House of Mystery (1961 film)

House of Mystery is a 1961 British supernatural mystery film. It was based on a play director Vernon Sewell had filmed three times before. It was known in Germany as Das Landhaus des Dr. Lemming ("The Country House of Dr. Lemming"), and because of its compact running time, aired in the U.S. as an episode of the TV series "Kraft Mystery Theatre".

Plot
A pair of newlyweds visit an old cottage for sale in the country, and hear the housekeeper’s account of its macabre history. The previous owners had been disturbed by paranormal activity, and on calling in a medium, the ghost was identified as an eccentric and vengeful scientist, once resident in the cottage. The scientist was obsessed with electricity, and when his unfaithful wife and her lover attempted to murder him, he responded by electrifying the living room floor and fixtures, and challenging the couple to escape.

Cast
Stella Lemming -	Jane Hylton
Mark Lemming -	Peter Dyneley
Joan Trevor -	Nanette Newman
Henry Trevor -	Maurice Kaufmann
Burdon -	Colin Gordon
Clive -	John Merivale
Young Husband -	Ronald Hines
His Wife -	Colette Wilde
Mrs Bucknall -	Molly Urquhart
Constable -	George Selway
Milkman -	John Abineri

Critical reception
 The Radio Times gave the film three out of five stars, saying, "this is a neat little spine-tingler from writer/director Vernon Sewell, who was something of a dab hand at summoning up demons from beyond, whether benign as in The Ghosts of Berkeley Square or downright menacing as in The Blood Beast Terror. Some aficionados would insist that if it ain't Hammer it ain't horror, but there are plenty of uneasy moments in this haunting story, in which a couple of newlyweds learn the grim secret of their dream house."
 The Bloody Pit of Horror wrote, "though modest, ultimately predictable and nothing spectacular, it's well-acted and at least manages to maintain interest."
 Britmovie called the film an "effectively macabre little b-movie narrated in several multi-layered flashbacks."


Martha Anne Caroline Verge du Pont

Martha "Muffin" Anne Caroline Verge du Pont (1928 - August 8, 2017) was an advocate for neglected, abused and delinquent children in Delaware.

Early life
Verge du Pont was born in Long Beach, California to Martha Anne Caroline Verge and William Earnest Verge. Her father was a graduate of the US Naval Academy and veteran of WWII, and continued his service in the Navy, ultimately reaching the rank of Rear Admiral. Due to her fathers service the family moved constantly ultimately settling near Baltimore, Maryland and Mcdonough School after her father retired and became the dean.

Advocate work
For many years, starting in 1965 Verge du Pont served on the Board of Directors of the Boys Home of Delaware. After her marriage to Henry E.I. du Pont, her husband bequeathed a 35-bed group home for at risk boys in Delaware to the organization. The home became a part of the organization Child Inc., which is currently (2018) the only shelter for abused and neglected children in the state and each year serves more than 15,000 people throughout Delaware through additional programs. Verge du Pont, pushed for the expansion of the programs as she felt that to better help the children, services for the adults needed to be provided as well. For her work she was awarded an honorary doctorate degree in Psychology from Brown University.

In Key West, Florida, she served on the Board of Directors for Last Stand and the YMCA.


Judy Yung

Judy Yung (born 1946 San Francisco, California) is professor emerita in American Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She specializes in oral history, women's history, and Asian American history.

Life
Judy Yung is the fifth daughter of six children born to immigrant parents from China.  She grew up in San Francisco Chinatown, where her father worked as a janitor and her mother as a seamstress to support the family.  Yung was able to acquire a bilingual education by attending both public school and Chinese language school for ten years.  She received her Ph.D. in Ethnic Studies from the University of California, Berkeley. She also holds an M.A. in Library Science from the University of California, Berkeley, and a B.A. in English Literature and Chinese from San Francisco State University.

Prior to entering academia, Yung worked as librarian for the Chinatown branch of the San Francisco Public Library and the Asian branch of the Oakland Public Library, pioneering the development of Asian language materials and Asian American interest collections in the public library to better serve the Asian American community.  She also spent four years working as associate editor of the East West newspaper.

In 1975, inspired by the discovery of Chinese poetry on the walls of the Angel Island detention barracks, Yung embarked on a research project with Him Mark Lai and Genny Lim to translate the poems and interview former Chinese detainees about their immigration experiences.  They self-published Island: Poetry and History of Chinese Immigrants on Angel Island, 1910-1940 in 1980, and a second expanded edition of the book was published by the University of Washington Press in 2014.

From 1981 to 1983, with a federal grant from the Women’s Educational Equity Program, Yung directed the Chinese Women of America Research Project, resulting in the first traveling exhibit on the history of Chinese American women and the book, Chinese Women of America: A Pictorial History.  She then returned to graduate school to hone her research skills as a historian.

Upon receiving her Ph.D. in Ethnic Studies, Yung was hired to establish an Asian American Studies program at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where she taught courses in Asian American studies, women's history, oral history, and mixed race until she retired in 2004.  She has since devoted her time to writing more books about Chinese American history and serving as a historical consultant with a number of community organizations and film projects.

In 2002, while working on Chinese American Voices, Judy Yung met Eddie Fung, a POW during World War II.  They got married a year later and made Santa Cruz their home.  After her husband died in 2018, Yung moved back to her hometown San Francisco, where she currently lives with her Scottish Fold, Sparkie.

Awards
 2015, National Women’s History Month Honoree
 2015, Immigrant Heritage Award in Education, Angel Island Immigration Station Foundation
 2011, Caughey Western History Association Prize (for Angel Island)
 2007, Annie Soo Spirit Award, Chinese Historical Society of America
 2006, Lifetime Achievement Award, Association for Asian American Studies
 2003, Excellence Through Diversity Award, University of California, Santa Cruz
 2001, Presidential Recognition Award, Chinese American Librarians Association
 1999, Excellence in Teaching Award, University of California, Santa Cruz
 1997, Jeanne Farr McDonnell Book Award (for Unbound Feet), Women’s Heritage Museum
 1996, Robert G. Athearn Book Award (for Unbound Feet), Western History Association
 1996, National Book Award in History (for Unbound Feet), Association for Asian American Studies
 1996, Distinguished Award for Culture, Chinese Culture Foundation of San Francisco
 1987, Outstanding Asian Women of the Year, Asian Women’s Resource Center, San Francisco
 1982, American Book Award (for Island: Poetry and History of Chinese Immigrants on Angel Island, 1910-1940), Before Columbus Foundation
 1980, Outstanding Citizen Award, Oakland Museum

Works


Abra Kadavar

Abra Kadavar is the second studio album by German rock band Kadavar, released on 12 April 2013 by Nuclear Blast. The last album to feature bassist Philipp Lippitz and the first to feature bassist Simon Boutsloup who played on the last two tracks.

The album consists of nine songs, all composed by Kadavar, plus an additional bonus track, "The Man I Shot".

Reception

Eduardo Rivadavia's Blabbermouth review was predominantly positive, comparing Kadavar to fellow hard rock band Wolfmother. The review said that the album "shows a lot of heart, body and soul - all qualities that may help put all previously held suspicions to rest", and hailed "Come Back Life" and "The Man I Shot" as the best songs. In comparison to their debut album Kadavar, Rivadavia noted that the band had made "qualitative improvement on the songwriting and production."

Track listing

All songs written and composed by Christoph Lindemann, Christoph Bartelt and Philipp Lippitz.

Bonus Track

Personnel
Kadavar
Christoph Lindemann – vocals, electric guitar, synth
Philipp Lippitz – bass (tracks: 1-7)
Christoph Bartelt - drums, percussion, organ, backing vocals, production, engineering, mixing, mastering
Simon Bouteloup - bass (tracks: 8-10)

Additional personnel

 Upneet Neetu Bains - photography
 Joe Dilworth - photography
 Nathini Erber - photography


Adelaide Muskwe

Adelaide Thandeke Muskwe (born 21 August 1998) is a Zimbabwean netball player who represents Zimbabwe internationally and plays in the positions of goal defense and wing defense.

Life
Muske and her twin brother Admiral were born in 1998 at Parirenyatwa Hospital in Harare, Zimbabwe. They moved to the United Kingdom when they were three. Her talents led to her attending Ratcliffe College near Loughborough where she trained with the elite netball team Loughborough Lightning and trained also at UK national camps. Adelaide is a Loughborough graduate in Sports Science and she has signed for the Severn Stars netball team in 2019 who are based in Worcester.

She was a member of the Zimbabwean squad which finished at eighth position during the 2019 Netball World Cup, which was historically Zimbabwe's first ever appearance at a Netball World Cup tournament.


Kambalda Airport

Kambalda Airport  serves St Ives Gold Mine near Kambalda, Western Australia.


Children's Court of New South Wales

The Children's Court of New South Wales is a court within the Australian court hierarchy established pursuant to the  which deals with criminal offences committed by children aged over 10 years and under 18 years, as well as with proceedings relating to the care and protection of children.  The court commenced on 18 January 1988.

History
The treatment of juvenile offenders in the colony of New South Wales reflected the system of criminal law inherited from the United Kingdom.  The law of Australia at that time was heavily influenced by the social norms of English society. As a result, children criminals were treated no differently from adult criminals. They were liable to the same harsh penalties. The Judicial Commission of New South Wales cited an example of one English judge who, after condemning a 10-year-old boy to death, described the boy as "a proper subject for capital punishment". The Commission also noted that on one day in 1815, five children aged between eight and 12 years were hanged for petty larceny in England.

The first children's court was established under the Neglected Children and Juvenile Offenders Act 1905. The Judicial Commission of New South Wales stated the first court was set up in the spirit of parens patriae, a jurisdiction that was exercised by the superior courts of the United Kingdom and as a consequence, of the Supreme Court of New South Wales. The court was set up in light of the widespread poverty and child neglect at that time. The courts had to assume the role of parent, protector, and ultimate punisher.

The present children's court is constituted under the .  The Court is an inferior court and is effectively a court of record.  The court was established on 18 January 1988.

Composition
The court is composed of magistrates of the Local Court of New South Wales who are appointed by the Chief Magistrate of the Local Court of New South Wales.  A magistrate so appointed is called a Children's Magistrate. The Governor appoints a qualified person to be the President of the Children's Court. Any judge of the District Court is a qualified person and may be appointment as the President of the Children's Court for a duration not exceeding 5 years.  After the expiry of the initial term of the appointed, the Governor may re-appoint the same person for another term, or to appoint another judge of the District Court as the President of the Children's Court.  It is significant that the orders (other than interim orders) made by the President may be appealed to the Supreme Court, while the orders made by the Children's Magistrate may be appealed to the District Court only. The President of the Children's Court administers the court, arranges sittings of the Court, and convenes meetings of Children's Magistrates.  The President of the Children's Court also confers regularly with community groups and social agencies on matters involving children and the Court.

Jurisdiction
The court exercises criminal jurisdiction under the Children (Criminal Proceedings) Act 1987.  The court exercises care jurisdiction under the Children and Young Persons (Care and Protection) Act 1998. Until its repeal in 1998, the Children (Care and Protection) Act 1987 also covered the operations of the Court.


Massachusetts's 17th congressional district

Massachusetts's seventeenth congressional district is an obsolete district. Its short tenure (1803-1821) was dedicated to the Maine District until Maine achieved statehood.

List of members representing the district


Leech Lake

Leech Lake is a lake located in north central Minnesota, United States. It is southeast of  Bemidji, located mainly within the Leech Lake Indian Reservation, and completely within the Chippewa National Forest. It is used as a reservoir. The lake is the third largest in Minnesota, covering  with  of shoreline and has a maximum depth of .

Hydrology

Leech Lake outlets to the Leech Lake River, which flows into the Mississippi River. The sole outlet to the Leech Lake River is controlled by a dam in order to regulate water levels of the lake. Leech Lake has seven major inlets that include Portage Lake Creek, Sucker Creek, Steamboat River, Benedict River, Shingobee River, Bishop Creek, and the Boy River. There are also nine minor inlets that flow into Leech Lake.

Islands
Leech Lake hosts eleven islands that cover a total of 1,617 acres of land.
The following list is in order from largest to smallest.
 Bear Island
 Minnesota Island
 Pelican Island
 Headquarters Bay Island
 Big Pipe Island
 Goose Island
 Bog (Duck) Island
 Narrows Island
 Little Bear Island
 Little Pelican Island
 Gull Island
 Shingobee Island

The long, narrow Shingobee Bay is part of Leech Lake, and is located on its southern end.  Shingobee Bay, and the adjacent Walker Bay, boast some of the deepest parts in the entire lake.

Ecology

Invasive species
 Lythrum salicaria
Also known as purple loosestrife. This is an invasive plant that takes over lake shores and marshes, replacing cattails and other native wetland plants. Purple loosestrife doesn't provide a sufficient food source, nesting area, or cover for the native animals.  Also one plant can produce around two million seeds annually, and it spreads rapidly through aquatic systems.

 Typha angustifolia
Better known as the narrow-leaf cattail, this invasive plant is able to grow in deeper water (compared to its native counterparts). The narrow-leaf cattail competes with the native Typha latifolia (broad leaf cattail) and other native plants along Leech Lake.

Aquatic life
Leech Lake is a popular sport fishing hotspot, and is fished for many different types. The state record lake whitefish (12 lb, 4.5 oz) and pumpkinseed (1 lb, 5.6 oz) were both caught here in 1999.

Species of fish the lake contains:
 Black crappie
 Bowfin (dog fish)
 Bluegill
 Brown bullhead
 Catfish
 Eelpout
 Hybrid sunfish
 Largemouth bass
 Muskellunge
 Northern pike
 Pumpkinseed
 Rock bass
 Smallmouth bass
 Tullibee (cisco)
 Walleye
 White sucker
 Yellow bullhead
 Yellow perch
 Jackfish

Vegetation
Wild rice
Grows in the shallow depths of Leech Lake, emerging through over 4,000 acres of water. Wild Rice is a valuable crop for the Leech Lake community.
Bulrush
Grass like plants that grow in water, they can reach lengths of around ten feet. These plants are an important food resources for aquatic life in Leech Lake.

Eagles

Leech Lake and the surrounding national forest is home to a large population of bald eagles. They are known to return to their same nests when mature. Populations have risen over the last few decades.

History

On early maps, Leech Lake is identified in French as "lac Sangsue" (Bloodsucker Lake), which was then translated into English to its current name; its French name was translated from the Ojibwe "Ozagaskwaajimekaag-zaaga'igan" (lake abundant with bloodsuckers).

In 1855, the Leech Lake Indian Reservation was established on the south shore of Leech Lake, along with two other Indian Reservations in the area, which along with two additional Indian Reservations, the five Indian Reservations were amalgamated in 1936 to form the current "Greater" Leech Lake Indian Reservation which encompasses most all of Leech Lake.

On October 5, 1898, Leech Lake was the location of a conflict between Ojibwe and Federal troops of the United States, the Battle of Sugar Point. A firefight broke out between the 3rd U.S. Infantry Regiment and the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe after one of the soldiers sent to retrieve a bootlegger mistakenly fired his rifle. Oscar Burkard received the Medal of Honor on August 21, 1899 for his participation in the battle.

Economy

Recreational/leisure use
Every February, Leech Lake is home to the International Eelpout Festival. The eel pout, also known as the Burbot, is rarely seen in Leech Lake, except in the winter when it is very plentiful. Events include a black-tie dinner, ice bowling, and a contest to see who can catch the largest eel pout.

Towns

 Leech Lake Township
 Remer
 Federal Dam
 Whipholt
 Walker
 Onigum


Kropfsberg Castle

Kropfsberg Castle () is a castle in Tyrol, Austria that stands at  above sea level.

Kropfsberg is a ruined hill castle in the municipality of Reith im Alpbachtal on a towering ridge in the Inn Valley above the village of St. Gertraudi. It was the setting for a ghost story by Ralph Adams Cram.

History
The Salzburg archbishops received large parts of the   Zillertal  .   Under Archbishop   Konrad I of Salzburg  , the first castle was built in the first half of the 12th century at the entrance to the Zillertal valley.   Presumably it was just a tower surrounded by walls.   The castle was used by the archbishops as the seat of the Salzburg court and the administration.   Kropfsberg was first documented in 1286.

Archbishop   Eberhard II of Regensburg  continued to expand the castle.   The castle owes this extension measures to its present appearance.   Above the old tower was the   main castle  , which contained two mighty   keeps  .

In the 15th century the castle Kropfsberg was the venue of important negotiations.   In 1412,   a dispute between Tyrol and Bavaria was settled   on   "Fürstentag"  .   1416 there was reconciliation between Duke   Friedrich IV.  And his brother Duke   Ernst of Austria  , which Frederick secured the further possession of Tyrol.

In the course of time Kropfsberg was twice expanded Romanesque, but there were no major construction activities in the Gothic.   Archbishop   Leonhard von Keutschach  had the plant rebuilt around 1500.   40 years later, the   loop-shaped, 900 m long, 8 m high and 3 m thick enceinte and the semicircular bastions were created.

In the following century Kropfsberg was one of the largest castles in Tyrol.   It was protected by a double ring wall.   With this expansion one wanted to clarify the sovereign power and strength further.   The area extended to an area of 26,000 m², but it only had accommodation for 60 to 80 people.

In the year 1592 the court seat of Kropfsberg was moved to   Zell am Ziller  , which led to the decline of the castle.   As a result of the fact that the castle was only inhabited by people and was no longer maintained, the first buildings collapsed in 1673.   During the Bavarian Rummel in 1703, the castle was drafted into the fighting with, as Bavarian soldiers had settled there. The   Tyrolese shooters drove the invaders out again.

When Tyrol came to Bavaria in 1809, the castle complex shared the same fate as many others.   The now ruined castle has been auctioned off.   In 1850, the   gate tower was  renovated to make it habitable again.   In 1905 the material of the still preserved ring wall was used for Innverbauung.

In 1940, the Meraner Sepp Auffinger bought the property.  He had the gate tower renovated again.   In the last year of the Second World War, the western  Palamau collapsed due to bombardment in the neighborhood. The castle ruins have been preserved and restored since 1985. Therefore, even today remains of the cistern  and the Gothic castle chapel are preserved. Today, the castle is privately owned by Hanno Vogl-Fernheim.

Description

A prehistoric hilltop settlement with shallow ramparts and small terraces was largely destroyed by the overbuilding of the medieval castle.   [1] The castle with its three towers of almost equal height is unique in Tyrol.   From the first castle, only the west-facing freestanding tower remains.   Built around a hexagonal courtyard, the Romanesque stronghold dates back to the second building, of which only the two keepers still exist.   The middle tower has only light slots in the lower area.   The residential floors with their large windows and different masonry were set up by Archbishop Leonhard.   The keep was rebuilt after the Second World War to lookout tower.   Furthermore, the remains of the 16th-century Rupertus Chapel are still there.   The 47 m deep cistern is located in the middle of the yard.   The outer ring wall together with the bastions is still partially preserved.


2001 Hajj stampede

The 2001 Hajj stampede resulted in the deaths of at least 35 pilgrims on 5 March 2001 during the Hajj in Mecca. The incident took place during the Stoning of Satan ritual. The pilgrims were killed after a large crowd surged towards one of the three giant pillars representing the devil at which worshippers cast stones. A civil defense official later attributed the casualties to congestion and jostling among the pilgrims, resulting in some, particularly the elderly, tripping and falling.


Dance critique

Dance criticism in the United States is the act of producing a written or spoken review of a dance performance (often ballet, modern dance, or contemporary dance). The term may also refer to the report itself, which may act as an archived review, critique, or highlight. As with other topics, dance criticism may employ its own technical language, and may also reflect the critic's opinions. Major newspapers cover the arts in some form and dance criticism may be included.  Dance criticism is available in other types of media as well, such as online publishing, through blogs, websites, and online videos.

Current dance critics
Throughout the 20th century dance critiques were primarily available through newspaper and magazine writing.  With the improvement of technology criticism has become increasingly available through social media platforms and blogs.  This has heavily influenced the way the general public views dance art forms.
Joan Acocella of The New Yorker
Jack Anderson (dance critic), formerly of The New York Times
George Dorris, former editor of the Dance Chronicle
Robert Gottlieb of The New York Observer
Laura Jacobs of The New Criterion
Deborah Jowitt, formerly of The Village Voice
Alastair Macaulay of The New York Times
John Rockwell, formerly of The New York Times
Michael Seaver of The Irish Times
Judith Mackrell of The Guardian
Luke Jennings of The Observer

History of dance criticism

Richard Buckle
Selma Jeanne Cohen
Edwin Denby
Arnold Haskell
John Martin


Journal of Supply Chain Management

The Journal of Supply Chain Management (JSCM) is a scholarly, research journal which has been published since 1965.  Since 2007, JSCM has been repositioned with the mission of being the journal of choice among supply chain management scholars, by attracting high-quality, high-impact behavioral research focusing on theory-building and empirical methodologies. More specifically, JSCM has an interdisciplinary focus which includes the engagement of scholars in the fields of supply chain management, operations management, marketing, strategic management, and social network analysis. It has  published papers by major leaders in the field, such as Steve Borgatti, Thomas Choi, Barb Flynn, Gary Frazier, Shelby Hunt, Tom Mentzer, Jack Meredith, Aleda Roth, Jack Wacker, and nobel prize laureate Oliver Williamson.

Mark Pagell (University College-Dublin), Brian Fugate (University of Arkansas) and Barbara Flynn (Indiana University) are the Co-Editors-in-Chef. Lutz Kaufmann, (WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management) is the European co-editor and Xiande Zhao, (China Europe International Business School) is the Asian co-editor. JSCM’s Advisory, Associate Editor, and Review Board consist of leading scholars in supply chain management and the closely aligned fields of marketing, strategic management, operations management, and social network analysis. Manuscripts that are sent out for review undergo a double-blind review process by an Associate Editor in addition to a minimum of two, and generally three to four, anonymous referees.

JSCM is published by Wiley-Blackwell. According to the Journal Citation Reports, its 2016 impact factor is 5.789, ranking it 9th out of 194 journals in the category "Management". In CiteScores, JSCM ranks 5th (in the top 1%) of all Business and Management Journals, according to journalmetrics.scopus.com

Editors

Mark Pagell, Co-Editor-in-Chief, University College-Dublin
Brian Fugate, Co-Editor-in-Chief, University of Arkansas
Barbara B. Flynn, Co-Editor-In-Chief, Indiana University
Lutz Kaurman, European Co-Editor, WHU
Ely Paiva, South American Regional Editor, FGV
Damien Power, Asia-Pacific Regional Editor, University of Melbourne
Xiande Zhao, Asian Co-Editor, CEIBS
Craig Carter, Editor Emeritus, 2007-2016, Arizona State University
Lisa Ellram, Editor Emeritus, 2007-2016, Miami University
Alvin J. Williams, Editor Emeritus, 2002-2007
Phillip Carter, Editor Emeritus, 1997-2001
Donald W. Dobler, Editor Emeritus, 1980-1996
Paul Farrel,Editor Emeritus, 1975-1979
Harold E. Fearon, Editor Emeritus, 1965-1974


Meghe Dhaka Tara (drama)

Meghe Dhaka Tara is a 2016 drama directed by Bratya Basu and produced and staged by Naihati Bratyajan. The plot of the drama is based on Ritwik Ghatak's 1960 film Meghe Dhaka Tara.

Credits

Cast
 Poulomi Basu as Neeta
 Subhashish Mukhopadhyay as Tarini Master
 Partha Bhowmick as Shankar
 Suranjana Dasgupta as Kathakali
 Anirban Ghosh as Sanatan

Crew
 Bratya Basu - director
 Ujjawal Chattopadhyay - writer

Production
The rehearsal of the drama started in 2016. In August 2015, Bratya Basu informed about this drama in a press conference. He also informed that at that time he was working on two other dramas.

Casting
Poulomi Basu played Neeta's role. In Ghatak's film the character was portrayed by Supriya Devi. Subhashish Mukhopadhyay played Tarini Master, Neeta's father role. In Ghatak's movie Bijon Bhattacharya played this character. Partha Bhowmick portrayed Shankar's character, which was played by Anil Chatterjee in the movie. Suranjana Dasgupta and Anirban Ghosh played the roles of Kathakali and Sanatan.

Release
The drama was first staged on 2 January 2016 at University Institute Hall, Kolkata. As of 3 January 2016, the drama will be staged every Saturday at that auditorium.


University of Glamorgan Union

The University of Glamorgan Students' Union (Glam SU) was the students' union at the University of Glamorgan, primarily based at the university's Treforest campus.. It was known under the letters UGU. The union was an affiliate of National Union of Students of the United Kingdom and part of NUS Wales. It offered representation, support and services to all the students of the University.

Facilities
The new Students' Union at Trefforest has many facilities and services:-
 The Randy Dragon Inn- serves food,  Games machines, pool tables offers pub quizzes and other events. The Inn has a pub atmosphere and can hold 200 people.
 Cables- feeder bar to the main venue, holds 200 people
 The Basement- 800 capacity venue (Trefforest campus)
 Reflections
 Shop - A large sized shop on campus stocking newspapers, magazines, sandwiches, alcohol, snacks, clothes, groceries and more.
 Reception - Offering NUS Card issuing, tickets for events, photocopying, faxing and more
 Box office
 Social learning Space
 Hair dressers
 Job shop
 Student letting agency
 Beauty shop.
 Business enterprise
 Meeting room for students, officers and can be booked for university staff or conferences
 Terrace
 Escape bar (ATRiuM Campus)
 Glyntaff desk and shop

Entertainment
This is a typical week for entertainments within the union:-
 Sunday - Pub Quiz (Treforest & Atrium)
 Monday -
 Tuesday - Comedy Night / Open Decks Night / beerkeller
 Wednesday - Score!
 Thursday - Anything Goes from Karaoke to School Discos/ alternative nights
 Friday - Flirt
 Saturday - Hedkandi - House (Treforest)

The Students' Union new Student Union building in Treforest opened on 10 September 2010.

TAG (Treforest. ATRiuM & glyntaff)
TAG is the new student newspaper for the university. It is published 5 or 6 times a year and is run by student volunteers elected each year.

RAG
RAG stands for Raising and Giving for all Universities, however the university has put a slight twist to the name 'Raising at Glamorgan'. The group runs events and other fundraising activities to raise money for local and national charities. It is run by students and headed by an elected RAG Chairperson.

Societies
The student union has many societites which specialise in interest and hobby opportunities for the students.  These societies include:
 GSIS (International Society)
 Games Society
 Film Appreciation Society
 Forensics
 Cheerleading
 Islamic
 Glamorgan University Guide & Scout Society - a society affiliated to SSAGO
 LGBTQ, the university's lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer society, which holds weekly meets and workshops, mixers with the GSIS society, trips, and campaigning
 Debating Society
 Computer Games Development

Each year, students can start new clubs by contacting the students union.

Sports Teams
The union supports a wide variety of sports teams, who are entered annually into BUCS. These include:
 Men's & Women's hockey
 Men's & Women's Rugby Union
 Men's Rugby League
 Men's & Women's Football
 Cricket
 Netball
Table tennis
Badminton
 And many more

Sports Clubs
The Union also supports many sports clubs including:
 Climbing
 Skiing & Snowboarding
 Swimming & Waterpolo
 And many more.

Each year, students were able to start new clubs by contacting the students union

Past presidents
 1990 / 1992 - Dipak Gohil
 1992/1994 - Lee Whitehead
 1994/1995 - Joanna Welch
 1995/1996 - Sian Roberts
 1996/1997 - Jacqueline Blunden
 1997/1998 - Matthew Kent
 1998/1999 - Paul Cruise
 1999/2000 - Sara Smallbone
 2000/2001 - Matt Whiting
 2001/2002 - Chris Lloyd
 2002/2003 - Kim Brown
 2003/2005 - Phil Rees
 2005/2006 - Richard Ellis
 2006/2008-  Dylan "Davish" Davies
 2008/2009 - Ray Joyce
 2009/2011- Helen Wakeford
 2011/2012 - Daniel Bowen

Standing Committees
Sports
Cultural
Union Supported Activities
Women's
SWD (Students with disabilities)
Black students
LGBT
Postgraduate
Part-time
International
Mature
Housing
Treforest
Glyntaff
Atrium
Welsh Language

Each committee consists of a chair and 4 committee members. Each standing committee must meet a minimum of five times a year according to the standing orders. The committee will discuss any issues and where appropriate suggest policy proposals for the chair of the committee to bring to the student council meeting.

Each year there should be a minimum of 5 student council meetings although there are often more. At student council only the chairs of the standing committees, one SVR (student voice representative) from each faculty and the executives having speaking and voting rights, unless the chair uses their discretion to allow a student at the council meeting to speak or if it is an enfranchised student who has proposed the policy proposal. Any enfranchised student may propose or second a policy proposal and then speak on their proposal at student council. All policy proposals must have 10 signatures from enfranchised students who agree with the proposal.

Student council rotates meetings between campuses, starting the academic year at Treforest, then to Atrium, then to Glyntaff, to make student council more accessible to students across all three campuses.

Mascot
Gandolf the goat

External links
Glamorgan Union
University of Glamorgan website

Students' Union


Siege of Annapolis Royal (1744)

The Siege of Annapolis Royal (also known as the Siege of Fort Anne) in 1744 involved two of four attempts by the French, along with their Acadian and native allies, to regain the capital of Nova Scotia/Acadia, Annapolis Royal, during King George's War. The Siege is noted for Governor of Nova Scotia Paul Mascarene successfully defending the last British outpost in the colony and for the first arrival of New England Ranger John Gorham to Nova Scotia.  The French and Mi'kmaq land forces were thwarted on both attempts on the capital because of the failure of French naval support to arrive.

Historical context

The conquest of Acadia by Great Britain began with the 1710 capture of the provincial capital, Port Royal.  In the 1713 Treaty of Utrecht, France formally ceded Acadia to Britain.  However, there was disagreement about the provincial boundaries, and some Acadians also resisted British rule.  With renewed war imminent in 1744, the leaders of New France formulated plans to retake what the British called Nova Scotia with an assault on the capital, which the British had renamed Annapolis Royal.

With the outbreak of the War of the Austrian Succession (whose North American theater is also known as King George's War) in Europe, the French colony of Île-Royale (present-day Cape Breton Island) received the news first and took immediate action.  French officer François Dupont Duvivier  led an attack on raided the British outpost at Canso, capturing the small garrison of the 40th Regiment of Foot without incident.  Du Vivier's next plan was to take the only other British outpost in Nova Scotia, Annapolis Royal.

First stage
The governor of Ile Royal, Jean-Baptiste-Louis Le Prévost Duquesnel, lacking the troop strength to attack Annapolis Royal, recruited the militant French priest Jean-Louis Le Loutre to raise a force of Acadians and Indians to assault the Nova Scotian capital. Le Loutre raised a force of 300 Mi'kmaq and Maliseet, and arrived before Annapolis Royal's main fortification, Fort Anne, on 12 July 1744.  The attackers killed two soldiers, and the assault ended after four days with the arrival of British ships with 70 soldiers from Boston. Le Loutre withdrew to Grand Pre to await the arrival of DuVivier.

Second stage

François Dupont Duvivier, who had led the Canso raid, led the second siege attempt against Fort Anne, with a force of 200 troops. Duvivier arrived at Fort Anne on 6 September 1744.  The first night he erected shelters. He used Gautier's house for his Headquarters. The next morning he approached the fort and the Governor of Nova Scotia, Paul Mascarene responded by firing a cannon, which lead Duvivier to withdraw. That night Duvivier sent small parties to the fort which led to skirmishing the whole night.

On the morning of 7 September, Duvivier sent his younger brother to the fort under a flag of truce carrying a message that said British resistance was futile. Paul Mascarene, rejected the surrender demand, and replied that naval reinforcements were on the way and that if the French surrendered they would receive benign treatment.  Duvivier gave them twenty four hours before he said he would attack at noon on 8 September.

Duvivier waited until 9 September to begin the siege.  The French troops and Mi'kmaq attacked the wall of the fort each night and conducted daily raids around the ramparts. On 15 September, Duvivier again asked Mascarene to surrender which he refused. They continued to fight. On 25 September a British sergeant was killed and a private was wounded.

During the siege Duvivier waited weeks for French vessels to arrive to reinforce his attack, while Mascarene awaited for support from Boston.  On September 26, New England Ranger John Gorham and Edward Tyng arrived with 50 native rangers (see Gorham's Rangers). Gorham's rangers brought the total manpower of the garrison up to about 270.  A few days later, Gorham led his native rangers in a surprise raid on a nearby Mi'kmaq encampment.  They killed and mutilated the bodies of women and children. The Mi'kmaq withdrew and Duvivier was forced to retreat back to Grand Pre on 5 October. (The following year, Mi'kmaq sought revenge on Gorham's Rangers by torturing the rangers they took prisoner at Goat Island (off Annapolis Royal) during the siege of Annapolis Royal.

Consequences

From this siege, the French learned that until they could send an army with siege guns and cannon against the capital, there was little to gain from exposing their forces in a siege.  A successful French campaign would depend on the navy's ability to supply the army.  The French also learned that they could not rely on the majority of Acadians to take up arms against the British.

On 20 October 1744 the government of Massachusetts officially declared war on the Mi'kmaq.  A bounty was offered for the head of any man, woman or child.

Duvivier received the Order of Saint Louis for his military work in Acadia.

The French made two further attempts, both unsuccessful, to regain Annapolis Royal during the war.


Angela Gregory

Angela Gregory (October 18, 1903 – February 13, 1990) was an American sculptor and professor of art. Born in New Orleans, Louisiana, Gregory has been called the doyenne of Louisiana sculpture. Her mother, Selina Bres Gregory, was an artist who studied at Newcomb College in New Orleans with William Woodward and Ellsworth Woodward. Her father, William B. Gregory, was an engineering professor at Tulane University. Angela was interested in art from an early age and began her career in the late 1920s. She became one of the few women of her era to be recognized nationally in a field generally dominated by men.

Early life

Gregory said she made her first piece of sculpture when she was twelve years old, crafting a birdbath out of chicken wire, concrete, and a wastebasket. Her early influences included her mother, Selina Bres Gregory (1870—1953), who had been a student of Ellsworth Woodward at Newcomb College in New Orleans and was an early Newcomb potter. As a child, Gregory was inspired by the story her mother told her about watching stonecutters carve an angel on the exterior of the Newcomb Chapel. “She used to tell me she loved to hear the sound of the tapping on [the stone]…Well, I was determined to do stone cutting.”

Studying art in Paris

After taking summer art classes as a teen from William Woodward at Tulane University and later as a student in the Newcomb art school, and studying sculpture in Charles Keck’s New York studio in 1924, Angela Gregory graduated from Newcomb in 1925 with a Bachelor of Arts in design. She was awarded a one-year scholarship to the Paris branch of the Parsons School of Fine and Applied Arts to study illustrative advertising. Her real purpose in going to Paris, however, was to study stonecutting with the noted French sculptor, Antoine Bourdelle. Bourdelle had been a praticien in the studio of Auguste Rodin for many years before establishing his own studio in Paris in a cluster of buildings located on what was then Impasse du Maine. Today the buildings house the Musée Bourdelle on Rue Antoine Bourdelle.

Gregory studied for two years, 1926–1928, with Bourdelle, the only American admitted as a student to his private studios. She also took classes from him at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière. Early on, she asked Bourdelle what it would cost to study with him in his private studios. He replied, “I am an artist, not a businessman.” He refused any payment.

In Bourdelle’s studios, she sculpted a limestone copy of the fifteenth-century Beauvais Head of Christ under his tutelage. Gregory’s sculpture was exhibited at the Salon des Tuileries in Paris in 1928.

While studying in Bourdelle’s studio, Gregory met and became lifelong friends with Joseph Campbell. In a letter to her father, she wrote of Campbell: “He’s a very nice boy — clean, open face — and rather unusual in that he doesn’t drink and doesn’t smoke. He declines very graciously — each time. It was indeed amusing to dance with a 20th century youth who has enthusiasm and zest, and talks heatedly about religions and 'what’s beauty?'" Gregory sculpted a portrait bust of Campbell in the studio and as she worked the clay, the Master would occasionally step in to provide a critique and a philosophical discourse on the nature of art. The two young people were both deeply affected and influenced by the words of the Master.

Gregory also reconnected Campbell with Krishnamurti, who was posing for a portrait bust for Bourdelle at the time. Meeting Krishna again and attending one of his lectures at the Theosophical Society with Gregory was an important turning point in Campbell’s life.

In February 2019, the University of South Carolina Press published a memoir of Angela Gregory's years in Paris, A Dream and a Chisel: Louisiana Sculptor Angela Gregory in Paris, 1925-1928, co-authored by Angela Gregory and Nancy L. Penrose.

Career

Gregory returned to New Orleans in 1928. The contrast with Paris was a shock: ”There was no music, no art. It was hot as Hades. There was nothing. I thought I would go out of my mind. But after a while I realized that if you don’t have it inside you, it doesn’t matter if you are here or in Paris.” She set up her own studio at the rear of her parents’ home on Pine Street. There, she worked for more than 50 years.

Her first major commission was at the young age of 25 and was for the architectural sculpture on the façade of the New Orleans Criminal District Courts Building. Upon completion, news reached as far as New York; the headline in the September 25, 1930 issue of the New York Sun read: Prison Walls Made Less Grim by Girl Sculptor, Who at 25 Executes Many Important Commissions.

In 1931, Gregory worked on a team of sculptors who executed historical panels for the façade of a new state capitol building in Baton Rouge built during the administrations of Governor Huey Long. Other work from this period includes a head of Aesculapius on the Hutchinson Memorial Building in Tulane Medical Center, sculpture for Tulane University’s McAlister Auditorium and many portrait busts. From 1934 to 1937 Gregory taught ceramics at Newcomb College and later was an artist-in-residence and sculpture professor there.

Gregory was involved in federal arts programs during the Depression. As part of that work, she created a monumental bust of John McDonogh which was installed in the municipal Duncan Plaza of New Orleans (1950s). In 1941, she became state supervisor of the Federal Works Progress Administration arts program in Louisiana.

During World War II she served as an assistant architectural engineer for the Army Corps of Engineers in New Orleans and designed camouflage. Later in that time period she served as women’s counselor for Pendleton Shipyards, and as a consultant to the Celotex Corporation. After the war she returned to sculpture. Commissions included bas-relief murals for the Louisiana National Bank in Baton Rouge. She also restored sculptures on New Orleans’ Gallier Hall.

In the 1950s, she devoted five years to the creation and casting of the bronze Bienville Monument, which stood outside the New Orleans train station on Loyola Avenue for many years. It now stands in a small park near the French Quarter, at the intersection of Decatur and Conti Streets. The monument portrays the first French governor and founder of New Orleans, a priest, and an Indian. Gregory spent two years in France supervising the casting of the monument.

Gregory was a professor and sculptor-in-residence for two decades at the St. Mary’s Dominican College in New Orleans, and was named professor emerita when she retired in 1976. During her years at Dominican, she created a series of aluminum and walnut panels tracing the life of Pope John XXIII at the Dominican College library. Other work of that era included a statue of St. Louis for the Archdiocese of New Orleans’ Notre Dame Seminary, and a statue of St. Fiacre in the garden of Christ Church Cathedral. In the early 1960s, she sculpted the monument to Henry Watkins Allen in Port Allen, Louisiana. Gregory is often credited with being one of the few women sculptors of her era to complete three public monuments.

Gregory’s Pine Street studio was a “meeting place for musicians, diplomats, distinguished guests from France, writers like close friend Thornton Wilder, and actors like Kirk Douglas, whose wedding reception was in her studio.”

Artistic analysis

Writing in the catalogue for A Retrospective Exhibition, Angela Gregory, Newcomb 1925, and A Collection of the Works of Selina E. Bres Gregory, Newcomb, 1896, Tulane Professor James Lamantia wrote of Angela Gregory: “Eschewing the overbearing rush toward abstraction so characteristic of the second quarter of our century, she had consistently embraced the natural image. The strength of this key decision she molds with her own personality, carrying it beyond the obvious influence of Bourdelle.”

Lamantia continues: “Her collaborations with architects can only be hinted at in a gallery display, yet are necessary to recognize in any assessment of her work since they represent an involvement inculcate in the broader objectives of the grand tradition.”

Artist’s statement

In a statement written by Gregory in 1985 for her entry in Virginia Watson-Jones' survey book of Contemporary American Women Sculptors, Gregory explained: “In my portrait busts and monuments, I have attempted to maintain a strong tectonic quality while being primarily interested in portraying the sensitive, subtle quality of the individual.”

Legacy

Gregory’s work has been exhibited at the Salon des Tuileries, at the National Gallery in Washington and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. She is also represented in private collections and several museums. In 1982 she was named Chevalier de L’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French minister of culture. Tulane University and Newcomb College each named her outstanding alumna. At the time of her death she was one of the few women fellows of the National Sculpture Society.


Brandon Village Hall and Library

The Brandon Village Hall and Library is located in Brandon, Wisconsin. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.

History
The building was originally constructed as retail building and cold storage plant. In 1897, it was purchased by the Village of Brandon. The village would transform the cold storage plant portions of the building to house meeting rooms and the fire department. Another portion of the building was still used for retail purposes until 1913, at which time the public library moved into the space. When the fire department moved to other quarters, that area became a garage. In 1973, the library expanded into the garage space. The meeting room areas later became the village hall. In 2001, the village hall portion became a museum for the Brandon Historical Society.


Hypericum galioides

Hypericum galioides, the bedstraw St. Johnswort, is a species of flowering plant in the St. John's wort family, Hypericaceae. It is endemic to the Southeastern United States.

Description
It is a slender, branching shrublet up to  tall with linear to oblanceolate leaves. The sessile leaves are  long and  across with mostly acute tips. The flowers are small, in terminal and axillary cymes, with very narrow sepals. Each flower is  in diameter with 5 bright yellow petals and 60–120 stamens. It flowers in the summer, between June and August. The 3-parted fruits are  long and ovoid.

Distribution and habitat
Hypericum galioides occurs in wet to moist habitats in the coastal plain of the southeastern United States. It has been recorded from North Carolina south to northern Florida and west to the eastern parts of Texas, but excluding most of the Mississippi delta. Habitat types include streambanks, swamps, river bottoms, floodplains, lake edges, wet pine forests, and ditches.


Coral Creek Airport

Coral Creek Airport (FAA LID: FA54) is a private-use airport located 2 miles (3 km) northeast of Boca Grande, a community on Gasparilla Island in southwest Florida, United States. The airport itself is located in Placida in Charlotte County (specifically, on the Cape Haze Peninsula), about a mile north of the separately-owned Coral Creek Club. The airport is privately owned by BK IV AS, L.L.C.

The airfield is composed of a single asphalt runway connected to a ramp and two hangars via a single taxiway. There is one FBO for the airport, known as Boca Grande Jet Center. The office is attached to the main hangar which is connected to the public road by a private driveway.

Services for the airport are restricted to members-only with limited guest accommodations. Permission is needed to land, however, the pattern is uncontrolled and there is no tower.

History
Coral Creek Airport opened as Rotonda International Airport in the mid 1960's. It was purchased in 2003 and, subsequently, made private.

In 2012, under new ownership, the 6000 foot runway, currently in place, was surfaced.

In the late hours of May 20, 2013, a group of burglars cut through a section of wire fence along the perimeter to gain entry onto the property. Using three large trucks, they left damage, stole a large quantity of diesel fuel, as well as a fuel pump. The group was unable to get inside the locked hangars. Upon leaving, one of the trucks had gotten stuck in mud caused by recent heavy rainfall and a front-end loader was used to free the vehicle. Repairs were made to the damaged areas of the airport and regular service was quickly back underway, as was the expansion project taking place at the time.

The expansion project saw the addition of a second hangar, now typically utilized for long-term car and plane storage. Total hangar area is 17,140 square feet.

Facilities
The runway is lit by pilot-controlled, medium intensity lights with PAPIs on the north and south ends. A rotating beacon light is located on the main hangar. Weather is reported via an AWOS III P/T station.

Both of the hangars are capable of holding Gulfstream/Global aircraft. There are six GA tiedowns on the ramp.

Boca Grande Jet Center is a full-service FBO that offers Jet-A, Jet-A w/ Prist, 100LL, GPU, and LAV. There are kitchen and shower facilities on the property, as well as internet in the main FBO office.

The FBO can also arrange rental cars and catering.

Activities
Due to the private nature of the airport and because it serves members on-demand, it is difficult to gather a consistent schedule or number of movements. Takeoffs and landings can range from few to several on any given day. Generally, peak season occurs between October and June, the period of business for the nearby Gasparilla Inn (guests of which, are given limited access to the airport).

Neither the airport nor the airspace is used for training purposes.

Aircraft
Common aircraft operating at the airport include:

 Beechcraft
 Super King Air
 Bombardier
Challenger
Global
Learjet
 Cessna
Citation
 Dassault
Falcon
 Embraer
Phenom
Legacy
 Gulfstream
 Hawker Beechcraft
 North American
Sabre 65
 Piaggio
 Avanti

The runway can accommodate aircraft with a gross weight up to 100,000 lbs.

While the airport does store aircraft when members fly in, there are none permanently based at the airport. All aircraft are privately owned or chartered by members.

Gallery


Port of Iloilo

The Port of Iloilo in Iloilo City, Philippines, serves the province and city of Iloilo and the entire Panay Island, in Western Visayas of the Philippines. It is located away from the older port facilities on the Southern coast of Panay Island, in the Panay Gulf, and one of the country’s safest and most natural harbors.  Guimaras Island shields the port from violent storms and makes it ideal for harboring ships and vessels.

Location
Iloilo harbor is part of the Iloilo Strait bounded to the north by a line stretching from the Dumangas River across the Iloilo Strait to Navalas Point on Guimaras Island and to the South line extending from the Lusaran Point, Guimaras Island to Surraga River in the municipality of San Joaquin on Panay.

Profile
The Port of Iloilo, considered the leader of trade and a commercial hub for Western Visayas is also one of the safest natural seaports in the Philippines.  The Iloilo Commercial Port Complex is located on 20.8 hectares of reclaimed land. It includes 11,400 sq. meters of open space for operations, supplemented by an area of 97,000 sq. meters, a crane, rails of 348 lineal meters; roll-on-roll-off support; a 7,800 container freight stations; and a 720 sq. meter passenger shed. The port complex is ideal for ships plying international routes having a berth length of 400 meters, a width of 26.26 meters and a berthing depth of 10.50 meters.

A number of shipping companies use the Port of Iloilo, including Lorenzo Shipping Corporation, 2GO, Amigo Shipping Company, New Panay Shipping Company, Sulpicio Lines, and Trans-Asia Shipping Lines Inc. Fast ferries serve Iloilo-Bacolod routes eight times daily. 2GO inter-island, overnight ferries serve longer routes, going to Manila, Bacolod, Cebu, Zamboanga and Cagayan de Oro City.  Pumpboat ferries cross the Iloilo Strait to Guimaras constantly during the day and on special trips at night.

Roll-on/roll-off ferry service, known as RO-RO, is available between Iloilo City and Guimaras, but the ro-ro to Negros leaves from Dumangas, Iloilo.

It is ranked third in terms of ship calls at 11,853, fourth in cargo throughout at 491,719 million metric tons and fourth in passenger traffic at 2.4 million annually.

History

The Port has been serving international shipping since at least 1855, handling sugar and fertilizer shipments for the international market. The opening of the Port of Iloilo to the world market on 29 September 1855 by Queen Isabella II of Spain, replaced the disappearing textile industry. When the Suez Canal opened in 1869, trade with the Europe, especially the United Kingdom, became much easier. Nicholas Loney, consul for the U.K., was particularly influential and Muelle Loney which is the quay that runs along the Iloilo River is named after him.

The sugar industry brought an economic boom to the city and its neighbor island, Negros, and Iloilo became the biggest center of commerce and trade in the Visayas and Mindanao, second only to Manila.  It was the only deep water port for both Iloilo and Bacolod, capital of Negros Occidental which lay 35 miles away across the Guimaras Strait. Therefore, nearly all the trade in sugar and rice from Negros, one of the riches islands in the country, was shipped through Iloilo in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Shipping firms and destinations

Cokaliong Shipping Lines: Cebu
Montenegro Shipping Lines: Cebu, Cuyo-Palawan, Puerto Princesa
2GO Travel: Bacolod, Cagayan de Oro, Davao, General Santos, Iligan, Manila, Ozamiz, Zamboanga
SuperCat: Bacolod
Ocean Jet: Bacolod
Weesam Express: Bacolod
Trans-Asia Shipping Lines: Cebu
FastCat:  Bacolod

Facilities

Bunkers are available from Pilipinas Shell, Petroleum Corporation, Caltex Philippines Inc. and Petrophil Corporation.

Data

The Port of Iloilo also offers Open Storage facilities, Data listed below:


Rhoadsia

Rhoadsia is a genus of characins endemic to river basins in western Ecuador.  There are currently two described species in this genus.

Species
 Rhoadsia altipinna Fowler, 1911
 Rhoadsia minor C. H. Eigenmann & Henn, 1914


Forest Hills (Tampa)

Forest Hills is a neighborhood partially within the city limits of Tampa, Florida, United States, with the northern portion located in unincorporated Hillsborough County near Lake Magdalene. In 1926 a golf course and club house was built there. In 1949, "Babe" Zaharias  bought the clubhouse and golf course, and may have lived in the clubhouse for a time. She moved to a house nearby in 1954. In 1956, she died of cancer in Galveston, Texas and the course closed.

The area was mainly a citrus grove until residential development began in the 1950s and 1960s. A developer from Miami wanted to buy the golf course land, but the City of Tampa decided to buy it and restore it. In 1974 the course was reopened. Since then it has been renovated, the courses were rebuilt and an irrigation system added.

In recent years, some of the older, smaller homes in Forest Hills have been replaced by bigger homes of larger square footages. This has been particularly the case with properties located around the lakes and ponds in Forest Hills located west of North Boulevard and north of Country Club Drive. The area, essentially close-in suburb of Tampa city proper, remains popular with both new arrivals to the Tampa area and native Tampans alike.

Forest Hills still contains the golf course named after Babe Zaharias, a public golf course owned by City of Tampa. The neighborhood has its branch post office with a ZIP Code of 33612. The population was 4,734 at the 2000 census.

The neighborhood was designed in 1926 along with the golf course (originally called "Golfland Country Club") and remains to this day largely as designed back then.

Education
The schools serving this area are as follows:
Forest Hills Elementary
Lake Magdalene Elementary
Adams Middle School
Chamberlain High School


Defiance Records

Defiance Records was a record label based in Cologne, Germany, which was the German and European distributor of several American and international post-hardcore and punk bands. The label was founded in 1994 and closed down in 2013.

Artists

List of artists that signed with Defiance Records

 Alesana
 Alexisonfire
 Ambrose
 As Friends Rust
 The Cable Car Theory
 Clarity Process
 The Coalfield
 The Copperpot Journals
 The Data Break
 Delorean
 Down In Frustration
 Engrave
 Face the Enemy
 Gameface
 Hot Water Music
 Haste
 Hopeful
 It's Not Not
 Joshua
 Jude the Obscure
 Kevin Devine
 Limbeck
 Miracle of 86
 The National Anthems
 Never Surrender
 New End Original
 One Man and His Droid
 Pale
 Portugal. The Man
 Piebald
 Reno Kid
 River City High
 Solea
 Standstill
 The Stereo
 Three Minute Poetry
 Wedekind

Discography
1999: Pale Another Smart Move (with Soda Records)
2001: Pale Razzmatazz (The Arts at the Sands)
2002: Pale How to Survive Chance


Rockowitz

Rockowitz is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

 Bruce Rockowitz (born 1958/59), American businessman
 Glenn Rockowitz (born 1970), American writer, filmmaker, comedian and voice actor


United Nations Security Council Resolution 1272

United Nations Security Council resolution 1272 was adopted unanimously on 25 October 1999, after recalling previous resolutions on East Timor (Timor Leste), particularly resolutions 384 (1975), 389 (1976), 1236 (1999), 1246 (1999), 1262 (1999) and 1264 (1999). The Council established the United Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor (UNTAET) that was responsible for the administration of the territory until its independence in 2002.

Resolution

Observations
The Security Council noted the decision of the East Timorese people in the Special Autonomy Referendum to begin a process of transition under United Nations administration towards independence. The International Force for East Timor (INTERFET) was now deployed and continued co-operation was needed between the Indonesian government and INTERFET. Meanwhile, the Council was concerned at the deteriorating humanitarian situation as a result of violence in East Timor which had caused large-scale displacement of civilians and widespread violations of international humanitarian and human rights law.

Acts
Acting under Chapter VII of the United Nations Charter, the Council authorised the establishment of UNTAET which would have full responsibility for the administration of East Timor and control of the executive, legislative and the administration of justice. UNTAET would also maintain law and order, assist in the development of the civil services, facilitate the delivery of humanitarian assistance, support capacity-building and establish an effective administration and conditions for sustainable development. The main components of UNTAET would consist of:

(a) a governance and public administration component including 1,640 police;
(b) a humanitarian component;
(c) a military component with 8,950 troops and 200 military observers.

Additionally, UNTAET was authorised to take all necessary measures to fulfill its mandate. The Secretary-General Kofi Annan was to appoint a Special Representative to head the operation and who would have the power to make new laws and suspend or repeal existing ones.

The Council stressed the need for co-operation between UNTAET, INTERFET and the local population with a view to the establishment of an independent human rights institution among others. INTERFET would also be replaced by the military component of UNTAET. There was a need for humanitarian and reconstruction assistance, including the issue of refugees and displaced persons resettling in either West Timor or East Timor, and acts of violence were condemned. The Secretary-General was to establish a Trust Fund to finance international assistance, and was requested to provide regular updates on all aspects of the situation in East Timor.


Backsword

A backsword is a type of sword characterised by having a single-edged blade and a hilt with a single-handed grip. It is so called because the triangular cross section gives a flat back edge opposite the cutting edge. Later examples often have a "false edge" on the back near the tip, which was in many cases sharpened to make an actual edge and facilitate thrusting attacks. From around the early 14th century the backsword became the first type of European sword to be fitted with a knuckle guard.

The term "backsword" can also refer to the singlestick, which is used to train for fighting with the backsword, or to the sport or art of fighting in this fashion.

Being easier and cheaper to make than double-edged swords, backswords became the favored sidearm of common infantry, including irregulars such as the Highland Scots, which in Scottish Gaelic were called the claidheamh cuil (back sword), after one of several terms for the distinct types of weapons they used. Backswords were often the secondary weapons of European cavalrymen beginning in the 17th century.


Yuuka Yano

is a Japanese actress. She played the role of Fuka Igasaki (Shiro Ninger) in the 2015 Super Sentai TV series Shuriken Sentai Ninninger.

Biography
In 2014, Yano won the  1st Uniforms Women & Men's Contest modelling competition.

In 2015, Yano acted in her first television role as Fuka Igasaki/Shironinger in the 39th Super Sentai series, Shuriken Sentai Ninninger.

FIlmography

TV series

Films


Trombipulation

Trombipulation is a 1980 album by the funk band Parliament (see 1980 in music). It was released by Casablanca Records. It was the last album of original material produced by the group for 38 years until Medicaid Fraud Dogg in 2018. Unlike previous Parliament albums, George Clinton did not serve as sole producer of the album, as other P-Funk figures assisted in producing individual tracks. Bassist Bootsy Collins emerged as the principal musician on this album, playing virtually all of the instruments on a number of tracks.  The track "Let's Play House" was sampled by the Hip-Hop group Digital Underground for their single "The Humpty Dance".

While Trombipulation wasn't as commercially successful as previous Parliament albums, its first single,  "Agony of DeFeet" peaked at number 7 on the Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs charts.

Track listing
 "Crush It" – 3:51 (released as single Casablanca NB 2330, then as a 12" single-Casablanca NB 20235)
 "Trombipulation" – 4:34
 "Long Way Around" – 5:40
"Agony of Defeet"  – 6:23 (released as single Casablanca NB 2317, then as a promotional 12" single-Casablanca NBD 20232 )
"New Doo Review" – 5:55
"Let's Play House" – 3:39
"Body Language" – 5:57 (released as the b-side to "Crush It")
"Peek-a-Groove" – 7:48

Personnel
Bass: Bootsy Collins, Donnie Sterling, Lige Curry, Jimmie Ali
Guitars: Bootsy Collins, Tony Thomas, Michael Hampton, Gordon Carlton, Jerome Ali
Drums: Bootsy Collins, Lonnie Greene, Tyrone Lampkin, Kenny Colton
Keyboards: Bernie Worrell, David Lee Chong, Michael Hampton, Manon Saulsby, Ernestro Wilson
Horns: Fred Wesley, Larry Hatcher, Bennie Cowan, Greg Thomas, Maceo Parker, Richard Griffith, Darryl Dixon, David Taylor, Barry Taylor, Barry Rogers, Danny Cahn, David Tofani, John Mical, David Majali, Randy Brecker, Michael Brecker
Vocals: Dr. Funk, Garry Shider, Ray Davis, Michael "Clip" Payne, Lige Curry, Jerome Rodgers, Larry Hatcher, Robert Johnson, Ron Dunbar, Jeanette McGruder, Dawn Silva, Sheila Horne, Mallia Franklin, Shirley Hayden, Janice Evans, Jeanette Washington, Gwen Dozier, Cheryl James, Ron Ford, Patty Walker, Andre Williams, Stevie Pannell, Kevin Shider, Tracey "Trey Lewd" Lewis, Tony Davis, Philippe Wynne, Jessica Cleaves, Donnie Sterling, Tony Thomas, Lonnie Greene, Nina Hoover, Linda Shider, Larry Heckstall, Dawn Driver, Ronni Faust, Godmoma, Junie Morrison, Bootsy Collins.


Sing Me a Song (Miriam Makeba album)

Sing Me a Song is a 1994 album by Miriam Makeba. It was her first album recorded in South Africa, in a studio in Mmabatho, Bophuthatswana.

Track listing
Sing Me a Song
Bass Rap
N'Diarabi
Moody Moods
Thula Mntanami
Generation Rap
Known Unsung Hero
I Long to Return
Serenade Me
Bambarana
Choo Choo Train / Shuku Shuku
Ivory Song
My People
Laktushona Ilanga
Good Grunge
Prendre Un Enfant


Abdominal trauma

Abdominal trauma is an injury to the abdomen. Signs and symptoms include abdominal pain, tenderness, rigidity, and bruising of the external abdomen. Complications may include blood loss and infection.

Diagnosis may involve ultrasonography, computed tomography, and peritoneal lavage, and treatment may involve surgery. It is divided into two types blunt or penetrating and may involve damage to the abdominal organs. Injury to the lower chest may cause splenic or liver injuries.

Signs and symptoms

Signs and symptoms are not seen in early days and after some days initial pain is seen. People injured in motor vehicle collisions may present with a "seat belt sign", bruising on the abdomen along the site of the lap portion of the safety belt; this sign is associated with a high rate of injury to the abdominal organs. Seatbelts may also cause abrasions and hematomas; up to 30 percent of people with such signs have associated internal injuries. Early indications of abdominal trauma include nausea, vomiting, blood in the urine, and fever.  The injury may present with abdominal pain, tenderness, distension, or rigidity to the touch, and bowel sounds may be diminished or absent. Abdominal guarding is a tensing of the abdominal wall muscles to guard inflamed organs within the abdomen. Pneumoperitoneum, air or gas in the abdominal cavity, may be an indication of rupture of a hollow organ. In penetrating injuries, an evisceration (protrusion of internal organs out of a wound) may be present.

Injuries associated with intra-abdominal trauma include rib fractures, vertebral fractures, pelvic fractures, and injuries to the abdominal wall.

Causes
Motor vehicle collisions are a common source of blunt abdominal trauma. Seat belts reduce the incidence of injuries such as head injury and chest injury, but present a threat to such abdominal organs as the pancreas and the intestines, which may be displaced or compressed against the spinal column.  Children are especially vulnerable to abdominal injury from seat belts, because they have softer abdominal regions and seat belts were not designed to fit them.  In children, bicycle mishaps are also a common cause of abdominal injury, especially when the abdomen is struck by the handlebars.  Sports injuries can affect abdominal organs such as the spleen and kidneys.  Falls and sports are also frequent mechanisms of abdominal injury in children. Abdominal injury may result from child abuse and is the second leading cause of child abuse-related death, after traumatic brain injury.

Gunshot wounds, which are higher energy than stab wounds, are usually more damaging than the latter. Gunshot wounds that penetrate the peritoneum result in significant damage to major intra-abdominal structures in some 90 percent of cases.

Pathophysiology
Abdominal trauma can be life-threatening because abdominal organs, especially those in the retroperitoneal space, can bleed profusely, and the space can hold a great deal of blood.  Solid abdominal organs, such as the liver and kidneys, bleed profusely when cut or torn, as do major blood vessels such as the aorta and vena cava.  Hollow organs such as the stomach, while not as likely to result in shock from profuse bleeding, present a serious risk of infection, especially if such an injury is not treated promptly.  Gastrointestinal organs such as the bowel can spill their contents into the abdominal cavity.  Hemorrhage and systemic infection are the main causes of deaths that result from abdominal trauma.

One or more of the intra-abdominal organs may be injured in abdominal trauma. The characteristics of the injury are determined in part by which organ or organs are injured.

Liver

The liver, the most vulnerable abdominal organ to all forms of injury because of its size and location (in the upper right quadrant of the abdomen), is injured in about five percent of all people admitted to a hospital for trauma. Liver injuries present a serious risk for shock because the liver tissue is delicate and has a large blood supply and capacity. In children, the liver is the most commonly injured abdominal organ.  The liver may be lacerated or contused, and a hematoma may develop.  It may leak bile, usually without serious consequences.  If severely injured, the liver may cause exsanguination (bleeding to death), requiring emergency surgery to stop the bleeding.

Spleen
Spleen is the most common cause of massive bleeding in blunt abdominal trauma to a solid organ. Spleen is the most commonly injured organ. The spleen is the second most commonly injured intra-abdominal organ in children.  A laceration of the spleen may be associated with hematoma.  Because of the spleen's ability to bleed profusely, a ruptured spleen can be life-threatening, resulting in shock.  However, unlike the liver, penetrating trauma to the spleen, pancreas and kidneys do not present as much of an immediate threat of shock unless they lacerate a major blood vessel supplying the organs, such as the renal artery.  Fractures of the left lower ribs are associated with spleen lacerations in 20 percent of cases.

Pancreas
The pancreas may be injured in abdominal trauma, for example by laceration or contusion. Pancreatic injuries, most commonly caused by bicycle accidents (especially by impact with the handlebars) in children and vehicular accidents in adults, usually occur in isolation in children and accompanied by other injuries in adults.  Indications that the pancreas is injured include enlargement and the presence of fluid around the pancreas.

Kidneys

The kidneys may also be injured; they are somewhat but not completely protected by the ribs. Kidney lacerations and contusions may also occur.  Kidney injury, a common finding in children with blunt abdominal trauma, may be associated with bloody urine.  Kidney lacerations may be associated with urinoma or leakage of urine into the abdomen. A shattered kidney is one with multiple lacerations and an associated fragmentation of the kidney tissue.

Bowel
The small intestine takes up a large part of the abdomen and is likely to be damaged in penetrating injury.  The bowel may be perforated. Gas within the abdominal cavity seen on CT is understood to be a diagnostic sign of bowel perforation; however intra-abdominal air can also be caused by pneumothorax (air in the pleural cavity outside the lungs that has escaped from the respiratory system) or pneumomediastinum (air in the mediastinum, the center of the chest cavity).  The injury may not be detected on CT.  Bowel injury may be associated with complications such as infection, abscess, bowel obstruction, and the formation of a fistula.  Bowel perforation requires surgery.

Diagnosis

Ten percent of people with polytrauma who had no signs of abdominal injury did have evidence of such injuries using radiological imaging. Diagnostic techniques used include CT scanning, ultrasound, and X-ray. X-ray can help determine the path of a penetrating object and locate any foreign matter left in the wound, but may not be helpful in blunt trauma.  Diagnostic laparoscopy or exploratory laparotomy may also be performed if other diagnostic methods do not yield conclusive results.

Ultrasound
Ultrasound can detect fluid such as blood or gastrointestinal contents in the abdominal cavity, and it is a noninvasive procedure and relatively safe. CT scanning is the preferred technique for people who are not at immediate risk of shock, but since ultrasound can be performed right in an emergency room, the latter is recommended for people who are not stable enough to move to CT scanning. A normal ultrasound does not rule out all injuries.

CT
People with abdominal trauma frequently need CT scans for other trauma (for example, head or chest CT); in these cases abdominal CT can be performed at the same time without wasting time in patient care.

CT is able to detect 76% of hollow viscous injuries so people who have negative scans are often observed and rechecked if they deteriorate. However, CT has been demonstrated to be useful in screening people with certain forms of abdominal trauma in order to avoid unnecessary laparotomies, which can significantly increase the cost and length of hospitalizations. A meta-analysis of CT use in penetrating abdominal traumas demonstrated sensitivity, specificity and accuracy >= 95%, with a PPV of 85% and an NPV of 98%. This suggests that CT is excellent for avoiding unnecessary laparotomies but must be augmented by other clinical criteria to determine the need for surgical exploration (23.37 positive likelihood ratio, 0.05 negative likelihood ratio).

Peritoneal lavage

Diagnostic peritoneal lavage is a controversial technique but can be used to detect injury to abdominal organs: a catheter is placed in the peritoneal cavity, and if fluid is present, it is aspirated and examined for blood or evidence of organ rupture.  If this does not reveal evidence of injury, sterile saline is infused into the cavity and evacuated and examined for blood or other material.  While peritoneal lavage is an accurate way to test for bleeding, it carries a risk of injuring the abdominal organs, may be difficult to perform, and may lead to unnecessary surgery; thus it has largely been replaced by ultrasound in Europe and North America.

Classification
Abdominal trauma is divided into blunt and penetrating types.  While penetrating abdominal trauma (PAT) is usually diagnosed based on clinical signs, diagnosis of blunt abdominal trauma is more likely to be delayed or altogether missed because clinical signs are less obvious.  Blunt injuries predominate in rural areas, while penetrating ones are more frequent in urban settings.  Penetrating trauma is further subdivided into stab wounds and gunshot wounds, which require different methods of treatment.

Treatment
Initial treatment involves stabilizing the patient enough to ensure adequate airway, breathing, and circulation, and identifying other injuries.  Surgery may be needed to repair injured organs. Surgical exploration is necessary for people with penetrating injuries and signs of peritonitis or shock.  Laparotomy is often performed in blunt abdominal trauma, and is urgently required if an abdominal injury causes a large, potentially deadly bleed. The main goal is to stop any sources of bleeding before moving onto any definitive find and repair any injuries that are found. Due to the time sensitive nature, this procedure also emphasizes expedience in terms of gaining access and controlling the bleeding, thus favoring a long midline incession. Intra-abdominal injuries are also frequently successfully treated nonoperatively as there is little benefit shown if there is no known active bleeding or potential for infection. The use of CT scanning allows care providers to use less surgery because they can identify injuries that can be managed conservatively and rule out other injuries that would need surgery.  Depending on the injuries, a patient may or may not need intensive care.

Prognosis
If abdominal injury is not diagnosed promptly, a worse outcome is associated.  Delayed treatment is associated with an especially high morbidity and mortality if perforation of the gastrointestinal tract is involved.

Epidemiology
Most deaths resulting from abdominal trauma are preventable; abdominal trauma is one of the most common causes of preventable, trauma-related deaths.


Michele Zaza

Michele Zaza (; Procida, April 10, 1945 – Rome, July 18, 1994) was a member of the Camorra criminal organisation who was also initiated in the Sicilian Mafia. He headed the Zaza clan (later Mazzarella clan) in Naples. Zaza was known as ’O Pazzo (the madman) due to his outspoken and implausible public statements. He was one of the first Camorristi to emerge as a powerful organiser of the cigarette contraband industry in the 1960s and 1970s.

Early career
A son of a fisherman from Procida (the smallest of the three islands in the Gulf of Naples) he grew up in the poor neighbourhood Portici in Naples. The second of three brothers, Zaza had a troubled youth with involvement in burglaries, fighting, and even attempted murder. His had his first encounter with the law in 1961 when he was arrested for being involved in a street fight. In the 1960s, he became the leader of a successful cigarette smuggling group through the port of Naples besides the other predominant group, the Maisto clan. With his relatives, the Mazzarella family, he controlled the zones from San Giovanni a Teduccio to Santa Lucia.

By 1974 there was evidence that he had risen in the criminal underworld when he was arrested with important Mafiosi like Gerlando Alberti, Stefano Bontade and Rosario Riccobono. Soon after that he was arrested in Palermo with Mafia boss Alfredo Bono for illegal possession of firearms. Zaza was an extravagant and prolific cigarette smuggler. He once described his activities during questioning by an investigating magistrate: “First I’d sell five cases of Philip Morris, then ten, then a thousand, then three thousand, and I bought myself six or seven ships that you took away from me… I used to load fifty thousand cases a month… I could load a hundred thousand cases, US$10 million on thrust; all I had to do was make a phone call… I’d buy US$24 million worth of Philip Morris in three months. My lawyer will show you the receipts. I’m proud of that - US$24 million!”

King of the blondes
As the major Camorra cigarette smuggler of the 1970s and 1980s, Michele Zaza once said: “At least 700,000 people live off contraband, which is for Naples what Fiat is to Turin. They have called me the Agnelli of Naples… Yes – it could all be eliminated in thirty minutes. And then those who work would be finished. They’d all become thieves, robbers, muggers. Naples would become the worst city in the world. Instead, this city should thank the twenty, thirty men who arrange for ships laden with cigarettes to be discharged and thus stop crime!” (The Agnelli referred to is Gianni Agnelli, president of Fiat, the Turin-based car multinational) The profit margins were lucrative: in 1959 a case of Chesterfield, Camel or Pall Mall was bought for US$23 and sold on the streets for US$170.

In 1961 the Free Port of Tangiers in Morocco, a smuggling restocking base for cigarettes, was closed. The illegal trade in the Mediterranean shifted towards the Yugoslavian and Albanian coasts. This relocation greatly benefited the Camorra. Naples had an ideal strategic position in the Mediterranean and easy access to the Yugoslavian and Albanian coastlines, and took over as the major transit point for smuggled goods. It transformed Naples into the smuggling capital of the Mediterranean. Mother ships carrying the illegal cigarette loads hid just behind Capri. At night small blue speedboats (motoscafi) came to off-load the goods, avoiding Custom control.

The Zaza clan managed to take advantage of this situation. Zaza became known as 'the King of the blondes', as cigarettes are called in French and Italian slang, and ran a fully multinational operation together with his brother Salvatore. The two main tobacco multinationals, Philip Morris (Marlboro) and Reynolds (Camel and Winston), through concessionaires in Basel, Switzerland, supplied the merchandise without much questions asked. In the early 1970s, 20 to 40 speedboats off-loaded cases of cigarettes from motherships every day.

Initiated in Cosa Nostra
To secure their share in the thriving illicit cigarette smuggling industry the Sicilian Mafia initiated Neapolitans into their organisation. Zaza together with Lorenzo Nuvoletta and Antonio Bardellino were sworn in to seal a pact on cigarette smuggling in 1975. Zaza was associated to Tommaso Spadaro, linked to Mafia boss Stefano Bontade. All three Neapolitans were regional representatives of the Mafia and were represented by Michele Greco on the Sicilian Mafia Commission.

Several Camorra and Mafia clans struck a deal on the division of the shiploads of contraband cigarettes at a meeting in 1974 in Marano, the stronghold of Camorra boss Lorenzo Nuvoletta. The deal lasted from 1974 to 1979 when a new and more profitable arrangement was made. It consisted of a rotation system of off-loading turns: four teams of off-loading turns made up of both Neapolitans and Sicilians, helped each other smuggle, off-load and distribute the goods. The off-loading became more efficient and coordinated and helped seal some solid business relations and friendships. The Camorra and their Sicilian partners were smuggling cigarettes by the shiploads. Zaza later admitted he was dealing in 50,000 cases of Marlboros a month.

Zaza’s cunning helped him to slowly emerge from the shadow of his Mafia protectors. The Marano agreement between Sicilians and Neapolitans was wound up at a second Marano meeting in 1979, partly because Zaza had become uncontrollable. Mafia supergrass Tommaso Buscetta remembered: “According to what Stefano Bontade told me, laughing, Michele Zaza used every trick in the book to unload his own cigarettes rather than those of the Palermo families.”

Camorra war
At the end of the 1970s two different types of Camorra organisations were beginning to take shape. On the hand there was the Nuova Camorra Organizzata (NCO) under the leadership of Raffaele Cutolo. The NCO type gangs were mainly involved in cocaine dealing and protection rackets, preserving a strong regional sense of identity. In contrast, the business-oriented gangs linked to the Mafia like Zaza’s organisation, were involved in cigarette smuggling and heroin trafficking, but soon moved on to invest in real estate and construction firms, in particular when the reconstruction after the November 1980 Irpinia earthquake provided ample opportunity to rake off public contracts.

Cutolo’s NCO was becoming more powerful by encroaching and taking over other clan’s territories and was able to break the traditional power held by single Camorra families. The NCO was too violent to be confronted by any of the families that were initially too weak and divided, and easy to intimidate. If other criminal groups wanted to keep their business, they were obliged to pay the NCO protection on their activities, including a percentage for each case of cigarettes smuggled into Naples. This procedure came to be known as ICA (Imposta Camorra Aggiunta – or Camorristic Sale Tax), copying the state VAT sale tax IVA (Imposta sul Valore Aggiunto).

Zaza had to pay Cutolo US$400,000 for the right to carry on operating in contraband cigarettes. He allegedly paid more than 4 billion lire (US$3 million) to the NCO in the first months after the criminal tax was imposed. To oppose Cutolo and his NCO, Zaza formed a 'honourable brotherhood' (Onorata fratellanza) in 1978, in an attempt to get the Mafia-aligned Camorra gangs united, although initially without much success. A year later, in 1979, the Nuova Famiglia was formed to contrast Cutolo’s NCO, consisting of Zaza, the Nuvoletta’s and Antonio Bardellino from Casal Di Principe (the Casalesi clan). From 1980-1983 a bloody war raged in and around Naples, which left several hundred dead and severely weakened the NCO.

Drug trafficking
Zaza’s success was due to the fact that he was more involved in smuggling (first cigarettes and later drugs) and less interested in traditional Camorra extortion activities. He invested his illegal money in legitimate businesses like real estate, construction companies and restaurants. He was involved in the Pizza Connection heroin smuggling network of the early 1980s, and his name came up in connection with a September 1982 Paris meeting with other Mafiosi in which a 600 kg package of cocaine held in Brazil was discussed. In 1982, with the DEA on his tail, he allegedly was involved in importing 93 kg of heroin to his mansion in Beverly Hills in cooperation with Mafia boss Antonio Salamone. However, the DEA could not find the shipment. Zaza got his heroin supplies from the Corsican gangster Gaetano Zampa, based in Marseille.

In 1982, with police raiding heroin refineries in Sicily and a raging Mafia war, Zaza is believed to have set up a refinery on his own in the French city of Rouen, with support of contacts from the old French Connection heroin refiners and the right contacts with the Sicilian Mafia, such as Giuseppe Bono in New York, Salamone and the Cuntrera-Caruana Mafia clan. He bought the premises worth $2 million. Zaza hoped to make a profit of between US$20,000 and $32,000 a day until the scheme was interrupted by his arrest on December 11, 1982, in Rome.

Immediately after his arrest his health deteriorated and cardiologists believed his situation alarming. He was placed under house arrest. On February 15, 1983, he received another arrest warrant in connection with the Italian end of the Pizza Connection (with Giuseppe Bono and the Cuntrera-Caruana Mafia clan as well as his father-in-law Giuseppe Liguori). However, Zaza, fled his house arrest in December 1983 and moved to Paris. There, he was arrested again on April 16, 1984, with Nunzio Barbarossa. He was again extradited to Italy. Due to his heart condition he again avoided prison.

Moving to France
After his release in Italy, Zaza moved his base of operations to the South of France to avoid harassment from Italian authorities (particularly new laws which allow the seizure of assets whose origin cannot be accounted for). Until his arrest in Nice on March 14, 1989 (following the discovery of a lorry carrying 500,000 packets of contraband cigarettes), he appears to have engaged in top-level criminal activity, apparently hosting a Camorra drugs summit at the Elysée Palace hotel in Nice in February 1989. In 1990 Zaza’s associates, in particular his father-in-law Liguori, almost managed to buy the casino at Menton, on the French side of the Franco-Italian border.

In July 1991, a French court sentenced him to three years for cigarette smuggling. Benefiting from a French law that facilitates the release of prisoners who already have served half their sentence, Zaza was released in November 1991, while Italian authorities asked for his extradition for Mafia association, drug trafficking and cigarette smuggling.

Last arrest and death
In March 1993, police dismantled a Cosa Nostra-Camorra ring of 39 people involved in cocaine trafficking and money laundering in Italy, France and Germany (Operation Green Sea). Zaza was arrested in Villeneuve-Loubet on the French Riviera near Nice in Southern France. He was extradited from France on March 27, 1994.

On July 18, 1994, he died of a heart attack in a Rome hospital where he had been transferred from the Rebibbia prison. His nephew Ciro Mazzarella, who had remained in Naples to control the territory, succeeded Zaza as the head of the clan, which began to be called Mazzarella clan, and no longer Zaza clan.

Immensely wealthy
Due to his illicit trafficking enterprises, Zaza became immensely wealthy. When he was arrested police found cheques worth US$950,000 in his pockets. By 1989 the US Treasury Department estimated his assets in the US alone were worth US$3.2 million. At the same time the FBI also estimated that he had US$15 million deposited in Swiss banks. His daughter was the nominal owner of a ten-bedroom villa in Beverly Hills, a Paris flat, a villa just outside Nice and real estate in Naples. According to newspaper reports his wealth amounted to 700 billion lire (US$700 million) at the time of his death.

He was survived by his wife Anna Maria Liguori, a former university student with a French mother, and three children, living in Rome with their mother, attending the American school without connections to their father’s illegal business.


Ed's Next Move

Ed's Next Move is a 1996 American romantic comedy film written and directed by John C. Walsh. It stars Matt Ross and Callie Thorne.  A micro-budget romantic comedy about a transplanted Midwesterner adapting to life in New York's East Village, the film appeared at the 1996 Sundance Film Festival where it received critical praise and was picked up by Orion Classics for theatrical release.  The LA Times Kenneth Turan called the movie "one of the most appealing, audience friendly films at Sundance,"  while Roger Ebert referred to the film as "a truth telling comedy with quiet wit and bright dialogue. Sight & Sound called it "a perfectly formed romantic comedy."


Tomopleura carrota

Tomopleura carrota is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Borsoniidae.

Description

Distribution
This marine species is endemic to Australia and occurs off New South Wales.