Patrick McHenry

Patrick Timothy McHenry (born October 22, 1975) is the U.S. Representative for . He is a member of the Republican Party. He was a member of the North Carolina House of Representatives for a single term. The district includes the cities of Kings Mountain, Gastonia, Lincolnton, Shelby, and part of Asheville.

Early life, education and career
McHenry was born in Gastonia, North Carolina. He grew up in suburban Gastonia, the son of the owner of the Dixie Lawn Care Company, and attended Ashbrook High School. While at Ashbrook High School, McHenry participated in the Close Up Washington civic education programs.  A Roman Catholic, McHenry was the youngest of five children. His parents are now deceased.

Halfway through North Carolina State University, McHenry transferred to Belmont Abbey College. At Belmont, McHenry founded the school's College Republican chapter, then became chair of the North Carolina Federation of College Republicans and served as treasurer for the College Republican National Committee.

His first run for public office was for the North Carolina House of Representatives in 1998, while still a junior in college; he won the primary but lost in the general election. The Democratic winner was the father of a high school classmate.

After earning a B.A. in history in 1999, McHenry worked for the media consulting firm DCI/New Media, in Washington, D.C. He was involved in Rick Lazio's campaign against Hillary Clinton during the November 2000 United States Senate election in New York; his main project was running a Web site, NotHillary.com. In 2012, he received an Honorary M.B.A. in Entrepreneurship from Yorktown University.

Early political career
In mid-2000, McHenry was hired by Karl Rove to be the National Coalition Director for George W. Bush's successful 2000 presidential campaign. In late 2000 and early 2001, he was a volunteer coordinator for Bush's inaugural committee. After working for six months in 2001 as a special assistant to Elaine Chao, the United States Secretary of Labor in Washington, D.C., McHenry returned to North Carolina and ran again for the North Carolina General Assembly, winning in the November 2002 general election.

A resident of Denver, North Carolina, McHenry represented the state's 109th House district, including constituents in Gaston County, for the 2003–2004 session. While in the legislature, he sat on the House Appropriations Committee.

U.S. House of Representatives

Committee assignments
 Committee on Financial Services
 Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit
 Subcommittee on Insurance, Housing and Community Opportunity
 Subcommittee on Domestic Monetary Policy and Technology
 Committee on Oversight and Government Reform
 Subcommittee on Health Care, District of Columbia, Census and the National Archives
 Subcommittee on TARP, Financial Services and Bailouts of Public and Private Programs (Chairman)

Caucus memberships
 Republican Study Committee
 Congressional NextGen 9-1-1 Caucus

At age 33, McHenry was the youngest member of the 110th United States Congress; however, 27-year-old Aaron Schock of Illinois took office in the 111th United States Congress in January 2009.

McHenry serves on two House Committees: Financial Services, and Oversight and Government Reform. McHenry holds two House Republican leadership positions; he is a Deputy Whip and Vice Chairman of Finance for the National Republican Congressional Committee's Executive Committee.

Since 2011, McHenry has been Chairman of the Subcommittee on TARP, Financial Services, and Bailouts of Private and Public Programs on the Oversight and Government Reform Committee.  In this capacity he has held hearings on municipal bankruptcies and bailouts and the future of TARP.

On May 29, 2014, McHenry called for Eric Shinseki, the Department of Veterans Affairs Secretary, to resign. This was due to "revelations of mismanagement and mistreatment at VA facilities in Phoenix and across the country."

Legislation

In the 109th Congress, McHenry authored legislation which would increase the penalty for anyone who manufactured methamphetamine in the presence of a child.  The legislation, , was incorporated into legislation which passed the House and Senate.  It was signed into law as part of the Patriot Act reauthorization in March, 2006.

In the 110th Congress, in the Committee on Financial Services, McHenry worked with Rep. Al Green (D-TX) on legislation requiring mortgage lenders to simplify their mortgage disclosure forms for home buyers.  Their Mortgage Disclosure Simplification Act was integrated into , the Mortgage Reform and Anti-Predatory Lending Act of 2007, comprehensive housing reform legislation passed by the House.  It awaits action by the Senate.

In 2008, McHenry opposed , the Payment Systems Protection Act (a bill that sought to place a moratorium on enforcement of the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act while the U.S. Treasury Department and the Federal Reserve defined "unlawful Internet gambling").

McHenry was honored by the North Carolina Chapters of the American Legion and Marine Corps League after assisting in bringing a Veteran's Community Based Outpatient Clinic to Hickory, a project his predecessor Cass Ballenger had begun before his retirement.

After the passing of Senator Jesse Helms, McHenry sponsored a resolution () honoring Helms's life and service.  Every member of the North Carolina delegation co-sponsored his resolution, and it was passed by the House of Representatives by unanimous consent.

McHenry authored the Independence Prize Act of 2007 (), which would authorize a prize of up to $1 billion to an American company or individual who invented a transformative source of energy to replace fossil fuels.  McHenry also co-sponsored numerous pieces of legislation designed to open drilling for oil in the outer continental shelf and the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge as well as increased use of nuclear and coal pollution mitigation energy.

On March 2, 2010, McHenry proposed new legislation, H.R. 4705, that would redesign the face of the $50 bill to include the likeness of the 40th President, Ronald Reagan.

The House passed two bills sponsored by Congressman McHenry in 2011. The first terminated the Home Affordable Modification Program (HAMP). The second was the Entrepreneur Access to Capital Act, commonly referred to as Crowdfunding and was introduced to foster relationships between investors and entrepreneurs.  Specifically, it permits crowdfunding issuances that offer an equity stake (securities) to investors. In 2012, McHenry's Entrepreneur Access to Capital bill was integrated into the larger JOBS Act (H.R. 3606), which was passed by the House on March 8, 2012.  The bill was also passed by the Senate and signed into law by President Obama on April 5, 2012.

Controversies

"Two-bit" security guard comment
McHenry stirred further controversy with his remarks on April 1, 2008, regarding a trip to Iraq. Speaking to 150 Republicans attending the Lincoln County GOP Dinner, he called a contractor, reported first by blogs as a "U.S. soldier" – performing security duties in Iraq as "a two-bit security guard" because the contractor denied McHenry access to a gym.

We spent the night in the Green Zone, in the poolhouse of one of Saddam's palaces. A little weird, I got to be honest with you. But I felt safe. And so in the morning, I got up early – not that I make this a great habit – but I went to the gym because I just couldn't sleep and everything else. Well, sure enough, the guard wouldn't let me in. Said I didn't have the correct credentials.

It's 5:00 in the morning. I haven't had sleep. I was not very happy with this two bit security guard. So you know, I said, "I want to see your supervisor." Thirty minutes later, the supervisor wasn't happy with me, they escort me back to my room. It happens. I guess I didn't need to work out anyway.Video of Patrick McHenry's "two-bit soldier" remark on YouTube

He later apologized, saying that "it was a poor choice of words."

Baghdad video
McHenry was also the subject of discussion regarding a video, posted on his Congressional campaign website, that featured him in the Green Zone in Baghdad, pointing out landmarks and destruction after missile attacks. Veteran's affairs blog VetVoice posted a scathing attack, claiming that McHenry's video violated Operational Security.  McHenry later removed the video after discussing the information with the Pentagon, which requested McHenry not place the video back online. Lance Sigmon, McHenry's opponent, later went on to call a press conference to demand an investigation regarding the full nature of the video's effect on Green Zone Troops.  Sigmon attacked McHenry in a campaign ad regarding this controversy, prompting McHenry to threaten legal action, claiming the ad was false.

Use of PAC funds
On April 16, 2008, Capitol Hill newspaper Roll Call revealed that McHenry used funds from his political action committee (PAC), "More Conservatives", to fund the defense of former aide Michael Aaron Lay's voter fraud charges incurred during McHenry's 2004 race.  McHenry gave Lay $20,000 to pay legal bills on voter fraud charges brought while Lay worked for him.  These expenses were labeled as "Legal Expense Donation", according to Federal Election Commission reports. Lay agreed to a deferred prosecution agreement, which stipulated he complete 100 hours of community service and pay $240.50 in court fees and $250.00 in community service fees to have the charges dismissed.  Lay, an employee of the 2004 campaign, lived in McHenry's home in Cherryville which also served as the campaign headquarters during the 2004 election, was indicted for voter fraud in McHenry's election, allegedly voted illegally in two separate instances. McHenry, in response, claimed the case was part of a "three-year smear campaign" by District Attorney Locke Bell, despite Locke Bell fund raising for McHenry in previous elections.

Countrywide donations
McHenry has also been called out by the Center for Responsive Politics' Capital Eye, who found evidence that McHenry had been taking money from Countrywide Financial, a company now involved in the subprime mortgage crisis. McHenry took $5,500 from Countrywide's PAC, and served in an investigation into CEO payout fraud, of which one of the target companies was Countrywide Financial itself.

Elizabeth Warren
On May 24, 2011, Elizabeth Warren – appointed by President Obama to oversee the development of the new U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) – attended a House subcommittee meeting chaired by McHenry, who invited her because he felt she had given misleading testimony during another hearing.  Earlier that day, McHenry had appeared on CNBC and accused Warren of lying to Congress about her involvement in government inquiries into mortgage servicing.

The meeting had several late and last minute changes, so Warren altered her schedule to accommodate the chair's request.  Around 2:15 pm, McHenry called for a temporary recess to partake in a floor vote.  In response, Warren indicated that McHenry's staff had agreed to the 2:15 pm closing time to allow her ample time to attend another meeting. McHenry replied, "You had no agreement. ... You're making this up, Ms. Warren.  This is not the case."  As Warren and some in the audience reacted with surprise, Rep. Elijah Cummings interjected, "Mr. Chairman ... I'm trying to be cordial here, but you just accused the lady of lying. I think you need to clear this up with your staff."

Although the CFPB confirmed the agreement, McHenry refused to apologize for his remarks to Warren.

The Hickory Daily Record, the largest paper in McHenry's district, called for McHenry to apologize, saying that it was "unacceptable for any member of Congress, especially a subcommittee chairman," to treat a witness in the manner with which he treated Warren.

Political campaigns

2004
In 2004, after one term in the North Carolina General Assembly, McHenry successfully ran for Congress in the 10th Congressional district, which had come open when nine-term incumbent Cass Ballenger retired. McHenry faced a heavily contested primary in the 10th and bested his closest opponent, Catawba County Sheriff David Huffman, in a primary runoff by only 85 votes.

In the general election, McHenry won 64% of the popular vote, defeating Democrat Anne Fischer. However, it was generally thought McHenry's victory in the primary runoff was tantamount to election in November: his district is considered North Carolina's most Republican district, having sent Republicans to represent it since 1963.

2006

In the 2006 election, McHenry defeated Democrat Richard Carsner, gaining almost 62% of the vote on the way to a second term representing the 10th District.

2008

In 2008, McHenry defeated Lance Sigmon in the Republican primary, winning 67% of the vote, and faced Democrat Daniel Johnson in the general election.  Johnson was considered the strongest and best-funded Democrat to run in the district in over 20 years.  In part because of this, the Cook Political Report moved the race from "Safe Republican" to "Likely Republican."  This meant that in Charlie Cook's opinion, while McHenry still had a considerable advantage, a victory by Johnson could not be ruled out.  Shortly after the Cook Political Report's update, Stuart Rothenberg of the Rothenberg Political Report, also a nonpartisan analysis of American politics and elections, addressed the race and indicated his opinion that an upset is unlikely.  McHenry won the 2008 election, 58% to 42%.

2010

McHenry easily defeated Democratic challenger Jeff Gregory.

2012

McHenry easily defeated Republican primary challengers Ken Fortenberry and Don Peterson in May 2012 with 73% of the vote in the redrawn 10th District.


Jim Lee Howell

James Lee Howell (September 27, 1914 – January 4, 1995) was an American football player and coach for the National Football League's New York Giants.  Howell was born in Arkansas and played college football and basketball at the University of Arkansas.  He was drafted by the Giants in the 1937 NFL Draft and played wide receiver and defensive back from 1937 to 1947.  While playing for the Giants, He was elected to the Arkansas House of Representatives representing Lonoke County in 1940 and served one term during the January to March 1941 session of the legislature. After his playing career ended, he was head coach for Wagner College football.

Howell returned to the Giants in 1954 as head coach, succeeding fan, media and player favorite Steve Owen.  Howell quickly hired Vince Lombardi as his offensive coordinator and shortly after converted Tom Landry from player to defensive coordinator.  From 1954 to 1960, the Giants played in three NFL Championship Games, defeating George Halas's Chicago Bears in 1956 by the score of 47–7.

During Howell's seven seasons as head coach, he earned a career 53–27–4 record, with a .663 winning percentage.  He drafted and coached a roster of stars including six future Pro Football Hall of Famers, Sam Huff, Andy Robustelli, Rosey Brown, Emlen Tunnell, Frank Gifford and Don Maynard.  Although his conservative, defense-oriented style was unpopular with the fans and media, the Giants' success on the field was more satisfying.  Several other players from this era went on to become head coaches and broadcasters.

Howell played and coached in an era when football went from a relatively simple game to one of great complexity with schemes, formations and playbooks designed to deceive as much as over power.  With future Hall of Famers Lombardi and Landry as coordinators, Howell's job was frequently to play the diplomat within his own team.

Howell stayed with the team as Director of Player Personnel until his retirement in 1981.  He died on January 4, 1995 in Lonoke, Arkansas.

The Professional Football Researchers Association named Howell to the PRFA Hall of Very Good Class of 2007


Swinging gate (American football)

The Swinging Gate is an unorthodox set-piece play in American football, executed in either the offensive or special-teams sections of play. It is unusual in that the offensive line, with the exception of the center, will line up to one side of the field, leaving the quarterback and running back unprotected on the other. Its goal is to disconcert a defensive front in order to allow a quick screen pass to a wide receiver with six blockers, or to allow a short run by the running back. Surprise is the main goal of the play, and it is not typically run outside of short-yardage situations.

The play, originally formulated in the 1930s, still retains a modicum of popularity on high school and college teams, where the lesser athleticism of the players will allow the play to be performed with a greater degree of success. An example of the play can be found in the closing scenes of Adam Sandler's remake of the movie The Longest Yard, where Sandler's team executes the play successfully.

Offensive

The offensive form of the play is rarely run, for the reasons above. However, it does offer several advantages to coaches willing to run it. With five eligible receivers, there are a multitude of targets for the quarterback, though he must get the ball off quickly, before the defense can recover from the initial (presumed) surprise at the unorthodox formation. The receiver at the far left will have six blockers, a crucial advantage for longer situations.

A rushing attack with the formation tends to be useful only in short-yardage situations, as the lack of blockers for the running back will hamper any longer runs. The formation is typically used as a setup for a pass when not used on special teams.

Special teams
The other, more common, use of the Swinging Gate formation is on special teams, as the offensive team attempts a two-point conversion. The unusual formation allows several different attacks, one of which is a rushing attack, which, thanks to the short yardage needed, is practical in a way that is not on an ordinary play using this formation. If in a situation where the coach finds that his team does not absolutely require a successful two-point conversion, he may give his quarterback permission to call an audible and turn the play into a field goal attempt. In this "slide," the players on the line move back to the center, the quarterback becomes the holder for a place kick, and the halfback becomes the kicker.

Some teams initially line up in the formation for every or nearly every extra-point attempt before shifting back into a conventional placekicking formation. The reasons for doing this are (1) to attempt to catch the opposing team off guard and only then try a pass or run for two points and (2) to prevent the opposing team from blocking the PAT kick. If the opposing team lines up properly to defend against a run or pass from this formation, the team will not have enough time for its players to get into position to block a kick once the offense has shifted back into a conventional placekicking formation.

This formation was utilized extensively on point-after-attempts at Southern Methodist University (SMU) during head coach Phil Bennett's tenure from 2002–2007.

Examples in NFL
It is not often found in the NFL, due to the danger of a quarterback injury. In a Wild Card playoff game on January 6, 2008 against the San Diego Chargers, the Tennessee Titans lined up in the Swinging Gate formation on their first play from scrimmage. Tennessee quarterback Vince Young threw an incomplete pass on the play. In a December 21, 2009 game between the Washington Redskins and the New York Giants, the Redskins attempted this play with Hunter Smith, the punter, at quarterback, which resulted in an interception.

During an October 18, 2015, game between the New England Patriots and the Indianapolis Colts, in a widely ridiculed playcall, the Colts lined up in a swinging gate formation that resulted in a botched play, a turnover on downs, and ultimately a loss for the Colts in an already notable game for being the first between the Colts and Patriots after Deflategate.

A different version of the swinging gate was used by the Cincinnati Bengals during their 2015 season, nicknamed the "Star Wars formation" and shifting only two blockers to the side of the formation instead of four.


One World One Voice

One World One Voice is a world music album intended to raise awareness of environmental issues, produced by Rupert Hine in 1990. A video of the entire album was produced for television together with a "Making of" documentary.

It was created as a “chain tape” started by Kevin Godley. The multitrack tape was sent to various studios around the world where local artists added their contributions to it. Sections of the video were also filmed in the performers' home countries and edited together. Artists participating were Afrika Bambaataa, Laurie Anderson, A Velha Guarda Da Portela, Bagamoyo Players, Cedric, The Chieftains, Clannad, Johnny Clegg & Savuka, Cy Curnin, Terence Trent D'Arby, Dred, Marc Ducret, Peter Gabriel, Bob Geldof, David Gilmour, Egberto Gismonti, Kevin Godley, Eddie Grant, The Great Muungano Cultural Troupe, Richard Galliano, The Gipsy Kings, Rupert Hine, Chrissie Hynde, Howard Jones, Salif Keita, The Kodo Drummers, Hélène Labarrière, Leningrad Symphony Orchestra (conductor Aleksandr Dmitriyev, orchestration Simon Jeffes), Ray Lema, Roger Ludvigsen, Maria McKee, Milton Nascimento, Native Land & Themba, New Frontier, New voices of freedom, Nu Sounds, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Remmy Ongala & The Super Matimala Orchestra, Geoffrey Oryema, Hermeto Pascoal, Penguin Cafe Orchestra, Mari Boine Persen, Courtney Pine, Hossam Ramzy, Enrico Rava, Lou Reed, Robbie Robertson, Michael Rose & Junior, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Clara Sandroni, Shakespear's Sister, Steve Stevens, Dave Stewart and The Spiritual Cowboys, Sting, Joe Strummer, Steven Van Zandt, Suzanne Vega, Venice, Christopher Warren-Green, Adam Woods and Guo Yue

Track listing

 Robbie Robertson - Chief Seattle Speaks
 Kevin Godley, Sting, Courtney Pine, Gypsy Kings, Ark - (Instrumental)
 Gypsy Kings, Nusrath Fateh Ali Khan - Este Mundo
 Laurie Anderson & Pool - (Instrumental)
 The Chieftains, Guo Yue, Bagamogyo Players - (Irish Instrumental)
 A Velha Guarda Da Portela - Brazilian Party
 Steven van Zandt, Peter Gabriel - Foreplay To One Heart
 Steven van Zandt, Peter Gabriel & Street-People - One Heart
 Dave Stewart And The Spiritual Cowboys - One Music From Another
 Junior, Steve Stevens - One World
 Michael Rose, Steel Band - One World
 Clannad, Chrissie Hynde, Geoffrey Oryema, Mari Boine - Ri Na Cruinne, Gula Gula
 Native Land & Themba - Oh Ya
 Milton Nascimento - De Fira
 Peter Gabriel, Suzanne Vega, Geoffrey Oryema - One White Field
 Great Muungano Cultural Troup - (Drum Instrumental)
 Lou Reed, Richard Galliano. Penguin Cafe  Orchestra  - One World, One Voice
 Salif Keita, Penguin Cafe Orchestra - Nami Watah
 Laurie Anderson - The Whale
 Johnny Clegg & Savuka, Eddie Grant, Long Shawah - Free World
 Christopher Warren-Greene, David Gilmour, Venice, Howard Jones, Bob Geldof, Terence Trent D'Arby, Clara Sandroni - Meet Again (A Hole To Fill)(Portuguese: A gente vai se encontrar de novo)
 Kodo-Drummers & Leningrad Symphony Orchestra - Finale

Reference for track listing and artists


Millencolin / Midtown

Millencolin / Midtown is a split album by the Swedish punk rock group Millencolin and the New Brunswick, New Jersey pop-punk band Midtown, released on May 28, 2001 by Golf Records.

Track listing
Millencolin - "No Cigar"
Millencolin - "Black Eye" (early version)
Millencolin - "Buzzer" (extended version)
Midtown - "Let Go"
Midtown - "Get it Together"
Midtown - "You Should Know"

Personnel

Millencolin
Nikola Sarcevic - lead vocals, bass guitar
Erik Ohlsson - guitar
Mathias Färm - guitar
Fredrik Larzon - drums

Midtown
Gabe Saporta - lead vocals, bass
Tyler Rann - vocals, guitar
Heath Saraceno - vocals, guitar
Rob Hitt - drums


Ronon Dex

"Ronon" redirects here. See also Ronin.

Ronon Dex is a fictional character in the science fiction television series Stargate Atlantis. Played by Jason Momoa, he is a Satedan, a civilization from the Pegasus Galaxy who had a technological level comparable to Earth in the mid-20th century  but met the fate of all advanced civilizations in Pegasus when their homeworld Sateda (P3R-534) was devastated several years ago by the Wraith. When Ronon Dex and the Atlantis expedition first met in the season 2 episode "Runner", Ronon Dex had been a Runner for the past seven years. He joined the Atlantis Expedition shortly afterwards, effectively replacing Aiden Ford on Sheppard's team after Ford had become addicted to a Wraith enzyme and had fled Atlantis.

Jason Momoa, along with some of his fellow cast members, have said that they think of Ronon as the Atlantis version of Chewbacca. This joke is carried through into the show, and Lt Col Sheppard occasionally refers to Ronon as "Chewy."

Role in Stargate Atlantis
Ronon is a native of Sateda, a planet with an advanced level of technology. His grandfather suffered from Second Childhood, a condition with symptoms similar to Alzheimer's Disease. Ronon became a member of the Satedan military where he held the rank of Specialist. He was very close to a woman named Melena, whom Ronon considered "close enough" to a wife in "Sunday". Approximately seven years before Ronon's first contact with the Atlantis Expedition, the Wraith attacked Sateda. Ronon remained behind with Melena to fight the Wraith, but the Wraith defeated Satedan forces and Melena was killed before Ronon's eyes in an explosion. Ronon was later captured by the Wraith. When the Wraith discovered that he was different to the normal human on Sateda (or any other human civilisation) - i.e. much stronger and more resilient - they turned him into a Runner, implanting a tracking device in his upper back and setting him loose to be constantly hunted. (for sports, training etc. as Ronon said later to Teyla).

Ronon stayed alive for seven years by learning several new tricks and deciding to hunt them back with his weapons. He owns a rare energy pistol which emits red bursts of energy that stun or kill at the user's discretion. It resembles a revolver with a power cell where the ammunition cylinder would be located. (The same type of weapon is shown to be used by a people in the season 4 episode "Travelers", but Ronon displays no knowledge of these people.) Ronon also carries a sword; the hilt is made from a Wraith mandible and humerus wrapped in Wraith hair, the blade is made from the metal of a Wraith ship, and the scabbard is made from a Wraith leather coat. The episode "The Hive" shows Ronon carrying several knives hidden on his person for use in emergencies. (He uses four in the episode and it is implied there may be more.) Ronon's seemingly unlimited supply of these blades is a source of occasional comic relief.

When the Atlantis team encounters Ronon for the first time in season 2's "Runner", they arrange a removal of the tracking device in his back. Ronon returns with them to Atlantis, where he learns that Sateda had been completely destroyed. Sheppard offers Ronon a place on his team in "Duet" after Ronon proves his worth against the Marines and Teyla in hand-to-hand combat and demonstrates his experience with guns. Ronon finds out in "Trinity" that about 300 Satedans survived the Wraith attacks and moved to other planets. In season 3's "Sateda", Ronon gets revenge on the Wraith who originally turned him into a Runner. Ronon meets with three of his old Satedan friends in season 4's "Reunion" and seriously considers leaving the Atlantis Expedition for the first time until he learns that his old friends are Wraith Worshippers. In the end, Ronon remains with the Atlantis Expedition, stating that his friends are "right here".

In season 4's "Midway", Teal'c comes to Atlantis to advise Ronon how to deal with the IOA. This immediately provokes a rivalry, and Ronon and Teal'c engage in a sparring match. After an hour of intense but inconclusive fighting, it is proven they are equally matched. Together, they fight a group of Wraith who attempt to gate to Earth; in the process, Dex saves Teal'c from a Wraith who is feeding on him and earns IOA approval of his presence at Atlantis. (The rivalry as such is resolved; the question of who could beat whom is left open, but they become friends instead of rivals.) In one episode of season 4, Ronon and Dr. Jennifer Keller appear to take a romantic interest in each other. In Season 5 episodes "Taken," "First Contact," and "The Lost Tribe," their potential attraction is again suggested until Dr. Keller reveals that she is interested in Dr. Rodney McKay. In season 5's final episode, "Enemy at the Gate", Ronon is killed during an assault on a Wraith hive that had reached Earth's orbit. He is then revived by a Wraith and interrogated, only to be rescued by Sheppard and crew. Dex is last seen with the Atlantis Expedition crew as they safely land a cloaked but disabled Atlantis near the Golden Gate Bridge.

Conceptual history

The working name for Ronon's home world planet was Atteria, not Sateda.

After Momoa was cast in the role, the Sci Fi Channel objected to him keeping his long, heavy 6-pound dreadlocks.  However the hair soon became a signature of the character, and when Momoa decided to cut them off (with the producers' permission) after the completion of Season 4, he was still required to have his hair sewn back on for at least the first three episodes until there would be a scene where Ronon cuts his hair off in "Broken Ties". According to Momoa, it took nine hours to sew his hair back on for the beginning of the fifth season, but wearing it was too painful for him to continue working. Meanwhile, the Sci Fi Channel overruled the decision for Ronon to lose his hair, the scene had already been filmed and got cut, so he was eventually given a custom-made $10,000 wig that weighed the same as Momoa's former hair, as a replacement for the rest of the season. In interviews, Momoa says that the wig was more painful and cumbersome than his original dreadlocks. Also, Momoa used various tricks to cover up several of his tattoos, including the sizeable tribal tattoo on his left forearm. Eventually the writers incorporated a scene in the episode "Reunion" wherein he gets the tattoo.

When Valerie Halverson took over as lead costume designer in the fourth season, Jason Momoa would bring her pieces of fabric from flea markets, which the costume department would fashion into clothing for his character.


The Egoists

is a 2011 Japanese drama film directed by Ryuichi Hiroki. The film stars Anne Suzuki, Kengo Kôra, Sora Aoi, Kaoru Kobayashi, Mako Midori and Jun Murakami.

Cast
 Anne Suzuki
 Kengo Kôra
 Sora Aoi
 Yasushi Fuchikami
 Kaoru Kobayashi
 Mako Midori
 Jun Murakami
 Toshie Negishi
 Nao Ohmori
 Shûgo Oshinari
 Tomorô Taguchi


Maree Jackson

Maree Jackson (née Bennie) (born 11 October 1954) is a retired Australian women's basketball player.

Biography

Jackson played for the Australia women's national basketball team during the 1970s and competed for Australia at the 1975 World Championship held in Colombia and the 1979 World Championship held in South Korea.

Following a 1976 tour of the United States with the New South Wales state basketball team, Jackson accepted a physical education scholarship to play basketball with Louisiana State University. As a sophomore in 1978, Jackson scored 1,021 points (25.5 ppg) and grabbed 539 rebounds (13.5 rpg). The 1,021 points and 539 rebounds are the most in both Southeastern Conference (SEC) and LSU history for one season. In just two seasons with the Lady Tigers, Jackson scored 1,852 points which places her third on the all-time scoring list. She also finished her career as the second leading rebounder in LSU history with 1,032 rebounds. For her career, Jackson averaged 26.4 points a game, which still stands as the SEC record.

Jackson and Julie Gross were the first Australian females to win All-American honours while playing college basketball in the United States. That year, Jackson also won a place in the US national side. Jackson turned down several lucrative offers to turn professional so she could return to Australia to play for the Opals at 1980 Moscow Olympics. However, following the pre-Olympic Qualification Tournament, the Opals failed in their bid to qualify for the games.

Following a women's national tournament in Sydney in 1972, Jackson met fellow Australian basketballer and future husband, Gary Jackson. Their first-born, Lauren Jackson, would become the number 1 pick in the 2001 WNBA Draft and would go on to become Australia's most successful and decorated basketball player.

In 2006, Maree Jackson was inducted into Australia's Basketball Hall of Fame. The National Junior Championship trophy for under 18 women is also named in her honour.

LSU statistics
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H. Henry Powers

Horace Henry Powers (May 29, 1835 – December 8, 1913) was an American lawyer, judge and politician. He served as a U.S. Representative from Vermont.

Life and career
Powers was born in Morristown, Vermont to Dr. Horace Powers and Love E. Gilman Powers. He graduated from People's Academy, and received a bachelor's degree from the University of Vermont in 1855, where he was initiated into Delta Psi. He earned his master's degree from UVM in 1858. Powers studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1858, and practiced first in Hyde Park, and later in Morristown.

He served as a member of the Vermont House of Representatives in 1858. Powers was the Lamoille County State's Attorney in 1861 and 1862.  He served as a member of the council of censors in 1869, and was a member of the State constitutional convention in 1870.

Powers served in the Vermont State Senate in 1872 and 1873.  In 1874, he was again a member of the Vermont State House and served as Speaker.

Powers served as a Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court from December 1874 to December 1890. He was a Trustee of the University of Vermont from 1883 until his death in 1913.

He as a member of the Lamoille County Bank board of directors from 1888 until his death. He was a Delegate to the 1892 Republican National Convention.

Powers was elected as a Republican to the Fifty-second United States Congress and to the four succeeding Congresses, serving from March 4, 1891 until March 3, 1901. He served as chairman of the Committee on Pacific Railroads from the Fifty-fourth through Fifty-sixth Congresses. In 1896 he sponsored a controversial bill that would have allowed the Central Pacific Railroad to obtain a 75-year delay paying off a 30-year-old debt to the government. The bill inspired a campaign of opposition led by publisher William Randolph Hearst and his employees, journalists Ambrose Bierce and Frank Norris.  In one article about the Powers Bill, Bierce memorably wrote that while the handsome Powers might not be qualified to serve as chairman of the Pacific Railroads committee, he was certainly qualified to head the "Committee on Visible Virtues."  In January, 1897 the Powers Bill was defeated 168 to 102.

Powers was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1900. After leaving Congress, he resumed the practice of law in Morrisville, Vermont, and was the chief counsel for the Rutland Railroad.

Personal life
Powers married Caroline Waterman on October 11, 1858. They had two children, Carrie L. Powers and George M. Powers. George M. Powers also served as the prosecuting attorney of Lamoille County, Vermont, and an Associate Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court.  George Powers was the husband of Gertrude Francis Woodbury, whose father was Governor Urban A. Woodbury.

Death and legacy
He died in Morristown on December 8, 1913, and is interred in Pleasant View Cemetery.

Powers home in Morrisville is listed on the National Register of Historic Places by the United States Department of the Interior. The home was built around 1850 and is named the Horace Henry Powers House.


Clyde Williams (American football)

Samuel Clyde Williams (March 24, 1879 – March 20, 1938) was an All-American football player at the University of Iowa, and a football, basketball, and baseball coach and athletic director at Iowa State University.  He is a member of both schools' Halls of Fame.

College career
Williams was born in Shelby, Iowa. He played college football for the University of Iowa under coach Alden Knipe. Knipe was a stern disciplinarian, and friction soon arose between Knipe and the older players of the 1898 Hawkeye football team. After Iowa started the season 1–4–1, Ralph Blackmore led the "Blackmore Revolt", in which five upperclassmen quit the team. Knipe simply started younger players, including Clyde Williams, who was a freshman at the time. With Williams at quarterback, Iowa finished the year 2–0–1, ending the season with a 6–5 victory over rival Nebraska. Nebraska had been heavy favorites and were coached by Fielding H. Yost.

In Williams' sophomore season in 1899, Iowa faced heavily favored Chicago, coached by Amos Alonzo Stagg. The Hawks scored a touchdown against Chicago, while the Maroons could muster only a field goal. Since both were scored as five points in those days, Iowa settled for a 5–5 tie. Chicago went on to win the 1899 Western Conference title with a 12–0–2 record.

Under Williams, the Hawkeyes did not yield another point all year, winning their last seven games by a combined score of 194–0. Iowa closed the 1899 season by defeating Illinois in their first ever meeting by a 58–0 score. That capped off an 8–0–1 season for the Hawkeyes, their first ever undefeated season. Less than 24 hours after the season ended, the University of Iowa accepted an invitation for membership in the Western Conference. Caspar Whitney in Collier's Magazine named Clyde Williams as the top quarterback in the West in 1899.

In Williams' junior season in 1900, the Hawkeyes won their first four non-conference games by a combined score of 198–0.  Chicago loomed as Iowa's first ever Big Ten opponent. Chicago had won the Western Conference the previous year and handed Iowa its only blemish on the season in 1899. After a scoreless first half, the Hawks scored two quick touchdowns early in the second period and Iowa won, 17–0. Iowa's next game was against Michigan, in Detroit. The Hawkeyes led 28–0 before Michigan managed a field goal to prevent the shutout, the first points scored on Iowa in 1900. But the Hawkeyes dominated the Wolverines and won, 28–5.

The victories over Chicago and Michigan allowed Iowa to earn a share of the Big Ten title with Minnesota in Iowa's first year in the conference. The Hawkeyes finished with a 7–0–1 record, their second straight undefeated season. After the season, Clyde Williams was named a third-team All-American by Walter Camp. Williams was the first player west of the Mississippi River to garner All-American honors. As a result, Clyde Williams is often referred to as "Iowa's first All-American".

Only three starters returned in Williams' senior season in 1901.  Williams was named as Iowa's team captain. The Hawkeyes won their first three games of 1901 before preparing to play fellow defending Western Conference champion, Minnesota. 25 minutes before the game, Williams was told he was ineligible to play for the remainder of the season, because he had played summer baseball under an assumed name. A deflated Hawkeye team lost to Minnesota, 16–0, losing their first game and yielding their first touchdown in 23 games. Iowa finished with a 6–3 record in 1901.

In four years as a starting quarterback at Iowa, Williams never lost a game. The Hawkeyes' record in games Williams started, from the middle of the 1898 season to the middle of the 1901 season, was 23–0–3. He earned 11 letters at Iowa, four in football, four in baseball, and three in track.

Coaching career
After serving as an Iowa assistant football coach for two years, Williams went to Ames, Iowa as an assistant football coach for Iowa State University. Williams served as the Cyclones' head football coach for six seasons from 1907 to 1912. During that time, he had a coaching record of 32–15–2. This ranks him fifth at Iowa State in total wins and fourth at Iowa State in winning percentage. In addition, he led Iowa State to two Missouri Valley Conference football titles in 1911 and 1912, which are currently the only two conference football championships in school history.

Williams was the school's first men's basketball coach from 1908 to 1911, where he compiled a 20–29 record. He also served as Iowa State's baseball coach and was their athletic director from 1914 to 1919.

Death
Williams died on March 20, 1938, at his home, in Sheldon, Iowa, following several months of illness.

Honors
Iowa State's home football stadium from 1915 through 1975 was named Clyde Williams Field in Williams's honor. It was replaced when Iowa State moved to their current facility, Jack Trice Stadium.

Williams was inducted into the State of Iowa Hall of Fame in 1956.  He is also one of the few people inducted into both the University of Iowa Athletics Hall of Fame (inducted 1993) and the Iowa State Athletics Hall of Fame (inducted 1997).

Head coaching record

Football

Basketball

Baseball


Credence (film)

Credence is a 2015 British Sci-fi film written and directed by Mike Buonaiuto. It stars Alex Hammond, Anthony Topham and Tia Kenny. Credence is the story of a family of two torn gay fathers, who sacrifice their lives to save their daughter in the last evacuation from the Earth, before its devastation.

Credence is challenging standard LGBT portrayal in films, and follows Buonaiuto's previous campaigns #LoveAlwaysWins, Homecoming, and Invisible Parents. Credence premiered on 17 May 2015 at the Prince Charles Cinema.

Plot
Credence portrays a family torn apart during the last evacuation on earth after violent storms have made continued survival on the planet impossible. Hope has been found in the form of new worlds that support human life, however due to limited rocket capacity and life expectancy only children are permitted to evacuate, and even then only the rich have ended up getting tickets. Two fathers decide to make the ultimate sacrifice, to ensure the survival of their daughter, and the entire human race.

Production
The preview production for the film began in early 2014. The Director described his concept as “a universal message that in any kind of tragedy it's important that couples come together and support one another,”. Filming took place in a house on the coast of Norfolk (England). On 13 July 2014, a crowdfunding campaign was launched on Indiegogo to support film production. The campaign raised £6,000 in three days, and by the end it had £22,189 ($37,090). filming began on 8 January 2015, and was finished 4 days later.

Cast
 Richie Stephens as Luis
 Alex Hammond as Scott
 Anthony Topham as John
 Tia Kenny as Ellie

Soundtrack
The soundtrack features the score, composed by James Maloney, and a song by Craig Sutherland (feat. Lucien Dante).


Richard Hill (footballer, born 1893)

Richard Henry Hill (26 November 1893 – 1971) was an English international footballer who played as a left back.

Career
Born in Mapperley, former Grenadier Guard Hill played professionally for Millwall and Torquay United, and earned one cap for England on 24 May 1926 against Belgium in Antwerp.

Dick played mainly as a left back, but also played at centre half and right back. He played 314 Football League games, 24 Southern League games and 28 FA Cup games for Millwall. His total of 366 games leaves him sixth in the list of most appearances for Millwall.

He joined Torquay United in July 1930 and made 28 appearances scoring his only senior goal.


I Saw the Light (Hal Ketchum album)

I Saw the Light is a 1998 album by American country music singer Hal Ketchum. It was released on May 19, 1998 by Curb Records. The album charted one single, a cover of Todd Rundgren's "I Saw the Light".

Content
The title track and lead single to the album is a cover of Todd Rundgren's 1972 single "I Saw the Light". Ketchum's version charted at number 36 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart and number 21 on Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles. "When Love Looks Back at You" was also issued as a single, but it did not chart.

Critical reception
Thom Owens of AllMusic called the album "drastically uneven", noticing a difference in style between the two recording sessions on the album.

James N. Thurman of The Christian Science Monitor writes that the album, "marks the return of an artist who continues to push the edges of country music at a time when it's hard to put most music in any sort of box."

''The Weekly Wires Michael McCall reviews the album and says, "Over the course of his career, Ketchum has made some strong records, but I Saw the Light is his best album yet."

Susan Campbell of The Hartford Courant concludes her review with, "We're glad Hal Ketchum is happy. And we are, selfishly, immensely glad he's out there, making music."

Jack Hurst of the Chicago Tribune writes, "The songs on "I Saw the Light" reflect both the hopelessness of Ketchum's recent past and the brightness of his future."

CNN'''s review says of I Saw the Light, "It's a comeback of sorts for Ketchum, who says he went through some dark days following the release of his last record in 1991."

The Washington Posts Bill Friskics-Warren writes of the album that it's, "a far more personal record than many made by his multi-platinum-selling country counterparts."

Track listing


Ord Victoria Plain

The Ord Victoria Plain, an interim Australian bioregion, is located in the Northern Territory and Western Australia, comprising .

The bioregion draws its name from the Ord River and the Victoria River.

Location and description
This is an area of large plains of dry grassland lying between the Tanami Desert to the south and the wetter, greener grassland to the north towards the coast. Sandstone outcrops rise from the grassland, the most famous of which is the Bungle Bungle Range in Purnululu National Park. The grasslands have long been used for cattle grazing. The climate is wetter in the north (ave annual rainfall 1200mm) which receives some coastal monsoonal rain, and drier in the south (ave 600mm). The rainy season is between November and March and the whole area is almost completely dry for the rest of the year and the climate is hot with maximum temperatures between 25 °C and 35 °C year round.

Flora
The plain is largely covered with Mitchell grass scattered with bloodwood Eucalyptus / Corymbia trees, native bauhinia (Bauhinia cunninghamii) and large patches of lancewood acacia  (Acacia shirleyi) woodland. The sandstone outcrops have thinner cover of eucalyptus over hummock grass or heathland scattered with Grevillea and Acacia trees.
Riverine ecosystems around permanent water courses consist of paperbark (Melaleuca), river redgum (Eucalyptus) and river pandanus (Pandanus).

Fauna
There are few endemic species as these grasslands are typical of much of northern Australia at this latitude but the grasslands are nonetheless largely intact and rich in wildlife. Mammals include the large eastern wallaroo, northern nail-tail wallaby (Onychogalea unguifera), and the long-tailed planigale which is the smallest marsupial in the world. The lancewoods are home to the spectacled hare-wallaby (Lagorchestes conspicillatus), while the Bungle Bungle has some unique plants and an endemic Lerista skink lizard the . Mammals that have become depleted or disappeared from these grasslands include the bilby (Macrotis lagotis), northern quoll (Dasyurus hallucatus) and golden bandicoot (Isoodon auratus).

Birds include Australian bustards, singing bushlark, and red-backed fairy-wren while there are important populations of purple-crowned fairywren (Malurus coronatus) along the rivers especially the Victoria. The eucalyptus trees are habitat for lorikeets, friarbirds, and honeyeaters. Termites are a source of food for many of these birds and animals. The wildlife of the grasslands is still being researched so for example a new species of Ctenotus skink has been discovered quite recently.

Threats and preservation
In general this is a large area of relatively unspoilt grassland used for grazing cattle. Some damage results from intensive cattle ranching leading to overgrazing and disrupting the traditional Aboriginal fire regimes in which the grasslands are systematically burnt and allowed to regenerate. Woodlands next to rivers and other water sources were severely altered when ranching began, causing siltation along the Ord River and destroying important habitat of the white-browed robin (Poecilodryas superciliosa) and the purple-crowned fairywren. Habitats have also been damaged by introduced species of plants such as bellyache bush (Jatropha gossypifolia), and castor oil plant (Ricinus communis). There are some protected areas, mainly other types of habitat rather than grazing land. Areas such as the caves of Gregory National Park are still being researched by botanists and zoologists.


Continuous stationery

Continuous stationery (UK) or continuous form paper (US) is paper which is designed for use with dot-matrix and line printers with appropriate paper-feed mechanisms. Other names include fan-fold paper, sprocket-feed paper, burst paper, lineflow (New Zealand), tractor-feed paper, and pin-feed paper. It can be single-ply (usually woodfree uncoated paper) or multi-ply (either with carbon paper between the paper layers, or multiple layers of carbonless copy paper), often described as multipart stationery or forms. Continuous stationery is often used when the final print medium is less critical in terms of the appearance at the edges, and when continuously connected individual sheets are not inconvenient for the application. Individual sheets can be separated at the perforation (leaving a slight serration), and sheets also have edges with punched holes, which also can be removed at the perforation (one typical format).

Shape and form
Most continuous form paper is punched longitudinally along both edges with regularly spaced engagement holes that engage with sprocket wheels or toothed belts on the "tractor" which move the paper through the printer. It  is usually perforated transversely with a line of closely spaced holes or slits which form a tear edge that allows it to be torn neatly into separate pages after printing; when fed through the printer the paper is simply a continuous sheet.

After printing the separated sheets can be held in binders by using the sprocket holes when simply required as a record. Alternatively some types of continuous form paper also have longitudinal perforations along each edge inside the engagement holes, allowing the strips with sprocket holes to be torn off the printed page.

The tear perforations may be short slits, which leave noticeable serrations when torn apart, acceptable for many business documents such as invoices or basic data (such as computer code). Where better appearance is necessary the perforations can be much finer, leaving an almost perfectly smooth edge (microperforations, microperf for short).

Continuous form paper of all types remains in production, although largely supplanted with the introduction of fast laser printers with single-sheet feed. Continuous stationery printed on a suitable printer is typically cheaper than laser printing although the output is of lower quality. If an impact printer is used multiple simultaneous copies can be printed on multipart forms. Many laser printers can print on both sides of the paper (duplex printing), which is not possible with continuous stationery.

Common types

The highest grade of continuous form paper uses a heavy bond weight similar to typing paper. Perforations are very small and close together, referred to as microperforations or microperf, to allow the sheets to be separated and the sprocket hole strip torn off leaving a very smooth edge almost as if guillotine-cut.

The cheapest grade of continuous form paper is often preprinted with bars of light green lines across its width, to facilitate following a line of information across the page, a type commonly referred to as green bar, music  or music-ruled paper. It is a very lightweight bond, usually without slit perforations to remove the engagement hole strips.

Common sizes:
 241mm x 279mm (9.5in x 11in)
 381mm x 279mm (15in x 11in)

Printing, separation and binding

Printing
Continuous form paper is used in some of the fastest types of printing systems, some of which print text at a rate of 20,000 lpm (lines per minute). This will produce about 400 pages per minute, using about 8-11 large boxes of paper for every hour of printing (affected by character density, and other details such as paper weight).

Decollator

A decollator separates multi-part continuous form paper into separate stacks of one-part continuous form paper and may also remove the carbon paper.

Burster

A burster is a machine that separates one-part continuous form paper into separate, individual, sheets along the transverse perforations. A burster was typically used with printed continuous form paper applications such as mass-mail advertising, invoices, and account statements. Bursting is done by firmly gripping the second-to-last sheet while feed rollers grip the last sheet firmly and pull it away to burst the perforation. The continuous form paper then advances into the feed rollers to burst the next sheet. Bursting is often a high-speed process that allows the continuous form paper to feed in at a steady rate, with burst pages either stacked or fed into a single-sheet conveyance to the next paper processing stage. Burster equipment and paper manufactures had to generate perforation specifications so that the paper perforations reliably separated under the force of pulling the sheets apart and not tear down into the printed part of the sheet.

Large continuous documents might not be split into separate sheets. By continuously folding two single sided printed sheets back-to-back and binding together a stack of continuous form paper along one of the folded edges, it is possible to flip through the stack like a book of double-sided printed pages. With this technique, the stack is normally flipped top to bottom or bottom to top rather than side to side.

History
This paper type was developed for use with autographic registers around 1910, was later adopted by tabulating machines beginning in the 1920s, and its use grew with the introduction of commercial computers in the 1950s.  IBM cards, preprinted, optionally numbered and pre-punched, were available as continuous form cards and were used for checks and other documents.  Continuous form paper became widely used and well known to the general public in the 1980s due to the development of microcomputers and inexpensive dot-matrix consumer printers.

Continuous form paper began to disappear from the consumer market in the 1990s as  desktop publishing, and WYSIWYG document generation became more popular and widespread. Consumers were willing to pay more to get a laser printer or inkjet printer that could produce near-typeset-quality documents. These printers accept standard size cut sheets (letter, legal or A4) of paper and do not require continuous form paper. Continuous form paper continues to be used in specialty commercial and industrial markets and, as of 2017, is still available from large retailers of office supplies such as OfficeMax and Staples.

Continuous stationery (also called continuous-forms paper) began to disappear from the commercial market in the 1990s replaced by the invention of Pinless and perf-less paper feeding and folding by HW (Buck) Crowley and introduced by Roll Systems (Now Technau), with much industry resistance. Two years of tradeshow demonstrations before the first sale. This became the pivotal breakthrough that allowed commercial digital printing to become accepted. This is where the vast majority of continuous forms were used. This but many fortune-500 companies out of this business.


United Kingdom Special Forces

United Kingdom Special Forces (UKSF) is a directorate composed of 22nd Special Air Service Regiment, the Special Boat Service, the Special Reconnaissance Regiment, the Special Forces Support Group, 18 Signal Regiment and the Joint Special Forces Aviation Wing and the supporting troops.  In English law, “special forces” means those units of the armed forces of the Crown and the maintenance of whose capabilities is the responsibility of the Director of Special Forces or which are for the time being subject to the operational command of that Director.

Formation
In 1987, the post of Director SAS became Director Special Forces. From that time, the incumbent has had control of both the Army's Special Air Service and the Naval Service's Special Boat Squadron, which was renamed the Special Boat Service during the formation. The directorate has since been expanded by the creation of the Joint Special Forces Aviation Wing, the Special Reconnaissance Regiment, 18 Signal Regiment and the Special Forces Support Group. Approximately 40% of all UK Special Forces are recruited from the Royal Marines. Following the Army 2020 reforms, in 2014, 21 Special Air Service Regiment (Reserve), 23 Special Air Service Regiment (Reserve) and the Honourable Artillery Company were shifted from DSF's command to 1st Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Brigade.

Component units
The following units are part of UK Special Forces and UK Special Forces (Reserve).

Royal Navy

Special Boat Service
C Squadron
M Squadron
X Squadron
Z Squadron
 Special Boat Service (Reserve)

British Army

22nd Special Air Service Regiment
A Squadron
B Squadron
D Squadron
G Squadron
Special Reconnaissance Regiment

Royal Corps of Signals

18 Signal Regiment

Joint service units

Special Forces Support Group
 A Company
 B Company
 C Company
 D Company
 F Company
 G Company
Support Company
Joint Special Forces Aviation Wing
No. 7 Squadron (Royal Air Force)
No. 658 Squadron (Army Air Corps, British Army)
 Special Forces Flight 47 Squadron (Royal Air Force)


Dana Ranga

Dana Ranga (born 1964 in Bucharest) is a Romanian writer and film director, currently living and working in Berlin.

Life
Dana Ranga was born in 1964 in Bucharest. Initially, she studied medicine at the Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy. After she left for Berlin, she studied journalism, art history and film theory at the Free University Berlin. She now works in Berlin as a filmmaker, author and poet.
Her debut production East Side Story (1997) received an award at the Marseille Festival of Documentary Film in 1998. The documentary film Story (2003), about astronaut Story Musgrave received awards at the film festivals in Marseille (2003), Leipzig (2003) and Houston (2004). Afterwards, Dana Ranga produced the documentary Cosmonaut Polyakov (2007), part two of the space trilogy. This film won the international feature-length competition at the It's All True / É Tudo Verdade documentary film festival in São Paulo, Brazil and the first prize at the Ciencia e Cinema festival in A Coruña, Spain, both in 2008. The space trilogy was completed in 2012 with "I Am in Space", an essay about psychology and space flight, featuring videos filmed by French ESA astronaut Jean-François Clervoy.

Filmography
 1997: East Side Story (director, script)
 2003: Story (director, script)
 2007: Cosmonaut Polyakov (director, script, cut)
 2009: Oh, Adam (director, script, cut)
 2012: I Am in Space (director, script, cut)

Prizes
 2014: Adelbert von Chamisso Prize

External links

 Article in Filmmagazin Manifest
 Article in Die Zeit
 Dana Ranga and Good Idea Films


2004 Palanca Awards

The Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature winners in the year 2004 (rank, name of author, title of winning entry):
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English Division
Futuristic Fiction
First Prize: Irene Carolina Sarmiento, "They Don't Bite"
Second Prize: Catherine Rose Torres, "Niche"
Third Prize: Dean Francis Alfar, "Hollow Girl: A Romance"

Short Story
First Prize: Asterio Enrico Gutierrez, "Blind"
Second Prize: Socorro Villanueva, "Foggy Makes Me Sad"
Third Prize: Paul de Guzman, "The Index of Forbidden Books."

Short Story for Children
First Prize: Victoria Estrella Bravo, "The Cat Painter"
Second Prize: Maria Celeste Flores, "Touch Ball"
Third Prize: C. Horatius Mosquera, "The Boy Who Had Three Brains"

Essay
First Prize: Wilfredo Pascual Jr., "Devotion"
Second Prize: Erwin Romulo, "Confessions of a Space Boy"
Third Prize: Jose Maria Alarilla, "Surviving the Zeroes"

Poetry
First Prize: Naya Valdellon, "Casual Ties"
Second Prize: Joel Toledo, "Literature and Other Poems"
Third Prize: Angelo Suarez, "Else It Was Purely Girls"

One-Act Play
First Prize: Glenn Mas, "Her Father's House"
Second Prize: Dean Francis Alfar, "The Kite of Stars"
Third Prize: Robert Arlo de Guzman, "Sakura"

Full-Length Play
First Prize: Isagani Cruz, "The Lovely Bienvenido N. Santos"
Second Prize: Anna Felicia Sanchez, "In Search of a Storybook Dragon"
Third Prize: Glenn Sevilla Mas, "Rite of Passage"

Filipino Division
Futuristic Fiction
First Prize: Charles Bryan Acosta, " Dalawang Butil ng Asukal at Bigas"

Maikiling Kuwento
First Prize: Honorio Bartolome De Dios, "Etong Bayad, Sang Kalayaan Lang
Second Prize: Clarito Garcia de Francia, "Mik-Eng"
Third Prize: Johannes Chua, "Dinuguan"

Maikling Kuwentong Pambata
First Prize: No Winner
Second Prize: Eugene Evasco, "Si Mabait at Ang Mga Daliri ng Liwanag"
Third Prize: Russell Roland Molina, "Tuwing Sabado"

Sanaysay
First Prize: Luna Sicat Cleto, "Balanse"
Second Prize: Mary Grace Mendoza, "Suson-susong Suso"
Third Prize: Melecio Antonio Adviento III, "Diwa ng Manlalakbay"

Tula
First Prize: Edgar Samar, "Tayong Lumalakad Nang Matulin"
Second Prize: Joseph Rosmon Tuazon, "Puti ang Anino ng Minsang Narito"
Third Prize: Renato Santos' "Sa Mall ng Mega-buhay-buhay"

Dulang May Isang Yugto
First Prize: Nicolas Pichay, "Pangulo Naming Mahal"
Second Prize: Rodolfo C. Vera, "Mga Aswang sa Panahon ng Digmaan"
Third Prize: George de Jesus III, "Unang Ulang ng Mayo"

Dulang Ganap ang Haba
First Prize: Nicolas Pichay, "Psychedelia Apocalypsis"
Second Prize: Jeanne Lim, "Gulong"
Third Prize: Allan Lopez, "Anatomiya ng Pag-ibig"

Dulang Pantelebisyon
First Prize: Lourd Ernest De Veyra and Homer Novicio, "Tugtog Tinapay"
Second Prize: Ma. Clarissa Estuar, "Riles"
Third Prize: Ramon Orbeta, "Adik sa TV"

Dulang Pampelikula
First Prize: Mark Meily, "Good Friday Archipelago"
Second Prize: Ma. Abigael Malonzo, "Snapshots"
Third Prize: Jose Maria Manalo, "Adoboville"

Regional Language Division
Short Story-Cebuano
First Prize: Arnel Mardoquio, "Ang Katapusang Sonata sa Clarinet ni Nikolet"
Second Prize: Agustin Pagusara Jr., "Talia Migrante"
Third Prize: Gumer Rafanan, "Gutom"

Short Story-Hiligaynon
First Prize: Winton Lou Ynion, "Sinipad sa Balaan Bukid"
Second Prize: Genevieve L. Asenjo, "Si Beryong Balikbayan"
Third Prize: John Iremil Teodoro, "Balaan"

Short Story-Iluko
First Prize: Prescillano Bermudez, "Apong Gabriel, Pundador"
Second Prize: Daniel Nesperos, "Opas"
Third Prize: Severino Pablo, "Silaw a Makidinnaeg iti Di Maungpot nga Isisingising ti Init"

Kabataan Essay Division
Essay
First Prize: Charles Bryan Acosta, "My Philosophy"
Second Prize: Marc Gregory Yu, "To Be President? Why Not"
Third Prize: Marie Kristine Reyes, "In Over-anticipation of the Future"

Sanaysay
First Prize: Marylaine Louise Viernes, "Iboto! Ako Para Pangulo"
Second Prize: Cassandra Czarina Yap, "Kung Ako ay Presidente ng Pilipinas"
Third Prize: Mark Christopher delos Angeles Deatras, "Kapitan"

More winners by year


Kathryn Sheldon

Kathryn Sheldon (September 22, 1879December 25, 1975) was an American film actress who appeared in over 100 films between 1916 and 1956.

Modern viewers will recognize Sheldon as the domineering Nell in The Three Stooges' 1940 short film Rockin' thru the Rockies. and as a harried dance recital teacher in the 1937 Our Gang short film, Rushin' Ballet.

Shledon died in Los Angeles, California on Christmas Day, 1975.

Partial filmography

 Society Fever (1935)
 Tango (1936)
 The Bridge of Sighs (1936)
 Brilliant Marriage (1936)
 Arbor Day (1936)
 Below the Deadline (1936)
 Circus Girl (1937)
 Racketeers in Exile (1937)
 Rushin' Ballet (1937)
 I'm From the City (1938)
 Sunset Trail (1939)
 Our Leading Citizen (1939)
 Rockin' thru the Rockies (1940)
 Out West with the Peppers (1940)
 Gold Rush Maisie (1940)
 Arizona Bound (1941)
 Richest Man in Town (1941)
 Miss V from Moscow (1942)
 Girls of the Big House (1945)
 The Happy Time (1952)


Schuss

Schuss (German for 'shot') was the first (then unofficial) mascot of the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble, France, featuring a stylized cartoon character wearing skis.  Schuss was seen on pins and small toys. Afterwards, every Olympic Games has had a mascot (excluding the 1972 Winter Olympics in Sapporo, Japan).

In alpine skiing, a schuss or schussboom is a straight downhill run at high speed, contrasting with a slalom, mogul, or ski jumping.


Melodifestivalen 1969

Melodifestivalen 1969 was the selection for the 11th song to represent Sweden at the Eurovision Song Contest. It was the 10th time that this system of picking a song had been used. 2402 songs were submitted to SVT for the competition. The final was broadcast on TV1 but was not broadcast on radio. This was the first time a tie occurred for first place in the competition.

Results


Paraguayan Tercera División

Tercera División de Paraguay (Third Division of Paraguay, in English), is the third division of Paraguayan football (soccer), and it is organized by the Paraguayan Football Association in the metropolitan area, and organized by the Unión del Fútbol del Interior, in the rest of the country, except Asunción and Central department.

The Paraguayan Third Division is divided into three leagues:

 The Primera División B (disputed within Asunción and the Central Department).
 The Primera División B Nacional (disputed by clubs in Paraguay's interior).
 The Campeonato Nacional de Interligas (disputed by representative teams of each of the 17 departments of Paraguay with the exception of Asunción and the Central Department).

Primera División B Nacional
The Primera División B Nacional tournament is being played since 2011. Teams from the all Paraguay's departament (except Asunción and Central department) take part in this third division league. Since 2014, in the even years the champion does not ascend directly, but wins the option to play the repechage against the runner-up of the Primera División B, in odd years the champion ascends directly and the runner-up is the one who wins the right to play the repechage.

List of champions

Primera División B
The Primera División B (metropolitan tournament) is being played since 1939. Since that year, the number of teams, rules and names for the tournament have changed, but as of now it's called "Primera de Ascenso" and 16 teams take part.

Only teams from the Gran Asunción metropolitan area and Central Department take part in this third division league. Teams from all other parts of Paraguay that are not part of the Gran Asunción area play the Primera División B Nacional tournament in order to get promoted to the Paraguayan Division Intermedia.

The last champion is the 12 de Octubre Football Club from Itauguá (2018).

Campeonato Nacional de Interligas
 Campeonato Nacional de Interligas


Roger Thurow

Roger Thurow is an author and a journalist. He is a former foreign correspondent for the Wall Street Journal. As of 2010, Thurow is a senior fellow for global agriculture and food policy for the Chicago Council on Global Affairs. He is noted for his writing about the politics of world hunger.

Early life and education
Thurow grew up in Crystal Lake, Illinois and graduated from the University of Iowa in 1979.

Career
For thirty years Thurow worked as a reporter for the Wall Street Journal, and for twenty of those years he was based abroad in Europe and Africa. After writing a series on famine in Africa, Thurow and Scott Kilman, fellow Wall Street Journal colleague, were finalists for the 2004 Pulitzer Prize in International Reporting. In 2009 Thurow and Kilman authored the book Enough: Why the World's Poorest Starve in an Age of Plenty.  They received Action Against Hunger's Humanitarian Award for this book in 2009.
Thurow's second book, The Last Hunger Season: A Year in an African Farm Community on the Brink of Change, was published in the spring of 2012.

Thurow also lectures on various topics about the world economy, and writes for the Huffington Post.

Thurow currently resides in a suburb of Chicago, Illinois with his wife and two children.


Phosphoribosylformylglycinamidine synthase

In enzymology, a phosphoribosylformylglycinamidine synthase () is an enzyme that catalyzes the chemical reaction

ATP + N2-formyl-N1-(5-phospho-D-ribosyl)glycinamide + L-glutamine + H2O  ADP + phosphate + 2-(formamido)-N1-(5-phospho-D-ribosyl)acetamidine + L-glutamate

The 4 substrates of this enzyme are ATP, N2-formyl-N1-(5-phospho-D-ribosyl)glycinamide, L-glutamine, and H2O, whereas its 4 products are ADP, phosphate, 2-(formamido)-N1-(5-phospho-D-ribosyl)acetamidine, and L-glutamate.

This enzyme belongs to the family of ligases, specifically those forming carbon-nitrogen bonds carbon-nitrogen ligases with glutamine as amido-N-donor.  The systematic name of this enzyme class is N2-formyl-N1-(5-phospho-D-ribosyl)glycinamide:L-glutamine amido-ligase (ADP-forming). Other names in common use include phosphoribosylformylglycinamidine synthetase, formylglycinamide ribonucloetide amidotransferase, phosphoribosylformylglycineamidine synthetase, FGAM synthetase, FGAR amidotransferase, 5'-phosphoribosylformylglycinamide:L-glutamine amido-ligase, (ADP-forming), 2-N-formyl-1-N-(5-phospho-D-ribosyl)glycinamide:L-glutamine, and amido-ligase (ADP-forming).  This enzyme participates in purine metabolism.

It is known as ADE6 in Saccharomyces cerevisiae (budding yeast) genetics.

Structural studies

As of late 2007, 8 structures have been solved for this class of enzymes, with PDB accession codes , , , , , , , and .


Linux PAM

Linux Pluggable Authentication Modules (PAM) provide dynamic authentication support for applications and services in a Linux system. Linux PAM is evolved from the Unix Pluggable Authentication Modules architecture.

Linux-PAM separates the tasks of authentication into four independent management groups:
 account modules check that the specified account is a valid authentication target under current conditions. This may include conditions like account expiration, time of day, and that the user has access to the requested service.
 authentication modules verify the user's identity, for example by requesting and checking a password or other secret. They may also pass authentication information on to other systems like a keyring.
 password modules are responsible for updating passwords, and are generally coupled to modules employed in the authentication step. They may also be used to enforce strong passwords.
 session modules define actions that are performed at the beginning and end of sessions. A session starts after the user has successfully authenticated.


Aaron Sloman

Aaron Sloman is a philosopher and researcher on artificial intelligence and cognitive science. He held the Chair in Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science at the School of Computer Science at the University of Birmingham, and before that a chair with the same title at the University of Sussex. Since retiring he is Honorary Professor of Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science at Birmingham. He has published widely on philosophy of mathematics, epistemology, cognitive science, and artificial intelligence; he also collaborated widely, e.g. with biologist Jackie Chappell on the evolution of intelligence.

Early life and education
Sloman was born in 1936, in the town of Que Que (now called Kwe Kwe), in what was then Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe). His parents were Lithuanian Jews who emigrated to Southern Rhodesia around the turn of the century, Sloman describes himself as an atheist. He went to school in Cape Town between 1948 and 1953, then earned a degree in Mathematics and Physics at the University of Cape Town in 1956, after which a Rhodes Scholarship (from South African College School) took him to Oxford University (first Balliol College, and then St Antony's College). In Oxford, he became interested in philosophy after a brief period studying mathematical logic supervised by Hao Wang, eventually writing a DPhil in philosophy, defending the ideas of Immanuel Kant about the nature of mathematical knowledge as non-empirical and non-analytic ('Knowing and Understanding', 1962, now online at http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/cogaff/sloman-1962/).

Career
His first job was teaching philosophy at the University of Hull (1962–64), after which he moved to Sussex University where he worked on philosophy of mind, philosophy of science, meta-ethics, and various topics in epistemology. In 1969, he learned about artificial intelligence (AI) from Max Clowes, then a leading UK AI researcher in vision. As a result of this, he published a paper distinguishing analogical representations' from Fregean representations and criticising the logicist approach to AI as too narrow. It was presented at IJCAI in 1971, then reprinted in Artificial Intelligence.

Subsequently, he was invited by Bernard Meltzer to spend a year (1972–1973) in Edinburgh University where he met and worked with many leading AI researchers. When he went back to Sussex he helped to found what eventually grew into COGS, the School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences. He managed the Poplog development team between 1980 and 1991.

While at Sussex University he published "The Computer Revolution in Philosophy: Philosophy science and models of mind" (which emphasised the importance of architectures) in 1978, and other papers on various aspects of philosophy and AI, including work on the analysis of 'ought' and 'better', on vision on emotions in robots, on forms of representation and other topics. Much of his energy was devoted to developing new kinds of teaching materials based on POP-11 and Poplog for students learning AI and cognitive science.

In 1991, after 27 years at Sussex, he was offered a research chair in the School of Computer Science at the University of Birmingham, where he started a cognition and affect project (later on the Free Open Source Poplog Portal) and is still on it. He retired in 2001, but continues working full-time.

Influences
His philosophical ideas were deeply influenced by the writings of Immanuel Kant, Gottlob Frege and Karl Popper, and to a lesser extent by John Austin, Gilbert Ryle, R. M. Hare (who, as his 'personal tutor' at Balliol College discussed meta-ethics with him), Imre Lakatos and Ludwig Wittgenstein. What he could learn from philosophers left large gaps, which he decided around 1970 research in artificial intelligence might fill. E.g. philosophy of mind could be transformed by testing ideas in working fragments of minds, and philosophy of mathematics could be illuminated by trying to understand how a working robot could develop into a mathematician.

Much of his thinking about AI was influenced by Marvin Minsky and despite his critique of logicism he also learnt much from John McCarthy. His work on emotions can be seen as an elaboration of a paper on "Motivational and emotional controls of cognition", written in the 1960s by Herbert A. Simon. He disagrees with all of these on some topics, while agreeing on others.

Recognition
He is a Fellow of Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and the Simulation of Behaviour and European Coordinating Committee for Artificial Intelligence. Sussex University
awarded him an honorary Doctorate of Science in July 2006.

Selected publications

 A.Sloman, Knowing and Understanding: Relations between meaning and truth, meaning and necessary truth, meaning and synthetic necessary truth, Oxford University DPhil Thesis, 1962 (digitised 2007, Oxford Research Archive), also available with detailed table of contents in html here.
 A. Sloman, How to derive "Better" from "is", American Phil. Quarterly, 6, pp. 43–52, 1969.
 A.Sloman, Interactions between philosophy and AI: The role of intuition and non-logical reasoning in intelligence,Proc 2nd IJCAI, 1971, London. (Reprinted in 'Artificial Intelligence', vol 2, 3–4, pp 209–225, 1971, and in J.M. Nicholas, ed. Images, Perception, and knowledge, Dordrecht-Holland: Reidel. 1977.)
 A.Sloman, The Computer Revolution in Philosophy: Philosophy, science and models of mind, Harvester press and Humanities press, 1978. (Out of print but now online)
 A. Sloman and M. Croucher, 'Why robots will have emotions', Proc 7th IJCAI, 1981, pp. 197–202, Vancouver.
 A. Sloman, The structure of the space of possible minds, in The Mind and the Machine: philosophical aspects of Artificial Intelligence, Ed. S. Torrance, Ellis Horwood, 1984, Chichester,
 A. Sloman, What enables a machine to understand?, in Proc 9th IJCAI, Los Angeles, pp. 995–1001, 1985
 Online presentations
 A. Sloman, Reference without causal links, Eds. J.B.H. du Boulay, D.Hogg and L.Steels, Advances in Artificial Intelligence – II, Dordrecht, North Holland, pp. 369–381, 1987
 A. Sloman, Did Searle attack strong strong or weak strong AI, Eds. A.G. Cohn and J.R. Thomas, Artificial Intelligence and Its Applications, John Wiley and Sons, 1986
 A. Sloman, On designing a visual system: Towards a Gibsonian computational model of vision, in Journal of Experimental and Theoretical AI, 1, 4, pp. 289–337, 1989
 A. Sloman and R.L. Chrisley, Virtual machines and consciousness, in Journal of Consciousness Studies, 10, 4–5, pp. 113–172, 2003.
 A. Sloman and J. Chappell, The Altricial-Precocial Spectrum for Robots, in Proceedings IJCAI'05, Edinburgh, pp. 1187–1192, 2005.
 J.Chappell and A.Sloman, Natural and artificial meta-configured altricial information-processing systems, in Int. Journal of Unconventional Computing, 3,3, pp. 211–239, 2007.


Niva, Prokhorovsky District, Belgorod Oblast

Niva () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Prokhorovsky District, Belgorod Oblast, Russia. The population was 10 as of 2010. There is 1 street.


Payback Time

Payback Time is the debut album by the Iranian-Danish eurodance producer DJ Aligator, released in 2000 on Kenneth Bager's FLEX Records. It includes the four times platinum selling single "The Whistle Song", which peaked at #5 on the UK Singles Chart in 2002.

Track listing

Charts


Lachnocnema obscura

Lachnocnema obscura is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It is found in the central part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.


Kahvi

Kahvi is a netlabel founded in 1998 and currently operated by 4T Thieves. Based in Helsinki, Finland, it aims to release music in the Ogg Vorbis, MP3, WAV and video formats to anyone online on various distribution sites such as Bandcamp, Mixcloud, Scene.org and the Kahvi website. The label has always had a strong connection with the demoscene, and is one among several well-known netlabels, such as Monotonik.

There are over 400 releases from 100+ artists, that are hand picked and released either once or twice a month. All releases have cover artwork, mp3 and ogg download versions and a podcast also broadcasts the release as a single mix.

Notable roster
 4T Thieves
 Aleksi Eeben
 Alpha Conspiracy, The
 Bad Loop
 Blamstrain
 Cheju
 Diskreet
 Dreamlin
 Esem
 Kenny Beltrey
 KiloWatts
 Kunds (Artist Lionel Cantegreil)
 Lackluster
 Meso
 Mosaik (formerly known as Radix)
 PinZa
 Planet Boelex
 Realsmokers
 Sense
 Sushi Brother
 Xerxes
 Xhale
 Zainetica

Several guest artists have also been featured over the years as part of special Christmas releases.

 Mark Franklin
 Cell
 Solar Fields
 Richard Devine

While the main focus is freely available music, Kahvi has also released some commercial Digital Download releases.
These releases are available on Beatport, iTunes and other similar digital download outlets.


Army and Navy Academy

Army and Navy Academy is a college-preparatory boarding school for boys, grades 7–12, in Carlsbad, California. It was founded in 1910.

History
The Academy was founded by Thomas A. Davis on November 23, 1910. It was originally located in the Pacific Beach neighborhood of San Diego, California. In 1936, the Academy moved to Carlsbad, California, where it opened as the Davis Military Academy. Davis Military Academy was renamed San Diego Army and Navy Academy, and in 1944 "San Diego" was dropped from the name giving it its present name, Army and Navy Academy. The Academy was most notably led by Colonel (Hon.) William Currier Atkinson, who served as the Academy's president for fifty years.

Organization
Army and Navy Academy is a private military boarding school. The Academy is governed by a Board of Trustees, who are made up of alumni of the school, parents, past parents and interested local business men and women.

The Academy's president is Major General Arthur M. Bartell (U.S. Army Retired). He works alongside Colonel Russ Hanthorn (U.S.M.C. Retired), who serves as Chief of Staff, and Colonel Kevin Batule (U.S. Army Retired) who is the Commandant of Cadets. On the Academic side of the school, Lisa Basista is the Dean of Academics. She works closely with Ethan Segovia, the Assistant Dean of Academics.

The Academy is organized into a Middle School (7–8) and a High School (9–12). The High School has a college preparatory curriculum that follows the University of California A-G requirements for graduation, and all Cadets participate in JROTC leadership courses.

The JROTC program at Army and Navy Academy consists of four levels of Leadership Education Training (LET) instruction. Cadets earn rank through their performance in LET courses and, when merited, gain promotions within the Corps of Cadets. Top Cadet leadership positions are determined through the Leadership Candidate Course (LCC).

After LCC has ended, a Selection Committee meets to decide who best fits each position. Committee members include the Academy President and Chief of Staff, Commandant, JROTC Instructors, Faculty Leaders, and Academic Counselors. Leaders are selected not only based on their past performance, but also for their potential for growth.

Companies
The Corps of Cadets consists of an army-style Battalion divided into seven companies: Band; Alpha; Bravo; Charlie; Echo; and Headquarters.

Additionally, there are three separate company detachments: The Lower School Honor Guard detachment, consisting of the Stoll’s Guard Drill Team and the Lower School Color Guard, are officially a part of Echo Company. The Upper School Honor Guard detachment, consisting of Dorman's Guard and the Upper School Color Guard is officially a part of Band Company. The school Main Companies include Alpha, Bravo, And Charlie company.

Rank
The rank structure at Army and Navy Academy is similar to that of the United States Army.  Upon admittance, new Cadets (Plebes) have no rank. New Cadets officially become Cadets after 30 days in residence.

The logical progression for rank and duty positions is as follows:  (In special cases, where cadets show a high aptitude for leadership, cadets may be advanced at a quicker rate.)

In special cases, Juniors who do specifically well in the Officer Candidate Course are permitted to fill-in Senior positions.

In order to achieve Junior duty positions and the rank associated with them, a cadet must successfully complete the Senior Non-Commissioned Officer Course held every year.

In order to achieve Senior duty positions and the rank associated with them, a cadet must successfully complete the Officer Candidate Course (OCC) held every year.

Accreditations and affiliations
Army and Navy Academy is accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC) and the California Association of Independent Schools (CAIS).

It is also a member of The Association of Boarding Schools, the Association of Military Colleges and Schools of the United States, and the National Association of Independent Schools.

Clubs and activities
ANA United Club
Aviation Club
Band & Jazz Club
Business Club
Hispanic Heritage Club

Notable alumni
 Noah Gragson, NASCAR Trucker, Kyle Busch  Motorsports
Robert Beach, 1948, Judge and master swimmer
 Carlos Bustamante, 1961, Mayor of Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico
Senator David G. Kelley ('47)
General William W. Crouch ('59) Retired United States Army four-star general, and former Vice Chief of Staff of the United States Army.

 Richard Boone, Actor, famous for lead role in the TV series Have Gun Will Travel.

Controversies
A former teacher at Army Navy Academy named Jeffrey Barton was accused of molesting some of the boys at the school. A 2015 trial ended in a mistrial, but a retrial in 2017 ended with convictions on a number of charges and a sentence of 48 years in jail.

Army Navy Academy in the late 1990s and early 2000s had alleged issues with hazing, rape, a culture of abuse, and bullying issues.


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2020 ACA Africa T20 Cup Finals

The 2020 ACA Africa T20 Cup Finals is a forthcoming cricket tournament due to be held in Nairobi, Kenya. The tournament was originally scheduled to be held in September 2019, but was eventually moved to March 2020.

The eight qualified teams are split into two groups, with the top two teams from each group advancing to the semi-finals. Group A consists of Ghana, Malawi, Nigeria and Uganda; while host nation Kenya are placed in group B along with Botswana, Cameroon and Mozambique. All of the matches will have full T20I status as the ICC granted T20I status to matches between all of its members from 1 January 2019. Cameroon will be playing their first matches with T20I status during this tournament.

Squads

Group stage

Group A

Matches

Group B

Matches

Semi-finals

Final


Pilsbryspira leucocyma

Pilsbryspira leucocyma, common name the white-knobbed turret, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pseudomelatomidae, the turrids and allies.

Description
The length of the shell varies between 12 mm and 20 mm.

Compared with Drillia albomaculata, (d'Orbigny, 1842) (now synonym of Pilsbryspira nodata (C. B. Adams, 1850) ), it is more slender, with the periphery-angle bearing a pair of close revolving ribs, more conspicuous than the rest of the spiral sculpture and tipped with white where crossing the longitudinal ribs.

In the typical Drillia albomaculata the coloring is similar, but a single broader rib revolves at the periphery. In some specimens, however, there is a more or less distinct impressed line on the middle of the rib, so approximating it to this variety.

Distribution
P. leucocyma can be found in Atlantic waters, ranging from the eastern coast of Florida south to Brazil.


The 2011–12 Algerian Ligue Professionnelle 2 is the second season of the league under its current title and current league division format. This is the forty-eighth season of second-division football since its establishment in 1962. A total of 16 teams are to contest in the league. The league started on 9 September 2010 and is scheduled to conclude on 17 May 2012.

Changes from last season

Team changes

From Ligue Professionnelle 2
Promoted to Ligue 1
 CA Batna
 CS Constantine
 NA Hussein Dey

Relegated to Ligue Nationale
 CR Témouchent
 JSM Skikda

To Ligue Professionnelle 2
Relegated from Ligue 1
 CA Bordj Bou Arreridj
 USM Annaba
 USM Blida

Promoted from Ligue Nationale
 JS Saoura
 MO Béjaïa

Team overview

Stadia and locations

Managerial changes

League table

Results

Season statistics

Top scorers

Top assistants


Pudartsi

Pudartsi is a village in Kardzhali Municipality, Kardzhali Province, southern Bulgaria.


Nymphicula christinae

Nymphicula christinae is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by David John Lawrence Agassiz in 2014. It is found in Australia, where it has been recorded from Queensland.

The wingspan is 12–13 mm. The base of the forewing is brown. The antemedian fascia are pale ochreous, edged with dark ochreous. The medial zone is scattered with brown scales and the costa is suffused with ochreous and brown. The terminal area is orange. The hindwings have a few brownish scales at the base and a white subbasal band. The antemedian fascia are orange and the medial zone is white, scaled with dark brown.

Etymology
The species is named for the daughter of the author.


Augustynka

Augustynka  is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Nurzec-Stacja, within Siemiatycze County, Podlaskie Voivodeship, in north-eastern Poland, close to the border with Belarus. It lies approximately  east of Nurzec-Stacja,  east of Siemiatycze, and  south of the regional capital Białystok.


Hiers-Brouage

Hiers-Brouage is a former commune in the Charente-Maritime department in southwestern France. On 1 January 2019, it was merged into the new commune Marennes-Hiers-Brouage.

History

Brouage was founded in 1555 by Jacques de Pons on the Bay of Biscay facing the Atlantic Ocean. The town was founded on swampy land which had previously been underwater. Its name, "Brouage," comes from the surrounding mixture of water and clay, which was called "broue".

Its economy was based on salt and access to the sea. Brouage was known for producing salt that was black in colour, which was often sold to the royal family. Brouage exported large quantities of salt by land and sea as early as the 15th century.

The town was fortified between 1630 and 1640 by Cardinal Richelieu as a Catholic bastion in order to fight against the neighbouring Protestant town of La Rochelle. Gradually the harbour silted up in the last part of the 17th century, leaving the town stranded and useless as a port. It fell into ruin.

The town's most celebrated son is the French navigator Samuel de Champlain, who lived there when young, before being the co-founder of French settlement in Acadia (1604–1607) and Quebec (1608–1635). Cartographer Charles Leber du Carlo lived in Brouage at the same time and may have taught the art of map-making to the young Champlain.

In 1825 Brouage was joined to the village of Hiers,  away, forming the commune of Hiers-Brouage.

Population

Sights
 The village church dedicated to Saint Peter and Saint Paul built in 1608. Since 1982, several stained glass windows have been installed by Quebec and New Brunswick to commemorate historical figures of New France, including Samuel de Champlain who was living when young in the village.
 The Samuel de Champlain Museum.
 The walls of the ramparts of the citadel of Brouage.
 The Porte royale or King's gate which gave access to the quais.
 The Saint-Luc powderhouse (poudrière) with four flying-buttresses.
 The Halle aux vivres or Warehouse built to store goods and supplies for the citadel.


Fred Poppe Regional Park

Fred Poppe Regional Park is a park located in the City of Palm Bay within Brevard County, Florida.

Activities
There are many places to exercise in Fred Poppe Regional Park. There's 5 soccer fields, a playground, an 18 hole disc golf course, and jogging trail. There's also Ted Whitlock Community Center.

Ted Whitlock Community Center is an 18,000 square foot community center offering a gymnasium, game room, billiards room, banquet kitchen, multi-use/banquet room with a divider and two sets of restrooms. (One with a shower).

Accessibility

Malabar Road (CR 514)
Malabar Road (CR 514) westbound is one of two ways to access the parks location.

St. Johns Heritage Parkway
The St. Johns Heritage Parkway provides another means of access to the park from the northwest sections of Palm Bay and Melbourne.

Renaming
In November of 2016 the park, formerly known as Palm Bay Regional Park, was renamed to Fred Poppe Regional Park in honor of longtime Palm Bay Parks & Recreation employee Fred Poppe.

External links


The Fake Sound of Progress

The Fake Sound of Progress (stylized as thefakesoundofprogress) is the debut studio album by the Welsh rock band Lostprophets, originally released on 27 November 2000 through Visible Noise. The album would be released in 2001 by Columbia Records and was met with stronger sales numbers around the world. This is the only album to feature DJ Stepzak although he was only in the original version, and the first album to have Jamie Oliver although he was only in the remastered version.

The album peaked at number 186 on the Billboard 200, selling over 120,000 copies in the United States alone, and reached high positions on charts worldwide. Two singles were released from the album: "Shinobi vs. Dragon Ninja" and "The Fake Sound of Progress"; these singles helped Lostprophets reach mainstream popularity. In 2010, the album was certified platinum by the BPI in the United Kingdom.

Style
The Fake Sound of Progress is a nu metal album that incorporates elements of heavy metal, hip hop, funk and jazz.

Recording
The band began work on the album in 2000, after finding a suitable bass player. Much of the album started as quickly-recorded demos from The Fake Sound of Progress EP. The song "MOAC Supreme" became "A Thousand Apologies", and "Directions" was released as the B-side for the single "Shinobi vs. Dragon Ninja". The album was recorded in one week for around £4000, and while originally intended as another demo, went on to be released on Visible Noise Records in late 2000. Because of the album's shortened recording process, the band were unhappy with the end result. The title of their second studio album Start Something refers to this, as they felt it better reflected their music abilities.

When the band signed to Columbia Records in 2001, it was partly re-recorded, remixed, and re-released that same year. The changes to the music, such as merging the interludes between tracks with the ends of songs, was met with chagrin by fans of the earlier release. The title track of the album, in addition to being partially re-recorded, was also sped up significantly. The remastered version of the album was released in 2001 in the UK and US respectively, and was produced by Michael Barbiero.

Release
The album didn't initially receive much attention, but entered the Billboard 200 chart following the release of the first single from the album, "Shinobi vs. Dragon Ninja". On Friday 1 March 2002 the album was certified Silver by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) and on Friday 26 April 2002 the album was certified Gold by the British Phonographic Industry. According to Rolling Stone the album has sold more than 120 thousand copies in the United States and 250 thousand copies in the United Kingdom.

At the end of April 2002, The Fake Sound of Progress peaked at 186 on the Billboard 200, 13 on the Top Heatseekers, 9 on the Top Heatseekers West North Central and 8 on the Top Heatseekers Mountain chart in the United States. The album first charted on the UK Albums Chart at 116 in 2001, in 2002 it peaked at its peak position 44 and after the release of Start Something in 2004 the album re-charted and peaked at 166. Two singles were released from the album;"Shinobi vs. Dragon Ninja" which peaked at 33 on the Hot Modern Rock Tracks chart, and "The Fake Sound of Progress", which peaked at 21 on the UK Singles chart without charting abroad.

Reception

When released, the album was met with mixed reviews by music critics. Allmusic reviewer Brian O'Neil gave the album two out of five stars and said that "the only redeeming quality is the great production by Michael Barbiero, that allows all instruments to be heard perfectly in all their ennui-inducing glory, proving that no matter how much you polish up a turd, it's still a turd." Ben Rayner from Drowned in Sound however gave the album 10 out of 10 stars and quoted "in the world of Lost Prophets it's very easy to find something different with every listen with their non-chaotic but well textured tunes." NME reviewer John Mulvey called the album "weirdly impressive", while no stars were given the album got a positive review.

Tour
After the release of the album Lostprophets went on a tour in Europe and America. Before the release of "Shinobi vs. Dragon Ninja" the band went on a brief tour with the fellow British rock band Muse. They toured Austria and Germany together from 21–27 October 2001. The band would also tour for the NME Carling Awards Tour which featured dates in the London Astoria among others. They built up a strong live following with support slots to popular acts like Linkin Park, Deftones as well as several headlining stints of their own. They also took part in the successful Nu-Titans tour with Defenestration and other famous British metal bands. The band subsequently toured on the Irish leg of Ozzfest, where they toured with famous acts such as System of a Down, Slayer among others. They had also played at the Glastonbury and the Reading and Leeds Festivals. In 2002 the band headlined the Deconstruction festival in Finsbury Park, London on 3 June 2002, supporting acts was Mighty Mighty Bosstones, The Mad Caddies among others well known artists. In October 2002 Lostprophets returned to the UK for a tour visiting big cities such as Glasgow, Manchester and London.

Track listing
All lyrics written by Ian Watkins, all music composed by Lostprophets.

Personnel

2000 original
Lostprophets
 Mike Chiplin – drums, percussion
 Lee Gaze – lead guitar
 Mike Lewis – rhythm guitar
 Stuart Richardson – bass guitar
 Ian Watkins – vocals, art direction
 DJ Stepzak – synth, turntables, samples

Production
 Dan Sprigg – production, mixing
 Guy Davie – mastered, mixing
 Neil Harding – mastered, mixing
 Jamie Travers – recording, additional production
 Julie Weir – Visible Noise A&R

2001 remaster
Lostprophets
 Mike Chiplin – drums, percussion
 Lee Gaze – lead guitar
 Mike Lewis – rhythm guitar
 Jamie Oliver – synth, turntables, samples
 Stuart Richardson – bass guitar
 Ian Watkins – vocals, art direction

Production
 Dan Sprigg – production, mixing, recording
 Vlado Meller – mastered
 Michael Barbiero – additional production, additional mixing
 Julie Weir – Visible Noise A&R
 Gerard Babitts – Colombia A&R

Chart positions

Albums

Singles

Release history

Footnotes

External links

The Fake Sound of Progress (11-track version) at YouTube (streamed copy where licensed)


Mystus falcarius

Mystus falcarius is a species of catfish endemic to India and Myanmar and is known only from Irrawaddy River, Great Tenasserim River and Chindwin River. The exact population is not known but is thought to be abundant and no exact threats are known thus Least Concern by the IUCN; it is fished for food.


Fleuria

Fleuria is a genus of European non-biting midges in the subfamily Chironominae of the bloodworm family Chironomidae.

Species
F. lacustris Kieffer, 1924