Anti-Japanese resistance volunteers in China

After the Japanese invasion of Manchuria, and until 1933, large volunteer armies waged war against Japanese and Manchukuo forces over much of Northeast China.

Due to Chiang Kai-shek's policy of non-resistance, the Japanese were soon able to establish complete control. After the League of Nations refused to do more than voice its disapproval, there were many small guerrilla organizations which resisted Japanese and Manchu rule:
 Jilin Self-Defence Army
 Chinese People's National Salvation Army
 Northeastern Volunteer Righteous & Brave Fighters
 Northeastern Loyal and Brave Army
 Northeast People's Anti-Japanese Volunteer Army
 Northeast Anti-Japanese National Salvation Army
 Heilungkiang National Salvation Army
 Anti-Japanese Army For The Salvation Of The Country

Besides these armies there were other forces under leaders like Lao Pie-fang and others. Zhao Hong Wenguo was influential in supporting some armies such as the Iron and Blood Army, with many of her children participating in Anti-Japanese insurgent activities.

For the whole year of 1932 the Japanese had to occupy themselves with fighting these  Chinese forces in various areas of Manchuria. Gen. Ma Zhanshan, nominally in command of them all, had a total fighting force estimated by the Japanese at 300,000 men. Following their defeat, many retreated into Jehol and other places in China. The remainder were forced to disperse their remnants into small units, often called shanlin. Ongoing Japanese "Anti-Bandit" campaigns and other "pacification" measures steadily reduced the number of insurgents. Their numbers declined from 120,000 in 1933 to 50,000 in 1934; 40,000 in 1935; 30,000 in 1936; and 20,000 in 1937. As of September 1938, the number of insurgents was estimated by the Japanese at 10,000.

From 1935 the Northeast Anti-Japanese United Army, under the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party, absorbed many of these volunteer forces into its own ranks.

Sources
 Hsu Long-hsuen and Chang Ming-kai, History of The Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945) 2nd Ed., 1971. Translated by Wen Ha-hsiung, Chung Wu Publishing; 33, 140th Lane, Tung-hwa Street, Taipei, Taiwan Republic of China.
 Jowett, Phillip S., Rays of The Rising Sun, Armed Forces of Japan's Asian Allies 1931-45, Volume I: China & Manchuria, 2004. Helion & Co. Ltd., 26 Willow Rd., Solihull, West Midlands, England.
Coogan, Anthony, The volunteer armies of Northeast China, History Today; July 1993, Vol. 43 Issue 7, pp.36-41
Notes On A Guerrilla Campaign, from http://www.democraticunderground.com accessed November 4, 2006


Benson, North Carolina

Benson is a town in Johnston County, North Carolina, United States, near the intersection of Interstates 95 and 40. Each year Benson celebrates Mule Days the 4th Saturday of September, a festival that attracts over 60,000 people each year. In 2010, the population was 3,311, up from 2,923 in 2000.

Geography
Benson is in southeastern Johnston County, less than  from the Harnett County line. U.S. Route 301 (Wall Street) passes through the center of the town, leading northeast  to Smithfield, the Johnston county seat, and southwest  to Dunn. North Carolina Highway 50 is Benson's Main Street, crossing US 301 in the center of town and leading north  to Garner and southeast  to Newton Grove. Interstate 95 passes through the southeast side of Benson and runs parallel to US 301, connecting Fayetteville and Rocky Mount, while Interstate 40 passes northeast of the town and runs parallel to NC 50, leading to Raleigh and Wilmington.

According to the United States Census Bureau, Benson has a total area of , of which , or 0.16%, is water.

Demographics

As of the census of 2010, there were 3,311 people, 1,301 households, and 787 families residing in the town. The population density was 1,402 people per square mile (860/km²). There were 1,554 housing units at an average density of 650 per square mile (403.6/km²). The racial makeup of the town was 57.61% White, 34.04% African American, 0.48% Native American, 0.44% Asian, 0.07% Pacific Islander, 5.78% from other races, and 1.57% from two or more races. 7.29% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race.

There were 1,230 households out of which 29.7% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 37.0% were married couples living together, 20.6% had a female householder with no husband present, and 38.4% were non-families. 34.2% of all households were made up of individuals and 17.1% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.38 and the average family size was 3.05.

In the town, the population was spread out with 27.5% under the age of 18, 9.5% from 18 to 24, 27.6% from 25 to 44, 20.1% from 45 to 64, and 15.2% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 34 years. For every 100 females, there were 83.0 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 74.0 males.

The median income for a household in the town was $26,582, and the median income for a family was $32,277. Males had a median income of $29,375 versus $20,045 for females. The per capita income for the town was $14,350. 25.0% of the population and 20.2% of families were below the poverty line. 39.7% of those under the age of 18 and 23.2% of those 65 and older were living below the poverty line.

History
The town of Benson, which derives its name from early settler Alfred Monroe ("Mim") Benson, owes much of its historical development to the railroad line which passed through the present location in town in 1886 on its route between Fayetteville and Contentnea. More information on the history of Benson and the surrounding communities may be found at the new Benson Museum of Local History located at 102 W. Main Street, next to the Mary Duncan Library.

Mr. Benson's purchase of a  tract along the Smithfield-Fayetteville Road in 1874 initiated the settlement of the area now known as Benson. During the 1880s Benson sold portions of his original tract to incoming settlers, many of whom were farmers. Benson was incorporated in 1887 and soon attracted a number of entrepreneurs wishing to take advantage of this new town along an important transportation route.

A prominent early resident of the Benson area was John William Wood Sr. (December 28, 1855 - October 31, 1928) who rode to Benson each morning on a mule and wagon from his home at Peacocks Crossroads near Meadow. After having served on the Board of Education and as a county commissioner, where he was known to be a watchdog of the treasury, he was elected to a term in the State House of Representatives in 1927. Meadow School was built on land donated by him.

The Benson Historic District and Hannah's Creek Primitive Baptist Church are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Notable people
Drew Herring, Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series driver
Hunter Johnson, composer and musician; composed music for some of Martha Graham's ballets
John Medlin, finance executive. CEO of Wachovia from 1977-1993
Earl Stephenson, Major League Baseball pitcher during the 1970s
Shelby Stephenson, poet and musician; installed as Poet Laureate of North Carolina in February 2015
Ray Tanner, athletic director for the University of South Carolina; head coach of South Carolina Gamecocks baseball team from 1995 to 2012; won consecutive national championships in 2010 and 2011
Robert D. Warren Sr., educator and North Carolina state senator

National Guard
Benson is home to Alpha Company 230th BSB, who were deployed in 2009 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom.

Education
 Benson Elementary School
 Meadow Elementary School
 Benson Middle School
 McGee's Crossroads Middle School
 South Johnston High School
 West Johnston High School


South African Korfball Federation

South African Korfball Federation (SAKF) is the governing body for the sport of Korfball in South Africa. The national body has 10 regional member associations in its organisation structure. It is affiliated with the world governing body International Korfball Federation. SAKF organises men's and women's competitions annually amongst its regional members across age groups. The men's national team have won three All-Africa Korfball Championship and participated at the IKF World Korfball Championship.

Regional members
This is a list of SAKF regional member associations in its governance structure, below them are the Korfball clubs.

 Gauteng East
 Gauteng North
 Sedibeng
 Mpumalanga South
 Stellaland
 Northern Cape
 Southern Cape
 Kwa-Zulu Natal
 Northern Kwa-Zulu Natal
 Eastern Cape


Michael Lehmann

Michael Stephen Lehmann (born March 30, 1957) is an American film and television director.

Early life and education
In 1978, Lehmann graduated from Columbia University.

Career
Lehmann's first job in the film industry was answering phones at Francis Ford Coppola's American Zoetrope film company. Later he supervised cameras on films that included 1983's The Outsiders. Lehmann attended film school at the USC School of Cinematic Arts and graduated in 1985. While at USC he made a student film, Beaver Gets a Boner, the title of which he believes helped get the attention of film executives who would later hire him.

A short film by Lehmann, titled "Ed's Secret Life (An Unauthorized Biography)", was shown on Saturday Night Live. Purportedly about Mister Ed's post-career life, William Schallert, Mick Fleetwood, and Heather Locklear appeared in it.

Lehmann is most known for directing the black comedy, Heathers. He also directed 40 Days and 40 Nights, The Truth About Cats & Dogs, Hudson Hawk, Meet the Applegates, Airheads and Because I Said So.

Lehmann directed his first television commercial through the Leo Burnett Company in June 1996 for McDonald's. Lehmann also directs for television, and has worked on the short lived HBO comedy series The Comeback and NBC's The West Wing. Lehmann has guest directed on The Larry Sanders Show, Watching Ellie and Century City. Recently, Lehmann has directed episodes of HBO dramas,  Big Love and True Blood, as well as Showtime's Californication and White Famous, the Amazon.com series Betas, FX's American Horror Story and Snowfall, Hulu's Veronica Mars, and Paramount Network's 68 Whiskey.

Lehmann claimed he would never make a sequel to Heathers. He claimed Winona Ryder wanted to do Heathers set in Washington, D.C., but he saw no potential for the project.

Partial filmography
 Heathers (1988)
 Meet the Applegates (1990)
 Hudson Hawk (1991)
 Airheads (1994)
 The Truth About Cats & Dogs (1996)
 My Giant (1998)
 40 Days and 40 Nights (2002)
 Flakes (2007)
 Because I Said So (2007)


Black Blade (song)

"Black Blade" is a song by American rock band Blue Öyster Cult. The lyrics were written by Eric Bloom and British science fiction writer Michael Moorcock from the viewpoint of Elric, Moorcock's most famous character. Despite failing to chart, the song received significant airplay on rock radio stations.

Background

Elric wields a sentient, soul-sucking sword named Stormbringer.  Aside from a set of cryptic, blood-red runes on the blade, the sword is black, hence the name "Black Blade". The music was jointly composed by Eric Bloom, lead singer of Blue Öyster Cult, and bass-player John Trivers. The song is the opening track on the  Blue Öyster Cult album Cultösaurus Erectus.

When asked how he got in touch with Moorcock for the song, Bloom said, "I went out of my way to send him a Fan Boy letter. He was living in England and came over to America, to meet with his publisher. He said, 'Let's get together.' We got together, bonded and he started sending me lyrics. That's how "Black Blade," "Veteran of Psychic Wars" and "Great Sun Jester" happened.

In 2005, on the compilation "Day Late, Dollar Short," there's a cover of the song by the experimental metal band Thrones.

Personnel
Eric Bloom – lead vocals, stun guitar
Buck Dharma – lead guitar
Joe Bouchard – bass
Albert Bouchard – drums
Allen Lanier – keyboards


2015 World RX of Germany

The 2015 World RX of Germany was the fifth round of the second season of the FIA World Rallycross Championship. The event was held at the Estering in Buxtehude, Lower Saxony.

It was the first event win for Frenchman Davy Jeanney.

Heats

Semi-Finals

World Championship

Semi-Final 1

Semi-Final 2

European Championship

Semi-Final 1

Semi-Final 2

Finals

World Championship

European Championship

Standings after the event

World Championship standings

European Championship standings

 Note: Only the top five positions are included for both sets of standings.


Freedom in the World

Freedom in the World is a yearly survey and report by the U.S.-based non-governmental organization Freedom House that measures the degree of civil liberties and political rights in every nation and significant related and disputed territories around the world.

Origin and use
Freedom in the World was launched in 1973 by Raymond Gastil. It produces annual scores representing the levels of political rights and civil liberties in each state and territory, on a scale from 1 (most free) to 7 (least free). Depending on the ratings, the nations are then classified as "Free", "Part(ial)ly Free", or "Not Free". The report is often used by researchers in order to measure democracy and correlates highly with several other measures of democracy such as the Polity data series.

The Freedom House rankings are widely reported in the media and used as sources by political researchers. Their construction and use has been evaluated by critics and supporters.

Country rankings
The rankings below are from the Freedom in the World  2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, and 2019 surveys, each reflecting findings covering the previous year. Each pair of political rights and civil liberties ratings is averaged to determine an overall status of "Free" (1.0–2.5), "Part(ial)ly Free" (3.0–5.0), or "Not Free" (5.5–7.0).

An asterisk (*) indicates countries which are "electoral democracies". To qualify as an "electoral democracy", a state must have satisfied the following criteria:

 A competitive, multiparty political system;
 Adult suffrage for all citizens without criminal convictions (some states may further punish and subjugate people with criminal convictions by disenfranchising them from the democratic process);
 Regularly contested elections conducted in conditions of ballot secrecy, reasonable ballot security, and the absence of massive voter fraud that yields results that are unrepresentative of the public will; and
 Significant public access of major political parties to the electorate through the media and through generally open political campaigning.

An electoral democracy must have a score of 7 or more out of 12 in political rights subcategory A (Electoral Progress), an overall aggregate score of 20 in their political rights rating and an overall aggregate score of 30 in their civil liberties rating.

Freedom House's term "electoral democracy" differs from "liberal democracy" in that the latter also implies the presence of a substantial array of civil liberties. In the survey, all Free countries qualify as both electoral and liberal democracies. By contrast, some Partly Free countries qualify as electoral, but not liberal, democracies.

World
*: Electoral democracies (as described above), PR: Political Rights, CL: Civil Liberties

Related and disputed territories
Key: † - Related territory, ‡ - Disputed territory, PR - Political Rights, CL - Civil Liberties, Free Status: Free, Partly Free, Not Free

Trends

According to Freedom House, a quarter of all declines of freedom in the world in 2016 took place in Europe.

Percentage of countries in each category, from the 1973 through 2014 reports:

Sources: Country Status and ratings overview 1973–2016, Number and percentages of electoral democracies 1989–2016, Freedom in the World 2018 report covering 2017.

Notes:
 The years shown in the map and table above are the year the survey was released, the data shown covers the prior calendar year.
 The chart and table above do not include data for related/disputed territories.

Evaluation

There is some debate over the neutrality of Freedom House and the methodology used for the Freedom in the World report, which has been written by Raymond D. Gastil and his colleagues. The neutrality and biases of human-rights indices have been discussed in several publications by Kenneth A. Bollen.   Bollen wrote that "Considered together these criticisms suggest that some nations may have been incorrectly rated on Gastil's measures. However, none of the criticisms  have demonstrated a systematic bias in all the ratings. Most of the evidence consists of anecdotal evidence of relatively few cases. Whether there is a systematic or sporadic slant in Gastil's ratings is an open question" (Bollen, 1986, p. 586). The freedom index of Freedom in the World has a very strong and positive (at least an 80%) correlation with three other democracy-indices studied in Mainwaring (2001, p. 53).

Ideological bias or neutrality
In his 1986 study, Bollen discussed reviews of measurements of human rights,  including the index reported in Freedom in the World (Bollen, 1986, p. 585). Criticisms of Freedom in the World during the 1980s were discussed by Gastil (1990), who stated that "generally such criticism is based on opinions about Freedom House rather than detailed examination of survey ratings", a conclusion disputed by Giannone. The definition of Freedom in Gastil (1982) and Freedom House (1990) emphasized liberties rather than the exercise of freedom, according to  Adam Przeworski, who gave the following example: In the United States, citizens are free to form political parties and to vote, yet even in presidential elections only half of U.S. "citizens" vote; in the U.S., "the same two parties speak in a commercially sponsored unison", wrote .

More recent charges of ideological bias prompted Freedom House to issue this 2010 statement:
Freedom House does not maintain a culture-bound view of freedom. The methodology of the survey is grounded in basic standards of political rights and civil liberties, derived in large measure from relevant portions of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. These standards apply to all countries and territories, irrespective of geographical location, ethnic or religious composition, or level of economic development.

Mainwaring et alia (2001, p. 52) wrote that Freedom House's index had "two systematic biases: scores for leftist were tainted by political considerations, and changes in scores are sometimes driven by changes in their criteria rather than changes in real conditions." Nonetheless, when evaluated in Latin American countries yearly, Freedom House's index was very strongly and positively correlated with the index of Adam Przeworski and with the index of the authors themselves: They evaluated Pearson's coefficient of linear correlation between their index and Freedom House's index, which was 0.82; among these indices and the two others studied, the correlations were all between 0.80 and 0.86  (Mainwaring et alia, 2001, p. 53).

As previously quoted, Bollen criticized previous studies of Freedom in the World as anecdotal and inconclusive; they raised issues needing further study by scientific methods rather than anecdotes. Bollen studied the question of  ideological bias using  multivariate statistics. Using their factor-analytic model for human-rights measurements, Bollen and Paxton estimate that Gastil's method produces a bias of -0.38 standard deviations (s.d.) against Marxist–Leninist countries and a larger bias, +0.5 s.d., favoring Christian countries; similar results held for the methodology of Sussman (Bollen and Paxton, 2000, p. 585). In contrast, another method by a critic of Freedom in the World produced a bias for Leftist countries during the 1980s of at least +0.8 s.d., a bias that is "consistent with the general finding that political scientists are more favorable to leftist politics than is the general population" (Bollen and Paxton, p. 585).

Use and conceptual analysis
Criticisms of the reception and uses of the Freedom in the World report have been noted by Diego Giannone:
 "Conceptual stretching", Giovanni Sartori's critical term for a methodological shortcoming common in  social studies. Giannone reports as an example that, according to Landman and Hausermann (2003), "the index by FH has been used as a tool for measuring democracy, good governance, and human rights, thus producing a conceptual stretching which is a major cause of 'losses in connotative precision': in short, an instrument used to measure everything, in the end, is not able to discriminate against anything."
 Issues with aggregation. Giannone quotes Scoble and Wiseberg's conclusion (1981) that "the sum of a civil liberty score of 4 and a political liberty score of 2 is the same as the sum of a civil liberty score of 2 and a political liberty score of 4 even though the substantive interpretation of these different combinations is different."
 "Lack of specificity and rigorousness in construction" and "inadequate level of transparency and replicability of the scales", the first referencing to Scoble et alie (1981) and the latter to Hadenius and Teorell (2005). In support of the latter, he also quotes the conclusion of Munck and Verkuilen (2002) that "the aggregate data offered by Freedom House has to be accepted largely on faith", due to the factors that "no set of coding rules is provided, and the sources of information are not identified with enough precision, and because disaggregated data have not been made available to independent scholars".

Time series

In "Political and ideological aspects in the measurement of democracy: the Freedom House case" (2010) which reviewed changes to the methodology since 1990, Diego Giannone concluded that "because of the changes in methodology over time and the strict interconnection between methodological and political aspects, the FH data do not offer an unbroken and politically neutral time series, such that they should not be used for cross-time analyses even for the development of first hypotheses. The internal consistency of the data series is open to question."

On this topic, the Freedom House website replies that they have "made a number of modest methodological changes to adapt to evolving ideas about political rights and civil liberties. At the same time, the time series data are not revised retroactively, and any changes to the methodology are introduced incrementally in order to ensure the comparability of the ratings from year to year."


Randolph, Massachusetts

The town of Randolph is a suburban city in Norfolk County, Massachusetts, United States. At the 2010 census, the city population was 32,158. Randolph adopted a new charter effective January 2010 providing for a council-manager form of government instead of the traditional town meeting. Randolph is one of thirteen Massachusetts municipalities that have applied for, and been granted, city forms of government but wish to retain "The town of” in their official names.

History

It was called Cochaticquom by the local Cochato and Ponkapoag tribes. The town was incorporated in 1793 from what was formerly the south precinct of the town of Braintree. According to the centennial address delivered by John V. Beal, the town was named after Peyton Randolph, first president of the Continental Congress.

Randolph was formerly the home of several large shoe companies. Many popular styles were made exclusively in Randolph, including the "Randies". At the time of Randolph's incorporation in 1793, local farmers were making shoes and boots to augment household incomes from subsistence farming. In the next half century, this sideline had become the town's major industry, attracting workers from across New England, Canada and Ireland and later from Italy and Eastern Europe, each adding to the quality of life in the town. By 1850, Randolph had become one of the nation's leading boot producers, shipping boots as far away as California and Australia.

The decline of the shoe industry at the beginning of the twentieth century led to Randolph's evolution as a suburban residential community. Boot and shoe making has been supplanted by light manufacturing and service industries. The town's proximity to major transportation networks has resulted in an influx of families from Boston and other localities who live in Randolph but work throughout the metropolitan area.

Starting in the 1950s, Randolph saw significant growth in its Jewish community with the exodus of Jews from Boston's Dorchester and Mattapan neighborhoods. In 1950, fifteen or twenty Jewish families lived in the town; by 1970, Randolph had about 7,000 Jewish residents, and about 9,000 in 1980, the largest such community south of Boston. At its peak, Randolph boasted a kosher butcher, Judaica shop, kosher bakery, and two synagogues. By the early 1990s, the population shrank to about 6,000.

The inspiration for the nationally observed "smoke-out day" came from Randolph High School Guidance councilor Arthur Mullaney, who observed in a 1969 discussion with students that he could send all of them to college if he had a nickel for every cigarette butt he found on the ground. This touched off an effort by the Randolph HS class of 1970, supported by the Randolph Rotary Club, to have local smokers give it up for a day and put the savings toward a college scholarship fund. Smoke out day went national in 1976.

Randolph is home to Lombardo's Function Facility, which originated as the Chateau de Ville. The facility is famous for its large chandelier and spiral staircase.

Registered historic places

Randolph is home to three Nationally Registered Historic Places:

 Jonathan Belcher House, 360 N. Main St. (Listed April 30, 1976)Home of Jonathan Belcher (1767–1839), built in 1806, home to the Randolph  Club (formerly Ladies Library Association) since 1911.
 Ponkapoag Camp of Appalachian Mountain Club (Listed September 25, 1980)
 Gills Farm Archaeological District (Listed October 4, 1983)

Geography
Randolph is located at  (42.173417, −71.049124). Located fifteen miles south of Boston, at the intersection of Routes 128 and 24, Randolph's location has been an important factor in its economic and social history. Randolph is located in eastern Massachusetts, bordered by Milton and Quincy on the north, Braintree and
Holbrook on the east, Canton on the west, and Avon and Stoughton on the south and southwest. Randolph is 15 miles south of Boston and 211 miles from New York City.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 10.5 square miles (27.2 km2), of which 10.1 square miles (26.1 km2) is land and 0.4 square mile (1.1 km2) (4.10%) is water. It is drained by the Cochato River and Blue Hill River, which flow into the Neponset River.

Demographics

As of the census of 2010, there were 32,158 people, 11,564 households, and 8,038 families residing in the city. The population density was 3,184 people per square mile (1,447.3/km2). There were 11,564 housing units at an average density of 1,145.4 per square mile (442.2/km2). The racial makeup of the city was 41.6% White, 38.3% Black or African American, 0.3% Native American, 12.4% Asian (6.3% Vietnamese, 3.3% Chinese, 0.9% Filipino, 0.8% Asian Indian) 0.0% Pacific Islander, 3.7% from other races, and 3.5% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 6.4% of the population.

Randolph is one of the fastest growing minority cities in America.
60% of all elementary school students are black, 21% Hispanic (predominately Dominican), 11% White, and 8% Asian.

There were 11,564 households out of which 29.4% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 46.7% were married couples living together, 17.4% had a female householder with no husband present, and 30.5% were non-families. 24.5% of all households were made up of individuals and 9.6% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.75 and the average family size was 3.31.

In the town, the population was spread out with 21.7% under the age of 18, 8.7% from 18 to 24, 26.5% from 25 to 44, 29.4% from 45 to 64, and 13.4% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 38 years. For every 100 females, there were 91.7 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 88.0 males.

The median income for a household in the town was $55,255, and the median income for a family was $61,942. Males had a median income of $41,719 versus $32,500 for females. The per capita income for the town was $23,413. About 5.5% of families and 6.5% of the population were below the poverty line, including 4.5% of those under age 18 and 5.0% of those age 65 or over.

Transportation
Randolph is situated in the Greater Boston Area, which has excellent rail, air, and highway facilities. State Route 128 and Interstate Route 495 divide the region into inner and outer zones, which are connected by numerous "spokes" providing direct access to the airport, port, and intermodal facilities of Boston.

Major highways
The principal highways are the concurrent Interstate 93 and U.S. Route 1, which clips the northern edge of the town; parallel north–south State Massachusetts Route 24 (the Fall River Expressway) and Massachusetts Route 28.  Massachusetts Route 139 runs east–west through the town.

Rail
Commuter rail service to South Station, Boston, is available on the Middleboro line from the Holbrook/Randolph Rail Station located on the Holbrook/Randolph Town line and Union Street (Route 139). The MBTA Red Line is accessible in Braintree and Quincy.

Bus
Randolph is a member of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) which provides fixed route service to Quincy Adams, Quincy Center and Ashmont Stations. Randolph is served by Bus 240 from Ashmont Station and the 238 Bus from Quincy Center Station. The MBTA also provides THE RIDE, a paratransit service for the elderly and disabled.

The Brockton Area Transit Authority (BAT) provides bus service to Brockton from Ashmont and vice versa.

Airport
The Norwood Memorial Airport, a Reliever (RL) facility, is easily accessible. It has 2 asphalt runways 4,001'x 150' and 4,007'x 150'. Instrument approaches available: Non-precision. However the majority of Randolph residents use Logan International Airport for Air transportation.

Government
Randolph was originally governed by a representative town meeting form of government. In a special election on April 7, 2009, the town adopted a new charter that became effective in January 2010, changing the town's form of government to a council-manager system. The current town manager is Brian P. Howard.

Current town council members are:
 Jason R. Adams, President, at-large
 Katrina Huff-Larmond, Vice President, District 3
 William Alexopoulos, at-large
 James F. Burgess, Jr., at-large
 Natacha Clerger, at-large
 Ryan Egan, at-large
 Kenrick Clifton, District 1
 Arthur G. Goldstein, District 2
 Christos Alexopoulos, District 4

Other Boards & Commissions
 Board of Assessors (3 members)
 Board of Health (3 members)
 Planning Board (5 members)
 School Committee (7 members)

School Committee
 Ida Gordon, Chair
 Christina Paul, Vice Chair
 Pamela Davis
 Cheryl Frazier
 Abdi Ibrahim
 Andrea Nixon
 Natacha Clerger, Town Council Rep.

Education
Randolph has a high school serving grades 9-12 (Randolph High School), a middle school serving grades 6, 7, and 8 (Randolph Community Middle School), and four elementary schools serving grades K-5:
 John F. Kennedy Elementary School
 Margaret L. Donovan Elementary School
 Martin E. Young Elementary School
 Elizabeth G. Lyons Elementary School

Pre-elementary education (kindergarten) is provided at the respective home schools, the Charles G. Devine Early Childhood Center having been closed in 2007.  As part of the Blue Hills Regional School District, Randolph students entering the ninth grade may opt to attend the Blue Hills Regional Technical School, commonly referred to as "Blue Hills" or the Norfolk County Agricultural High School, known as "Aggie", instead of Randolph High School. The school system is run by the School Committee.

Notable people
 Audie Cornish, journalist
 Danny Davis, bandleader and producer
 Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, author
 Bill Kenney, football coach
 Rod Langway, Hockey Hall of Fame hockey player
 Gene McAuliffe, baseball player
 Shabazz Napier, University of Connecticut college basketball player
 O'mega Red, rapper, musician, and actor
 Jordan Rich, radio talk show host
 William Rimmer, painter & sculptor
 Clinton Sparks, Grammy nominated music Producer & hip hop DJ
 Scott Tingle, NASA Astronaut
 Touré (né Touré Neblett), writer, music journalist, cultural critic, and television personality
 Denise Batson, Podcaster, Heavy Crown Radio


Alynda sarissa

Alynda sarissa is a moth in the family Oecophoridae. It was described by John Frederick Gates Clarke in 1978. It is found in Chile.

The wingspan is about 20 mm. The forewings are light capucine orange with the basal fourth of the costa buckthorn brown and from the outer end of the dark costal shade a transverse, outwardly oblique fascia of the same color extends to the dorsum well before the tornus. Along termen is a narrow pinkish shade mixed with buckthorn brown. The hindwings are straw color, apically slightly darker.


Editorial Humor

Editorial Humor is a now-defunct Massachusetts newspaper that consisted mostly of political cartoons and editorial/opinion pieces. Founded by Dean Wallace, it ran from 1989 to the end of 2003.
Editorial Humor claimed a circulation of 50,000, mostly in inner-metro Boston. It was based in Davis Square, Somerville, Massachusetts.

The newspaper was launched in 1989 as The Boston Comic News.  In the summer of 1993, the paper hired Robert Deutsch, who had previously worked at both the Boston Phoenix as a writer and ad salesman and the TAB newspapers, based in Newton, MA.  In consult with Stavros Cosmopulos of Hill, Holiday, Connors Cosmopulos a decision was made to change the name (and target profile) of the newspaper.  Editorial Humor was launched in September 1993 with an editorial cartoon that paid homage to the New Yorker'''s February Eustice Tilly cover.

The newspaper increased in circulation, and garnered new advertisers such as Sam Adams, Perrier and movie and local radio station advertising.  It was itself featured in the Boston Globe'' for uniting the Governor of Massachusetts William Weld with his favorite cartoonist, Pulitzer Prize–winning Tom Toles.

Robert Deutsch left the newspaper in 1995 and Courtney Wayshak (writing under the pseudonym Clyde Ash) took over as Editor.  The following year, Jason Schneiderman took over but soon Dean Wallace as Publisher took the reins again. The former editorial staff was reunited for the commemorative 100th issue in the year 2000. In January 2000, Michael J. O'Brien began work there as an editorial assistant but left in August of that year after being named editor in the spring and helming the ship of fools through numerous "Davis Square map" issues.

By 2002 the newspaper had stopped publishing altogether, due in part to faltering ad sales, the rise of the Internet and a conflict between newspaper publishers who depended on city boxes and city officials who wanted to rid their streets of 'noise' and clutter .

Derek Gerry, a local radio station personality and former editor of the Winchester Town Cryer acquired the paper and brought back Robert Deutsch and John Klossner.  With David Deutsch, an advertising design executive, they ran the paper for a year, launching its first web site at edhumor.com and publishing new editions from 2002  until May 2003, when the paper published its last issue.

Robert Deutsch is currently aiming to put all those issues online.


Alice Wilson Frothingham

Alice Wilson Frothingham (May 10, 1902 – August 21, 1976) was a ceramics expert, specially chosen by Archer Milton Huntington for the Hispanic Society of America. She continues to be highly referenced in her work on ceramics, specifically Spanish Glass. She published works through the 1940s and 1950s on Spanish glass and pottery. Her 1951 book, The Lustre Ware of Spain, was eagerly awaited by scholars in the field, including Herbert Weissberger at the Carnegie Institute.


Giacomini vein

The Giacomini vein is a communicant vein between the great saphenous vein (GSV) and the small saphenous vein (SSV). It is named after the Italian anatomist Carlo Giacomini (1840–1898). The Giacomini vein courses the posterior thigh as either a trunk projection, or tributary of the SSV. In one study it was found in over two-thirds of limbs. Another study in India found the vein to be present in 92% of those examined. It is located under the superficial fascia and its insufficiency seemed of little importance in the majority of patients with varicose disease, but the use of ultrasonography has highlighted a new significance of this vein.
It can be part of a draining variant of the SSV which continues on to reach the GSV at the proximal third of the thigh instead of draining into the popliteal vein. The direction of its flow is usually anterograde (the physiological direction) but it can be retrograde when this vein acts as a bypass from an insufficient GSV to SSV to call on this last one to collaborate in draining. Many discussions exist about this vein, some of them confusing to a non-expert reader. Insufficiency in the Giacomini vein can present in isolation but is mostly seen together with a GSV insufficiency. It has been shown to be effectively treated either with endovenous laser ablation or by ultrasound guided sclerotherapy.


Asa Locke House

The Asa Locke House is a historic house at 68 High Street in Winchester, Massachusetts.  Built in the mid-19th century, it is a well-preserved local example of a side-hall Italianate farmhouse.  It is also notable for its association with the locally prominent Locke family, who settled the area in 1699.  The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.

Description and history
The Asa Locke House is set on the south side of High Street, at the southeast corner with Overlook Way, in what is now a predominantly residential suburban area.  It is a 2-1/2 story wood frame structure, three bays wide, with a front-facing gable roof and clapboard siding.  A single-story porch extends across the north-facing front and around to the east side, supported by chamfered square posts with segmented-arch bracketing.  The front door is set to one side, with full-length windows in the side base.  The door is flanked by sidelight windows, and is topped by a transom window.  A gabled two-story bay projects from the east side, with a lunette window in the gable, and a two-story ell and garage extend to the rear.

The Locke family history on this land dates to 1699, when James Converse bought a large tract of land in this area (then part of Woburn).  Locke's descendants include Samuel Locke, who served as President of Harvard College in the 18th century.  Asa Locke, a prosperous local farmer, purchased the land this house stands on in 1826.  Based on stylistic analysis, this house was built c. 1855, probably for his son Elbridge, who inherited the property in 1857.  The house was sold out of the Locke family in 1902, to a partner in Boston's Ivers & Pond Piano Company.


Ike Van Zandt

Charles Isaac "Ike" Van Zandt (February 1876 – September 14, 1908) was an American Major League Baseball player born in Brooklyn, New York, who played three seasons in the majors from 1901 to 1905.  After his major league career, he was involved in a scandal involving possibly throwing a game for money, and committed suicide.

Career
Van Zandt began his major league career with the New York Giants of the National League in 1901.  He played in three games that season, pitching in two, and played left field in the other.  He pitched a total of 12⅔ innings and had an earned run average of 7.11.  He had one hit in six at bats, and scored one run.

Van Zandt's next appearance in the majors didn't occur until 1904, when he played in three games for the Chicago Cubs.  He played the three games in the outfield, and did not gather a hit in 11 at-bats.  Later, during the 1904 season, he returned to Nashua to play for their minor league baseball team in the New England League, from where the St. Louis Browns, of the American League, drafted him on September 1, 1904, in the Rule 5 draft.

His one season in St. Louis was where he had most of his major league experience, playing in 94 games, batted .233 in 322 at-bats, totaling 15 doubles, one triple, one home run, and scored 31 runs.  This was his last major league season.  He later played for minor league teams in St. Paul, Minnesota, Binghamton, New York, and Albany, New York.

Death
Van Zandt had finished the 1908 season, playing for the Albany baseball team, when he returned to his hometown of Nashua. On September 14, he committed suicide, by shooting himself through the heart with a revolver.  One possible reason for his decision was a possible involvement in a game fixing scandal that was about to be printed by a newspaper.  He is interred at Woodlawn Cemetery.


Ludington (surname)

Ludington is an English surname. It is the American variant to the name Luddington. Notable people with the surname include:

Charles Cameron Ludington, American professor
Charles Townsend Ludington (1896–1968), American businessman and aviator
Harrison Ludington (1812–1891), American politician
Henry Ludington (1739–1817), American army commander and businessman
Jake Ludington (born 1973), American writer
James Ludington (1827–1891), American businessman
Lewis Ludington (1786–1857), American businessman
Nelson Ludington (1818–1883), American businessman
Ronald Ludington (born 1934), American skater and coach
Sybil Ludington (1761–1839), American revolutionary heroine


Steven A. Adelson

Steven A. Adelson is an American film director and television director.

Filmography
Motherland: Fort Salem
Katy Keene
The Code
Siren
Dynasty
Riverdale
Training Day
Beyond
Scorpion
Sleepy Hollow
Sanctuary
Nikita
Haven
The Tomorrow People
The Lottery
Helix
Zoo
The Blacklist
The Player
Beauty & the Beast

Besides directing, Adelson worked as a camera operator on the films Jingle All the Way, The Players Club, the Christopher Nolan films Insomnia, Batman Begins and among others. He is alumnus of Syracuse University.


Geoffrey II, Viscount of Châteaudun

Geoffrey II (died 1040), Viscount of Châteaudun and Count of Perche (as Geoffrey I), son of Fulcois, Count of Mortagne, and Melisende, Viscountess of Châteaudun.  Some sources say that he became Viscount of Châteaudun following his uncle Hugues’ appointment as Archbishop of Tours.  At that point, he was probably under the regency of his mother.

He broke with his relatives in the nobility of Blois and began hostilities against Fulbert, Bishop of Chartres.  An unsuccessfully attempt to enlist the aid of Theobald III, Count of Blois, and Robert the Pious in his quest resulted in his excommunication in 1029.  Only his building of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Châteaudun redeemed him in the eyes of the church.

In 1040, while he was at Chartres, a riot broke out against his presence, and he was murdered.

Geoffrey married Helvise (Elizabeth) de Corbon, daughter of Rainard, Lord of Pithiviers, and his wife Helvise.  Geoffrey and Helvise had three children:
 Geoffroy (d. between 1015 and 1028)
 Hugues II du Perche, Viscount of Châteaudun and Count of Perche
 Rotrou I du Perche, Viscount of Châteaudun and Count of Perche.
Geoffrey was succeeded as Viscount of Châteaudun and Count of Perche by his son Hugues.

Sources

Settipani, Christian, Les vicomtes de Châteaudun et leurs alliés, dans Onomastique et Parenté dans l'Occident médiéval, Oxford, Linacre, Unit for Prosopographical Research, 2000

Medieval Lands Project, Vicomtes de Châteaudun


Codrington, Victoria

Codrington is a locality on Portland Bay in the south-west of Victoria, Australia. The Princes Highway passes through it.

A sparsely populated area, the 2016 census, it and the surrounding area had a population of 52

It is the site of Pacific Hydro’s Yambuk Wind Farm and the adjacent Codrington Wind Farm.

Codrington is notable for the wind farm and for being the only township in Australia to be named after a bushranger. In 1850 Victorian bushranger Henry Garratt used the alias Codrington Revingstone when he held up the Portland to Port Fairy mail coach three times causing the area to become known as Codrington's Forest.

In the 1870s a township was surveyed on the projected road to Portland close to the coast at  and named Codrington after the surveyed parish in the County of Villiers which had been earlier named as Codrington.
A road was later built inland and the township was never populated.

Codrington Post Office opened on 19 August 1878 and closed in 1966.


Hellenic Philotelic Society

The Hellenic Philotelic Society (formed 1925) is a philatelic organisation in Athens devoted to promoting the philately of Greece and the Greek area.

The society played an important part in the development of philately in Greece. Members of the society wrote the entries on "stamp" and "philately" in the Great Hellenic Encyclopaedia, the Encyclopaedic Lexikon and the Elios Encyclopaedia. The society also established in the Greek language foreign philatelic terms, including philately, watermark, tete-beche and others. The society organised some of the first national and international philatelic exhibitions in Greece and worked with state institutions to establish stamp issuing and destruction policies to protect the reputation of Greek stamps.

Awards
In 1975, the society received the Athens Award from the Athens Academy on the occasion of the society's fiftieth anniversary. Since then the society has received several other awards including the Certificate of Appreciation from the Federation of European Philatelic Associations (FEPA), and the AEP Philatelic Press Award from the European Philatelic Academy.

The society gives two awards of its own, the Stephanos Macrymichalos Award and the Hellenic Philotelic Society Medal.

Journal
A journal, Philotelia, has been published without interruption since 1924. Philotelia has won and continues to win medals at philatelic exhibitions. It is also available on CD.

Selected publications
The society's most important publications are its Study of the Greek stamp published in Greek and French:
Vol. I Study on the Greek Stamp. 1933. (Reprinted 2008)
Vol. II Study on the Greek Stamp. 1937.
The Philatelic Library series consists of a series of numbered booklets, now exceeding sixty, which are reprints of articles or complete studies previously published in Philotelia. Recent examples include:
No. 58  Chazapis, C. Partisan stamps. Athens, 2008. (Greek)
No. 59  Kiddle, F. Perkins Bacon & Co. The printing and story of the 1906 Olympic stamps of Greece. Athens, 2008. (Greek - English)
No. 60  Aggelomatis-Tsougarakis, H. The transmission of correspondence in Eastern Mediterranean (14th-19th c.) Athens, 2008. (Greek)


Isioma Daniel

Isioma Nkemdilim Nkiruka Daniel (born 1981) is a Nigerian journalist whose 2002 newspaper article comment involving the Islamic prophet Muhammad sparked the Miss World riots and caused a fatwa to be issued on her life.

2002 Nigeria riots
Isioma Daniel studied journalism and politics for three years at the University of Central Lancashire, graduating in summer of 2001. Her first job as a journalist was at Thisday, a Lagos-based national daily newspaper. As a fashion writer, she authored a November 16, 2002 comment piece on Miss World beauty pageant that was to be held in Nigeria later that year. Addressing opposition to the contest from the Nigerian Muslim community, she made the following remark:

"The Muslims thought it was immoral to bring 92 women to Nigeria and ask them to revel in vanity. What would Mohammed think? In all honesty, he would probably have chosen a wife from one of them."

According to Daniel, the sentence was added at the last minute; she thought it was "funny, light hearted" and "didn't see it as anything anybody should take seriously or cause much fuss". However, that judgment quickly proved wrong, as the publication triggered violent religious riots that left more than 200 dead and 1,000 injured, while 11,000 people were made homeless. Thisday's offices in Kaduna were torched, despite the paper's apology and retraction on the front page.

Daniel resigned from the newspaper the day after her article appeared. Soon after, fearing for her safety and worried about the impending interrogation by the Nigerian state security, she left the country for Benin.

On 26 November 2002, an Islamist government of Zamfara State issued a fatwa against Isioma Daniel; in the words of Zamfara deputy governor Mamuda Aliyu Shinkafi, later broadcast on the local radio:

"Like Salman Rushdie, the blood of Isioma Daniel can be shed. It is abiding on all Muslims wherever they are to consider the killing of the writer as a religious duty."

While the Nigerian government denounced the judgement as "unconstitutional" and "null and void", Muslim leaders were divided over its validity, some arguing that the subsequent retraction and apology meant that the fatwa was inappropriate.
Thus Lateef Adegbite, Secretary-General of the Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs, was quick to reject the death penalty since Daniel was not Muslim and the newspaper had apologised publicly.

Exile in Europe
Isioma Daniel eventually went into exile in Europe, her resettlement guided by the Committee to Protect Journalists and Amnesty International.


Cuenca District, Huancavelica

Cuenca District is one of nineteen districts of the province Huancavelica in Peru.

Ethnic groups
The people in the district are mainly indigenous citizens of Quechua descent. Quechua is the language which the majority of the population (64.01%) learnt to speak in childhood, 35.65% of the residents started speaking using the Spanish language (2007 Peru Census).

References


Agostino Bertelli

Agostino Bertelli (Brescia, 1727 - 1776)  was an Italian painter, mainly painting landscapes.

His father was a watch maker, but obtained a clerical education for his son. However, he became attached to music, as a violinist, and became an excellent landscape painter, training under Faustino Raineri. He was influenced by the works of Cavalier Tempesta, Berghem, and Piazeztta. He traveled to Genoa, where he befriended the painter of seascapes, Orazio Vernet.

After two years, he moved to Milan, where he was patronized by the Cardinal Giuseppe Pozzobonelli; who was a collector of the landscape artists Dietrich.

Upon returning to Brescia, his health was poor, and he had no reputation in that town. Among his pupils was the Count Aimo Maggi.


2018 Shanghai Challenger – Singles

Wu Yibing was the defending champion but lost in the second round to Li Zhe.

Blaž Kavčič won the title after defeating Hiroki Moriya 6–1, 7–6(7–1) in the final.

Seeds

Draw

Finals

Top half

Bottom half


Amsterdam Internet Exchange

The Amsterdam Internet Exchange (AMS-IX) is an Internet exchange point based in Amsterdam, in the Netherlands. Established in the early 1990s, AMS-IX is a non-profit, neutral and independent peering point.

History

In February 1994, a layer 2 shared infrastructure, used between academic institutes, was connected with CERN to exchange traffic. Other Internet service providers were allowed to connect and the name AMS-IX was first used. In 1997, the AMS-IX Association was founded by twenty of the connected Internet service providers and carriers.

In 2002, the Neutral Internet Exchange was founded as an alternative or backup for the Amsterdam Internet Exchange.

, AMS-IX connected 396 members on 684 ports. The all-time peak of incoming traffic was 1.513 Tbit/s and of outgoing traffic 1.512 Tbit/s compared to 0.833 Tbit/s average incoming and outgoing, in January 2012. In November 2016, AMS-IX broke through the 5 Tbit/s ceiling.

The total amount of data transferred by month was (Avg. incoming and outgoing) 75,940 TB in November 2008.  By April 2009, it had grown to 124,550 TB, 64% more traffic in a 5-month period.

These traffic speeds make the Amsterdam Internet Exchange the second largest Internet exchange in the world, when measured by number of connected members and by Internet traffic, placing it second to the Deutscher Commercial Internet Exchange (traffic).

In September 2013, the board voted to create a legal framework to facilitate an expansion into the United States. An AMS-IX press release said that:  SURFnet, a member of the exchange, had expressed its objection to the proposal, citing the possibility that such interception would be demanded.

Co-locations
AMS-IX members are able to connect at 12 locations, all located within the greater Amsterdam area:
 Digital Realty (formerly Telecity AMS4)
 Equinix AM1/2 (South East)
 Equinix AM3 (Science Park)
 Equinix AM5 (formerly TeleCity AMS5)
 Equinix AM6 (formerly TeleCity AMS6)
 Equinix AM7 (formerly TeleCity AMS2)
 euNetworks (Amsterdam Amstel Business Park)
 Evoswitch (Haarlem)
 GlobalSwitch (Slotervaart)
 Interxion (Schiphol Rijk)
 Interxion Science Park (former Vancis)
 NIKHEF (Science Park Amsterdam)

Third-party network transport links also offer access to AMS-IX peering VLAN via "Reseller Program". Under the program, reseller could arrange one physical connection toward AMS-IX platform (now solely a 10G connection, but in prospect of going to 100G), and multiplexes "virtual-link" of other parties that connect to AMS-IX peering VLAN.

Network
The AMS-IX platform is continually evolving due to its rapid growth in traffic and number of connected member ports. Up until end of 2009, it is using a redundant hub-spoke architecture using a core switch and multiple edge switches. This double-star topology brings the advantage of being able to perform maintenance on the network without any impact on customer traffic, and to anticipate on fiber and equipment problems by (automatically) switching to the backup topology as soon as a failure in one of the active components occurs. The active switching topology star is determined by means of the VSRP protocol. This topology is AMS-IX version 3.

However, since 2009; AMS-IX platform has migrated from a pure Layer2 network to a VPLS/MPLS network (using Brocade hardware) in order to cope with future growth (this is AMS-IX version 4).

AMS-IX members connect to the platform with 1, 10, 100 Gbit/s Ethernet connections, or using multiple gigabit or 10 gigabit aggregated ports, utilizing the 802.3ad standard. Gigabit Ethernet and lower speed ports are directly connected to Brocade - Foundry Networks BigIron 15000 or RX-8 network switches. 10 gigabit member ports are connected to Glimmerglass Systems photonic switches which maintain an optical connection to the stub switch on the currently active side of the network, following the VSRP protocol. For each 10-gigabit port there is an active and a backup stub switch, for which BigIron RX-8, RX-16 or NetIron MLX-16 switches are used. The core consists of two Brocade NetIron MLX-32 switches, to which all edge switches are connected using 10 gigabit aggregated connections and WDM technology.

With the new VPLS/MPLS setup; the BigIron RX and legacy BigIron 15000 are no longer in-use. AMS-IX has migrated all the hardware to the MPLS-capable MLX platform. Stub switch is either MLX-8, MLX-16 or MLX-32.

Since May 2011, AMS-IX engineers have started testing 100GE along with LimeLight Network.


The Desperate Man

The Desperate Man is a 1959 British B movie crime film directed by Peter Maxwell and starring Conrad Phillips, Jill Ireland, William Hartnell, Charles Gray and Peter Swanwick. The plot involves a writer who investigates a murder in the tower of a castle. It is adapted from the novel Beginner's Luck by Paul Somers, the writer better known as Andrew Garve.

In the USA, the feature was shown as an episode of Kraft Mystery Theater in 1961.

Plot
Two reporters, Curtis (Conrad Phillips) and his girlfriend Carol (Jill Ireland), pursue jewel thief Smith (William Hartnell) through the Sussex countryside. On arriving at an ancient castle, Smith abducts Carol and holds her hostage, and Curtis is forced to assist the thief to find his buried loot.

Cast
 Conrad Phillips as Curtis
 Jill Ireland as Carol Bourne
 William Hartnell as Smith
 Charles Gray as Lawson
 Peter Swanwick as Hoad
 Arthur Gomez as Landlord
 John Warwick as Inspector Cobley
 Patricia Burke as Miss Prew
 Ernest Butcher as Grocer


Pyreneola

Pyreneola is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Columbellidae, the dove snails.

Species
Species within the genus Pyreneola include:
 Pyreneola abyssicola (Brazier, 1877)
 Pyreneola arcuata (Turton, 1932)
 Pyreneola cincinnata (Martens, 1880)
 Pyreneola fulgida (Reeve, 1859)
 Pyreneola leptalea (E.A. Smith, 1902)
 Pyreneola lozoueti Drivas & Jay, 1997
 Pyreneola lurida (Hedley, 1907)
 Pyreneola mascarenensis Drivas & Jay, 1990
 Pyreneola melvilli (Hedley, 1835)
 Pyreneola pleurotomoides (Pilsbry, 1895)
 Pyreneola pupa (G.B. Sowerby III, 1894)
 Pyreneola semipicta (G.B. Sowerby III, 1894)
 Pyreneola shepstonensis (E.A. Smith, 1910)


Ada West District

The Ada West District is one of the sixteen (16) districts in the Greater Accra Region of Ghana. Its capital is Sege. Ada West district was established in 2012 by Legislative Instrument (L.I) 2029, when it was carved out of the former Dangme East District together with Ada East District.

The district is bordered to the north by North Tongu District and South Tongu District (both in the Volta Region), to the east by Ada East District, to the south by the Gulf of Guinea, and to the west by Ningo Prampram District and Shai Osudoku District. The total area of the district is 323.721 square kilometers. According to the 2010 census, the population of the district is 59,124 with 28,579 males and 30,545 females.


Kevin S. Bright

Kevin S. Bright (born November 15, 1954) is an American television executive producer and director whose credits include Dream On, Friends, and Joey.

Early life
Born to a Jewish-American family in New York City, Bright attended the East Side Hebrew Institute on the Lower East Side of Manhattan and graduated magna cum laude from Emerson College.

Career

Bright started his professional career under the tutelage of his father, Jackie Bright. After graduation, he worked in New York with Joseph Cates, where he produced specials for George Burns, Johnny Cash, David Copperfield, and Dolly Parton. After moving to Los Angeles in 1982, he started work in comedy programming such as The History of White People in America and comedy specials starring Robin Williams, Martin Mull, Harry Shearer, Paul Shaffer, and Merrill Markoe.

In 1993, Bright entered a partnership with Marta Kauffman and David Crane to form Bright/Kauffman/Crane Productions and began a development deal with Warner Bros. Television to produce the comedy series Friends. He also directed 60 episodes of the series, including the series finale.

After Friends, he went on to executive-produce the spin-off series Joey with Friends producers Shana Goldberg-Meehan and Scott Silveri. Joey starred Friends actor Matt LeBlanc as the title character and featured Jennifer Coolidge, also an Emerson College attendee. Joey was cancelled in May 15, 2006 during its second season after a major ratings slump.

After Joey, Bright moved back to Boston where he began working at his alma mater, Emerson College. Over the last four years at Emerson, he executive produced three-sketch comedy shows, Zebro: A Laugh Show and Chocolate Cake City, four original half-hour situation comedies, Browne At Midnight, Saturdays, Ground Floor, and Record Cellar, and a live multi-cam stand up comedy special, Die Laughing.  He also serves as an advisor to The EVVY Awards.

Bright then went on to teach a series of television production classes in the Visual Media Arts department, and is helped to develop the program for Emerson's new LA Center, which opened in 2013.  Kevin ran a diversity workshop for high school students through Emerson College, and worked with Perkins School for the Blind in Watertown, MA, to develop a method of teaching television production to the blind.

Bright moved back to Los Angeles in 2013, when he was appointed as Founding Director of the Emerson Los Angeles program. There, he has focused on building new programs that take full advantage of the opportunities Emerson’s expanded presence in Los Angeles provides.

Bright also directed a documentary in 2007 with Linda Feferman called Who Ordered Tax? about his father, Jackie, who was an actor and vaudevillian performer.

In 2016 Bright served as the executive producer of the documentary Best and Most Beautiful Things about Michelle Smith, a woman from Bangor, Maine who is both legally blind and autistic.

Bright also directed on CBS comedy Man with a Plan in 2019 for one episode, reuniting with Friends alum Matt LeBlanc.

Filmography

Film

Television


Doug McDermott

Douglas Richard McDermott (born January 3, 1992) is an American professional basketball player for the Indiana Pacers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). While playing college basketball for Creighton University, he led the nation in scoring in 2013–14 and was a three-time consensus first-team All-American. He was the consensus national player of the year as a senior in 2014, and finished his college career with the fifth-most points in NCAA Division I men's basketball history. After graduating from Creighton, McDermott became automatically eligible for the 2014 NBA draft, where he was drafted 11th overall by the Denver Nuggets. He was traded to the Chicago Bulls and went on to play two and half seasons for the Bulls before being traded to the Oklahoma City Thunder in February 2017. McDermott has also played for the New York Knicks and the Dallas Mavericks.

McDermott is the son of current Creighton coach Greg McDermott; Greg coached McDermott during his college career.

High school career
McDermott was born in Grand Forks, North Dakota, where his father was an assistant coach of the University of North Dakota's men's basketball team. McDermott, a 6'8" 225-pound forward, played high school basketball at Ames High School in Ames, Iowa alongside high school All-American Harrison Barnes. Ames won 53 consecutive games during McDermott's and Barnes' junior and senior seasons and won consecutive Iowa state titles. As a senior, McDermott averaged 20.1 points and 7.8 rebounds per game and was named first team All-State.

Considered a three-star recruit by ESPN.com, McDermott was listed as the No. 28 small forward in the nation in 2010.

College career
Originally, McDermott signed a National Letter of Intent to play with Northern Iowa, but after his father moved from coaching Iowa State University to Creighton, he was released from his commitment in order to play for him in college.

As a freshman in 2010–11, McDermott averaged 14.9 points and 7.2 rebounds per game as he started all 39 games for the Bluejays. McDermott set a Missouri Valley Conference (MVC) record for points by a freshman (581) and was named conference freshman and newcomer of the year. McDermott also became the first player to earn first team all-conference honors as a freshman since Cleo Littleton of Wichita State in 1954. McDermott led the Bluejays to the 2011 College Basketball Invitational, where they made it to the best of three final series, ultimately losing to Oregon.

Prior to his sophomore season, McDermott was named to the preseason watch lists for the Wooden Award and Naismith Award.

As a sophomore, McDermott was one of five men named first team All-America for the 2011–12 season. McDermott is Creighton's first player honored by the NABC on its first-team All-America squad. McDermott also was named the Missouri Valley Conference Player of the Year, the first Creighton player since Booker Woodfox in 2009. McDermott finished his 2011–12 season averaging 22.9 points per game, a figure that ranked third nationally. His 801 points, 307 field goals and 48.6 percent shooting accuracy from three-point range were all school records for a single-season.  Creighton finished 29–6 and advanced to the third-round of the NCAA Tournament. On March 26, 2012, McDermott was named a first-team AP All-American.

As a junior in 2012–13, McDermott ranked first in the nation in points scored and second in points per game. He set school records for points in a single season and points in a career. He was again named a first team All-American by the AP.

On April 25, 2013, McDermott announced he would be returning to Creighton for his senior season and would not enter the 2013 NBA Draft. That July, he relinquished his scholarship and became a walk-on for his final season at Creighton. This came about after the NCAA had granted senior guard Grant Gibbs, who had missed full seasons at both Gonzaga and Creighton with injuries, a rare sixth year of eligibility, putting Creighton over the NCAA's limit of 13 scholarships for the 2013–14 season.

On February 28, 2014, McDermott was named one of the 10 semi-finalists for Naismith College Player of the Year. On Senior Night against Providence, he scored a career-high 45 points and passed the 3,000 point threshold. McDermott was named first-team All-Big East in Creighton's first season in the league. He won the Big East Player of the Year award, as well as earning First-Team All-American honors by U.S. Basketball Writers Association for the third time. McDermott was also the consensus national player of the year, winning all major awards (Wooden, Naismith, AP, NABC, USBWA, and Sporting News).

McDermott led the nation in scoring at 26.7 points per game. At the end of his college career, he ranked fifth on the all-time NCAA Division I scoring list, with 3,150 points, which passed basketball Hall of Famer Larry Bird. He became the first player in 29 years to be named to the AP All-America first team three times. McDermott is one of three players in NCAA men's basketball history to record 3,000 points and 1,000 rebounds. He also set an NCAA record by scoring in double figures in 135 games.

Professional career

Chicago Bulls (2014–2017)

2014–15 season
On June 26, 2014, McDermott was selected in the first round with the 11th overall pick in the 2014 NBA draft by the Denver Nuggets. He was later traded to the Chicago Bulls on draft night, along with Anthony Randolph, for both of Chicago's 2014 first round picks (Jusuf Nurkic 16th and Gary Harris 19th) and a future second-round pick. On July 22, 2014, he signed his rookie scale contract with the Bulls after averaging 18.0 points, 4.0 rebounds and 2.8 assists per game during the 2014 NBA Summer League. In his NBA debut on October 29, he recorded 12 points, 5 rebounds, 2 assists and 1 steal in a 104–80 win over the New York Knicks. While expected to contribute with scoring and shooting for the Bulls, McDermott struggled significantly over his first 17 games, averaging just 3.2 points on 42.3 percent shooting. Despite his promising debut, McDermott did not manage to eclipse 12 points before being ruled out indefinitely on December 1 due to a knee injury. He subsequently required an arthroscopic procedure on his right knee which took place on December 13. He returned to action on January 22, 2015, against the San Antonio Spurs, recording no stats in two minutes of action. On March 6, he scored a season-high 16 points in a loss to the Indiana Pacers.

2015–16 season
In July 2015, McDermott re-joined the Bulls for the 2015 NBA Summer League, where he averaged 18.8 points and 4.4 rebounds in five games, impressing new head coach Fred Hoiberg. On October 30, the Bulls exercised their third-year team option on McDermott's rookie scale contract, extending the contract through the 2016–17 season.

McDermott's Summer League form carried over into the regular season, with Hoiberg giving him plenty of game time off the bench. Over the first three games of the season, he averaged 7.3 points per game, boosting that number up to 10.2 over the first five games with 12 points scored against the Orlando Magic on November 1 and 17 points scored against the Charlotte Hornets on November 3. His impressive play off the bench earned him his first career starting assignment on November 5 against the Oklahoma City Thunder. In 23 minutes of action as the starting small forward, he scored nine points in a 104–98 win over the Thunder. Four days later, he scored a then career-high 18 points in a 111–88 win over the Philadelphia 76ers. On November 16, Tony Snell was reinserted into the starting line-up, moving McDermott back to a bench role. On February 19, 2016, he scored a career-high 30 points off the bench in a 116–106 win over the Toronto Raptors. On March 14, he had his second 20+ point game of the season with a team-high 29 points off the bench in a 109–107 win over the Toronto Raptors. Three days later, he scored 25 points against the Brooklyn Nets for his third straight game with 20+ points, tying a career-high five three-pointers.

2016–17 season
On October 28, 2016, the Bulls exercised their fourth-year team option on McDermott's rookie scale contract, extending the contract through the 2017–18 season. Among other moves that offseason, the Bulls also acquired Chicago native Dwyane Wade, for whom McDermott graciously switched from No. 3 to No. 11 for the 2016–17 season. In the Bulls' second game of the season, McDermott scored a game-high 23 points off the bench in a 118–101 win over the Indiana Pacers. He received a concussion on October 31 against the Brooklyn Nets and entered concussion protocol; on November 12, he suffered another concussion against the Washington Wizards. As a result, McDermott missed the next nine games, and on December 5, he was assigned to the Windy City Bulls of the NBA Development League for conditioning. He was recalled two days later and made his return to Chicago's line-up on December 8, scoring eight points in a 95–91 win over the San Antonio Spurs. On January 7, 2017, McDermott recorded his first-career double-double, grabbing a career-high 10 rebounds to go with 17 points in a 123–118 win over the Toronto Raptors. On January 15, 2017, he scored a career-high 31 points in a 108–104 win over the Memphis Grizzlies.

Oklahoma City Thunder (2017)
On February 23, 2017, McDermott was traded, along with Taj Gibson and an unprotected 2018 second round draft pick, to the Oklahoma City Thunder in exchange for Joffrey Lauvergne, Anthony Morrow and Cameron Payne. On March 18, 2017, McDermott had his highest-scoring game with the Thunder, going 8 of 9 from the field, including 4 of 5 from three-point range, to finish with 21 points in a 110–94 win over the Sacramento Kings.

New York Knicks (2017–2018)
On September 25, 2017, McDermott was traded, along with Enes Kanter and a 2018 second-round pick, to the New York Knicks in exchange for Carmelo Anthony. In his debut for the Knicks in their season opener on October 19, 2017, McDermott scored four points on 2-for-5 shooting in a 105–84 loss to his former team, the Oklahoma City Thunder.

Dallas Mavericks (2018)
On February 8, 2018, McDermott was acquired by the Dallas Mavericks in a three-team trade that also involved the Knicks and the Denver Nuggets. In his debut for the Mavericks two days later, McDermott scored eight points in a 130–123 win over the Los Angeles Lakers. He received a qualifying offer from the Mavericks on June 27, 2018, which was later withdrawn.

Indiana Pacers (2018–present)
On July 6, 2018, McDermott signed a three-year, $22 million contract with the Indiana Pacers. On November 26, he scored a season-high 21 points in a 121–88 win over the Utah Jazz.

International career
Following the close of his freshman year at Creighton, McDermott was selected to the U.S. team sent to Riga, Latvia for the 2011 FIBA Under-19 World Championship.  McDermott started all nine matches and averaged 11.3 points per game on .501 shooting and 6.1 rebounds per contest, good for third on the team in both categories. The United States finished 7–2, good for fifth in the tournament.

On July 22, 2014, McDermott was named to the 2014 USA Select Team.

Career statistics

NBA

Regular season

|-
| style="text-align:left;"|
| style="text-align:left;"| Chicago
| 36 || 0 || 8.9 || .402 || .317 || .667 || 1.2 || .2 || .1 || .0 || 3.0
|-
| style="text-align:left;"|
| style="text-align:left;"| Chicago
| 81 || 4 || 23.0 || .452 || .425 || .857 || 2.4 || .7 || .2 || .1 || 9.4
|-
| style="text-align:left;"|
| style="text-align:left;"| Chicago
| 44 || 4 || 24.4 || .444 || .371 || .884 || 3.0 || 1.0 || .2 || .1 || 10.1
|-
| style="text-align:left;"|
| style="text-align:left;"| Oklahoma City
| 22 || 1 || 19.5 || .452 || .362 || .706 || 2.2 || .6 || .1 || .0 || 6.6
|-
| style="text-align:left;"|
| style="text-align:left;"| New York
| 55 || 1 || 21.3 || .460 || .387 || .755 || 2.4 || .9 || .2 || .2 || 7.2
|-
| style="text-align:left;"|
| style="text-align:left;"| Dallas
| 26 || 3 || 22.9 || .478 || .494 || .857 || 2.5 || 1.1 || .3 || .2 || 9.0
|-
| style="text-align:left;"|
| style="text-align:left;"| Indiana
| 77 || 1 || 17.4 || .491 || .408 || .835 || 1.4 || .9 || .2 || .1 || 7.3
|- class="sortbottom"
| style="text-align:center;" colspan="2"| Career
| 341 || 14 || 19.9 || .459 || .404 || .825 || 2.1 || .8 || .2 || .1 || 7.8

Playoffs

|-
| style="text-align:left;"| 2015
| style="text-align:left;"| Chicago
| 3 || 0 || 3.3 || .333 || .500 || 1.000 || .7 || .3 || .0 || .0 || 1.7
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| 2017
| style="text-align:left;"| Oklahoma City
| 5 || 0 || 13.2 || .500 || .538 || .000 || 1.0 || .2 || .2 || .2 || 5.0
|- class="sortbottom"
| style="text-align:center;" colspan="2"| Career
| 8 || 0 || 9.5 || .476 || .533 || 1.000 || .9 || .3 || .1 || .1 || 3.8

College

|-
| style="text-align:left;"| 2010–11
| style="text-align:left;"| Creighton
| 39 || 39 || 29.1 || .525 || .405 || .746 || 7.2 || 1.2 || .3 || .1 || 14.9
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| 2011–12
| style="text-align:left;"| Creighton
| 35 || 34 || 31.9 || .601 || .486 || .796 || 8.2 || 1.1 || .2 || .1 || 22.9
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| 2012–13
| style="text-align:left;"| Creighton
| 36 || 36 || 31.6 || .548 || .490 || .875 || 7.7 || 1.6 || .2 || .1 || 23.2
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| 2013–14
| style="text-align:left;"| Creighton
| 35 || 35 || 33.7 || .526 || .449 || .864 || 7.0 || 1.6 || .2 || .1 || 26.7
|- class="sortbottom"
| style="text-align:center;" colspan="2"| Career
| 145 || 144 || 31.5 || .550 || .458 || .831 || 7.5 || 1.3 || .2 || .1 || 21.7


Jackie Searle

Jacqueline Ann "Jackie" Searle (born 26 September 1960) is a British Anglican bishop. Since 2018, she has served as the Bishop of Crediton, a suffragan bishop of the Diocese of Exeter. She had previously been the Archdeacon of Gloucester between 2012 and 2018.

Early life and education
Searle was born on 26 September 1960 in Redhill, Surrey, England. She was educated at Talbot Heath School, an all-girls independent school in Bournemouth. She studied at Whitelands College, Roehampton, graduating with a Bachelor of Education (BEd) degree in 1982. She worked as a teacher from 1982 until 1989. She trained for ordained ministry at Trinity College, Bristol, an evangelical Anglican theological college between 1990 and 1992.

Ordained ministry
She was ordained deacon in 1992, and priest in 1994. Her first ecclesiastical post were curacies in Harrow and Ealing. She was a lecturer in applied theology at Trinity College, Bristol from 1996 to 2003; and then Vicar of St Peter, Littleover from 2003 to 2012. Since 2012, she has served as Archdeacon of Gloucester in the Diocese of Gloucester and as a canon residentiary of Gloucester Cathedral.

Episcopal ministry
In July 2018, it was announced that she would be the next Bishop of Crediton, a suffragan bishop in the Diocese of Exeter. On 27 September 2018, she was consecrated a bishop by John Sentamu, the Archbishop of York, during a service at Southwark Cathedral. She was welcomed into the diocese on 14 October.

Personal life
In 1992, Searle married David Runcorn. Together they have two children. David is also ordained in the Church of England.


JAL

JAL or Jal may refer to:

Entertainment
 Jal (band), a Pakistani music band
 Jal (film), a 2014 Hindi film
 Jal Fazer, a character in the British TV series Skins
 "Jal", an episode of the British TV series Skins

Places
 Jal, New Mexico, a town in New Mexico, U.S.
 Jalisco, México
 Jal-e Akhund Mahalleh, Iran
 Jal-e Chala Sar, Iran
 Jal, Oman

Other uses
 Japan Airlines, ICAO airline designator, and abbreviation: JAL
 JAL (compiler), Just Another Language, a compiler for the PIC microcontroller
 Cyclone Jal, a storm that hit South India during November 2010
 El Lencero Airport in Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico (IATA code: JAL)


Melleray Abbey

Melleray Abbey (Abbaye de Notre-Dame-de-Melleray) was a Cistercian monastery, founded about the year 1134. It was situated in Brittany, Diocese of Nantes, in La Meilleraye-de-Bretagne in the vicinity of Châteaubriant (in present Loire-Atlantique).

History

Foulques, Abbot of Pontron in Anjou, which was founded from Loroux (itself a daughter foundation of Cîteaux), sent monks for the foundation of a monastery in Brittany. They chose a solitary location near Old Melleray, shown them by Rivallon, pastor of Auverné, which Alain de Moisdon, proprietor of the place, donated to them. Guitern, the first abbot, erected the original monastery in 1145, but the church was not completed until 1183, under Geffroy, the fourth abbot.

Melleray, a small monastery built for about twelve monks, remained regular until during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, when relaxation prevailed. Etienne de Brezé (1544) was the first commendatory abbot, and from his time the monastery declined, until toward the end of the seventeenth century when, through the efforts of Dom Jouard, vicar-general of the order, the Rule of St. Benedict was re-introduced, and the monastic buildings restored. In 1791 it was suppressed, and the few religious were dispersed.

This, however, was not the end of Melleray. The Trappists, expelled from France, took refuge at Valsainte in Switzerland; from there Dom Augustine de Lestrange established them in various parts of the world. Through the generosity of Sir Thomas Weld, a wealthy English Catholic and the father of Cardinal Weld, they settled (1795) at Lulworth, Dorset, England. Their monastery was soon created an abbey, and Dom Antoine was elected the first abbot (1813). In 1817, with changed conditions and the restoration of the Bourbons, the monks of Lulworth returned to Melleray.

The restored abbey flourished, increasing from fifty-seven to one hundred and ninety-two members in twelve years. During the Revolution of 1830 they were again persecuted, especially those of foreign birth, of whom they had a great number. To make homes for these they founded Mount Melleray Abbey (1833) in Ireland and Mount Saint Bernard Abbey (1835) in England. Dom Antoine (d. 1839) was succeeded first by Dom Maxime, then by a second Dom Antoine, and finally by Dom Eugene Vachette.

Under Dom Antoine II several monasteries were established, among them Gethsemani Abbey (1848) in the United States. Dom Eugène, elected in 1875, was for many years the vicar-general of the Congregation of La Grande Trappe, and was instrumental in effecting the reunion into a single  Order of the three congregations among which the Trappists were then divided 1892).

In 2015, the Trappist monks announced that they would leave the abbey in 2016, and give charge of it to the Chemin Neuf Community.


Lemoine

Lemoine or Le Moine is a French surname meaning "Monk". Notable people with the surname include:

 Adolphe Lemoine, known as Lemoine-Montigny (1812–1880), French comic-actor
 Antoine Marcel Lemoine (1763–1817) musician, music publisher, father to Henry
 Cyril Lemoine (born 1983), French cyclist
 Émile Lemoine (1840–1912), French geometrician
 Henri Lemoine (cyclist) (1909–1981), French cyclist
 Henri Lemoine (fraudster) (fl. 1902–1908), French fraudster
 Henry Lemoine (1786–1854), Piano teacher, music publisher, composer
 Jacques-Antoine-Marie Lemoine (1751–1824), also Lemoyne, French painter
 James MacPherson Le Moine (1825–1912), Canadian writer, lawyer and historian
 Jean Lemoine (1250–1313), French canon lawyer, cardinal, bishop and papal legate
 Jean-Luc Lemoine (born 1970), French comedian and TV presenter
 Jordy Lemoine (born 1988), French singer
 Louis Lemoine (1764–1842), French general of the French Revolutionary Wars
 Marie-Victoire Lemoine (1754–1820), French painter
 Nick Lemoine (born 1957), British academic
 Pablo Lemoine (born 1975), Uruguayan rugby union player
 Pierre-Antoine Lemoine (1605–1665), French painter
 René Lemoine (1905-1995), French Olympic fencer
 Roger Le Moine (1933–2004), Canadian professor of literature, and literary critic
 Victor Lemoine (1823–1911), French horticulturist
 Virginie Lemoine, French humourist, comedian and actor
 Yvan Lemoine (born 1981), chef and author


The 2004 Bassetlaw District Council election took place on 10 June 2004 to elect members of Bassetlaw District Council in Nottinghamshire, England as part of the 2004 United Kingdom local elections. One third of the council was up for election.

Election result

Ward results

Beckingham

Carlton

Clayworth

East Retford East

East Retford North

East Retford South

East Retford West

Harworth

Sutton

Tuxford and Trent

Worksop East

Worksop North

Worksop North East

Worksop North West

Worksop South

Worksop South East