The 1969 Students for a Democratic Society National Convention held in June of that year in Chicago, Illinois was the final convention held by the Students for a Democratic Society. The gathering, which took place over June 18–22, was one of four conventions officers and members of SDS attended each year. Taking place at the Chicago Coliseum, the convention was the site of chaos and tension, with members breaking into factions, each vying for control of the organization. Prior to this convention, one of the factions, the Revolutionary Youth Movement (RYM), soon to be renamed the Weathermen, wrote a manifesto regarding the ways and means in which to take SDS in the years to come. The creation of the Weathermen, from RYM, was essentially the main reason for the functioning, and later the disintegration, of SDS. Leading members of the college-based organization wanted to push its boundaries in order to create real revolution and change in America. The SDS National Convention of June 1969 was the culmination of all disagreement within its membership. The result of the convention was a disoriented and gutted organization, complete in only its name.

Background
1969 was a year of turmoil and destruction. The conflict in Vietnam entered its sixth year with no end in sight, as the spring "saw the longest and most violent student strike in American history". Vietnam was an important and all-encompassing topic that covered television, college campuses, newspapers, and conversation. Richard Nixon began his first of two terms as President. The world had seen the chaos of the 1968 Democratic National Convention as it erupted into protest and political radicalism was on the rise.

Worker Student Alliance (WSA)/Progressive Labor Party (PL)
The SDS June 1969 Convention is best described as a clash between three major factions of the organization: the Revolutionary Youth Movement (RYM), the Worker Student Alliance (WSA) also known as the Progressive Labor Party (PL), and the Revolutionary Youth Movement II (RYM II). The three factions could be described with PL on one end, RYM on the other, and RYM II somewhere in between the two. PL (aka WSA) took a very strictly traditional Maoist-Marxist line. Lead by communist Jeff Gordon, PL saw themselves separate of the counterculture, and did not "smoke dope or wear their hair long". This was something that RYM and RYM II disliked about the Maoist faction; the fact that SDS was of and for the counterculture was one of its most distinguishing traits, thus the two other factions felt that PL was disrespecting this feature of the college-based organization. WSA "saw race as divisive and promoted a staid and conservative view of the working class". They did not back African-American nationalism as the RYMs did, and described their purpose as class struggle, appealing to the working class proletariat of America. PL's platform centered around "the old left notion that black nationalism was a diversion from the all-important class struggle". This was a stark contrast from RYM, who saw America's faults in terms of race and imperialism. PL vied for control of SDS in order to expel these other schools of thought and bring in the working-classes of America. However, their conflict with RYM and RYM II at the convention was both poorly timed and not enough to size full control.

Revolutionary Youth Movement (RYM)
Going into the June 1969 Convention, RYM was the faction with the most power and control over SDS and originally encompassed those who were a part of RYM II. SDS leaders, Mark Rudd and Bernardine Dohrn being among the leaders of RYM, this faction expected to take SDS into a new decade more radical than ever, under a new name: the Weathermen. This involved expelling the PL, who they viewed as racist and conservative. In the convention's edition of the New Left Notes, the RYM (now calling themselves the Weathermen) published their manifesto: "You Don't Need a Weatherman to Know Which Way the Wind Blows," based on the song Subterranean Homesick Blues by Bob Dylan. It emphasized their purpose of fighting American-imperialism alongside the Black Panthers, Vietnamese, and other third world countries around the globe. The now Weathermen believed that the "fight for black liberation [was] an anti-colonial struggle against racism and the racist imperialist power structure, as well as being part of the class struggle". Landing on the opposite end of the Left's spectrum, RYM felt that their views were superior to PL, and thus planned on being the victors of the convention.

Revolutionary Youth Movement II (RYM II)
RYM II grew out of RYM as a reactionary group to RYM's "Weatherman" manifesto. Led by Mike Klonsky, RYM II essentially became a real faction at the convention, parting ways from RYM because of ideological differences. Although they backed black nationalism, they interpreted "white skin privileges as being 'insignificant'" and believed in a more traditional Marxist approach, one that related closely to the Soviet Comintern of 1928. They agreed with PL on Old Leftist values, but were not as conservative and did not go as far as to say that race was reactionary to class struggle. RYM II "sought to capture white allegiance by appealing to white 'material interest' – wages, or hours, or benefits". This goal to appeal to the working classes of America on a different level than PL, made the members of RYM II want to pair with their former fellow members in RYM to push PL out of SDS.

Events

The First Day
The first day of the convention, June 18, 1969, was filled with "delegates clashing over seemingly minor procedural issues". During the opening talks, "PL put forth a resolution that mainstream media be barred completely from the convention". This was passed with overwhelming support, the only proposal of the convention that was agreed upon by all three factions.

The Second Day
On the second day, both RYM faction leaders "engineered a show of solidarity," inviting as speakers "representatives of the Young Lords, a Puerto Rican nationalist group, and the Black Panthers [to] address the assembly". This angered the PL, as the Panthers "were fully aware of PL's animosity toward black nationalism," and "were unrestrained in their contempt for PL" as well. Rufus "Chaka" Walls, the Black Panther speaker, then took the stand to give a speech, insulting PL by calling them "armchair Marxists" and painting them as racist. However, it was not the PL who came out of the second day as the most flustered, "the anti-PL front was severely embarrassed" when Walls, "after attacking the 'armchair Marxists' in PL… managed to offend most in the room by criticising women's liberation as 'pussy power'". He began a chant this phrase and PL countered by yelling "Smash Male Chauvinism!". The "evening ended in a fist fight" when the myriad shouting would not come to a conclusion. June 19 was also the day of the convention in which RYM II officially emerged as a faction. Seeing the disagreement between PL and RYM, the members of the new RYM II began to quarrel with its mother faction (RYM) and had many "disagreements over the Weatherman paper" concerning Marxist issues, wanting to relate more to the working peoples of America and class struggle.

The Third Day
The last three days, June 20–22, 1969, are very much connected and are sometimes described as a blur. The third day of the convention, June 20, 1969, began with tense conversations between RYM, RYM II, and PL who fought over how to proceed with SDS as a whole. The question of black nationalism and the role of women in SDS caused much disagreement. RYM thought that black nationalism was important and backed it, while RYM II merely agreed that it existed and PL very strongly opposed to it. Like black nationalism, when it came to the "matter of women's liberation," PL thought that it was more important for women to "focus upon the 'class struggle'". RYM disagreed, instead proposing that women's focus be in "anti-imperialism and anti-racism," but in a more prominent and powerful role. To PL's beliefs, Bernardine Dohrn, Mike Klonsky, and others "responded by declaring that it was impossible to remain in the same organization with people who opposed self-determination in practice and demanded an immediate split". After this, Dohrn "announced that she was walking out and invited all those who agreed with her to follow".

The Fourth Day
The next day began with RYM I and II meeting in an opposite wing than PL, on different sides of the Coliseum. As discussion eventually resumed between the two groups, "it became clear that the expulsion of PL was inevitable". Dohrn spoke again about Third World Struggles and anti-imperialism, things of which PL had no concern. She ended her speech with the proclamation that SDS "was becoming a revolutionary movement; and as such, it could not allow a group such as PL in its ranks". Chanting began again, with PL fighting for their beliefs; however, it was basically over. "Although they controlled a third of the delegates at the final SDS convention," the reality was that PL "had a presence in only a handful of the locations where SDS was active, and everyone knew it. It was over.".

The Fifth Day
The final day was short, SDS was now an organization consisting of the factions RYM and a much less powerful RYM II. What was left of the organization's leading members and officers were Weathermen. However, as "excised as it might have been," PL did meet on that last day in the Coliseum. "Proclaiming itself the true SDS," PL met on the other side of the convention center, away from the new SDS, who spent their last day planning a Chicago event that would take place that October, only a few months later. This event is what would later be named the Days of Rage.

Consequences

Creation of the Weathermen
The final SDS National Convention in June 1969 herald in a new era of the radical left, with the casting out of PL being regarded as a concise cleaning-up of SDS. The convention resulted in SDS practically in shambles, the three factions had only caused the downfall of the organization instead of the progress they wanted to accomplish. The Weathermen were now in control of SDS, taking it into the 1970s with a new focus and drive towards real radical revolution in the United States. They intended on truly 'bringing the war home'. Under the SDS flag, "the Weathermen had claimed… that it was seeking, by its militancy, to win whites to the black and Vietnamese struggles". In the months to follow, the Weathermen would ultimately shed its mother organization's name and enter a decade of rage and uncertainty, eventually being forced to move underground.

The Days of Rage
The Days of Rage took place shortly after the June Convention, during the second week of October that fall. Taking place once again in Chicago, they were a consequence of the Weatherman faction seizing control of the student-run organization and convincing the group as a whole for the need of a full-fledged revolution. During the Days of Rage, "young radicals invested militant action with special power to enlighten, inspire, and mobilize". This event "provided a way for them to establish the authenticity of their commitments, to assert their dissident or 'revolutionary' identities, and to live what they considered meaningful and engaged lives. The Weathermen had anticipated "at least 25,000 people" were to attend the Days of Rage; however, "instead of the promised 25,000 white youth ready to tear up 'pig city,'" a mere "700 to 800 people gathered" half of them spectators. The four-day spectacle opened the Weathermen's eyes to the fact that because of their tactics, they would not gain the support that they had originally intended on gathering.

Disintegration of RYM II
Shortly after the June 1969 Convention, the newly-made Revolutionary Youth Movement II, with Mike Klonsky at the helm, splintered off and disintegrated.  As opposed to the Weathermen, who were "secure in the understandings of imperialism and white supremacy," RYM II "defined the existence of a black nation that neither the Panthers nor SNCC had asked for". This caused frustration and disagreement among the relatively young faction, and resulted in the splintering off of members into new, even smaller factions, all of which seemed focused on their own version of Communist Party formation. "By the spring" of 1970, "except for a pocket here or there, RYM was dead".


Gov. Lloyd Crow Stark House and Carriage House, also known as the Stark Mansion, is a historic home located at Louisiana, Pike County, Missouri. It was built in 1891, and is a two-story, Stick / Eastlake Movement style brick mansion.  It features three two-story bays on the primary facade, and centered, one-story bays on the side elevations, with gable roofs, fishscale shingles, and a decorative front porch.  Also on the property is a contributing carriage house.  This was the home of Missouri Governor Lloyd Crow Stark from 1915 to 1940.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.


Louis, comte de Narbonne-Lara

Louis Marie Jacques Amalric, comte de Narbonne-Lara (August 1755 - 17 November 1813) was a French nobleman, soldier and diplomat.

Birth and early life
He was born at Colorno, in the Duchy of Parma. His mother was Françoise de Chalus (bap. Château de Châlus-Chabrol, Châlus, Haute-Vienne, 24 February 1734 - Paris, 7 July 1821, daughter of Gabriel de Châlus, seigneur de Sansac, and Claire Gérault de Solages), one of the ladies-in-waiting of Elizabeth, Duchess of Parma and Chamberlain-Major of Princess Marie Adélaïde of France.
Her husband was a nobleman of Spanish descent Don Jean François, 1er duc de Narbonne-Lara Grandee of Spain 1st Class, Lieutenant General of the Army, Commander in Name of the King of the Dioceses of Castres, Albi and Lavaur, 1st Gentleman of the House of H.R.H. the Duke of Parma (Aubiac, Lot-et-Garonne, 27 December 1718 - 12 August 1806), son of François de Narbonne-Lara, seigneur d' Aubiac, and second wife Olympie Angélique de Goth. They married 10 July 1749, and had an older son Philippe, the 2e duc de Narbonne-Lara, without issue,.
However, it is alleged that Louis XV himself was the real father. The coevals attribute the count's paternity to the King of France Louis XV for, according to documents of the Military Archive, the comte Jean François de Narbonne-Lara had been wounded 8 years earlier in the War of the Austrian Succession (1747) becoming from that moment on unable of having any offspring.  The baptism of Louis, comte de Narbonne-Lara is another indication of that paternity. His wife became thus the King's mistress, and not only his name was also Louis but also his contemporaries always remarked about the similarities between Louis and the King.

He was brought up at Versailles with the Princesses of France. His education was princely, inclined mostly towards the Classical studies and a rigid military formation; he frequented the main Courts of Europe, where he was able to familiarize with the foreign languages (German and English), which also contributed to his diplomatic formation.

He was made Colonel of the Army at the age of twenty-five.

Marriage and issue
He married Marie Adélaïde (sometimes Adélaïde Marie) de Montholon (Mâcon, 11 or 16 October 1767 - 1848), Lady of Madame Victoire of France, daughter of Louis XV, on 16 April 1782 at Paris, France, with whom he had two daughters. She was the daughter of Nicolas de Montholon (son of Pierre de Montholon and Marguerite Baron, married on 11 June 1711) and Marguerite Fournier de la Chapelle (daughter of Charles Fournier de la Chapelle and Marie Louise Dureau). Their daughters were:
 Louise Amable Rion Françoise de Narbonne-Lara (Nice, 25 May 1786 - Lisbon, 28 March 1849), Dame of Honour of Her Majesty Queen Mary II (with right to the Grandeess of Spain for being representative of her paternal uncle the 2e duc de Narbonne-Lara), who married at Agen on 17 February 1806 the Portuguese of Dutch descent Hermano José Braamcamp de Almeida Castelo-Branco, 5th Lord, 2nd Baron, 1st Viscount and 1st Count of Sobral (16 September 1775 - Lisbon, 2 February 1846), and had two daughters
 Marie Adélaïde Charlotte de Narbonne-Lara (Belleville, 11 May 1790 - Champgrenon, 31 May 1856), who married at Agen on 7 March 1808 Claude-Philibert Barthelot, comte de Rambuteau (Mâcon, 9 November 1781 - Château de Rambuteau, 11 April 1869), and had two daughters

Out of wedlock he had by Jeanne Pitrot-Verteil one son:
 Louis Jean Amalric de Narbonne-Lara, born in Paris, unmarried and without issue

And by Louise-Françoise Contat (16 June 1760 - 9 March 1813), actress with the Comédie-Française, one daughter:
 Louise Amalrique Bathilde Isidore Contat de Narbonne-Lara (Saint Pierre de Chaillot, Paris, 21 September 1788 - ?), who married in Paris on 2 December 1811 Dutch Jan Frederik Abbema, born in Amsterdam on 13 June 1773, and had one son:
 Émile, vicomte d' Abbéma, who had an only daughter by his wife Henriette Anne d' Astoin:
 Louise Abbéma (Étampes, 30 October 1853 - Paris, 4 August 1927), unmarried and without issue

Early career
He is found in 1785 as a Colonel of the Army and Honorary Chamberlain of Princess Madame Marie Adélaïde of France. In 1786 he was the Commander of an Infantry Regiment, and remained in that post until the evenings of the French Revolution.

French Revolution
His liberal ideas soon made him be one of the first inscribed in the Club de Valois, where the Duke of Orléans presided. He was afterwards appointed Commander of the National Guard in Franche-Comté. His friendship with Talleyrand brought him an appointment to command a special guard, composed of the most disciplined soldiers of the National Guard of Paris.

The comte de Narbonne-Lara always maintained his fidelity towards the King; a true idealist, he hoped for a Constitutional Monarchy.

He became maréchal de camp in 1791, and, through the influence of Madame de Staël, was appointed Minister of War of Louis XVI. In this office he tried at all cost to impose his constitutional project, helped by the Bishop of Autun, Baumetz and Chapelier. But he showed incapacity in this post, and gave in his resignation. Despite his efforts, he did not carry his point, for in March 1792 the King, moved by intrigues and by the intransigence of those who surrounded him, thought right to dismiss him from that Ministry. His resignation was the result of his disagreements with the Feuillants on the question of foreign war. Narbonne-Lara and his friends hoped to bring on the war with Austria, by which they hoped to restore the prestige of the monarchy. Narbonne-Lara made an alliance with the Marquis de Lafayette, but their schemes were defeated. After his resignation, he joined the Army of the North and, in May 1792, he was elevated to Lieutenant General of the Army. After less than six months from his dismissal, the French Monarchy was agonizing, the French Republic was proclaimed and the Royal Family was incarcerated. Later, Narbonne actually incurred suspicion as a Feuillant. The comte de Narbonne-Lara also had on him a prison warrant. Due to this, and also to questions about his policy at the war office, he managed to seek refuge at the Embassy of Sweden, emigrated after 10 August 1792, and later evaded to London and from there to Germany, having visited England, Switzerland and Germany. During the Consulate, his friends Talleyrand and Fouché managed to remove his name from the list of the wanted, and returned to France in 1801, where he was retired with the patent of Divisional General.

In Napoleon's service
In 1809 Napoleon remembered him and called him into his service. Brilliant, cultivated and perfectly aware of the uses of the Ancien Régime, persona grata with the main Courts of Europe, skilled diplomat and military, he was the ideal person to be at his side. As such, he was reintegrated and re-entered the Army with his former post of Lieutenant General and appointed Governor of Raab, with the command of the whole part of Hungary occupied by the imperial troops. After signed the peace with Hungary, he was appointed Divisional General Commander of the 4th Military Division in Trieste. In that same year of 1809 he was sent to Vienna to arrange the marriage of the Emperor with Archduchess Marie Louise. In 1810 he was subsequently appointed Minister Plenipotentiary in Bavaria at Munich, next to King Maximilian I, whom he knew very well before the Revolution, and in 1811 aide-de-camp to Napoleon. He was created an Officer of the Legion of Honour and Grand Cross of the Order of Saint Hubert.

In 1812 he went on diplomatic mission to Prussia; this mission had the purpose of ascertaining King Frederick William III towards his attitude in case France went to war with Russia. In returning to Paris, de Narbonne-Lara advised Napoleon not to invade Russia, but his advice was not followed; and so he reassumed his place in the Imperial Army on the Russian border. When he arrived there, he was sent by Napoleon to the city of Wilna, where the Tsar was; the comte de Narbonne-Lara was the bearer of an ultimatum, to which Alexander I categorically refused.

The tragic outcome of the Russian Campaign did not minimize the action of the Officers of the Imperial Army. Among them, he was outstanding for his military uprightness and exemplary behaviour; in the whirl of the retreat, he appeared dauntless and serene, his presence imposed confidence and respect to the demoralized troops. Mounted on his horse beside the carriage of the defeated Napoleon, he was the personification of the dignity and honour of the Ancien Régime.

In 1813 he was appointed and sent as French Ambassador at Vienna, where he was engaged in an unequal diplomatic duel with Metternich during the fateful months that witnessed the defection of Austria from the cause of Napoleon to that of the Allies, to confirm the alliance between France and Austria, objective he was not able to fulfill; the Empire had its days cut short. In that same year he was appointed Governor of the stronghold of Torgau (Saxony), one of the main strategic points for the defense of the Empire. On 17 November 1813, after reviewing the troops on horse, he died of typhus. His aide-de-camp, Captain comte de Rohan-Chabot, brought his heart back to France, and afterwards the name of the comte de Narbonne-Lara was inscribed on the east side of the Arc de Triomphe.

Ancestry

Sources
See AF Villemain, Souvenirs contemporains (Paris, 1854), Domingos de Araújo Afonso et alii, Le Sang de Louis XIV (Braga, 1961), Tome I, p. 276 and Filipe Folque de Mendoça, A Casa Loulé e Suas Alianças, Livraria Bizantina, 1.ª Edição, Lisboa, 1995, pp. 171–172.

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Mononoke

Mononoke (物の怪) are vengeful spirits (onryō), dead spirits (shiryō), live spirits (ikiryō), or spirits in Japanese classical literature and folk religion that were said to do things like possess individuals and make them suffer, cause disease, or even cause death. It is also a word sometimes used to refer to yōkai or henge ("changed beings").

Summary

Mononoke can be often seen in literature of the Heian period. As a famous example, in the 9th volume of the Genji Monogatari, "Aoi", is the ikiryō of Lady Rokujo, who possessed Aoi no Ue. Other than that, there are also statements about mononoke in publications like Ōkagami and Masukagami.

In those times, when medical knowledge has not been fully developed, people like monks and shugensha would perform incantations and prayers against diseases caused by mononoke, and by temporarily moving the mononoke into a different person called the "yorimashi" (usually servants, apprentices, etc.) they would perform exorcism on the mononoke to heal the illness. Statements on this practice can be found in detail in works like The Pillow Book and The Diary of Lady Murasaki. Also, according to the Shoku Nihon Kōki, it told of once when a monk chanted a sutra to 60 people within the imperial residence.

History
Japanese mononoke come from China's 物怪, and there are statements on them in ancient Chinese literature like Records of the Grand Historian and 原鬼, there are statements on this 物怪. In the latter one, there is the statement, "those with neither voice nor shape are 鬼神 (wrathful gods). Those who cannot have shape or voice, and also cannot be without shape or voice, are 物怪," and thus the 物怪 of China at that time were considered a type of yōkai that cannot be seen or heard, and were thought to be natural phenomena that people did not understand with the knowledge of those times.

The first appearance of the term in Japanese literature is seen to be in the Nihon Kōki, and according to a quotation of this book from the Nihon Kiryaku of the same time period, in the article of Uruu 12th month of the year Tenchō 7 (830), there is the statement: "Five monks were invited to recite the Diamond Sutra. With some difficulty, the Jingi-kan relieved it. It was the work of a 物恠," and there are also statements about mononoke in the articles in the 8th month Jinshin of the same year, and of year 10 in the 5th month. In the old language of those times, the word "mono" was used to refer to oni, spirits, or Ara-mitama among other things, or things that were not felt to be clearly real, and in the Taihō Code, epidemic diseases were written about as "toki no ke" (時気), using the word "ke" to refer to "diseases", and so it is seen that a "mono no ke" (a "ke" of a "mono") was used to refer to diseases caused by these "mono". "The Pillow Book" as well, there are names for diseases such as "mune no ke" ("ke" of the chest), "ashi no ke" ("ke" of the feet), and "mono no ke" ("ke" of "mono").

As groundwork for how mononoke were thought of as, in Japan from the beginning of the Heian Period, various societal malaises and illnesses were thought to be due to curses ("tatari") of vengeful spirits (onryō). Starting with how the succession of emperors dying to diseases and the spread of epidemics in the Enryaku years was said to be the curse of Prince Sawara, there is a tale in the Nihonkoku Genpō Zen'aku Ryōiki in which the grudge of Prince Nagaya is said to have led many people to their deaths. In the Shoku Nihongi, there is a statement about Fujiwara no Hirotsugu's vengeful spirit (onryō). However, this kind of thought still wasn't very influential at that time, and even Emperor Saga stated in a caution, "in this society, some would attribute any and all mononoke to a spirit's curse. These are very baseless assertions," thus strongly denying the relation between mononoke and vengeful spirits.

Afterwards, in the Shoku Nihon Kōki, the author, Harusumi no Yoshitada, reflecting knowledge of onmyōdō, strongly adopted the concept of mononoke. In the Jōwa years, the aristocratic society received strong influence from onmyōdō, and the spread of onmyōdō planted in many people the general concept of vengeful spirits. Just at that time, after Sugawara no Michizane died in Engi 3 (903), the deaths one after another that followed of members of the imperial and noble families, as well as the spread of epidemic diseases, were feared as the work of a curse of Michizane, and thus the belief that mononoke were caused by vengeful spirits' curses grew even stronger.

Afterwards, in the era of the Fujiwara sekke, as opposed to how noble families at that time boasted of glory, they had delicate personalities, and so due to fear of the grudges and revenges of the era's defeated ones, and due to misgivings about the future, fear of mononoke became more aroused. The locked-in lifestyle of the imperial society at that time also fostered in the nobles' minds fear of mononoke. In this way, mononoke themselves were thought to be vengeful spirits, and eventually in addition to epidemic diseases, individual deaths, illnesses, and pain were all seen to be due to mononoke, and the illnesses itself also became called mononoke. Furthermore, due to the concept of the fear of "mono", the things that were said to be the origin of the illnesses, the ikiryō and shiryō themselves, were also thought to have been called mononoke.

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Uranus (disambiguation)

Uranus is a planet in the Solar System.

Uranus may also refer to:
Uranus (mythology), an ancient Greek sky god

Fiction
 Uranus (novel), a 1948 novel by Marcel Aymé
Uranus, a character in Duckman
Uranus, a character in Bloody Roar
Uranus, a character in Battle Arena Toshinden
Uranus Corporation, a fictional corporation in The Groove Tube

Music
 "Uranus, the Magician", a movement in Gustav Holst's The Planets
Uranus (EP), a 1993 EP by Shellac

Other uses
Uranus (astrology), the astrological aspects of Uranus
Uranus (film), a 1990 film starring Gérard Depardieu
German trawler Uranus, a vorpostenboot briefly in service in 1940
Club Uranus, an event at The EndUp
Operation Uranus, a Soviet World War II offensive to win the Battle of Stalingrad
Uranus Hill or Dealul Spirii, a hill in Bucharest, Romania

People with the surname
Nicephorus Uranus or Nikephoros Ouranos, Byzantine strategos of Antiocheia from 999 to c. 1010


Asaphocrita lucis

Asaphocrita lucis is a moth in the family Blastobasidae that is endemic to Costa Rica.


89 Albert Embankment

89 Albert Embankment (informally known as Charity Towers) is a landmark building in Vauxhall on the River Thames in London. It is home to various British charities such as Comic Relief and Macmillan Cancer Support.


Fiesta de la Hispanidad

The Fiesta de la Hispanidad or Hispanic-Latin American Festival is Australia's largest celebration of Spanish and Latin American culture, held in Jonhston Street, Fitzroy in Melbourne on the second last week of November.

The carnival features a spectacular procession of exotic floats, costumes, musicians and dancers.
The event incorporates elements of Latin American culture, featuring dance rhythms, food and music.
Throughout the day, a mixture of musicians perform on the stage set up at the end of Johnston Street. A large number live bands and DJs perform on the stage.
Inspired by the commemoration of One Thousand years of the Spanish Language, Fiesta de la Hispanidad was officially established in 1978.

The Hispanic-Latin American Festival makes a significant contribution to the vibrancy and richness of Australia's multicultural society, depicting cultural and artistic expression.

External links
Fiesta de la Hispanidad official site
eMelbourne-Spanish


Kenner Stakes

The Kenner Stakes was an American Thoroughbred horse race run from 1870 through 1942 at Saratoga Race Course in Saratoga Springs, New York. Open to three-year-old horses, it was last contested at a distance of a mile and three sixteenths on dirt. It was run as the Miller Stakes  from 1920 through 1930 in honor of prominent horseman and co-founder of Life magazine, Andrew Miller.

Winners
(partial list)

1942 - Buckskin
1941 - War Relic
1940 - Your Chance
1939 - Hash
1938 - Bull Lea
1937 - Rex Flag
1936 - Granville
1935 - St. Bernard
1934 - Discovery
1933 - War Glory
1932 - Dark Secret
1931 - Mate
1930 - Whichone
1929 - Marine
1928 - Reigh Count
1927 - Brown Bud
1926 - Rock Star
1925 - Stirrup Cup
1924 - Klondyke
1923 - Martingale
1922 - Sweep By
1921 - Prudery
1920 - Man o' War
1919 - Milkmaid
1918 - Enfilade
1917 - Omar Khayyam
1903 - Injunction
1902 - Cunard
1901 - Baron Pepper
1893 - Stowaway
1892 - Ronald
1891 - Vallera
1890 - English Lady
1889 - Long Dance
1888 - Los Angeles
1887 - Swarthmore
1886 - Elkwood
1885 - Irish Pat
1884 - Powhattan
1883 - George Kinney
1882 - Boatman
1881 - Hindoo
1880 - Luke Blackburn
1879 - Falsetto
1878 - Duke of Magenta
1877 - Bazil
1876 - Charley Howard
1875 - Ozark
1874 - Stampede
1873 - The Ill-Used
1872 - Joe Daniels
1871 - Harry Bassett
1870 - Enquirer


Relegatio

Relegatio under Roman law was the mildest form of exile, involving banishment from Rome, but not loss of citizenship, or confiscation of property.

A notable victim of relegatio was Ovid.

Origins
Under the early Republic, citizens could be cut off from the community – fire and water – by the ‘interdictio aquae et ignis’; and to forestall this sometimes went into voluntary exile (exilium), where citizenship might be maintained or lost, but property would normally be retained. By contrast relegatio was mainly employed to expel foreigners from Rome: only under the late Republic did it begin to be applied to political figures within Rome.

Under the empire
The emperors made relegatio one of their main weapons of banishment, alongside deportatio. Relegatio might be for a specific period or for life; it might be to a fixed spot, or simply outside Rome/Italy: thus Tacitus describes how one senator “chose the famous and agreeable island of Lesbos for his exile”. In any case it remained a softer penalty than the alternative of deportatio, which generally entailed loss of citizenship and property as well as banishment to a specific spot.

Ovid in his exile made play of the fact that he remained a citizen in charge of his property in Rome, though he was unable either to have his relegatio rescinded, or his exile switched to a pleasanter spot. By contrast, Juvenal (at least in Gilbert Highet’s reconstruction) was subjected to deportatio; and though his sentence was eventually repealed he returned to Rome a ruined man.

Under the later empire, jurists set up a hierarchy of banishments: temporary relegatio/permanent relegatio/relegation to an island or fixed spot/deportatio.

Cultural echoes
Epictetus praised a stoic senator who heard he had been condemned in his absence: “ ‘To exile’, says he, ‘or to death?’ - ‘To exile’ - ‘What about my property?’ - ‘It has not been confiscated’ - ‘Well then, let us go to Arica [first stop outside Rome] and take our lunch there’”.


Makedontsi

Makedontsi is a village in Kardzhali Municipality, Kardzhali Province, southern Bulgaria.


Francis Longstreth Thompson

Francis Longstreth Thompson, OBE (3 May 1890 – 19 March 1973) was a British town planner and writer.

He was born in Croydon, Surrey, and studied at University College, London, where he took a degree in engineering.  In 1917 he published The Town Plan and the House, co-authored with Ernest G. Allen, showing the connection between housing design and site development.  In 1923 he wrote Site Planning In Practice: an investigation of the principles of housing estate development, which laid down many of the principles adopted in identifying and developing suitable sites for housing.  He worked with Thomas Adams on plans for the development of West Middlesex, co-authoring with Adams The West Middlesex Final Report in 1925.   He set up his own town planning consultancy, and was President of the Town Planning Institute in 1932-33.

He died at Walmer, Kent, in 1973, aged 82. His son was the historian Francis Michael Longstreth Thompson.


Yanette Delétang-Tardif

Yanette Delétang-Tardif (Roubaix, 18 June 1902 – Paris, 1976) was a French poet, translator into French of Spanish and German works, painter and illustrator. She was a very productive and reputed author of poetry, however she appeared sometimes as a restricted poetess.

Biography
Yanette Delétang-Tardif, born Anne Marie Paule Delétang, was the daughter of Marie Troupeau and Maurice Delétang, an industrialist. She was the widow of Raymond Tardif, by whom she had a son called Jean-Loup.

After her marriage, she took her pen-name: Yanette Delétang-Tardif. Then she had been succeeding to establish herself as a fully-fledged writer with the publishing of her first collections of poems: Éclats in 1929, Générer, a poetic work about her motherhood experience, in 1930 and Vol d'oiseaux in 1931. Those early works testify to the sway of Paul Valéry's rhythmic pattern. In her book Confidences des îles written in 1934, she adopted a style revealing the adding influence of Guy Lavaud. Meantime, she published in several periodicals, ranked as a recognized poet. In 1935, the monthly L'Année poétique brought out a special issue devoted entirely to her, in which she had her portrait done by Jean de Bosschère. Inquisitive about surrealism as a cultural movement, she was little inclined to its ideological side.

As a poet, she had joined the École de Rochefort, inside which she was the only woman, since the poet Jean Bouhier created this poetic movement in 1941. Even though she had so become a founding member of that talented group of poets, she remained free and defended personal conceptions of poetry, such as the benevolent welcome of Stéphane Mallarmé's poems, very dissimilar from the Rochefort group's poetic ideal. In 1942 she won the Mallarmé prize to honour her work and bring out her book Tenter de vivre. At that time she also met Jean Cocteau with whom she became well acquainted. At her particular request then, Jean Cocteau drew her portrait, once reproduced in his war journal and made a second time in 1943. Like the accomplished artist she admired, she formed a passion for circus about which she wrote articles.

Some surrealists distributed a leaflet at the end of 1942–1943 wintertime in which they mocked her poetical works through her interest for circus arts and aimed to condemn who they considered as collaborationist artists. Thus, among several authors, they put a stress on the single contribution to La Nouvelle Revue Française made by Yanette Delétang-Tardif regarding the period when the quarterly magazine was caught up in the collaboration movement. Despite the vigorous libel actions of those surrealists, she was not banned as an undesirable writer by the Comité National des Ecrivains after the Liberation and, therefore, never prosecuted for collaborationism.

She kept up a correspondence with Max Jacob, who was a well-known figure among the most representative fellows of the Rochefort poetic movement. Then, following his death in 1944, she was the first one to transcribe the most extensive story from witness statements of the martyrdom of the Jewish poet, and proved to be an investigative writer.

At that time, Gérard de Nerval's sonnets Les Chimères and German poets of the romantic era belonged to her beloved literatures, which had played a part in the development of her works. She was especially interested in Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, of whom she gave a renowned French translation of the poems — together with Maurice Betz — in 1946. In 1949 she collaborated with Paul Arnold on the French translation of Friedrich Nietzsche's complete poetical works. Although never published in her lifetime, she also created a really fine translation of Nachtwachen von Bonaventura, reflecting her interest in romanticism through a masterpiece of German literature.

Delétang-Tardif's writing was not confined to poetry nor translated works and, following her taste, she wrote novels and completed critical works. She was the faithful friend of the French novelist and critic Edmond Jaloux, of whom she published a biography in 1947.

The year 1950 marked her author career when she was awarded the recipient of the Renée Vivien prize for her poetry collection Sept chants royaux.

From the outset of her career, her nom de plume referred to her husband's family name, which she attached to her father's name. When he died she was plunged into despair. Then, in 1963 she cut off from the literary world of Paris.

She died in relative obscurity in 1976 at Paris.

Works
 Éclats (Aristide Quillet, 1929)
 Générer (Aristide Quillet, 1930)
 Vol d'oiseaux (Aristide Quillet, 1931)
 Confidences des îles (Corréa, 1934)
 Briser n'est rien (Sagesse, 1934)
 La colline (Debresse, 1935)
 Morte en songe (Sagesse, 1938)
 Pressentiment de la rose (Cahiers de Rochefort, 1941)
 Poèmes du vitrier (Poètes, 1941)
 Tenter de vivre (Denoël, 1943)
 Edellina, ou Les Pouvoirs de la musique (Amis de Rochefort, 1943)
 Sept chants royaux (Éditions du Rond-Point, 1945)
 Les séquestrés (La Table Ronde, 1945)
 Edmond Jaloux (La Table Ronde, 1947)
 La nuit des temps (P. Seghers, 1951)
 Chants royaux (P. Seghers, 1956)
 Les emblèmes (Subervie, 1957)
 Almanach (C.E.L.F. Malines, 1958)
 Les éléments perdus (Subervie, 1963)

Notes and references

Notes


Jeremiah E. Joyce

Jeremiah E. Joyce (born January 3, 1943) is an American lawyer and politician.

Born in Chicago, Illinois, Joyce received his bachelor's degree from Northern Illinois University, his masters from Chicago State University, and his law degree from DePaul University College of Law. He practiced law. He served on the Chicago City Council. He served on the Illinois State Senate 1979-1993 as a Democrat. In 1999, Joyce was appointed to the Northern Illinois University Board of Trustees where he served until 2001.

His son Kevin Joyce also served in the Illinois General Assembly. Another son, Jeremiah Joyce, Jr., ran for Mayor of Chicago in the 2019 mayoral election.

Notes


2017 Malaysian Open

The 2017 Alya Malaysian Open was a women's tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the 8th edition of the Malaysian Open and an International tournament on the 2017 WTA Tour. The tournament took place from 27 February to 5 March 2017 at the Kuala Lumpur Golf & Country Club (KLGCC).

Points and prize money distribution

Points distribution

Prize money

Singles main draw entrants

Seeds

1 Rankings as of February 20, 2017.

Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:
  Zarina Diyas
  Katarina Zavatska
  Zheng Saisai

The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:
  Ashleigh Barty
  Jang Su-jeong
  Anna Kalinskaya
  Miyu Kato
  Lesley Kerkhove
  Sabina Sharipova

Withdrawals
Before the tournament
  Sorana Cîrstea →replaced by  Zhu Lin
  Vania King →replaced by  Sílvia Soler Espinosa
  Karin Knapp →replaced by  Sara Sorribes Tormo
  Kurumi Nara →replaced by  Nina Stojanović
  Yulia Putintseva →replaced by  Maryna Zanevska
  Evgeniya Rodina →replaced by  Aleksandra Krunić
  Maria Sakkari →replaced by  Zhang Kailin

During the tournament
  Elina Svitolina (left lower leg injury)

Retirements
  Peng Shuai

Doubles main draw entrants

Seeds

Rankings as of February 20, 2017.

Other entrants
The following pair received wildcard into the doubles main draw:
  Beatrice Gumulya  /  Theiviya Selvarajoo
  Jawairiah Noordin  /  Jessy Rompies

Champions

Singles

  Ashleigh Barty def.  Nao Hibino, 6–3, 6–2

Doubles

  Ashleigh Barty /  Casey Dellacqua def.  Nicole Melichar /  Makoto Ninomiya, 7–6(7–5), 6–3


Akhil Kumar

Akhil Kumar (born 27 March 1981) is an Indian boxer who has won several international and national boxing awards. He practices an "open guarded" boxing style. In 2005, the Indian government gave him the Arjuna Award for his achievements in international boxing. In March 2017, the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports, Government of India, appointed Akhil Kumar along with Mary Kom as national observers for boxing.

Career

1994–2004
Kumar first competed in International boxing in 1999, winning a gold medal in the 6th YMCA Junior International Boxing Championship. In 2001 he won another gold medal in the International Invitational Boxing Championship in Russia. In 2003, he won a gold medal in the flyweight category by defeating Vilitio M Payla (Php) 20-16. He won a Best Boxer award three times, in addition to twelve gold, one silver, and four bronze medals.

2004–2005
Kumar qualified for the Athens Games by winning second place at the 1st AIBA Asian 2004 Olympic Qualifying Tournament in Guangzhou, China. In the first round he lost to Uzbekistan's Tulashboy Doniyorov. At the 2004 Olympics, he lost in the first round to Jerome Thomas.

In 2005 Kumar won the gold medal at the 4th Commonwealth Federation Boxing Championships in Glasgow, Scotland. He defeated Bongani Mahalangu of South Africa by a narrow margin of 18-17 in the 54 kg final.

2006 Melbourne Commonwealth Games
In the 2006 Commonwealth Games he won the gold medal in the Bantamweight 54 kg category by edging out Nigerian Nestor Bolum and defeating Mauritian Bruno Julie in the final.

He landed six unanswered blows in the opening round of the final. The second round was quite even, with Kumar winning 5-4. He did slightly better in round 3, winning it 6-4, and despite losing the final round 3-4, succeeded in avoiding the single punch that might have cost him the tie.

2008 Beijing Olympics and AIBA World Cup
Kumar qualified for the 2008 Olympic Games, beating among others the silver medallist from the 2004 Summer Olympics, Worapoj Petchkoom, at the Asian boxing qualifying tournament in Bangkok.
At the Olympic event, he made his way to the second round in the Bantamweight 54 kg category beating Frenchman Ali Hallab on points 12-5. In the round of 16, he beat World Champion Sergey Vodopyanov, coming from 2-6 down in the second round of the bout. The score was tied 9-9 at the end of the fourth round but the judges decided in Kumar's favor because he landed a greater number of punches. He lost 3-10 to Veaceslav Gojan of Moldova in the quarter finals on 18 August 2008. He was coached by the Indian boxing coach Gurbaksh Singh Sandhu.

In the AIBA World Cup 2008 held in Moscow, Kumar beat Marcel Schinder of Germany in the quarterfinals with a margin of 15-6. In the semifinals the final score was a tie, 4-4, but this time, the judges awarded the match to his opponent. Kumar won a bronze.

2012 London Olympics
Akhil Kumar was ruled out of the 2012 London Olympics; due to an injury he failed to reduce weight in time to take part in the Asian Continental Olympic qualification tournament, to be held in Astana (Kazakhstan) in April 2012.

Awards
Kumar received the Arjuna award in 2005.


Raul Salvatierra

Raul Salvatierra (born July 15, 1991) is a Bolivian professional basketball player.  He currently plays for Gimnasia y Esgrima of the Torneo Nacional de Ascenso in Argentina.

He was a member of Bolivia's national basketball team at the 2016 South American Basketball Championship in Caracas, Venezuela. There, he was Bolivia’s best rebounder.

External links
 Latinbasket.com profile


Brice Disque

General Brice Pursell Disque (July 19, 1879 – February 29, 1960) was a U.S. Army officer and businessman. He is best remembered for having headed the Spruce Production Division during World War I, for conceiving the idea of sending military troops to work in the logging industry to spur wartime wood production, and as the creator of a government-sponsored union, the Loyal Legion of Loggers and Lumbermen.

Early life
He was born in California, Ohio, which was located southeast of Cincinnati, Ohio on July 17, 1879. Growing up, he attended Cincinnati's public schools and the Walnut Hill School.

Early career
Disque enlisted in the United States Army in 1899 to serve in the Philippine-American War, rising in rank from private to first sergeant to second lieutenant in Company E, 47th Infantry, United States Volunteers, between September and November 1899. In January 1900, his company landed at Sorsogon in the Bicol Region of Luzon in the Philippines, where it did garrison duty, advanced north against the Filipino Army, and engaged in operations against Filipino guerrillas. In February 1901, he mustered out of the volunteers to accept a regular's commission as a 2nd lieutenant in the 5th Cavalry, with temporary duty at Fort Thomas, Kentucky.

In September 1903, he accepted a transfer to the 3rd Cavalry, where a 1st lieutenant's billet was available.  Disque was a Distinguished Graduate of the Infantry and Cavalry School at Fort Leavenworth in 1904-1905, then completed the Staff Course in 1905-1906, where his thesis was in law: The Suspension of the Privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus in the United States. Disque served as a first lieutenant until 1916, when he was promoted to captain under the 14-years-in-grade rule.

In 1917, he resigned to become the warden of the Michigan State Prison.  When war was declared, he volunteered to return to the Army, hoping for a battlefield command. On May 7, 1917, he was called to Washington to meet with Gen. John J. Pershing and Chief of the General Staff Maj. Gen. James G. Harbord. They convinced him to remain a civilian and investigate the lumber shortage, caused by a combination of labor union strikes and mill owner profiteering, which was hindering airplane production. Disque decided to bring in military crews to replace lumberjacks who had joined the military forestry divisions, as well as striking workers, who had shut down most timber operations in Washington, and the subsequent on-the-job "slow-down" actions.

World War I
Disque was reinstated on September 29, 1917, as a lieutenant colonel, promoted to colonel on November 6, and placed in charge of the Spruce Production Division of the Aviation Section, U.S. Signal Corps, headquartered in Portland, Oregon. When Congress approved the formation of corporations by the United States government as war instrumentalities in the summer of 1918, the United States Spruce Production Corporation was incorporated in September 1918 to control logging production and the building of railroads to move the lumber. Brice also became its president from 1918–1919.  He was sent to Seattle, Washington in October 1917 to deal with the alarming lack of production of woods vital to the war effort, especially the spruce necessary for airplane production. Brice worked with local lumber barons to establish another union for the lumbermen, in an effort to get them to work eight-hour days.  The first local of the Loyal Legion of Loggers and Lumbermen (Four L) was organized in Wheeler, Oregon on October 30, 1917. Several more locals were established in short order: by January 1, the Legion had 10,000 members; by January 24, 35,000. For his service with the Spruce Production Division, Disque was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal.

The Four L was organized after opposition to the Spruce Production Division by the IWW's Lumber Workers Industrial Union, which had declared an industry-wide strike in the summer of 1917, latching onto the momentum of the many spontaneous strikes that were occurring. The goal of the Four L was to counter the IWW as the union of lumber workers by fostering a spirit of patriotism. The Four L required its members to sign a loyalty oath to the United States and no-strike agreements. The Four L was headed, at first, by army officers, and all 28,000 soldiers of the Spruce Production Division became members.

Post-war career
Despite problems that arose within the Four L and accusations against Disque, Congress approved his promotion to Brigadier General in September 1918. Disque continued service as a general in the Army's Organized Reserves from 1922 to 1939, alternating between performing training missions for the Army and serving on the board of trustees of various private firms. From June 6, 1922 to April 14, 1937, he commanded the 151st Cavalry Brigade, headquartered in Rochester, New York, and from April 15, 1937 to June 1939, the 152nd Cavalry Brigade, headquartered in New York City. Both were the major subordinate units of the 61st Cavalry Division.

Disque served as president of several corporations such as the Anthracite Equipment Corporation, G. Amsinck and Co., and the Sulphide Ore Process Company.  He also served on various private and public boards and commissions such as the Anthracite Institute and the Solid Fuels Administration for War.

Disque died February 29, 1960.

Distinguished Service Medal citation
Citation:

The President of the United States of America, authorized by Act of Congress, July 9, 1918, takes pleasure in presenting the Army Distinguished Service Medal to Brigadier General Brice Pursell Disque, United States Army, for exceptionally meritorious and distinguished services to the Government of the United States, in a duty of great responsibility during World War I, in connection with the organization and administration of the spruce production activities of the Bureau of Aircraft Production while serving as Officer in Charge of the Spruce Production Division and President of the United States Spruce Production Corporation.


Caribachlamys ornata

Caribachlamys ornata , the ornate scallop, is a species of bivalve mollusc in the family Pectinidae. It can be found in Caribbean waters, ranging from southern Florida to the West Indies and Brazil.


Propealiothrips

Propealiothrips is a genus of thrips in the family Phlaeothripidae.

Species
 Propealiothrips moundi


Figure 8 (belay device)

The figure 8 belay device is a piece of metal (usually an aluminum alloy) in the shape of an 8 with one large end and one small end.

Usage

This device utilities a large surface area in contact with a climbing rope to provide sufficient friction along with proper technique  to be used as a belay device or for rappelling. A figure 8 (sometimes just referred to as an 8) is used in conjunction with a climbing harness and locking carabiner to keep a climber safe and control their descent or one's own descent (when rappelling)

Pros
Figure 8s offer a very smooth controlled descent when rappelling and lowering climbers. They can be used with nearly any diameter climbing rope and don't get as hot as other friction devices because of their ability to dissipate heat efficiently. The figure eight can also be used with a doubled rope, which is also possible with a rack but not a bobbin.

Cons
The figure eight cannot be removed from the rope without detaching the device from the harness, and so could be accidentally dropped, particularly when tackling a rebelay. They also twist the rope which is a particular problem where a rebelay prevents the rope untwisting. They do not provide a convenient means to temporarily lock the descent at a rebelay.


Baisogala

Baisogala () is a small town in Lithuania. It is situated on the crossroads of Kėdainiai–Šeduva and Raseiniai–Šeduva roads. According to the 2011 census, it had 2,034 residents.

History

Baisogala is first mentioned in written sources in 1539 when King Sigismund I the Old established a parish with seat in the town. Archeologists discovered cemeteries from the 5th and 6th centuries near the town suggesting the people inhabited the area well before the 16th century. In the 17th century, the town was granted to the Radvila family and changed hands a few times. In 1791 the town was granted city privileges according to the Magdeburg law. Eventually, the town was bought in 1830 by Joseph Komar, a former colonel of Napoleon Bonaparte. The Komar family remained in Baisogala until 1940 when the Soviets arrested and deported the family to Kazachstan. Their large and decorated manor is quite well preserved and surrounded by  of park.

Religion
The first church was built by King Sigismund II Augustus, but it did not survive. The church in the present location was built in 1781 and rebuilt in 1882 with financial support from the Komar family.

Notable people from Baisogala

Nachum Kaplan
Arvydas Každailis
Alfredas Kulpa-Kulpavičius
Estanislao Shilinsky Bachanska


Ella Du Cane

Ella Du Cane (1874-1943) was a British artist best known for her watercolors of landscapes and exotic locales.

Early life
Ella Mary Du Cane was the third and youngest daughter of politician and colonial administrator Sir Charles Du Cane and his wife, Georgiana Susan Copley. Through her mother, she was the great-granddaughter of the artist, John Singleton Copley. She was born in Hobart, Tasmania in the last year of her father's five-year term as Governor of Tasmania, shortly before the family returned to their country house at Braxted Park, Essex. In Essex, Charles was made a Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George and served as Chairman of the Board of Customs.

Her sister Florence was born in 1869. Ella made watercolor paintings and Florence was a writer. After their father died in 1889 they decided that they would travel the world unchaperoned. They visited China, Japan, Egypt, the Canary Islands and Madeira.

Career
Ella Du Cane came into artistic prominence in 1893 when she exhibited at an exhibition of the prestigious New Society of Painters in Water Colours. Queen Victoria took a personal interest in her work, acquiring 26 of Du Cane's works between December 1895 and August 1898.

With success came opportunities for travel. A 1902 exhibition of water color drawings of the West Indies was followed in 1904 by a show of pictures of Japan. In 1905 Du Cane was hired by A & C Black to provide illustrations for The Italian Lakes (1905), with descriptions by Richard Bagot. The company also used several of her Japan pictures in a book by John Finnemore. Building on her success, Du Cane arranged with Black to do a book on Japanese gardens with text written by her sister, Florence, a book released in 1908 as The Flowers and Gardens of Japan. The following year, the sisters' second book, The Flowers and Gardens of Madeira appeared.

In later years, Ella continued to travel and paint, and never married. She continued to live with her mother and sister in Essex, the family moving to an estate called Mountains, on a hillside site near Maldon, after selling Braxted Park in 1919. Ella Du Cane died of unknown causes on 25 November 1943 at Mountains. She is buried with her sisters at All Saints Church, Great Braxted.

Works


James Cutsinger

James Sherman Cutsinger (born May 4, 1953, died February 19, 2020) (PhD, Harvard University) was an author, editor, and professor of religious studies (emeritus) at the University of South Carolina, whose works focused primarily on comparative religion, the modern Traditionalist School of perennial philosophy, Eastern Christian spirituality, and the mystical tradition of the Orthodox Church.

Traditionalism

Cutsinger served as secretary to the Foundation for Traditional Studies and was a widely recognized authority on the Sophia Perennis, the traditionalist school, and comparative religion – subjects on which he wrote extensively.  His works also focused on the theology and spirituality of the Christian East.  He is perhaps best known however, for his work on Swiss philosopher and traditionalist, Frithjof Schuon.

Teaching
Professor Cutsinger was a professor of Theology and Religious Thought at the University of South Carolina and an advocate of Socratic Teaching. The recipient of three University of South Carolina Mortar Board Excellence in Teaching awards, he was also named a Distinguished Honors Professor and was selected as one of his university's Michael J. Mungo Teachers of the Year (2011). He also served as director of three National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminars.

Bibliography

Books
The Form of Transformed Vision: Coleridge and the Knowledge of God, Foreword by Owen Barfield (Mercer University Press, 1987)
Advice to the Serious Seeker: Meditations on the Teaching of Frithjof Schuon (State University of New York Press, 1997)
Reclaiming the Great Tradition: Evangelicals, Catholics, and Orthodox in Dialogue, ed. (InterVarsity Press, 1997)
Not of This World: A Treasury of Christian Mysticism (World Wisdom, 2003)
Paths to the Heart: Sufism and the Christian East (World Wisdom, 2004)
The Fullness of God: Frithjof Schuon on Christianity (World Wisdom, 2004)
Prayer Fashions Man: Frithjof Schuon on the Spiritual Life (World Wisdom, 2005)

Translations of works by Frithjof Schuon
Gnosis: Divine Wisdom (World Wisdom, 2006)
Sufism: Veil and Quintessence (World Wisdom, 2006)
Spiritual Perspectives and Human Facts (World Wisdom, 2007)
Christianity/Islam: Perspectives on Esoteric Ecumenism (World Wisdom, 2008)
Logic and Transcendence (World Wisdom, 2009)

Selected Articles
"Coleridgean Polarity and Theological Vision," Harvard Theological Review, 76:1 (1983)
"Toward a Method of Knowing Spirit," Studies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses, 14:2 (1985)
"Femininity, Hierarchy, and God," Religion of the Heart: Essays Presented to Frithjof Schuon, ed. Nasr and Stoddart (Foundation for Traditional Studies, 1991)
"Listening More Closely to Schuon," ARIES: Association pour la Recherche de l'Information sur l'Esoterisme, 14 (1992)
"A Knowledge that Wounds Our Nature: The Message of Frithjof Schuon," Journal of the American Academy of Religion, 60:3 (1992)
"The Mystery of the Two Natures," Sophia: Journal of Traditional Studies, 4:2 (1998) - also published as "Le Mystère des Deux Natures," Connaissance des Religions (Numero Hors Serie, 1999)
"On Earth as It Is in Heaven: A Metaphysical Cosmogony," Sacred Web: A Journal of Tradition and Modernity," 1:1 (1998)
"The Virgin," Sophia: Journal of Traditional Studies, 6:2 (2000)


Edward Southwell Jr.

Edward Southwell Jr. (1/16 June 1705 – 16 March 1755) of King's Weston, Gloucestershire,  was an Anglo-Irish Whig politician who sat in the Parliament of Ireland from 1727 to 1755 and in the British House of Commons  from 1739 to 1754.

Southwell was the son of Edward Southwell (1671–1730) and Elizabeth Cromwell, 8th Baroness Cromwell and the grandson of Sir Robert Southwell. He was educated at Westminster School from 1715 to 1716 and matriculated at Queen's College, Oxford in 1721. He travelled abroad from 1723.

Southwell sat in the Irish House of Commons for Downpatrick from 1727 until his death. He succeeded his father as Principal Secretary of State (Ireland) in 1730, and on 6 May 1732 he was appointed to the Privy Council of Ireland.

Southwell married on 21 August 1729 Catherine Watson (died April 1765), daughter of Edward Watson, Viscount Sondes and Lady Catherine Tufton and lived in Kings Weston House near Bristol. Their son Edward Southwell later became Baron de Clifford.

Southwell sat in the House of Commons of Great Britain from 1739 to 1754 as MP for Bristol.

Personal papers
Papers relating to Edward Southwell are held by Bristol Archives (Ref. 44785 and 45317/2/5/1) (online catalogue page 1, online catalogue page 2). A travel journal, dating from 1725 to 1726, is held in the British Library Manuscripts Collections. Other records relating to Edward Southwell are held at Bristol Reference Library.


Schloßplatz (Wiesbaden)

The Schlossplatz (Palace Square or Castle Square) forms the center of the historic Old Town of Wiesbaden, Hesse, Germany. It gets its name from the Stadtschloss, the royal residence of the Dukes of Nassau located on the north side of the square. Other buildings surrounding the Schlossplatz include the Old City Hall, the New Town Hall and the Marktkirche. In the middle of the square stands the Marktbrunnen (Market Well) of 1753. Due to this unique building ensemble, and the fact that at this point medieval Wiesbaden originated, it is historically the most important part of the city. Occasionally it is referred to as the "market square", its name before the palace was built.

The Schloßplatz was officially written as a proper noun using the letter 'ß' in the old German orthography. However, it was also correct to spell the word in new orthography as "Schlossplatz", which it often is.

Literature
 Baedeker Wiesbaden Rheingau, Karl Baedeker GmbH, Ostfildern-Kemnat, 2001,
 Gottfried Kiesow: Das verkannte Jahrhundert. Der Historismus am Beispiel Wiesbaden. Deutsche Stiftung Denkmalschutz, 2005,
 Peter Schabe: Felix Genzmer – Stadtbaumeister des Historismus in Wiesbaden, Historische Kommission für Nassau, 1996

External links

 Stadt Wiesbaden
 Marktkirche Wiesbaden
 Hessischer Landtag


West Bay Athletic League

The West Bay Athletic League is a high school athletic conference established in 2002 as part of the CIF Central Coast Section of the California Interscholastic Federation.  It comprises twelve private high schools generally around San Mateo County and Santa Clara County, California. One member, Mercy High School of San Francisco is in San Francisco.

History
The West Bay Athletic League was formed in 2002 from a realignment of the Private School Athletic League. Since its formation, it was expanded in 2008 to offer coed sports and two divisions, Foothill and Skyline.

Sports

Notes

Members
Certain member schools also compete in the Peninsula Athletic League for selected sports.


Elvis: A Legendary Performer Volume 4

Elvis: A Legendary Performer Volume 4 is a compilation album featuring recordings by American singer Elvis Presley. It was the last in a series of albums that began with Elvis: A Legendary Performer Volume 1 in 1974, and the first since Elvis: A Legendary Performer Volume 3 in 1979. It was also the final album by any artist in the RCA A Legendary Performer series to be issued. This album was made up entirely of  heretofore unissued recordings by Presley, with the exception of one track that was previously released in the Elvis Aron Presley boxed set in 1980.

Content
This album marked the first official RCA release of the version of "When it Rains, It Really Pours" that Presley recorded in November 1955 at Sun Records (he later rerecorded the song for RCA Victor). Also included was an alternate version of his 1958 hit, "One Night" entitled "One Night of Sin" which featured raunchier lyrics than the version RCA Victor released in the 1950s. A much-bootlegged song cut from the soundtrack of Presley's 1962 film Girls! Girls! Girls!, "Plantation Rock" is included as well, as is "The Lady Loves Me", a previously unreleased duet between Presley and Ann-Margret which had been featured in the 1964 film, Viva Las Vegas but never released by RCA Victor until this album. Also making its album-debut in this release is Elvis' remake of the song "Swing Down, Sweet Chariot", a rerecording from his 1960 Gospel LP, His Hand In Mine. This new rendition was featured in the 1969 movie The Trouble with Girls. Plus, there is an alternate take of "Wooden Heart", a song from the film G.I. Blues, which has a false start due to Elvis messing up part of the lyrics and subsequently laughing.

At the time of the album's release, the origin of two informal recordings released here for the first time: "I'm Beginning to Forget You" and a cover of Nat King Cole's "Mona Lisa" was marked as unknown, with the notation that the two recordings had been discovered at Graceland, Presley's mansion. Later, it was learned that the two recordings were among a number that Presley made informally in April 1959 while he was stationed in Germany. This collection is rounded off by a quartet of live performances: a previously unissued performance of "That's All Right" from the 1968 NBC Comeback Special, a 1969 Las Vegas outtake performance of "Are You Lonesome Tonight" in which Elvis begins laughing during the song (this is the album's sole previously released track, having appeared in the 1980 Elvis Aron Presley box set and previously marketed as "Are You Lonesome Tonight (The Laughing Version)"), and two performances from a 1972 appearance at Madison Square Garden in New York City (later reissued as part of the album An Afternoon in the Garden). An excerpt from a 1956 interview recording rounds out the collection.

Track listing
Track listing with details from the liner notes


Wilhelm Pfeffer

Wilhelm Friedrich Philipp Pfeffer (9 March 1845 – 31 January 1920) was a German botanist and plant physiologist born in Grebenstein.

Academic career
He studied chemistry and pharmacy at the University of Göttingen, where his instructors included Friedrich Wöhler (1800-1882), William Eduard Weber (1804-1891) and Wilhelm Rudolph Fittig (1835-1910). Afterwards, he furthered his education at the universities of Marburg and Berlin. At Berlin, he studied under Alexander Braun (1805-1877) and was an assistant to Nathanael Pringsheim (1823-1894). Later on, he served as an assistant to Julius von Sachs (1832-1897) at Würzburg,

In 1873 he was appointed professor of pharmacology and botany at the University of Bonn, followed by professorships at the Universities of Basel (from 1877) and Tübingen (from 1878), where he also served as director of the Botanischer Garten der Universität Tübingen. In 1887 he became a professor at the University of Leipzig and director of its botanical garden.

He was elected a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1897.

Scientific work
Pfeffer was a pioneer of modern plant physiology. His scientific interests included the thermonastic and photonastic movements of flowers, the nyctinastic movements of leaves, protoplastic physics and photosynthesis. In 1877, while researching plant metabolism, Pfeffer developed a semi-porous membrane to study the phenomena of osmosis. The eponymous "Pfeffer cell" is named for the osmometric device he constructed for determining the osmotic pressure of a solution.

During his tenure at Leipzig, Pfeffer published an article on the use of photography to study plant growth. He wanted to extend the chronophotographic experiments of Étienne-Jules Marey (1830-1904) by producing a short film involving the stages of plant growth. This "movie" would be filmed over a period of weeks by frame-at-a-time exposure taken at regular spaced intervals. Later, time-lapse photography would become a commonplace procedure.

Written works
 Physiologische Untersuchungen - 1873 (Physiological studies)
 Lehrbuch der Pflanzenphysiologie (Textbook of plant physiology).
 Die periodischen Bewegungen der Blattorgane - 1875 (The periodic movements of "leaf organs")
 Osmotische Untersuchungen – Studien zur Zellmechanik - 1877 (Osmotic studies)
 Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Oxydationsvorgänge in lebenden Zellen - 1889 (Contributions to the knowledge of the oxidative processes in living cells).
 Über Aufnahme und Ausgabe ungelöster Körper - 1890
 Studien zur Energetik der Pflanze - 1892 (Studies on the energetics of plants)
 Druck- und Arbeitsleistung durch wachsende Pflanzen - 1893
 Untersuchungen über die Entstehung der Schlafbewegungen der Blattorgane - 1907
 Der Einfluss von mechanischer Hemmung und von Belastung auf die Schlafbewegung - 1911 (The influence of mechanical stress on the inhibition of sleep and movement).
 Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Entstehung der Schlafbewegungen- 1915 (Contributions to the knowledge on the genesis of sleep movements).


Sri Siduhath Daham School

Sri Siduhath Daham Pasala() is a daham school located in Ahangama Sri Siddhartharamaya Temple. It was initially founded as a Daham school in 2011.

External links

  Official web site of SSDP destop version
  Official Wap site of Sri Siduhath Daham School
  International Wap site of Sri Siduhath Daham School


Carabus alexandrae alexandrae

Carabus alexandrae alexandrae is a subspecies of black coloured beetle from family Carabidae, that is endemic to Gansu, China. The females of the subspecies are  long.


Marangga

Marangga are precious metal valuable of the Sumba people of Sumba Island, Indonesia. They are found in the megalithic culture of the western Sumba people, e.g. the Anakalang society. They have the shape of a twisted metal sheet with a broadened end that has the shape of an axe. The marangga of Sumba is worn hung to the neck as a pendant, forming a kind of chest plate.

Form and evolution

The marangga are archaic objects. Similar marangga-like objects have been discovered in archaeological sites throughout the archipelago of Indonesia. Marangga-like objects were first seen in small pre-classical gold pieces found in Java, dating back to the 4th-6th century. Other marangga-like objects were found in Flores (the taka) and Babar (the kapak). Among these findings, the marangga of Sumba are much larger in size and still heavily used in the rituals of certain megalithic culture in for example the Anakalang society.

Marangga objects usually take the form of a thin metallic sheet shaped like a pair of axes. Marangga can weigh up to  and measures up to  in length. Historic photos of the Anakalang society shows a number of marangga displayed on bamboo frames, indicating the prevalence and the volume of gold objects in Sumba.

Function
The small marangga-like objects that were found throughout the archipelago may function as a twisted-wire earring, whose ends have been beaten flat. The large-sized marangga of Sumba, which are too large and too heavy for earrings, are worn as a pendant, by looping a twine through the hole on the twisted loop of the marangga. It acts as a kind of chest plate for the wearer.

The marangga of Sumba are a kind of heirloom objects that was accumulated by the clan leader through time and kept in the interior most of the time. The marangga are usually kept in the attic of the noble's uma mbatangu or the traditional Sumbanese peaked house. They are taken out into the light only during special ritual occasions, and under the careful control of the village priests. One of the reasons of this is that it was believed that their power could kill onlookers or cause natural disasters.


Dodge Dynasty

The Dodge Dynasty was a front-wheel drive mid-size sedan that was introduced in 1987, as a 1988 model, to replace the Dodge 600. The Dodge Dynasty is related to the Chrysler New Yorker and both car lines were built on the Chrysler C platform in Belvidere, Illinois. It is also similar to the Chrysler New Yorker Fifth Avenue and Chrysler Imperial, which were available from 1990 to 1993 on an extended wheelbase platform of the Chrysler New Yorker. Production ended on May 28, 1993, and the Belvidere plant was retooled to build the Dodge Neon. The Dynasty was replaced by the Intrepid.

History
The name is believed to be a reference to the popular 1980s primetime ABC-TV series, "Dynasty." In fact, one magazine declared, "Blake and Krystle, your car is ready," when the car debuted for the 1988 model year. However, it is most likely that Chrysler named its late 1980s and early 1990s C-Bodied cars on a "royalty" theme, which stemmed from the classic Imperial badge to attract customers, including the Chrysler Imperial/New Yorker Fifth Avenue and the standard Chrysler New Yorker. The Dynasty was considered the budget automobile of the three, with the standard New Yorker in the middle and the Imperial/New Yorker Fifth Avenue as the top of the line model.

Although it was fairly popular, the Lee Iacocca-dictated styling was boxy and conservative compared to more aerodynamically styled competitors such as the Ford Taurus and the Chevrolet Lumina. When the new front-wheel-drive Chrysler Corporation C-body cars (Dynasty and New Yorker) debuted for the 1988 model year, they were the first mass-produced cars in the world to have a fully multiplexed, fiber-optic wiring buss connecting all electronic accessories and controllers, which greatly reduced the amount and weight of wiring harnesses in the car.  All models (1988-1993) featured power locks that automatically locked when the car's speed exceeded 15 miles per hour. Dynasty trim levels included base and LE. Additionally, a "Brougham" package was offered on 1992-93 LE models that added a padded "landau" vinyl roof.

Specifications

A 2.5-litre inline-4 Chrysler engine (base model only), a Mitsubishi-sourced 3.0-litre V6, the 6G72 engine, and a Chrysler-built 3.3-litre V6 were available, although the 3.3 L V6 was not available until 1990. The four-cylinder came equipped with a TorqueFlite three-speed automatic transmission (the A413), as did the 3.0 L in 1988. The 1988 3.0L V6 models with TorqueFlight transmission were rated at 18 city / 24 highway MPG. The 1989-1990 Ultradrive equipped models came with a 2.36:1 axle ratio, which was revised to 2.52:1 for 1991-1993. EPA mileage ratings were 21 city/25 highway MPG with the 4 cylinder & 3-speed TorqueFlite transmission. In 1989 the EPA rating for the 3.0/Ultradrive power-train changed to 18 city / 26 highway MPG. Also, the 3.0 engine is a non-interference engine, meaning that if the timing belt breaks, it is less likely to damage valves and pistons when it does so.

The new 3.3L V6 engine for 1990, with the Ultradrive transmission, was rated at 19 city/ 26 highway MPG. The new electronically controlled four-speed automatic transmission, known as the Ultradrive or A604 (List of Chrysler transmissions), debuted in 1989, and became the sole transmission for V6 models through the 1993 final production year of the Dynasty. In 1989 the EPA rating for the 3.0/Ultradrive power-train changed to 18 city / 26 highway MPG.  The new 3.3L V6 engine for 1990, with the Ultradrive transmission, was rated at 19 city/ 26 highway MPG.

Features
The vast majority of Dynastys sold to private customers had V6 engines, but four-cylinder models mostly went to the fleet market. Dynasty models were all equipped with a driver's side airbag starting in 1990.  A Bendix anti-lock braking system (including 4-wheel disc brakes) was available on V6 models during those years as well at a list price of ~$900. The 1993 models were the only year to feature a stainless steel exhaust system and a tamper-proof odometer.

The 1988 LE models featured rear headrests, but were deleted for 1989-1993. Early production models (1988-1990) featured standard cornering lamps and remote fuel door release even on base trim models. By 1991-1993 those features were gradually removed from all Dodge passenger cars. By 1993, the only Dodge products that offered a remote fuel door release were the minivans and trucks, but in the late 1980s, this was standard on every Chrysler Corporation car including the Omni and Horizon twins. The base models lost cornering lamps for 1991, and the LE models lost them for 1992.

Leather seats were optional on the LE models, but very few were so equipped.  Also available were load-leveling suspension, 14-inch alloy wheels, wire wheel covers, illuminated entry system, Infinity stereo with equalizer and power antenna, power trunk pull-down, dual 6-way power seats with memory for driver's seat and outside mirrors.

Trim Levels
Base(1988-1993)
LE (1988-1993)
Brougham: offered on 1992-93 LE models that added a padded "landau" vinyl roof (1992-1993)

International versions

In Canada and Mexico it was marketed as the Chrysler Dynasty. The Chrysler Dynasty was identical to the 1990 Chrysler New Yorker Salon (sold in the U.S.), the only difference being their names. It was supposed to fill a void between the Chrysler LeBaron sedan and the Chrysler New Yorker, just like what the LeBaron GTS did in Canada. In Mexico, the cars were only available with the V6 engine. In Canada, both four-cylinder and V6 engines were available. Also in Canada, it replaced the Chrysler LeBaron GTS hatchback since Chrysler Canada didn't want to market the Dodge Diplomat's successor, the Monaco in 1990. However, Chrysler Canada replaced the 600, the Dynasty's predecessor, with the Dodge Spirit instead.


Hirokazu Ogura

musician from Takamatsu. His interest in playing the guitar started in High School.

He has worked as a professional artist since 1982 as a guitarist and as a sound producer.
His list of contacts includes Fujii Fumiya, UA, Rie Eto, Keisuke Kuwata, Taeko Onuki, Hiroshi Matsuda, Misia, Salyu, KinKi Kids, Mr.Children, Shikao Suga, among others

In 2006 he was part of a special group called Kokua, formed to sing the theme song to an NHK documentary. In 2016, the members of Kokua reunited to celebrate the release of that original single, Progress, and worked on the official 1st album for the group and a Nationwide tour, both named Progress.


Melanosphecia

Melanosphecia is a genus of moths in the family Sesiidae.

Species
Melanosphecia atra Le Cerf, 1916
Melanosphecia auricollis (Rothschild, 1912)
Melanosphecia dohertyi Hampson, 1919
Melanosphecia funebris (Rothschild, 1911)


Niobium carbide

Niobium carbide (NbC and Nb2C) is an extremely hard refractory ceramic material, commercially used in tool bits for cutting tools. It is usually processed by sintering and is a frequent additive as grain growth inhibitor in cemented carbides. It has the appearance of a brown-gray metallic powder with purple lustre. It is highly corrosion resistant.

Niobium carbide is a frequent intentional product in microalloyed steels due to its extremely low solubility product in austenite, the lowest of all the refractory metal carbides. This means that micrometre-sized precipitates of NbC are virtually insoluble in steels at all processing temperatures and their location at grain boundaries helps prevent excessive grain growth in these steels. This is of enormous benefit, and the cornerstone of microalloyed steels, because it is their uniform, very fine grain size that ensures both toughness and strength.
The only commonly occurring compound with a lower solubility and hence, greater potential for restricting the grain growth of steels is titanium nitride.

Depending on grain size, niobium carbide may burn at 200-800 °C in air. A layer of niobium carbide can be created by chemical vapor deposition. Zirconium carbide and niobium carbide can be used as refractory coatings in nuclear reactors.

Synthesis
Niobium carbide can be produced by the heating of Niobium oxide in a vacuum at 1800 °C and adding coke.

Physical properties
Niobium carbide has a Young's modulus of approximately 452GPa, and a shear modulus of 182GPa.  It has a Poisson's ratio of 0.227.

Natural occurrence
Niobocarbide - the naturally occurring form of niobium carbide - shall be regarded as an extremely rare mineral.


Twin Faces

Twin Faces, also known as Press Button B,  is a 1937 British crime film directed by Lawrence Huntington and starring Anthony Ireland, Francesca Bahrle and Frank Birch. The film was made at Highbury Studios as a quota quickie for release by the Hollywood studio Paramount Pictures.

Cast
 Anthony Ireland as Jimmy the Climber
 Francesca Bahrle as Judy Strangeways
 Frank Birch as Ben Zwigi
 Paul Neville as Cmdr. Strangeways
 Victor Hagen as Inspector Coates
 George Turner as Maurice
 Ivan Wilmot as Levenstein
 Frank Tickle as John Cedar


Arman Parvez Murad

Arman Parvez Murad is a Bangladeshi television and film actor. He won Bangladesh National Film Award for Best Actor for his role in the film Ghani: The Cycle (2006).

Works
Bachelor (2004)
 Rabeya (2008)
 Shongram (2014)


Goran Trajkoski

Goran Trajkoski () (born 21 November 1963) is a Macedonian musician. He rose to international prominence as a frontman of the group Anastasija which was featured on the soundtrack album for the Academy Award-nominated movie Before the Rain directed by Milčo Mančevski. He started his musical career as a member of the punk rock band Afektiven naboj from Struga. After moving to Skopje he joined the punk band Saraceni led by Vladimir Petrovski Karter. Later he was a vocalist of the influential 1980s group Padot na Vizantija. He played bass guitar in the Macedonian cult band Mizar from 1986 until 1987. After the reunion of Mizar in the 2000s, Goran Trajkovski became its new frontman. He is also involved in solo projects, for instance as an author of electronic music under the pseudonym Gotra (Готра) as well as a composer for film soundtracks and theatre music.


The 1994 America's Red Clay Tennis Championships was an ATP men's tennis tournament held in Coral Springs, Florida, United States that was part of the ATP World Series of the 1994 ATP Tour. It was the second edition of the tournament and was held from May 9 thorough May 16 and was played on outdoor clay courts. Sixth-seeded Luiz Mattar won the singles title.

Finals

Singles

 Luiz Mattar defeated  Jamie Morgan, 6–4, 3–6, 6–3
 It was Mattar's 1st singles title of the year and the 7th and last of his career.

Doubles

 Lan Bale /  Brett Steven defeated  Ken Flach /  Stephane Simian, 6–3, 7–5
 It was Bale's 2nd title of the year and the 3rd of his career. It was Steven's 1st title of the year and the 3rd of his career.