September 1972

The following events occurred in September 1972:

September 1, 1972 (Friday)

In the 21st game of chess for the World Chess Championship 1972, Bobby Fischer of the United States won the title, as defending champ Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union resigned.  Under a system of one point for a win and ½ for a draw, the first to get 12½ points would win the matches played at Reykjavík, Iceland.  Fischer's prize money was $154,677.50.
The United States formally dropped all claims to the Swan Islands and recognized the sovereignty of Honduras over the disputed territory.
Raúl Sendic, leader of the Uruguayan guerilla group the Tupamaros, was captured after a shootout.
A fire at the Blue Bird Café in Montreal killed 37 people.  The blaze was set by three men who had been kicked out of the Wagon Wheel Bar earlier in the evening.
"Bye, Bye, Blackboard", the last Woody Woodpecker cartoon and last cartoon produced by Walter Lantz Productions was released.

September 2, 1972 (Saturday)

Milt Pappas of the Chicago Cubs had retired 26 batters and was one player away from a perfect game.  Larry Stahl of the San Diego Padres reached the plate and was one strike away (2–2), then one pitch away (3–2).  The final pitch was close, but umpire Bruce Froemming called it  "ball four" instead of "strike three", turning the 8–0 Cubs win into a mere no-hitter.
The Soviet hockey team defeated Canada 7-3 in the first game of the Summit Series between the two nations at the Montreal Forum, stunning Canadians.
The Confederation of Arab Republics was created between Egypt, Libya and Syria.
Died: Reggie Harding, 30,  former Detroit Pistons star, of a gunshot wound.

September 3, 1972 (Sunday)
The elections for the Khmer Republic's 126-member National Assembly took place.  Because of a presidential decree designed to give President Lon Nol's Social Republican Party an advantage, the other parties withdrew from participating.  The Socio-Republicans won all 126 seats on what was claimed to be a 78% turnout.

September 4, 1972 (Monday)

Bob Barker began a 35-year run as host of one of America's most popular game shows, as The New Price Is Right was shown for the first time on CBS.  Barker would host the show (later simply The Price Is Right) until June 15, 2007.
Mark Spitz became the first competitor to win seven medals at a single Olympic Games, swimming as part of the American team in the 400 meter relay.
Armed robbers stole 18 paintings, including a Rembrandt, along with 38 pieces of jewelry and figurines from the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, in the largest theft of private property in Canadian history. Except for one painting returned during abortive efforts to negotiate a ransom, none of the pieces of art work have ever been recovered, nor has anyone been charged.

September 5, 1972 (Tuesday)
What would end as the Munich massacre began at the 1972 Summer Olympics were in progress, eight members of the Palestinian terrorist group Black September broke into the Olympic Village in Munich, killed two members of Israel's Olympic team, and took nine others hostage.  A rescue attempt the next day would end in disaster.
Died: Yossef Romano, 32, Israeli weightlifter; Moshe Weinberg, 33, Israeli wrestling coach

September 6, 1972 (Wednesday)
The Munich massacre took place following a bungled attempt by West Germany police to rescue kidnapped members of the Israeli Olympic team, held at Fürstenfeldbruck airport, Palestinian gunmen murdered all nine of their hostages.  Five of the terrorists and one policeman died.  The Olympic games resumed after a brief interruption.
In the U.S. Virgin Islands, eight employees and tourists were killed in a mass shooting at a golf course.  Five men would later be convicted of the crime.
Born:
Anika Noni Rose, American actress, 2004 Tony Award winner, in Bloomfield, Connecticut
China Miéville, British fantasy novelist, in Norwich, England
Died:
David Mark Berger, 28, Israeli weightlifter
Ze'ev Friedman, 28, Israeli weightlifter
Yossef Gutfreund, 30, Israeli wrestling referee
Eliezer Halfin, 24, Israeli wrestler
Amitzur Shapira, 30, Israeli athletics coach
Kehat Shorr, 53, Israeli shooting coach
Mark Slavin, 18, Israeli wrestler
Andre Spitzer, 37, Israeli fencing coach
Yakov Springer, 51, Israeli weightlifting judge
Luttif Afif, Palestinian terrorist who kidnapped Israeli athletes, along with four accomplices

September 7, 1972 (Thursday)
Prime Minister Indira Gandhi gave scientists at the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre the go-ahead to manufacture India's first nuclear bomb.  India became the world's fifth nuclear power with the successful explosion of the bomb on May 18, 1974.
The Soviet Union's Council of Ministers issued a directive to amend Section 74 of the Soviet Regulations on Communications, providing that "The use of telephonic communications ... for aims contrary to the interest of the State and to public order is forbidden."  Under the regulation, telephone service was disconnected for dissidents without formally charging them with a crime.

September 8, 1972 (Friday)
In retaliation for the killing of nine Israeli Olympic athletes in the Munich massacre, Israel's air force bombed Palestinian strongholds in Syria and Lebanon.
Born:
Os du Randt, South African rugby union forward, in Elliot, Eastern Cape
Patrick McGlynn, Scottish guitarist for the Bay City Rollers; in Edinburgh
Lucie Dean-Beith Was born

September 9, 1972 (Saturday)
A link between Kentucky's Mammoth Cave and the adjacent Flint Ridge Cave System was discovered by explorers from the Cave Research Foundation, creating the longest-cave passageway in the world, 144.4 miles from one end to the other.
At the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, the American men's basketball team, which had 64 victories and no defeats since the sport was added in 1936, lost to the Soviet Union, 51–50, on a shot at the buzzer by Alexander Belov.  The U.S. team had been ahead, 50–49, when time first ran out, but Olympic officials added three seconds to the clock. The Soviets won the gold medal, and the Americans voted unanimously to refuse the silver medal.
The three American television networks introduced their new cartoon schedules on the same morning.  Among the new series being shown for the first time was Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids.
Charles B. DeBellevue became the last American flying ace, registering a fifth and sixth shootdown, the most during the Vietnam War.
Born: Natasha Kaplinsky, British news anchor, in Brighton

September 10, 1972 (Sunday)
Brazilian driver Emerson Fittipaldi won the Italian Grand Prix at Monza and became, at age 25, the youngest Formula One world champion.
Frank Shorter of the United States won the marathon at the Olympic games in Munich, finishing with a time of 2:12:19.8
The United States used its United Nations Security Council veto power for only the second time since the formation of the UN in 1945, killing a General Assembly resolution that demanded a halt to Israel's reprisals against Palestinian guerillas in Syria and Lebanon.
Born:
Ghada Shouaa Syrian heptathlete and Olympic gold medalist in 1996; in Mhardeh
Katsuya "Rio" Tahara, Japanese snowboarder, in Nagano

September 11, 1972 (Monday)
The Bay Area Rapid Transit System, more commonly known by the acronym BART, began operation on a 28-mile run between Oakland and  Fremont, and would later expand to connect San Francisco and other points in the area.
At the request of White House aide John Ehrlichman, John Dean met with IRS Commissioner Johnnie Walters and gave him a list of 490 individuals to investigate.  Walters consulted with Treasury Secretary Schultz the next day, who directed him to do nothing.
Died: Max Fleischer, 89, American animator and founder of Fleischer Studios

September 12, 1972 (Tuesday)
Nearly four years after it was proposed by President Nixon, the federal revenue sharing plan, which would transfer  of U.S. government revenues to state and local governments, was approved by the Senate, 64–20.  The measure had passed the House, 275–122, on June 22.
The attack on two British fishing trawlers, by the Icelandic gunboat ICGV Aegir, triggered the second Cod War between the UK and Iceland.
The television show Maude premiered on CBS-TV at , opposite the premiere on ABC of Temperatures Rising.
Born: Budi Putra, Indonesian journalist, in Payakumbuh, West Sumatra

September 13, 1972 (Wednesday)
Fifty-four North Korean members of its Red Cross delegation crossed the border at Panmunjom at  and were welcomed by their South Korean counterparts, in the first visit by North Korean officials since the end of the Korean War.
More than 30 people, mostly schoolchildren, drowned when a ferry across the Kerian River (in Malaysia's Perak state) capsized.  Some children were able to swim to safety, but most drowned in  waters.
Air Mauritius, the national airline of Mauritania, made its first flight, five years after the company's founding, with a six-seat Piper PA-31 Navajo airplane that flew every Wednesday from Port Louis to Rodrigues and back again.  Twenty-five years later, the Air Mauritius fleet would have four Airbus A340-300s, three Boeing 767s, two Boeing 747s, two ATR 42 turboprop carriers, and two Bell 206 helicopters.
Born: Kelly Chen (Vivian Chen Wai Man), Hong Kong singer, in Hong Kong

September 14, 1972 (Thursday)
Pope Paul VI issued a motu proprio, rejecting calls to allow women to have any formal ministerial role in the Roman Catholic Church.  "In accordance with the venerable tradition of the Church," the Pope proclaimed, "installation in the ministries of lector and acolyte is reserved to men."
More than 33 years after the outbreak of World War II, West Germany and Poland restored diplomatic relations.  East Germany had been an ally of Poland since that nation's establishment in 1949.

The Waltons, based on producer Earl Hamner's reminiscences of his rural childhood, began a ten-season run on CBS.  The setting was the fictional "Jefferson County, Virginia" in the 1930s.
Born: Notah Begay III, American Indian golfer, in Albuquerque

September 15, 1972 (Friday)
A federal grand jury indicted the five Watergate burglars, along with E. Howard Hunt and G. Gordon Liddy.  On the same day, White House staff attorney John Dean met with President Nixon for the first time.  In the meeting, which lasted from 5:27 to 6:17, and discussed the covering up of the White House role in the Watergate break-in.  Dean would testify about his memory of the discussion at the Watergate hearings on June 25, 1973, unaware that Oval Office conversations were all recorded at Nixon's request.  Nixon, Chief of Staff H.R. Haldeman, and Dean, discussed plans to take revenge on the President's enemies.  "They are asking for it and they are going to get it," commented Nixon, adding "We haven't used the Bureau and we haven't used the Justice Department, but things are going to change now.  They're going to get it right."
South Vietnam's army regained control of the city of Quảng Trị, more than three months after the provincial capital had been captured by North Vietnamese forces.
Born: Jimmy Carr, British comedian, in Hounslow
Died: Geoffrey Fisher, 85, Archbishop of Canterbury from 1945 to 1961

September 16, 1972 (Saturday)
At least 103 people were killed in the collapse of the Colgante Bridge, during the festival at of Our Lady of Peñafrancia, near Naga City in the Philippines.  At 4:30 in the afternoon, the wooden bridge fell apart under the weight of spectators, plunging people and debris into the Bicol River.

The Bob Newhart Show began a successful seven season run on CBS, giving the master of the telephone monologue a situation comedy role as Chicago psychologist Dr. Robert Hartley.  A variety show of the same name had appeared on NBC from 1961 to 1962.
"Deep Throat" (later revealed to be FBI Associate Director W. Mark Felt) listened over the telephone to reporter Bob Woodward's draft of a story on Watergate and confirmed an anonymous tip that money from Maurice Stans had been used to finance the Watergate break-in.

September 17, 1972 (Sunday)

The television series M*A*S*H began an eleven-season run, eight years longer than the Korean War which provided its setting.
In the first release of prisoners of war since 1969, North Vietnam released three American POWs.  Navy Lieutenants. Norris Charles and Markham Gartley, and Air Force Major Edward Elias were provided civilian clothes and then allowed to stay in Hanoi with an American welcoming team.  Another 539 American POWs remained in captivity, and more than 1,000 Americans listed as missing in action were unaccounted for.
Uganda was invaded, from Tanzania, by 1,000 soldiers of the "Uganda People's Militia". The Ugandan Army repelled the invasion after two weeks of fighting.

September 18, 1972 (Monday)
Former Japanese Foreign Minister Zentaro Kosaka publicly apologized, on behalf of Japan, at a banquet in Beijing for Japan's atrocities against China prior to and during World War II.

September 19, 1972 (Tuesday)
A parcel bomb sent to the Israeli Embassy in London killed Ami Schachori, the agricultural attaché, who was scheduled to return home after four years abroad.  Another bomb arrived at the Israeli Embassy in Paris later in the day, but was disarmed.  Both packages had been sent from Amsterdam.  Other packages were delivered the next day in New York and Montreal, and defused.
The Oakland A's began a game in which they would use 30 players in a 15-inning game against the Chicago White Sox, setting a Major League Baseball record that still stands.  The game also broke a major league record for most players used by both teams (51) in a game.  The White Sox, at second place in the American League West division, beat the first place A's, 8 to 7 when the game ended at 12:59 the next morning after 4 hours and 41 minutes of play.
Born Ashot Nadanian, Armenian chess player, in Baku, Armenian SSR, Soviet Union
Died Robert Casadesus, 73, French pianist

September 20, 1972 (Wednesday)
Britain's ratification of the Treaty of Accession to the Common Market was completed.
Floyd Patterson's comeback attempt came to an end with a bout against Muhammad Ali.  Patterson, the world heavyweight boxing champion from 1956 to 1959, and 1961 to 1962, had been attempting to regain his crown since 1970.  The fight was stopped in the seventh round after Ali opened a cut over Patterson's eye.
Died: Richard Oakes, 30, Mohawk American Indian activist who led the Occupation of Alcatraz from 1969 to 1971, was shot and killed during an argument with Michael Morgan, the caretaker of a YMCA camp in Annapolis, California.  The homicide took place six days after a confrontation between Oakes and Morgan on use of the property.

September 21, 1972 (Thursday)
Ferdinand Marcos, the President of the Philippines, appeared on television to announce that he had proclaimed martial law under Proclamation No. 1081.  The pretext was the attempted assassination of Defense Secretary Juan Ponce Enrile, but the proclamation had been signed the day before.  Enrile's driver was killed during the staged attack.
Strike Out, driven by Keith Waples, won the Little Brown Jug, the second leg of the Triple Crown of Harness Racing for Pacers, with a world record time of 1:56 3/5.
Born:
Liam Gallagher, British singer for the band (Oasis)
Jon Kitna, American quarterback, in Tacoma, Washington
Died:
Ben Kiwanuka, 50, Chief Justice of Uganda (who had been the African nation's first Prime Minister), was arrested in his courtroom by Ugandan soldiers on orders of President Idi Amin, then brutally tortured to death.
Henry de Montherlant, 76, French writer, committed suicide

September 22, 1972 (Friday)
Hexachlorophene, an anti-bacterial compound that had been a popular additive in skin cleansers, cosmetics, deodorants, toothpastes and baby powder, was banned by the Food and Drug Administration except for prescription use.  FDA studies had concluded that HCP caused brain damage in infants, and ordered immediate removal of baby powder with more than 0.75% HCP, and directed that cleansers with 3% concentration could be sold only by prescription.
Willy Brandt called for a vote of confidence in his government, one he expected to lose, as a pretext for new parliamentary elections.

September 23, 1972 (Saturday)
At an annual meeting of the International Monetary Fund, U.S. Treasury Secretary George P. Schultz unveiled a proposal for "SDRs"—Special Drawing Rights—to replace gold reserves as the asset to which the world currencies would be tied.
Julius Erving, remembered for playing for the Philadelphia 76ers, the New York Nets and even the Virginia Squires, played his first professional basketball game, appearing as an NBA draftee for the Atlanta Hawks, for whom he played in an exhibition against the ABA's Kentucky Colonels, in a 112–99 win in Frankfort, Kentucky.  Erving would play another exhibition for the NBA Hawks before returning to the ABA.
"Moo-la the Cow" was unveiled in Stephenville, Texas, honoring the local dairy industry.
A 15-year-old boy in Waldport, Oregon, was killed, and two other people injured, after being struck by lightning.  Though he was carrying a box, containing 135 sticks of dynamite, the box did not explode, contrary to some repetitions of the story.
Thirty-one people were killed in a fire at the Oscar restaurant on the Greek island of Rhodes, after a short circuit set fire to bamboo paneling.  Most of the dead were Scandinavian tourists.
Born: Karl Pilkington, British TV and radio personality, in Manchester

September 24, 1972 (Sunday)
Twelve children and 11 adults were killed when an F-86 fighter aircraft crashed into a Farrell's Ice Cream Parlour in Sacramento.  The store, located across a highway from the edge of an airport runway, had at least 100 people inside at the time.
Japan's Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka arrived in Beijing, where he was welcomed by China's Premier, Zhou Enlai.

September 25, 1972 (Monday)
Voters in Norway decided whether to approve Norway's entry into the Common Market, voters rejected the Treaty of Accession.  The final vote was 1,118,281 "Nei" and 971,687 "Ja".  On November 28, 1994, voters rejected a second proposal to join the European Community.
Died: Alejandra Pizarnik, 36, Argentine poet, killed herself with an overdose of the barbiturate Seconal

September 26, 1972 (Tuesday)
Following a 342–34 approval by the House of Representatives, the bill creating the WIC Program (Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children) was signed into law by President Nixon.
U.S. Patent No. 3,693,535 was granted for the first automatic drip coffee brewing machine for homes, marketed under the name "Mr. Coffee".  The machine went on sale as early as October 8  with the suggested retail price of USD $49.95, roughly $292 in 2017 dollars.
North Vietnamese negotiator Le Duc Tho dropped demands that South Vietnam's President Nguyen Van Thieu be removed from office as a condition for ending the Vietnam War, a breakthrough in peace negotiations.
The first exhibition game for the new World Hockey Association took place in Quebec City, between two of the four teams that would eventually be admitted to the National Hockey League.  The New England Whalers beat the Quebec Nordiques, 4–1.
Money, the monthly personal finance magazine published by Time Inc., was introduced on newsstands, with the first issue being dated for October 1972.
Rebel forces crossed from North Yemen to attack South Yemen.
Born: Beto O’Rourke (Robert Francis O'Rourke), United States Congressman for the 16th district in Texas (2013-2018) and presidential candidate; in El Paso

September 27, 1972 (Wednesday)
Canada banned the sale and use of firecrackers.
In Fort Lauderdale, Susan Place, 17, and Georgia Jessup, 16, went with their friend, "Jerry Shepard", on a trip "to the beach to play the guitar".  Their remains would be found seven months later as they became the first known victims of serial killer Gerard Schaefer.  Schaefer had been dismissed from the office of the Martin County, Florida Sheriff's Department earlier in the year, and was awaiting trial after a failed kidnapping, on July 22, of two other teenage girls.
Born: Gwyneth Paltrow, American actress, 1998 Oscar winner for Best Actress (Shakespeare in Love); in Los Angeles
Died:
S. R. Ranganathan, 81, pioneering Indian librarian
Rory Storm, 33, British musician, died of a combination of alcohol and sleeping pills

September 28, 1972 (Thursday)
With Paul Henderson scoring the winning goal past goalie Vladislav Tretiak, the Canadian national men's hockey team defeated the Soviet national ice hockey team in Game 8 of the 1972 Summit Series (La Série du Siècle), 6–5, to win the series 4–3–1.
After 66 years, the United States Secretary of the Army cleared the records of the black soldiers involved in the Brownsville Affair.  The 167 members of the 25th United States Regiment had been dishonorably discharged after being accused of complicity in the shooting of two white men in Brownsville, Texas.  Following the publication of John D. Weaver's book The Brownsville Raid, in 1970, the U.S. Army reopened the investigation of the incident and concluded that the men had been innocent.

September 29, 1972 (Friday)
Vasil Mzhavanadze, the First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Georgian SSR, and Soviet Georgia's de facto leader, was removed from his job by the Soviet Communist Party's Central Committee.  Mzhavadnadze retained his post as a full member of the Politburo, but was replaced as the Georgian leader by Eduard Shevardnadze.
Under a Joint Communiqué of the Government of Japan and the Government of the People's Republic of China, Japan, normalized diplomatic relations with the People's Republic of China after breaking official ties with the Republic of China (Taiwan).  On August 12, 1978, the two nations would formally end their state of war with a peace treaty.
In a story headlined "Mitchell Controlled Secret GOP Fund", Washington Post investigative reporters Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward broke the story that "while serving as U.S. Attorney General, Mitchell personally controlled a secret Republican fund that was used to gather information about the Democrats, according to sources involved in the Watergate investigation."
The eight member nations of the European Space Research Organization (ESRO) officially adopted the METEOSAT programme, providing for European launched meteorological satellites.

September 30, 1972 (Saturday)
Roberto Clemente made his 3,000th hit, which would also prove to be his very last.  Clemente would be killed in a plane crash at the end of the year.
Dr. Irving Selikoff of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine addressed the annual National Cancer Conference in Los Angeles, and announced the increase in cases of mesothelioma among men who had been exposed to asbestos 30 years earlier during World War II.
Born: Shaan (Shantanu Mukherjee), Indian singer, in Khandwa


Robert Russa Moton Boyhood Home

The Robert Russa Moton Boyhood Home, also known as Pleasant Shade, is a historic plantation near Rice in rural Prince Edward County, Virginia.  The  acre plantation was the childhood home of African-American educator Robert Russa Moton between 1869 and 1880.  The kitchen housing area where Moton lived is also believed to incorporate one of the county's oldest buildings, dating to about 1746.  The plantation was also the scene of fighting during the American Civil War, in the later stages of the Battle of Sailor's Creek of April 6, 1865.

The property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014.


Matthew 3:6

Matthew 3:6 is the sixth verse of the third chapter of the Gospel of Matthew in the New Testament. The verse occurs in the section introducing John the Baptist with this verse describing his baptisms.

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In the King James Version of the Bible the text reads:
And were baptized of him in
Jordan, confessing their sins.

The World English Bible translates the passage as:
They were baptized by him in
the Jordan, confessing their sins.

For a collection of other versions see BibleHub Matthew 3:6.

Analysis
The use of the word baptism to describe what John is doing is controversial. Anabaptists assert that the only proper translation for the Greek verb baptizmo is immerse. They thus practice baptisms where the entire body is immersed in water, rather than just a sprinkling of water as is done in most other Christian churches.  Most non-Baptist scholars do agree that John the Baptist was probably immersing those that came to see him, but they disagree that this is the only valid form of baptism.

France notes that while in Luke and Mark John's baptisms have the power to forgive sins in Matthew they are merely confessed. France argues that in the Gospel of Matthew forgiveness of sins only becomes possible after Jesus' resurrection, a theology not held by the other synoptics. The wording of this verse gives no guidance to the Protestant/Catholic dispute over whether the act of baptism cleanses one of sins, or if it merely symbolizes that a person has already been cleansed by God. Similarly the verse is unclear on what role confession plays in the process.

The origins of John's baptism ritual are much discussed amongst scholars. Hill notes that various forms of baptism were practiced throughout the Jewish world at this time, but that only those of John the Baptist and Qumran are eschatological. This has many scholars to propose a link between the Baptist and those who wrote the Dead Sea Scrolls. There were still important difference between the baptisms of the Essenes and that of John. In Qumran baptism was a part of a regular ritual for those already purified. In John and in Christianity it is a one time event with transformative powers.


1903 South Antrim by-election

The 1903 South Antrim by-election was held after the sitting Unionist MP William Ellison-Macartney had left the Commons to take up the post of  Deputy-Master of the Royal Mint. The Unionists nominated Charles Craig, a first time candidate who defeated a Russellite opponent to win the seat.

Craig held the seat through four subsequent general elections.


History of Bali

The history of Bali covers a period from the Paleolithic to the present, and is characterized by migrations of people and cultures from other parts of Asia. In the 16th century, the history of Bali started to be marked by Western influence with the arrival of Europeans, to become, after a long and difficult colonial period under the Dutch, an example of the preservation of traditional cultures and a key tourist destination.

Geological formation

The island of Bali, like most of the islands of the Indonesian archipelago, is the result of the tectonic subduction of the Indo-Australian plate under the Eurasian plate. The tertiary ocean floor, made of ancient marine deposits including accumulation of coral reefs, was lifted above the sea level by the subduction. Layers of Tertiary limestone lifted from the ocean floor are still visible in areas such as the Bukit peninsula with the huge limestone cliffs of Uluwatu, or in the northwest of the island at Prapat Agung.

The local deformation of the Eurasian plate created by the subduction has encouraged the fissuring of the crust, leading to the appearance of volcanic phenomena. A string of volcanoes line the northern part of the island, in West-East axis along which the western part is oldest, and the eastern part newest. The highest volcano is the active strato-volcano Mount Agung, at 3,142 m (10,308 ft).

Volcanic activity has been intense through the ages, and most of the surface of the island (outside of the Bukit Peninsula and Prapat Agung) has been covered by volcanic magma. Some old deposits remain (older than 1 million years), while most of the central part of the island is covered by young volcanic deposits (less than 1 million years), with some very recent lava fields in the northeast due to the catastrophic eruption of Mount Agung in 1963.

Volcanic activity, due to the thick deposits of ashes and the soil fertility it generates, has also been a strong factor in the agricultural prosperity of the island.

At the edge of the subduction, Bali is also at the edge of the continental Sunda shelf, just west of the Wallace line, and was at one time connected to the neighbouring island of Java, particularly during the lowering of the sea level in the Ice Ages. Its fauna and flora are therefore Asian.

Paleolithic and Mesolithic occupation

Bali being part of the Sunda shelf, the island had been connected to the island of Java many times through history. Even today, the two islands are only separated by a 2.4 km Bali Strait.

The ancient occupation of Java itself is accredited by the findings of the Java man, dated between 1.7 and 0.7 million years old, one of the first known specimens of Homo erectus.

Bali also was inhabited in Paleolithic times (1 my BCE to 200.000 BCE), testified by the finding of ancient tools such as hand axes were found in Sembiran and Trunyan villages in Bali.

A Mesolithic period (200.000-30.000 BCE) has also been identified, characterized by advanced food gathering and hunting, but still by Homo Erectus. This period yields more sophisticated tools, such as arrow points, and also tools made of animal or fish bones. They lived in temporary caves, such as those found in the Pecatu hills of the Badung regency, such as the Selanding and the Karang Boma caves. The first wave of Homo Sapiens arrived around 45,000 BCE as the Australoid people migrated south, replacing Homo Erectus.

Neolithic: Austronesian migrations (3000-600 BCE)

From around 3000 to 600 BCE, a Neolithic culture emerges, characterized by a new wave of inhabitants bringing rice-growing technology and speaking Austronesian languages. These Austronesian peoples seem to have migrated from South China, probably through the Philippines and Sulawesi. Their tools included rectangular adzes and red slipped decorated pottery.

Forests and jungles were cleared for the establishment of cultures and villages. They also made some plaited craft and a small boat was also found. Their culinary habits included pork-eating and betel-chewing. They are thought to have focused on mountain cults. They buried some of their more prestigious dead in oval stone sarcophagi, with human heads or zoomorphic figures sculpted on them. The bodies were either deposited in the sleeping position, or folded in two or three for compactness.

An important neolithic archaeological site in Bali is that of Cekik, in the western part of the island.

These same Austronesian people are thought to have continued their expansion eastward, to occupy Melanesian and Polynesian islands around 2000 years ago. The cultural traits of this period are still clearly visible in the culture of Bali today, and connect it to the cultures of Southeast Asia and the Pacific Ocean.

Bronze Age: arrival of Dong Son culture (600 BCE-800 CE)

A Bronze Age period follows, from around 600 BCE to 800 CE. Between the 8th and 3rd century BCE, the island of Bali acquired the "Dong Son" metallurgical techniques spreading from Northern Vietnam. These techniques involved sophisticated casting from moulds, with spiral and anthropomorphic motifs.

As mould fragments have been found in the area of Manuaba in Bali, it is thought that such implements were manufactured locally rather than imported. The raw material to make bronze (copper and tin) had to be imported however, as it is not available on Bali.

Numerous bronze tools and weapons were made (axes, cooking tools, jewellery), and ceremonial drums from that period are also found in abundance, such as the "Moon of Pejeng", the largest ceremonial drum yet found in Southeast Asia, dated to around 300 BCE.

The stone sarcophagi were still in use during that period, as bronze artefacts were also found in them.

Ancient historical period: Indianized kingdoms (800-1343 CE)

The ancient historical period is defined by the appearance of the first written records in Bali, in the form of clay pallets with Buddhist inscriptions. These Buddhist inscriptions, found in small clay stupa figurines (called "stupikas") are the first known written inscriptions in Bali and date from around the 8th century CE. Such stupikas have been found in the regency of Gianyar, in the villages of Pejeng, Tatiapi and Blahbatuh.

This period is generally closely associated with the arrival and expansion of Buddhism and Hinduism in the island of Bali. The Belanjong pillar ("Prasasti Blanjong") in southern Sanur was inscribed in 914 with the mention of the reign of the Balinese king Sri Kesari. It is written in both the Indian Sanskrit language and Old Balinese language, using two scripts, the Nagari script and the Old Balinese script (which is used to write both Balinese and Sanskrit). The pillar testifies to the connections of Bali with the Sanjaya Dynasty in Central Java. It is dated according to the Indian Shaka calendar. According to the inscription, Sri Kesari was a Buddhist king of the Sailendra Dynasty leading a military expedition,<ref>Bali handbook with Lombok and the Eastern Isles by Liz Capaldi, Joshua Eliot p.98 </ref> to establish a Mahayana Buddhist government in Bali.

The stone temple of Goa Gajah was made around the same period, and shows a combination of Buddhist and Hindu (Shivaite) iconography.

Inter-marriages between Java and Bali royalty also occurred, as when king Udayana Warmadewa of the Warmadewa dynasty of Bali married a Javanese princess, sister of the Emperor of Java Dharmawangsa. Their son became the great ruler of East Java Airlangga, who ruled on both Java and Bali. In the 12th century, descendant of Airlangga are also known to have ruled over Bali, such as Jayasakti (1146–50) and Jayapangus (1178–81).

The island of Java again started to encroach significantly on Bali with the invasion of Singarasi king Kertanegara in 1284. Kertanegara was then toppled by Raden Wijaya, founder of the Majapahit Empire.

Contacts with China were also important during this period. Chinese coins, called Kepeng were in use in Bali from the 7th century. The traditional Barong is also thought to be derived from the Chinese depiction of a lion. In the 12th century, king Jayapangus of Bali is known to have married a Chinese princess.

Middle historical period: Majapahit dynastic rule (1343-1846)

Majapahit Golden Age

The Majapahit Empire rule over Bali became complete when Gajah Mada, Prime Minister of the Javanese king, defeated the Balinese king in Bedulu in 1343. The Majapahit capital in Bali was established at Samprangan and later Gelgel. Gelgel remained the paramount kingdom on Bali until the second half of the 17th century.

The rule of the Majapahit marks the strong influx of Javanese culture into Bali, most of all in architecture, dance and the theatre, in literature with the introduction of the Kawi script, in painting and sculpture and the wayang puppet theatre. The few Balinese who did not adopt this culture are still known today as "Bali Aga" ("Original Balinese") and still live in a few isolated villages.

With the rise of Islam in the Indonesian archipelago, the Majapahit empire finally fell, and Bali became independent at the end of the 15th or beginning of the 16th century. According to some myth the Javanese aristocracy fled to Bali, bringing an even stronger influx of Hindu arts, literature and religion. According to later chronicles the dynasty of Majapahit origins, established after 1343, continued to rule Bali for 5 more centuries until 1908, when the Dutch eliminated it in the Dutch intervention in Bali (1908). In the 16th century, the Balinese king Dalem Baturenggong even expanded in turn his rule to East Java, Lombok and western Sumbawa.

Around 1540, together with the Islamic advance, a Hindu reformation movement took place, led by Dang Hyang Nirartha, leading to the introduction of the Padmasana shrine in honour of the "Supreme God" Acintya, and the establishment of the present shape of Shiva-worshipping in Bali. Nirartha also established numerous temples, including the spectacular temple at Uluwatu.

European contacts

The first direct or indirect news of Bali by some European travelers can be traced back to Marco Polo and other possible travelers and traders via the Mediterranean Sea and Asia.

The first known European contact with Bali is thought to have been made in 1512, when a Portuguese expedition led by Antonio Abreu and Francisco Serrão reached its northern coast. It was the first expedition of a series of biannual fleets to the Moluccas, that throughout the 16th century usually traveled along the coasts of the Sunda Islands. Bali was also mapped in 1512, in the chart of Francisco Rodrigues, aboard the expedition.
The Magellan expedition (1519–1522), through Elcano, is thought to have possibly sighted the island, and early Portuguese and Spanish charts mention the island under various names such as Boly, Bale and Bally. Sir Francis Drake briefly visited the island in 1580.

In 1585, the Portuguese government in Malacca sent a ship to establish a fort and a trading post in Bali, but the ship foundered on the reef of the Bukit peninsula and only five survivors could make it ashore. They went into the service of the king of Gelgel, known as the Dalem, and were provided with wives and homes.

In 1597, the Dutch explorer Cornelis de Houtman arrived in Bali with 89 surviving men (out of 249 who had departed). After visits to Kuta and Jembrana, he assembled his fleet in Padang Bai. Enthusiastic, he christened the island "Young Holland" (Jonck Hollandt). They were able to meet with the Dalem, who produced for them one of the Portuguese who had been in his service since 1585, Pedro de Noronha.

A second Dutch expedition appeared in 1601, that of Jacob van Heemskerck. On this occasion, the Dalem of Gelgel sent a letter to Prince Maurits, a translation of which was sent by Cornelis van Eemskerck. This letter was subsequently used by the Dutch in their claims to the island:

Slave and opium trade

Dutch records of contacts with Bali in the 17th and 18th century are extremely scarce. Although the VOC was very active in the Maluku Islands, Java and Sumatra, it took little interest in Bali. The opening of a trading post was attempted in 1620, with the mission given to the First Merchant Hans van Meldert to purchase "rice, beasts, provisions, and women". The enterprise was abandoned in the face of hostile relations with the kings of Bali, and Meldert returned with only 14 female slaves.

Besides these attempts, the VOC left the Bali trade to private traders, mainly Chinese, Arab, Bugis and occasionally Dutch, who mainly dealt with opium and slave trade. According to Hanna, "Balinese slaves were highly prized both in Bali and oversease. Balinese male slaves were famous for their manual skills and their courage, the females for their beauty and artistic attainments". The kings of Bali would typically sell as slaves opponents, debtors, criminals or even orphans or widows. Such slaves would be used in Batavian households, the Dutch Colonial Army, or sent abroad, the biggest market being French Mauritius. Payment to the Balinese kings would usually be made in opium. The main port for this trade was the harbour of Buleleng in north Bali. The English also started to make various attempts to participate in the Balinese trade, to the great worry of the Dutch.

Local conflicts
Attempts were made for alliances between the Dutch and the Balinese in their conflicts with the Mataram Sultanate of Java. In 1633, the Dutch, who were themselves at war with Mataram sent an ambassador, Van Oosterwijck, to obtain the collaboration of the King of Bali in Gelgel, who was apparently preparing a similar offensive against Mataram. The attempt failed however. When Mataram invaded Bali in 1639, Dewa Agung requested Dutch help in vain, and finally succeeded in repelling Mataram alone. After 1651 the Gelgel kingdom began to break up due to internal conflicts. In 1686 a new royal seat was established in Klungkung, four kilometers north of Gelgel. The rulers of Klungkung, known by the title Dewa Agung, were however unable to maintain power over Bali. The island was in fact split in nine minor kingdoms (Klungkung, Buleleng, Karangasem, Mengwi, Badung, Tabanan, Gianyar, Bangli, Jembrana). The various kingdoms fought a succession of wars among themselves, although they accorded the Dewa Agung a symbolic paramount status. This situation lasted until the coming of the Dutch in the 19th century.

Franco-Dutch alliance with Bali (1808)

For a brief period, in 1806-1815, the Netherlands became a province of France, and Bali was thus in contact with a Franco-Dutch administration. Napoleon handpicked a new Governor-General, the "Iron Marshall" Willem Daendels, sent ships and troops to reinforce the East Indies against British attacks, and had military fortifications built through the length of Java. A treaty of alliance was signed in 1808 between the new administration and the Balinese king of Badung, to provide workers and soldiers for the Franco-Dutch defensive effort, but Java fell to the British in 1811, and the agreement was not implemented.

Conflict with Great Britain (1814)

During the British occupation of the East Indies by Stamford Raffles (which lasted from 1811 until 1816, right after the fall of the Napoleonic Empire), the British made fruitless advances to the Balinese kings. Raffles' abolition of slavery on the contrary triggered the indignation of the Rajas of Buleleng and Karangasem, who sent a military expedition against Blambangan, where they fought British Sepoys in February 1814. In May, Raffles sent an expeditionary force to Bali under Major General Nightingale to obtain assurances of "submission". Raffles himself visited the island in 1815.

Return of the Netherlands (1816)

The British returned the East Indies to the Netherlands in 1816. After that, the Dutch endeavoured to reassert and reinforce their control over their colonial possessions. This would open the way to a much more assertive Dutch presence in the East Indies and Bali. Raffles, still looking for an island to colonize, finally settled on Singapore.

A first special commissioner named H.A. van der Broek was sent to sign "concept contracts" with the Balinese kings, which the kings did not accept, but became quasi-valid in the mind of the Dutch.

Meanwhile, a few European traders managed to act as intermediaries between Bali and Europe, such as the Danish merchant Mads Lange, nicknamed the "White king of Bali".

Modern historical period (1846-present)

Dutch colonial control expanded across the Indonesian archipelago in the nineteenth century, to become the Dutch East Indies. In Bali, the Dutch used the pretext of eradicating opium smuggling, arms running, plunder of shipwrecks, and slavery to impose their control on Balinese kingdoms.

 Northern Bali campaigns (1846-49)

A series of three military expeditions occurred between 1846 and 1849; the first two were initially countered successfully by Jelantik. The "kingdoms of Buleleng and Bangli waged continuous disputes, and in 1849 Bangli assisted the Dutch in their military expedition against Buleleng", permitted the Dutch to take control of the northern Bali kingdoms of Buleleng and Jembrana. The king of Buleleng and his retinue killed themselves in a mass ritual suicide, called a puputan, which was also a hallmark of the subsequent Dutch military interventions.

 Colonial administration

Subsequently, the Dutch established a colonial administration in northern Bali. They nominated a member of the royal family as regent, and attached to him a Dutch Controller.

The first resident Controller was Heer van Bloemen Waanders, who arrived in Singaraja on 12 August 1855. His main reforms included the introduction of vaccination, the banning of self-sacrifice or suttee, the eradication of slavery, the improvement of the irrigation system, the development of coffee production as a cash crop, the construction of roads, bridges and port facilities for improved commerce and communication. The Dutch also drastically revamped and increased the tax revenues from the people and from commerce, especially of opium. By the mid-1870, Buleleng was visited by 125 European-style ships annually, and another 1,000 local ships. Christianization was attempted but proved a total failure.

Uprising occurred, necessitating further Dutch intervention. In 1858, the Balinese nobleman Njoman Gempol raised a rebellion by claiming that the Dutch were exploiting Java. A fourth military expedition was sent in 1858 with 12 officers and 707 infantrymen and eliminated the rebellion, sentencing Njoman Gempol to exile in Java.

Another rebellion was led by Ida Mahe Rai against which was sent a fifth military expedition in 1868, consisting of 800 men under Major van Heemskerk. Initially unsuccessful, the expedition was reinforced by 700 men and a new commander, Colonel de Brabant, and prevailed with only two officers and 10 soldiers killed.

 Lombok and Karangasem campaign (1894)

In the late 1890s, struggles between Balinese kingdoms in the island's south were exploited by the Dutch to increase their control. A war of the Rajas between 1884 and 1894 gave another pretext to the Dutch to intervene. In 1894, the Dutch defeated the Balinese ruler of Lombok, adding both Lombok and Karangasem to their possessions.

 Southern Bali campaigns (1906-08)

A few years later, with the pretext of stopping the plundering of shipwrecks, the Dutch mounted large naval and ground assaults at the Sanur region in 1906 in the Dutch intervention in Bali (1906), leading to the elimination of the royal house of Badung and about 1000 deaths. In the Dutch intervention in Bali (1908), a similar massacre occurred in the face of a Dutch assault in Klungkung, sealing the end of the Majapahit dynasty which had ruled the island, and the total rule of the Dutch over Bali. Afterwards the Dutch governors were able to exercise administrative control over the island, but local control over religion and culture was generally left intact.

The Dutch military interventions however were followed closely by the western press which supplied a steady stream of reports of the violent, bloody conquest of the southern part of the island. The disproportion between the offense and harshness of the punitive actions was pointed out. The image of the Netherlands as a benevolent and responsible colonial power were seriously affected as a consequence. The Netherlands, also under criticism for their policies in Java, Sumatra and the eastern island, decided to make amends, and announced the establishment of an "Ethical policy". As a consequence, the Dutch in Bali turned students and protectors of Balinese culture and endeavoured to preserve it in addition to their initial modernization role. Efforts were made at preserving Bali culture and at making it a "living museum" of classical culture, and in 1914, Bali was opened to tourism.

In the 1930s, anthropologists Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson, and artists Miguel Covarrubias and Walter Spies, and musicologist Colin McPhee created a western image of Bali as "an enchanted land of aesthetes at peace with themselves and nature", and western tourism first developed on the island.

Second World War and Indonesian independence

Imperial Japan occupied Bali during World War II with the declared objective of forming a "Greater East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere" that would liberate Asian countries from Western domination. Future rulers such as Sukarno were brought forward by the Japanese. Sukarno famously said: "The Lord be praised, God showed me the way; in that valley of the Ngarai I said: Yes, Independent Indonesia can only be achieved with Dai Nippon...For the first time in all my life, I saw myself in the mirror of Asia". The harshness of war requisitions made Japanese rule more resented than Dutch rule. Most of all, independence was strongly desired among the populace.

Following Japan's Pacific surrender in August 1945, the Balinese took over the Japanese weapons. The following month Bali was liberated by the British and Indian 5th infantry Division under the command of Major-General Robert Mansergh who took the Japanese surrender. Once the Japanese forces had been repatriated the island was handed over to the Dutch the following year.

The Dutch with their return to Indonesia reinstated their pre-war colonial administration. One Balinese, Colonel Gusti Ngurah Rai, formed a Balinese 'freedom army'. Colonel I Gusti Ngurah Rai, by then 29 years old, rallied his forces in east Bali at Marga Rana, where they were trapped by heavily armed Dutch troops. On 20 November 1946, in the Battle of Margarana, the Balinese battalion was entirely wiped out, breaking the last thread of Balinese military resistance.

In 1946 the Dutch constituted Bali as one of the 13 administrative districts of the newly proclaimed State of East Indonesia, a rival state to the Republic of Indonesia which was proclaimed and headed by Sukarno and Hatta. Bali was included in the United States of Indonesia when the Netherlands recognised Indonesian independence on 29 December 1949. The first governor of Bali, Anak Agung Bagus Suteja, was appointed by President Sukarno in 1958, when Bali became a province.

Post Indonesian independence
The 1963 eruption of Mount Agung killed thousands, created economic havoc and forced many displaced Balinese to be transmigrated to different parts of Indonesia. Mirroring the widening of social divisions across Indonesia in the 1950s and early 1960s, Bali saw conflict between supporters of the traditional caste system, and those rejecting these traditional values. Politically, this was represented by opposing supporters of the Indonesian Communist Party (PKI) and the Indonesian Nationalist Party (PNI), with tensions and ill-feeling further increased by the PKI's land reform programs.

An attempted coup in Jakarta was put down by forces led by General Suharto. The army became the dominant power as it instigated a violent anti-communist purge, in which the army blamed the PKI for the coup. Most estimates suggest that at least 500,000 people were killed across Indonesia, with an estimated 80,000 killed in Bali, equivalent to 5% of the island's population. With no Islamic forces involved as in Java and Sumatra, upper-caste PNI landlords led the extermination of PKI members.Haer, p.40-41 As a result of the 1965-66 upheavals, Suharto was able to manoeuvre Sukarno out of the presidency, and his "New Order" government re-established relations with western countries.

The pre-War Bali as "paradise" was revived in a modern form, and the resulting large growth in tourism has led to a dramatic increase in Balinese standards of living and significant foreign exchange earned for the country. Rather than destroy Bali's culture, "in Bali's case, tourism has helped to reinforce a separate sense of Balinese identity, and given Balinese players in Indonesian society the means by which to support their island's idea of uniqueness".

In 1999, about 30,000 hotel rooms were available for tourists. As of 2004, the island achieves over 1,000,000 visitors per year, versus an initial "planned" level of 500,000 visitors, leading to overdevelopment and environmental deterioration: "The result has been polluted and eroded beaches, shortages of water, and a deterioration "of the quality of life of most Balinese". Political trouble has also affected the island, as the bombing in 2002 by militant Islamists in the tourist area of Kuta killed 202 people, mostly foreigners. This attack, and another in 2005, severely affected tourism, bringing much economic hardship to the island.

Professor Adrian Vickers wrote in 2004 that "the challenge of the twenty-first century will be to restore tourism while making Bali livable". Tourism has strongly picked up again, with a 28% increase in the first quarter of 2008 with 446,000 arrivals. By the end of 2008, tourism in Bali had fully recovered, with more than 2 million visitors, but the long term livability of Bali, plagued with overdevelopment and traffic jams, remains an issue.

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Mordellistena quadrinotata

Mordellistena quadrinotata is a species of beetle in the genus Mordellistena of the family Mordellidae. It was described by Liljeblad in 1921.


Sportavia-Pützer SFS 31 Milan

The Sportavia-Pützer SFS 31 Milan is a single-seat motor glider that was produced in Germany in the early 1970s.

Design and development
The Milan was created by essentially combining the fuselage of the Fournier RF-4 with the wings of the Scheibe SF-27. The resulting aircraft is a conventional motorglider design, a low-wing cantilever monoplane with a nose-mounted engine. The undercarriage consists of a single retractable mainwheel, a fixed tailwheel, and an outrigger under each wing. Construction is of wood, skinned in plywood and fabric. The designation was created by combining the initials of the manufacturers involved (Sportavia, Fournier, and Scheibe), and adding together the model numbers of the two constituent aircraft designs.

The SFS 31 prototype (registered D-KORO) first flew on 31 August 1969 and soon replaced the RF-4D in production at Sportavia-Pützer. In 1971, Hans Huth piloted an SFS 31 to third place in the German national motorglider competition.

Specifications

Notes


2010 Estoril Open – Men's Singles

Albert Montañés defend his 2009 title, after winning against Frederico Gil in the final. The Spaniard became the second player to win back-to-back titles at this tournament, following Thomas Muster in 1995 and 1996.

Seeds
The top four seeds receive a bye into the second round.

Draw

Finals

Top Half

Bottom Half


Warfield, Virginia

Warfield is a census-designated place (CDP) in Brunswick County, Virginia, United States. The population as of the 2010 Census was 115.


Extension transference

Extension transference is the symbolic sub-division of a particular goal or purpose so that the sub-divided concepts seem fragmented from the original purpose.

"…when applied to language and experience, becomes a useful theoretical concept. Thus, spoken language is a symbolization of something that happened, is happening or will happen. Written language as an extension of the spoken form is therefore a symbolization of symbolization! This intellectual manoeuvre Hall terms extension transference. The extension can become confused with or take the place of the process described." (Lago, p68).

"Extension transference is a phenomenon that occurs when we create systems to help us do things more efficiently and effectively and in ways that we can measure and control. Often these are processes that we once did quite naturally on our own." (Hanson, p. 43).

The term was coined by the American anthropologist Edward T. Hall in his book Beyond Culture (1976).


Cheddar A.F.C.

Cheddar Association Football Club is a football club based in Cheddar, near Wells in Somerset, England. They are currently members of the  and play at Bowdens Park.

History
The club was established in 1892. They later joined the Cheddar Valley League, and were champions in 1910–11. The club later transferred to the Weston-super-Mare & District League, and won the Somerset Junior Cup in 1931–32. After World War II they rejoined the Cheddar Valley League. The club later moved up to the Somerset County League in 1961, finishing bottom of Division One in 1961–62 and 1962–63.

In 1988–89 Cheddar won the Somerset County League's Division Two and Three Cup. In 1989–90 they finished third in Division Two, earning promotion to Division One. However, they were relegated back to Division Two after three seasons. Another third-place finish in 1997–98 saw the club promoted to Division One again, and in 1999–2000 they won the Premier Division/Division One Cup. In 2003–04 the club were Division One champions, earning promotion to the Premier Division.

Cheddar were Somerset County League Premier Division runners-up in 2011–12 and were promoted to Division One of the Western League.

Honours
Somerset County League
Division One champions 2003–04
Premier/Division One Cup winners 1999–2000
Division Two/Three Cup winners 1988–89
Cheddar Valley League
Champions 1910–11
Cheddar Valley Knockout Cup
Winners 1911–12
Cheddar Valley Charity Cup
Winners 1947–48, 1949–50
Somerset Junior Cup
Winners 1931–32

Records
Best FA Cup performance: preliminary round, 2018-19
Best FA Vase performance: Second qualifying round, 2016–17


The 2006 United States Senate election in Ohio was held November 7, 2006. Incumbent Republican Mike DeWine ran for re-election, but was defeated by Democratic congressman Sherrod Brown. As of , this is the most recent time a Democratic Senate candidate in Ohio won a race by double digits.

Background
The incumbent Republican Senator R. Michael DeWine had approval ratings at 38%, making him the second most unpopular U.S. Senator behind Pennsylvania Republican Rick Santorum, who was also up for reelection in 2006 – an election he ultimately lost. Pre-election stories in the U.S. media suggested that the national Republican Party may have given up on saving Senator DeWine's Senate seat before election date. Sherrod Brown, former Ohio Secretary of State and U.S. Representative from Ohio's 13th district was the Democratic candidate, and the eventual winner.

Democratic primary

Candidates
 Sherrod Brown, U.S. Representative
 Paul Hackett, Iraq War veteran
 Merrill Keiser Jr., trucking business owner/operator and Vietnam veteran

Campaign
Hackett announced on February 13, 2006 that he would withdraw from the race, because national party leaders had decided that Sherrod Brown had a better chance against DeWine. The Plain Dealer (2/18/06) also reported that there had been concerns that Hackett might not have had enough money after the primary to run the statewide advertising customary for a Senate campaign.

Results

Republican primary

Candidates
 Mike DeWine, incumbent
 William G. Pierce, engineer
 David Smith, candidate for OH-02 in 2005

Campaign
Both candidates campaigned as conservative alternatives to DeWine, citing DeWine's support for legal abortion and his role as one of the Republican members of the Gang of 14 who compromised with Democrats in a dispute about judicial appointments.

Results
DeWine won 71.82% of the votes.

General election

Candidates
 Sherrod Brown (D), U.S. congressman
 Mike DeWine (R), incumbent U.S. Senator
 Richard Duncan (I), 2004 write-in candidate for President.

Campaign
Because this race was targeted by Democrats, it made it all the more important to the GOP, who desired to retain Senate control. John McClelland, a spokesman for the Ohio Republican Party said, "It's vitally important to the Republican Party as a whole, so I think that's why you see the president coming to Ohio to support Mike DeWine. Phil Singer, a spokesman for the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee said, "Mike DeWine Senior is in for the fight of his life, make no mistake about it".

On July 14, 2006, DeWine's campaign began airing TV commercials depicting a smoking World Trade Center. "The senator was notified... by a reporter at U.S. News & World Report that the image of the burning Twin Towers could not have depicted the actual event because the smoke was blowing the wrong way." DeWine's campaign admitted that the video was actually a still photo of the World Trade Center with smoke digitally added. He also was criticized for using an emotionally charged image to attack his challenger.

Another of DeWine's ads suggested that opponent Sherrod Brown didn't pay his taxes for thirteen years. This claim led to the Associated Press reporting on October 19 that, "Several Ohio television stations have stopped airing a Republican ad because state documents contradict the ad's accusation that Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Sherrod Brown didn't pay an unemployment tax bill for 13 years." Brown produced a commercial citing these facts. DeWine's ads were changed to state only that he had failed to pay his unemployment taxes until legal action was taken against him.

According to an article in the October 16, 2006, edition of The New York Times, top Republican party officials on the national level determined that DeWine would probably be defeated and were moving financial support from his race to other Republican senatorial candidates they felt were more likely to win.

Debates
Complete video of debate, October 1, 2006
Complete video of debate, October 13, 2006
Complete video of debate, October 19, 2006
Complete video of debate, October 27, 2006

Fundraising
During the election cycle, DeWine raised $14.9 million and spent $15.5 million. Brown raised $8.9 million and spent $10.8 million.

Polling

Results
Brown was called the winner right when the polls closed in Ohio at 7:30. DeWine had the second worst performance of a Republican incumbent in 2006. Only Rick Santorum in neighboring Pennsylvania had a worse performance. While DeWine was able to win rural counties in western Ohio, Brown managed to win most eastern Ohio counties, especially in heavily populated areas. DeWine's narrow 2,000 vote victory in Hamilton County which is home to Cincinnati, came nowhere close to making a dent in Brown's lead. Brown would go on to be reelected to a second term in 2012. In 2018, Brown was re-elected to a third term and DeWine was concurrently elected Governor of Ohio.


Street of Dreams (Grant Green album)

Street of Dreams is an album by American jazz guitarist Grant Green featuring performances recorded in 1964 and released on the Blue Note label. The street signs featured on the cover photo are at an actual street corner in the North Beach neighborhood of San Francisco.

Reception
The Allmusic review by Steve Huey awarded the album 3 stars calling it "a mellow, dreamy album that lives up to its title... It's another fine record in a discography filled with them, and yet another underrated Green session".

The All About Jazz review by Chris May said that "Compared to Idle Moments, which was distinguished by pianist Duke Pearson's thoughtful arrangements, Street of Dreams feels more like a blowing session—simple heads serve as jumping off points for solos, served out pretty evenhandedly, from Green, Hutcherson and Young. The choice of material, however, delivers an abundance of structural and harmonic interest... Bittersweet and beautiful, Street of Dreams will be enjoyed by anyone who loves Idle Moments".

Track listing
 "I Wish You Love" (Chauliac, Trenet) – 8:46
 "Lazy Afternoon" (Latouche, Moross) – 7:44
 "Street of Dreams" (Young, Lewis) – 9:03
 "Somewhere in the Night" (Billy May, Milt Raskin) – 8:01

Personnel
Grant Green - guitar
Bobby Hutcherson - vibes
Larry Young - organ
Elvin Jones - drums


Your Eyes (Arashi song)

"Your Eyes" is the 39th single by the Japanese boy band Arashi. It was released on June 6, 2012 by their record label J Storm. "Your Eyes" is the theme song for the drama Mikeneko Holmes no Suiri starring Arashi member Masaki Aiba. The single comes in two editions. The Regular Edition comes with the B-sides "voice" and "Hanabi" (花火) and the instrumental versions for both songs. The limited edition comes with a promotional video, the B-side "Kimi ga Iru Kara" (君がいるから), and a 16-page booklet. The song debuted at No. 1 on the Oricon weekly charts, selling 477,820 copies in its first week.

Track listing


Fulwell, London

Fulwell is a neighbourhood in the historic County of Middlesex and the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames in the vicinity of South West Twickenham and North West Teddington. The name was first recorded in the fifteenth century and is thought to derive from 'Foul Well'.

The area does not have a specific political or postcode boundary, but references survive as part of a local electoral ward name, Fulwell and Hampton Hill, and in the names of Fulwell railway station, Fulwell Golf Course, Fulwell bus garage. It is also part of two local street names, Fulwell Park Avenue and Fulwell Road, and is referenced colloquially by local residents.

In 2009, a proposal to remove the name Fulwell from the local political boundary map was rejected.

The largely residential area has an Anglican parish church, St Michael's, which, after a 15 year closure, was reopened for worship in 2014 and regained parish status in 2019.

History

Historically Fulwell formed the southern extent of Hounslow Heath and the underlying Taplow gravel that defined it. A reference to assarts at Fulwell dating from around 1200 are amongst the earliest records of the name. The area was progressively enclosed for agriculture and increasingly urbanised since the Victorian period of metropolitan expansion of outer London.

Fulwell bus depot was built in 1902 as a hub for trams and trolley cars as well as buses.

Fulwell Lodge and Fulwell Park
To the west of the common land and to the north of the  Staines Road south-west of Twickenham stood a house; Fulwell Lodge. Formerly known as Yorke Farm it dated from the early 17th century.
In 1871 Charles James Freake, a London property developer, purchased Fulwell Lodge and the surrounding estate. The boundary extended south from the A316 Chertsey Road and River Crane, included Twickenham Green and what became Strawberry Hill Golf Course, the area west along the Shepperton Branch Line encompassing what is now Fulwell Golf Course and returned north along the A312 Uxbridge Road to the A316. Freake named the area Fulwell Park.
After Freake's death in 1884 the estate passed to his wife and, on her death in 1900, was held by Freake Estates until 1910. The exiled King Manuel II of Portugal acquired the estate and lived at Fulwell Lodge from after his marriage in 1913 until his death in 1932. The lodge was subsequently purchased by Wates, demolished and the surrounding land between the Staines Road and River Crane redeveloped for housing. The Portuguese connection was marked in road names such as Manoel Road, Lisbon Avenue, Augusta Road and Portugal Gardens.

Nearest places


Sebastira

Sebastira is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1901.  it contains only two species, found only in Panama and Venezuela: S. instrata and S. plana.


Ugland House

Ugland House is a building located in George Town, Cayman Islands. Located at 121 South Church Street, the building is occupied by the law firm Maples and Calder and is the registered office address for 40,000 entities, including many major investment funds, international joint ventures and capital market issuers.

Investigation by the U.S. government

During his first presidential campaign, U.S. President Barack Obama referred to Ugland House as "the biggest tax scam in the world", raising questions over the number of companies with a registered office in the building.

President Obama subsequently nominated Jack Lew to Treasury Secretary in 2013, despite objections that Mr. Lew had invested heavily in funds in Ugland House while he worked as an investment banker at Citigroup during the 2008 financial meltdown, with President Obama stating that he was not concerned about Mr. Lew's past financial transactions.

In 2008, the United States Government Accountability Office (GAO), an independent body of the U.S. Congress, investigated the nature of entities registered in the Cayman Islands and at Ugland House. The investigation involved reviews of documentation as well as interviews with officials from the Internal Revenue Service, Securities and Exchange Commission, the Department of the Treasury, the Department of Justice, the Overseas Private Investment Corporation, and the Export-Import Bank of the United States.

The GAO found that 5% of the entities with a registered office address at Ugland House are wholly owned by U.S. persons. Also, the GAO validated the reasons why the Cayman Islands has become a popular jurisdiction for international finance and business, including the country’s reputation "as having a stable and internationally compliant legal and regulatory system." In an interview with the GAO, representatives from the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) cited "the Cayman Islands’ reputation for regulatory sophistication" and "legal protections for creditors and investors" as factors that might attract legal financial activity.

In addition, the GAO report explained how U.S. government trade promotion agencies use the Cayman Islands and entities registered at Ugland House. The Export-Import Bank told the GAO that it has used the Cayman Islands to support the sale of aircraft manufactured in the United States. Between 2003 and the time of the GAO investigation, the Export-Import Bank had been involved in supporting 42 aircraft financing deals in the Cayman Islands. Also, officials from the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC), another U.S. government agency, told the GAO that "one-third to half of private-equity funds in which it has invested have been organized in the Cayman Islands." OPIC officials also said that "foreign investors in private-equity funds that they are involved with value the Cayman Islands' reputation for legal neutrality towards investors from different jurisdictions."

The Cayman Islands have worked to promote governance and regulation and have over the years collaborated with governments in the major economies to introduce tax information agreements such as FATCA and co-operation agreements with securities regulators, aimed at promoting a transparent legal regime for global business.


The Miserables

The Miserables is a short film (20 minutes) directed by Benjamin Taylor and written by Alex Lipman.
Released in 2010 by University of Westminster, the film was a finalist at The 38th Annual Student Academy Awards in Beverly Hills, and has been screened at festivals in the UK, USA, China, Russia, Germany and Italy.  The film won Best Drama at the 2011 Royal Television Society Student Awards where the short was considered by the jury to be outstanding. A very good emotional script, had been creatively executed with sensitivity, flair, restraint, and imagination.

Plot

Struggling to cope with his wife Evelyn's (Maggie Steed) terminal illness, Murray Pickleton (Ian Hogg) constructs time machines out of their furniture in his efforts to relive their past and escape the present.  Evelyn is skeptical, but when her doctor insists she is to be moved to a hospice, she joins her husband in remembering their life together and attempts to discuss his life after hers.

Cast

 Maggie Steed - Evelyn Pickleton
 Ian Hogg - Murray Pickleton
 Henry Everett - Doctor
 Elizabeth Muncey - Alison
 Scott Ellis - George

Awards and nominations

Festival screenings

In addition to receiving various awards and nominations, The Miserables has also been screened at many short film festivals around the world, including the following:
2011 - Big Sur Film Festival in California, USA.
2011 - IULM Film Festival in Milan, Italy.
2011 - No Limits Film Festival in Sheffield, UK.
2011 - Up and Coming Film Festival in Hannover, Germany.
2010 - VGIK International Film Festival in Moscow, Russia.

External links

 Watch The Miserables


Suriname at the 2003 Pan American Games

The 14th Pan American Games were held in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic from August 1 to August 17, 2003.

Medals

Gold
Suriname has originally won one gold medal through Letitia Vriesde's performance in the women's 800m. However she was later stripped of the medal due to testing positive for drugs.

Results by event

Triathlon


April (given name)

April is a female given name. Those bearing it include:

People
 April Ashley green (born 1935), MBE, English model and transgender equality campaigner
 April Bowlby (born 1980), American actress
 April Gaede, writer and activist for National Vanguard, a white nationalist organization
 April Jeanette Mendez (born 1987), American retired professional wrestler who went by the ring name AJ Lee.
 April March (born 1965), American singer
 April O'Neil (born 1987), American adult film actress
 April Scott (born 1979), American actress and model
 April Pearson (born 1989), English actress
 April Ross (born 1982), American professional beach volleyball player
 April Tinsley (1980–1988), American murder victim
 April Wade, American actress and producer
 April Winchell (born 1960), American actress

Fictional characters
 April Dancer, title character in the 1960s TV series The Girl from U.N.C.L.E.
 April Glover, a character in the animated children's series Little Bill
 April Green, a character from the television show Jericho
 April Kepner, a character from the ABC television medical drama Grey's Anatomy
 April Ludgate, a character in the NBC television comedy Parks and Recreation
 April MacLean, a character from the television show Class
 April O'Neil, a character from the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles comics and media franchise
 April Rhodes, a character on Glee
 April Ryan, a character from the video game The Longest Journey and its sequel Dreamfall: The Longest Journey
 April Scott, a character from the Australian soap opera Home and Away
 April Stevens Ewing, a character from the 1980s soap opera Dallas
 April Young, a character on The Vampire Diaries
 April, a character from the 2015 anime adaptation Glitter Force


Aviation parts tag

Tagging, especially "yellow tag", is a term used in US aviation to indicate a part is serviceable and airworthy as evaluated by an FAA certified repair station. It is important to note that this term is an industry term and is not an FAA requirement or even mentioned in the Federal Aviation Regulations (FAR).

 Red Tag: component is scrap or unusable
 Yellow Tag: component is serviceable and airworthy
 Green Tag: component is not airworthy but is repairable

In Canada, a green tag is used for a serviceable and airworthy part, but as in the US, the presence of the tag does not guarantee that the part is legal for use in certificated aircraft.


Shahi Jamia Mosque

The Shahi Jamia Mosque (, , ) is a mosque in Adoni, India. The masjid is a relic of architectural and cultural heritage. People from all sections of society and religions are allowed to visit and take pictures of this historical premise. It lies in the heart of the town, near the market, a very busy place within the town.

Construction and architecture
It is believed that this masjid was built by Siddi Masood Khan who was the Governor of Adoni during the regime of Bijapur Sultan's. The land was purchased from Mohammed Shahnaz Namia by Masood Khan by giving ₹77,000 and spent the total amount of 2,000,000 dinars to complete the construction of the masjid. The architects for this masjid were Iranian engineers headed by Malli Sandal. The specialty of this masjid is that the area of this masjid is as same as of the Kaaba in Mecca, Saudi Arabia.

In the front side of the masjid, 15 black slabs can be found, in which the things about the masjid are written in Arabic and Persian languages along with some Ayats of the Quran. Hadith's can also be found. The chains in the left and right minarets of the masjid gives more beauty.

Surroundings
However the masjid is surrounded by the shops which comes under Masjid's committee. Rather than this the areas around Masjid are
Front side - Market, P.N Road
Backside - Masoodia Arabic High School, Masid Pura, Khazi Pura
Right side - Flower Bazar
Left side - Shroff Bazar

A thriving market exists around the Masjid.

Educational institution
The Masjid committee also operates a high school within the masjid called Masoodia Arabic High School. It is named for Siddi Masood Khan.


Clyde Conner

Clyde Conner (May 18, 1933 – December 12, 2011) was a professional American football player who played wide receiver for eight seasons for the San Francisco 49ers. Conner played basketball for the University of the Pacific.


Sycuan Band of the Kumeyaay Nation

The Sycuan Band of the Kumeyaay Nation is a federally recognized tribe of Mission Indians from Southern California, located in the unincorporated area of San Diego County just east of El Cajon. The Sycuan band are a Kumeyaay tribe, one of the four ethnic groups indigenous to San Diego County.

Reservation and administration
The Sycuan Reservation is located at . The nearest outside communities are the unincorporated communities of Harbison Canyon and Crest.

Cody Martinez is their current tribal chairman.

The band operates two waste water treatment plants, a sequencing batch reactor used for their casino, administrative buildings, and maintenance buildings. They also operate and own a modular treatment plant in a flood plain near one of their residential areas. The tribe operates a water treatment facility which controls their nitrate levels. Additionally, the tribe operates a small medical clinic, dental office, fire department and tribal police force. In 2005, they eliminated their environmental department for political and economic reasons.  In 2004, they installed a new air conditioning system, internal control systems, and a new parking lot.

Economic development
The move toward casino gaming on the Sycuan Band reservation was spearheaded by the Sycuan Band's former chairwoman, Anna Prieto Sandoval. The Sycuan Band opened its first gambling facility, the Sycuan Bingo Palace, on their reservation in 1983. As a direct evolution from that successful venture, they now run a profitable casino, as well as an off-reservation golf course. The Sycuan band is not the only San Diego-area band to operate significant commercial enterprises off-reservation.

The Sycuan band purchased the downtown San Diego landmark U. S. Grant Hotel in 2003. It also advertises heavily in relation to the San Diego Padres major-league baseball team (including both television and radio commercials during game broadcasts, and posted advertising at Petco Park, the team's home field).

Hotel casino resort expansion

A $226 million hotel casino expansion opened to the public on March 27, 2019. The casino has a total of 2800 slot machines and 80 gaming tables (blackjack, poker, etc).

Sycuan Institute on Tribal Gaming

The Sycuan band also provides an endowment to support the Sycuan Institute on Tribal Gaming, a research institute at San Diego State University.

Education
The Kumeyaay Community College was created by the Sycuan Band to serve the Kumeyaay-Diegueño Nation, and describes its mission as "to support cultural identity, sovereignty, and self-determination while meeting the needs of native and non-Native students."


Macrobrachium rosenbergii

Macrobrachium rosenbergii, also known as the giant river prawn or giant freshwater prawn, is a commercially important species of palaemonid freshwater prawn. It is found throughout the tropical and subtropical areas of the Indo-Pacific region, from India to Southeast Asia and Northern Australia. The giant freshwater prawn has also been introduced to parts of Africa, Thailand, China, Japan, New Zealand, the Americas and the Caribbean. It is one of the biggest freshwater prawns in the world and is widely cultivated in several countries for food. While M. rosenbergii is considered a freshwater species, the larval stage of the animal depends on brackish water. Once the individual shrimp has grown beyond the planktonic stage and becomes a juvenile, it will live entirely in freshwater.

It is also known as the Malaysian prawn, freshwater scampi (India), or cherabin (Australia). Locally, it is known as Golda Chingri in Bangladesh, udang galah in Indonesia and Malaysia, uwang or ulang in the Philippines, and  in Thailand.

Description

M. rosenbergii can grow to a length over . They are predominantly brownish in colour but can vary. Smaller individuals may be greenish in colour and display faint vertical stripes. The rostrum is very prominent and contains 11 to 14 dorsal teeth and 8 to 11 ventral teeth. The first pair of walking legs (pereiopods) are elongated and very thin, ending in delicate claws (chelipeds) which are used as feeding appendages. The second pair of walking legs are much larger and powerful, especially in males. The movable claws of the second pair of walking legs are distinctively covered in dense bristles (setae) that give it a velvety appearance. The color of the claws in males varies according to their social dominance.

Females can be distinguished from males by their wider abdomens  and smaller second pereiopods. The genital openings are found on the body segments containing the fifth pereiopods and the third pereiopods in males and females, respectively.

Morphotypes
Three different morphotypes of males exist. The first stage is called "small male" (SM); this smallest stage has short, nearly translucent claws. If conditions allow, small males grow and metamorphose into "orange claws" (OC), which have large orange claws on their second chelipeds, which may have a length of 0.8 to 1.4 times their body size. OC males later may transform into the third and final stage, the "blue claw" (BC) males. These have blue claws, and their second chelipeds may become twice as long as their bodies.

Males of  M. rosenbergii have a strict hierarchy: the territorial BC males dominate the OCs, which in turn dominate the SMs. The presence of BC males inhibits the growth of SMs and delays the metamorphosis of OCs into BCs; an OC will keep growing until it is larger than the largest BC male in its neighbourhood before transforming. All three male stages are sexually active, and females that have undergone their premating moult will co-operate with any male to reproduce. BC males protect the female until their shells have hardened; OCs and SMs show no such behaviour.

Lifecycle
In mating, the male deposits spermatophores on the underside of the female's thorax, between the walking legs. The female then extrudes eggs, which pass through the spermatophores. The female carries the fertilised eggs with her until they hatch; the time may vary, but is generally less than three weeks. Females lay 10,000–50,000 eggs up to five times per year.

From these eggs hatch zoeae, the first larval stage of crustaceans. They go through several larval stages before metamorphosing into postlarvae, at which stage they are  long and resemble adults. This metamorphosis usually takes place about 32 to 35 days after hatching. These postlarvae then migrate back into fresh water.


Proton Persona

The Proton Persona is a series of compact and subcompact cars produced by Malaysian automobile manufacturer Proton.

The first generation Proton Persona (C90) refers to the export name given to the Proton Wira. The first use of the 'Proton Persona' nameplate dates back to November 1993 in the British market. The original Persona was later joined by the 3-door Persona Compact, and 2-door Persona Coupé.

The second generation Proton Persona (CM) launched in August 2007. The CM series is the first Proton model to use the 'Persona' nameplate in its home market. It is based on an extended Proton GEN•2 platform, and was sold as a saloon complement to the GEN•2 hatchback. The CM Persona replaced the Proton Wira saloon in Malaysia and the C90 Persona in its export markets.

The third generation Proton Persona (BH) was unveiled in August 2016. It is based on an extended Proton Iriz platform, and is sold as a saloon complement to the Iriz hatchback. It directly replaced the nine-year-old CM Persona in its home market.

First generation (C95, C96, C97, C98, C99; 1993–2007)

The Proton Wira made its debut in the United Kingdom in November 1993, where it was sold as the 'Proton Persona'. The Persona family initially consisted of the 4-door saloon and 5-door hatchback. Later in November 1995, the new Persona Compact model was introduced, and a 2-door Persona Coupé joined the range in 1997. The Compact and Coupé models are the British counterparts of the Proton Satria and Proton Putra in Malaysia. From August 2000, the Satria and Wira nameplates were extended to the British market, and the Coupé was discontinued when production ended in 2001. The Wira was subsequently replaced by the all-new Proton GEN•2 in winter 2004.

The Proton Wira was first exported to Australia in May 1995. It was renamed 'Proton Persona' in 1996, and continued on sale there until 2004. The Persona nameplate was also used for the Wira saloon in Chile.

Second generation (CM6; 2007–2016)

The second generation Proton Persona (CM) was unveiled on 15 August 2007. It is the first Proton model to use the 'Persona' nameplate in its home market.

The CM Persona is based on an extended Proton GEN•2 platform, and was sold as a saloon complement to the GEN•2 hatchback. The entire section aft of the B-pillar was re-engineered, and many of the GEN•2's flaws were addressed. Early models of the CM Persona were fitted with the 1.6-litre CamPro S4PH engine, but later models received the improved CamPro IAFM unit. The CM Persona would become a best-seller for Proton, selling over 40,000 units annually prior to the launch of the Proton Prevé.

Proton launched the Persona SE on 26 August 2008. It was pitched as a premium version of the existing CM Persona with exclusive kit and luxury equipment. The CM Persona received a major facelift in March 2010 with the launch of the Persona Elegance. The changes were largely cosmetic, and would set the Persona's exterior styling for the next six years.

The final update to the CM series, the Persona SV, was launched in November 2013. The SV brought prices down and standardised all-round disc brakes and twin airbags.

Third generation (BH6; 2016–present)

The third generation Proton Persona (BH) was launched in August 2016. It is based on an extended Proton Iriz platform and shares the latter's 1.6-litre VVT engine and basic structure, but its exterior design has been completely re-engineered to give it a distinct persona. The interior of the BH Persona is largely unchanged over the Iriz, with the main exception of the new two-tier colour scheme. This is Malaysian 3.0 Petrol Turbo Super Charger Car excellent on highway.

The BH Persona is one class smaller than the outgoing CM Persona, but it offers more headroom, comparable rear legroom and a significantly larger boot. The new BH is also more powerful, fuel efficient and sophisticated than the old CM.

It is the latest model to carry Proton's newfound 'affordable safety' USP, and all BH Persona variants have been awarded the full five-star rating by ASEAN NCAP.

Awards and accolades

 Best Compact Car - Carsifu Editor's Choice Awards 2016
 Most Improved Model in Fuel Efficiency - Malaysia Car of the Year 2016
 Compact Sedan (Bronze Winner) - Carlist.my People's Choice Awards 2018


Porky's II: The Next Day

Porky's II: The Next Day is a 1983 sex comedy film and the sequel to the 1981 film Porky's. The film is directed and co-written by Bob Clark. Unlike the previous film, Porky himself does not appear. A sequel, Porky's Revenge!, was released in 1985.

Plot
The Angel Beach High School Drama Club is producing a Shakespeare Festival in which the group from the first film is participating. A religious leader named Bubba Flavel wants to halt the production because his group, "The Righteous Flock," believe Shakespeare is indecent and profane.  Flavel recruits the support of the local Ku Klux Klan chapter by informing them that the Festival will feature an interracial kiss between John Henry, a Seminole student playing Romeo, and a white Juliet played by Wendy. The students seek the help of County Commissioner Gebhardt, who promises to pull some strings to keep the Festival running on the condition that seventeen-year-old Wendy will go on a date with him. When it becomes clear that the "date" requires her to have sex with him, Wendy refuses and Gebhardt reneges on his promise. Though the Angel Beach principal supports his students, he is forced to cancel the Festival in the face of public outcry. The Angel Beach gang plots revenge against Flavel, Commissioner Gebhardt, the rest of the county commissioners, and the Klan.

The teens discover that the county commissioners, while publicly espousing decency and morality, secretly gather to watch stag films in the courthouse basement. The gang takes a tape recorder to the courthouse and record the commissioners' crude commentary on the films, which include remarks that Flavel provided the pornography.

Pretending she has changed her mind, Wendy agrees to a date with Gebhardt at a classy restaurant. Wendy arrives in a deliberately showy, vulgar gown with her breasts artificially inflated by a secret container of fake vomit. Throughout dinner, she constantly shouts out Commissioner Gebhardt's name, his upcoming reelection, and her own age, alerting the other patrons to the situation. Once she has the attention of the entire restaurant, she announces that Gebhardt took her virginity and that she is now carrying his child. Finally, to complete Gebhardt's humiliation, she uses the fake vomit to pretend to throw up in a fountain. When Gebhardt tries to sneak away, Peewee jumps out with a camera, promising to send the photos to the local newspapers.

Meanwhile, the Klan attacks and beats John Henry. Learning of this, the gang lures the Klansmen (who are on their way to Flavel's celebratory revival meeting at the high school) into the school gym, where a group of Seminoles hold down the Klansmen while the gang's Jewish friend Brian shaves their heads with an izmel. The Angel Beach gang and the Seminoles then strip the Klansmen naked and force them to run across the stage of Flavel's revival. In the confusion, the gang commandeers the public address system and plays the recording from the courthouse basement. The outraged crowd turns on Flavel, the county commissioners, and the Klan, who are all forced to flee. As there is already a crowd at the high school and the performers are all present, the principal announces that the Festival is reinstated and will take place immediately. The students perform for a huge audience, and the Shakespeare Festival is a success.

Cast
 Dan Monahan as Edward "Pee Wee" Morris
 Wyatt Knight as Tommy Turner
 Mark Herrier as Billy McCarty
 Tony Ganios as Anthony "Meat" Tuperello
 Scott Colomby as Brian Schwartz
 Cyril O'Reilly as Tim Cavanaugh
 Kaki Hunter as Wendy Williams
 Ilse Earl as Mrs. Morris
 Eric Christmas as Mr. Carter
 Bill Wiley as Bubba Flavel
 Nancy Parsons as Ms. Beulah Balbricker
 Joseph Runningfox as John Henry
 Roger Wilson as Mickey Jarvis
 Art Hindle as Officer Ted Jarvis
 Jack Mulcahy as Frank Bell
 Bill Hindman as Coach Goodenough
 Mal Jones as Mayor Abernathy
 Richard Liberty as Commissioner Couch
 Fred Buch as Commissioner Hurley
 Edward Winter as Commissioner Bob Gebhardt
 Will Knickerbocker as Klan #1

Production
Greynolds Park in North Miami, Florida stood in for the Everglades and a plant nursery on Old Cutler Road was turned into a cemetery for the graveyard scenes.

Cowriter Swaybill later said "It took us about six weeks to write the sequel. And it was before the cameras by June. The result was far less spontaneous. The kids just wanted us to be down and dirty."

Home Media
Porky's II: The Next Day was released on DVD on May 22, 2007, alongside Porky's and Porky's Revenge, in a DVD box set called The Porky's Ultimate Collection.

Kino Lorber released Porky's II: The Next Day, along with Porky's Revenge, as a double feature Blu-Ray on December 13, 2016. The theatrical trailer for the film is the only bonus material on the disc.

Reception

Box office
The film's gross receipts were considerably lower than the first Porky's film. While Porky's grossed $105 million in the North American market, Porky's II: The Next Day took in $33,759,266.

Critical response

Review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes gives the film a score of 11% based on the reviews of 9 critics. The film was nominated for a Stinkers Bad Movie Awards for Worst Picture.


Gil Gallagher

Lawrence Kirby "Gil" Gallagher (September 5, 1896 – January 6, 1957) was a shortstop in Major League Baseball. He played for the Boston Braves in 1922.


Herbert Pott

Herbert Ernest Pott (15 January 1883 – 9 May 1953) was a British diver who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics and in the 1912 Summer Olympics.

He was born in Richmond, London.

In 1908 he was eliminated in the semi-finals of the 3 metre springboard competition after finishing third in his heat.

Four years later he finished sixth in the 3 metre springboard event.

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Oscar Periche

Oscar Periche (born 31 October 1949) is a Cuban water polo player. He competed at the 1968, 1972, 1976 and the 1980 Summer Olympics.


Thornwell, Louisiana

Thornwell is an unincorporated community in Jefferson Davis Parish, Louisiana, United States.


Sal Hamid

Sal Hamid (, also Romanized as Şāl Ḩamīd; also known as Şāleḩ Ḩamīd) is a village in Tang-e Haft Rural District, Papi District, Khorramabad County, Lorestan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 35, in 8 families.