Cambus

Cambus is a public transport bus system, primarily serving the University of Iowa campus in Iowa City, Iowa. The service is intended to provide transportation for students, faculty, and staff around the main campus, University of Iowa Research Park, residence halls, and commuter parking lots. Cambus is a no-fare service open to the general public. Cambus provides approximately 4,500,000 rides per year.

The service is operated by the Department of Parking and Transportation for the University of Iowa with funding from the Parking & Transportation Department, a UI Student fee, and the Federal Transportation Administration.

Cambus was founded by University of Iowa students and has been in operation since 1972. The University of Iowa campus is divided into east and west halves by the Iowa River. Most Liberal Arts and Sciences classes take place on the east side of the river; thus the purpose of the new bus service was to facilitate easier transportation between the west-side dormitories and the east-side classrooms. At first there was no name for this service, so the founding students created a contest open to all U of I students to select one. "Cambus" was the name eventually chosen after Cambuskenneth, and the winner, Larry Page, was awarded a free pizza.

The first Cambus buses were used school buses, repainted by Cambus employees. There were three different bus routes; Red Route, Blue Route, and the Interdorm Shuttle. Cambus also acquired a trailer, which was used as their main office; this was located in the Hancher Auditorium parking lot.

Cambus employs approximately 170 employees. There are only six non-student employees who work specifically for Cambus: the Cambus Manager, the Maintenance Supervisor, and four full-time mechanics. All other employees, including drivers, dispatchers, trainers, student mechanics, and departmental supervisors, are students currently enrolled at the University of Iowa.

Cambus also has two different buildings on the University of Iowa campus. The main office is located on Evashevski Drive, north Kinnick Stadium, called the West Campus Transportation Center.  Cambus moved operations to this newer building, shared with the Parking & Transportation department, on November 16, 2012. The Cambus Maintenance Facility, often called "The Barn" by employees, is located on South Madison Street south of the Campus Recreation and Wellness Center.

In October, 2018, Cambus routes and schedules were integrated with Google Maps.

Routes and hours of operation
Cambus has eighteen routes in service.

During Academic service (the Spring and Fall semesters), all routes run on weekdays with limited service on the weekends. During Summer and Interim service a limited service runs without any weekend service. Route maps and schedules are available on the Cambus website and in pamphlets available on the buses. Cambus time is set by the Master Clock at the US Naval Observatory (https://web.archive.org/web/20180522031726/https://www.time.gov/)

During academic service the earliest route begins at 4:30 am and the last route ends at 1:02 am (2:12 am on Friday and Saturday nights for SafeRide)

Cambus also provides special service for university-affiliated groups, including shuttle service for most Hawkeye football games (to/from downtown, Hancher, and the Hawkeye Commuter Lot), men's Hawkeye basketball games (to/from Hancher), and other events on campus.

Route list
Blue Route
East Campus Shuttle
Hawk Lot/Hospital
AM/PM Hawkeye Express
Hawkeye-Hospital
Hawkeye-Interdorm
Hospital Finkbine/Arena
AM/PM Hospital via Hancher
Mayflower Shuttle*
Interdorm*
Research Park
Pentacrest/Night Pentacrest
Red Route
Hospital-VA Loop

Recently discontinued routes include:
Music/Theatre Shuttle
Studio Arts Shuttle
ABW/Studio Arts
Melrose Van
routes marked with an asterisk run only during Spring/Fall semesters

Bongo (Bus On the Go)
To improve safety, encourage eco-friendly practices, and create a more efficient service, Cambus adopted Bongo in Spring 2010. Bongo is a GPS-based, real-time passenger information system that allows riders to find current bus locations as well as predictions for upcoming bus arrivals.

Bongo uses GPS technology and computer modeling to track vehicles on their routes and predict arrival times. Each vehicle is equipped with a GPS tracking system that reports latitude and longitude via satellite every 15 seconds.

Using the 4-digit stop number located at a particular stop, passengers can either text, call or go to www.ebongo.org to find all current arrival predictions for that stop.  Passengers can also download the "Bongo" app from the iPhone store, or Google Play store for Android.

In addition to finding current predictions, passengers can also create alerts to be sent to their mobile phones or to pop-up on their computer. More information about this is available at www.ebongo.org/alerts.

Bongo is powered by NextBus, a transit information system based in Emeryville, California.

Bionic Bus
In accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), Cambus provides paratransit service called the Bionic Bus for University staff, faculty, and students. There are up to 3 paratransit buses in service during normal academic service (fewer run on weekends and during interim service). The service is demand-response curb-to-curb and serves much of Iowa City and Coralville. Student drivers are specially trained for Bionic Bus. Unlike Iowa City Transit and Coralville Transit, the paratransit service is handled in-house and not contracted to Johnson County SEATS.

Fleet
The Cambus fleet has changed tremendously over the years with addition of new buses and retirement of old ones. The current fleet consists of 36 actively used buses:
Five Orion Bus Industries paratransit buses (Buses 8, 9, 10, 12, 13). Buses 12 and 13 are used for Bionic Bus service. The other Orions have since been retired.
One Opus Optima 30-foot low-floor bus (Bus 11) used exclusively for East Campus Shuttle.
 Five 1997 Gillig Phantom 40-foot buses (Buses 83 and 85) used for general service. All others have been retired.
 Twelve 2008 Gillig 40-foot Low-Floor buses (Buses 94-105) used for general service.
 Three 2009 Gillig 40-foot Low-Floor buses (106-108) used for general service.
 Eight 2011 Gillig 40-foot Low-Floor buses (Buses 109-116) used for general service.
 Two 2013 Gillig 40-foot Low-Floor buses (Buses 117-118) used for general service.
 Three 2013 Gillig 30-foot Low-Floor buses (Buses 14-16) used for general service and Bionic Bus.
 One Mobility Ventures MV-1 used for support purposes.
 One Ford F-250 pickup truck (with snowplow) used for support purposes.

Buses that have been retired, or will retire soon include:
 Seven 1989 Gillig Phantom 40-foot buses (Buses 64-78).
 Five 1989 Gillig Phantom 35-foot buses (Buses 89-93). These are often referred to as the "Madisons" because they were bought from Madison (Wisconsin) transit.
 The Orion buses 8-10 were expected to retire in Fall 2013.

All buses are outfitted with wheelchair lifts or ramps to assist those with disabilities.


Erigeron saxatilis

Erigeron saxatilis  is a rare North American species of flowering plant in the daisy family known by the common name rock fleabane.. It has been found only in northern Arizona, in  Yavapai and Coconino Counties north of the Mogollon Rim.

Erigeron saxatilis  grows on ledges and cracks in the walls of canyons. It is a very small perennial herb rarely more than 5 cm (2 inches) tall, forming a woody underground caudex. The inflorescence generally contains only 1 flower head per stem. Each head contains 20–29 white ray florets surrounding many yellow disc florets.


Château de Blain

The Château de Blain  or Château de la Groulais, is a mediaeval castle constructed in the 13th century and heavily remodelled in the 16th, located in the commune of Blain in the Loire-Atlantique département of France. It formed part of the frontier defences of Brittany along with the towns and castles of Vitré, Fougères, Châteaubriant, Ancenis and Clisson.

Geography
The castle stands on the side of the Canal de Nantes à Brest. It has 12 towers and covers an area of 4 hectares.

History

The first castle was constructed by order of Alan IV, Duke of Brittany, around 1108. The fortress passed by marriage to the Clisson family in 1225. Following Olivier Ier de Clisson's revolt against the Duke, the castle was razed in 1260.

Olivier I's son, Olivier II obtained permission from the Duke to rebuild the castle. The Clissons progressively enlarged the castle during the 14th century.

In 1407, the castle became the property of the House of Rohan. Louis, duc de Rohan is buried here.

During the French Wars of Religion, the castle was besieged and set on fire in 1591 during the fighting between the Duke of Mercœur and Jean de Montauban, the knight De Goust. It was restored by Catherine de Parthenay, who installed herself there with her children. In 1628, Henri II de Rohan having become the leader of the Protestant princes, Cardinal Richelieu ordered the dismantling of the castle which thus lost its military role.

The castle suffered further serious damage during the French Revolution. It was pillaged and burnt, along with the Rohan family archives. It served as a barracks and later as a prison.

It passed through the hands of several proprietors, including Marie Bonaparte in 1918. These owners remodelled the north wing (known as the Logis du Roy) and the Mill Tower (la tour du moulin).

Architecture

The South West Tower and the Drawbridge Tower with the buildings on either side form the entrance to the castle. Along with the Constable's Tower (tour du Connétable), the two towers in the south east and the monumental entrance on the south facade of the logis du Roi, they date from before the 17th century. Together with the remains of the towers and the fortifications linking them, these have been classified as a monument historique by the French Ministry of Culture.

The north wing of the logis du Roi was remodelled in the 19th century.

Today
The castle houses a fresco centre and an ancient printshop. It has been listed since 1977 as a monument historique by the French Ministry of Culture.

Gallery


26 St James's Place

26 St James's Place is a grade II* listed block of flats in St James's Place, St James's, London W1.

The block of eight flats was built in 1959–60, and designed by Denys Lasdun and Partners, with Alexander Redhouse as the partner in charge, and Graham Lane, Lyall Anderson and Maya Hambly as assistant architects, and Ove Arup and Partners as the engineers. It is built with reinforced concrete clad with Baveno grey granite and white vitreous mosaic on the soffits.

In 1960, it was awarded the RIBA London Architecture Bronze Medal.

It replaced a house built in about 1692, and destroyed by German bombing in World War II. Notable residents included Sir John Harpur, and Lieutenant-General Sir John Cope, who demolished it in 1745 and built a larger house, where he lived until his death in 1760. Later occupants included Richard Rigby, Richard Vernon, Robert Smith, 1st Baron Carrington, who extended the house, and the Dowager Lady Arden.


Alfred Cooke

Alfred Ernest Cooke (c.1870 – 3 June 1900) was a New Zealand rugby union player who represented the All Blacks in 1894. His position of choice was halfback. Cooke did not play in any test matches as New Zealand did not play their first until 1903.

Career
Out of the Merivale club, Cooke was described as "a fine halfback, exceptionally quick at getting the ball away from the scrum and also a powerful and accurate line kicker".

Cooke had a short career, playing just three seasons for the Canterbury province.

Cooke played for Canterbury in their game against the touring New South Wales side, which was won 11-3.  Based on this performance Cooke was selected for the All Blacks side to play the tourists in the unofficial "test" match just two days later. The match was lost 8-6.

This was his only appearance for the national side.

Personal and death
Cooke was an auctioneer by occupation.

His younger brother, Reuben, was an All Black in 1903.

Unfortunately, Cooke died in 1900, three years before his brother would make his All Black debut. He was shot accidentally by a friend whilst being part of a shooting expedition at Lake Ellesmere / Te Waihora.


Stranded (video game)

Stranded is a 3D action-adventure video game, developed by Unreal Software. The main goal of the Robinsonade game is to survive on a dangerous island and to find a way to return home.

The game is free to download and play. The second installment of the game was released under the CC BY-NC-SA Creative Commons license with its source code.

History
Stranded was released in mid-2003 by Peter Schauß, the founder of Unreal Software. Its design and gameplay are influenced by the relatively unknown German freeware game Schiffbruch.

Stranded was a success in November 2003, appearing in four different German gaming magazines and the Rhein-Zeitung. After release of Version 1.3 development ceased, and the Stranded source code was released, but without any license information given, thus leaving all copyrights still on Peter Schauß.

Gameplay
The game has no campaign mode, but its "random island" mode is wrapped up in a story where the player is stranded on a deserted island. Resource management is a vital component of gameplay, since the player character has a constant need for food and water, and has to sleep. The game features a day and night cycle. Sleeping in the open injures the player, unprocessed food is not very effective against hunger and aggressive animals threaten the player. So the player is forced to gather resources like branches, stones and vines to construct tools, buildings and weapons. Each building that is finished will unlock another, more sophisticated building, until the player is able to build a raft to escape from the island and reach his homeland.

The terrain in the game is completely modifiable.

There are also some mini-missions such as rescuing kiwi birds or fighting off a pack of blood-thirsty raptors under a time limit. Such custom maps can be created with the built-in map editor. Several of these fan-made maps can be downloaded from the Stranded home page. Although there are some limited settings, such as turning off the need for food, water and sleep, any way of story-telling is limited to a single briefing message after the map has started and creative terrain design.

Stranded II

Peter Schauß started work on the sequel Stranded II in late 2003. Development entered public alpha stage in December 2005. But still, the release of the final version didn't happen until June 2007. Stranded II had improved visuals and much more features than its predecessor, and was built with ease of modding in mind.

Stranded 3
As of 2012, Peter Schauß has started working on another sequel, Stranded III. There will be multiplayer support which will be a part of the Unreal Software Gaming Network (U.S.G.N.) which is already being used for Counter Strike 2D and Carnage Contest. There is no mobile version planned but there are possibilities that once the PC version is launched mobile development will take place.


Rafał Dębski

Rafał Dębski (born 1969)  is a Polish writer of fantasy, historic, sensational and criminal novels. He works as a psychologist. Since June 2009 he has been editor in chief of the magazine Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror.

He debuted in Nowa Fantastyka in its May 1998 issue with his tale "Siódmy liść".

In 2005 his first novel Łzy Nemezis was published. In the scope of fantasy literature he won the "Nautilus" award in 2007 for his novel Czarny Pergamin and in 2008 for Gwiazdozbiór kata. He published a series of criminal novels, in which the main character is police officer Michał Wroński. He also wrote a novel which takes place during the Russo-Chechen conflict.

Bibliography

Books
Łzy Nemesis, Copernicus Corporation, October 2005 ()
Czarny Pergamin, Fabryka Słów, October 2006 ()
Przy końcu drogi, Fantasmagoricon, October 2006 ()
Gwiazdozbiór kata, Wydawnictwo Dolnośląskie, May 2007 ()
Kiedy Bóg zasypia, Fabryka Słów, June 2007 ()
Pasterz upiorów, zbiór opowiadań, Fantasmagoricon, November 2007 ()
Wilki i Orły, Red Horse, February 2008 ()
Słońce we krwi, Red Horse, October 2008 ()
Serce teściowej, zbiór opowiadań, Fabryka Słów, November 2008 ()
Wilkozacy. Wilcze Prawo
Wilkozacy. Krew z krwi

Series about police officer Wroński
Labirynt von Brauna, Wydawnictwo Dolnośląskie, February 2007 ()
Żelazne kamienie, Wydawnictwo Dolnośląskie, September 2007 ()
Krzyże na rozstajach, Wydawnictwo Dolnośląskie, September 2008 ()


ILA Berlin Air Show

The ILA Berlin Air Show (German: Internationale Luft- und Raumfahrtausstellung (ILA)) combines a major trade exhibition for the aerospace and defence industries with a public airshow.
It is held every even year at the new Berlin ExpoCenter Airport near Schönefeld, Brandenburg 18 km southeast of Berlin, Germany. The most recent ILA Berlin Air Show was held in April 2018.

Established in 1909, it claims to be world's oldest air show, and it is among the largest and most important aerospace trade fairs today. According to the organisers Messe Berlin GmbH, in 2012 the Berlin Air Show attracted 125,000 professional visitors and 105,000 members of the general public, with 3,600 journalists from 65 countries also attending.

The format is similar to the Paris Air Show in France and the Farnborough International Airshow in Britain, the other major events in the European air show calendar. The Berlin event starts with three professional days closed to the general public, and then on Friday, Saturday and Sunday the public are allowed in.

The main display sections planned for 2014 include commercial air transport, space, military aviation, helicopters and both civil and military unmanned aircraft systems, also known as UAVs.

History
It was first held in Frankfurt am Main in 1909, and as such can lay claim to being the oldest aviation show in the world. After the first ILA, following the idea of the aircraft constructor August Euler, numerous flying clubs combined to form the German Pilots' Association in April 1910. Shortly after, the Association of German Aircraft Makers was founded in Frankfurt/Main, establishing close ties between the ILA and the future Federal Association of the Aerospace Industry (BDLI), an organisation that exists today.

Before the First World War, the ILA was held in Berlin (1912 and later on in 1928). When Germany regained air sovereignty after the Second World War, the foundations were laid in 1955 for an "International Show for Travel by Air", which in 1957 took place at Langenhagen Airport as part of the Hanover Trade Fair, the first in a run of ILA shows in Hanover that was to last over 30 years.

Known initially as the German Aviation Show, the fair was increasingly attracting participants from abroad, and in 1978 the symbolic three letters ILA from 1909 were revived. In 1992, the far-reaching political and economic changes which had taken place in Europe since the fall of the Berlin Wall opened the way for the ILA to return to Berlin. The ILA's main display sections include commercial aviation, aerospace, military aviation and military technology, equipment and engines, and general aviation and helicopters.

Location

The new multi-purpose exhibition area, called Berlin ExpoCenter Airport adjacent to the BER was finished in time for ILA 2012. The main section of the grounds cover approximately 250,000 square metres.

The site is situated  southeast of Germany's capital city Berlin.

ILA 2002

ILA 2004

ILA 2006

All previous attendance records had been broken at ILA2006. More than 250,000 visitors (2004: 201,500, +25%) were recorded at the ILA2006 between 16 and 21 May, including 115,000 trade visitors (2004: 105,000). Events on the southern section of Berlin-Schönefeld airport were dominated by the signing of sales contracts and joint venture agreements worth billions, a display featuring some 340 aircraft, many of them making their first public appearance, and the largest number of delegations and conferences ever. 1,014 exhibitors from 42 countries (2004: 987 from 42 countries) presented products, systems and processes from every area of the aerospace industry. Several thousand experts from all over Europe and from overseas attended the more than 90 accompanying conferences in search of information. Some 4,100 media representatives from 70 countries provided comprehensive coverage of the main technical themes and the attractions for the public at the ILA2006.

ILA 2006 emphasised the importance of this sector for Germany in its role as a centre for the aerospace industry. Hans-Joachim Gante, Chief Executive of the BDLI, stated: "We have become one of the few sectors with sustainable growth in Germany, due above all to our innovative strengths." This was clearly demonstrated at the ILA2006, which is acquiring an increasingly international dimension, thereby strengthening its role as one of the world's major meeting places for the industry. This was an ideal opportunity for the German aerospace industry to demonstrate that it is among the world leaders." Exhibitors expressed their satisfaction with the discussions and contacts and with the business deals that were finalised at this event. "In particular the decision to make Russia the partner country proved highly effective. Russia was very strongly represented and was able to establish numerous contacts and business links."

At the close of the event Stefan Grave, Project Director for Messe Berlin GmbH, summed up: "The ILA2006 underlined its major importance as a European marketing platform for this sector as well as again demonstrating its many attractions for the public. Trade visitors and the general public alike were fascinated by the high-tech products on display. Unprecedented numbers of people attended to see the Airbus A380, an outstanding international flying display and the Space Hall.

Many high-ranking delegations attended, especially during the three Trade Visitors’ Days. In addition to the Federal Minister of Economics Michael Glos, the ILA 2006 also received visits from the Defence Minister Franz-Josef Jung, Minister of the Interior Wolfgang Schäuble, Transport Minister Wolfgang Tiefensee, the Minister at the Chancellor's Office Dr. Thomas de Maizière and the heads of the regional governments in Brandenburg and Berlin, Matthias Platzeck and Klaus Wowereit. Germany's armed forces, the Bundeswehr, were very strongly represented: the Chief of the Armed Forces Wolfgang Schneiderhan attended the ILA 2006, as did the Chiefs of Staff of the Air Force and Army, Klaus-Peter Stieglitz and Hans-Otto Budde. A number of ministers from other countries also visited this event, accompanied by high-ranking delegations, thereby underlining the international importance of the ILA 2006. Among them were, from the partner country Russia, the Minister of Disaster Relief Sergei Schoigu, the Minister of Defence of the Netherlands, Henk Kamp, the Greek Defence Minister Evangelos Meimarakis, the French Transport Minister Dominique Perben, the Slovenian Defence Minister Karl Erjavec, the Albanian Defence Minister Fatmir Mediu and the Ukrainian Industry Minister Volodymyr Shandra. In addition 70 parliamentarians from 17 European countries were welcomed at the ILA2006.

The ILA2006 was organised jointly by the association representing the German aerospace industry, Bundesverband der Deutschen Luft- und Raumfahrtindustrie (BDLI) e.V., Berlin, and by Messe Berlin GmbH.

ILA 2008

ILA 2008 was held between 27 May and 1 June 2008 on the southern section of Berlin-Schönefeld Airport, which has been designated as the future Berlin Brandenburg International Airport (BBI). Chancellor of Germany Angela Merkel attended the opening ceremony and welcomed international guests, among which a special place was dedicated to Indian operators, as India was chosen as 2008 edition's partner country. Special events were planned as part of 60th Anniversary of the Berlin Airlift celebration. UK and US veterans from the cold war age Berlin airlift were invited as ILA's special guests.
Other guests were the US Air Force with a B-1B Lancer, the Poland Air Force and the Slovak Air Force with MiG-29 Fulcrum, Airbus with the A380 and the Patrouille Suisse.

ILA 2010
At ILA Berlin Air Show 2010 1,153 exhibitors from 47 countries presented their products and services to 235,000 visitors, of whom 125,000 were trade visitors. Around 300 aircraft were on display at the trade show. During the ILA 2010, Airbus alone received orders worth 15,3 billion US-Dollars, among them the then-biggest order in civil aviation history on 32 additional Airbus A380 by Emirates.

ILA 2012
The ILA Berlin Air Show in 2012 was held at an exhibition ground next to the newly built Berlin Brandenburg Airport (BER) in Schönefeld, Germany. Poland was chosen as 2012's partner country of the ILA Berlin Air Show.


Jędrzejewo, Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship

Jędrzejewo  () is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Lniano, within Świecie County, Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, in north-central Poland. It lies approximately  south-west of Lniano,  north-west of Świecie, and  north of Bydgoszcz.


Charcier

Charcier is a commune in the Jura department in Franche-Comté in eastern France.

Population


Barigah

Barigah is a village in Bamyan Province in northern-central Afghanistan.


Frank Pitcher

Franklyn "Frank" Joseph Pitcher (24 June 1879 – 23 January 1921) was an Australian first-class cricket player who represented Victoria in one match in 1910–11 against the touring South Africans. Pitcher was a right-arm medium pace bowler. During the match Pitcher became the first player to be no-balled by both umpires in a match at first-class level of cricket in Australia. Pitcher was also the only player to be no-balled for throwing in his debut match at first-class level.

Pitcher made his first-class debut for Victoria against South Africa on a match starting on 3 February 1911. John Zulch and Louis Stricker were opening the batting for the tourists and Pitcher was no-balled by umpire Bob Crockett for throwing his first three deliveries, with Zulch taking strike. Pitcher appeared to be shaken by the incident and he also delivered a wide and another no-ball. At the end of this first over, he was replaced by his captain Warwick Armstrong.

The following day, Pitcher was no-balled for a fifth time by umpire W. A. Young in his second over. Pitcher was passed on the first five deliveries of the over but the sixth  was called by Young as a no-ball. A correspondent for the Melbourne Age described the sixth delivery as "an undeniable throw". Pitcher attempted to change his action, but this disrupted his length and he was twice struck for four by South African captain Dave Nourse. After the over, Pitcher was taken from the attack by Armstrong.

Pitcher was never selected at first-class level again and it was the first occasion in Australia when a bowler was called by both officiating umpires. The matter did not end after the match, as Pitcher's district club, Collingwood, pursued an inquiry with the Victorian Cricket Association although an executive committee of the VCA found that the complaints of the club were spurious. Pitcher was not called as district level before his only state appearance and he continued until the 1913–14 season without further complaints. Pitcher also played baseball for Collingwood.


Kentucky Gold

Kentucky Gold (foaled 14 February 1973) was a Thoroughbred racehorse who was sold for a world-record $625,000 ($ million inflation adjusted) in 1974. As a racehorse, he won one minor race from seven starts. He was then retired to stud and sired the winners of many minor races.

Background
Kentucky Gold was a bay horse bred in Kentucky by Leslie Combs II of Spendhrift Farm. Having been sired by Raise A Native out of the mare Gold Digger he was a full-brother to Mr. Prospector.

At the Keeneland Sales in July 1974 the yearling was sold for a then world-recond price of $625,000, with Mr & Mrs W Gilroy of Chicago winning the auction. He broke the record set a year earlier by  Wajima. He was the fifth Spendthrift graduate to hold the record following One Bold Bid, Bold Discovery, Majestic Prince and Crowned Prince.

Racing career
Kentucky Gold was sent into training with Richard J. Fischer. His racing career consisted of seven starts as a three-year-old in 1976. After finishing third at Hollywood Park Racetrack on his debut in a maiden race in April he finished unplaced in two similar events at the same track before winning a maiden at Delaware Park on August 15. He then finished fourth at Keystone Park and finished third in two allowance races at Keeneland in October.

Stud record
Kentucky Gold was retired from racing to become a breeding stallion. He was not particularly successful, but did sire some prolific winners of minor races in North America including Golden Tumiga (twenty-six wins), Native of Kentucky (twenty-one wins), Golden Occasion (thirteen wins) and Fort Worth (thirteen wins). Kentucky Gold died in 2001.

Pedigree


New Music Seminar

The New Music Seminar (NMS) is a Music Conference and Festival held annually each June in New York City. The New Music Seminar originally ran from 1980 to 1995 and was relaunched in 2009. NMS features over 150 CEOs and other executives, presidents, and other leaders in the emerging music business along with over 100 artist performances.

In 2012, NMS hosted the first New York Music Festival in collaboration with the New York City Mayor's Office of Media & Entertainment declaration of the city’s first New York Music Week. The festival took place in 17 venues throughout Manhattan and Brooklyn.

New Music Seminar 2015 took place June 21-23 in New York City.

History

1980–95
In June 1980, Tom Silverman, Mark Josephson, Joel Webber, Danny Heaps, and Scott Anderson brought 220 people together at a New York City rehearsal studio to discuss challenges in the music business. The event grew in subsequent years to act as a catalyst for change in it. The New Music Seminar added music showcases and a festival, initially called "New York Nights" and later, "New Music Nights." These were held in various New York City clubs. At its peak, the first series of seminars attracted more than 8,000 participants from 35 countries.

Haoui Montaug was panel director of the NMS at the time of his 1991 death. Following his death, the NMS inaugurated the Haoui Montag New Music Awards in his honour.

2009
In 2009, the New Music Seminar was relaunched by Tom Silverman and former New Music Seminar staffer Dave Lory.

New York CIty

The New Music Seminar returned as a one-day event to its hometown in the 2009 summer on July 21. It was an event that created the template for music conferences by combining business and shows. Held at the New York University Steinhardt's Skirball Center for the Performing Arts, the program consisted of a keynote, four educational sessions on how to combine new and old methods with technology for career success, and an artists' showcase.

Chicago

Following reviews from the New York City conference on July 21, the New Music Seminar went to Chicago for the first time on October 6 at the historic Park West.

On October 6 in Chicago, the reincarnated New Music Seminar kicked off with keynote address by Michael Spiegelman, head of Yahoo! Music, and was followed by four panel discussions:
 Welcome to the Music Business; everything you know is wrong. Redefining Success. 1000 True Fans and the Fan Relationship Pyramid.
 Expose Yourself: Marketing for the next music business; MySpace, Facebook and Twitter are not enough.
 The Creative Process and radical Differentiation; Supercharge your music to rise above the noise floor and achieve success
 The Live Show and Tour; How to Cut through the Glut and reach the Magic 300

2010

Los Angeles

New Music Seminar came to Los Angeles’s Henry Fonda Theater on Feb 2 as a one-day music, networking and educational extravaganza for industry professionals seeking to learn and understand how to help artists “rise above the noise floor” in a shifting musical landscape.

Featured players included: CMO Pepsi, Kevin Lyman, president/founder of Warp Tour, Alexandra Patsavas of Chop Shop Music, Justin Tranter, lead singer of Semi Precious Weapons, Derek Sivers, founder of CD Baby and Jason Bentley, program director of KCRW.

The full-day conference included four “movements” a.k.a. panels, live performances, the New Music Seminar “Artist on The Verge” contest winner performance and a great deal of networking both before, during and after the event.

The conference featured Keynote address followed by four Movements:
 1st Movement: Welcome to the Music Business; Everything you know is wrong. The New Definition of Success. 1000 True Fans and the Fan Relationship Pyramid.
 2nd Movement: Get Arrested; Marketing Yourself in the New Music Business – MySpace, Facebook and Twitter are not enough.
 3rd Movement: The Creative Process and radical Differentiation; Supercharge your music to rise above the noise floor and achieve success. A virtual A&R meeting.
 4th Movement: The Live Show and Tour; How to Cut through the Glut and reach the Magic 300 Ticket Mark

New York City

New Music Seminar announced that it would no longer remain a one-day conference and expand into a multi-day event from July 19 to 21 in New York City. The two-day, three-night conference included a symphony of five "movements" (focused discussions) over the course of two days, 8 TED-style presentations from key industry leaders, 22 mentoring sessions, nightly musical performances and ongoing networking opportunities. This seminar address both the artists’ dilemma of breaking out from the ever-growing glut of music releases and the development of a new business model for a sustainable music business.

NMS featured speakers included: Eric Garland (Big Champagne), Joe Kennedy (Pandora), Mike Doernberg (Reverbnation), Courtney Holt (Myspace Music), David Goodman (CBS Interactive), Little Steven (Underground Garage and the E Street Band), Ariel Hyatt (Ariel PR), Corey Denis (Not Shocking), Linda Lorence (SESAC), Jay Frank (CMT), Gwen Lipsky (Sound Thinking), Tom Jackson (onstagesuccess.com), Martin Atkins (Tour: Smart), John Simson (Soundexchange), Corrie Christopher (APA), Chris Vinson (Bandzoogle), and Tony Van Veen (Discmakers). The Artist Movement “conducted” by Margaret Cho featured star artists discussing how they got their break and tips on how to apply what worked for them.

2011–13
After a sold-out event in New York City on July 19–21, 2010, New Music Seminar returned to Los Angeles one day after the Grammys, with its 3-day event from February 14 through 16th, 2011, at the Sheraton Universal Hotel. The kickoff red carpet event, The After Grammy Jammy (the NMS Opening Night Party), was held at The Music Box in Hollywood on Monday night, February 14 with the “Artist on the Verge Finals”, which selects one artist who will walk away with over $50K in promotion and marketing, Tuesday, February 15 at The Roxy. The two-day, three-night conference included a symphony of five "movements" (focused discussions) over the course of two days, 12–18 minute Intensives (presentations) from key industry leaders, 22 mentoring sessions, daily and nightly musical performances, Summit Meetings and workshops on Rock, Hip Hop, Producers and Songwriting along with ongoing networking opportunities throughout.

On June 17–19, 2012, the New Music Seminar explored the exciting future of the music business with the SoundExchange Digital Broadcasting Summit and the BMI Creative Conclave; which took place at Webster Hall in New York City. The creative community and their label partners met the digital broadcasters, music bloggers, music technologists and all of the new music exposure and monetization players. Clear Channel CEO, Bob Pittman and Sean Parker were the keynote speakers and shared their vision for the future. Many sectors of the evolving new music business convened to discuss their perspectives for the exciting new future for the music business.

In 2013, the New Music Seminar, along with the SoundExchange Digital Broadcasting Summit, moved to the iconic New Yorker Hotel and held its opening night party at Webster Hall. 2013 marked a growth in international relationships spearheaded by the newly appointed General Manager, Peter Schwinge. Music showcases from France, Spain, and Sweden – an International Movement conducted by MIDEM, and an uptick in international sponsors and delegates enhanced the discussion throughout the global music community.
A new addition, to the benefit of artists, was the Music Xray A&R Listening and Critique room where artists had the opportunity to have their music listened to, and critiqued by reps from Atlantic Records, Republic Records, RCA Records, Virgin Records, Label Recruit, LOCAL VIBES, Glassnote Records, Razor & Tie, Robbins Entertainment, Island Def Jam, and Columbia Records.

There was a 2015 event.

Similar events
Since the New Music Seminar's inception, many important music conferences worldwide have been formed, including SXSW, Winter Music Conference, In the City, CMJ and Canadian Music Week.


Alexander Stuart (writer)

Alexander Stuart is a British-born, Los Angeles-based novelist and screenwriter. Stuart's books include The War Zone, Tribes, Life On Mars (which inspired the British television documentary, The End of America), Five And A Half Times Three (written with Ann Totterdell, about the death from cancer of their five-and-a-half-year-old son, Joe Buffalo Stuart), and the children's books, Joe, Jo-Jo And The Monkey Masks and Henry And The Sea (written with Joe Buffalo Stuart). Stuart's books have been translated into eight languages and published in the United States, Britain, Europe, and Israel.

His most controversial novel, The War Zone, about a family torn apart by sexual abuse, was turned into a film by Oscar-nominated actor/director Tim Roth in 1999.  At the time of the book's initial publication in 1989, it was stripped of the Whitbread Best Novel Award amid controversy over its depiction of incest, with one judge describing it as "repellent" and threatening to resign from the panel if Stuart received the award.

A major influence on Stuart's life and work, particularly The War Zone, was the loss of his first son in 1989.

In addition to scripting Roth's film of The War Zone, Stuart also served as executive producer of Nicolas Roeg's Insignificance, based on Terry Johnson's play, which brought together a fictionalized Marilyn Monroe, Albert Einstein, Joe DiMaggio and Senator Joe McCarthy, on a single night in New York.

Before moving to the United States, Stuart lived in London and Brighton, England. During the 1990s, he moved to Miami Beach, where he taught screenwriting at the University of Miami. In 1997, he was commissioned by the Miami Art Museum to create an artwork, Filmloop/Fragments, to accompany a sculpture installation by the Polish artist, Magdalena Abakanowicz. He currently lives in Los Angeles, with his wife and their two children. On September 22, 2006, Stuart was sworn in as an American citizen.


Sandstone Solar Energy Project

The Sandstone Solar Energy Project was an up to 1,600 megawatt (MW) solar thermal power project with 16 gigawatt-hours of energy storage, planned just to the east of Tonopah, about  northwest of Las Vegas. The project was about up to eight 200 MW solar towers with integrated molten salt energy storage technology. The project, developed by SolarReserve and owned by Sandstone Solar Energy, LLC. was anticipated to cost about $5 billion. Planned energy output is 5,600 GW·h per year.

The project includes heliostats that collect and focus the sun's thermal energy to heat molten salt flowing through a solar power tower. The molten salt circulates from the tower to a storage tank, where it is then used to produce steam and generate electricity. Excess thermal energy is stored in the molten salt and can be used to generate power for up to ten hours, including during the evening hours and when direct sunlight is not available. The storage technology also eliminates the need for any backup fossil fuels, such as natural gas.

Estimated construction start was in 2022. Each tower was be constructed within a 24-month construction cycle, staggered 6 months, expecting about 5 and half years to complete.

In March 2019, the U.S. Bureau of Land Management confirmed that Sandstone Solar Energy has withdrawn its application for a construction and operation right-of-way on federal land for this project.

On 15 April 2019, Sandstone Solar Energy filed for withdrawal of the application for a permit to construct the solar plant and requested closure of the relevant docket (No.17-08003). The Commission acknowledged the filing and closed the docket the same day.


Gaming Show (In My Parents' Garage)

Gaming Show (In My Parents' Garage) is a Canadian television series that airs on Family Chrgd.

The show was a Canadian Screen Award nominee for Best Children's or Youth Non-Fiction Program at the 3rd Canadian Screen Awards in 2015.

The show was filmed in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Premise
The show is about three teenagers, Jesse, Julia, and Ian, who run a gaming show in Jesse's parents' garage. Each teen goes through a very different experience which involves learning about the world of video gaming (example: how sound is put into a game). They also interact with notable people from the video game industry and learn about their work. On occasion, they get to hang out with video game characters too (example: Mario). Depending on the episode, one of the teens try to prove to the other one's mistake in the consequence they are presently involved in. In the end, the other learns about his/her day and they all agree to have fun.

Hosts
Jesse Sukunda
Julia Schwartz
Ian Duchene

Guest Stars
Justin A Watkins (Thinknoodles)
Daniel Middleton (TheDiamondMinecart)
'Weird Al' Yankovic
Cast of Pixels
Tyrell Coleman (CLG.NAKAT)
Richard King Jr (Keitaro)
Ian D'sa and Aaron Solowoniuk of Billy Talent
Colin Mochrie


Abaucourt-Hautecourt

Abaucourt-Hautecourt is a French commune in the Meuse department in the Grand Est region of north-eastern France.

The inhabitants of the commune are known as Abaucourtois or Abaucourtoises.

Geography
Abbaucourt-Hautecourt is located on the Highway D603 which transects the commune from south-east to north-east about 8 km north-east of Verdun. Highway D114 also transects the commune from north to south. Both Highways intersect in the village of Abaucourt. The commune consists entirely of farmland.

Neighbouring communes and villages

Villages and Hamlets
Broville: north of the D603.
Eix-Abaucourt a small row of houses on the south side of the D603 midway between Eix and the village of Abaucourt.
Hautecourt south of the D603.

History
In the 1970s, Abaucourt-lès-Souppleville joined Hautecourt-lès-Broville to form a new joint commune called "Abaucourt-Hautecourt".

Administration
List of Successive Mayors of Abaucourt-Hautecort

(Not all data is known)

Population

Politics

Presidential Elections Second Round:

Sites and Monuments
German Military Cemetery No. 7885 (1914-1918)
War Memorial

Religious Buildings
The commune does not have a church.

Notable people linked to the Commune
Lieutenant René Dorme, a famous aviator of the First World War.


Gen. David B. Birney School

Gen. David B. Birney School is a historic school building located in the Logan neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.  Originally built for the School District of Philadelphia, it was designed by Henry deCourcy Richards and built in 1912-1913. The building is now home to The Lindley Academy Charter School At Birney, a charter school within the School District of Philadelphia.

The building is a three-story, five bay, reinforced concrete building in the Tudor Revival-style.  It is faced in brick and features a limestone center entrance with entablature and decorative panels.

The school was named for Civil War General David B. Birney (1825-1864), son of the noted abolitionist James G. Birney.

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.


Mirahor, Mut

Mirahor is a village in Mut district of Mersin Province, Turkey. Mirahor was the chief stable man in the Ottoman Empire and the name of the village probably refers to the grazing land around the village which was once used by the mirahor. It is situated in the Göksu River valley at   . Its distance to Mut is  and to Mersin is . Population of Mirahor  was 352 as of 2012.


Rhytida greenwoodi

Rhytida greenwoodi is a species of medium-sized, air-breathing predatory land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Rhytididae.

Subspecies
 Rhytida greenwoodi greenwoodi (Gray, 1950) North Island
 Rhytida greenwoodi stephenensis Powell, 1930 Stephens Island, Cook Strait
 Rhytida greenwoodi webbi Powell, 1949 South Island

Distribution
This species occurs in New Zealand

Ecology
Dimensions of eggs of Rhytida greenwoodi are 3.25 × 2.73, 3 × 2.8, 2.75 × 2.5, 3.5 × 2.75, 5 × 4, 4 × 3, 3.75 × 3, 4.75 × 4, 4.75 × 3.75, 4.75 × 3.5 mm.


Krejci Dump

The Krejci Dump was a privately owned dump occupying  on several sites along Hines Hill Road near Boston Heights, Summit County, Ohio. After the area was converted into part of the then-Cuyahoga Valley National Recreation Area (now the Cuyahoga Valley National Park), the National Park Service discovered that the property, part of one of the most-heavily used parks in the country, was also one of the most contaminated sites in the United States Environmental Protection Agency's Region V. The dump subsequently became a Superfund cleanup site.

History
The Krejci family owned a parcel exceeding  and opened a junkyard for burning trash and dumping scrap metal in 1940.  At some point, the dump began accepting industrial and municipal waste, much of it toxic. This activity continued until 1980, when it closed, but the salvage business operated until 1985. The property was bisected by the 1972 construction of Interstate 271, which left  on the north side, and  on the south side.

The Cuyahoga Valley National Recreation Area was created in 1974, and the National Park Service acquired the Krejci property in 1985, thinking they had an old junkyard. The Krejcis vacated the property, and the following year, a person collecting bottles on the site became ill. Park rangers would complain of headaches, rashes, and odors. The National Park Service requested a thorough analysis of the site's contents from the Environmental Protection Agency. It was closed to the public in 1986 after toxic chemicals were found at 14 separate locations on  north of I-271 and  south.

Toxins

Upon investigation and testing of the site between 1986 and 1987, many toxic substances were found at the site, including polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), polyaromatic hydrocarbons (PAH), arsenic, dioxin, heavy metals, and other carcinogens. Thousands of leaking drums were found on the property.  These drums contained waste from industrial processes, including paint, ink, herbicides, pesticides, solvents, and industrial sludge.

Companies responsible
Ford Motor Co, General Motors, Federal Metal Co, Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing (3M), Chrysler, Kewanee Industries (a subsidiary of Chevron Corporation USA), and Waste Management of Ohio were found to be potentially responsible parties (PRPs) in contributing and transporting toxic waste to the Krejci dump. The PRPs had manufacturing facilities in the general vicinity of the Krejci site; Waste Management of Ohio, who had acquired all of the smaller, local refuse hauling companies, had been held ultimately responsible for transporting the wastes. All of these companies were sued in 1997 by the US government through CERCLA (Superfund) to recoup the cost of the cleanup, and all of the PRPs agreed to settle out of court with the exception of 3M, who went to trial and lost.

Cost
The cost of the entire project to the US government is $50 million. However, money recovered through the CERCLA lawsuits resulted in a $21 million judgment against the PRPs. The cleanup project, at a cost of $29 million, was paid for by Ford Motor Co. with help from General Motors. The lawsuits, combined with Ford and GM covering the cost of the cleanup accounted for the entire cost of the project. In 2001 a National Park Service attorney said that the cleanup was the most expensive in the National Parks system.

Cleanup
Cleanup of the site consisted of removal of the drums themselves, along with the rest of the dump's non-hazardous contents. At one point in the cleanup, thousands of multicolored flags covered the former dump's property, identifying multi-increment sub-sample locations. Since soil had been contaminated by chemicals leaking from drums, dirt had to be removed from depths ranging from  to . In the first 12 months of cleanup alone,  of contaminated soil had been trucked out of the site. Most of the non-hazardous soil went to two licensed landfills in Ohio, and the contaminated soil went to a licensed facility outside of Detroit, MI.  By August 2012,  of contaminated material had been removed from the site.

Outcome

Because of the extensive contamination, and its on-going identification as the cleanup proceeded, the NPS has made numerous predictions about the end-date for cleanup and remediation of the areas. For example, in July 2011 it was predicted that the Krejci dump site would be in the final stages of revegetation in the spring of 2012. But it wasn't until August 2012 that the NPS declared "comprehensive post-excavation soil sampling effort establishes that remediation goals for the 46-acre former dump site have been met," and, "The final steps necessary to restore the Site may now begin, including final grading; re-vegetation using native meadow grasses, forbs and shrubs; and restoration of 3 acres of wetland and wet meadow habitats." The Ohio Division of Environmental Response and Revitalization (DERR) also had a projected end-date of sometime in 2012.

The ultimate goal of the NPS was to have the site appear as it originally would have, with native plants and wetlands covering the area. "Upon completion of the cleanup, the site will be restored to natural conditions consistent with surrounding Park habitat, and restrictions on public access will be removed."

The most recent update from the NPS is dated February 3, 2015:


Giovanni Delise

Giovanni Delise (1 November 1907 – 19 May 1947) was an Italian rower who competed in the 1928 Summer Olympics. In 1928 he won the gold medal as member of the Italian boat in the coxed four event.


Will Voigt

William Voigt (born  August 18, 1976) is an American basketball coach, who is currently the head coach of the Angola national basketball team and the German club team Telekom Baskets Bonn. He led the Nigerian team to its first ever AfroBasket title in August 2015, where they defeated Angola in the finals to qualify for the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio.

Early life
Voigt grew in Cabot, Vermont, and attended Cabot High School, where he played varsity basketball and soccer. He attended Pomona College in California for college, lettering in soccer, and graduating with a degree in political science.

Coaching career
During college, Voigt landed an internship with the NBA's Los Angeles Clippers. After graduation, he became a video coordinator with the San Antonio Spurs, and a year later entered the college coaching ranks taking on an assistant role with Texas under Rick Barnes. Voigt moved on to Division II powerhouse Metro State as an assistant for Mike Dunlap.

Voigt's first head coaching job came in Norway, taking over Ulriken Elite where he stayed from 2003 to 2006. When Sports Illustrated writer Alexander Wolff decided to purchase an ABA franchise, the Vermont Frost Heaves, he put the naming of the head coach to a vote by the fans. The Vermont native Voigt was selected. In the first two seasons of the franchise's existence, Voigt led the Frost Heaves to back-to-back ABA Championships.

In 2009, Voigt, in similar fashion, was selected by the fans to be the head coach of the Bakersfield Jam of the NBA Development League. Voigt led the Jam to three playoff appearances, before leaving the team in 2014.

Heading back abroad, Voigt spent one season as an assistant coach for the Shanxi Brave Dragons of the Chinese Basketball Association. Voigt was then selected to lead the Nigerian national team at AfroBasket 2015, with Nigeria winning its first title, and automatic qualification to the 2016 Summer Olympics.

In November 2017, Voigt signed a three-year deal with the Angolan Basketball Federation as head coach of the Angola national basketball team. In the same year, he visited the Philippines as consultant to a team in the Philippine Basketball Association. On February 2020, he was also named head coach of German Bundesliga side Telekom Baskets Bonn.

Personal life
Voigt's mother, Ellen Bryant Voigt is the former Poet Laureate of the state of Vermont. He married his wife in 2009, divorced in 2018. They had two children, a boy and a girl.


Andras Kemeny

Andras Kemeny, born on , is a French engineer and researcher. He is Director of the Laboratory of Immersive Visualization (LIV) ENSAM-Renault since its creation in January 2011, Scientific Director of A.V. Simulation, a company specialized in simulation, editor of the SCANER Studio © software and common subsidiary of Oktal and Renault companies, since its creation in July 2017. He also is Expert-leader in Immersive Simulation and Virtual Reality for Renault and Associate Professor at Arts et métiers. He is one of the main actors in the virtual reality and driving simulation fields in France and in Europe.

He is one of the pioneers of driving simulation: inventor of the SCANeR driving simulation software in 1990, today marketed by Oktal in co-ownership with Renault, and founder of the Driving Simulation Conference (DSC) in 1995, from which he is the Chairman. One of the goals of this Conference is the rapprochement between industrial and scientific communities in the Driving Simulation and Virtual Reality fields. He is also President of the Driving Simulation Association.

He created the Technical Center for Simulation at Renault in 2002, renamed Virtual Reality and Immersive Simulation Center in 2013 and today named AD Simulation and Virtual Reality Center.

Diplomas and career
 Doctor ès Sciences (1983) (Paris XII Créteil)
 Associate Research Director of the Laboratory of Physiology and Perception of Action French National Centre for Scientific Research-Collège de France) in 2000
 Founder and Head of Immersive Simulation and Virtual Reality Center, Renault in 2002
 Director of the Laboratory of Perception and Motion Control in Virtual Environment, Renault in 2005
 Director of the Laboratory of Immersive Visualization, Renault since 2011

Select bibliography

Books
 A. Kemeny, F. Mérienne, S. Espié (2010), Trends in Driving Simulation Design and Experiments, Ed. Les Collections de l’Inrets
 S. Espié, A. Kemeny, F. Mérienne (2012), Proceedings of the Driving Simulation Conference Europe 2012, Ed. Les collections de l’Inrets
 S. Espié, A. Kemeny, F. Mérienne (2014), New Developments in Driving Simulation Design and Experiments
 H. Bülthoff, A. Kemeny, P. Pretto (2015), Proceedings of DSC 2015 Europe

Book chapters
 A. Kemeny, Prometheus, Cooperative Driving, pp. 196.205, in Advanced Technology for Road Transport, IVHS and ATT, Ed. Ian Catling, Artech House, London, 1993
 A. Kemeny, Usages industriels des visiocasques, pp. 195–208, in P. Fuchs, Les Casques de réalité virtuelle et de jeux vidéo, Paris : Presses des mines, collection Mathématiques et informatique, 2016

Encyclopedic publications
 A. Kemeny, G. Allain, Synthèse d'images fixes et animées, Techniques de l'ingénieur, Pris, p5530, pp. 1–21
 P. Fuchs, A. Kemeny, J.P. Papin & G. Reymond, Les Interfaces à simulation de mouvement et l’interface à simulation de climat, pp. 297.315, in Le Traité de la réalité virtuelle, Vol.2: Interfaçage, Immersion et Interaction en environnement virtuel, Paris : Presses des mines, 2006


Ogōri, Yamaguchi

was a town located in Yoshiki District, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan.

As of 2003, the town had an estimated population of 23,173 and a density of 693.80 persons per km². The total area was 33.40 km².

On October 1, 2005, Ogōri, along with the town of Tokuji (from Saba District), and the towns of Aio and Ajisu (all from Yoshiki District), was merged into the expanded city of Yamaguchi.

Ogōri train station on the Sanyō Shinkansen, the Sanyō Main Line and the Yamaguchi Line is now called Shin-Yamaguchi Station. The name change occurred on October 1, 2003, preceding the merger.

External links
 Yamaguchi official website


Infiniti (disambiguation)

Infiniti is a luxury car brand by Japanese automaker Nissan Motor Company.

Infiniti may also refer to:
 Infiniti (Medea), a brand of recordable optical media
 Infiniti (album), the debut album of Pakistani musician Salman Ahmad


Jack Button

John Carl 'Jack' Button  (1940 – July 31, 1996) was a professional hockey executive with the Pittsburgh Penguins and Washington Capitals of the National Hockey League. The Jack Button Award, given to the top prospect for the Washington Capitals, was created in his honor. He died of leukemia in 1996.

NHL clubs
Button served as an assistant general manager while with the Penguins from 1969 until 1974, when he was named as the franchise's third general manager. At the end of the 1974-75 season, the Penguins entered bankruptcy. The new owners included Wren Blair as a minority partner, who took over the managerial reins. In Washington, Button was highly regarded as a scout and he was credited with discovering Peter Bondra, Jim Carey, Sergei Gonchar, Michal Pivonka and Brendan Witt. He was a part of the Capital franchise from 1979 until his death in 1996. During the 1996–97 season, the Capitals wore a memorial patch for Button which showcased his initials and a bulldog.

Minor league clubs
Button was public relations director of the Rochester Americans from 1964 until 1966, then moved to the American Hockey League office as the league's PR director. He also served as league secretary. In 1968, the Pittsburgh Penguins appointed him general manager of their Central Hockey League affiliate, the Amarillo Wranglers. The club played only one season, after which Button was promoted to the Penguins' front office.

League work
Button founded the NHL Central Scouting Bureau and served as its first director from 1975 until 1979.

Family
Jack is the father of Craig Button, a former executive with the Dallas Stars and Calgary Flames, as well as a former pro scout with the Toronto Maple Leafs. His other son Tod is the Flames' current director of scouting.


Extended area service

Extended area service (EAS) is a telephony term that deals with calling a wider area beyond the exchange without long distance or toll charges.

EAS can be a flat rate, message or measured and also it can be zoned as well. It can be optional or be mandated by government regulations.

In Canada, EAS is still regulated by the CRTC, even though local service is subject to competition.  In Canada, EAS is usually reflected as the appropriate monthly rate group for the number of lines that can be dialed toll-free - a small community gaining EAS with a large city usually means the large city's monthly rate applies to the small community.  The rate alternately may be represented by a visible and separate charge, but is often much higher for the small community.

EAS in Canada is often instigated by customers who request toll-free calling to a frequently-called nearby exchange. The carrier will provide a ballot to customers in the two exchanges to determine whether the service is supported at the proposed increase in monthly rates. Any exchanges located between the two are included in the upgrade and reflected in the rate increase.

EAS is more common in areas with contiguous rural occupancy, and is rare for communities separated by undeveloped wilderness.  It is usually driven by a common market or community interest, or the dependency of a small community on the larger one.  Just as telephone company exchange areas do not correspond with municipal boundaries, not all areas of a large municipality may enjoy the same EAS area (the Lambeth exchange serving part of London, Ontario, does not have as many exchanges in its EAS area as the London exchange area).

EAS across an international border is rare, and is usually a relic of former common-ownership or a single exchange serving both communities.  Surviving examples include Sweet Grass, MT - Coutts, AB (separate exchanges on the border); Stewart, BC - Hyder, AK (Hyder served by Stewart exchange); Estcourt Station, QC - Estcourt, ME (served by Estcourt Station exchange).


William H. Wallace

William Henson Wallace (July 19, 1811 – February 7, 1879) was an important figure in the early histories of two U.S. states, serving as governor and Congressional delegate from both Washington Territory and Idaho Territory.

Biography
Wallace was born July 19, 1811, near Troy, Ohio.  He attended in the common schools of Indiana, studied law, was admitted to the bar and began practicing law.  He married Luzanne Brazelton and had three children, two girls who died in infancy and one son.
Wallace's older brother David Wallace served as a Whig Governor of Indiana from 1837 to 1840. Wallace's nephew was Lew Wallace, Civil War Union general and author of Ben-Hur.

Career
After being admitted to the bar, Wallace moved to the Iowa District of Wisconsin Territory in 1837. He was elected to the Iowa Territorial Legislature as a Whig after Iowa Territory was organized the following year.  Wallace was appointed colonel of state troops and receiver of public money at Fairfield. Wallace ran an unsuccessful campaign for delegate from Iowa Territory in 1843. In 1848 he was a candidate for United States Senate from the new State of Iowa, but the Iowa Legislature instead selected Democrats George Wallace Jones and Augustus C. Dodge. Wallace moved to Washington Territory in 1853.  Sometime during the early 1850s, he befriended Abraham Lincoln and they remained good friends until Lincoln's death.

In 1861 Wallace was appointed governor of Washington Territory by President Lincoln, but was also elected the territory's delegate to the United States House of Representatives and never took office as governor. He was the first Republican chosen for those roles in Washington Territory.  Wallace served a single term representing Washington Territory in the House.  During his term, he got Congress to establish Idaho as a territory.  Shortly after his term expired in March 1863, Lincoln appointed Wallace governor of the new Idaho Territory and he took office July 10, 1863.

Wallace designated Lewiston as the territory's capital and arrived there in July. Later that year, Wallace was elected as the delegate from Idaho Territory and again vacated his gubernatorial appointment to serve in the House.

Wallace was reputedly one of several people who turned down an invitation from Lincoln to accompany him to Ford's Theatre on the night Lincoln was assassinated.

Death
After his term expired in March 1865, Wallace returned to Washington Territory where he served as a probate judge in Pierce County until his death in 1879. Wallace is buried in Fort Steilacoom Cemetery, Steilacoom, Pierce County, Washington, US.


2019 Bangkok Challenger II

The 2019 Bangkok Challenger II was a professional tennis tournament played on hard courts. It was part of the 2019 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Bangkok, Thailand between 18 and 24 February 2019.

Singles main draw entrants

Seeds

 1 Rankings are as of 11 February 2019.

Other Entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:
  Thanapet Chanta
  Pruchya Isaro
  Palaphoom Kovapitukted
  Janko Tipsarević
  Wishaya Trongcharoenchaikul

The following players received entry into the singles main draw using their ITF World Tennis Ranking:
  Dimitar Kuzmanov
  David Pérez Sanz
  Oriol Roca Batalla
  Denis Yevseyev

The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:
  Bai Yan
  Ivan Gakhov

The following player received entry as a lucky loser:
  Moez Echargui

Champions

Singles

  James Duckworth def.  Alejandro Davidovich Fokina 6–4, 6–3.

Doubles

  Li Zhe /  Gonçalo Oliveira def.  Enrique López Pérez /  Hiroki Moriya 6–2, 6–1.

Bangkok Challenger II
2019


Viterbo Papacy

With a long history as a vantage point for anti-popes forces threatening Rome, Viterbo became a papal city in 1243. During the later thirteenth century, the ancient Italian city of Viterbo was the site of five papal elections and the residence of seven popes and their Curias, and it remains the location of four papal tombs. These popes resided in the Palazzo dei Papi di Viterbo alongside the Viterbo Cathedral intermittently for two decades, from 1257 to 1281; as a result, the papal palace in Viterbo, with that in Orvieto, are the most extensive thirteenth-century papal palaces to have survived.

Shifting political and economic alliances pushed and pulled various popes of that century from Rome, taking refuge in other, not invariably hospitable, Italian city-states like Perugia and Orvieto. The primary cleavage in these divisions was between the Angevin and Hohenstaufen claimants to the title of Holy Roman Emperor, whom the pope could crown.

Prior papal connections
According to the Catholic Encyclopedia article on Viterbo, "during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries the city several times afforded the popes an asylum." Pope Paschal II (1099–1118) was brought to Viterbo as a prisoner in 1111, and when Pope Adrian IV (1154–1159) met with Frederick Barbarossa in the city in 1155, the city was firmly in the Emperor's hands

Antipopes Paschal III (1164–1168) and Callixtus III (1168–1178) took shelter in Viterbo, where the nobility had Ghibelline loyalties, but—according to the Catholic Encyclopedia—much of the populace remained loyal to Pope Alexander III. Viterbo rebelled against the Emperor after the peace between pope and Emperor was concluded.

Pope Innocent III (1198–1216) issued a papal bull from Viterbo in 1214. Viterbo remained loyal to Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor, and refused to admit Pope Gregory IX in 1232. A series of sieges brought the city back and forth between Guelf and Ghibelline loyalty.

Overview

Residential Popes
Viterbo was the residence of five popes who died there:
Pope Alexander IV (1254–1261)
Pope Clement IV (1265–1268)
Pope Adrian V (1276)
Pope John XXI (1276–1277)
Pope Nicholas III (1277–1280)
Two other popes temporarily resided in Viterbo for a time but moved elsewhere before their death:
Pope Urban IV (1261–1264)
Pope Martin IV (1281–1285)

Elections
Viterbo was the site of five papal elections:
Papal election, 1261
Papal election, 1268–1271 (Viterbo Cathedral)
Papal election, September 1276 (Viterbo Cathedral)
Papal election, 1277
Papal election, 1280–1281 (Viterbo Cathedral)
None of these conformed to the formality of the papal conclave, although several were instrumental in the development of the norms of the conclave.

History
Pope Alexander IV was elected in Naples in December 1254. He inherited his predecessor's allegiance to the Hohenstaufen claimants to the Holy Roman Empire but quickly turned against them. Because of the strength of the Ghibelline faction in Rome, he withdrew to Viterbo in 1257 until his death in 1261. Alexander IV began enlarging the bishop's residence by the Cathedral, and the Papal Palace was completed probably in 1266.

Alexander IV's successor, Pope Urban IV, returned to Viterbo from the Crusades and was present there when Alexander IV died. A non-cardinal, Urban IV moved to Perugia upon his election, where he died. Urban IV spent the winter and spring of 1261-1262 in Viterbo.

Urban IV's successor, Pope Clement IV, was elected in Perugia, but established himself in Viterbo, where he remained until his death. Clement IV established permanent residence in Viterbo in 1266. He did not even return to Rome for the crowning of Charles of Anjou as the Holy Roman Emperor by the College of Cardinals.

The election after Clement IV's death, in Viterbo, lasted three years. Pope Gregory X, a non-cardinal away on the Crusades, was finally elected. Gregory X returned to Rome, and died in Arezzo, while returning from the Second Council of Lyon. in France. His successor, Pope Innocent V also resided in Rome.

Pope Adrian V was pope for a little over a month, and accomplished little other than dying in Viterbo before even being ordained a priest. His Portuguese successor, Pope John XXI remained in Viterbo. John XXI expanded the papal palace in Viterbo, and died when a section of the roof collapsed on him.

The next pope, Pope Nicholas III, although from the powerful Roman Orsini family, also died in Viterbo in 1280. During the ensuing election, the magistrates of Viterbo threw two Orsini cardinals into prison. By the time his successor, Pope Martin IV, was elected, Viterbo had been placed under interdict, and because the French pope was resented in Rome, he was crowned in Orvieto. The influence of Viterbo on the papacy declined after Martin IV's death in Perugia in 1285.

Pope Pius II was in Viterbo in 1462 to celebrate the feast of Corpus Christi.

Architecture

Papal palace

The palace at Viterbo had been the residence of the Bishop of Viterbo until the 1250s. Alexander IV (1254–1261) enlarged the palace for use as a papal residence. A large three-storied addition was completed in 1266, during the reign of Clement IV (1264–1268). The palace was redecorated in the 1290s, and some of the new additions bear the Caetani coat-of-arms of Pope Boniface VIII (1294–1303). According to Prof. Radke, although Boniface VIII never even visited Viterbo during his papacy, "the papal arms indicate that the structure had not completely lost its papal associations."

According to Prof. Radke, "the papal palaces in Viterbo and Orvieto are the most extensive thirteenth-century papal palaces to survive to our own day." Radke dates a series of frescoes in the palace to its enlargement during the residence of Clement IV (1264–1268).

Papal tombs
Four popes were buried in Viterbo:
Alexander IV (destroyed in 1490)
Clement IV (extant, S. Francesco)
Adrian V (extant, S. Francesco)
John XXI (extant, Viterbo Cathedral)

Nicholas III, from the powerful Roman Orsini family, was returned to Old St. Peter's Basilica for burial.

Notes

Further reading
Frothingham, A. L., Jr. (1891). "Notes on Roman Artists of the Middle Ages. III. Two Tombs of the Popes at Viterbo by Vassallectus and Petrus Oderisi". The American Journal of Archaeology and of the History of the Fine Arts, '7(1/2): 38.

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1988–89 South Pacific cyclone season

The 1988–89 South Pacific cyclone season was an active tropical cyclone season with an above average number of tropical cyclones observed.
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Seasonal summary

During the season despite positive values of the Southern Oscillation Index being recorded throughout the season, there was an unusual distribution of tropical cyclones with five developing between 180° and 140°W. This unusual distribution of tropical cyclones was attributed to the relatively rapid development of an active South Pacific Convergence Zone over an area of cooler than normal sea surface temperatures during January and February 1989.

Systems

Tropical Cyclone Eseta

On December 15, the FMS reported that a tropical depression had developed, within the monsoon trough just to the north of Vanuatu. The system subsequently persisted for a week with little change in intensity, as it gradually moved south-southwest over Vanuatu and New Caledonia. Between December 20–21, an area of high pressure developed to the south of the system, which prevented any further southwards movement. The system subsequently moved north-eastwards and passed over southern Vanuatu, before the FMS reported late on December 23, that the cyclone had become equivalent to a category 1 tropical cyclone and named it Eseta. At around this time the system was located about  to the southwest of Nadi, Fiji and had started to move south-westwards as it interacted with a trough of low pressure in the Tasman Sea. During December 24, the system intensified further, before the FMS reported later that day that Eseta had peaked with 10-minute sustained wind speeds of 100 km/h (65 mph). The system subsequently degenerated into an extratropical depression and impacting New Zealand between December 29–30.

As a tropical depression, Eseta caused heavy rainfall within Vanuatu, however there were no reports of any damages to property or crops. The system subsequently caused strong gusty winds and prolonged heavy rainfall over the Fiji Islands between December 22 – 27, with Nadi airport reporting sustained winds of  and wind gusts of . The heavy rain lead to widespread flooding over various parts of the island nation, with minor damage to roads and crops reported. The system's remnants brought heavy rain and flooding to parts of New Zealand's Northland, Auckland, Waikato and the Bay of Plenty, with flood damage to a supermarkets storeroom was estimated at , . Several homes were evacuate while it was thought that the heavy rain had contributed to at least 50 injuries with seven of those in a weather-related car accident.

Tropical Cyclone Delilah

On January 1, Tropical Cyclone Delilah moved into the South Pacific basin from the Australian region, as a category 1 tropical cyclone on the Australian scale. During that day as the system continued to intensify and move south-eastwards towards New Caledonia and the Loyalty Islands, the JTWC initiated advisories on the system and designated it as Tropical Cyclone 04P. During January 2, as the system passed about  of the northeastern coast of New Caledonia, the JTWC and TCWC Nadi reported that the system had peaked with sustained windspeeds of 110 km/h (70 mph). During the next day Delilah started to weaken and transition into an extra tropical cyclone, as vertical wind shear over the system increased and the upper level westerlies intensified. The system subsequently became an extra tropical cyclone during January 4, and started moving southwards towards New Zealand. The system subsequently passed close to northern New Zealand during January 7, before it merged with a cold front during January 8.

Within New Caledonia, Cyclone Delilah wind gusts of  and  were recorded in Koumac and Touho. A rainfall total of  was recorded at both Pouébo and Ponérihouen, while there were also two deaths reported in the French Territory.

Tropical Cyclone Fili

A shallow and ill-defined tropical depression developed on January 1, about  to the east of the Samoan Islands. Over the next few days the depression moved south-westwards before it weakened slightly during January 3, with atmospheric convection surrounding the system decreasing. The system subsequently recurved and started to move towards the southeast towards the island nation of Niue. The FMS subsequently named the system Fili during January 5, after it had become a Category 2 tropical cyclone with peak wind speeds of 95 km/h (60 mph). After being named the system continued to move south-eastwards, before it was last noted, well to the southeast of the Cook Islands during January 8. There was no damage to any islands associated with Fili, however, the FMS reported that there appeared to be some minor damage on Niue from strong winds.

Tropical Cyclone Gina

Gina existed from January 6 to January 9.

Severe Tropical Cyclone Harry

On February 7, TCWC Nadi reported that a shallow depression had developed, within the monsoon trough about  to the west of Vanuatu. Over the next day the system moved eastwards and developed into a category 1 tropical cyclone.

Severe Tropical Cyclone Hinano

The precursor tropical disturbance to Severe Tropical Cyclone Hinano was first noted during February 19, by the United States Synoptic Analysis Branch, while it was located around  to the northwest of Adamstown in the Pitcairn Islands. The system subsequently moved south-westwards and was classified as a weak tropical depression by the Tahiti Meteorological office during February 21.

Severe Tropical Cyclone Ivy

On February 21, a depression developed within the monsoon trough to the north of Vanuatu, and started to move towards the east.

Severe Tropical Cyclone Judy

The precursor tropical disturbance to Severe Tropical Cyclone Judy was first noted during February 20, by the United States Synoptic Analysis Branch, while it was located around  to the northeast of the French Polynesian island of Tahiti. The system subsequently moved south-westwards and was classified as a moderate tropical storm during February 23, by the French Polynesian Meteorological Service.

Tropical Cyclone Kerry

On March 29, TCWC Nadi started to monitor a westward moving tropical depression that had developed within a monsoon trough about x to the x of x. Over the next few days, the system moved towards the west before after it several large pressure drops were reported,

Severe Tropical Cyclone Lili

Lili existed from April 6 to April 13.

Tropical Cyclone Meena

On May 1, TCWC Nadi reported that a shallow depression had developed within the monsoon trough, over the south-eastern Solomon Islands. Over the next few days the system remained weak and ill-defined as it moved slowly southwards. On May 3, the JTWC initiated advisories on the system and designated it as Tropical Cyclone 27P, as it started to gradually intensify further. The system was subsequently named Meena by TCWC Nadi during May 4, as it had developed into a category 1 tropical cyclone on the Australian scale. Meena subsequently moved into the Australian region during May 5, where it reached its peak intensity before making landfall on the Cape York Peninsular during May 9.

Tropical Depression 28P (Ernie)

Tropical Depression 28P developed on May 6 and then existed the basin on May 9.

Other systems
According to TCWC Nadi, a tropical depression existed between May 28 and May 30, to the far west of Fiji, with the associated rainband of the storm located over Fiji between May 27 and May 31. The associated rainband caused some flooding in low-lying areas on the island of Viti Levu.

Season effects
This table lists all the storms that developed in the South Pacific to the east of longitude 160°E during the 1989–90 season. It includes their intensity on the Australian tropical cyclone intensity scale, duration, name, landfalls, deaths, and damages. All data is taken from the warning centers from the region unless otherwise noted.

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Helong language

Helong (alternate names Helon, Kupang and Semau) is a Central Malayo-Polynesian language of West Timor. Speakers are interspersed with those of Amarasi. This language has become endangered as a result of its native speakers marrying those who do not speak Helong, and as a result of coming in contact with the outside community. Helong speakers are found in four villages on the South-Western coast of West Timor, as well as on Semau Island, a small island just off the coast of West Timor. The mostly Christian, slightly patriarchal society of Semau do their best to send their children away to Bali (or elsewhere) to earn money to send home.

Classification
Helong is an Austronesian language, a group of languages spoken in Polynesia, an area north of Australia. Helong belongs to the Malayo-Polynesian branch of Austronesian languages, placing it among languages totaling over 385 million speakers. Helong shares its repetition of words in other words like dua~dua (English: pair) with the nuclear Malayo-Polynesian languages. Some languages in this family include Hawaiian, Samoan, Tahitian, and Fijian. The Endangered Languages Project has classified Helong as "vulnerable", based on the most recent data from 1997. The largest threat to Helong is a dialect of Malay spoken in Kupang, called Kupang Malay, as the native Helong speakers often visit Kupang, and use that dialect when there.

History
Helong was once the primary language spoken in Kupang, the capital of Indonesia located on the western tip of Timor. It was spoken by the Raja, or monarch. It is unknown when exactly the Raja stopped using Helong to speak, but the language has since fallen out of popularity, now used sparsely around Kupang, but mostly used on Semau Island just off the coast of Kupang. In recent years, the people in Kupang have spoken a local dialect of Malay, resulting in Helong being largely forgotten by those who visit the capital city often. While the new language has left behind a lot of the region's history, experts believe that Helong speakers contain a vast wealth of knowledge around the past, specifically, the spreading of Atoni culture when the Dutch gave them weapons, which wiped out many of the other cultures that existed in West Timor, but leaving Helong traditions and culture widely intact.

Grammar

Morphology
Helong word structure follows a standard C(C)V(C)V(C) (where (C) indicates that a consonant can appear here but does not have to) word structure. Additionally, there is always a consonant at the beginning of every non-clitic word. Ignoring suffixes, the last consonant in any word can only be a few things, the glottal or apical consonants found in the table in the Phonology section, with the exception of the letter d, which does not satisfy this rule. On the contrary, there are no such limits on the last vowel of a word, which can be any of the five.

Syntax
Helong follows a VSO word order like the other languages closely related to it. Helong is similar to languages like Spanish when it comes to noun-adjective order. The noun will come before the adjective describing it in a sentence. For example, ana hmunan directly translates as "child first", but refers to somebody's first child. However, unlike in Spanish, punctuation will only come at the end of a sentence. Like most languages, the first word of each sentence, as well as proper nouns are capitalized. Helong uses negative modifiers to change the meaning of a sentence to the opposite. For example, "... parsai lo" means "do not believe", with parsai being a word meaning believe, and lo being a negative modifier.

Vocabulary
Helong takes many loanwords, stems, suffixes, and prefixes from Malay, most of which are monosyllabic but can be bisyllabic as well. Helong does have its own idioms and sayings, and a majority of its vocabulary is original, taking stems from similar languages like Malay. There are not words for each specific relative on either side, just words like baki (uncle) describing rough relation, with the name of the individual being necessary to determine the exact relative.

Writing system
Helong uses the same Latin script used in the majority of languages around the world. While Helong does not use the full 26-character ISO basic Latin alphabet, but contains 27 characters total, which can be seen in the Phonology section below. While most of Helong words are written in the same format as English words, one key difference is that when using modifiers such as plurals, distributive numerals, and frequencies, Helong uses Hyphens or Tildes to connect the base word to the modifier.

For example, in the sentence "Tode-s dua~dua le halin nahi-s deken", tode means lay, so tode-s would refer to laying multiple things, as the -s indicates plurality. Dua is the number two, so dua~dua would translate to the English "pair"

Phonology
Helong has 5 vowels: /a, e, i, o, u/. These vowels are identical to those in the English language, including the pronunciation.

The palatal stops /c, ɟ/ and the voiced labio-velar approximant /w/ are marginal phonemes, only occurring in a few loanwords.

Numbers

The Helong language uses words for each base unit (i.e. tens, hundreds, thousands).  For example, the number 27 could be said as "tens two ones seven", indicating a 2 in the tens column and a 7 in the ones column.

Ordinal numbers, with the exception of the word for first, simply add ke in front of the word for the number. Researchers have been unable to determine if ke is its own word, a prefix, or a proclitic.

Non-numeric quantity

'ketang kaa to' is a Helong idiom that translates directly as "cockatoos eating seeds", which they use as a saying to describe way too many of a specific item.

Examples
The following are example sentences of Helong:


Te Pīhopa o Aotearoa

The Bishop of Aotearoa (Te Pīhopa o Aotearoa) is a bishop in the Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia.  The post was created in 1928. The Bishop of Aotearoa is the most senior bishop and head of the Māori Anglican Church. The Bishop of Aotearoa is recognized as the Spiritual Leader of the Māori people.  Along with being the Metropolitan of the Māori Anglican Church, he also holds the title of Primate and Archbishop of Aotearoa New Zealand & Polynesia. The office of Bishop of Aotearoa is currently held by Archbishop Donald Tamihere, who was installed in April 2018 at Manutuke Marae.

Selection
The Bishop of Aotearoa is chosen by God, through discernment of elected members of Te Runaganui (Māori Synod). The last election was in Nelson September 2017.

Te Pīhopatanga o Aotearoa
The Bishop of (Te Pīhopa o) Aotearoa heads the Māori Anglican Church throughout New Zealand. The Bishopric of Aotearoa is split into 5 episcopal units (pīhopatanga/bishoprics) each with their own identity and Pīhopa (Bishop): Te Taitokerau (Pīhopa: Kito Pikaahu), Te Manawa o te Wheke (Ngarahu Katene), Te Tairāwhiti (Don Tamihere), Te Upoko o Te Ika (Muru Walters) and Te Waipounamu (Richard Wallace).

List of holders
 Frederick Bennett  (1928–1950) – first Māori Bishop in the Anglican Communion
 Wiremu Panapa  (1951–1968)
 Manuhuia Bennett  (1968–1981) – son of Frederick Bennett.
 Whakahuihui Vercoe  (1981–2004) – the first Primate and Archbishop of New Zealand from the Māori Church.
 Brown Turei  (2005–2017) – the second Primate and Archbishop of New Zealand from the Māori Church. Turei announced his intention retire as Māori archbishop on 31 March 2017.
 Donald Tamihere (2018-)


Minooka, Illinois

Minooka is a village in Grundy, Kendall, and Will counties, Illinois, United States. The population was 10,924 at the 2010 census, up from 3,971 at the 2000 census. The village is part of the Chicago metropolitan area. The Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad served the town at Minooka Station.

History
Minooka was established as a place in 1852 when the railroad was built through this area. It was incorporated as a village in 1869.

Geography

The center of the village is in the northeast corner of Grundy County. The village limits extend north into the southeast corner of Kendall County and east into Will County. The village is bordered to the east and south by the village of Channahon.

Interstate 80 passes through the north side of the village, with access from Exit 122. I-80 leads northeast  to Joliet and west  to LaSalle. Downtown Chicago is  northeast of Minooka via Interstates 80 and 55. U.S. Route 6 runs along part of the southern border of Minooka; the highway leads east into the center of Channahon and southwest  to Morris.

According to the 2010 census, Minooka has a total area of , of which  (or 99.2%) are land and  (or 0.8%) are water. The DuPage River, a south-flowing tributary of the Des Plaines River, forms part of the eastern boundary of the village.

Demographics

As of the 2000 census, there were 3,971 people, 1,315 households, and 1,088 families residing in the village. The population was 10,924 at the 2010 census.  The population density was 931.5 people per square mile (359.9/km²).  There were 1,338 housing units at an average density of 313.9 per square mile (121.3/km²).  The racial makeup of the village was 98.04% White, 0.25% African American, 0.20% Native American, 0.30% Asian, 0.53% from other races, and 0.68% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 2.85% of the population. There were 1,315 households out of which 49.3% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 70.3% were married couples living together, 8.1% had a female householder with no husband present, and 17.2% were non-families. 14.2% of all households were made up of individuals and 4.0% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 3.02 and the average family size was 3.34.

In the village, the population was spread out with 31.9% under the age of 18, 8.3% from 18 to 24, 30.4% from 25 to 44, 23.9% from 45 to 64, and 5.5% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 34 years. For every 100 females, there were 98.6 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 99.8 males.

The median income for a household in the village was $75,249, and the median income for a family was $81,190. Males had a median income of $59,583 versus $33,347 for females. The per capita income for the village was $26,054. About 1.1% of families and 2.2% of the population were below the poverty line, including 0.5% of those under age 18 and 7.5% of those age 65 or over.

Education
Minooka Community Consolidated School District 201 (elementary district) has a total of seven schools and serves nearly 4,000 students. There are two high schools in the district, a campus for juniors and seniors and a newer campus for freshmen and sophomores.

Notable people

 Dale Coyne, Indy Car team owner
 Sal Fasano, former Major League Baseball player
 Mike Foltynewicz, Major League Baseball player
 Nick Offerman, actor (Ron Swanson on Parks and Recreation)


Aguk Shain

Aguk Shain was an 8th-century Chechen commander in the Arab-Khazar Wars.

Shain is mentioned in the book Yu Aidaeva "Chechens: Past and Present", where he is described as the head of the Chechen-auhovtsev (auharov), which was involved in the Khazar wars with the Arabs. He was, the author assumes, the second person in the Khazar army. In addition, excavations on the outskirts of the Giachalk (Khazar-Kala) village show that he had close economic ties with Akkins Khazars.

Shain led some of the Khazar troops. This confirmed the inclusion of Chechens in the Khazar Khanate, to which they were loyal.

The 735–736 Arabic commander Nirvana managed to destroy the fortress "Hasni-Hisnumma" (Khazar-Kala) and capture the fortress auhovs "Kesh" ("Keshen" Keshne). These fortresses were inhabited by Chechens auhar (Akkins); however, he was then captured himself.

Literature
 Аккинцы: вопросы этногенеза
 Чеченцы-аккинцы (ауховцы) и их гражданские формирования


The Angry Brigade

The Angry Brigade was a far-left militant group responsible for a series of bomb attacks in England between 1970 and 1972. Using small bombs, they targeted banks, embassies, a BBC Outside Broadcast vehicle, and the homes of Conservative MPs. In total, police attributed 25 bombings to the Angry Brigade. The bombings mostly caused property damage; one person was slightly injured. Of the eight people who stood trial, known as the Stoke Newington Eight, four were acquitted. John Barker, along with Hilary Creek, Anna Mendelssohn and Jim Greenfield, were convicted on majority verdicts, and sentenced to ten years. In a 2014 interview, Barker described the trial as political, but acknowledged that "they framed a guilty man". The events were subsequently turned into a play.

History

Origins
In mid-1968 demonstrations took place in London, centred on the US embassy in Grosvenor Square, against US involvement in the Vietnam War. One of the organisers of these demonstrations, Tariq Ali, has said he recalls an approach by someone representing the Angry Brigade who wished to bomb the embassy; he told them it was a terrible idea and no bombing took place.

1970s
The Angry Brigade decided to launch a bombing campaign with small bombs – in order to maximise media exposure to their demands while keeping collateral damage to a minimum. The campaign started in August 1970 and continued for a year until arrests took place the following summer.

Targets included banks, embassies, the Miss World event in 1970 (or rather a BBC Outside Broadcast vehicle earmarked for use in the BBC's coverage) and the homes of Conservative MPs. In total, police attributed 25 bombings to the Angry Brigade. The bombings mostly caused property damage; one person was slightly injured.

Resurfaced Angry Brigade of the 1980s
In the 1980s the Angry Brigade resurfaced as the Angry Brigade Resistance Movement – part of the Irish Republican Socialist Movement (IRSM).

Aftermath
Jake Prescott, whose origins were in the mining community of Dunfermline, was arrested and tried in 1971. Melford Stevenson sentenced him to 15 years imprisonment (later reduced to 10), mostly spent in Category A high security prisons. Later he said he realised then that he "was the one who was angry and the people [he] met were more like the Slightly Cross Brigade". The other members of the group from North-East London, the "Stoke Newington Eight", were prosecuted for carrying out bombings as the Angry Brigade in one of the longest criminal trials of English history (it lasted from 30 May to 6 December 1972). As a result of the trial, John Barker, Jim Greenfield, Hilary Creek and Anna Mendelssohn received prison sentences of 10 years. A number of other defendants were found not guilty, including Stuart Christie, who had previously been imprisoned in Spain for carrying explosives with the intent to assassinate the caudillo Francisco Franco, and Angela Mason who became a director of the LGBT rights group Stonewall and was awarded an OBE for services to homosexual rights.

In February 2002, Prescott apologised for his role in bombing Robert Carr's house and called on other members of the Angry Brigade to also come forward.

On 3 February 2002, The Guardian reported a history of the Angry Brigade and an update on what its former members were doing then.

On 9 August 2002, BBC R4 aired Graham White’s historical drama, The Trial of the Angry Brigade. Produced by Peter Kavanagh, this was a reconstruction of the trial combined with other background information. The cast included Kenneth Cranham, Juliet Stevenson and Mark Strong.

In March 2009, British family care activist and novelist Erin Pizzey reportedly declined to comment on the temporary withdrawal by its publishers of the book Andrew Marr's History of Modern Britain following her complaint it had falsely linked her to the Angry Brigade.

Cultural influence

Literature
Howard Brenton's 1973 play Magnificence, about a group of far-left revolutionaries in a London squat, is partly inspired by the Angry Brigade.
Alan Burns, The Angry Brigade: A Documentary Novel (Allison & Busby, 1973).
 Gordon Carr, John Barker, Stuart Christie, The Angry Brigade: A History of Britain's First Urban Guerilla Group, 1975 (reissued 2005). .
The Angry Brigade 1967–1984: Documents and Chronology, Bratach Dubh Anarchist Pamphlets, 1978.
David Edgar's 1983 play Maydays features a scene referencing the Angry Brigade.
 The group are parodied in Doris Lessing's The Good Terrorist (1985), in which a group of naive, young, communist squatters split over whether or not to work with the IRA.
 Tom Vague, Anarchy in the UK: The Angry Brigade, AK Press, 1997, . (Issue 27 of punk rock fanzine Vague.  An earlier shorter version appeared as an article in issue 16 Psychic Terrorism Annual in 1985, reprinted in issue 25 The Great British Mistake in 1994.)
 John Barker, Bending the Bars, Hastings, England: Christie Books, 2002 (reissued 2006: ).
 Stuart Christie, Granny Made me an Anarchist: General Franco, The Angry Brigade and Me, Scribner, 2004.
 The group and trial feature in Jake Arnott's 2006 novel Johnny Come Home.
 Hari Kunzru's 2007 novel My Revolutions is inspired by the Angry Brigade.
The Angry Brigade, a 2014 play by James Graham.

Radio
 Graham White, The Trial of the Angry Brigade, BBC Radio 4. Produced by Peter Kavanagh and broadcast 9 August 2002.

Film
 Gordon Carr, The Angry Brigade: The Spectacular Rise and Fall of Britain's First Urban Guerilla Group (DVD), BBC, January 1973. Released on DVD in 2008 by PM Press.
 Gordon Carr, The Persons Unknown (DVD) 1980. Features as a DVD extra on the January 1973 BBC documentary The Angry Brigade: The Spectacular Rise and Fall of Britain's First Urban Guerilla Group.
 Our Friends in the North (BBC TV drama series, 1995), features a storyline in which a main character joins a fictional left-wing terrorist group based on the Angry Brigade.
 On 16 September 2013 the BBC’s The One Show aired a short documentary on the Angry Brigade, stating: "Joe Crowley discovers how the violent tactics of the Angry Brigade lead to the formation of the bomb squad."

Music
 Hawkwind, "Urban Guerrilla", 1973
 Void, "The Angry Brigade",
 Wax Dolls (John Watts), Fischer Z, "The Angry Brigade", 1978
 The Bear Quartet, "Angry Brigade"
 Architect & Heiress, "The Angry Brigade"
 War Criminal George Pt. 1, "The Angry Brigade"
 Rome, "The Angry Brigade"