Maples Collegiate

Maples Collegiate is a public high school in Winnipeg, Manitoba. It is a part of the Seven Oaks School Division.

Notable alumni
 Krzysztof Soszynski, UFC fighter
 Tanya Dubnicoff, medalist in track cycling
 Justin Duff, Canadian volleyball player
Roger Galante

External links
 Seven Oaks School Division
 Maples Collegiate Institute


1991 Gent–Wevelgem

The 1991 Gent–Wevelgem was the 53rd edition of the Gent–Wevelgem cycle race and was held on 10 April 1991. The race started in Ghent and finished in Wevelgem. The race was won by Djamolidine Abdoujaparov of the Carrera team.

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European Society of Radiology

The European Society of Radiology (ESR) is an international medical society based in Vienna, Austria dedicated to the promotion and coordination of scientific, philanthropic, intellectual and professional activities of radiology in Europe. In addition to various other activities, the ESR serves as an umbrella organisation for European radiologists, organises the annual European Congress of Radiology (ECR) and coordinates the publication of European Radiology, a monthly peer-reviewed medical journal. Additionally, the ESR pilots the harmonisation of teaching programmes throughout Europe with various activities and initiatives.

History

Founded in 2005, the European Society of Radiology (ESR) was created through the merger of two established radiological societies; the European Association of Radiology (EAR), a federation of national radiological societies founded in 1962, and the European Congress of Radiology (ECR), the organising body of the eponymous congress which was first held in 1967<ref name="Thomas, The EAR"> Thomas, A. M., Banerjee, A. K., Busch, U., Buzzi, A., & Livadas, G. (2007). The European Association of Radiology 1962-2007 A Vision Realised. Vienna: The European Association of Radiology. Retrieved July 4, 2019, from https://www.myesr.org/EAR_History.</</ref>

The EAR was established on the 15th of December, 1962 through the efforts of Boris Rajewsky of the Max Planck Institute in Frankfurt and Charles Marie Gros of the University of Strasbourg who would become the association’s first president and first secretary-general respectively.  The EAR was tasked with coordinating a European congress and establishing a European counterpart to the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA), which had existed since 1915. By the time it was formally registered, the association comprised radiological member societies from nine countries - Belgium, France, Italy, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland, and West Germany. The European Congress of Radiology was to be held every four years in a different European city, starting in 1967 which Barcelona with took place in conjunction with the Radiological Federation of Latin Culture (Féderation Radiologique de Culture Latine).

After successor congresses were held in Amsterdam (1971), Edinburgh (1975), Hamburg (1979), Bordeaux (1983) and Lisbon (1987), the EAR in 1985 founded a committee, chaired by Josef Lissner of the University of Munich, specifically tasked with organising future congresses. An ever-changing location and the lack of a consistent group of experienced radiologists responsible for the congresses were deemed obstacles to the most effective congress possible.  As a result, the committee ultimately decided that the frequency of the congress should be increased to every two years and a permanent host location be selected.

As the late 1980s, early 1990s was marked by the fall of the iron curtain and a call for greater European cooperation, a suitable host location was sought that could embody these ideals. Situated near the then border between eastern and western Europe, Vienna was chosen to host all future congresses beginning in 1991. By the late 1980s, the Verein Europaeischer Roentgenkongress, or European Congress of Radiology (ECR), had been founded and a congress-organising institution was established at the Medical University of Vienna, both in support of the biennial meeting. With ECR’91, EAR remained a federation of national societies who sent delegates to the general assembly at the end of every congress. Due to the growing success of the ECR, it was decided that the congress would be held annually from 1999 on.

By the beginning of the 2000’s it had become clear to EAR leadership that a unified organisation combining all aspect of radiology including the ECR would better serve European radiology interests moving into the future. As the EAR had a federal structure with a restricted financial base, a new association would be necessary in order to create a unified “House of European Radiology” that could effectively combine the numerous and diverse responsibilities from the EAR and various congress planning organisations.

After more than three years of meetings and discussions, the General Assembly of EAR held in the Austria Center Vienna on March 7, 2005 unanimously approved of the statutes of the ESR, paving the way for the creation of the society as it functions today. Nicholas Gourtsoyiannis of the University of Crete, a guiding force behind the creation of the ESR and president of ECR 2003, served as its first president from December 2005 to March 2007.

House of European Radiology

The House of European Radiology is the current headquarters of the European Society of Radiology (ESR) and has been since 2018 after the completion of its renovation.  The building is located in the historic central district of Vienna, across from the steps leading to Maria am Gestade church on Am Gestade square. Through renovations, the building has retained the style of its facade dating from 1823 with a newly constructed interior which houses a majority of ESR functions.

Structure
Upon the founding of the European Society of Radiology (ESR) in 2005, the board of directors, executive council and all executive bodies were integrated from the bodies of the two founding societies (EAR & ECR) to form the executive council through a process of voting.

The current structure of the ESR consists of a board of directors, committee chairs, the director of the European School of Radiology (ESOR) and the ESR executive director. These form the executive council which dictates and manages the various activities of the ESR. The composition of the board changes at the annual General Assembly which takes place on the last day of the European Congress of Radiology (ECR). The committee chairs and newest member of board of directors are elected by the voting members of the ESR.

The board of directors consists of the Past-President, Chairperson of the Board of Directors, President, 1st Vice-President and 2nd Vice-President. The 2nd Vice-President (the newest member of the board) is elected every year for a five year period of office, holding the position of 2nd Vice-President in the first year, 1st Vice-President in the second year, President in the third year, Chairperson of the Board of Directors in the fourth year and finally the Past-President in the fifth year of office. Re-election is not possible.
The current chair of the ESR Board of Directors is Prof. Lorenzo E. Derchi, from Genoa, Italy.

Membership
The European Society of Radiology (ESR) offers full membership to all European radiologists as well as professionals of allied sciences such as nuclear medicine physicians, radiographers, medical physicists, etc. Corresponding membership is offered to international radiologists and professionals of allied sciences. Membership is on a yearly basis and the ESR offers its members various benefits. These include:
Reduced registration fees for the European Congress of Radiology (ECR).
Free access to all contents of Education on Demand, the ESR e-learning platform, including the possibility to earn e-CME.
Option to participate in:
European Diploma: examination based on the ESR European Training Curriculum (radiologists or radiology residents).
All activities of the European School of Radiology (ESOR).
Use of EURORAD, a peer-reviewed online teaching database of radiology
Electronic access to European Radiology, the monthly peer-reviewed medical journal.
Membership is also extended to various European and international societies of radiology as institutional and associate institutional members.

Activities

European Congress of Radiology

The core of the European Society of Radiology’s (ESR) activities is the organisation of its annual meeting, the European Congress of Radiology (ECR). With more than 30,000 participants from around 100 countries and more than 4,000 scientific papers and exhibits, the ECR has developed into the largest radiological meeting in Europe since it was first held in its ‘new’ format in September 1991. It is held annually at the end of February or early March. Congress attendees include radiology professionals, professionals of allied sciences, industry representatives, and press reporters for both the medical and consumer press.

The ECR hosts an accompanying industrial exhibition which provides a chance for congress-goers to explore state-of-the-art medical imaging technology and related services.

International Day of Radiology

The International Day of Radiology is an annual event held with the aim of building greater awareness of the value that radiology contributes to safe patient care and improving understanding of the role radiologists and radiological technologists play in healthcare. It was launched in 2012 and is a joint initiative of the European Society of Radiology (ESR), the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) and the American College of Radiology (ACR). November 8, the day that Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen discovered the existence of x-rays in 1895, was chosen as a day of action and awareness.

The theme of Sports Imaging (a sub-specialty of musculoskeletal radiology) has been selected for the 2019 International Day of Radiology. Previous themes include Cardiac Imaging (2018), Emergency Radiology (2017) and Breast Imaging (2016). In further celebration of the day, the ESR annually publishes a book containing curated scholarly research on the theme of that particular year.

European Institute for Biomedical Imaging Research
The European Institute for Biomedical Imaging Research (EIBIR), established in 2006 on the initiative of the European Society of Radiology (ESR), aims to improve cooperation between research institutes, academic departments and industry that form the European biomedical imaging community with the goal of improving the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of diseases. It actively supports research networking activities and common initiatives and interoperability in the field of biomedical imaging research.

European and International Affairs
The European Society of Radiology (ESR) undertakes various international and EU-level initiatives designed to support member interests internationally and in government. One of these initiatives is the ESR’s collaborative work on cancer. Various cancer initiatives have been undertaken including collaboration with the European Joint Action on Cancer Control (CanCon JA). The ESR is part of the European Commission Initiative on Breast Cancer (ECIBC) whose aim is to develop new European Breast Guidelines, evidence-based recommendations for breast cancer screening and diagnosis and develop a voluntary European Breast QA scheme for breast cancer services.

Since 2012, the ESR has been a member of the EC’s eHealth Stakeholder Group (eHSG), with the aim of recognising teleradiology as a medical act in its own right. Additionally, on 6 June 2018, the ESR organised an event at the European Parliament that brought together MEPs, EC officials, and health stakeholders to discuss the importance of effectively implementing health policies and legislation in clinical practice.

As a member of the EMA Healthcare Professionals Working Party (HCPWP), the ESR can be actively involved in activities of the EMA while also facilitating direct dialogue, having addressed topics such as Gadolinium-based contrast agents and the implications of Brexit on radiology in Europe. The ESR also contributes to the Digital Imaging Adoption Model (DIAM) with the goal of supporting organisations in the planning and implementation of imaging IT in radiology departments.

Publications

European Radiology
European Radiology, established in 1991, is a monthly peer-reviewed medical journal that features articles on a wide range of radiological topics. The flagship journal of the European Society of Radiology (ESR) seeks to update scientific knowledge in clinical radiology by publishing research articles of general interest as well as state-of-the-art reviews, and short communications written by leading radiologists. It is available to all members of the ESR and thus reaches a regular audience of several thousand readers; both in electronic and print form. In 2017, the journal had an Impact Factor of 4.027.

In 2018 the editorial board had over 160 board members and over 2,500 active reviewers, racking up nearly 800,000 downloads.
The current editor in chief is professor Yves Menu, chairman of the department of radiology at Saint Antoine Hospital, Pierre & Marie Curie University in Paris, France.

European Radiology Experimental

European Radiology Experimental, the youngest of the ESR journal family, is an open access scientific medical journal that focuses on modern multidisciplinary research involving radiology in the experimental setting and basic science. The journal publishes articles on a wide range of topics including new modalities/techniques (e.g., Magnetic Resonance sequences or spectral Computed Tomography applications, molecular, hybrid, and optical imaging), 3D-modelling, printing and advanced teleradiology (e.g., virtual physician-patient interaction). The current Editor-in-Chief is Professor Francesco Sardanelli of the University of Milan.

Insights into Imaging

Insights into Imaging is an open access journal dedicated to critical reviews, guidelines and policy statements, and is dedicated to education and strategies in radiology. The current Editor-in-Chief is Professor Luis Martí-Bonmatí of the University of Valencia.
The journal, which had over 450,000 downloads in 2018 is currently seeking to be included in the Web of Science database, which would allow it to secure and develop an impact factor (IF).

Education

European School of Radiology

The European School of Radiology (ESOR) is an institution fulfilling the mission of the European Society of Radiology (ESR) in the field of education. One of its main goals is to harmonise radiological education in Europe. It offers various programmes including fellowships, visiting professorships and courses. Additionally, ESOR also provides an e-learning platform and continuing medical education (CME) credits for its courses.

European Board of Radiology

The European Board of Radiology (EBR) is an organisation whose purpose is to investigate, develop and implement certification and accreditation activities and programmes in radiology. Some of its activities include:
The European Diploma in Radiology (EDiR): Officially endorsed by the European Union of Medical Specialists (UEMS) and the ESR, EDiR provides standardisation and accreditation for radiologists across European borders.
The European Training Assessment Programme (ETAP 2.0): ETAP 2.0 is an assessment of training institutions in radiology. The developed guidelines and standards are assessed by visiting experts who then provide the institution with a certificate of excellence.
The Accreditation Council in Imaging (ACI): The ACI was established to cooperate with the accreditation council of the European Union of Medical Specialists (UEMS), the European Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (EACCME), and its Radiology Section in harmonising [Continuing Medical Education] accreditation.

Eurorad

Eurorad is an online radiological case database that has been freely available since 2009. Radiologists are able to submit cases which are then reviewed before being published on the site. The database’s origins can be found in the late 90’s when the Europeans Association of Radiology (EAR) realized a comprehensive approach to case studies that could parallel their peer-reviewed journals would be necessary. Today the portal is an open resource to radiologists and researchers.

Eurosafe Imaging

EuroSafe Imaging is the ESR’s initiative to promote appropriateness in medical imaging. Officially launched at the European Congress of Radiology in March 2014, the initiative is meant to address radiation protection in patients. Newsletters, sessions in conferences and training material are generated for the goal of informing physicians on best practice.


Jafarabad, Zarandieh

Jafarabad (, also Romanized as Ja‘farābād) is a village in Hakimabad Rural District, in the Central District of Zarandieh County, Markazi Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its existence was noted, but its population was not reported.


Vicki Grassian

Vicki Helene Grassian is the Chair of the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of California, San Diego. She is also a Distinguished Professor in the Departments of Chemistry and Biochemistry, NanoEngineering, and Scripps Institution of Oceanography and holds the Distinguished Chair in Physical Chemistry.

Education
Grassian studied Chemistry at the University of New York at Albany, graduating in 1981. She moved to the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute for her Masters, which she completed in 1982. She earned her PhD at the University of California, Berkeley in 1987. Her PhD supervisor was George C. Pimentel.

Career
In 1990 Grassian joined the faculty of the University of Iowa, where she earned a General Electric Foundation Faculty Fellowship. She began to research the reactions between trace atmospheric gases (i.e. nitrogen oxides and volatile organic compounds) and mineral dust. She has since established herself as one of the world's leading scientists studying the environmental reactions on oxide and carbonate surfaces. She was appointed full Professor and won the Distinguished Achievement Award in 2002. There are several particles in the Earth's atmosphere, mostly consisting of mineral dust and sea spray, and their surfaces have the ability to influence the Earth's climate. She demonstrated that during the daytime, mineral dust aerosols can convert nitrogen dioxide into nitrous acid. Aerosols can be generated in volcanoes, wildfires, coal-fired power plants and vehicles.

She was named the F. Wendell Miller Chair in Chemistry and Director Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Institute in 2010. She was appointed co-Director of the National Science Foundation Center for Aerosol Impacts on Chemistry of the Environment (CAICE). She was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry in 2010 and the American Chemical Society in 2011.

Starting in 2013 Grassian was named Editor-in-Chief of Environmental Science: Nano a new journal from the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) Publishing and held that appointment for five years. She is also an editor at the Surface Science Reports. She won the University of Iowa Scholar of the Year Award in 2014. She mentored over 300 students in her laboratory. She became a Chartered Chemist in 2015.

In 2016 moved to the University of California San Diego. Here she leads the Grassian Research Group. They work on environmental interfaces such as atmospheric and marine relevant aerosols. They also look at the applications, implications, and toxicity of metal and metal oxide nanoparticles. Her team also researches the chemistry on indoor surfaces, including the interactions of indoor gases with  components of paints (titanium dioxide), glass, concrete, and drywall. Grassian collaborates with scientists at the Scripps Hydraulics Lab to study particles generated in sea spray. By researching the properties of sea spray aerosol, such as hygroscopicity and chemical reactivity, Grassian looks to develop an understanding of our atmosphere that will help improve current climate models. In 2017 she helped identify that the bubbles that appear on the surface of breaking waves forms particulate matter that depends on molecules secreted by phytoplankton and floor dwelling bacteria for its overall composition. She gave a TEDTalk What's Really in the Air We Breathe at TEDxSan Diego in 2018.

Awards
2020 Iota Sigma Pi Honorary Member Award

2019 IUPAC Distinguished Women in Chemistry or Chemical Engineering Award

2019 William H. Nichols Medal Awardee

2018 American Institute of Chemists Chemical Pioneer Award

2018 American Chemical Society Committee on Environmental Improvement Award for Incorporation of Sustainability into Chemistry Education

2014 Royal Society of Chemistry John Jeyes Award

2014 American Chemical Society Midwest Award

2012 American Chemical Society Creative Advanced in Environmental Science and Technology


Bannang Sata (town)

Bannang Sata () is the principal town of the Bannang Sata district, in Yala Province of Thailand. The town is subdistrict municipality (thesaban tambon) and covers parts of the subdistrict (tambon) Bannang Sata. As of 2007 it has a population of 2,856.

The municipality was created as a sanitary district (sukhaphiban) in 1956. Like all sanitary district, it was upgraded to a subdistrict municipality in 1999.


Are You Ready (Disturbed song)

"Are You Ready" is a song by American heavy metal band Disturbed. It was their first single off of their album Evolution. It topped the Billboard Mainstream Rock Songs chart in September 2018.

Background
In July 2018, upon the completion of recording the band's seventh studio album Evolution, frontman David Draiman polled fans as to whether they preferred the first single to be a heavy rock song, more akin to most of their back catalogue, or a more mellow ballad song, more comparable to their cover of Simon & Garfunkel's "The Sound of Silence". Out of 80,000 respondents, over 83% chose "heavy" over "ballad". As a result, "Are You Ready" was released as the first single from the album on August 16, 2018. A music video was released on the same date.

Guitarist Dan Donegan noted that the song's origins trace back to 2004, as a musical idea he had written during the sessions for their Ten Thousand Fists album. He stated that he never finished the track in 2004, and it was pushed aside due to the band focusing on further-developed material instead, and was placed into the band's archives until 2018, when he presented it to Draiman, who instantly gravitated towards writing scat vocals for it.

Themes and composition
Due to its origins as a 2004 song idea, Donegan described the song as having an "old Disturbed sound". One publication alluded to it as a "heavy" song.

Reception
Heavy.com, in documenting fan reaction, noted that the song was generally positively received, with most noting its similarity to the band's earlier albums, which was cited as both a positive and negative trait by various commenters. Metal Sucks agreed with the notion. Despite its heavier nature, Wall of Sound praised the song as one that would also appeal to an older generation of listeners that may have started to follow the band later in their career after the crossover success of their cover of "The Sound of Silence".

Personnel
Disturbed
David Draiman – lead vocals
Dan Donegan – guitars, keyboards, programming
John Moyer – bass
Mike Wengren – drums

Charts


Michael Anthony (chef)

Michael Anthony (born 1968) is an American chef.

Background and education

Anthony grew up in Cincinnati, Ohio, and graduated from Indiana University with degrees in Business, French, and Japanese. He has three daughters and currently lives in New York City with his wife Mindy Dubin.

Professional career

He began his culinary career under the guidance of Shizuyo Shima in Tokyo, Japan.

Anthony moved to France in 1992 and attended cooking school at L’ecole Ferrandi, in Paris. Following that, he spent years training and working in several kitchens.  Anthony returned to the United States, working first in the kitchen of Restaurant Daniel and then as the Chef de Cuisine at March Restaurant.  Subsequently, he joined the team of Blue Hill as co-Chef of the Manhattan restaurant and later as the Executive Chef at Blue Hill Stone Barns.

In September 2006 Anthony took the position of Executive Chef at Gramercy Tavern. In 2011, he was named Chef-Partner of Gramercy Tavern.

In 2014, he was also named Executive Chef and Managing Director of Untitled and the Studio Cafe at the downtown Whitney Museum of American Art, overseeing operations, wine, food and beverage.

He is also the author of The Gramercy Tavern Cookbook, published by Clarkson Potter and "V is for Vegetable: Inspired Recipes & Techniques for Home Cooks- from Artichokes to Zucchini", published by Little, Brown and Company.

Social Activism

Anthony maintains strong relationships between the restaurant and local farmers.  He arranges visits to local farms for his staff so they can learn first-hand how and where the food they serve each day is grown.  He also invites local producers to Gramercy Tavern to share their knowledge with staff and guests through tastings and presentations.  The Main Dining Room and the Tavern menus highlight these relationships through Anthony’s cuisine.

Anthony is a board member of God’s Love We Deliver and is devoted to their mission of "food as medicine." Each year Gramercy Tavern participates in the Race to Deliver, leading the charge of fundraising efforts.

He is also a council member of City Harvest’s Food Council and a supporter of the Garden Program at PS 41.

Accolades
 "Best New Chefs" in Food & Wine magazine’s chef category in 2002
 Three Stars from The New York Times for "Blue Hill at Stone Barns"
 Three Stars from The New York Times for "Gramercy Tavern" 2007
 "Best New Chef" in Time Out New York’s New York City category in 2007
 "Outstanding Restaurant" in 2008 from the James Beard Foundation for "Gramercy Tavern"
 "Best Chef New York City" from the James Beard Foundation in 2012
 Gramercy Tavern, Michelin Guide, One Star
 "Outstanding Chef" from the James Beard Foundation in 2015
 "Best Vegetable-Focused Cookbook" from the James Beard Foundation in 2015 for V is for Vegetables.
 Three Stars from The New York Times for "Gramercy Tavern" 2016

Bibliography

 The Gramercy Tavern Cookbook (2012),
 V is for Vegetables: Inspired Recipes & Techniques for Home Cooks—from Artichokes to Zucchini (2015, Little, Brown and Company),


Calcutta Women's Football League

The Calcutta Women's Football League'', also referred to as the Super Division, is the top division of women's football league in the Indian State of West Bengal. The League is organised by the Indian Football Association (IFA), the official football governing body of the State.

History
The Calcutta Women's Football League''' is the oldest women's football league in India.  It is based in the city of Kolkata (formerly Calcutta) in the state of West Bengal. The league was founded by the Indian Football Association in 1993.

In 2001, the big Kolkata football clubs East Bengal and Mohun Bagan entered their women's teams into the competition. Later by 2003, they withdrew from the tournament.

In 2019, East Bengal again formed its women's team to participate in 2020 Calcutta Women's Football League.

Champions


Ceroprepes atribasilaris

Ceroprepes atrbasilaris is a species of snout moth in the genus Ceroprepes. It was described by Y. Du, S. Song and D. Yang in 2005 and is known from China.


Harold Jefferson Coolidge Sr.

Harold Jefferson Coolidge (January 22, 1870 – July 31, 1934) was an American lawyer. He was the brother of Archibald Cary Coolidge and father of Harold Jefferson Coolidge Jr.

Early life
Coolidge was born in Nice, France on January 22, 1870.  His parents were Harvard University Law School graduate Joseph Randolph Coolidge and Julia (née Gardner) Coolidge, both from prominent and wealthy Boston Brahmin families.  His siblings included U.S. Minister to Nicaragua John Gardner Coolidge, professor and diplomat Archibald Cary Coolidge, and mathematician and fellow Harvard professor Julian Lowell Coolidge.

His father was a great-grandson of the 3rd United States President Thomas Jefferson, through his maternal grandparents, Thomas Mann Randolph Jr. and Martha Jefferson Randolph.  His paternal uncle was Thomas Jefferson Coolidge, the Boston businessman and U.S. Minister to France.  Harold's great-uncles were Thomas Jefferson Randolph, George Wythe Randolph, Andrew Jackson Donelson, and his grandfather, Joseph Coolidge, was a distant relative of President Calvin Coolidge.

Through his mother, Harold was the nephew of John Lowell Gardner II.  His mother and uncle John were the grandchildren of merchant Joseph Peabody, one of the wealthiest men in the United States at the time of his death in 1844.

Coolidge attended school in Boston before studying in Germany and at Harvard University, where he was graduated in 1892, with an A.B. magna cum laude.

Career
He was admitted to the bar in 1896 and worked as partner in the firm of Loring and Coolidge.

In 1926, the future King of Sweden Gustaf VI Adolf and his wife, Lady Louise Mountbatten, were the guests of Coolidge during the visit to Boston, where Coolidge showed them The House of the Seven Gables.

Personal life
On February 19, 1903, Coolidge was married to Edith Lawrence (1879–1975), the daughter of Amory Appleton Lawrence and granddaughter of abolitionist Amos Adams Lawrence. Her uncle was Bishop William Lawrence and her aunt was Harriet Lawrence Hemenway, founder of the Massachusetts Audubon Society.  Her first cousins included Bishops William Appleton Lawrence, and Frederic Cunningham Lawrence. Together, they were the parents of two sons:

 Harold Jefferson Coolidge Jr. (1904–1985), a prominent zoologist.
 Lawrence Coolidge (1905–1950), who married Victoria Stuart Tytus (1909–1996), the daughter of Robb de Peyster Tytus, in 1934.

Harold Jefferon Coolidge Sr. died on July 31, 1934 and is buried at the Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts.  After his death, his widow remarried U.S. General and Chief of the Military Intelligence Division Sherman Miles (1882–1966) in 1954.

Publications
 Archibald Cary Coolidge, Life and Letters, 1932
 Thoughts on Thomas Jefferson, or, What Jefferson was not, 1936 (posthumous, edited by Lawrence Coolidge).


Scrambled eggs

Scrambled eggs is a dish made from eggs (usually chicken eggs) stirred or beaten together in a pan while being gently heated, typically with salt, butter and sometimes other ingredients.

Preparation
Only eggs are necessary to make scrambled eggs, but salt is often used, and other ingredients such as water, milk, butter, chives, cream or in some cases crème fraîche, sour cream, or grated cheese may be added. Ground black pepper is sometimes used as an ingredient. The eggs are cracked into a bowl with some salt and pepper, and the mixture is stirred or whisked: alternatively, the eggs are cracked directly into a hot pan or skillet, and the whites and yolks stirred together as they cook. More consistent and far quicker results are obtained if a small amount of thickener such as cornstarch, potato starch, or flour is added; this enables much quicker cooking with reduced risk of overcooking, even when less butter is used. Adding milk or water thins out the mixture, lessens the flavor, and causes the eggs to dry out faster when put over heat because it can separate the egg.

The mixture can be poured into a hot pan containing melted butter or oil, where it starts coagulating. The heat is turned down and the eggs are stirred as they cook. This creates small, soft curds of egg. Unlike pancake or omelette, scrambled egg is virtually never browned. A thin pan is preferable to prevent browning. With continuous stirring, and not allowing the eggs to stick to the pan, the eggs themselves will maintain the pan temperature at about the boiling point of water, until they coagulate.

Once the liquid has mostly set, additional ingredients such as ham, herbs, cheese or cream may be folded in over low heat until incorporated. The eggs are usually slightly undercooked when removed from heat, since the eggs will continue to set. If any liquid is seeping from the eggs (syneresis), this is a sign of undercooking, overcooking or adding undercooked high-moisture vegetables.

Scrambled eggs can be cooked in a microwave oven, and can also be prepared using sous-vide cooking, which gives the traditional smooth creamy texture and requires only occasionally mixing during cooking. Another technique for cooking creamy scrambled eggs is to pipe steam into eggs with butter via a steam wand (as found on an espresso machine).

Variations

 American style – in American style the eggs are scooped in towards the middle of the pan as they set, giving larger curds.
 English style – in English style the scrambled eggs are stirred very thoroughly during cooking to give a soft, fine texture.
 In the classic French cooking method, Escoffier describes using a double boiler as the heating source, which does not need adjustment as the direct heating method would. The eggs are directly placed in the cooker and mixed during the heating and not before. Cooking by this method prevents the eggs from browning while being cooked and gives aerated and creamy scrambled eggs. This method was used in the "old classical kitchen" and guarantees the eggs are always cooked perfectly; it is, however, more time-consuming than the modern skillet method, taking up to 40 minutes to ensure perfect quality.
 Buttered Eggs - a typically English dish, often mentioned in 19th and early 20th century literature; additional butter is melted and stirred into the egg mixture before cooking.
 Egg bhurji – Indian variant of scrambled eggs. Additions include onions, green chili, chopped ginger, turmeric powder and chopped tomatoes. Sprinkled with chopped green coriander and eaten with roti. Another variant of egg bhurji is the Parsi akuri.
 The dish is called "fried eggs" in Nigeria. The mai shai stalls cook scrambled eggs to the point of being heavily crisp.
 Eggs frizzle - scrambled egg dish made with chipped beef "frizzled" in butter before eggs are added to the pan and scrambled. To make a variation called "Eggs a la Caracas" the beef is frizzled with tomatoes, spices and grated cheese.
 Migas – a Tex-Mex dish (not to be confused with the Iberian dish of the same name) consisting of scrambled eggs augmented with strips of corn tortilla, to which vegetables and meat may be added.
 Onions and scrambled eggs – another variant of scrambled eggs eaten in the Philippines. The onions are either fried first then the egg mixture is poured over them to cook, or the onions are mixed with the egg mixture and then poured over the pan.
 Parrot eggs ("Perico" in Spanish) is a dish in Venezuelan cuisine and Colombian cuisine prepared with scrambled eggs, butter, sautéed diced onions, and tomatoes. White cheese is also sometimes used.
 Poqui poqui - a Filipino dish consisting of grilled eggplants with sauteed garlic, tomatoes, and shallots and scrambled eggs.
 Scotch woodcock – British variant of scrambled eggs, served over toast that has been spread with Gentleman's Relish.
 Scrambled eggs à l'arlésienne – with  zucchini (courgette) pulp and a concentrated garlic-flavored tomato fondue served in hollowed-out courgettes and sprinkled with Parmesan cheese.
 Scrambled eggs à l'américaine – with pan-fried smoked bacon, garnished with slices of broiled bacon and small grilled tomato halves.
 Scrambled eggs with digüeñes – a variation from Chilean cuisine in which the eggs are fried together with the native fungus Cyttaria espinosae, or sometimes spinach.
 Scrambled eggs with sucuk or pastırma; sucuklu yumurta and pastırmalı yumurta respectively – scrambled eggs are mixed with Turkish beef sausages, or dried cured beef. It is cooked in a sahan (a shallow dish) with butter or olive oil. Some tomato can be added. In Turkey and Egypt it is eaten regularly for breakfast.
 Soy scrambled eggs – mixed with soy sauce and often eaten with congee.
 Stir-fried tomato and scrambled eggs – a very common main course in China. It is inexpensive and quickly and easily prepared, and so is a favourite among teens and university students. This is also eaten in the Philippines.

Serving styles

Classical haute cuisine preparation calls for serving scrambled eggs in a deep silver dish.  They can also be presented in small croustades made from hollowed-out brioche or tartlets.  When eaten for breakfast, scrambled eggs often accompany toast, bacon, smoked salmon, hash browns, maize, pancakes, ham or sausages. Popular condiments served with scrambled eggs include ketchup, hot sauce, and Worcestershire sauce.


Uthman (name)

Uthman (also spelled Othman,  ʿuthmān) is a male Arabic given name with the general meaning of wise most powerful and intuitiveserpent" or "offspring of the bustard" and it is popular as a male given name among Muslims. It is also transliterated as Osman or Usman, as there is no /θ/ sound in Persian, Bosnian, Turkish, and in some Arabic dialects, where it is also used. It is also used as surname.

It is also a less common name of German origins.

The following people share this name:
Uthman ibn Affan, third Rashidun caliph and son-in-law of Prophet Muhammad ;
Uthman Abu Qahafa father of Abu Bakr
Uthman al-Asghar, one of the sons of Ali ibn Abi Talib
Uthman al-Akbar, one of the sons of Ali ibn Abi Talib
Uthman ibn Naissa, a Berber Wāli of Narbonne and effective Muslim governor of Septimania.
Uthman I, a Marinid caliph
Uthman, a Hafsid caliph
Osman I, the first Ottoman ruler.
Uthman ibn Ali (Bey of Tunis), the sixth leader of the Husainid Dynasty and the ruler of Tunisia briefly in 1814.
Othman Al Omeir, a Saudi-born British businessman, journalist and editor.
Othman Saat, a former Chief Minister of the state of Johor in Malaysia.

Middle name
Al-Aziz Uthman, the second son of Saladin and the second Ayyubid Sultan of Egypt
Azalina Othman Said, a tourism minister of Malaysia

Surname and others
Abdul Ghani Othman, the current Menteri Besar of the state of Johor in Malaysia
Abdullatif bin Ahmed Al Othman, the governor of Saudi Arabian General Investment Authority (SAGIA)
Arwa Othman, Yemeni writer, journalist, human rights activist and former Minister of Culture
Tuanku Sultan Otteman II, a former Sultan of Deli
Barbara Uthmann, businesswoman and supporter of bobbin lace

Fiction
Othman, a fictional historical character in the Christopher Paolini book Inheritance.


Toyohiko Kagawa

was a Japanese Christian pacifist, Christian reformer, and labour activist. Kagawa wrote, spoke, and worked at length on ways to employ Christian principles in the ordering of society and in cooperatives. His vocation to help the poor led him to live among them. He advocated for women's suffrage and promoted a peaceful foreign policy.

Early life
Kagawa was born in Kobe, Japan to a philandering businessman and a concubine. Both parents died while he was young. He was sent away to school, where he learned from two American missionary teachers, Drs. Harry W. Myers and Charles A. Logan, who took him into their homes.

Kagawa learned English from these missionaries and converted to  Christianity after taking a Bible class in his youth, which led to his being disowned by his remaining extended family. Kagawa studied at Tokyo Presbyterian College, and later enrolled in Kobe Theological Seminary. While studying there, Kagawa was troubled by the seminarians' concern for technicalities of doctrine. He believed that Christianity in action was the truth behind Christian doctrines. Impatiently, he would point to the parable of the Good Samaritan. From 1914 to 1916 he studied at Princeton Theological Seminary. In addition to theology, through the university's curricular exchange program he also studied embryology, genetics, comparative anatomy, and paleontology while at Princeton.

Activism
In 1909 Kagawa moved into a Kobe slum with the intention of acting as a missionary, social worker, and sociologist. In 1914 he went to the United States to study ways of combating the sources of poverty. In 1916 he published Researches in the Psychology of the Poor based on this experience in which he recorded many aspects of slum society that were previously unknown to middle-class Japanese. Among these were the practices of illicit prostitution (i.e., outside of Japan's legal prostitution regime), informal marriages (which often overlapped with the previous category), and the practice of accepting money to care for children and then killing them.

Kagawa was arrested in Japan in 1921 and again in 1922 for his part in labour activism during strikes. While in prison he wrote the novels Crossing the Deathline  and Shooting at the Sun. The former was a semi-autobiographical depiction of his time among Kobe's destitute. After his release, Kagawa helped organize relief work in Tokyo following the 1923 Great Kantō earthquake and assisted in bringing about universal adult male suffrage in 1925.

He organized the Japanese Federation of Labour as well as the National Anti-War League in 1928. Throughout this period, he continued to evangelize to Japan's poor, advocate women's suffrage and call for a peaceful foreign policy. Between 1926 and 1934 he focused his evangelical work through the Kingdom of God Movement.

In 1940, Kagawa made an apology to the Republic of China for Japan's occupation of China, and was arrested again for this act. After his release, he went back to the United States in a futile attempt to prevent war between that nation and Japan. He then returned to Japan to continue his attempts to win women's suffrage. After Japan's surrender, Kagawa was an adviser to the transitional Japanese government.

During his life, Kagawa wrote over 150 books. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1947 and 1948, and for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1954 and 1955.

Health and death
In Osaka, March, 1955, Kagawa suffered collapse from his deteriorating heart, and remained bedridden for 2 weeks. He continued writing, preaching, overseeing projects, and hosting guests, despite concerns from his family and associates. Kagawa's condition worsened throughout the years, and he was hospitalized again, for 3 months in 1959, at Saint Luke's Hospital in Takamatsu.
Kagawa remained bedridden at home for most of his time in Matsuzawa. His health gradually improved in mid-April, then worsened again. On April 23, Kagawa was unconscious for 3 hours, then woke and smiled to his wife and others around him, his last words being "Please do your best for world peace and the church in Japan."

Brotherhood economics
Kagawa's economic theory, as expressed in the book Brotherhood Economics, advocated that the Christian Church, the cooperative movement, and the peace movement unite in a 'powerful working synthesis' to provide a workable alternative to capitalism, state socialism, and fascism.
Kagawa's work in the co-operative movement consisted of founding several consumer co-operatives in 1921, including the Co-op Kobe, Nada Consumer Co-operative (later merged with Co-op Kobe), the Kyoto Consumer Co-operative, Tokyo Student's Consumer Co-operative and Tokyo Iryou (Medical) Consumer Co-operative.

Three-dimensional forestry
While studying at Princeton University, Kagawa read Tree Crops: A Permanent Agriculture by Joseph Russell Smith. Inspired by this book, he managed to persuade many of Japan's upland farmers during the 1930s that the solution to their soil erosion problem lay in widespread tree-planting. Kagawa also advised that they could receive further benefit if they planted crop trees, such as quick-maturing walnuts, to provide feed for their pigs.

The planting of fruit and nut trees on farmland aims to conserve the soil, supply food for humans and provide fodder for animals, the three "dimensions" of his system. Kagawa was a forerunner of modern forest farming and an inspiration to Robert Hart who pioneered forest gardening in temperate climates.

Legacy
After his death, Kagawa was awarded the second-highest honor of Japan, induction in the Order of the Sacred Treasure. The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America commemorates him as a renewer of society on April 23; Kagawa is also honored with a feast day on the liturgical calendar of the Episcopal Church (USA) on that day.

Famous quotes

 On the morning of 1946, at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo, before Emperor Hirohito, "Whosoever will be great among you... shall be the servant of all. A ruler's sovereignty, Your Majesty, is in the hearts of the people. Only by service to others can a man, or nation, be godlike."
 "Communism's only power is to diagnose some of the ills of disordered society. It has no cure.  It creates only an infantile paralysis of the social order."
 "I read in a book that a man called Christ went about doing good. It is very disconcerting to me that I am so easily satisfied with just going about."
 "It seemed that everyone was attacking me – the Soviet Communists, the anarchists, the capitalists, the foul-mouthed literary critics, the sensationalist newspaper men, the Buddhist who could not compete with Christ, and those many Christians who profess Christ but believe in a Christianity which is sterile."


Pequeño Black Warrior

Humberto Sánchez Medorio is a Mexican luchador Enmascarado, or masked professional wrestler, better known by his ring name Pequeño Black Warrior, or Pequeño Warrior. Sánchez works for the Mexican professional wrestling promotion Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL), in their Mini-Estrella division as a smaller version of wrestler Black Warrior. Sánchez previously worked for Asistencia Asesoría y Administración (AAA) as Mini Psicosis, a smaller version of the wrestler Psicosis. Working in the Mini division does not necessarily mean that Sánchez has dwarfism as several short wrestlers work in the "Mini" division, which is what separates the Mexican Mini-Estrella from traditional Midget wrestling as practiced in the United States and other places.

Professional wrestling career
Sánchez trained for his professional wrestling career under Saprian Petrov, Panchito Villalobos, and Chico Hernàndez before making his wrestling debut on December 1, 1995. Later he received further training from Gran Cochisse and Arturo Beristain at the Guadalajara, Jalisco wrestling school.

Asistencia Asesoría y Administración (1995–2007)
Sánchez made his debut for Asistencia Asesoría y Administración (AAA) on December 1, 1995, under the ring name "Mini Psicosis", a smaller version of luchador Psicosis, who was a very successful Rudo (villain) in AAA at the time. Like the regular sized wrestler the Mini Psicosis character was also booked as a Rudo. In 1997 the original Psicosis was replaced by a new Psicosis as the original worked full-time for World Championship Wrestling (WCW). When the new Psicosis joined Cibernético's recently formed Los Vipers group Mini Psicosis joined as well, teaming up with other Minis such as Mini Abismo Negro to form Los Mini Vipers, a group Sánchez would be associated with for the rest of his AAA career. Mini Psicosis made his first major show appearance at the 1998 Rey de Reyes event, teaming with Mini Abismo Negro and Mini Electroshock to defeat La Parkita, Mini Discovery, and Octagoncito. In the late 1990s and early 2000s the Mini-Division was not featured prominently in AAA, which meant that Mini Psicosis' next significant wrestling appearance was at the 2000 Rey de Reyes event. This time Mini Psicosis, Mini Abismo Negro, and Rocky Marvin lost to La Parkita, Octagoncito and Mascarita Sagrada 2000. in 2001 Mini Psicosis briefly held the Lucha Libre Latina (LLL) Mini-Estrella Championship but generally worked more in the middle of the Mini-Estrella division than the top. Over the years Mini Psicosis developed a long running feud with Octagoncito, one that saw the two face off several times in six-man tag matches and finally culminated in a Lucha de Apuesta match where both men put their mask on the line. The match was the semi-main event of the 2005 Rey de Reyes event and saw Octagoncito defeat his longtime rival, forcing Mini Psicosis to be unmasked after the match. In August Octagoncito would defeat Mini Psicosis in yet another Lucha de Apuesta, this time shaving Mini Psicosis bald after the match per Lucha Libre traditions. The now bald Mini Psicosis teamed up with Mini Abismo Negro and Jerrito Estrada in a loss to the team of Mascarita Sagrada, Octagoncito and Rocky Marvin on the undercard of the 2005 Verano de Escandalo show. In December 2005 Mini Psicosis, Mini Abismo Negro, and Jerrito Estrada defeated Octagoncito, Mascarita Sagrada, and Mascarita Sagrada Jr. at AAA's annual Guerra de Titanes show. This turned out to be the last time Mini Psicosis would appear at a major AAA event. During mid-2007 Sánchez decided to leave AAA after working for the company for almost 12 years. AAA replaced Sánchez's Mini Psicosis with a new masked Mini Psicosis character played by Enrique Del Rio, who had previously worked as Jerrito Estrada.

Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (2007–2014)
After leaving AAA Sánchez signed a contract with Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL) to work in CMLL's Mini-Estrella division. He was given the ring name Pequeño Black Warrior ("Little Black Warrior"), a smaller version of CMLL regular Black Warrior. While the original Black Warrior had been unmasked some years prior Pequeño Black Warrior was initially masked. While he was patterned after Black Warrior the two never teamed up, CMLL generally keep their mini-division and the regular sized wrestlers separate. On August 29, 2008, Pequeño Black Warrior finally made his first major show appearance when he teamed with Pequeño Damián 666 and Pierrothito to defeat Fantasy, Mascarita Dorada and Pequeño Olímpico in the opening match of CMLL's Sin Piedad show. The following month he participated in a tournament to crown a new Mexican National Lightweight Champion, a title that up until that point had been for regular sized wrestlers but from late 2008 and onward was exclusively for Mini-Estrellas.  Pequeño Black Warrior participated in a Torneo cibernetico on September 16, 2009, but was eliminated by eventual winner Mascarita Dorada.

On January 6, 2009, Pequeño Black Warrior outlasted Bam Bam, Nino de Acero, Mascarita Dorada, Mr. Águilita, Pequeño Damián 666, Pequeno Halloween, Pequeno Ninja, Pequeño Violencia, and Ultimo Dragoncito in a 10-Minis Torneo cibernetico called Pequeño Reyes del Aire ("Little Kings of the Air"), an annual tournament that features CMLL's Mini-Estrella division. Pequeño Black Warrior was one of 13 Mini-Estrellas to put their mask on the line in a Lucha de Apuesta Steel Cage, called a Infierno en el Ring match by CMLL. Pequeño Black Warrior was the ninth overall wrestle to escape the cage to keep his mask safe. In the end Pierrothito pinned Shockercito to unmask him. Less than two months later, on March 6, Pequeño Black Warrior was involved in the second ever "All-Minis" Infierno en el Ring match, risking his mask against 13 other Mini-Estrellas. Pequeño Black Warrior escaped the cage and looked on as Mascarita Dorada unmasked Sombrita. At CMLL 76th Anniversary Show Pequeño Black Warrior teamed up with Pierrothito and Pequeño Damián 666, losing to Bam Bam, Eléctrico. and Pequeño Olímpico in two straight falls.

Pequeño Black Warrior started out 2010 on a high note by winning an eight-Mini Torneo Cibernetico on the January 22, 2010, Super Viernes show. In the weeks following his Torneo Cibernetico win he began targeting Bracito de Oro, ripping his mask up during or after matches. At times the mask ripping even lead to his team being disqualified for the blatant disregard of the rules. Pequeño Black Warrior later challenged Bracito de Oro to a Lucha de Apuesta match at some point in the future. He also went on to state that his ambition for 2010 was to defeat Bam Bam for the CMLL World Mini-Estrella Championship and win his hair as well, a challenge that has been dismissed by Bam Bam so far, telling Pequeño Black Warrior that he had not earned it yet. On March 7, 2010 Pequeño Black Warrior participated in the 2010 version of Pequeño Reyes del Aire but was not able to win again, as Pequeño Nitro won the 2010 trophy. After the feud had been building lasted for over three months Pequeño Black Warrior defeated Bracito de Oro in a Lucha de Apuestas match as part of the April 30, 2010, Super Viernes show. Following the match Bracito de Oro unmasked and revealed his real name to the audience. On December 3, 2010, at Sin Piedad 2010 Eléctrico defeated Pequeño Warrior in a Lucha de Apuesta, forcing Sánchez to unmask himself for the second time in his career. On September 18, 2011, Pequeño Warrior lost a Hair vs. Hair match against Demus 3:16 and was as a result forced to have his hair shaved off. On October 30, 2012, he won the 2012 Pequeños Reyes del Aire (Guadalajara) tournament, becoming the first man to win two Pequeños Reyes del Aire tournament. The following week, on November 6, 2012, all 12 competitors from the Pequeño Reyes del Aire tournament met in a special steel cage match where the loser of the match would be forced to unmask or have his hair shaved completely off. The match was very chaotic, the steel cage broke at one time and saw several wrestlers bleed and others need medical attention due to a number of accidents. Pequeño Black Warrior and Shockercito were the last two wrestlers left in the ring, relatively unscathed because they had stayed away from the cage as much as possible. In the end Shockercito forced Pequeño Black Warrior to submit, ensuring that he had to be shaved bald after the match.

Personal life
Humbert Sánchez is the father of Perla Gabriela Sánchez, Joanna Guadalupe Sánchez, and Humberto Sánchez. Joanna and Humberto Live in the United States Washington With Her Mother and Humbert First Wife Estela Vazquez Solorzano. Perla Gabriella suffers from severe cerebral palsy caused by medical negligence during her birth and has been treated for the condition at the Children's Rehabilitation Center of Tlalnepantla for seven years, reducing her convulsions. Sánchez has stated that he would like to represent all the special needs children through his ring character, hoping to bring an understanding to other people that they are children just like all other children. As a result of his daughters condition Sánchez often visits children's wards wearing his mask to visit with the sick children.

Championships and accomplishments
Asistencia Asesoría y Administración
LLL Mini-Estrellas Championship (1 time)
Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre
Pequeño Reyes del Aire (2009, 2012 Guadalajara)

Luchas de Apuestas record

Footnotes


Jessica Parker Kennedy

Jessica Parker Kennedy (born October 3, 1984) is a Canadian actress. She played Melissa Glaser on the CW series The Secret Circle, Max on the Starz original series Black Sails and Nora West-Allen / XS on The Flash, and has also appeared on the television series Smallville, Undercovers and Kaya.

Early life
Kennedy was born in Calgary, Alberta.

Career
Kennedy portrayed supervillain Plastique in the television series Smallville, the role of Tami in the 2008 comedy film  Another Cinderella Story and the recurring character of Natalee on the 2007 television series Kaya on MTV.

Kennedy was originally cast in the J. J. Abrams-produced 2010 spy drama series Undercovers as the younger sister of the female lead (played by Gugu Mbatha-Raw) but was later replaced by Mekia Cox. Kennedy played Melissa Glaser in the CW series The Secret Circle, until the show was cancelled after one season in May 2012. In 2017, Kennedy joined the CW's Arrowverse, appearing primarily on the live-action series The Flash. Her character appeared throughout the fourth season and is eventually revealed as Nora West-Allen, and gets promoted to series regular for the fifth season using the superhero name XS.

Filmography


Polbeth

Polbeth is a former oil shale mining village located about a mile from West Calder, and not far from Livingston, West Lothian, Scotland.

Five Sisters
A mile to the west of the village are the Five Sisters Shale Bings, a local landmark and scheduled monument (). The bings rise to a height of , some  above the surrounding area, and are the spoil tips from the oil shale industry that was a feature of the area.

Five Sisters Zoo Park
The Five Sisters Zoo Park () is located on the edge of the village. Which has animals such as a lion and wolves.

Polbeth Harwood Church

Harwood Church was one of two Church of Scotland churches in West Calder. The other was in Polbeth, and the two churches were amalgamated.

Worship in Polbeth took place in what previously had been the Engine House of Shale Pit 26. When mining ceased in the community the Engine House was converted into what is now known as Polbeth Hall. Worship took place here while the new church was being built.

Notable people
 Rhys McCabe, footballer currently playing for St. Patrick's Athletic
 Shelley Kerr, former footballer. Current coach of the womens Scottish national football team.
 Callum Fordyce, footballer currently playing for Airdrieonians
 Billy Hartman, actor


Mayhem & Miracles

Mayhem & Miracles is the third studio album by New Zealand recording artist Savage.

Background and recording
Mayhem & Miracles was recorded and mixed at The Vault in Hollywood, California and is heavily influenced by Polynesian music. The cover art was designed by Elliot Francis Stewart.

Release and promotion
Mayhem & Miracles was released worldwide as a digital download and compact disc by Dawn Raid Music on 29 June 2012. "Twerk" was released as a single on 4 May 2012. Savage embarked on the Mayhem & Miracles Twerk Tour around New Zealand in October 2012.

Reception
Alistar Wickens of NZ Musician wrote that the album is more mature and deep than Savage's previous work, and less hook-rich.
Mayhem & Miracles appeared at number twenty-five on the New Zealand Albums Chart dated 9 July 2012, and fell off the chart the next week. It was nominated for Best Urban/Hip Hop Album at the 2012 New Zealand Music Awards, but lost to Home Brew's self-titled debut album.

Track listing
"My Time" (featuring Shaxe and L-Dubb) - 3:52
"All In" (featuring Baby Downn) - 3:41
"Twerk" - 3:21
"Because of You" (featuring SpawnBreezie) - 3:41
"Get Paid" (featuring Monsta G and Jah Free) - 3:46
"Block Exchange" (featuring Monsta G, Ganxsta Ridd and Shaxe) - 3:25
"I'm a Polynesian" (featuring L-Dubb, Shaxe and Mareko) - 4:19
"Come Out (Wrath of a Menace)" (featuring Monsta G and Jah Free) - 3:59
"Everywhere I Go" - 3:39
"This Is Me" (featuring Devolo) - 3:38
"I Promise" (featuring Ria) - 3:15


Microsoft Store (digital)

Microsoft Store (formerly known as Windows Store) is a digital distribution platform owned by Microsoft.  It started as an app store for Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 as the primary means of distributing Universal Windows Platform (UWP) apps. With Windows 10, Microsoft merged its other distribution platforms (Windows Marketplace, Windows Phone Store, Xbox Music, Xbox Video, Xbox Store, and a web storefront also known as "Microsoft Store") into Microsoft Store, making it a unified distribution point for apps, console games, digital music, and digital videos. E-books were included until 2019. Some content is available free of charge from the store.

In 2015, over 669,000 apps were available on the store.  Categories containing the largest number of apps are "Books and Reference", "Education", "Entertainment", and "Games". The majority of the app developers have one app.

As with other similar platforms, such as the Google Play and Mac App Store, Microsoft Store is curated, and apps must be certified for compatibility and content. In addition to the user-facing Microsoft Store client, the store has a developer portal with which developers can interact.  Microsoft takes 30% of the sale price for apps. Prior to January 1, 2015, this cut was reduced to 20% after the developer's profits reached $25,000.

History

The Web-based storefront
Microsoft previously maintained a similar digital distribution system for software known as Windows Marketplace, which allowed customers to purchase software online. The marketplace tracked product keys and licenses, allowing users to retrieve their purchases when switching computers. Windows Marketplace was discontinued in November 2008. At this point, Microsoft opened a Web-based storefront called "Microsoft Store".

Windows 8
Microsoft first announced Windows Store, a digital distribution service for Windows at its presentation during the Build developer conference on September 13, 2011. Further details announced during the conference revealed that the store would be able to hold listings for both certified traditional Windows apps, as well as what were called "Metro-style apps" at the time: tightly-sandboxed software based on Microsoft design guidelines that are constantly monitored for quality and compliance. For consumers, Windows Store is intended to be the only way to obtain Metro-style apps. While announced alongside the "Developer Preview" release of Windows 8, Windows Store itself did not become available until the "Consumer Preview", released in February 2012.

Updates to apps published on the Store after July 1, 2019 will not be available to Windows 8 RTM users. Per Microsoft lifecycle policies, Windows 8 had been unsupported since 2016.

Windows 8.1
An updated version of Windows Store was introduced in Windows 8.1. Its home page was remodeled to display apps in focused categories (such as popular, recommended, top free and paid, and special offers) with expanded details, while the ability for apps to automatically update was also added. Windows 8.1 Update also introduced other notable presentation changes, including increasing the top app lists to return 1000 apps instead of 100 apps, a 'picks for you' section, and changing the default sorting for reviews to be by 'most popular'.

Updates to apps published on the Store after July 1, 2023 will not be available to Windows 8.1.

Windows 10
Windows 10 was released with an updated version of the Windows Store which merged Microsoft's other distribution platforms (Windows Marketplace, Windows Phone Store, Xbox Video and Xbox Music) into a unified store front for Windows 10 on all platforms, offering apps, games, music, film, TV series, themes, and ebooks.
In September 2017, Microsoft began to re-brand Windows Store as Microsoft Store, with a new icon carrying the Microsoft logo. Xbox Store was merged into this new version of the platform.

Web apps and traditional desktop software can be packaged for distribution on Windows Store. Desktop software distributed through Windows Store are packaged using the App-V system to allow sandboxing.

In February 2018, Microsoft announced that Progressive Web Apps would begin to be available in the Microsoft Store, and Microsoft would automatically add selected quality progressive web apps through the Bing crawler or allow developers to submit Progressive Web Apps to the Microsoft Store.

Windows Server
Windows Store is available in Windows Server 2012 but is not installed by default. It is unavailable in Windows Server 2016. However, UWP apps can be acquired from Microsoft Store for Business (formerly Windows Store for Business) and installed through sideloading.

Details
Microsoft Store is the primary means of distributing Windows Store apps to users. Although sideloading apps from outside the store is supported, out-of-box sideloading support on Windows 8 is only available on the Enterprise edition of Windows 8 running on computers that have joined a Windows domain. Sideloading on Windows RT and Windows 8 Pro, and on Windows 8 Enterprise computers without a domain affiliation, requires purchase of additional licenses through volume licensing. Windows 10 removes this requirement, allowing users to freely enable or disable sideloading.

Initially, Microsoft took a 30% cut of app sales until it reached US$25,000 in revenue, after which the cut dropped to 20%. On January 1, 2015, the reduction in cut at $25,000 was removed, and Microsoft takes a 30% cut of all app purchases, regardless of overall sales. Third-party transactions are also allowed, of which Microsoft does not take a cut. In early 2019, Microsoft lets app developers get 95% of app revenues, while Microsoft will only take 5% but only if user will download the app through a direct URL. Individual developers are able to register for US$19 and companies for US$99.

In 2015 over 669,000 apps were available on the store, including apps for Windows NT, Windows Phone, and UWP apps, which work on both platforms. Categories containing the largest number of apps are "Games", "Entertainment", "Books and Reference", and "Education". The majority of the app developers have one app. Both free and paid apps can be distributed through Microsoft Store, with paid apps ranging in cost from US$0.99 to $999.99. Developers from 120 countries can submit apps to Microsoft Store. Apps may support any of 109 languages, as long as they support one of 12 app certification languages.

On April 2, 2019, Microsoft announced that the sale of e-books on Microsoft Store had ceased. Due to DRM licenses that will not be renewed, all books will become inaccessible by July 2019, and Microsoft will automatically refund all users that had purchased books via the service.

Guidelines
Similar to Windows Phone Store, Microsoft Store is regulated by Microsoft. Applicants must obtain Microsoft's approval before their app becomes available on the store. These apps may not contain, support or approve, gratuitous profanity, obscenity, pornography, discrimination, defamation, or politically offensive content. They may also not contain contents that forbidden by or offensive to the jurisdiction, religion or norms of the target market. They may also not encourage, facilitate or glamorize violence, drugs, tobacco, alcohol and weapons.

The following types of app are forbidden:
 Video game console emulators that are "primarily gaming experiences or target Xbox One"
 Third-party web browsers that use their own layout engines

Microsoft has indicated that it can remotely disable or remove apps from end-user systems for security or legal reasons; in the case of paid apps, refunds may be issued when this is done.

Microsoft initially banned PEGI "18"-rated content from the store in Europe. However, critics noted that this made the content policies stricter than intended, as some PEGI 18-rated games are rated "Mature" on the U.S. ESRB system, which is the next lowest before its highest rating, "Adults Only". The guidelines were amended in December 2012 to remove the discrepancy.

Developer portal

In addition to the user facing Microsoft Store client, the store also has a developer portal with which developers can interact. The Windows developer portal has the following sections for each app:

 App Summary -  An overview page of a given app, including a downloads chart, quality chart, finance summary, and a sales chart.
 App Adoption - A page which shows adoption of the app, including conversions, referrers, and downloads.
 App Ratings - A ratings breakdown, as well as the ability to filter reviews by a region.
 App Quality - An overview page showcasing exceptions which have occurred in the app.
 App Finance - A page where a developer can download all transactions related to their app.

Developer tools
Microsoft Store provides developer tools for tracking apps in the store. One can track downloads, financials, crashes, adoption and ratings.

The dashboard also presents a detailed breakdown on users by market, age, and region, as well as charts on number of downloads, purchases, and average time spent in an app. The dashboard also allows a developer to claim an app name for up to one year before the name is returned to the available pool.


Ojārs Vācietis

Ojārs Vācietis (born November 13, 1933 —  November 28, 1983) was a Latvian writer and poet. He is often considered one of the most famous and influential poets in the Latvian SSR.

Biography
Ojārs Vācietis was born on November 13, 1933 in Trapene Parish, Latvia. His father Oto Vācietis was a servant.
Vācietis studied in Trapane primary school and later in Gaujiena secondary school. 1952 he started Latvian language and literature studies at the University of Latvia. He graduated in 1957. Since 1958 he worked in several Latvian magazines and newspapers (for example: Literatūra un Māksla, Liesma, Draugs). He was also an editor at the Riga Film Studio.
In the 1960s he started to question many official ideological dogmas of the Soviet regime in his poems. As a result, he was not allowed to publish from 1960-1966. Some of his works from this period were published for the first time only during the Singing Revolution. However, he was awarded the Latvian SSR State prize in 1967.

He also translated many works from Russian into Latvian. His most famous and still very highly acclaimed translation was M. Bulgakov's Master and Margarita in 1979. He was declared People's writer of Latvian SSR in 1977. Vācietis was married to the Russian poet Ludmila Azarova and their house in Riga, Torņakalns neighborhood has now been transformed into a memorial museum.

Ojārs Vācietis died on November 28, 1983 in Riga. He was buried in Carnikava cemetery.

External links
 Биография в Большой советской энциклопедии


Marcus Dillistone

Marcus Dillistone is a British film director.

A close friend of Sir John Mills, he directed the BBC/Carlton documentary of Mills' life, Sir John Mills' Moving Memories. Dillistone and Mills first collaborated on Dillistone's film The Troop, which had a Royal Premiere at BAFTA in the presence of The Princess Royal. A copy of the film was requested by a Royal Equerry for screening to The Queen at Sandringham over Christmas. A 35mm film print was donated by Fujifilm, Technicolor, and Glory Film Co. Dillistone directed Mills in his last ever screen appearance, Lights 2, in which he played a tramp. Shot at Pinewood Studios, Mills was lit by veteran cinematographer Jack Cardiff, they had last worked together on 'Scott of The Antarctic'.

Education
Dillistone was educated at The Skinners' School in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, and Kent Institute of Art & Design, before gaining an honours degree at Staffordshire University, specialising in design and film production, where his lead tutor was John Jordan, sound recordist on Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange.

Glory Film Co.
Dillistone set up the company Glory Film Co. to make The Troop film with help from Paul-Anthony Viollet, a former King's Troop RHA officer. Cinematographer on The Troop was Alex Thomson (cinematographer).

As a result of The Troop, with which Fujifilm collaborated, Dillistone was commissioned to make a series of films for worldwide release to demonstrate Fuji's new motion picture filmstocks. He employed cinematographers including: Oscar-winners Jack Cardiff and Ronnie Taylor, together with Phedon Papamichael, Geoff Boyle NSC FBKSTS, John de Borman, Sue Gibson, Thierry Arbogast, Ron Stanett, and Tony Pierce-Roberts. The films were shot at Pinewood and Shepperton studios, with locations including Hastings in East Sussex.

British Film Industry Tribute
In 2001, Dillistone directed a major British Film Institute tribute event held in the Painted Hall in Greenwich. Hosted by The Lord's Taverners, and the First Sea Lord of the Royal Navy, Admiral Sir Nigel Essenhigh; participating artists included Sir Roger Moore, Stephen Fry, Lord Andrew Lloyd Webber, Lord Richard Attenborough, Juliet Mills, Hayley Mills, Richard Stilgoe, Sarah Miles, and Dame Kiri te Kanawa.

Olympic Music Production
Experience working on major musical recordings, including work with The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, led to Dillistone being employed as Associate Producer Music for the Athens 2004 Summer Olympics opening ceremony and closing ceremony. In December 2007, Dillistone was invited by the Governor of Luxor to screen a trailer of his latest film to the former Egyptian President  Hosni Mubarak and the Prime Minister of Egypt, Ahmed Nazif. This was followed by an Invitation from the Jordanian Minister of Culture to present a film at the 2009 Jordan Festival in Amman.

Icehotel
In December 2010, Dillistone completed an Ice Suite for the world-famous Icehotel (Jukkasjärvi), working 200 km north of the Arctic Circle in Swedish Lappland at temperatures down to –40 °C. On 2 July 2013, Icehotel announced that he would return to the Arctic to complete a new creative concept: a London Underground tube terminus built entirely from snow and ice entitled "Mind the Gap (Last Stop on the Northern Line)".

Media appearances
Dillistone has appeared on the BBC (live primetime news) and on ITV, as well as on the radio, including the Robert Elms show on the BBC. His work has also appeared in print in publications that include Paris Match, The Guardian, Washington Post, New York Times, The Telegraph, Times, Daily Mail, Metro, etc.

Philanthropy
Dillistone is also involved in social and charitable film making, being particularly known for films dealing with social and medical matters (his films have garnered a number of British Medical Association awards). Dillistone has supported organisations such as the Riding for the Disabled Association, the British Brain and Spine Foundation, and the Sarah Lamping Memorial Expedition. In June 2011, he was invited to launch the Spinal Injury Patient Film at The Ludwig Guttmann conference - this film garnered a prize at the 2012 Telly Awards. In April 2015 The Spinal Injuries Association (SIA) nominated Dillistone for an award for his philanthropic film work - contributing to better outcomes for SCI patients.

Lectures and academic work
Dillistone has presented papers at the world's two leading broadcast conventions, NAB (USA) and IBC (Europe). He was invited to participate in Quantel's 'Focus on The Future' event in London (2002  He also lectures extensively on film making, including lectures at UCLA, the American University in Washington, D.C. and Staffordshire University (UK). Topics include documentary films, scientific, medical and technical films, and travel films. He has also hosted master-classes in the USA, Europe and the Caribbean, on filmmaking, imaging and photography. Dillistone has written articles for several professional publications, including Televisual, AV Magazine, Kodak's magazine and Exposure. He co-authored the academic paper "A comparison of perceptions of quality of life among adults with spinal cord injury in the United States versus the United Kingdom".

Royal Society of Medicine
In September 2013, in recognition of his contribution to medical filmmaking, Dillistone was elected a Member of the Royal Society of Medicine. He is a key figure in the development of healthcare knowledge transfer, and on 30 April 2014 gave the keynote lecture at The Royal Society's annual conference on ethics.

Awards
Dillistone's films have won over thirty international awards: Winner IVCA Best Direction.
Director of: New York Festival Grand Prix Nominee (British Airways); New York Festival Gold Medal; New York Festival Gold Medal; New York Festival Gold Medal; New York Festival Gold Medal
International Telly Award; International Telly Award; International Telly Award; International Telly Award; Global Award Winner; BMA Award; BMA Award; BMA Award; IVCA Best Editing Nomination; Berlin Festival Gold Medallist; New York Festival Silver Medal; New York Festival Silver Medal; New York Festival Finalist; Institute of Training & Development Award Winner; IVCA Category Winner ; IVCA Category Winner; IVCA Category Winner; IVCA Category Winner ; IVCA Best Editing Nomination; IVCA Best Graphics & Animation Nomination; Images Festival Winner; European Multi-Media Award Winner; Writer of: IVCA Category Winner; Telly award - silver; Telly award – silver; Telly award – bronze; Telly award – bronze; SIA Rebuilding Lives Awards (nominee), PM Awards Best Overall TV Commercial; IVCA Award winner Healthcare Advertising Agency Group Award.


Great Lakes Avengers

The Great Lakes Avengers (also known as The Lightning Rods, The Great Lakes X-Men, The Great Lakes Champions, and The Great Lakes Initiative) are a fictional superhero team appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The characters were introduced in West Coast Avengers #46 (July 1989), and were created by John Byrne.

Publication history
The team first appeared in West Coast Avengers vol. 2, #46, and then made appearances in issues #48–49 and #64, and a cameo appearance in Avengers West Coast Annual #6. The GLA also make an appearance in issue #309 of Avengers and in the 1990 Avengers Annual. This was followed by appearances in issues #15–17 and #25 of Thunderbolts and issues #10–11 and #61 of Deadpool.

In 2005, the GLA were featured in a self-titled, four-issue mini-series (written by Dan Slott) and the one-shot, GLX-Mas Special. This was followed in 2006 by a minor appearance in I ♥ Marvel: Masked Intentions, The Thing vol. 2, #8, and Cable and Deadpool #30. In 2007, the team was featured in the one-shot Deadpool/GLI Summer Fun Spectacular. The team also made cameo appearances in issues #19 and #25 of Avengers: The Initiative and a minor appearance in issue #3 of Age of Heroes. In 2011, the team made an appearance in issue #6 of Fear Itself: The Home Front.

A new volume and ongoing series of the team debuted in 2016 from writer Zac Gorman (Rick & Morty) and artist Will Robson (Star-Lord).

Team name
The team has changed its name on several occasions. The Avenger Hawkeye first protests their use of the name "Avengers", and eventually the GLA are sent a cease-and-desist order by the Maria Stark Foundation. The team rename themselves the Lightning Rods after fellow super-team, the Thunderbolts. While working for S.H.I.E.L.D., Mr. Immortal suggests a name-change to S.W.O.R.D., although ultimately the team's name is changed to the Great Lakes X-Men when its members collectively realize that they are all mutants.

After another cease and desist -- this time from Marvel Girl of the X-Men, the GLA rename themselves the Great Lakes Champions. Following the events of Avengers: Civil War, the team operated as the Great Lakes Initiative in the state of Wisconsin. Some time later, the team reverts to the name Great Lakes Avengers.

Fictional team biography

GLA: Misassembled
Craig Hollis discovers that he is immortal, and he decides to fight crime as Mr. Immortal. After being shot by a group of thieves and left for dead, he realizes that operating alone may not be feasible. He places an advertisement for costumed adventurers in the local paper and assembles the Great Lakes Avengers, recruiting Dinah Soar, Big Bertha, Flatman and Doorman. Mr. Immortal refuses one candidate, Gene Lorrene, a leather fetishist calling himself Leather Boy. Turned down because he has no superpowers and is therefore ineligible, Lorrene takes the rejection personally.

The team is first seen in public by Avengers Hawkeye and Mockingbird, who watch the group as they foil a robbery attempt. Although annoyed by the team's naiveté and their use of the Avengers name without permission, Hawkeye and Mockingbird agree to act as the team's mentors. The Great Lakes Avengers assist the Avengers and West Coast Avengers from time to time, and once help them fight Terminus. After aiding the Thunderbolts against the villain Graviton, the GLA clash with the mercenary Deadpool.

After a period of inactivity, the team learns that the West Coast Avengers have been disbanded and that Hawkeye has been killed. The team subsequently battle Maelstrom, who is building a doomsday device. During this encounter, Dinah Soar is killed. New members Squirrel Girl (who has a pet squirrel Monkey Joe) and Grasshopper are then recruited. Although Maelstrom is defeated via Mr. Immortal's trickery, Doorman, Grasshopper and Monkey Joe are all killed (the last of these murdered by Gene Lorrene, who sought revenge against the GLA). Mr. Immortal is also killed several times, though he always recovers. Doorman is revived soon after his death and learns that he is connected to the Darkforce Dimension, and Mr. Immortal learns that as an immortal he is considered Homo sapiens supreme. Despite defeating Maelstrom and saving the universe, the Great Lakes Avengers' victory goes unnoticed. After receiving a subpoena from the Avengers and discovering that they are all mutants, the team decides to rename themselves the Great Lakes X-Men.

Crossovers
Squirrel Girl acquires a new partner, a female squirrel called Tippy-Toe; Grasshopper II dies after misjudging his armor's jumping capabilities and Doorman becomes an "angel of death" charged with conveying the souls of the dead to the afterlife. After Flatman wins a superhero poker tournament and Marvel Girl demands that they drop the "X-Men" name, the team assumes the name Great Lakes Champions.

With the beginning of the Civil War storyline, the GLC decide to comply with the Superhuman Registration Act, in fact waiting in line to register the day the Act is announced. The team is renamed as the Great Lakes Initiative, becoming officially sanctioned by the Fifty State Initiative as the team for the state of Wisconsin.

The team and Deadpool stop A.I.M. from using an "inebriation ray" that induces drunkenness in superheroes. Deadpool is granted reserve membership on the team, but is forcibly evicted from GLI headquarters after proving to be too much of an annoyance.

The team also appears during the Secret Invasion storyline confronting a Skrull disguised as Grasshopper, with help from Gravity and Catwalk. When Norman Osborn assumes control of the Initiative, he transfers Gravity to a leadership role in the GLI, much to the superhero's dismay.

After a fight with Fin Fang Foom, Squirrel Girl elects to leave the team and return to New York, because she feels that the other team members (who simply stayed in their headquarters, playing cards, during the fight) have come to rely upon her too much, and that her continued presence will prevent them from reaching their full potential as heroes and as a team.

During the "Fear Itself" storyline, the team has reverted to the name Great Lakes Avengers where they encounter Asbestos Man, who had been taking advantage of the fear and chaos that is happening. After standing around him for hours, Mr. Immortal talks him into giving up in return for being remembered by the others.

All-New, All Different
It is revealed that the team had disbanded and gone their separate ways. Flatman receives a visit from Connie Ferrari, a lawyer representing the real Avengers, who informs him that the GLA has been reinstated as a permanent addition to the Avengers. Flatman reunites with Big Bertha and Doorman, though Mr. Immortal doesn't show up and Squirrel Girl apparently ignores Flatman's call. The team moves to a new headquarters, a factory owned by Tony Stark in Detroit, Michigan. The team visits a local bar, where a fight breaks out after the owner, Nain Rogue, insults the team. Upon getting arrested after a fight, Doorman escapes, leaving Flatman and Bertha to deal with a young girl named Goodness Silva, who can transform into a werewolf, who was attacking the cops inside the station. Ferrari gets the team released over the accusations of councilman Dick Snerd, who is actually Nain Rouge. She also helps the team recruit Goodness Silva, who takes the name of Good Boy. After Snerd shuts the team down, Mr. Immortal returns and goes on patrol with Flatman, while Bertha, Doorman and Good Boy go to Nain Rogue's bar to find clues. At the bar, Bertha and Good Boy find Snerd drunk and discern his secret identity. Doorman is brought to the Darkforce Dimension where Oblivion angrily questions his absence, while Mr. Immortal and Flatman resolve their issues. Bertha and Good Boy take Nain Rogue hostage, where he reveals some of his background story. While Mr. Immortal, Bertha, and Flatman attend to a visiting Ferrari, Good Boy nearly kills Nain over an insult. After Ferrari tells the team to lie low for a couple of days, Bertha goes to a modeling gig for a weight-loss product created by Dr. Nob — a trap set to get a sample of her mutant DNA and use it to improve his product with Bertha's powers. Meanwhile, Good Boy's brother, Lucky, visits her at GLA HQ and tells her they need to leave town due to what she did to Nain Rogue. Bertha fights back against Dr. Nod and his squad, but Dr. Nod ingests much of the supplements, becoming a huge monster, and injures her. Bertha sends a text to the rest of the team, including Good Boy, and takes some of the supplements herself to fight Dr. Nod. During the battle, Dr. Nod takes more of the supplements, becoming much bigger and monstrous. On Mr. Immortal's suggestion, Doorman and Mr. Immortal enter Dr. Nod's body, where Mr. Immortal kills him by punching his heart. After their victory, the team is visited at their headquarters by Deadpool of the Avengers Unity Division who tells them that they've been fired and can no longer use the Avengers name since their legal claim did not hold up in court. While he claims that people simply "didn't like them," he does comfort them by proclaiming that they could try to be in the spotlight again in a few years.

Members

Founders

Trainers
Assisted the team by training them, but it is not clear if they joined.

Recruits

False members

Other versions

JLA/Avengers
The GLA appeared in the climax of the JLA/Avengers miniseries, where they assisted in the defeat of Krona.

In other media

Marvel Cinematic Universe
 A live action half hour sitcom series starring a team based on an amalgamation of the Great Lakes Avengers and the New Warriors, titled New Warriors, is in development by Marvel Television and ABC Studios as part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The team will consist of Squirrel Girl, Mister Immortal, Night Thrasher, Speedball, Microbe, Debrii and Nova. Reportedly, Squirrel Girl's sidekick Tippy Toe will also appear in the series. In July 2017, the New Warriors cast was officially announced to be Milana Vayntrub as Doreen Green / Squirrel Girl, Derek Theler as Craig Hollis / Mister Immortal, Jeremy Tardy as Dwayne Taylor / Night Thrasher, Calum Worthy as Robbie Baldwin / Speedball, Matthew Moy as Zach Smith / Microbe, Kate Comer as Deborah Fields / Debrii, and Keith David as Ernest Vigman. The show originally received a direct-to-series order with 10 episodes to debut on Freeform in 2018, co-produced by ABC Signature. On November 1, 2017, it was announced that series would no longer air on Freeform and is currently being shopped to other networks, while sources say the series could find a home on Disney's upcoming subscription streaming service.

Video games
 The Great Lakes Champions are mentioned in Marvel: Ultimate Alliance 2. In the briefing following the attack on Wakanda, Captain America and Iron Man mention that the Great Lakes Champions have been absorbed into The Fold.

Music
 The band Kirby Krackle released a song titled Great Lakes Avengers on their album E For Everyone in 2010.

Reception
In August 2009, TIME listed the Great Lakes Avengers among the "Top 10 Oddest Marvel Characters".

Collected editions


Marc Howard (news anchor)

Marc Howard (born February 13, 1937) is a retired longtime Philadelphia news anchor. He last anchored at KYW-TV beginning in 2003 when he fronted the late newscasts, but soon only anchored the 4 p.m. news.

Howard's television career began at WFMJ-TV in Youngstown, Ohio. One of Howard's duties was hosting a late afternoon movie program called Showtime. While the program initially followed a mainstream movie format, during the Monster Craze of the 1960s, the program almost exclusively featured horror and sci-fi movies Monday through Friday. As host, Howard did not appear as a horror host character but as himself. He moved to New York City in 1967 as one of the original members of WNEW-TV's Ten O'Clock News team.  After a brief reporting stint at WPRI-TV in Providence, Rhode Island, Howard returned to New York as a reporter for WPIX in 1968, staying there until 1970 when he took a job as press secretary to Howard J. Samuels during his unsuccessful run for Governor of New York; he later returned to WPIX as a political reporter.

Howard moved to Hartford, Connecticut to work for WFSB as a reporter and weekend anchor, and then arrived in Philadelphia in 1977 to become the 5:30 p.m. co-anchor of WPVI's Action News; the newscast would expand to an hour in 1981.  Howard would work at Action News alongside the late Jim O'Brien and later forming a long-running partnership with Lisa Thomas-Laury beginning in 1983.

Then in late 2002, he suddenly left after it was announced that he was being hired at KYW-TV to replace Larry Kane on the 11 P.M. newscast for a rumored $800,000 a year. In addition to his anchoring duties, Howard also hosted the locally produced public affairs program Newsmakers, which focuses on a variety of political issues, both local and national, and airs on KYW-TV on Sunday mornings.

He retired from anchoring on November 30, 2007, ending a broadcasting career that began at  WPIC 790 am in his hometown of Sharon, Pennsylvania.

Notes


Anecdotes of Oyasama

Anecdotes of Oyasama, the Foundress of Tenrikyo (稿本天理教教祖伝逸話篇 Kohon Tenrikyo Oyasama-den Itsuwa-hen) is an anthology of anecdotes about Nakayama Miki, the foundress of Tenrikyo. This text is one of the supplemental texts (準原典 jun-genten) to the Tenrikyo scriptures, along with The Doctrine of Tenrikyo and The Life of Oyasama.

Anecdotes of Oyasama was first published in the original Japanese in January 26, 1976, commemorating the 90th Anniversary of Oyasama (i.e. the 90th year since adherents believe Nakayama Miki withdrew from physical life and became everliving). An English translation was published the following year, in May 26, 1977.

The preface of the first 1956 publication of The Life of Oyasama mentions that a collection of anecdotes on Nakayama Miki would be put together in the near future. The "Kōki Committee," a subset of Tenrikyo reverends and scholars led by theologian Ueda Yoshinaru, compiled the anecdotes. The anecdotes were originally published in four volumes, each containing 50 stories. The first volume was released in January 1974, the second in September 1974, the third in May 1975, and the fourth in October 1975. The anecdotes went through further editing for content and wording before being published in one set of 200 stories on January 26, 1976.


Chiugiana-La Commenda

Chiugiana-La Commenda is a  of the  of Corciano in the Province of Perugia, Umbria, central Italy. It stands at an elevation of  above sea level. At the time of the Istat census of 2001 it had 6427 inhabitants.


Zanthus train collision

The Zanthus train collision occurred at a crossing loop on the Trans-Australian Railway between Perth and Sydney on 18 August 1999.  It is located  east northeast of Perth and  east of Kalgoorlie in Western Australia, on the Nullarbor Plain.

Incident
On 18 August 1999 an eastbound freight train was waiting at the departure end of the crossing loop for the westbound Indian Pacific passenger train to pass through.

The second engineman was waiting at the control panel for the points for the opposing train to pass through.  Out of habit he had the control panel box unlocked and opened.  Unfortunately, out of habit, he pressed the button to operate the points at an inappropriate time, and the opposing train was diverted at a speed of about  into the loop where it could not stop in time to avoid a head-on collision.  The actual speed of impact as recorded by the locomotive data logger on NR 15 was 27 km/h.

Injuries and damage
Twenty-one passengers and crew from the Indian Pacific were airlifted by the Royal Flying Doctor Service to Kalgoorlie Hospital from the remote Coonana airstrip,  from the crash site. Only two passengers were admitted for overnight observations. Westrail provided two Prospector railcars to transfer the remainder of the passengers back to Kalgoorlie.

All nineteen coaches of the Indian Pacific received varying degrees of damage, from minor internal damage to the write-off of luggage/smoking car HM311; some abandoned wrecked carriages are still at the site.  At the time, Great Southern Rail estimated the damage to the coaches to be of the value of $5 million. National Rail Corporation estimated the damage to locomotives NR15 and NR51 at around $1 million.

Aftermath
Since the accident, the operation of the points at this and other crossing loops has been altered so that the point indicator lights will not operate until the access process is completed, and this gives all trains time to stop at the red point indicator lights.

The simplified overview of process is:
access box - 120-180 second delay all line points are/changed to red
door opens
60-90 second delay until point control inputs are accepted, points can then be changed.
close door/seal box, lights are changed to indicate point positions.
All traffic then proceeds as directed.

This accident happened because the points were not fully interlocked, and were merely a kind of power-assisted hand lever, with automatic normalisation.


Association of Galilée Valley communes

The Association of Galilée Valley communes () is a former administrative association of communes in the Vosges département of eastern France and in the region of Lorraine. It was merged into the Communauté de communes Fave, Meurthe, Galilée in January 2014, which was merged into the new Communauté d'agglomération de Saint-Dié-des-Vosges in January 2017. Positioned 15 minutes to the east of Saint-Dié-des-Vosges, bordering the ridge that forms the mountainous frontier between Alsace and Lorraine, the association has its administrative offices at Ban-de-Laveline. Seven of the association's ten communes are within the Ballons des Vosges Nature Park.

Composition
Created at the end of 1997, initially comprising just three communes, the association ultimately consisted of 10 communes as follows:
 Ban-de-Laveline (1997)
 Bertrimoutier (1999)
 Combrimont (1999)
 La Croix-aux-Mines (2003)
 Frapelle (1999)
 Gemaingoutte (1997)
 Lesseux (1999)
 Neuvillers-sur-Fave (1999)
 Raves (1999)
 Wisembach (1997)

Sources and further reading

This article incorporates information from the equivalent article in the French Wikipedia, consulted during March 2009.

Galilee Valley


Wesla Whitfield

Wesla Whitfield (born Weslia Marie Edwards, September 15, 1947 – February 9, 2018) was an American singer who recorded more than a score of albums and performed at Carnegie Hall and the White House, among other sites, despite being confined to a wheelchair for the last four decades of her life. She specialized in the American standards genre of music.

Early years
Born in Santa Maria, California, Whitfield was the daughter of Vernon Edwards and Eleanor Smith Edwards. She studied at Pasadena City College and received a music degree from San Francisco State University. Her fondness for the American standards genre of songs began as a child, when she found her mother's old sheet music and began playing the songs on a piano and singing them. "Especially, the lyrics were wonderful," she said, "sentiments that I felt were something I could relate to." Whitfield's initial public performances came when she was a singing waitress at a Shakey's Pizza restaurant. She also sang in her high school's chorus and performed in a production of Brigadoon as a senior.

Career
Whitfield resisted efforts to classify her style of singing. Although she was described by others as a jazz singer or a cabaret singer, she once said, "I don't claim to be anything. I just show up at the gig." She also persisted in her career despite being confined to a wheelchair after she was shot in an attempted robbery in 1977.

Trained as a coloratura soprano, in 1971 Whitfield began to sing in the chorus of the San Francisco Opera. Finding that type of music unsatisfying, she sometimes followed operatic performances with stops at piano bars, where she performed familiar songs whose composers included Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, and Rodgers and Hart. She later explained her preference by saying: "In opera, the voice was the only thing of importance. The Lyric and the story didn't count, and that was boring to me. I'm very interested in the song and the story that it has to tell."

Whitfield's opera career lasted four years. Her change in orientation took her first to working as a singing cocktail waitress and then to singing in nightclubs, including the Rrazz Room and the Empire Plush Room in San Francisco, the Cinegrill in Los Angeles, The Oak Room of the Algonquin Hotel in Manhattan, and Scullers Jazz Club in Boston.

In 1977, two boys approached Whitfield on a street in San Francisco and told her to go with them. As she turned away, one shot at her. The bullet hit her spine, paralyzing her from the waist down. She sang for about three months soon after the shooting but stopped because "... it was quite boring because I really wasn't there mentally or emotionally." When she resumed performing, her husband carried her on stage to sit on a stool or chair because she didn't want her wheelchair to distract from her singing.

In 1985, she and her husband created the Myoho label for her albums. After three releases, HighNote Records began distributing Whitfield's recordings.

In the late 1990s, Whitfield and Greensill toured with a production of Life Upon the Wicked Stage, a "semi-autographical show" featuring Whitfield's singing. A review in The San Francisco Examiner described the show as "An absolutely marvelous evening of musical theater."

Personal life

Whitfield was married to, and divorced from, Richard Whitfield and Wilfred Berg. She married jazz pianist Mike Greensill in 1986. He had been her pianist and arranger, and he continued in those roles after their marriage.

Death
On February 9, 2018, Whitfield died of complications of bladder cancer at her home in St. Helena, California, at age 70.

Awards
Whitfield received five Cabaret Gold Awards from the San Francisco Council on Entertainment.

Discography
 Until the Real Thing Comes Along (Myoho, 1987)
 Nobody Else but Me (Landmark, 1988)
 Lucky to Be Me (Landmark, 1991)
 Live in San Francisco (Landmark, 1991)
 Beautiful Love (Cabaret, 1993)
 Nice Work (Landmark, 1994)
 Seeker of Wisdom and Truth (Cabaret, 1994)
 Teach Me Tonight (HighNote, 1997)
 My Shining Hour (HighNote, 1997)
 High Standards (HighNote, 1998)
 With a Song in My Heart (HighNote, 1999)
 Let's Get Lost (HighNote, 2000)
 The Best Thing for You Would Be Me (HighNote, 2002)
 September Songs (HighNote, 2003)
 In My Life (HighNote, 2005)
 Livin' On Love (HighNote, 2006)
 Message from the Man in the Moon (Pismo, 2007)