Cesáreo Fernández Duro (25 February 1830 – 5 June 1908) was a Spanish professional naval officer, writer, scholar and historian.

Childhood and family background
Fernández Duro was born of a good family in Zamora; that is to say, a noble family. His father, Francisco Fernández Torneros, a lawyer, was entitled to use Don before his name, which means that his mother, Teresa Ramona Duro, was a Doña (Latin Dominus and Domina, "master" and "mistress.")  Cesáreo was a Don, no doubt, but history prefers for him his rank at retirement from the navy, Capitán.

Cesáreo was his given name, but, knowing his other names and those of his parents, the native English speaker must beware of interpreting them according to English rules. In English, one would expect Duro to be a Patronymic surname, and that Cesáreo and his father would have descended from a long line of Duro's. Then we see that he seems to have his mother's last name, which would indicate, in English, that his mother was not married to his father. Such an interpretation would be a total travesty. Catholic families in Spain did not have unmarried partners. The problem is entirely English: Spanish names are formed according to Spanish naming customs, which, apart from the unique given name, are totally different from the English.

Fernandez Duro is a compound of one of his father's surnames and one of his mother's. A person had two surnames. Thus the parents at the birth of their child selected two out of four possible surnames. The paternal names often had preference, but not always. Cesáreo's parents could select one of Fernández and Torneros and one of Ramona and Duro, which they did. The selection must be made before birth registration. English just lists the names, as though one were a middle name. Spanish uses y, "and:" Fernandez y Duro. There is no such thing as a middle name. Some languages concede to the y with a dash: Fernandez-Duro. In literature one sees Fernandez Duro most often, but this is the whole last name, not an example of the English sometime preference of the middle name for a first name.

The practice is somewhat frustrating for the descendants of Americanized Spanish families, who are looking for a patronymic line in the old country. No such line is recorded. "Duro" was passed around among different families without regard to patrilineal descent. As a surname, Duro mainly comes from Spain, as does Fernandez. As Zamora is on the Portuguese border, there are Portuguese Duro's. In Spanish it is not a given name. Thus Duro's in other languages have different etymologies. The etymology in Spanish and Portuguese is uncertain. Any connection to the Duero River running through Zamora is uncertain (the river runs through a lot of places in two countries).

Zamora itself is not much of an ancient ancestral home. The name is believed to be from the Arabic, dating to the time of the Moorish occupation. After the Reconquista the Moors had to leave, abandoning the town to the Spanish.

The etymology of Fernández is better known. It is a Germanic name, which is not surprising, as Germanic settlers left remnants of their tribal names on at least two regions of Spain, Catalonia ("Gothilandia") and Andalusia ("Vandalusia"). Zamora was not in those regions, but Fernández was popular in Iberia, being distributed across lines, rather than down them, by the Spanish naming system. Zamora was resettled rather by Castilians, who were at the heart of Roman Spain, representing the Celt-Iberians brought into the Roman Empire. Castille was the power behind the Reconquista, which was completed by Ferdinand and Isabella in the time of Columbus, and the growth of the subsequent Spanish Empire. Fernandez Duro focused on this period, writing himself a history of Zamora (see below).

Fernández Duro was baptized in the parish of San Andrés, where the family must have lived. The church was the social center of the parish. At some time during the next 15 years he received a primary education (reading writing, and arithmetic), probably several years' worth. The dates vary in the sources. The formal schooling took place at Madrid, to which the family moved temporarily, probably for the purpose. His very attendance at school is a strong indication of his membership in the aristocracy.

Americans and Western Europeans today take for granted mandatory free primary education, almost everyone being able to read and write. In 1860 only 20.1% of the population of Spain was literate; that is, could read and write, and similar figures are true for the rest of Europe. The common people did not go to school. Only in America (the United States) did the founding fathers insist that free education was the birthright and obligation of a free people, and that they cannot be free without it. Every American community had its one-room school and its teacher maintained at public expense. The issue is still being debated at the college level. The American ideal passed to Europe even in the lifetime of Fernandez Duro. In the late 19th century, at the peak of his career, the British were only beginning to convert parish schools into community schools. The "public schools" existed, but they were not for the general public, only for that portion which could afford them, and the same applies to Spain and the other nations.

Naval career
At the age of 15 years, in 1845, Fernández Duro became a candidate in the Naval School of San Fernando. In 1847 he shipped as a midshipman on the Isabel II, sailing in the Caribbean for three years. In 1851 he embarked on the Villa de Bilbao for the Philippines, where he took part in the Jornada de Joló (Day of Joló), near the island of Joló, now Sulu), in the Sulu Archipelago of the Pacific Ocean, between Mindanao and Borneo. For his courageous conduct during the battle,  he received the Cross of the Order of San Fernando. Upon returning to Spain as first midshipman, he was assigned to the Canary Islands Hydrographic Commission. Despite his age and station, he was inducted as an honorary member of the Academy of Fine Arts in Santa Cruz de Tenerife.

In 1853, he sailed as an ensign aboard the corvette Ferrolana in the Mediterranean, visiting France and Italy. In 1857 he was appointed professor at the Naval College, being responsible for the text of Cosmography.

In 1860 he took part in the Hispano-Moroccan War in command of the steamer Ferrolano, and drafted a report on the port, city and fortifications of Mogador.  Subsequently, he was awarded the Cross of the Royal Navy Diadem and the rank of Commander of Infantry for his distinguished service. He then returned to the West Indies and took part in the Prim expedition to Mexico as Secretary of the General Commander of Operations of the Fleet. After being stationed in the Naval Station at Havana, he returned to Madrid and held a post in the Ministry of the Navy. On the occasion of the mandate in Cuba of Capitán General Caballero de Rodas he was appointed by the Ministry of Overseas to the post of Secretary of the Government Superior of Cuba, (1869–70).

Scholar and historian

Still in Madrid, he participated in conferences and organized expeditions to Ifni, on the Atlantic coast of Morocco, to investigate the correct location of the ancient possession of Santa Cruz de la Mar Pequeña. He conducted research on Columbus and his lawsuits, the Santa Maria and the Galleons, as well as writing historical works, including the multi-volume History of the Spanish Navy; also histories of Castile, the City of Zamora, and others. He participated in the archaeological study of the Santa Maria.

Fernández Duro was then made aide-de-camp to King Alfonso XII, and because of his prestige, knowledge and experience, he was appointed arbitrator in determining the boundary between Colombia and Venezuela. In 1881 he entered the Royal Academy of History, and in 1898 he was appointed Perpetual Secretary of the same. Shortly before his death, being already seriously ill, he received the Award of Merit from the Academy.

Literary works
Fernández Duro wrote more than 400 publications including books, monographs, reports and memoirs, particularly on three subjects: the history of the Spanish Navy, the conquest of America and the history of the province of Zamora. On this last topic he wrote a collection of news-biographical literature relating to Zamora or materials for its history (Madrid: Manuel Tello, 1891), which was awarded in 1876. The book is divided into three sections: a regional bibliography of works dealing with Zamora, a bibliography of works on the history of the press in Zamora and a bio-bibliography of famous Zamoran persons. As for his work on the history of the Spanish Navy, his History of the Spanish Armada from the Union of Castile and Aragon (1895–1903) in nine volumes, and his Nautical Disquisitions (1876–1881) in six, remain unsurpassed in their field today.

 Ficha del autor en la Biblioteca Virtual Cervantes
 como autor: Fernández Duro, Cesáreo, 1830-1908 in the Biblioteca Digital de Castilla y León

Footnotes

Bibliography

Attribution
 This article incorporates information from the equivalent article on the Spanish Wikipedia.

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1830 births
1908 deaths
People from Zamora, Spain
Spanish naval historians
Spanish naval officers


Mattie V. Lee Home is a historic home located at Charleston, West Virginia.  It stands on what was once a densely packed commercial block close to the center of a historically African-American neighborhood in Charleston.  It was built about 1920 and is a two-story concrete block structure with a prominent raised basement and features a two-tier front porch.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.

References

African-American history of West Virginia
Houses in Charleston, West Virginia
Neoclassical architecture in West Virginia
Houses completed in 1920
Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in West Virginia
National Register of Historic Places in Charleston, West Virginia


Bà Chúa Xứ (chữ Nôm: 婆主處, ) or Chúa Xứ Thánh Mẫu (chữ Hán: , Holy Mother of the Realm) is a prosperity goddess worshiped in the Mekong Delta region as part of Vietnamese folk religions. She is a tutelary of business, health, and a protector of the Vietnamese border. She is considered prestigious and is worshipped in her temple in Vĩnh Tế village at the foot of Sam Mountain, An Giang province. A three-day festival is held in the village at the beginning of the rainy season, beginning on the twenty-third day of the fourth lunar month, in her honour. Bà Chúa Xứ reached her peak of popularity in the 1990s and still endears pilgrims and followers in and outside Vietnam with her responsiveness to fervent and sincere prayers.

The statue of Bà Chúa Xứ

According to French archaeologist Louis Malleret, the statue of the Lady of the Realm worshipped in Vĩnh Tế village is, in fact, an appropriated and feminized statue of Shiva, belonging to the pre-Angkorean Funan Kingdom of Cambodia. Stories from her worshippers, emerged after the Vietnamese came to the area, offer a different version in which recount her growing naturally from stone before being discovered by the Vietnamese of Sam Mountain.

Mythology

The assistance of Thoại Ngọc Hầu
Stories state that the Lady of the Realm protected Thoại Ngọc Hầu (1761–1829), a mandarin representing the Vietnamese court during the early days of occupation of the south of Vietnam and was instrumental in creating and defending the border between Vietnam and Cambodia. The legend states that his wife, Chau Thi Te, went to Bà Chúa Xứ's shrine on Sam Mountain to pray for her husband to defeat the enemy and bring peace to the land. Thoại Ngọc Hầu was able to fend off the Khmer troops, and Chau Thi Te showed her gratitude to the goddess by rebuilding the shrine that held her. When the temple was complete, Chau Thi Te held a festival that lasted three days. Those days became the annual date for the festival for Bà Chúa Xứ.

Discovery of the Lady of the Realm
Popular tales regarding the discovery of the goddess begin with either the statue appearing on the peak of an island as the water level in the Mekong Delta recedes, either because she was placed there many centuries before, or because she grew naturally from the stone. Some tales state that the people of the region simply built a temple around where they discovered her. Another popular account places her higher up the mountain. In this version, she possesses a young village girl, announces her identity and tells the people of the village where she is located on the summit of Sam Mountain. The goddess wished to be venerated, so forty of the villages strongest men tried to carry her down the mountain, but found her to be far too heavy to carry. The Lady then reappeared to tell the villagers that only nine virgin girls would be able to carry her. They proceeded until arriving at the base of the hill where the Lady of the Realm decided she was meant to remain, and she became heavy once more. This is where her temple stands today.

Pilgrim tales
Bà Chúa Xứ is known for being supportive and responsive to prayer, but also brutal to those she feels have swindled her. In a publication produced by the temple in Vinh Te village, a tale reads that a man once stole a necklace right off of her neck by walking into and out of the temple on his hands. This way, she was unable to reach his neck. However, once he arrived to safety and stood up, he dropped to the ground once more, dead. She shows similar treatment to those who ask her for favours and don't keep their promises. Other tales recount her killing people who have tried to move her, and breaking the arms of misbehaving children. Another story tells that she even killed someone who tried to bathe her five minutes too early on a festival evening.

Another origin story of the Lady of the Realm states that she was the wife of a general who fought for Vietnam against an invading enemy. While he was away, she prayed for his success and for a safe return home. Unfortunately, he was killed, but she continued to remain faithful to him. She was hailed in the village as an example of true loyalty and marital fidelity.

A story often recounted about the statue's missing arm involved foreign invaders from Siam. The invading troops tried to remove her from her lofty position, and ended up damaging the goddess and severing her arm. Wounded, the powerful spirit killed them all on the spot.

Worship

The Lady of the Realm is known as a protector deity. She is one of many goddesses who have grown popular in southern Vietnam since Đổi Mới. She can provide assistance for business success, health, fertility, domestic harmony, scholastic success, and divination of the future. She engages in credit activities, and pilgrims will exchange money for her spirit money, which is said to accumulate wealth. One is then required to repay the goddess for years to come, and keep to the promises he/she has made to her. She is known to be effective against those who do not return what they owe. The Lady of the Realm and other Vietnamese goddesses act to psychologically assist the people in need, and to support community.

Pilgrimage

A large portion of pilgrims who come to the shrine in Vĩnh Tế are female entrepreneurs. The act of making a pilgrimage to the goddess is seen as an act of proper morality toward their benefactress. Once seeking the assistance of the Lady of the Realm, one is required to return to her to keep promises and give thanks for her assistance. It is said among pilgrims that a man who asks her Ladyship for help will have to return to her annually for nine years, and a woman for seven. Pilgrimage is a necessary part of returning these promises for many rural as well as Ho Chi Minh City inhabitants who worship her.

Festival
Ba Chua Xu Festival starts from at night of April 23 to 27 of the lunar calendar. This largest festival begins at the temple of Lady Lady Xu in Sam Mountain, in South Vietnam.

The Lady of the Realm is a painted statue made of stone and cement, depicted with large eyes and clothed in brocade sequin robes and housed in a great shrine decorated with offerings that were given to her. During the festival at the beginning of the rainy season, she is bathed in rainwater mixed with perfume, and her robe is changed by elderly women of the village.

Thoai Ngoc Hau, who also has a mausoleum in the village, has a statue paraded into the goddess’ room to stay as a guest during the festival. It is accompanied by a series of sacrifices (including a big pig for roasting) performed by the village's cult committee. An invocation is performed to receive peace and prosperity from the goddess, and series of opera performances take place.

The area around the shrine comes alive with markets and entertainment, including cải lương, beauty queen contests, slideshows, magic acts, a house of horrors, karate, gambling, restaurants, cafes, bars, and a popular sideshow of dancing cross dressers which was banned in the late 1990s. Her shrine is the most popularly visited religious site in southern Vietnam.

Ethnicity
Bà Chúa Xứ's ethnicity has been identified by some as the same as the Cham goddess Po Inu Nagar (Vietnamese people have Vietnameseized this goddess into Thiên Y A Na), the Chinese goddess Mazu, a Khmer Black Lady (Yey Mao) or even as Quan Âm. Despite the adoption of Chinese, Khmer, and Cham ethnic traits, she is an example of a being who accepts all of the ethnic traits bestowed upon her. Many aspects of her worship are borrowed from these ethnic groups. Her story is similar to that of many goddesses in the region. A leader in peril receives assistance from a spirit and remains indebted to her forever, thereby holding legitimate authority to the land in question.

The statue itself was a Khmer creation of the Cambodian version of Shiva. Few common interpretations, however, identify her as anything but Vietnamese. Several state that she may have been brought from far away, or created locally. The most popular understanding, however, appears to be that she simply grew from the geography of southern Vietnam. Many stories source her as simply being discovered where she sits on a hill at the foot of Sam mountain, or in other stories, poised at its peak. The water of the Mekong Delta slowly receded and she was simply found there, where they built a temple. Taylor points out that it is suspicious that there is no sign of the native people of the region in these stories. She is always explained as being lonely and desiring attention in a land completely empty. Instead, the Lady of the Realm acts as a force that keeps the Khmer at bay and the Viet in power.

It is also understood to some that the Lady of the Realm is, in fact, the Chinese goddess Mazu, whose cult is very similar to, if not equal to the Lady of the Realm. Veneration of local spirits is understood by many ethnic Chinese to be a Chinese practice, and the Lady of the Realm is understood to be a Chinese spirit. Another opinion holds that she was a Thai rebel who assisted the Nguyen dynasty emperor, Gia Long, defeat Tay Son rebels who overthrew him in the eighteenth century. She travelled to southern Vietnam with her husband at the behest of her king, and died there. In this tale, she was buried on the island of Phú Quốc, where one is supposed to worship her. However, her site on Sam Mountain stands as a boundary marker to dramatically define where Vietnam ends and Cambodia begins. It is seen to have both ethnic and political valance.

Feminism
The worship of goddesses is understood by many Vietnamese people as the natural religious practice of the country from an ancient matriarchal society. Therefore, after dramatically altering social events such as Doi Moi, people turned to goddesses such as the Lady of the Realm as a symbol of consistent and traditional aspects of their society. These goddesses represent a country woman, unscathed from the rapid transformations of the city, one which guards the border as a feminine representation of Vietnamese religious values.

The Lady of the Realm is turned to for issues that are generally handled by the female figures of the traditional Vietnamese household. Her Ladyship is also consulted as a mother and asked for assistance in matters of money and assistance in life's day-to-day difficulties. She and other goddesses are turned to because they are maternal figures, money managers, disciplinarians, and educators. Her Ladyship is treated with the same respect as the head of the Vietnamese household. Responsiveness is also seen as a feminine trait in Vietnam. Also, the woman's ability to procreate is also seen as an act that can occur with other things she touches as well, including money.

See also
Thiên Y A Na
Bà Đen
Liễu Hạnh
Black Virgin Mountain

References

Reference Books
Taylor, Philip. Goddess on the Rise. 2004. University of Hawai'i Press, Hawai'i.

Vietnamese folk religion
Vietnamese mythology
Funan
Vietnamese goddesses
Vietnamese deities
Vietnamese gods
Mountain goddesses


Anochetus is a genus of small, carnivorous ants found in the tropics and subtropics throughout the world.

This genus is present in both the Old and New World and is certainly native to all continents except Antarctica and Europe. In Europe only a single species, Anochetus ghilianii, has been found, and it is not certain it is native to its European range (Province of Cadiz and Gibraltar). However A. ghilianii is native to Morocco.

Anochetus is of some note due to it being one of the relatively few genera that possess trap-jaws, or specialized long mandibles that have a rapid closing mechanism. However, it is the only other genus, other than Odontomachus that uses the mandibles for predator evasion as well as prey capture.

Species

Anochetus africanus (Mayr, 1865)
Anochetus agilis Emery, 1901
Anochetus alae Shattuck & Slipinska, 2012
Anochetus altisquamis Mayr, 1887
†Anochetus ambiguus De Andrade, 1994
Anochetus angolensis Brown, 1978
Anochetus armstrongi McAreavey, 1949
Anochetus avius Shattuck & Slipinska, 2012
Anochetus bequaerti Forel, 1913
Anochetus bispinosus (Smith, 1858)
Anochetus boltoni Fisher & Smith, 2008
†Anochetus brevidentatus MacKay, 1991
Anochetus brevis Brown, 1978
Anochetus bytinskii Kugler & Ionescu, 2007
Anochetus cato Forel, 1901
Anochetus chirichinii Emery, 1897
Anochetus chocoensis Fernández, 2008
†Anochetus conisquamis De Andrade, 1994
Anochetus consultans (Walker, 1859)
†Anochetus corayi Baroni Urbani, 1980
Anochetus cryptus Bharti & Wachkoo, 2013
Anochetus daedalus
Anochetus diegensis Forel, 1912
†Anochetus dubius De Andrade, 1994
Anochetus elegans Lattke, 1987
Anochetus emarginatus (Fabricius, 1804)
Anochetus evansi Crawley, 1922
†Anochetus exstinctus De Andrade, 1994
Anochetus faurei Arnold, 1948
Anochetus filicornis (Wheeler, 1929)
Anochetus fricatus Wilson, 1959
Anochetus fuliginosus Arnold, 1948
Anochetus ghilianii (Spinola, 1851)
Anochetus gladiator (Mayr, 1862)
Anochetus goodmani Fisher & Smith, 2008
Anochetus graeffei Mayr, 1870
Anochetus grandidieri Forel, 1891
Anochetus haytianus Wheeler & Mann, 1914
Anochetus hohenbergiae Feitosa & Delabie, 2012
Anochetus horridus Kempf, 1964
Anochetus inca Wheeler, 1925
Anochetus incultus Brown, 1978
Anochetus ineditus Baroni Urbani, 1971
Anochetus inermis André, 1889
†Anochetus intermedius De Andrade, 1994
Anochetus isolatus Mann, 1919
Anochetus jonesi Arnold, 1926
Anochetus kanariensis Forel, 1900
Anochetus katonae Forel, 1907
Anochetus kempfi Brown, 1978
Anochetus levaillanti Emery, 1895
Anochetus leyticus Zettel, 2012
Anochetus longifossatus Mayr, 1897
Anochetus longispinus Wheeler, 1936
†Anochetus lucidus De Andrade, 1994
Anochetus madagascarensis Forel, 1887
Anochetus madaraszi Mayr, 1897
Anochetus maryatiae Nuril Aida & Idris, 2011
Anochetus maynei Forel, 1913
Anochetus mayri Emery, 1884
Anochetus menozzii Donisthorpe, 1941
Anochetus micans Brown, 1978
Anochetus minans Mann, 1922
Anochetus miserabilis González-Campero & Elizalde, 2008
Anochetus mixtus Radchenko, 1993
Anochetus modicus Brown, 1978
Anochetus muzziolii Menozzi, 1932
Anochetus myops Emery, 1893
Anochetus natalensis Arnold, 1926
Anochetus neglectus Emery, 1894
Anochetus nietneri (Roger, 1861)
Anochetus obscuratus Santschi, 1911
Anochetus obscurior Brown, 1978
Anochetus orchidicola Brown, 1978
Anochetus oriens Kempf, 1964
Anochetus orientalis André, 1887
Anochetus pangantihoni Zettel, 2012
Anochetus pangens (Walker, 1859)
Anochetus paripungens Brown, 1978
Anochetus pattersoni Fisher & Smith, 2008
Anochetus pellucidus [no authors], 1902
Anochetus peracer Brown, 1978
Anochetus princeps Emery, 1884
Anochetus pubescens Brown, 1978
Anochetus punctaticeps Mayr, 1901
Anochetus pupulatus Brown, 1978
Anochetus rectangularis Mayr, 1876
Anochetus renatae Shattuck & Slipinska, 2012
Anochetus risii Forel, 1900
Anochetus rossi Donisthorpe, 1949
Anochetus rothschildi Forel, 1907
Anochetus rufolatus Shattuck & Slipinska, 2012
Anochetus rufostenus Shattuck & Slipinska, 2012
Anochetus rufus (Jerdon, 1851)
Anochetus ruginotus Stitz, 1925
Anochetus rugosus (Smith, 1857)
Anochetus schoedli Zettel, 2012
Anochetus sedilloti Emery, 1884
Anochetus seminiger Donisthorpe, 1943
Anochetus shohki Terayama, 1996
Anochetus simoni Emery, 1890
Anochetus siphneus Brown, 1978
Anochetus splendidulus Yasumatsu, 1940
Anochetus striatulus Emery, 1890
Anochetus strigatellus Brown, 1978
Anochetus subcoecus Forel, 1912
Anochetus taiwaniensis Terayama, 1989
Anochetus talpa Forel, 1901
Anochetus targionii Emery, 1894
Anochetus testaceus Forel, 1893
Anochetus traegaordhi Mayr, 1904
Anochetus tua Brown, 1978
Anochetus turneri Forel, 1900
Anochetus validus Bharti & Wachkoo, 2013
Anochetus vallensis Lattke, 1987
Anochetus variegatus Donisthorpe, 1938
Anochetus veronicae Shattuck & Slipinska, 2012
Anochetus vexator Kempf, 1964
Anochetus victoriae Shattuck & Slipinska, 2012
Anochetus werneri Zettel, 2012
Anochetus wiesiae Shattuck & Slipinska, 2012
Anochetus yerburyi Forel, 1900
Anochetus yunnanensis Wang, 1993

References

External links

Ponerinae
Ant genera
Extant Burdigalian first appearances
Taxa named by Gustav Mayr


Jhoulys Jose Chacín Molina ( ; born January 7, 1988) is an American-Venezuelan professional baseball pitcher who is currently a free agent. He previously played for the Colorado Rockies, Arizona Diamondbacks, Los Angeles Angels, San Diego Padres, Milwaukee Brewers, Boston Red Sox and Atlanta Braves. Listed at  and , he throws and bats right-handed.

Professional career

Colorado Rockies

Chacín signed with the Colorado Rockies as an international free agent in 2004, and was considered to be one of their top prospects prior to 2009 and 2010. Chacín was called up directly to the majors from the Double-A Tulsa Drillers on July 24, 2009. In 2010, in his first full season in MLB with the Rockies, Chacín had 9 wins, a 3.28 ERA, and led all NL rookies in strikeouts with 138.

Chacín started the 2011 season as one of the best young pitchers in baseball, but after the second half of the season, he became inconsistent with his mechanics. He did, however, finish with a record of 11–14 with a 3.62 ERA in 31 starts. In 194 innings pitched, he struck out 150 batters. However, he led the National League in walks with 87. He threw his first career shutout in his first career complete game on April 15, 2011. In 2012, Chacín was limited to just 14 starts due to a pectoral injury.

In 2013, Chacín rebounded to give the Rockies a much needed lift in the rotation. He finished 14–10 with 3.47 ERA in 197.1 innings pitched. He kept the ball in the ballpark, allowing 11 home runs, 6 of which were allowed in Coors Field. Chacín began the 2014 season on the DL with shoulder inflammation. Chacín's 2014 was not good at all, as he battled through injury and inconsistency, managing to start just 11 games before being shut down for the season due to injury. His record finished at 1–7 and a career worst 5.40 ERA.

On March 22, 2015, Chacín was released by the Rockies.

Cleveland Indians
On April 14, 2015, Chacín was signed to a minor league deal by the Cleveland Indians. He was granted his release on June 18 after exercising an opt-out clause. He had a 3.21 ERA in 7 starts for the Triple-A Columbus Clippers.

Arizona Diamondbacks
On June 20, 2015, Chacín signed a minor league contract with the Arizona Diamondbacks. Towards season's end, Chacin started 4 games for the D'Backs.

Atlanta Braves
On December 14, 2015, Chacín signed a minor league contract with the Atlanta Braves. He was also given a non-roster invitation to MLB Spring training. Chacín began the 2016 season with the Gwinnett Braves of the Class AAA International League, and was promoted to the major leagues on April 12. He started 5 games for the Braves, going 1–2 with a 5.40 ERA.

Los Angeles Angels
On May 11, 2016, the Braves traded Chacín to the Los Angeles Angels for minor league pitcher Adam McCreery. Chacín began his tenure with the Angels in the rotation but was then pushed to the bullpen. He served as a swingman for the Angels, appearing in 29 games total, 17 of them starts. He finished 5–6 with 1 complete game and an ERA of 4.68 for the Angels.

San Diego Padres
On December 20, 2016, Chacín signed a one-year contract with the San Diego Padres. At the end of spring training, he was tabbed to be the Padres opening day starter. Chacín finished the year 13–10 with a 3.89 ERA and 1.27 WHIP in  innings and 153 strikeouts.

He established career highs in games started, strikeouts and strikeout per nine innings (7.64). He shared the major league lead in hit batsmen, with 14.

Milwaukee Brewers
On December 21, 2017, Chacín signed a two-year, $15.5 million contract with the Milwaukee Brewers. For the 2018 season, he went 15–8 with a 3.50 ERA and 156 strikeouts in  innings, setting career highs in wins, strikeouts, and starts (35).

Chacín got the start for 2019 opening day, March 28, against the St. Louis Cardinals, and got the win while also hitting his first major league home run, off of Miles Mikolas. Chacín was placed on the disabled list on July 25, with a right oblique strain, expected to sideline him for two to four weeks. To that point in the season, he had a 3–10 record with 5.79 ERA and 80 strikeouts in  innings. On August 24, Chacín was designated for assignment; he was released two days later.

Boston Red Sox
On August 31, 2019, Chacín signed a minor league contract with the Boston Red Sox; he was assigned to the Triple-A Pawtucket Red Sox. On September 1, the Red Sox selected his contract, adding him to their active MLB roster. He made his Red Sox debut on September 6, pitching two innings against the New York Yankees, retiring all six batters he faced including four by strikeout. With the 2019 Red Sox, Chacín appeared in six games (five starts), recording an 0–2 record with 7.36 ERA and 21 strikeouts in  innings. He became a free agent on October 31.

Minnesota Twins
On February 1, 2020, Chacín signed a minor league deal with the Minnesota Twins.
On July 19, 2020, Chacín was granted his release by the Minnesota Twins.

Second stint with Braves
On July 21, 2020, Chacín signed a one-year Major League contract with the Atlanta Braves. On August 1, the Braves designated Chacín for assignment.

New York Yankees
On January 6, 2021, the same day he became an American citizen, Chacín signed a minor league contract with the New York Yankees organization. On March 29, 2021, Chacín was released by the Yankees.

Colorado Rockies (second stint)
On April 1, 2021, Chacín signed a major league contract with the Colorado Rockies. He pitched exclusively out of the bullpen for the first time in his career, posting a 3–2 record in 46 games.

On November 13, 2021, Chacín re-signed with the Rockies on a one-year, $1.25 million major league contract. After posting a 7.61 ERA in 35 games in 2022, Chacín was released by the Rockies on September 15, 2022.

Personal life
On December 1, 2010, Chacín's girlfriend Alba Iratorza gave birth to his daughter, Nicole.

On January 6, 2021, Chacín became a naturalized American citizen.

See also

 List of Major League Baseball players from Venezuela

References

External links

1988 births
Living people
Arizona Complex League Rockies players
Arizona Diamondbacks players
Asheville Tourists players
Atlanta Braves players
Boston Red Sox players
Casper Rockies players
Colorado Rockies players
Colorado Springs Sky Sox players
Columbus Clippers players
Dominican Summer League Rockies players
Venezuelan expatriate baseball players in the Dominican Republic
Gwinnett Braves players
Leones del Caracas players
Los Angeles Angels players
Major League Baseball pitchers
Major League Baseball players from Venezuela
Milwaukee Brewers players
Modesto Nuts players
Reno Aces players
San Diego Padres players
Baseball players from Maracaibo
Tulsa Drillers players
Venezuelan expatriate baseball players in the United States
World Baseball Classic players of Venezuela
2013 World Baseball Classic players
2017 World Baseball Classic players
2023 World Baseball Classic players


Celia Bannerman (born 3 June 1944) is an English actress and director.

Career
Bannerman was born at Abingdon, Oxfordshire, and trained at the London Drama Centre. In 2023 she played  Phoebe in " As You Like It" at the  RSC.  She started her professional career with Ralph Richardson as Dolly in Bernard Shaw's You Never Can Tell and Lucy in Sheridan's The Rivals followed by Cecily in "The Importance of Being Earnest" at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket, London. She played Lady Anne in "Richard III", Katherine in "Perkin Warbeck" and Mrs Galy Gay in "Man is Man" at the RSC. She played a number of major television roles early on in her acting career notably Elizabeth Bennet in Pride and Prejudice (1967), Cecily in The Importance of Being Earnest and Lady Diana Newbury in Upstairs, Downstairs. She starred in the films The Tamarind Seed (1974),  Biddy (1983) for which she received an award from Moscow Film Festival, Little Dorrit (1987) and The Land Girls (1998).

Bannerman was Associate Director at the Bristol Old Vic directing The Price, Translations, Quartermaine's Terms, The White Devil, Good Fun and La Ronde. At Stratford East she directed, Sleeping Beauty and The Proposal. She was the Staff Director at the Royal National Theatre on The Passion, Larkrise, Fruits of Enlightenment and Strife. She also devised and directed a programme of erotic poetry called Making Love, and was the first woman to direct a play at the National Theatre, Lies in Plastic Smiles devised by the company and written by Gawn Grainger. In the West End she directed September Tide at the Comedy Theatre,  A Midsummer Night's Dream at the Open Air Theatre, Regent's Park, Jack and the Beanstalk at the Shaw Theatre and three world premieres  Beached, Sinners and Saints and  Bet Noir at the New Vic and Warehouse Theatre.

Bannerman has a long association with Sands Films starting by playing "Biddy" in Christine Edzards's film "Biddy" followed by setting up Edzard's first big feature film "Little Dorrit"  and casting the 200 actors. "Little Dorrit" was nominated for Oscars and won the LA Film Critics Award. Also for Sands Films she cast "The Fool", "As You Like It" and "A Dangerous Man: Lawrence after Arabia" which won an Emmy for Best Drama.

She has been a Dialect Coach and a Children's Acting Coach on several movies including Seven Years in Tibet, Two Brothers, The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas and Nanny McPhee.

Family
She is married to Edward Klein. Parents Hugh Bannerman and Hilda Bannerman, née Diamond. Brother Julian Bannerman.

Filmography

References

External links

 Celia Bannerman - Acting & Dialogue Coach
 Celia Bannerman Biography (1946-)

 Celia Bannerman(Aveleyman)
 Spotlight

English television actresses
English film actresses
English film directors
English television directors
1944 births
Living people
British women television directors
People from Abingdon-on-Thames
Actresses from Oxfordshire


Split-eyed owlfly refers to one of two tribes of the neuropteran owlfly family:
 Ascalaphini
 Ululodini


Charles Roven (born August 2, 1949) is an American film producer and the president and co-founder of Atlas Entertainment.

He is known for producing the superhero films The Dark Knight Trilogy, Man of Steel, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, Suicide Squad and more.

Awards and nominations
His film American Hustle was nominated for a Best Picture Academy Award in 2014, as well as in 9 other categories. In January 2018, Roven received the David O. Selznick Achievement Award for his body of work from the Producers Guild of America.

Personal life
He was married to producer Dawn Steel from 1985 until her death in 1997. The two had a daughter born in March 1987. Roven later married restaurateur Stephanie Haymes, the daughter of entertainers Dick Haymes and Fran Jeffries.

Filmography
He was a producer in all films unless otherwise noted. Roven was also producer of the ill-fated Atuk with comedian Sam Kinison as the lead. The film was shut down in its first week of production.

Film

Thanks

Television

References

External links

1949 births
American film producers
Golden Globe Award-winning producers
Living people
Place of birth missing (living people)


The 1993–94 Scottish Challenge Cup was the fourth season of the competition, which was also known as the B&Q Cup for sponsorship reasons. It was competed for by the 26 clubs in the Scottish Football League Division One and Two. The defending champions were Hamilton Academical, who defeated Morton 3–2 in the 1992 final.

The final was played on 12 December 1993, between Falkirk and St Mirren at Fir Park in Motherwell. Falkirk won 3–0, to win the tournament for the first time.

Schedule

First round
Airdrieonians, Dunfermline Athletic, Hamilton Academical, Morton, Queen's Park and Stirling Albion entered the second round.

Source: SFL

Second round

Source: SFL

Quarter-finals

Semi-finals

Final

References

External links
 Scottish Football League Scottish Challenge Cup on Scottish Football League website
 Soccerbase Scottish League Challenge Cup on Soccerbase.com
 ESPN Soccernet  Scottish League Challenge Cup homepage on ESPN Soccernet
 BBC Sport – Scottish Cups Challenge Cup on BBC Sport

Scottish Challenge Cup seasons
Challenge Cup
Scottish Challenge Cup


The Philatelic Federation of South Africa (PFSA) is responsible for inviting philatelists to sign the Roll of Distinguished Philatelists of Southern Africa (RDPSA) (originally the Roll of Distinguished Philatelists of South Africa).

The roll is modelled on the original Roll of Distinguished Philatelists established in Great Britain in 1921, and the first signatory to the South African roll was Gilbert J. Allis in 1932.

Election to the roll is by a vote at the PFSA congress.

Signatories include Robson Lowe, Adrian Albert Jurgens and Harvey Pirie.

References

External links
PFSA list of signatories.

Philatelic awards
Philately of South Africa


Fire Creek is a 2006 independent film released theatrically by Brigham Young University.  The film was released digitally for select Cinemark theaters in Utah, May 8, 2009.

Plot
Fire Creek tells the story of a young marine's search for an answer to the age-old question "why do bad things happen to good people?" Jason is serving as a marine in Afghanistan when divine intervention saves him from a sniper attack. However, his closest friend, a devoted husband and father, is shot and killed just inches away. Critically wounded but alive, Jason returns home wondering why his life was spared. The rest of the film follows his search for answers.

Production
The film was produced by a Brigham Young University mentoring group of faculty and staff. The writer for the project, Nathan Chai, developed the novel, and later the screenplay, from his award-winning short story, "Creekwater Bends." Pre-production of the film was worked out in a philosophy and film class taught by Dennis Packard, Raymond Robinson, and Charles Cranney. The director and cinematographer, Jed Wells, was an undergraduate photography student with a background in acting and directing. The lead actor, Seth Packard, was a philosophy major who co-produced the film and went on to direct his own films, HottieBoombaLottie and So Hot It Hurts, which is currently in negotiation with distributors. The composer, Jay Packard, was a music and physics undergraduate major and a computer engineering graduate major. The music performers included a number of BYU students, as well as Larry Green on guitar and Lloyd Miller on Middle Eastern instruments.

Release
Fire Creek was released digitally for select theaters in Utah May 8, 2009. It is now available on iTunes.

References

External links

2006 films
Brigham Young University
2000s English-language films
American independent films
2000s American films


Cleomella plocasperma is a species of flowering plant in the cleome family known by the common name twisted cleomella and alkali stinkweed. It is native to the Great Basin and Mojave Desert in the western United States, where it grows mainly in wet, alkaline soils such as those around hot springs. There is a disjunct population in the Bruneau Valley of southwestern Idaho. It grows with other halophytic species such as saltgrass and greasewood. This is an annual herb producing a smooth, hairless stem which divides into several erect or upright branches which may exceed half a meter tall. The sparse leaves are each split into three narrow leaflets. The flowers occur in a raceme at the top of each stem branch. Each flower has four yellow petals and several long stamens which may be over a centimeter long. The fruit is a capsule with large lobes. It hangs at the tip of the remaining flower receptacle.

References

External links
Jepson Manual Treatment
Photo gallery

plocasperma
Plants described in 1871


The Sohmer Piano Building, or Sohmer Building, is a Neo-classical  Beaux-Arts building located at 170 Fifth Avenue at East 22nd Street, in the Flatiron District neighborhood of the New York City borough of Manhattan, diagonally southwest of the Flatiron Building. Designed by Robert Maynicke as a store-and-loft building for real-estate developer Henry Corn, and built in 1897-98 it is easily recognizable by its gold dome, which sits on top of a 2-story octagonal cupola.

The building is located in within the Ladies' Mile Historic District, and, according to the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission, is "characteristic of the later development phase of the District". It was named for the Sohmer Piano Company, which had its offices and showroom there early in the building's history. Other tenants included architects, publishers, and merchants of leather, hats, perfume and upholstery. It was converted to residential condominium apartments in the early 21st century, and its architectural features were restored between 2002 and 2005 by Bone / Levine Architects.

References

External links

Commercial buildings completed in 1898
Fifth Avenue
Domes
Residential buildings in Manhattan
Beaux-Arts architecture in New York City
Flatiron District
1898 establishments in New York City


"A Good Run of Bad Luck" is a song co-written and recorded by American country music artist Clint Black.  It was released in February 1994 as the fourth single from his album No Time to Kill.  It reached number one on both the United States and Canadian country charts.  The song was written by Black and Hayden Nicholas. It also appeared on the 1994 soundtrack to the film Maverick.

Content
The song is an uptempo that discusses falling in love by using gambling metaphors. The narrator compares gambling to love relationships.

Music video
The music video was Black's first that he directed himself, and premiered in early 1994. The music video shows Black and his band playing in a dark room with a bunch of cards on the floor. Also scenes from the movie Maverick, in which Black had a cameo and whose soundtrack the song also appears on, are shown in the video.

Chart positions
"A Good Run of Bad Luck" debuted at number 54 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks for the week of March 5, 1994.

Year-end charts

References

Songs about luck
1994 singles
Clint Black songs
Songs written by Clint Black
Songs written by Hayden Nicholas
Song recordings produced by Clint Black
Song recordings produced by James Stroud
RCA Records singles
1993 songs


On This Night is an album by Archie Shepp released on Impulse! Records in 1965. The album contains tracks recorded by Shepp, bassist David Izenzon and drummer J. C. Moses in March 1965 and with a larger band in August of that year that included vibraphonist Bobby Hutcherson, bassist Henry Grimes and percussionists Ed Blackwell, Joe Chambers and Rashied Ali.

Reception
The AllMusic review by Al Campbell states: "Among the highlights are a passionate reading of Duke Ellington's 'In a Sentimental Mood' and the title piece, a moving tribute to W. E. B. Du Bois, featuring the haunting soprano vocalist Christine Spencer employing a distinct 20th century classical influence, with Shepp on piano. Shepp is the solo horn on these dates, playing at peak form." The CD version of On This Night includes an alternate take of "The Mac Man" and three of "The Chased" from the "Further Fire Music" album and a reading of his poem "Malcolm, Malcolm, Semper Malcolm", previously issued on the "Fire Music" album. The track "Gingerbread, Gingerbread Man" was removed and included as a bonus track on the CD reissue of the John Coltrane/Archie Shepp album New Thing at Newport.

Original LP track listing
 "The Mac Man" – 7:27
 "In a Sentimental Mood" (Duke Ellington, Manny Kurtz, Irving Mills) – 3:18
 "Gingerbread, Gingerbread Boy" – 10:15
 "On This Night (If That Great Day Would Come)" – 10:00
 "The Original Mr. Sonny Boy Williamson" – 5:58
 "The Pickaninny (Picked Clean-No More-Or Can You Back Back Doodleboug)" – 7:22
All compositions by Archie Shepp except as indicated
Recorded at Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, March 9, 1965 (track 6), and August 12, 1965 (tracks 1,2,4,5) and live at Newport July 2, 1965 (track 3)

CD reissue track listing
 "On This Night (If That Great Day Would Come)" – 10:00
 "The Mac Man" – 7:27
 "The Mac Man" [alternate take] – 9:27
 "The Original Mr. Sonny Boy Williamson" – 5:58
 "In a Sentimental Mood" (Duke Ellington, Manny Kurtz, Irving Mills) – 3:18
 "The Chased" [alternate take] – 11:45
 "The Chased" [alternate take 2] – 6:13
 "The Chased" [take 3] – 5:14
 "The Pickaninny (Picked Clean—No More—Or Can You Back Back Doodlebug)" – 7:22
 "Malcolm, Malcolm, Semper Malcolm" – 4:50
All compositions by Archie Shepp except as indicated
Recorded at Rudy Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, March 9, 1965 (tracks 6–10), and August 12, 1965 (tracks 1–5)

Personnel
Archie Shepp: tenor saxophone, piano, recitation
Bobby Hutcherson – vibes (tracks 1–5)
Joe Chambers – drums, timpani (tracks 1 & 5)
Ed Blackwell – rhythm logs (tracks 2, 3 & 6)
Henry Grimes – bass (tracks 1–5)
Rashied Ali – drums (tracks 1–3)
David Izenzon: bass (tracks 6–10)
J.C. Moses: drums (tracks 4 & 6–10)
Christine Spencer: vocals (track 1)

References

1965 albums
Archie Shepp albums
Impulse! Records albums
Albums produced by Bob Thiele
Albums recorded at Van Gelder Studio


Holly Grove Mansion, also known as Holly Grove Inn or Ruffner Mansion, is a historic home located at Charleston, West Virginia on the grounds of the West Virginia State Capitol.  It is a large brick house with a front section made to accommodate three floors and rear section housing two.  It features a massive two story, semi-circular portico at the front entrance.  It was constructed originally in 1815 as the home of Daniel Ruffner, one of a family which helped develop the early salt industry in the Kanawha Valley. It gained its present-day appearance in about 1902 when new owner, John Nash, undertook substantial remodeling. In 1979, the mansion underwent an extensive rehabilitation when it became headquarters for the West Virginia Commission on Aging.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.

References

Houses in Charleston, West Virginia
Neoclassical architecture in West Virginia
Federal architecture in West Virginia
Houses completed in 1815
Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in West Virginia
National Register of Historic Places in Charleston, West Virginia
Ruffner family


The Luther Forest Technology Campus or LFTC is a 1,414-acre (573 hectares) site in the towns of Malta and Stillwater, New York, specifically designed for semiconductor and nanotechnology manufacturing and other innovative technologies. The site has Interstate highway access  away.

History
The campus sits on an extensive sand plain, the delta of the prehistoric "Iromohawk" river as it entered Lake Albany at the end of the last ice age. When the early settlers cleared the forests and ploughed the soil they quickly discovered that the thin layer of topsoil blew away and the underlying sand piled up in large drifts.

In 1898 Thomas C. Luther began to purchase the otherwise useless land and undertook a pioneering effort of reforestation, planting thousands of white pine trees. The reforested area eventually grew to over , and became known as "Luther Forest".

In 1947 the then largely uninhabited area was home to a Hermes Rocket test site, known as the Malta Test Station, an approximately  site where rocket engines underwent stationary testing under the supervision of the General Electric Company. "The original facility included underground and above-ground bunkers, two gantries and a number of lab buildings. There were checkpoints with armed guards and clearance was required to gain entrance." Rocket scientists such as Wernher von Braun visited the site and often stayed for several weeks. General Electric later sold its rocket business to Wright Malta Corporation, formed by former GE employees at the site headed by Eugene Wright. Wright Malta still maintains a facility, currently producing a variety of industrial products. "Project Hermes" is commemorated by Hermes Road, one of the main access roads to the tech park. Another legacy of the project was soil contamination from rocket fuel that caused the facility to be listed as a Superfund site in 1987. In 1999 cleanup was completed and the site was removed from the list.

The Malta Test Station was purchased in 1964 by the New York State Atomic and Space Development Authority. Later another  was acquired by eminent domain. The Atomic and Space Development Authority later became the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) which now operates the former Test Station site as the Saratoga Technology + Energy Park (STEP).

In 1998 New York began an initiative to pre-permit chip manufacturing plants, known as Chip Fab ’98. In 2000 the Saratoga Economic Development Corporation (SEDC) chose the current site, began the process of obtaining zoning approval, and began preliminary work.

AMD and GlobalFoundries
In 2006 Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) began to evaluate Luther Forest, along with other sites worldwide. Later that year they committed to constructing a chip plant ("Fab"), Fab 8, at the Campus with an estimated cost of $3.2 billion (USD). At the time this was the most advanced semiconductor manufacturing facility in the world and the largest private sector industrial investment in the history of New York State. In 2008 AMD spun off its manufacturing to a new joint venture with the Advanced Technology Investment Company (ATIC) of Abu Dhabi, called GlobalFoundries. Construction began in 2009.

Fab 8 was the first facility to produce 300 mm silicon wafers designed for 32 nm technologies. This was the second manufacturing facility operated by GlobalFoundries, with Fab 1 located in Dresden, Germany. As of 2015 it can produce wafers with technology of 28 nm and below.

Design and site construction
Creighton Manning Engineering of Albany, New York was contracted by the Saratoga Economic Development Corporation to prepare the design approval documents, including the preliminary and final design of the site roads, bridges and underground infrastructure along with the construction inspection of the site work. Construction is expected to be completed by Rifenburg Construction for the site roadways and infrastructure by the end of 2009.

Infrastructure
As of 2015 the following infrastructure is in place:
 Electrical – four independent 115 kV circuits attached to two separate providers,
 Natural gas – 10,000; 8" gas line with a capacity of 150,000 cfh. A 12" gas line is being installed.
 Water – 10 million gallons/day capacity. A 5 million gallon water tank provides a back-up supply.
 Sewer – 10 million gallon sewer main connects to Saratoga County waste treatment facility.
 Roads – multiple entry points; five miles of interior roadways.

Recreation

The Technology Campus includes a recreation area known as the "100 Acre Wood" with nearly  of wooded hiking trails. Adjoining the wooded area are  of land being developed as a park and recreation area including sports fields. In addition to the trails of the 100 Acre Wood the Campus contains a network of roadside trails that connect to the county-wide Zim Smith Trail.

References

External links

Economy of New York (state)
Buildings and structures in Saratoga County, New York
GlobalFoundries


Samuel Deduno Lake (born July 2, 1983) is a Dominican former professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Colorado Rockies, San Diego Padres, Minnesota Twins and Houston Astros.

Career

Colorado Rockies
Deduno was signed as an undrafted free agent by the Colorado Rockies in 2003. Deduno led the Texas League in strike outs in 2007, but missed the 2008 season with an injury.

Deduno was added to the 40-man roster for the Rockies after the 2008 season.

He was called up to the Rockies on August 26, 2010.

San Diego Padres

He was claimed off waivers by the San Diego Padres on January 28, 2011. On May 23, Deduno was designated for assignment to clear a spot on the 40-man roster for Blake Tekotte.

Minnesota Twins
Deduno signed a minor league contract with the Minnesota Twins on November 17, 2011. On July 5, 2012, he had his contract purchased by the Twins. Deduno recorded his first win on July 22, in a game against the Kansas City Royals. In 2012, Deduno pitched 6–5 with a 4.44 ERA in 15 starts with 6.5 K/9 and 1.08 K/BB.

On November 5, Deduno signed a minor league deal with an invitation to spring training to stay with the Twins. Deduno made 18 starts with the Twins in 2013, and he was 8–8 with a 3.83 ERA, striking out 67 in 108 innings.

Deduno opened 2014 in the Twins bullpen after he lost the 5th starter spot to Kyle Gibson. He made 7 appearances in the bullpen, having a 2.89 ERA in 18.2 innings before being moved to the rotation to replace the injured Mike Pelfrey. Deduno didn't fare so well in the rotation, where in 8 starts, he was 3–5 with a 6.52 ERA and a 1.603 WHIP in 38.2 innings, or less than 5 innings per start. He was moved back to the bullpen on June 17 in favor of Yohan Pino.

Houston Astros
On August 30, 2014, Deduno was claimed off waivers by the Houston Astros. In 14 appearances for Houston in 2014 and 2015, Deduno registered a 5.76 ERA with 26 strikeouts.

Baltimore Orioles
On February 19, 2016, Deduno signed a minor league deal with the Baltimore Orioles. Deduno had undergone hip surgery in the offseason and was not going to be able to pitch until mid season. On August 10, the Orioles released him.

Pitching style
Deduno relies mostly, especially against right-handed hitters, on a four-seam fastball (89–92 mph) and curveball (80–84 mph). He throws a small amount of two-seam fastballs, sliders, and changeups against left-handed hitters. The curve is by far his most common pitch in two-strike counts and when he is ahead in the count.

His four-seamer has the smallest amount of "rise", or vertical break, among all major league starters since 2007. This sinker-like effect gives him the best ground ball/fly ball ratio (6:1) among four-seamers in that group. Remarking on its unusual movement, former Twins catcher Ryan Doumit said, "His fastball's unlike anything I've ever seen. ... It's like catching a 92-mile-an-hour knuckleball."

Deduno has a high walk rate, walking 55 batters in his first 83 innings.

Awards and honors
 2007 Texas League Pitcher of the Week
 2004 Pioneer League Pitcher of the Year
 2004 Pioneer League Post-Season All-Star

References

External links

1983 births
Living people
Águilas Cibaeñas players
Asheville Tourists players
Casper Rockies players
Colorado Rockies players
Colorado Springs Sky Sox players
Dominican Republic expatriate baseball players in the United States
Houston Astros players

Major League Baseball pitchers
Major League Baseball players from the Dominican Republic
Minnesota Twins players
Modesto Nuts players
Sportspeople from La Romana, Dominican Republic
Rochester Red Wings players
San Diego Padres players
Tri-City Dust Devils players
Tucson Padres players
Tulsa Drillers players
World Baseball Classic players of the Dominican Republic
2013 World Baseball Classic players
2017 World Baseball Classic players


LeRoy Stewart Leonard (January 19, 1931 – September 4, 2014) was an American radio personality, best known for hosting WGN's midday radio show from Chicago for 31 years and for his appearances on WGN-TV's news and Christmas specials.  He also hosted Family Classics after Frazier Thomas died.

Leonard died on September 4, 2014, at a hospital in Evanston, Illinois, of complications from an esophageal infection, aged 83.

Further reading

References

External links

American radio DJs
Chicago Bears announcers
Chicago Bulls announcers
Chicago Cubs announcers
National Basketball Association broadcasters
North American Soccer League (1968–1984) commentators
Radio personalities from Chicago
People from Redwood Falls, Minnesota
1931 births
2014 deaths


Smith-Giltinan House is a historic home located at Charleston, West Virginia.  It is a three-story dwelling with an asymmetrical plan. It was built about 1888 and many of its details are in the Queen Anne style. It features an asymmetrical plan, projecting bays, varied materials and textures, and elaborate porch details. The house is six bays wide by six bays deep and the roof is basically a steeply pitched hip shape, covered with asphalt shingles. There is a polygonal tower on the north side.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.

References

Houses in Charleston, West Virginia
Houses completed in 1888
Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in West Virginia
National Register of Historic Places in Charleston, West Virginia
Queen Anne architecture in West Virginia


The Greater Midland Community Centers, Inc. (GMCC) is a non-profit corporation in Midland, Michigan, founded in 2005 to provide guidance and assistance to five existing non-profit family and recreation centers in Midland County.

Reasons for creation
The GMCC is responsible for long-range and capital planning, executive staffing, human resources, financial office and accounting, computer technology, and  major fundraising for the five units under the GMCC corporate umbrella. By centralizing these business functions and services, each center's director is freed to concentrate on programming, membership, and customer service. Additionally, each center is able to share personnel with the other centers, and request staffing assistance from the other centers for special events.

Two unused classrooms at the Midland Community Center (MCC) received a makeover to become the offices for GMCC personnel in 2007.

Organizations
Midland Community Center - the oldest and largest of the centers; memberships as of March, 2009 was just under 4,000 which comprise 7,000 individuals.
North Midland Family Center - programs target the needs of local residents and include pre-school, daycare, social services, fitness (including Karate), computer literacy and Senior Adult activities
Coleman Community Network - in 2008, programs were expanded and the new fitness center use soared; the center moved to the old middle school building on Railway Street and changed their name to Railway Family Center. The child care and preschool programs were always popular, but the new aerobics classes, teen center, food pantry and after-school activities have high participation
Midland Curling Club - founded in 1962 by eleven members and their sheets were outside; the  Midland Curling Center opened October 31, 2008 and has four sheets for 120 members There are only two other Curling clubs in the state of Michigan.
Midland Community Tennis Center - opened in 1974 with 700 members sharing six courts; it now counts 3,000+ members with 16 indoor plus 16 outdoor courts It is the largest facility in the Midwest devoted exclusively to tennis.

First projects
Shortly after GMCC was created, they announced a $5.1 million fundraising campaign to "enhance the quality of life for Midlanders," according to GMCC CEO Chris Tointon. Individuals and businesses contributed to the project, but the majority came from local charitable trusts including the
Alden & Vada Dow Foundation, the Dow Chemical Company Foundation, the Dow Corning Corporation Foundation, The Herbert H. & Grace A. Dow Foundation, the Midland Area Community Foundation, the Charles J. Strosacker Foundation and the Rollin M. Gerstacker Foundation.

The money paid for three projects. The Midland Community Tennis Center received an overdue renovation of existing facilities and an expansion. The Midland Curling Club was relocated to a newly constructed building near the MCC. Lastly, the MCC created an "outdoor campus".

Funding
The United Way of Midland County provides significant funding for three of GMCC's  centers. For 2009, UW allocated $282,900 for education programs, $61,500 for self-sufficiency programs and $270,600 for health programs. The total of $615,000 was 16.4% of UWs budget. GMCC also relies on local companies to underwrite specific programs and free activities.

References

External links
 Greater Midland Community Centers website
 Midland Community Center website
 North Midland Family Center website
 Railway Family Center website
 Midland Community Tennis Center website
 Midland Curling Club website

Midland, Michigan
Community centers in Michigan
Non-profit organizations based in Michigan


The Raid on Mounts Bay also known as the Spanish attack on Mounts Bay was a Spanish raid on Cornwall, England, that took place between 2 and 4 August 1595 in the context of the Brittany Campaign during the Anglo-Spanish war of 1585-1604. It was conducted by a Spanish naval squadron led by Carlos de Amésquita on patrol from Brittany, France. The Spanish made landfall in Mount's Bay, then sacked and burned Newlyn, Mousehole, Penzance, and Paul, beating a militia force under Francis Godolphin in the process.

Background
In the wake of the defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588, Philip II of Spain reorganised his navy. He was intent on establishing advanced bases in western France from which his navy could constantly threaten England and Ireland. In 1593 Blavet had been established by the Spanish in Brittany and news of this caused concern in England.

Carlos de Amesquita commanded three companies of arquebusiers and four galleys  (Nuestra Señora de Begoña, Salvador, Peregrina and Bazana) from the fleet under Pedro de Zubiaur. He sailed from Blavet, on 26 July with the aim of raiding a part of the English coastline. There were a number of reasons - one was to regain the treasure and cargo ships captured by the English off Pernambuco four months earlier. There were also rumours that Francis Drake was preparing a major expedition against Panama and the Spanish action in England could delay or even defeat it.
Another was to hold an English port or coastline which would then be used as a base for raids and act as a powerful bargaining tool for future peace negotiations. Cornwall, since the Prayer Book Rebellion in 1549, offered hope to the Spanish that many of the Cornish might happily convert back to the Catholic faith.

After calling at Penmarch, they sank a French barque manned by an English crew and with a cargo bound for England.

Raid

Mousehole
Amesquita's 400 men strong force eventually sailed into Mount's Bay on 2 August. They were guided by English Catholic Richard Burley of Weymouth on to a rocky beach a few hundred yards west of Mousehole's harbour. A group of Spaniards led by Don Leon de Ezpeleta and Sergeant Major Juan De Arnica climbed a hill to gain a view of the country beyond. The Spanish galleys meanwhile came in close to shore and then bombarded the defenceless town — many houses were burned and three men were killed. Local resident Jenkyn Keigwin died from a cannonball while defending his house which was the only one to survive any damage.

Paul and Newlyn
A second group of Spaniards; the vanguard of the raid had struck inland and reached the Parish of Paul, half a mile inland. The village was defenceless and was promptly sacked and burned; the church St Pol de Léon in which Amesquita described in a taunting way as being a ‘mosque’ was burned down. Four residents were killed here and a number were taken prisoner before the Spanish marched back to their galleys and re-embarked.

The next day the galleys having moved from Mousehole sailed around the headland into Mounts Bay itself, with Penzance and Newlyn in their view. Having kept quite a distance from St Michaels Mount (the garrisons powder was so low that they were unable to fire any shots), Newlyn was set upon; again no resistance was met and the village was torched.

Penzance

Battle on the beach
The Spaniards then advanced on Penzance with the galleys close to shore. By this time however the local militia which formed the cornerstone of the English anti-invasion measures and numbered five hundred men had been alerted and decided to make a stand. They were led by Francis Godolphin, Deputy Lord Lieutenant. As the Spanish came ashore on the broad beach the militia attacked across the sands. The Spanish kept their formation and a detachment marched around the militia outflanking them. The ships sensing the trouble the Spaniards were in fired off shots into the militia as the Spanish musketeers attacked their flank. The militia then panicked, threw down their arms, and fled; only Godolphin along with twelve of his soldiers stood to offer some kind of resistance. Some 100 lightly armed men, scattered by the Spanish artillery, sought shelter at Marazion.

Sack of the town
Penzance was also bombarded by the Spanish galleys; 400 houses were destroyed and three ships "laden with wine and other goods" were sunk. Godolphin attempted to rally his men but they fled once again. The Spanish then entered Penzance with no further resistance and the village was sacked except for St Mary’s church which was saved as Burley having guided the Spanish pleaded for it to be spared having told Amesquita that the church once held Mass.

At the end of the raid a traditional Catholic mass led by Brother Domingo Martinez was held in an open air field altar on the Western Hill outside of Penzance. The Spanish commander promised to build a Catholic church on this site within two years, once England had been conquered. Amesquita observed the growing number of Cornish militia having assembled before Marazion and St Michael's Mount. Bullets and arrows were fired which forced them away from the shore which discouraged a further attack there. In two days however the Spanish had taken what they needed, having burned Penzance and the villages of Mousehole, Paul, and Newlyn. On re-embarking soon afterwards on 4 August, Amesquita then released all his prisoners ashore and the Spanish sailed off unmolested.

Aftermath
Sir Nicholas Clifford arrived with a relieving force in the area but was too late to engage the Spaniards. Clifford was furious with the common folk blaming them for abandoning Godolphin. Mousehole, unlike Penzance and Newlyn, never fully recovered from the raid.

On 5 August Amesquita met a Dutch squadron of 46 ships, sinking two of the Dutch ships and causing much damage to the others but at the cost of 20 men killed. The rest of the Dutch ships limped away. He then stopped at Penmarch for repairs and finally arrived back at Port Louis on 10 August.

The raid greatly concerned Queen Elizabeth I and Lord Burghley who acted to make sure defences were improved. The raid was the only time in the whole course of the war that the Spanish effected a successful major landing in any part of England.

Another smaller scale raid the following year made landfall at Cawsand where the Spanish (after setting on fire civilian property) were scared off by a single man firing a shot. The Spanish would attempt an armada against Cornwall in the autumn of 1597, in the hope that the core of the English Catholics would rise up in rebellion, but the operation was a failure due to a storm in the English channel.

In fiction
The raid is described in detail in the historical novel The Grove of Eagles, by Winston Graham. The book's protagonist arrives on the spot when hearing of the Spanish raid, concerned for the safety of Sue - a woman with whom he is deeply in love though she married another man, the Vicar of Paul, this marriage putting her directly in  the Spaniards' path. Graham closely follows the historical facts of the raid, except where minor changes were needed to let his fictional characters take part.

References

Bibliography

Cornwall
Invasions of England
Cornwall
Cornwall
1595 in England
16th century in Cornwall
Penzance
Invasions by Spain
Military raids
Amphibious operations involving Spain
Fires in England


Kumi University (KUMU), is a private University in Uganda.

Location
The main university campus is in "Nyero Parish", Nyero subcounty, Kumi District, in the Eastern Region of Uganda, approximately , by road, west of the town of Kumi. This is about  north-east of Kampala, Uganda's capital and largest city. The coordinates of Kumi University Main Campus are 1°28'21.0"N, 33°51'45.0"E (Latitude:1.472500; Longitude:33.862500). In 2007, the university established a second campus in the town of Soroti,  north-west of the main campus.

History
The institution was founded in 1996 by a South Korean missionary couple, Hyeong Lyeol Lyu and Min Ja Lee, under the name African Leaders Training Institute. In 1999, the name was changed to Kumi University. The university was fully accredited by the Ministry of Education and Sports in 2004. Arrangements are underway to attain a university charter. According to a 2012 published report, efforts were underway to start a medical school at this university.

Overview
Enrollment at the university remains below capacity, leading to inadequate finances. In 2015, some of the staff, particularly the part-time lecturers went unpaid, leading to a lecturers' strike.

Academics
, the university had the following functioning faculties:

 Faculty of Education and Languages
 Faculty of Science and Technology
 Faculty of Social Sciences and Management Studies
 Faculty of Theology

Courses
Courses offered lead to the award of certificates, diplomas, and bachelor's degrees. The following degree courses were offered at Kumi University as of February 2018:

Faculty of Education and Languages
 Bachelor of Science with Education
 Bachelor of Arts with Education
 Bachelor of Education (In service)
Bachelor Arts in Primary Education
diploma in secondary education
Diploma in Primary Education
Bachelor of Education with ICT

Faculty of Science and Technology
 Bachelor of Information Technology
 Diploma in Information Technology
 Certificate in Information Technology
Bachelor of Agricultural Science
Diploma in Agricultural Science
Certificate in Agriculture

Faculty of Social Sciences and Management Studies
 Bachelor of Business Administration
 Bachelor of Human Resource Management
 Bachelor of Administrative & Secretarial Studies
 Bachelor of Commerce
 Bachelors in Social Work and Social Administration
 Bachelors in Development Studies
 Bachelors in Guidance and Counseling
 Bachelors in Community Development
 Bachelor of Public Administration
Diploma in Records and Archives Management
Certificate in Records and Archives Management

In addition to the degree courses, the university offers many diploma and certificate courses in the same or related fields.

See also
List of universities in Uganda
List of medical schools in Uganda
Education in Uganda

References

External links
 Website of Kumi University

Universities and colleges in Uganda
Kumi District
Teso sub-region
Educational institutions established in 2004
Education in Uganda
2004 establishments in Uganda
Eastern Region, Uganda


Antonio D'Alfonso (born 6 August 1953) is a Canadian writer,  editor, publisher, and filmmaker, best known as the founder of Guernica Editions.

Biography
Antonio D'Alfonso was born in Montreal into an Italian-Canadian family. He grew up speaking Italian and attended both English and French schools and became trilingual. He earned a BA from Loyola College (Concordia University) and a MA from the Université de Montréal. In 1978 he founded Guernica Editions in Montreal as a bilingual publishing house. It was successful in promoting English and French language writers and expanded into publishing authors from ethnic minorities, particularly those of Italian backgrounds.  D'Alfonso sold Guernica in 2009.
As a writer, he has published works in both English and French, and has won awards in both. He is also a self-translator who rewrites his work from English to French or vice versa.

Literary awards
 2000: Fabrizio's Passion won the Bressani Award.
 2003: La passione di Fabrizio won Internazionale emigrazione in Italy.
 2005: Un vendredi du mois d'août won the Trillium Book Award. (27 Avril 2005)
 2008: L'aimé won the Christine Dimitriu Van Saanen Award from the Salon du livre de Toronto.
 2016: He received an honorary doctorate from Athabasca University in Alberta.

Books

Original Books
 La chanson du shaman à Sedna (poems, self-published, 1973)
 Queror (poems, Guernica Editions, 1979) 2-89135-000-6
 Black Tongue (poems, Guernica Editions, 1983) 0-919349-07-2
 The Other Shore (prose and poems, Guernica Editions, 1986, 1988) 0-919349-66-8/0-920717-32-2
 L'autre rivage (prose and poems, translation of The Other Shore, VLB éditeur, 1987) 2-89005-248-6 Finaliste du Prix Emile-Nelliagn.
 L'Amour panique (prose poems, Lèvres Urbaines, 1988) ISSN 0823-5112
 Avril ou L'anti-passion (novel, VLB éditeur, 1990) 2-89005-405-5
 Julia (long prose poem, L'édition du Silence, 1992) 2-920180-25-8
 Panick Love (prose poems, translation of L'Amour panique, Guernica Editions, 1992) 0-920717-63-2
 Fabrizio's Passion (novel, Guernica, 1995) 1-55071-023-0
 In Italics: In Defense of Ethnicity (essays, Guernica, 1996) 1-55071-016-8
 L'apostrophe qui me scinde (poetry, Le Noroît, 1998). 2-89018-398-X. Finaliste du Prix Saint Sulpice.
 Duologue: On Culture and Identity (with Pasquale Verdicchio) (essay, Guernica, 1998). 1-55071-072-9
 L'autre rivage (poetry, Le Noroît, 1999) 2-89018-438-2
 En Italiques: Réflexions sur l'ethnicité (essays, Balzac, 2000). 2-921468-21-2
 Fabrizio's Passion (novel, Guernica, 2000) 1-55071-082-6. The Bressani Award 2002.
 Comment ça se passe (poetry, Le Noroît, 2001). Finaliste du Prix Trillium.
 La passione di Fabrizio. (Traduit par Antonello Lombardo). Iannone Editore. Italia: Isernia, 2002.) The Premio internzaionale Emigrazione, 2003.
 Getting on with Politics (poetry, Exile Editions, 2002.)
 Antigone (Lyricalmyrical Editions, 2004) (verse play)
 Un vendredi du mois d'août (novel, Leméac, 2004), finalist for the Prix Ringuet, Trillium Book Award
 Bruco (Lyricalmyrical Editions, 2005) (verse play)
 En Italiques: Réflexions sur l'ethnicité (essais, L'Interligne, 2005).
 Gambling with Failure (essays, Exile, 2005)
 Un homme de trop (poetry, Noroît, 2005)
 One Friday in August (novel, Exile, 2005)
 L'aimé. novel. Leméac, 2007.
 Un ami, un nuage. Noroit, 2013.
 The Irrelevant Man. Guernica, 2014.

Anthologies Edited
 Quêtes: Textes d'auteurs italo-québécois. ed. aver Fulvio Caccia. Guernica Editions, 1983.
 Voix Off: Textes de dix poétes anglophone au Québec.  Guernica Editions, 1985.
 Poetica del Plurilinguismo. trans. Nicola Gasbarro & Giulia De Gasperi. Samuele Editor, 2016.

Translations by Antonio D'Alfonso
 The Clarity of Voices Philippe Haeck, prose poems. Guernica, 1985.
 The Films of Jacques Tati  Michel Chion.  Guernica, 1997.
 La paysage qui bouge.  Pasquale Verdicchio.  Le Noroit, 2000.
 On Order and Things. Stefan Psenak.  Guernica, 2003.
 Dreaming Our Space. Marguerite Andersen.  Guernica, 2003.
 The Blueness of Light (by Louise Dupré, translator, Guernica, 2005)
 Etnilisuse kaitseks. Translated in Estonian by Reet Sool. Tartu Ulikooli Kirjastus, 2006. (essays)
 The World Forgotten (by Paul Bélanger, translator, Guernica 2005)
 The Last Woman (Claudine Bertrand, translator, Guernica, 2008)
 twohundredandfourspoems (Roger des Roches, Guernica, 2011).
 Un bonheur inattendu (Marella Caracciolo Chia, Leméac, 2011).
 Un bonheur inattendu (Marella Caracciolo Chia, Syrtes (Paris), 2012).
 Wings Folded in Cracks (Jean-Pierre Vallotton, Guernica, 2013).
 Hours (Fernand Ouellette, Guernica, 2013).
 Found in Translation: An Anthology of Poets from Quebec (Ekstasis, 2013)
 États des lieux: Trieze poètes américains contemporains (edited by Antoine Boisclair, Noroît, 2013) (Translation of poems by Fanny Howe)
 Ne m'interrompez pas (avec Suzanne Biron) (photos, Noroît, 2015)
 Beyond the Flames (Louise Dupré, Guernica, 2014)
 The Body Vagabond (Martine Audet, Ekstasis, 2014)
 The Terror Chronicles (Normand De Bellefeuille, Ekstasis, 2014)
 Words and the Stone (Pierrettte Micheloud, Ekstasis, 2014)
 Manhattan Poems (Claudio Angelini, Ekstasis, 2014)
 Farida (Naïm Kattan, translated with Norman Cornett, Guernica, 2015)
 The Intimate Frailty of Mortals (Paul Chamberland, Ekstasis, 2015)
 I Travel the World  (Thierry Renard, Ekstasis, 2015)
 Weeping Will Not Save the Stars (François Guerrette, Ekstasis, 2015)
 The Wind Under Our Footsteps (Diane Régimbald, Ekstasis, 2016)
 Antigone (Ekstasis, 2016)
 Em itálico: Reflexões sobre a etnicidade (trans. Ana Lucia Silva Paranhos, UFRGS, 2016)
 We are what we love (Bernard Pozier, Ekstasis, 2016)
 Sails for Exile (Mona Latif-Ghattas, Ekstasis, 2016)
 Toward the Rising Sun (Robert Giroux, Ekstasis, 2016)

Films
 L'Ampoule brûlée (short 16 mm, black and white, 1973)
 La Coupe de Circé (short 16 mm, black and white, 1974)
 Pour t'aimer (one-half hour 16 mm black and white, 1982–1987)
 The Minotaur (one-hour film project, 1992)
 Consent (unproduced screenplay co-written with Jennifer Dale)
 My Trip to Oaxaca (Video, 90 minutes, 2005)
 Bruco (feature, video, 90 minutes, 2005)
 Antigone (feature, 90 minutes, 2012)
 Real Gangsters (actor, Frank D'Angelo, 2013)
 Duse and Me (three minute short, 2015)
 "La chambre éphémère" (75 minutes, 2017)
 "Live in Toronto (60 minutes, 2017)

Music
 Night Talks (1997, CD 50:49 minutes)
 Passione e po' di vino (poetry and music, 2001, with Angelo Findaldi and band) Bootleg
 Sub Urban Gypsy (compositions with Dominic Mancuso, Dominic Mancuso Group, 2014).

References

External links
 Official Website
  The author's item at Athabasca University, Canadian-English Writers; with hyperlinks
  D'Alfonso's item at Athabasca University, Canadian-French Writers; with other hyperlinks

20th-century Canadian poets
20th-century Canadian male writers
Canadian male poets
21st-century Canadian poets
20th-century Canadian novelists
21st-century Canadian novelists
Canadian male novelists
Film directors from Montreal
Writers from Montreal
Living people
1953 births
Canadian book editors
Canadian people of Italian descent
20th-century Canadian translators
21st-century Canadian translators
Canadian male essayists
20th-century Canadian essayists
21st-century Canadian essayists
21st-century Canadian male writers
Canadian poets in French
Canadian novelists in French


"Heavy Competition" is the twenty-fourth episode of the fifth season of the television series The Office and the 96th overall episode of the series. It originally aired on NBC in the United States on April 16, 2009. In the episode, Michael enlists the help of Dwight in getting Michael's new paper company off the ground, but the two eventually end up engaging in a war for each other's clients. Meanwhile, Jim pretends to be afraid of his future with Pam to play a prank on Andy, who is still reeling over his recent break up with Angela.

The episode was written by Ryan Koh and directed by Ken Whittingham. It included a guest appearance by Idris Elba, who played new Dunder Mifflin vice president Charles Miner. The episode received generally positive reviews, and was voted the fourth best episode of the season in a poll at the fan site OfficeTally. According to Nielsen ratings, it was watched by 8.24 million viewers, and was the most watched program among viewers aged between 18 and 49.

Synopsis
Michael Scott (Steve Carell) and Dwight Schrute (Rainn Wilson) have been having secret meetings in the parking lot, where Dwight provides information about Dunder Mifflin so Michael can undercut the company. However, Dwight's loyalty is put to the test as Charles Miner (Idris Elba) seems to show more respect for Dwight than Michael ever did. Dwight brings Charles to the parking lot during one of the secret meetings, where Charles orders Michael to stop pestering Dwight. This begins a rivalry between Michael and Dwight, and Michael begins to steal Dwight's clients. Dwight asks for a truce and offers to take Michael and his employees out to lunch; Dwight does not go to the restaurant and instead sneaks into the empty Michael Scott Paper Company office and steals everything on Michael's desk, including his Rolodex contact list, and places a dead fish in the air conditioning vent.

Jim Halpert (John Krasinski) and Pam Beesly (Jenna Fischer) are attempting to get bargain deals on wedding plans from Andy Bernard (Ed Helms). When Pam turns down his ideas, Andy suspects that Pam might be acting controlling and cruelly to Jim, in the same way Angela Martin (Angela Kinsey) treated Andy. Andy warns Jim, who tries to convince Andy that he and Pam are really happy. Andy remains convinced that Pam will betray him, so Jim asks Andy to provide for his emotional needs (as a prank). After Jim feigns crying on Andy's shoulder, Andy blames the office for Jim's emotional troubles and asks them to apologize. Phyllis Vance (Phyllis Smith) tells Andy that Jim is just messing with him. Andy does not believe her until he sees Jim grinning through the kitchen window. When Andy confronts Jim, Jim assures him that he and Pam are really happy and that Andy will find someone else one day.

Michael, Pam, and Ryan Howard (B. J. Novak) return to their office and believe they have been robbed. Dwight calls and reveals his treachery. Michael calls Dwight on the phone and tells Dwight he is going to steal his biggest client while he listens. Dwight races to the HarperCollins office, where Michael and Dwight start fighting over the client, Daniel Schofield (Bob Gebert). Mr. Schofield asks for both of their offers via email, and they agree to do so. Before leaving, Dwight then looks at Daniel's personal information from Michael's Rolodex card and asks him about his "gay son", which seemingly perturbs Daniel. Michael reveals his unusual system where he color codes personal information about his contacts so he knows what not to talk about. Michael is seen laughing with Daniel in the parking lot as Dwight returns to his car alone.

Production

"Heavy Competition" was written by Ryan Koh and directed by Ken Whittingham. It was the fifth of six episodes guest starring Idris Elba, best known as Stringer Bell from The Wire. Elba said he did not watch the episode after it aired because "I'm hypercritical about my work, so I try not to torture myself." Rainn Wilson said he liked the episode because it demonstrated growth for his character and the relationship between Michael and Dwight; he said "I like the way they let characters grow and change on the show," and said of his character, "It's not the same acolyte ass kissing as season 2". Wilson said the moment Dwight spun around the HarperCollins secretary saying "Spin move", which was included in the script, was one of the most popular moments of the episode among the writers. Wilson said of filming the move, "We did like five spin moves and once I did a somersault. I thought I was being all nimble and quick, but no. I watch it and it looks like a manatee doing ballet at SeaWorld."

Immediately after "Heavy Competition" first aired, NBC created a sub-page on their official "Angela and Andy" wedding site with the full version of Andy's "You Can Call Me Al" a cappella song, as well as an advertisement for their $9,000 wedding performances, both of which were featured in the episode itself. The official website for The Office included two cut scenes from "Heavy Competition". In the first 45-second clip, Michael tries to justify his use of Dwight for leads and Ryan expresses anger when Dwight steals his uncle's dry cleaning company as a client, leading Pam to mock the idea that Ryan cares about anyone but himself and Michael to intercede when Ryan in turn calls Pam a "hag". In the second 50-second clip, Andy tries to sell Jim and Pam a Christian cross-shaped cake from his failed wedding with Angela, and Jim tells Andy he believes the whole office is against him.

Cultural references
Michael, Pam and Ryan have lunch at Alfredo's Pizza Café, a reference to the restaurant first referenced in the fourth season episode "Launch Party". Andy presents a recording of his a cappella group singing Pachelbel's Canon segueing into the Paul Simon song "You Can Call Me Al". Dwight said under Michael's leadership, the office was like the Roman Empire, the Wild West, war-torn Poland, and Poland all at once. Andy vows to be Jim's "traveling pants", a reference to the young adult novel series The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants. Dwight describes Charles as "Will Smith-esque", a reference to the American film actor. Michael and Dwight both court HarperCollins, an American publishing company, as a prospective paper client.

Reception
In its original American broadcast on April 16, 2009, "Heavy Competition" was watched by 8.24 million viewers, according to Nielsen ratings. It captured a 5.5 rating/11 share among viewers aged between 18 and 49, making it the most watched episode of the night among that age group. Additionally, the episode captured a 4.5 rating/14 share among viewers aged between 18 and 34.

The episode received generally positive reviews. Margaret Lyons of Entertainment Weekly said she loved the chemistry between Michael and Dwight, and enjoyed the direction the Michael Scott Paper Company plot was going. She also liked the bond that was forming between Jim and Andy, and said Ed Helms was particularly good in "Heavy Competition". Alan Sepinwall of The Star-Ledger called the episode "just an awful lot of fun", and wrote having Michael and Dwight at odds with each other "forced both characters to be just human enough for the story and the jokes to breathe". Sepinwall did not enjoy the Jim and Andy subplot, except for the final moment when Jim comforted Andy. Will Leitch of New York magazine said, "This might have been the funniest Rainn Wilson has been in an episode all season, and that's saying something." Leitch also said B. J. Novak was particularly funny, and said he enjoyed being reminded that Michael is an excellent salesman.

Travis Fickett of IGN said the new paper company continued to serve as a good change for the series, and the Michael and Dwight rivalry was a "fun development, and it feels as though the writers are taking great advantage of the [storyline]". Steve Mullen praised the episode not only for the Michael/Dwight war, but also for smaller moments like the cheese puff tosses and the messages Pam and Ryan wrote on a clipboard for Michael during his phone call; Mullen said, "I'm not sure any other 30 minute comedy currently on TV can even touch The Office." Amy Stetts of The Express-Times said the Michael Scott Paper Company plot "peaked" with this episode, and she genuinely could not predict how the storyline would end.

Not all reviews were positive. Although Nathan Rabin of The A.V. Club said the cheese puffs scene was "one of the most awesome cold opens in recent memory", he also said "Heavy Competition" was "one of the weakest episodes of the Idris Elba cycle". Rabin also said Jim's treatment of Andy was mean-spirited and unfunny: "Jim tried to spin it into a character-building lesson for Andy but it left a bad taste all the same."

In her list of the top ten moments from the fifth season of The Office, phillyBurbs.com writer Jen Wielgus ranked Michael's formation of the Michael Scott Paper Company in the downstairs storage closet as number one, citing the "Dream Team", "Michael Scott Paper Company" and "Heavy Competition" episodes in particular. She also said she specifically enjoyed the cheese puff tossing scene, and the moment when Dwight dropped his clothes to show he was not wearing a wire, both scenes from "Heavy Competition". "Heavy Competition" was voted the fourth highest-rated episode out of 26 from the fifth season, according to an episode poll at the fansite OfficeTally; the episode was rated 8.66 out of 10.

References

External links

 "Heavy Competition" at NBC.com

2009 American television episodes
The Office (American season 5) episodes


Ascalaphinae is the type subfamily of the neuropteran owlfly family. Most species are found in the tropics. Their characteristic apomorphy , shared with the Ululodinae, is the ridge which divides each of their large compound eyes; both groups are thus sometimes known as split-eyed owlflies.

Like the other owlflies, they are insectivores. Imagines are cumbersome fliers and lack the strong mouthparts of dragonflies (which owlflies resemble at first glance, despite being not at all closely related insects) or other decidedly predatory insects, they are restricted to small and defenseless prey. The larvae on the other hand resemble antlions in appearance and habits and are voracious ambush predators, able to tackle prey like ants that will not be eaten without a struggle.

The ascalaphine split-eyed owlflies form one of the two main lineages of living Ascalaphidae, the other being the Haplogleniinae which have unsplit eyes like their ancestors. The first fossil record of the Ascalaphinae dates to the Miocene, and the subfamily thus probably evolved in the latter half or towards the end of the Paleogene.

Genera

 Abascalaphus Tjeder & Hansson, 1992
 Acheron (insect) Lefèbvre 1842
 Acmonotus McLachlan, 1871
 Agadirius Badano & Pantaleoni, 2012
 Agrionosoma van der Weele, 1909
 Angolania Koçak & Kemal, 2008
 Angustacsa New, 1984
 Ascalaphodes McLachlan, 1871
 Ascalaphus Fabricius, 1775
 Ascalohybris Sziráki, 1998
 Ascapseudoptynx Abrahám & Mészáros, 2006
 Aspoeckiella Hölzel 2004
 Botjederinus Abrahám, 2011
 Brevibarbis Tjeder & Hansson, 1992
 Bubomyiella Tjeder & Hansson, 1992
 Bubopsis McLachlan 1898
 Cirrops Tjeder 1980
 Deleproctophylla Lefèbvrem 1842
 Dentalacsa New, 1984
 Dicolpus Gerstaecker, 1885
 Disparomitus van der Weele, 1909
 Dixonotus Kimmins, 1950
 Dorsomitus Michel & Tjeder, 2018
 Encyoposis McLachlan 1871
 Encyopsidius Navás 1912
 Eremoides Tjeder 1992
 Farakosius Michel 1998
 Fillus Navás 1919
 Forcepacsa New 1984
 Glyptobasis McLachlan 1871
 Helcopteryx McLachlan 1871
 Horischema Mészáros & Abrahám, 2003
 Kimulodes Tjeder & Hansson 1992
 Libelloides Schäffer 1763
 Lobalacsa New 1984
 Mabiza Tjeder & Hansson 1992
 Maezous Ábrahám 2008
 Mansellacsa Hölzel 2004
 Megacmonotus New 1984
 Nagacta Navás 1914
 Nanomitus Navás 1912
 Nephelasca Navás 1914
 Nephoneura McLachlan 1871
 Nousera Navás 1923
 Ogcogaster Westwood 1847
 Parascalaphus Martynova 1926
 Parasuphalomitus New 1984
 Perissoschema Mészáros & Abrahám 2003
 Phalascusa Kolbe 1897
 Pictacsa New 1984
 Pilacmonotus New 1984
 Proctarrelabis Lefèbvre 1842
 Protacheron Weele 1909
 Protidricerus Weele 1909
 Protobubopsis van der Weele 1909
 Pseudencyoposis van der Weele, 1909
 Pseudodisparomitus New 1984
 Pseudohybris van der Weele 1909
 Pseudoproctarrelabris van der Weele 1909
 Puer (insect) Lefèbvre 1842
 Siphlocerus McLachlan 1871
 Stephanolasca van der Weele 1909
 Strixomyia Tjeder 1989
 Stylascalaphus Sziráki 1998
 Suhpalacsa Lefèbvre, 1842
 Suphalomitus  van der Weele 1909
 Tytomyia Tjeder & Hansson 1992
 Ululomyia Tjeder 1992
 Umbracsa New 1984
 Venacsa New 1984

References

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Myrmeleontidae
Insect tribes


The Black Marquee were an English alternative rock outfit/musical collaboration formed in Manchester, England.

The Black Marquee had their own residency which became relatively popular. The first night featured a performance  from Nick McCabe of The Verve and Damo Suzuki from Can. The night was known for its well designed posters. The nights were held at The Night and Day Café on Oldham Street, Manchester.

Musical style
Although their sound is generally classified as indie rock or psychedelic music, the band have a colourful range of styles and influences, such as 1960s rock.

References

External links

English rock music groups