Clyde Refinery

The Clyde Refinery was a crude oil refinery located in Clyde, New South Wales, Australia, operating between 1925 and 2013. At the time of its closure it had a refinery capacity of  and was the oldest operating oil refinery in Australia. It was operated by Shell Refining (Australia) Pty Ltd and owned by the Royal Dutch Shell.

History
The Clyde Refinery was built by John Fell and Company Pty Ltd in 1925. It was constructed largely from plant relocated from a shale oil refinery the company had operated at Newnes, north of Lithgow. The refinery was purchased by Shell in 1928, who would continue to operate the refinery throughout the rest of its existence.  The refinery was located in Clyde where the Parramatta River and the Duck River converge,  west of the Sydney CBD.

In 1948 Shell opened the first major bitumen refinery in Australia at Clyde, with a production capacity of 35,000 tons p/a of bitumen and 10,000 tons p/a of finished lubricants. The plant had originally been planned in 1938 but construction was delayed due to World War 2.

The refinery was expanded significantly between 1959 and 1968, as part of Australia's post war industrial growth. This included the construction of a Catalytic Reforming Unit or Platformer in 1958, a High Vacuum Distillation Unit (HVU) in 1962, a Catalytic Cracking Unit (CCU) and a Polymerisation Unit in 1963, an Alkylation Unit and a Sulphur Recovery Unit in 1964 and a new Crude Distillation Unit (CDU) in 1967. By the end of 1968 the refinery's workforce had grown to over 1,000 employees, including 120 maintenance workers. Shell deliberately hired a large number of ex-naval personnel to work at the refinery in this period, leading to the site being jokingly referred to as 'HMAS Clyde'.

The expansion of the refinery continued into the 1970s, albeit at a slower rate, with the commissioning of an additional Platformer Unit in 1971 and a second Sulphur Recovery Unit in 1978. The refinery was also the site of the first polypropylene (PP) plant in Australia, which was commissioned by Shell in 1970–1971 and had a capacity of 25,000 tonnes per year.

During the 1980s the refinery went through a period of major rationalisation, with a large number of refinery units closed or merged. Between 1983 and 1984 the refinery's chemical plants were closed, including the Chemical Solvents plant, Hydrocarbon Solvents plant, Epikote plant and Ethylene plant, resulting in redundancies for approximately 120 plant operators, as well as the warehouse storemen who had been responsible for packaging and distributing the refinery's chemical products.

During the 2000s increased government regulation of fuel quality and environmental standards necessitated a number of upgrades to the refinery's existing plant. The refinery's hydrodesulphurisation (HDS) unit was upgraded in 2001 and again in 2008 to reduce the sulphur content of diesel, while in 2004 a new Benzene Reduction Unit (BRU) was built to lower benzene levels in gasoline. In 2008 a major upgrade of the refinery's catalytic cracking unit was also carried out.

In April 2011 Shell announced it intended to shut down refining operations at Clyde and convert the Clyde Refinery and Gore Bay Terminal into a fuel import facility, pending board and employee consultation. The decision was confirmed on 27 July 2011, with all refining activity on the site to cease by mid-2013. This was later brought forward 9 months and the refinery closed in 2012, before then being converted into an import terminal.

Refinery operators at Clyde were members of the Coastal Districts Branch of the Federated Engine Drivers and Firemen's Association (FEDFA), which later merged into the CFMEU Mining and Energy Division. Maintenance employees were represented by the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union and the Electrical Trades Union, while clerical employees were members of the Federated Clerks Union. Other unions represented at the refinery included the Federated Ironworkers Association (FIA), the Australasian Society of Engineers (ASE), the Storemen and Packers Union, the NSW Fire Brigade Employees Union (NSWFBEU) and the Association of Draughting, Supervisory and Technical Employees (ADSTE).

Technical features
At the time of its closure the refinery employed around 570 workers (including contractors) and had a processing capacity of  or around 4 million tonnes of crude oil annually. Although relatively small in terms of refining capacity by modern standards, Clyde was a highly flexible plant capable of refining a broader range of crude types than most other Australian refineries (predominantly designed to accommodate light, sweet Australian crudes) and was capable of changing its crude feedstock slate up to three times a day to meet changing demand.

The refinery's product slate was composed of approximately 45% motor gasoline, 25% diesel fuel and 25% jet fuel with the remainder consisting of fuel oil and LPG. The refinery usually supplied around 40% of Sydney's fuel requirements and 50% of the fuel consumed in New South Wales. The refinery was connected by pipeline to distribution terminals in Newcastle, the Vopak terminal at Port Botany and by a dedicated jet fuel pipeline to Sydney Airport.

Crude oil was supplied to the refinery from the nearby Gore Bay Terminal, also operated by Shell since its opening in 1901. The terminal is located on a  plot of land in Greenwich on Sydney Harbour and was connected to the refinery via a  underground pipeline with a  diameter. When the refinery was operating the terminal received approximately 90 crude oil tankers per year.

At the time of its closure in late 2013 the polypropylene plant was owned by LyondellBasell and had an annual production capacity of 170,000 tonnes.


Jacksonville Ladies Open

The Jacksonville Ladies Open was a golf tournament on the LPGA Tour played from 1951 to 1959, and again in 1975. It was played at several different courses in the Jacksonville, Florida area.

Tournament locations

Winners
Jacksonville Ladies Open
1975 Sandra Haynie

Jacksonville Open
1960-74 No tournament
1959 Mickey Wright
1958 Marilynn Smith
1957 Mickey Wright
1956 Mickey Wright
1955 Jackie Pung
1953 Patty Berg
1952 Louise Suggs

Ponte Vedra Beach Women's Open
1951 Babe Zaharias


Alexander Radwan

Alexander Gamal Radwan (born 30 August 1964 in München) is a German politician.

Education
 1987: Graduated in aeronautical engineering
 1992: First state law examination
 1995: second state law examination

Early career
 since 1995: Lawyer
 since 1996: Employed in industry
 since 1998: Departmental manager of a company in the information and telecommunications sector

Political career

Career in local politics
 1989-1994: District chairman of the Junge Union in Miesbach
 1994-1999: District Chairman of the Junge Union of Upper Bavaria
 Member of local, district and regional executives of the CSU
 District Chairman of the Upper Bavaria Small Business Union and Vice-Chairman for Bavaria
 Member of the Miesbach District Council

Member of the European Parliament, 1999–2008
Between 1999 and 2008, Radwan was a Member of the European Parliament for Bavaria with the Christian Social Union in Bavaria, Member of the Bureau of the European People's Party and sat on the European Parliament's Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs.

He was a substitute for the Committee on Legal Affairs and a vice-chair of the Delegation for relations with the Mashreq countries. Between 2004 and 2008, he was the EPP parliamentary group’s spokesperson on economic affairs.

Member of the Bavarian State Parliament, 2008–2013
In the 2008 Bavarian state elections, Radwan was elected to the Landtag of Bavaria. During his term in office, he served on the Committee on Budgetary and Finance Affairs as well as on the Committee on Federal and European Affairs. Within his parliamentary group, he was a member of the working group on defence policy.

In late 2012, Radwan and Ilse Aigner, who was about to leave national politics to run for state office, announced that they would switch electoral districts. As a consequence, Radwan took over Aigner’s district and ran for a seat in the Bundestag.

Member of the German Bundestag, 2013–present
Radwan has been a member of the German Bundestag since the 2013 federal elections. He has since been serving on the Finance Committee, the Committee on Foreign Affairs and its Subcommittee on the United Nations, International Organizations and Globalization. In addition, he is a member of the parliament’s delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Mediterranean.

As member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, Radwan serves as his parliamentary group’s rapporteur on relations with the Middle East, the Maghreb and Sudan. On the Finance Committee, he is the group’s rapporteur on the Euro and the banking union.

In the negotiations to form a coalition government under the leadership of Chancellor Angela Merkel following the 2017 federal elections, Radwan was part of the working group on foreign policy, led by Ursula von der Leyen, Gerd Müller and Sigmar Gabriel.

Other activities
After serving as Of counsel with the Munich office of law firm GSK Stockmann + Kollegen until 2015, Radwan and former finance minister Theo Waigel joined Waigel Rechtsanwälte in 2016.

In addition to his legal practice, Radwan holds the following positions:
 Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin), Member of the Administrative Council (since 2018)
 German-Arab Friendship Association (DAFG), Member of the Board
 Kangaroo Group, Member
 Young Egyptian Economic Leaders (YEEL), Member of the Board of Trustees
 German Red Cross (DRK), Member of the Presidium (until 2014)
 University of Applied Sciences Rosenheim, Member of the Board of Trustees


Academy of Citizenship and Empowerment

The Academy of Citizenship and Empowerment (ACE) is a public high school in SeaTac, Washington. It is one of two small schools at the Tyee Educational Complex, along with Global Connections High School. It was founded in 2005 when Tyee High School converted into these two schools, and accredited individually in 2006. It is operated by the Highline School District.

The school's enrollment is 410, as required by the Coalition of Essential Schools in the conditions for the conversion grant. On the complex, ACE occupies the classroom portions of the 700 building, which excludes the gymnasiums and locker rooms.

ACE combines with the other two Tyee schools to compete in athletics.


Concord Naval Weapons Station

Concord Naval Weapons Station was a military base established in 1942 north of the city of Concord, California at the shore of the Sacramento River where it widens into Suisun Bay. The station functioned as a World War II armament storage depot, supplying ships at Port Chicago. During World War II it also had a Naval Outlying Field at the southern edge of the base. It ceased being an operating airfield after World War II. During the Korean War, the Vietnam War and the Gulf War, Concord NWS processed and shipped thousands of tons of materiel out across the Pacific Ocean.

The station consisted of two areas: the Inland Area (), which is within the Concord city limits, and the Tidal Area (). Because of changes in military operations, parts of the Inland Area began to be mothballed, and by 1999 the station had only a minimal contingent of military personnel and contained mainly empty ammunition storage bunkers, empty warehouses, and disused support structures. In 2007, the U.S. federal government announced that the Inland Area of the Naval station would be closed. The Tidal area of the base was not scheduled for closure.

The 5-member City Council of Concord, sitting as the federally designated Local Reuse Authority, is in the process of formulating a Reuse Plan for the Inland Area that includes residential and commercial development while reserving approximately two-thirds for open-space and parks projects. City staff are assigned to manage this effort.  The Reuse Plan is subject to approval by the Navy.

The East Bay Regional Park District will be receiving 2,540 acres (1028 hectares) of the Inland Area that will be developed for public use as Concord Hills Regional Park.  Formal conveyance of the property is expected in early 2016 whereupon the property will be prepared for public access and recreation.

Port Chicago disaster

In 1944, thousands of tons of munitions aboard a Navy cargo ship exploded while being loaded, resulting in the largest number of casualties among African Americans in any one incident during World War II. On the evening of July 17, a massive explosion instantly killed 320 sailors, merchant seamen and civilians working at the pier. The blast was felt 30 miles away. A subsequent refusal by 258 black sailors to load any more ammunition was the beginning of the Navy's largest-ever mutiny trial in which 50 men were found guilty. Future Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall sat in on most of the proceedings and declared that he saw a prejudiced court.

War protests
In 1982, at the height of U.S. intervention in the Central American Crisis, Concord Naval Weapons Station was the site of daily anti-war protests against the shipment of weapons to Central America, including white phosphorus. On September 1, 1987 U.S. Air Force veteran and peace activist Brian Willson was run over by a Navy munitions train while attempting to stop the train outside the compound gates. He suffered a fractured skull and the amputation of both his legs below the knee, among other injuries.  The incident that caused Mr. Willson's injury were never prosecuted in criminal court, but a civil suit was filed and an out-of-court settlement was awarded.

In the days afterward, thousands participated by protesting the actions of the train's crew and the munitions shipment including Jesse Jackson and Joan Baez. During the demonstration, anti-war protesters dismantled several hundred feet of Navy railroad tracks located outside of the base, while police and U.S. Marines looked on. Billy Nessen, a prominent Berkeley-based activist, was subsequently charged with organizing the track removal, and his trial resulted in a plea bargain that involved no jail time.

Superfund cleanup site
The Concord NWS was listed as a Superfund cleanup site on December 16, 1994. 32 areas of the facility were identified as having been contaminated with heavy metals including zinc, copper, lead, cadmium, and arsenic, as well as semi-volatile organic compounds (SVOC) and organochloride pesticides.  An area of great concern is the risk to the endangered salt marsh harvest mouse and the California clapper rail. Environmental remediation is underway at the base with some sites having soil removed and others being capped to prevent spread of contaminants.

Current operations
In 2008, control of the site was changed.  The Inland Area became a Detachment of the Naval Weapons Station Seal Beach, pending ultimate closure.  The Tidal Area was transferred to the U.S. Army Surface Deployment and Distribution Command (SDDC) and is now known as Military Ocean Terminal Concord (MOTCO). This facility was also used by the Diablo Squadron and Training Ship Concord of the United States Naval Sea Cadet Corps.

Self-driving cars

In October 2014, the Intelligent Transportation Society of America announced that the Concord NWS GoMentum Station proving grounds would be used to test self-driving cars. According to Contra Costa Transportation Authority (CCTA), "The public will not have access to the test site, and the self-driving cars will be restricted to the test bed site.  With 2,100 acres of testing area and 19.6 miles of paved roadway, the CNWS is currently the largest secure test bed site in the United States". Mercedes-Benz is reported to have licenses to test new driving technology, including smart infrastructure such as traffic signals that communicate with cars.

Detention camp
On June 22, 2018, Time Magazine reported the Navy plans to build "tent cities" on the former station site, where up to 47,000 migrants could be detained. The news was met by community protests, as well as opposition by the mayor of Concord, who deemed the Superfund site ‘not suitable for public habitation’ and Congressman Mark DeSaulnier, who called the proposal "madness". A few days later, the Congressman reported that two Department of Homeland Security sources confirmed the feared tent cities would not be built.

In popular culture
In the 1996 movie The Rock, the VX gas warheads are supposedly stolen from Concord Naval Weapons Station. The station was not used for filming.

The MythBusters have been seen at the station several times testing  myths involving fuel efficiency.


Hurbanova Ves

Hurbanova Ves () is a village and municipality in western Slovakia in Senec District in the Bratislava Region.

History
In historical records the village was first mentioned in 1960.

Geography
The municipality lies at an altitude of 125 metres and covers an area of 5.413 km². It has a population of 264 people.

Demography
Population by nationality:

External links/Sources

  Official page
https://web.archive.org/web/20070513023228/http://www.statistics.sk/mosmis/eng/run.html


Religious views on suicide

There are a variety of religious views on suicide.

Abrahamic religions

Christianity

Nothing in the Christian Bible expressly prohibits suicide. In fact, the Bible does not condemn it and there are people in the Bible who died by suicide. However, many Christian dogmas take an unfavorable view of suicide. Christianity also does not say that suicide is an unforgivable sin, although some other religions might.

According to the theology of the Roman Catholic Church, suicide is objectively a sin which violates the commandment "Thou shalt not kill".  However, the gravity and culpability for that sin changes based on the circumstances surrounding that sin.  The Catechism of the Catholic Church, Paragraph 2283 states: "We should not despair of the eternal salvation of persons who have taken their own lives. By ways known to him alone, God can provide the opportunity for salutary repentance. The Church prays for persons who have taken their own lives." Paragraph 2282 also points out that "Grave psychological disturbances, anguish, or grave fear of hardship, suffering, or torture can diminish the responsibility of the one committing suicide." The Catholic Church used to deny suicides a Catholic funeral mass and burial. However, the Church has since changed this practice.

Conservative Protestants (Evangelicals, Charismatics, Pentecostals, and other denominations) have often argued that suicide is self-murder, and so anyone who commits it is sinning and it is the same as if the person murdered another human being. An additional view concerns the act of asking for salvation and accepting Jesus Christ as personal savior, which must be done prior to death. This is an important aspect of many Protestant denominations, and the problem with suicide is that once dead the individual is unable to accept salvation. The unpardonable sin then becomes not the suicide itself, but rather the refusal of the gift of salvation.

Suicide is regarded generally within the Orthodox Tradition as a rejection of God's gift of physical life, a failure of stewardship, an act of despair, and a transgression of the sixth commandment, "You shall not kill" (Exodus 20:13).
The Orthodox Church normally denies a Christian burial to a person who has died by suicide. However, factors bearing on the particular case may become known to the priest who must share this information with the diocesan bishop; the bishop will consider the factors and make the decision concerning funeral services. The condemnation of suicide is reflected in the teachings of Clement of Alexandria, Lactantius, St. Augustine and others. The Orthodox Church shows compassion, however, on those who have taken their own life because of mental illness or severe emotional stress, when a physician can verify a condition of impaired rationality.

Some other denominations of Christianity may not condemn those who commit suicide per se as committing a sin, even if suicide is not viewed favorably; factors such as motive, character, etc. are believed to be taken into account.  One such example is The New Church.  In The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), suicide is generally viewed as wrong, although the victim may not be considered responsible for the act depending on the circumstances.

In early Christian traditions, attitudes to suicide were somewhat varied. Among the martyrs at Antioch were three women who died by suicide to avoid rape. Although William Phipps gives this as an example of virtuous early Christian suicides, Augustine declared that although they may have done "what was right in the sight of God," in his view the women "should not have assumed that rape would necessarily have deprived them of their purity" (as purity was, to Augustine, a state of mind).

 ("If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there.") has often been discussed in the context of the fate of those who commit suicide.

Islam

Islam clearly forbids suicide as a verse in the Quran instructs:

The prohibition of suicide has also been recorded in statements of hadith (sayings of Muhammad); for example:

Muslim scholars and clerics consider suicide forbidden, including suicide bombing.

Judaism

Suicides are frowned upon and buried in a separate part of a Jewish cemetery, and may not receive certain mourning rites. In practice, every means is used to excuse suicide—usually by determining either that the suicide itself proves that the person was not in their right mind, or that the person must have repented after performing the deadly act but shortly before death occurred. Taking one's own life may be seen as a preferred alternative to committing certain cardinal sins. Most authorities hold that it is not permissible to hasten death to avoid pain if one is dying in any event, but the Talmud is somewhat unclear on the matter. However, assisting in suicide and requesting such assistance (thereby creating an accomplice to a sinful act) is forbidden, a violation of Leviticus 19:14 ("Do not put a stumbling block before the blind"), which is understood as prohibiting tempting to sin as well as literally setting up physical obstacles.

Mass suicide has had a long-standing history in Judaism where it was also acceptable to other alternatives. According to the 1st-century CE Jewish historian Josephus, Herod the Great fortified Masada between 37 and 31 BCE as a refuge for himself in the event of a revolt. In 66 CE, at the beginning of the First Jewish-Roman War, a group of Jewish extremists called the Sicarii overcame the Roman garrison of Masada. After the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 CE, additional members of the Sicarii and numerous Jewish families fled Jerusalem and settled in the mountaintop fortress, using it as a base for harassing the Romans. This 960-strong Jewish community at Masada collectively killed themselves in 73 CE rather than be conquered and enslaved by the Romans. Each man killed his wife and children, then the men drew lots and killed each other until the last man killed himself. In this way, only the last man died by suicide.

Dharmic religions

Buddhism
In Buddhism, an individual's past acts are recognized to heavily influence what they experience in the present; present acts, in turn, become the background influence for future experiences (the doctrine of karma). Intentional actions by mind, body or speech have a reaction. This reaction, or repercussion, is the cause of conditions and differences one encounters in life.

Buddhism teaches that all people experience substantial suffering (dukkha), in which suffering primarily originates from past negative deeds (karma), or may result as a natural process of the cycle of birth and death (samsara). Other reasons for the prevalence of suffering concern the concepts of impermanence and illusion (maya). Since everything is in a constant state of impermanence or flux, individuals experience dissatisfaction with the fleeting events of life. To break out of samsara, Buddhism advocates the Noble Eightfold Path, and does not advocate suicide.

In Theravada Buddhism, for a monk to so much as praise death, including dwelling upon life's miseries or extolling stories of possibly blissful rebirth in a higher realm in a way that might condition the hearer to commit suicide or to pine away to death, is explicitly stated as a breach in one of highest vinaya codes, the prohibition against harming life, one that will result in automatic expulsion from Sangha.

For Buddhists, since the first precept is to refrain from the destruction of life, including one's self, suicide is seen as a negative act. If someone commits suicide in anger, he may be reborn in a sorrowful realm due to negative final thoughts. Nevertheless, Buddhism does not condemn suicide without exception, but rather observes that the reasons for suicide are often negative and thus counteract the path to enlightenment.  With that said, in thousands of years of Buddhist history, very few exceptions are found.

One exception is the Buddhist tale of a bhikkhu named Vakkali who was extremely ill and racked with excruciating pain. He was said to have died by suicide when near death and upon making statements suggesting he had passed beyond desires (and thus perhaps an arhant).  Self-euthanasia appears the context for his death.

Another exception is the story of a bhikkhu named Godhika, also beset by illness, who had repeatedly attained temporary liberation of mind but was unable to gain final liberation due to illness. While believing himself again in a state of temporary liberation it occurred to him to cut his own throat, in hopes thus to be reborn in a high realm. The Buddha was said to have stated:

Ultimately, tales like these could be read as implying past Buddhist beliefs that suicide might be acceptable in certain circumstances if it might lead to non-attachment. However, people who have achieved enlightenment do not commit suicide. In both above cases, the monks were not enlightened before dying by suicide but they hoped to become enlightened following their deaths.

The Channovàda-sutra gives a third exceptional example of one who died by suicide and subsequently attained enlightenment.

In an entry in The Encyclopedia of Religion, Marilyn J. Harran wrote the following:

Another exceptional example is the act of Sokushinbutsu in Japanese Buddhism, which involves asceticism to the point of death and entering mummification while alive. This is done to attain Buddha-nature in one's body.

Hinduism
In Hinduism, suicide is spiritually unacceptable. Generally, taking your own life is considered a violation of the code of ahimsa (non-violence) and therefore equally sinful as murdering another. Some scriptures state that to die by suicide (and any type of violent death) results in becoming a ghost, wandering earth until the time one would have otherwise died, had one not died by suicide.

The Mahabharata talks of suicide, stating those who commit it can never attain to regions (of heaven) that are blessed.

Hinduism accepts a person's right to end one's life through the non-violent practice of fasting to death, termed Prayopavesa. But Prayopavesa is strictly restricted to old age yogis who have no desire or ambition left, and no responsibilities remaining in this life. Another example is dying in a battle to save one's honor.

Sati or suttee is an obsolete funeral custom where a widow immolates herself on her husband's pyre or takes her own life in another fashion shortly after her husband's death. The practice continued to occur scantily in India in the 1980s, although it is officially banned.

Jainism
In Jainism, suicide is regarded as the worst form of himsā (violence) and is not permitted. Ahimsā (nonviolence) is the fundamental doctrine of Jainism. There exists a Jain practice of fasting to death which is termed as sallekhana. According to the Jain text Purushartha Siddhyupaya, "when death is near", the vow of sallekhanā is observed by properly thinning the body and the passions. It also mentions that sallekhanā is not suicide since the person observing it is devoid of all passions like attachment.

Neopagan religions

Wicca
In Wicca as well as numerous other Neopagan religions, there is no general consensus concerning suicide.  Some view suicide as a violation of the sanctity of life, and a violation of the most fundamental of Wiccan laws, the Wiccan Rede.  However, as Wicca teaches a belief in reincarnation instead of permanent rewards or punishments, many believe that suicides are reborn (like every one else) to endure the same circumstances in each subsequent lifetime until the capacity to cope with the circumstance develops.

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Porbandar–Jetalsar section

The Porbandar–Jetalsar section is a  length of railroad track that connects Porbandar  to Jetalsar. It belongs to the Western Railway of Bhavnagar Division in Gujarat, India.

History

Porbandar–Jamjodhpur was opened by the Porbandar Railway in 1888, while Jetalsar–Rajkot was opened in 1890 by Jetalsar-Rajkot Railway completing the full section with the support of other Princely state railways. Gauge conversion was completed in 2011.


BBC Radio 1 Live: Steve Hillage Live in Concert

BBC Radio 1 Live : Steve Hillage Live in Concert  is a live album by British progressive rock musician Steve Hillage, originally recorded for the BBC at the Paris Theatre. Track 1 and 6 are from the performance at 4 December 1976 were produced by Jeff Griffin. The remaining tracks are from 28 April 1979 and produced by Chris Lycett.

Track listing
Music and lyrics by Steve Hillage unless otherwise specified.

  "Hurdy Gurdy Glissando"  (Miquette Giraudy, Steve Hillage)  − 10:59
  "Unidentified (Flying Being)" (Miquette Giraudy, Steve Hillage) − 10:16
  "Radio" − 7:43
  "New Age Synthesis (Unzipping the Zype)" (Andy Anderson, Miquette Giraudy, Steve Hillage) − 8:30
  "Electrick Gypsies" − 4:51
  "The Salmon Song" − 7:24
  "It's All Too Much" (George Harrison) − 6:24
  "1988 Aktivator" − 2:31
  "Crystal City" − 3:21
  "Activation Meditation" − 1:10
  "The Glorious Om Riff" − 7:24

Musicians and production
Musicians
 John McKenzie − bass (tracks: 2 to 5, 7 to 11)
 Christian Boule − guitar (tracks: 2 to 5, 7 to 11)
 Steve Hillage − guitar, vocals
 Andy Anderson − percussion (tracks: 2 to 5, 7 to 11)
 Miquette Giraudy − synthesizer (tracks: 2 to 5, 7 to 11)

Production
 Chris Lycett − producer (tracks: 2 to 5, 7 to 11)
 Jeff Griffin − producer (tracks: 1, 6)

Release information


Nicholas Clerk

Nicholas Clerk (fl. 1407) was an English politician. Clerk has not been clearly identified. He was a Member (MP) of the Parliament of England for Exeter in 1407.


Suuresta

Suuresta is a village in Rae Parish, Harju County, in northern Estonia. It has a population of 54 (as of 1 January 2010).

Population


Carcass (band)

Carcass are an English extreme metal band from Liverpool, which was formed in 1985. The band have gone through several line-up changes, leaving guitarist Bill Steer and bassist and vocalist Jeff Walker as the only constant members. They broke up in 1996, but reformed in 2007 without one of its original members, drummer Ken Owen, due to health reasons. To date, the band have released six studio albums, two compilation albums, four EPs, two demo albums, one video album, and six music videos.

Carcass are regarded as pioneers of the goregrind genre. Their early work was also tagged as "splatter death metal", and "hardgore" on account of their morbid lyrics and gruesome album covers. They also became one of the pioneers of melodic death metal with their 1993 album Heartwork.

The band's lyrics often focus on animal rights issues. Walker and Steer are both vegetarians. Steer used to be vegan and Walker was a hunt saboteur.

History

Early days (1985–1989)

Carcass was first formed as a school band by Bill Steer and Ken Owen that soon after disbanded. Steer then joined the D-beat band Disattack with drummer Middie, Paul on bass and Pek on vocals. After releasing a four track demo entitled A Bomb Drops ... in 1986, the bass player left the band and was replaced by Jeff Walker, formerly guitarist and vocalist of the Electro Hippies. Vocalist Andrew Pek changed his name to Sanjiv after a visit to India. At about the same time, Bill Steer joined Napalm Death (replacing Justin Broadrick) and recorded the second side of what became Napalm Death's first album, Scum. Walker also designed the cover art for Scum.

Disattack then changed its name to Carcass as the group changed musical direction. This led to a change in drummer and saw Ken Owen join the band. In April 1987, they recorded the Flesh Ripping Sonic Torment demo, the only Carcass recording featuring vocalist Sanjiv, who left shortly after. Walker, Steer and Owen shared vocal duties for the debut album, which was done in only four days. Despite the primitive production values of Carcass's debut Reek of Putrefaction (1988), with which the band was very displeased, it became a favourite of Radio 1 DJ John Peel. Due to his interest, they were asked to participate in their first Peel Session in 1989, where they debuted new material for their second album. The Peel Session was released as an EP with the band members adopting pseudonyms: K. Grumegargler, J. Offalmangler, and W.G. Thorax Embalmer. Also that year, Steer and Walker appeared as members of Lister's fictional band Smeg and the Heads in an episode of Red Dwarf.

Progress (1989–1993)

Symphonies of Sickness (1989), the second album, which contained a much improved production quality (courtesy of Colin Richardson), featured more death metal structures and longer songs with more slow passages. The second half of the tour in support of Symphonies of Sickness saw the addition of second lead guitarist Michael Amott, whose previous work included Carnage. Amott was to become a permanent member, playing on the second Peel Session and contributing material towards their third album.

Necroticism – Descanting the Insalubrious (1991) showed even more intricate composition, further improved production and guitar solos. Despite the addition of Amott to the ranks, Steer still handled all rhythm guitar duties, with Amott only contributing leads and one riff. Carcass again supported the album with heavy touring, and were part of the Earache 'Gods of Grind' tour with Cathedral, Entombed and Confessor in both Europe and the United States. The Tools of the Trade EP was released in 1992 to coincide with the "Gods of Grind" tour.

Columbia (1993–1995)

The band's fourth album, Heartwork, was released in late 1993. It was considered a radical change by many fans, which eliminated Steer's deeper vocals and the clinically gory lyrics. Again, Steer handled all rhythm guitar duties, this time due to Amott losing his passport in Israel (thus making him unable to return to England in time to record). Song structures, whilst still containing musically complex parts, were simpler, in some cases using the verse/chorus/verse formula.

After the release of Heartwork, Carcass signed a worldwide deal with Columbia Records, who hoped for commercial success, even suggesting that Jeff Walker learn how to sing. Michael Amott left the band right after Heartwork was recorded, and was for a while replaced by Mike Hickey, who was later replaced by Carlo Regadas.

During the summer of 1994, Walker remixed the track "Inside Out" for a Die Krupps remix album, although the version stayed fairly true to the original with the exception of Owen's drum samples from Heartwork replacing the Die Krupps original, and additional mixing from Walker and Colin Richardson at Parr Street studios (where Heartwork was recorded).

Carcass now set about writing songs for their major label debut. During the December 1994 UK tour Carcass showcased two songs from their current writing sessions – "Edge of Darkness" and "Firmhand", both showing a more straight forward song writing approach than on previous efforts. Around this time, "Edge of Darkness" was recorded for the BBC Radio 1 Rock Show sessions – a session which could be found on later compilation albums.

By late 1994, 17 songs were ready, and the band set about using their $200,000 advance to record the album, again with Colin Richardson, at Rockfield studios in Monmouth, South Wales in early 1995. During the 6-week recording schedule, the record label began to withdraw support, stating that Carcass were not ready to record, and needed to write more songs. This advice was ignored, as was the suggestion to have Terry Date remix the album, and the band continued. At the time, Jeff Walker stated in an interview with the UK's Metal Hammer Magazine that the album was taking more of a classic rock approach, with drums, bass and twin guitars à la Thin Lizzy, in comparison to earlier "multi-layered guitar" productions. This has since been put down to Bill Steer's unwillingness to perform the time-consuming guitar layering (as once again Steer performed all rhythm guitar) through losing interest in the metal genre.

During the Swansong recording sessions, Carcass were asked to remix a Björk track - "Isobel". This wasn't a remix as such but more of a re-recording with only Björk's vocals remaining. The track saw the light of day in March 1996 on Björk's "Hyperballad" single.

Demise (1996–2006)
Continuing record company problems with Columbia/Sony caused the album to be delayed from late summer 1995 to June 1996, in which time Carcass moved back to Earache Records, and broke up before even releasing Swansong. The move back to Earache was dubbed by Walker as "the second great rock and roll swindle" as they had effectively been paid twice for the same album. Swansong featured twelve of the seventeen tracks put to tape during the recording sessions. Walker has since stated in interviews that all seventeen songs should have been included in a double album, and that some songs omitted from Swansong were actually stronger than some of Swansongs actual content. Carcass also remixed Killing Joke's "Democracy" (by re-recording the music, but keeping the original vocals), although this time Regadas performed all guitar duties, as it is thought Steer had quit the band by early 1996. The Carcass "Rooster Mix" was made available on Killing Joke's Democracy. Around the time of Swansong'''s release, Carcass informed the press that they were ending the band without even a farewell tour, but most fans had guessed this may be the case via the album title.

The album sold well, staying near the top of the Indie Rock Chart in the UK for several months, above bands such as Placebo, despite having no touring support from the band. It is rumoured that the band were offered several lucrative tours in 1995, such as supporting Iron Maiden on their "X-Factour 95" tour, which had the album been released as expected in 1995, could have improved the band's sales and longevity.

A posthumous compilation, Wake up and Smell the... Carcass was released in October 1996 to collect together Carcass' rarer material, including unreleased material, songs only available on EPs and compilations, and live tracks. An accompanying video was released a few weeks after the Wake Up CD with little knowledge from the band or their management. The video, later released on DVD, featured five of the band's promotional videos, a show from the Grindcrusher 1989 tour (as a three piece) and a show from the 1992 Gods of Grind tour. Sound on the two live shows is poor, particularly the latter, which Walker has described as "unmixed".

Owen, Walker, and Regadas continued with the band Blackstar, accompanied by former Cathedral bassist Mark Griffiths, using the second Swansong advance from Earache to fund the recording. Blackstar, later Blackstar Rising, became defunct after drummer Owen suffered a severe cerebral hemorrhage. Amott went on to found hard rock band Spiritual Beggars and successful Swedish melodic death metal band Arch Enemy. In the biggest musical departure, Steer formed Firebird, a Clapton-esque rock band.

Reformation (2007–2012)
In June 2006, in an interview with Walker, he discussed the possibility of reforming Carcass, but mentioned that it was unlikely that Owen would participate, since he could not replicate his former drumming proficiency due to the effects of the cerebral hemorrhage he suffered in 1999. In September 2007, Michael Amott announced that he was rehearsing with Bill Steer, Jeff Walker and Daniel Erlandsson (replacing Ken Owen) in secret to rehearse old Carcass songs for a possible reunion tour. The original plans were to play at several festivals during the summer, but they couldn't meet the deadlines.

In October 2007, Carcass were confirmed to play at German heavy metal festival Wacken Open Air and Finland's Tuska Open Air Metal Festival in 2008. Carcass later embarked on a reunion tour, beginning on 6 June 2008 at the Sweden Rock Festival in Norje, Sweden. Carcass also played at Hellfest Summer Open Air, Metalcamp and several other festivals. The band toured Australia and New Zealand in 2008, and then in North America during September and October 2008, followed by the band's first South American tour, playing in Colombia, Chile, Argentina and Brazil. On 15 November 2008, Carcass headlined the Danish Metal Awards held in Amager Bio, Copenhagen, Denmark. Steer also presented the award for Best Danish Debut Album, which went to SCAMP for Mirror Faced Mentality. Carcass surprised the audience by bringing Ken Owen to the stage where he gave a brief drum solo to show how far he had come in recovering from his illness. Carcass performed an exclusive UK show at the Damnation Festival in Leeds. It was the first time Carcass had played in England in 14 years.

Carcass re-released their entire back catalogue with bonus material during 2008 on Earache Records. When asked if the band were planning on writing and recording a new album, Steer replied:

Carcass continued to play live in 2009, with a North American tour completed in March 2009. Carcass also headlined the Bloodstock Open Air in Derbyshire, England in August 2009. In August 2010, Carcass headlined Vagos Open Air in Vagos, Portugal, and Jalometalli Metal Music Festival held in Oulu, Finland. At Hellfest 2010, they performed the Necroticism album in its entirety. In 2012, Amott and Erlandsson left Carcass to focus on Arch Enemy.

Surgical Steel (2012–2019)
Steer and Walker started talking about recording a new album after the reunion shows were done. They wrote some songs to see how they would turn out. According to Steer, "If it sounded like Carcass to us, we were going to proceed. We also said if it didn't feel right, we'd just drop it". Carcass recorded a new album in 2012, titled Surgical Steel. Daniel Wilding of Bristol-based deathgrind band Trigger the Bloodshed performs drums on Surgical Steel. The original drummer, Ken Owen, was also brought in to record some backing vocals on the album. Ben Ash of Pig Iron, Desolation, and Liquefied Skeleton joined the band in March 2013 on guitar.

On 26 March 2013 Carcass performed for the first time with their new lineup at the Camden Underworld in London, where they played for three nights. Carcass also performed at the Chilean music festival Metalfest in April 2013, and the Maryland Deathfest XI music festival in May 2013.

In May 2013 Carcass signed with Nuclear Blast. In Japan they signed a deal with Trooper Entertainment for the release of the new album. Carcass released Surgical Steel on 13 September 2013 in Europe, 16 September in the UK, and 17 September in North America. Overall the album received positive reviews. Surgical Steel earned a Top 50 position on the US Billboard 200 charts. After releasing Surgical Steel, Carcass headlined Damnation Festival in Leeds before embarking on the Defenders of the Faith Tour with Amon Amarth and Hell, which ran throughout Europe and the UK in November and December 2013. Carcass performed at 70000 Tons of Metal in January 2014 and headlined the Agglutination Festival on 23 August of the same year.

In a June 2014 interview with Metal Underground, Walker was asked if Carcass were going to make a follow-up to Surgical Steel. He replied, "Ultimately, as long as we feel we got somewhere to go then we would create new material. We are not just going to do it just for the sake of it. We have to feel inspired. All I can say is I do see somewhere where we can take Carcass if we choose to do another album and personally I do want to do another album. I'm not completely satisfied with any album we've made so far. I don't think we've made the classic Carcass album, that's the way I feel."

Carcass released an EP titled Surgical Remission/Surplus Steel in November 2014. The EP is a collection of unreleased tracks recorded during the Surgical Steel sessions and it is released on physical and digital formats. "Well, let's call this tying up loose ends," commented Carcass frontman Jeff Walker. "We thought we'd make all the tracks available from the Surgical Steel album session on an EP… just in case you bought the jewel case version, didn't buy the digipak, didn't buy the Japanese import, or maybe you never bought the Decibel magazine issue with the flexi disc? Well, here you go; ALL the songs on one disc along with a previously unreleased track. Even Trevor Strnad's arm makes a guest appearance! Enjoy."

Carcass continued touring. They played at Download Festival in Castle Donington 13 June 2015. Reviewing their concert, James Weaver wrote: "Carcass have proved, not only that they can play any spectrum of rock festivals, but that they still remain as one of the greats in the extreme metal genre." Carcass also headlined the "Deathcrusher 2015" tour alongside Napalm Death, Obituary, Voivod and Herod. The tour run in Europe October-November 2015. During the "Deathcrusher 2015" tour Bill Steer rejoined his former band Napalm Death on some dates to perform the classic Napalm Death song "Deceiver". Along with Testament, Carcass supported Slayer on their Repentless tour, which took place in February and March 2016.

In a statement released in early March 2018, Ben Ash announced he had left Carcass. Tom Draper (Pounder, ex-Angel Witch), a UK native based in California, made his first live appearance with the band at the Netherlands Deathfest on March 2, 2018, and his second appearance during the Decibel Metal and Beer Fest in Philadelphia on April 1, 2018. They also opened for Slayer on selected dates of their final world tour, including ForceFest in Mexico in October 2018, and Hellfest in France in June 2019.

Upcoming album (2019–present)
On 13 December 2019, Carcass released a new song called "Under the Scalpel Blade", which will feature on their upcoming studio album in 2020.

Influence and in popular culture
Carcass are influenced by death metal and grindcore bands like Death, Repulsion, Master, Morbid Angel, Napalm Death, Macabre, and other acts such as Slayer, King Diamond, Cryptic Slaughter, Discharge, Siege, N.Y.C. Mayhem and Diamond Head. Otrebor of black metal band Botanist cites Carcass' use of medical dictionary terms in lyrics and song titles as a precedent for its lyrics and song titles from plant and insect dictionaries.

Carcass were briefly mentioned on the sitcom Friends as a band Phoebe likes.

On the Elementary episode "Bella", the song "Captive Bolt Pistol" is played on a mixtape that supposedly also contains a computer virus.

In the Red Dwarf episode "Timeslides", Steer and Walker appeared as members of Lister's childhood band, Smeg and the Heads.

Band members
Current
 Bill Steer – guitars, backing vocals (1985–1996, 2007–present) co–lead vocals (1985–1992)
 Jeff Walker – lead vocals, bass (1985–1996, 2007–present)
 Daniel Wilding – drums (2012–present)
 Tom Draper - guitars (live) (2018-present)

Past
 Sanjiv Sumner – lead vocals (1986–1987)
 Carlo Regadas – guitars (1994-1996)
 Ken Owen – drums (1986–1996), backing vocals (1985-1996, guest vocals on Surgical Steel, 2013, live guest 2008, 2009, 2010, 2013)
 Michael Amott – guitars (1990–1993, 2007–2012)
 Daniel Erlandsson – drums (2007–2012)
 Ben Ash – guitars (2013–2018)

Live musicians
 Mike Hickey – guitars (1993–1994)

Timeline

Discography

 Reek of Putrefaction (1988)
 Symphonies of Sickness (1989)
 Necroticism – Descanting the Insalubrious (1991)
 Heartwork (1993)
 Swansong (1996)
 Surgical Steel'' (2013)


Pennsylvania Cable Network

PCN (the Pennsylvania Cable Network) is a private, non-profit cable television network dedicated to 24-hour coverage of government and public affairs in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.  Built on the C-SPAN model, it features live coverage of both Houses of the Pennsylvania General Assembly, as well as other forms of informational and educational programming. It is available on every cable system in the state, and is also available on line through the PCN Select subscription service.

The bulk of PCN's operations are located in Harrisburg, the commonwealth capital, but it also has bureaus in Pittsburgh and Philadelphia.

In addition to serving as a C-SPAN for Pennsylvania, PCN carries other programs that focus on Pennsylvania's people, culture, business, and history, including:
 Coverage of state high school sports championships
 Walking tours of the Gettysburg Battlefield with National Park rangers
 The annual State Farm Show
 "PCN Tours" - visits to Pennsylvania manufacturing plants
 "PA Books" - interviews with authors of book on Pennsylvania topics
 "Weather World" - a daily 15-minute program produced by the Penn State Department of Meteorology
PCN is funded by Pennsylvania cable television companies and receives no government funding.

PCN's president and CEO is Brian Lockman, formerly C-SPAN's vice president of operations.

History

The non-profit Pennsylvania Educational Communications System (PECS) was founded in 1979 by George Barco, who became the first president, his daughter Yolanda Barco and Joseph Gans. It was funded by eleven Pennsylvania cable television companies, and provided a network for distributing Educational-access television programming from Pennsylvania State University. George Barco died in 1989 and Yolanda Barco became president in 1990. She renamed it the Pennsylvania Cable Network (PCN) and began to reposition it as the state's "educational, public affairs and cultural cable TV network."

In 1992, PCN began moving away from a strictly educational format, with its coverage of Governor Bob Casey's "Capitol for a Day" town hall meetings.  Two years later, it began televising daily coverage of the General Assembly.  PCN ended its relationship with Penn State in 1996, and assumed full responsibility for the network's operations and programming. Its funding comes from the cable companies that carry PCN, and it receives neither commonwealth nor federal funds.

Coverage

The majority of PCN's programming is live, unedited coverage of both houses of the General Assembly, press conferences, and meetings of various political and business organizations.  PCN also features tours of Pennsylvania manufacturing plants, coverage of the annual State Farm Show, walking tours of Gettysburg Battlefield, and Call-in shows with the state's political figures. "PA Books" a weekly show featuring authors of books on Pennsylvania topics, has been running since 1996. PCN also televises Weather World, a fifteen-minute weather program from the Pennsylvania State University Department of Meteorology.

Unlike most public affairs networks, PCN also covers high school athletic events. Through a partnership with the Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association (PIAA), PCN televises the state high school championships in competitive spirit, baseball, softball, lacrosse, soccer, volleyball, track and field, swimming and diving, basketball, team wrestling, individual wrestling, football, field hockey, rugby, and cross-country.


MobiDB

In molecular biology, MobiDB is a curated biological database designed to offer a centralized resource for annotations of intrinsic protein disorder. Protein disorder is a structural feature characterizing a large number of proteins with prominent members known as intrinsically unstructured (or disordered) proteins. The database features three levels of annotation: manually curated, indirect and predicted. By combining different data sources of protein disorder into a consensus annotation, MobiDB aims at giving the best possible picture of the "disorder landscape" of a given protein of interest.

MobiDB data sources

Curated data and additional annotation
Curated data for MobiDB is obtained from DisProt database giving information and disorder annotation manually extracted from literature. In order to complement disorder annotation, MobiDB features additional annotations from external sources:
 UniProt: Annotations from the UniProt database include organism, subcellular location, tissue specificity, function, relevant sites, relevant regions, post-translational modifications, and linear motifs.
 Pfam: protein domain annotations are displayed in graphical form and are link-enabled, allowing the user to visit the corresponding Pfam page for further information.
 PDB: Secondary structure is extracted from the PDB whenever available, and displayed in graphical form and in 3D.
 STRING: Known interactors with evidence in "database" and "experimental" are displayed in a sortable table.

Indirect sources
 PDB X-ray: When a crystallographic experiment is done to try and resolve a protein's structure, there are cases where the position of certain residues can not be accurately determined. One of the possible causes of this is that the residue is part of a flexible/disordered region. For this reason missing residues in PDB experiments are considered an indication of intrinsic disorder.
 PDB NMR: Deposited files of NMR experiments for protein structure resolution often contain multiple models, representing different conformations of the same protein. By calculating the differences between the positions of each model's residues, one can measure the degree in which this positions change. This change can be interpreted as a measure of how flexible or disordered a protein is. The MOBI web server (from which the name of this database was derived) automates this calculations taking as input a PDB formatted file.

Predictions
A great variety of intrinsic protein disorder predictors have been trained in the last decade. The bulk of them are trained to mimic the nature of the annotations previously described. Since MobiDB currently covers the full set of UniProt sequences, the included predictors need to be extremely fast. Ten predictors currently included (ESpritz in its three flavours, IUPred in its two flavours, DisEMBL in two of its flavours, GlobPlot, VSL2b and JRONN) enable MobiDB to provide disorder annotations for every protein, even when no curated or indirect data is available.

MobiDB consensus
In order to provide the best possible annotation for a give protein, MobiDB combines all its data sources into a consensus annotation. This annotation differs from the ones belonging to the sources themselves in that it features a third state, in addition to "structured" and "disordered": when two authoritative sources disagree, it displays the region as "ambiguous". With the currently available annotations, this conflict arises when a manually curated source annotates a certain region as disordered, and yet there is a PDB structure available for that same region.

Website
MobiDB website provides users with an interface to search by UniProt ID, protein name or free text. Following the submission, users are presented with a list of proteins each one annotated with disorder information integrated from various sources including consensus disorder prediction.

MobiDB web-server exposes some RESTful endpoints allowing programmatic access to MobiDB and retrieval of different data types. Available GET routes provide access to UniProt, STRING, Pfam and disorder data in JSON format.

External links
 MobiDB homepage
 DisProt homepage


Bielica

Bielica refers to the following places in Poland:

 Bielica, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship
 Bielica, West Pomeranian Voivodeship


Anastasia Vykhodtseva

Anastasia Vykhodtseva (Анастасія Виходцева, born 20 May 1991 in Dnepropetrovsk) is Polish-Ukrainian former figure skater who used to start in ice dance category.

At first she started for Ukraine (with Alexei Shumski and Artem Farin), but then changed the country for Poland and skated with Jan Mościcki. Having given up the competitive skating, she became a coach and choreographer in Toruń, Poland. Among her skaters and former skaters are Natalia Kaliszek and Maksym Spodyriev, Agnieszka Rejment and Aleksandra Rudolf.

Competitive highlights

with Mościcki, for Poland

with Shumski, for Ukraine

with Farin, for Ukraine


Dave Diles

David L. Diles (October 14, 1931 – December 29, 2009) was an American sports broadcaster and journalist, as well as an author.  He was a broadcaster for ABC Sports and hosted the “Prudential College Football Scoreboard Show”.

Early life
Dave Diles was born October 14, 1931, in Middleport, Ohio. At the age of 13 he started delivering the local newspaper, The Daily Sentinel, in Pomeroy, Ohio.

Diles moved to Athens, Ohio, and attended Ohio University.  He then worked for a local newspaper, the Athens Messenger, and later the Associated Press in Columbus and Detroit until 1961.

Career
In 1961, he became sports director of ABC's Detroit station WXYZ-TV until 1972 and then again from 1979 to 1982.

He hosted many other sports broadcasting programs, including College Football Scoreboard, Wide World of Sports, the Indianapolis 500, Olympic Games, NASCAR auto racing, professional golf, bowling, track and field, and college football play by play. He is also known for hosting “Race for No. 1” and “The Big Ten Today”.

During the 1960s, '70s, and '80s, Diles was the host of a local Detroit sports radio broadcasting show called “Dial Dave Diles”.  This was the city’s first radio sports talk show.

Diles is known for his work for commentating play by play for the LA Clippers, Detroit Lions, and Pistons and the Ohio State basketball team.  He also covered the Olympics.

He also wrote eight books about network television sports and the experiences of coaches and players in the professional and college sport business. This included co-authoring 1979's Terry Bradshaw, Man of Steel, a Christian-themed autobiography of the Pittsburgh Steeler quarterback.

Diles was also the president of both the Football Writers of America, Michigan Chapter, and the Detroit Sports Broadcasters Association.

Outside of sports, Diles was a substitute host for Lou Gordon on occasion.

Awards and Honors
Diles was awarded many honors in the sports world. Some include:

Three times named the Associated Press Sportscaster of the Year
Received four Associated Press Documentary Awards
National Sports Service Award from Sport Magazine
National Football Foundation and Hall of Fame
National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics
Inducted into the Michigan Media Hall of Fame
Inducted into the Michigan Sports Hall of Fame in 2006
Received the Silver Circle Award from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences

Later life
Diles received the Distinguished Alumni Award from Ohio University. He established a scholarship at the University for students from his hometown in Meigs County.  He was also a trustee for another local college, The University of Rio Grande.

Dave Diles died on December 29, 2009 after a long battle with cancer which caused him to have a stroke. He was 78 years old.

Diles’ hometown named a park after him. The Dave Diles Park is named in his honor located in his hometown of Middleport Ohio, along the banks of the Ohio River. Meigs County is unrecognized by the sponsors at Ohio History Central to some degree. In published accounts of Israel Putnam of the Ohio Company and Revolutionary War officer, his land holdings (Rutledge and Bedford Townships), in Ohio are ignored. Not as famous as his family member Rufus Putnam certainly, but worth a footnote at least in the post Revolutionary War period through the Civil War.


The Dance Centre

The Dance Centre, previously at 12 Floral Street, Covent Garden, central London, England, was founded by Valerie Tomalin (née Hyman) in 1964 as a space where dance teachers could hire small studios by the hour and large ballet companies, such as The Royal Ballet and Ballet Rambert, could rent larger studios by the day or by the week.

Individual artists such as Margot Fonteyn, Wayne Sleep and Rudolf Nureyev used the smaller spaces to privately fine-tune their performances. The venture was inspired by Valerie's fascination with ballet.  As an art-student Valerie bought student tickets for The Royal Opera House top gallery so that she could see the great Russian dancers take command of the aging stage.  Subsequently, Valerie became fascinated by modern dance and especially American jazz which was championed in those days by Matt Mattox.

Other teachers who quickly found the facilities helpful include Gillian Gregory, Diana South, and Mike St.Leger Arlene Phillips, Lindsay Kemp, Molly Molloy and Gary Cockrell.

Many of the dance students themselves went on to successful careers, for example David Bowie, who cites Lindsay Kemp's mime classes as being a fundamental inspiration for the character Ziggy Stardust, and Kate Bush.

By the mid-1960s, the Dance Centre was a Covent Garden Landmark. At that time virtually all the other buildings in Floral Street were vegetable or fruit warehouses.  In fact the Dance Centre itself had previously been a banana-drying warehouse and before that it was a poor school.  As a listed three-storey building, the bell-tower can still be seen rising above the other Floral Street retail units.  The fruit and vegetable market was established in the 1600s as a growing area literally annexed to a convent; hence the name.

Eventually many west-end and national shows auditioned there and rehearsed there too.

The Dance Centre also operated its own leading theatrical agency under Rob Gardell.

It commissioned its own ballet shoes, tights, leotards and leg-warmers.  The idea of such brand extension was pioneering in its day.

It also created its own dance troupes called The Beat Girls, later to become Pan's People.

In 1971, theatre producer Ian Albery asked The Dance Centre to help rent its warehouse (just around the corner in Earlham Street) to theatrical companies. So successful was The Dance Centre in reviving this space that the warehouse thrived and became The Donmar Theatre.

Valerie Tomalin's business partner Gary Cockrell opened The Sanctuary next door at number 11 Floral Street, and Valerie opened The Costume Centre in King Street in the centre of Covent Garden just by the piazza.


Montgomery Johnson

Charles Montgomery "Gummie" Johnson (June 6, 1923 – May 21, 2005) was an American publicist and political consultant who was active in Republican party politics in Washington state for nearly 30 years.

Early life and education
Johnson was born in Seattle to a family of outdoor enthusiasts. He received his undergraduate and graduate education at the University of Washington, earning a master's degree in forestry in 1950. His graduate thesis was on the use of education to prevent forest fires. While at the UW he was elected president of the Associated Students of the University of Washington.

In 1948 Johnson married his first wife, Bette Maples, with whom he had four children.

Career

Public relations
In 1951, Johnson was hired as the first public relations director for the Washington Education Association, Washington's teacher's union. He was subsequently retained to work as PR head for Weyerhauser.

Republican party
In 1963, Johnson was selected to serve as chairman of the campaign committee for Dan Evans' gubernatorial race. The election of Evans, who at 39 became Washington's youngest governor, placed Johnson at the center of Washington political life. The following year he was elected the first full-time chairman of the Washington State Republican Party, a post he held for the next seven years, during which he led a purge of John Birch Society members from Republican ranks and served as an executive member of the Republican National Committee. Johnson was an outspoken pro-choice advocate and promoter of Native American issues.

Private business
Stepping down from chairmanship of the Republican party, Johnson formed a political consulting firm with his second wife, Ann Quantock, a Democratic lobbyist. One of the Olympia-based C. Montgomery Johnson Associates' first clients was the Washington Association of Community Colleges, the first of several public sector education clients that would retain his firm. Among his firm's other clients were the Yakima Nation, and Democratic governor Dixie Lee Ray, whose 1976 and 1980 campaigns he managed.

Personal life and legacy
A heavy cigar smoker, Johnson was known as an opinionated character with sometimes profane mannerisms.

Johnson drafted an unpublished book, What Shall I Tell My People About Politics? which he described as a "real-life handbook for precinct committeemen."


Oegoconia syndesma

Oegoconia syndesma is a moth in the family Autostichidae. It was described by Meyrick in 1926. It is found in South Africa.

The wingspan is about 13 mm. The forewings are whitish-ochreous sprinkled dark grey and with a dark fuscous spot on the base of the costa, and irregular elongate blotches before and beyond the middle, suffusedly confluent beneath with the stigmata. The stigmata form cloudy blackish spots, the plical somewhat before the first discal, the second discal transverse. There is a dark fuscous apical blotch, extended as a narrow fascia along the termen. The hindwings are ochreous-whitisish.


Tunisia at the 2017 World Games

Tunisia competed at the World Games 2017 in Wroclaw, Poland, from 20 July 2017 to 30 July 2017.

Competitors

Boules Sports
Tunisia  has qualified at the 2017 World Games:

Petanque Women's Singles Precision Shooting - 1 quota


Pietro Frescobaldi

Pietro Frescobaldi (died 1654) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of San Miniato (1654).

Biography
On 19 Oct 1654, Pietro Frescobaldi was appointed during the papacy of Pope Innocent X as Bishop of San Miniato.
On 28 Oct 1654, he was consecrated bishop by Marcantonio Franciotti, Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria della Pace, with Onorato Onorati, Bishop of Urbania e Sant'Angelo in Vado, and Vincenzo Candiotti, Bishop of Bagnoregio, serving as co-consecrators.
He served as Bishop of San Miniato until his death on 11 Dec 1654.


Eustathius of Epiphania

Eustathius of Epiphania (, died after 518) was a sixth-century Byzantine historian.

Eustathius was born in Epiphania (modern Hama, Syria). He was probably a Christian and wrote in the time of the emperor Anastasius I a history (Chronological Epitome) from the fall of Troy to the 12th year of Anastasius (502/3) in two parts. The chronicle was used by later historians, but only a few fragments remain preserved in Evagrius Scholasticus, the Suda and John Malalas. According to Evagrius, Eustathius's work was an epitome (a compilation, not an abridgement) of pagan and ecclesiastical writers.

Eustathius is also known to have compiled an epitome of Josephus (Historikon of the Judaean Archaeology by Iosepos). It is likely the same as a short 13th/14th-century text preserved in Paris. It begins with Adam and Eve and reaches to the reign of Vespasian and Titus.

Notes


Cholmondeley cello

The Cholmondeley  is the name of a Stradivarius cello (violin) that was made in Cremona, Italy, by Antonio Stradivari around 1698. It holds the record as the world's most valuable cello. At an auction at Sotheby's in London on 22 June 1988 it fetched the highest auction price ever at £682,000 ( 1.2 million). Purchase of the Cholmondeley surpassed the previous record for an instrument at auction (also in 1988) of $890,000, which was for Stradavarius violin named Marie Hall. Prior to the Marie Hall, the Bonjour Stradivarius was the record holder at $393,000, purchased in 1994 by Robert Cohen.


Golden Willow (horse)

Golden Willow was the youngest horse to ever win the Badminton Horse Trials. The then-five-year-old won the first year of the event, in 1949, with rider John Shedden. Today, horses must be a minimum of seven years old to compete in the difficult competition, and most horses that compete are no younger than 10.

Golden Willow was imported from America in 1948. He began running in hunter trials, winning four his first autumn in England. The horse was very hot and quirky, but his experienced rider managed to do quite well on him. However, Shedden did take several precautions with the very strong horse: he always rode him in a gag bit while on cross-country, used a tight standing martingale, and tied a piece of string from the saddle to his belt so that if he fell off he might still have control of the horse. Despite this Golden Willow was very talented, with tremendous scope and a great jump.

Golden Willow competed in the prestigious Badminton Horse Trials in 1949, the first year of the event. There he had an impressive cross-country run, cleared the Irish Bank in a single jump, and went on to win. He returned the next year, only to finish fifth, although it is believed by some that poor time keeping robbed the horse of his second win. Kidston then sent him into training as a racehorse, which was a mistake, as the horse could not mentally take the rigors of training. On his first gallop he ran away with his jockey, and did not stop for fourteen miles, after his tendons broke down. After eighteen months of recovery, he was again sent back to train, but he simply ran away and broke down again.


Kisom Jukol

Kisom Jukol (, also Romanized as Kīsom Jūkol; also known as Kīsom Jūykol) is a village in Kisom Rural District, in the Central District of Astaneh-ye Ashrafiyeh County, Gilan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 147, in 43 families.


Jaime Abdul Gutiérrez

Jaime Abdul Gutiérrez Avendaño (April 5, 1936 - August 9, 2012) was a political and military figure of El Salvador. He was one of the leaders of the military coup on October 15, 1979, and the head of the 1980 Revolutionary Government Junta.

Biography

Jaime Abdul Gutiérrez Avendaño was born on April 5, 1936 in Sonsonate. He graduated from the Military School in San Salvador. He served in the Salvadoran Army as an engineer in the chemical forces. In 1968 he received his degree at the Higher Military Engineering School of Mexico. In July 1969, he returned to El Salvador and took part in Football War with neighboring Honduras.

In 1979, Colonel Gutiérrez was involved in a military conspiracy to overthrow the regime of Carlos Humberto Romero. After the coup on October 15, 1979, Gutiérrez became one of two army representatives in the Revolutionary Government Junta of El Salvador. Gutiérrez was considered the second most important person in the junta after Colonel Adolfo Arnoldo Majano. Soon, disagreements began to grow between the two leaders of the country: Majano saw a solution to the deepening political crisis in radical social reforms. Gutiérrez, representing the interests of the conservative-minded army, relied on military methods to solve El Salvador's political crisis. In May 1980, the right-wing military achieved the removal of Adolfo Majano from power, and on May 12, 1980, Jaime Abdul Gutiérrez took over as commander in chief of the armed forces. Two days later, he headed the Revolutionary junta. The elimination of dual power and the victory of the right in the leadership of El Salvador led to the transition to an open civil war. Over the following months, terror escalated and hostilities spread throughout the country.

On December 13, 1980, after Majano's complete resignation, it was decided to form the third Revolutionary Government Junta. Christian Democrat José Napoleón Duarte was appointed President of El Salvador while Colonel Gutiérrez took over as Vice President and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces. Over the next year and a half, the new government managed not only to maintain a military advantage and retain power, but also to hold elections to the Constitutional Assembly on March 28, 1982. On May 2, 1982, José Napoleón Duarte and Jaime Abdul Gutiérrez resigned, transferring power to the interim president-elect Álvaro Magaña.

Jaime Abdul Gutiérrez resigned from the army with the rank of general. He took over as president of the National Communications Administration, was chairman of the Executive Commission of the Hydroelectric Complex on the Lempa River, and held a number of other important posts.

Jaime Abdul Gutiérrez Avendaño died on August 9, 2012 at his home in La Libertad. His death was soon reported by military authorities. Gutiérrez was buried on August 10, 2012 after parting and the funeral Mass. A Military Academy named after General Manuel José Arce expressed condolences to the family of Gutiérrez.

Jaime Abdul Gutiérrez causes controversy in Salvadoran society: some consider him a dictator and conductor of state terror, others consider him an honest military man who “did not sit down at the negotiating table with criminals” and provided stability to the country. Participation in the 1979 coup is also put to merit and blame: someone believes that he put an end to the bloody dictatorship of Carlos Romero, and someone accuses him of eliminating the regime of “military stability” that existed since 1962.


John Conteh

John Anthony Conteh,  (born 27 May 1951) is a British former professional boxer who competed from 1971 to 1980. He held the WBC light-heavyweight title from 1974 to 1978, and regionally the European, British and Commonwealth titles between 1973 and 1974. As an amateur, he represented England and won won a gold medal in the middleweight division at the 1970 British Commonwealth Games. In 2017, Conteh was awarded an MBE for services to boxing at the Queen's Birthday Honours.

Professional career
Born in Liverpool, Merseyside, John Conteh began boxing at the age of 10 at a boxing club in Kirkby that was a training ground for some of the best amateur boxers, such as Joey Singleton, Tucker Hetherington and Stuart Morton. At 19, he won the middleweight gold medal at the 1970 British Commonwealth Games. He won the WBC light-heavyweight title in October 1974 by defeating Jorge Ahumada. He held the title until 1977 when he was stripped for not going through with a mandated defence.

Conteh lost a 15-round split decision to the Yugoslavian fighter Mate Parlov when he attempted to regain the title. He failed twice in further efforts to win back the crown, in 1979 and then again seven months later in 1980, on both occasions fighting the American Matthew Saad Muhammad. Muhammad won both bouts but the first victory was declared void because his cornermen used an illegal substance on a cut.

Appearances outside boxing
Conteh was one of the celebrities featured dressed in prison gear on the cover of the 1973 Wings album, Band on the Run. He was the subject of This Is Your Life in 1974.

Conteh also has the distinction of being British Superstars competition champion in 1974, the second year of the televised sporting event. Conteh is now an after-dinner speaker and speaks at venues all across the country.

Conteh appeared on the BBC television programme Sporting Legends which was presented by Eamonn Holmes. There he spoke at length at how he started out in boxing and how Ali persuaded him to fight at Light-Heavyweight instead of Heavyweight. Ali believed that Conteh was too small to be a heavyweight. Conteh also spoke of how his lifestyle led to alcoholism and a charge of assault, he stated that at the time he appeared on Sporting Legends he had been dry for nine years.

Conteh also appeared in films such as Man at the Top (1973), The Stud (1978) and Tank Malling (1989), and made a starring appearance in the television show Boon in 1989, as a washed-up boxer. He more recently appeared on a boxing special of The Weakest Link in 2009, where he finished in third place. His most recent TV acting appearance was in the crime drama Justice, in which he again played an ex-boxer.

Conteh was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2017 Birthday Honours for services to boxing.

Professional boxing record


Bullets in the Gun (song)

"Bullets in the Gun" is a song co-written and recorded by American country music artist Toby Keith. It was released in September 2010 as the second single and title track from his 2010 album of the same name. The song peaked at number 12 on the US Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. Keith co-wrote the song with Rivers Rutherford.

Critical reception
Juli Thanki of Engine 145 gave the song a "thumbs up", saying that Keith's vocals had "nearly tangible bravado". Randy Lewis of the Los Angeles Times called the song "cinematic" and compared it to Marty Robbins's "El Paso". Reviewing for The New York Times, Jon Caramanica called the song "a pumped-up and comically desperate tale" and "almost parodic". Matt Bjorke of Roughstock gave the song a positive review, saying that it was Keith's best single in a decade. He also called it "a fantastic reminder of how a strongly lyrical song can take us places and into a movie in our minds." Bjorke also said that "even if you don’t condone the fictional story being told, it’s still a damn good song with a melody which suits the lyric perfectly."

Controversy
In January 2011, Emily Robison of the Dixie Chicks stated during a video chat that she thought the song resembled Robert Earl Keen's "The Road Goes On Forever". Robert Earl Keen observed the same thing, saying, "But you know what they say about people from Oklahoma: They'll steal your hat and help you look for it." In fact, he specifically aimed his song "The Road Goes On and On" at Keith to criticize him.

Music video
Michael Salomon directed the song's music video. It stars Danielle Vasinova and Chad Bannon.

Chart performance
"Bullets in the Gun" debuted at number 37 on the Hot Country Songs chart dated for the week ending 9 October 2010. It also debuted at number 97 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart for the week of 20 November 2010.

Year-end charts


Meninas Cantoras de Petrópolis

Meninas Cantoras de Petrópolis is the name of a pioneer Brazilian musical group composed exclusively of girls, founded in 1976, in the city of Petrópolis, by maestro Marco Aurélio Xavier.

After a rigid evaluation of capabilities for Music, which starts at the early age of seven and lasts three years long studying theory and vocal techniques, following the Escolania de Montserrat method (Coro de Meninos, which began in the 9th century  at the Abadia N. S. de Montserrat, in Barcelona), the singer girl will be tested on the "ceremony of investiture" and will be chosen to integrate the choir and maybe some day will put on the "Sapatinho de Verniz" (Coat Shoe) symbol.

Just like missionaries, the singer girls have in their repertoire songs of varied genres, which they evolve into new melodies and travel throughout the country with this repertoire. They also perform with most of the Brazilian musical artists, such as: Roberto Carlos, Gilberto Gil, Ivan Lins, Simone, Chitãozinho & Xororó, Sandy & Junior, Fafá de Belém, Fábio Júnior, Xuxa, Angélica Ksyvickis, Wanderléa, The Fevers, Luiz Ayrão, Wanderley Cardoso, Elizete Cardoso, Hebe Camargo, Selma Reis e Agnaldo Rayol.

They also include songs in their repertoire of international musicians such as: John Lennon, Burt Bacharach, Bee Gees etc.

In a historical meeting with the Meninas the maestro George Martin interpreted some of the great successes of The Beatles. Before a crowd of more than 100 thousand people, the live concert took place at the Quinta da Boa Vista (Rio de Janeiro), within the Projeto Aquarius. On the preface of his book of memories “SGT PEPPER'S”, he mentioned the girls and said: " ...Only angels can sing like this..."


Close to Home (album)

Close to Home is Beverley Craven's fourth studio album, her first in ten years. Craven abandoned her music career in 2000, a mixture of writer's block and the need to take care of her three young daughters. In 2004 she made a slow comeback, doing a handful of live appearances, but was shortly after diagnosed with breast cancer. After receiving treatment and given the all-clear, Craven decided to resume her music career.

Close to Home was released in March 2009 and was wholly written and produced by the singer. Craven released the album on her own label Campsie Music, and initially sold the album only through her website and at concerts.

A promo single for "Rainbows" was sent to UK radio stations, and a videoclip was also recorded for it. The song was later available as a digital download single.

The song, "Everlasting Love", was written and recorded in 1995 for the film First Knight (with the title "Legendary Love"); however, it was rejected by the film's producers. Two of the songs directly draw from her breast cancer diagnosis: "Rainbows" and "Without Me", which was written for her daughters. The song "All Yours" was re-recorded by Craven, with altered lyrics, for Nigel Hitchcock's 2013 album Smoothitch and renamed "You're Mine".

Track listing
 Rainbows
 All Yours
 Without Me
 Mr Know-It-All
 Never Be The Same
 Your Girl, My Man
 Is It Only Me?
 Everlasting Love
 Fun, Fun, Fun
 Make You Mine


Mare Marginis

Mare Marginis is a lunar mare that lies on the very edge of the lunar nearside. The selenographic coordinates of this feature are 13.3° N, 86.1° E, and the diameter is 358 km. The name is Latin for "Sea of the Edge".

This mare differs from most of the nearside maria; it has an irregular outline and it appears to be fairly thin. It has small circular and elongated features in the mare plains that
probably mark impact craters buried by less than 1000 to 1700 feet (300 to 500 m) of lava. Further, Mare Marginis is not centered on any clear, large impact basin. Thus, Mare Marginis seems to mark a low-lying region of the highlands where mare lavas were just able to reach the surface. Several large mare-floored craters also occur nearby. In these craters, the crater floors lie below the surrounding highland surface. Thus, they mark sites around Mare Marginis where lavas were close to the lunar surface. The major crater to the north of Marginis is Al-Biruni, with Ibn Yunus to the southeast and Goddard to the northwest.

The surface of this mare displays some lunar swirls; higher albedo deposits that are similar to the Reiner Gamma feature on the Oceanus Procellarum. This feature is associated with a relatively strong magnetic field. It is also located at the antipode of the Mare Orientale impact basin, and may be associated with the formation of that feature. Other possible explanations for the formation include a cometary impact, venting of volcanic gases, or just normal surface markings that are shielded from space weathering due to the magnetic field. But the exact cause of albedo features such as this are not completely understood.

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Yellow Girl Bay 32B

Yellow Girl Bay 32B is a First Nations reserve in Kenora District, Ontario. It is one of the reserves of the Naotkamegwanning First Nation.


Chay Douangphouxay

Chay Douangphouxay is a Lao-Khmer American artist and activist from Minneapolis. Douangphouxay is a spoken word artist known for covering topics such as race and gender. Through her art, she has sought to redefine the image of Asian-Americans.

Personal life
Before coming to the United States, Douangphouxay and her family lived in Thai refugee camps from when she was one to three. She has said that America was "the light at the end of the tunnel for us." Her work is inspired by both her time in the refugee camps and her childhood in the projects of Minnesota.

Career
Her first solo chapbook, Remission: Finding Light in the Midst of Social Darkness, was released in 2012 through the 2012 Legacy Fellowship Grant, with the support of Council on Asian Pacific Minnesotans and the Minnesota Humanities Center. The book covers topics of gender, race, and class.
Her second book, Tawan: The Sun Girl, was published in 2013 as part of the Reading Together project, a collaboration of the Minnesota Humanities Center and the Council on Asian Pacific Minnesotans.

Douangphouxay also cofounded the Twin Cities chapter of the National Asian Pacific American Women's Forum.


Chambersburg Township, North Carolina

Chambersburg Township is a township in Iredell County, North Carolina. The 2010 United States Census reported a total population of 11,344.

Geography

Chambersburg Township covers an area of 48.4 square miles (125.36 km2), and of this, 0.3 square miles (0.78 km2), or 0.62 percent, is water.

Chambersburg Township lies within the Yadkin–Pee Dee River Basin. Bodies of water within Chambersburg Township include the following. This is not a complete list.

 South Yadkin River
 Duck Creek
 Fourth Creek
 Greasy Creek
 I-L Creek
 Little Creek
 Third Creek

Cities
 Statesville (part)

Unincorporated communities
 Amity Hill

Adjacent townships

The United States Census Bureau shows the following townships adjacent to Chambersburg.

 Cool Springs (north)
 Scotch Irish, Rowan County (northeast)
 Cleveland, Rowan County (east)
 Mount Ulla, Rowan County (southeast)
 Barringer (south)
 Statesville Township (west)
 Bethany (northwest)

Cemeteries

Cemeteries exist within the boundaries of Chambersburg Township at the following locations. This is not to be considered a complete list.

 Abilene Church -
 Amity Evangelical Lutheran Church -
 Antioch Baptist Church -
 Belmont Cemetery -
 Bethesda Presbyterian Church -
 Faith Baptist Church -
 Gays Chapel -
 New Salem United Methodist Church -
 Oakdale Baptist Church -
 Shady Grove Baptist Church -
 Shiloh United Methodist Church -

Transportation

Major highways

Recreation

Chambersburg Township has several public and private places for recreation.

Public
 Statesville Greenway (part, including two access points)
 Statesville Park and Soccer Complex

Private
 Kampgrounds of America (KOA) Statesville/I-77 campground
 Real McCoy Family Campground
 Statesville Country Club
 Twin Oaks Golf Club


Ivan Barias

Ivan Barias is part of the Philadelphia production duo Carvin & Ivan. Initially starting out as a solo hip hop artist, Barias moved into production and songwriting.  He has written and produced songs for Jazmine Sullivan, Jill Scott, Musiq Soulchild, Justin Timberlake, Mario, Chris Brown, Ledisi, Raheem DeVaughn, Keyshia Cole, Jaheim, Estelle, Floetry, Skillz, Ace Hood, Rick Ross and others.

Along with Carvin Haggins, he is notable for introducing Musiq Soulchild to the world and giving him his staple sound.  Together they were responsible for writing and producing the vast majority of Musiq's more popular charted singles such as "Just Friends (Sunny)", "Halfcrazy", "Dontchange", "B.U.D.D.Y.", "Teachme" and others.

Ivan is the former president of the Philadelphia Chapter of The Recording Academy and now serves as trustee on the Academy's Board of Trustees. On February 1, 2011, Ivan became a creative ambassador for the city of Philadelphia as a part of Greater Philadelphia Tourism Marketing Corporation's Philly 360°. In 2012 Ivan was named as one the brightest minds of Philadelphia in the Philadelphia Magazine's Innovation issue.

In 2011, Ivan was selected as an ambassador of the Philadelphia 76ers community program La Liga del Barrio.

Early years
Carvin & Ivan met in the mid 90's at A Touch Of Jazz, a recording studio in Philadelphia owned by DJ Jazzy Jeff.

Discography

Selected discography as producer, songwriter, composer and engineer.

2000

Musiq Soulchild - Aijuswanaseing
"Just Friends (Sunny)"
"Poparatzi"

2001

Jill Scott - Experience: Jill Scott 826+
"High Post Brotha" (featuring Common)
"Gimme"

Angie Stone - Mahogany Soul
"The Ingredients Of Love" (featuring Musiq Soulchild)

Lina - Stranger on Earth
"Bye Bye Baby" (produced by Ivan "Orthodox" Barias)

2002

Musiq Soulchild - Juslisen
"Newness"
"Caughtup"
"Stopplayin"
"Halfcrazy"
"Time"
"Solong"
"Bestfriend"
"Dontchange"
"Something"
"Ifiwouldaknew"

Justin Timberlake - Justified
"Worthy Of"

Dawn Robinson - Dawn
"Party, Party"
"Get Up Again"

Floetry - Floetic
"Headache"
"Opera"

Syleena Johnson - "Chapter 2: The Voice"
"Dear You"
"I'm Gon Cry"
"No Words"
"So Willingly"

2003

Musiq Soulchild - Soulstar
"Youloveme"
"Womanopoly"
"Forthenight"
"Infatueighties"
"Whoknows"
"Babymother"
"Missyou"
"Thereason"
"Romancipation"
"Givemorelove"

Joe - And Then...
"Ride Wit U (featuring G-Unit)
"Another Used To Be"
"Testify"

Hootie & The Blowfish - Hootie & the Blowfish
"Little Brother"

2004

Jill Scott - Beautifully Human: Words and Sounds Vol. 2
"Bedda At Home"
"Family Reunion"

Mario - Turning Point
"Like Me Real Hard"

Planet Asia - The Grand Opening
"Pure Coke" (featuring Martin Luther)

Skillz - Okayplayer - True Notes Vol. 1
"Take It Back"

Toshinobu Kubota - Time to Share
"Breaking Through"
"Hope You'll Be Well"

2005

Faith Evans - The First Lady
"Again"
"I Don't Need It"
"Stop'n'Go"
"Jealous"
"Get Over You"
"Until You Came"

Chris Brown - Chris Brown's Journey
"So Glad"

Brian McKnight - Gemini
"She"

2006

2pac- Pac's Life
"Playa Cardz Right (Female)" (Feat: Keyshia Cole)
"Scared Straight"

Heather Headley - In My Mind
"Losing you"

Keshia Chanté - 2U
"Kiss"

Javier Colon - Left of Center
"You're The One"
"Is This Love"
"Poetry"

2007

Musiq Soulchild - Luvanmusiq
"Teachme" (Grammy Nominated Song: R&B Song of The Year 2008)
"Rewind"

2pac- Best of 2Pac Part 2: Life
"Dopefiend's Diner" (Previously Unreleased)

Freeway - Free at Last
"This Can't Be Real" (Feat: Marsha Ambrosius)

Mýa - Liberation
"Lights Go Off"
"Switch It Up"

2008

Raheem DeVaughn - Love Behind the Melody
"Customer" (Grammy Nominated Song: R&B Song Of The Year 2009)

Jazmine Sullivan - Fearless
"Foolish Heart"

Keyshia Cole - A Different Me
"Playa Cardz Right" (featuring 2Pac)

Skillz- The Million Dollar Backpack
"Don't Act Like You Don't Know" (featuring Freeway)

2009

Musiq Soulchild - OnMyRadio
"ifyouleave" (featuring Mary J. Blige)
"deserveumore"
"special"
"someone"

Ledisi - Turn Me Loose
"Alone"
"I Need Love"

Ace Hood - Ruthless
"Champion" (featuring Jazmine Sullivan and Rick Ross)

Ameriie - In Love & War
"The Flowers"

2010

Jaheim - Another Round
"Finding My Way Back"

Faith Evans - Something About Faith
"Gone Already"

Skillz - The World Needs More Skillz
"Celebrate Life"
"Wants and Needs" (feat. Bilal)

Leela James - My Soul
"If It's Wrong"
"It's Over"

2011

Ledisi - Pieces Of Me
"I Gotta Get To You"

Jill Scott - The Original Jill Scott from the Vault, Vol. 1
"I Don't Know (Gotta Have You)"

2012

Estelle - All of Me
"The Life"

SWV - I Missed Us
"Love Unconditionally"

Kenny Lattimore - Back To Cool
"Find A Way"

Alex Boyd - Commit Me
"Wish I Knew"

Tamia - Beautiful Surprise
"Still Love You"

Q. Parker - The MANual
 "Belongs to You"
 "Completely"

2013

Chrisette Michelle - Better
"Let Me Win"
"Love Won't Leave Me Out"

Raheem DeVaughn - A Place Called Loveland
"Interlude - Album Intro"
"Love Connection"
"Wrong Forever"
"Complicated"

TGT - Three Kings
"Burn Out" (produced by Carvin Haggins and Ivan Barias with Javad Day)

Glenn Lewis - Moment of Truth
"Random Thoughts"
"Up & Down"
"Searching For That One"
"Closer" (co-produced by Stan Drinks)
"I Wanna Go Deep"

2014

Ledisi - The Truth
"88 Boxes"

Kiki Rowe - Kiki Rowe
"Too Goo To Be True"

2015

Jamie Foxx - Hollywood: A Story of a Dozen Roses
"Right Now"

Estelle - We Bare Bears Theme Song
"We'll Be There"

Estelle - True Romance
"Time Share"

Ledisi - The Intimate Truth
"I Swear"

Jill Scott - Golden Moments
"I Adore You"

Kenny Lattimore - Anatomy Of A Love Song
"Find A Way"
"You Have My Heart"
"What Must I Do"

2017

Bell Biv Devoe - Three Stripes
"One More Try" featuring Boyz II Men

Ledisi - Let Love Rule
"Forgiveness"

Stokley Williams - Introducing Stokley
"Organic"
"Think About U"
"Cross The Line"
"Art In Motion" featuring Robert Glasper
"U & I" featuring Estelle
"We/Me"

Justin Timberlake - R&B Mixtape - Ministry of Sound
"Worthy Of"

ThePLAYLIST - Chasing Goosebumps
"Stone Cold"

2019
DJ Aktive - The Tour (album)
"The City Intro"
"The City" featuring Common, DJ Jazzy Jeff, Freeway and Bri Steves
"90s Love" featuring Marsha Ambrosius
"It Is What It Is" featuring Musiq Soulchild
"Run For A Body" featuring LGP QUA
"The Apes" featuring Beanie Sigel, Capone and Khemist
"Repeat" featuring Brave Williams
"Pheels Like Home" featuring Raw Beauty
"The City Outro" featuring DJ Cash Money

Awards and nominations

Grammy Awards

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| rowspan="2"|  || "Halfcrazy" || Best Male R&B Vocal Performance ||
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| Juslisen || Best R&B Album ||
|-
| rowspan="1"|  || "Forthenight" || Best Urban/Alternative Performance ||
|-
| rowspan="1"|  || "Are You Experienced?" || Best Urban/Alternative Performance ||
|-
| rowspan="1"|  || Turning Point || Best Contemporary R&B Album ||
|-
| rowspan="3"|  || "Teachme" || Best R&B Song ||
|-
|  "B.U.D.D.Y." || Best Male R&B Vocal Performance ||
|-
| Luvanmusiq || Best R&B Album ||
|-
| rowspan="2"|  || "Customer" || Best R&B Song ||
|-
| Fearless || Best Contemporary R&B Album ||
|-
| rowspan="2"|  ||"IfULeave"  || Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals ||
|-
| Turn Me Loose || Best R&B Album ||
|-
| rowspan="5"|  || "Finding My Way Back"  || Best R&B Song ||
|-
| "Finding My Way Back" || Best Male R&B Vocal Performance ||
|-
| "Gone Already" || Best Female R&B Vocal Performance ||
|-
| Another Round || Best R&B Album ||
|-
| The Love & War MasterPeace || Best R&B Album ||
|-
| rowspan="1"|  || Pieces of Me || Best R&B Album ||
|-
| rowspan="2"|  || Better || Best R&B Album ||
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| Three Kings'' || Best R&B Album ||
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| rowspan="2"|  || Let Love Rule || Best R&B Album ||
|-

Ascap Awards
ASCAP Rhythm & Soul Awards
2002 "Just Friends (Sunny)"
2003 "Halfcrazy"
2004 "Dontchange"
2008 "B.U.D.D.Y."
2008 "Teachme"
2010 "IfULeave"
2011 "Finding My Way Back"


Open water swimming at the 2013 World Aquatics Championships

The Open water swimming portion of the 2013 World Aquatics Championships was held between July 20–27 in Barcelona, Spain, in Moll de la Fusta.

Events
The following events were contested by both men and women in Barcelona:

5 km
10 km
25 km

In addition, there was a team competition with male and female competitors.

Schedule

Medal summary

Medal table

Men

Record(*)

Women

Record(*)

Team

Record(*)


Klara Ashrafyan

Klara Zarmairovna Ashrafyan (; 15 September 1924, Yerevan — 7 August 1999, Moscow) was a Soviet Indologist of Armenian origin. She was known for her researches into the Delhi Sultanate and the Mughal Empire.

Life and career
Klara Ashrafyan was born in Yerevan in the family of one of the founders of the Armenian Communist party, Zarmair Ashrafyan. In 1936, he and his wife were denounced, arrested and executed. The orphaned Klara was adopted by relatives in Moscow. Despite being tarnished as a family member of traitors to the Motherland, she was allowed to study at the Faculty of History, Moscow State University, where she graduated in 1947. She specialised in the history of medieval Iran under B.N. Zakhoder, obtaining her Candidate of Sciences degree in 1950 with a dissertation on the period of the rule of Nadir Shah.

Between 1950–1955, she worked as an editor of the bulletin of foreign literature at the Fundamental Library of Social Sciences, succeeding Koka Antonova. Persuaded by Antonova and I.M. Reisner to change her field of study, she shifted to researching the Islamic states of medieval India, where her knowledge of Persian was useful. From 1955 to her death, she worked at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

In 1984, the Institute decided to organise a multi-volume collective set of works on the History of the Orient. Ashrafyan was tasked with heading a section on the peoples of the east. She edited volumes II and III of the set.

Ashrafyan died in Moscow on 7 August 1999.

Academics
Ashrafyan's first monograph, published in 1960, was titled The Delhi Sultanate, covering the political development and social and economic basis for the first Islamic dominions in North India. This was the first publication on the subject in the Soviet Union.

Her investigations were chiefly into land ownership and the socio-economic structure of Indo-Muslim states. In keeping with Soviet philosophies of progressive evolution of the economy, she termed private land holdings in the 13th century as feudal tenure, replaced subsequently by the military organisation of the ruling class, leading to state ownership of land and the economic subjugation of the peasantry. She claimed that private ownership evolved slowly in India with the coercion of producers, such that before the British occupation of the country, prerequisites for production relations were already being established in the agricultural system of the country. Whereas some scholars claimed that the rise and fall of dominions in India were essentially manifestations of a static socio-economic structure, with state power changing hands and not facing any social conflicts or subaltern revolts, Ashrafyan contended that by the late medieval period, there were peasant uprisings against Mughal rule, chiefly caused by wealthy agriculturalists wanting a larger share of the revenue and power. Indeed, she posited two stages of feudalism, an early phase up to the 13th century and a developed phase up to the 18th. In the former, a hierarchical organisation of class established itself, with the peasantry and merchant class subjugated and a new elite lording over them. In the latter, popular movements churned society, upending the hierarchy to a degree. Still, she said, feudalism didn't evolve sufficiently towards the capitalist stage of development. This thesis was criticised as dubious, especially for the pan-Indian nature of the argument, whereas other researchers had shown that in the South, taxpayers were not necessarily peasants and in any case owned property.

In her analysis of the change of socio-economic structures, Ashrafyan (in keeping with the Soviet school of Indian studies) took an anti-religious stance, suggesting that movements such as Bhakti and Sikhism diluted social reform with religious garb, and that Akbar's Din-i Ilahi was a state counter to reduce their energy.

Selected works


Bennett Escarpment

The Bennett Escarpment () is a rock and ice escarpment curving in a general southwest direction for  from Mount Pollard, in the Prince Charles Mountains. It was mapped from Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions surveys and air photos, 1956–65, and named by the Antarctic Names Committee of Australia for J.M. Bennett, a physicist at Mawson Station, 1965.