High.

A website was launched for the series in July 2008.

Characters

Main
  is in her second year in high school. In the OVA, she is a generally cheerful and pleasant girl who has a crush on her best friend's brother, but has angsty moods where she mopes and whines. She is pulled into the tournament when Miko drops out and mysteriously disappears. She is a capable fighter, having learned fighting techniques from her mother. When Aya fights, she can turn into a maddening rage, resulting in devastating damage. She is voiced by Kaori Nazuka in the Japanese version, and by Anita Neukar in the English dub.
  is Aya's best friend. In the OVA, Natsume's supportiveness for Aya is an act—in the final episode, she betrays Aya and reveals that she, her brother, and Miko have all conspired to exact revenge on Aya and her family. Natsume's mother is Kumi, the sister of Yumi Kazuki, Miko's mother. Natsume is voiced by Satomi Akesaka in the Japanese version, and by Cherami Leigh in the English dub.
  is a shrine maiden. In the OVA, she initially appears in a fight against Rei, a young woman dressed as a flight attendant. After Aya defeats Rei, Miko explains that she is participating in a tournament that grants any wish upon victory. Seeing that her wish of making friends was fulfilled by Aya and Natsume, she tries to withdraw from the tournament. However, Miko mysteriously disappears later on. Miko later appears at the end of the series as a vengeance-filled enemy of Aya as her mother, Yumi Kazuki, and her aunt, Kumi, were involved in a previous tournament with Aya's mother (Suzuko) ruining their lives. Miko reveals that her father was Shigeyuki Iseshima, who is Aya's father. Even though Aya believed Shigeyuki died in a car accident, in actuality, he stabbed Yumi Kazuki on Miko's fourth birthday and was killed by Kumi the same day. Miko had been looking for Suzuko and her daughter her entire life—she finally achieved her goal upon meeting her cousins, Haruki (Natsume's brother) and Natsume. Their vengeful plan was formed after Miko met Natsume. Miko is voiced by Ai Nonaka in the Japanese version, and by Alexis Tipton in the English dub.

Supporting

 Natsume's brother, whom Aya has a crush on. It is revealed in the final episode that Haruki is in a relationship with Miko all along. Tatsuhisa Suzuki voices him in the Japanese version and Ian Sinclair voices him in the English dub.

 Aya's mother. She won the previous tournament, dooming Kumi and Yumi Kazuki to sexual slavery. In the final episode, she infiltrates the hideout of Miko, Haruki, and Natsume. Suzuko sets the area on fire and confronts the three perpetrators to save Aya's life. After informing the trio of what their grandfathers did she snaps the necks of Haruki, Miko, and Natsume when they tried to attack her. Suzuko then bandages Aya's wounds, apologizes to her, and helps her flee the building. Afterwards, Suzuko stays behind in the burning building and checks Aya's phone—she finds out that the pieces of the Martial Heart have not been completed. The burning building then collapses, with Suzuko's fate unknown. Naoko Matsui voices her in the Japanese version and Shelley Calene-Black voices her in the English dub.

Competitors
For the Zettai Shougeki: Platonic Heart video game, the following women were listed in the lineup on the official site as competitors along with the main three girls.
  is Aya's chemistry teacher. Azusa attacks by calling out a chemical formula and then uses a combination of punches and kicks based on it. Although Azusa criticizes Aya for not studying, she has reservations for fighting her. Azusa's motivation for fighting in the tournament is to find her missing father. Azusa is enslaved by Miko after losing to Aya, and Miko uses her as the first "example" of the fate that befalls the losers of the tournament; Aya tries to make her return to sanity, but Azusa is so far gone that she cannot. She is voiced by Luci Christian in the English dub.
  is a flight attendant. In the OVA she had worked since high school to care for her younger brother, since her parents were no longer alive. Her brother fell ill with an incurable disease and she wanted to get money through the tournament to give him adequate medical treatment. By the end of the series, Rei's brother had died; having been tortured to insanity, Miko points out that it is impossible for Rei to know that her brother is dead.  Rei's weapons are a handbag with blades and a spiked scarf. Voiced by: Colleen Clinkenbeard (English)
 The  are part of the alliance. They attempted to scout Aya within their ranks. Sharing Azusa and Rei's fate, all of them are enslaved by Miko after losing.
 : Nurse.
 : Police officer.
 : Geisha.
  is a Japanese idol singer dressed as a maid. Like all of the ladies before her, Rin is enslaved by Miko after losing. Kristi Kang voices her in the English dub.

 Yueli is a Chinese-Japanese psychic. Yueli managed to advance to the final round along with Aya, who is her opponent. Yueli attempts to inform Aya about Miko's true nature, only to provoke Aya, leading to her death. Monica Rial provides her English voice.

 Dressed in a white suit, Izumi works for Miko and her group. In the final episode she betrays her masters and tries to strangle Miko, only to be shot dead by Haruki. Wendy Powell provides her English voice.

Other contestants include:
 {{nihongo|Megumi Shimoyama|下山 恵|Shimoyama Megumi}}
 Megumi is a mechanic that is very quickly defeated by Aya and then enslaved by Miko. Jamie Marchi provides her English voice.

 Aoi is a delinquent who appears in Zettai Shougeki: Platonic Heart II.

 Others

 Takumi is Aya's perverted physical education teacher. He tried to force Aya to run around the track field with revealing gym clothes for being late, only to have his perverted fantasies foiled by Azusa. Sonny Strait provides his English voice.
 Fake Haruki The fake Haruki is in cahoots with Izumi, working for Miko's group. He has a tendency to alter his physical appearance with plastic surgery to flirt with any girl he sees fit. He meets his demise along with Izumi under the real Haruki, who shoots them dead.
 Kumi Honma (née Kazuki)' The mother of Natsume and Haruki. Several years ago, Kumi and her sister Yumi Kazuki were sold into sexual slavery to a man overseas after she lost the Martial Heart tournament to Suzuko Iseshima. Her vocal cords were destroyed to prevent her from screaming, and she has a noticeable scar on her neck. She escaped from her overseas master and used sign language and writing to tell her children what happened, then through the years she conditioned them to seek revenge for the horrors inflicted on her.. At the end, Suzuko reveals that Kumi had killed Shigeyuki Iseshima after he killed Yumi. Kumi also has a habit of stabbing pictures with Aya in it with a razor blade. In the final episode, she answers the door and is frightened at the sight of the outsider, strongly implied to be Aya. Kumi's actual fate left for open interpretation, but it's believed that Aya killed her either as punishment or to stop the whole cycle of revenge.

Media

OVA
Previews were presented in "blog parts" (miniature applets for blogs) that showcased the bodies of the various characters.
Shochiku released the first volume of the series in Japan on October 25, 2008. Subsequent episodes have been released monthly.

The opening theme of the series is  by Little Non. The closing theme for episode 5 is "Zero Gravity" also by Little Non. The OVAs were released in Japan between October 29, 2008 and February 25, 2009.

Other media
Atsushi Kuragami, who did Debiru Naebiru, has serialized a manga version for Futabasha's Comic High! magazine with its debut on August 22, 2008.Slotter Mania V: Zettai Shougeki Platonic Heart II, a pachinko-style game featuring characters from the series, was released for the PS Vita.

Ten companies have planned to expand the franchise into mobile devices, music CD and other merchandise.

Reception
The OVA series received negative reviews from critics. Theron Martin of Anime News Network likens the series to Ikki Tousen where women fight each other with "clothes-shredding attacks" but wrote that Master of Martial Hearts'' has more extreme fan service such as exposed breasts.  The plot "exists almost entirely to give excuses for staging cosplay-like battles." Stig Høgset of THEM Anime Reviews found the show "a pretty simple and terrible story with a really awkward and dumb plot twist at the end, it's just impossible to recommend this show for anyone." He instead recommended other titles for those who are "up for the whole 'sexy girls chopsocky' thing." Mike Ferreira of the Anime Herald wrote that it is "without a doubt, one of the most offensive, vile pieces of crap to pass through my DVD player. It makes Ikki Tousen look like The Gentleman’s Guide in comparison. There are absolutely no redeeming qualities to speak of, and everything just seems to go to extremes to repulse the viewer." Bamboo Dong of Anime News Network praised Funimation for "cutting one of the funniest and most attention-grabbing trailers in recent anime history. Their coinage of 'Boobs, butts, and burgers' is genius," however, "Considering the terrible storyline, the complete lack of characterization, the lackluster animation, and the ear-splitting music, and the complete disregard for science, there is no redeeming feature of this show. Unless, of course, you want something to whack off to." Chris Beveridge of Mania.com found the story to be formulaic with awkward pacing, and leading to a spectacular train wreck of the final episode.

References

External links
   (Archive)
 Zettai Shougeki: Platonic Heart - Dorasu PC Mobile
 Zettai Shougeki: Platonic Heart - Jin Products  (Archive)
 Zettai Shougeki: Platonic Heart - Aristocrat
 Zettai Shougeki: Platonic Heart II - Aristocrat
 絶対衝激～ﾌﾟﾗﾄﾆｯｸﾊｰﾄ～ 「絶対領域」でライバルを倒し、「Platonic Time」で熱くなれ！." Mobage by DeNA.
  (Archive)

2008 anime OVAs
2008 manga
Arms Corporation
Funimation
Futabasha manga
Martial arts anime and manga
Seinen manga
Studio Signpost
Anime and manga about death games


Stan Smith was the defending champion of the men's singles event at the Australian Indoor Championships but did not compete that year.

Unseeded Geoff Masters won in the final 4–6, 6–3, 7–6, 6–3 against James Delaney.

Seeds

Tanner, Rosewall and Dent received a bye to the second round. Tony Roche was originally seeded fifth but was forced to withdraw before the start of the tournament due to a stomach muscle injury.

Draw

Finals

Top half

Section 1

Section 2

Bottom half

Section 3

Section 4

References

Singles


The Eternal Chain () is a 1952 Italian melodrama film directed by Anton Giulio Majano.

Plot
A naval officer becomes the lover of his brother's girlfriend. The latter kills a suitor of the girl; of the murder, however, the other is accused, who is forced to flee. Returning years after joining the Foreign Legion, he discovers that a son was born from the relationship; the brother opposes their union and accidentally dies, but before him he confesses his crime.

Cast
 Marcello Mastroianni as Walter Ronchi
 Gianna Maria Canale as Maria Raneri
 Marco Vicario as Sandro Ronchi
 Leda Gloria as Donna Teresa, madre di Maria
 Umberto Spadaro as Maresciallo della legione straniera
 Carlo Croccolo as Peppino
 Aldo Nicodemi as Filippo Lanza
 Olinto Cristina as Maestro Vallini
 Nietta Zocchi as The 'Alhambra' Owner
 Gisella Monaldi as Donna Carmela
 Duccio Sissia as Walter - Maria's son
 Corrado Mantoni as himself (as Corrado)
 Mario Galli
 Liana Billi
 Giulio Battiferri

References

External links

1952 films
1950s Italian-language films
1952 drama films
Italian black-and-white films
Films directed by Anton Giulio Majano
Italian drama films
Melodrama films
1950s Italian films


Gavintra Photijak (; ), nicknamed Gam (, ; born 24 December 1986 in Nongkhai, Thailand) is a Thai beauty pageant titleholder who has competed in the Miss Universe.

On May 24, 2008, she competed in the Miss Thailand Universe 2008 pageant held in Bangkok where she won and was crowned by reigning Miss Thailand Universe 2007 Farung Yuthithum

She graduated bachelor's degree from Bangkok University.

Pageantry
She represented Thailand in the Miss Universe 2008 pageant held in Nha Trang, Vietnam, where her Muay Thai inspired costume won the Best National Costume Award. However, she did not place in the Top 15. The pageant was won by Dayana Mendoza, of Venezuela.

Photijak is the fourth Thai woman ever won the Best National Costume Award in the Miss Universe pageant, the first being Saengduan Manwong in 1969, Porntip Nakhirunkanok in 1988 and Chananporn Rosjan in 2005.

Screen credits

Television (Channel 7)

External links
Official site of Miss Thailand Universe 2008

1986 births
Living people
Gavintra Photijak
Miss Universe 2008 contestants
Gavintra Photijak


Moonchildren (originally titled Cancer) is a play by Brooklyn-based playwright Michael Weller.  The play chronicles a year in the life of the "moonchildren" referred to in the title: eight college students living communally together in an off-campus attic in the mid-1960s.

Productions
The work was first performed in 1970 with the title Cancer in London at the Royal Court Theater under the direction of Martin Rosen. Weller changed the name to Moonchildren shortly thereafter for the work's American premiere at the Arena Stage (Washington, DC) in November 1971, which was directed by Alan Schneider.

The Arena Stage production moved to the Royale Theatre on Broadway the following year, giving its first of 28 performances on February 11, 1972. The cast included Kevin Conway as Mike, Maureen Anderman as Ruth, Edward Herrmann as Cootie, Christopher Guest as Norman, Stephen Collins as Dick, Jill Eikenberry as Kathy, James Woods as Bob Rettie, Cara Duff-MacCormick as Shelly, Donegan Smith as Ralph, Robert Prosky as Mr. Willis, Ron McLarty as Lucky, Louis Zorich as Bream, Peter Alzado as Effing, Salem Ludwig as Uncle Murry, George Curley as Cootie's Father, and Michael Tucker as Milkman. Duff-MacCormick garnered a Tony Award nomination for best Featured Actress in a play and Weller won a Drama Desk Award for Most Promising Playwright. Anderman, Duff-MacCormick, and Woods all won Theatre World Awards for their portrayals.

Reviews
The play has been deemed a "seminal work" for Weller and is according to one reviewer:
a stunning work, one that has weathered the years to become that rarity, a contemporary play that, while rooted in the era in which it was written, remains contemporary because its underlying themes are universal and unchanging.
According to a review in The New York Times, Weller wrote this play about the generation that came of age during the Vietnam War "with a discerning eye and a journalist's detachment".

References

External links

1971 plays
Broadway plays
American plays


Sjafruddin Prawiranegara's Emergency Cabinet () was the government of the Emergency Government of the Republic of Indonesia (PDRI), effectively Indonesia's government-in-exile, established in Bukittinggi, West Sumatra following the second Dutch military aggression when the republican capital of Yogyakarta was seized and most of the cabinet allowed itself to be captured in the hope of attracting sympathy from the outside world.

Initial Composition
On 19 December 1948 a meeting was held in Bukittinggi. Among those present were Sjarifuddin, Mr. Teuku Muhammad Hasan (central government commissioner for Sumatra), Col. Hidayat (commander of the Sumatra Command) and other civilian and military officials.

Chairman, concurrently Minister of Defense, Information and Foreign Affairs ad interim: Sjafruddin Prawiranegara
Deputy Chairman, concurrently Home Affairs, Education & Culture and Religious Affairs ad interim: Teuku Muhammad Hasan
Minister of Security, concurrently Minister of Social Affairs, Development and Labor: S. M. Rasjid
Minister of Finance, concurrently Minister of Justice: Lukman Hakim
Minister of Public Works, concurrently Minister of Health: Mananti Sitompul
Minister of Communications, concurrently Minister of Welfare: Indratjahja
Secretary of the PDRI: Mardjono Danoebroto

Reshuffle
Three key positions were held by officials not present in Bukitinggi: General Sudirman, who was leading the guerrilla war in Java, Foreign Minister A. A. Maramis, who was in India, and Colonel Nasution, territorial commander of Java.  On 14 March 1949, the chairman sent a telegram to the leaders in Java proposing the inclusion of ministers still active in Java. After discussions via radiogram, the cabinet was reshuffled and the new lineup announced on 31 March 1949.

Chairman, concurrently Minister of Defense and Information: Sjafruddin Prawiranegara
Deputy Chairman, concurrently Minister of Justice, Development and Youth Affairs:  Soesanto Tirtoprodjo
Minister of Foreign Affairs: A. A. Maramis
Minister of Home Affairs, concurrently Minister of Health: Dr. Sukiman
Minister of Finance: Lukman Hakim
Minister of Welfare (including supply of public provisions): Ignatius J. Kasimo
Minister of Religious Affairs: Masjkur
Minister of Education & Culture: Teuku Muhammad Hasan
Minister of Communications: Indratjahja
Minister of Public Works: Mananti Sitompul
Minister of Labor and Social Affairs: S. M. Rasjid

The end of the Emergency Cabinet
Under pressure from United Nations and the United States as well as the continuing guerilla warfare from the republican forces, the Dutch agreed to a ceasefire. In January 1949, the United Nations Security Council  demanded the republican government be released and sovereignty handed over to Indonesia by 1 July 1950. The US backed this up with a threat to withdraw vital postwar reconstruction aid to the Netherlands. On 7 May the Dutch agreed to the release of Sukarno and Hatta, who would order a ceasefire once they returned to Yogyakarta. On 6 July Sukarno, Hatta and republican leaders arrived back in Yogyakarta, followed by the PDRI cabinet. In a meeting on 13 July chaired by Hatta,  Sjafruddin reported to Sukarno on the activities of the emergency cabinet. He then returned his mandate to Sukarno, thus dissolving the cabinet.

References
 Kahin, George McTurnan (1952) Nationalism and Revolution in Indonesia Cornell University Press,
 Ricklefs (1982), A History of Modern Indonesia, Macmillan Southeast Asian reprint,

Notes

Cabinets of Indonesia


Anton Giulio Majano (5 July 1909 – 12 August 1994) was an Italian screenwriter and film director. His career spanned from 1937 to 1986.

Selected filmography

Director and screenwriter
 The Eternal Chain (1952)
 Good Folk's Sunday (1953)
 The Rival (1956)
 Il padrone delle ferriere (1959)
 Atom Age Vampire (1960)
 The Corsican Brothers (1961)
 La Cittadella (TV, 1964)
 E le stelle stanno a guardare (TV, 1971)
 Marco Visconti (1975, TV series)

Screenwriter
 Hurricane in the Tropics (1939)
 Un giorno nella vita (1946)
 The White Primrose (1947)
 Un giorno nella vita (1948)
 City of Pain (1948)
 Flying Squadron (1949)
 The Beggar's Daughter (1950)
 Cavalcade of Heroes (1950)
 Strano appuntamento (1950)
 A Mother Returns (1952)
 For You I Have Sinned (1953)

References

External links

1909 births
1994 deaths
20th-century Italian screenwriters
Italian male screenwriters
Italian film directors
20th-century Italian male writers
People from Chieti


The Baháʼí Faith in Wales started shortly after the Second World War when a great pioneer movement began with sixty percent of the British Baháʼí community eventually relocating. This movement included taking the Baháʼí Faith to Wales.

The first Baháʼí resident in Wales was Rose Jones who married and moved to Cardiff from London in 1942. In 1947 she was joined by Joan Giddings. In 1948 the first local spiritual assembly of Cardiff was formed. In 1961 Pontypridd formed the first Baháʼí Local Spiritual Assembly composed entirely of native Welsh. The first Baháʼí literature in the Welsh language was published in 1950. Today there are local assemblies in Cardiff, Newport and Swansea. In 2017 it was reported that there were about 200 Welsh followers of the faith. In the 2021 UK Census, 223 people in Wales reported their faith as Baháʼí.

The 2005 UK-wide conference of the National Convention of the Baháʼís of the United Kingdom was held in Wales.

The Wales Baháʼís are organized under the Baháʼí Council of Wales under the National Spiritual Assembly of the Baháʼís of the United Kingdom. In 2007 there were registered communities in:
Abercarn, Caerphilly, Carmarthen, Carmarthenshire, Chepstow, Conwy, Llanelli Rural, Llanelli Town, Maesteg, Mold, Monmouthshire, Newport, and Vale of Glamorgan.

See also
 History of Wales
 Baháʼí Faith in England
 Baháʼí Faith in Scotland
 Baháʼí Faith in Northern Ireland

Notes

External links
 Baháʼí Council for Wales
 The Baháʼís of Cardiff

History of Wales


Sean Joseph McConville (born 6 March 1989) is an English professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for  club Accrington Stanley.

Career

Accrington Stanley
McConville signed for Accrington Stanley in February 2009, from Skelmersdale United having previously been on trial with Stockport County. He made his debut for Accrington Stanley on 14 February 2009, away to Bournemouth in the 1–0 defeat coming on as a substitute in the 68th minute replacing John Mullin.

Stockport County
In July 2011, he signed for Stockport County. In March 2012, McConville joined League One Rochdale, on a loan deal for the remainder of the season. His contract with the club was cancelled by mutual consent in August 2012.

Barrow
On 14 September 2012, McConville joined Conference club Barrow on a one-month contract. Manager Dave Bayliss had previously tried to sign him on loan from Stockport during the summer of 2012 before his contract was cancelled.

Return to Accrington
McConville re-joined Accrington from Chester in 2015, and signed a new contract in January 2016. He signed new contracts in July 2017, July 2018, and July 2019.

Career statistics

Honours
Individual
PFA Team of the Year: 2017–18 League Two

References

External links

1989 births
Living people
English men's footballers
Men's association football midfielders
Burscough F.C. players
Skelmersdale United F.C. players
Accrington Stanley F.C. players
Stockport County F.C. players
Rochdale A.F.C. players
Barrow A.F.C. players
Chester F.C. players
English Football League players
National League (English football) players
Stalybridge Celtic F.C. players
Footballers from Liverpool


NSL is an outsourcing company formed in Spring 2007 by the demerger of NCP into two separate businesses. It provides parking services, bus and coach operations, city centre CCTV monitoring, back office processing,  streetscape consultancy and debt recovery.

The company first demerged as NCP Services in 2007, and became NSL Services Group in April 2009. In January 2017 NSL was acquired by Marston Holdings.

Services

Passenger transport

NCP Challenger commenced trading on 12 November 2005, having successfully tendered to operate routes 33 and 419 under contract to Transport for London.

In April 2009, NCP Challenger was rebranded NSL Buses. On 13 November 2009, NSL buses was sold to Transdev with operations taken over by its London United subsidiary.

Patient transport
NSL patient transport includes services for non-emergency, high-dependency, bariatric and secure/mental health patients. NSL is the largest private non-emergency patient transport provider in the UK, transporting over 2m patients to and from their appointments every year. NSL is a member of the Independent Ambulance Association (IAA).

It was chosen by NHS Kent and Medway in January 2013 to provide non-emergency patient transport.

Other services
NSL also provide a number of other services. These include:
 Park and ride sites in Oxford and Durham.
 Planning and designing "streetscapes" through its consultancy arm, Project Centre.
 Traffic rule enforcement, parking and traffic attendants.
 Care services: patient transfers to the NHS.

Criticism
At a January 2012 employment tribunal, NSL was described as "predatory and dishonest".

NSL has been subject to investigation into unfair practices by Channel 4's Cutting Edge programme.

Westminster Council CEOs (outsourced to NSL) have also been filmed using illegal tactics to block cars.

In January 2014 The Care Quality Commission (CQC) said the service did not meet mandatory standards in four out of five areas. It found patients had experienced long waits and some staff had not undergone criminal record checks. In April 2014 the clinical commissioning groups in Kent agreed to provide an extra £1.6m for their contract as part of a "last chance" deal to improve its performance. Ian Ayres, chief officer for West Kent Clinical Commissioning Group, which manages the contract on behalf of eight CCGs in Kent and Medway told the Kent County Council Scrutiny Committee; "the information which was available to commissioners drawing up the invitation to tender was incomplete, and therefore so was the specification."

References

External links
 Official website

Companies based in Birmingham, West Midlands
Private providers of NHS services


Ian Gooderson is a senior lecturer in the Defence Studies Department of King's College London. He teaches and publishes on twentieth-century military and strategic studies, especially air power.

Gooderson gained his MA and PhD degrees from the Department of War Studies at King's College London before joining the teaching staff at RAF Henlow in 1997 where he taught air power history on junior and intermediate courses from 1997 until 2000. Earlier, between 1988 and 1996, he had been a Research Associate within the Department of War Studies, specialising in Air Power and contracted to work with the Centre for Defence Analysis. This involved working on projects analysing various aspects of air power.

His best known work is: Air Power at the Battlefront (1998) , which explains and assesses Allied close air support in the latter part of the Second World War. Among Gooderson's many peer reviewed articles is: "Doctrine from the Crucible: The British Air-Land Experience in the Second World War." Air Power Review Vol. 9 No. 2 (Autumn 2006), pp. 1–13.

Notes

Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Alumni of King's College London
Academics of King's College London
British military writers
Air force historians
British military historians


Leda Gloria (30 August 1908 – 16 March 1997) was an Italian film actress. She appeared in 66 films between 1929 and 1965. During the expansion of Italian cinema of the Fascist era of the 1930s and early 1940s she appeared in starring roles, later transitioning into character parts after the Second World War. She appeared in the Don Camillo series of films, playing the wife of Gino Cervi's Giuseppe Bottazzi.

Selected filmography

 Girls Do Not Joke (1929)
 There Is a Woman Who Never Forgets You (1930)
 Ninna nanna delle dodici mamme (1930)
 Mother Earth (1931) – Emilia
 Figaro and His Great Day (1931) – Nina
 Palio (1932) – Fiora
 The Table of the Poor (1932) – Giorgina Fusaro
 The Blue Fleet (1932) – Olga Rosati
 Il trattato scomparso (1933) – Anna – sua figlia
 The Three-Cornered Hat (1935) – Carmela, moglie di Luca
 Territorial Militia (1936) – Martina
 Nozze vagabonde (1936) – Diana
 Just Married (1936) – Lucia
 Sette giorni all'altro mondo (1936) – Elena Santarelli
 The Ambassador (1936)
 King of Diamonds (1936)
 The Three Wishes (1937) – Dora Corelli, la cantante
 Bayonet (1938)
 Duetto vagabondo (1939) – La vedova
 The Marquis of Ruvolito (1939) – Lily Gordon
 La grande luce - Montevergine (1939) – Sabina
 L'aria del continente (1939)
 The Palace on the River (1940)
 Antonio Meucci (1940) – Ester Meucci, sua moglie
 The Cavalier from Kruja (1940) – Alidjé
 Lucky Night (1941) – La sorella del principale
 La pantera nera''' (1942) – Sonya Harkaneck
 Souls in Turmoil (1942) – Anna
 La signorina (1942)
 Dagli Appennini alle Ande (1943) – Maria Ansaldi, sua madre
 Redenzione (1943)
 La moglie in castigo (1943)
 Vietato ai minorenni (1944)
 The Mill on the Po (1949) – La Sniza
 Ring Around the Clock (1950) – Rosa
 Side Street Story (1950) – Amalia, la moglie di Gennaro
 Strano appuntamento (1950) – Signora Rossi
 Last Meeting (1951) – Bianca, amica di Lina
 Red Moon (1951) – Donna Amalia (uncredited)
 Three Girls from Rome (1952) – Rosa, Elena's mother
 The Little World of Don Camillo (1952) – Madame Botazzi
 The Eternal Chain (1952) – Donna Teresa, madre di Maria
 Ergastolo (1952) – Rosa Lulli
 Rosalba, la fanciulla di Pompei (1952) – House Neighbour
 Le boulanger de Valorgue (1953) – Mme Zanetti, l'épicière
 It's Never Too Late (1953) – Anna Colussi
 The Return of Don Camillo (1953) – Signora Bottazzi
 It Happened in the Park (1953) – Signora Ventrella – la moglie di Donato (segment: Il paraninfo)
 Cuore di mamma (1954) – Donna Elvira
 Tragic Ballad (1954) – Signora Barone
 The Boatman of Amalfi (1954) – Rita Selva
 New Moon (1955) – madre di Giovanni
 Don Camillo's Last Round (1955) – Madame Botazzi
 Torna piccina mia! (1955) – Esther
 The Virtuous Bigamist (1956) – Lucia – la mère de Maria
 Amaramente (1956) – Madre di Marco
 Ciao, pais...  (1956) – Amala
 Guendalina (1957) – Madre di Oberdan
 Serenata a Maria (1957) – Pupella's and Maria's mother
 Il cocco di mamma (1958) – Aldo Manca's Mother
 The Law Is the Law (1958) – Antonietta La Paglia
 La sposa (1958) – Susanna
 The Woman of Ice (1960) – Zia Agata
 Cocagne (1961) – Mélanie
 Don Camillo: Monsignor (1961) – Madame Botazzi
 Don Camillo in Moscow'' (1965) – Madame Botazzi

References

External links

1908 births
1997 deaths
Italian film actresses
Actresses from Rome
20th-century Italian actresses


Goian Island is the largest island of the Republic of Moldova. It is part of the Dubăsari district in the separatist region of Transnistria.

Islands of Moldova


Armando Becker (born June 9, 1966 in Caracas) is a retired male basketball player from Venezuela, who played as a forward during his career. He competed for the Venezuela national basketball team at the 1990 FIBA World Championship and at the 1991 Pan American Games.

Becker played his college basketball at Central Missouri, becoming the only two-time first-team All-American selection in school history. He was also a two-time All-MIAA selection and was named conference MVP in 1990. As a senior, he posted averages of 23.3 points and 6.9 rebounds per game, leading the Mules to a 27–5 record and a runner-up finish in an NCAA Division II regional. He was inducted into the school's Athletic Hall of Fame in 2008.

He played with the Pittsburgh Piranhas of the Continental Basketball Association (CBA) in 1995 before enjoying a long career in South America.

He became a coach in the Venezuelan league after his playing career.

References

External links
Profile
urubasket

1966 births
Living people
Central Missouri Mules basketball players
Pittsburgh Piranhas players
Power forwards (basketball)
Small forwards
Sportspeople from Caracas
Venezuelan basketball coaches
Venezuelan expatriate basketball people in the United States
Venezuelan men's basketball players
1990 FIBA World Championship players


The Illawarra Steam Navigation Company serviced the south coast of New South Wales between 1858 and 1955. During this period they owned over 20 vessels, ranging from riverboats to the 1111 ton passenger vessel, Merimbula.

References

Illawara


Olinto Cristina (5 February 1888 – 17 June 1962) was an Italian actor and voice actor.

Biography
Olinto Cristina was born in Florence on February 5 1888 to actors Raffaello Cristina and Cesira Sabatini, Cristina began acting on stage as a child. His sisters Ines Cristina Zacconi, Jone Frigerio and Ada Cristina Almirante were also actresses. His sister Ines was the mother of actress Margherita Bagni and the grandmother of actress Nora Ricci, she married secondly Ermete Zacconi. On screen, he appeared in more than 75 films between 1932 and 1957. He also was a renowned dubber in Italian post-synchronized versions of foreign films, providing his voice for actors such as C. Aubrey Smith, Sig Ruman, Frank Morgan or Lionel Barrymore. As far as animated films are concerned, he dubbed Doc in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Friend Owl in Bambi and others.

Selected filmography

 Pergolesi (1932)
 Creatures of the Night (1934)
 The Joker King (1935)
 A Woman Between Two Worlds (1936)
 White Amazons (1936)
 Adam's Tree (1936)
 The Black Corsair (1937)
 Doctor Antonio (1937)
 To Live (1937)
 Dora Nelson (1939)
 Wealth Without a Future (1939)
 The Sons of the Marquis Lucera (1939)
 Diamonds (1939)
 The First Woman Who Passes (1940)
 One Hundred Thousand Dollars (1940)
 Big Shoes (1940)
 Lucky Night (1941)
 Caravaggio (1941)
  Love Story (1942)
 Farewell Love! (1943)
 The Children Are Watching Us (1944)
 I'll Sing No More (1945)
 The Innocent Casimiro (1945)
 Crossroads of Passion (1948)
 The Ungrateful Heart (1951)
 The Eternal Chain (1952)
 The Overcoat (1952)
 Torna! (1953)
 It's Never Too Late (1953)
 Schiava del peccato (1954)

References

External links

1888 births
1962 deaths
Italian male film actors
Italian male voice actors
Male actors from Florence
20th-century Italian male actors


Brian Gottfried and Raúl Ramírez were the defending champions but did not compete that year.

Ismail El Shafei and Brian Fairlie won in the final 4–6, 6–4, 7–6 against Syd Ball and Kim Warwick.

Seeds

Draw

Finals

Top half

Bottom half

External links
1976 Custom Credit Australian Indoor Championships Doubles Draw

Doubles


The Volkswagen Bio Runner is a concept car presented by Volkswagen at the October 2008 LA Design Challenge. It is powered by dual turbine engines at 500,000 rpm. bio synthetic jet fuel.

It uses video support of Arial Reconnaissance Drone (AR-D) when visibility is limited for a driver. It also may be transported by a Support Team Chopper.

The Volkswagen Bio Runner was designed for a future 2025 Baja 1000 race for a recommended "One Tank Unlimited Solo" race.  A race that required the driver to only carry one 10-gallon tank and drive solo.

References

External links
 Volkswagen Bio Runner at Volkswagen/Audi Design Center California (Design Challenge Motorsports 2025, LA Auto Show)
 Volkswagen Bio Runner at autoblog.com
 VW Bio Runner sprints in, Mark Nichol - 22 Oct 2008, Car Enthusiast editorial agency
 Volkswagen Bio Runner Concept - LA Design Challenge 2008 at dieselstation.com
 Volkswagen Bio Runner, at Diseno-art.com

Cars introduced in 2008
Bio Runner


Nietta Zocchi (10 July 1909 – 23 April 1981) was an Italian film actress. She appeared in 70 films between 1936 and 1976.

Selected filmography

 The Amnesiac (1936) - Zelinda (uncredited)
 To Live (1936) - Una spettatrice al concerto
 Sette giorni all'altro mondo (1936) - Nurse
 The Dance of Time (1936)
 The Anonymous Roylott (1936)
 But It's Nothing Serious (1937)
 Adam's Tree (1938) - Infermiera Ersilia
 Il suo destino (1938) - Una reclusa
 The Faceless Voice (1939) - La cameriera della primattrice
 Heartbeat (1939) - Un' altra ragazza disoccupata
 The Widow (1939) - Un'invitata alla festa
 Department Store (1939) - La commessa racchia (uncredited)
 Mamma (1941) - La cameriera dell'albergo a Venezia
 Orizzonte dipinto (1941) - Blandina
 Il re del circo (1941) - La signora Speranza
 Villa da vendere (1941) - Gabriella
 A Woman Has Fallen (1941) - Una cliente della casa di mode
 La scuola dei timidi (1941) - La segretaria di Roc
 The Jester's Supper (1942) - Cinzia
 After Casanova's Fashion (1942) - Donna Rosalia
 Gli assi della risata (1943) - NZ (segment "Il mio pallone")
 Il fiore sotto gli occhi (1954) - La cameriera degli Aroca
 The Transporter (1950) - Una cliente di La Motta
 Accidents to the Taxes!! (1951)
 Without a Flag (1951) - Insegnante di francese
 The Adventures of Mandrin (1952)
 The Dream of Zorro (1952) - Dona Hermosa Alcazan
 The Eternal Chain (1952) - The 'Alhambra' Owner
 Wife for a Night (1952) - Yvonne
 Il romanzo della mia vita (1952) - Maria De Marchis' Aunt (uncredited)
 Cani e gatti (1952)
 Too Young for Love (1953)
 Bread, Love and Dreams (1953) - Una comare intrigante (uncredited)
 My Life Is Yours (1953)
 100 Years of Love (1954) - Nunziata (segment "Garibaldina")
 Cose da pazzi (1954) - Madwoman playing canasta
 Romeo and Juliet (1954) - Lady Montague
 Cento serenate (1954)
 Alvaro piuttosto corsaro (1954)
 Chéri-Bibi (1955) - La governante
 La ladra (1955) - Signora della orfania (uncredited)
 The Letters Page (1955) - Pipinuccio Gigliozzi's Wife
 Io sono la Primula Rossa (1955) - Lady Margareth
 Desperate Farewell (1955) - Professor Farri's Secretary
 Rigoletto e la sua tragedia (1956) - Giovanna
 Wives and Obscurities (1956) - Signora Tumedei
 The Sword and the Cross (1956)
 Donne, amore e matrimoni (1956) - Moglie del colonnello
 Cantando sotto le stelle (1956) - Signora Diotallevi
 Vivendo cantando... che male ti fò? (1957) - La direttrice dell'istituto
 Mattino di primavera (1957)
 Il Conte di Matera (1958) - Governante di Greta
 Via col para... vento (1958)
 First Love (1959) - Teresa (uncredited)
 Sunset in Naples (1959)
 The Son of the Red Corsair (1959) - Isabella
 Quel tesoro di papà (1959) - Franco de Licori's Mother
 La duchessa di Santa Lucia (1959)
 La Pica sul Pacifico (1959) - The Lady launching the boat
 Il raccomandato di ferro (1959)
 Tipi da spiaggia (1959) - Eva - Barbara's acquaintance (uncredited)
 Le pillole di Ercole (1960) - La signora violentata
 Mariti in pericolo (1960) - Madre di Elena
 Ferragosto in bikini (1960) - La signora Porro
 Romulus and the Sabines (1961) - Ersilia, Titus' Wife
 Rocco e le sorelle (1961)
 I magnifici tre (1961) - Nina
 La donna degli altri è sempre più bella (1963) - La madre di Savina (segment "Bagnino Lover")
 I figli del leopardo (1965)
 Veneri al sole (1965) - La madre di Concettina (segment "Una domenica a Fregene")
 Spiaggia libera (1966) - La Contessa
 Ghosts – Italian Style (1967)
 Incensurato, provata disonestà, carriera assicurata, cercasi (1972)
 Il secondo tragico Fantozzi (1976) - Contessa Serbelloni Mazzanti Viendalmare

References

External links

1909 births
1981 deaths
Italian film actresses
20th-century Italian actresses


James Masson,  (February 17, 1847 – December 24, 1903) was a lawyer and political figure in Ontario. He represented Grey North in the House of Commons of Canada from 1887 to 1896 as a Conservative member.

He was born in Seymour Township, Canada West, the son of Thomas W.S. Masson, and educated there and in Belleville. Masson articled in law with William Hamilton Ponton, was called to the Ontario bar in 1871 and set up practice in Owen Sound. In 1878, he married Jessie Morrison. Masson served as Master in Chancery at Owen Sound from 1873 to 1885. He was first elected to the House of Commons in the 1887 federal election, defeating the incumbent Benjamin Allen, and was reelected in 1891. He was named Queen's Counsel in 1885.

References

The Canadian parliamentary companion, 1891 AJ Gemmill

1847 births
1903 deaths
Members of the House of Commons of Canada from Ontario
Conservative Party of Canada (1867–1942) MPs
Masters in chancery
Canadian King's Counsel


Commerce Building may refer to:

 Commerce Building (St. Paul, Minnesota), listed on the NRHP in Minnesota
 Commerce Building (Everett, Washington), listed on the NRHP in Washington
 Commerce Building, Washington, D.C., the Herbert C. Hoover Building, site of the National Aquarium
 Commerce Building/Hancock Building, Miami, Oklahoma, National Register of Historic Places listings in Ottawa County, Oklahoma
 Commerce Building, the former headquarters of the Port Authority of New York and New Jerser, formerly known as Union Inland Terminal #1 and now as 111 Eighth Avenue

See also
Chamber of Commerce Building (disambiguation)


The 1977 Custom Credit Australian Indoor Championships was a men's tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts at the Hordern Pavilion in Sydney in Australia and was part of the 1977 Colgate-Palmolive Grand Prix. The tournament was held from 17 October through 23 October 1977. First-seeded Jimmy Connors won the singles title.

Finals

Singles

 Jimmy Connors defeated  Ken Rosewall 7–5, 6–4, 6–2
 It was Connors' 6th singles title of the year and the 59th of his career.

Doubles

 John Newcombe /  Tony Roche defeated  Ross Case /  Geoff Masters 6–7, 6–3, 6–1
 It was Newcombe's only title of the year and the 64th of his career. It was Roche's 2nd title of the year and the 25th of his career.

References

External links
 ITF tournament edition details

Custom Credit Australian Indoor Championships
Australian Indoor Tennis Championships
In
Custom Credit Australian Indoor Championships
Sports competitions in Sydney
Tennis in New South Wales


The first Jassy–Kishinev offensive, named after the two major cities Iași (Jassy) and Chișinău (Kishinev) in the area, was a series of military engagements between 8 April and 6 June 1944 (according to David Glantz) by the Soviets and Axis powers of World War II. Richard C. Hall also refers to a first Jassy–Kishinev operation which began on 5 April, without providing an exact date for its end. According to Glantz, the purported offensive was a coordinated invasion of Romania conducted by Red Army's 2nd and 3rd Ukrainian Fronts, in accordance with Joseph Stalin's strategy of projecting Soviet military power and political influence into the Balkans.

Glantz claims that the plans of the main command of the Soviet military (Stavka) envisioned the two Soviet fronts would cut off vital Axis defensive lines in northern Romania, facilitating a subsequent advance by the Red Army into the entire Balkan region. Glantz considers the Soviet attack commenced with the First Battle of Târgu Frumos and the Battle of Podu Iloaiei, and culminated with the Second Battle of Târgu Frumos. Soviet forces failed to overcome German defenses in the region and the offensive operation ultimately failed, mainly due to the poor combat performance of Soviet troops and the effectiveness of German defensive preparations.

Glantz claims this operation is part of a series of battles almost completely ignored by Soviet archival records and historiography: "During the almost 60 years since the end of World War II, Soviet and Russian military historians and theorists have carefully erased from the historical record any mention of the 2nd and 3rd Ukrainian Fronts' first Iasi–Kishinev offensive, during which the Red Army's two fronts attempted to invade Romania in April and May 1944. As is the case with so many other military operations the Red Army conducted during the war, they have done this deliberately, in the process relegating this offensive to a lengthy list of "forgotten battles" of the Soviet–German War."

Planning
On 5 March 1944, Marshal Ivan Konev—commander of the 2nd Ukrainian Front—commenced the Uman–Botoșani offensive operation in Ukraine. This operation succeeded in separating Army Group South's 1st Panzer-Armee from 8th Army by 17 March. By early April Soviet units approached the Romanian border.

Starting with early April 1944, Stavka ordered the 2nd and 3rd Ukrainian Fronts to mount a major offensive with strategic implications in western Romania. Stavkas strategic intentions were to break German and Romanian strategic defenses in northern Romania, capture the key cities of Iași and Chișinău, and afterward project forces deep into Romanian territory, if possible as deep as Ploiești and Bucharest. By 5 April, Konev's front had crossed the upper reaches of Dniester and Prut rivers, captured Hotin and Dorohoi, and approached the Târgu Frumos and Botoșani regions— northwest of Iași—facing only light Romanian resistance. On 8 April, Konev ordered the 27th and 40th Armies to conduct a coordinated offensive southward along the Târgu Frumos axis, in close cooperation with Semyon Bogdanov's 2nd Tank Army. While Konev's shock group was advancing toward Târgu Frumos, Konstantin Koroteev's 52nd Army and elements of Andrei Gravchenko's 6th Tank Army— which were operating north of Iași—were conducting operations alongside the Iași axis in order to support Konev's main effort.

As Konev's armies prepared to launch their offensive toward Târgu Frumos, Otto Wöhler's 8th Army was involved in the heavy fighting taking place in and around the village of Popricani,  north of Iași, where two Soviet corps were fighting with armored Kampfgruppen, distracting the Germans' attentions and forces away from the critical Târgu Frumos sector. Exploiting the 52nd Army diversionary operations in the Iași region, the three armies of Konev's shock group began advancing southward early in the morning of 8 April. The advance was quite slow due to mud-clogged roads during the rasputitsa (the twice yearly period of water-logged ground), as well as crossing to the west bank of the Prut River northwest of Iași.

Konev's armies' initial mission was to reach the Târgu Frumos, Pașcani, and Târgu Neamț regions — west of Iași—and capture the three towns from their Romanian defenders by surprise. While three divisions of 51st Rifle Corps were ordered to press southward toward Pașcani, another two rifle divisions were protecting their advance in the region north and northwest of Târgu Neamț. Further to the east, seven rifle divisions assigned to 35th Guards and 33rd Rifle Corps of 27th Army would advance southeastward along the Prut starting on 7 April, forcing the Romanian 8th Infantry Division to retreat toward Hârlău,  north of Târgu Frumos. Meanwhile, another two divisions of 33rd Rifle Corps joined by two corps of the 2nd Tank Army would press the Romanian 7th Infantry Division back toward Târgu Frumos.

See also
 Second Jassy–Kishinev offensive

Notes

References

Conflicts in 1944
1944 in the Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic
1944 in Ukraine
Battles and operations of the Soviet–German War
Battles of World War II involving Romania
Military operations of World War II involving Germany
Military history of Romania during World War II
Romania–Soviet Union relations
History of Iași
History of Chișinău
Soviet occupation of Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina
1944 in Romania
April 1944 events
May 1944 events
June 1944 events


SCID is a four-letter acronym that may refer to:

 Severe combined immunodeficiency
 Severe combined immunodeficiency (non-human)
 Shane's Chess Information Database
 Source Code in Database
 Structured Clinical Interview for DSM


Mr Darwin's Shooter is a 1998 novel by Roger McDonald. It describes the life of Syms Covington, manservant to Charles Darwin during Darwin's voyage aboard HMS Beagle.

The book deals with three periods of Covington's life: childhood, adolescence whilst on , and middle age, where Covington is struggling to deal with the conflict between his religious views and his role in the formulation of the theory of natural selection. Among the many animals Syms Covington shot and prepared for Charles Darwin were the Galápagos finches, which became crucial for his theory.

Awards and nominations
 1999 NSW Premier's Award for Fiction,
 1999 Victorian Premier's Award for Fiction,
 2000 National Fiction Award,
 2000 SA Premier's Literary Award

1998 Australian novels
Australian historical novels
Novels set in the 19th century
Cultural depictions of Charles Darwin


This list of 2009 motorsport champions is a list of national or international auto racing series with a Championship decided by the points or positions earned by a driver from multiple races.

Open wheel racing

Karting

Sports car

Touring car racing

Stock car racing

Rallying

Rally raid

Rallycross

Drifting

Truck racing

Motorcycles

Road racing

Motocross

Supercross

Freestyle Motocross

Supermoto

Arenacross

Motorcycle speedway

Ice speedway

Water surface racing

Offshore powerboat racing

Hydroplane racing

Outboard powerboat racing

Air racing

See also
 List of motorsport championships

 Champions
2009


Jake Thackray and Songs was a six-part television series recorded in 1980 and broadcast on BBC2 in 1981, in which Jake Thackray and guests performed songs live in a variety of venues. A live album of the same name, recorded at the Stables Theatre, Wavendon, Milton Keynes, as part of the sessions for the TV series, was released on LP by Dingle’s Records in 1981. All six episodes of the TV series still exist in the BBC archives with Thackray's performances and some of those of his guests released as a DVD in October 2014. The album remained out of print and circulation for some time, until it was released on Spotify in 2022.

The programme and subsequent album featured three new songs: "The Remembrance", "One of Them”, a sombre ballad that condemns racism and bigotry, and "The Bull", a comedic critique of those in power.

TV series
Programme 1 was broadcast on 6 January 1981. It featured Richard and Linda Thompson as guests, and Thackray performed "Family Tree", "The Hair of the Widow of Bridlington", "The Brigadier" and "On Again! On Again!".
Programme 2's guest was Ralph McTell, and Thackray performed "Country Bus", "Sister Josephine", "To Do With You", "The Blacksmith and the Toffee Maker", "The Last Will and Testament of Jake Thackray", "The Poor Sod".
Programme 3 was recorded at The Hare and Hounds in Birmingham, and broadcast on 20 January 1981. Guests were the Maddy Prior band, and Thackray performed "Lah-Di-Dah", "The Remembrance", "Personal Column", "Fine Bay Pony", "Ulysses" and "Old Molly Metcalfe".
Programme 4 was broadcast on 27 January 1981. The guest performer was Alex Glasgow, and Thackray played "The Statues", "The Jolly Captain", "The Castleford Ladies Magical Circle" and "One of Them".
Programme 5's guest was Susha, and Thackray performed "The Little Black Foal", "It Was Only a Gypsy", "The Ballad of Billy Kershaw", "Bantam Cock" and "Joseph".
Programme 6 guest starred Pete Scott, and Thackray performed "The Lodger", "Scallywag", "The Bull" and "Leopold Alcocks".

LP

Track listing

Personnel
Jake Thackray – vocals and guitar
Alan Williams – string bass
John Etheridge – guitar

DVD
In November 2013 it was announced that agreement had been secured from the BBC, Thackray's estate and other artists for a DVD to be professionally produced from the BBC's original recordings. The DVD went on sale in October 2014. Thackray's anecdotes, introductions and songs from each episode are presented in their original order however the episodes are presented in the order of 6, 4, 5, 3, 1 and 2.

Track listing

A Guest section of the DVD presents songs from other artists who appeared in the series.

Pete Scott: "Wallpaper" and "Miss Lapotaire"
Alex Glasgow: "Maggie Gee", "My Love and I", "Close the Coalhouse Door" and "The Song of Margaret Thatcher"
Ralph McTell: "Song for Martin" and "Water of Dreams"

References

Jake Thackray and Songs at the BFI Film & TV Database
TV series and album track listings at jakethackray.com

BBC Television shows
Jake Thackray albums
1981 live albums


"Some Surprise" is a song which features on the charity album The Cake Sale released in 2006 by The Cake Sale. It is a duet between Irish singer Lisa Hannigan and Snow Patrol frontman Gary Lightbody, written by Bell X1 frontman Paul Noonan. The song was performed live by the duo for the first and only time at the 2008 Meteor Awards. In addition the song featured on an episode of the popular prime time U.S. medical drama television series Grey's Anatomy after which it was made available to download on iTunes.

History
"Some Surprise" was written by Paul Noonan of Bell X1 and is performed by Lisa Hannigan and Gary Lightbody. The song was initially intended to be sung solo by Noonan, with Hannigan on backing vocals and harmonies. Noonan's original demo was sent to Lightbody, who had shown interest in getting involved in the project. It is the fourth track on The Cake Sale album, between "Black Winged Bird" – written by Emm Gryner and sung by Nina Persson and "All the Way Down" – written by Glen Hansard and sung by Gemma Hayes.

Reaction
The national broadcaster RTÉ described "Some Surprise", alongside the song "Too Many People", as the type of song "most of the musicians (recording the album) would be happy to have as singles".

Television appearance
"Some Surprise" was featured in "Crash Into Me - Part One", an episode of Grey's Anatomy broadcast on ABC Television at 21:00 EST on 22 November 2007. The song was featured during a scene where the protagonist Meredith Grey, played by Ellen Pompeo, attempted to save an ambulance crew who had become injured in a crash, after the show's creators selected it to appear. Alongside this the song was made available as a download on iTunes.

Live performance
"Some Surprise" received its only live performance at the Meteor Music Awards held at the RDS, Dublin on 15 February 2008. Lightbody and Hannigan dueted at the awards ceremony on the night.

References

External links
 Official site of The Cake Sale – contains video of "Some Surprise"
 Lyrics at Irish Music Central

2007 singles
Charity singles
Irish rock songs
Lisa Hannigan songs
2006 songs


A declaration of war is a formal declaration issued by a national government indicating that a state of war exists between that nation and another.

In the United Kingdom, the government and command of the armed forces is vested in the sovereign. Under the sovereign, direct control of the armed forces is divided between the government and the Defence Council. However, a constitutional convention has developed regarding parliamentary approval for military action.

There has been a long-running debate regarding whether Parliament alone should have the power to declare war and more widely to commit British forces to armed conflict. This was attempted (to the limited extent of possible war against Iraq) in 1999 with the introduction of the Military Action Against Iraq (Parliamentary Approval) Bill. However Queen Elizabeth II, acting upon the advice of her government at the time, refused to grant her consent to allow the bill to be debated in Parliament and so it was dropped (Queen's Consent was needed before debate could take place because the bill affected the royal prerogative). The Constitutional Reform and Governance Act 2010 originally included a section that would have required Parliamentary approval for use of the armed forces, but this was dropped from the bill before royal assent.

There have been no declarations of war since the Second World War (against Germany in 1942, to be precise), though British Armed Forces have taken part in armed conflict on numerous occasions nonetheless. It is considered, in light of developments in international law since 1945, notably the Charter of the United Nations, that a declaration of war is now redundant as a formal international legal instrument.

The procedure for a declaration of war is set out in a letter dated the 23rd August 1939 from Gerald Fitzmaurice. It reads:Mr Harvey [Halifax's Private Secretary to whom Fitzmaurice's reply was sent].

The Secretary of State's enquiry about how we declare war. The method of procedure is to deliver a declaration of war to the diplomatic representative in London of the enemy Power or Powers at such hour as may be decided upon by the Cabinet and to obtain a receipt recording the time of delivery. The declaration is delivered by a special messenger who should take with him the special passports covering the enemy representative, his family and personal staff and his diplomatic staff and their families. These are now being drafted on the assumption that war would in the first place be only declared on Germany and the Secretary of State would have to sign them.

It is not possible to state definitely at present what the terms of the declaration of war itself would be as these must depend upon circumstances. It is quite likely that our declaration of war might be preceded by an ultimatum which would be delivered in Berlin. This might e.g. take the form that if by a certain time the German Government had not given an assurance that they would proceed no further with their violation of Polish territory the Ambassador had instructed to ask for his passports and that His Majesty's Government would have to take such steps as might seem good to them. In such a case our actual declaration of war on the expiry of the time limit would take the form of notifying the German Embassy that no satisfactory reply having received from the German Government, His Majesty's Government considered that a state of war between the two countries existed as from a certain time.

I understand that the declaration would be drafted in consultation with the Dominions Office.

Once the declaration has been delivered a lot of consequential results follow, such as informing the other Government Departments that war has been declared and giving the same information to the diplomatic representatives in London of non-enemy powers and so forth. Standing drafts for all these purposes exist.

Formal declarations of war by the Kingdom of Great Britain

The following table refers to declarations of war from the Act of Union in 1707 until the creation of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in 1801.

Formal declarations of war by the United Kingdom

The following table refers to declarations of war since the creation of the United Kingdom in 1801. In 1927 the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland was renamed the "United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland".

See also
Declaration of war
Undeclared war
List of wars involving Great Britain
Declaration of war by Canada
Declaration of war by the United States
Constitution of the United Kingdom

Notes and references

External links
War Powers and Treaties: Limiting Executive Powers (pub. October 2007 (accessed on 2016.10.09)

Wars involving the United Kingdom
Wars involving Great Britain
United Kingdom
Constitution of the United Kingdom
Foreign relations of the United Kingdom


Black Feathers (Italian: Penne nere) is a 1952 Italian war drama film directed by Oreste Biancoli and starring Marcello Mastroianni, Marina Vlady and Camillo Pilotto.  It was shot at the Titanus Studios in Rome. The film's sets were designed by the art director Ottavio Scotti.

Plot
Two young people, Pieri Cossutti and Gemma Vianello, live their love in the town of Stella, an alpine village in Carnia located next to a large dam, not far from the border between Italy and Austria. The Second World War provokes the call to arms of Pieri and his brother Olinto, who must leave his wife and little son. Gemma's father dies during a bombing, and at that point she is welcomed into the Cossutti house.

At the time of the armistice of 8 September, Pieri and Olinto are in Albania, from where - with other Italian soldiers who refuse to surrender to the Germans - they begin a long march to return to their homeland. Among the hardships, the group gradually shrinks and even Olinto dies.

Pieri and a few others arrive in Stella and are able to courageously prevent the Germans from blowing up the great dam. Gemma is injured and Pieri decides to marry her on the verge of death. The woman, however, against all odds, recovers and the two will finally live their complete love story.

Cast
 Marcello Mastroianni as Pietro 'Pieri' Cossutti
 Marina Vlady as Gemma Vianello
 Camillo Pilotto as Zef Cossutti - il nonno
 Vera Carmi as Catina Cossutti
 Guido Celano as Olinto Cossutti
 Enzo Staiola as Antonio 'Tonino' Cossutti
 Hélène Vallier as Natalìa Cossutti
 Liuba Soukhanowa as Giulia Cossutti
 Giuseppe Chirarandini as Don Angelo - il prete

References

Bibliography
 Perra, Emiliano. Conflicts of Memory: The Reception of Holocaust Films and TV Programmes in Italy, 1945 to the Present. Peter Lang, 2010.

External links

1952 films
1950s Italian-language films
Italian World War II films
Italian black-and-white films
Films directed by Oreste Biancoli
Italian war drama films
1950s war drama films
1950s Italian films
Films with screenplays by Giuseppe Berto


All Saints Church is a Grade II* listed Anglican church located on Putney Common, London.

All Saints is one of the two churches in the Parish of Putney, the other being St Mary's Church, Putney. The parish is within the Wandsworth Deanery, the Kingston Episcopal Area and the Diocese of Southwark.

History

The church was built 1873–74 on land donated by Earl Spencer, and the foundation stone was laid by HRH Princess Christian of Schleswig-Holstein on 22 April 1873. The church was consecrated by the Bishop of London on 25 April 1874.

The building was designed by George E. Street, working with William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones. The windows are the most extensive glazing scheme by Morris & Co. in any London church. Most of the cartoons (original drawings) for the windows were created for buildings elsewhere (seven were taken from designs drawn in 1874 for a church in Calcutta). All but two windows are the work of Morris & Co., the majority being drawn by Burne-Jones, and six by Morris himself. The windows pre-dating 1896 would have been designed (i.e. colour of glass, painted detail) by William Morris,.

Recent events

It survived an arson attack in January 1993. Police caught the arsonist at two o'clock one morning moments after he ignited oil in the boiler room. Following this there was a £1m renovation programme that led to a new roof and major alterations.

References

External links
Official website

Putney Common
Putney Common
Morris & Co.
Churches completed in 1874
Religious buildings and structures in the United Kingdom destroyed by arson
Grade II* listed churches in London
Grade II* listed buildings in the London Borough of Wandsworth


"Get Down" is a song by Irish singer-songwriter Gilbert O'Sullivan, from his 1973 album I'm a Writer, Not a Fighter. Released as a single, it spent two weeks at the top of the UK Singles Chart in April 1973, was also a number-one hit in Ireland for three weeks and was a top-ten hit in the United States and Canada. The song was originally used by O'Sullivan as a piano warm-up tune, but was eventually extended into a full song and released as a single; O'Sullivan recorded and released the song as a change from his more melancholy pieces.

Believed to be an order from O'Sullivan to his dog ("Get Down!"), the singer is actually referring to a girl in the song behaving as a dog jumping on him, hence the request to "get down".

In 2006 British dance group Malibu Sneakers recorded a dance version of the song entitled "Get Down Again". In 2008 it was released as a vinyl 12", including a vocal remix by Raul Rincon.

The song was used in the 2013 film The Harry Hill Movie.

According to Rick Finch of KC and the Sunshine Band, the song was the inspiration for the 1975 disco hit "Get Down Tonight".

Chart performance

Weekly singles charts

Year-end charts

Maison Ikkoku

This song, along with another one of O'Sullivan's songs, "Alone Again (Naturally)", were featured as the opening and ending for episode 24 of the Japanese anime hit Maison Ikkoku. At the time, O'Sullivan was signed to production company Kitty Film's associated record label, Kitty Records, which wanted to use the anime's popularity as a way to promote the singer's career in Japan.  According to series director Kazuo Yamazaki, the reason the songs were dropped after only one episode was that they were unpopular with viewers; due to copyright issues, they were not included on the English-language American release of the anime, replaced by the previously used Japanese theme songs.  The anime was based upon the popular manga of the same name by Rumiko Takahashi.

References

1973 singles
Gilbert O'Sullivan songs
UK Singles Chart number-one singles
Irish Singles Chart number-one singles
Songs written by Gilbert O'Sullivan
MAM Records singles
1973 songs


The Nun languages are a group of Eastern Grassfields languages spoken by the Bamum (Mum) and related peoples of the Western High Plateau of Cameroon.

The languages are:
Bamum (Mum, Shu Paməm; Bapi dialect)
Baba (Bapa)
Bafanji (Fanji, Chufie)
Bangolan (Ngolan)
Bambalang (Mbalang, Chrambo)
Mungaʼka (Ngaaka)
dialects: Li (Bali Nyonga), Ndeng (Bandeng), Ti (Bati)
core: Bamali (Mali, Chopechop), Bamenyan (Mamenyan), Bamukumbit (Mankong), Ndzerem

References

Languages of Cameroon
Eastern Grassfields languages


Vocea ta (Romanian for Your Voice) is the debut solo studio album by Romanian singer-songwriter Elena Gheorghe. Released in summer 2006, it is her first studio album since leaving the Latino pop band Mandinga, where she was the lead vocalist until 2005. The album is of pop, Latino-pop and dance music genre, being very similar to her two previous albums with Mandinga.

"Vocea Ta", the lead single of the album, was a smash radio hit in Romania.
It reached #24 in the list of the most heard songs in 2006 and became later a top-ten hit in the Romanian Top 100. The second and final single from the full-length record was released in January 2007, although it reached only #21 in the Romanian charts, it had much bigger success than her previous hit.
Later it won the award of "Best song of 2007" accorded by the Romanian Music Awards. Gheorghe was named the female of 2006 by the RRA Awards. The album also contains a remix of "Soarele Meu", a previous hit made with Mandinga.

Track listing

Singles

Awards

References

2006 debut albums
Elena Gheorghe albums
Romanian music


The Nkambe languages are a  group of Eastern Grassfields languages spoken by the Yamba and related peoples of the Western High Plateau of Cameroon.

The languages are Dzodinka, Kwaja, Limbum, Mbəʼ, Ndaktup, Mfumte, Yamba.

References

Languages of Cameroon
Eastern Grassfields languages


Geography
Kolmanna is a village in emerging Malappuram city of Kerala state. The area of the village 0.6 km2 (150 acres).

Kolmanna is spread on the banks of Kadalundi River which is the third longest river in Malabar after Bharathappuzha and Chaliyar.
The coordinate of Kolmanna is LAT 11.050404, LON 76.056374
Google Map link: https://goo.gl/maps/CMFAdfLr9F72

Transportation
It is located in between Hajiyar Palli and Pattar Kadavu on the Malappuram-Vengara road, 2.5 km from the Malappuram Civil Station.  The Calicut International Airport is 25 km away from here.  The nearest Railway Station is in Tirur which is about 22 km from Kolmanna.

Official Status

Kolmanna is in Malappuram Municipality, Village office: Panakkad, Taluk:Ernad.

People
A big part of the population are Muslims followed by Hindus. Christians are very negligible in Kolmanna. The major source of income is from the family members employed in Gulf countries.  Other occupations include retail business and agriculture.

Politics
KOLMANNA is in Malappuram assembly constituency is part of Malappuram (Lok Sabha constituency).[1]

Photo gallery

References

External links

Villages in Malappuram district


Riksteatret (English: National Traveling Theater) is a Norwegian touring theatre. It was established by law in 1948. Its first performance was in Kirkenes in 1949, with Sigurd Christiansen's play En reise i natten. The theatre plays on about 200 different stages throughout the country. Its first theatre director was Fritz von der Lippe, who held this position from 1949 to 1968. Ellen Horn was theatre director from 2005 to 2015, Tom Remlov from 2015 to 2020, and Arne Nøst since 2020.

References

Theatres in Norway
1948 establishments in Norway
Touring theatre
Performing groups established in 1948


George Moncrieff,  (1842 – March 28, 1901) was a Scottish-born lawyer and political figure in Ontario, Canada. He represented Lambton East in the House of Commons of Canada from 1887 to 1896 as a Conservative member.

He was born in Musselburgh, the son of W.G. Moncrieff, and was educated in Edinburgh. Moncrieff came to London, Canada West with his parents and continued his education there. He studied law in London and Hamilton, was called to the Upper Canada bar in 1864 and set up practice in London, moving to Petrolia in 1866. In 1872, he married Isabella Thompson. Moncrieff served as reeve for Petrolia in 1867 and 1873 and mayor in 1874. He was town solicitor for Petrolia from 1875 to 1901 and was named Queen's Counsel in 1889. Moncrieff was defeated when he ran for reelection in 1896. He died in Petrolia at the age of 59.

References

The Canadian parliamentary companion, 1891 AJ Gemmill

1842 births
1901 deaths
Members of the House of Commons of Canada from Ontario
Conservative Party of Canada (1867–1942) MPs
Mayors of places in Ontario
Canadian King's Counsel


The Ngemba languages are a group of Eastern Grassfields languages of the Western High Plateau of Cameroon.

The languages are Awing (Mbweʼwi), Bafut–Beba, Bambili Mbeligi, Mbui Bambui, Mendankwe-Nkwen–Mankon–Mundum (Ngemba), Pinyin, Alatening, Chomba, Mbetuʼu, Akum.
Babadjou and Bamessingue in the west region are also Nguemba but mostly considered otherwise because they are not in the Northwest region of Cameroon.

In the West and North West regions of Cameroon, languages are often referred to by the name of the village or town where they are spoken. For example, Ghomáláʼ is a Bamileke language spoken in Batié, in the West Region of Cameroon, and is referred to as Batié.

References

Languages of Cameroon
Eastern Grassfields languages