Ashley Park (actress)

Ashley Jini Park (born June 6, 1991) is an American actress, dancer, and singer. She is known for her work on Broadway as Tuptim in the 2015 revival of The King and I and for originating the role of Gretchen Wieners in the 2018 Tony-nominated musical, Mean Girls, for the latter of which she received Drama Desk Award and Tony Award nominations.

Early life and education
Park was born in Glendale, California and grew up in Ann Arbor, Michigan. She is the oldest daughter born to Andrew and Sara Park and has a younger sister, Audrey.

She was placed in dance classes at the Oceanside Dance Academy at age 3 and began piano lessons at age 5. Park's love of performing led her to participate in Ann Arbor's community kids’ theatre throughout middle school and high school. She also attended Interlochen Summer Arts Camp in 2003. Park attended Pioneer High School where she participated in both theatre and choir. She also co-founded a women's a cappella group at Pioneer High School that placed second at a national competition in 2009.

During her sophomore year in high school at age 15, she was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia and was hospitalized for 8 months. Park was a recipient of a "wish" from the Make-A-Wish Foundation for which she and her family went to New York City and saw the Broadway productions of A Chorus Line, The Lion King, Spring Awakening, and Wicked. In interviews she has stated, "My cancer experience is, I think, the reason I do theater...As soon as I was out of the hospital, all I wanted to do is be around people." After chemotherapy, Park returned to high school, and three months later, she was cast as Millie Dillmount in her high school's production of Thoroughly Modern Millie. Park has disclosed that during this time, “putting on a wig and putting on shoes and costume and being a different person was the best escape from being just the girl who had cancer.”

She graduated from Pioneer High School in 2009 and then attended the University of Michigan, earning a BFA in musical theatre in 2013. During her undergraduate years, she co-founded the Michigan Performance Outreach Workshop (MPOW).

Career
In the summer of 2009, Park was cast as Yvonne and an ensemble member in the Music Theatre Wichita production of Miss Saigon in Wichita, Kansas. Park spent the next two summer seasons performing in various productions at the Benedum Center in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania with the Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera during which she earned her Equity card.

Park made her Broadway debut as a member of the ensemble in Mamma Mia! at the Broadhurst Theatre on February 17, 2014. She left the production on September 21, 2014. From October 2014 to January 2015, Park portrayed Gabrielle in the original U.S national touring company of Rodgers + Hammerstein's Cinderella.

Park then returned to Broadway on April 16, 2015 in her first leading role as Tuptim in the 2015 revival of The King and I at the Vivian Beaumont Theater and remained with the production until its closing on June 26, 2016. Park was featured as a principal soloist on the cast recording for which she was nominated for a Grammy Award.

In February 2017, she appeared in the Broadway revival of Sunday in the Park with George as Celeste #1 and Theresa alongside Jake Gyllenhaal, Annaleigh Ashford, and Ruthie Ann Miles.

In the fall of 2017, Park portrayed MwE in the off-Broadway musical, KPOP, at the Ars Nova. She was nominated for a Drama Desk Award and a Drama League Award and also won a Lucille Lortel Award for this role. Park left the production in October 2017 due to her beginning rehearsals for the Mean Girls out-of-town tryout and was replaced by Marina Kondo.

Park starred as Gretchen Wieners in the Tony Award-nominated Broadway musical, Mean Girls, written by Tina Fey with music and lyrics by Jeff Richmond and Nell Benjamin, respectively. The show had its world premiere as an out-of-town tryout at the National Theatre in Washington, D.C. from October 31, 2017 to December 3, 2017 in which Park originated the role of Gretchen Wieners. The musical, which is based on the film of the same name, began previews on March 12, 2018, and officially opened on Broadway on April 8, 2018 at the August Wilson Theatre in New York City. She received nominations for numerous awards for her role as Gretchen Wieners, including nominations for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical, the Drama League Award, and the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical. In May 2018 Park was awarded the Clarence Derwent Award, an honor "given to the most promising female and male performers" in New York City, by the Actors’ Equity Foundation, along with Sean Carvajal. On March 10, 2019, Park left the production and was replaced by Krystina Alabado.

Philanthropy and social activism
As a student at the University of Michigan, Park was the co-founder of the Michigan Performance Outreach Workshop (MPOW), a student-run organization with the purpose of bringing performing arts educational opportunities to students in southeastern Michigan to, "foster creative expression, build self-esteem, and strengthen the community." MPOW hosts an on-campus workshop each semester for 130-200 public school students that includes performances by University of Michigan students as well as immersive and collaborative workshops in all arts-based disciplines. In 2013 Park was awarded with the Willis Patterson Diversity Award for using her "talents and scholarly abilities to enhance the development of, and appreciation for, a more culturally and ethnically diverse community in the School of Music, Theatre & Dance" at the University of Michigan.

During her undergraduate, Park was also involved with the Prison Creative Arts Project, an organization that engages "those impacted by the justice system into artistic collaboration" with University of Michigan students for "mutual learning and growth through theatre, dance, visual art, creative writing, slam poetry, and music" in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Since moving to NYC, Park has participated in events supporting Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS (BCEFA). In June 2018, she participated in the 28th annual Broadway Bares, an annual burlesque/striptease show fundraiser for BCEFA and personally raised nearly $3,000 for the organization. In August 2018 Park participated in Covenant House's Stage & Screen Sleep Out along with Mean Girls co-stars Kyle Selig and Curtis Holland, and together they raised over $14,000 for this organization which provides shelter, food, and crisis care for the homeless and runaway youth.

She also has served as a mentor and held masterclasses for various programs and organizations, such as The Broadway Collective and Broadway Workshop.

Theatre credits

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Filmography

Film

Television

Discography

Cast recordings
 The King and I - The 2015 Broadway Cast Recording (2015)
 Sunday in the Park with George - 2017 Broadway Cast Recording (2017)
 The Greatest Showman - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (2017)
 Mean Girls - Original Broadway Cast Recording (2018)

Collaborative projects
 Broadway's Carols for a Cure, Volume 17 (2015)
 Broadway's Carols for a Cure, Volume 20 (2018)

As featured artist
 "Rockin' Around the Pole" by The Hot Elves (2018)

Awards and nominations

Special honors and awards
 2013 – Willis Patterson Diversity Award
 2018 – Clarence Derwent Award
 2019 – Cancer Support Community's Marin Mazzie Award for Empowerment


Joseph E. Coleman

Joseph E. "Joe" Coleman was an American politician, attorney and chemist. He was a member of the Democratic Party.

Early life
Coleman was born in 1922, and grew up in Mississippi during a time in which the southern United States was dominated by racial segregation and the Jim Crow laws. In 1948, he became the first African-American to earn a degree from Albright College. He went on to work as a research chemist, patent attorney and author.

City council
In 1971, Coleman was elected to the Philadelphia City Council, representing the Eighth District.

Presidency
In June 1980, incumbent Council President George Schwartz was implicated in the Abscam scandal, and resigned. Coleman became Acting Council President, and was unanimously elected to the post when Council reconvened in October. He became the first African-American elected to the post in the city's history.

As President, Coleman sought to maintain a more conciliatory atmosphere than the more combative Schwartz. Anna Verna, a close friend and colleague of Coleman's (who went on to become the City Council's first female President in 1999), characterized Coleman's leadership style as "calm". He also sought to clean up the Council's image in the wake of Abscam, while dramatically increasing the Council's oversight of Mayoral projects and plans.

He saw-off a challenge to his presidency following the 1987 elections, when Joan Krajewski, also a Democrat, sought to unseat him.

Retirement
After surviving a tough re-election contest in 1987, in which the Philadelphia Inquirer strongly endorsed his Republican opponent, Coleman announced that he would not seek re-election on February 14, 1991. Herbert DeBeary, a former Democratic primary opponent of Coleman's, went on to win the election to succeed him.

Personal life
Coleman was married, and had three children—a son and two daughters. In September 1997, his daughter, Stephanie Coleman Epps, was shot to death in front of her two children by a former boyfriend. Coleman, who was suffering from the effects of diabetes, was unable to attend the trial, though the man was convicted of the murder and sentenced to death in December of that year.

Death and honors
On December 31, 2000, Coleman died in the Mount Airy home he shared with his wife, Jessie.

The Community Education Centers named its Philadelphia-area treatment center after Coleman. The Center's clients are referred through the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, the Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole, or the Bucks County Department of Corrections. The Center, named Coleman Hall, provides an array of residential reentry treatment services designed to reduce recidivism. In 2002, the Philadelphia Free Library system's Northwest Regional Library, located in Germantown, was renamed the Joseph E. Coleman Northwest Regional Library.

Albright College also created a scholarship award in Coleman's honor. The Distinguished Joseph E. Coleman Award provides financial assistance ranging from $8,000 to $12,000 to African-American students that show academic excellence as well as community and/or extracurricular involvement.


Club Industriel de Kamsar

Club Industriel de Kamsar is an association football club from Guinea based in Kamsar. They are members of the Guinée Championnat National.

Honours
Guinée Coupe Nationale: 0
Runner-up (3 times): 2004, 2006, 2013

External links

Team profile – soccerway.com


Australian mining entrepreneurs

The Australian mining industry has had a series of people who have had significant impact on the Australian economy as well as the mining industry due to their wealth, and their investment in the industry. Sometimes they are designated as Mining Magnates, and they are ascribed other titles such as Mining Tycoons, however in most cases they are significantly very public figures in the media of their times. Also during various changes in the national economy and mining industry some smaller players have had to adapt to the change.

There have been occasions where they join in protest against politicians, or alternatively they become leaders of political parties, or politicians.  The claims that Australian mining entrepreneurs have control over the political process also arises at times. At times tycoons have also been known to have rivalries and difference that become public.

Some people who have been more acutely private about their wealth and lives, also can be understood to be those who have gained from the mining and resources industries, such as Mark Creasy, Rick Stowe and Alan Bond whose interests at some stage in his fluctuating fortunes had investments in the industry. Stan Perron is also another who shies from any publicity. There are also lesser known individuals who have also contributed to the industry, who have not been recognised for their investment in the industry.

Notable Australian mining entrepreneurs
Claude de Bernales
Robert Champion de Crespigny
Joseph Gutnick
Lang Hancock
Gina Rinehart
Andrew Forrest
Clive Palmer
Peter Wright
Mark Creasy

Obscure entrepreneurs
 Ping Que
 Watt family

Notes


Fredrik K.B.

Fredrik K.B. is a Norwegian sculptor (born 1978 in Oslo, Norway) living and working nearby Amsterdam, Netherlands. At the age of five, when asked by adults what he wanted to become when he grew up, Fredrik K.B.  answered: 'I already am a sculptor; I just have not started sculpting yet'.
In 2009 Fredrik K.B. was elected "young Artist of the year" by a jury of artists, art consultants and gallerists in Norway. The competition was initiated by Hotel Continental which has been known for its involvement with art and artists since 1909.

Exhibitions, collections and organisations
Fredrik K.B. has since his debut had many exhibitions in Norway, Denmark, the Netherlands, Italy and France. In October 2010 he will have his debut in London, UK, where he will share an exhibition with the well-known British painter Michael Aubrey.
Fredrik K.B. has exhibited his sculptures in group exhibitions with Scandinavian masters like Edvard Munch, Kai Fjell, Pushwagner, Frans Widerberg, Nico Widerberg, Kirsten Kokkin, Morten Krogvold and others. His artworks has been bought into numerous collections, amongst others the collection of Hotel Continental in Oslo, which also holds one of the biggest private collections of works by Edvard Munch in Norway.

Fredrik K.B. is a member of the Royal British Society of Sculptors and the Association of Norwegian Sculptors.

About the art
Fredrik K.B. is most known for his sculptures in granite and marble, but he also makes glass sculptures and graphic art.
His expression varies between gracious female sculptures and raw, sometimes abstract forms. However, his sculptures always consist human forms. The Danish art-collector and gallery-owner Johnny Emil Larsen has said about the works of Fredrik K.B. that "what connects his work, in all its diversity, is that when one looks at the sculptures, one gets the feeling that he has carved the granite with his own fingernails".
Fredrik K.B. executes all the sculpting himself. The work in glass he does in cooperation with Dutch glass artist Reina Oversteegen.

Realizing the dream
Already as a child Fredrik K.B. dreamed about making sculptures in stone. At the age of five he knew the feeling that there were lines and forms that belonged to him and could express him in the world. At the age of eighteen he decided to go to Italy to learn how to carve marble.
Before leaving for Italy, Fredrik K.B. spent two years searching for his own lines. These two years he did not touch a stone, he only drew his lines with black pen on white paper. He let go of all ideas about how the result had to be, only focusing on making one perfect line, one perfect form.
Fredrik K.B. believed that if every line and every form was perfect, the final result would be perfect as well. The word "perfect" in this context meaning completely his.
When Fredrik K.B. came to Carrara, Italy; famous all over the world for its marble, no marble studio would accept him. So Fredrik K.B. bought himself a hammer and some chisels and went up into the marble mountains near Seravezza, where Michelangelo was the first one to take out marble. High in the mountains Fredrik found a stone and started sculpting. After several weeks in the mountains, his first sculpture "Albert" was finished and he managed to carry it down to Pietrasanta, a town said to be a world capital of sculpting. By showing his sculpture, Fredrik K.B. was allowed to work in a marble studio and learn from artists and artisans.


Cricket Revolution

Cricket Revolution is a sports multiplayer video game developed by Mindstorm Studios, based on the sport of cricket. The game focuses on an online community system serving detailed cricket stats for gamers through internet play in addition to a LAN based and offline component. It is the first ever video game developed by Pakistan to land on Steam.

Gameplay

The primary mode of play involves online competition through multiplayer or local area network, giving players access to community and competitive features. It also keeps track of all the players’ statistics, performance data, and match winning scores and innings. The tracked data is then posted online to overall leader board and ranking systems. Online leaderboards and scorecards allow access to batting and bowling statistics for all matches that they play across each season and see how they and their clubs rank against other individual players and rival clubs.

There are more than 30 shots with different uses depending on where the ball is going. Shots are played by pressing arrow keys at the right time.  A double-tap of the left arrow key will attempt to play a cut shot with a right-handed batsman and tapping down then left will play a cover drive.

Cricket Revolution revolves around online play, although the game does not take emphasis away from its single player gameplay. There are three additional single player modes: A complete ten teams league, a knock out tournament and an exhibition match. Each of these modes can further be played with varying difficulties and in three different formats – 10, 20 or 50 overs per each side. Players are also provided with training sessions in net practice to get acquainted with the game.

Development
Mindstorm Studios originally announced that the game would be only available via Steam with a targeted release date in September. However, the developers failed to meet the target date, stating that they were working on some minor gameplay issues.


Suprascapular vein

The suprascapular vein is a vein running above the scapula. It empties into the external jugular vein.

External links
 Nervous system


Newaygo State Park

Newaygo State Park is a public recreation area covering  on the south side of Hardy Dam Pond in Big Prairie Township, Newaygo County, Michigan. The state park sits atop  embankments overlooking the six-mile-long (10 km),  impoundment of the Muskegon River.

History
The park was created in 1966 when the state leased acreage that included  of water frontage from Consumers Power Company.

Activities and amenities
The park offers swimming, fishing for bass, walleye and panfish, boat launch, picnicking, playground, and 99 rustic campsites.


Bożkowice

Bożkowice  () is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Olszyna, within Lubań County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in south-western Poland.

It lies approximately  south-west of Olszyna,  south of Lubań, and  west of the regional capital Wrocław.


Vince Jasper

Vince Jasper is a former professional American football player who played offensive lineman for the New York Jets.


Death-Day

Death-Day is a webcomic and series of graphic novels created by Minnesota cartoonist Sam Hiti and edited by Joseph Midthun. The comic follows a group of soldiers fighting groteque monsters on an alien planet and has a pronounced war-theme. Death-Day was published online in episodic form since 2009, and the first of four graphic novels was published in September 2010. The comic was well-received because of its detailed art.

Synopsis
Lauren Davis, writing for Comics Alliance, summed Death-Day up as "military science fiction filled with unnerving biomechanical creations. Death-Day is about a group of soldiers stranded on an exotic planet, where they have to defend themselves against grotesque monsters while attempting to find a way back to Earth. Max Sparber of MinnPost pointed out that the comic has a near-total lack of exposition, as most context of the story is left untold. It is unclear why a war is taking place between humanity and the enormous six-limbed monsters or on what world the characters are stationed. All that is clear is the mission of the military team: to destroy some sort of black orb behind enemy lines.

Development

Established comics creator Sam Hiti got the inspiration to create Death-Day after the September 11 attacks and the wars that followed shortly after the collapse of the World Trade Center. As a child, Hiti did not know what the letter D in "D-Day" stood for, and concluded that it must stand for "death" due to all the deceased people that are shown on television on the anniversary of the Normandy landings. Later in life, Hiti decided that if he were ever to write a story about war, "Death-Day" would make a great title.

Hiti created Death-Day in collaboration with Joseph "Joe" Midthun, who took on the role of editor. Midthun lived in the same apartment building as Hiti and studied film in college, which got the two talking about comics. As Hiti "respected what he had to say," he showed Midthun an early draft of Death-Day, after which he slowly became part of the creation process. The development of Death-Day took multiple years: though Midthun considered the art to be of high quality, the two had difficulty figuring out an ending for the comic. Hiti and Midthun went through a process of moving art around and changing the format of the story, but to no avail. After a few years, this version of the story was scrapped and the two started from scratch. Hiti has said that he has "4-foot[sic] high stack of pages" that will probably never be released.

According to Hiti, communication between him and Midthun was poor during the development process, but Hiti "respected [Midthun's] intelligence enough" to try and work through it. Hiti stated that Midthun "challenged [him] technically, creatively, and internally." Midthun similarly stated that the collaboration it was difficult at first, and that though his background in film gave him experience in working with other people, creating an independent comic was very different.

Content
Death-Day was initially created in a more "spiritual setting" and Hiti has stated that the comic turned out "more science fiction" than he had originally planned. Hiti wanted the comic to be set in a world which the reader can relate to, and felt adding science fiction elements helped in this regard. He said that the purpose of both science and spirituality is to answer deep philosophical questions, and Midthun added that Death-Day is "just fiction ... a reflection of reality." Midthun said that, through Death-Day, the two are trying to make a statement both about comics and about life itself.

Hiti let himself be influenced by things he visually ingested as a child, such as cartoons and old war and science fiction films. Furthermore, Hiti was inspired by a quote from C.S. Lewis he heard at a conference in 2005, which made him focus more on writing a "good story" rather than writing what he believed in:

Release

Hiti and Midthun first released Death-Day in the form of a webcomic on his own website, before publishing the series in the form of graphic novels. Death-Day consists of twenty "episodes", each approximately 30 pages in length. The first episode was released on Hiti's personal website on October 31, 2009, which got 8,000 unique views in ten days. The second episode was released one month after the first. Each five episodes would eventually be compiled into one graphic novel, resulting in four books. The first graphic novel was published by La Luz Comics in September 2010.

In May 2015, Sam Hiti announced that he would retire his comics career entirely, possibly because of a series of unfortunate setbacks or due to ill health. Hiti has not responded to any inquiries regarding the future of his comics.

Reception
The first graphic novel of Death-Day was positively received after its release. Sparber of MinnPost liked the vagueness of the comic, stating that the unexplained nature of the war works well with the highly-detailed science fiction setting. Sparber also stated that the artwork is the finest aspect of the comic, praising the crowded frames filled with details and extensive shading, and declaring that some panels "must have taken hours to complete." Sparber also noticed a "deliberate sloppiness" to Hiti's style, as all lines seem to sway and shading is not perfectly executed, resulting in a "sense of frenzy." Cecilia Johnson of the Star Tribune also praised Hiti's "bold, expressive" artwork for its high level of detail.

Writing for Comic Book Resources, Michael May applauded Death-Days slowly paced story and densely packed artwork, saying that he "couldn’t help feeling satisfied" despite the fact that the story was still incomplete. May praised the comic highly because, according to him, "the world is so whole, the concept is so thorough [and] the characters are so well-rounded."


Zhang Jiabao

Zhang Jiabao (; born September 1957) is a Chinese soil scientist who is a researcher at the Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He is also a professor and doctoral supervisor at the University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Biography
Zhang was born in Gaoyou, Jiangsu, in September 1957. He attended Nanjing Agricultural University where he received his bachelor's degree in 1982. After completing his master's degree at the Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, he attended the University of the Philippines where he obtained his doctor's degree in soil physics in 1990.

Honours and awards
 November 22, 2019 Member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE)


Feisal Abdul Rauf

Feisal Abdul Rauf (, born 1948) is a Kuwaiti-born Egyptian-American Sufi imam, author, and activist whose stated goal is to improve relations between the Muslim world and the West. From 1983 to 2009, he served as Imam of Masjid al-Farah, a mosque in New York City. He has written three books on Islam and its place in contemporary Western society, including  What's Right with Islam Is What's Right with America, and founded two non-profit organizations whose stated missions are to enhance the discourse on Islam in society.

He has condemned the 9/11 attacks as un-Islamic and called on the U.S. government to reduce the threat of terrorism by altering its Middle Eastern foreign policy. Author Karen Armstrong, among others, has praised him for his attempts to build bridges between the West and the Muslim world. In 2010, Sufi Imam Rauf received national attention for his plans to build Park51, an Islamic Community Center, two blocks from Ground Zero in Lower Manhattan.

Early life
Rauf was born in Kuwait. His father, Egyptian Imam and Sunni scholar Muhammad Abdul Rauf (1917–2004), moved with the younger Rauf to New York City in the 1960s. The elder Rauf assisted with efforts to create the multimillion dollar Islamic Cultural Center of New York, the first building designed as a mosque in New York City, which took 25 years to complete and opened in 1991. His father, Abdul Rauf, was actively involved in the Civil Rights Movement with Malcolm X. Rauf studied physics at Columbia University, where he earned his bachelor's degree in nuclear engineering in 1969, before earning a master's degree in plasma physics at Stevens Institute in Hoboken, New Jersey.

Career
After finishing college, Rauf focused on religion, and became the leader of a New York City mosque. Rauf has written three books on Islam and its place in contemporary Western society, including What's Right with Islam, later printed in paperback with the changed title What's Right with Islam is What's Right with America. Rauf served as imam of Masjid al-Farah in New York City's Tribeca district between 1983 and 2009.

Rauf is a friend of the Nur Ashki Jerrahi Sufi Order, and in 1983, he was appointed prayer leader at their Masjid al-Farah mosque. In 1997, he founded the American Sufi Muslim Society (ASMA), which has since been renamed the American Society for Muslim Advancement. Rauf worked to improve relationships between American society, the American Muslim community and the wider Muslim world. He founded the American Society for Muslim Advancement (originally named the American Sufi Muslim Association.)

The organization is now headed by his wife. He is a member of the Council of 100 Leaders (C-100) on West-Islamic World Dialogue at the World Economic Forum (WEF) and has received both the Alliance for International Conflict Prevention and Resolution's annual Alliance Peacebuilder Award and The Interfaith Center of New York's annual James Parks Morton Interfaith Award (2006). He was a major speaker at the 2009 Parliament of the World's Religions in Melbourne, Australia. In 2003, Rauf founded the Cordoba Initiative, another registered nonprofit organization with offices in both New York and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. As CEO of Cordoba Initiative, Rauf coordinates projects that emphasize the bonds that connect the Muslim world and the West.

Post-9/11
Following the September 11 attacks, Rauf conducted training and speeches for the F.B.I. and U.S. State Department. However, some U.S. politicians have voiced concerns about his views, referring to comments Rauf made when interviewed by Ed Bradley on CBS 60 Minutes on September 30, 2001. Rauf's website says he was referring to the US CIA in the 1980s "financing Osama Bin Laden and strengthening the Taliban." Columnist Jonathan Rauch wrote that Rauf gave a "mixed, muddled, muttered" message after 9/11. Nineteen days after the attacks, he told CBS's 60 Minutes that fanaticism and terrorism have no place in Islam. Rauch said that the message was mixed, however, because when then asked if the U.S. deserved the attacks, Rauf answered, "I wouldn't say that the United States deserved what happened. But the United States' policies were an accessory to the crime that happened." When the interviewer asked Rauf how he considered the U.S. to be an accessory, he replied, "because we have been accessory to a lot of innocent lives dying in the world. In fact, in the most direct sense, Osama bin Laden is made in the USA."
 Although this CIA-Osama bin Laden controversy has been brought up by many others, Rudy Giuliani, Peter T. King, Rick Lazio, and Sarah Palin expressed concern about these remarks when discussing Rauf as the driving force behind the Park51 project.

Speaking at his New York mosque in 2004, Imam Feisal said: "The Islamic method of waging war is not to kill innocent civilians. But it was Christians in World War II who bombed civilians in Dresden and Hiroshima, neither of which were military targets." He also said that there could be little progress in Western-Islamic relations until the U.S. acknowledged backing Middle East dictators and give an "American Culpa" speech to the Muslim world, because there are "an endless supply of angry young Muslim rebels prepared to die for their cause and there [is] no sign of the attacks ending unless there [is] a fundamental change in the world".

Responding to a question during an interview on New York WABC radio in June 2010 regarding the U.S. State Department's designation of Hamas as a terrorist organization, Rauf said, "I'm not a politician. The issue of terrorism is a very complex question ... I am a peace builder. I will not allow anybody to put me in a position where I am seen by any party in the world as an adversary or as an enemy."

Park51

Sharif El-Gamal, chairman and chief executive of Soho Properties, bought 45 Park Place in July, 2009. "It's really to provide a place of peace, a place of services and solutions for the community which is always looking for interfaith dialogue." Plans for the project include a mosque which would accommodate 1,000–2,000 Muslims in prayer. Rauf won support from the local Community Board, and received both support and opposition from some 9/11 families, politicians, organizations, academics, and others. The initiative was supported by some Muslim American leaders and organizations, including CAIR, and criticized by some other Muslims such as Sufi mystic Stephen Suleyman Schwartz, director of the Center for Islamic Pluralism in Washington.

Controversy over the location—in close proximity to Ground Zero—ensued, and in an interview with Larry King on September 8, 2010, Rauf was asked "... given what you know now, would you have said, listen, let's not do it there? Because it sounds like you're saying in retrospect wouldn't have done it." Rauf answered: "If I knew this would happen, this would cause this kind of pain, I wouldn't have done it. My life has been devoted to peacemaking." On September 12, 2010 on This Week with Christiane Amanpour, Abdul Rauf repeated that if complaints had been raised in December 2009 when the project was front page news in The New York Times, he would have moved it, but at that time there was broad support for it, which did not change until May. He furthermore expressed concern that a move would be used by radicals internationally to claim that "Islam is under attack in the Western world".

On January 14, 2011, Park51 developer Sharif el-Gamal surprised Rauf by unilaterally announcing that Rauf would no longer speak for or raise money for Park51, replacing him with Imam Abdallah Adhami. The split was attributed to a number of differences in vision for the project—Rauf had wanted a larger interfaith center named Cordoba House, but el-Gamal had changed the name to Park51, wanted it to primarily serve Muslims, and to have a local scope. The removal of Rauf from this leadership role raised concerns that the project would be unable to raise the necessary funds to build the planned center. On January 29, Rauf announced that he would move the Cordoba House to a different site if one were offered to him and if the new site was "on par, or even better" than the current Park51 site.

Rental properties

Rauf owns several apartment buildings in Hudson County, New Jersey, including four in Union City, and one in North Bergen in which he lives. By 2010, numerous residents of Rauf's properties in Union City had alleged that those properties have fallen into disrepair over the course of the prior several years, with some of the residents attributing this to time Rauf spends on his activities in Lower Manhattan. On September 8, 2010, Union City Mayor Brian P. Stack, who criticized Rauf as a "slumlord", announced court actions to have a custodial receiver take over management of these properties, and the creation of a Quality of Life Task Force to identify 15 apartment buildings in need of renovations, including Rauf's.

A September 15, 2010 hearing revealed that following a September 7 inspection that determined imminent hazards, police began monitoring two of Rauf's buildings, due to inoperable fire alarms and sprinklers, and failure on Rauf's part to hire a private fire patrol. Judge Thomas Olivieri gave Rauf's lawyers until September 23 to produce plans and evidence of efforts to address these violations, lest Rauf face loss of control over the buildings. On November 9, Judge Olivieri placed the Central Avenue property into temporary custodial receivership, with $7,000 in rent payments held in escrow from Rauf's attorney set aside to pay for the repairs.

According to 2010 reports by the Bergen Record, Rauf met with U.S. Senator Robert Menendez around 1991 when Menendez was Mayor of Union City, to request state funds to renovate three of his properties. As a result, Rauf received $80,000 in city funds, $384,000 from the Union City Community Development Agency, $1.3 million in construction loans from Hudson County's Affordable Housing Trust Fund, and $630,900 from the state. Rauf was also sued for fraud in 2008 by his one-time business partner, James Cockinos, over a $250,000 mortgage that Cockinos gave Rauf for his Central Avenue property, ownership of which Rauf then transferred to Sage Developments for a second $650,000 mortgage. Rauf and his wife, Daisy Khan, made payments to Cockinos for 11 years, but ceased after a fire damaged the property. The two parties settled out of court.

Reception
Fareed Zakaria praised Rauf for speaking of "the need for Muslims to live peacefully with all other religions", for emphasizing the commonalities among all faiths, for advocating equal rights for women and opposing laws that in any way punish non-Muslims.

Walter Isaacson, head of The Aspen Institute, says Rauf "has participated at the Aspen Institute in Muslim-Christian-Jewish working groups looking at ways to promote greater religious tolerance. He has consistently denounced radical Islam and terrorism, and promoted a moderate and tolerant Islam."

Views on Hamas
During an interview on New York WABC radio in June 2010, Rauf declined to say whether he agreed with the U.S. State Department's designation of Hamas as a terrorist organization. Responding to the question, Rauf said, "Look, I'm not a politician. The issue of terrorism is a very complex question ... I am a peace builder. I will not allow anybody to put me in a position where I am seen by any party in the world as an adversary or as an enemy." Sarah Palin and Lazio criticized his refusal to agree with the assessment of the United States that Hamas is a terrorist organization, and former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani alleged that Rauf had supported radical causes that sympathized with Islamic terrorism.

Personal life
Rauf's first wife was an American woman who converted to Islam. Rauf later married a Malaysian woman. Rauf has two children with each of his first two wives. He has been married to his third wife Daisy Khan since the late 1990s. Khan, a native of Kashmir, is a professional interior architect, but since 2005 has worked full-time for the two non-profit organizations founded by Rauf, and at times functions as his spokesperson. They live in North Bergen, New Jersey.

Selected bibliography

Books
Feisal Abdul Rauf, Moving the Mountain: Beyond Ground Zero to a New Vision of Islam in America (Free Press, 2012)
Feisal Abdul Rauf, What's Right with Islam: a New Vision for Muslims and the West (HarperCollins, 2004) , reissued as What's Right with Islam Is What's Right with America (HarperCollins, 2005) . (An Indonesian language edition was published in 2007, titled Seruan Azan Dari Puing WTC: Dakwah Islam di Jantung Amerika Pasca 9/11, which translates as A Call to Prayer from the WTC Rubble: Islamic Dawah from the Heart of America Post 911)
Feisal Abdul Rauf, Islam: A Sacred Law (Threshold Books, 2000)
Feisal Abdul Rauf, Islam: A Search for Meaning (Mazda Publishers, 1996)
Feisal Abdul Rauf and Laleh Bakhtiar, Quran for Children (Kazi Publications, 1985)

Other writings
"Building on Faith", The New York Times. September 7, 2010.
"Need for some cultural sensitivity", The Star (Malaysia). May 12, 2010.
"Using Qur'anic Narratives in Pursuit of Peace", Common Ground News Service, March 4, 2010.
"Putting the faith back", The Star (Malaysia). December 30, 2009.
"Religion must be part of the Afghanistan solution", The Star (Malaysia). October 12, 2009.
"Sharing the core of our beliefs", Common Ground News Service, March 31, 2009.
"Religious organisations are key to Mideast peace", Common Ground News Service, March 5, 2009.
"Preventing Chaos", The Star (Malaysia). March 9, 2008.
"Asceticism in Islam", Cross Currents. Winter, 2008, (vol. 57 No. 4) ed. by Pederson, Kusumita.
"The Ideals We Share", Newsweek. July 31, 2007. with Khan, Daisy.
"The End of Barbarism: The Phenomenon of Torture and the Search for Common Good", Pursuing the Global Common Good: Principle and Practice in US Foreign Policy. Washington, DC: Center for American Progress. 2007. with Schulz, William F., ed. by Steenland, Sally, et al. video
"What is Sunni Islam?" in Voices of Islam: Voices of Tradition, vol. 1 of 3, ed. Cornell, Vincent J. Westport: Praeger. 2007.
"Al-Qaeda's Greatest Fear may be US Leaving Iraq". Aspen Times. October 11, 2006. with Bennett, John.
"Arab Reform Final Report". New York: Council on Foreign Relations. 2005. with Albright, Madeleine, et al.
"Bringing Muslim Nations into the Global Century", Fortune. October 18, 2004.
"To wear scarf or not to wear scarf", The Star (Malaysia). August 19, 2014.


Sinuatodostomia nomurai

Sinuatodostomia nomurai is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pyramidellidae, the pyrams and their allies.


Ein Heim für Tiere

Ein Heim für Tiere (English: A Home for Animals) is a German television series that ran from 1985 to 1992, starring Siegfried Wischnewski, Marion Kracht, and Michael Lesch. It was first on the air January 23, 1985, and the last episode aired March 19, 1992. Eight seasons of the show were made.

The series is about a veterinarian living on a farm in the fictional town Adelsheim, where the main characters care for animals.


Masaru Kanbe

is a Japanese field hockey player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1960 Summer Olympics.


Chicalon

Chicalon is a derogatory term for an unrefined Mexicali, Baja California, Mexico resident.

Chicalon derives from the nickname "Chicali", for the city of Mexicali. It can be used in many forms, but mostly it describes a dirty, non-showering person from the slums or barrios. The term can also describe a female (Chicalona). Chicalon is mostly used by middle and upper class teens (Fresitas).


Abell 520

The Abell 520 galaxy cluster possesses an unusual substructure resulting from a major merger. It has been popularly nicknamed The Train Wreck Cluster, due to its chaotic structure, and is classified as a Bautz-Morgan type III cluster. It is at a co-moving radial distance of  and subtends 25 arcminutes on the sky. Analysis of the motions of 293 galaxies in the cluster field suggested that Abell 520 was a cluster forming at the crossing of three filaments of the large scale structure

The surprising substructure of Abell 520 was reported in 2007 from a weak gravitational lensing study based on Canada-France-Hawaii-Telescope (CFHT) imaging data. It was surprising at first, because the study found the "dark core" with a significant amount of mass in the region, where there is no concentration of bright cluster galaxies. No conventional understanding of dark matter could explain this peculiar concentration of dark matter. At the time, some thought that the substructure may arise from non-gravitational interaction of dark matter.

However, in the year 2012 two international teams of astronomers published conflicting results on Abell 520. While one study based on the Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2) on Hubble Space Telescope (HST) confirmed the previous claim of the dark core in Abell 520, the other study based on the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) did not support the claim. Although the latter group found the "dark core", they also found luminous matter, which made the "dark core" not so dark -- in particular, just as bright as any other galaxy with dark matter.

In 2014, a study of the ACS images by the original team claims to again have found evidence of a dark core, but is in a different location from the first two studies.  A subsequent analysis by an independent third team of the gravitational shear catalogs of the two competing ACS analyses indicates marginal evidence for the core in both data sets and the authors "do not consider A520 as posing a significant challenge to the collisionless dark matter scenario."


Patricia (Perez Prado song)

"Patricia" is a popular song with music by Pérez Prado and lyrics by Bob Marcus, published in 1958.  The song is best known in an instrumental version by Prado's orchestra that became the last record to ascend to No.1 on the Billboard Jockeys and Top 100 charts, both of which gave way the next week to the then newly-introduced Billboard Hot 100 chart.  The song was also No. 1 on the R&B Best Sellers for two weeks.  Prado's 1958 recording became a gold record. Billboard ranked it as the No. 5 song for 1958.

Prado's "Patricia" entered the U.S. Cash Box chart week ending June 7, 1958, making No. 1 on that chart for 4 weeks from the week ending July 26, 1958.

Prado's "Patricia" entered the U.K. singles chart  in the week of July 25, 1958, peaking at No. 8 (week ending September 5, 1958) during a 16-week chart run.

In 1960, Prado released a new stereo recording of the tune, and re-recorded it a third time in a "twist" version issued in 1962 that re-charted in the U.S.

Perry Como's recording of "Patricia" from 1950 bears no resemblance to Prado's tune.

Covers and other references

The song was featured in the Weebl and Bob flash cartoon.
The song was covered by a Kenyan group, Kiko Kids, some time in the late 1950s.
The song was featured in a TV advert for the UK post office.
The song was featured at several points in Federico Fellini's 1960 film La Dolce Vita, including a segment at a party where the music accompanied a striptease.
The song was featured as background music for a pool party in the 1969 film Goodbye, Columbus.
The song was covered by Frank Valdor and His Orchestra and Chorus on the album 16 Fantastic Golden Latin Hits in 1978.
The tune was sung (badly) by Homer Simpson as he's shaving before a romantic night out in the "Some Enchanted Evening" episode of The Simpsons'''s first season.  The song was also being played by a dance band later in that same episode.
The song appears in the 1989 movie Great Balls of Fire! during the scene in which Jerry Lee Lewis drives his convertible and proposes marriage to his thirteen-year-old second cousin, Myra Gale.
The Mambo All Stars’ version of the song was the theme for the 1999 animated series George and Martha.
The song was used as the theme song to HBO's Real Sex series.
The song was covered by Link Wray, Duane Eddy, and Rory Parker, and by Ry Cooder on his Grammy winning 2002 album, Mambo Sinuendo.
The song was used as background music for the swimsuit competition at the 1997 Miss Universe Pageant.
The song was used in "The British Invasion", Episode 12 from Season 2 of the Showtime series Dexter''.
The song was used as background music in the state financed Danish TV campaign "Fisk 2 gange om ugen".


The Great Years

The Great Years is a compilation album by American pop singer Johnny Mathis that was released by Columbia Records in July 1964. Billboard magazine described the two-LP set, which included chart hits and album tracks, as "the best of Mathis".

The album made its first appearance on Billboard'''s Top LP's chart the following month, in the issue dated August 1, and peaked at number 88 over the course of 10 weeks.

ReceptionBillboard opined that "Mathis fans should scream with delight upon discovering this 2-LP package."

Track listing

Side one
"Fly Me to the Moon (In Other Words)" (Bart Howard) – 3:54
recorded on 4/6/56 for his debut album, Johnny Mathis
"Street of Dreams" (Victor Young, Sam M. Lewis) – 2:17
rec. 3/14/56 for Johnny Mathis
 "Wonderful! Wonderful!" (Sherman Edwards, Ben Raleigh) – 2:50
rec. 9/20/56, released on 11/5/56; Most Played by Jockeys: #14
 "It's Not for Me to Say"  from Lizzie  (Robert Allen, Al Stillman) – 3:05
rec. 9/20/56, rel. 2/25/57; Most Played by Jockeys: #5
 "Chances Are" (Robert Allen, Al Stillman) – 3:03
rec. 6/16/57, rel. 8/12/57; Most Played by Jockeys: #1 (1 week)
 "The Twelfth of Never" (Jerry Livingston, Paul Francis Webster) – 2:28
rec. 6/16/57, rel. 8/12/57; B-side of "Chances Are"; Most Played by Jockeys: #9
Personnel
George Avakian – producer (tracks 1, 2)
Al Ham – producer (tracks 3–6)
Mitch Miller – producer (tracks 3–6)(2006) Gold: A 50th Anniversary Celebration by Johnny Mathis [CD booklet]. New York: Sony BMG Music Entertainment 82876 88583 2.
 The labels on the singles of these tracks did not provide producer credits, but some CD compilations have. While all of these compilations acknowledge Mitch Miller as a producer on the tracks noted, the ones that credit Al Ham as an additional producer on certain songs disagree on which ones those are.  The 2006 collection Gold: A 50th Anniversary Celebration only recognizes Ham as producer on "Wonderful! Wonderful!" and "It's Not for Me to Say" but the 2004 collection The Essential Johnny Mathis'' also credits him in this capacity on "Chances Are" and "The Twelfth of Never".

Side two
 "A Certain Smile"  from A Certain Smile  (Sammy Fain, Paul Francis Webster) – 2:47
 rec. 5/12/58, rel. 6/2/58; Billboard Hot 100: #14
"Deep River" (traditional) – 2:51
rec. 1/3/58 for his album Good Night, Dear Lord
"Can't Get Out of This Mood" from Seven Days' Leave (Frank Loesser, Jimmy McHugh) – 3:08
rec. 5/15/58 for his album Swing Softly
 "Misty" (Johnny Burke, Erroll Garner) – 3:34
rec. 4/21/59 for his album Heavenly; single rel. 9/59; Billboard Hot 100: #12
 "Small World" from Gypsy (Stephen Sondheim, Jule Styne) – 3:18
 rec. 4/29/59, rel. 5/25/59; Billboard Hot 100: #20
"When I Fall in Love" (Edward Heyman, Victor Young) – 4:31
rec. 1958 for his 1959 album Open Fire, Two Guitars
Personnel
Al Ham – producer (tracks 1, 4, 5)
Mitch Miller – producer (tracks 1, 2, 3, 4, 6)

Side three
"Maria" from West Side Story  (Leonard Bernstein, Stephen Sondheim) – 3:48
rec. 11/6/59 for his album Faithfully; single rel. 5/60; Billboard Hot 100: #78; single rel. 11/61; Billboard Hot 100: #88
"Tonight" from West Side Story (Bernstein, Sondheim) – 3:12
rec. 11/6/59 for his album Faithfully
 "How to Handle a Woman"  from Camelot  (Alan Jay Lerner, Frederick Loewe) – 3:02
rec. 10/27/60, rel. 11/7/60; Billboard Hot 100: #64
"Stairway to the Stars" (Matty Malneck, Mitchell Parish, Frank Signorelli) – 4:51
rec. 2/7/61 for his album I'll Buy You A Star
"Love Look Away" from Flower Drum Song (Oscar Hammerstein II, Richard Rodgers) – 3:28
rec. 2/7/61 for his album I'll Buy You A Star
 "Sweet Thursday" (Jerry Livingston, Paul Francis Webster) – 2:30
rec. 10/9/61, rel. 12/29/61; Billboard Hot 100: #99
Personnel
Mitch Miller – producer (tracks 1–2, 3)
Irving Townsend – producer (tracks 4–5, 6)

Side four
"Stella by Starlight" (Ned Washington, Victor Young) – 3:33
rec. 8/8/62 for his album Rapture
 "Unaccustomed As I Am" (Ray Ellis, Al Stillman) – 2:55
 rec. 3/4/61, rel. 4/27/62; non-charting B-side
 "Gina" (Leon Carr, Paul Vance) – 2:46
 rec. 8/9/62, rel. 9/7/62; Billboard Hot 100: #6, Easy Listening: #2
 "What Will Mary Say" (Eddie Snyder, Paul Vance) – 3:09
 rec. 8/9/62, rel. 1/4/63; Billboard Hot 100: #9 Easy Listening:  #3
 "Every Step of the Way" (Robert Allen, Al Stillman) – 3:21
 rec. 5/31/60, rel. 5/7/63; Billboard Hot 100: #30 Easy Listening:  #10
"September Song" from Knickerbocker Holiday (Maxwell Anderson, Kurt Weill) – 4:07
 rec. 2/26/63 for his album Romantically
Personnel
Ernie Altschuler – producer (tracks 1, 3–4, 6)
Frank DeVol – producer (track 2)
Mitch Miller – producer (track 5)

Personnel
Johnny Mathis – vocals
Don Hunstein – cover photo


Exeter Mosque

Exeter Mosque & Cultural Centre is a mosque in the City of Exeter, in Devon, England.

History
The mosque's history began in 1976 when 15 York Road was purchased for use as a permanent place for meeting and prayer. Over time, as more space was needed 14 York Road was also purchased. Following a purchase of land from the adjacent school in the late 2000s, work began on a purpose-built mosque for Exeter's Muslim community. The current mosque opened in 2011 following three years of construction work, which cost approximately £1.7 million.

In 2018, the trustees of the mosque faced questions from the media regarding donations received from the cleric Sadiq Al-Ghariani.

Following the 2019 Christchurch mosque shootings, Exeter Mosque was one of the mosques where people stood guard in solidarity with the Muslim community.


Endre Puky

Endre Puky de Bizák (20 February 1871 – 20 July 1941) was a Hungarian politician, who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs between 1932 and 1933.


Baroque Records

Baroque Records is an electronic music label created by Mick Parks and Mick Wilson of Tilt.  It has featured singles from Quivver, Tilt, Benz & MD, and Shiloh.

External links
Official Website


The Grammy Award for Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals was an honor presented at the Grammy Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1958 and originally called the Gramophone Awards, to recording artists for quality pop songs on which singers collaborate. Awards in several categories are distributed annually  by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States to "honor artistic achievement, technical proficiency  and overall excellence in the recording industry, without regard to album sales or chart position."

The award for Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals was first presented to Al Green and Lyle Lovett at the 37th Grammy Awards (1995) for the song "Funny How Time Slips Away". According to the category description guide for the 52nd Grammy Awards, the award was presented to artists that performed "newly recorded collaborative pop performances" that "do not normally perform together."

In 1997, the father-daughter duo of Nat King Cole and Natalie Cole won the award for "When I Fall in Love", a "virtual duet" remake of one of his signature hits, using a recording of his vocals more than 30 years after his death in 1965.

There have been five instances in which an artist was nominated for more than one song in the same year, with different collaborators. In 1998, Barbra Streisand received nominations for the songs "I Finally Found Someone" (with Bryan Adams) and "Tell Him" (with Celine Dion). Santana was nominated in 2000 for the songs "Love of My Life" (with Dave Matthews) and "Smooth" (with Rob Thomas). In 2002, Christina Aguilera was nominated for the songs "Nobody Wants to Be Lonely" (Ricky Martin) and "Lady Marmalade" (with Lil' Kim, Mýa and Pink). In 2005, Ray Charles earned nominations for the songs "Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word" (with Elton John) and "Here We Go Again" (with Norah Jones). In 2010, Colbie Caillat was nominated for the songs "Breathe" (with Taylor Swift) and "Lucky" (with Jason Mraz). Four of the five won the award with one of their two nominations (Santana's "Smooth"; Aguilera's "Lady Marmalade"; Charles's "Here We Go Again"; and Caillat's "Lucky").

Two-time award recipients include Van Morrison, Pink, Santana, Alison Krauss, and Robert Plant. Krauss and Plant are the only duo to win more than once, as well as the only consecutive winners. Christina Aguilera and Stevie Wonder share the record for the most nominations, with six each.

The award was discontinued in 2012 in a major overhaul of Grammy categories. At that point, all duo or group performances in the pop category were shifted to the newly formed Best Pop Duo/Group Performance category. The 2011 award for a cover version of "Imagine" was the last one to be awarded in the Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals category.

Recipients

 Each year is linked to the article about the Grammy Awards held that year.


AppleLink Package

The AppleLink Package Compression Format, or AppleLink Package for short, is an obsolete file format used on Apple Inc.'s defunct AppleLink online service as a file transfer and file compression format. It was not particularly efficient and was easily outperformed by contemporary systems like StuffIt and Compact Pro, and remained rare outside AppleLink.


WCPM

WCPM (1280 AM) was a radio station licensed to Cumberland, Kentucky, United States.  The station owned by Cumberland City Broadcasting, Inc. signed-off on August 31, 2016 after serving the area for 65 years.


Rosetta Stone (band)

Rosetta Stone are a British gothic rock band formed in the mid-1980s by Porl King (guitar/vocals/keyboards) and Karl North (bass), plus their drum machine and synthesizer rack nicknamed "Madame Razor".

The band is named after the Rosetta Stone, an Egyptian historical artifact, and the band used much ancient mythological imagery, especially in their earlier work.

Their early style and first album reflected the jangly-guitar sounds of 1980s gothic rock, and their first big break came after live gigs supporting the then already well-established band The Mission. The band then moved to a more electronic sound before disbanding in 1998.

In 2019, a new album "Seems Like Forever" was released.

History
After playing live gigs around Liverpool and then nationally from 1988 onwards and releasing several independently produced singles to increasing popularity, Rosetta Stone recorded their first full-length album, An Eye for the Main Chance, releasing it in 1991. They also recruited Porl Young as a second guitarist and toured extensively to promote the album.

Following on from this, the band released their most successful single, the 12" Adrenaline.  Porl Young subsequently left the band to produce Children on Stun whilst Porl King and Karl North released a cover version of The Rattles' 1970 hit The Witch which took the band into the UK top 40 singles chart.

The band went on to sign a US record and distribution deal with Cleopatra Records who released much of their early cassette and vinyl singles and EPs in 1993 as an album under the title Foundation Stones, and a CD album Adrenaline which, along with the title track, also featuring earlier singles such as An Eye for the Main Chance and The Witch.  In the UK they released a CD album (on Minority One) entitled On The Side Of Angels,  compiling previous vinyl singles and their various remixes.

Using the advance money for 1995's The Tyranny of Inaction, Porl King purchased an Alesis ADAT multi-track digital recorder, the use of which substantially changed Rosetta Stone's sound. That album and most subsequent work featured a much more industrial/electronic sound, with extensive use of sampling.

Following an accident in late 1997, Porl King lost part of his left little finger, which changed his guitar style considerably.

The band split in 1998 after releasing Chemical Emissions and a radical remix of Tyranny as a limited release CD  gENDER cONFUSION and playing a final headlining live performance at the Whitby Gothic Weekend festival in October that year.  Karl North went on to join the already-established UK band, the Dream Disciples (their next album Asphyxia notably featuring Karl's Rosetta-sounding bass), and their subsequent live performances attracted much of Rosetta Stone's most ardent UK fanbase.

Porl King produced one more album (contractually) of 80s new romantic cover versions under the name Rosetta Stone for Cleopatra Records. He then went on to work on other projects. Rosetta Stone was presumed to have finished as a band.

In May 2019, Rosetta Stone, still consisting solely of Porl King, released a new album "Seems Like Forever" on Cleopatra Records, which included some new material plus songs previously released under Porl's Miserylab project re-recorded with more of Rosetta's signature guitar sound. The album was mixed by Jurgen Engler of Die Krupps.. A video was released to promote the track "Tomorrow For Us".

Members' related works
Porl King wrote and produced his own music throughout the noughties and early 2010s under the name Miserylab. King also operated as a remixer and producer, working for the likes of the Mercury Music Award -nominated Elbow and the Fluke side-project Syntax.

In the 2010s, King worked on the solo project In Death It Ends. The dark, foreboding nature of this project abandons prior interest in politics, and is connected with the witch house scene. Porl returned to release a new album under the Rosetta Stone name in 2019.

The Dream Disciples (Karl North) ceased to be active after their performance at Whitby Gothic Weekend in April 2004.

Porl Young was resident DJ at Heaven in London. He is co-owner of the Tuff Twins label, and has produced and mixed several club tunes.

Fanbase
Rosetta Stone were one of the biggest names in the 1990s UK goth live circuit, due both to frequent and extensive early touring and to the successful independent promotion and sales of their records. Porl King was one of the few well-known goth musicians to contribute actively to online discussions with fans, for example on Usenet's uk.people.gothic newsgroup.
Their dedication, successive tours and live appearances have gained them a solid fanbase - the most loyal followers became known as "Quarriers".

Discography

Studio albums
An Eye for the Main Chance (1991)
The Tyranny of Inaction (1995, revised later that year with normalisation)
Chemical Emissions (1998, also includes new hidden bonus track "Plastic Toy")
Unerotica (2000, US-exclusive release with reformatted 80s audio and cover versions of New Romantic classics)
Seems Like Forever (2019, includes new material and reworked Miserylab tracks; streaming, MP3, CD and limited edition vinyl from Cleopatra Records)

Live albums
Under the Rose (1991, cassette only bootleg, re-released as a CDr in 1997)

Compilation albums
Adrenaline (1992, US-exclusive compilation of singles and remixes)
On the Side of Angels (1993, UK-exclusive compilation of singles)
Foundation Stones (1993, US-exclusive compilation of early material)
Epitome (1993 EP, compilation of "Adrenaline" and "The Witch" remixes)

Singles/EPs
Darkness and Light (1989)
Leave Me for Dead (1991)
An Eye for The Main Chance (1991)
Adrenaline (1991)
The Witch (1992)
Nothing (1995)
Hiding in Waiting (1996, EP that is occasionally considered an album)
Tomorrow For Us (2019, released as single on streaming sites such as Bandcamp and Amazon Music, official video on YouTube)

Demos / Fan Club Releases
Recreate and Emulate (1988, cassette only)
Whispers (1988, cassette only)
Chapter and Verse (1988, cassette only)
Retribution (1989, cassette only)
And How They Rejoice (1989, cassette only)
Gender Confusion (1998, CD, limited edition of 500, remixes from Tyranny of Inaction)

Tribute Albums
Shout At the Remix: A Tribute to Mötley Crüe (Cleopatra Records, 2000)
Don't Blow Your Cover: A Tribute to KMFDM (2000)
A Tribute to Tool (Cleopatra Records, 2002)
We Will Follow: A Tribute to U2 (Cleopatra Records, 1999)

Project Albums
as Complicity (featuring members of Vendemmian, Altered States with production and keys/additional vocals from Rosetta Stone under the moniker wHATEver pRODUCTIONS)
Playing God (17 March 1997; CD album; UK, Grave News Limited - Catalog# FETISH 16)


The 2012 United States Virgin Islands Republican caucuses were held on March 10, 2012,  the same day as the Guam, Northern Mariana Islands, and Kansas Republican caucuses. Unlike standard caucuses, the delegates for the Virgin Islands were elected directly by GOP caucus-goers during the first round. No straw poll was taken at the caucus, but the delegates were bound to the candidate they pledged themselves to before the voting started. The six delegates receiving the most votes go to the National Convention. Three of the top vote-getters had previously pledged to Romney, and one had pledged to Paul. In addition, two of the elected uncommitted delegates committed themselves to Romney after the election. Like Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands cannot participate in the general election, but they can participate in the primaries.

Results

# Committed to Romney after he was elected

Delegate totals
In the Virgin Islands caucus, votes were cast for specific delegates rather than specific candidates; the top six vote-getters became delegates. The candidates included six delegates declaring for Paul, three for Romney, two for Gingrich, two for Santorum, and nine that had not declared for any candidate.  Even though Romney had only three delegates on the ballot, they received more votes than most of the other pledged delegates, and all three were elected, whereas only one of Paul's delegates got enough votes to place in the top six. Two uncommitted delegates were elected along with the four pledged ones; one of these switched to Romney after the vote was conducted, giving the Massachusetts governor four total elected delegates, plus three super delegates from the territory that had already pledged to him before the caucus. This yielded a total of seven delegates for Romney, one for Paul and two uncommitted.

Popular vote
Raw vote totals showed that even though only one of Paul's delegates was elected, the combined showing for all six Paul pledges on the ballot exceeded that of the delegates for the other candidates. In all, 112 votes were cast for Paul's pledges, 104 for Romney's, 23 for Santorum's, 19 for Gingrich's. Uncommitted delegates got the highest combined vote total, however, at 132. At first it appeared Romney had received the most popular votes, since the votes for the uncommitted delegate who switched to Romney afterward were mistakenly added to Romney's column by some media Web sites; this was soon corrected.

As each caucus voter was entitled to six votes for all delegates at large (as opposed to voting separately for each delegate), it is not known just how many individual voters cast their ballots for which candidate's pledges; the popular vote totals only reflect the amount of raw votes each delegate received in the final tally.


Esam Sakeen

Esam Sakeen  is a Kuwaiti football Midfielder who played for Kuwait in the 1996 Asian Cup. He also played for Kazma

External links


Euplexia triplaga

Euplexia triplaga is a cutworm or dart moth in the family Noctuidae. The species was first described by Francis Walker in 1857. It is found in Central America and North America.

The MONA or Hodges number for Euplexia triplaga is 9544.


Christopher Haase

Christopher Haase (born 26 September 1987 in Kulmbach) is a German professional racing driver. He became the FIA GT3 European Champion in 2009, racing for Lamborghini and Reiter Engineering, and raced in GT1 for the first time in 2010.

He achieved considerable success in the 2014 season, sharing the winning Audi R8 LMS in the Nurburgring 24 Hours, and finishing second in the GTD class of the TUDOR United SportsCar Championship in America.

Born in Kulmbach, Bavaria, Haase began racing in 2006 in the ADAC Dacia Logan Cup, then the ADAC GT Masters series in 2007, and the European GT4 Cup.

Complete GT1 World Championship results


Nick Hinds

Nicholas Hinds (born October 15, 1997) is an American soccer who currently plays for Tacoma Defiance in the USL Championship.

Career

Youth
Hinds began his youth career with Plantation FC and Kendell SC before joining the Seattle Sounders FC Academy in 2015.  On October 22, 2014, Hinds verbally committed to the University of North Carolina.

Club

On August 28, 2015, he made his professional debut for USL club Seattle Sounders FC 2 in a 2–1 defeat to Real Monarchs.

Despite appearing for S2, Hinds was still able to maintain his college eligibility and on February 3, 2016, it was announced that he signed a letter of intent to play college soccer at the University of Akron.

International

Born in Jamaica, but raised in Florida, Hinds is eligible to play internationally for Jamaica or USA at the senior international level.


Ekene Ikenwa

Ekene Michael Ikenwa (born 14 September 1977, in Lagos) is a Nigerian footballer who last played for Salgaocar SC in the I-League. Ekene plays as a forward.

Notes


Hindorff

Hindorff is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

Cory Wade Hindorff (born 1990), American model, actor, singer, songwriter and activist
Martin Hindorff (1897–1969), Swedish sailor and Olympian
Silvia Hindorff (born 1961), German gymnast and Olympian


Parliament of Egypt

The Parliament of Egypt, officially the House of Representatives ( ) is currently a unicameral legislature (though
the approval of the 2019 Egyptian constitutional referendum will create a second chamber, called the Senate).

The Parliament is located in Cairo, Egypt's capital. Under the country's 2014 constitution, as the legislative branch of the Egyptian state the Parliament enacted laws, approved the general policy of the State, the general plan for economic and social development and the general budget of the State, supervised the work of the government, and had the power to vote to impeach the President of the Republic, or replace the government and its Prime Minister by a vote of no-confidence.

The parliament is made up of 596 seats, with 448 seats elected through the individual candidacy system, 120 elected through winner-take-all party lists (with quotas for youth, women, Christians, and workers) and 28 selected by the president.

History and composition

Parliamentary life began in Egypt as early as 1866, and since then several forms of national assemblies have been formed, dismantled and amended to reach the present-day form. Since 1866, Egypt witnessed seven parliamentary systems whose legislative and oversight competences varied and reflected the history of the Egyptian people's struggle to establish a society based on democracy and freedom. For more than 135 years of parliamentary history Egypt witnessed 32 Parliaments whose members ranged between 75 and 458 who contributed to writing Egypt's modern political social, economic and cultural history. According to the present-day constitution, the Parliament consists only of the House of Representatives ("Maǧlis an-Nowwab"), a  596-member lower house.

The Parliament has lacked the powers to effectively balance the powers of the president.

Suspension of Parliament
Egypt was without a parliament for three years. The parliament was dissolved in June 2012.  On 8 July 2012, President Mohamed Morsi said he would override the edict that had dissolved the country's elected lawmakers, but that was followed by his deposition. Elections for parliament were held from 17 October 2015 to 2 December 2015.

Campaigning

Upper Egypt
While parliamentary elections in the major cities are often fixed by the ruling party, elections in Upper Egypt—the poorest and most underdeveloped part of the country where approximately 40% of Egypt's population live—are more free, with the ruling party "recruiting whoever happened to win." According to journalist Peter Hessler, neglect of Upper Egypt has also allowed the region to "devise indigenous campaign traditions".

Without parties or local media to promote issues or policies, campaigns consist primarily of evening house calls to potential voters by candidates with their entourage. Visits may last anywhere from only a minute to a half an hour. Candidates are served cigarettes, (non-alcoholic) drinks or sweets; The visits are not confined to a period before the election but often continue even when the parliament is cancelled and elections continually delayed.

The group affiliation of the candidates is not party or ideology but tribe (despite the fact that according to anthropologists "tribes" in Egypt are often 20th century creations). Because family hierarchies dominate most people’s lives, candidates seek the support of clan elders who direct family members, sometimes numbering in the hundreds, how to vote. Candidates may successfully campaign without the "support of any party or other institution" because there are no party networks. They do campaign with family members and when defeated candidates lose face because elections are a matter of family pride.

Candidates often have no platform, do not talk "about issues, policies, or potential legislation", or make any "public campaign promises". Candidates often sit in silence on their visits rather than formally introduce themselves, give a stump speech or field questions about what they will do if elected. Potential voters will however often ask for small favors such as making a call to a government office that issued permits or handled utilities on the voter's behalf if the candidate is elected.

Campaigning involves male Muslims, as candidates seldom if ever interact with women (who in the south are sequestered at home and sometimes forbidden from voting by the clan elder), and the ten percent Coptic Christian minority is "basically ignored" by "most" candidates.

Egyptian parliamentary election, 2015

Current House of Representatives

Formation of the House
The 2014 constitution that was passed in the 2014 constitutional referendum has put into place the following rules: the House that is elected following the ratification of the constitution must have at least 450 members. In addition, prospective members must be Egyptian, must be at least 25 years old and must hold an education certificate. Also, the president can appoint, at the most, five percent of the members in the chamber.

The House sits for a five-year term but can be dissolved earlier by the president. All seats are voted on in each election. The House of Representatives members are elected by absolute majority of legitimate votes cast.

The House may demand the resignation of the cabinet by adopting a motion of censure. For this reason, the Prime Minister of Egypt and his cabinet are necessarily from the dominant party or coalition in the House. When the president and house come from opposing parties (a situation which did arise historically, but not since the 1970s), this would lead to the situation known as cohabitation.

Powers
The House of Representatives has various competences stated in Chapter Five of the Constitution. According to article 86 the House of Representatives shall undertake:

Legislation
Review and approval of agreements and treaties
Review and approval of the State plan and budget
Discussion of the President of the Republic's statement and the government program
Amendments to the Constitution
Approval of declarations of war and emergency

In practice, the People's Assembly had very little power prior to the 2011 Egyptian revolution.  It was dominated by the National Democratic Party, and there was little substantive opposition to executive decisions.

House of Representatives organization

Speaker of the House

The House of Representatives Speaker (HR Speaker) presides over the House and is elected from the House membership, along with two deputies during the first session of the season. The Speaker's role in session is to keep the peace and order to the parliamentary session, take part in discussion provided that he gives up his presidency to one of his deputies and doesn't return to his presidency until the discussion is finished as well as ordering an emergency session for one of the House' committees. In case of vacancy in the President's office, the Speaker serves as acting president until the presidential elections are held (Which must be within 60 days). This has happened once, when president Anwar Sadat was assassinated in office, and then People's Assembly Speaker, Sufi Abu Taleb served as acting president. The last PA Speaker was Saad Al Katatny, who briefly presided the Assembly for only 5 months from 23 January 2012 to the dissolution of parliament on 18 June 2012.

Speaker's Staff Office
The Staff is responsible for organization of the house' and its committees' agendas, the enforcement of the House' orders and is the link between the House and different agencies, ministries and other authorities. The staff consists of the HR speaker and his two deputies.

House' General Committee
This committee is formed in the beginning of the House' annual season, headed by the Speaker. Its membership includes the Deputy Speakers, representatives of the political parties' parliamentary committees, and five House members (of whom one is an independent, if there are more than ten independents). The Speaker is responsible for outlining the committee's agenda. The committee is responsible for discussing the general issues put forward by the president, the prime minister or the speaker.

Specialized Committees
These committees are:
 Media, Culture and Antiquities committee
 Industry Committee
 Social Solidarity committee
 African Affairs committee
 Manpower committee
 Housing committee
 Transport committee
 Economic Affairs Committee
 Defence and national security committee
 Arab Affairs Committee
 Legislative and Constitutional Affairs committee
 Human Rights committee
 Youth and Sports committee
 Agriculture committee
 Local Administration committee
 Complaints and Proposals Committee
 Education Committee
 Health Committee
 Telecommunications Committee
 Budget and Planning Committee
 Foreign Affairs Committee
 Middle and Small-Scale Enterprises committee
 Tourism committee

Ethics Committee
This committee is formed in the beginning of the House' annual season, headed by one of the HR speaker deputies. The membership includes the heads of the following committees: Constitutional Affairs and Legislation; Religious, Social and Awkaf Affairs; and Suggestions and Grievances; five members of the General Committee (of whom at least two are from the opposition parties); and five members chosen randomly from the House. This committee is responsible for looking into the violations committed by House members towards the Egyptian society's code of behavior towards religion, social standards, etc.

Ad hoc and combined committees
The ad hoc committees are formed by the suggestion of the Speaker or the request of the government to study, debate on a new bill or law, voting on the ratification of a new law or bill or a special issue of concern. The Speaker is responsible on choosing members for this committee. The Combined committees are formed by the request of the Speaker, the government, members of two or more of the specialized committees, with the aim of studying a particular issue of concern. These combined committees are headed by one of the Speaker's deputies. The orders of these committees are issued when a majority vote is achieved.

Parliamentary Chapter
The Egyptian House of Representatives is the Egyptian representative of the international parliamentary conventions. This chapter aims at developing of mutual relations with international parliaments. The General Assembly of this chapter consists of the entire membership of the House, and headed by the Speaker. The Executive committee of this chapter of the Speaker staff office, three members chosen from the Assembly membership of whom at least one is a member of the opposition parties. The Assembly meets in its chapter form every January. Emergency sessions are held by the request of the executive committee to look into any of additionally outlined issues of concern.


Artipe anna

Artipe anna is a species of butterfly belonging to the lycaenid family described by Hamilton Herbert Druce in 1896. It is found in  Southeast Asia (Borneo, Peninsular Malaya, Sumatra)
.

Subspecies
Artipe anna anna (Borneo, Peninsular Malaya, possibly Sumatra)
Artipe anna fulva (Moulton, 1911) (Sarawak)


Instituto Tecnológico de Querétaro

The Technological Institute of Querétaro is part of National Technological Institute of Mexico system, which is an organized educational complex, high academic self-sufficiency and continuity in their actions, together by a strong sense of national community and with strong traditions in the fields of academic planning, technological research and cultural and sports activities. As the system has a separate identity, but between schools shows regional characteristics.

The whole system represents a national effort to instill in young people a close relationship with science and technology, with such strength that will never become extinct in the future.

The Technological Institute of Querétaro opened to youth in Querétaro, on 2 January 1967 at the premises of the Industrial Technical School No. 59.

On 15 May of that year, President Gustavo Diaz Ordaz officer delivers the present facilities of the Institute's first director Vera Ing Rodolfo Zapata.

Official website

http://www.itq.edu.mx


Pitton (sport)

Pitton is a racquet sport played by two teams of up to four people with a birdie and a hard pickleball paddle.  It is a combination of pickleball and badminton.

History and Development
Pitton originated in the Pacific Northwest. Its origins can be traced to Heatherwood Middle School in the Everett School District. Pitton's name is derived from pickleball and badminton.

Rules
The following information is a simplified summary of the rules of pitton.

Playing court dimensions

The court is rectangular and divided into halves by a net. Courts are usually marked for both singles and doubles play.

The full width of the court is 6.1 meters (20 ft). The full length of the court is 13.4 meters (44 ft). The service courts are marked by a center line dividing the width of the court, by a short service line at a distance of 1.98 meters (6 ft 6 inch) from the net, and by the outer side and back boundaries. In doubles, the service court is also marked by a long service line, which is 0.76 meters (2 ft 6 inch) from the back boundary.
The net is 1.55 meters (5 ft 1 inch) high at the edges and 1.524 meters (5 ft) high in the center. The net posts are placed over the doubles sidelines, even when singles is played.

The minimum height for the ceiling above the court is not mentioned in the Rules of Pitton. Nonetheless, a pitton court will not be suitable if the ceiling is likely to be hit on a high serve.


Dinev

Dinev () is a Bulgarian masculine surname, its feminine counterpart is Dineva. It may refer to
Dimitré Dinev (born 1968), Bulgarian-born Austrian writer
Ivan Dinev (born 1978), Bulgarian figure skater
Nikola Dinev (1953–2019), Bulgarian Olympic wrestler
Zhivko Dinev (born 1987), Bulgarian football player


Denuwan Rajakaruna

Denuwan Rajakaruna (born 30 September 1990) is a Sri Lankan first-class cricketer who plays for Moors Sports Club.


WCPY

WCPY (92.7 FM) is a radio station licensed to Arlington Heights, Illinois, and serving the Chicago area. WCPY airs a Polish language format during the daytime, as "Polski FM", while airing a Dance Hits format at night known as "Dance Factory FM". Studios are located on Chicago's Northwest Side.

The station is owned by Newsweb Corporation. WCPY transmits on a tower with WPPN and WPNA-FM in nearby Buffalo Grove at 1,800 watts.

History

WNWC
The station began broadcasting on March 10, 1960, holding the call sign WNWC ("North West Communities"). In July 1961, the station was purchased by Bob Atcher and Thomas Hogan. WNWC would air a wide variety of non-rock music. It aired four hours of country music a day before increasing it to 12 hours a day in November 1963. In 1965, Lester Vihon purchased the station for $110,000. By 1966, it was airing hard rock evenings. The station was off the air temporarily in June 1966, after a tornado toppled its tower. In early 1968, the station was sold to auto dealer Walter Mack for $150,000.

WEXI
In April 1968, the station's call sign was changed to WEXI, and was branded "Stereo Excitement". WEXI aired easy listening music during the day and a progressive rock format overnight. Shortly thereafter, it adopted a top 40 format. In November 1970, the station adopted a beautiful music format, with the slogan "Spreading Clean Air over Chicagoland".

WWMM
In autumn 1972, the station was sold to Community Broadcasters for $230,000, and its call sign was changed to WWMM. WWMM aired contemporary middle of the road music, along with some talk programs. Among the shows on WWMM in this period was "Love in the Afternoon", a sex talk program hosted by Jonathan Kingsley. By 1976, the station had adopted a jazz format. In 1976, the station was sold to Northwest Community Broadcasting for $500,000. By 1977, WWMM was airing a MOR-adult contemporary format, with the slogan "Radio for the Great Northwest".

WTCO
In spring of 1981, the station was sold to Radio Communications Group and its call sign was changed to WTCO. WTCO aired a country music format. In 1982, the station was sold to Darrell Peters Productions for $550,000.

WSEX
Darrell Peters Productions applied to change the station's call sign to WSEX on September 26, 1982, but the application was rejected. An application to reconsider was submitted, and the call sign change was approved on January 24, 1983. WSEX aired an adult contemporary format called "Love Songs & More". In January 1986, the station adopted a "Top 10" format, playing songs that had reached the top 10 within the past five years.

WCBR-FM
The station became "Chicago's Bear", and its call sign was changed to WCBR-FM on January 9, 1989. WCBR-FM aired an adult album alternative format. As the 90's progressed, it began to air brokered programming nights and weekends. WCBR-FM also aired Chicago Wolves hockey.

In 1998, the station was sold to Big City Radio for $17 million. Many of the brokered programs that were on WCBR-FM moved to 94.3 WJKL in Elgin. Purchased by Big City Radio at the same time was 92.7 WLRA in Kankakee. When Big City Radio took control of the two stations, they stunted with a simulcast of their Los Angeles sister station 107.1 KLYY, which aired a modern rock format. WLRA's call sign was changed to WBRO shortly thereafter.

92 Kiss FM

On November 14, 1998, at Noon, WCBR and WBRO launched their new official format, CHR as "92.7 Kiss FM", with the first song being "Kiss" by Prince. This would be Chicago's first true CHR station in many years and proved to be quite successful, even with the two stations' weak signals. In late December 1998, the station's call sign was changed to WKIE, while WBRO's call sign was changed to WKIF. Big City Radio also purchased WDEK 92.5 in DeKalb, Illinois, which was airing a locally programmed CHR format at the time, and switched it to a simulcast of WKIE and WKIF in early 1999. Not long after, the moniker was adjusted to "92 Kiss FM". Melissa Forman hosted mornings on 92 Kiss FM, before moving to 93.9 WLIT-FM in 2001.

Energy 92.7&5
On January 12, 2001, Clear Channel's WUBT changed formats from rhythmic oldies to CHR as WKSC-FM "Kiss 103.5". At that time, Clear Channel filed suit against Big City Radio, alleging the "Kiss FM" branding used by WKIE and its simulcasts violated its national trademark. However, Big City Radio had already planned on changing the formats of these stations. On January 26, 2001, 92 Kiss-FM signed off, and the three stations adopted a dance hits format as "Energy 92.7&5". The station's airstaff remained intact. The new format was designed by 92 Kiss FM's program director, Chris Shebel, who has stated that the dance hits format is something he had dreamed of doing for a long time.

Onda 92
In late 2002, Big City Radio, became insolvent and began the process of selling all of its radio stations. In early 2003, WKIE, WKIF and WDEK were sold to Spanish Broadcasting System for $22 million. On January 6, 2003, the three stations adopted a Spanish contemporary format as "Onda 92".

Nine FM / Dance Factory
In 2004, Spanish Broadcasting System sold WKIE, WKIF and WDEK to Newsweb Corporation for $28 million. At 9 a.m. November 29, 2004, WKIE and WDEK began simulcasting with its new adult hits sister station 99.9 WRZA in Park Forest, Illinois as "Nine FM", with the slogan "We Play Anything". The first song on the Nine FM simulcast was "With or Without You" by U2. Sky Daniels was the original program director for Nine FM. When he left in 2005, he was replaced by Matt DuBiel.

In 2006, Chris Chudzik began leasing air time for a dance music show called Dance Factory. Initially airing overnight on Saturdays, the program was expanded to seven nights a week on May 14, 2007. Dance Factory has continued to air overnight on the station, even as its daytime format has changed.

Chicago's Progressive Talk
Newsweb Corporation dropped the Nine FM programming on all three signals on October 20, 2008, and replaced it with a simulcast of sister station WCPT from 5 a.m. until 9 p.m. The Nine FM format moved to WKIF 92.7 in Kankakee. On October 27, 2008, the station changed its callsign from WKIE to WCPT-FM, to go with the format.

Polski FM
On June 2, 2014, WCPT-FM and 99.9 WCPQ broke away from the Progressive Talk simulcast and changed their daytime format to Polish, branded as "Polski FM". WCPT-FM then swapped callsigns with 92.5 WCPY in DeKalb, which remained part of the Progressive Talk simulcast. In 2018, 99.9 WCPQ was sold to Bible Broadcasting Network, and it adopted a Christian format as WYHI. Polski FM was then briefly simulcast on 640 WMFN in the summer of 2018.


Michael K. Le Roy

Michael K. Le Roy is the current President of Calvin University in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Dr. Le Roy was born in La Mesa, California and grew up in Bainbridge Island, Washington. He attended Whitworth University in Spokane, Washington where he studied international studies and peace studies. While studying at Whitworth, Le Roy traveled and studied in three Central American countries in the midst of civil war. He worked on trade policy in apartheid-era South Africa through an internship with the Presbyterian Church in Washington, D.C.

Dr. Le Roy went on to complete his Ph.D. in political science at Vanderbilt University in 1994. Dr. Le Roy also studied on a Fulbright Scholarship at University of Gothenburg in Goteberg, Sweden. Le Roy later taught as a visiting professor at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia. From 1994 to 2002, Le Roy taught political science at Wheaton College (Illinois) where he chaired the department of politics and international relations, developed a new international relations major, and served for six years as the director of the Wheaton in Europe program. Dr. Le Roy was recognized with Wheaton’s Faculty Achievement Award for Excellence in Teaching in 1998. He earned the Excellence in Teaching Award from the American Political Science Association in 1999.

In 2002 he returned to Whitworth where he taught political science for three years before being appointed vice president of academic affairs and dean of faculty.

On June 11, 2012, Dr. Le Roy became the 10th president of Calvin University, at the time called Calvin College.


European Maritime Day

European Maritime Day (EMD), celebrated on 20 May each year, seeks to raise European citizens' awareness of the seas and their importance. Several events take place during that day, including an annual stakeholder conference co-organised by the European Commission. European Maritime Day was established jointly by the European Council, European Parliament and European Commission in 2008 as part of the EU maritime policy.

The European Maritime Day is celebrated each year on 20 May since 2008. This annual event was established jointly by the European Council, the European Parliament and European Commission as part of the EU's Integrated Maritime Policy launched in 2007. Its aim is to provide an occasion to highlight the crucial role that oceans and seas play in the everyday life not only of coastal communities, but of all EU citizens, and for Europe's sustainable growth and jobs at large, and to encourage better stewardship of coastal zones, seas and oceans by all citizens and actors concerned. During European Maritime Day, tribute is paid to "Maritime Europe" and all maritime sectors and activities are put in the spotlight to help European citizens realise the real outreach and variety of sea-related activities going on in Europe.

EMD conferences


Mary Weddle

Mary Weddle  [Hines] (born April 26, 1934) is a former pitcher and utility infielder/outfielder who played in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League during the  season. Listed at , 118 lb, she batted and threw right-handed.

Nicknamed ״Giggles״, Mary Weddle proved to be a valuable utility and spot starter during what turned out to be the AAGPBL final season, adding depth at both shortstop and outfield and pitching a complete-game one-hitter.

Born in Woodsfield, Ohio, Weddle grew up in a farm and came from a large family of ten brothers and four sisters that had its own baseball team, the Weddle Auctioners, while her father was a semi-professional pitcher. Weddle played shortstop for a boys baseball team in junior high, but she was not allowed to play with them in high school. She then joined a VFW softball team. She also played softball for the A-1 Queens in Phoenix, Arizona in 1953, before entering the AAGPBL with the Fort Wayne Daisies in 1954.

Weddle posted a 3–1 record and a 3.83 earned run average in 15 pitching appearances, while hitting a .216 average with a .323 on-base percentage in 76 games. The Daisies, with Bill Allington at the helm, clinched the regular season title and defeated the Grand Rapids in the best-of-three first round, but lost to the Kalamazoo Lassies in the final round, three games to two. She went 5-for-24 for a .208 average in six playoff games, including one stolen base and five runs scored.

Weddle married Lewis Hines in 1955, and had three children and five grandchildren, including Evan Baylor. She later played softball for more than thirty years and coached softball at high school and middle school for nine years.

She is part of Women in Baseball, a permanent display at the Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum at Cooperstown, New York unveiled in 1988, which is dedicated to the entire All-American Girls Professional Baseball League.

Career statistics
Pitching

Batting

Collective fielding

Sources


Chang Gung University

Chang Gung University (CGU; ) is a private university in Guishan District, Taoyuan City, Taiwan.

History
The institution was established as the Chang Gung Medical College in April 1987. Engineering and management students have been accepted since 1993, when the name was changed to Chang Gung College of Medicine and Technology. In July 1997, the name was changed again to Chang Gung University.

In February 2011 Chang Gung University and Arizona State University established an international Biosignatures Center aimed at the prevention, early detection, diagnosis, and treatment of cancer and other diseases. The center will be directed by Arizona State University Nobel laureate Leland H. Hartwell.

The Formosa Plastics Group Museum is on campus.

Colleges and Departments

Academic rankings

Chang Gung University was ranked 498th in the 2011 Performance Ranking of Scientific Papers for World Universities.

According to the 2011 Performance Ranking of Scientific Papers for World Universities announced by the Higher Education Evaluation and Accreditation Council of Taiwan, Chang Gung University achieved a fantastic result. Closely following National Taiwan University, National Cheng Kung University, National Jiao Tong University, National Tsing Hua University, and National Yang Ming University, it is the only private university among the six domestic universities which made it into the world’s top 500.

In the specialized field of clinical medicine, Chang Gung University was ranked the world’s 255th. In the science stream, CGU's electrical engineering research was ranked the world’s 290th.


Diadelia albosquamulosa

Diadelia albosquamulosa is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Breuning in 1949.


Chronicle Books

Chronicle Books is a San Francisco-based American publisher of books for adults and children.

The company was established in 1967 by Phelps Dewey, an executive with Chronicle Publishing Company, then-publisher of the San Francisco Chronicle.  In 1999 it was bought by Nion McEvoy, great-grandson of M. H. de Young, founder of the Chronicle, from other family members who were selling off the company's assets.  At the time Chronicle Books had a staff of 130 and published 300 books per year, with a catalog of more than 1,000 books.

In 2000 McEvoy set up the McEvoy Group as a holding company.  In 2006 the McEvoy Group purchased Spin magazine in connection with the owners of San Francisco's 7x7 magazine and California Home+Design. McEvoy sold off the magazines by 2014.

Publications
Chronicle Books publishes books in subjects such as architecture, art, culture, interior design, cooking, children's books, gardening, pop culture, fiction, food, travel, and photography.

It has published a number of New York Times Best Sellers; the Griffin and Sabine series by Nick Bantock, Me Without You by Lisa Swerling and Ralph Lazar, Duck! Rabbit! by Amy Krouse Rosenthal and Olive, the Other Reindeer by Vivian Walsh.

Other best sellers have included The Beatles Anthology, What's Your Poo Telling You?, Mom and Dad are Palindromes by Mark Shulman, the Worst-Case Scenario series by Joshua Piven and David Borgenicht, the children's series Ivy and Bean by Annie Barrows, All My Friends Are Dead, and Papa, Do You Love Me and Golden Kite Award winner Mama, Do You Love Me by Barbara M. Joosse.  In March 2006 the company published Between the Bridge and the River, a novel by Craig Ferguson.

Chronicle Books has published at least 25 books in The Art of... series that showcase the evolution of artwork and stories of animated films, including many by Walt Disney Animation Studios, Pixar, DreamWorks and Blue Sky Studios.

The company also sells custom publishing service and gift accessories (such as desktop calendars), and operates three retail stores in San Francisco — including one in the base of their corporate headquarters near AT&T Park.

In the late 2010s, they published two Jenny Parks books Star Trek Cats (2017) and Star Trek: The Next Generation Cats (2018).


West Devon Way

The West Devon Way is a waymarked long-distance footpath in South West England in the United Kingdom. The West Devon Way runs for 58 km (36 mi).

Route
The route runs from the western fringes of Dartmoor National Park moorland country then through Okehampton and Tavistock, Devon south towards Plymouth through gentler Devon countryside.

It links with the Tarka Trail into North Devon.

It also links with the Dartmoor Way and the Two Castles Trail.

External links

Devon County Council info on the route and travel in the area
Walkingpages basic info


Meydan-e Mozaffarkhan

Meydan-e Mozaffarkhan (, also Romanized as Meydān-e Moz̧affarkhān; also known as Meydān) is a village in Siyah Mansur Rural District, in the Central District of Bijar County, Kurdistan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 217, in 55 families.


Courtney Stephen

Courtney Stephen (born October 27, 1989) is a professional Canadian football defensive back for the Hamilton Tiger-Cats of the Canadian Football League (CFL). He played CIS Football for the Wilfrid Laurier Golden Hawks from 2008 to 2009 before transferring and playing for the Northern Illinois Huskies from 2010 to 2012.

Professional career
Stephen was drafted by the Hamilton Tiger-Cats eighth overall in the 2012 CFL Draft and signed with the team on May 23, 2013. He played for the Tiger-Cats for six years before signing with the Calgary Stampeders on February 14, 2019. Upon becoming a free agent, he re-signed with the Tiger-Cats on February 11, 2020.