Electoral results for the district of Polwarth

This is a list of electoral results for the Electoral district of Polwarth in Victorian state elections.

Members for Polwarth

Election results

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John Smith's Brewery

John Smith's Brewery in Tadcaster, North Yorkshire, England, produces beers including John Smith's, the highest selling bitter in the United Kingdom since the mid-1990s.

The majority of John Smith's sales are of the nitrogenated Extra Smooth product, although a cask conditioned variant is available nationally. A stronger variant called Magnet is also available in the North East of England. John Smith's Cask and Magnet are produced under licence by Cameron's in Hartlepool.

John Smith acquired the Backhouse & Hartley brewery in 1852. Following a series of acquisitions in the post-World War II period, the company became one of the largest regional brewers in the country, operating over 1,800 licensed premises. The company was taken over by Courage in 1970 who extended distribution of the brewery's products into the South of England. Courage was acquired by Scottish & Newcastle in 1995, and the operations were purchased by Heineken in 2008.

John Smith's Extra Smooth and Original are produced at the Tadcaster brewery, as well as a range of Heineken products including Kronenbourg 1664 and Amstel. With a 38 million litre capacity, the brewery is one of the largest in the country.

John Smith's became well known for a series of highly successful "No Nonsense"-themed television advertising campaigns, featuring the dour Yorkshireman character "Arkwright" during the 1970s and 1980s (shown only in the South of England), followed by the comedians Jack Dee during the 1990s and Peter Kay since 2002. The brand also has an association with horse racing: it was the principal sponsor of the Grand National between 2005 and 2013, the Northumberland Plate from 2003 until 2016, and has sponsored the John Smith's Cup since 1960.

History

Early years

Stephen Hartley began brewing in Tadcaster in 1758. In 1845 Jane Hartley mortgaged the brewery to David Backhouse and John Hartley. In 1847, Samuel Smith of Leeds arranged for his son John to enter the business. Jane Hartley died in 1852, and John Smith acquired the business, enlisting his brother William to help him. The timing was to prove fortuitous; pale ales were displacing porter as the beer of choice, and Tadcaster's hard water proved to be well-suited for brewing the new style. The prosperity of the 1850s and 1860s, together with the arrival of the railways, realised greater opportunities for brewers, and by 1861 John Smith employed eight men in his brewing and malting enterprise.

The operations became sizeable during the last quarter of the nineteenth century. Smith died in 1879, leaving an estate valued at under £45,000 (around £4.1 million in 2016 adjusted for inflation), and his assets were jointly inherited by his two brothers, William and Samuel Smith (a tanner). William purchased Samuel's share of his brother's personal estate, and built a modern brewery in 1883–4 at the cost of £130,000 (£9.7 million in 2013). By this time the company had a staff of over 100. William Smith died in 1886, and the firm was inherited in partnership by his two nephews, Henry Herbert (1863–1911) and Frank Riley, henceforth known as Riley-Smith under the terms of his will.

The firm expanded throughout the 1880s by creating an agency network, establishing sixteen offices in nearby settlements, and offering free trade discounts on their beer of 20 percent or higher. By 1889, the brewery was producing 150,000 barrels annually. In 1889, the company's first scientifically-trained head brewer was appointed, Percy Clinch, son of Charles Clinch of the Eagle Brewery in Witney. In 1892, the partnership became a limited company called John Smith's Tadcaster Brewery Company Limited, with Henry Herbert Riley-Smith as chairman. In 1899 the company acquired Simpson & Co of Market Weighton, with 51 public houses, and converted the brewery into a maltings.

By the turn of the century the brewery was considered to be one of the best-run in Britain, "a byword for first-class management". In 1907, John Marples of Sheffield, the wines and spirits distributor, was acquired. In 1907, the company began to bottle its own beer, in Tadcaster. In 1912, the company owned over 250 horses, 41 of which saw service during the First World War. Artificially carbonated beer was first bottled in 1923. Paired horse drays were phased out by 1929. During and for some time after the World Wars, the Government raised the duty on beer, and forced brewers to lower their beer strength. During this period, substitutes for malted barley had to be used for brewing, including flaked barley, oats and rye.

The last of the company's dray horses was retired in 1947. Horses had delivered beer to all the areas surrounding the brewery, as far afield as Pateley Bridge. From 1948 the company exported beer to Belgium where it was bottled and distributed by Tilkens brewery. In 1950 there was a general strike in Belgium, and John Smith's hired two Handley Page Halifax heavy bomber aircraft to carry 7 ton loads twice-daily of their beers into the country in order to ensure supply. In 1953 the firm became a public company, with fixed assets of around £5 million, 1,000 licensed premises and around 1,100 employees. In 1958, Whitworth, Son & Nephew of Wath-upon-Dearne was acquired with 165 licensed houses, and the brewery was immediately closed down. In 1959 the company began to bottle imported Alken lager at Tadcaster, in response to growing customer demand. In 1961 the company also began to bottle Carlsberg lager. By 1960 the company had an estate of 909 public houses.

In 1961, John Smith's acquired the Barnsley Brewery Company, adding 250 licensed properties to their growing estate. The company acquired Warwicks & Richardsons of Newark-on-Trent, with 474 pubs, in 1962. Whilst some product rationalisation took place, popular lines such as Warwicks' Milk Maid Stout were retained. John Smith's closed down all the breweries it acquired, apart from Barnsley, where it invested in the brewery, and added production of John Smith beers to the site, as well as increasing the distribution of Barnsley Bitter. As a result of acquisitions, by 1967 John Smith's was the third largest regional brewer in the country after Courage and Scottish & Newcastle, with fixed assets of £30 million. Acquisitions diluted the Riley-Smith family stake in the company to around 10 percent.

1970–present: Courage takeover and the growth of John Smith's Bitter

In October 1970, Courage purchased John Smith's in a friendly takeover which valued the company at £40 million (equivalent to £ million in ). By this time John Smith's owned around 1,800 licensed premises throughout the north of England, and as far south as Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire and parts of Cambridgeshire and Shropshire. The merged company held assets worth £137 million. By combining Courage's strength in the South of England, and John Smith's in the North, a national brewing company was created. John Smith's bottled Magnet Pale Ale was selected for nationwide distribution across the group, and the takeover facilitated the wider distribution of Courage brands such as Tavern Keg.

The Tadcaster brewery was substantially redeveloped and expanded throughout 1974. Courage closed down the Barnsley brewery in 1976 with the loss of 200 jobs, and the 200 Barnsley public houses were supplied from Tadcaster. Courage argued that modernisation of the Barnsley site would have required "massive" investment. It was reported in The Times that landlords were generally indifferent to the change, as the taste profiles of John Smith's bitter and Barnsley bitter were similar.

After successful test marketing from 1974, John Smith's Bitter was distributed in the South of England from 1979 onwards, accompanied by an extensive marketing budget. As research by Courage indicated that Southern drinkers considered Yorkshire bitter to be superior, the beer was sold there under the name John Smith's Yorkshire Bitter. Sales of the beer doubled in 1981 owing to the increase in free trade outlets in the South stocking the beer. By 1982 it was the highest selling Courage brand and the highest selling canned bitter in the United Kingdom.

In 1982, the John Smith's brands included Yorkshire Bitter, Magnet Pale Ale, Export Pale, Sweet Stout, Double Brown and Magnet Old. In December 1983, John Smith's Cask (3.8% ABV) was re-introduced, seven years after it had been phased out. By June 1985, John Smith's produced  of beer annually. In November that year, a new brewhouse was opened, at the cost of £5 million. Production of Foster's lager began in 1987.

In 1993, John Smith's Extra Smooth was launched in cans. It was introduced in kegs in February 1995, and distributed to 10,000 pubs and venues. It is a nitrogenated version of the pasteurised beer, which was renamed to John Smith's Original in order to differentiate the two products.

In 2005, Scottish & Newcastle claimed that John Smith's was available in 40,000 outlets across the United Kingdom. In 2007, Scottish & Newcastle moved production of John Smith's Cask from Tadcaster to Burtonwood near Warrington, and production of John Smith's Magnet to Camerons Brewery of Hartlepool. In 2008 three limited edition beers were released to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the brewery. In 2010 Heineken discontinued production of cask conditioned John Smith's Magnet, although it remains available in kegs. By 2011, production of John Smith's Cask had moved to Cameron's. As of 2012, John Smith's is the sixth highest selling beer brand in the United Kingdom and the highest selling bitter in the world. From February 2013, John Smith's Extra Smooth and Original were reduced from 3.8 to 3.6% ABV. According to Heineken, the decision was taken in order to bring the product in line with the strength of its major competitors such as Tetley, Boddingtons and Worthington.

Beers
 John Smith's Extra Smooth (3.6% ABV). The highest selling variant, available in kegs and cans. It is nitrogenated and pasteurised.
 John Smith's Original (3.6% ABV). The same as Extra Smooth, but carbonated, rather than nitrogenated.
 John Smith's Cask (3.8% ABV). Available nationwide, but most often found around the brewery's Yorkshire heartland.
 John Smith's Magnet (4% ABV). A keg product, most frequently found around the North East and Yorkshire.
 John Smiths Golden Ale (4% ABV). Available in a can only, a lightly hopped pale ale.

Brewery

The brewery brews 3.8 million hectolitres annually (1.8 million of which is John Smith's beer), and employed around 300 people in 2008. It has two keg lines, two bottle lines and one canning line. It currently brews and packages the ale brands John Smith's Original, John Smith's Extra Smooth and Newcastle Brown Ale, and the lager brands Foster's, Kronenbourg 1664, Amstel and Tiger.

Slate Yorkshire Square brewing vessels were used at the brewery from 1913 until 1975. Stainless steel Yorkshire Squares were in use by at least 1953, but were removed in the 1980s, and the brewery now uses conical tanks. By 1953, the brewery site occupied 20 acres.

Wooden casks were still in use in the 1960s. The cask beer line was removed in 1976, but restored in 1984. A new canning line and a new brewhouse were installed around 1982.

In 1984 the original brewhouse was converted into a brewery museum. In November 1985 a new £5 million brewhouse opened. Production of Foster's Lager began in 1987. By 1989 the brewery had a production capacity of 1.2 million barrels per annum. Scottish & Newcastle used the John Smith's Brewery to brew many of its ale brands. In 2004, a new £24 million bottling facility was opened in 2004, described as the most modern bottling facility in Europe.

Advertising

The Magnet trademark was first registered in September 1908 in Brussels, and symbolised strength.

The company's association with television advertising began in 1971 with the "Yorkshiremen love it" campaign.

This was followed by the "Big John" campaign, which ran in the North of England from 1981, and centred around a re-writing of the Big Bad John country music staple. Courage was able to demonstrate to an independent panel that the £300,000 campaign had resulted in a £5 million sales increase in the North.

From 1979 to 1986 Gordon Rollings played the dour Yorkshireman Arkwright in a campaign that was only used in the South. The campaign won a large number of advertising industry awards, and was featured on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson. After Rollings died in 1986 the campaign was continued with Arkwright's successor, Barraclough, until 1991. Despite its success, the campaign was not without detractors, with Deyan Sudjic describing it in The Times as a "spurious ... tripe-and-whippets campaign".

No Nonsense campaigns
From 1992 until 1997, comedian Jack Dee starred in the "No Nonsense" campaign, created by DDB. The Dee campaign was widely credited with helping John Smith's rise from sixteenth to fourth highest selling beer in the UK as sales increased by 65 percent, and the brand overtook Tetley's as the highest selling ale brand in the world by 1995. The Dee campaign won fifty advertising awards, and helped to turn the rising comedian into a household name.

Dee resigned in 1997, and he was replaced in 1998 with a cardboard cut-out known as the "No Nonsense Man", from the GGT advertising agency. Despite appearing in over 20,000 pubs, clubs and shops, No Nonsense Man was found to have less of an impact than the Dee advertisements.

Peter Kay represented the brand from 2002-5 and again in 2010-11.  The Kay campaign was described as an "advertising phenomenon", and introduced the phrase "Ave it!" into the public consciousness. Between 2002 and 2004 the Kay advertisements won over fifty advertising and marketing awards, making it the sixth most awarded advertising campaign in the world. Despite the success of the Kay campaign, the perceived "laddishness" of the advertisements were criticised by rival brewer Interbrew as hindering sales of beer among women.

Sponsorship

John Smith's is a major sponsor of horse racing in the United Kingdom. It has sponsored the Northumberland Plate since 2003, and more than 90 "No Nonsense" race days are held throughout the year at 28 jump and flat racecourses across the UK. The brand has sponsored the John Smith's Cup (originally the Magnet Cup until 1998) at York since 1960, which is the longest running sponsorship in flat racing in the world. John Smith's previously sponsored the Grand National between 2005 and 2013.

In August 2012 John Smith's announced a five-year sponsorship of the Kirklees Stadium in Huddersfield, home to football team Huddersfield Town and rugby league team Huddersfield Giants, which was renamed "John Smith's Stadium". In December 2016, this deal was extended for a further five years.


Andrew Bellatti

Andrew James Bellatti (born August 5, 1991) is an American professional baseball pitcher for the Sugar Land Skeeters of the Atlantic League of Professional Baseball. He made his Major League Baseball (MLB) debut with the Tampa Bay Rays in 2015.

Career

Tampa Bay Rays
Bellatti was drafted by the Tampa Bay Rays in the 12th round of the 2009 Major League Baseball Draft out of Steele Canyon High School in Spring Valley, California. In November 2010 he was sentenced to jail for a fatal car crash that he was involved with in January 2010. He had collided head on with an oncoming driver after illegally crossing a double-yellow line and speeding, killing the other driver and injuring the drivers passenger and the passenger in the car with Bellatti. He had been sentenced to eight months, but was released after less than 90 days due to a plea agreement and time served. After he was released from jail he returned to the pitching in the Rays organization.

Bellatti was called up to the majors for the first time on May 9, 2015. The Rays designated Bellatti for assignment on June 24, 2016.

Baltimore Orioles
On March 14, 2017, Bellatti signed a minor league deal with the Baltimore Orioles.  He elected free agency on November 6, 2017.

Sugar Land Skeeters
On April 15, 2019, Bellatti signed with the Sugar Land Skeeters of the Atlantic League of Professional Baseball.

New York Yankees
On April 29, 2019, Bellatti's contract was purchased by the New York Yankees. He was released on August 23, 2019.

Second stint with Skeeters
On February 21, 2020, Bellati signed with the Sugar Land Skeeters of the Atlantic League of Professional Baseball.


Marion Cunningham (author)

Marion Cunningham (née Enwright; February 7, 1922 – July 11, 2012) was an American food writer.

Cunningham was responsible for the 1979 and 1990 revisions of the Fannie Farmer Cookbook, and was the author of The Breakfast Book, The Supper Book, and Cooking with Children, among several others. She frequently traveled throughout America giving cooking demonstrations (some with James Beard); contributed articles to Bon Appetit, Food & Wine, and Gourmet magazines; wrote a regular column for the San Francisco Chronicle and the Los Angeles Times; and hosted a television series, Cunningham & Company, on the Food Network.

In 1993, Cunningham received the Grand Dame award from Les Dames d'Escoffier "in recognition and appreciation of her extraordinary achievement and contribution to the culinary arts." In 1994, she was named Scholar-in-Residence by the International Association of Culinary Professionals.

Early life
She was born February 11, 1922 in Los Angeles, California to Joseph and Maryann (née Spelta) Enwright. Her mother was frail. Her father later became an invalid and an alcoholic. She graduated from high school in Los Angeles.
After her 1942 marriage to Robert Cunningham, they moved to San Diego, where he served in the US Marine Corps. Robert became a medical malpractice lawyer and the couple settled in Walnut Creek, California.

Homemaker
Before 1972, she spent most of her time as a homemaker and mother.  She said of her husband's food sense, "He doesn't like homemade bread and he doesn't like vegetables. The only green thing he says he likes is money." They had two children, Mark and Catherine. She was afflicted with agoraphobia. She also overcame a drinking problem and then avoided alcohol entirely.

Cooking
In 1972, when she was about 50 years old, she started on the path that would make her famous in the cooking world.  She took a cooking class from James Beard. For the next 11 years, she became his assistant and she helped him establish cooking classes in the Bay Area. Upon Beard's recommendation, she was hired to rewrite the classic Fannie Farmer Cookbook for modern audiences. Her revisions were published in 1979 and 1990, respectively.

Death
Cunningham died of respiratory problems, a complication of her Alzheimer's disease, at John Muir Medical Center in Walnut Creek, California, at the age of 90.


Sachiko Murakami

Sachiko Murakami (born 1980 in Vancouver, British Columbia) is a Canadian poet. She is most noted for her 2008 collection The Invisibility Exhibit, which was a shortlisted finalist for the Governor General's Award for English-language poetry at the 2008 Governor General's Awards and the Gerald Lampert Award.

Her other works have included Rebuild (2011) and Get Me Out of Here (2015).


Cirsium ownbeyi

Cirsium ownbeyi, or Ownbey's thistle, is a rare North American species of flowering plant in the aster family. It is endemic to the United States, where it has a narrow distribution in northeast Utah, southwest Wyoming, and northwest Colorado. There are around 30 known populations with a total of approximately 25,000 individuals.

Description
Cirsium ownbeyi is a perennial herb growing 30 to 70 centimeters (12-28 inches) tall from a taproot and branched caudex. There are one or more erect stems. The leaves are up to 30 centimeters (12 inches) long. The flower heads are oval and up to 2.5 centimeters (1 inch) long and wide. They are coated in green phyllaries with spines up to a centimeter long. The head contains white, pink, or purplish flowers up to 2 centimeters long. Blooming occurs in June through August. The fruit may be 2 centimeters long including its long pappus.

Habitat
This plant grows in sagebrush, juniper-dominated habitat, and riparian zones. The substrate is usually sandstone, but sometimes limestone.

Conservation
This species grows in Dinosaur National Monument, where it is threatened by disturbance caused by park visitors. It is also threatened by the seed-eating weevil Rhinocyllus conicus, which was introduced to the area as an agent of biological pest control against musk thistle {Carduus nutans).


Don Allen (cricketer)

Don John Allen also known as Donald Allen (born 26 February 1947) is an Australian first-class cricketer who has played for Queensland in 11 first-class matches.


Highpointing

Highpointing is the sport of ascending to the point with the highest elevation within a given area (the "highpoint"). Examples include: climbing the highest point of each U.S. state; reaching the highest point of each county within a specific state; and ascending the highest mountain on each continent (the "Seven Summits").

Overview

While highpointing takes its adherents to the apex of dangerous and spectacular mountains, it also leads people to climb much less notable hilltops in pursuit of their goal. An example of this can be found in those who climb the highest point of each U.S. state. This requires ascents not only of Denali and Mt. Rainier, two of North America’s most impressive peaks, but also to the tops of such states as Delaware and Rhode Island, where most people would contend there are no actual mountains to climb. The heterogeneous nature of these summits is usually considered part of the appeal, as the travel and cultural experiences en route to the climbs are often valued as highly as the climbs themselves.

This sport is practiced all around the world, though it seems the most popular in the United States. The most prominent groups of "highpointers" in the U.S. attempt to either climb to the highest point of each state in the U.S. or to the highest point in each county within a specific U.S. state. These activities are called "state" and "county" highpointing, respectively.

Other notable highpointing pursuits include climbing the Seven Summits, ascending to the highest mountain in each country in Europe, and reaching the top of each state or province in one’s home country.

Highpointing is related to, but different than peakbagging. Peakbaggers usually climb every peak above a certain height in a specific region (like the Munros or the Colorado Fourteeners), whereas highpointers would climb just one summit in each region of a larger geographical area.

The goal of many highpointers is to ascend to every highpoint on their list; however, many others undertake highpointing for the experience of climbing as many highpoints as they find enjoyable, with no expectation of doing them all.

History and first ascents

Starting in the early 20th century, a few pioneers of highpointing began visiting the highest geographic point in each of the 50 states of the United States. In the early days, this endeavor involved dispute and original research, as the tools to precisely map every square inch of the country were just beginning to find widespread use - and this was part of the charm.

The first person to successfully climb each U.S. state highpoint was A.H. Marshall, who completed the task in July, 1936, when there were only 48 states. Marshall's 48th highpoint to complete the task was Indiana's modest Hoosier Hill.
Only four individuals are known to have completed all 48 states before the addition of Alaska and Hawaii in 1959.

The first person to climb to the top of all 50 U.S. states was Vin Hoeman in 1966. Since then, about 250 people have successfully climbed to the top of each U.S. state. Mt. Everest, by comparison, has seen over 5,000 ascents by more than 3,000 individuals.

In 1986, Jack Longacre placed an ad in Outside magazine which led the next year to the formation of the Highpointers Club , which is devoted to climbs of U.S. state highpoints.

Participation in county highpointing in the U.S. varies widely among states, with few states being climbed by more than a few dozen individuals. See County Highpointers Club for more information.

The Seven Summits were first completed in 1985 by Dick Bass. At least 350 people have climbed all seven since then. There is some dispute over what constitutes Australia's summit: some people climb Mount Kosciuszko, the highest point on the Australian mainland; others climb the more demanding Puncak Jaya, highest point of the Australian continental shelf.

The first person to climb all of Europe's highpoints was Ginge Fullen in 1999. There were a few revisions of the high points in Europe e.g. Kosovo - Morgan Batt is the first to summit the revised list 2017.  Mr. Fullen also appears to be  the first person to climb the highpoint of every nation in Africa. Since then, a few dozen people have also completed the European highpoints. European highpoint climbers have their task complicated by 1) various definitions of what constitutes the European continent 2) emergence of new nations 3) debate over whether to count the highest points on the mainland of a nation, or the highpoints of islands belonging to it.

Climbs to the tops of each state/province in Canada, Australia, and other countries have also been recorded.

To date, no person is known to have reached the highest point in every country in the world. The highest point of Bhutan (Gangkhar Puensum) is closed to the public, and is probably the world's highest unclimbed mountain.

Highpointing guidelines

Rules for this pursuit are few, and ascents are generally defined by the individuals themselves. Highpointing has no formal governing body. The organizational body for state highpointing in the U.S. is The Highpointers Club.  However, many Highpoint Guides and Books  hold to these general principles:

 Any route to the top - walking, climbing, driving an automobile, etc. - is considered a valid means of attaining the high point. Each individual must decide what constitutes good sport. Many will prefer reaching the high point under their own locomotion, or to climb a certain amount of vertical feet en route, but the means of ascent is a personal choice.
 The goal is to attain the highest "natural point." In other words, regardless of what man-made structures have been placed on top, the goal is to stand atop the highest "natural point."
 If the natural high point is covered with a structure and that structure is accessible, even on a limited basis, entering the structure and standing over the presumed high point is the goal. If the structure is completely and permanently inaccessible—e.g. a military base or private telecommunications tower - the goal is to reach the highest accessible natural point.
Some highpoints are open on certain dates only and the Club expects all members to abide by these dates.
If the highest point in a state, county, etc. is located along a boundary, they must be visited. The highest summit within an area, being lower, does not count under such circumstances. The most prominent example of this is found in the state of Connecticut, where the highest point is on the slope of a mountain whose summit is actually in Massachusetts.

U.S. state and territory highpoints
See also: List of U.S. states and territories by elevation

The two most prolific highpointing organizations are The Highpointers Club, whose members aspire to reaching all of the U.S. state highpoints, and the County Highpointers Club, whose members are collectively attempting to reach the highest point in the 3,142 U.S. counties located in the 50 states and District of Columbia. (The County Highpointers Club is not attempting to reach the highest points of the 100 county-equivalents in the U.S. territories).

U.S. state highpointers generally consider the recognized highpoints of the 50 U.S. states, but may also include the highpoints of the District of Columbia and the 5 major U.S. territories (American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands). Because of the difficulty of climbing Alaska's Denali, many people only attempt to reach the highpoints of the 48 contiguous states.

In addition to reaching the highest point in each of the 50 U.S. states, some highpointers also ascend Fort Reno Park, the highest point in the District of Columbia, and/or Cerro de Punta, the highest mountain in Puerto Rico. Some also climb the highpoints of other U.S. territories like Mount Lamlam in Guam and Lata Mountain in American Samoa.

Elevations range from 20,310 feet on Alaska's Denali to 345 feet on Florida's Britton Hill. Technically, the U.S. Minor Outlying Islands has the lowest elevation, with the highest elevation being 279 feet (85 meters) on Navassa Island. See List of U.S. states and territories by elevation for more information.

Difficulty of ascent varies considerably from state to state (or territory). About 20 of the states can be ascended by automobile. Many of the rest can be reached via an easy hike. Only 10 to 20 require serious effort, depending on an individual's fitness and skills. Denali is by far the most difficult, requiring serious training, thousands of dollars, about three weeks, and favorable weather conditions to summit. See  and  for more information on the relative difficulty of the various ascents.

While most highpointers view highpointing as a hobby it is also seen a sport by many in the mountaineering community.  In 1991 a team consisting of Pete Allard, Jim Grace, Shaun Lacher, David Sandway and Dennis Stewart, who called themselves "The Highpoint Hoppers," set the first recognized record for climbing the highest point in each of the lower contiguous states in the fastest time.  The team began on the summit of Mount Rainier in Washington at midnight on July 1 and finished on the summit of Gannett Peak in Wyoming on July 31 thus completing their goal of ascending all 48 state highpoints in one calendar month.  Their time was 30 days, 10 hours and 52 minutes.  For their effort, the Highpoint Hoppers got recognition in Guinness Book of World Records.  Fifteen years later, British climber Jake Meyer broke the speed record for climbing the lower 48 highpoints in 23 days, 19 hours and 31 minutes in 2006.  The record stood until American siblings Josh and Lindsay Sanders broke the record in 19 days, 7 hours and 37 minutes in 2015

County highpoints

County highpointing, unlike state highpointing, is most popular in the British Isles. There are several guides covering ascents of the counties of England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales.

There are 48 counties in England, 33 in Scotland, 32 in Ireland, and 22 in Wales. Most of these "county tops" outside Scotland are non-technical walk-ups. Each nation in the British Isles has seen dozens of people complete their lists. Climbers have been confused in recent years by status changes in the various counties, both adding and subtracting highpoints, depending upon the criteria used.

By contrast, in the United States, there are 3,242 counties, and no one has yet approached climbing all of them. Bob Packard is currently listed as the person with the most county highpoints completed, having ascended to the tops of all the counties of 29 states. Because of the large number of counties in the U.S., most county highpointers narrow the list by aspiring to climb only a certain subset of county highpoints. For instance, many county highpointers only ascend the highpoints of single (or perhaps maybe a few) states. Others may climb only the highest, most prominent, or most difficult county high points.

Rhode Island, a low state with a handful of counties, has seen the most people climb all its counties, with 40 people listed. Several U.S. states and territories have not yet seen ascents of all their counties.

The U.S. county highpointers' club rules, as described here, are slightly stricter than state highpoint rules.

Many counties, especially flat and low-lying ones, have not been fully surveyed and thus have no single defined highest point, just multiple areas with the same highest contour line. In order to claim to have successfully climbed the county's highest point, then, it is necessary to visit all those areas, unless one can clearly be ruled out by line of sight from another one or by virtue of having been graded or excavated. Even if one area has an elevation indicated on the USGS map, the county highpointer must visit other areas within the same contour until and unless the maximum elevations are resolved by an official survey.

For flat counties with multiple points, county highpointing is more akin to  geocaching than peak bagging, since logically only one of the points is the highpoint, and the rest are not.  In this case the number of virtual 'caches' is largely an artifact of the size of the contour interval (for a given area, the larger the contour interval, the more 'possible' highpoints there will be).  For instance suppose the two highest points in a county are 101 feet and 106 feet above sea level, and that neither has a spot elevation on the map.  If the region is mapped with 5-foot contours, there will be only 1 "highpoint".  However, if the region is mapped with 10-foot contours, there will be two "highpoints", and county highpointers will be required to visit both points to claim the county.

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Equivariant K-theory

In mathematics, equivariant K-theory refers to either
equivariant algebraic K-theory, an equivariant analog of algebraic K-theory
equivariant topological K-theory, an equivariant analog of topological K-theory


CBR1

Carbonyl reductase 1, also known as CBR1, is an enzyme which in humans is encoded by the CBR1 gene. The protein encoded by this gene belongs to the short-chain dehydrogenases/reductases (SDR) family, which function as NADPH-dependent oxidoreductases having wide specificity for carbonyl compounds, such as quinones, prostaglandins, and various xenobiotics. Alternatively spliced transcript variants have been found for this gene.

Function

Carbonyl reductase is one of several monomeric, NADPH-dependent oxidoreductases having wide specificity for carbonyl compounds. This enzyme is widely distributed in human tissues. Another carbonyl reductase gene, CBR3, lies close to this gene on chromosome 21q. CBR1 metabolizes many toxic environmental quinones and pharmacological relevant substrates such as the anticancer doxorubicin. Several studies have shown that CBR1 plays a protective role in oxidative stress, neurodegeneration, and apoptosis. In addition, CBR1 inactivates lipid aldehydes during oxidative stress in cells. Therefore, CBR1 may play a beneficial role in protecting against cellular damage resulting from oxidative stress.

Polymorphisms

Up-to-date two non-synonymous polymorphisms on CBR1 have been identified. The CBR1 V88I polymorphism encodes for a valine-to-isoleucin substitution at position 88 of the aminoacid chain. In vitro studies with recombinant proteins indicate that the CBR1 V88 isoform has a higher Vmax towards the substrates menadione (vitamin K3) and daunorubicin. Recent studies in human liver cytosols show that an untranslated polymorphism on the 3'UTR region of the CBR1 gene (rs9024) is associated with higher levels of the cardiotoxic metabolite doxorubicinol.

Structure

Gene

Human CBR1 gene maps to chromosome 21 at q22.13, and includes 8 exons.

Protein

The enzyme consists of 277 amino acid residues and is widely distributed in human tissues such as liver, epidermis, stomach, small intestine, kidney, neuronal cells, and smooth muscle fibers. The best substrates of CBR1 are quinones, including ubiquinone-1 and tocopherolquinone (vitamin E). Ubiquinones (coenzyme Q) are constitutive parts of the respiratory chain, and tocopherolquinone protects lipids of biological membranes against lipid peroxidation, indicating that CBR1 may play an important role as an oxidation–reduction catalyst in biological processes.

Clinical significance
CBR1 has been reported to relate to tumor progression. Suppression of CBR1 expression was associated with poor prognosis in uterine endometrial cancer and uterine cervical squamous cell carcinoma. Previous studies showed that decreased CBR1 expression is associated with lymph node metastasis and poor prognosis in ovarian cancer, and induction of CBR1 expression in ovarian tumors leads to a spontaneous decrease in tumor size.

Recent study demonstrates that CBR1 attenuates apoptosis and promotes cell survival in pancreatic β cell lines under glucotoxic and glucolipotoxic conditions via reducing ROS generation. Their data demonstrates that CBR1 expression level and enzyme activity are decreased in pancreatic islets isolated from db/db mice, an animal model of type 2 diabetes. These results suggest that CBR1 may play a role in protecting pancreatic β-cells against oxidative stress under glucotoxic or glucolipotoxic conditions, and its reduced expression or activity may contribute to β-cell dysfunction in db/db mice or human type 2 diabetes.

In addition, CBR1 may play a critical role in PGF2α synthesis in human amnion fibroblasts, and cortisol promotes the conversion of PGE2 into PGF2α via glucocorticoid receptor (GR)-mediated induction of CBR1 in human amnion fibroblasts. This stimulatory effect of cortisol on CBR1 expression may partly explain the concurrent increases of cortisol and PGF2α in human amnion tissue with labor, and these findings may account for the increased production of PGF2α in the fetal membranes prior to the onset of labor.

Interactions

CBR1 has been shown to interact with Cortisol, C2 domain, and Flavonoid.


Toni Shaw

Toni Shaw (born 5 August 2003) is a British Paralympic swimmer. In 2019 she set the world record time for the S9 200m butterfly, and was also part of the team that set a new world record for the 4x100m medley relay.

Personal life and career
Shaw was born on 5 August 2003 and took swimming lessons from the age of eight. At the age of 14, she held 14 Scottish national swimming records in the S9 and S10 classifications and was selected to compete for Team Scotland at the 2018 Commonwealth Games where she finished 5th in both the Women's S9 100m Backstroke and Women's 100-metre freestyle S9; 6th in the Women's 200-metre individual medley SM10, and seventh in the Women's 100-metre breaststroke SB9.

She set a new world record time of 2.30.46 in the S9 200m butterfly at the Para-swimming World Series in Berlin in 2019 at the age of 15, and won six medals at the 2019 World Para Swimming Championships, including gold medals in the 4x100m medley relay. and 4x100m freestyle relay. The 4x100m medley relay team, comprising Alice Tai, Brock Whiston, Shaw and Stephanie Millward beat the second-placed United States team by 22 seconds and set a new world record of 4.36.31.

Shaw is coached by the Aberdeen University performance swimming coach Gregor McMillan and trains at Aberdeen Sports Village Aquatics Centre. She was one of ten nominees for BBC Young Sports Personality of the Year in 2019.

Her right arm never fully formed and Shaw was born without her right hand. From 2019 she started using a carbon fibre prosthetic for her arm that with the use of different attachments enabled her to undertake upper-body exercises such as press-ups and weight training that benefit swimmers but had previously not been possible for her.

Record in major competitions

2018 Commonwealth Games
5th – Women's S9 100m Backstroke
5th – Women's 100-metre freestyle S9
6th – Women's 200-metre individual medley SM10
7th – Women's 100-metre breaststroke SB9

2018 World Para Swimming European Championships
1st Women's 400 metres freestyle
1st 4 x 100 metres medley relay
2nd Women's 200 metres individual medley
2nd Women's 100 metres butterfly
3rd Women's 100 metres backstroke

2019 World Para Swimming Championships
5th – S9 50m Freestyle
3rd S9 100m Freestyle
2nd S9 400m Freestyle
2nd S9 100m Butterfly
3rd S9 200m Individual Medley
1st 34pt 4x100m Medley Relay
1st 34pt 4x100m Freestyle Relay


De Hoop, Abbenbroek

De Hoop is a gristmill in Abbenbroek, the Netherlands. The mill was built in 1843. The mill is a rijksmonument.


Fumio Niwa

was a Japanese novelist with a long list of works, the most famous in the West being his novel The Buddha Tree (Japanese Bodaiju, "The Linden", or "The Bodhi Tree", 1956).

Career
Niwa was born in Mie Prefecture, the eldest son of a priest in the Pure Land sect of Buddhism. He grew up at Sōgen-ji, a temple in Yokkaichi near Nagoya. After his graduation from Waseda University, he reluctantly entered the hereditary priesthood there but quit two years later, at the age of 29, in order to become a writer, walking out of the temple grounds on 10 April 1932 and heading back to Tokyo. He was supported by his girlfriend until their marriage in 1935. During this time he published Sweetfish (Japanese Ayu), serialised in Bungeishunjū, and the novel Superfluous Flesh (Japanese Zeiniku).

Niwa's work was controversial and, during World War II, two of his novels were banned for immorality. He worked as a war correspondent in China and New Guinea, accompanied Rear Admiral Gunichi Mikawa's Eighth Fleet and was on board the flagship Chōkai during the Battle of Savo Island on 9 August 1942. He was wounded at Tulagi. These experiences inspired Naval Engagement (Japanese Kaisen) and Lost Company (Kaeranu Chutai), both censored.

After the war Niwa became an extremely prolific author of more than 80 novels, 100 volumes of short stories, and 10 volumes of essays. His most celebrated short story was The Hateful Age (Japanese Iyagarase no Nenrei, 1947, literally "The Age of Disgust"), about a family terrorised by a senile grandmother, which enjoyed such popularity that the title became a phrase in the language, for a time.

The novel The Buddha Tree uses his unhappy childhood at Sōgen-ji as a backdrop. When he was eight years old his mother eloped with an actor from a Kansai Kabuki company; an event that greatly traumatised him. In this novel the story is elaborated fictionally.

Later works include, from 1969, a five-volume biography of Shinran (1173-1262), the founder of the Pure Land sect, and in 1983 an eight-volume work on Rennyo, a 15th-century monk who died on a pilgrimage to India.

In 1965 Niwa was elected a member of the Japan Art Academy, and the following year he was elected as Chairman of the Japanese Writers' Association, a position he held for many years. Niwa encouraged fellow members to play golf, organised health insurance, and bought land for a writers' cemetery. He won the 19th Yomiuri Prize and was awarded the Order of Culture in 1977.

He was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease in 1986. He was married twice and had one son and one daughter, Keiko Honda, who described his decline in Days of Care (Japanese Kaigo no hibi, 1997). He died of pneumonia in 2005.


Mark Hughes (footballer, born 1962)

Mark Hughes (born 3 February 1962, Port Talbot) is a footballer who played as central defender for Bristol Rovers, Torquay United, Swansea City, Bristol City, Tranmere Rovers and Shrewsbury Town. At Tranmere he was part of the side that won the 1989-90 Football League Trophy.


Trapezites iacchoides

Trapezites iacchoides, the silver studded ochre skipper, is a butterfly of the family Hesperiidae. It is found in Australia in the mountains and along the coast of New South Wales, Queensland and Victoria.

The wingspan is about 30 mm.

The larvae feed on Lomandra longifolia.

External links
 Australian Caterpillars


John Holdsworth (priest)

John Holdsworth  (born 1949) is a retired Anglican Archdeacon.

Holdsworth has four degrees from the University of Wales. He was ordained deacon in 1973, priest in 1974. After a curacy in Newport he was Vicar of Abercraf then Gorseinon. He was Warden of St. Michael's College, Llandaff from 1997 to 2003; Archdeacon of St David's from 2003 to 2010; and Archdeacon of Cyprus from 2010 until his retirement in 2019.


Chambersville, Texas

Chambersville is an unincorporated community in Collin County, located in the U.S. state of Texas. It was founded in 1847 by Elisha and Margaret Chambers.


Gabriela Deleuze

Gabriela Deleuze Ducasa (born c. 1965) born Distrito Federal, México (México), is a Mexican-Panamanian beauty pageant contestant winner of the Miss Panamá 1987 title. Also represented Panama in Miss Universe 1987, the 36th Miss Universe pageant was held at Hall Four at World Trade Centre, Singapore on May 27, 1987. She was 28th Score in the Preliminary Swimsuit with 7.270

Deleuze who is  tall, competed in the national beauty pageant Miss Panamá 1987, she won the last edition of Miss Panama took place 1987 and obtained the title of Miss Panamá Universe. She represented Los Santos state.

Also represented Panamá in the Reinado Internacional del Café in 1988.


Angel Olsen

Angel Olsen (born January 22, 1987) is an American singer-songwriter and musician from St. Louis, Missouri who lives in Asheville, North Carolina.

Early life and education
Angel Olsen was born on January 22, 1987 in St. Louis, Missouri. At age three, Olsen was adopted by a foster family that had cared for her since shortly after her birth. The difference in years between her and her parents left an impression. "Because there are so many decades of difference between us, I became more interested in what their childhood was like," she says of her parents, both of whom still live in St. Louis. "I fantasized about what it was like to be young in the ’30s and ’50s, more so than other kids my age." Olsen explained that "my mother just has this capacity for children." Despite early adolescent aspirations to be a "pop star", her interests later shifted in high school. Olsen became more introverted, regularly attending punk rock and noise music shows at the Lemp Neighborhood Arts Center and the Creepy Crawl as well as Christian rock shows throughout the city. She began learning the piano and guitar and writing her own music. Two years after graduating from Tower Grove Christian High School, Olsen moved to Chicago.

Career

After releasing her first EP, Strange Cacti, and a debut album, Half Way Home, on Bathetic Records, Olsen signed with Jagjaguwar, ahead of her first full-band record, Burn Your Fire for No Witness, which was released on February 17, 2014. The closing track of the album, Windows, was featured in the final episode of the Netflix original series 13 Reasons Why in 2017.

Olsen's third studio album, My Woman, was released on September 2, 2016. In a review for Consequence of Sound, critic Ciara Dolan described the album as a "startling record of unimpeachable strength and honesty", while Pitchfork'''s Jenn Pelly described it as "her best record yet".

In addition to her work with Bonnie "Prince" Billy and the Cairo Gang, Olsen has collaborated with a number of other notable figures of American indie rock, including Tim Kinsella of Cap'n Jazz, LeRoy Bach of Wilco and Cass McCombs. Her collaboration with Kinsella and Bach, as well as with Chicago poet Marvin Tate, resulted in the album Tim Kinsella Sings the Songs of Marvin Tate by Leroy Bach Featuring Angel Olsen which the group released on Indianapolis label Joyful Noise Recordings on December 3, 2013.

Olsen's fourth studio album, All Mirrors, was released on October 4, 2019 to critical acclaim. Pitchfork's Laura Snapes described the album as "breathtaking," while the Guardian's Alexis Petridis described it as "challenging and intriguing" and Happy Mag's Luke Saunders described it as a change of "theatric transcendency" when compared to her previous releases.

Discography
Albums
Studio albums

Collaborative albums

Compilation albums

Extended plays

Singles
As lead artist

As featured artist

Guest appearances
With Bonnie "Prince" Billy
 Island Brothers (Vinyl 10"), February 2011, Drag City Records
 Wolfroy Goes to Town (CD/LP), October 2011, Drag City Records
 Now Here's My Plan (CD/LP), July 2012, Drag City Records
 Chivalrous Amoekons – Fanatic Voyage'' (Cassette/LP), September 2016, Drag City Records

Videography


2015 Città di Caltanissetta

The 2015 Città di Caltanissetta was a professional tennis tournament played on clay courts. It was the 17th edition of the tournament which was part of the 2015 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Caltanissetta, Italy between 8 and 14 June 2015.

Singles main draw entrants

Seeds

 1 Rankings are as of May 25, 2015.

Other Entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:
  Salvatore Caruso
  Federico Gaio
  Gianluigi Quinzi
  Stefano Travaglia

The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:
  Nicolás Barrientos
  Quentin Halys
  Gonzalo Lama
  Juan Ignacio Londero

The following players received entry as a lucky loser into the main draw:
  Duilio Beretta

Doubles main draw entrants

Seeds

1 Rankings as of May 25, 2015.

Other entrants
The following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:
  Gianluigi Quinzi /  Stefano Travaglia
  Alessio di Mauro /  Nicolò Schilirò
  Salvatore Caruso /  Federico Gaio

The following pairs used protected ranking to gain entry into the doubles main draw:
  James Cerretani /  Adam Hubble

Champions

Singles

 Elias Ymer def.  Bjorn Fratangelo 6–3, 6–2

Doubles

 Guido Andreozzi /  Guillermo Durán def.  Lee Hsin-han /  Alessandro Motti 6–3, 6–2

External links
Official Website

Citta di Caltanissetta


Kill Her Gently

Kill Her Gently is a 1957 British thriller film directed by Charles Saunders and starring Griffith Jones, Maureen Connell and Marc Lawrence.

Cast
 Griffith Jones - Jeff Martin
 Maureen Connell - Kay Martin
 Marc Lawrence - William Connors
 George Mikell - Lars Svenson
 Shay Gorman - Doctor Jimmy Landers
 Marianne Brauns - Raina
 Frank Hawkins - Inspector Raglan
 John Gayford - Truck Driver
 Roger Avon - Constable Brown
 Patrick Connor - Detective Sgt. Thompson
 Jonathan Meddings - Bank clerk
 Peter Stephens - Bank manager
 Susan Neill - Barmaid
 David Lawton - Slade
 Elaine Wells - Mrs Douglas


Genoese lace

Genoese lace is bobbin lace from Genoa. It is a guipure style of lace.

Bobbin lacemaking in Italy dates back to the 16th century when the main centres were Genoa and Milan, although Venice also made bobbin lace.

The Genoese laces were characterized by wheatears, small tightly woven leaf-shaped tallies which formed part of the usually geometric design.

Maltese lace was derived from Genoese lace.


Streetcar (carsharing)

Streetcar was the largest carsharing/car club company in the United Kingdom, established in 2004, which merged with the American company Zipcar in 2010, following a period of investment by Smedvig Capital.

Streetcar vehicles were parked in a dense network of dedicated spaces primarily in London, but also across a total of 10 UK cities including Brighton, Bristol, Cambridge, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Oxford, Guildford, Maidstone and Southampton. Members could book vehicles from 30 minutes up to six months, online or by phone. A smartcard was used to pick up and return the car at any time of the day or night, 365 days a year.

History

Durham University friends Brett Akker and Andrew Valentine founded Streetcar in April 2004  after seeing its commercial success in Europe and North America. They started with 8 cars in locations near Clapham Junction station, and much of the growth since inception has occurred organically through word-of-mouth recommendations. In March 2007, Streetcar took on £6.4m from Smedvig Capital - an investment which saw Trevor Chinn come on board as chairman.

The Streetcar fleet consisted of VW Golfs, VW Polos, VW Transporter vans and VW Tourans. From January 2010, Streetcar also introduced the BMW 1 Series and BMW 3 Series to their fleet. The BMW models Streetcar chose, the 116d, 118d and 318d

In June 2009, Streetcar became the first UK car club to provide an electric car (Toyota Prius) to its members, as part of a trial with Camden Council.

In January 2010, the company launched their own iPhone application (which was free to download), allowing members across the UK to locate, book and even open a car using their iPhone or iPod touch.

Streetcar had over 1,200 locations across 10 UK cities including; London, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Bristol, Cambridge, Oxford, Brighton, Southampton, Guildford, and Maidstone.

Following the 2010 merger with Zipcar, the fleet merged under the Zipcar brand and the in-vehicle technology was combined to provide membership of both companies access to more than 1,000 vehicles around England, as well as international access to vehicles in Zipcar's existing markets across the United States, and Canada. The merger plan resulted in a request from the Office of Fair Trading for an enquiry by the British Competition Commission, as a merger would mean that the combined company would control 80-90% of the UK market, but the merger was cleared on 22 December 2010.

Membership details
Streetcars were booked online or by phone, and could be collected and returned at any time using the member's personal smart card and PIN. Usage charges were based on the length of time the client keeps the car, and mileage during the rental (the first 20 miles per calendar day were free) currently zip car offers 40 free miles per day. In June 2009 Streetcar announced that members would no longer have to pay London's congestion charge. For car bookings over 72 hours the cost of fuel was included (up to a fair use limit of 500 miles per week, excludes peak weekends, this doesn't apply in July and August). For bookings shorter than 72 hours, 20 miles free fuel was provided per calendar day, after which additional mileage was charged at 22p per mile. On 1 March 2011, Streetcar announced that their Overnight Rate would become a permanent feature, after previously being a limited offer. With this, members can book a Streetcar or Streetvan from 6pm to 9am, Monday to Thursday, for just £25.

Membership of Streetcar used to cost £59.50 per year, with cars available from £5.25 per hour. Since its merger with Zipcar in 2010, the membership fee has stayed the same but the cost per hour has decreased slightly to £5 for midweek and increased to £6 for weekends.

Streetcar for Business
In 2008, Streetcar launched "Streetcar for Business" as a result of its developing relationship with companies across the UK, and in recognition of the differing needs of businesses and individuals. Business accounts (which cost £99 annually ex VAT) provide employees access to every vehicle in the Streetcar fleet, with the option to add drivers to the account for a one-off charge of £10 each. The service has been used as an example of a practical and green alternative to grey fleets or reimbursed private mileage.

Over 2,000 businesses are registered members of Streetcar for Business, with corporate clients of the pay-as-you-go scheme include Kellogg’s, as well as local government authorities including Surrey County Council.

Streetvan
In July 2008, Streetcar launched Streetvan, in conjunction with Homebase and Big Yellow Self Storage. Streetvan membership costs £19.50 per year, and provides members with access to every van in the fleet. All vehicles are VW Transporter vans, and are available for £8.95 per hour. Following the merger this service became Zipvan.

Environmental and financial benefits
Research by Transport for London shows that each Streetcar takes some 26 cars off the roads for every one club car put on the road.
Research has also shown that using carsharing clubs such as Streetcar can have financial benefits. According to government-sponsored website carclubs.org.uk, car owners who drive less than 6,000 miles a year can save up to £3,500.


Jack Breheny

John Gerald "Jack" Breheny (17 May 1910 – 11 February 2009) was an Australian politician.

He was born in Toowoomba in Queensland. In 1951 he was elected to the Tasmanian House of Assembly as a Liberal member for Darwin (later Braddon) in a recount following Jack Chamberlain's resignation. He served until his defeat in 1972, and was then an Ulverstone councillor from 1976 to 1991. He died at Ulverstone in 2009.


Anastasia Bitsenko

Anastasia Alekseevna Bitsenko, née Kameristaya (, née Камeристая; 10 November 1875 – 16 June 1938) was a Narodnik-inspired, later Communist, Russian revolutionary. As a member of a socialist revolutionary  (SR) flying combat detachment, she came to fame for assassinating the former Russian Minister of War Viktor Sakharov in 1905. After being held in detention for over 11 years, she was freed during the February Revolution and joined the Left Socialist-Revolutionaries. For her achievements, the party designated her as their representative within the Soviet delegation for the German-Russian peace negotiations in World War I, which resulted in the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk. She eventually sided with the Soviet regime for good, adhering to the Communist ideology.

Early life and arrest
Anastasia (Nastya) Kameristaya was born on 10 November 1875 in the small village of Aleksandrovka in the Yekaterinoslav Governorate, Russian Empire. Born into a peasant family, she benefited "from the educational reforms of Tsar Alexander II [and] acquired enough schooling to qualify as a teacher" in primary schools. During a famine that spread across Russia in 1899, she organised a communal kitchen for the starving, hungry in Kazan. Later she attended further courses in Moscow in order to qualify to teach at the secondary level, as well.

Her pedagogical training, however, was disrupted by her engagement in the revolutionary cause, probably fostered by her meeting Mikhail Stepanovich Bitsenko, a fellow student at the Moscow Agricultural Institute (albeit 7 years her senior) and a socialist revolutionary  (SR) agitator, who became her husband. In 1901 they were picked up by the police for participating in students disorders and banished from Moscow to the remote Irkutsk province. Returned to European Russia in 1903, they "assisted in the founding of an SR organisation in Smolensk", but they probably broke up later that year, when Anastasiya left Smolensk for St. Petersburg, while "Mikhail continued to work with the Smolensk SRs." They were never to reunite, but, although she appears to have never told of or just mentioned again her former husband, she maintained his surname throughout her life.

In St. Pertersburg Nastya became a full-time activist of the SR party and was involved in a female terrorist group aiming at assassinating the Minister of the Interior, Vyacheslav von Plehve. Betrayed by an informer, she was arrested in late January 1904 and kept in preliminary detention until mid-March to 1905 when she was exiled to Vologda near the Arctic Circle. After just one month of settlement she escaped abroad, to Geneva, but in August returned, illegally,  to  Moscow, as a member of the Moscow committee of the SR party, responsible for organising railroad workers. In following November she joined an SR flying combat detachment. (The central SR Combat Organization had been temporarily disbanded and the PSR's central committee had decided to discontinue terror after the issue of the October Manifesto. Many members and groups, however, would not abide by the party's decision). Bitsenko volunteered to lead a terrorist plot against the "butcher of Saratov", as revolutionaries would call  ex-Minister of War, Viktor Sakharov, who had been dispatched to the Saratov province in order to repress grave peasant unrest. On 22 November Bitsenko managed to slip into governor Piotr Stolypin's palace in Saratov and to get herself admitted to the presence of General Sakharov: there she laid upon Sakharov's desk the death sentence passed on him by the local SR committee and immediately shot him dead. She was captured, brought to trial, and initially condemned to be hanged; but her punishment was soon commuted to penal labour for life to be served at the Nerchinsk katorga in Transbaikal (east of Lake Baikal, near the border of China).

She was sent to Siberia in the company of five other prominent female SR terrorists, including Maria Spiridonova. The group was sometimes called the Shesterka ("Six") and gained enormous popularity. Their slow journey by train lasted around a month and turned into a kind of "triumphal progress": the train was met at every stop by growing crowds of sympathizers and the revolutionaries (with Spiridonova ahead) would greet and talk with them as long as possible, expounding the SR political program. Bitsenko spent the following eleven years in the penal colonies of Akatuy and Maltsev in the Nerchinsk katorga.

Soviet Russia

As a result of the February Revolution in 1917 she was freed and returned to political action within the Socialist Revolutionary Party firstly in Chita, and then Moscow, where she was elected again to the regional party committee. She participated during the October political uprising as a member of the Petrograd Military Revolutionary Committee and then joined the Left Socialist-Revolutionaries rising through the ranks of the new party. She was a member of the Central Committee of the Left SRs, of the praesidium of the Moscow Soviet, and the Central Executive Committee of the soviets.  As reward for her efforts in the party, she was designated to be one of the seven members of the Soviet Delegation for the German-Soviet peace talks for World War I in Brest-Litovsk. Bitsenko was the only woman present during the negotiations; her appointment was a political manoeuvre by the Bolsheviks to give representation to the rival Left Socialist-Revolutionaries. The talks concluded with the signing of the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, a hugely popular peace treaty which ended the fighting on the Eastern Front.

Bitsenko returned to Russia and continued her party activities. Being strongly opposed to the rupture with the Bolsheviks, in September 1918 she was a founder of the splinter Party of Revolutionary Communism, whereas in November she took the plunge and entered the Bolsheviks' renamed Russian Communist Party, later holding various political and committee positions in the Soviet Union. After the death of Lenin, widespread purges were extended to the ranks of the Communist Party by the new Soviet supreme leader Joseph Stalin, and she became one of the many targets. Accused of being a member of a terrorist organization she was put on trial and sentenced to death. On 16 June 1938 she was shot and buried at the Kommunarka shooting ground. The Soviet authorities acquitted her posthumously in 1961.s


1870 Plymouth by-election

The Plymouth by-election of 1870 was held on 15 August 1870.  The by-election was held due to the incumbent Liberal MP, Sir Robert Porrett Collier, becoming Recorder of Bristol.  It was retained unopposed by Collier.


Mauritia histrio

Mauritia histrio, common name the harlequin cowry or the stage cowry, is a species of sea snail, a cowry, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cypraeidae, the cowries.

Description
These quite common large shells reach on average  of length, with a maximum size of  and a minimum adult size of . The basic color of the shell is pale brown, with many grey round spots on the dorsum surface and several dark brown marginal spots on the edges. The base is mainly white or pale brown, with a wide aperture and well-developed darker teeth, longer and stronger on the outer side. In the living mollusk the mantle is transparent, with short papillae. Mauritia histrio is quite similar to Cypraea arabica and Mauritia eglantina.

Distribution

This species is distributed in the Indian Ocean and Western Pacific Ocean, along Aldabra, Chagos, East Africa, Kenya, Madagascar, the Mascarene Basin, Mauritius, Mozambique,  Réunion, the Seychelles, Tanzania, North West Australia and Philippines.

Habitat
Mauritia histrio lives in tropical shallow water. It is nocturnal, hiding during the day under rocks, large blocks or in deep crevices in coral reefs.

Synonyms
Cypraea histrio Gmelin, 1791 (basionym)
Cypraea reticulata Martyn, 1784
Cypraea amethystea Linnaeus, 1758Cypraea histrio Gmelin, 1791
Cypraea oculata  Röding, 1798Cypraea undosa Röding, 1798
Cypraea arlequina Mörch, 1852Arabica westralis Iredale, 1935
Mauritia (Arabica) histrio var. duploreticulata Coen, 1949

Subspecies
 Mauritia histrio histrio Gmelin, 1791
 Mauritia histrio westralis Iredale, 1935


Saudi Research and Marketing Group

Saudi Research and Marketing Group (SRMG) is a Saudi joint stock company registered in Riyadh. The group mainly publishes, prints and distributes various publications.

Its closeness to the regime of Saudi Arabia has led it to be considered an organ of soft power for the regime in the west, particularly the United Kingdom.

History
The establishment of the SRMG dates back to 1963 when the first company of the group, Al Madina Printing and Publication Company, was founded. Al Madina Printing and Publication Company, later, called Saudi Printing and Packaging Company (SPPC). Hisham Hafiz was one of the founders of the company. Kamal Adham, former head of Saudi intelligence, was also one of the early shareholders of the company.

Next, the company was established in London in 1978. Ten years later, on 5 July 1988, it was registered as a limited liability company in Riyadh and then, converted into a joint stock company in 2000.

The company was listed in the Saudi stock market, Tadawul, 0n 8 April 2006 and therefore, went public. In August 2008, an independent board of trustees of the company was formed, making it the first Arab media company with such a body.

Major shareholders
The company has been often related with the Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz. However, he is neither the chairman nor the shareholder of the company.

Major shareholders of the SRMG are as follows:
 Al Ahli Capital Fund 13    29.90%
 Al Ahli Capital Fund 4     29.90%

From 1989 to his death in 2002, Ahmed bin Salman was the chairman of the company. Then, his younger brother Faisal bin Salman became the chairman of the company. On 9 February 2013, Turki bin Salman succeeded Prince Faisal as chairman of the SRMG when the latter was appointed governor of the Madinah province. Prince Turki's term as chairman ended in April 2014 when he resigned from the post.

On 13 December 2015 the board of directors appointed Badr bin Abdullah Al Saud as the chairman and an independent member of the board.

Business fields
SRMG is the largest publishing company in the Middle East engaged mainly in providing information products and services by publishing newspapers and magazines across the Middle East and globally. The company owns fifteen daily, weekly and monthly newspapers and magazines, including Asharq Al Awsat, Arab News, Al Majalla, Urdu News, Arrajol and Al Eqtisadiah. Its establishment is regarded as the beginning of the new Saudi media empire. Global Investment House in its 2009 report stated that SRMG newspapers have 29.3% market share in Saudi Arabia.

Additionally, the company also deals with marketing, advertising and distributing services heavily across the MENA region and Europe. SRMG operates in seven countries.

Subsidiaries, associates and joint ventures
Major subsidiaries, associates and joint ventures of SRMG are given as follows:

Auditors
The SRMG is audited by Pricewaterhouse Coopers.


Miramar (Weinheim)

Miramar is a water park, salt-water spa and sauna complex opened in 1973 at the Waidsee Lake, Weinheim, Germany.
, approximately 50% of the 650,000 annual visitors pay extra for the Sauna area.
The catchment area for visitors covers a  radius, including Frankfurt am Main to the north, and Pforzheim to the south.

The main bathing area contains a wave pool and several slides.
 there were nine water slides in the main indoor pool area with various levels of difficulty and speed, plus jacuzzis and outside areas.  The thermal spa area has saltwater pools, and these pools are also used to offer physiotherapy.

The sauna area is designated as a nudist/ () area, which is extended to the swimming and thermal spa areas on Tuesday evenings.

History
The original swimming bath complex owned by the Town of Weinheim was offered for sale.  In late-1987 Miramar was purchased by the Steinhart family for the symbolic price of one Deutsche Mark, after which significant expansion and development followed.

Each year  of geothermal heating is used, with hot water at  extracted from a borehole with a flowrate of .

The water park had its fortieth birthday in 2013, by which time 17.5 million people had visited.

Works of art are present through the whole premises.

The operation of the on-site shop and massage services are leased out, but the catering in the restaurants is kept in-house by Miramar.  Of the 150 employees Miramar had in 2014, approximately fifty were working in the catering division, and twenty in cleaning.

Water slides
The indoor complex at Miramar has a number of slides, including an AquaBowl, a TurboSlide and an AquaRacer water slide installed by Aquarena.  In summer 2012 a vertical drop AquaLoop water slide called "Hurricane Loop" was opened. In April 2017, a  slide called "Twister" was scheduled to be opened by the Lord Mayor of Weinheim, Heiner Bernhard (de).

Slides are inspected and certified by the Technical Inspection Associations (, ).

Sauna complex
The sauna and relaxation area is a nudist/FKK area at all times.
In 1998 the Sauna and relaxation areas were rebuilt.

Prior to April 2001, there had also been nudism/FKK in the other areas on Sunday evenings.  Prior to May 2013, there had also been nudism/FKK in the other areas on Saturday evenings.

In April 2018, a tree house sauna () looking out over the Waidsee Lake was opened, which had cost €800,000 and took six months to build.  The outside parts of sauna are built from special kelo wood imported from Finland.  The internal support structure modelled as tree trunk is constructed from reinforced concrete covered with Fiberglass and artificial tree bark.  The structure is  high, with the access walkways fitted around the existing surrounding mature trees.

Safety
 Miramar employed a former police officer to oversee visitor safety, with dedicated safety teams patrolling at busy times. In cooperation with the police force, staff and lifeguards at the Miramar pool are trained in safeguarding techniques.  All incidents and reports are recorded to identify patterns.  A €250 fine, followed by Miramar site ban, is applied for breaches of the pool or sauna etiquette rules.   twenty-nine bans were in place, including four for private masturbation on the premises.

Incidents

In August 2018 four teenagers were found guilty of sexually harassing a group other teenagers at Miramar and sentenced to community service.


Wine club

A wine club is a developing extension of modern wine culture. Wine clubs are designed to provide customers with a series of wine bottles on a monthly or quarterly basis that they would otherwise have to find and purchase on their own.  Wine clubs often behave in a themed manner, providing recipients with red wines, white wines, or a mixture of the two. Wine clubs are most frequently offered by vineyards or specialty wine shops, but they can also be found as independent bodies.

Origin
Paul Kalemkiarian, Sr. claims to have invented the idea of wine in the mail in 1972, while managing a small liquor store in Palos Verdes Estates, California. When a customer needed advice on a wine purchase, Paul Kalemkiarian, Sr. would direct him or her toward a bottle of red and a bottle of white that he had designated as the "monthly selections." Soon customers began to request that these selections be delivered to their homes, and newly licensed Paul Kalemkiarian, Jr., Kalemkiarian's teenage son, would load up the truck and make his rounds. The number of customers requesting this service increased over time, serving as the impetus for the Wine of the Month Club as it exists today. The club, now owned and operated by Paul Kalemkiarian, Jr., continues its tradition of delivering two bottles of wine—both of which have been pared down from among the hundreds that Kalemkiarian, Jr. tastes each month—to the homes of its members nationwide.

Variations and costs
Most wine clubs involve all red bottles, all white bottles, or a combination of both, known as "mixed" clubs. However, there have arisen many stylistic variations in what wines are shipped (including grape varietals and wine regions and how many bottles. Various wine clubs can have a set theme or many themes that alternate with each shipment. The cost range for wine clubs is vast since wine itself can range vastly in price. The type of wines being selected for club shipments and the number of bottles, as well as the frequency of shipping, will influence the overall cost of a wine club. Common wine clubs are created by wineries themselves, wine stores, online wine retailers, or large media companies such as the New York Times and the WSJ Wine Club, among others.


Arrondissement of Rodez

The arrondissement of Rodez is an arrondissement of France in the Aveyron department in the Occitanie region. It has 79 communes. Its population is 111,180 (2016), and its area is .

Composition

The communes of the arrondissement of Rodez, and their INSEE codes, are:

 Argences-en-Aubrac (12223)
 Bertholène (12026)
 Bessuéjouls (12027)
 Bozouls (12033)
 Brommat (12036)
 Campagnac (12047)
 Campouriez (12048)
 Campuac (12049)
 Cantoin (12051)
 La Capelle-Bonance (12055)
 Cassuéjouls (12058)
 Castelnau-de-Mandailles (12061)
 Le Cayrol (12064)
 Clairvaux-d'Aveyron (12066)
 Condom-d'Aubrac (12074)
 Conques-en-Rouergue (12076)
 Coubisou (12079)
 Curières (12088)
 Druelle Balsac (12090)
 Entraygues-sur-Truyère (12094)
 Espalion (12096)
 Espeyrac (12097)
 Estaing (12098)
 Le Fel (12093)
 Florentin-la-Capelle (12103)
 Gabriac (12106)
 Gaillac-d'Aveyron (12107)
 Golinhac (12110)
 Huparlac (12116)
 Lacroix-Barrez (12118)
 Laguiole (12119)
 Laissac-Sévérac-l'Église (12120)
 Lassouts (12124)
 La Loubière (12131)
 Luc-la-Primaube (12133)
 Marcillac-Vallon (12138)
 Le Monastère (12146)
 Montézic (12151)
 Montpeyroux (12156)
 Montrozier (12157)
 Mouret (12161)
 Mur-de-Barrez (12164)
 Muret-le-Château (12165)
 Murols (12166)
 Nauviale (12171)
 Le Nayrac (12172)
 Olemps (12174)
 Onet-le-Château (12176)
 Palmas-d'Aveyron (12177)
 Pierrefiche (12182)
 Pomayrols (12184)
 Prades-d'Aubrac (12187)
 Pruines (12193)
 Rodelle (12201)
 Rodez (12202)
 Saint-Amans-des-Cots (12209)
 Saint-Christophe-Vallon (12215)
 Saint-Chély-d'Aubrac (12214)
 Saint-Côme-d'Olt (12216)
 Sainte-Eulalie-d'Olt (12219)
 Sainte-Radegonde (12241)
 Saint-Félix-de-Lunel (12221)
 Saint-Geniez-d'Olt-et-d'Aubrac (12224)
 Saint-Hippolyte (12226)
 Saint-Laurent-d'Olt (12237)
 Saint-Martin-de-Lenne (12239)
 Saint-Saturnin-de-Lenne (12247)
 Saint-Symphorien-de-Thénières (12250)
 Salles-la-Source (12254)
 Sébazac-Concourès (12264)
 Sébrazac (12265)
 Sénergues (12268)
 Sévérac-d'Aveyron (12270)
 Soulages-Bonneval (12273)
 Taussac (12277)
 Thérondels (12280)
 Valady (12288)
 Villecomtal (12298)
 Vimenet (12303)

History

The arrondissement of Rodez was created in 1800. At the January 2017 reorganization of the arrondissements of Aveyron, it lost 19 communes to the arrondissement of Millau and 34 communes to the arrondissement of Villefranche-de-Rouergue, and it gained six communes from the arrondissement of Millau.

As a result of the reorganisation of the cantons of France which came into effect in 2015, the borders of the cantons are no longer related to the borders of the arrondissements. The cantons of the arrondissement of Rodez were, as of January 2015:

 Baraqueville-Sauveterre
 Bozouls
 Cassagnes-Bégonhès
 Conques
 Entraygues-sur-Truyère
 Espalion
 Estaing
 Laguiole
 Laissac
 Marcillac-Vallon
 Mur-de-Barrez
 Naucelle
 Pont-de-Salars
 Réquista
 Rignac
 Rodez-Est
 Rodez-Nord
 Rodez-Ouest
 Saint-Amans-des-Cots
 Saint-Chély-d'Aubrac
 Sainte-Geneviève-sur-Argence
 Saint-Geniez-d'Olt
 La Salvetat-Peyralès


Ryan Gauld

Ryan Gauld (born 16 December 1995) is a Scottish professional footballer who currently plays as an attacking midfielder for Portuguese club Farense.

He began his professional career at Dundee United, where he helped them reach the 2014 Scottish Cup Final, and his abilities on the ball earned comparisons to Lionel Messi from the Scottish media. In July 2014, he transferred to Portuguese club Sporting CP for a fee of around £3 million. Gauld mainly appeared for the club's B team, and was also loaned to Vitória de Setúbal, Aves, Farense and Hibernian.

In July 2019, Gauld moved to Farense on a permanent basis.

Gauld has represented Scotland at under-19 and under-21 level. He was called up to the senior squad for the first time in September 2014.

Early life
Ryan Gauld was born on 16 December 1995 in Aberdeen and grew up in Laurencekirk, Aberdeenshire, where he was a pupil at Mearns Academy.

In 2002, Gauld began to play for Brechin City Boys Club (now renamed Brechin City Youths), where he was part of a successful team alongside John Souttar and Euan Spark. The trio also developed their skills at coaching schools run in Dundee by Ian Cathro, before they all joined Dundee United's youth system in 2006 at the age of nine.

Club career

Dundee United

Gauld made his Scottish Premier League debut as an 87th-minute substitute for Johnny Russell in the final match of the 2011–12 season, a 2–0 win away to Motherwell on 13 May.

On 24 January 2013, Gauld signed an extended contract keeping him at the club until January 2016. Later on in the 2012–13 season, on 1 April, he made his first start against St Johnstone at McDiarmid Park and marked the occasion with his first senior goal to open a game which ended 1–1.

On 4 November 2013, during the 2013–14 season, Gauld's contract was further extended, to run until May 2016. Five days later, he scored twice in a 4–0 win against Motherwell at Fir Park. On 15 December 2013, the Daily Record reported that Manchester United's Scottish manager David Moyes wanted to personally "scout" Gauld, and take the opportunity to run the rule over the potential of other young Dundee United players such as defenders John Souttar and Andrew Robertson. However, the following day, also his 18th birthday, Gauld's contract was further extended until May 2017. Around the same time, he was being tracked by English Premier League pair Everton and Liverpool, Italy's A.S. Roma and Spain's Real Madrid.

On 12 April 2014, Gauld played in the Scottish Cup semi-final at Ibrox, as United defeated hosts Rangers 3–1 to advance to the Final. He made the run into the penalty area from which Stuart Armstrong scored the opening goal, and assisted the second from Gary Mackay-Steven. Five days later, he was shortlisted for the PFA Scotland Young Player of the Year award, which was eventually awarded to his teammate Robertson. In the Cup Final on 17 May, Gauld replaced Mackay-Steven for the final 26 minutes as Dundee United lost 2–0 to St Johnstone at Celtic Park. Gauld's season ended with eight goals in 38 games across all competitions, of which six were scored in his 31 league matches.

Sporting Clube de Portugal
On 2 July 2014, Sporting Clube de Portugal announced the signing of Gauld from Dundee United, for an undisclosed fee rumoured to be in the region of £3 million. He signed a six-year contract with a €60 million buy-out clause. He credited Sporting's track record of developing players such as Luís Figo, Cristiano Ronaldo and Nani for his decision to join them. Despite being put into the club's B-team, Gauld was named in the 25-man squad to play in the UEFA Champions League after impressing manager Marco Silva during training sessions.

He made his debut for Sporting B on 10 August 2014, replacing Palhinha at half time in a 1–0 defeat away to Farense. Seventeen days later, in his fourth match for the club, he scored for the first time, netting the second in a 3–0 home victory over Desportivo Aves. On 7 December, he scored a second goal, opening a 4–3 win at Lisbon neighbours Clube Oriental de Lisboa with a 20-yard volley. On 21 December, he was sent off for two bookings in a 3–1 triumph at Vitória de Guimarães B. He finished the season with three goals from 26 games for the B-team, the third coming on 7 February 2015, when he equalised as the team came from behind to win 2–1 against SC Olhanense.

Gauld made his debut for the first team on 29 December 2014 in a Taça da Liga game against Vitória S.C., playing the full 90 minutes in a 2–0 win. On his second start for the Sporting first team on 14 January 2015, Gauld was named man of the match in a 1–0 win in the same competition, against Boavista. Having been fouled by goalkeeper Daniel Monllor, he won the penalty converted by Junya Tanaka for the only goal. Four days later, he made his Primeira Liga debut, replacing André Martins for the last 25 minutes of a 4–2 win over Rio Ave at the Estádio José Alvalade. Gauld scored twice for the first team in a 3–2 defeat away to neighbours Belenenses in a Taça da Liga group game on 21 January.

In his second season in the Portuguese capital, Gauld scored his first goal of the B-team's campaign on 26 August 2015, the only one of the away match at S.C. Covilhã in the 84th minute. He followed this on 12 September with a strike in a 4–0 triumph at Oriental. Gauld matched his goal tally in Segunda Liga from the previous season on 3 October, when he opened a 1–1 draw at FC Famalicão, and succeeded it on 28 November with his fourth goal of the campaign, assuring the same result at Gil Vicente F.C.

Loans
On 20 July 2016, amidst interest from England's Sheffield Wednesday, Gauld was loaned to Portuguese top-flight team Vitória de Setúbal for the upcoming season, alongside his teammate André Geraldes. He made his debut for Vitória on 26 October 2016 in a Taça da Liga tie against lower-league Santa Clara, playing the full 90 minutes in a 2–0 win. He made his league debut three days later, coming on as a late substitute for Nenê Bonilha in a scoreless draw at home to FC Porto, his first game in Primeira Liga for 20 months.

On 5 January 2017, it was reported that Gauld had been recalled from loan to train with Sporting CP B, due to Sporting CP being eliminated from the Taça da Liga by Vitória in controversial circumstances. He played nine second-tier games for the B-team over the rest of the season, and was sent off on 14 May at the end of a 2–1 home loss to Académica de Coimbra.

On 24 July 2017, Gauld was loaned to Primeira Liga newcomers C.D. Aves. He was unable to play against his parent team on the first day of the season, however, he came on as an added-time substitute for Salvador Agra in the next game, a 2–2 draw with Paços de Ferreira on 13 August. In his fourth match on 11 September, he scored his first goal in Portugal's top flight, the winner in a 2–1 home win over Belenenses.

On 31 August 2018, Gauld joined LigaPro side Farense on a season-long loan. The loan to Farense was curtailed in January 2019 and he was then loaned to Scottish Premiership club Hibernian. Gauld suffered a hamstring injury and consequently only collected 371 minutes of game time from six first team games in his half season loan at Hibernian.

Farense
Gauld left Sporting to rejoin Farense on a permanent basis in July 2019, signing a two-year contract with an option for a third year and a €4 million release clause.

International career
Gauld was capped ten times for Scotland at under-19 level, scoring two goals. He made his debut on 9 October 2012 against Armenia, replacing Matty Kennedy after 66 minutes of an eventual 4–0 win in a European qualifier at New Douglas Park in Hamilton. He scored his first goal on his fourth cap on 3 September 2013, against Iceland at the Forthbank Stadium in Stirling,  a 20-yard free kick to equalise in a 1–1 draw.

On 6 November 2013, Gauld was called into the Scotland under-21 squad for the first time, for the match against Georgia later that month. He scored his first goals for the under-21 team on his third cap on 8 September 2014, a brace in a 3–0 win away to Luxembourg at the Stade Municipal de Differdange, at the end of a failed European qualification campaign. On 30 September 2014, Gauld was called up to the senior Scotland national football team for Euro 2016 Group D qualifying matches against Georgia and Poland, but did not play. On 10 October 2015, Gauld was sent off for a foul on Marcus Coco in a 2–1 2017 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualification loss to France at Pittodrie in his hometown.

Style of play

Gauld's ability on the ball, and his small and slight stature, led him to be compared to Lionel Messi, a comparison made by the British press since 2013. At Dundee United, he was tutored by Ian Cathro, who favoured creativity and passing over the physicality often expected in Scottish football. After his transfer to Sporting, BBC Sport columnist Richard Wilson predicted that Gauld would be better suited to the style of football in Portugal, due to its slower tempo and its concentration on a passing game. Gauld himself has spoken of his preference for Portuguese football over its Scottish equivalent, and expressed relief at the lower media interest in him at Sporting, opining that comparisons with Messi were exaggerated and premature.

Career statistics

Honours

Aves
 Taça de Portugal: 2017–18


Duncan and Dolores

Duncan and Dolores is an American children's picture book by Barbara Samuels published in 1986. The book won a Christopher Award and was a featured book on an episode of Reading Rainbow. The book was followed by a number of other books featuring Dolores and Duncan, and it was preceded by Faye and Dolores. Prominent subjects in Samuels' books include the relationship between two sisters (Samuels grew up with two older sisters, both of whom had a talent for drawing) and cats. Duncan and Dolores is included in the United Animal Nations' Humane Education Ambassador Reader program.

Plot
Dolores, a loud, boisterous little girl, acquires a pet cat named Duncan, and proceeds to dote on him. Duncan is terrified of her. Unfortunately, Dolores continues to treat him without much gentleness or respect. Duncan hides from her and also seems to prefer the company of Dolores' older sister Faye, which of course makes Dolores jealous. Dolores ignores Duncan for a while. Duncan misses her attentions and in the end acknowledges their friendship (only to be driven back under the furniture by Dolores' stentorian rejoicing).

Related Books
Faye and Dolores features three scenarios that involve Dolores and her older sister Faye; Zena Sutherland, editor of The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books, criticized the episodic structure but also (after describing the plot) said that, "This is commendable as an effort to show that there's a solid base of sibling support underneath any surface tensions." Laurie Kramer, Sonia Noorman and Renee Brockman (at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, in a study of books involving sibling relationships) grouped the book among those they said, "may be considered as providing children with a relatively richer and multi-faceted picture of positive sibling relationships."  Cathy Woodword, in a review of Happy Birthday, Dolores for School Library Journal, writes that the facial expressions in the illustrations "demonstrate the quality and depth of emotion in this typically middle-class family." In What's So Great about Cindy Snappleby? both Faye and Dolores are put through difficulties when Dolores tries to join in with Faye's friends; reviewer Deborah Stevenson states that, "Fastidious yet lively line-and-watercolor illustrations float pleasantly in lots of white space, although Dolores' mess sometimes overcrowds the composition."

In Aloha, Dolores (2000), Dolores never has a doubt that Duncan will win the cat contest she learns about while buying cat food, and enthusiastically begins to prepare for a trip to Hawaii. Dolores on Her Toes, in which Duncan runs away when Dolores tries to dress him up in a tutu and force him to learn ballet with her, was released in 2003. This book received a starred review from Booklist; reviewer Ilene Cooper noted that, "Full-size pictures alternate with small vignettes, sometimes three or four different scenes tumbling across the page. It was also given a spot on Booklists Editor's Choice list for 2003. Happy Valentine's Day Dolores, involving a series of mishaps that take place after Dolores can't resist peeking at a frog necklace in Faye's room, also received a starred review; Cooper stated that, "With so much to laugh at, children will enjoy repeat reads—and so will the grown-ups." Dolores Meets Her Match deals with Dolores' rivalry with the new cat expert at school, a girl with a siamese cat (Samuels has noted that she owns a Siamese cat herself). Zarina Mullan Plath of Parent's Choice wrote appreciatively about Samuels' illustrations and her portrayal of childhood rivalry.


Galium mahadivense

Galium mahadivense, is a species of plant in the family Rubiaceae. It is native to Jammu and Kashmir, in disputed territory administered by India but claimed by Pakistan.

Galium mahadivense was originally described from a site near the city of Srinagar.


Armenia, Belize

Armenia is a village in the Cayo District of Belize, along the nation's Hummingbird Highway south of the capitol, Belmopan.

History
The first settlers in the area were immigrants from Guatemala, El Salvador, or Honduras, trying to escape the ravages of civil war. Both Mopan and K’ekchi Maya people also moved to the area from southern Belize in order to have better access to health care, transportation and a market in which to sell their crops.

Location and geographic setting
Armenia is set in the foothills of the Mayan Mountain Range and is surrounded by jungle, caves, rivers and wildlife.

Demographics
The village population of 1,395 residents is composed of both Spanish, Mestizo and Maya populations.


LawWithoutWalls

LawWithoutWalls (LWOW) is an educational model created by Michele DeStefano in 2010 and sponsored by The University of Miami School of Law.  It is a cooperative partnership among more than 30 leading law and business schools in 15 countries and a mix of lawyers, business professionals, entrepreneurs, and venture capitalists from companies around the world.  LawWithoutWalls is a part-virtual collaboratory which is designed to enable students, academics, and professionals to connect over issues facing the legal profession, solve legal problems, and develop the skills students need to compete in a global marketplace.

Methodology
After an exacting vetting process, selected students from participating schools are teamed up with entrepreneur, academic, and practitioner mentors to identify a problem in legal education or practice and develop a business plan that solves that problem.  They begin this work in January at a KickOff, an in-person event at one of the participating schools that is designed to enhance team building and self-awareness skills. After the KickOff, from January to April, LawWithoutWalls participants attend weekly Virtual Thought Leader Sessions. A virtual "classroom" wherein experts in law, entrepreneurialism, and business share their multidisciplinary viewpoints on the needed revolutions in legal education and practice and teach professional, business, financial, and entrepreneurial skills. These Virtual Sessions are conducted through Adobe Connect and each participant connects from his/her own computer with a webcam and microphone.  Additionally, during this same time period, teams continue to meet virtually to develop their business plans.  In April, students test the viability of bringing their ideas to market by presenting their business plans to a multidisciplinary panel of judges including venture capitalists, such as True Ventures and Tennessee Community Ventures Fund.

Participating schools
Participating schools are Bifröst University, Bucerius Law School, Harvard Law School, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, IE Business School, IE Law School, Indiana University Maurer School of Law, Maastricht University, National Law School of India University, New York Law School, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, Peking University School of Transnational Law, Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, Stanford Law School, Tel Aviv University Buchmann Faculty of Law, UCL Faculty of Laws, University of Miami School of Law, Université de Montréal Faculty of Law, Faculdade de Direito da Universidade de São Paulo, University of St. Gallen Law School, Sydney Law School, and Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.


Míčov-Sušice

Míčov-Sušice is a small village in the Pardubice Region of the Czech Republic. It has around 280 inhabitants.

The village consists of administrative parts Jetonice, Míčov, Rudov, Sušice and Zbyslavec.

External links

 Short official information about the village (in Czech)


Annaka-Haruna Station

is a railway station on the high-speed Hokuriku Shinkansen line in Annaka, Gunma, Japan, operated by East Japan Railway Company (JR East).

Lines
Annaka-Haruna Station is served by the Hokuriku Shinkansen high-speed line between  and  via , but only a small number of Asama services (approximately one train every two hours during the daytime). One evening Hakutaka service also stops at this station. It is not served by any other lines.

Station layout
The elevated station consists of two side platforms serving two tracks. The station has a Midori no Madoguchi staffed ticket office.

Platforms

Adjacent stations

 Note that only one Hakutaka service stops at this station, and many Asama services pass non-stop.

History
The station opened on 1 October 1997.

Passenger statistics
In fiscal 2013, the station was used by an average of 267 passengers daily (boarding passengers only). The passenger figures for previous years are as shown below.

Surrounding area

 Annaka Asama Elementary School


Kiran Klaus Patel

Kiran Klaus Patel (born 3 October 1971) is a German-British historian. He holds a Chair at Ludwig Maximilian University Munich], and is a fellow of the Royal Historical Society.

Education and career
Patel studied history at the University of Freiburg and at Humboldt University of Berlin.

He is currently a professor and chair  at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich, after having held chairs at Maastricht University (2011-2019) and at the European University Institute in Florence. Moreover, He spent the academic year 2014-15 as visiting professor at the London School of Economics. His book, The New Deal: A Global History, won the WHA Bentley Book Prize, awarded by the World History Association. In 2018, Patel published a history of the European Union that attracted a lot of media attention in Germany. In 2019 Patel became a foreign member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Other activities
 Willy Brandt Foundation, Member of the International Advisory Board
 Institut fuer Zeitgeschichte, Munich, Member of the Advisory Board
 Contemporary European History, Member of the Editorial Board
 Geschichte und Gesellschaft, Member of the Editorial Board
 Monde(s). Histoire - Espaces- relations, Member of the Editorial Board

Selected publications

His books include:

 Soldiers of Labor: Labor Service in Nazi Germany and New Deal America, 1933-1945 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005).
Fertile ground for Europe? The history of European Integration and the Common Agricultural Policy since 1945 (Baden Baden: Nomos, 2009).
The United States and Germany during the Twentieth Century: Competition and Convergence (with Christof Mauch) (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010)
 The Cultural Politics of Europe: European Capitals of Culture and European Union since the 1980s  (London: Routledge, 2013).
 European Integration and the Atlantic Community in the 1980s  (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013).
Historical Foundations of EU Competition Law (with  Heike Schweitzer) (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014).
The New Deal: A Global History  (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2017).
Projekt Europa: Eine kritische Geschichte (Munich: Beck, 2018).


Ohio Premier Women's SC

Ohio Premier Women's SC was an American women’s soccer team, founded in 2007. The team was a member of the Women's Premier Soccer League. The team played in the Mid Atlantic Conference.

The team played its home games at Dublin Scioto High School Stadium. The club's colors were white and black.

After the 2012 season, the Ohio Premier Women's SC dissolved, but Ohio Premier continues to run its youth soccer program.

Players

Current roster

Notable former players

Year-by-year

Honors

Competition history

Coaches
  Kevin Dougherty 2008–present
  Willie Gage 2008–present

Stadium

Average attendance

External links
 Official Site
 WPSL Ohio Premier Women's SC page


The 2015–16 UC Irvine Anteaters men's basketball team represented the University of California, Irvine during the 2015–16 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The Anteaters were led by sixth year head coach Russell Turner and played their home games at the Bren Events Center. They are members of the Big West Conference. They finished the season 28–10, 13–3 in Big West play to win a share of the regular season Big West championship. They defeated Cal Poly in the quarterfinals of the Big West Tournament to advance to the semifinals where they lost to Long Beach State. They were invited to the CollegeInsider.com Tournament where they defeated North Dakota, Louisiana–Lafayette, and Coastal Carolina to advance to the championship game where they lost to Columbia. This season, UC Irvine set the new season record in wins with 28, surpassing the previous mark of 25. They also set the records for most true road wins with 13, and most conference wins with 13. Alex Young became the first player in school history to record career 1,000 points, 500 assists, and 500 rebounds. Mamadou N'Diaye broke the school record in career blocked shots with 218.

Off-Season

2015 Recruiting Class

Roster

Schedule
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