Mount Cook Airline

Mount Cook Airline, formerly a subsidiary of Air New Zealand, was a regional airline based in Christchurch, New Zealand. Formerly part of the Mount Cook Group, it operated scheduled services throughout the country under the Air New Zealand Link brand.

The airline operated the ATR 72-500 and ATR 72-600 aircraft, and all its aircraft wore the Air New Zealand livery. Its main base was Christchurch International Airport.

On 31 March 2019, it was announced that Air New Zealand was considering merging both Mount Cook Airline and fellow Link subsidiary Air Nelson into the mainline fleet.

Early history
The airline was established and started operations in 1920 at Timaru by Rodolph Lysaght Wigley, who in 1906 had driven the first motor car to The Hermitage. Wigley bought five war-surplus aircraft for sightseeing and formed the NZ Aero Transport Co., the first company of its kind in the country.  The first aeroplane to land in Fairlie was a war surplus bi-plane E 4242 in May 1920 still with the RAF roundel on the fuselage. Passenger and freight routes served areas between Wellington and Invercargill. On October 1920 with Captain J. C. Mercer, Wigley flew on the first one-day flight from Invercargill to Auckland. After a series of mishaps, e.g. damage to landing equipment during forced landings in paddocks, the company went into liquidation in 1923.

NZ Aero Transport Co fleet

In the 1930s, Wigley formed Queenstown - Mount Cook Airway in conjunction with his son, Harry, later to become Sir Henry Wigley. Sir Henry remained the Managing Director of the airline until 1979 and Chairman until his death in 1980. The company operated charter flights around the Otago Lakes, Milford Sound and Mount Cook regions, until it was suspended by World War II.

Queentown - Mount Cook Airways fleet

Postwar history
Flying resumed in 1952 using an Auster J1-A Autocrat, registration ZK-BDX (since preserved, formerly inside the terminal of Queenstown Airport now at the Mount Cook Hermitage Hotel Edmund Hillary Centre).

In 1954, NZ Aero Transport Company was reformed as Mount Cook Air Services Ltd, specialising in scenic flights, agricultural work and rescue missions. Sir Henry solved the problem of landing in the Tasman, Fox and Franz Josef Glaciers by attaching retractable skis (designed and made in the company's vehicle workshop) to the Auster, and landed on the snow of Tasman Glacier. This is how the Ski Plane operation started, aimed at taking tourists to skifields and glaciers in ski-equipped light aircraft.

The Mount Cook Group operated bus services, trucking, skifields and built an airfield at Mount Cook to bring in the growing number of visitors to the Southern Alps. Scheduled services for Mount Cook Airline began on 6 November 1961 between Christchurch, Mount Cook, Cromwell and Te Anau with a 26-seater Douglas DC-3. At this stage Queenstown was not certified for DC-3 operations and passengers were bussed from Cromwell to Queenstown. On 1 November 1963 the service to Cromwell was extended to Dunedin on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays and from 3 November 1963 to Invercargill three days a week. The first scheduled flight into Queenstown was operated by DC-3 ZK-BKD on 4 February 1964.

Mount Cook Airline was one of New Zealand's tourism pioneers opening up the 'tourist trail' of Rotorua through to Christchurch, Mount Cook and Queenstown. For almost 30 years, it operated a fleet of Hawker Siddeley HS 748s across regional tourist routes in New Zealand. The first HS748 to arrive in NZ was ZK-CWJ. Its first flight was from Christchurch to Timaru and onto Oamaru on 25 October 1968. After a long evaluation study, the first of the new ATR 72-200s arrived in October 1995 as the chosen replacement of the HS 748s. They in turn were updated to the ATR 72-500 type in 2000

In June 2001, Air New Zealand Group added extra capacity on domestic routes by introducing 4 BAe 146s to supplement the ATRs. These aircraft were taken from the failed Qantas New Zealand franchise. A temporary measure, they retired the following year after 6 extra Boeing 737-300s were added to the mainline fleet.

Air New Zealand purchased part of the Mount Cook Group in the 1980s after Sir Henry's death, increased to 30% on 5 December 1983, then another 47% (increased to 77%) in October 1985 after gaining approval on 18 July that year; and the remainder on 18 April 1991. On 9 December 2019, the airline was merged into the mainline Air New Zealand fleet and ceased to exist.

Mount Cook Airline had 378 employees (as at March 2007).

Destinations
Mount Cook Airline served the following routes in New Zealand at its closure:

Former Destinations

Mount Cook Airline over the years served many other destinations previously throughout New Zealand:

Alexandra, Blenheim, Chatham Islands, Cromwell, Great Barrier Island, Greymouth, Hokitika, Kerikeri, Kaikohe, Kawau Island, Milford Sound, Mount Cook, Oamaru, Paihia, Stewart Island, Taupo, Te Anau, Timaru, Twizel, Waiheke Island, Wanaka and Westport.

Fleet
Mount Cook Airline currently operated ATR 72-500 and ATR 72-600 aircraft from main cities to larger provincial towns and also on some main trunk routes, complementing fellow subsidiary Air Nelson's smaller capacity Q-300 airliners.

The original ATR 72-200 fleet was swapped for the updated ATR 72-500 during 2001–2002. Extra aircraft were also added allowing Air New Zealand to retire the last of its Boeing 737-200s. In October 2011, Air New Zealand announced an increase of the ATR fleet by purchasing 7 new ATR 72-600 models with five on option. Air New Zealand received the first of these 68-seat aircraft in October 2012, the rest following gradually through to 2016. 4 purchase options were taken up in November 2014 when Air New Zealand announced the shutting down of Eagle Airways' flight operations and giving over route capacity to Mount Cook and Air Nelson  The ATR-600s were delayed for four years due to the economic conditions of the time. The -600 model is a further development of the type including a revised cabin layout and RNP navigation to allow flights into New Zealand's more marginal weather dependant airports such as Wellington, Queenstown, Rotorua and Hamilton.

Air New Zealand announced on 5 November 2015 that an order for an additional 15 ATR 72-600 aircraft, worth NZ$568 million, had been placed making Mount Cook Airlines the third-largest ATR fleet operator in the world with 29 ATR72-600 aircraft. Deliveries of the additional 15 -600 aircraft, started in late 2016 with the last aircraft delivered to Mount Cook Airline in 2019. Subsequent aircraft will now be delivered to parent company Air New Zealand. The new aircraft replaced the existing 11 ATR 72-500 aircraft. The additional ATR 72-600, are used on domestic regional services, supplementing existing ATR 72-500, -600 and Q300 aircraft.

The Mount Cook Airline fleet consisted of the following aircraft (as of August 2019):

Former Fleet
From 6 November 1961, Mt Cook Airline operated three Douglas DC-3 aircraft operating until their final withdrawal on 16 May 1978. These aircraft were used to open up routes between Christchurch and Mt Cook, Cromwell and Te Anau/Manapouri. Passengers bound for Queenstown were initially bussed from Cromwell until DC-3 certification was obtained for Queenstown airport (although Cromwell was still used on demand, and as backup when Queenstown airport was unavailable due to weather). DC-3 aircraft were also used at various dates for services from Christchurch to Timaru and Oamaru, Queenstown to Alexandra and Dunedin and an extension from Te Anau to Invercargill.

A fleet of Hawker Siddeley HS-748s was operated from 1968 to 1996 operating into Mt Cook Airline's many tourist airports. The type operated scheduled services to the Chatham Islands from 1990 to 1992 after Safe Air withdrew flying operations. From 1992 to 1994, Air New Zealand chartered a 748 to operate the late evening off peak Invercargill - Christchurch route. The last commercial flight was on 9 February 1996, from Wellington to Christchurch. The HS 748 fleet was replaced by 7 ATR 72-200s from 1995 after an evaluation process that included the Fokker F50, BAe APT, and Saab 2000.

On 2 December 1969, Mt Cook Airline introduced a de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter (ZK-CJZ), intended for scenic flights from Queenstown to Milford Sound and scheduled flights from Queenstown to Te Anau/Manapouri and Queenstown to Alexandra and Dunedin. The Twin Otter wasn't an economic success and was cancelled from 24 September 1973. A second Twin Otter (ZK-MCO) was purchased in November 1983 for services between Auckland, Kerikeri and Rotorua as the HS 748 was too big for the loads on offer, but Mt Cook's Islander aircraft was too small. In 1988 this was transferred to Queenstown, to operate scenic flights from Queenstown to Milford Sound and scheduled flights from Queenstown to Te Anau/Manapouri. A third was purchased in 1995 but both were disposed of in 1998 when Mt Cook Airlines light aircraft business was sold.

Eight ex-Qantas New Zealand BAe 146-300s were temporarily operated by Air New Zealand after Qantas New Zealand's collapse. They were used to boost extra capacity to domestic service from June 2001 to 2002. The BAe 146s were placed under Mount Cook Airline's management structure for the duration. (Up to 4 aircraft were operated at any one time as the BAe fleet were rotated through and sold off.) This allowed time for Air New Zealand to add another six Boeing 737-300s to the mainline fleet. The BAe 146s were then retired ending 12 years of domestic service in New Zealand.

Aircraft previously operated include:

Change in heavy maintenance
In April 2010, parent airline Air New Zealand announced that it was moving the ATR 72-500 and ATR 72-600 heavy maintenance work away from Mount Cook Airline's home of Christchurch Airport to Nelson. Air Nelson's maintenance base would take over all ATR 72-500/600 heavy maintenance work from November 2010.

Logo

The airline's symbol was the Mount Cook Lily which was displayed on the tails of its aeroplanes prior to the integration with the Air New Zealand link brand in the mid 1990s. At this stage, the flower was relegated to a spot just below the tail, before vanishing totally in the early 2000s. However, it made a return in 2012, appearing towards the front of Mount Cook's ATR 72-600 aircraft. The new logo was a much-simplified flower, featuring six separate petals rather than the former layered specimen.


James Robinson (footballer, born 1899)

James Wilson Robinson (8 January 1899 – unknown) was a Northern Irish footballer. His regular position was as a forward. He was born in Belfast. He played for Belfast Junior Football, Manchester United, and Tranmere Rovers.


Waterford City Library

Waterford City Library, also known as the Central Library, is a public library in Waterford, Ireland.  It was the first to be built of Ireland's many Carnegie libraries. The philanthropist Andrew Carnegie, who had previously opened libraries in Scotland and the USA, himself laid the foundation stone in 1903.

Architecture
The classical-style building was constructed on a corner site using Kilkenny limestone.  It is a protected structure. In 2004 the library was reopened after having been renovated for its centenary.

Exhibition
Images of the library were featured at the Venice Biennale of Architecture of 2008.
The title of the exhibition in question, "Lives of Spaces", was intended to elicit multiple interpretations, "suggesting that, while spaces can contain many lives, they can equally live many lives themselves".


Agios Stefanos railway station

Agios Stefanos railway station () or Saint Stephen is a railway station in Agios Stefanos, north of Athens, Greece. The station reopened on 6 May 2005. It has two platforms. It is owned by OSE, but service are provided by TrainOSE, through Proastiakos from Piraeus to Chalcis.

History
In the early years, the station was known under the name Bogiati (Μπογιάτι) or Vogiati (Βογιάτι), which derived from a common name of the settlement of Agios Stefanos.  It was renamed to Oion (Οίον) and changed again to its current name in 2006. The station was reopened on 6 May 2005.

Service
The station is served by Proastiakos, with frequent services to Piraeus, Athens, Oinoi and Chalcis.

Popular culture
St. Stephen's Station (then Oi Station ) was the cinematic setting for "Thymaria train station" in the 1954 Greek film Neither Cat, Neither Lost, starring Vassilis Logothetidis.

Future
An extension of Athens Metro Line 1, from Kifisia to Agios Stefanos, has been proposed.

line layout


Megachile erythrura

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Euippodes

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1913–14 British Home Championship

The 1913–14 British Home Championship was the last British Home Championship played before the First World War. The competition was played between January and April 1914 and won by Ireland with a team that included Patrick O’Connell, Billy Gillespie, Val Harris, Louis Bookman, Samuel Young and  Bill Lacey.

1913–14 was the first time Ireland won the competition outright. The Irish had been the tournament's poorest performers over the years, but the previous year had demonstrated potential in beating England for the first time, in a 2–1 win at Windsor Park. Ireland began the 1914 tournament beating Wales 2–1 a in Wrexham on 19 January and then demolished England in England for the first time, winning 3–0 at Ayresome Park in Middlesbrough. Ireland clinched the title on 16 March, following a 1–1 draw with Scotland at Windsor Park, while England's away victory over Wales did not salvage their poor campaign as Scotland would eventually finish as runners up, beating England 3–1 at Hampden Park. It would be six years before the trophy was again contested, and it would be with substantially different teams and in a different, increasingly global era of football.

The third-place finish by England represented that nation's lowest ever final position in the competition up to this point.

Table

Results


David H. Koch Theater

The David H. Koch Theater is a theater for ballet, modern and other forms of dance, part of the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts located at the intersection of Columbus Avenue and 63rd Street in New York City, United States. Originally named the New York State Theater, the venue has been home to the New York City Ballet since its opening in 1964, the secondary venue for the American Ballet Theatre in the fall, and served as home to the New York City Opera from 1964 to 2011. The theater occupies the south side of the main plaza of Lincoln Center, opposite David Geffen Hall.

History

The New York State Theater was built with funds from the State of New York as part of New York State's cultural participation in the 1964–1965 World's Fair.  The theater was designed by architects Philip Johnson and John Burgee, opened on April 23, 1964.  After the Fair, the State transferred ownership of the theater to the City of New York.

The City leases the theater to Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Inc., which subleases it to City Center of Music and Drama, Inc. (CCMD). The present corporation of CCMD (separate and apart from New York City Center on 55th Street) continues to manage the theater today.

Along with the opera and ballet companies, another early tenant of the theater was the now defunct Music Theater of Lincoln Center whose president was composer Richard Rodgers.  In the mid 1960s, the company produced fully staged revivals of classic Broadway musicals. These included The King and I; Carousel (with original star, John Raitt); Annie Get Your Gun (revised in 1966 by Irving Berlin for its original star, Ethel Merman); Show Boat; and South Pacific.

In July 2008, oil-and-gas billionaire David H. Koch pledged to provide $100 million over the next ten years to renovate the theater and provide an operating and maintenance endowment.  The facility became the David H. Koch Theater at the New York City Ballet Winter gala, November 25 of that year.   The theater is to bear his name for at least fifty years, after which it may be renamed; the Koch family retains the right of first refusal for any renaming.  Some people continue to refer to the theater by its original name.

Building features and renovation

The theater seats 2,586 and features broad seating on the orchestra level, four main “Rings” (balconies) and a small Fifth Ring, faced with jewel-like lights and a large spherical chandelier in the center of the gold latticed ceiling.

JCJ Architecture of New York City designed renovations with Schuler Shook as theater consultants.  In patron areas, the plan replaced and reconfigured all seats and carpeting.  The reconfiguration created two aisles in the orchestra level, which previously featured continental-style seating, with no center aisles.  It also upgraded restrooms to make them ADA compliant.  Work backstage included a new stage lighting system, expansion of the orchestra pit, and a mechanical lift in the pit floor allowing it to be raised to stage level when needed.

The lobby areas of the theater feature many works of modern art, including pieces by Jasper Johns, Lee Bontecou and Reuben Nakian.

Gallery


Blake's Pools

Blake's Pools are a 4 hectare nature reserve owned by Environment Agency and leased by the Avon Wildlife Trust, on the banks of the Congresbury Yeo close to its mouth, near Kingston Seymour, Somerset, in South West England.

The three freshwater and brackish pools were dug between 1983 and 1987 to attract wildlife. It forms part of the Severn Estuary Site of Special Scientific Interest, Special Protection Area and Ramsar site. In spring 2001 part of the sea wall protecting the outer pool collapsed, creating a tidal lagoon. To control water levels, sluice gates have been fitted into the two shallow pools. Reeds have also been planted around the largest pool.

Over 100 species of bird have visited the reserve, and shelduck, redshank and lapwing often nest. During periods of low tide the expansive areas of mud attract birds such as the little grebe and little egret. The two shallower pools attract wading birds, especially green and common sandpipers. In winter, and variety of wildfowl feed at the site including smew, scaup, black-necked grebe and dunlin.


Amir Alin Aq Palace

Amir Alin Aq Palace (also known as Amir Khayrbak Palace, Emir Khayrbak Palace, or Amir Khayr Bek Palace) was built in 1293. It stands on the Darb al-Ahmar, the ceremonial road leading to the Citadel in Cairo, Egypt. Its reception hall (qa'a) is particularly notable.

Alin Aq was an amir and cupbearer to Sultan al-Ashraf Khalil ibn Qalawun. This building is early Bahri and is now in ruins, with the exception of the portal. In the 16th century it was the residence of the Amir Khayrbak, whose mosque is adjacent.

Khayrbak was the first Ottoman governor of Egypt. It is said he was cruel and greedy.


Dragoje Leković

Dragoje Leković (, ; born 21 November 1967) is a retired professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper.

Club career
Leković was born in Sivac, SR Serbia, SFR Yugoslavia. In Yugoslavia, he played mainly for lowly Yugoslav First League club FK Budućnost Titograd and also spent one season with the well known club, Red Star Belgrade. Leković played in 17 of 30 matches in  the 1991–92 Yugoslav First League and also started both legs of the 1991–92 Yugoslav Cup, losing out to FK Partizan.

After 18 months with another modest club FK Mogren, Leković joined Kilmarnock in Scotland, where he was the first choice goalkeeper during his spell and was part of the squad that won the 1997 Scottish Cup versus Falkirk at Ibrox Stadium. with the only goal of the game scored in the 20th minute by Paul Wright.

In January 1998, Leković started an unassuming stint in Spain, where he experienced relegation from La Liga and promotion from the Second Division respectively with Sporting de Gijón and Málaga CF but was only second-choice goalkeeper at both clubs. Lekovic closed out his career at the age of 36 after playing for AEK Larnaca and Perth Glory.

International career
Leković gained 14 caps for Yugoslavia with his debut on 27 April 1988 resulting in a 2-0 friendly defeat to Republic of Ireland.

Lekovic was in the country's final roster for two FIFA World Cups: 1990 and 1998 but did not see a single minute of action at either tournament as he was the third choice goalkeeper. He was also called to UEFA Euro 1992, but the nation would be suspended due to the Yugoslav Wars.

Previously, Leković was a member of the highly talented Yugoslavia under-20 team that won the 1987 FIFA World Youth Championship in Chile, playing all the games in the tournament.


Norman Lloyd (artist)

Norman Lloyd (16 October 1895 – 5 March 1983) was an Australian landscape painter.

Norman Lloyd was born in 1895 near Newcastle, New South Wales, where he attended primary school. He left school in 1911 and started to work and study painting with Julian Ashton and James R. Jackson in Sydney.

On his 21st birthday in 1916 he enlisted with the Australian Imperial Forces and was transported to Europe where he was seriously wounded in battle a year later. After returning to Sydney in February 1918, he took up painting lessons at the Julian Ashton Art School again. From 1921 to 1926, Lloyd exhibited with galleries in Sydney and Melbourne, showing landscapes and Sydney harbour scenes painted in the more traditional style of his teachers.

From 1926 to 1929, Norman Lloyd visited Europe and travelled widely in Italy and France, exhibiting in the UK, France and Australia, culminating in a solo exhibition at Macquarie Galleries in Sydney.

In the 1930s, Lloyd migrated to London with his wife Edith for good, setting up a boarding house in upmarket St Johns Wood and establishing himself quickly in the new society, being a kind, generous and interested man with a broad horizon. His mansion became a meeting point and home for many Australian expats, among them painters Will Ashton, Alison Rehfisch and George Duncan. The Lloyds hosted pianist Nancy Weir, and war correspondent Harold Fyffe was a close friend, who introduced Lloyd to H G Wells and George Bernard Shaw.

Lloyd established himself also professionally, when he was elected member of the exclusive Royal Institute of Oil Painters (ROI) in 1936 and of the London Sketch Club, over which he presided during 1941 to 1942.

He also kept his connection with Australia by becoming a Fellow of the Royal Art Society of New South Wales, and in 1949 Henry Hanke’s portrait of Norman Lloyd was chosen to be hung in the Archibald Prize of the Art Gallery of New South Wales.

From 1933 until 1970, Lloyd exhibited regularly with the ROI, and showed at the Royal Academy of London. The titles testify of Lloyd’s love for mediterranean Europe - Italy, Spain, France, Turkey and Morocco, inspiring joyful land, sea and mountainscapes, in a style that evoked impressionism. Lloyd was a prolific painter who was able to paint fast, preferring textural oil and pastels.

From 1947 onwards, Lloyd spent the summers with Zénaide Chaumette - whom he had met in Paris after the war - in the heart of France in Chassignoles. This liaison strengthened his connection with France and probably led to his exhibiting at several Salons of the Société des Artistes Français from 1947 until 1962, and also at the  in Paris.

After the death of Zénaide Chaumette in 1954, Lloyd was willed Chaumette’s house in Chassignolles until he died, and it seems that he moved to Chassignolles permanently in 1974, at the age of 80 after the death of his wife, Edith.  He was later found wandering in a confused state in Paris unable to speak, having had a stroke.  Fortunately he was able to communicate that he had friends in Chassignolles which led to the involvement of a nephew in England.  The nephew was contacted and arrangements made for him to live in a nursing home in Yorkshire where he died on 5 March 1983. The ‘Times’ of London printed a short obituary.

In 1989, 1990, Lloyd’s work was shown at Savill Galleries in Sydney alongside a number of important Australian artists. In 1990 Christopher Day Gallery, Sydney, dedicated a solo exhibition to Norman Lloyd, and 1991 saw his work again at a group exhibition in Deutscher Fine Art, Melbourne.

Lloyd’s work is now represented in the Art Gallery of Western Australia, the Queensland Art Gallery, the University of Sydney Art Collection and numerous private collections in Australia, Europe and US.

Curriculum Vitae
 1895    16 October, born in Hamilton near Newcastle, NSW, Education at Hamilton School
 1911    Leaves home. Various manual jobs. Studies with James R. Jackson and Julian Ashton
 1916    Enlists in the Australian Imperial Force on his 21st birthday. Serves as Private in the 19th Battalion
 1916    Embarks on 11 November on the [[SS Suevic|HMAT Suevic]] in Sydney
 1917    20 September, seriously wounded at Polygon Wood
 1918    14 February, returns to Sydney on HMAT Runic
 1918    14 May, discharged from Forces for medical reasons
 1918    Studies painting again with Julian Ashton at the Julian Ashton Academy in Sydney
 1921    Exhibition of oil paintings of Sydney Harbour at Decoration Galleries, Melbourne
 1922    Exhibition at Fine Art Galleries, Melbourne
 1924    Exhibition at Anthony Hordern with the Younger Group of Australian Artists
 1925    Second Exhibition at Anthony Hordern with the Younger Group of Australian Artists
 1925?   Returns to Europe to study and travel
 1926    Exhibition at Macquarie Galleries, Sydney in June. Exhibition at Dunster Galleries, Sydney
 1926–1929 Travels in Europe and England. Lloyd exhibits works at the Royal Academy, the Paris Salon, the Liverpool and Glasgow galleries. Receives an invitation to show at the International Society’s Gallery at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
 1929    Exhibition of selected works at the Paris Salon, Société des Artistes Français "Views of Australia"
 1929    Solo Exhibitions at Macquarie Galleries, Sydney. Fine Art Society's Gallery, Melbourne
 1930–1974 Lives in London, St John's Wood, at 66 Avenue Road, then 61 Marlborough Place and later on 63 Marlborough Place
 1931   Exhibition at Leger’s Gallery, Old Bond Street, London
 1932   Exhibits works with the Royal Institute of Oil painters, London
 1933   Exhibition at Leger’s Gallery, Old Bond Street, London
 1933   Exhibits works with the Royal Institute of Oil painters, London (ROI)
 1933   Exhibits paintings at the Royal Academy, London
 1934   Listed in ‘Who’s Who in Art – 1934’
 1934   Exhibits works with the ROI, London
 1935   Exhibits works with the ROI, London
 1936   Member of the ROI
 1936   Exhibits works with the ROI, London
 1937   Exhibits works with the ROI, London
 1938   Listed with the Royal Institute of Oil Painters and as Fellow of the Royal Society of Artists (FRSA)
 1938   Exhibits works at the Royal Academy, London
 1938   Exhibits works with the ROI, London
 1939   Exhibits works with the ROI, London
 1940   Exhibits works with the ROI, London
 1941–1942 President of the London Sketch Club
 1940   Royal Academy of Arts, United Artists’ Exhibition
 1944   Liaison officer in Paris after the liberation of France, meets Zenaïde Chaumette
 1944–1974 Regular visits to Chassignolles
 1947   Exhibits works with the ROI, London
 1947   Exhibits works at Le Salon, Société des Artistes Français
 1948   Exhibits works with the ROI, London
 1949   Exhibits works with the ROI, London
 1949   Exhibits works at Le Salon, Société des Artistes Français
 1949   Exhibits at Salon d’Hiver
 1950   Exhibits works with the ROI, London
 1950   Exhibits works at Le Salon, Société des Artistes Français
 1951   Exhibits works with the ROI, London
 1951   Exhibits works at Le Salon, Société des Artistes Français
 1951   Exhibits at Salon d’Hiver
 1952   Exhibits works at Le Salon, Société des Artistes Français
 1953   Exhibits works at Le Salon, Société des Artistes Français
 1953   Exhibits works with the ROI, London
 1954   Exhibits works at Le Salon, Société des Artistes Français
 1954   Exhibits works with the ROI, London
 1955   Exhibits works at Le Salon, Société des Artistes Français
 1956   Exhibits works with the ROI, London
 1962   Exhibits works at Le Salon, Société des Artistes Français
 1963   Exhibits works with the ROI, London
 1964   Michael Kmit exhibition, Melbourne
 1964   Exhibits works with the ROI, London
 1965   Exhibits works with the ROI, London
 1966   Exhibits works with the ROI, London
 1970   Exhibits works with the ROI, London
 1974   Exhibits works at Stewart’s of London and Donegal
 1974–1976 The ROI lists Normans Lloyd's address as Chassignolles, 36/400 Indre, France
 1975   Exhibition at Davids-Bartlow Gallery, Columbus, Ohio
 1976   Exhibition at Davids-Bartlow Gallery, Columbus, Ohio
 1978   Exhibits at Koch Galleries, Mobile, Alabama
 1983   5 March, dies in Keithley, Yorkshire

 References

 National Archives of Australia, Canberra
 Library of the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
 Victoria and Albert Museum Archives
 Exhibition Catalogue Christopher Day Gallery, Paddington, Sydney: Norman Lloyd – Retrospective Exhibition, 21 June – 7 July 1990
 Gillian Tindall, Célestine – Voices from a French Village'' (Minerva, published 1996 by Mandarin Paperbacks)

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Kretzschmariella

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Harvard ROTC

Harvard ROTC was one of the first Reserve Officers' Training Corps (ROTC) units in the country, founded in 1916.  The original program was led by Captain Constant Cordier. By the fall of 1952 forty percent of the incoming freshmen class at Harvard University enrolled in programs that led to a ROTC commission.

Harvard has the third most graduates who have received the Medal of Honor.  With eighteen recipients, only West Point and the US Naval Academy have more.

In 1969, in the middle of sometimes violent protests over the Vietnam War, Harvard downgraded the status of ROTC to an extracurricular activity.  The cited reason was over academic standards on coursework.  The military’s official departure from Harvard began in the years that followed.    For the next several decades Harvard’s connection to ROTC was by allowing their students to take ROTC courses at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

By 1994, in the midst of the controversy over the Don’t Ask Don’t Tell (DADT) law on homosexuality, Harvard committed to upholding ROTC ties, but only through indirect alumni contributions.  This compromise prevented all ties from being severed as was recommended in the 1992 faculty committee report.

Harvard University President Drew Faust promised a return of ROTC to campus, once DADT was repealed, in a speech with Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Admiral Mike Mullen at the Kennedy School of Government on 17 November 2010. In December 2010 Congress passed a bill to repeal President Bill Clinton’s 1993 DADT Policy.

On March 4, 2011, Harvard University President Drew Faust signed an agreement with Navy Secretary Ray Mabus formally recognizing the return of Naval ROTC to Harvard’s campus. According to the agreement's terms, a Director of Naval ROTC would be appointed, and Harvard would provide funding for the program. The Navy agreement was structured to go into effect when the repeal of DADT was implemented, and was followed by a similar agreement with the Army.   President Barack Obama, who in his 2011 State of the Union address called on all universities to open their doors to ROTC, responded through his spokesman by saying:

Harvard Medal of Honor recipients

Notable alumni
Anthony G. Brown, Harvard College (1984) and Harvard Law School (1992), U.S. Representative (MD-4) and Colonel in the U.S. Army Reserve

Paul G. Kirk, Harvard College (1960) and Harvard Law School (1964), Chairman of the Democratic National Committee (1985-1989), U.S. Senator from Massachusetts (2009-2010)

Eliot Asher Cohen, Harvard College (1977) and Harvard University (Ph.D. 1982), Counselor in the U.S. Department of State (2007-2009), Director of the Strategic Studies Program at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies of the Johns Hopkins University


Greg Boyed

Gregory Stephen Boyed (27 March 1970 – 20 August 2018) was a New Zealand journalist and television presenter. He was best known as the presenter of TVNZ 1's 1 News Tonight; he also hosted Breakfast, 1 News At 6pm, Q+A, and Seven Sharp.

Career

Radio
In 1991, Boyed worked as the chief reporter and newsreader at a radio station in Tauranga. He worked for Independent Radio News (IRN) for four years – as the news and sport reporter and reader in Wellington for the first year, and as sports sub and reader in Auckland for the remaining three. Towards the end of his career, he sometimes worked as a stand-in presenter at Newstalk ZB.

Television
Boyed's first television work was as a general reporter for ATV regional television, where he then moved into the niche of business reporter for The NBR Report.

Upon moving to TVNZ, Boyed worked as a fill-in business reporter and general reporter. In the late 1990s, he moved to TV3, where he worked as the Auckland reporter for the investigative programme Target. Boyed returned to TVNZ in 2002, initially as a producer on youth news programme Flipside, later becoming executive producer of discussion programme The Last Word, and for a period, the late night news bulletin Tonight. In 2005, he became a reporter for the investigative consumer affairs programme Fair Go.

From 2007 to 2018, Boyed was the main presenter of the late evening 1 News Tonight bulletin, as well as being a regular stand-in on 1 News at Six; he briefly left this job in 2013, moving to newly-launched current affairs programme Seven Sharp, which he presented alongside Alison Mau and Jesse Mulligan. He left the programme seven months after its launch, returning to 1 News Tonight. He also presented TVNZ 7's News at 8 on weekdays from 2008 until the channel's closure in 2012. After the retirement of Paul Holmes in 2012, Boyed temporarily became the presenter of current affairs interview show Q+A; after a revamp of the programme in 2015, he took this job permanently. He was also an occasional stand-in presenter on current affairs show Close Up.

Personal life
Boyed was the son of Colin and Jean Boyed. He met Swiss singer-songwriter Caroline Chevin in 2014 while she was visiting New Zealand, and they married in Switzerland later that year. Their son Kian Iraia Cassidy was born in 2015. He also had a daughter, Sarah, born around 1997, from his first marriage.

Boyed was previously engaged to television presenter Amanda Gillies.

He had an interest in drums and marathon running.

His family reported that he suffered from depression.

Death
Boyed died by suicide on 20 August 2018, while on a family holiday in Switzerland.


Regiment of Artillery

The Regiment of Artillery is an operational arm (a regiment/corps) of the Indian Army. Formerly part of Royal Indian Artillery (RIA) of British Indian Army which itself traces its origins to the formation of Bombay Artillery in 1827. It was later involved in extensive service in the First World War, in East Africa, Gallipoli, Mesopotamia and Palestine .

Today it is the second-largest arm of the Indian Army, and with its guns, mortars, rocket launchers, unmanned aerial vehicles, surveillance systems, missiles and artillery firepower it constitutes almost one-sixth of its total strength.

Its motto is Sarvatra Izzat-o-Iqbal (Everywhere with Honour and Glory), the Hindustani equivalent of the Royal Artillery motto Ubique Quo Fas Et Gloria Ducunt (Everywhere That Right And Glory Lead), and it shares the same symbol but with the Star of India in place of the Royal Crown. The Hindustani motto honors the memory of the Hindu and Muslim gunners who fought during the Indian Rebellion of 1857.

History
The Mughal Emperor Babur is popularly credited with introducing artillery to India, in the Battle of Panipat in 1526, where he decisively used gunpowder firearms and field artillery to defeat the much larger army of Ibrahim Lodhi, the ruler of the Delhi Sultanate, thus not just laying the foundation of the Mughal Empire but also setting a precedent for all future battles in the subcontinent. However, evidence of earlier use of guns by Bahmani kings in the battle of Adoni in 1368 and King Mohammed Shah of Gujarat in the fifteenth century have been recorded.

The East India Company raised the first regular company of artillery in 1748, with a small percentage of Indian gunners called Gun Lashkars, Tindals and Serangs. A few Indian mountain artillery batteries, officered by the British, were raised in the 19th century and formed part of the Royal Artillery. The Royal Indian Artillery (RIA) of the British Indian Army was raised on 28 September 1827, as a part of the Bombay Army, a presidency army of the Bombay Presidency. It was later renamed as 5 Bombay Mountain Battery, and participated in the First Anglo-Afghan War (1839–1842).

The Indian Rebellion of 1857 sparked off in Meerut on 10 May 1857. Many of the Indian personnel of the Bengal Artillery were involved in the mutiny and the three battalions of foot artillery then in existence were all disbanded in 1862. Subsequently, all Indian artillery units were disbanded except for four mountain artillery batteries of the Bombay Army and four field batteries of the Hyderabad Contingent. Major Richard Keatinge of Bombay Artillery was awarded the Victoria Cross in 1858 for his service during the Indian Rebellion.

In the 20th century, the Artillery was later involved in extensive service in the First World War, in East Africa, Gallipoli, Mesopotamia, and Palestine.

The Regiment of Artillery was raised on 15 January 1935, when the first three Indian Field Regiments, originally numbered A, B, and C were authorised. Originally called the 'Indian Regiment of Artillery', which later became 'The Regiment of Indian Artillery' on 1 November 1940 and 'Royal Regiment of Indian Artillery' in October 1945, after its success in World War II.

After the partition of India in 1947 the RIA was divided between the newly formed artillery regiments of India and Pakistan. In the coming years, the Regiment of Artillery took part in all the operations fought by the Indian Army, the latest being the Kargil War.

The School of Artillery of the Indian Army is situated at Devlali near Nashik, and the Regiment of Artillery Museum, established in 1970, is also situated in Nashik at Nasik Road Camp.

The Regiment of Artillery was divided in the mid-1990s between the Field Artillery, the Corps of Air Defence Artillery formed in January 1994, and the Army Aviation Corps formed in November 1993. The Field Artillery is the largest successor branch, with 190 regiments, but no longer accounted for a sixth of the army's 1.2 million 1996 strength.

Jane's Defence Weekly said in 1996 that divisional artillery deployed on India's plains is expected to have a mix of 130mm and 155mm guns. This could be a combination of three 130mm regiments and one regiment of 155mm guns, or two regiments of each calibre, depending on the anticipated threat and whether the division is to be employed for offensive or defensive operations.

On 15 January 1985, a commemorative stamp depicting a gunner and howitzer from Mountain Battery was released by India Post, on the Golden Jubilee of the Regiment of Artillery

During the Kargil War, the Indian artillery inflicted heavy damage to Pakistani infiltrators. The role played by the artillery was praised by the top army brass, the divisional commander, a brigade commander and a battalion commander. Two of the officers in that conflict were then Gen. Ved Prakash Malik and then Lt. Gen. Sundararajan Padmanabhan both of whom went on to serve as the Chief of Army Staff.

Composition in the Regiments
According to army history in artillery, the regiments have been classified in the form of caste and culture. Some of the regiments have been divided into the caste system or some in the traditional culture or historical backgrounds. In regiments of artillery, the units have been allotted in the form of Sikhs, Jats, Dogras, Rajputs, Ahirs, Brahmins, Gurkhas, Marathas and SICs (South Indian Classes). There are also two airborne artillery units, 9 (Parachute) Field Regiment and 17 (Parachute) Field Regiment. Most of the artillery units have been affiliated to infantry units. On anniversaries of their raising days, the artillery units invited their affiliated units to join their celebrations.

Units and their Types of equipment in Artillery
In the artillery, the regiments have been divided into different units. They have been classified into Medium Regiments, Light Regiments, Missile Regiments, Rocket Regiments, SATA (Surveillance & Target Acquisition) Regiments, SATA (Surveillance & Target Acquisition) Battery and Field Regiments. Every Artillery units have its own equipment during wartime. SATA Battery and SATA Regiments are the most important units in artillery as they are equipped with UAV Drones and ELM MAST Radar System.

In the Indian Army, there are 3 Artillery Divisions. They are
 40 Artillery Division (Ambala, Haryana)(under Western Command).
 41 Artillery Division (Pune, Maharashtra)(under Southern Command).
 42 Artillery Division (Alwar, Rajasthan)(under South Western Command).

 Light Artillery(Mortars)
 120 mm E1 Light Mortar
 Field Artillery
 105mm 105 mm Indian Field Gun
 105mm Light Field Gun
 122mm D-30 Howitzer
 Medium Artillery
 130mm M-46 Field Gun
 155mm Haubits FH77/B Howitzer
 155mm Soltam Gun
 155mm Sarang Gun
 155mm Dhanush (howitzer)
 Self-propelled Artillery
 105mm FV433 Abbot self-propelled gun
 130mm M-46 Catapult self-propelled gun
 155mm K9 Thunder
 Rocket Artillery
 122mm BM-21 Grad Multiple Barrel Rocket Launcher
 214mm Pinaka Multi Barrel Rocket Launcher
 300mm BM-30 Smerch Multiple Barrel Rocket Launcher
S-400
 Missile Artillery
 Brahmos Missile System
 Agni Missile System
 Prithivi Missile System
 Surveillance & Target Acquisition
 ELM Mast Mobile Radar System
 UAV Drones (Heron) System
 WLR (Weapons Locating Radar) System
 LORROS (Long Range Reconnaissance and Observation Systems)
 MBFSR (Medium Range Battlefield Surveillance Radar) System

Notable personnel

 Chief of Army Staff of the Indian Army
 General Paramasiva Prabhakar Kumaramangalam (7 June 1966 – 7 June 1969)
 General Om Prakash Malhotra (31 May 1978 – 31 May 1981)
 General Sunith Francis Rodrigues 	(30 June 1990 – 30 June 1993)
 General Sundararajan Padmanabhan 	(30 September 2000 – 31 December 2002)
 General Deepak Kapoor 	(30 September 2007 – 31 March 2010)
 Captain Umrao Singh Yadav : Victoria Cross:World War II.

Further reading
 History of the Regiment of Artillery, Indian Army, by Y. B. Gulati, D. K. Palit. Published by Leo Cooper, 1972. .
 Kargil '99: Blood, Guts and Firepower, by Gurmeet Kanwal, India Army. Regiment of Artillery. Published by Regiment of Artillery in association with Lancer Publishers, 2000. .


Oxaloacetase

In enzymology, an oxaloacetase () is an enzyme that catalyzes the chemical reaction:

oxaloacetate + H2O  oxalate + acetate

Thus, the two substrates of this enzyme are oxaloacetate and H2O, whereas its two products are oxalate and acetate.

This enzyme belongs to the family of hydrolases, specifically those acting on carbon-carbon bonds in ketonic substances.  The systematic name of this enzyme class is oxaloacetate acetylhydrolase. This enzyme is also called oxalacetic hydrolase.


Desbruyeresia

Desbruyeresia is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Provannidae.

Species
Species within the genus Desbruyeresia include:

 Desbruyeresia cancellata Warén & Bouchet, 1993
 Desbruyeresia marianensis (Okutani & Fujikura, 1990)
 Desbruyeresia marisindica Okutani, Hashimoto & Sasaki, 2004
 Desbruyeresia melanioides Warén & Bouchet, 1993
 Desbruyeresia spinosa Warén & Bouchet, 1993


Neyzar, South Khorasan

Neyzar (, also Romanized as Neyzār) is a village in Dastgerdan Rural District, Dastgerdan District, Tabas County, South Khorasan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its existence was noted, but its population was not reported.


Jeffrey Pierce

Jeffrey Pierce (born Jeffrey Plitt; December 13, 1971 in Denver, Colorado) is an American actor, film director and film producer. He is best known for portraying the title character in the television series Charlie Jade.

Early life and other endeavors
He got his start in acting at the Shakespeare and Company in Lenox, Massachusetts, and at the Beverly Hills Playhouse. He also directed and executive produced a film called All My Sins Remembered.

Filmography

Film

Television

Video games


Jan Łączny

Jan Łączny (born December 19, 1950 in Dobrzyca) is a Polish politician. He was elected to Sejm on September 25, 2005 getting 2229 votes in 40 Koszalin district, candidating from Samoobrona Rzeczpospolitej Polskiej list.

He was also a member of Sejm 2001-2005.


Cryptomonadales

Cryptomonadales is an order of Cryptophyta containing the families Cryptomonadaceae and Hilleaceae.


Mangroves of the Straits of Malacca

The mangroves of the Straits of Malacca are found along the coast of Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore and northern Sumatra. These tropical mangrove forests are highly diverse, and are important wetlands with high conservation values. There are two Ramsar sites along the Strait of Malacca: Pulau Kukup and Tanjung Piai.

Tanjung Piai
Tanjung Piai coastal mangrove is an internationally important Ramsar site. Under the Ramsar Convention,  the government and relevant stakeholders have an obligation to ensure the mangrove ecosystem and its values are maintained. Erosion at the site needs to be minimized to safeguard the ecological integrity of the mangrove ecosystem. The root causes of the erosion need to be eliminated or reduced.

Tanjung Piai is a nationally important icon, being one of only five Ramsar sites in Malaysia. Tanjung Piai is also an important nature site in Johor, being the 3rd designated park of Johor National Park Corporation. Tanjung Piai has high socio-economic value for fisheries. The site also has high ecotourism potential, attracting 32,360 visitors in 2006. The site is located on the southernmost tip of mainland Asia and is listed as a priority site for national ecotourism.

Tanjung Piai has a good representation of mangroves (22 mangrove tree species). It is also an important habitat for migratory and resident birds. These include the IUCN-listed vulnerable species, such as the lesser adjutant stork. It is part of the Important Bird Area (IBA) of southwest Johor, which extends from Parit Jawa to Tanjung Piai. The southwest Johor mangroves are ecologically important as a natural barrier to protect the inland villages and agricultural lands from storm events, including tsunamis.

Mangrove fauna

Benthic invertebrates
Mangroves are trees that grow in the intertidal zone of sheltered shores in the tropics and subtropics. The tree trunks, aerial roots, and sediment provide suitable habitats for colonization of animals. Above the ground, the trees and canopy provide a habitat for insects, reptiles, birds, and mammals. Mangrove roots hanging in water along creeks and inlets are home a variety of epibionts (those that encrust) such as sponges, barnacles, bivalves, and algae. The tree trunks within forest are also a habitat for epibionts (small encrusting invertebrates) such as barnacles, bivalves, and several species of mobile gastropods including periwinkles. The soft sediment in the mangrove forest is the habitat of polychaetes, gastropods, crabs and a sipuncula (peanut worm).

Mangrove fauna may be grouped into macrofauna (larger than 2mm, gastropods/snails and crabs), meiofauna (0.1 mm to 2mm, mainly free-living nematodes, harpacticoida, copepods, and foraminfera), and microfauna (less than 0.1 mm, ciliates and other protozoans).

Macrofauna
Mangroves are inhabited by a variety of benthic invertebrates, such as polychaetes, gastropods, bivalves, hermit crabs, brachyuran crabs and sipuncula. Some species live on the sediment surface or reside in burrows, while others live on aerial roots and lower tree trunks or prop roots. Still others burrow in decaying wood. The burrowing activities of benthic invertebrates have a pronounced effect on sediment properties and biochemical processes. They enhance the porosity of water flow through the sediment and assist in flushing away toxic substances.

Feeding activities of invertebrates on the sediment surface and plant matter promotes nutrient cycling. Benthic invertebrates are a source of food for vertebrates (for example, reptiles, birds, otters, and shallow water fish that come into the mangrove shore at high tide).

Macrofauna may be divided into epifauna (living on the surface and not burrowing) and infauna (those burrowing in sediment). Many gastropods, crabs, and bivalve species are typical of epifauna. The infauna consist of few polychaetes, pistol prawns, many crabs, and a sipuncula. Many sesarmid crabs make extensive burrows beneath the surface, and some fauna take refuge in them.

Diversity and distribution of macrofauna
Macrofaunal communities in high and low intertidal mangroves are distinctly different. This relates to prevailing different environmental conditions with different periods of tidal cover. The lower shore is frequently covered by tides, while the upper shore is covered by occasional high tides.

In the high shore, the substrate is dry with more leaf litter accumulation; however, deposit feeders are abundant. Frequent inundation of the low shore also favors the presence of filter feeders like barnacles and oysters (on tree stems) and abundance of deposit feeders on the substrate.

Very common invertebrates of the mangrove shore are:

Gastropods and bivalves (low shore)
Littorina spp.
Thais tissoti
Murex capucinus
Nerita articulata
Neritina violacea
Telescopium telescopium
Telescopium mauritsi
Syncera brevicula
Cerithidea cingulata
Enigmonia aenigmatica (bivalve)
Xenostrobus sp. (mytilid bivalve)
Brachyuran crabs (low shore)
Uca mani
Uca dussumieri
Metaplax elegans
Metaplax crenulatus
Ilyoplax spp.
Hermit crabs

Gastropods and a bivalve (high shore)
Ellobium aurismidae
Ellobium aurisjudae
Cassidula aursifelis
Laemodonta spp.
Melampus sp.
Cerithidea obtusa
Cerithidea quadrata
Nerita articulata
Telescopium telescopium
Telescopium mauritsi
Syncera brevicula
Geloina erosa (bivalve)
Brachyuran crabs (high shore)
Grapsid crabs
Episesarma  spp.
Perisesarma eumople
Perisesarma onychophorum
Clistocoeloma merguiensis

Functional role of macrobenthos
Macrobenthos (crabs and gastropods) ingest sediment and food such as bacteria, microalgae, meiofauna and detritus. They burrow, move through, and modify it in many physical and chemical ways. Crab burrows provide an efficient mechanism for exchanging water between the anoxic substrate and the overlying water. A crab burrow inhabited by a sesarmid crab and a pistol prawn was completely flushed within one hour by the activities of the crustaceans during a single tidal event.

Crabs and gastropods are the major seed predators in mangrove forests and play an important role in determining plant community structure. There are mutual relationships between sesarmid crabs and mangroves, where mangroves provide a suitable habitat for the crabs, and the crabs reduce competition between mangrove plant species through selective predation on seedlings.  High seed predation by crabs can have negative influence on regeneration of mangrove trees. Grapsid crabs dominate in Australia, Malaysia and Panama, while gastropods Cerithidea scalariformis and Melampus coeffeus are important seed predators in Florida mangroves.

Detritus feeding invertebrates dominate the mangrove fauna. Grapsid crabs are major consumers of mangrove leaf litter and therefore produce large amounts of fecal material rich in nutrients and energy. These crabs graze and pick organic material off the surface of sediment, suggesting that they are using microbial resources for their nitrogen needs.

Fish predation on mangrove invertebrates occurs at high tide when mangrove shore is inundated. Fishes netted within the mangroves at high tide showed the presence of crabs and sipuncula in their stomachs.

Benthic invertebrates in the mangrove forest play an important ecological role by burrowing in the sediment where they assist in flushing toxic substances and modifying the oxidation status of the surrounding sediment.

Feeding on plant matter assists in recycling organic matter and produces animal biomass. Animal biomass is a source of food for vertebrate predators; e.g. reptiles, birds, otters, and inshore fishes that come in at high tide.


Subway Art

Subway Art is a collaborative book by Martha Cooper and Henry Chalfant, which documents the early history of New York City's graffiti movement. Originally published in 1984, the book has been described as a "landmark photographic history". Known by many as ‘the bible’ of graffiti, Subway Art quickly acquired the dubious accolade of becoming one of the most stolen books in the United Kingdom.

The title is a reference to the New York City Subway, where a lot of the city's graffiti was set during the late 20th century. The book features artists such as Zephyr, Seen, Kase2, Dondi, and Lady Pink.

The 25th anniversary edition was released in 2009, available in large print measuring 43x30.5 cm.


Manuel José Vieira

Manuel José Azevedo Vieira (born 4 February 1981), known as Manuel José, is a Portuguese professional footballer who plays for CD Candal. Mainly a right midfielder, he can also play as an attacking right back.

Club career
Born in Paranhos (Porto), Manuel José unsuccessfully graduated from FC Porto's academy, going on to serve a number of loans in almost four year before being released in June 2005. He made his Primeira Liga debut with Académica de Coimbra, where he played from January–June 2003.

After a solid season with Porto's neighbours Boavista FC, Manuel José joined Romania's CFR Cluj Portuguese contingent in June 2006, for €300,000. During his first year in Liga I he was a first-team regular and the team player with the most assists, accumulating eleven decisive passes; however, with the arrival of Ioan Andone as head coach during the summer of 2007, he lost his place in the starting eleven and failed to regain that position.

On 5 February 2009, Manuel José terminated the contract that bound him with Cluj. In July he returned to Portugal, signing with F.C. Paços de Ferreira; he scored a career-best eight goals in the 2012–13 campaign – in only 19 starts – being essential as his team finished third and qualified to the UEFA Champions League for the first time in their history.

Honours
Porto
Taça de Portugal: 2002–03

Vitória Setúbal
Taça de Portugal: 2004–05

Cluj
Liga I: 2007–08
Cupa României: 2007–08, 2008–09


Lichnanthe ursina

Lichnanthe ursina, the bumblebee scarab, is a species of bumble bee scarab beetle in the family Glaphyridae. It is found in North America.


Val Pinchbeck

Valjean A. Pinchbeck, Jr. (February 16, 1931 – March 6, 2004) was an American football executive on both the college and professional level.

Biography
Pinchbeck was born on February 16, 1931, in Syracuse, New York.  Best known as an NFL broadcast official, he was known for organising the NFL schedule annually.  He died while crossing a Manhattan street and subsequently hit by a cab, he was pronounced dead at the scene.

Today, the room where the NFL organises the scheduling matrix annually is known as the Valjean A. Pinchbeck, Jr. Room.  Pinchbeck was inducted into the Sports Broadcasting Hall of Fame in 2008 by Paul Tagliabue, with the award presented to sons James and Valjean III.


Stephen's Island gecko

The Stephen's Island gecko or Cook Strait striped gecko (Toropuku stephensi), is a species of gecko in the monotypic genus Toropuku in the family Diplodactylidae. The species is endemic to New Zealand. The holotype is in the collection of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa.

Conservation status
As of 2012 the Department of Conservation (DOC) classified the Stephen's Island gecko as Nationally Vulnerable under the New Zealand Threat Classification System.


St. Louis Stallions

The St. Louis Stallions was the name of a proposed National Football League (NFL) franchise which was to have been located in St. Louis, Missouri, in the early 1990s. There were two attempts to get a team with that name in St. Louis, which had been without a professional football franchise since the end of the 1987 season, when the Cardinals left the city to move to Phoenix, Arizona.

Expansion attempt
The first attempt to get a team back in St. Louis came in 1991, when the city submitted a package to the NFL. The NFL was looking to add two teams in time for the 1994 season (later pushing this idea back one year), and St. Louis was one of the finalists. The others were Baltimore, which like St. Louis had seen its team, the Colts, move out of town in 1983; Charlotte, which had been seeking a team since 1987 and had already seen an expansion NBA team awarded to the city; Jacksonville, which had seen several aborted attempts at relocation in recent years; and Memphis, who had been trying to get an NFL team since the folding of the United States Football League cost the city its only professional sports team, the Memphis Showboats.

St. Louis was to have placed the Stallions in Busch Stadium, where the football and baseball Cardinals played, for a brief period while a new domed stadium was constructed near the city's America's Center. Although St. Louis had been considered a favorite to land a team, the NFL instead announced in 1993 that the Charlotte and Jacksonville groups were declared the winners and that the Carolina Panthers and Jacksonville Jaguars would begin play in 1995.

First relocation attempt
After St. Louis came up short in its expansion bid, it appeared that the city might land a new team anyway. Advertising executive James Orthwein, a St. Louis native and member of the Busch family, bought the New England Patriots in 1992 from Victor Kiam to resolve a debt between the two men. The Patriots had long been in financial malaise since original owner Billy Sullivan, who was still the team president during Kiam's ownership, had squandered all of his net worth on a series of bad investments in the mid-1980s and was forced to sell the team to Kiam and Foxboro Stadium to Robert Kraft.

Immediately upon purchase, Orthwein made it clear that he wanted to relocate the team from its Foxborough, Massachusetts, home to the Midwest. With the city of St. Louis having begun construction on the new domed stadium that they had discussed in their expansion bid, Orthwein was set to leave New England at the end of the 1993 season.

Orthwein's plans to move the team were thwarted when Kraft refused to let Orthwein out of the long-term lease that he had secured from Kiam and Sullivan as part of his purchase of the stadium. Orthwein did not want to own the team if he could not move it, and Kraft initiated a hostile takeover that resulted in his purchase of the Patriots in 1994.

St. Louis finally gets a team
During the 1994 season Georgia Frontiere, the owner of the Los Angeles Rams, was having trouble finding a new stadium for her team as the city of Los Angeles and the surrounding area was not willing to have taxpayer money pay for it. At the time, the Rams were playing in Anaheim Stadium, to which the team had moved in 1980 from the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum and which had required a massive reconstruction in order for the Rams to be able to play in what was originally only intended to be a home for the California Angels. Frontiere, who inherited control of the team following the death of her husband Carroll Rosenbloom in 1979, decided that relocation was the only option and initially considered Baltimore, the city where her husband originally owned the Colts before he traded ownership of the team with Robert Irsay, before deciding on St. Louis (her home city) as the domed stadium that was originally intended for the Stallions franchise was nearing completion. The NFL initially was unwilling to allow the move out of Los Angeles, and in fact had voted to reject it, but acquiesced after Frontiere threatened to sue the league. Unlike the Patriots/Stallions proposal, Frontiere opted to keep the Rams name.

Shortly after the Rams left, the Raiders also left to move back to Oakland, where they had last played in 1981. The Trans World Dome, which the completed stadium became known as, opened on November 12, 1995, with a game against the expansion Carolina Panthers.

Departure
A major problem with St. Louis was that their fixed-roof and fully covered domed stadium was built at a time when retractable roofs which allowed generous daylight dissipation through the roof material were becoming the norm. The lighting within the stadium was also noted as 'warehouse-like' and unable to light the field properly, and the darker blue and gold shades the Rams adopted for their logo and uniforms in the early 2000s exacerbated the situation further. Because of its dual use as an extension of the America's Center convention center, the field continued to use AstroTurf, a long-outdated brand of artificial turf that was used primarily for its ability to be easily moved and rolled up into storage, even after its most recent renovations (most other stadiums had already gone to permanent FieldTurf or similar installations by this point; it was eventually converted to an AstroTurf-branded surface that more resembled FieldTurf, though this dark surface only increased the dreary feel of the stadium). By the early 2010s, the dome was consistently considered one of the worst stadiums in the NFL. On January 12, 2016, the NFL approved a request by Rams owner Stan Kroenke to move the Rams back to the Greater Los Angeles Area. The Rams plan to play in a new stadium in Inglewood, California, due to open in 2020. The team's move left St. Louis with no team and no realistic prospects of gaining one in the immediate future, barring future expansion or relocation.


Jonathan Schaffer

Jonathan Schaffer is an American philosopher specializing in metaphysics and epistemology. He is a notable proponent of contrastivism.

Career
Since earning his PhD from Rutgers in 1999, Schaffer has published 56 papers.  He wrote his dissertation - "Causation and the Probabilities of Processes" - under Brian McLaughlin.  David Lewis served as outside examiner.  In 2000, he accepted a position as assistant professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in Amherst, Massachusetts, earning tenure by 2004.

In 2007, Schaffer accepted a permanent research position at the Australian National University.  He subsequently won awards for two papers published that year, the American Philosophical Association's 2008 Article Prize, for "Knowing the Answer" in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, and the Australasian Journal of Philosophy's 2008 Best Paper Award, for "From Nihilism to Monism".

In 2010, Schaffer accepted a permanent position at Rutgers University.
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Clinton Morrison

Clinton Hubert Morrison (born 14 May 1979) is a former professional footballer who played as a forward. Since his retirement from playing he works as a pundit.

Morrison began his career at local side Crystal Palace in 1998, for whom he scored over 100 goals across two spells, despite a less successful period at Birmingham City in between.

Born in England, he represented the Republic of Ireland 36 times at full international level, scoring 9 goals, and made their squad for the 2002 FIFA World Cup.

Club career

First spell at Crystal Palace
Morrison was born in Tooting, London. He began his career at Crystal Palace of the First Division, making his debut on 10 May 1998 as an 82nd-minute substitute for Neil Shipperley, and scoring the injury-time winner over opponents Sheffield Wednesday. The next season (1998–99, his first full year-long tenure at the club) saw him score 13 goals, while Palace were struggling both on and off the pitch. Whilst they were in administration, Morrison agreed to play for the club for free.

In 1999–2000, he played more than 30 games, and scored 14 goals, including his only brace of the season at Swindon Town.

His 2000–01 saw 14 goals, but the next season he scored 26 goals, and transferred to  Premier League side Birmingham City.

Birmingham City
With a tricky relationship becoming clear between Morrison and Trevor Francis, then Palace manager, it was Birmingham City who fought and won his signature, for £4.25 million, in exchange for Andrew Johnson. However, Morrison struggled somewhat in the top league, scoring only six goals in his first, and four goals in his second season, although he did score Birmingham's first goal against arch rivals Aston Villa in 16 years following the club's return to the top flight, during a 3–0 victory at St. Andrews. However, following a spell on the sidelines with injury, during the 2004–05 season he began to form a decent strike partnership with Emile Heskey.

Return to Crystal Palace
Due to pressure for first team places Morrison left Birmingham on 24 August 2005. Palace agreed a £2 million fee for the 26-year-old, who was also linked with Norwich City and Southampton. He claimed that a large part of his decision to return (besides his love for the club) was, ironically, due to being able to play alongside Andrew Johnson, the man Birmingham had originally swapped to get Morrison.

Morrison had a successful first season back at Palace, alternating with former strike-partner Dougie Freedman in playing alongside Johnson, scoring 13 goals in 33 starts and 8 substitute appearances.

In season 2007–08, Morrison started the season brightly scoring twice in the first three games, taking himself to 99 goals in his Palace career, however the 100th goal became an albatross round his neck, and manager Peter Taylor dropped him from the starting line up for several games. It was under new manager Neil Warnock that Morrison eventually scored his 100th Crystal Palace goal in the London derby against Queens Park Rangers (a club he has a knack for scoring against) on 10 November 2007, with an 88th-minute equaliser, making him the eighth player in the club's history to reach this milestone. He was given a Special Achievement Award to mark this feat at the end of the season's "Player of the Year" ceremony.

After breaking the 100th goal deadlock, Morrison hit a purple patch of scoring, and he finished his Palace career with 113 goals in all competitions for the club, the fifth-highest of any player in the club's history. He scored on the final day of the 2007–08 season in a 5–0 win over Burnley that confirmed Palace's play-off place. This meant that he had scored in his first and last league games for the club.

This was Morrison's last season at Palace, with his contract expiring at the end of the season. Morrison wanted to stay at Palace but manager Neil Warnock said that Morrison would have to fight for his place in the starting line-up. Morrison then took a higher wage offer to move to Coventry City.

Coventry City
In July 2008 Morrison trained with Coventry City and accompanied them on their pre-season tour of Switzerland. He signed a two-year deal with the club on 7 August 2008. He wore the number 19 shirt during the 2008–09 season with a plus sign between the 1 and 9 (appearing on the back of his shirt as 1+9). The reason for this being that 1+9 equals 10, which was the number Morrison played with whilst at Palace. He changed to wearing number 11 for 2009/10.

At the end of the 2009–10 season, Morrison said he was keen to sign a new contract with the club, but Coventry City told him he was surplus to requirements and he was subsequently released.

Sheffield Wednesday
In July 2010, Morrison signed a two-year contract with Sheffield Wednesday, newly relegated to League One. He scored on his league debut for the Owls in a 2–0 win over Dagenham & Redbridge. Morrison struggled to keep his place in the team towards the end of the season after new manager Gary Megson arrived, as Gary Madine and loan signing Neil Mellor kept him out of the side.

In September 2011, Morrison signed for Milton Keynes Dons on a one-month emergency loan. On his third appearance for the Dons he scored his first goal for the club, against Notts County on 1 October, as well as making one assist.

He joined League One club Brentford in March 2012 on loan until the end of the season.

Wednesday released Morrison at the end of the 2011–12 season.

Colchester United
On 16 July 2012, Morrison signed a two-year deal with League One side Colchester United following his release from Sheffield Wednesday. He went on to make his debut for the U's in a 3–0 League Cup defeat away at Yeovil Town, before leading the line to begin the new Football League season four days later in a 0–0 draw at Deepdale against Preston North End.

Morrison's first goal for Colchester arrived towards the end of August in the third game of the season, as his late equaliser salvaged a 1–1 draw for the U's; their third successive draw to start the season. Morrison celebrated the goal by running the length of the pitch with his hands cupped behind his ears to taunt the Sheffield United fans who, throughout the game, had been doing likewise to the striker for his connections with their city rivals, Wednesday.

Joe Dunne took over as the U's boss at the end of September and immediately brought in Jabo Ibehre on loan from MK Dons, with the loanee displacing Morrison from the starting eleven and consigning him to the bench. Dunne's fourth game in charge was a Football League Trophy defeat to Northampton Town where Morrison was handed a start, but he was dismissed for violent conduct in the closing stages of the game which would suspend the striker for three matches.

The impressive form of Ibehre ensured that Morrison only started four more games for the U's until March, when injury to Freddie Sears created a hole in attack. This was coupled with Ibehre receiving a three-match suspension and Morrison went on to spearhead the U's attack once more, providing crucial experience in Colchester's bid for League One survival. In his fourth successive start, he notched his second U's goal in a 2–1 win away at Bury; a vital match-winning goal in a crunch relegation fixture.

Morrison registered his first goal of the 2013–14 campaign on 30 November, scoring an injury-time consolation goal against Tranmere Rovers at Prenton Park to bring his U's tally to three goals in 50 appearances in all competitions. He scored his second of the season late-on during a 3–0 win against Gillingham on 11 January 2014. Morrison announced in the latter stages of the season that he would leave Colchester once his contract expired in the summer. He played his final game for the U's in their 1–0 away victory over Walsall on 3 May 2014.

Later career
He did some media work, and played three matches for Long Eaton United in the Midland League, scoring once himself and also dummying Lye Town's goalkeeper into letting a backpass into the net, before signing for League Two club Exeter City in November 2014 on non-contract terms. He played 25 league matches in what remained of the season, and was then released, but rejoined the club on a short-term deal ahead of the 2015–16 campaign.

Morrison was released by Exeter City at the end of the 2015–16 season and duly signed for Southern Premier Division side Redditch United in June 2016. Morrison has also done some media work as a pundit on Sky Sports and Football League Tonight on Channel 5.

In September 2016 he joined Mickleover Sports.

International career
Apart from England, the country of his birth, Morrison was also eligible to represent Jamaica and the Republic of Ireland. He chose to play for Ireland, qualifying for that country because his grandmother was from Dublin.

Morrison made his debut for Ireland in a 2–2 draw on 15 August 2001 against Croatia; he entered the game as a 52nd-minute substitute and scored the second Ireland goal. He also travelled to the 2002 World Cup, but did not play.

Morrison's international career began to gain momentum during his time at Birmingham City. He scored his first competitive international goal in a 4–2 European Championship qualifying defeat to Russia in Moscow in September 2002. Morrison later became a key part of the side as the Republic competed for a place at World Cup 2006. He scored three goals in the qualifying campaign, but Brian Kerr's side finished fourth in a tight group that included Switzerland, France and Israel.

Despite scoring in 11 out of 14 games for Palace, he was not called into the Ireland squad to face Brazil in a friendly in February 2008. However, his continued good form with Palace led to him being recognised by Ireland coach Giovanni Trapattoni in his first provisional 40-man squad, though he did not make it to the 28-man squad.

Career statistics

Club

International

International goals
Scores and results list Ireland's goal tally first.


Han Jung-hwa

Han Jung-Hwa (; born 31 October 1982) is a South Korean football midfielder.

Jung-Hwa's previous clubs are FC Seoul, Gwangju Sangmu. In the 2009 season, he was loaned out to Daegu FC for one year. In July 2010, he joined Goyang Kookmin Bank FC after being released from Busan I'Park.


Chase Williamson

Chase Williamson (born July 7, 1988) is an American actor and film producer. He is best known for portraying David Wong in John Dies at the End (2012).

Early life
Williamson was born in Coral Springs, Florida, in 1988. When he was young, he moved from Coral Springs to San Diego, then moved again to Texas. During his high school tenure, Williamson participated in "speech tournaments", where he would act against other competitors. These experiences caused him to pursue acting as a profession.

As he had been performing in theater for most of his life, he attended the University of Southern California's theater school, with the intent of becoming a professional stage actor.

Career
One of Williamson's initial auditions in the first weeks after graduating from USC was for the role of David in John Dies at the End, a role he won; it was his first professional film. The film premiered at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival, and co-stars Rob Mayes, Clancy Brown, and Paul Giamatti. Later that year, he portrayed Moritz in Spring Awakening, a stage musical. His performance was well received by critics, with some calling him the standout performer.

In 2013, he played the title role in Sparks, a superhero noir film based on the graphic novel of the same name. The film reunited Williamson with Brown, and also stars Ashley Bell, William Katt, Jake Busey, and Clint Howard. After its premiere at the 2013 Cinequest Film Festival, the film was released digitally and straight to DVD on March 18, 2014. The same year, he joined the cast of Video Game High School in its second season. He portrays Shane Pizza, one of the show's antagonists. He also co-starred in The Guest, along with Dan Stevens. The film premiered at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival.

Filmography

Film

Television

Web series

Music video
 Neon Indian - Slumlord Rising (2015) as Informant Jogger


Boo Ellis

Not to be confused with Bo Ellis, a professional basketball player in the 1970s.

Alex "Boo" Ellis (February 11, 1936 – May 6, 2010) was an American professional basketball player for the Minneapolis Lakers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). Ellis played in the league for just the  and  seasons and averaged 5.1 points 5.2 rebounds per game.

Ellis grew up in Hamilton, Ohio and attended Hamilton High School. He led the school to 25–3 record and a 1954 state championship as a senior, garnering first team all-state and state tournament MVP honors that year. Ellis then went on to play college basketball for Niagara University.

A , 185 lb. forward/center, he quickly became a dominant force in both scoring and rebounding. Since the rules back then did not allow freshmen to play varsity sports, Ellis had to wait until his sophomore year in 1955–56 to suit up officially for the Purple Eagles. In his three seasons, he accumulated 1,656 points and a still-standing school record 1,533 rebounds. In his first season of eligibility, Ellis grabbed a school single season record 485 rebounds, only to break his own record the next two consecutive years with 522 and 526, respectively. During a game against Kent State in his junior year, he recorded a 31-point, 31-rebound effort. In Ellis' final season, he led NCAA Division I in rebounding and was named the Western New York Athlete of the Year. He also guided the Purple Eagles to two National Invitation Tournament (NIT) berths in his three-year career.

Following his standout collegiate career, the Minneapolis Lakers selected him as the first pick in the third round (16th overall) in the 1958 NBA draft. After two NBA seasons, Ellis played six seasons in the Continental League and three with the Marcus Haynes Fabulous Magicians, a traveling professional team. In his later life, Ellis worked as a security guard in his hometown of Hamilton. He spent two and a half years of his life living with his daughter in Indianapolis, before succumbing the effects of a heart attack he had suffered two weeks earlier. Ellis died on May 6, 2010 at age 74.


TACC1

Transforming acidic coiled-coil-containing protein 1 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the TACC1 gene.

Function

The function of this gene has not yet been determined; however, it is speculated that it may represent a breast cancer candidate gene.  It is located close to FGFR1 on a region of chromosome 8 that is amplified in some breast cancers.

Interactions

TACC1 has been shown to interact with:

 Aurora A kinase,
 Aurora B kinase,
 BARD1,
 CKAP5,
 LSM7,
 SNRPG,  and
 TDRD7.


Investigation

Investigation or Investigations may refer to:

Law enforcement
 Investigation, the work of a detective
 Investigation, the work of a private investigator
 Criminal investigation, the study of facts, used to identify, locate and prove the guilt of an accused criminal
 Criminal investigation department, the branch of British Police force to which plainclothes detectives belong
 Federal Bureau of Investigation, the primary investigative arm of the US Department of Justice
 Griffin Investigations, the most prominent group of private investigators specializing in the gambling industry

Medicine
 Clinical trial, an investigation conducted to collect data for new drugs or devices
 Investigational New Drug, category in a USFDA program
 Investigations, tests and scans done to help with the diagnosis or management of a disease (see: medical test), although investigation may also refer to the general diagnostic process

Science and maths
 Forensic science investigation, in fields such as accounting, science, engineering and information technology
 Investigations in Numbers, Data, and Space, a K-5 mathematics curriculum

Arts, entertainment, and media

Literature
 The Investigation (play), 1965 play by Peter Weiss
 The Investigation, 1959 book by Stanisław Lem

Television
 Investigation (TV channel), a Canadian French-language specialty channel
 Investigation Discovery, a digital cable channel
 "Investigations" (Star Trek: Voyager), the 36th episode of the television series Star Trek: Voyager

Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media
 Investigate (magazine), a magazine
 Investigation (film), a 2006 Bulgarian drama
 Investigative journalism, the practice of in-depth reporting or analysis
 Temporal Investigations, agency of the government of the United Federation of Planets in the fictional universe of Star Trek


The 2021 European Youth Summer Olympic Festival will be held in Banská Bystrica, Slovakia, between 24 July and 1 August 2021. Košice were originally to be host city but withdrew from the hosting in April 2019 due to financial concerns. Banská Bystrica was chosen as the new host city in May 2019.

Sports
The following competitions will take place

Participant nations


Veranclassic–Ago

Veranclassic–Ago is a UCI Continental team founded in 2013 and based in Belgium. It participates in UCI Continental Circuits races.

The disbanded at the end of the 2016 season.

Major wins
2014
Stage 8 Tour of Taihu Lake, Bob Schoonbroodt
2015
Stage 5 Tour du Maroc, Justin Jules
Stage 1 Tour de Gironde, Robin Stenuit
Memorial Philippe Van Coningsloo, Robin Stenuit
2016
Stage 8 Tour du Maroc, Justin Jules
Stage 2 Tour de Tunisie, Justin Jules
Stage 4 Tour de Tunisie, Matthias Legley
Grote Prijs Stad Sint-Niklaas, Justin Jules


Sunland Park, New Mexico

Sunland Park is a city in southern Doña Ana County, New Mexico, United States, on the borders of Texas and the Mexican state of Chihuahua, with Ciudad Juárez adjoining it on the south and El Paso, Texas on the east. The community of Santa Teresa adjoins it on the northwest. The population of Sunland Park was 14,106 at the 2010 census and was estimated at 17,639 by the United States Census Bureau in 2018. Though it lies adjacent to El Paso, being in Doña Ana County makes it a part of the Las Cruces metropolitan statistical area. Las Cruces is  to the north.

The city is at the foot of Mount Cristo Rey, next to the Rio Grande, and is named for Sunland Park Racetrack & Casino, which lies within the city limits. The location was formerly called "Anapra", a name shared by an adjacent area of Ciudad Juárez.

Geography
According to the United States Census Bureau, Sunland Park has a total area of , of which  is land and , or 2.02%, is covered by water.

Demographics

As of the census of 2010, 14,267 people, 3,884 households, and 3,314 families resided in the city. The population density was 1,260.6 people per mi2 (486.6/km²). The 4,131 housing units averaged 342.6 per mi2 (132.2/km²). The racial makeup of the city was 76.00% White, 0.63% African American, 0.51% Native American, 0.2% Asian, 0.01% Pacific Islander, 26.02% from other races, and 2.76% from two or more races. Hispanics or Latinos of any race were 96.44% of the population.

Of the 3,884 households, 44.3% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 55% were married couples living together, 24% had a female householder with no husband present, and 11.5% were not families. About 12.6% of all households were made up of individuals, and 3.9% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 3.63 and the average family size was 3.97.

In the city, the population was distributed as 37.5% under the age of 18, 11.9% from 20 to 24, 7.6% from 25 to 29, 6.6% from 45 to 64, and 7.5% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 28.8 years. For every 100 females, there were 93.5 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 88.4 males.

Government
On August 2, 2012, Javier Perea was reappointed as Mayor of Sunland Park. He began his official duties on April 18, 2012. At the urging of the State of New Mexico, the city conducted a search for the position of City Manager.

On December 17, 2013, Vernon Wilson was selected to fill the long-vacant position. He was a retired U.S. Army officer whose other government service included over 10 years as Manager of the nearby Dona Ana County International Jetport. His first day of employment was January 1, 2014.

Education
Sunland Park is served by the Gadsden Independent School District, which operates these schools located in the city:
Santa Teresa High School
Santa Teresa Middle School
Desert View Elementary School
Riverside Elementary School
Sunland Park Elementary School

Sunland Park also has a branch campus of Doña Ana Community College, a two-year college branch of New Mexico State University.

History
Sunland Park was formed when the unincorporated communities of Anapra, Sunland Park, and Meadow Vista voted to incorporate as Sunland Park on July 13, 1983.

2012 extortion scandal
In February 2012, then-Mayor Pro Tem Daniel Salinas and City Manager Jaime Aguilera were arrested and charged with extortion of mayoral candidate Gerardo Hernandez. Salinas and Aguilera allegedly tried to blackmail Hernandez into withdrawing from the race with a videotape of Hernandez receiving a lap dance in his campaign office.

An election for mayor was held in March 2012, with Daniel Salinas winning the mayor's office, but he was denied taking office due to extortion, bribery, and election fraud charges filed against him, which disqualified him from taking an oath of office.

Border barrier

A private organization, named We Build The Wall built a 1/2 mile wall on at the border of Sunland Park and Mexico in 2019. Privately financed using a GoFundMe campaign, the wall was built on private property but the gate they constructed blocked access needed to maintain a federal dam. The barrier also blocked access to Monument One, an official marker of the International Boundary and Water Commission that was set where New Mexico, Texas and the Mexican state of Chihuahua converge.

Infrastructure
Water is supplied by the Camino Real Regional Utility Authority.

Points of interest

Mt. Cristo Rey
Western Playland
Sunland Park Racetrack & Casino


Gollapally, Ranga Reddy district

Gollapally is a village and panchayat in Ranga Reddy district, AP, India. It falls under Chevella mandal.


G. K. Butterfield

George Kenneth Butterfield Jr. (born April 27, 1947) is an American politician serving as a U.S. Representative, first elected to Congress in 2004. He is a member of the Democratic Party. His district is located in the northeastern corner of North Carolina, stretching from Durham to Elizabeth City and including all or parts of 24 counties. An African American and a longtime advocate on behalf of civil rights, Butterfield is a member of the Congressional Black Caucus, and served as its chair from 2015 to 2017.

Early life and education
Butterfield was born and raised in Wilson, North Carolina, in a prominent African American family. He is the son of Addie Lourine Davis and Dr. George Kenneth Butterfield, both of whom were mixed race Americans. His father was an immigrant from Bermuda.

In describing his racial identity as a black man, he has pointed to his African heritage, while also noting that he grew up on the "black side" of town in racially segregated North Carolina and led civil rights marches. He is the former chair of the Congressional Black Caucus.

Butterfield graduated from Charles H. Darden High School. He earned degrees in political science and sociology from North Carolina Central University (NCCU). In 1974, he received a Juris Doctor degree from the NCCU School of Law.

Butterfield served in the United States Army from 1968 to 1970.

Judicial career
In 1988, Butterfield was elected as Resident Superior Court judge in the judicial district 7BC. Beginning on January 1, 1989 and for the next twelve years, he presided over civil and criminal court in 46 counties of North Carolina. In February 2001, he was appointed to the North Carolina Supreme Court by Governor Mike Easley. In 2002, Butterfield lost his seat on the Supreme Court but returned to the Superior Court bench by special appointment of Governor Easley and served in that position until his retirement in May 2004 to run for the US House of Representatives.

Political career
Butterfield was first elected to the House of Representatives in a special election on July 20, 2004, to fill the seat of Frank Ballance, who resigned. He assumed office on July 21, 2004.

U.S. House of Representatives

Committee assignments
Committee on Energy and Commerce
Subcommittee on Communications and Technology
Subcommittee on Energy
Subcommittee on Health
 Committee on House Administration
 Subcommittee on Elections

Caucus memberships
Congressional Black Caucus (first vice chair for the 113th United States Congress; chair for the 114th United States Congress)
United States Congressional International Conservation Caucus
Congressional Motorcycle Safety Caucus
Congressional Out-of-Poverty Caucus

Butterfield serves on the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, and formerly served on the House Armed Services Committee and the House Agriculture Committee. He is the Region VIII representative on the House Democratic Steering and Policy Committee.

Beginning in 2007 in the 110th Congress, Butterfield was chosen to serve as one of eight Chief Deputy Whips for the House Democratic Caucus. Chief Deputy Whips assist in the formulation of Democratic policy and ensure the passage of legislation by maintaining good communication with members. He was appointed to this position by Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Majority Whip Jim Clyburn.

Political positions
As a member of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, G.K. Butterfield advocated for the American Clean Energy and Security Act. Butterfield supports "a market-based approach to capping carbon emissions" and wants to broaden the United States' sources of energy. On his website, Butterfield stresses the need to find more clean and domestic sources of energy.

A strong supporter of civil rights, he advocated renewal of the Voting Rights Act and "introduced a bill calling for the Capitol Visitor's Center to acknowledge the slave labor used to build the Capitol."

Originally endorsing John Edwards for the 2008 presidential primary, in January 2008, Butterfield endorsed Barack Obama for the primary and general election.

In 2009, Butterfield introduced the Don't Let the Bed Bugs Bite Act "to assist states in carrying out inspections of lodging facilities, train inspection personnel, contract with a commercial exterminator; educate owners and staff at lodging facilities." Butterfield also passed H.R. 4252 "To amend the Small Business Act to change the net worth amount under the small business program for socially and economically disadvantaged individuals from $750,000 to $978,722, and for other purposes."

Butterfield supported the Affordable Care Act, and worked with the Energy and Commerce Committee to help write the legislation. During the discussion of the bill in Congress, Butterfield complained about the lack of cooperation from the Republican party.

Butterfield supports increasing taxes for higher-income families while decreasing taxes for middle and low-income families. Although he is an advocate for using government stimulus in order to improve the economy, Butterfield wants to reduce government regulations on the private sector.

In 2008 Planned Parenthood gave Butterfield an 80 percent ranking. In 2009 Butterfield supported the interests of NARAL Pro-Choice America 100 percent of the time. Butterfield identifies as pro-choice and especially supports legalized abortion when the life of the woman is in danger or if the pregnancy is a result of rape or incest.

Butterfield has repeatedly voted against defining marriage as being between one man and one woman, voting against the Marriage Protection Act of 2004 and constitutional marriage amendments in 2004 and 2006. He has voted to ban job discrimination based on sexual orientation, and in 2010 voted for the repeal of Don't Ask Don't Tell.

Butterfield voted in 2008 against the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) $700 billion bailout of the financial industry and the $14 billion rescue package for the auto industry.

In 2011, he voted to extend expiring provisions of the PATRIOT Act and voted in favor of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2012.

In 2012, Butterfield introduced legislation that, if passed, would require more input from the public before tolls are introduced on roads. His legislation is in response to the "No toll on I-95" group, which is a Roanoke Rapids-based group that opposes instating a toll on I-95. Opponents of the toll argue that it leads to double taxation, and say it is the first time "the federal government has put tolls on an existing interstate."

On July 23, 2014, Butterfield introduced the joint resolution approving the location of a memorial to commemorate the more than 5,000 slaves and free Black persons who fought for independence in the American Revolution. The joint resolution would approve the location of a commemorative work to honor the more than 5,000 slaves and free black persons who fought in the American Revolution.

Political campaigns

2004
Butterfield was elected to Congress in a special election on July 20, 2004 to fill the unexpired term of Representative Frank W. Ballance, Jr., who resigned for health reasons. He defeated Republican candidate Greg Dority and Libertarian Party nominee Tom Eisenmenger. Butterfield was sworn into office on July 21, 2004.

On July 20, 2004, Butterfield won the Democratic primary entitling him to run in the November 2004 general election. Running against Dority again, he won his first full term with 64% of the popular vote.

2006

Butterfield was unopposed for reelection in 2006.

2008

Butterfield won against Dean Stephens with 70.28% of the vote.

2010

Butterfield defeated Republican nominee Ashley Woolard.

2012

Butterfield sought re-election in 2012; the district was expected to strongly favor Democrats.

In April 2012, Butterfield accompanied President Obama to speak at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to speak about extending the current interest rates on federal loan program for many undergraduate students. Butterfield expressed concern with the pending expiration, saying: “Allowing the current interest rates to expire would burden students with additional debt, prolong their ability to kick start their careers, and send the message that it is more important to cut taxes for the wealthy than educational expenses for our young people.”

Personal life
In 1971, Butterfield married Jean Farmer. They have two adult daughters, Valeisha and Lenai. He and Jean divorced in 1991. Jean has been a member of the North Carolina House of Representatives representing House District 24 since 2003. Their daughter Valeisha is married to NBA player Dahntay Jones. They have two children, Dahntay Jr. and Dillon. In addition, Butterfield is the father of an adult daughter, Tunya Michelle Butterfield Smith. Tunya and her husband, Chris Smith, have twin sons, Gavin and Chase.

G.K. Butterfield is a lifelong member of Jackson Chapel First Missionary Baptist Church in Wilson, North Carolina, where he has served as Trustee and Chairman of the Finance Ministry. Butterfield serves as a Trustee of Gallaudet University. He is also a member of Groove Phi Groove Social Fellowship, Incorporated.


K. C. Palanisamy

K C Palanisamy (born 7 December 1959 Chennimalai Erode District) He Studied BE Agri in Tamil Nadu agriculture university at Coimbatore) is an Indian politician and former member of the Parliament of India Tiruchengode constituency (which is now spread across the Erode, Namakkal and Salem District). He represented the Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam party and also he is the Former Member of the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly Kangeyam Constituency. In 1972, when Dr. Mgr started AIADMK Party, he joined as a party member at the age of 13. In 1983 he was appointed as Deputy secretary at the age of 23 by Dr. M.G.R for MGR'S Youth wing of ADMK in  Coimbatore District. Two years later, he was selected as a candidate for MLA for Kangeyam Legislative Thiruppur District. He won the election with the vote difference of around 16,000 and became the youngest person to be seated as MLA in Tamil Nadu, at the age of 25. In 1989, he became the Member of Parliament Tiruchengode Constituency by winning the election with highest vote difference across south India.


1152 Pawona

1152 Pawona, provisional designation , is a stony Vestian asteroid from the inner regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 16 kilometers in diameter. Discovered by Karl Reinmuth at Heidelberg Observatory in 1930, the asteroid was named in honor of astronomers Johann Palisa and Max Wolf.

Discovery

Pawona was discovered on 8 January 1930, by German astronomer Karl Reinmuth at the Heidelberg-Königstuhl State Observatory in southwest Germany. It was independently discovered by Italian astronomer Luigi Volta at the Observatory of Turin on 19 January 1930, and by Grigory Neujmin at the Simeiz Observatory on the Crimean peninsula on 21 January 1930. The Minor Planet Center, however, only acknowledges the first discoverer.

The asteroid was first identified as  at Vienna Observatory in August 1924. The body's observation arc begins with its identification as  at Heidelberg on January 1926, almost 4 years prior to its official discovery observation.

Orbit and classification

Pawona is a supposed member of the stony Vesta family (), named after 4 Vesta and the main belt's second-largest asteroid family by number. It orbits the Sun in the inner main-belt at a distance of 2.3–2.5 AU once every 3 years and 9 months (1,381 days). Its orbit has an eccentricity of 0.04 and an inclination of 5° with respect to the ecliptic.

Physical characteristics

In the SMASS classification, Pawona is an Sl-subtype, that transitions from the common stony S-type to the rare L-type asteroids.

Rotation period

Several rotational lightcurves of Pawona have been obtained from photometric observations since 2002. Analysis of these lightcurves gave a well-defined rotation period between 3.415 and 3.425 hours with a brightness amplitude of 0.16 to 0.26 magnitude ().

Diameter and albedo

According to the surveys carried out by the Infrared Astronomical Satellite IRAS, the Japanese Akari satellite and the NEOWISE mission of NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, Pawona measures between 15.69 and 18.826 kilometers in diameter and its surface has an albedo between 0.1529 and 0.2167.

The Collaborative Asteroid Lightcurve Link derives an albedo of 0.2782 and a diameter of 15.90 kilometers based on an absolute magnitude of 11.0.

Naming

This minor planet was named after astronomers Johann Palisa and Max Wolf, two prolific discoverers of minor planets, in recognition of their cooperation. The name was proposed by Swedish astronomer Bror Ansgar Asplind. The official naming citation was mentioned in The Names of the Minor Planets by Paul Herget in 1955 ().

Feminization of names

Pawona is a combination of "Palisa" and "Wolf" (Pa, Wo) joined with a Latin feminine suffix. The custom of adding the female endings  "a" or "ia" to male names had only faded out by World War II and was finally abolished in 1947, when the Minor Planet Center took over responsibility of numbering and naming asteroids.

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