Kamlesh Shivji Vikamsey

Kamlesh Shivji Vikamsey is an Indian Chartered Accountant and a past president of  Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) & also the Past President of The Confederation of Asian and Pacific Accountants (CAPA).

Childhood and education
Kamlesh was born in Dec 1960 in Mumbai in a family of highly educated people. His father, Mr.Shivji K. Vikamsey was a Chartered Accountant & a past member of the central council of ICAI. His younger brother, Mr.Nilesh Shivji Vikamsey is also a Chartered Accountant and the immediate past president of the ICAI and is currently member of the central council of ICAI.

He obtained B.Com degree from Mumbai University after studying in Podar College in 1981 and went on to become a Chartered Accountant in 1982.

Profession
After obtaining CA qualification, Kamlesh started his public practice in the same year. He is the senior partner of the accounting firm, Khimji Kunverji & Co., Mumbai.

Positions held

In India
ICAI : Kamlesh Vikamsey was elected to the Central Council of ICAI in 1998 and he remained as a Central Council Member till 2007. He was elected as its Vice President in 2004  and its President in 2005. He has also chaired various committees of the Institute.

IRDA : He was member of The Standing Committee on Accounting Issues of Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India (IRDA)
Appellate Authority : He was also the member of Appellate Authority constituted under section 22A of the Chartered Accountants Act, 1949
Directorships : Kamlesh is director in many prominent public sector & private sector companies. He is also Trustee and treasurer of Global Vipassana Foundation, an internationally renowned Trust, which has constructed Global Pagoda in Mumbai. The Global Pagoda is the World’s largest stone dome built without any supporting pillars. It is built combining ancient Indian and Modern Technology to enable it to last for at least 2000 years.

International

SAFA : Kamlesh was Chairman of Centre of Excellence on Education, Training and CPD of South Asian Federation of Accountants (SAFA – An Apex Body of SAARC) – 2004–2005.
CAPA : He has also served as Deputy President - The Confederation of Asian and Pacific Accountants (CAPA) –  2005-2007 & as President of CAPA - 2007-2009  and Chairman of Strategic Committee of The Confederation of Asian and Pacific Accountants (CAPA) 2005-2007
IFAC : He has also been a Board Member – International Federation of Accountants (IFAC) in 2005-2008 and also a member of Planning & Finance Committee of International Federation of Accountants (IFAC) 2006-2008
UN : He was also a member of Steering Committee of United Nations for Comprehensive Review of Governance and Oversight within the United Nations, and its funds, programme and specialized agencies, appointed by then Secretary General of United Nations Mr.Kofi Annan - 2006
UNDP : He was also the Chairperson of Audit Advisory Committee of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), New York City 1 July 2014 to 30 June 2015 & Member since 1 July 2010
ITU : He is appointed as a member of Independent Management Advisory Committee (IMAC) of International Telecommunication Union (ITU), Geneva, Switzerland with effect from 1 January 2016 for a term of four years
IMF : He is appointed as a member of the External Audit Committee (EAC) of International Monetary Fund (IMF), Washington D.C., United States of America with effect from 1 November 2015 for a term of three years and as its Chairperson with effect from 1 November 2017
UNICEF : He is appointed as a member of the Audit Advisory Committee (AAC) of United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), New York, United States of America for a term of three years.


Garwood, Texas

Garwood is an unincorporated community in Colorado County, Texas, United States. It is located on State Highway 71 at virtually the geographic midpoint between Columbus, Texas and El Campo, Texas. Nearly 1,000 people lived in Garwood in 2000.

Geography
Garwood is situated at the junction of State Highway 71 and FM 950 in southern Colorado County, approximately  southwest of Eagle Lake and  south of Columbus. According to the Handbook of Texas, the community had an estimated population of 975 in 2000. Although it is unincorporated, Garwood has a post office, with the ZIP code of 77442.

Education
Public education in the community of Garwood is provided by the Rice Consolidated Independent School District. Zoned campuses include Garwood School (grades K-6; located in Garwood), Rice Junior High School (grades 7-8), and Rice High School (grades 9-12).

Climate
The climate in this area is characterized by hot, humid summers and generally mild to cool winters.  According to the Köppen Climate Classification system, Garwood has a humid subtropical climate, abbreviated "Cfa" on climate maps.


The Genius After Hours

The Genius After Hours is a 1961 album by Ray Charles. All of the songs were taken from the same three studio sessions that created the album The Great Ray Charles which featured the use of both a trio and a septet; the latter arranged by Quincy Jones. Also appearing on the album is David "Fathead" Newman on tenor and alto, as well as the trumpeter Joseph Bridgewater. It was reissued in 1985 by Atlantic Jazzlore.

Track listing
All songs written by Ray Charles unless otherwise indicated
"The Genius After Hours" – 5:24
"Ain't Misbehavin'" (Harry Brooks, Andy Razaf, Fats Waller) – 5:40
"Dawn Ray" – 5:03
"Joy Ride" – 4:39
"Hornful Soul" – 5:29
"The Man I Love" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) – 4:26
"Charlesville" – 4:55
"Music, Music, Music" (Bernie Baum, Stephan Weiss) – 2:53

Personnel
Ray Charles - piano, vocals
David "Fathead" Newman - alto saxophone, tenor saxophone
Emmett Dennis - baritone saxophone
Joseph Bridgewater & John Hunt - trumpet
Oscar Pettiford or Roosevelt Sheffield - double bass
William Peeples - drums


Kir Royal

Kir Royal is a French cocktail, a variation on Kir. It consists of crème de cassis topped with champagne, rather than the white wine used in traditional Kir. This apéritif is typically served in a flute glass.


Fort William Shinty Club

Fort William Shinty Club is a shinty club from Fort William, Lochaber, Scotland.  The club has two sides in the Shinty league system, a first team which was relegated from the Premiership in 2013 and a reserve side in North Division Two.  The first team were Camanachd Cup holders four times in succession, between 2007 and 2010, but were knocked out in the second round in 2011.  The club also has a vibrant youth system.

The club's traditional home is in the heart of the town at An Aird which is an area often under threat from development.  However, for much of 2011 and 2012 An Aird was being renovated and the club were tenants at the Black Parks in Inverlochy.

History

Fort William was officially constituted in 1893 but the club slowly emerged into the sport and only entered the Camanachd Cup in 1912. The club folded on occasion in the 1900s and 1920s and had very little success except a Camanachd Cup semi final in 1937 against Oban Celtic and a sprinkling of junior cups.

Unfortunately for the club, the rise of Fort William as a force in shinty coincided with the 20 year dominance of Kingussie.  However, the club heralded its arrival as a major force by winning the Macaulay Cup in 1991 and reaching the semi final of the Camanachd the same year then finally joining the ranks of clubs who have won the blue riband event in 1992, beating Kingussie 1–0 in Glasgow thanks to Deek Cameron's goal after only ten seconds, which still stands as the fastest goal in a final.

Fort continued to perform well and reached the final in 1994 where they lost to Kyles Athletic. The new millennium saw Fort William habitually come in second behind the unstoppable Kingussie team and began to be seen as the team most likely to break the Badenoch dominance.

Kingussie's Dominance Broken

The Fort reappeared in the Camanachd Cup Final in 2003 but was defeated by Kingussie 6–0 on home soil.  The next in 2004 then saw the Fort go down to an unfancied Inveraray side 1–0 in Oban. When the side again reached the final in 2005 against local rivals, Kilmallie, it was seen by the wider community as case of now or never. The game, held between the two Fort William teams in the town itself, is widely regarded as the most exciting final of recent times, Fort winning with a last gasp goal to win 3–2.

Further glory was to follow the next year in 2006, when Fort William finally broke Kingussie's dominance of the league title (a World record in any sport) after a consistent level of performance throughout the year meant that Newtonmore were pipped to the title. Kingussie did regain a modicum of revenge by defeating the Fort comprehensively in both the MacTavish Cup (The North Senior Trophy) and the final of the Camanachd Cup in Dunoon.

Four in a row

Fort again won the Camanachd Cup in 2007 by defeating Inveraray 3–1 in Inverness.  The club got off to a shaky start in the 2008 season but won the Camanachd Cup yet again 2008, the first time that they had retained the trophy.  The club created history by playing the first-ever top-flight fixture on a Sunday against Lochaber Camanachd on 22 June 2008.  The club's reserve team also won the Strathdearn Cup in 2008 for the first time. In 2009, the club won the Camanachd Cup for a third successive year, beating Kyles Athletic 4–3 in the final at Oban. That victory added them to the select band of clubs which have won the Camanachd Cup three times in a row, the other clubs being Kingussie, Newtonmore and Kyles Athletic.

James Clark was the talisman for the three in a row years, his last-minute goals causing heartache for Kyles Athletic in particular in the 2009 final.

Through the successful three in a row years, the manager was club stalwart Drew MacNeil, who was also captain in 2005 when they defeated Kilmallie.  However, in controversial circumstances, MacNeil claimed he was being forced out of the club due to conflict with the club's board.  The club committee sacked MacNeil in late October along with his coach Graeme MacMillan due a "breakdown of relationships".

MacNeil was succeeded for the 2010 season by Peter MacIntyre, returning to the post which he had co-held with Davie Stafford when the team won the Premier League. MacIntyre made a strong start to the 2010 season with some good results despite his team not displaying the pomp of old, a 14–0 defeat of Glasgow Mid-Argyll aside.  However, there was a massive shock in the MacTavish Cup semi-final when local rivals Kilmallie, playing in North Division One, knocked them out 4–3.  However the club went on to record a fourth successive Camanachd Cup win, placing them in the same company as Newtonmore and Kingussie.

Decline and Relegation

In 2011, Fort's run of nine successive Camanachd Cup Final appearances came to an end when they were defeated 8–1 by Newtonmore in the second round. The club finished the season without any silverware as they succumbed to Kingussie in the MacTavish Cup Final and finished well adrift in the league.  This marked an end of an era for shinty and Fort William. Gary Innes confirmed that several older players would be stepping down at the end of the 2011 season in his BBC blog.

2012 was a disappointing season for the Fort but this was exceeded by a woeful league performance in 2013 which saw the club relegated to the newly created National Division One for 2014.  Fort's fate was sealed by a 1-1 draw against Lovat and a Kyles Athletic victory against Newtonmore.  The club bounced back by gaining promotion at the first attempt in 2014. They finished 8th in the Premier Division in 2015.

Shinty V Football

Fort William and local rivals Kilmallie have succeeded in making shinty the main sport of the town, and their success is in comparison to the distinct lack of success enjoyed by local Highland League team Fort William F.C..

In 2006 the club feared they would lose their ground, An Aird, which fell within a 92-acre area of a proposed plan for a waterfront development. The local authority, Highland Council, have come under fire for their care of the park, especially after the playing surface was stripped bare by rabbits. The company behind the planned development were unequivocal in stating in April 2007 that there would be no development upon the An Aird pitch. In March 2008, Highland Council again came under fire for their negligence of the An Aird surface, which may result in the loss of An Aird's prestigious status as a Camanachd Cup Final host stadium. In February 2009 the stadium was attacked by vandals causing thousands of pounds of damage.

The club was forced to move to the Black Park in Fort William halfway through in season 2011 in order for renovation work to be done on the pitch at An Aird.  The club's future at An Aird still remains shaky as in November 2010 further plans to develop the site were revealed by an Edinburgh-based company.  The relocation of the Fort to a mooted first-ever all-weather pitch within Fort William may be part of this development.  However, the club used Black Parks for most of 2012.

The club provides many players for the international side.  Wing centre Gary Innes is a renowned accordionist.

Season by Season record
*2010-present only


Chróścina, Opole County

Chróścina  () is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Dąbrowa, within Opole County, Opole Voivodeship, in south-western Poland. It lies approximately  south-east of Dąbrowa and  west of the regional capital Opole.

Before 1945 the area was part of Germany (see Territorial changes of Poland after World War II).

The village has a population of 1,585.


Rogienice, Masovian Voivodeship

Rogienice  is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Gozdowo, within Sierpc County, Masovian Voivodeship, in east-central Poland. It lies approximately  north-east of Gozdowo,  south-east of Sierpc, and  north-west of Warsaw.


Neoceratitis asiatica

Neoceratitis asiatica is a species of tephritid or fruit flies in the genus Neoceratitis of the family Tephritidae.


Yuri Baulin

Yuri Nikolaevich Baulin (; October 5, 1933 – December 5, 2006) (also spelled: Yury) was an ice hockey player who played for the Soviet national team. He won a bronze medal at the 1960 Winter Olympics.

Biography
Yuri Baulin began to play hockey in 1952 with Spartak Moscow, but in 1953 joined CSKA Moscow, playing there until 1962. He then played with SKA Leningrad (1962–64) and ended his playing career in 1964-65 with Torpedo Ust-Kamenogorsk. Baulin won Soviet titles six times (1955, 1956 and 1958–61). Internationally, besides his Olympic bronze, Baulin won silver (1959) and bronze (1960) at the World Championships and was European Champion in 1959 and 1960. After his playing career ended, Baulin worked as a hockey coach. At first he was the head coach of Torpedo Ust-Kamenogorsk, then worked as a coach with Spartak Moscow in 1971-72, winning a bronze medal at the 1972 Soviet Championships. In 1970-71 he was the head coach of the Soviet national junior team, which included such future stars as Vladislav Tretyak, Helmūts Balderis and Aleksandr Golikov, and Baulin won two World Junior Championship with them. After that he was a long-time coach of Yenbek Alma-Ata until his retirement in the late 1980s.


Francesco Forleo

Francesco Forleo (13 November 1941 – 24 June 2018) was an Italian politician who served as a Deputy from 1987 to 1994.


Joseph Morris (Alberta politician)

Joseph Henry Morris (July 12, 1867 – April 19, 1939) was a politician and municipal councillor in Edmonton, Alberta.

Biography

Morris was born in Blenheim, Ontario on July 12, 1868. He attended public schools in Ontario, and moved to Medicine Hat, Alberta upon graduating. He relocated to Lethbridge shortly thereafter. In Lethbridge, he was manager for general merchant J. H. Cavanagh until 1895 and also served on the Lethbridge City Council as an alderman and as president of the Lethbridge Board of Trade. He married Margaret Drummond Jardine in June 1895; the pair would have four children.

He came to Edmonton in 1897 to open J. H. Morris & Company. The following year he also established a wholesale grocery. He ran for Edmonton Town Council in the 1900 municipal election, and finished second of eight candidates, making him one of three people elected to two year terms as aldermen. He completed his term, but did not seek re-election at its expiration.

Morris served as president of the Edmonton Board of Trade (now the Edmonton Chamber of Commerce) and the Edmonton Exhibition Association. He was also active in the Anglican Church, the Masonic Order, and the Independent Order of Foresters.

Joseph Morris was the owner of Edmonton's first automobile, a 1903 Ford Model A that he brought to town on May 25, 1904. Accordingly, he was granted license place number one. According to legend, until 1905 motorists in what would become Alberta were responsible for making their own license plates, and Morris elected to use a broomstick. He was brought into court for having an unsatisfactory license plate, but was able to convince the judge that displaying the broomstick vertically at the back of the car satisfied the requirement that his license number be displayed. Whether the legend is true or not, in 1905 Morris was issued with a leather license plate with the number one.

Joseph Morris died in 1939.


Shane Morigeau

Shane Morigeau is an American politician. He grew up in Ronan, Montana, and he is a member of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead Nation.

Early life and education
He graduated from the Alexander Blewett III School of Law at the University of Montana and the James E. Rogers College of Law at the University of Arizona. He serves as a Democratic member of the Montana House of Representatives for District 95.


1925 Austin Kangaroos football team

The 1925 Austin Kangaroos football team represented Daniel Baker College as a member of the Texas Intercollegiate Athletic Association (TIAA) during the 1925 college football season. Led by Pete Cawthon in his third season as head coach, the team compiled and overall record of 4–4–1 with a mark of 2–3 in TIAA play. The team's captain was Adam Cone.  Eddie Dyer and Dell Morgan were assistant coaches.  Henry Frnka played halfback.

Schedule


Siege of Lastovo

The Siege of Lastovo in 1000 was part of the campaign of Doge Pietro II Orseolo in southern Croatia and its bloodiest armed conflict between the citizens of Lastovo island and the army of the Venice. The siege resulted in a Venetian victory and Lastovo became part of the Venetian Republic for a while.

Background

After the death of Croatian King Stjepan Držislav in 997, an ally of the Byzantine Empire, who ruled in the last three decades of the 10th century and was recognized by Byzantine emperor as the king of Croatia and Dalmatia, his eldest son and successor Svetoslav Suronja continued the pro-Byzantine policy, but his younger sons Krešimir and Gojslav started to organize a rebellion. With the aid of Bulgarian emperor Samuil, Krešimir and Gojslav managed to remove Svetoslav Suronja from the Croatian throne in 1000 and forced him to seek refuge in Venice.

At the same time, Doge Pietro II Orseolo prepared Venetian forces to take control over Dalmatian cities that were part of the Byzantine Empire, Croatia, and Narentines. Since the maritime city populations were mostly Latin, the majority of cities welcomed the Venetian ruler, but some of them did not. In particular, the island of Lastovo fiercely resisted the Venetian incursion.

Siege

The exact date of the siege of Lastovo is not known. According to John the Deacon, Orseolo's chronicler, the doge attended the Holy Mass on Ascension Day (9 May 1000) in Venice. Then he led his fleet towards Grado to visit the patriarch and on 11 May he sailed southwards.

As the fleet reached Lastovo, the residents of the town did not welcome it, but waited behind the city walls, ready to resist. Orseolo ordered them to surrender but they refused, so he started to attack the town. His troops besieged it, trying to break the town gate as well as to seize the towers of the wall. They succeeded in capturing the tower with the water cistern, which was a big setback for the remaining defenders. Finally they were forced to surrender and to lay down their weapons. The doge spared their lives, but gave the order to his soldiers to destroy the defensive walls and to burn down the town. The citizens were moved away to the other side of the island, where they built a new settlement.

Aftermath

Pietro II Orseolo subjected Lastovo to Venetian authority. Then he moved further with his fleet towards Dubrovnik, whose dignitaries showed loyalty to him, and returned subsequently to Venice. He started to carry the title of Dux Dalmatianorum (Duke of the Dalmatians).

For the next few decades, the island of Lastovo remained a Venetian possession. It came back and stayed under Croatian rule during the reign of King Stjepan I (ruled 1030-1058) and his successors. In 1252 the residents of Lastovo decided to join the Community of Dubrovnik (ital. Ragusa), (later Republic of Dubrovnik).


Maj Sjöwall

Maj Sjöwall (born 25 September 1935 in Stockholm) is a Swedish author and translator. She is best known for the collaborative work with her partner Per Wahlöö on a series of ten novels about the exploits of Martin Beck, a police detective in Stockholm. They also wrote novels separately. In 1971, the fourth of the Beck books, The Laughing Policeman (a translation of Den skrattande polisen, originally published in 1968) won an Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America for Best Novel and was adapted into the film The Laughing Policeman starring Walter Matthau.

Sjöwall had a 13-year relationship with Wahlöö which lasted until his death in 1975.


Jennifer Carroll (swimmer)

Jennifer Carroll (born June 4, 1981) is a Canadian swimmer.

Career
Carroll was born in Montreal and first competed for Canada at the 2001 World Championships in Fukuoka, Japan, where she finished 18th in the 100 metre backstroke in 1:04.49 and 21st in the 50 metre backstroke in 30.02.

At the 2002 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) in Moscow, Carroll won gold in the 50 metre backstroke in a championships record time of 27.38. In the 100 metre backstroke, Carroll finished in 15th posting a time of 29.03 in the semi final.

At the 2002 Commonwealth Games in Manchester, Carroll won silver in the 50 metre backstroke in 29.05.

At the 2003 World Championships in Barcelona, Carroll finished 4th in the 50 metre backstroke in 28.65, 15th in the 100 metre backstroke in 1:03.08 and 22nd in the 50 metre butterfly in 28.25.

At the 2005 World Championships in Montreal, Carroll finished 18th in the 50 metre backstroke in 29.55, 34th in the 50 metre freestyle in 26.69 and 34th in the 50 metre butterfly in 28.33.

At the 2005 Summer Universiade in İzmir, Turkey, Carroll won silver in the 50 metre backstroke in 29.32, finished 8th in the 100 metre backstroke in 1:03.80 and with Kathleen Stoody, Erin Miller and Chanelle Charron-Watson finished 7th in the 4 × 100 metre medley relay in 4:15.49.

At the 2007 Summer Universiade in Bangkok, Thailand, Carroll finished 4th in the 50 metre backstroke in 29.20, 18th in the 50 metre butterfly in 27.94 and 19th in the 50 metre freestyle in 26.41.

At the 2008 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) in Manchester, Carroll finished 7th in the 50 metre backstroke in 27.37, 13th in the 50 metre butterfly in 26.65, 15th in the 100 metre backstroke in 59.86 and 20th in the 50 metre freestyle in 25.72.

At the 2009 Summer Universiade in Belgrade, Serbia, Carroll finished 9th in the 50 metre butterfly in 27.07, 11th in the 50 metre backstroke in 29.19 and 30th in the 50 metre freestyle in 26.56.

Controversy
At the medal presentation for the women's 50 metre backstroke at the 2002 Commonwealth Games, Carroll was seen waving the flag of Quebec. Dave Johnson, Carroll's coach, called for her to be suspended. Swimming Canada ultimately decided not to suspend Carroll, even though she violated a signed agreement, mandated by the Commonwealth Games, that prohibits athletes from carrying provincial flags on the podium. Instead, a disciplinary committee ordered her in November to write a letter to her teammates and apologize to the board. She did both. Carroll stated that the move was not political gesture but was just simply of way of thanking the people in her home province who have supported her.


The 2007 National Indoor Football League season was the seventh and final season of the National Indoor Football League (NIFL). The 2007 season was chaotic with teams folding and being suspended.

Standings

team was suspended from league mid-season

Postseason

The San Diego Shockwave was declared the league champion.

External links

National Indoor Football League Season, 2007


Eva Ernström

Eva Margareta Ernström (2 September 1961 – 8 November 2017) was a Swedish long-distance runner. She competed in the women's 3000 metres at the 1984 Summer Olympics.


Alastair McLeod

Alastair McLeod is a celebrity chef based in Brisbane, Australia.  He is a regular guest on Ready Steady Cook, Queensland Weekender and ABC Radio. Alastair also hosts his own food show ″Off the Eaten Track″ that has screened in Australia, Asia, and New Zealand.

Born in Belfast Northern Ireland, he is the son of Australian singer Candy Devine.  He credits his love of cooking and food to his multicultural background of Torres Strait Islander, Sri Lankan, Danish, Filipino and Spanish ancestry.

Alastair worked in several Michelin listed restaurants in Europe, including the Roscoff in Belfast (working for Paul Rankin), and Da Giovanni restaurant in Torino, Italy, as well as other venues in Scotland and France.

He is the former executive chef of Bretts Wharf Restaurant and Tank Restaurant and Bar in Brisbane.

He now owns and runs Al'FreshCo, a Brisbane catering company.


Mark Ebanks

Mark Samuel Ebanks (born 26 December 1990) is a Caymanian footballer who plays as a forward for Temecula FC in the North American Soccer League. He represented the Cayman Islands during World Cup qualifying matches in 2011.

He was one of a group of Caymanian players identified by the country's football federation who they believed would benefit from playing overseas. He joined Ashford Town (Middlesex) in England after being invited over in late 2010 on an initial short term basis, although the move was extended then until the end of the season. He made one first-team appearance for the club, with his spell at the team affected by injuries.

International

International goals
Scores and results list the Cayman Islands' goal tally first.


Roman Dent

Roman Dent is an American film, and music video producer, director, and real estate developer based in Los Angeles, California.  He started his film career directing music videos as a teen in his home town of Nashville, Tennessee. He is best known for co-founding Platinum Atlantic, which operates and controls interests in both real estate development and film production through Storyteller Media.

Personal life

Roman Seth Griffin Dent was born on November 7, 1988 in Nashville, Tennessee. He is the son of healthcare businessman Thompson Dent. His mother is the romance novelist Joy Dent, who writes under the name Darcy Flynn.

In athletics, Dent won multiple state championships and was named an All-American at the 2007 Nike Indoor Nationals. Earning a track and field scholarship to the College of William & Mary, he earned a Bachelor of Science at the Public Ivy. Dent commented that the sport was "just a means to an end" as his true passion was film.

Career
Between 2004-2007 Dent worked as an actor, appearing in Beneath the Blue, and winning Best Overall Actor at the 2006 AMTC Winter Convention.

In 2010, Dent made his directing debut with the music video for Billboard Top 40 artist and Reality TV Star Jessie James Decker. So far in his career Dent has directed for artists including: Lauren Francesca, Raquel Castro, Big Brother's GinaMarie Zimmerman and Paola Shea, One Life to Live's Jessica Morris, Thomas Dale, Alyssa Bonagura, Dreya Weber, The Kin, and Dustin Tavella.

In 2012 Dent co-founded Platinum Atlantic™, a holding company in Los Angeles, California  , under which Dent has produced, via Storyteller Media, multiple films in association with other notable companies. Currently, Dent has multiple commercial apartment buildings he is co-developing in conjunction with partner Greenpointe construction, most notably a multifamily apartment in Mid City, Los Angeles

Filmography

Film, Documentary & YouTube

Music Video & Commercial


Young Bretons Movement/Ar Vretoned Yaouank

The Young Bretons Movement, Breton Ar Vretoned Yaouank, is the youth section of the Breton Party. It was founded in March 2007.

Launch and Ideas

The YBM/AVY was launched officially at a Breton Party Congress in Blain, in March 2007. At the beginning, it was formed of a few members of the party willing to make actions and proposals specific to the youth. At their launch, the Young Bretons published the « Young Bretons Manifesto », in which they denounce what they think are France’s failures on the political, economical and cultural fields. They criticized the French attitude towards Europe and the failure of decentralization and public reforms in general, and called out to « emancipation » and reunification of Brittany, within a federal Europe.

As the Breton Party, the YBM/AVY advocates a new approach to Breton issues, by emphasizing the European dimension of their ideas : they reject the idea of identity withdrawal and claim they want to simply exist as the other countries. The lead idea of the Manifesto is the point that in a European framework, which is the movement’s reference, Brittany is a country like any other, and therefore must have the same political rights as Estonia, Slovenia or Ireland.

In March 2008, for the city council elections, the Young Bretons publish a document called « It’s now we must change things », which summarizes their proposals on topics specific to youth such as housing or universities. They propose, among other items, to struggle against the building of secondary homes on the seaside, or to create a Breton university system which regroups universities and colleges, all this within the framework of Brittany as a member of the European Union.

Main subjects

Beyond the institutional issues, the YBM/AVY mainly addresses the European, university and environment issues. Thus, they have several times advocated a federal Europe and criticized French policies towards Europe, that are in their opinion not enough in favour of European integration.
The movement often takes a stand on university reforms : thus, it denounced the 2007 University Freedom and Responsibility Act which, in their opinion, is a mere transfer of expenses without a real autonomy. Likewise, the YBM/AVY opposes introducing student fees and takes as an example the Welsh universities. It also calls out to the regional council to make up for the state’s reduction of expenses as far as help for disabled persons is concerned.
The Young Bretons also organized campaigns to raise the public awareness on issues linked with the seaside, in particular housing. They denounced the bulge of secondary homes and proposed a stronger seaside act, as well as a limitation (by tax) of the numbers of buildings, as well as the creation of protected markets.

Magazine

Since the end of 2008, the Young Bretons have published a webzine called Yaouankiz (Youth) three times a year. It aims at broadcasting their ideas on current issues (economy, social) or on theories (Breton nationalism). The webzine is published on their website.

Relations with other organizations

Since the beginning, the YBM/AVY has had relations with other nationalist movements in Europe, whether from the centre-left or the centre-right. In December 2006, they participated in Bilbao in the international youth days for self-determination, organized by Euzko Gaztedi (EGI). They have links with YEN (Youth of European Nationalities – gathering youth associations from national or cultural minorities in Europe), and participated in several of their seminars.
In August 2008, the movement organized their first summer days, together with Flemish and Basque representatives, from Nieuw-Vlaamse Alliantie and EGI. On the occasion of these days is written the « Lorient Declaration on self-determination » where they denounce the attitude of some European governments, which, according to the text, slow down the decision process of the citizens on their institutions.


Do Kamdan

Do Kamdan (, also Romanized as Do Kamdān) is a village in Deh Bakri Rural District, in the Central District of Bam County, Kerman Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its existence was noted, but its population was not reported.


Multiple Registration Protocol

Multiple Registration Protocol (MRP), which replaced Generic Attribute Registration Protocol (GARP), is a generic registration framework defined by the IEEE 802.1ak amendment to the IEEE 802.1Q standard. MRP allows bridges, switches or other similar devices to register and de-register attribute values, such as virtual LAN identifiers and multicast group membership across a large local area network. MRP operates at the data link layer.

History
GARP was defined by the IEEE 802.1 working group to provide a generic framework allowing bridges (or other devices like switches) to register and de-register attribute values, like VLAN identifiers and multicast group membership. GARP defines the architecture, rules of operation, state machines and variables for the registration and de-registration of attribute values. GARP was used by two applications: GARP VLAN Registration Protocol (GVRP) for registering VLAN trunking between multilayer switches, and by the GARP Multicast Registration Protocol (GMRP). The latter two were both mostly enhancements for VLAN-aware switches per definition in IEEE 802.1Q.

Multiple Registration Protocol (MRP) was introduced in order to replace GARP, with the IEEE 802.1ak amendment in 2007. The two GARP applications were also modified in order to use MRP. GMRP was replaced by Multiple MAC Registration Protocol (MMRP) and GVRP was replaced by MVRP. This change essentially moved the definitions of GARP, GVRP, and GMRP into an 802.1Q based environment, implying they were already VLAN aware. This also allowed for significant streamlining of the underlying protocol without much change to the interface of the applications themselves.

The new protocol and applications fixed a problem with the old GARP-based GVRP-based system,
where a simple registration or a failover could take an extremely long time to converge on a large network, incurring a significant bandwidth degradation.

It is expected GARP will be removed from IEEE 802.1D at some point in the future.

Multiple MAC Registration Protocol
Multiple MAC Registration Protocol is a data link layer (layer 2) protocol to register group MAC addresses (i.e. multicast) on multiple switches. It is an MRP application, originally defined in IEEE 802.1ak-2007 and subsequently included in 802.1Q. It replaced the 802.1D based GMRP.  The purpose of MMRP is to allow multicast traffic in bridged LANs to be confined to areas of the network where it is required.

Multiple VLAN Registration Protocol
MVRP, which replaced GVRP, is a standards-based Layer 2 network protocol, for automatic configuration of VLAN information on switches. It was defined in the 802.1ak amendment to 802.1Q-2005.

Within a layer 2 network, MVRP provides a method to dynamically share VLAN information and configure the needed VLANs. For example, in order to add a switch port to a VLAN, only the end port, or the VLAN-supporting network device connected to the switchport, need be reconfigured, and all necessary VLAN trunks are dynamically created on the other MVRP-enabled switches. Without using MVRP, either a manual configuration of VLAN trunks or use of a manufacturer's proprietary method is necessary.

It is through MVRP that dynamic VLAN entries will be updated in the filtering database. In short, MVRP helps to maintain VLAN configuration dynamically based on current network configurations.

802.1Q allows for:
 Dynamic configuration and distribution of VLAN membership information by means of the MVRP
 Static configuration of VLAN membership information via management mechanisms, which allow configuration of static VLAN registration entries.
 Combined static and dynamic configuration, in which some VLANs are configured via management mechanisms and for other VLANs, MVRP is relied on to establish the configuration.

MVRP defines a MRP application that provides the VLAN registration service. MVRP makes use of MRP Attribute Declaration (MAD) and MRP Attribute Propagation (MAP), which provide the common state machine descriptions and the common information propagation mechanisms defined for use in MRP-based applications. MVRP provides a mechanism for dynamic maintenance of the contents of dynamic VLAN registration entries for each VLAN, and for propagating the information they contain to other bridges. This information allows MVRP-aware devices to establish and update dynamically their knowledge of the set of VLANs  that currently have active members, and through which ports those members can be reached. The main purpose of MVRP is to allow switches to automatically discover some of the VLAN information that would otherwise need to be manually configured.

Legacy GVRP details
The replaced GVRP was essentially the same thing, but it used the services of the 802.1D based GARP application. GVRP made use of GARP Information Declaration (GID) and GARP Information Propagation (GIP), which correspond to the MAP and MAD in MRP. It was defined in the original release of 802.1D-1998 until it was replaced by MVRP.

It was replaced because the non-VLAN aware GARP had serious deficiencies when operating in large VLAN networks.

Multiple Stream Registration Protocol

MSRP is the base for the Stream Reservation Protocol first defined in Audio Video Bridging specifications.


Rob Zerban

Rob Zerban is an entrepreneur, former Kenosha County Supervisor, and Congressional candidate. He is a member of the Democratic Party. Zerban's campaign for the United States House of Representatives in 2012 and 2014 largely focused on protecting Social Security and Medicare, his experience running two businesses, and bringing green industry to Wisconsin's 1st congressional district. Zerban is active in national, state and local politics.

Early life and career
Zerban was born and raised in Belleville, Illinois. He grew up in poverty as the youngest of three children in a single-parent household. Zerban attended the Culinary Institute of America. Zerban founded two food service companies, both of which he later sold.

Zerban moved to Kenosha County in 2004. He would serve two terms as the Kenosha County supervisor from the 2nd district. Zerban served as a member of the board of directors for the Wisconsin League of Conservation Voters campaigning for the Great Lakes Compact. Zerban, and his wife, Dr. Cornelia Zerban frequently protested the union-busting and austerity measures of Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker's political agenda. Zerban currently serves on the executive board of the Wisconsin Business Alliance.

Congressional candidacies
Zerban ran for Congress in 2012 in Wisconsin's 1st congressional district. His opponent was Republican Congressman Paul Ryan, who was simultaneously the Republican nominee for Vice President. Zerban's campaign focused in part on Ryan's Medicare Plan and his experience as a small business owner. Zerban's campaign had success using Reddit's "Ask Me Anything" chats, before such chats had become popular. Ryan won just under 55 percent of the vote, his lowest share in any of his re-election bids. Zerban won Ryan's home county, municipality of residence and voting ward.

Zerban chose to run once more in 2014. He won the Democratic nomination on August 12, 2014, with 25,602 votes (78%) to 7313 votes (22%) for Amar Kaleka. Ryan did not agree to debate Zerban in the 2012 election cycle. It was not until 2014 when the two would be on the same stage. Zerban was defeated in the general election by Congressman Ryan.

Electoral history


United States men's national soccer team results (1960–69)

This is a compilation of every international soccer game played by the United States men's national soccer team from 1960 through 1969. It includes the team's record for that year, each game and the date played. It also lists the U.S. goal scorers.

The format is: home team listed first, U.S. listed first at home or neutral site.

Records are in win-loss-tie format. Games decided in penalty kicks are counted as ties, as per the FIFA standard.

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External links
 USA - Details of International Matches 1885-1969
  USA Men's National Team: All-time Results, 1885-1989
  U.S. SOCCER FEDERATION 2016 MEN’S NATIONAL TEAM MEDIA GUIDE

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Baseball cheering culture in South Korea

The baseball cheering culture in South Korea started in the 1990s and continues to the present. There are 10 professional clubs and each club has its own way of cheering. The Korean cheering culture generally shares similar characteristics: collective, enthusiastic and empathetic. Baseball cheering is popular among women because of the easy-to-learn melodies of fight songs, break-time events and a variety of foods. Baseball cheering is performed in most parts of a ballpark.

Cheering methods

Fight songs
Korean baseball fight songs consist of the song for each club and songs for individual players. The fight song is a key element of Korea's baseball cheering culture. Cheering is done for the offence. Each batter has a personal fight song, sung when the batter enters the batter's box. The melodies of fight songs are taken from famous pop songs or K-pop songs, with lyrics rewritten to make it easy for the crowd to sing along. There are cell phone mobile applications that allow baseball fans to listen to the fight songs of clubs and players in advance.

Cheering tools
In the early days of Korea's professional baseball league, which was started in 1982, the most commonly used cheering tools were Korean traditional musical instruments, such as Buk, Jing, and Kkwaenggwari. But nowadays, a typical example of a cheering tool is cylindrical, inflatable balloon sticks, now commonly known in the English-speaking world as thundersticks. They are used for cheering by beating a pair of balloon sticks together to make a loud sound. The first club in the world to introduce balloon sticks was the LG Twins. In the early 1990s they made balloon sticks out of polyethylene. It has been evolving and now it is recyclable, as the sticks can be inflated for use then deflated for storage until the next game.

Each club has its own color for the balloon sticks: SK Wyverns is red, Samsung Lions is blue, Doosan Bears is white, Kia Tigers is yellow, LG Twins is red, Nexen Heroes is pink and Hanwha Eagles is orange.

Another interesting characteristic of Korean baseball cheering is fans wearing team uniform shirts with players' names. They wear this to feel a sense of belonging, solidarity and pride. Symbolic accessories and cheering tools play a similar role. There are stores in each stadium, so it is easy for supporters to buy cheer-related items.

Cheer leaders
The Korea Baseball Organization did not have standardized cheering methods until the 1990s. It was the audiences who became the initiators of cheering. The initial ways of cheering were clapping and spontaneous singing. But in time, official cheer leaders appeared. Cheer leaders and cheer leading captain are the ones who take the lead. Each club has one captain and four or five cheer leaders. Cheer leaders dance to the chant the captain is making. Basically, they start cheering with the club's fight songs, but sometimes they lead the cheering using the latest K-pop songs.

Cheering features of each stadium

Foods
Each stadium has specialty food associated with cheering. A typical example of baseball stadium food is "Chimaek," which is fried chicken and beer. There are various kinds of cheering foods featured at each ballpark. These are often the representative foods of the region where the ballpark is located. In Daegu Samsung Lions Park, there are Napjak Mandu (flat grilled dumplings), Samgyeopsal (Korean-style bacon) and kebab. In Busan Sajik Stadium, Buljokbal (spicy Jokbal), Bulgopchang (spicy Gopchang) and fast foods such as hamburgers and fried chicken. In Seoul Jamsil Stadium, Jokbal (pig's trotters), in Gwangju Kia Champions Field, Garak Guksu (boiled thin noodles in dried anchovy broth), in Hanwha Life Insurance Eagles Park, in Jinmi Tongdak and in Suwon KT Wiz Park, chicken.

Cheering zones
Each baseball stadium has its sections of unique themed seats. Incheon Munhak Baseball Stadium has a "T Green Zone", "Happiness Zone", "Skybox Zone", and “Barbecue Zone.” "T Green Zone" is located on the grassy hillside which is available to set up a tent or lay a mat. This zone is recommended to family audiences because it is not too crowded and there is a kid's park near by. "Happiness Zone" is located at the backstop and the seats are equipped with tables. "Barbecue Zone" can accommodate up to 200 people at once. It is Korea’s first stadium to provide fans a way to cook meat while watching baseball. At the store inside the stadium they sell meat and lend grills. "Skybox Zone" is located indoors, so watching baseball game isn't restricted by bad weather. Lastly, there is a “Homerun Couple Zone” in the outfield bleachers. Many couples enjoy dating there.

Jamsil stadium's "Exciting Zone" allows fans to see players close up, but as this zone is close to the playing field, audiences have to be cautious about safety and borrow a helmet.

Suwon KT Wiz park has a "Hite Pub" and "Playstation Lounge." "Hite Pub" is Korea's first sports pub and the cost of one glass of beer and food is included in the ticket price. In the "Playstation Lounge" audiences can enjoy the match in the assigned room in which a Playstation is equipped.

Daejeon Hanwha Life Insurance Eagles Park has an "Outfield Lawn Seat" and "Outfield Fieldbox." At the "Outfield Lawn Seat", audiences can enjoy the game with the feeling of a picnic. The "Outfield Fieldbox" is where audiences can watch the game from seats inside the box. Busan Sajik Stadium has a "Rocket Battery Zone." There, people can enjoy the baseball game and camping at the same time, so it is recommended to family fans. These two stadiums both have an "Exciting Zone." This zone is close to the ground so audiences can enjoy the players’ dynamic game. It can be interesting to watch the game at ground eye level, but as many foul balls fly toward the seats, children are not allowed to enter as it could be somewhat dangerous.

"Tigers Family Seat" is most famous at Gwangju Kia Champions Field. There are seats and tables for four to six people, so audiences can watch the game comfortably. Masan Sports Complex Baseball Stadium has the "Dinos Mattress Seat." Audiences can watch the game lying on comfortable mattresses. They can borrow a parasol and beach towel. And there is a unique stand made up of wooden decks. It is for family audiences and can accommodate six people. Audiences can party there, and no one complains about making noise.

Cheering cultures of each club
The clubs of the Korean professional baseball league each have a unique cheering culture. Fans of the Lotte Giants use newspapers and orange plastic bags as cheering tools. Newspapers are rolled up and swayed in the air. People wear plastic bags on their heads, some knotted to look like Mickey Mouse ears. The plastic bags were initially intended to handle garbage, but the supporters started to use them as a cheering tool. The Lotte Giants also have unique chants, such as 'Azura' and 'Ma'. 'Azura' is a dialect word, implying 'yield a foul ball/home run ball to children', and 'Ma' is a dialect for calling children, implying 'throw the ball forward' (used when the pitcher throws to first base to check a runner). In response to 'Ma', supporters of other clubs make a counter-chant such as 'Wa' (a dialect of 'why').

Hanwha Eagles went through a decline of organized cheering starting in 2009. This led many baseball fans to start cheering for visiting teams. The Hanwha Eagles are trying to figure out how to keep track of the new trends and revitalize their fan base. They started to use Fanbots, a cheering robot made as part of the social cheering campaign for fans who want to support the team but cannot attend the games in person. Anytime, anywhere, if people upload a cheering message via web or mobile, the message is sent to a Fanbot in real time and to be displayed on the board Fanbot is holding. The Hanwha Eagles are the first club to use Fanbots.

The biggest feature of the Doosan Bears is that there are many fans who go cheering at away games. In addition, the percentage of female audience members is high. In the 2015 season, the percentage of female audiences was 43 percent for all teams, while for the Doosan Bears, it was 53 percent. For this reason, Doosan Bears is the only team in the league to have separate parts for the male and female in cheering songs.

The KIA Tigers have their base in Gwangju, so they have many fans in Jeolla-do. They support the team regardless of their performance. The LG fans are similar in this regard. The official Kia Tigers team color is red but they use yellow balloon sticks for cheering. Some fans call the yellow balloon sticks a 'pickled radish'.

Globalization
Korea’s baseball cheering culture has been observed to be spreading to other nations. The fight song for Eric Thames is one example. Thames, who had been a member of Korea's Changwon NC Dinos (2014–2016), returned to U.S. Major League Baseball with the Milwaukee Brewers in 2017. His Korean theme song was played when he came to bat for Milwaukee. The song resounded through the Milwaukee stadium. His teammates, who did not know about the idea of personal fight songs, showed interest and hummed its melody.

Challenges

Crisis
Recently the issue of copyright for club chants or fight songs has emerged. Clubs want to make their song legitimate and are negotiating with the original copyright holders to use the fight songs familiar to the fans, but as the legal wrangling is ongoing, the clubs have either made some changes to the songs or used the songs without license to do so. The copyright owners for the original songs have prepared class action lawsuits.

Traditionally, the fight songs of each club were created without thought to the original copyright holder. The song would be altered by changing the lyrics, but this violates the author's intellectual property. South Korean copyright law largely protects both the author's property rights and moral rights. Property rights refer to the rights to the media that is owned by the creators. Usually, content producers are paid for allowing others to use their creation. Moral rights in South Korea are related to the issue of the creator's psychological profit. This includes the right to maintain the identity of the content. This means that anyone using the author's creation must not change its original form. However, the clubs usually modify the original lyrics or tune. Therefore, even though the clubs often pay a large sum for the author's property rights, the fight songs violate the author's moral rights.

Criticism
Korea's baseball cheering culture is largely considered to be positive, but some issues have arisen over the course of its development. First is the "Azura Culture", the cheering culture of the Lotte Giants. This culture is semi-coercive rather than voluntary. Initially, this culture began with the expectation that if adult spectators pass a foul or home run ball to a child, the conflicts between the adults to get the ball might decrease. This culture also has the purpose of presenting a child with a good memory of watching a baseball game.

However, in the coercive atmosphere, there are a few audiences with bad manners who take the ball away from the teenagers. As a result, there is a growing criticism about whether "Azura Culture" is truly a good one. There is an ongoing debate online. Some even refer to "Azura Culture" as "robbery in the baseball stadium". As people give the ball to the child before shouting "Azura", the excitement of shouting it is decreasing.

Recently, other criticisms have been raised. Boisterous cheering culture makes watching the baseball game more joyful, but for some people who want to watch the game quietly, it is annoying. Residents neighboring the ballpark also suffer from the noise. Residents living in the apartment near Kia Champions Field Ball Park sued Gwangju city and the Kia Tigers club. As Korea's ballparks are located near very populated regions, it seems to be necessary to resolve the conflict between local residents and the baseball field.


The 1919 Boston College Eagles football team represented Boston College during the 1919 college football season.

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Alby Yeo

Albert Yeo (born 6 November 1933) is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the Essendon Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL). Essendon cleared Yeo to fellow VFL side St Kilda midway through the 1958 season, but he did not play any senior games for them.

Notes

External links

Essendon Football Club past player profile


2015–16 Algerian Men's Volleyball League

The 2015–16 season of the Algerian Men's Volleyball League was the 54th annual season of the country's highest volleyball level.

Members of the Algerian Men's Volleyball League (2015–16 season)

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Milena Rašić

Milena Rašić (; born 25 October 1990) is a Serbian professional volleyball player. She plays for Serbia women's national volleyball team. She has competed in the 2012 Summer Olympics. She is  tall.

Career
Rašić won the 2016–17 CEV Champions League gold medal with VakıfBank Istanbul when her team defeated the Italian Imoco Volley Conegliano 3-0 and she was also awarded Best Middle Blocker. She won the bronze medal of the 2017 FIVB World Grand Prix and the Best Middle Blocker individual award.

Awards

Individual awards
2011 World Grand Prix "Best Spiker"
2013 World Grand Prix "Best Middle Blocker"
2014–15 CEV Champions League "Best Middle Blocker"
2015–16 Turkish Women's Volleyball League "Best Middle Blockers"
2016 Olympic Games "Best Middle Blocker"
2016 FIVB Club World Championship "Best Middle Blocker"
2016–17 CEV Champions League "Best Middle Blocker"
2017 World Grand Prix "Best Middle Blocker"
2017–18 CEV Champions League "Best Middle Blocker"
2018 FIVB World Championship "Best Middle Blocker"
2018 FIVB Women's Club World Championship "Best Middle Blocker"

Clubs
 2016–17 CEV Champions League -  Champion, with VakıfBank Istanbul
 2017–18 CEV Champions League -  Champion, with VakıfBank
 2017 Club World Championship -  Champion, with VakıfBank
 2018 Club World Championship -  Champion, with VakıfBank
 2017 Turkish Super Cup -  Champion, with VakıfBank
 2017–18 Turkish League -  Champion, with VakıfBank
 2018–19 Turkish League -  Champion, with VakıfBank

Gallery


Glenwood, Floyd County, Georgia

Glenwood is an unincorporated community in Floyd County, in the U.S. state of Georgia.

History
Glenwood took its name from the nearby estate of Augustus Wright.


Schultzidia

Schultzidia is a genus of eels in the snake eel family Ophichthidae. It currently contains the following species:

 Schultzidia johnstonensis (L. P. Schultz & Woods, 1949) (Johnston snake-eel)
 Schultzidia retropinnis (Fowler, 1934) (Fringe-lipped worm-eel)


Abdalla Ali

Abdalla Haji Ali (born 1 January 1964) is a Tanzanian CUF politician and Member of Parliament for Kiwani constituency since 2010.


Crushed Butler

Crushed Butler were a British protopunk/hard rock band that existed between 1969 and 1971.  According to 2008's Pretty Vacant: A History of UK Punk, the band "was, in many ways, Britain's first proto-punk band."  Band members went on to form Darryl Read's Beat Existentialists and The Gorillas, as well as pursue solo careers.

History
Crushed Butler formed in 1969 with a line-up of Jesse Hector (guitar, vocals), Alan Butler (bass guitar) and Darryl Read (drums). They initially played cover versions of other bands' songs, before writing their own original material.
They dressed with ripped slash-neck T-shirts, studded belts and straight legged Levis jeans, and their aggressive and energetic live performances, blew many a name top act of the stage, from the Lyceum to the Guildford Civic - they were futuristic and a group to be reckoned with.

The band auditioned and recorded for several record labels including EMI and Decca, but failed to secure a deal. For their 1970 session for EMI, they were only allowed to record their own "Factory Grime" song after recording producer Roger Ferris' choice, "Love Is All Around Me". The label's aversion to "Factory Grime" saw them lose interest in the band.

In early 1971, the band changed their name to Tiger, and the line-up also changed to include Barry Mitchell, formerly a member of an early version of Queen. As Tiger they were managed by Neil Christian of The Crusaders, and Arthur Anderson joined the band on bass guitar. However, they still were unable to secure a record deal and the band split up in late 1971 when Read took up a job as a songwriter at Track Records.

Hector and Butler continued as Helter-Skelter and went on to form The Hammersmith Gorillas (later shortened to The Gorillas), while Read pursued a solo career, as well as working as an actor. Read's works included three albums (Beat Existentialist (1991) and Freshly Dug (1999) with Ray Manzarek and Bleeding Paradise in 2007. Read was killed in a motorcycle accident in June 2013 in Thailand.

Crushed Butler's recordings were eventually released in 1998 by Dig The Fuzz Records on the Uncrushed album.

Discography

Singles
 "It's My Life" b/w "My Son's Alive" (2010) vinyl single Windian Records USA

Albums
 Uncrushed (1998) 'First Punks from the British Underground 1969-1971', Dig the Fuzz records - (first release on 10 inch vinyl)
 Uncrushed (2005), RPM records - reissued as Uncrushed: First Punks from the British Underground 1969-1971 CD album (bonus track)
 Uncrushed (2005), Madstar Records Germany - reissue  CDBABY digital distribution
 Uncrushed (2009) Radio Heart Beat Records (with new bonus track on 12" vinyl)
 Uncrushed (2013) Last Years Youth Records Germany (with poster and extras on 10" vinyl)


Unida (disambiguation)

Unida is a Spanish adjective meaning "joined, united" and may refer to:

Unidá, Asturian federation of parties formed by Izquierda Asturiana
Unida, American stoner rock band formed after the dissolution of Kyuss and Slo Burn
Club Atlético Juventud Unida Universitario, football club from San Luis in San Luis Province, Argentina
Esperanza Unida, Inc., non-profit that represents Latino workers in worker's and unemployment compensation hearings
Esquerda Unida, Galician left wing political and social movement
Igreja Metodista Unida, one of the largest Protestant denominations in Mozambique
Igreja Unida, Pentecostal evangelical church in São Paulo, Brazil
Izquierda Unida (disambiguation), eight pages of this name
Juventud Unida de Gualeguaychú, Argentine Football club
Juventud Unida de San Miguel, Argentine Football club
La Raza Unida Party, United States third political party


Local Coordination Committees of Syria

The Local Coordination Committees of Syria (: LCCSyria or LCCs) are a network of local groups that organise and report on protests as part of the Syrian uprising. In June 2011, the network was described by The New York Times as beginning to "emerge as a pivotal force" in Syria. , the network supported civil disobedience and opposed local armed resistance and international military intervention as methods of opposing the Syrian government.

Creation
The Local Coordination Committees of Syria started in March 2011 from local groups that published reports about protests during the Syrian uprising and developed into a national network involved in journalism about protests and the protests themselves. The groups had developed from informal networks of friends and colleagues involved in dissidence that had existed for many years. Prior to the uprising, Syrian activists had brought in mobile telephones, satellite modems and computers in anticipation of Arab Spring protests developing in Syria. In June 2011, The New York Times described the network as beginning to "emerge as a pivotal force" in Syrian politics, "earning the respect of more recognized, but long divided dissidents."

Structure
The LCCSyria network consists of "overwhelmingly young" demonstrators of multiple religious and class backgrounds. The  network is decentralized and works in secret. The first of the committees was created in the Daraya suburb of Damascus. , the most active committee was in Homs. , the network had 35 individual leaders, who tried to communicate daily. , the network had 14 local committees, one each in Daraa, Homs, Baniyas, Saraqeb, Idlib, al-Hasakah, Qamishli, Deir ez-Zor, the Syrian coast, Hama, Raqqa, as-Suwayda', Damascus and the Damascus suburbs.

Finances
LCCSyria is financed by donations from individual supporters. This is further facilitated by the "Adopt a Revolution" initiative. Furthermore, the Office for Syrian Opposition Support, which itself was founded by the United States Department of State and Foreign and Commonwealth Office and is funded by the Friends of Syria Group, provides "material support" and "training assistance" to the LCCs.

Human rights journalism
Rami Nakhle, who helps LCCSyria from exile in Lebanon, said that media activities documenting protests were the network's first main activity. The Syrian human rights lawyer Razan Zaitouneh, winner of the 2011 Sakharov Prize and the 2011 Anna Politkovskaya Award, has documented human rights in Syria for the network.  The network's text and photographic reports of injuries and deaths of protestors have been used by CNN, Al Jazeera English, The Guardian and The Washington Post. The network publishes reports on its own website and on Facebook.

On 1 February 2012, LCCSyria criticised the international and Arab community as having been "unable to take any decision that contributes to stopping the cycle of violence in Syria". It estimated the number of deaths in the civil war is more than 100,000.

Protest methods
Amnesty International describes the network's methods as peaceful protests. Civil disobedience methods used by the network include nightly protests in Hama and refusal to pay water, electricity and telephone bills in the Duma suburb of Damascus. The network called for a two-day general strike on 5–6 February 2012. They also called with other non-violence groups to the Dignity Strike in Syria "Karamah Strike".

Non-violence
In August 2011, LCCSyria declared that it understands the calls for internal armed opposition to the Syrian government and international military intervention, but opposes both. It said that militarisation would reduce popular support for the opposition, reduce the opposition's moral superiority, and put "the Revolution in an arena where the regime has a distinct advantage". The network said that peaceful demonstrations would make it easier to develop democracy following a revolution, while militarisation would make it "virtually impossible to establish a legitimate foundation for a proud future Syria."
LCC Syria was one of the groups that formed what's called "Freedom Days" as an umbrella for non-violence groups in Syria.


The United States District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee (in case citations, M.D. Tenn.) is the federal trial court for most of Middle Tennessee.  Based at the Estes Kefauver Federal Building and United States Courthouse in Nashville, it was created in 1839 when Congress added a third district to the state.  Tennessee—along with Kentucky, Ohio, and Michigan—is located within the area covered by United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, and appeals are taken to that court (except for patent claims and claims against the U.S. government under the Tucker Act, which are appealed to the Federal Circuit).

Donald Q. Cochran is the United States Attorney.

The Middle District has three divisions.
(1)  The Columbia Division comprises the counties of Giles, Hickman, Lawrence, Lewis, Marshall, Maury, and Wayne.
(2)  The Northeastern Division comprises the counties of Clay, Cumberland, DeKalb, Fentress, Jackson, Macon, Overton, Pickett, Putnam, Smith, and White.
(3)  The Nashville Division comprises the counties of Cannon, Cheatham, Davidson, Dickson, Houston, Humphreys, Montgomery, Robertson, Rutherford, Stewart, Sumner, Trousdale, Williamson, and Wilson.

History
The United States District Court for the District of Tennessee was established with one judgeship on January 31, 1797, by . The judgeship was filled by President George Washington's appointment of John McNairy.  Since Congress failed to assign the district to a circuit, the court had the jurisdiction of both a district court and a circuit court.  Appeals from this one district court went directly to the United States Supreme Court.

On February 13, 1801, in the famous "Midnight Judges" Act of 1801, , Congress abolished the U.S. district court in Tennessee, and expanded the number of circuits to six, provided for independent circuit court judgeships, and abolished the necessity of Supreme Court Justices riding the circuits. It was this legislation which created the grandfather of the present Sixth Circuit. The act provided for a "Sixth Circuit" comprising two districts in the State of Tennessee, one district in the State of Kentucky and one district, called the Ohio District, composed of the Ohio and Indiana territories (the latter including the present State of Michigan). The new Sixth Circuit Court was to be held at "Bairdstown" in the District of Kentucky, at Knoxville in the District of East Tennessee, at Nashville in the District of West Tennessee, and at Cincinnati in the District of Ohio. Unlike the other circuits which were provided with three circuit judges, the Sixth Circuit was to have only one circuit judge with district judges from Kentucky and Tennessee comprising the rest of the court. Any two judges constituted a quorum. New circuit judgeships were to be created as district judgeships in Kentucky and Tennessee became vacant.

The repeal of this Act restored the District on March 8, 1802, . The District was divided into the Eastern and Western Districts on April 29, 1802. On February 24, 1807, Congress again abolished the two districts and created the United States Circuit for the District of Tennessee. On March 3, 1837, Congress assigned the judicial district of Tennessee to the Eighth Circuit. On June 18, 1839, by , Congress divided Tennessee into three districts, Eastern, Middle, and Western. Again, only one judgeship was allotted for all three districts. On July 15, 1862, Congress reassigned appellate jurisdiction to the Sixth Circuit. Finally, on June 14, 1878, Congress authorized a separate judgeship for the Western District of Tennessee, at which time President Rutherford B. Hayes appointed David M. Key as judge for the Eastern and Middle Districts of Tennessee. The first judge to serve only the Middle District of Tennessee was John J. Gore, appointed by Warren G. Harding.

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George Pattman

George Thomas Pattman FRCO (1875 - 10 Aug 1961) was an organist and composer based in England.

Life

He was born in 1875 in Grantham, and studied music under Dr. Haydn Keeton at Peterborough Cathedral.

On leaving Glasgow Cathedral in 1916 he toured the principal music halls for some years and afterwards made records and gave broadcasts. He toured the country with a portable touring organ built by Harrison and Harrison for many of his recitals.

He had a child with soprano singer, Minnie Rigby, who he had worked and collaborated with many times. Pattman had an affair with Minnie whilst she was married to Ernest Rigby, a Doctor of Music, who she had a son with, named Philip.  Minnie divorced Ernest in 1922, before she had her second son.

Appointments

Organist of St Mary's Church, Stamford ca. 1894
Assistant organist of Peterborough Cathedral 1895 - 1896
Organist of All Saints' Church, Scarborough 1896 - 1900
Organist of All Saints' Church, Hessle 1900 - 1901
Organist of Bridlington Priory 1901 - 1904
Organist of St. Mary's Cathedral, Glasgow 1904 - 1916
Organist of St. Lawrence's Church, Canon's Park, Edgware ca.1941 Organist of Winter Gardens, Blackpool 1924-1925

Compositions

He composed Cinderella (Suite for Full Orchestra).


Karaçerçili, Tarsus

Karaçerçili (literraly Black-peddler) is a village in Tarsus district of Mersin Province, Turkey. It is situated in Çukurova (Cilicia of the antiquity) to the southeast of Tarsus and to the west of Berdan River. Its distance to Tarsus is about  and to Mersin is . The population of Karaçerçili was 305 as of 2012. The main economic activity is agriculture and the main crop is cotton.


WNAB

WNAB, virtual channel 58 (UHF digital channel 30), is a CW-affiliated television station licensed to Nashville, Tennessee, United States. Owned by Tennessee Broadcasting, the station is operated under an outsourcing agreement by the Sinclair Broadcast Group, making it a sister station to Sinclair's duopoly of Fox affiliate WZTV (channel 17) and MyNetworkTV affiliate WUXP-TV (channel 30). The three stations share studios on Mainstream Drive along the Cumberland River and transmitter facilities along I-24 in Whites Creek.

History

As a WB affiliate
The station first signed on the air on November 29, 1995 as the WB affiliate for the Nashville market. Prior to WNAB's debut, WB programming was only available on Nashville area cable and satellite providers either through Chicago-based national superstation WGN, or by Cookeville-based WKZX (channel 28, now Ion Television owned-and-operated station WNPX-TV), which served the eastern part of the market. By mere coincidence, the call letters were chosen in 1987 (as a construction permit) as WNAB; something that would be exploited when the station became affiliated with The WB. Original owner Speer Communications, a company founded by Home Shopping Network co-founder Roy Speer, launched the station from studios on Dickerson Road in Nashville, in a former Sam's Club building.

Offering five hours of live, locally produced programming each weekday, WNAB was quickly a hit among Nashville viewers, although the station lacked cable carriage in many of the suburbs. Controversial former Nashville mayor and U.S. congressman Bill Boner hosted an hour-long interview/call-in show, Prime Talk each weeknight. Its follow-up, Sports Talk, featured Nashville Banner sportswriter Greg Pogue and popular radio personality George Plaster showing highlights and taking calls about the day's sports action. On Friday nights in the fall, Sports Talk was extended by an hour and became Nashville's first television show entirely devoted to high school football scores. Since the 1996 season, at least one of Nashville's television stations has continued this tradition.

Within two years, all live programming except Sports Talk had been cancelled (partly due to budget constraints, and also due to The WB expanding its primetime lineup to additional nights outside of the initial Sunday and Wednesday slots). Plaster left Sports Talk and it was rebranded as Sports Plus and featured news and weather segments in addition to its sports content; it was also cancelled in 1998. WNAB also aired several Nashville Predators games when the NHL team made its debut during the 1998–99 season, and split time as the television flagship alongside regional cable sports network Fox Sports South until the end of the 1999–2000 season.

Speer Communications had planned to use WNAB as a base of operations for a small network of television stations in each of Tennessee's six television markets. A statewide newscast was planned as part of the network. However, the company went bankrupt before any of the plans could come to fruition. The station was later sold to Lambert Broadcasting (now Tennessee Broadcasting) who operated the station for a short while, and later outsourced its advertising sales and operations to the Sinclair Broadcast Group via an outsourcing agreement.

On August 3, 2002, WNAB's transmitting facilities were relocated from its original Nolensville tower to its present transmitter near Whites Creek near the Interstate 24 interchange with Old Hickory Boulevard (State Highway 45).

As a CW affiliate
On January 24, 2006, Time Warner and CBS Corporation announced that they would partner to launch The CW Television Network, as a replacement for The WB and UPN, initially featuring a mix of programs carried over from those two networks and newer series. Sinclair later signed WNAB as the market's affiliate of the network, as part of a wider deal to affiliate its WB affiliates and independent stations with The CW. The CW launched, with WNAB as its Nashville station, on September 18, 2006.

Subchannels

WNAB-DT2
As a part of a deal involving several Sinclair Broadcast Group owned stations similar to the earlier deal between Sinclair and theCoolTV, WNAB added a subchannel for The Country Network on DT2 on September 18, 2010. The Country Network changed its name and was rebranded to ZUUS Country on June 1, 2013. ZUUS Country was replaced with a full-time feed of American Sports Network on January 11, 2016. On September 6, 2017, American Sports Network changed to Stadium.

WNAB-DT3
WNAB added Grit to a third subchannel on January 1, 2015, however on June 1, 2017, Grit was replaced with Charge!, a competitor network to Grit, which also focuses on action and drama, and is one of Sinclair's newly launched digital subchannels.

WNAB-DT4
WNAB-DT4 launched on November 1, 2019, with a blank screen, then a test pattern. The following week on November 7, WNAB-DT4 officially launched Dabl, a new lifestyle programming network founded by CBS Television Stations.

Digital television

Digital channels
The station's digital signal is multiplexed:

Analog-to-digital conversion
WNAB shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 58, on February 17, 2009, which was intended to be the official date in which full-power television stations in the United States transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate. The deadline was moved to June 12, 2009, but the station decided to convert on the original deadline. The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 23. Through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers display the station's virtual channel as its former UHF analog channel 58, which was among the high band UHF channels (52-69) that were removed from broadcasting use as a result of the transition.

Programming
Syndicated programs featured on WNAB include TMZ on TV, The Real, Family Guy, 30 Rock, Everybody Loves Raymond, 2 Broke Girls, and Tyler Perry's Meet the Browns. It also broadcasts the horror movie showcase Dr. Gangrene's Creature Feature.

WNAB, in some occasions, broadcasts some Conference USA men's basketball games from the American Sports Network in the event that WUXP is scheduled to air either Raycom Sports' ACC Network or any special local sports programming at any time as any given situation may warrant. This changed in January 2016, when the ASN's 24/7 subchannel version launched on WNAB-DT2.


Grigor I of Taron

Grigor I of Taron (; , Krikorikios/Grēgorios ho Tarōnitēs)  was an Armenian noble of the Bagratid family and ruler of the southern Armenian region of Taron from ca. 896/98 until his death in 923/36.

Life
Grigor was a member of the Bagratid dynasty of Armenia. Of his father only the name is known, Derenik or T‘ornik, who was evidently the brother of Ashot I of Taron and son of Bagrat I of Taron.

After the death of his cousin, Gurgen I of Taron, ca. 896, Grigor became, probably with Arab support, prince of Taron (896/98). From the start he played a double game of diplomacy with the two great powers of the region, the Abbasid Caliphate and the Byzantine Empire, then ruled by Caliph al-Mu'tadid (r. 892–902) and Emperor Leo VI the Wise (r. 886–912) respectively. According to the De administrando imperio of the Byzantine emperor Constantine VII Porphyrogennetos (r. 913–959), he pledged his allegiance to Leo VI, exchanging precious gifts with him, while at the same time allowing the Caliph's armies to cross his lands to raid Byzantine territory and betraying Byzantine campaign plans to the Arabs. Leo sent repeated messages inviting him to visit Constantinople, but Gigor refused, citing the vulnerability of his domains to Arab attack in his absence. Grigor also fought against his nephews or cousins, the two "sons of Arkaikas"—"Arkaikas" has been identified with either Ashot II of Taron or his father David—and took them captive. King Smbat I of Armenia, who was also their uncle, pleaded with Leo to intercede so that they would not be delivered to the Arabs. Leo sent Sinoutes and Constantine Lips as envoys to Grigor. The embassy resulted in the visit of Grigor's bastard son, Ashot III, to Constantinople, followed at a later date by Grigor's brother Abu Ghanim and the "sons of Arkaikas". All the Armenian nobles received Byzantine titles and were then sent home.

Following another embassy by Constantine Lips, Grigor finally assented to go to Constantinople. This visit has been variously dated between ca. 900, based on the traditional dating of a ceremonial reception of a "Prince of Taron"  at the Magnaura palace that is recorded in Constantine VII's De ceremoniis, and Leo's death in 912, with ca. 906 being considered the most likely date. In Constantinople Grigor received a lavish welcome, as well as the titles of "magistros and strategos of Taron", the use of the "House of Barbaros" as a residence in the imperial capital and a personal annual payment of ten pounds each of gold nomismata and of silver miliaresia. After a prolonged sojourn in Constantinople, he was escorted to his domains by Lips. The award of the title of strategos, normally borne by the governors of Byzantine themes, may indicate that at this point, Taron was regarded by the imperial government as a de facto  Byzantine province, and not just a vassal state.

The De administrando imperio reports that the favour and honours heaped upon Grigor provoked the envy of the neighbouring Armenian and Iberian princes, who eventually protested to emperor Romanos I Lekapenos (r. 920–944). Romanos I responded that he could not withdraw the privileges granted by his predecessor, Leo VI, by imperial chrysobull, but that he would demand a recompense by Grigor. The latter offered to pay an annual tribute in form of copper wares and clothes worth ten pounds, but after three or four years he ceased, and his annual payment from the Byzantines ceased. At some point after 923, Grigor also exchanged the "House of Barbaros", possibly due to its costly upkeep, with the "estate of Gregoras" in the district of Keltzene. He died sometime between ca, 923 and ca. 936, and was succeeded by his sons, Bagrat II of Taron and Ashot III.


Operation Distant Plain

Operation Distant Plain was a series of non-nuclear explosive and detonable gas tests performed on test sites in Alberta, Canada during the course of 1966 and 1967. Their purpose was to provide airblast, cratering and ground shock data in summer and winter conditions for testing new prototype equipment, military targets and coniferous forest blowdown and defoliation. Participants included Canada, United Kingdom, Australia and United States under the Tripartite Technical Cooperation Program. Detonable gas balloons were used in this operation in an attempt to find an economical substitute for TNT as well as for the fact that they could be placed at desired heights without a heavy support structure or towers. In addition, they were more adaptable to airblast phenomena and produced a well defined blast wave without perturbation or ejecta; they also produced no crater. However, it was found that they lacked the high pressure associated with high explosives, and difficulties were encountered as the 20-ton gas balloon ruptured and another detonated unexpectedly during inflation. Ultimately ANFO was elected as a lower cost alternative to TNT for non-nuclear explosives tests.

Tests
The following table summarizes the events that took place during the operation in chronological order.


Kay Wehner

Kay Wehner (born July 12, 1971) is a German former footballer who played as a goalkeeper.

Career

Wehner began his career with his hometown club, Stahl Eisenhüttenstadt, and was on the fringes of a team that reached the final of the last ever East German Cup, losing to Hansa Rostock but qualifying for the 1991–92 Cup Winners' Cup because Rostock were also league champions. Stahl qualified for the third tier of German football, the NOFV-Oberliga Nord, and it was at this level that Wehner made his first-team breakthrough. He helped the club qualify for the new Regionalliga Nordost in 1994, before leaving for Energie Cottbus a year later.

Wehner began as backup to Antonio Ananiev, but took over as first-choice when Ananiev joined 1. FC Köln early in the 1996–97 season, a season that would prove to be the best of Wehner's career. Cottbus won the Regionallihga Nordost, and beat Hannover 96 in a playoff to earn promotion to the 2. Bundesliga. They also reached the DFB-Pokal final, losing against Bundesliga side VfB Stuttgart.

Wehner was ever-present in Cottbus's first season in the second division, but suffered a cruciate ligament injury in the summer of 1998 which saw him lose his place to the new arrival, Tomislav Piplica. Wehner returned to the Regionalliga Nordost, signing for 1. FC Union Berlin, where, despite the team winning the division, Wehner struggled for popularity, having replaced a club legend on Oskar Kosche. He missed the decisive penalty in a shoot-out in the promotion playoff against VfL Osnabrück, and Union would miss out on promotion to LR Ahlen in the final playoff round.

Union would earn promotion the following year, and match Cottbus's achievement in reaching the cup final, but Wehner had left the club by then, having been usurped by new signing Sven Beuckert he joined Regionalliga Süd club Wacker Burghausen in January 2001. In his second season with the club, Burghausen won the Regionalliga Süd and promotion to the 2. Bundesliga. He spent two seasons as first-choice at this level, before being replaced by the experienced Uwe Gospodarek in 2003. He had a brief run back in the team at the end of the 2003–04 season, this would be his last taste of first-team action, but he remained at Burghausen as a reserve 'keeper until 2007.

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Xuxa (American TV program)

Xuxa is an American children's television series hosted by Xuxa Meneghel that aired in first-run syndication between September 13 and December 31, 1993, for a total of 65 episodes. The program, which was based on Rede Globo's Xou da Xuxa, was created by Thomas W. Lynch and Marlene Mattos, with MTM Enterprises handing production. The show works with several blocks, where in each block, a game is presented. The program also received famous people or diverse professionals, as well as educational lessons.

In 1992, the program was in dispute to be created by MTM Enterprises, who had different ideas of a show for the Brazilian children's hosts. However, Xuxa considered the idea of MTM was more interesting, and ended up getting the company in the end.

The program debuted in September 1993; it is entirely based on Xou da Xuxa, but with more American culture aspects, gaining some differences from the original program, because the Paquitas were called Pixies and Xuxa had the help of characters like a panda bear named Jelly, played by E. E. Bell and Jam, the jaguar, played by Mark Caso, Natasha Pearce as Paquita, and Jeff Dunham. Xuxa was the first and only Brazilian to have a television program in the United States.

Background
Xuxa is a combination of a game show/variety show, based on the Brazilian TV program Xou da Xuxa, which discusses various games that stimulate children's learning, with various activities that are guided both by the presenter and by their assistants, Jelly the Panda (E. E. Bell) and Jam the Jaguar (Mark Case).

The show is divided into about five blocks, which served for commercials, as well as in Brazil. During the blocks, she calls some kids on stage for interactive games, where in the end, they all win prizes regardless of the outcome. In other blocks, Xuxa received various professionals (such as esquetistas, swimmers, animal trainers, etc.), who showed their work. She also received some famous people, like Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen. She also sang versions of her songs known during the program, and in the end, she kissed a chosen child on stage.

History

Background
In 1992, when Xuxa was making a lot of success in Brazil and in Latin American countries such as Argentina, with its programs Xou da Xuxa and El Show de Xuxa, companies MTM Enterprises and DiC Entertainment competed to bring the presenter to the US with proposals for a program based on the singer, however, she refused the invitations, because she believed that she should learn to speak English first, so she could think about having a program in the USA.

Development and release
In 1993, Xuxa returned with the idea of doing a show in the United States, closing with MTM Enterprises, who wanted to do a project based on the original television program of the presenter, while DiC Entertainment wanted to make a program of its own, totally different from what Xuxa imagined. The program was designed to have 65 episodes in the first season, recorded at the CBS network studios (it was filmed in the largest CBS Television City studio in Hollywood) with a screening for The Family Channel, dedicated to children ages 2 to 11. MTM Productions was the former MTM Enterprises, one of the most acclaimed TV producers of the 1970s and 1980s.

Expenditures around weekly production were budgeted between $150,000 to $200,000 according to Broadcasting & Cable magazine, all about building a great setting, with capacity for 150 to 200 children that would be built for the six weeks of recordings. The total cost was more than $2 million.

To some observers, Xuxa's entry into the dominant American market reminded her of another multitalented Brazilian celebrity; commenting on the movement, the editor of Brazil magazine in Los Angeles wrote that "since Carmen Miranda, Brazil did not have an exportable artist."

For a year, the program aired without reruns, since Xuxa had recorded a good part of the episodes. But the program did not achieve the expected success. From September 1994, the program began to be re-run, remaining in the air until 1996, when the contract with MTM was not renewed.

Also in 1994, Xuxa recorded some unpublished blocks to be inserted in the programs reworked.

The show got 1.74 of audience in the month of November, which means that 16,000 families attended the show during that month.

Controversy
In April 1993, The Globe tabloid published a full-page article in which she called Xuxa a "porn queen," for her posing briefly for Playboy and for her part in the film Love Strange Love, where her character seduces a boy of 12 years. The Globe criticized televangelist Pat Robertson, one of the owners of MTM Enterprises, which produced the new Xuxa show in the US, "pay-TV pastor invites porn queen to present his new show for kids," wrote reporter Bob Michals. In the report, MTM spokesman Gary Berberet tries to soften the controversy by saying, "We knew of his past, but she (Xuxa) brings so much joy to the children of the world that we would not stop her from bringing this joy for America too." The article titled Vaca sagrada, also features statements by David Harrel, biographer of Pat Robertson, "like every successful religious figure, Robertson does not separate God's voice from the voice of opportunity." The journalist Bob Michals describes the presenter as a "provocative woman, who presents her show tucked in a pair of slacks or micro-shoes, high-top boots and revealing jackets."

Award
The program was nominated in 1994 for a Daytime Emmy Award in the category of Best Art Direction / Scenery / Scenography.

Episodes

Ed Alonzo (5 episodes)
Alvin and the Chipmunks
American Gladiators
Birthday Party
Deborah Blando
Butterfly Man (2 episodes)
Rudy Colby (2 episodes)
Jeff Dunham (2 episodes)
Joan Embery (2 episodes)
Expose
Michael Feinstein (2 episodes)
Mitch Gaylord & trampoline
Bob Golic
Harlem Globetrotters
Woody Itson
Waylon Jennings (2 episodes)
Jugglers
Juggling Duo The Mums
David Larible
Amos Levkovitch
Ronn Lucas (2 episodes)
Cheech Marín
Marsupial
Marty Putz
Mess of Mutts (2 episodes)
Mongolian Acrobats
Robert Nelson
Mark Nizer
Olga the Gymnast
Olsen Twins (2 episodes)
Orangutan
Matt Plendl (2 episodes)
Marty Putz
Raven-Symoné
Rebel Ropers
Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus
Skate Squad
Craig Taubman
Team Rollerblade
Universal Studios Animals
Kim Zmeskal

Home video

VHS: Funtastic Birthday Party and Celebration with Cheech Marin
The show received five volumes on VHS, released in 1994 by The Family Channel and Sony Wonder. Two of VHS are highly sought after today: Funtastic Birthday Party and Celebration with Cheech Marin.

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Dolls
Rose Art Industries launched a line of Xuxa dolls at the American International Toy Fair in 1993, before the show debuted. The dolls, inspired by the features of the presenter, would be the same size of the famous Barbie doll, and would be sold for $5.99, only the doll and $24.99, when the doll came with accessories. The fashion doll was launched across North America, and was quickly becoming the top-selling ethnic doll in the United States, with 500 dolls sold only on the debut weekend, which took place on the famous Toys R Us Toys Network The doll ended up selling more than expected, which was 200,000 dolls sold, prompting Rose Art to manufacture 50,000 more dolls to surpass demand. The dolls also came with a little K7 tape with songs by Xuxa in English. All these tapes have the name: Xuxa, The Real Superstar.


Tom Morton-Smith

Tom Morton-Smith, (born 1980) is an English playwright.

Biography
Morton-Smith studied Drama at the University of East Anglia before training as an actor at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art.

In 2006 he was selected to be part of Future Perfect, a writer's group attached to Paines Plough theatre company. In 2007 he joined the company as their playwright-in-residence.

His debut stage play, Salt Meets Wound, premiered at Theatre503 in May 2007.

His play Oppenheimer, about the physicist J Robert Oppenheimer and the building of the atomic bomb, was performed by the Royal Shakespeare Company in 2015 in the Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, until it transferred to London's West End in April 2015.


Dissolvable tobacco

Dissolvable tobacco is a tobacco product. Unlike ordinary chewing tobacco, it dissolves in the mouth. Major tobacco manufacturers that sell dissolvable tobacco products include R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company (Camel-branded "Orbs," "Strips," and "Sticks," 2009) and Star Scientific ("Ariva," 2001 and "Stonewall," 2003). The move of the major players into the smokeless tobacco market is attributed to smoke-free laws in the United States.
Research into health effects of this and other new tobacco products was among the reasons of the establishment of the Tobacco Products Scientific Advisory Committee of the Food and Drug Administration in 2009.

Camel Dissolvables
Camel Dissolvables is a new line of products manufactured by R.J. Reynolds. The Camel Dissolvables line includes Camel Orbs, Camel Strips, and Camel Sticks which are currently in test markets in Columbus, Ohio, Indianapolis, and Portland, Oregon. The Camel Dissolvables brands are marketed as "a convenient alternative to cigarettes, and moist snuff for adult tobacco consumers." Camel Dissolvables "will not be positioned as a smoking cessation or reduced risk product," and are evolutions from the loose and pouched smokeless tobacco options. With marketing still being developed, R.J. Reynolds has announced that "print ads, direct marketing, sampling at bars and nightclubs and point of purchase" advertising will support the campaign.

Product constituents
The Camel Orbs contain finely grained tobacco mixed with "additives such as water, flavorants, binders, colorants, pH adjusters, buffering agents, fillers, disintegration aids, humectants, antioxidants, oral care ingredients, preservatives, additives derived from herbal or botanical sources, and mixtures thereof." The Camel Orbs come in two styles, Mellow and Fresh. Each pellet contains 1 milligram of nicotine, dissolving in the mouth in 10–15 minutes. The Camel Sticks product is a twisted stick the size of a toothpick that lasts in the mouth about 20–30 minutes, and contains 3.1 milligrams of nicotine. The Camel Sticks are for insertion between the upper lip and gum, and come in one style, Mellow. The Camel Strips contain 0.6 milligrams of nicotine per strip and come in one style, Fresh. The Camel Strips last 2–3 minutes on the tongue, administering nicotine through thin film drug delivery technology as used in Listerine PocketPacks breath freshening strips. A specific ingredient list naming all additives has not been made public for any of the Camel Dissolvables brands.

Ariva and Stonewall dissolvables
Currently, Star Scientific manufactures two brands of dissolvable tobacco, Ariva and Stonewall. Both brands contain Virginia StarCured flue-cured powdered Virginia tobacco compressed into smoke-free, spit-free, flavored dissolvable tobacco pieces packaged in blister packages and cardboard carton. The Ariva and Stonewall brands are marketed as a means of "reducing toxins in tobacco so that adult consumers can have access to products that expose them to sharply reduced toxin levels" while still providing consumers with tobacco and nicotine. The product is not marketed as a smoking cessation product, but an "alternative tobacco product" that is "not combusted." Star Scientific recommends the Ariva brand for smokers whereas, the Stonewall brand is recommended for heavy smokers, defined as smokers who consume more than one pack a day, and users of other smokeless tobacco products such as snuff. The Ariva brand has been shown to have significantly reduced levels of tobacco-specific lung carcinogen 4-(methylnitrosamino)-l-(3-pyridyl)-l-butanone (NNK) although "exposures to other tobacco-specific nitrosamines (i.e., NNN), polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (e.g., benzo[a]pyrene), and metals" have not been assessed. However, Star Scientific notes, "there is currently no proof that lowering nitrosamines will decrease health risk."

Product constituents
The Ariva brand, introduced in 2001, contains 1.5 milligrams of nicotine in each piece and dissolves in the mouth in 10–30 minutes. The Stonewall brand, introduced in 2003, have more surface area than the Ariva pieces and contain four milligrams of nicotine per piece, with each piece dissolving in 10–30 minutes. The Ariva brand is offered in Wintergreen flavor and the Stonewall brand is offered in Natural, Wintergreen, and Java flavors. Other than the Virginia StarCured Tobacco and "other natural and artificial flavorings" including the non-sugar sweetener sucralose, Star Scientific has not made a specific ingredient list public because it claims to "seek to protect proprietary product information" because Stonewall and Ariva are "the only dissolvable smokeless tobacco products in the marketplace."

Demise of the Ariva and Stonewall brands

On December 18, 2012, Star Scientific announced its intention to discontinue the production of its dissolvable tobacco products, citing lagging sales and marketing difficulties due to regulations contained in the Tobacco Control Act.

Public health reactions

Underage consumption
From the introduction of Ariva in 2001 there have been several public health claims that the dissolvable tobacco products pose a serious risk for unintentional poisonings in children and adolescents. Petitions from the American Cancer Society, Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, Attorneys General from 39 states, and multiple public health organizations were sent to the FDA asking for regulation of the Ariva brand and similar products.

A recent study by the Harvard School of Public Health and Centers for Disease Control on unintentional child poisonings from ingestion of tobacco products also assessed the toxicity of the new Camel Orbs, which "are of concern due to their discreet form, candy-like appearance, and added flavorings that may be attractive to young children." The study examined two flavors of Camel Orbs to find that 42% of the nicotine was in the un-ionized form, "compared with averages of 28–30% for moist snuff and <10% for cigarettes." The danger of un-ionized nicotine is its more rapid absorption in the mouth, which could increase the nicotine’s toxicity. The lead researcher, Gregory Connolly, notes that "a small pellet with a rapid release of nicotine and a young child with a low body weight can be a very serious problem," by creating potential for nicotine poisoning, for example, which manifests as abdominal cramps, drooling, tremors, nausea, vomiting, agitation, and in more extreme cases, seizures, coma, and death.

The study also assessed the burden of child poisonings from tobacco products across the country, finding that 13,705 tobacco product ingestion cases were reported in the two-year period, with >70% occurring in infants less than one year of age.

Industry responses
 Response from R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company to Pediatrics Article on Unintentional Child Poisonings Through Ingestion of Conventional and Novel Tobacco Products
 R.J. Reynolds Response Statement to Camel Dissolvables Misrepresentations
 Star Scientific Statement on Tobacco Product Ingestion Study

Harm reduction
Public Health researchers are now showing that the consumption of low nitrosamine smokeless tobacco (LN-SLT) as an alternative to cigarettes may have mortality and morbidity risks for oral cancer and heart disease, but "The risks of using LN-SLT products...should not be portrayed as comparable with those of smoking cigarettes as has been the practice of some governmental and public health authorities in the past."