Skagit peoples

The Skagit ( ) (″People Who Hide″ or ″People Who Run and Hide Upriver [the Skagit River]″) are either of two tribes of the Lushootseed Native American people living in the state of Washington, the Upper Skagit and the Lower Skagit.

They speak Skagit (also called Swinomish), a subdialect of the Northern dialect of Lushootseed, which is part of the Salishan family. , there were an estimated 100 speakers of Skagit.

The Skagit River, Skagit Bay, and Skagit County all derive their names from the Skagit people.


Morton Matthew McCarver House

The Morton Matthew McCarver House, also known as Locust Farm, was built in 1850 in Oregon City, Oregon for Morton M. McCarver. The house was prefabricated in Boston with Maine lumber and shipped to Oregon via Cape Horn. At the time of its erection in the 1850s it was therefore an unusually refined residence for frontier-era Oregon. The two story wood frame house was originally about  deep. Subsequent additions have more than doubled its size.

McCarver arrived in Oregon in 1843, but moved to California, profiting from the California gold rush. He returned to Oregon in 1850 on his packet Ocean Bird with the building materials. In 1859 McCarver moved to Portland, selling to the Warner family, who renamed the property "Locust Farm" and lived at the place until 1947.

The McCarver House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on January 21, 1974.


Healey, Kirklees

Healey is a district of Batley, which is part of the Kirklees district, West Yorkshire, England.

Healey is located between Batley and Heckmondwike. The 2001 census counted a population of 3,011.
Healey contains several council housing estates, one of which was referred to as "Tin Town" and is currently undergoing development with a mix of social housing.

Jessop's Park is a local green space in Healey.

External links

pdf file including statistics and map


Edmund Steward

Edmund Steward (died 1559) otherwise Stewart or Stewarde was an English lawyer and clergyman who served as Chancellor and later Dean of Winchester Cathedral until his removal in 1559.

Biography
Edmund Steward received his Bachelor of Civil Law in 1515 at Cambridge University. Despite being trained in civil law, Steward went on almost exclusively serve the Church. In 1521 Steward was recorded as serving the Archdeacon of Sudbury as a Commissary. A Commissary represented the authority of the Archdeacon and could exercise ecclesiastical jurisdiction in his name, without taking clerical orders. Steward would go on to be Vicar of Dedham, Essex in 1523, and Rector of Laxfield, Suffolk by 1534. Soon after receiving the Rectory, Steward would become Archdeacon of Suffolk twice between 1524 and 1528. He was first ejected from the position by Thomas Cranmer, then Archbishop of York, in 1526 in favor of Thomas Wynter, a favorite of Cardinal Wolsey. Wynter would transfer to the Archdeaconry of Norwich in 1527, and Steward returned to his position as Archdeacon of Suffolk until his resignation in 1529. At the time of his resignation in early 1529, Steward is a trusted confidant of Bishop Richard Nykke or Norwich, and Nykke states that he "has shown his full mind" to Steward on a few high level political issues. Steward continued to work under Wosley as a clerk until the latter's death in 1530. Stephen Gardiner was appointed to replace Wolsey as Bishop of Winchester, and Gardiner made Steward his Vicar General and Chancellor in December, 1531. As Gardiner was often abroad or out of his diocese on Royal business, Steward ran the diocese in his stead for much of the 1530s.

Steward maintained his position as Chancellor of Winchester for the next decade, corresponding with leading clergymen and politicians like Thomas Cromwell, and gaining several benefices, including the Rectory of Easton, and the Rectory of Wonston. Steward also served directly in matters of state, despite his conservative opinions, as when he was a member of a clerical council debating the merits of translating the Bible into English. At some point in 1541, Steward returned to his studies and received a Doctorate in Civil Law from Cambridge in 1541. Until 1541, Winchester Cathedral was a Priory, but the monastery was dissolved in March 1541. The former Prior, William Kingsmill was appointed Dean, and Steward was first prebendary priest among twelve. By this time, Steward was well ingratiated within the Royal Court, and served as one of King Henry VIII's Chaplains. In 1544, Steward claimed the title of Doctor of Sacred Theology when he loaned the crown £66, along with hundreds of other high clergy in September of that year.

With the death of Henry VIII, the Church of England began a more thorough Reformation or a move away from older traditional practices into a more international Protestant church.  Steward remained more attached to the traditional church practices as espoused by Bishop Gardiner, and for that he was stripped of his power and imprisoned in Marshalsea.  Steward had refused to recant his statements against the new Articles issued by Lord Protector Northumberland. Steward was released sometime later, and at the ascension of the new Catholic Queen Mary Steward was restored to his chancellorship of Winchester. In less than a year, Steward was promoted to Dean of Winchester, and given a commission as Justice of the Peace for Hampshire.

Steward lived out the next five years peacefully as Dean of Winchester. Queen Mary died in 1558, and with the coronation of her more Protestant sister, Elizabeth, Steward was deprived of his position in 1559. Steward died in August 1559, a few months after his deprivation by Elizabeth.


The Ford Dorsey Master's in International Policy (MIP) at Stanford University is a two-year graduate program granting the Master of Arts degree. Housed within Stanford's Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, MIP is a multidisciplinary program dedicated to the study and analysis of international affairs. The current director of MIP is Francis Fukuyama, also the Olivier Nomellini Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies. Dr. Chonira Aturupane is the associate director of academic and student affairs.

History

MIP was established as a one-year master's program in 1982. Following a $7.5 million gift from philanthropist Susan Ford Dorsey in 2007, the program was renamed the Ford Dorsey Program in International Policy Studies (IPS), and was housed within Stanford's Global Studies Division. The gift coincided with IPS becoming a two-year program, as well as the introduction of a practicum as a capstone to the program.

In 2018, the program was redesigned and renamed the Ford Dorsey Master's in International Policy (MIP), now housed within Stanford's Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies. This change reflects a restructuring of the program beyond policy analysis, toward evidence-based policymaking and achieving policy change in the real world.

Student body

The Ford Dorsey Master's in International Policy sees an incoming class of 20 to 30 students. About 42% of the class comes from abroad.

Curriculum

The program offers the following degrees: MA in international policy, joint degrees with the Stanford Law School (JD/MA) or Public Policy Program (MPP/MA), and a dual degree as part of a three-year program with the Stanford Graduate School of Business (MBA/MA).

The interdisciplinary program combines a scholarly focus with practical training to prepare students for careers in public service working on international issues. It is geared toward analysis of international policy issues in diplomacy, governance, cyber security, global health, and environmental policy, and also offers research opportunities.

In addition to core course requirements, each student is expected to specialize in one of five areas of concentration:
 Cyber Policy and Security
 Energy, Natural Resources, and the Environment
 Global Health
 Governance and Development
 International Security

During the second year of the program, students are required to enroll in the practicum course for two quarters. Students choose elective courses related at least broadly to international policy.

There is also an exchange program between MIP and the Diplomatic Academy of Vienna. Every year, two second-year students from each institution receive fellowships to study for a quarter at the other institution.

Faculty

Students are taught and mentored by faculty from the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies. Notable affiliated faculty includes former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, former Secretary of Defense William Perry, former United States Ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul, former United States Ambassador to Afghanistan Karl Eikenberry, Francis Fukuyama, Larry Diamond, Amy Zegart, Michael Armacost, and Coit Blacker. Former Facebook chief security officer Alex Stamos is an adjunct professor and William J. Perry Fellow, and Brett McGurk, the former U.S. Special Presidential Envoy for the Global Coalition to Counter ISIL, is the Payne Distinguished Lecturer.

Internships

There is a summer internship program for students between their first and second years, to work with organizations that focus on international policy issues. MIP students have completed internships at institutions including the World Bank, United Nations, Cologne Institute for Economic Research, and the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration.

Policy Change Studio

As a capstone to the MIP degree, second-year students complete a two-quarter course called Policy Change Studio, in which students work in teams to address pressing global policy issues for organizations. Past organizations include the Department of State, Millennium Challenge Corporation, Sandia National Labs, Asia Foundation, and the Defense Intelligence Agency.


Ourlala

Ourlala is a town and commune in Biskra Province, Algeria. According to the 1998 census it has a population of 5,820.


St Patrick's College, East Melbourne

St Patrick's College was an independent Catholic school in Melbourne, Victoria from 1854 until 1968. It was the second independent school and the first Catholic secondary school in Victoria founded with a government grant of £2,500.  In 1865, following financial difficulties, it was transferred to the care of the Society of Jesus (Jesuits).  The school became immediately important to the intellectual and spiritual life of the Catholic community of Victoria and remained so for its existence.

The school was shut down at the end of 1968 in order to provide space for a new Catholic diocesan chancery. After significant public opposition the buildings were demolished in 1970. Over 5000 students attended the school between its foundation and closure. The St Patrick's Old Collegians' Association continues to exist.

Notable alumni
Keith Brennan (1915–1985) – diplomat
Vincent Buckley (1925-1988) - poet, essayist
Frank Costigan (1931–2009) – lawyer
Henry Doyle (1859–1929) – politician
John Nash (1857–1925) – politician
Jack O'Hagan (1898–1987) – singer-songwriter and radio personality
 Richard Michael "Dick" Pirrie (1920–1944) – VFL Footballer, Naval Officer, died in the D-Day Landings of 6 June 1944
 Joseph Santamaria – judge of the Court of Appeal, Supreme Court of Victoria
Thomas Fidelis Hawkins, (1940-1946), Commonwealth Bank of Australia


Róbert Szegedi

Róbert Szegedi (born 26 May 1985) is a Slovak football player of Hungarian ethnic origin who currently plays for Slovak 3. liga club ŠKF Sereď.


Makinsons

Makinsons is a settlement in Newfoundland and Labrador, population 438. Makinsons is located next to the famous Bay Roberts town; Cupids. Makinsons has a post office and no convenience store in the small settlement. Makinsons only has one main attraction a RV park; named Droghedea.


1840 in Ireland

Events from the year 1840 in Ireland.

Events
10 January – Uniform Penny Post introduced.
1 April – Theatre Royal, Cork burns down.
19 May – foundation stone of the Roman Catholic St Mel's cathedral, Longford, is laid.
10 July – General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland established.
28 July – first permanent presence of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Ireland when Mormon missionaries John Taylor, William Black and James McGuffie arrive to work in the Newry, Lisburn and Belfast areas. On 31 July Thomas Tait becomes the first convert baptised in Ireland, at Loughbrickland.
The Palm House in Belfast Botanic Gardens is completed, constructed by Richard Turner of Dublin. It is one of the earliest examples of a curvilinear cast iron glasshouse in the world.
Bewley's established as tea and coffee importers.

Arts and literature
Edward Bunting's The Ancient Music of Ireland is published, incorporating "A Dissertation on the Irish Harp and Harpers, Including an Account of the Old Melodies of Ireland".

Births
1 January – Patrick Walsh, journalist, politician and mayor of Augusta, Georgia (died 1899).
4 January – Bishop Richard Owens, Bishop of Clogher 1894–1909 (died 1909).
8 January – Henry Arthur Blake, British colonial administrator and Governor of Hong Kong (died 1918).
17 January – William Pery, 3rd Earl of Limerick, peer (died 1896).
27 February – Thomas Kelly-Kenny, British Army general who served in the Second Boer War (died 1914).
29 February – John Philip Holland, engineer, developed the first Royal Navy submarine (died 1914).
25 March – Myles Keogh, officer in American Civil War, later in U.S. 7th Cavalry Regiment, killed at the Battle of the Little Bighorn (died 1876).
26 April (bapt.) – Paddy Hannan, gold prospector whose discovery in 1893 near Kalgoorlie, Western Australia set off a gold rush (died 1925).
27 April – Tom Gallaher, tobacco manufacturer (died 1927).
23 May – George Throssell, second Premier of Western Australia (died 1910).
20 September – Ellen Mary Clerke, author, journalist, poet and science writer (died 1906).
1 November – Arthur Guinness, 1st Baron Ardilaun, businessman, politician, and philanthropist (died 1915).
17 November – Lawrence Parsons, 4th Earl of Rosse, eighteenth Chancellor of Trinity College, Dublin (d.(1908).
28 December – Thomas Hovenden, artist and teacher (died 1895).
Full date unknown
William Abraham, Irish Nationalist MP (died 1915).
Timothy J. Campbell, Democrat U.S. Representative from New York (died 1904).
Timothy H. O'Sullivan, photographer in the United States (died 1882)

Deaths
15 April – Thomas Drummond, military surveyor and Under-Secretary for Ireland (born 1797 in Scotland).
21 April – Standish O'Grady, 1st Viscount Guillamore, Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer in Ireland (born 1766).
12 June – Gerald Griffin, novelist, poet and playwright (born 1803).
20 August – George Canning, 1st Baron Garvagh, politician (born 1778).


Upper Willamette Transportation Line

The Upper Willamette Transportation Line was a line of four inland steamboats that operated from the fall of 1859 to the summer of 1860 on the upper Willamette River in the state of Oregon.

Operations
As of November 1, 1859, businessman Theodore Wygant (1831-1905) was the agent in Portland, Oregon for the steamers Elk, Onward, Surprise, and Relief.  Wygant formed these steamers into the Upper Willamette Transportation Company, and starting November 19, 1859, advertised, stage of water permitting, steamers of the line would depart for Corvallis twice a week, and, for Eugene City, once a week.  This arrangement was advertised until June 30, 1860.

In 1860, the steamers of the line were competing against two powerful companies on the Willamette River, the Oregon Steam Navigation Company and the People's Transportation Company.

Steamers of the line
All vessels of the line were wooden-hulled sternwheelers, built in the 1850s at Canemah, Oregon.
 Elk, built 1857, destroyed by boiler explosion at Davidson’s Landing, near present day Dundee, Oregon, on November 17, 1860.
 Onward, built 1858 for Archibald "Archie" Jamieson (d.1861), later came under control of the Oregon Steam Navigation Company, then transferred to the People's Transportation Company in 1864, dismantled 1865 at Canemah.  Engines to Fannie Patton.  (Not to be confused with later Onward built 1867.)
 Relief, built 1858 at Oregon City for Cassidy & Co. Dismantled 1865 at Canemah.
 Surprise, built 1857, laid up 1864.

Notes


Jill Andrews

Jill Andrews is an American singer-songwriter based in Nashville, Tennessee. She co-founded the indie folk/alt-country band The Everybodyfields, leaving in 2009 to pursue a solo career and then to co-found duo Hush Kids with Peter Groenwald in 2018.

Born in Normal, Illinois and brought up in Johnson City, Tennessee, she is an alumna of East Tennessee State University. Andrews has two children: son Nico, and daughter Falcon.

Songs by Andrews have been featured in several television series, among them: "Tell That Devil", co-written with Emery Dobyns and Matthew Mayfield, was performed by Hayden Panettiere in Nashville and is the theme song for Wynonna Earp; "Lost It All", co-written with Matthew Bronleewe, was included in Teen Wolf and The Originals; and "Rust or Gold", co-written with Elise Hayes, in Grey's Anatomy and Beauty & the Beast. "Rust or Gold" was released as a single concurrent with its debut on Grey's Anatomy and within two days ranked in the top ten of iTunes' Singer/Songwriter chart.

Career
Jill Andrews began writing songs when she was 19 years old and her music career began in 2004 when she co-founded the alt-country group The Everybodyfields. In October 2009, only four months after The Everybodyfields break-up was announced, Andrews put together a new band and released a self-titled EP. The six-song EP was produced by Andrews and recorded live to 8-track by producer/engineer Scott Minor in his home studio.

While Andrews toured the country in 2010 to promote her EP she recorded her first solo album, The Mirror. In order to fund the release of the album, Andrews used Kickstarter to raise over $12,000 with the help of 279 backers. The record had two producers, Scott Solter and Neilson Hubbard; each recording tracks at two different studios in North Carolina and Nashville, respectively.

On September 25, 2015, Andrews released her second full-length album, The War Inside. The album was produced by Will Sayles. The track "I'm So in Love With You" features Seth Avett of The Avett Brothers.

In 2018, Jill Andrews and Peter Groenwald started the indie-folk duo, Hush Kids. The group released a self-titled album on October 26 that was produced by Ian Fitchuk.

Discography

Albums
 Jill Andrews EP (2009)
 The Mirror (2011)
 The War Inside (2015)

Featured
 Youth Is in Our Blood – The Dirty Guv'nahs (2010)
Track 9: The Country
 100 Miles of Wreckage – The Black Lillies (2011)
Track 2: The Arrow
 The Art of Troublesome Times – Don Gallardo (2012)
Track 5: Bluebird
 Cayamo Sessions at Sea – Buddy Miller & Friends (2016)
Track 9: Come Early Mornin’
 Often in the Pause (Covers and Remixes) – Kris Orlowski (2016)
Track 9: Carry Your Weight
 Pure Country: Pure Heart  (Soundtrack) (2017)
Track 14: Something Calling My Name

Singles
 Rust or Gold (2013)
 Total Eclipse of the Heart (2013)
 We Built This City (with Aron Wright) (2014)
 Can't Be Love (2015)
 Get up, Get On (2015)
 The End of Everything (2015)
 Sea of Love (with Langhorne Slim) (2016)
 Lost It All (2016)
 Siren Song (2016)
 A Way to You Again (2016)
 Tell That Devil (2016)
 Jingle Your Bells (with Peter Groenwald) (2016)

Hush Kids
 Hush Kids (2018)


Szpiro's conjecture

In number theory, Szpiro's conjecture concerns a relationship between the conductor and the discriminant of an elliptic curve.  In a general form, it is equivalent to the well-known abc conjecture.  It is named for Lucien Szpiro who formulated it in the 1980s.

Statement
The conjecture states that: given ε > 0, there exists a constant C(ε) such that for any elliptic curve E defined over Q with minimal discriminant Δ and conductor f, we have

Modified Szpiro conjecture
The modified Szpiro conjecture states that: given ε > 0, there exists a constant C(ε) such that for any elliptic curve E defined over Q with invariants c4, c6 and conductor f (using notation from Tate's algorithm), we have


The Book of Secrets

The Book of Secrets is the sixth studio album by Loreena McKennitt, released in 1997. It reached #17 on the Billboard 200. Its single "The Mummers' Dance," remixed by DNA, was released during the winter of 1997–98, and peaked at #18 on the Billboard  Hot 100, and #17 on the Modern Rock Tracks chart.
The album is certified double-platinum in the United States. It has now sold more than four million copies worldwide.

Track listing
All music written by Loreena McKennitt. All lyrics written by Loreena McKennitt except as noted.

 "Prologue" – 4:22
 "The Mummers' Dance" – 6:07
 "Skellig" – 6:07
 "Marco Polo" – 5:15
 "The Highwayman" (lyric by Alfred Noyes, abridged by Loreena McKennitt) – 10:19
 "La Serenissima" – 5:09
 "Night Ride Across the Caucasus" – 8:30
 "Dante's Prayer" – 7:11

Song information
 The DNA remix of "The Mummers' Dance" was made into a music video.
 "Skellig" relates the dying words of a monk from a monastery that existed during the 6th–12th centuries on the island Skellig Michael (Great Skellig), 11.6 km west of Ireland.
 "The Highwayman" is an adaptation of the poem  "The Highwayman" by Alfred Noyes.
 "Night Ride Across the Caucasus" was featured in the 1998 film Soldier.
The music from "Night Ride Across the Caucasus" was featured in the song Kokli by Ulytau.
 "Dante's Prayer" is a reference to Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy.

Chart performance

Year-end charts

Personnel
This information is directly from the sleeve notes.
 Loreena McKennitt – vocals (tracks 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, and 8), piano (track 8), keyboards, harp (track 6), kanun (track 1), accordion (tracks 4, 5)
 Anne Bourne – cello (track 6)
 Aidan Brennan – acoustic guitar (track 3), mandola (tracks 4, 7)
 Martin Brown – acoustic guitar (track 5), mandolin (track 5), mandola (track 5)
 Stuart Bruce – assembled drone (track 1), vocal drone (4)
 Paul Clarvis – snare drum (track 5)
 Nigel Eaton – hurdy-gurdy (track 2, 4)
 Steáfán Hannigan – bodhrán (track 5)
 Nick Hayley – serang (track 7), rebec (track 7), lira da braccio (track 7)
 Brian Hughes – oud (tracks 2, 4, 7), electric guitar (tracks 1, 5), acoustic guitar (tracks 4, 5, 7), irish bouzouki (tracks 4, 5, 7), guitar synthesizer (track 4), classical guitar (track 6), vocal drone (track 4)
 Robin Jeffrey – Victorian guitar (track 6)
 Martin Jenkins – mandocello (tracks 3, 4, 5, 7)
 Manu Katché – drums (tracks 1, 2, 4, 7)
 Caroline Lavelle – cello (tracks 2, 5, 8)
 Rick Lazar – percussion (tracks 1, 2, 4, 5, 7)
 Joanna Levine – viola da gamba (tracks 3, 6)
 Hugh Marsh – violin (tracks 2, 3,  4, 5, 6, 7, 8)
 Osama – violin (track 4)
 Steve Pigott – additional keyboards (tracks 3,8)
 Donald Quan – tabla (tracks 2,4,7), timba (track 1), esraj (track 1), viola (tracks 2,4,5,6,8), additional keyboards (tracks 3,4), vocal drone (track 4)
 Hossam Ramzy – percussion (tracks 2,4,5,7)
 David Rhodes – electric guitar (track 2)
 Danny Thompson – acoustic bass (tracks 2,3,4,5,7,8)
 Bob White – tin whistle (track 3), shawm (track 4)
 String Quartet:
 Jonathan Rees – 1st violin (tracks 3,7)
 Iain King – 2nd violin (tracks 3,7)
 Andy Brown – viola (tracks 3,7)
 Chris van Kampen – cello (tracks 3,7)
 Caroline Dale – string arrangements for tracks 3,6,7
 Additional string arrangements – Brian Gascoigne and Doug Riley

Production
As listed in CD booklet:
Produced by Loreena McKennitt; assisted by Brian Hughes & Donald Quan
Recorded & Mixed by Kevin Killen (recorded track 1; mixed tracks 1, 2, 5 & 7) & Stuart Bruce (recorded tracks 2-8; mixed tracks 3, 4, 6 & 8)
Recording & mix assisted by Jacquie Turner, Justin Griffith, Marco Migliara
Mastered by Bob Ludwig
All songs published by Quinlan Road Music, except in Europe, South America & Southeast Asia (Quinlan Road Music/BMG Music Publishing International)

Certifications


Conceição Palace, Ponta Delgada

Conceição Palace () is a building in the historic center of Ponta Delgada, Azores, Portugal. It was declared a national monument in 1981.

The palace was constructed in the end of the 19th century. The name means "Conception" and refers to the Convent of the Immaculate Conception which occupied this quarter before the construction of the palace. Some of the buildings belonging to the monastery were preserved and integrated to the complex of the palace. The most notable of these is the Church of the Immaculate Conception, built in the end of the 17th century in the baroque style.

The palace is occupied by the headquarters of the Regional Government of the Azores. It is one of the so called Palaces of the Presidency.


Limnophila schranki

Limnophila schranki is a cranefly in the family Limoniidae.

It is a Palearctic species with a limited distribution in Europe.

It is found in a wide range of habitats and micro habitats: in earth rich in humus, in swamps and marshes, along streams, in leaf litter and in wet spots in woods.


Charles Digby

Charles Digby M.A. (31 May 1775 - 26 May 1841) was a Canon of Windsor from 1808 to 1841

Family

He was born on 31 May 1775, the son of Colonel Hon. Stephen Digby and Lady Lucy Fox-Strangways.

On 8 June 1801 he married Mary Somerville, daughter of Lt.-Col. Hon. Hugh Somerville and Mary Digby. They had the following children:
Charles Wriothesly Digby (2 May 1802 - 29 December 1873)
Captain George Somerville Digby (27 September 1805 - 16 November 1864)

Career

He was educated at St Mary Hall, Oxford where he graduated BA in 1798 and MA in 1801.

He was appointed:
Rector of Middle Chinnock, Somerset 1807
Rector of Chisleborough with West Chinnock 1807
Rector of Bishops Caundle, Dorset 1810

He was appointed to the second stall in St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle in 1808, and held the stall until 1841.

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Ninety-Nine Nights

Ninety-Nine Nights, (Korean: , Japanese: ), is a fantasy hack and slash video game developed for the Xbox 360 by an alliance between Q Entertainment and Phantagram; video game designer Tetsuya Mizuguchi served as producer for the game. The game features hundreds of enemies onscreen at any given time, and borrows heavily from other video games of the genre, most notably from the Dynasty Warriors and Kingdom Under Fire series.

The game was released in Japan on April 20, 2006, in North America on August 15, 2006, and in Europe on August 25, 2006. A demo of Ninety-Nine Nights was released on a DVD-ROM as a pre-order bonus in Japan, and on July 28, 2006, one was released on the Xbox Live Marketplace. The demo is free and available in all regions.

A sequel, Ninety-Nine Nights II was announced at Microsoft's Tokyo Game Show press conference in 2008, and released in 2010.

Gameplay

This game is of the crowd combat subgenre, in which players battle hundreds of foes simultaneously. Combo moves are performed by using various combinations of the two main attack buttons, while the jump and dash buttons can initiate other actions or specialty attacks. Individual enemies are generally quite weak, typically being unable to perform any combos or block with any effectiveness.

There are seven different characters with different play styles, although only one character, Inphyy, is unlocked at the beginning. Successfully completing each character's story will unlock one or two new characters, until they have all been revealed.

After completing levels in Ninety-Nine Nights, a player's performance is scored, with both a letter grade and 'points' being awarded, depending on how well the player did. Points can be spent to unlock extras, such as concept art and character bios.

The title has limited role-playing elements, with characters gaining levels and being able to select which weapons and accessories to equip. These performance-enhancing items can be found in the different stages or are awarded for excellent performance, providing benefits such as increased attack power. As the characters gain levels they learn additional attack combinations, but there is no opportunity for skill customization.

Another key component of the title is the "Orb Attack" / "Orb Spark" element. Killing enemies yields red orbs that are stored up until the "Orb Attack" bar is full. Once the bar is full, a player may press B to enter "Orb Attack" mode, where the character can use powerful attacks to slay groups of enemies. Enemies killed while in this mode drop blue, not red, orbs. Once a player has stored up enough blue orbs (which usually require several "Orb Attacks"), he or she can unleash a super-devastating, screen-clearing "Orb Spark" attack. Killing enemies yields the occasional equipment drop, which you can equip any time during a map as long as you are not retaliating from an attack, in midair, or in the middle of an attack.

The orb collection mechanic is not unlike that found in Onimusha: Warlords except that it is automatic.  The orb attacks are comparable to "Musou attacks" in the Dynasty Warriors series, in that the player is invulnerable while making them, although in Ninety-Nine Nights, such attacks are significantly more powerful. Each character has their own unique attacks, weapons and orb attacks, as well having their own questline (of around four stages on average).

The gameplay differs somewhat from previous games in this genre as enemy soldiers put up virtually no resistance. Players will routinely mow down thousands of such troops per level using various attack combinations. The Orb attacks effectively act as "nuke buttons", destroying vast formations of enemy soldiers, with only boss characters and some formation leaders unaffected. Each level takes the form of a series of smaller battles which are often interspersed with cutscenes. Although there are usually several objectives during a level, progress through levels and the game is mostly linear. In a stark contrast to the cannon fodder foes, the boss characters are typically quite challenging and can inflict massive amounts of damage in a short period of time.

Development
Kingdom Under Fire: Heroes developer Youn-Lee was involved in creating the game; the game had only six months development time - development kits were received in September 2005, and the game was released in March 2006 in Japan.

Reception

Ninety-Nine Nights received mixed reviews from various media outlets. On the review aggregator GameRankings, the game had an average score of 63% based on 81 reviews. On Metacritic, the game had an average score of 61 out of 100, based on 66 reviews — indicating mixed or average reviews.

IGN and GameSpot gave it relatively poor review scores of 5.6 out of 10 and a 5.9 out of 10, respectively. On the other hand, Play Magazine awarded it a score of 90% in its review, while the Official Xbox Magazine gave it a 7.5 out of 10. The Japanese magazine Famitsu awarded the game a score of 31/40 (8/8/8/7).


Varendra Research Society

Varendra Research Society (1910–1963)  was established in Rajshahi in 1910 for the promotion of studies and research into the History of Bengal in general, and in particular of the Varendra area

History
Some of the leading and enlightened citizens of Rajshahi felt the necessity and justification of establishing such an institution that would explore the precious past of this region. Henceforth, The Varendra Research Society was established in 1910, and the founder of the Society Kumar Sarat Kumar Ray, the scion of Dighapatiya Royal family accompanied by Aksaya Kumar Maitreya, a leading lawyer and renowned historian; Ramaprasad Chanda, a reputed scholar in history, art and archeology

Organization

Founding directors
 Kumar Sarat Kumar Ray
 Aksaya Kumar Maitreya
 Rakhaldas Bandyopadhyay

Major contributions

Organization
The Varendra Research Museum was founded with a standing tribute to the princely generosity of Kumar Sarat Kumar Ray as a president; the great scholarship of Aksaya Kumar Maitreya as a Director; Ramaprasad Chanda, as an honorary Secretary.

Publications
The society published...
 Journal of the Varendra Research Society
 twelve Annual Reports and 9 Monographs containing 31 articles, two works on inscriptions, one on ethnology, one on dynastic history,
 a catalogue of the archaeological relics in the museum,
 a list of inscriptions, and
 several carefully edited Sanskrit texts.

Archaeological excavations
 Excavated the Pradyumneshvar Tank at Deopara in Rajshahi district and recovered from its bed as many as 64 pieces of sculpture and three terracotta Manasa-ghatas.
 Excavated a high mound at Cossipur, 5 miles from Balurghat in West Dinajpur and uncovered brick built walls, a brick built road approaching the mound and a number of sculptures.
 Excavated the sites at Mahisantosh and Kumarpur in Rajshahi district and collected a number of antiquities.
 Excavations at Paharpur were undertaken by the Society in collaboration with the University of Calcutta.

Notes


Gratiola quartermaniae

Gratiola quartermaniae, commonly known as the limestone hedge-hyssop, is a species of flowering plant in the plantain family. It is native to eastern North America.

This species has a highly fragmented range. It is most common in the Interior Low Plateaus of Alabama and Tennessee. There are disjunct populations in the Edwards Plateau of Texas, northern Illinois, the Pennyroyal Plain of Kentucky, and to southern Ontario. In each of these wide-ranging locations it is found on areas of pooling water over flat limestone outcrops, in habitats such as cedar glades and alvars. It is likely that this newly described species is more widespread than is currently realized. Due to its highly scattered range and restricted habitat, as well as the threat of habitat destruction in middle Tennessee, this species is considered vulnerable.

This species was first described in 2007. It is closely related to Gratiola neglecta, which collections were previously identified as. It is distinguished by its more linear leaves, its nearly hairless midstem, and its thicker seeds.

It produces tubular, cream-colored flowers in the spring.


Former Region 8 (Johannesburg)

Region 8 was an administrative district from 2000 to 2006 in the city of Johannesburg, South Africa, located in the historic heart of Johannesburg centrally situated on the north-west axis, and towards the eastern border. Surrounding regions, from the north and proceeding clockwise, were Region 3 (Sandton), Region 7 (Alexandra), Region 9 (Johannesburg South), and Region 4 (Northcliff). The southern boundary is the M2 east-west freeway. This region included the Central Business District of the city. The region was abolished with a reorganisation of regions in 2006.

This region has now been merged with the former region 9 to create the new region F.


Amnirana lemairei

Amnirana lemairei is a species of frog in the family Ranidae. It is found in Angola, Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Zambia. Its natural habitats are dry savanna and moist savanna.


John T. Hendrickson Jr.

John T. Hendrickson Jr. (January 30, 1923 – September 25, 1999) was an American politician who served in the New Jersey General Assembly from the 9th Legislative District from 1982 to 1989. He served as Mayor of Eagleswood Township, New Jersey.

Born in Elizabeth, New Jersey. Hendrickson graduated from Linden High School in nearby Linden.

One of Hendrickson's legislative priorities was sustaining commercial and recreational clam harvesting activities in New Jersey.

Hendrickson served as Mayor of Eagleswood Township for 12 years, part of his continuous service on the Township Committee from 1961 to 1984. He also served the community in a number of other ways, including membership on the Planning Board and the Volunteer Fire Company. He was a real estate appraiser, and past president of the Atlantic-Cape May Chapter of the American Society of Appraisers.

Hendrickson was in the United States Army from 1943 to 1946, serving with an artillery unit in Europe in World War II. He was a former president of the Board of Education of the Ocean County Vocational Technical School. He also served as the Ocean County representative on the Pinelands Commission. Hendrickson was a charter board member of Southern Ocean County Hospital in Manahawkin.

Hendrickson and his wife Adeline are buried at West Creek Cemetery in Eagleswood Township.


Charles Jackson French

Charles Jackson French  (25 September 1919 - 7 November 1956) was an American war hero from Foreman, Arkansas. He had enlisted in the United States Navy in 1937.

Meritorious conduct in action
During World War II, Petty Officer First Class French swam 6–8 hours in shark-infested waters near Guadalcanal while towing a life raft with 25 USS Gregory survivors of an attack by the Japanese Imperial Navy.
For this action, French received a letter of commendation from Adm. William F. Halsey, Jr. in May 1943. Adm. Halsey was then commander of the Southern Pacific Fleet. The commendation stated:
For meritorious conduct in action while serving on board of a destroyer transport which was badly damaged during the engagement with Japanese forces in the British Solomon Islands on September 5, 1942. After the engagement, a group of about fifteen men were adrift on a raft, which was being deliberately shelled by Japanese naval forces. French tied a line to himself and swam for more than two hours without rest, thus attempting to tow the raft. His conduct was in keeping with the highest traditions of the Naval Service.

French did not receive the Medal of Honor or Silver Star.

Resting place
French is buried at Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery  in San Diego, California.


Shove (song)

"Shove" is a 1990 song by grunge band L7, from the album Smell the Magic.

Track listing
 "Shove" (Gardner, Sparks)
 "Packin' a Rod" (Morrow)

Accolades

Personnel
Donita Sparks – guitar,
Suzi Gardner – lead vocals, guitar
Jennifer Finch – bass guitar
Demetra Plakas – drums


Eupithecia schiefereri

Eupithecia schiefereri is a moth in the family Geometridae. It is found from North Africa through central Spain, southern France, the central and southern Alps, Italy and the southern Balkan Peninsula to eastern Turkey and northern Iran.

The wingspan is 18–24 mm. Adults are on wing from April to June.

The larvae feed on Lychnis, Saponaria and Silene species. Larvae can be found from May to September. The species overwinters in the pupal stage.


Kammerlader

The Kammerlader, or "chamber loader", was the first Norwegian breech-loading rifle, and among the very first breech loaders adopted for use by an armed force anywhere in the world. A single-shot black-powder rifle, the kammerlader was operated with a crank mounted on the side of the receiver. This made it much quicker and easier to load than the weapons previously used. Kammerladers quickly gained a reputation for being fast and accurate rifles, and would have been a deadly weapon against massed ranks of infantry.

The kammerlader was introduced in 1842, and it is thought that about 40,000 were manufactured until about 1870. While the first flintlock breech-loading rifles, such as the Ferguson, were launched decades before 1842 Norway was among the first European countries to introduce breech loaders on a large scale throughout its army and navy. The kammerladers were manufactured in several different models, and most models were at some point modified in some way or other.

The kammerladers were phased out as more modern rifles were approved for use. They were either modified for rimfire cartridges, sold off to civilians or melted for scrap. Rifles sold to civilians were often modified for use as shotguns or hunting firearms. Today it is hard to find an unmodified kammerlader, and collectors often pay high prices for them.

Development
In the early 19th century, the Norwegian Army decided that the nature of warfare was changing away from the massed ranks firing in volleys towards smaller units advancing and firing independently. This conclusion was reached after having observed the American Revolutionary War, the Napoleonic Wars and the short Swedish campaign against Norway in 1814. Lessons were also learned from the Gunboat War, where small, mobile gunboats outmaneuvered larger, more heavily armed ships. It was decided that a breech loaded rifle was needed, more accurate than the old smoothbore muskets, yet quicker to load than the rifles issued to the Norwegian Jeger and Skijeger units. A special committee was created, and it started considering various firearm actions in 1837. It was soon clear that the desired weapon should:

 have a reduced caliber compared to the then standard musket;
 have reliable ignition, with the means of the caplock mechanism (earlier muskets had been equipped with the flintlock mechanism);
 be quicker to load than the musket, and therefore be a breech loader; and
 be more accurate than the old smoothbore muskets.

The end result was that a modern, breech-loading rifle was approved for use on the 18 May 1842. The caliber chosen for the new rifle was 18 lødig (gauge); in other words, one could manufacture 18 round bullets out of one Norwegian pound of lead. In modern terms this means the caliber of the rifle was 17.5 mm.

From 1842, until the Remington M1867 was approved in 1867, more than 40,000 kammerladers in more than 80 different models were manufactured. In 1860 the caliber was reduced again, to four Swedish Linjer, or about 11.77 mm. When some of the Kammerladers were modified to rimfire after 1867, this meant that the barrels had to be bored out to 12.17 mm to accept the new cartridge.

During a military sharpshooting competition held in Belgium in 1861, the Kammerlader was proven to be among the most accurate military long arms in Europe. The Norwegian rifles were shown to be accurate to a range of about , which is quite an achievement even by today's standards.

Design features
Every breechloader must have some form of mechanism that allows the breech to be opened for loading, yet securely locked for firing. This was even more important in the early designs made before the introduction of the cartridge. Achieving a gas-tight seal was difficult with the metallurgy of the day, and it can be argued that the Norwegian kammerladers are the first fully successful military breechloaders — the needle gun was slightly earlier, but it leaks a significant gas pressure around the breech. A crank mounted on the side of the weapon operates the kammerlader. Rotating the crank opens the breech of the weapon, allowing for loading. The use of paper cartridges — a pre-measured amount of gunpowder and a lead bullet wrapped in paper — also sped up the rate of fire. While not as fast as more modern rifles, which use fixed cartridges, the kammerlader was much faster than contemporary muzzleloading rifles. The loading sequence is as follows (refer to picture):

 The hammer mounted under the weapon is cocked.
 The crank is rotated, opening the breech.
 A percussion cap is placed on the nipple.
 A pre measured amount of gunpowder is poured into the breech, and the paper from the paper cartridge is used as wadding.
 The bullet is placed in the chamber.
 The crank is rotated forwards, locking the breech and making the rifle ready to fire.

The exact rate of firing with the kammerlader depends, as with all manually operated weapons, entirely on the shooter. While the sources do not give any indication as to the rate of fire attainable by the average soldier, it is known that it was higher than for a muzzle loading musket — roughly four rounds a minute — and most probably lower than the contemporary German needle gun's 10 to 12 rounds a minute, since the kammerlader has a more elaborate loading procedure.

Most of the rifles were modified during their service life. The first major modification was the change from a fixed rear sight mounted behind the receiver to an adjustable rear sight mounted in front of it. The first of the adjustable rear sights was a 'flip over' type: an L-shaped piece of metal that was hinged so it could 'flip' over. Later this was again modified to a design known in Norway as a 'ski hill sight'; a simple, yet functional, adjustable tangent sight. In principle, this latest sight doesn't differ from the iron sights found on most modern firearms. Towards the end of the service life of the kammerladers, most of the small bore rifles were modified to allow the use of rim fire ammunition.

Ammunition
The kammerlader was designed to use paper cartridges — a pre-measured amount of gunpowder and a lead bullet wrapped in paper — both to speed up and simplify loading the weapon. In the early days of the rifle most units used round bullets in their weapons, but in 1855 it was decided that all units should use the a conical ball instead since this gave better accuracy. The paper was wrapped around the cylindrical section of the bullet and secured with wool string secured in the grooves. The end of the bullet was then covered in melted tallow, before the black powder was filled in behind the bullet and the end wrapped. For the 18 lødig rifles, a load of 96 grains (6.22 g) was used. Sources vary in the reported muzzle velocity, but it is known that during tests in 1849, the bullet penetrated  of wood at a distance of 800 alen (500 m).

Modification to rimfire
After the introduction of the Remington M1867 and its rimfire cartridge in 1867, the Norwegian Army and the Royal Norwegian Navy decided to convert some of the stock of kammerladers into rim fire rifles. There were two designs used for the modification: Landmarks and Lunds. Neither can be considered completely successful, but both were cheaper, and quicker, than manufacturing new M1867s. It seems that the Norwegian Army preferred the Lund, while the Landmark was the option of choice for the Royal Norwegian Navy.

For the Lund conversion, the chamber was replaced with a breechblock, and an extractor was mounted on the left side of the receiver. A chamber fitting the 12.17 x 44 mm rimfire cartridge was milled out of the rear part of the barrel. The right side of the receiver was lowered 6 mm and the bottom plate exchanged from a brass plate to a steel plate with a track for the extractor. The firing pin was curved to allow the hammer to strike it.

The Landmark conversion refers to a modification invented by Jens Landmark. The chamber, which on a kammerlader is a separate piece tilted up and to the rear, is opened as before, but can be tilted further backwards by means of a hinge in the middle of the chamber. The 12.17 x 44 mm rim fire cartridge is placed backwards, facing the shooter, before everything is rolled back forward. The only part to be modified was the chamber and a curving firing pin was added where the nipple for the cap had been. Pictures showing the Landmark conversion can be found here

A number of the kammerladers were also converted with the Remington action, by replacing the receivers but keeping the barrels and woodwork. These can be distinguished from ordinary Remington M1867s by having a shorter receiver with more rounded corners. It is unknown how many kammerladers were modified in this fashion.

Models

The kammerlader rifles were manufactured over a period of 25 years (1842 to 1867) in a wide range of both military and civilian models. Almost all the military rifles were modified once or more, resulting in a very wide range of different models for a collector to collect.

 M1842 Army kammerlader. The first model manufactured, differed from later models with a narrower hammer. Production numbers are unknown, but very limited. It can be considered an experimental model.
 M1845 Navy kammerlader. Very rare in original state. Only 100 were manufactured in 1845. Outwardly very similar to M1842. The barrel is mounted to the stock with three brass bands.
 M1846/55 Army kammerlader. At first glance very similar to the M1842, but a closer inspection reveals substantial differences. Most pronounced is the different style of hammer. Unlike the M1842, which had a narrow, ridge like hammer, the M1846 is wider and had a bigger handle. Most M1846 saw a lot of service and show wear. In 1855, the rear sight was modified and moved, changing the designation to M1842/55. It is hard to find an unmodified rifle today. Some 6000 rifles were manufactured; 3000 at Kongsberg Våpenfabrik, while Crause in Herzberg and Francotte in Liege produced an additional 1,500 each.
 M1849 Navy kammerlader. Mostly similar to the M1845. 500 were manufactured in 1849. Most were later converted to rim fire.
 M1849/55 Army kammerlader. Probably the second most common large bore kammerlader, with a total production of more than 10,000 rifles (2,000 produced by A. Francotte in Liege, Crause in Hertzberg produced another 2,000 and Kongsberg Våpenfabrikk 6,021). In addition, a further 4.500 were manufactured at Kongsberg Våpenfabrikk in 1855 directly as M1849/55. There were a couple of improvements on the M1849, compared to the earlier model. The hammer was widened for a better grip, the butt plate was bent up under the stock in order to protect this better. As far as is known, all the M1849 had fitted new rear sights in 1855, attached with a band around the barrel — or at least no unmodified M1849 are known today. Since this is such a common variation, it is also one of the more affordable for a collector.
 Swedish M1851 kammarladdningsgevär för flottan (chamber loader for the Navy). Two brass bands securing the barrel to the stock, a ring on the hammer for cocking and a caliber of 14.8 mm. Otherwise it looks quite similar to Norwegian kammerladers. While much more modern than the Swedish rifles in service at the time, the M1851 was considered a failure and probably was not issued for service.
 M1852/67 Navy kammerlader. One of the more common naval kammerladers, this was a short, small bore (18 Lødig, about 18 bore) rifle in which the barrel was attached to the stock with three brass bands. It also had a 'ski hill' rear sight. This was the last of the naval kammerladers with three bands. Virtually all were converted to rim fire in 1867 by means of the Landmark conversion. It is believed that about 500 were manufactured.
 M1855/67 Navy kammerlader. This must be considered a product improved M1852. Major differences were the number of bands (the M1855 used just two), a different rear sight and the shape of the stock. After the introduction of the rim fire Remington M1867, they were modified with the Landmark conversion, the sights being altered to a rocking pattern graduated up to 800 alen (500 m).
 M1857/67 Navy kammerlader. Identical to the M1855, except the shape of the butt plate. It is assumed that a total of 300 or so were manufactured, all of which were probably modified to rim fire in 1867.
 M1859 Army kammerlader. A short rifle with two bands, it was produced for the Sharpshooter Company in Stockholm (today known as the Kings Guard), for the Jegers and for sergeants in the infantry. The majority of the M1859 was converted from M1849, M1855 and possibly also from the M1846 rifles. Only the numbers between 10858 and 12183 were originally manufactured as M1859's. Today, it remains the most common large bore kammerlader available to a collector.
 M1860/67 Navy kammerlader. The first of the naval small bore kammerladers, and the only naval kammerlader with just two bands. Virtually all were converted to rim fire with the Landmark conversion.
 M1860/67 Long Army. Originally a 4 Linjers (11.77 mm) caliber derivative of the M1855, this long rifle had hexagonal Whitworth-style rifling. It was fitted either with a simple two-leaf rocking sight (on rifles issued to the rank and file) or with a tangent-leaf on rifles issued to snipers. In total about 8,500 were manufactured between 1860 and 1867, the majority later converted to rim fire with the Lunds conversion. In addition, about 1,600 were manufactured with the conversion from new between 1868 and 1870.
 M1860/67 Short Army. The same weapon as the Long Lund, except in carbine form. About 3,200 were manufactured between 1862 and 1866. Identical in most respects to the Naval M1860, except that it was modified to rim fire with the Lunds conversion.
 M1862/66 Artillery carbine. This diminutive weapon had a barrel less than half as long as the M1860. Everything except the bore seems to be scaled down from a M1859 or similar, and the gun might be hard to identify as an M1862 from pictures alone. Production numbers unknown; all are thought to have been modified with the Lund conversion to rim fire in 1869.

Fate of the kammerladers
The kammerladers were phased out as more modern weapons became available — the Remington M1867, the Krag–Petersson (adopted by the Royal Norwegian Navy in 1876), and the Jarmann M1884. It is likely that the last of the modified naval kammerladers was not finally removed from military warehouses until after the Krag–Jørgensen was approved for use in 1894, although sources are scarce on this. The rifles were either sold to civilians or melted down for scrap.

Most of the rifles sold to civilians were turned into hunting implements, by replacing the barrel and/or the woodwork. Some of these were supposedly used for illegal hunting during World War II, when the occupying Germans had seized all modern weapons owned by civilians. Today it is hard to find a kammerlader in original condition, or indeed at all.

Comparison with contemporary rifles
The kammerlader is often claimed to be an outstanding weapon for its time. The only contemporary rifle which it can be compared to is the Prussian needle gun — the only other breech loader adopted for service in the 1840s.


Waylla Waqran

Waylla Waqran (Quechua waylla meadow, waqra horn, "meadow horn", -n a suffix, also spelled Huayllahuacrán) is mountain in the Cordillera Central in the Andes of Peru which reaches a height of approximately . It is located in the Lima Region, Yauyos Province, on the border of the districts of Huancaya and  Vitis.


Thomas Case

Thomas Case (1598–30 May 1682) was an English clergyman of Presbyterian beliefs, member of the Westminster Assembly, where he was one of the strongest advocates of Christian government. Although earlier a strong defender of the Parliamentary cause, he fell out of sympathy with the regicides and became a supporter of the Restoration of the Stuart monarchy.

Life
He was born in Kent, the son of George Case, vicar at Boxley. He was educated at Canterbury and Merchant Taylors' School.  A student of Christ Church, Oxford in 1616, he graduated M.A. in 1623. A curate at North Repps, Norfolk, he became incumbent of Erpingham.

He was preacher at Manchester and Salford, 1635 but was prosecuted for contempt of church ceremonies in both dioceses (Norwich and Chester). His marriage to Anne Mosley of Ancoats in 1637 brought him into an influential family, connecting him to Salford chapel by her late husband and to John Angier. His stepson Sir Robert Booth was Lord Chief Justice of Ireland 1679-80.

He was lecturer in several London churches 1641-2, and a member of the Westminster Assembly from 1643. He was intruded rector of Stockport, Cheshire, in 1645-6.

He was ejected by Parliament from the rectory of St. Mary Magdalen, Milk Street in 1649, after he refused the engagement. Then he spent time as a lecturer in Aldermanbury and Cripplegate.

He was arrested on 2 May 1651, becoming one of the ministers imprisoned  as being privy to the presbyterian plot to recall Charles II, along with William Blackmore, Roger Drake, Matthew Haviland, Arthur Jackson, William Jenkyn, Christopher Love who was singled out as ringleader, Ralph Robinson, and Thomas Watson. He spent about six months in the Tower of London. Subsequently he was rector of St. Giles-in-the-Fields, London, from about 1652.

He was deputed by presbyterians to congratulate Charles II at the Hague, 1660, at the time of the Restoration, and became chaplain to the king. He took part in the Savoy conference 1661, but was ejected for nonconformity at the time of the Act of Uniformity 1662.

When he died in 1682, he was the last of the surviving dissenting member of the Westminster Assembly.

Works
Correction, Instruction: or, A Treatise of Afflictions (1653)
Imitation of the Saints opened in Practical Meditations (1666)
Mount Pisgah: or, A Prospect of Heaven (1670).


Niels Andersen (1835–1911)

Niels Andersen (11 September 1835 - 12 September 1911) was a Danish businessman and politician. He created the first large construction company in Denmark. He served as the first president of the Confederation of Danish Employers from 1896 to 1907.

He owned Sæholm in Gentofte from 1877.

Early life and education
Andersen was born on a farm at  Ydby, Thisted County, the son of Anders Nielsen (1794–1862) and Ane Margrethe Didriksdatter (1797–1857). The farm was small and his father therefore had to supplement his income by transporting stone and gravel for the county's road construction. From an early age, Andersen had to take part in this work. He received no formal schooling but worked hard to acquire knowledge at home, strongly encouraged by his mother, and attended the writing school for petty officers during his Conscription years as a dragoon in 1855–57.

Career
Straight out of the army he started a small construction company. In 1862 he successfully took on the construction of the new Hillerød-Fredensborg railway. After being redrafted during the Second Schleswig War, his company grew rapidly from a number of other contracts on rail lines; The South Zealand Railway to Køge (1869–70), Helsingborg-Hassleholm with a Bjuv-Billesholm branch (1873–74), Århus-Ryomgård (1876–78), Gribskov Railway (1879), Randers-Hadsund (1882–84) and the Gedser Railway (1886), He also worked on the expansion of Helsingør Garbour in 1879–81 and the construction of the Strandvejen Steam Tram Line 1883.

In 1887, he began a partnership with N. C. Monberg. He left the company in 1899.

Politics, organisations and public offices
Andersen was involved in politics from an early age, He was especially committed to the defence agenda and was a  board member of the 1884 founded organisation iværksatte selvbeskatning til forsvarssagens fremme. He was involved in the construction of the Garderhøj Fort as well as the acquisition of land for the rest of the new fortification ring. He was also elected for the Parliament (Rigsdagen) in Nykøbing Mors. He lost his seat at the 1884 election but was 28 September 1886 reelected at a by-election in his home town. He transferred to the Thisted constituency in 1903 where he was elected until giving up his seat in 1909. He was associated Højre but was often in opposition to Minister of Transportation Hans Peter Ingerslev on railway matters. This led to Venstre electing him to spokesperson in connection with the preparations of the State Railways Act in 1891–92.

Andersen was also chairman of the Parish Council (sognerådsformand) in Gentofte from 1889 to 1900 and a member of the County Council (amtsrådsmedlem) in 1889–1910.

He was strongly involved in the establishment of Arbejdsgiverforeningen af 1896) in 1896 and its later expansion into Dansk Arbejdsgiver- og Mesterforening in 1898. He wanted the organisation to become a future bulwark against conflict between worker and employer and was involved in the September Settlement which ended the grand 1899 lockout. Ge resigned as president of Dansk Arbejdsgiverforening on 8 May 1907 and was the following year appointed as honorary member.

Andersen was also chairman of Entreprenørforeningen, Arbejdsgivernes Ulykkesforsikring, Danske Lloyd, Bankrådet for Laane- og Diskontobanken, and a member of overskatterådet.

Personal life

Andersen married Thora Amalie Husen (22 April 1845 - 16 July 1917/ on 20. April 1866.

In 1877, Andersen acquired the country house Søholm on the northern shores of Lake Emdrup (then Lundehussøen).

In 1903, he gifted a plantation to his home town Boddum-Ydby. The residents erected a monument to his honour.

One of his daughters, Dagmar Theresia Rasmussen, married the polar explorer Knud Rasmussen.


Multiplicity-one theorem

In the mathematical theory of automorphic representations, a multiplicity-one theorem is a result about the representation theory of an adelic reductive algebraic group. The multiplicity in question is the number of times a given abstract group representation is realised in a certain space, of square-integrable functions, given in a concrete way.

A multiplicity one theorem may also refer to a result about the restriction of a representation of a group G to a subgroup H. In that context, the pair (G, H) is called a strong Gelfand pair.

Definition
Let G be a reductive algebraic group over a number field K and let A denote the adeles of K. Let Z denote the centre of G and let  be a continuous unitary character from Z(K)\Z(A)× to C×. Let L20(G(K)/G(A), ) denote the space of cusp forms with central character ω on G(A). This space decomposes into a direct sum of Hilbert spaces

where the sum is over irreducible subrepresentations and m are non-negative integers.

The group of adelic points of G, G(A), is said to satisfy the multiplicity-one property if any smooth irreducible admissible representation of G(A) occurs with multiplicity at most one in the space of cusp forms of central character , i.e. m is 0 or 1 for all such .

Results
The fact that the general linear group, GL(n), has the multiplicity-one property was proved by  for n = 2 and independently by  and  for n > 2 using the uniqueness of the Whittaker model. Multiplicity-one also holds for SL(2), but not for SL(n) for n > 2 .

Strong multiplicity one theorem

The strong multiplicity one theorem of  and  states that two cuspidal automorphic representations of the general linear group are isomorphic if their local components are isomorphic for all but a finite number of places.


Oliver Pocher

Oliver Pocher (born 18 February 1978) is a German actor, stand-up comedian and television host.

Biography

Early life and professional training
Pocher is the son of Gerhard and Jutta Pocher; he was born and grew up in Hanover, West Germany. His parents are Jehovah's Witnesses and he too was raised as one. In 2007, Pocher stated that, unlike his parents, he had no contact with the organization anymore as he claimed "not to have agreed with their rules“.

Reports that Pocher had attended a Waldorf school were denied by his management.
Pocher successfully completed his training as an insurance broker at Signal Iduna Bauspar AG.

During the time of his apprenticeship he had some part-time jobs at various radio stations and as a DJ in clubs and during family celebrations. He also appeared in the comedian group Holla-Bolla and as an entertainer at Birte Karalus, a German chat show. After his apprenticeship he worked for the Swiss life insurance " Schweizerische Lebensversicherungs- und Rentenanstalt" (today: SwissLife) and the "HDI Lebensversicherung AG" (HDI life insurance).

Career
Pocher's first television appearance was on 28 October 1998 at the afternoon chat show of Bärbel Schäfer. Pocher was given 5 minutes to make the audience laugh.

On 29 September 1999 he presented the show Chart Surfer Trash Top 100, Was geht ab, Planet Viva and finally 2002 his own show Alles Pocher, ... oder was?.

Between January 2003 to 14 April 2006 he presents the show Rent a Pocher on ProSieben.

In 2006 he recorded the single "Schwarz und Weiss," a song dedicated to the 2006 world cup. A music video was made, featuring Oliver as several pressbox speakers, as well as him performing the song in front of fans dressed in Team Germany attire.

From October 2007 to April 2009, Pocher joined established late night host Harald Schmidt's show on the Das Erste television channel, with the show being called Schmidt und Pocher.

In 2008 his third single "Bringt ihn heim“ (engl.: bring him home) was released. It is a song for the European Football Championship  of 2008. The original version is Baschi's number one hit (Switzerland) “Bring en hei“  He acted as a co-trainer of the European Team during the DEL All Star Game in 2009.

Pocher's contract was not renewed after April 2009, so he was hired by Sat.1 instead to present his own late night show, Die Oliver Pocher Show. The show's ratings were always below the station's average and even slipping over the course of the run until it was cancelled in March 2011.

Criticism and scandals
Oliver Pocher haa been widely criticised for his jokes at the expense of others. After he recommended plastic surgery to a woman of the audience of the Wetten, dass..? ("Wanna Bet..?") episode on 22 January 2005, he was sued for damages of €25,000. Although he apologised to her on the phone and repeated this apology in public during one of his shows, he was not able to solve this conflict out of court. On the 11 January Pocher was sentenced by the district court of Hanover to pay a fine of €6,000. The judge in charge called Pocher's statement (“You look quite old for your age”) a “very insulting comment”. The public insulting continued in January 2008 during the TV show "Johannes B. Kerner" when Pocher once again made fun of the same woman's appearance and mocked the verdict. As a result, another suit was filed against the entertainer. The victim's lawyer explained that the woman was insulted and that the topic is repeatedly brought up by people whom she meets during her work. Pocher did not comment on this. Statements such as those made by Pocher could be legal in the future, as the Council of Europe is advising to decriminalise insults.

Pocher caused a scandal in July 2005 during the ZDF (German broadcasting station) – show "Gottschalk & Friends"  when he first insulted Mariah Carey and later accidentally spat water onto her. For this action he was harshly criticised by some newspapers and by the broadcast station in charge. Gottschalk himself kept calm and commented on the incident: "Of course I do not want to have jokes at the expense of others during my show and I do not want corpses to be carried away from the battlefield afterwards. If you invite Pocher to your show, however, you should expect a different atmosphere than with, for example, Alfred Biolek."

When Pocher mocked the personal life of singer Sarah Connor and her reality show, Connor sued Pocher. While the exact outcome of the lawsuit is not known, Pocher did apologise to Connor.

In January 2009, during the TV show “Schmidt & Pocher“, Pocher spoofed the Hitler assassin Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg, who is portrayed by Tom Cruise in "Valkyrie". He had to face negative feedback for this and thereafter the broadcasting commission examined this incident.

In February 2014, at the Vienna Ball, Oliver Pocher was interviewed by Mirjam Wechselbraun with Kim Kardashian. He joked that he was only going to dance when 'N****** in Vienna' was played.

Shows
{| class="wikitable"
|-
!Title
!Channel
!Period
|-
|Alles Pocher, … oder was?
|VIVA Germany
|2002
|-
|Rent a Pocher
|ProSieben
|January 2003 - 13 April 2006
|-
|Trash Top 100
|VIVA
|2004
|-
|Bundesvision Song Contest 2005
|ProSieben
|12 February 2005
|-
|Pochers WM-Countdown
|ProSieben
|3 April 2006 - 5 June 2006
|-
|Pocher zu Gast in Deutschland
|ProSieben
|12 June 2006 - 6 July 2006
|-
|Gameshow-Marathon
|ProSieben
|15 January - 12 March 2007
|-
|Schmidt & Pocher
|Das Erste
|25 October 2007 - 16 April 2009
|-
|Sportfreunde Pocher – Alle gegen die Bayern
|Sat.1
|27 June 2009 - 25 July 2009
|-
|Alarm für Cobra 11 (guest appearance)|RTL
|3 September 2009
|-
|5 gegen Jauch|RTL
|4 September 2009
|-
|The Oliver Pocher Show|Sat.1
|October 2009 - March 2011
|-
|Samstag LIVE!|Sky Deutschland
|since August 2011
|}

 Discography

 Albums
2007: It's my life - Aus dem Leben eines B-Promis Singles
2006: "Schwarz und Weiß"
2007: "Ich kann nix dafür" (with Nena & Stephan Remmler)
2008: "Bringt ihn heim" (Germany: 68th best-selling single of 2008 )
2009: "Kennst du die Stars" (Bushido feat. Oliver Pocher)
2010: "Wir gehen nur zurück um Anlauf zu nehm’"

 DVDs
2005: Best of Pocher: Aufstieg & Fall eines B-Promis (2 DVDs)
2007: It's my life - Aus dem Leben eines B-Promis (2 DVDs)
2008: Best of Schmidt & Pocher (2 DVDs)
2009: Gefährliches Halbwissen - Die Weltrekord Live-Show (2 DVDs)

 Awards

 2004
 Golden Bravo Otto in the category „Comedy“

 2005
 Golden Bravo Otto in the category „Comedy“
 Comet in the category „Beste Live-Comedy“
 Deutscher Comedypreis for „Beste Comedy-Show“
 Jetix Kids Award in the category „Coolster TV-Star“

 2006
 Goldene Schallplatte for over 45.000 sold DVDs
 Golden Bravo Otto in the category „Comedy“
 Radio Regenbogen Comedy Award
 Goldene Schallplatte for more than 220.000 sold Cd's of „Schwarz und Weiss“

 2008

Preis der beleidigten Zuschauer (Award of the offended viewers)

Filmography
 2005: Durch die Nacht mit Moritz Bleibtreu und Oliver Pocher (TV)
 2006: 7 Zwerge – Der Wald ist nicht genug 2006: Hui Buh – Das Schlossgespenst 2007: Vollidiot, as Simon Peters
 2009: Alarm für Cobra 11, as Oliver Sturm
 2010: Hanni & Nanni, as Rüdiger Hack
 2012: Frisch gepresst 2015: Bruder vor Luder 2017: ''


Brookfield, Wisconsin

Brookfield is a city located in Waukesha County, Wisconsin, United States in the Milwaukee metropolitan area. It had a population of 37,920 in the 2010 census. Brookfield is the third largest city in Waukesha County. The city is adjacent to the Town of Brookfield.

History
Brookfield is west of Milwaukee in Waukesha County in an area originally inhabited by Potawatomi Indians. The first white settler, William Howe, arrived in 1820 with a Presidential Land Grant giving him title to the area. Soon after, Robert Curren bought a claim in 1836, and established a tavern and inn.

In May 1838, Jacques View Jr., with a large party of white settlers, lead the local Potawatomi west. By 1839, the population needed a school house, as the 1840 census showed a population of 148. In these 1840's, George Gebhardt started trading with the surrounding Potawatomi and Menominee neighbors. 1843 is when the first church was built, by the Irish Catholic congregation, named St. Dominic. 1848 was when telegraph lines were laid through Brookfield, towards Waukesha. Communication was made easier due to this. In 1849, cholera reached Brookfield, and one Laura Grover recalls, "The death-like stillness was appalling; nothing was seen but the death carts rolling round the streets gathering the recent dead... I believe there were fifty deaths from cholera that day." The same year, 64 Brookfield residents voted in favor of giving suffrage to black residents, and 0 the other way. In 1850, cholera again went through Brookfield, and according to one Earl Thayer, "The cholera returned... more terrible than the year before. People literally died walking along the streets. Official reports put the toll at over 300."

In 1850, the Milwaukee and Mississippi Railroad (now the Canadian Pacific Rail) built a railroad through the town, which in 1853 erected a depot, forming the Brookfield Junction. In the year 1850, the Town of Brookfield had 1,944 inhabitants and in land area covered 36 square miles. The town slowly grew over following years, with the economy being mostly agricultural, with Brookfield Junction serving as a commercial center for the surrounding farms. The Civil War, an important part of American history, had little affect to this town. In 1867, a second rail depot was constructed, which still stands.

In the 1900's, Brookfield gained a new reputation. Waukesha County was called Cow County, U.S.A., as according to advertisers, they claimed that in the county there were more cows than people. This was, of course, fantastical, although there were cows. This did help cement Wisconsin's dairy reputation. WWI, one of the biggest wars in history, also didn't have too much of an effect on Brookfield and how we know it today. The Spanish flu, however, did kill many people, but not as many as cholera had in the past. On May 31, 1914, a tornado hit, devastating the farmers and the rural area.

This quiet, rural atmosphere attracted one notorious resident, Al Capone, as he established an area to live and a distillery on Brookfield Road. In 1928, the first suburban development, Kinsey's Garvendale, a residential subdivision, was created. Early subdivisions grew slowly due to the Great Depression hitting a year later, affecting its growth and killing demand.

Development in Brookfield began to increase after the Second World War. Suburban development was encouraged by a lack of housing, the baby boom, and government sponsored building programs, which further grew the town, and after several annexations of neighboring communities, an incorporation drive started. The City of Brookfield was incorporated from the town of Brookfield, a portion of which still survives along the city's western edge, on August 14, 1954. The first mayor was Franklin Wirth, and he oversaw the new city, which at the time had a population of 7,900 and covered an area of 17.5 square miles. Much of the land was still in agricultural use, so the city's founders encouraged orderly development of office and industrial areas to cause the community to function with strong industrial and commercial base.

Today, Brookfield covers 27.66 square miles, and numbers 37,920 residents.

Geography and climate
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , of which  is land and  is water. The sub-continental divide passes through Brookfield; on the eastern side of this divide, easily marked by the crest at Calhoun Road and Capitol Drive, water flows to Lake Michigan on its way to the Gulf of Saint Lawrence; on the western side of this divide, water flows to the Fox River of Illinois and Wisconsin on its way to the Mississippi River and the Gulf of Mexico.

There is a heron rookery on a site northwest of Capitol Drive and Brookfield Road.

The Köppen-Geiger climate classification system classifies its climate as humid continental (Dfa).

Demographics

2010 census
As of the census of 2010, there were 37,920 people, 14,576 households, and 10,999 families residing in the city. The population density was . There were 15,317 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the city was 90.0% White, 1.2% African American, 0.2% Native American, 6.7% Asian, 0.5% from other races, and 1.4% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 2.2% of the population.

There were 14,576 households of which 31.5% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 67.4% were married couples living together, 5.4% had a female householder with no husband present, 2.6% had a male householder with no wife present, and 24.5% were non-families. 21.4% of all households were made up of individuals and 11.9% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.57 and the average family size was 3.01.

The median age in the city was 46.7 years. 23.5% of residents were under the age of 18; 5.2% were between the ages of 18 and 24; 18.5% were from 25 to 44; 33% were from 45 to 64; and 19.9% were 65 years of age or older. The gender makeup of the city was 48.5% male and 51.5% female.

2000 census
As of the census of 2000, there were 38,649 people, 13,891 households, and 11,223 families residing in the city. The population density is 1,421.1 people per square mile (548.6/km²). There are 14,208 housing units at an average density of 522.4 per square mile (201.7/km²). The racial makeup of the city is 94.20 percent White, 3.83 percent Asian, 0.83 percent Black or African American, 0.09 percent Native American, 0.02 percent Pacific Islander, 0.23 percent from other races, and 0.81 percent from two or more races. 1.17 percent of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.

There are 13,891 households out of which 36.1 percent have children under age 18 living with them, 73.1 percent are married couples living together, 5.5 percent have a female householder with no husband present, and 19.2 percent are non-families. 16.7 percent of all households are made up of individuals and 9.0 percent have someone living alone who is 65 years old or older. The average household size is 2.74 people and the average family size is 3.09 people.

In the city, the population is spread out with 26.8 percent under age 18, 4.6 percent from 18 years old to 24 years old, 23.2 percent from 25 years old to 44 years old, 27.8 percent from 45 years old to 64 years old, and 17.6 percent who are 65 years old or older. The median age is 42 years. For every 100 females, there are 93.7 males.  For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 90.8 males.

The median income for a household in the city is $76,225, and the median income for a family is $83,691. Males have a median income of $62,351 versus $37,589 for females. The per capita income for the city is $37,292. 2.2 percent of the population and 1.4 percent of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total population, 2.4 percent of those under age 18 and 3.4 percent of those 65 years old and older are living below the poverty line.

Economy
Fiserv is headquartered in Brookfield. The firm provides financial services technology (software, for the most part) for banks, thrifts, credit unions, securities broker dealers, leasing and finance companies, and retailers, among others. Its 2016 revenue was approximately $5.5 billion.

Fedex's SmartPost business unit is also headquartered in Brookfield.

Transportation
Capitol Airport (02C) serves the city and surrounding communities.

Government
Brookfield has a mayor–council government. The mayor is elected to a four-year term. On April 1, 2014, incumbent mayor Steve Ponto again defeated former two-term Mayor Jeff Speaker by a vote of 4,512 to 2,539. On April 3, 2018, incumbent mayor Steve Ponto ran unopposed for mayor.

Brookfield is represented by Jim Sensenbrenner (R) in the United States House of Representatives, and by Ron Johnson (R) and Tammy Baldwin (D) in the United States Senate. Brookfield is represented by Dale Kooyenga (R) in the Wisconsin State Senate and Rob Hutton (R) and Robyn Beckley Vining (D) in the Wisconsin State Assembly.

Common Council
The Common Council is composed of 14 aldermen, with two representing each of seven districts. They serve four-year terms, with one member from each district up for election every other year. The aldermen set policy and have extensive financial control, but are not engaged in daily operational management.

Education
The Elmbrook School District serves residents of Brookfield excluding a small section of southwest Brookfield, which is in the Waukesha School District. Private schools include St. Dominic Catholic School, St. John Vianney Catholic Church, St. Luke Catholic School, St. Joseph's Catholic School, Elm Grove Lutheran School, Brookfield Christian School, and Brookfield Academy. Private high schools located within the Brookfield city limits include Brookfield Christian School and Heritage Christian School, West Suburban Christian Academy.

Tourism

Brookfield offers shopping, fine dining, outdoor golf and parks.  Brookfield's concert hall is the Sharon Lynne Wilson Center for the Arts located in Mitchell Park. Brookfield's main beach is located at Fox Brook Park where hiking in natural preserves, sailing, biking and golfing are also available.

Brookfield Square is the main shopping mall for the city and also serves as a commercial anchor to the Bluemound Road shopping district serving the western suburbs of Milwaukee and Waukesha County. Brookfield has off-road bike paths throughout the city.

Brookfield Days is held annually in June, at Wirth Park supported by the local community. A farmer's market runs on weekends in summer months at the Brookfield City Hall.

The Elmbrook Historical Society hosts several events annually celebrating the lives of early Brookfield settlers, including Caroline Ingalls, who was born in the Brookfield area. The city is often visited by fans of her daughter, Laura, author of the Little House on the Prairie book series.

Notable people

 John Anderson, NFL player
 Ken Anderson, pro wrestler known as Mr. Kennedy
 Al Capone, noted Chicago mobster, owned a Brookfield home where moonshine was made
 Bill Carollo, NFL official
 Kip Carpenter, 2002, 2006 Olympian, bronze medalist in speedskating
 Henry J. Clasen, Wisconsin State Representative and businessman
 Tom Dougherty, MLB player
 Arpad Elo, inventor of Elo rating system for chess, professor at Marquette
 Susan Engeleiter, former administrator of the Small Business Administration
 Aubrey Foard, Charlotte Symphony Orchestra principal tuba.
 Troy Grosenick, professional ice hockey goaltender for the Nashville Predators
 Doc Hamann, MLB player
 Merle Harmon, Hall of Fame broadcaster and entrepreneur
 Kenny Harrison, world champion track and field athlete, Olympic gold medalist
 Nathan Hatch (1757-1847), soldier in American Revolutionary War and War of 1812; farmed in Brookfield from 1842-1847 and interred in Brookfield's Oak Hill Cemetery
 Caroline Ingalls (1839–1924), born in what is today the city of Brookfield (then Town of Brookfield), mother of Laura Ingalls Wilder
 Ken Jungels, MLB player
 Ted Kanavas (1961-2017), Wisconsin State Senate
 Matt Katula, NFL player
 Joe Kuether, professional poker player
 Robert Andrew "Bob" Long, wide receiver for Green Bay Packers during Vince Lombardi era
 Arie Luyendyk, two-time Indianapolis 500 winner
 Eddie Mathews, baseball player (lived in Brookfield during career)
 Al McGuire, former NCAA basketball coach and commentator (lived in Brookfield toward the end of his life)
 Fritz Mollwitz, MLB player
 Brad Nortman, NFL punter
 Leslie Osborne, member of Women's Professional Soccer team Boston Breakers and the U.S. national team
 Joe Panos, football player for Philadelphia Eagles, Buffalo Bills
 James Kerr Proudfit, U.S. Army general
 Martin P. Robinson, puppeteer for Telly Monster, Mr. Snuffleupagus and Slimey on Sesame Street since 1980; graduate of Brookfield East High School
 Herman Schatz, Wisconsin State Representative and blacksmith
 Richie Sexson, retired MLB player (lived here when he played for Milwaukee Brewers)
 Paul Spaeth, noted composer and musician
 Adam Stockhausen, Oscar-winning production designer
 Joe Thomas, football player for Cleveland Browns
 Frank Urban, Wisconsin State Assembly
 John M. Young, Wisconsin State Assembly
 Herman Finger, entrepreneurial lumberman

Sister cities

Brookfield has one sister city:
 Seligenstadt, Hesse, Germany


IRadio

iRadio is a regional radio station in the Republic of Ireland that broadcasts to the north-east, midlands, north-west and west of the state. The station is one of four regional youth oriented stations that were licensed by the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland to challenge the current duopoly in the 15 to 34 age bracket for those outside Dublin by national stations RTÉ 2fm and Today FM. It was created by the merger of i102-104FM and i105-107FM in 2011.

The station is based in Athlone and broadcasts to 15 counties between the frequencies of 102.1 MHz and 104.4 MHz (96.9 Donegal) in the north-west and 104.7 MHz and 106.7 MHz in the north-east, as well as offering an online stream.

The combined 15-county franchise was awarded a new 10-year licence in 2019.

Schedule

Monday to Thursday

Friday

Saturday

Sunday


David Lawrence (cricketer)

David Valentine Lawrence (nicknamed Syd) (born 28 January 1964) is a former English cricketer, who played in five Tests and one ODI for England from 1988 to 1992.

Lawrence was a popular, wholehearted and powerfully-built fast bowler, before a particularly horrific knee injury curtailed his career.

Life and career
Born in England to Jamaican parents, by the age of 17 he was playing for Gloucestershire, opening the bowling with Courtney Walsh.  His vigorous bowling action generated great pace, although at times he was also prone to inaccuracy.

He came into the England team for the one-off Test against Sri Lanka in 1988, but did not force his way back until 1991, when he took five wickets and contributed to England's series-levelling win in the Fifth Test against the West Indies at The Oval.

However, having just established himself as England's primary bowling strikeforce, he suffered a most appalling knee injury on 10 February 1992, in Wellington, New Zealand, while playing for his country. In the middle of his delivery stride, his left patella (knee cap) shattered, the noise of it reaching as far as the boundary; spectators said the sound of his knee splitting was "like a pistol shot". Lawrence collapsed to the ground screaming in extreme agony, and was eventually carried from the field on a stretcher, comforted by team mate Ian Botham. Despite two come-back attempts for his county, including the first after a full thirteen months of recuperation, when the knee cracked yet again during a gymnasium work-out, he was never able to play for England again and was eventually forced to retire from the sport at the age of 29. Later he made a career for himself in Bodybuilding.


Cariniana kuhlmannii

Cariniana kuhlmannii is a species of woody plant in the Lecythidaceae family.
It is found only in Brazil.
It is threatened by habitat loss.

Sources

kuhlmannii


Incisitermes

Incisitermes is a genus of termites in the family Kalotermitidae.

Species include:
 Incisitermes arizonensis (Snyder, 1926)
 Incisitermes banksi (Snyder, 1920)
 Incisitermes barretti (Gay, 1976) - barretti drywood trmite
 Incisitermes emersoni (Light, 1933)
 Incisitermes fruticavus (Rust, 1979)
 Incisitermes furvus (Scheffrahn, 1994)
 Incisitermes immigrans (Snyder, 1922) - lowland tree termite
 Incisitermes inamurae (Oshima, 1912)
 Incisitermes marginipennis (Latreille, 1811)
 Incisitermes milleri (Emerson, 1943)
 Incisitermes minor (Hagen, 1858) - western drywood termite
 Incisitermes nigritus (Snyder, 1946)
 Incisitermes perparvus (Light, 1933)
 Incisitermes platycephalus (Light, 1933)
 Incisitermes schwarzi (Banks in Banks and Snyder, 1920)
 Incisitermes seeversi (Snyder and Emerson, 1949)
 Incisitermes snyderi (Light, 1933) - light southeastern drywood termite


Sunt celebru, scoate-mă de aici!

Sunt celebru, scoate-mă de aici! was the Romanian version of the I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! reality game show. The series premiered on February 16, 2015, on PRO TV. It is hosted by Cabral Ibacka and Mihai Bobonete.

Sunt celebru, scoate-mă de aici! is a reality television game show series in which up to 13 celebrities live together in a jungle environment for a few weeks. They have no luxuries, and compete to be crowned king or queen of the jungle. The show is sponsored by Telekom Romania, a Romanian telecommunications company headquartered in Bucharest.

Format
The premise of the show is that there is a group of well known personalities living together in a specially constructed camp site in a jungle. During their time in the jungle they are isolated from the outside world and are not commonly aware of outside events. While in the jungle, some of the contestants (generally voted by the viewing public) compete in challenges for food and luxuries for the camp. These challenges often involve local wildlife and are meant to gross out the contestants. Each week one or more of the contestants are evicted from the jungle, based on viewer votes. Throughout the show, additional contestants (called "intruders") enter the competition. In the end, a final viewer vote occurs to determine the winner of the series.

Challenges

Tucker trials
Bush Tucker trials are used in the show to allow the contestants to gain food and treats for camp. Bush Tucker Trials take two formats: eating trials and physical/mental tasks.

In the eating trials, contestants are required to eat a variety of different "jungle" foods. Each dish successfully eaten will gain the contestants one star, which equals one meal for camp (although the number of meals per star can vary). The foods that are required to be eaten can include: crickets (in a variety of forms, such as cooked into biscuits, blended into drinks or eaten alive or dead), green ants, mealworms, witchetty grub, roasted spider or tarantulas, crocodile penis, cockroach (prepared in various ways such as being cooked into biscuits, blended into drinks, eaten alive or dead). Other past foods include beach worms, bull's tongues, the anus of various animals, vomit fruits, cooked pigs' brains, various animal testicles, raw fish eyes, sheep eyes, blended rats or mice tails.

The second type of challenge is more of a physical or mental task that requires the contestants to perform activities to gain stars. These can include searching through dung, going through tunnels, negotiating obstacles on high wires, or performing other tasks.

Celebrity Chest challenges
Two or more celebrities are chosen to take part in the "Celebrity Chest" challenge to win luxuries for camp. Each challenge involves completing a task to win a chest to take back to camp. However, to win the luxury item in the chest, the campmates must correctly answer a question. If they fail to answer correctly, the luxury item is forfeited and a joke prize is won.

Production
The show was broadcast daily on PRO TV channel at 8:30 pm, since 16 February 2015.

Series details
Winners are crowned King or Queen of their respective year.

Key:
 King of the Jungle
 Queen of the Jungle

Results
Key
 Winner – King or Queen of the Jungle
 Runner-up
 Third place
 Walked or withdrew
 Late arrival

Season 1 (2015)

13 contestants, 16 February – 8 March 2015:

Ratings
Official ratings are taken from ARMA (Asociaţia Română pentru Măsurarea Audienţelor), the organisation that compiles audience measurement and television ratings in Romania.


William Macpherson (bureaucrat)

William Macpherson of Blairgowrie (26 August 1784 - 13 March 1866), a Deputy Lieutenant of Perthshire, Scotland, Clerk of the New South Wales Legislative Council, was born in Barrackpore, India. He was the eldest son of Colonel Allan Macpherson, who was at that time on duty in the Bengal establishment of the East India Company's services, and Eliza Dell, née Fraser.

Macpherson, together with his wife and son, Allan, went to Sydney, Australia in 1829 where he took up the position of Collector of Internal Revenue in New South Wales.

He held several other senior positions in the New South Wales public service and retired in 1859 as Clerk of the New South Wales Legislative Council.

His son, Allan Macpherson, was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly and represented the Electoral district of Central Cumberland from 1863 to 1868.

William Macpherson died in Sydney on 13 March 1866.


Mawlamyinegyun

Mawlamyinegyun (; also spelt Moulmeingyun and known as Mawgyun), is a town in the Ayeyarwady Region of south-west Burma. It is the seat of the Mawlamyinegyun Township in the Labutta District.

External links
Satellite map at Maplandia.com


Solar maximum

Solar maximum or solar max is a regular period of greatest Sun activity during the 11-year solar cycle. During solar maximum, large numbers of sunspots appear, and the solar irradiance output grows by about 0.07%. The increased energy output of solar maxima can impact Earth's global climate, and recent studies have shown some correlation with regional weather patterns.

At solar maximum, the Sun's magnetic field lines are the most distorted due to the magnetic field on the solar equator rotating at a slightly faster pace than at the solar poles. On average, the solar cycle takes about 11 years to go from one solar maximum to the next, with duration observed varying from 9 to 14 years.

Large solar flares often occur during a maximum. For example, the solar storm of 1859 struck the Earth with such intensity that the northern lights were visible as far from the poles as Cuba and Hawaii.

Predictions
Predictions of a future maximum's timing and strength are very difficult; predictions vary widely. There was a solar maximum in 2000. In 2006 NASA initially expected a solar maximum in 2010 or 2011, and thought that it could be the strongest since 1958.<ref>"Solar Storm Warning", Science@NASA, 10 March 2006, Accessed 26 Mar. 2010</ref> However, the solar maximum was not declared to have occurred until 2014, and even then was ranked among the weakest on record.

Italian engineer Carlo Santagata suggested a parallelism between the masses (planets) orbiting the Sun and electric charges of equivalent magnitude. Then the magnetic induction of each orbiting mass (electric charge) on the Sun would add up during certain periods thus creating Solar maximums or would cancel out during other periods thus causing Solar minimums.

Film
IMAX documentary about solar maximum called Solarmax''.

Grand solar minima and maxima

Grand solar maxima occur when several solar cycles exhibit greater than average activity for decades or centuries.  Solar cycles still occur during these grand solar maximum periods but the intensity of those cycles is greater. Grand solar maxima have shown some correlation with global and regional climate changes.

The idea of a Modern Maximum has now been thrown into question with the release of a paper at the International Astronomical Union General Assembly in August 2015.

A list of historical Grand minima of solar activity includes also Grand minima ca. 690 AD, 360 BC, 770 BC, 1390 BC, 2860 BC, 3340 BC, 3500 BC, 3630 BC, 3940 BC, 4230 BC, 4330 BC, 5260 BC, 5460 BC, 5620 BC, 5710 BC, 5990 BC, 6220 BC, 6400 BC, 7040 BC, 7310 BC, 7520 BC, 8220 BC, 9170 BC.


Heteroteuthidinae

Heteroteuthidinae is a subfamily of bobtail squid encompassing five genera and around ten species.

Classification
Subfamily Heteroteuthinae
Genus Amphorateuthis
Amphorateuthis alveatus
Genus Heteroteuthis
Subgenus Heteroteuthis
Heteroteuthis dispar, Odd Bobtail
Heteroteuthis weberi
Subgenus Stephanoteuthis
Heteroteuthis dagamensis
Heteroteuthis hawaiiensis
Heteroteuthis serventyi
Genus Iridoteuthis
Iridoteuthis iris
Iridoteuthis maoria
Genus Nectoteuthis
Nectoteuthis pourtalesi
Genus Sepiolina
Sepiolina nipponensis, Japanese Bobtail
Genus Stoloteuthis
Stoloteuthis leucoptera, Butterfly Bobtail Squid


Spongiforma thailandica

Spongiforma thailandica is a species of fungus in the Boletaceae family, genus Spongiforma. The stemless sponge-like species, first described in 2009, was found in Khao Yai National Park in central Thailand, where it grows in soil in old-growth forests. The rubbery fruit body, which has a strong odor of coal-tar similar to Tricholoma sulphureum, consists of numerous internal cavities lined with spore-producing tissue. Phylogenetic analysis suggests the species is closely related to the Boletaceae genera Porphyrellus and Strobilomyces.

Taxonomy and phylogeny

The species was first described scientifically in 2009 by E. Horak, T. Flegel and D.E. Desjardin, based on specimens collected in July 2002 in Khao Yai National Park, central Thailand, and roughly three years later in the same location. Prior to this, the species had been mentioned in a 2001 Thai publication as an unidentified species of Hymenogaster. Phylogenetic analysis of ribosomal DNA sequences shows that Spongiforma is sister (sharing a common ancestor) to the genus Porphyrellus. The next most closely related genus is Strobilomyces. All three genera are members of the Boletaceae family, and in the Boletineae, one of several lineages of Boletales recognized taxonomically at the level of suborder.

The genus name Spongiforma refers to the sponge-like nature of the fruit body, while the specific epithet thailandica denotes the country in which the species is found.

Description
The fruit body of Spongiforma thailandica is relatively large, up to  in diameter by  tall, and pale brownish gray to brown or reddish brown. It is sponge-like and rubbery—if water is squeezed out it will assume its original shape. The surface has irregular, relatively large cavities (locules),  in diameter, lined with fertile (spore-producing) tissue. The mushrooms do not have a stem, but rather a columella—a small internal structure at the base of the fruit body, resembling a column, extending up into the fruit body. The columella has dimensions of 10–15 mm tall by 8–10 mm diameter (at the apex) by 3–4 mm (at the base), and it is attached to copious, fine white rhizomorphs. Fruit bodies have a strong odor of coal tar or burnt rubber (likened to Tricholoma sulphureum). The mushroom tissue turns purple when a drop of 3–10% potassium hydroxide is applied.

In mass, the spores appear to be brown to reddish-brown in color. Viewed with a microscope, they are amygdaliform (almond-shaped), and typically measure 10–11.5 by 5.5–7 µm. The basidia (spore-bearing cells) are cylindrical to roughly club-shaped, four-spored, with dimensions of 25–32 by 6.5–9.5 μm. They have straight sterigmata (slender extensions that attach to the spores) up to 9.5 μm long. The cystidia (large, sterile cells in the hymenium) are cylindrical to roughly club-shaped, thin-walled, and measure 25–48 by 5–10 μm. They are inamyloid, meaning they will not absorb iodine when stained with Melzer's reagent. The cystidia are plentiful on the edges of the locules, and occasional among the basidia. The hymenophore is made of interwoven branched hyphae that are arranged in a roughly parallel fashion. These thin-walled cylindrical hyphae have inflated septa (intracellular partitions), and are gelatinous, hyaline (translucent) and inamyloid. The subhymenium (the tissue layer immediately under the hymenium) is made of inflated hyphae that are hyaline, inamyloid, thin-walled, and non-gelatinous, measuring 9–20 by 9–14 μm.

The fruit bodies vaguely resemble those of the species Gymnopaxillus nudus, found in Australia growing in association with Eucalyptus. However, Gymnopaxillus fruit bodies grow underground, lack a strong odor, do not stain purple with potassium hydroxide, and have longer spores, typically 11–16 µm.

Habitat and distribution

Spongiforma thailandica was found growing on the ground in an old growth forest in Khao Yai National Park (Nakhon Nayok Province, Thailand), at an elevation of about . The fungus is thought to grow in a mycorrhizal association with Shorea henryana and Dipterocarpus gracilis.