Confluent hypergeometric function

In mathematics, a confluent hypergeometric function is a solution of a confluent hypergeometric equation, which is a degenerate form of a hypergeometric differential equation where two of the three regular singularities merge into an irregular singularity. (The term confluent refers to the merging of singular points of families of differential equations; confluere is Latin for "to flow together".) There are several common standard forms of confluent hypergeometric functions:

 Kummer's (confluent hypergeometric) function , introduced by , is a solution to Kummer's  differential equation. This is also known as the confluent hypergeometric function of the first kind. There is a different and unrelated Kummer's function bearing the same name.
 Tricomi's (confluent hypergeometric) function  introduced by , sometimes denoted by , is another solution to Kummer's equation. This is also known as the confluent hypergeometric function of the second kind.
 Whittaker functions (for Edmund Taylor Whittaker) are  solutions to Whittaker's equation.
 Coulomb wave functions are solutions to the Coulomb wave equation. The Kummer functions,  Whittaker functions, and Coulomb wave functions are essentially the same, and differ from each other only by elementary functions and change of variables.

Kummer's equation
Kummer's equation may be written as:

with a regular singular point at  and an irregular singular point at . It has two (usually) linearly independent solutions  and .

Kummer's function (of the first kind) M is a generalized hypergeometric series introduced in , given by:

where:

is the rising factorial.  Another common notation for this solution is . Considered as a function of a, b, or  with the other two held constant, this defines an entire function of a or z, except when  As a function of  it is analytic except for poles at the non-positive integers.

Some values of a and  yield solutions that can be expressed in terms of other known functions. See #Special cases. When a is a non-positive integer then Kummer's function (if it is defined) is a (generalized) Laguerre polynomial.

Just as the confluent differential equation is a limit of the hypergeometric differential equation as the singular point at 1 is moved towards the singular point at ∞, the confluent hypergeometric function  can be given as a limit of the hypergeometric function

and many of the properties of the confluent hypergeometric function are limiting cases of properties of the hypergeometric function.

Since Kummer's equation is second order there must be another, independent, solution. The indicial equation of the method of Frobenius tells us that the lowest power of a power series solution to the Kummer equation is either 0 or . If we let w(z) be

then the differential equation gives

which, upon dividing out  and simplifying, becomes

This means that  is a solution so long as b is not an integer greater than 1, just as  is a solution so long as b is not an integer less than 1. We can also use the Tricomi confluent hypergeometric function  introduced by , and sometimes denoted by . It is a combination of the above two solutions, defined by

Although this expression is undefined for integer , it has the advantage that it can be extended to any integer  by continuity. Unlike Kummer's function which is an entire function of z, U(z) usually has a singularity at zero. For example, if b=0 and a≠0 then  is asymptotic to  as z goes to zero. But see #Special cases for some examples where it is an entire function (polynomial).

Note that the solution  to Kummer's equation is the same as the solution  (See #Kummer's transformation below.)

For most combinations of real (or complex) a and b, the functions  and  are independent, and if b is a non-positive integer (so  doesn't exist) then we may be able to use  as a second solution. But if  is a non-positive integer and  is not a non-positive integer, then  is a multiple of . In that case as well,  can be used as a second solution if it exists and is different. But when b is an integer greater than 1 this solution doesn't exist, and if  then it exists but is a multiple of  and of  In those cases a second solution exists of the form (valid for any real or complex a and any positive integer b except when a is a positive integer less than b):

When a = 0 we can alternatively use:

When  this is the exponential integral E1(-z).

A similar problem occurs when a−b is a negative integer and b is an integer less than 1. In this case  doesn't exist, and  is a multiple of  A second solution is then of the form:

Other equations
Confluent Hypergeometric Functions can be used to solve the Extended Confluent Hypergeometric Equation whose general form is given as:

{NB that for m=0 (or when the summation involves just one term), it reduces to the conventional Confluent Hypergeometric Equation}

Thus Confluent Hypergeometric Functions can be used to solve "most" second-order ordinary differential equations whose variable coefficients are all linear functions of ; because they can be transformed to the Extended Confluent Hypergeometric Equation. Consider the equation:

First we move the regular singular point to  by using the substitution of  which converts the equation to:

with new values of , and . Next we use the substitution:

and multiply the equation by the same factor, obtaining:

whose solution is

where  is a solution to Kummer's equation with

Note that the square root may give an imaginary (or complex) number. If it is zero, another solution must be used, namely

where  is a confluent hypergeometric limit function satisfying

As noted lower down, even the Bessel equation can be solved using confluent hypergeometric functions.

Integral representations
If Re b > Re a > 0,  can be represented as an integral

thus  is the characteristic function of the beta distribution. For a with positive real part  can be obtained by the Laplace integral

The integral defines a solution in the right half-plane  .

They can also be represented as Barnes integrals

where the contour passes to one side of the poles of  and to the other side of the poles of .

Asymptotic behavior
If a solution to Kummer's equation is asymptotic to a power of  as , then the power must be . This is in fact the case for Tricomi's solution . Its asymptotic behavior as  can be deduced from the integral representations. If , then making a change of variables in the integral followed by expanding the binomial series and integrating it formally term by term gives rise to an asymptotic series expansion, valid as :

where  is a  generalized hypergeometric series (with 1 as leading term), which generally converges nowhere but exists as a formal power series in 1/x. This asymptotic expansion is also valid for complex  instead of real x, with

The asymptotic behavior of Kummer's solution for large |z| is:

The powers of  are taken using . The first term is not needed when  is finite (that is, when  is not a non-positive integer) and the real part of  goes to negative infinity, whereas the second term is not needed when  is finite (that is, when a is a not a non-positive integer) and the real part of  goes to positive infinity.

There is always some solution to Kummer's equation asymptotic to  as . Usually this will be a combination of both  and  but can also be expressed as .

Relations
There are many relations between Kummer functions for various arguments and their derivatives. This section gives a few typical examples.

Contiguous relations
Given , the four functions  are called contiguous to . The function  can be written as a linear combination of any two of its contiguous functions, with rational coefficients in terms of , and . This gives  ()=6 relations, given by identifying any two lines on the right hand side of

In the notation above, M = M(a, b, z), M(a+) = M(a + 1, b, z), and so on.

Repeatedly applying these relations gives a linear relation between any three functions of the form  (and their higher derivatives), where m, n are integers.

There are similar relations for U.

Kummer's transformation
Kummer's functions are also related by Kummer's transformations:

.

Multiplication theorem
The following multiplication theorems hold true:

Connection with Laguerre polynomials and similar representations
In terms of Laguerre polynomials, Kummer's functions have several expansions, for example

Special cases
Functions that can be expressed as special cases of the confluent hypergeometric function include:
Some elementary functions (the left-hand side is not defined when  is a non-positive integer, but the right-hand side is still a solution of the corresponding Kummer equation):

 (a polynomial if a is a non-positive integer)

 for non-positive integer n is a generalized Laguerre polynomial.
 for non-positive integer n is a multiple of a generalized Laguerre polynomial, equal to  when the latter exists.
 when n is a positive integer is a closed form with powers of z, equal to  when the latter exists.

 for non-negative integer n is a Bessel polynomial (see lower down).
 etc.
Using the contiguous relation  we get, for example,
Bateman's function
Bessel functions and many related functions such as Airy functions, Kelvin functions, Hankel functions. For example, in the special case  the function reduces to a Bessel function:

This identity is sometimes also referred to as Kummer's second transformation. Similarly

When  is a non-positive integer, this equals  where  is a Bessel polynomial.
 The error function can be expressed as

Coulomb wave function
Cunningham functions
Exponential integral and related functions such as the sine integral, logarithmic integral
Hermite polynomials
Incomplete gamma function
Laguerre polynomials
Parabolic cylinder function (or Weber function)
Poisson–Charlier function
Toronto functions
Whittaker functions  are solutions of Whittaker's equation that can be expressed in terms of Kummer functions M and U by

 The general -th raw moment ( not necessarily an integer) can be expressed as

In the second formula the function's second branch cut can be chosen by multiplying with .

Application to continued fractions

By applying a limiting argument to Gauss's continued fraction it can be shown that

and that this continued fraction converges uniformly to a meromorphic function of  in every bounded domain that does not include a pole.

Notes


Abdul Rahim Karimi

Abdul Rahim Karimi was Minister of Justice of Afghanistan between December 2001 and October 2004 in the Afghan Interim Authority and the Afghan Transitional Administration. He was replaced by Sarwar Danish when Karzai reshuffled his cabinet when he was elected president in 2004.

Karimi, an ethnic Uzbek who was aligned with the Northern Alliance, was installed as minister by the Bonn Conference, following the defeat of the Taliban government.

Warlords
As a minister with a background United Islamic Front he is reported to have said that all Afghan refugees were welcome to return after the Taliban-era, except for communists, indicating that he still saw the world through the lens of the Cold War. He also took a stance against the Islamic warlords however. In November 2002 he said that government laws could not be enforced in parts of the country were warlords were still in power. A judge could not make fair decisions in areas ruled by Mujahideen commanders, and as a consequence, in much of Afghanistan, the rule of the gun continues to prevailed over the rule of law.

Sharia
Islamists wanted that the legal system of Afghanistan would be drawn solely from Sharia law. But Karimi intended for the new legal code to be based no more than 20 percent on Islamic jurisprudence. He claimed that the Islam of his government is different from the Islam of the Taliban, but defended the fact that Sharia law remained in place: "people would not understand if we would get rid of it" completely. Under his leadership, Afghanistan signed up as a member of the International Criminal Court. He was also responsible for the new electoral law, providing for presidential and parliamentary elections.


Jurków Drugi

Jurków Drugi  is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Oporów, within Kutno County, Łódź Voivodeship, in central Poland. It lies approximately  north-west of Oporów,  east of Kutno, and  north of the regional capital Łódź.


Sidi M'Hamed

Sidi M'Hamed () is a municipality in Algiers Province, Algeria. It is the seat of the district of the same name. Its municipal code is 1602 and postal code is 16014 and it has a population of 90,455 as of the 1998 census, which gives it 15 seats in the PMA.

The municipality is named after the founder of the Rahmaniyya Sufi order Sidi M'hamed Bou Qobrine.


Still Life (Talking)

Still Life (Talking) is an album by the Pat Metheny Group that was released in 1987 on Geffen Records. It won the Grammy Award for Best Jazz Fusion Performance and was certified gold by the RIAA on July 2, 1992.

This was the Group's first album to be released by Geffen. It combines Brazilian jazz-influenced harmonies and rhythms with jazz, folk, and pop.

History

Group co-founders Pat Metheny and Lyle Mays joined the Geffen Records label in 1985. After recording and releasing the album Song X and Mays' eponymous debut as a solo bandleader, they hired multi-instrumentalists David Blamires and Mark Ledford for the Group. "They were like super-musicians", Metheny said in the album's podcast retrospective. "They could play just about anything." Metheny held percussion auditions in Brazil, where he hired Armando Marçal.

Metheny stated that while he has no negativity toward ECM Records nor the way the Group's ECM albums were recorded, the label had a very stringent policy: "You recorded for two days, you mixed for a day, that was your record. For better or worse...whether you liked it or not, that was your record." The Group recorded Still Life (Talking) in approximately two weeks, creating a greater opportunity, Metheny continued, to refine the sound for the album.

Since the recording of their album As Falls Wichita, so Falls Wichita Falls, one of Metheny and Mays'  goals was to make the recording studio an  instrument. To accomplish this for Still Life (Talking), Metheny recorded with a microphone on his guitars to create deeper and more intimate sounds. Additionally, the opening track, "Minuano (Six-Eight)", was created to establish that mantra for the entire album.

Reception and legacy
Still Life (Talking) was widely acclaimed and won the 1988 Grammy for Best Jazz Fusion Performance. It remains one of the Pat Metheny Group's most popular albums, the first to sell over 500,000 copies and therefore certified gold by the RIAA. Most of the album's songs continued to be played by the Group in concert long after the album's original release, especially, "Minuano (Six-Eight)".

An edited version of the track "Last Train Home" was released as a single to radio.  "Last Train Home" was also used in a Christmas commercial by the Florida-based supermarket chain Publix, featuring relatives traveling to Florida by train for Christmas. Metheny jokingly refers to the piece as "The Publix Song" when performing in Florida, as the commercial aired every holiday season from 1987 to 1996. The NPR radio show Radio Deluxe with John Pizzarelli uses the tune as its closing theme.

In 2015, the song served as the end theme of the anime adaptation JoJo's Bizarre Adventure during the second half of the show's Stardust Crusaders arc, and it later became the focus of Essential Collection Last Train Home, a JoJo-themed compilation album for the Pat Metheny Group. The composition has also been featured during The Weather Channel's Local on the 8s playlist since the late 1980s. The retail bedding manufacturer Sleep Train, which operates primarily in California, used the track for their television commercials.

Track listing

Personnel
 Pat Metheny – acoustic and electric guitars, guitar synthesizer
 Lyle Mays – piano, keyboards
 Steve Rodby – acoustic and electric bass
 Paul Wertico – drums
 Armando Marçal – percussion, backing vocals
 Mark Ledford – vocals
 David Blamires – vocals

Charts
Album - Billboard

Awards
Grammy Awards


Sheridan Circle

Sheridan Circle is a traffic circle in the Washington, D.C. neighborhood of Embassy Row.

A number of embassies ring Sheridan Circle, including the former Turkish chancery, and the Romanian embassy on the southern side, and the Embassy of Pakistan to the northwest.

Dupont Circle is visible down Massachusetts Avenue; in the other direction, the avenue rises toward a bridge over Rock Creek Park.

History
In 1888, the traffic circle was named for General Philip Sheridan, Union general of the American Civil War and later general of the United States Army.

Sheridan Monument

A statue to honor General Sheridan was originally proposed to stand on the north side of Pennsylvania Avenue NW near 13th Street NW,  at what is now Freedom Plaza. Gen. Sheridan's widow advocated to erect the statue at Sheridan Circle instead, with which the statue commission agreed. John Quincy Adams Ward was selected to sculpt the statue. Mrs. Sheridan rejected his original model, saying it was not a good likeness of Gen. Sheridan, and the statue commission rejected Ward's model. The commission and Mrs. Sheridan both approved of a model created by Gutzon Borglum. The statue was dedicated on November 27, 1908.

Letelier Monument

On September 21, 1976, Orlando Letelier and Ronni Karpen Moffitt were killed by a car bomb in the circle. Letelier had been foreign minister in the ousted Allende government of Chile. The bombing was blamed on Chilean DINA agents. Michael Townley, a DINA U.S. expatriate among those convicted for the crime, confessed that he had hired five anti-Castro Cuban exiles to booby-trap Letelier's car. According to Jean-Guy Allard, after consultations with the Coordination of United Revolutionary Organizations leadership (including Luis Posada Carriles and Orlando Bosch), those selected to carry out the murder were Cuban-Americans José Dionisio Suárez, Virgilio Paz Romero, Alvin Ross Díaz and brothers Guillermo and Ignacio Novo Sampoll. According to the Miami Herald, Luis Posada Carriles was at the meeting that decided on Letelier's death and also about the Cubana bombing two weeks later.

Letelier and Moffitt are commemorated with a small plaque embedded in the grass along the curb where they died, near the Irish and Romanian embassies.

Turkish attacks

On May 16, 2017, dozens of peaceful protestors were assaulted by Turkish security officials. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, visiting the Ambassador's residence that sits on Sheridan Circle, watched the clashes from a distance.


Woodland, Missouri

Woodland is an unincorporated community in Marion County, in the U.S. state of Missouri.

History
A post office called Woodland was established in 1872, and remained in operation until 1941. The community was named after a nearby private estate of the same name.


Vanderbilt ADHD diagnostic rating scale

The Vanderbilt ADHD Diagnostic Rating Scale (VADRS) is a psychological assessment tool for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) symptoms and their effects on behavior and academic performance in children ages 6–12. This measure was developed by Mark Wolraich at the Oklahoma Health Sciences Center and includes items related to Oppositional Defiant Disorder, Conduct Disorder, Anxiety, and Depression, disorders often comorbid with ADHD.

There are two versions available: a parent form that contains 55 questions, and a teacher form that contains 43 questions. Shorter follow-up versions of the VADRS are also available for parents and teachers and consists of 26 questions with an additional 12 side effect measures. Comparing scores from the different versions of the VADRS with other psychological measures have suggested the scores have good but limited reliability and validity across multiple samples. The VADRS has only been recently developed, however, so clinical application of the measure is limited.

Development and history
The VADRS was developed by Wolraich with the aim to add common comorbid conditions associated with ADHD that was lacking from previous assessments. As public awareness of ADHD has increased, epidemiological studies have found a prevalence rate of 4-12% in children of ages 6–12 throughout the United States. Not only is ADHD the most commonly encountered childhood-onset disorder in neurodevelopment, there is also a high comorbidity rate linking ADHD with other behavioral, emotional and learning problems and disabilities. As a need to obtain a defined population sample due to a lack of funds, Wolraich developed the teacher VADRS. The teacher rating scales are important, because current diagnostic guidelines require that symptoms of ADHD be seen in more than one setting before making a diagnosis.

Scoring and interpretation

Both parent and teacher assessment scales have two components: symptom assessment and impairment in performance. The symptom assessment component screens for symptoms relevant to inattentive and hyperactive ADHD subtypes. To meet criteria for ADHD diagnoses, one must have 6 positive responses to either the core 9 inattentive symptoms or core 9 hyperactive symptoms, or both.

Both the parent and the teacher versions ask the respondent to rate the frequency of a child's behaviors on a 0-3 scale as follows:

0: "never";
1: "occasionally";
2: "often";
3: "very often".

A positive response is either a score of 2 or 3 ("often" to "very often").

The final 8 questions of both versions ask the respondent to rate the child's performance in school and his or her interactions with others on a 1-5 scale, with 1-2 meaning "above average", 3 meaning "average", and 4-5 meaning "problematic".

To meet criteria for ADHD, there must be at least one score for the performance set that is either a 4 or 5, as these scores indicate impairment in performance.

Parent version
The parent version of the Vanderbilt ADHD Diagnostic Rating Scale contains 6 subscales. Behaviors are included in the total for each subscale if they are scored as a 2 or a 3. The rules for scoring are as follows:

ADHD inattentive type: Must score either a 2 or 3 on six or more items in questions 1-9, and score of 1 or 2 on any items in the performance section.
ADHD hyperactive/impulsive type: Must score either a 2 or 3 on six or more items in questions 10-18, and a score of 1 or 2 on any items in the performance section.
ADHD combined type: Meets criteria for both ADHD inattentive type and hyperactive/impulsive type.
Oppositional defiant disorder (ODD): Must score either a 2 or a 3 on four or more items in questions 19-26.
Conduct disorder: Must score either a 2 or 3 on three or more items in questions 27-40.
Anxiety/depression: Must score either a 2 or 3 on three or more items in questions 41-47.

Teacher version

The teacher version of the Vanderbilt ADHD Diagnostic Rating Scale contains 5 subscales. Behaviors are included in the total for each subscale if they are scored as a 2 or a 3. A score of 1 or 2 on at least one question in the performance section indicates impairment. The rules for scoring are as follows:

ADHD inattentive type: Must score either a 2 or 3 on six or more items in questions 1-9.
ADHD hyperactive/impulsive type: Must score either a 2 or 3 on six or more items in questions 10-18.
ADHD combined type: Meets criteria for both ADHD inattentive type and hyperactive/impulsive type.
Oppositional defiant disorder (ODD): Must score either a 2 or a 3 on three or more items in questions 19-28.
Anxiety/depression: Must score either a 2 or 3 on three or more items in questions 29-35.

Reliability

Validity

Impact
There is a high comorbidity of learning disorders (LDs) in children with ADHD, and for that reason the VADRS has been studied to determine if the performance item questions on the VARS can reliably predict if the child with ADHD has a comorbid LD (e.g. math, reading, spelling LDs). Results of a receiver operating characteristic (ROC) analysis show that children with ADHD can be reliably ruled out from have a comorbid LD based on the performance items on the VARS. This is clinically useful because it allows those without LDs to be ruled out and therefore reduce the amount of unnecessary referrals to healthcare professionals.

Limitations

The VADRS is a fairly new instrument with incomplete data on reliability and validity, and consequently, its use in a clinical population has not been fully analyzed. Additionally, normative data has only been collected in a localized population and only for the teacher version. Relating to the measure itself, its comorbidity subscales are not based on the DSM-IV like the rest of the measure, and the current incarnation of the VADRS has not been adapted for DSM-5 criteria.


Mormon missionary diarists

Mormon missionary diarists are the Mormon missionaries who kept records in the form of diaries and journals recounting their activities on behalf of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) in various parts of the world. Both male and female missionaries kept these diaries and were encouraged to do so by the Church. Many of these documents have been donated to the Brigham Young University's Harold B. Lee Library, and since 2003, a large selection of these have been transcribed and digitized.

Personal diaries
Since the early days of the LDS Church, church leaders have encouraged the record-keeping of individuals and the church as an organization. Personal record-keeping is considered to be a high priority, especially as an individual experiences "spiritual, cultural, social relationships, and personal growth". Because a mission is viewed as an "intensive spiritual experience, accompanied frequently by the gaining of new cultural and social insights", missionary journaling has been emphasized by the church throughout the years.

Digitizing the diaries
Many of the missionary diaries in this collection were saved as archives by the diarist's family and later donated to Brigham Young University's Harold B. Lee Library. In 2003, students and faculty began the five-year project to transcribe and digitize the diary collection, consisting of 115 missionary diarists and 376 written volumes. Criteria including readability, language, and content were established to determine which diaries would be most valuable to the collection. Most of the diarists featured in the collection never rose to great prominence. However, the mission diaries of church leaders such as Hyrum Smith, James E. Talmage, and Moses Thatcher are included. All diary pages were digitally prepped, scanned and uploaded online to create the collection. The digital images of the diary pages appear next to the transcription to make the information easy to read.

List of diarists
 List of Mormon missionary diarists (Asia and Middle East)
 List of Mormon missionary diarists (Europe)
 List of Mormon missionary diarists (North America)
 List of Mormon missionary diarists (Pacific)


Hydroxyphenylpyruvate reductase

In enzymology, a hydroxyphenylpyruvate reductase () is an enzyme that catalyzes the chemical reaction

3-(4-hydroxyphenyl)lactate + NAD+  3-(4-hydroxyphenyl)pyruvate + NADH + H+

Thus, the two substrates of this enzyme are 3-(4-hydroxyphenyl)lactate and NAD+, whereas its 3 products are 3-(4-hydroxyphenyl)pyruvate, NADH, and H+.

This enzyme belongs to the family of oxidoreductases, specifically those acting on the CH-OH group of donor with NAD+ or NADP+ as acceptor. The systematic name of this enzyme class is 4-hydroxyphenyllactate:NAD+ oxidoreductase. This enzyme is also called HPRP. This enzyme participates in tyrosine metabolism and phenylalanine metabolism.


Western Hockey League (disambiguation)

The Western Hockey League is a major junior ice hockey league based in Western Canada and the Northwestern United States.

Western Hockey League may also refer to:
 Western Canada Hockey League, active 1921–1926
 Western Canada Hockey League (1932–1933)
 Western Hockey League (1952–1974)


Bertha, Missouri

Bertha is an unincorporated community in southern Douglas County, Missouri, United States. Bertha is located on the Fox Creek floodplain, just north of its junction with Bryant Creek on County Road 95-345, southeast of Gentryville.

History
A post office called Bertha was established in 1903, and remained in operation until 1956. An early postmaster gave the community the first name of his daughter, Bertha Hawkins.


Yasuka Saitō

is a Japanese actor, best known for the role of Masumi Inou in the 2006–2007 tokusatsu series GoGo Sentai Boukenger.

Entertainment career

Television
 Hana Yori Dango (TBS, 2005, episode 1)
 GoGo Sentai Boukenger as Masumi Inou/Bouken Black (TV Asahi, 2006/2007)
 Fuuma no Kojirou as Byakko (TV Tokyo, 2007)

Cinema
 The Prince of Tennis as Shinji Ibu (Animate, 2006)
 Mirrorman: REFLEX as Takashi (Tsuburaya, 2006)
 GoGo Sentai Boukenger The Movie: The Greatest Precious as Masumi Inou/Bouken Black (Toei, 2006)
 GoGo Sentai Boukenger vs. Super Sentai as Masumi Inou/Bouken Black (Toei, 2007)
 Juken Sentai Gekiranger vs Boukenger as Masumi Inou/Bouken Black (Toei, 2008)
 Kamen Rider Den-O: I'm Born! as Newt Imajin (voice) (Toei, 2007)
 Ai no Kotodama as Tachibana Miyako (Frontier Works, 2007)
 Takumi-kun Series: Soshite Harukaze ni Sasayaite (2007) as Izumi Takabayashi
 SS as Akira (Toho, 2008)
 Takumi-kun Series 3: Bibou no Detail as Masataka Nozawa (2010)
 Love Place: Shiawase no Katachi as Souta (2013)

Theatre
The Prince of Tennis Musical: The Progressive Match Higa Chuu feat. Rikkai - Rin Hirakoba (2007)
 Magdala na Maria Musical (2009) as Clara
Air Gear Musical 3: Top Gear Remix- Aeon Clock (2010)
Saint Seiya Super Musical - Lyra Orpheus (2011)

External links
 Junes Project Official Profile
 Water Orion Official Profile
 Official Blog
 Wikipedia Japanese article on 齋藤ヤスカ


Yanqul

Yanqul is a Wilayat of Ad Dhahirah in the Sultanate of Oman.


2019 Miami RedHawks football team

The 2019 Miami RedHawks football team represented Miami University in the 2019 NCAA Division I FBS football season. They were led by sixth year head coach Chuck Martin and played their home games at Yager Stadium in Oxford, Ohio, as members of the East Division of the Mid-American Conference.

Previous season
The RedHawks finished the 2018 season 6–6 6–2 in MAC Play to finish in a tie for second place in the East Division.

Preseason

MAC media poll
The MAC released their preseason media poll on July 23, 2019, with the RedHawks predicted to finish in second place in the East Division.

Schedule

Source:.

Personnel

Coaching staff

Game summaries

at Iowa

Tennessee Tech

at Cincinnati

at Ohio State

Buffalo

at Western Michigan

Northern Illinois

at Kent State

at Ohio

Bowling Green

Akron

at Ball State

MAC Championship Game

vs. Louisiana (LendingTree Bowl)


Cabaret (1953 film)

Cabaret is a 1953 Spanish musical film directed by Eduardo Manzanos Brochero and starring  Fernando Rey, Nati Mistral and José Bódalo.

Cast
  Fernando Rey
 Nati Mistral
 José Bódalo
 Félix Dafauce
 María Luz Galicia
 Rafael Romero Marchent
 Enrique Herreros
 Miguel Pastor
 José Luis Ozores
 Manuel San Román
 Matilde Muñoz Sampedro
 Rafael Alonso
 Mariano Ozores
 Luisa Puchol
 Pilar Vela


William Frederick Harvey

Lieutenant-Colonel William Frederick Harvey CIE FRCPE FRSE (1873-11 September 1948) was a Scottish expert on public health, serving for many years improving conditions in India.

Life
Harvey, the son of Robert Harvey, attended Dollar Academy then studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh graduating MA in 1893 and MB in 1897.

In 1905/6 he received a Diploma in Public Health. He was a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh and a Licentiate of the Society of Apothecaries.

In 1907 he was posted to Sierra Leone to work on a cure for trypanosomiasis. From 1908 he was stationed in India with the Royal Army Medical Corps. As part of the Indian Medical Service he was based at Kasauli.

In the First World War he was initially based in Bombay, on training duties, then served with the Sanitary Division of the ADMS in Mesopotamia and was Mentioned in Dispatches. He was the joint creator, with Robert J. Blackham, of the "Harvey-Blackham" pattern used on St John’s Ambulances in the Far East.

Returning again to India he served as Director of the Central Research Institute of India. He was awarded the Order of the Indian Empire in 1921. He retired from the Indian Medical Service in 1925 and returned to Scotland to live in Edinburgh.

In 1926 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Alexander Gray McKendrick, James Hartley Ashworth, Arthur Crichton Mitchell and David Waterston. He served as the Society’s Vice President from 1946 to 1948.

He died in Edinburgh on 11 September 1948.

Publications
See

Principal Diseases affecting Troops and Animals in Sierra Leone (1908)
Bombay Presidency Branch of the Imperial Indian Relief Fund. War 1914-1915 (1915)

Family
He was married to Jean Sutherland in 1910.


United States Army Combat Readiness/Safety Center

The U.S. Army Combat Readiness Center (USACRC) is a United States Army organization. The Army Safety Team provides safety and risk management expertise to the Army, DoD, and other agencies; develops, maintains and evaluates Army Safety policy and programs; and communicates relevant risk management information to Army Leaders for the preservation of our Soldiers, Civilians, Families and vital resources. It is located at Fort Rucker, Alabama, alongside the Army's major flight training unit.

The center has developed a myriad of tools and resources that reinforce the sound principles of risk management. These resources are a means to assist Leaders, Soldiers, Army Civilians and Managers, and Family members in successfully and safely completing their missions, jobs and off-duty activities while mitigating the harmful effects of risk. The USACRC website hosts many tools to identify hazards, reduce risk and prevent both accidental and tactical loss. The USACRC's objective is to keep all Army personnel and their Family members safe and strong.

It is commanded by Brigadier General Jeffrey Farnsworth.

History

The U. S. Army Combat Readiness Safety Center traces its origin to the Army Accident Review Board, a section of the Army Aviation Training Department of the Artillery School at Fort Sill, Oklahoma. The Review Board consisted of two officers and one enlisted. As Army aviation expanded, so did the work of the Review Board, which was moved to Fort Rucker in Alabama, with the U.S. Army Aviation School in 1954.

The Review Board was renamed the U.S. Army Board for Aviation Accident Research in 1957. USABAAR's mission included not only the review of aircraft accident reports but also crash-site investigations and research into aviation safety matters involving aircraft design, operations, and training as well as supervision, maintenance, inspection, and human factors.

In 1972, USABAAR became the U.S. Army Agency for Aviation Safety under the supervision of the director of Army Aviation, Office of the Assistant Chief of Staff for Force Development. Responsibilities of USAAAVS were expanded to include accident prevention education, safety assistance visits Armywide, establishment of Army aviation safety policy, collection of all Army aviation accident data, promotion of system safety, and support of selected aspects of the Army’s ground safety program. USAAAVS was under the supervision of the Inspector General from 1974 to 1978. In 1978, it became a field operating agency of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Personnel, and its mission was further expanded. USAAAVS assumed responsibility for both aviation and ground safety and was renamed the U.S. Army Safety Center.

The Commander of the Army Safety Center became the deputy director of Army Safety in October 1983. The Safety Center was given Army staff responsibility for implementation of the Army Safety Program and served as the primary advisor on accident prevention to the Department of the Army. In July 1987, the Safety Center became a field operating agency of the Chief of Staff of the Army. The commander of the Safety Center was designated as the director of Army Safety. The director of Army Safety was made a general officer position, reporting through the Director of the Army Staff to the Chief of Staff, Army.

Following the September 11 attacks and the resulting U.S. military action, United States Department of Defense leadership recognized the enormous impact that accidental loss had, and continues to have, on the readiness and capability of the Army. As a result, January 31, 2005, the U.S. Army Safety Center was redesignated as the U.S. Army Combat Readiness Center with an expanded mission to become the center of gravity for all loss-related areas. As the Army’s knowledge center for loss data collection, analysis and information dissemination, the USACRC assists the Army with the preservation of combat power through the application of Risk Management in order to stop Soldiers getting hurt.

Scope
Most Army accidental deaths occur while Soldiers are off duty, and statistics from fiscal 2011 reveal there were 136 off-duty accidental fatalities compared to only 40 on-duty.  For soldiers who are at home or play, privately owned vehicle accidents are the most prevalent cause of death.  Sedans and motorcycles were involved in most of these incidents.

Risk management is the Army’s primary decision-making process to identify hazards, reduce risk and prevent accidents and can be used by Soldiers at any time even if they aren’t at work.  Besides urging Soldiers to use risk management both on and off duty, Leaders, battle buddies and Family members can help reduce off-duty deaths by getting involved in their Soldiers’ lives and helping them make better decisions.

The U.S. Army Combat Readiness Center has many tools and programs to help leaders, battle buddies and Family members identify risky behaviors, provide solutions and help prevent needless accidents both on and off duty.

The U.S. Army Combat Readiness Center has developed a myriad of tools that reinforce the sound principles of Risk Management <https://safety.army.mil/crm/>, which assist leaders in successfully and safely completing their mission, while mitigating the harmful effects of risk. These tools were developed to keep the Army Family safe and strong, reflecting the organizational catchphrase, "Army Safe is Army Strong."  Some tools can only be accessed by those with Army Knowledge Online accounts.


Ralph Mercier

Joseph Harold Ralph Mercier (13 February 1937 – 13 February 2020) was a Canadian municipal politician. He served as Mayor of Charlesbourg from 1984 to 2001, then held other positions in Quebec City from 2002 to 2009.

Biography
As Mayor of Charlesbourg, Mercier fought against municipal reorganization in Quebec City. In 2001, he was elected as a city councillor for Quebec City Council as a member of the party Action civique de Québec. He was opposition leader in the City Hall of Quebec City from 2002 to 2005. During this period, he invited residents of Quebec City to vote on referendums on demergers of the city's boroughs. However, Mercier never said whether he was for or against the mergers.

Mercier considered retirement in 2004, but ultimately decided to stand in the 2005 elections. He was reelected to the Charlesbourg-Centre district in November of that year. Mayor Andrée Boucher appointed Mercier to the executive council, the agglomeration council, the executive committee, and the board of directors.

After Boucher's death in 2007, Mercier found himself in a more disagreeable situation with the new mayor Régis Labeaume. He decided to retire from political life following the 2009 elections.

Mercier had been active in the Union Des Municipalités Du Québec (UMQ), where he served as President from 1990 to 1993. He sat on the board of directors for the UMQ as a representative of the caucus des grandes villes.

Mercier died on 13 February 2020, on his 83rd birthday.


Grange Academy, Kempston

Grange Academy (formerly Grange School) is a coeducational special school located in Kempston, Bedfordshire, England. The school accepts pupils between the ages of 5 and 16 years with Moderate Learning Difficulties from all over the Borough of Bedford.

The school is currently organised into two departments:

 The Primary Department covering Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2 (ages 5 – 11)
 The Secondary Department covering Key Stage 3 and Key Stage 4 (ages 11 – 16)

In October 2009, Bedford Borough Council launched a consultation on the future of special education provision in the borough. The consultation included options to merge Grange School with the nearby Ridgeway School on the Ridgeway site. Another proposal involved merging the two schools with St John's School to create one special school for the whole of the Borough of Bedford. In January 2010, Bedford Borough Council confirmed its intention to merge Grange School and Ridgeway School on the Ridgeway site in the next few years. A new combined school would be rebuilt to accommodate the broader range of pupils that are planned to attend.

However, in May 2012, Grange School submitted an application to become an academy. The application was successful, and the school converted to academy status in March 2013 and was renamed Grange Academy. The school is now independent of Bedford Borough Council control, which will affect the plans for the merger.


Aulonemia fuentesii

Aulonemia fuentesii is a species of bamboo in the genus Aulonemia. The species is part of the grass family and is endemic to Latin America.


Politically Incorrect

Politically Incorrect was an American late-night, half-hour political talk show hosted by Bill Maher that aired from 1993 to 2002. It premiered on Comedy Central in 1993, moved to ABC in January 1997, and was canceled in 2002.

The show first originated from New York City, but soon moved to Los Angeles. The New York episodes were shot at the CBS Broadcast Center and the Los Angeles episodes at CBS Television City, where it remained even after its move to ABC.

The first episode featured comedian Jerry Seinfeld, Howard Stern co-host Robin Quivers, Republican Party strategist Ed Rollins, and comedian Larry Miller. Frequent guests included Dave Matthews, Arianna Huffington, Michael McKean, Ann Coulter, Carrot Top, and Christine O'Donnell.

Format

The show began with a brief topical monologue from Maher. Then Maher introduces the guests individually, promoting their current projects. Four guests appear, usually a mix of individuals from show business, popular culture, pundits, political consultants, and occasionally regular people in the news, discussing topics in the news selected by Maher. Maher described the program as "The McLaughlin Group on acid."

On rare occasions, Maher would interview a single guest. The show was pioneering in mixing political figures and entertainers. Maher tried to air all points of view, especially controversial ones. Guests could be both aggravating and insightful, with the conversation similar to a cocktail party with quick-witted guests.

Writers
The show's writers included Al Franken, Arianna Huffington, Kevin Bleyer, Scott Carter, and Chris Kelly.

Awards and recognition
The show won a 2000 Emmy Award for "Outstanding Technical Direction, Camerawork, Video for a Series." In addition, it was nominated for seventeen other awards, including: "Outstanding Variety"; "Outstanding Music or Comedy Series" (every year from 1995 to 2002); and "Outstanding Performance in a Variety or Music Program" in 1997. The show also won two CableACE Awards in 1995 and 1996 for Talk Show Series and was nominated for a third in 1997. It was also nominated for two Writers Guild of America awards for best Comedy/Variety series in 2001 and 2002.

Controversy and cancellation
Barbara Olson, a frequent guest, was traveling to a taping of Politically Incorrect aboard American Airlines Flight 77 when it crashed into the Pentagon during the September 11 attacks of 2001. To honor Olson, Maher left a panel chair empty for a week afterwards.

In the aftermath of the attacks, U.S. President George W. Bush said that the terrorists responsible were cowards. In the September 17, 2001, episode, Maher's guest Dinesh D'Souza disputed Bush's label, saying the terrorists were warriors. Maher agreed, and replied: "We have been the cowards, lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, [it's] not cowardly." Similar comments were made by others in other media.

Advertisers withdrew their support and some ABC affiliates stopped airing the show temporarily. White House press secretary Ari Fleischer denounced Maher, warning that "people have to watch what they say and watch what they do." Maher apologized, and explained that he had been criticizing U.S. military policy, not American soldiers.

The show was canceled the following June, which Maher and many others saw as a result of the controversy, although ABC denied that the controversy was a factor and said the program was canceled due to declining ratings. Maher said that the show struggled for advertisers in its final months. There were subsequently comments in various media on the irony that a show called Politically Incorrect was canceled because its host had made a supposedly politically incorrect comment.

The show was replaced on ABC by Jimmy Kimmel Live! in 2003.

Maher rebounded with an hour-long program on HBO called Real Time with Bill Maher, which premiered on February 21, 2003, and follows a similar format.

Related media
Maher released a book in 1997, Does Anybody Have a Problem with That? The Best of Politically Incorrect, which featured questions asked on the show, comments Maher made and guest answers. In 2003 an audiobook POLITICAL INCORRECTIONS: The Best Opening Monologues from Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher was released, which featured opening monologues from the show accompanied by explanations of the current affairs that were being discussed in the media at that time.


Itaobim

Itaobim is a municipality in the northeast of the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais.  Its population in 2007 was 20,986inhabitants in a total area of 680 km².

It belongs to the Pedra Azul statistical microregion.  The elevation of the municipal seat is 180 meters.  It became a municipality in 1962 .  This municipality is located on the important BR-116 highway, 43 km. south of Medina.  It is on the left bank of the Jequitinhonha River.  The climate is hot and humid with an annual average temperature of 24.4°C.

Neighboring municipalities are: Medina, Jequitinhonha, Ponto dos Volantes and Itinga.  The distance to the state capital, Belo Horizonte is 604 kilometers.

The main economic activities are cattle raising and subsistence farming.  The GDP was R$93,447,000 (2005).  There were 01 banking agencies in 2006.  In the rural area there were 948 farms with around 2,500 people involved in the agricultural sector.  There was a planted area of around 3,000 hectares.  The main cash crop was mangoes with 200 hectares planted.  There were 13 tractors, a ratio of one tractor for every 73 farms.  In the health sector there were 14 health clinics and 01 hospital with 61 beds.  The score on the Municipal Human Development Index was 0.689.  This ranked the city 592 out of 853 municipalities in the state, with Poços de Caldas in first place with 0.841 and Setubinha in last place with 0.568. See Frigoletto for the complete list.
Degree of urbanization: 75.58
Illiteracy rate: 26.73
Infant mortality rate: 25.46
Percentage of urban houses connected to the sewage system: 2.70


Relief (album)

Relief is the debut studio album by American rapper Mike Stud,  released on May 13, 2013. Relief chronicles Stud’s journey from his years as an All American pitcher at Duke, to his side-lining and ultimate career-ending injury, and his rise as a rapper.

Release and promotion

Singles
Prior to the album's release, Stud posted videos for three of the album's tracks on his YouTube page. The first -- "Perfect For Me"—was released on February 11, 2013. This video was followed by an official video for "F**k That" on March 27 and "Past Gone" on April 8, of the same year.

Commercial performance
The album debuted at number 109 on the Billboard 200 chart, with first-week sales of 4,200 copies in the United States. In its second week the album sold 7,600 more copies bringing its total sales to 12,000.

Track listing

Charts


Gay cruising in England and Wales

Gay cruising describes the act of searching about a public place in pursuit of a partner for sex. The activity has existed in England and Wales since at least the 17th century and has a colourful legal history. It differs from prostitution in that the parties involved do not seek money for sex, and from gay nightclubs or bathhouses in that they are not on private premises, although they may take place on private land to which the public have been granted access.

History and origins
The history of gay cruising is sparsely documented, as the illegality of gay sex meant that those who used such cruising grounds were likely to be discreet about them. Rictor Norton, author of Mother Clap's Molly House (a reference to Margaret Clap), is one of the few historians to address the topic. He believes that the first gay cruising grounds and gay brothels in London may have sprung up in the early 17th century; theatres were sometimes denounced as such by moralists of the time.

So-called "cruising grounds" or "cruising sites", where gay and bisexual men meet at a public place to cruise for sex, originated in the late 1600s (from the earliest known records, although it most likely originated much earlier) and has continued to the present day. Cruising came about owing to the illegality of homosexual acts in the United Kingdom. Prior to the Sexual Offences Act 1967, this illegality meant that many gay men could not live openly as homosexuals. Cruising provided a way for gay men to solicit sexual encounters while minimizing the risk of being caught by the police. When cruising first became known, it usually took place in public fields, parks, toilets (or "cottages" as they would become known as in the 20th century). In more recent times, public lay-bys located either on or off main roads or rural roads have also become popular sites.
Gay beat is an Australian term.

Legal history
Before the 20th century, anal sex, whether conducted in public or private, was illegal under sodomy laws, including the Buggery Act set down by Henry VIII in 1533. The penalty for anal intercourse during most of this period was death; however, specific proof of successful anal penetration was required for this verdict to be brought. The lesser crime of "gross indecency" carried penalties including the pillory (as in the case of the Vere Street Coterie, who were arrested in a raid of a gay club in 1811), transportation and imprisonment.

The death penalty for anal sex was lifted in 1861. An 1885 law prohibited "gross indecency", which included all erotic conduct between men. Eventually, in 1967, some of the Wolfenden Report's recommendations of a decade earlier led to the decriminalisation of homosexual sex in private; no such legal privilege pertains to sex in public places, either for homosexual or heterosexual sex. Therefore, despite more tolerance in the law and society at large, gay men have continued to be at risk of prosecution for public sex.

A number of well known people have been arrested for sex in public places in England and Wales, including:
 Simeon Solomon, a painter who was arrested in a London toilet in 1873 with a 60-year-old stableman. He was also later arrested in France for a similar offence.
 Tom Driberg, later an MP, who was charged with indecent assault after two men shared his bed in the 1940s. He later used his position as a journalist several times to get off charges when caught soliciting in public toilets by the police.
 Actor Wilfrid Brambell, known for appearing in Steptoe and Son, was arrested in a toilet in Shepherd's Bush on 6 November 1962.
 Peter Dudley, an actor in Coronation Street who played Ivy Tilsley's husband, was arrested in 1981 in a toilet in Didsbury, Manchester.
 Actor Sir John Gielgud was arrested for "importuning" in 1953 in Chelsea.
 William J. Field, (Member of Parliament), was arrested for persistently importuning in a public toilet in 1953. Field appealed against the conviction twice but failed on both occasions.
 Record producer Joe Meek, arrested in a toilet in Islington in 1963.
 Michael Turnbull was arrested in Hull for cottaging in a public toilet in 1968, before he became Bishop of Durham.
 Actor Peter Wyngarde, arrested (under his real name, Cyril Louis Goldbert) in Gloucester bus station public toilets in September 1975 for gross indecency with Richard Jack Whalley. He was fined £75.
 Stedman Pearson of the pop group Five Star, arrested in a toilet in New Malden in 1990.

The playwright Joe Orton wrote in his posthumously published diaries of his regular cottaging, but he did not incur prosecution.

Areas with a history of gay cruising
 lists a number of London cruising grounds during the Georgian era. These included St. James's Park, Moorfields, the public privies at Lincoln's Inn, and Smithfield prior to the Gordon Riots.

Hampstead Heath in north London has a long history of gay cruising, which was accompanied by police arrests and attacks. From the late 1990s, this evolved into minimal active policing, and support from gay sexual health organisations. During an interview on BBC News 24, the singer George Michael, who was allegedly caught cruising on Hampstead Heath by News of the World photographers, claimed that his cruising was de facto private because it occurred at 2am. In 1992, Conservative MP Alan Amos resigned his parliamentary seat after he was found by the police "engaging in a homosexual act" on the Heath.

Clapham Common in south London is well-known for gay cruising. The Labour MP Ron Davies resigned from the government after national newspapers reported that he was attacked and robbed by a man whom he met on the Common. A number of homophobic attacks have occurred around the area, including the murder of Jody Dobrowski. The gay-themed TV drama Clapham Junction was based around the lives of gay men in the area and included scenes of cruising and cottaging.

Current situation
The Sexual Offences Act 2003 prohibits all forms of sexual activity in a public lavatory, but has nothing to say about other forms of cruising. However, persons of any gender who engage in sexual intercourse in public can find themselves charged with offences under the Public Order Act 1986, if the police have sufficient evidence to convince a court of law that the activity was witnessed by a third party, or there was a high likelihood of the activity being witnessed by a third party.

Presently, there is an active population of men who visit cruising grounds, which include parks, picnic areas and lay-bys where sex takes place in the bushes or other sheltered areas. These areas exist in all parts of Britain, including isolated rural areas. The attitude of the police to cruising at any given location varies, according to the time of the day or night, and the level of public concern measured by the number of complaints from local residents and councillors. Occasionally, police community support officers will visit a cruising area during the early hours of the morning with the intention of advising cruisers of the risk of homophobic attacks, and any persons seen to be involved in sexual behavior will be asked to move on rather than being arrested. A number of police forces actively participate in on-line discussions with cruisers in order to gather information on hate crimes and to discourage them from using locations about which complaints have been received.

The current trend for gay cruising has been bolstered by a continued use of online media. Apps and websites including Grindr, Cruizerz.com and Squirt.org make arranged cruising possible, although this has been a source of questionable safety, with Russian gangs having been found to use such media to lure gay men into dangerous situations.


Connecticut Route 151

Route 151 is a Connecticut state highway in the Connecticut River valley running from East Haddam via Moodus to the village of Cobalt in East Hampton.

Route description
Route 151 begins as Town Street at an intersection with Route 82 east of the town center of East Haddam. The road heads north for  through the village of Little Haddam up to the village of Moodus. In Moodus, the road turns west to briefly overlap southbound Route 149 along a  wrong way concurrency (as Moodus-Leesville Road).

Immediately after Route 149 splits off to the south, Route 151 crosses the Moodus River and then continues west for another mile. It then turns north along Leesville Road as it heads towards the Haddam town line. The southward continuation of Leesville Road connects with Route 149 and is an unsigned state highway known as State Road 609. After crossing the Salmon River into Haddam, the road becomes Moodus Road. After about , Route 196 splits off to the north (towards East Hampton center), while Route 151 heads west, also crossing into the town of East Hampton about  later.

In East Hampton, Route 151 continues northwest towards the Connecticut River, bypassing the village of Haddam Neck. Beyond Haddam Neck, the road becomes Middle Haddam Road, turning northward as it begins to parallel the Connecticut River. It intersects with the access road to Hurd State Park (unsigned Special Service Road 439) along the way, passing through the village of Middle Haddam then ending at an intersection with Route 66 in the village of Cobalt.

A  section of Route 151, running from milepost 9.26 to the northern terminus, is designated a scenic road. This portion of the route runs along the east bank of the Connecticut River.

History
In the 1920s, the Moodus-Haddam Neck-Cobalt route was designated as a state highway known as Highway  167. Route 151 was established as part of the 1932 state highway renumbering and incorporated old Highway 167. In 1947, Route 151 was extended south of Moodus via the village of Little Haddam to Route 82.

Junction list


Orthogonius picipennis

Orthogonius picipennis is a species of ground beetle in the subfamily Orthogoniinae. It was described by Chaudoir in 1871.


William Scott (politician)

William Scott (1795 – 2 January 1866), often called "Captain Scott", was a vigneron, businessman and politician of Magill, South Australia.

History
Captain Scott and his family arrived in South Australia on the Canton from Liverpool in April 1838 and lived a quiet, unobtrusive life. Arriving with the Scotts were his sister Elizabeth and her husband David Wylie M.A. (ca.1799 – 8 March 1853) who opened a school at Tranmere and taught many of the Scott children.

Scott was an elder and regular lay preacher of the Scotch Baptist Church, which met in Hindley Street in the 1840s, then of the Magill Baptist Church, which was founded in Gladstone Avenue, Magill in 1858. Scott was a friend of Congregationalist Thomas Quinton Stow.

Scott was granted Section 274 of 80 acres at Magill, which he named "Brookside", adjacent to "Tranmere", Section 273 of 67 acres which was granted to his brother-in-law David Wylie. He commenced farming but gave that away to act as an agent at Port Adelaide, which proved lucrative. He was appointed a "brother" of the Trinity House Board, later renamed the Marine Board.

Scott was elected to the South Australian Legislative Council unopposed for the Port Adelaide electorate in 1853, then for the single statewide province in 1857, 1860 and 1862 until resigning on 10 June 1863.

Family
Scott was married, perhaps to Mary or Ann.
Eldest daughter Jane (Jean?) Margaret Scott ( – 26 September 1902) married Joseph Herbert Thornley (1829 – 9 January 1900), a prominent banker, in 1867.
William David Scott (ca.1830 – 18 August 1891) was Master of the Supreme Court after a partnership with William Bakewell.
David Wylie Scott (March 1833 – 2 December 1887) was editor of the Port Adelaide News and a farmer at Barossa and Belalie (near Jamestown). He married Margaret Cochrane Little (25 June 1825 – 17 May 1919), a noted flower painter, in 1861. He also lived at Mount Crawford and Alberton. He wrote a book biblically disproving geology as a science.
Robert John Scott (ca.1835 – 5 August 1911) captain of the First Adelaide Rifles and vigneron of "Brookside", Magill, later of Largs Bay. In 1885 he was convicted of indecent conduct, but escaped punishment on the grounds of insanity, and was sent to the Parkside Asylum.
Mary Wylie Scott (ca.1838 – 5 March 1906) married Luigi Holmann Savrini on 14 January 1884. Savrini was a noted bass singer.
James Cochrane Scott (29 September 1839 – 23 September 1904) married Annie Vincent Burns, a granddaughter of Robert Burns. They lived at Largs
Janet Jamieson Scott (ca.1841 – 12 September 1923) of "Brookside", Magill, died at Largs Bay.

Scott died at his home "Brookside", Magill and was buried in the West Terrace Cemetery. He was not related to other South Australian MLC's Abraham Scott and Henry Scott. The "Brookside" home was still in the hands of J. Scott, but the vineyard was owned by J. Taylor Holmes.


Tom Hannegan

Tom Hannegan is an American businessman and politician from the state of Missouri. A Republican, Hannegan was elected to the Missouri House of Representatives from Missouri's 65th District in November 2016, and re-elected in 2018. He represents a portion of Saint Charles County north and northeast of the city of St. Charles to the Mississippi River. Hannegan also works for a family-owned real estate business and as a magazine publisher and chief editor.

Hannegan is openly gay and the only such Republican in the Missouri legislature. His partner is Scott Mell, an account manager for Hannegan's magazine business.

Election results


Goulier

Goulier  (Languedocien: Golièr) is a former commune in the Ariège department in southwestern France. On 1 January 2019, it was merged into the new commune Val-de-Sos.

Population

Sights
 The Massot Cross
 The church
 Mill from the 18th century near the river
 Rente square, which lies at the north of the village, is the center of parties during the summer.
 The hole of Souzeton

The ski resort
The ski station the only ski resort of Vicdessos valley. It is one of the smallest ski station of the Pyrénées.


Muschleria

Muschleria is a genus of African flowering plants in the ironweed tribe within the daisy family.

The genus is named in honour of German botanist Reinhold Conrad Muschler (1882-1957).

Species
Muschleria angolensis S.Moore - Angola

formerly included
see Brachythrix
Muschleria stolzii S.Moore - Brachythrix stolzii (S.Moore) Wild & G.V.Pope


Coupe de la Ligue Française (handball)

The Coupe de la Ligue Française is an annual League cup competition for French men's handball clubs. Organized by the French Handball Federation, it first took place in 2002.

Montpellier Handball is the competition's most successful club as of 2019 with ten titles, followed by Paris Saint-Germain Handball with three.

Champions

Winners by season

Performances

 Legend :  10 cups won ; (T) : title holder


Chris Thorpe

Christopher "Chris" Thorpe (born October 29, 1970 in Waukegan, Illinois) is an American luger who competed from 1989 to 2002. Competing in four Winter Olympics, he won two medals in the men's doubles event with a silver in 1998 and a bronze in 2002.

Thorpe also won two silver medals in the men's doubles event at the FIL World Luge Championships, earning them in 1995 and 1996. He won the overall Luge World Cup men's doubles title in 1996-7.

While living in Marquette, Michigan, Thorpe, along with fellow Boy Scout and future World Champion Wendel Suckow, first experienced luge on a small local track that (after being relocated to nearby Negaunee, Michigan) remains the only full length natural track luge facility in the United States.

Thorpe is a 1988 graduate of Marquette Senior High School.

Thorpe retired from luge after the 2002 Winter Olympics and is a now retired living in Farmington, New Mexico.


Men's Low-Kick at W.A.K.O. European Championships 2006 Skopje -75 kg

The men's middleweight (75 kg/165 lb) Low-Kick division at the W.A.K.O. European Championships 2006 in Skopje was the fifth heaviest of the male Low-Kick tournaments involving fifteen fighters.  Each of the matches was three rounds of two minutes each and were fought under Low-Kick kickboxing rules.

As there were too few fighters for a tournament designed for sixteen, one of the participants received a bye into the quarter finals.  The tournament gold medal was won by Russian Ibragim Tamazaev  who defeated Serbian Dragan Mićić in the final by unanimous decision.  It was Tamazaev's second gold at W.A.K.O. in Low-Kick as he was the defending world champion from Agadir 2005.  Defeated semi finalists Leszek Koltun from Poland and Stelian Angelov from Bulgaria won bronze medals.

Results

Key


Silvana Suárez

Silvana Rosa Suárez Clarence (; born September 29, 1958 in Córdobaa) is an Argentine model and beauty queen who won the Miss World 1978 contest, representing Argentina. The pageant was held in London, United Kingdom.

She became the second model from her country to win the title.

Biography
From the middle class, her parents were both artists and divorced when she was a teen. She lived then with her mother, a teacher of Fine Arts, and after finishing High School, studied Architecture. "Was my mom who insisted that I attend a beauty pageant. I won the Miss Sierras de Córdoba and later the Miss World", she said to Debe Leer in 2019.

Miss World 1978
At age 19, she beat 67 other contestants and was crowned Miss World 1978 at the Royal Albert Hall in London. "And then all the possibilities: I would live in London and would travel around the world", she said to Debe Leer.

Life after the pageants
To Debe Leer, in 2019 she said that after her reign, she traveled and worked as a model during a decade, visiting countries as Japan and Thailand. "I loved the adventure, but I felt lonely, because there were not all the technologies as today to speak with the family and friends".

In 1988 she married the businessman Julio Ramos and had two children, Julia and Augusto. The couple divorced years later and Silvana said to Debe Leer that he was very chauvinistic. "He wanted to control me and his patology got worse year after year".

She posed nude for Playboy in 1980.


Sofara

Sofara () is a small town and seat (chef-lieu) of the rural commune of Fakala in the Cercle of Djenné in the Mopti Region of southern-central Mali. The town lies on the right bank of the Bani River. A weekly market is held in the town on Tuesdays that serves the settlements in the region.


Bernardin Mungul Diaka

Bernardin Mungul Diaka (12 November 1933 – 3 June 1999) was the Prime Minister of Zaire from 1 November 1991 to 25 November 1991. He was appointed by Mobutu Sese Seko and considered a moderate. He was also a governor of Kinshasa from 1992 to 1996.


Carphalea obovata

Carphalea obovata is a species of plant in the family Rubiaceae. It is endemic to Yemen.  Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry forests.


Nefermaat

Nefermaat I was an Ancient Egyptian prince, a son of king Sneferu. He was a vizier possessing the titles of the king's eldest son, royal seal bearer, and prophet of Bastet. His name means "Maat is beautiful" or "With perfect justice".

Biography
Nefermaat was the eldest son of Sneferu, the king and founder of the Fourth Dynasty of Egypt and his first wife. He was a half-brother of Khufu. Nefermaat's wife was Itet, also spelled as Atet. Fifteen of Nefermaat's offspring are named in his tomb, sons Hemiunu, Isu, Teta, Khentimeresh and daughters Djefatsen and Isesu are depicted as adults, while sons Itisen, Inkaef, Serfka, Wehemka, Shepseska, Kakhent, Ankhersheretef, Ankherfenedjef, Buneb, Shepsesneb and Nebkhenet and daughter Pageti are shown as children. His son Hemiunu is probably identical with vizier Hemiunu who was believed to have helped plan the Great Pyramids.

One of Nefermaat's sisters, Nefertkau had a son also called Nefermaat.

Tomb

Nefermaat was buried in mastaba 16 at Meidum. Nefermaat was one of several relatives of Pharaoh Sneferu who was buried in Meidum. The tomb is known for the special technique used for drawing the scenes. Sculptors carved deeply incised images that then were filled with colored paste. This method was labor-intensive because the paste tended to dry, crack, and then fall out. The technique results in vividly colored scenes. This tomb is the only one known to date showing this technique. The fact that later, the plaster cracked and resulted in the loss of the paste, likely led to craftsmen abandoning this type of decoration.

Nefermaat's tomb is famous for the scene referred to as the "Meidum Geese" (now in the Egyptian Museum, JE 34571/ CG 1742). Discovered in 1871 by Auguste Mariette and Luigi Vassalli, the scene was executed in painted plaster. The painting was removed from the wall in order to be reassembled inside the Bulaq Museum. The full scene depicts six geese (greylag, greater white-fronted and red-breasted geese); three pointing to the left and three pointing to the right. Each group of three geese consists of one goose shown with head bowed down, eating, and two geese with heads held up. Each group of three animals represents many geese, as three represents the plural in Egyptian imagery. There are differences in the plumage of the birds that breaks the overall symmetry of the scene. This example of Egyptian painting is considered a masterpiece.A 2015 research paper by Francesco Tiradritti at the Kore University of Enna, published on LiveScience, suggested that the painting could be a nineteenth-century forgery, possibly made by Vassalli. Tiradritti's claims were promptly dismissed by Zahi Hawass and other Egyptian authorities.


Ken McGowan

Ken McGowan (born 1954) is an environmentalist, entrepreneur and former politician.

Early life
McGowan is a graduate of the University of Toronto with a degree in biology.

Political career

Early political career
McGowan was the Green Party of Nova Scotia's candidate for the electoral district of Annapolis in the 2006 Nova Scotia general election and also a regional party organizer prior to his leadership of the party.

Green Party of Nova Scotia leadership
In 2007, McGowan was elected leader of the Green Party of Nova Scotia. According to the CBC some of his supporters claimed "it was McGowan's work as an organizer for the Greens that won him the leadership." McGowan beat out Ellen Durkee, and Aaron Eisses during the convention held in early May 2007. McGowan received over 50% of the vote, compared to Durkee's 34% and Eisses' 15%. A poll in June 2007 showed the Green Party of Nova Scotia, under McGowan, at 7 per cent popular support. A provincial by-election was held in Nova Scotia on 2 October 2007 in Cole Harbour-Eastern Passage in which one of McGowan's deputy leaders, Beverley Woodfield was the GPNS candidate. Woodfield garnered 4.68% of the vote, doubling the party's vote share in the riding.

McGowan resigned his leadership, along with his two deputy leaders and several executive members of the Green Party of Nova Scotia in 2008 after a disagreement with the party executive. McGowan stated the resignations were over two party members being appointed, and not elected to the party executive, contrary to the party's constitution.


Saverio Santora

Saverio Santora (1935–1987), also known as "Sammy Black", was a New York mobster with the Genovese crime family who briefly served as family underboss.

In the late 1970s, Santora took over as caporegime of Antonio "Buckaloo" Ferro's powerful 116th Street crew in the East Harlem section of Manhattan. Santora quickly became one of the most powerful captains in the family. The crew was involved in illegal gambling, bookmaking, loan sharking, heroin trafficking, and labor racketeering within the Carpenters' Union.

In 1981, longtime Genovese boss Philip Lombardo went into semi-retirement.  Vincent "Chin" Gigante and Santora were the prime candidates to succeed Lombardo as boss, being two of the most respected and influential members of the family. Lombardo made Gigante the boss and Santora the underboss. Santora continued as underboss of the family until his death in 1987.

Current Genovese boss Liborio Bellomo was considered a protegeé of Santora.


Cheshmeh Pahn-e Alishah

Cheshmeh Pahn-e Alishah (, also Romanized as Cheshmeh Pahn-e ʿAlīshāh) is a village in Cheleh Rural District, in the Central District of Gilan-e Gharb County, Kermanshah Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 198, in 53 families.


Adrenal fatigue

Adrenal fatigue or hypoadrenia is a term used by alternative medicine providers to suggest that the adrenal glands are exhausted and unable to produce adequate quantities of hormones, primarily cortisol, due to chronic stress or infections. There is no scientific basis for the existence of adrenal fatigue, and the term should not be confused with a number of actual forms of adrenal dysfunction such as adrenal insufficiency or Addison's disease.

The term "adrenal fatigue" was invented in 1998 by chiropractor James Wilson and applied to a collection of mostly non-specific symptoms.  There is no scientific evidence supporting the concept of adrenal fatigue and it is not recognized as a diagnosis by the scientific or medical communities. Neither the condition nor the symptoms have any stable or recognized definition. A systematic review found no evidence for the term adrenal fatigue, confirming the consensus among mainstream endocrinologists that it is a myth.

Blood or salivary testing is sometimes offered but there is no evidence that adrenal fatigue exists or can be tested for. The concept of adrenal fatigue has given rise to an industry of dietary supplements marketed to treat this condition. These supplements are largely unregulated in the U.S., are ineffective, costly, and in some cases may be dangerous.


Fred C. Blanck

Fred C. Blanck (October 14, 1881 – 1965) was an American food scientist who was involved in the founding of the Institute of Food Technologists (IFT) which was involved in the publishing of food and nutrition articles and books.

IFT founding
A charter member of IFT when it was founded in 1939, Blanck proposed at the last session of the meeting at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to have the new society dealing with food science in the United States be called the Institute of Food Technologists. He would serve as president of IFT in 1944-45 and would be named the first winner of the Stephen M. Babcock Award, now the Babcock-Hart Award in 1948.

Career
During his career, Blanck worked for the H.J. Heinz Company, the Mellon Institute of Industrial Research (Carnegie Mellon University since 1967), and the United States Department of Agriculture.

Selected works
 A. H, Jr., F.C. Blanck, and F.C. Wooster. (1950). Reviews of Nutritional Data. Pittsburgh: H.J. Heinz Company.
 Blanck, F.C., Ed. (1955). Handbook of Food and Agriculture. New York: Reinhold Publishing Corp.


Spencer Yard

Spencer Yard aka Linwood Yard is one of the largest classification railroad yards in North Carolina. It is also one of the remaining hump yards in North America, which are steadily being eliminated.  The yard is operated by Norfolk Southern Railway (NS). The yard is located  north of Salisbury, and  north of Spencer, off Interstate 85 in Davidson County, west of Linwood. The yard is on the edge of the NS Charlotte District and Danville District, and the Asheville District is nearby in Salisbury.

History
Spencer Yard, aka Linwood Yard for the location, is named after Samuel Spencer, the first president of Southern Railway. It started operations in 1979 for the Southern Railway, before the NS merger. The project cost $49 million to build. The yard is  and  long and consists of more than  of track. The yard facilities include diesel locomotive repair shops, which replaced older facilities at the nearby Spencer Shops.

Current operation
More than 20 freight trains are handled by Spencer Yard (aka Linwood Yard) every day. More than 1,000 employees serve the yard, and the yard reassembles more than 3,000 cars a day.


Logan Witness

The Logan Witness was a weekly English-language newspaper published in Beenleigh, Queensland, Australia from 9 February 1878 to 10 June 1893. The paper was four pages, double demy (57 cm x 90 cm) in size and issued on a Saturday.

History
Established by proprietors William Watts and Edward Powell in 1878, The Logan Witness was the first newspaper to emanate from the Beenleigh district and was originally published as The Logan Witness and Southern Districts Advertiser. Initially optimistic that the rapid advancement of the district entitled it to journalistic representation, the paper struggled financially and was sold to Mr John Hinchcliffe by April 1879. During his proprietorship Hinchcliffe changed the newspaper name to The Logan Witness, advocated for the advancement of the district and spoke out against anything opposed to those interests. On Saturday 10 June 1893 the publisher declared that issue of The Logan Witness would cease temporarily, due to the unprecedented financial depression existing in the Logan district and all the colonies. The newspaper did not resume publication and Hinchcliffe soon after retired.

Digitisation
The paper has been partially digitised as part of the Australian Newspapers Digitisation Program of the National Library of Australia.


The New Americans: Economic, Demographic, and Fiscal Effects of Immigration is a 1997 study on the demographic, economic, and fiscal consequences of immigration to the United States by the National Research Council (NRC) of the National Academy of Sciences.  The NRC report found that although immigrants, especially those from Latin America, were a net cost in terms of taxes paid versus social services received, overall immigration was a net economic gain due to an increase in pay for higher-skilled workers, lower prices for goods and services produced by immigrant labor, and more efficiency and lower wages for some owners of capital.  The report also notes that although immigrant workers compete with domestic workers for some low skilled jobs, some immigrants specialize in activities that otherwise would not exist in an area, and thus are performing services that otherwise would not exist, and thus can be beneficial for all domestic residents.  U.S. Census Bureau's Survey of Business Owners: Hispanic-Owned Firms: 2002 indicated that the number of Hispanic-owned businesses in the United States grew to nearly 1.6 million in 2002. Those Hispanic-owned businesses generated about $222 billion in revenue.  The report notes that the burden of poor immigrants is not born equally among states, and is most heavy in California.

On the poor end of the spectrum, the "New Americans" report found that low-skill low wage immigration does not, on aggregate, lower the wages of most domestic workers.  The report also addresses the question of if immigration affects black Americans differently from the population in general: "While some have suspected that blacks suffer disproportionately from the inflow of low-skilled immigrants, none of the available evidence suggests that they have been particularly hard-hit on a national level.  Some have lost their jobs, especially in places where immigrants are concentrated.  But the majority of blacks live elsewhere, and their economic fortunes are tied to other factors."

Background

In 1990 the U.S. Congress appointed a bipartisan Commission on Immigration Reform to review the nation's policies and laws and to recommend changes. In turn, the commission in 1995 asked the National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences to convene a panel of experts to assess the demographic, economic, and fiscal consequences of immigration.

The panel was asked to lay a scientific foundation for policymaking on some specific Immigration issues.
The National Academy of Sciences panels charge was to address three key questions:
 What is the effect of immigration on the future size and composition of the U.S. population?
 What is the influence of immigration on the overall economy?
 What is the fiscal impact of immigration on federal, state, and local governments?
The National Academy of Sciences report by these 15+ researchers was issued after 3 years study and called "The New Americans: Economic, Demographic, and Fiscal Effects of Immigration" (1997) Edited by James P. Smith and Barry Edmonston, . The book is available on line at .

Criticism

Negative Population Growth, an organization that advocates a gradual reduction in U.S. and world population, has criticized the NPR/NSF panel for addressing only the economic effects of immigration mostly in terms of labor, prices and economic growth and should have included an environmental impact statement including a lot wider spectrum of specialists like environmentalists, fishery experts, biologists, educators, ethicists, labor experts etc. The report did find that the least skilled Americans have suffered the most from the competition with immigrants and that African Americans and legalized Hispanics with their lower average levels of education have been harmed the most, but it dismissed that as a serious problem because less than a majority  of U.S. citizens are directly affected. The NSF panel did find that immigration may lower some prices (~0.1% on average) but lower prices require the assumption of generally lower wages for some or of higher investment levels in industry which is precisely what cheap wage immigration discourages.  Many studies escape from this dilemma, if that is the word, by resorting to the familiar argument that immigrants fill "jobs American won't take." They ignored the fact that, nationwide, all the job categories: even farm workers, service industries, construction etc. are still filled largely by Americans.  The so-called shortage of labor to fill some of them and the reason that hourly U.S. real wages have been falling almost every year since 1975 is that desperate immigrants will work for wages that Americans don't want to work for. Even the NSF study seems to assume that increased GDP is a net good ignoring the fact that the lower wages and lower taxes collected from the typical illegal immigrant result in a lower GDP/capita. The reason that many like illegal immigrants is that they typically work cheaper than natives, have few legal rights, are pliant and much of their "real" costs can be spread out to anonymous taxpayers.  All these effects of most immigration is not most Americans idea of "...Beneficial to U.S.".

"As long as there is a virtually unlimited supply of potential immigrants, the nation must make choices on how many to admit and who they should be." National Research Council, National Academy of Sciences, 1997.


Kapur Singh

Sirdar Kapur Singh, ICS (2 March 1909 – 13 August 1986) was an eminent Sikh philosopher, theologian, politician-parliamentarian, and a prolific writer of the twentieth century.  As a distinguished linguist he had a mastery over English, Gurmukhi, Persian, Arabic and Sanskrit.

Birth and education
Kapur Singh was born in a farming family at village Chakk in the district of Ludhiana. His father's name was Didar Singh. He post-graduated from Government College, Lahore.  Later he completed studies in Moral Sciences from Cambridge University.

Career in bureaucracy and dismissal
Returning from UK, Kapur Singh joined the Indian Civil Service (ICS). After serving at a number of administrative posts under the British raj, he was summarily dismissed from service by Chandu Lal Trivedi, the governor of Punjab, shortly after Indian Independence, while he was serving as the deputy commissioner of Kangra district.

Kapur Singh was incensed at a circular issued by the government that targeted his community. Kapur Singh filed a protest and made the circular public and invited the wrath of Chandu Lal Divedi, the governor of Punjab. The charges leveled against him were of corruption and insubordination. Kapur Singh fought a protracted legal battle but was not restored to the administrative service.

The Circular was CONFIDENTIAL  but was disclosed to Akali leader Tara Singh ,violating  Official Secret Act 1923,  who had come and stayed at the residence of Kapur Singh  for few weeks.  Tara Singh disclosed this matter to PM Nehru , who as an advocate knew  the violation of law. The Other Sikh DC at that time  was Hardit Singh Malik, ICS. He kept quiet the matter  and saved his service ! Nehru told this matter to CJI Sinha  who instructed judges not to give any relief to Kapur Singh  after his dismissal from service.

Politics
On insistence of Akali leaders, Kapur Singh joined the Akali politics. In 1962, he was elected to the 3rd Lok Sabha as a candidate of the Swatantra Party from the Ludhiana constituency. In 1969 Kapur Singh was elected to the Vidhan Sabha in the new Punjab state. He also remained the National Professor of Sikhism.
His 6 th September ,1966  speech  of Lok Sabha  and Anadpur Sahib resolution of 1973 is magna carta of Sikhs demands and aspirations.

Support of Sikh dharma mission in the West
Kapur Singh made a significant and important contribution to the missionary work of Harbhajan Singh Khalsa outside of India.  In April 1979, he went to Los Angeles, where he addressed the Khalsa Council of Sikh Dharma of the Western Hemisphere (later renamed "Sikh Dharma").  In his presentation, he assured the members of the administrative body that while their administrative titles and regalia might differ from contemporary SGPC practice, they fit in well with the overall arch of Sikh history which often was characterized by a diversity of flags among its constituent organizations or "missals."  Bhai Sahib also referenced a prophesy of Guru Gobind Singh that Khalsa would rise in the West.

Writings
Kapur Singh was a prolific writer. The books written in English by him include Parasaraprasna a classic treatise on Sikhism, The Sacred Writings of the Sikhs (a UNESCO publication), Me Judice (English Miscellany), Contributions of Guru Nanak, The Hour of Sword, Guru Arjan and Sukhmani. Hashish (poems), Saptsaring (Biographies), Bahu Vistaar (Essays), Pudrik (Essays) and Mansur-al-Hallaj (Monograph of a Sufi saint). His works have also been published by Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar and Punjabi University, Patiala.
He is also believed to have scripted the Anandpur Sahib Resolution of the Akali Dal.
His SACHI SAKHI  of 1979  is most read book on Punjab and Sikhs politics.

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Archie Wood

Archie Wood (18 March 1926 – 17 June 1986) was a Scottish footballer, who played as a winger in the Football League for Tranmere Rovers.


Twieflingen

Twieflingen is a village and a former municipality in the district of Helmstedt, in Lower Saxony, Germany. Since 1 November 2016 it has been part of the municipality of Söllingen.


Jile Timuga

Jile Timuga is one of the woredas in the Amhara Region of Ethiopia. Part of the Oromia Zone, Jile Timuga is bordered on the east and south by the Afar Region, on the west by the Semien Shewa Zone, and on the north by Artuma Fursi. Towns in Jile Timuga include Senbete. Jile Timuga was part of the former Artuma Fursina Jile woreda.

Demographics
Based on the 2007 national census conducted by the Central Statistical Agency of Ethiopia (CSA), this woreda has a total population of 72,882, of whom 35,700 are men and 37,182 women; 5,075, 6.96% are urban inhabitants. The majority of the inhabitants were Muslim, with 98.83% reporting that as their religion.

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Didier Gomes Da Rosa

Didier Gomes Da Rosa (born 10 October 1969) is a French football manager and former player who is the current manager of Egyptian club Ismaily. He is famous for making an impressive impact in all the clubs he has managed in his early years in the African continent winning the league titles with Rayon Sports F.C. (2013), Coton Sport FC de Garoua (2014 and 2015) and also the Cameroonian Cup at the Garoua-based club.

Managerial career

France
Didier Gomes Da Rosa began his managerial career in 2008 in his home country France and managed AS Roquebrune Cap Martin, ES Fos sur Mer and AS Cannes in the League of the Mediterranean till 2011.

Rayon Sports
He first moved out of France in 2012 to Africa and more accurately to Rwanda where he was appointed as the manager of Rwandan giants, Rayon Sports F.C. on a three-year contract. The club, nicknamed "Gikundiro" (the well-beloved), because of its popularity was in the relegation zone of the Rwanda National Football League after a disastrous start in the championship falling ten points short of league leaders and the club's arch rivals, Armée Patriotique Rwandaise F.C. Under the Frenchman's leadership, the Nyanza-based side made a spectacular comeback in the season which will be remembered by Rwandan football fans for the years to come. Seven months later, the Gikundiro thrashed rivals APR 4-0 in a historic win and were crowned the champions of the 2012–13 Rwanda National Football League. He also helped his side win the Genocide Memorial Tournament in 2013 where his side faced La Jeunesse Football Club in the finals. His side also participated 2013 Kagame Interclub Cup but unfortunately lost 1-0 to Burundi's Vital'O FC in the semi-finals. The club after facing serious financial deficits parted ways with the French manager on a mutual consent.

Coton Sport
He then moved to Cameroon in December 2013 where he signed a two-year contract with Cameroonian giants, Coton Sport FC de Garoua. Appointed as the General Manager as well as the head coach, his task was to prepare the team for the Elite One, Cameroonian Cup and also the CAF Confederation Cup. Soon the Frenchman led his side to championship glory as his side led the league table with more than a ten points. He also helped his young side win the 2014 Cameroonian Cup. He led his team to the semi-finals of the 2014 CAF Confederation Cup where they bowed out to African giants and the eventual champions of the tournament, Al Ahly SC of Egypt. In the following season, despite a six-point penalty, he managed to lead his young side to win the 2015 Elite One.

CS Constantine
Declining the proposal of renewing his contract with the Cameroonian champions, the Frenchman decided to move to Algeria where he committed himself to a contract for two-years with Constantine-based, CS Constantine when the side was in the relegation zone just twelve days into the championship. He rescued the Algerian side from relegation in the 2015–16 Algerian Ligue Professionnelle 1 and his side was also adjudged the third best side in the second round of the championship.

Horoya
He became Horoya AC manager in March 2019. He was sacked in November 2019.

Ismaily SC
He became Ismaily SC manager in 8 January 2020.

Managerial statistics

Honours
Rayon Sports F.C.
Kagame Interclub Cup: 2013 Kagame Interclub Cup
Rwanda Premier League: 2012–13 Rwanda National Football League (Fourth Place)
Coton Sport FC de Garoua
Elite One: 2014 MTN Elite One
Cameroonian Cup: 2014 Cameroonian Cup
CAF Confederation Cup: 2014 CAF Confederation Cup (Semi Final)
Elite One: 2015 MTN Elite One
CS Constantine
Algerian Ligue Professionnelle 1: 2015–16 Algerian Ligue Professionnelle 1 (8th Place)
Ethiopian Coffee S.C.
Ethiopian Premier League: 2017-2018 Ethiopian Premier League (3rd Place)
Addis Ababa City Cup: 2018 Addis Ababa City Cup
Horoya AC
Guinée Championnat National: 2018-2019 Guinée Championnat National
Guinée Coupe Nationale: 2019 Guinée Coupe Nationale

Personal achievements
Award Best Coach in Cameroon 2014
3rd Best French Coach in Africa – Zarpa Awards 2015


Hernando Village Airpark

Hernando Village Airpark  is a privately owned, public use airport in DeSoto County, Mississippi, United States. It is located two nautical miles (4 km) southwest of the central business district of Hernando, Mississippi. The airport is part of the Green Village Residential Airpark in Hernando.

History
Hernando Village Airpark opened in 1988 by Diane and Bill Hawks of Mississippi. Their plan was to have a fly-in community, and, along with it, a place where pilots could taxi in along the grass strip runway and park their planes in a hangar on their own property. Two years later, they developed Green Village Residential Airpark by selling lots on  of their land just east of the airport in Hernando. The project encompasses a total of  with the airport and subdivision as of 1998.

Facilities and aircraft
Hernando Village Airpark, Inc Airport covers an area of 40 acres (16 ha) at an elevation of 242 feet (74 m) above mean sea level. It has one runway designated 14/32 with a turf surface measuring 3,340 by 65 feet (1,018 x 20 m).

The Avgas and tie-down spaces are administered by the owner of Hernando Village Airpark.

For the 12-month period ending October 2, 2012, the airport had 2,970 aircraft operations, an average of 247 per month: 98% general aviation and 2% military. At that time there were 12 aircraft based at this airport: 92% single-engine and 8% multi-engine.


Bengal College of Engineering & Technology

Bengal College of Engineering and Technology, Durgapur or BCET is a selffinancing college located in West Bengal, India providing under-graduate as well as post-graduate courses in engineering and technology disciplines.It was established by SKS Educational and Social Trust in 2001.The college is affiliated with Maulana Abul Kalam Azad University of Technology and all the programmes are approved by the All India Council for Technical Education.

It is located along Shahid Sukumar Banerjee Sarani at Bidhan Nagar, a locality in Durgapur.

Academics
The institute offers seven undergraduate courses:-

B.Tech in Electronics and Communication Engineering (ECE)- 4 years [Approved intake - 120]
B.Tech in Electrical and electronic engineering (EEE)- 4 years [Approved intake - 60]
B.Tech in Electrical Engineering (EE)- 4 years [Approved intake - 60]B.Tech in Mechanical Engineering (ME)- 4 years [Approved intake - 60]B.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering (CSE)- 4 years [Approved intake - 120]B.Tech in Civil Engineering (CE)- 4 years [Approved intake - 60]

B.Tech in Information Technology (IT)- 4 years [Approved intake - 120]

The following Postgraduate Degree Programs are offered:-

Master in Business Administration- 2 years [Approved intake - 60]
Master in Computer Application- 3 years [Approved intake - 60]


Oryahovo, Haskovo Province

Oryahovo, Haskovo Province is a village in the municipality of Lyubimets, in Haskovo Province, in southern Bulgaria.


The Distribution of the Eagle Standards

The Distribution of the Eagle Standards is an 1810 oil painting by Jacques-Louis David depicting a military ceremony in 1804 that was arranged by Napoleon after his assumption of power as Emperor of the French. In the ceremony, Napoleon sought to revive the military ethos of the Roman Empire.

The full French language title of the work is Serment de l'armée fait à l'empereur après la distribution des aigles au champ de Mars, 5 décembre 1804, which translates literally as "Oath of the army made to the emperor after the distribution of the eagles at the field of Mars, 5 December 1804".

The painting is in the collection of the Château de Versailles. It is on display there in the Salle du Sacre, which also contains David's second version of his Sacre de l'empereur Napoléon.

Background
The depicted event took place on 5 December 1804, three days after Napoleon's coronation ceremony. He distributed "eagles" that were based on the Roman aquila of the legions of Rome. The standards represented the regiments raised by the various departments of France, and they were intended to institute feelings of pride and loyalty among the troops, who would be the backbone of Napoleon's new regime. Napoleon gave an emotional speech in which he insisted that troops should defend the standards with their lives.

In early sketches of the painting, David included a winged figure of Nike, the goddess of victory, floating over the troops, but Napoleon objected to such an unrealistic feature. He also insisted that his wife Josephine be removed from the composition. He was preparing to divorce her, since she had failed to produce his heir.

The final painting depicted the moment when Napoleon blessed the standards being held out towards him. Napoleon has his arm raised in imitation of ancient "adlocutio" scenes, which depict Classical heroes addressing troops. David's composition was heavily influenced by the friezes on Trajan's column.


The 1984 San Diego State Aztecs football team represented San Diego State University during the 1984 NCAA Division I-A football season as a member of the Western Athletic Conference (WAC).

The team was led by head coach Doug Scovil, in his fourth year, and played home games at Jack Murphy Stadium in San Diego, California. They finished with a record of four wins, seven losses and one tie (4–7–1, 4–3–1 WAC).

Schedule

Team players in the NFL
The following were selected in the 1985 NFL Draft.

The following finished their college career in 1984, were not drafted, but played in the NFL.

Team awards

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