Harry B. Harris Jr.

Harry Binkley Harris Jr. (born August 4, 1956) is an American diplomat and former U.S. Navy officer who is the current United States Ambassador to South Korea. He was the first Japanese American to lead US Pacific Command in the U.S. Navy and was the highest-ranking American of Japanese descent in the U.S. military during his time as commander.

Born in Japan, he is also the first 4-star admiral to have participated in the Navy Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps (NJROTC) and the first officer from the U.S. Navy's P-3 Orion maritime patrol aviation community to achieve 4-star rank. While a vice admiral, he served as the Assistant to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Harris was Commander, U.S. Pacific Fleet in Hawaii from 2013–2015. He took command of USPACOM on May 27, 2015, and retired from Naval service on June 1, 2018.

Harris is a 1978 graduate of the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis. He was the U.S. Navy's "Old Goat" – the longest-serving Naval Academy graduate still on active duty – from January 2017 until April 2018, when he passed the title on to his classmate, Admiral Kurt W. Tidd, in a private ceremony at the Pentagon. He was also the Navy's 15th "Gray Owl" – the Naval Flight Officer on active duty who has held this designation the longest period. Harris passed the Gray Owl to Vice Admiral Herman A. Shelanski at the National Naval Aviation Museum's 2018 Naval Aviation Symposium.  Governor Rick Perry designated him as an Admiral in the Texas Navy on July 18, 2006.

On June 29, 2018, Harris was sworn in as the United States Ambassador to South Korea.

Early life and education
He was born in Yokosuka, Japan in 1956. His mother, Fumiko (Ohno), was Japanese and his father, LTJG Harry Binkley Harris, was a U.S. Navy Machinist's Mate (and later chief petty officer) when he served aboard the USS Lexington (CV-2) during the Battle of the Coral Sea. After his family's move to the United States, Harris grew up in Crossville, Tennessee, and Pensacola, Florida, where he attended local public schools.

Career
Harris graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1978. He majored in general engineering and was a varsity fencer.

After flight training, he was designated as a Naval Flight Officer and assigned to Patrol Squadron Forty-Four (VP-44), homeported at Naval Air Station Brunswick, Maine. He flew the P-3C Orion, deploying throughout the Pacific, Indian and Atlantic Oceans, and Mediterranean Sea. His subsequent operational tours include assignment as a Tactical Action Officer on board , to include participation in dealing with the Achille Lauro hijacking and the 1986 air strikes against Libya (Operation Attain Document III). He served as Operations Officer in Patrol Squadron Four (VP-4) at Naval Air Station Barbers Point, Hawaii, deploying to Southwest Asia during Operations Desert Shield/Desert Storm. He had three tours with Patrol and Reconnaissance Wing 1/Task Force 57/Task Force 72, homeported in Kami Seya, Japan. During his earlier tours with Patrol and Reconnaissance Wing 1, Harris participated in Operations Earnest Will and Southern Watch.

In 2002, he reported to Commander, U.S. Naval Forces Central Command / U.S. Fifth Fleet in Manama, Bahrain, serving as Assistant Chief of Staff for Operations, Plans, and Pol-Mil Affairs (N3/N5). He was responsible for the planning and execution of the Naval component's portion of Operation Iraqi Freedom, which began on March 19, 2003.

His aviation command assignments include Patrol Squadron Forty-Six (VP-46) at Naval Air Station Whidbey Island, Washington, and Patrol and Reconnaissance Wing 1/CTF 57/CTF 72 at Kami Seya, Japan. Task Force 57, the U.S. 5th Fleet maritime patrol and reconnaissance aircraft force, was heavily involved in Operation Enduring Freedom as squadrons and aircrews under his command flew nearly 1,000 P-3 and EP-3 surveillance and reconnaissance sorties over Afghanistan.  Additional Flag Officer command assignments included Joint Task Force Guantanamo in Cuba, U.S. Sixth Fleet / Naval Striking and Support Forces NATO in Italy, and the U.S. Pacific Fleet.

Harris' shore assignments include Aide and Flag Lieutenant to the Commander, U.S. Naval Forces Japan in Yokosuka, Japan; three tours on the staff of the Chief of Naval Operations to include two flag officer tours and a tour as a strategist in the Strategy and Concepts Branch; Chief Speechwriter to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; and Assistant to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.  His Flag assignments are described below.

His educational assignments include selection for the Navy's Harvard/Tufts Program, where he graduated with a Master's of Public Administration from Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government in 1992. Subsequently, selected as an Arthur S. Moreau Scholar, he studied international relations and ethics of war at Oxford and Georgetown University, earning a Master of Arts in National Security Studies from the latter in 1994. While at Georgetown, he was a Fellow in the School of Foreign Service. He was also an MIT Seminar 21 fellow for the 1999–2000 class.

Harris has logged 4400 flight hours – including over 400 combat hours – in U.S. and foreign maritime patrol and reconnaissance aircraft. He is a recipient of the Navy League's Stephen Decatur Award for Operational Competence and the CIA's Agency Seal Medal. For his work in diversity and leadership, he has also received the NECO Ellis Island Medal of Honor, the APAICS Lifetime Achievement Award, the WWAAC Community Spirit Award, and the AAGEN Distinguished Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2017, Harris was named an Honorary Chief Petty Officer by Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy Steven S. Giordano in recognition of his leadership and "extraordinary dedication to the Navy's core values of honor, courage, and commitment."  He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Director, Current Operations and Anti-Terrorism/Force Protection Division (OPNAV N31/34)
In August 2004, in his first Flag assignment, he reported to the staff of the Chief of Naval Operations, where he was responsible for Navy current operations, the Navy Command Center, and anti-terrorism/force protection policy.

Commander, Joint Task Force Guantanamo
In March 2006, he assumed command of Joint Task Force Guantanamo in Cuba. His service was notable as he was in charge when three prisoners, Mani Shaman Turki al-Habardi Al-Utaybi, Salah Ali Abdullah Ahmed al-Salami and Yasser Talal Al Zahrani, died in the custody of US forces. Defense reported the deaths as suicides. Harris said at the time,

Harris ordered a full investigation by the Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS), which published its report in a heavily redacted version in August 2008.

A report, Death in Camp Delta, was published in December 2009 by the Center for Policy & Research of Seton Hall University School of Law, under the supervision of its director, Professor Mark Denbeaux, attorney for two Guantanamo detainees, criticizing numerous inconsistencies in the official accounts of these deaths. The report suggested there had either been gross negligence or an attempt to cover up homicides of the men, perhaps due to torture under interrogation.

On 18 January 2010, Scott Horton of Harper's Magazine published a story suggesting that al-Salami, Al-Utaybi and Al-Zahrani had died as a result of accidental manslaughter during a torture session, and that the official account was a cover-up. Horton had undertaken a joint investigation with NBC News, based on an account by four former guards at Guantanamo Bay detention camp. They suggested that the men had died at a black site, informally called "Camp No," used for interrogation including torture. It was located about a mile outside the regular camp boundaries.

Director of Operations, U.S. Southern Command
From June 2007 to April 2008, Harris served as Director of Operations (J3) for U.S. Southern Command in Miami. He led the joint planning effort for Operation Willing Spirit (the rescue of American hostages held hostage in Colombia).

Deputy Chief of Naval Operations (OPNAV N6)

Harris returned to the Pentagon to serve as the Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for Communication Networks (OPNAV N6) and the Deputy Department of the Navy Chief Information Officer (Navy) until November 2009. He was responsible for early resource sponsor decisions for the Consolidated Afloat Networks and Enterprise Services (CANES), Next Generation Enterprise Network (NGEN), Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) and Maritime Domain Awareness (MDA).

Commander, U.S. Sixth Fleet
In November 2009, Harris assumed command of the U.S. 6th Fleet and the Striking and Support Forces NATO, both headquartered in Naples, Italy. He concurrently served as Deputy Commander, U.S. Naval Forces Europe and Deputy Commander, U.S. Naval Forces Africa. In 2011, he was designated as the Joint Force Maritime Component Commander (JFMCC) for Operation Odyssey Dawn, the U.S.-led coalition operation against Libya.

Assistant to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
In October 2011, he assumed the position of Assistant to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. In this capacity, he served as the Chairman's direct representative to the U.S. Secretary of State. He was also the designated U.S. Roadmap Monitor for the Middle East Peace Process.

Commander, U.S. Pacific Fleet
Harris was promoted to Admiral and assumed command of the US Pacific Fleet on October 16, 2013. He has been critical of Chinese land reclamation activities in the South China Sea saying "(China is) creating a great wall of sand".

Commander, U.S. Pacific Command

Harris was nominated on September 22, 2014, by President Barack Obama to command the US Pacific Command. His appointment was confirmed by the Senate on December 11, 2014.
Harris took command of USPACOM on May 27, 2015. He regarded North Korea as the biggest threat to security in Asia, calling for diplomacy backed by military power to "bring Kim Jong-Un to his senses; not to his knees" in pursuit of peaceful denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula.

In December 2016, Harris led the military commemoration activities for the 75th anniversary of the attacks on Pearl Harbor and Oahu. On 5 December, he paid tribute to Japanese-Americans who served in World War II. He delivered the keynote speech during National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day, 7 December, and accompanied President Barack Obama and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzō Abe to render honors at the USS Arizona Memorial on 27 December. The visit – the first by a Japanese Prime Minister to the Memorial – was hailed by President Obama as "a historic gesture of reconciliation."

U.S. Ambassador to South Korea

Nomination and confirmation
Harris was nominated by President Donald Trump to serve as U.S. Ambassador to Australia in February 2018, but was renominated to become Ambassador to South Korea by Trump at the suggestion of newly sworn-in Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on May 23, 2018.

Harris was confirmed by the U.S. Senate to serve as Ambassador to South Korea by voice vote on June 28, 2018. On June 29, 2018, Harris was officially sworn in as the new United States Ambassador to South Korea.

Awards and decorations

 Harris also received the CIA Agency Seal Medalas well as a foreign badge.

Foreign orders, decorations and medals
  Order of National Security Merit, Tong-il (1st Class) Medal (South Korea), awarded 3 November 2014 by ROK Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Hwang Ki-chul, on behalf of President Park Geun-hye, for "distinguished service and meritorious contributions to the security of the Republic of Korea" while serving as Commander, U.S. Pacific Fleet.
  Meritorious Military Service Medal (Singapore), awarded 17 October 2017 by Minister for Defence Dr. Ng Eng Hen, for “significant contributions toward enhancing the longstanding and excellent defence relations between the United States and Singapore” as Commander, U.S. Pacific Command.
  Officier (Officer) of the Legion of Honour (France), awarded 11 April 2018, by Ambassador Gérard Araud.
  Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun (Japan), awarded 26 April 2018, by Minister of Defense Itsunori Onodera on behalf of Emperor of Japan.
  Komandante (Commander) of the Legion of Honor (Philippines), awarded 27 April 2018 by Executive Secretary Salvador Medialdea on behalf of President Rodrigo Duterte.
  Medal for International Military Cooperation (Mongolia), awarded 27 April 2018 by Lieutenant General Dulamsürengiin Davaa, Chief of General Staff of the Mongolian Armed Forces, on behalf of Minister of Defense Nyamaagiin Enkhbold.
  Honorary Officer (AO) of the Order of Australia, awarded 29 May 2018 by Governor General of Australia General Sir Peter Cosgrove as part of the 2018 Special honours list, for “distinguished service to the military relationship between Australia and the United States through leadership, passion, and strategic foresight.”

Personal life
Ambassador Harris is married to Brunhilde Kempf "Bruni" Bradley. Bruni Bradley is a 1984 Naval Academy graduate and former Navy commander who retired after 25 years of service and now is a member of the board of directors for the Military Child Education Coalition.


Jack Owens (blues singer)

Jack Owens (November 17, 1904 – February 9, 1997) was an American blues singer and guitarist, from Bentonia, Mississippi.

Biography
Owens was born L. F. Nelson. His mother was Celia Owens; his father was George Nelson, who abandoned his family when Jack was 5 or 6 years old. After that time, he was raised by the Owens family with his maternal grandfather, the father of eight children, according to the 1910 census, two of whom shared the Nelson name. (This does not account for two more children born after that census.) While very young, Owens learned some chords on the guitar from his father and an uncle. He also learned to play the fife, fiddle, and piano while still a child, but his chosen instrument was the guitar.

Owens did not seek to become a professional recording artist. He farmed, sold bootleg liquor, and ran a weekend juke joint in Bentonia for most of his life. His peer, Skip James, had left home and traveled until he found a talent agent and a record label to sign him, but Owens preferred to remain at home, selling liquor and performing only on his front porch. He was not recorded until the blues revival of the 1960s, having been rediscovered in 1966 by the musicologist David Evans, who was taken to meet Owens by either Skip James or Cornelius Bright. Evans noted that while James and Owens had many elements in common and a sound peculiar to that region, referred to as the Bentonia School, there were also strong differences in Owens's delivery. James, Owens, Bukka White, and others from the area shared a particular guitar style and repertoire utilizing open D-minor tuning (DADFAD). Owens, though, experimented with several other tunings, which appear to have been his own. He played guitar and sang, utilizing the stomp of his boots for rhythm in the manner of some other players in the Mississippi Delta, such as John Lee Hooker. James used falsetto in his singing and had become accustomed to singing quietly for recording sessions, but Owens sang roughly in his usual singing voice and loud enough for people at a party to hear while dancing. Evans, excited to find a piece of history in Owens, made recordings of him singing, which were included on Owens's first record album, Goin' Up the Country, that same year, and on It Must Have Been the Devil (with Bud Spires) in 1970. Owens made other recordings (some by Alan Lomax) in the 1960s and 1970s.

Owens travelled the music festival circuit in the United States and Europe in the last decades of his life, often accompanied on harmonica by his friend Bud Spires, until his death in 1997. He was frequently billed in the company of other noteworthy blues musicians who maintained a higher profile than he did but were longtime associates. One such performance was with Spires in an all-star tribute to Chess Records in 1994 at the Long Beach Blues Festival, along with Jeff Healey, Hubert Sumlin, Buddy Guy, the Staple Singers and Robert Cray's band, among others, in Long Beach, California.

He was a recipient of a 1993 National Heritage Fellowship awarded by the National Endowment for the Arts, which is the highest honor in the folk and traditional arts in the United States.

Owens died in Yazoo City, Mississippi, in 1997, at the age of 92.

Discography

It Must Have Been The Devil (1971)

Jack Owens (Vocals & Guitar), Bud Spires (Harmonica), Testament Records

Track listing:
"Can't See Baby" – 5:29
"Jack Ain't Had No Water" – 4:39
"Cherry Ball"* – 3:51
"Nothing But Notes" – 1:29
"Good Morning, Little Schoolgirl" – 4:43
"I Love My Baby"* – 4:49
"Catfish Blues" – 7:34
"It Must Have Been The Devil" – 9:53
"Hard Times"* – 5:11
"Ain't No Lovin, Ain't No Gettin' Along"* – 5:07
"I Won't Be Bad No More"* – 4:37

Recorded Sept. 7, 1970 in Bentonia, MS

Bonus tracks on 1995 Testament Records CD release*

Bentonia Country Blues (1979)

Jack Owens (Vocals & Guitar), Bud Spires (Harmonica), Albatross Records

Track listing:
"Cherry Ball Blues" – 2:52
"Keep On Groaning" – 4:32
"Please Give Me Your Money" – 1:58
"Devil Got My Woman" – 4:38
"Hard Time Killing Floor Blues" – 2:43
"Hard Time Killing Floor Blues Nr.2" – 2:47
"Don't Sell My Monkey" – 7:34

Songs: 2, 3, 7 written by Jack Owens; Songs: 1, 4, 5, 6 written by Nehemiah Curtis "Skip" James

Recorded Aug. 13 & 17, 1978 in Bentonia, MS

Films
Deep Blues (1991), directed by Robert Mugge


Peck's Bad Boy (1921 film)

Peck's Bad Boy is a 1921 American silent comedy film directed by Sam Wood and starring Jackie Coogan, Wheeler Oakman, Doris May, Raymond Hatton, James Corrigan, and Lillian Leighton. It is based on the series of books by George W. Peck. The film was released by Associated First National Pictures on April 24, 1921.

Plot

Cast
Jackie Coogan as Henry Peck AKA 'Peck's Bad Boy'
Wheeler Oakman as Dr. Jack Martin - the Man in the Case
Doris May as Letty Peck - Henry's Sister
Raymond Hatton as The Village Grocer
James Corrigan as George W. Peck - Henry's Pa
Lillian Leighton as Mrs. George W. Peck - Henry's Ma
Charles Hatton as Buddy - Henry's Pal
K. T. Stevens as Henry's Sweetheart
Dean Riesner
Queenie the Dog as Tar Baby - Henry's Dog
Robert Brower as The Minister (uncredited)

Preservation
Prints of Peck's Bad Boy exists at the George Eastman House, Library of Congress, Museum of Modern Art, EYE Film Institute Netherlands, UCLA Film and Television Archive, and Academy Film Archive.


Noarlunga Centre, South Australia

Noarlunga Centre is a suburb in the City of Onkaparinga in the southern suburbs of Adelaide, South Australia. The suburb is mostly commercial, being dominated by the Centro Colonnades shopping centre and the small 'Inspire Noarlunga' estate to the east of Goldsmith Road. The suburb is bordered by Beach Road to the north, Dyson Road to the west Goldsmith Road to the south and the Southern Expressway to the east. Burgess Drive, Seaman Road and David Witton Drive are the main thoroughfares inside the boundaries of the suburb.

The name Noarlunga is an English adaptation of the native Kaurna word Nurlongga, meaning 'at the curvature', referring to the horseshoe bend near the mouth of the Onkaparinga River.

Sharing the name Noarlunga are the two adjacent seaside suburbs Port Noarlunga and Port Noarlunga South and the historic township of Old Noarlunga that is located on the Onkaparinga River.

Port Noarlunga was the original town centre prior to Noarlunga Centre being constructed.

Noarlunga English adaptation of the kaurna name has also been spelt as Nglungga.

Facilities
Noarlunga Centre is home of many facilities. The Onkaparinga Council headquarters, Noarlunga TAFE, the Hopgood Theatre, the Noarlunga Library and Noarlunga Hospital are all located in this area, as well as a 5 screen Wallis Cinema, a bowling alley, an ice-skating rink, a swimming centre,  24-hour BodySmith fitness centre, as well as a multi-sport venue. The number of retailers in this area is large, with over 200 residing in Centro Colonnades, as well as a few on Dyson Road, and a number in the area just behind this.
Health :
Noarlunga Centre is also home to the Noarlunga Hospital, a 108-bed regional health service. Noarlunga Hospital was established in 1985 as a regional community health service.

Transport

In Noarlunga Centre, just near Centro Colonnades, is the Noarlunga Centre Interchange, providing numerous bus links to anywhere in the metro area, and a train station, to get to Adelaide by rail. The Southern Expressway also has an on/off ramp located in Noarlunga.

City buses from the station interchange and centro colonnades are routes:
721, T721, 722, T722, 723.

Climate


The 1981–82 NCAA Division I men's basketball season began on November 27, 1981, progressed through the regular season and conference tournaments, and concluded with the 1982 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament Championship Game on March 29, 1982, at the Louisiana Superdome in New Orleans, Louisiana. The North Carolina Tar Heels won their second NCAA national championship with a 63–62 victory over the Georgetown Hoyas.

Season headlines
Dean Smith won his first national championship as his North Carolina Tar Heels defeated the Georgetown Hoyas 63–62 in New Orleans, Louisiana.  It was Smith's first win after three losses in the championship game – including losing the previous year to Indiana.
John Thompson became the first African-American head coach to lead his team to the Final Four.
Cincinnati defeated Bradley 75–73 in seven overtimes – the longest game in NCAA Division I history.
Following the season, the University of San Francisco dropped its basketball program following a scandal involving All-American guard Quintin Dailey.  In the process of pleading guilty to assault of a USF coed, Dailey revealed that he had been paid $1000 per month by a Dons booster for a job he never showed up for.  This, combined with other blemishes to the program, caused university president John Lo Schiavo to shut down the program.  USF would reinstate its basketball program in 1985.
Texas Southern's Harry Kelly led the nation is scoring and had the highest single-game output with 51 points against Texas College.
Eastern Illinois, Illinois–Chicago, Loyola (MD), Marist, Maryland–Eastern Shore, Texas–San Antonio, U.S. International, Utica, Western Illinois, Wisconsin–Green Bay and Youngstown State began Division I play.
The national third-place game was abolished from the NCAA Tournament.

Major rule changes
Beginning in 1981–1982, the following rules changes were implemented:
The jump ball was only used at the beginning of the game and at the start of each overtime.  An alternating arrow was used to indicate possession in jump-ball situations during the game.
All fouls charged to bench personnel were assessed to the head coach.
To decrease stalling, two defensive players are required to enter the mid-court area and "continuously and aggressively" attempt to gain control of the ball.
Causing a backboard to vibrate during a shot or tap is a technical foul.
Purposely faking a free throw is a violation.
During free throw attempts, the free throw shooter and any players not in a marked space around the lane are not allowed to enter the lane until the ball touches either the rim or backboard.
"Break-away" rims, implemented by the NBA after the Darryl Dawkins backboard-shattering dunks, are now permitted.

Season outlook

Pre-season polls

The top 20 from the AP Poll during the pre-season.

Regular season

Conference winners and tournaments

Note: From 1975 to 1982, the Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC), a loosely organized sports federation of Northeastern colleges and universities, organized Division I ECAC regional tournaments for those of its members that were independents in basketball. Each 1982 ECAC tournament winner received an automatic bid to the 1982 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament in the same way that the tournament champions of conventional athletic conferences did. After this season, all remaining Northeastern independents joined conventional conferences, and the ECAC discontinued Division I basketball tournaments. The ECAC North was a separate, conventional conference.

Conference standings

Key

Statistical leaders

Postseason tournaments

NCAA Tournament

North Carolina freshman Michael Jordan hit the game-winning shot as Dean Smith won his first national championship after many near-misses over his career, defeating the Georgetown Hoyas 63–62 at the Louisiana Superdome in New Orleans.  Fred Brown's errant pass to James Worthy in the closing seconds sealed the game, which featured star freshmen Jordan and the Hoyas' Patrick Ewing.  Worthy was named Final Four Most Outstanding Player.

Final Four – Louisiana Superdome, New Orleans

National Invitation Tournament

The Bradley Braves, led by coach Dick Versace, defeated the Purdue Boilermakers 67–58 to win their fourth National Invitation Tournament, tying them with St. John's for the most NIT championships (St. John's has since won two additional titles).  Bradley's Mitchell Anderson was named NIT Most Valuable Player.

NIT Semifinals and Final
Played at Madison Square Garden in New York City

Awards

Consensus All-American teams

Major player of the year awards

Wooden Award: Ralph Sampson, Virginia
Naismith Award: Ralph Sampson, Virginia
Associated Press Player of the Year: Ralph Sampson, Virginia
UPI Player of the Year: Ralph Sampson, Virginia
NABC Player of the Year: Ralph Sampson, Virginia
Oscar Robertson Trophy (USBWA): Ralph Sampson, Virginia
Adolph Rupp Trophy: Ralph Sampson, Virginia
Sporting News Player of the Year: Ralph Sampson, Virginia

Major coach of the year awards

Associated Press Coach of the Year: Ralph Miller, Oregon State
Henry Iba Award (USBWA): John Thompson, Georgetown
NABC Coach of the Year: Don Monson, Idaho
UPI Coach of the Year: Norm Stewart, Missouri
Associated Press Coach of the Year: Ralph Miller, Oregon State
CBS/Chevrolet Coach of the Year: Gene Keady, Purdue
Sporting News Coach of the Year: Ralph Miller, Oregon State

Other major awards

Frances Pomeroy Naismith Award (Best player under 6'0): Jack Moore, Nebraska
Robert V. Geasey Trophy (Top player in Philadelphia Big 5): Jeffery Clark, St. Joseph's & John Pinone, Villanova
NIT/Haggerty Award (Top player in NYC): Dan Callandrillo, Seton Hall

Coaching changes
A number of teams changed coaches throughout the season and after the season ended.


Volgograd State Pedagogical University

The Volgograd State Pedagogical University (, Volgográdskiy gosudárstvennyi pedagogícheskiy universitét ímeni A. S. Serafimóvicha, abbreviation: VSPU),  is one of the major pedagogical institutions in the Russian Federation.   The university is located in Volgograd, formerly known as Stalingrad (Russia).

History of the University
Established by decree of the Council of the People's Commissars of the USSR in 1931, it was previously known as the Stalingrad Industrial Pedagogical Institute. It was completely ruined during the Stalingrad battle of World War II and its library burnt out.  In 1949, the school was renamed in honor of a Russian Proletarian writer, Alexander Serafimovich. Under political reforms of Nikita Khrushchev, the city was renamed from Stalingrad to Volgograd in 1961, and the name of the institution was changed to the Volgograd State Pedagogical Institute. In 1992 it was granted university status.

For the past ten years, the university stands amongst 10 best leading pedagogical and linguistic universities in Russia and 100 best universities worldwide.

Photograph of the building

Structure of the University
Today, the urban structure of the university includes Institute of Primary and Special Education, Foreign Languages Institute, Institute of Art Education, and Institute of Computerized Pedagogics. There are four buildings on campus with over 13,000 students: 13,000 full-time and part-time students and about 200 post-graduates and foreign students who study at their own expense. Also, there is a branch of VSPU located in Mikhaylovka, Volgograd Oblast.

VSPU has 43 research centers and laboratories, 16 faculties, offers four-year bachelor (Russian: бакалавр) degrees, 33 two-year master (Russian: магистр) degrees and kandidat nauk (Candidate of science, equals PhD) postgraduate degrees, and 6 doktor nauk (Doctor of science, equals Full Professor) post doctoral degrees.

Faculties and Departments

Mathematics
Physics
Natural sciences and geography
History and Law
Economics and Management
Philology (Russian and Literature)
Foreign Languages
Psychology and Social Work
Physical Training
Technology and Service
Primary School Education
Special Education
Visual Arts
Musical Education
Faculty for Foreign Students
In-Service Training
Vocational Training

Scientific Research and Academic Relations
VSPU is a federal experimental base of the Russian Academy of Education, it is developing the ideas of continuous pedagogical education and interaction of pedagogics and school teaching techniques.

The university maintains international academic relations with higher education institutions o United States, Germany, Austria, Netherlands, France, People's Republic of China, Serbia, Czechoslovakia, Ukraine, and Kazakhstan.

Library and publishing services
, the VSPU library collection contains about 852,000 copies. Its fund of research literature on Psychology and Pedagogics is considered the most valuable and is represented by the monographs by Yury Babansky, Pavel Blonsky, Vasily Vodovozov (:ru:Водовозов, Василий Иванович), Vasily Vakhterov (:ru:Вахтеров, Василий Порфирьевич), Anatoly Zak, Leonid Zankov (:ru:Занков, Леонид Владимирович), John Amos Comenius, Peter Lesgaft, Anton Makarenko, Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi, Nikolay Pirogov, Vasyl Sukhomlynsky, Konstantin Ushinsky, Lev Vygotsky, Daniil Elconin (:ru:Эльконин, Даниил Борисович, :de:Daniil Borissowitsch Elkonin), David Feldstein, and M. Kle.

Scientific research results have been published ten times a year in the VSPU journal, titled Izvestia Volgogradskogo Pedagogicheskogo Universiteta (), .


Decadent Evil II

Decadent Evil II (alternate US title: Depraved Decadence), known in the UK as Decadent Evil Dead II, is the 2007 sequel to the 2005 film Decadent Evil.

Plot
Having fled from Queen Vampire Morella, sweet-natured vampire Sugar and her mortal boyfriend Dex take Marvin the homunculus to Little Rock, Arkansas in an attempt to resurrect Marvin's now deceased son, the vampire slayer Ivan Burroughs. Dex and Sugar get a job in a seedy club in order to steal some blood from the King Vampire, which will hopefully being Ivan back to life- but at the expense that he would return as a vampire. At first, Ivan is furious that Dex brought him back. However, Dex and Ivan must band together to save Sugar, who is being offered up as a sacrifice to the King Vampire.


Elections in Campania

This page gathers the results of elections in Campania.

Regional elections

Latest regional election

In the latest regional election, which took place on 31 May 2015, Vincenzo De Luca of the Democratic Party was elected over incumbent President Stefano Caldoro of Forza Italia. The Democrats were narrowly the largest party with 19.5% of the vote, but two civic lists close to De Luca got an additional combined 9.7%.

List of previous regional elections
1970 Campania regional election
1975 Campania regional election
1980 Campania regional election
1985 Campania regional election
1990 Campania regional election
1995 Campania regional election
2000 Campania regional election
2005 Campania regional election
2010 Campania regional election


Siege of Yanagawa

The 1600 siege of Yanagawa took place just after the decisive battle of Sekigahara in which Tokugawa Ieyasu secured his control over Japan. Tachibana Ginchiyo and Tachibana Muneshige remained one of the chief opponents to Tokugawa on Kyūshū, and was besieged in his castle at Yanagawa by Katō Kiyomasa, Nabeshima Naoshige and Kuroda Yoshitaka.

Muneshige surrendered under the assumption that he could then switch sides and aid the Tokugawa-loyal forces against the Shimazu clan of Satsuma, but Ieyasu forbade this plan from going through.


Hare Brush

Hare Brush is a 1955 Warner Bros. Merrie Melodies animated short, featuring Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd.

Hare Brush pokes fun at Freudian psychoanalysis, psychiatric medication, hypnosis, and the cliches of other Bugs Bunny shorts. Along with What's Opera, Doc? and Rabbit Rampage, it is one of the first three cartoons where Elmer Fudd defeats Bugs Bunny. It is also the first short in the Merrie Melodies cartoon series to use the new version of "Merrily We Roll Along", which was composed by Milt Franklyn; the new fanfare would stay in use until 1964.

Plot
In the boardroom of the Elmer J. Fudd Corporation, the board of directors meets to discuss a serious threat to the company's future. The CEO, Elmer Fudd, is suffering from mental illness and believes himself to be a rabbit. The board unanimously agrees to commit Elmer to "Fruitcake Sanitarium" ("It's Full of Nuts").  Elmer, now wearing a rabbit suit, sees Bugs Bunny walking past and lures him to the window with a carrot. Bugs goes inside while Elmer hops out the window. Bugs lies in Elmer's bed to "keep it warm for him."

Viennese psychiatrist Dr. Oro Myicin arrives to begin treating Elmer's delusion and is stunned to see Bugs instead. He declares Bugs as the worst case of "rabbitschenia" he has ever seen. Dr. Myicin tells Bugs that he is not Elmer J. Fudd, Bugs is Elmer J. Fudd. Thinking that Myicin is a "screwball," Bugs then attempts to psychoanalyze the doctor instead. Irked, Myicin gives Bugs a pill, which makes him very vulnerable to suggestion. Once it takes effect, the doctor forces Bugs to repeat again and again, "I am Elmer J. Fudd, millionaire. I own a mansion and a yacht."

Dr. Myicin releases Bugs (now sporting morning dress and a Derby hat) from the sanitarium as "cured" of the belief that he is a rabbit and convinced that he is Elmer Fudd. Upon picking him up, Elmer's chauffeur tells Bugs that since it is Wednesday, he has packed his forest clothes and shotgun. Bugs decides to relax by hunting.

Dressed in Elmer's hunting clothes, Bugs follows "wabbit twacks" to a rabbit hole. Chomping a carrot, Elmer pops out. Bugs pulls the shotgun away and prepares to shoot Elmer, who causes the weapon to backfire by plugging the barrel with his finger. After a short chase through a stream, which includes Bugs taking an underwater shot, Elmer bounds into a cave. Bugs props the gun against a tree, leans into the cave and declares, "Come out, wabbit, or I'll bwast you out!" Meanwhile, Elmer has exited the cave through an adjacent opening, tossed the shotgun aside and taken its place against the tree. Bugs grabs Elmer, points him into the cave and Elmer says, "Bang, bang!" Bugs is fooled, and ventures into the cave to see. In the pitch dark, Bugs strikes a match to reveal a huge bear standing beside him. As  Bugs flees with the bear chasing him, Elmer calls out the suggestion that Bugs play dead. He does so and the bear buries him under a cliff ledge. Bugs then falls out of the underside into a stream far below.

Returning to his rabbit hole, Elmer is shocked to find Bugs waiting for him. Aiming his shotgun in Elmer's face, Bugs yells, "No wabbit's gonna outsmart Elmer J. Fudd!"  Before he can fire, an IRS agent taps Bugs on the shoulder and asks, "Pardon me, did you say you were Elmer J. Fudd?" Bugs replies, "Yes. I am Elmer J. Fudd, miwwionaire. I own a mansion and a yacht." Bugs is then arrested, for non-payment of $300,000 in back taxes. As the T-man hauls Bugs away, Elmer turns to the camera and says "I may be a scwewy wabbit, but I'm not going to Alcatwaz!", then dances the Bunny Hop and hops away.

Music
Milt Franklyn's music is characteristically less through-composed than that of Carl Stalling, and consists largely of rising and falling arpeggios, stings, and short motifs. Nevertheless, it also follows the usual pattern of Warner's shorts in quoting snippets of popular music to reflect the development of the plot. Starting as usual with "Merrily We Roll Along," the cartoon sets the scene for the corporate meeting by quoting "42nd Street." To introduce the sanitarium, Franklyn uses the old rhyme "Nuts in May." The hypnotic phrase "I am Elmer J. Fudd," etc., is associated with a driving motif in the bass. "A-Hunting We Will Go" marks the chauffeur's announcement that it is Wednesday, the day on which Fudd customarily goes hunting, and the start of the hunt itself. As noticed above, the final scene of the action ends with Ray Anthony's Bunny Hop, and the short concludes, as usual, with "Merrily We Roll Along" over the "That's All, Folks!" caption.


Bottle Shock

Bottle Shock is a 2008 American comedy-drama film based on the 1976 wine competition termed the "Judgment of Paris", when California wine defeated French wine in a blind taste test. It stars Alan Rickman, Chris Pine, and Bill Pullman and is directed by Randall Miller, who wrote the screenplay along with Jody Savin and Ross Schwartz. It premiered at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival.

Plot
Sommelier and wine shop owner Steven Spurrier (Alan Rickman), a British expatriate living in Paris, is concerned with how to save his business in his daily conversation with Maurice (Dennis Farina), a wine lover from Milwaukee who is Spurrier's regular (sometimes only) customer. He concocts a plan to hold a blind taste-test intended to introduce Parisians to the quality wines coming from elsewhere in the world.

Spurrier travels to the not-yet-famous Napa Valley in search of contestants for his Judgment of Paris taste test, where a chance meeting introduces him to founding vintner Jim Barrett (Bill Pullman) of Chateau Montelena. Barrett wants no part in it, believing it to be a set-up designed by the French to humiliate New World wine producers. Barrett's son, Bo (Chris Pine), secretly passes Spurrier a couple of bottles of the Chateau's chardonnay for the competition. Comely and nonconformist university graduate student Sam Fulton (Rachael Taylor) arrives at Chateau Montelena seeking an internship, and is promptly put to work while stirring up interest among Bo and vineyard foreman Gustavo (Freddy Rodriguez).

Due to reductionist techniques in wine making (the absence/reduction of oxygen during the wine making process), the chardonnay has turned brown in the bottles, causing Barrett Sr. to call for the whole vintage to be carted away for dumping. But Bo discovers the brown color is only temporary and manages to recover the vintage, thanks to the help of local bar owner Joe (Eliza Dushku) who had intercepted the bottles on the way to the dump. On the way back to Chateau Montelena, Bo's car runs out of gas, forcing him and Sam to find someone to help them out. After several unsuccessful attempts on Bo's part, Sam takes over and gets a driver (who turns out to be a police officer) to pull over by exposing her breasts. Even though she could get arrested for indecent exposure, the officer agrees to help them out.

Bo is asked to travel to Paris to represent the Napa Valley vintners at the contest. After tallying the scores from the eight Parisian judges, Spurrier is shocked to find that Montelena's Chardonnay has won the competition.

The report is featured in an article of Time; restaurants and wine shops all around America are asked continuously for the wine (Chateau Montelena Chardonnay 1973) and forced to admit that they do not have it. This twist of fate and the resultant oenological epiphany forever changes the fortunes of Napa Valley wineries and the global wine industry as a whole, as it is revealed that French wines are in fact not unbeatable.

In the end, the futures of the characters are revealed: Jim Barrett continues to make wine into his 80s, although Bo now runs the winery. A bottle of Montelena Chardonnay 1973 and the red wine, Stags Leap cabernet sauvignon 1973, also from California, that had won the same competition were given a display case at the Smithsonian Institution. In 2006, thirty years after the first competition, Steven Spurrier hosted another contest, this time with full confidence that French wine would win. California won again.

Cast
 Alan Rickman as Steven Spurrier
 Bill Pullman as Jim Barrett
 Chris Pine as Bo Barrett
 Rachael Taylor as Sam Fulton
 Freddy Rodriguez as Gustavo Brambila
 Eliza Dushku as Joe
 Dennis Farina as Maurice

Controversy
Steven Spurrier himself has questioned the accuracy of the script while he was involved in another movie project depicting the events of the Judgment of Paris, stating: "There is hardly a word that is true in the script".

While the film depicts Gustavo Brambila as being at Chateau Montelena throughout the events leading up to the Judgment of Paris, his 22-year term at Montelena actually began just after the tasting.  While at Chateau Montelena, Brambila worked closely with Mike Grgich – who, although not depicted in the film, was the winemaker behind the 1973 Montelena Chardonnay that won in Paris.

Critical response
The film received mixed reviews. Review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes gives the film a score of 49% based on reviews from 117 critics.

Soundtrack
 "China Grove" — The Doobie Brothers
 "Les Temps Des Cerises" — Scottie Haskell
 "Rock Steady" — Bad Company
 "Drivin' Wheel" — Foghat
 "Un Bel Di Vedremo" — Maria Callas and the Philharmonia Orchestra
 "Spirit" — The Doobie Brothers
 "Stand Back" — The Allman Brothers Band
 "Toulouse Street" — The Doobie Brothers
 "Jump Into the Fire" — Harry Nilsson
 "I Need You" — America
 "Listen to the Music" — The Doobie Brothers
 "Drinking Wine Spo-De-O-Dee" — Stick McGhee


Colin Falck

Colin Falck (born 14 July 1934) is a literary critic and poet. He was associate professor in modern literature at York College of Pennsylvania.

In 1962 Falck co-founded the influential postwar British poetry magazine The Review with Oxford University schoolmates Ian Hamilton, Michael Fried, and John Fuller. Falck's poetry would later appear in the first issue of Hamilton's magazine The New Review. In January 1985 he set up, and has from that date acted as chair of, the Thurlow Road Poetry Workshop. Among the poets to have brought their work to the fortnightly (now monthly) meetings of the group are Hugo Williams, Jo Shapcott, Ruth Padel, Eva Salzman, Adam Thorpe,  Michael Donaghy, Don Paterson, Jane Duran and Vicki Feaver.

His 1989 treatise Myth, Truth and Literature: Towards a True Postmodernism, attempted to re-think the entire foundation of Romantic art criticism since Kant. The first chapter is a sustained polemic against what Falck argued was the nihilism and ontological emptiness of post-modernism and post-structuralist literary theory. The next chapter offers, in opposition to Saussure, a theory of the origin of language based on onomatopoeia. One critic said:He offers a Neo-Romantic, expressivist view influenced by Shelley. His view is not self-expressivist, however, since it denies the epistemological notion of a detached subject and situates the human being in the world in the manner of modern phenomenology...Art, for Falck, gives ontological truth. The book makes constant reference to Kant, Coleridge, Schiller, Shelley, Blake, Keats and Goethe. Author Camille Paglia hailed the book as "reveal[ing] the future of literary criticism."

Falck criticized W. H. Auden's didactic theory of poetry: "Responsible poetry therefore becomes a kind of war-time fruit-cake, with the raisins of escape thinly distributed in a daily bread of parable."

Notes

Bibliography
The Garden in the Evening by Antonio Machado (translator) The Review, Oxford
Backwards Into the Smoke
Poems Since 1900: an Anthology of British and American Verse in the Twentieth Century Hamilton, Ian Macdonald and Jane's, UK London 1975
In This Dark Light London, TNR 1978
"A Defence of Poetry," Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 44.4 (summer 1986): 398. 37.
"Beyond Theory," Essays in Criticism 1986 XXXVI(1):1-10;  1986 Oxford University Press
Selected Poems by Robinson Jeffers: The Centenary Edition Carcanet Press Ltd. United Kingdom 1987
Edna St. Vincent Millay: Selected Poems: the Centenary Edition Harpercollins 1991
Memorabilia Stride Publications (March 1992)
Myth, Truth and Literature: Towards a True Postmodernism Cambridge University Press 1989, (revised & expanded) 1994
Post-Modern Love: An Unreliable Narration (1997)
American and British Verse in the Twentieth Century: The Poetry that Matters Ashgate, December 2003

External links
American and British Verse in the Twentieth Century
Myth, Truth and Literature at Google Books
Myth, Truth and Literature at Cambridge University Press
NYT review of Falck's edition of St. Vincent Millay's Selected Poetry
Falck poem "After Christmas"
Falck poem "Midwinter Spring"
Falck poem "Mid-May"


Todd Polglase

Todd Polglase, born 21 March 1981 is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer. He played for the Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs, South Sydney Rabbitohs and Newcastle Knights in the National Rugby League competition.

Early life
Polglase was born and raised in Cessnock, New South Wales, Australia and played his junior rugby league in the Newcastle region.

Playing career
Polglase made his first grade debut for Canterbury against his boyhood club Newcastle in the 2002 NRL season.  Polglase mainly played reserve grade at his time with Canterbury before transferring to South Sydney.  Polglase played three seasons at Souths, two of those finished with the club coming last and earning the Wooden Spoon.  In 2007, Polglase signed with Newcastle and only managed to play one season for the club before retiring due to a recurring hamstring injury.


Acacia olsenii

Acacia olsenii is a species of Acacia native to eastern Australia.


Sinum vittatum

Sinum vittatum is a species of predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Naticidae, the moon snails.

Description

Distribution


Arlington Fly-In

The Arlington Fly-In, also known as the Arlington Air Show, is an annual airshow hosted in Arlington, Washington at the Arlington Municipal Airport (IATA airport code AWO). Thousands of general aviation pilots fly in from around the country and camp for up to four days, many showing their aircraft for judging.

The Northwest Fly-In is the third largest in the nation, after Oshkosh's EAA AirVenture Oshkosh and Lakeland's Sun N' Fun.

Until 2008, the event was known as the Northwest EAA Fly-In. It was moved from July to August in 2019 because of scheduling issues with other city events.


Banbridge Town F.C.

Banbridge Town Football Club is an intermediate football club from Northern Ireland playing in the NIFL Premier Intermediate League. The club, founded in 1947, hails from Banbridge, County Down and plays its home matches at Crystal Park. Club colours are red and black. In 2014, the club merged with Banbridge A.F.C. The 2016/17 season saw Banbridge Town’s reserve team win the South Down Development League.

Current squad

{{Fs player|nat=NIR|pos=GK|name=Gregg Shannon

{{Fs player|nat=NIR|pos=DF|name=Mark McCullogh

{{Fs player|nat=NIR|pos=DF|name=Leigh Crooks
{{Fs player|nat=NIR|pos=MF|name=Lewis Houston

{{Fs player|nat=NIR|pos=MF|name=Brendan Tumilty

Honours

Senior honours
Mid-Ulster Cup: 5
1948–49, 1949–50, 1958–59, 1973–74, 1979–80

Intermediate honours
Irish League B Division: 1
1955–56
Irish Intermediate Cup: 1
1985–86
George Wilson Cup: 1
1976–77
Louis Moore Cup: 2
1955–56, 1967–68
Bob Radcliffe Cup: 3
1980–81, 2010–11, 2018-19
Alan Wilson Memorial Cup: 1
1986–87


Nellie the Elephant (TV series)

Nellie the Elephant was a British children's cartoon series created by Terry Ward on behalf of FilmFair, Flicks Films and 101 Film Productions Limited in the United Kingdom that ran from 8 January 1990 to 21 January 1991. The series featured Lulu as the voice of Nellie, with Tony Robinson as the narrator. A comic-book annual was released in 1991 in an attempt to further advertise the series, but the annual failed to attract a wide audience.

Plot
Based on the famous children's song, "Nellie the Elephant", the series revolves around a pink elephant named Nellie who is returning to her home in Mandalay after escaping from the circus. Throughout the series, she meets new characters and sometimes returns to the same places in her quest to return home, though curiously, all of her travels are within the United Kingdom.

Another recurring character is a Dick Dastardly-like Ringmaster keen to recapture Nellie at all costs and return her to the circus, but is continuously foiled by Nellie and her friends.

Characters
Nellie - A pink elephant and the main character with a fondness for currant buns (which sometimes proves to be her undoing), Nellie escaped from the circus in an effort to return to Mandalay at all costs, travelling by train, taxi, bus, coach, plane and ship. Keen to help, Nellie is proud of her home and will stand up for her rights if need be.
Captain Jack - A sea-captain from the fictitious Oyster Bay, Captain Jack is the captain of a small tug-boat, and is accompanied by his one-eyed parrot, Nelson.
Mr. Mack and Mr. Tosh - A play on Mackintosh and perhaps a reference to the Goofy Gophers, Mr. Mack and Mr. Tosh are two tailors who share a shop that Nellie constantly returns to.
The Ringmaster - A Dick Dastardly sort of villain, the Ringmaster is the owner of the Circus Nellie escaped from, but his villainous traits and reasons for recapturing Nellie are never expanded on in any great detail. He tracks Nellie down in a town in, "Nellie the penultimate episode of the series and is dangerously close to catching her but she is able to flee in a balloon with the help of two Balloon Sellers.
Farmer Styles - A Farmer who Nellie encounters on her journey in the episode "Nellie Visits a Farmm", She helps him find a stray sheep and he and his wife reward her with a large feast. Farmer styles reappears in "Nellie and the Burning Farm" when his barn catches alight and Nellie helps extinguish the blaze.
Sergeant Boot
Captain Match - The chief of the Fire Brigade in the Neighbouring village to the Styles' farm. By the time he arrives to tackle the blaze, Nellie has already extinguished it. He appears again when Mrs Maple's cat, Tiger needs rescuing from a high telephone wire and Nellie is on hand to help him.
The Bluebells

Episodes

 Nellie and the Ghost (8 January 1990)
 Nellie Visits a Farm (15 January 1990)
 Nellie Goes to Sea (22 January 1990)
 Nellie on a Snowy Day (29 January 1990)
 Nellie at the Seaside (5 February 1990)
 Nellie's Raincoat (12 February 1990)
 Nellie and the Whale (19 February 1990)
 Nellie and the Burning Farm (26 February 1990)
 Nellie Takes a Jumbo Jet (5 March 1990)
 Nellie the Theatre Star (12 March 1990)
 Nellie and the Haunted House (19 March 1990)
 Nellie and the Park Disco (26 March 1990)
 Nellie at the Fun Fair (2 April 1990)
 Nellie Rescues Mrs Maple's Moggy (9 April 1990)
 Nellie Goes Ballooning (5 September 1990)
 Nellie Goes to the Moon (12 September 1990)
 Nellie Goes Swimming (19 September 1990)
 Nellie and the Flying Saucer (26 September 1990)
 Nellie and the Brass Band (10 October 1990)
 Nellie Joins the Team (24 October 1990)
 Nellie Visits a Library (31 October 1990)
 Nellie on an Ocean Cruise (7 November 1990)
 Nellie Goes Apple Picking (21 November 1990)
 Nellie at the Olympics (28 November 1990)
 Nellie Goes to Peanut Junction (5 December 1990)
 Nellie the Ski Champion (12 December 1990)
 Nellie Takes the Train (19 December 1990)
 Nellie and the Mystery Tour (7 January 1991)
 Nellie at the Big Store (14 January 1991)
 Nellie Goes Time Travelling (21 January 1991)

Broadcast
Nellie the Elephant first aired on ITV on 8 January 1990 starting off with the first 14 episodes of the first series and then with a second series on 5 September of the same year beginning with the next thirteen episodes and the last three from 7 January to 21 January 1991 both as part of Children's ITV.

The series later went onto air in several different countries such as Hungary, Poland, Greece, Singapore, Australia, South Africa, France, Italy, Canada and Ireland as well as on armed forces television in Germany, Cyprus and the Falkland Islands with the original English voices.

International Broadcast
  UK
 ITV (Children's ITV)
  Germany
 BFBS
 SSVC Television
  Canada
SCN
  Australia
ABC TV
  Ireland
RTÉ1 (Scratch Saturday)
  Singapore
Channel 5 (Kid's Corner)

UK VHS Releases
Though incredibly rare, the entire series, after airing on ITV, was released onto VHS in 1990, 1991, and 1992 by Tempo Video. Among these include:

Nellie the Elephant: 9 Fun Packed Adventures (93742) - Released: 1990
Episodes contained: Nellie and the Ghost, Nellie Visits a Farm, Nellie Goes to Sea, Nellie on a Snowy Day, Nellie at the Seaside, Nellie's Raincoat, Nellie the Theatre Star, Nellie and the Haunted House, Nellie Rescues Mrs Maple's Moggy

Nellie the Elephant 2: 9 Further Adventures (94182) - Released: 1990
Episodes contained: Nellie and the Whale, Nellie Takes the Train, Nellie Goes Apple Picking, Nellie at the Park Disco, Nellie at the Olympics, Nellie at the Big Store, Nellie at the Funfair, Nellie Takes a Jumbo Jet, Nellie and the Burning Barn

NOTE: it got re-released in 1999 by Channel 5 video (distributed by Polygram Filmed Entertainment (UK) Ltd) as 9 Fantastic Adventures (0518363) and re-released again in 2002 by Universal Pictures (UK) Ltd as Nellie and the Whale and other stories (9068453)

Nellie the Elephant: Special Edition (95012) - Released: 1991
Episodes contained: Nellie and the Flying Saucer, Nellie and the Ghost, Nellie and the Whale, Nellie Goes to Peanut Junction, Nellie on a Snowy Day, Nellie Goes Apple Picking, Nellie Goes Ballooning, Nellie and the Haunted House, Nellie Takes a Jumbo Jet, Nellie Goes to Sea, Nellie at the Olympics, Nellie Goes Time Travelling

Nellie the Elephant: Nellie Goes to the Moon (95242) - Released: 1991
Episodes contained: Nellie Goes to the Moon, Nellie at the Library, Nellie Goes to Peanut Junction, Nellie Visits a Farm, Nellie at the Park Disco

Nellie the Elephant: Nellie on an Ocean Cruise - Released: 1992

Australian VHS releases
 Roadshow Entertainment (1997)

DVDs
In 2006 and 2007 two DVDs of Nellie the Elephant were released by Abbey Home Media (in its 'Tempo TV Classics' range) with ten episodes each on the DVDs.

Nellie the Elephant: Nellie and the Ghost (AHEDVD3161) - Released: 2006
Episodes contained: Nellie and the Ghost, Nellie Visits A Farm, Nellie Goes to Sea, Nellie on a Snowy Day, Nellie Goes to the Seaside, Nellie's Raincoat, Nellie and the Whale, Nellie and the Burning Barn, Nellie Takes A Jumbo Jet, Nellie the Theatre Star

Nellie the Elephant: Nellie and the Haunted House (AHEDVD3216) - Released: 2007
Episodes contained: Nellie and the Haunted House, Nellie at the Park Disco, Nellie at the Funfair, Nellie Rescues Mrs Maple's Moggy, Nellie Goes Ballooning, Nellie Goes to the Moon, Nellie Goes Swimming, Nellie and the Flying Saucer, Nellie and the Brass Band, Nellie Joins the Team.


Faviola Spitale

Faviola Spitale is a pageant titleholder, was born in Valencia, Venezuela in 1975. She is the Miss Venezuela International titleholder for 1993, and was the official representative of Venezuela to the Miss International 1993 pageant held in Tokyo, Japan, on October 9, 1993, when she classified in the Top 15 semifinalists.

Spitale competed in the national beauty pageant Miss Venezuela 1993 and obtained the title of Miss Venezuela International. She represented the Yaracuy state.


Volkswagen Atlas

The Volkswagen Atlas is a mid-size crossover SUV manufactured by the German automaker Volkswagen at its Chattanooga plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States. The Atlas is the largest vehicle produced on the Volkswagen Group MQB platform, and features a transverse mounted inline-four or Volkswagen's narrow angle VR6.

The Atlas is marketed as the Volkswagen Teramont in the Middle East,  Rwanda, China, Mexico, and Russia, where production in Ningbo, China, began in 2017. In China, the Volkswagen Teramont is available with a turbocharged 2.5L VR6 and DSG transmission.

History

The Volkswagen CrossBlue previewed the Atlas/Teramont as a concept diesel plug-in-hybrid mid-size crossover SUV in September 2013. The Atlas was introduced at the LA Auto Show in Los Angeles on November 17, 2016. It went on sale in the United States and Canada in May 2017 as a model for 2018, with pricing starting at US$30,500.

Details
Features included in the Atlas are the VW Digital Cockpit, an available  of rear cargo space, seventeen total cup holders, a second row bench seat with room for three child safety seats, a third row seating area that can be accessed with child safety seats still in place, standard Android Auto and Apple CarPlay connectivity with Volkswagen CarNet and MirrorLink, seven total stability enhancing systems, and available Volkswagen 4Motion four wheel drive system on most models.

Engines
The Atlas has two gasoline engine options in the United States:

 2.0L turbo I4, gasoline, ,  of torque
 3.6L VR6, gasoline, ,  of torque

Safety
The 2018 Atlas received the IIHS "Top Safety Pick" rating after earning "Good" ratings in all five crashworthiness tests, and a "Superior" rating on the front crash prevention test.

Cross Sport

The Atlas Cross Sport (called Teramont X in China and simply Cross Sport in Mexico) is a mid sized crossover SUV based the Atlas, but with two rows of seating instead of three, and a lower roof and angled rear window to give it a sportier appearance.

It will debut in North America in the beginning of 2020, for the model year of 2020. Available engines are the same as the original Atlas: a turbocharged four cylinder and a V6. The Atlas Cross Sport will be offered in S, SE, SEL, SEL R-Line, SEL Premium, and SEL Premium R-Line trims. The Cross Sport was previewed by the concept CrossBlue Coupe in September 2013.

Facelift
At the Chicago Auto Show, Volkswagen unveiled the facelifted Atlas for 2020 model year. Changes include a new front-end of Atlas Cross Sport, redesigned wheels, new rear lights, and a new steering wheel similar to the Volkswagen Golf MK8.


Ambulyx staudingeri

Ambulyx staudingeri is a species of moth of the family Sphingidae first described by Walter Rothschild in 1894. It is known from the Philippines.

Description
It is similar to Ambulyx pryeri, but the posterior third of the forewing upperside subterminal line is closer to the termen, and most specimens have a dark tornal shade. The species name honours Otto Staudinger.

Gallery


Jean Lanfray

Jean Lanfray (1873/74 – 26 February 1906), a laborer who was French by birth but living in Switzerland, was convicted of murdering his pregnant wife and two children in a drunken rage on the afternoon of 28 August 1905 in Commugny, Switzerland. It was later revealed by police that he had drunk an excessive amount of wine and hard liquors that morning, along with two ounces of absinthe. However, due to the moral panic against absinthe in Europe at that time, his murders were blamed solely on the influence of absinthe, leading to a petition to ban absinthe in Switzerland shortly after the murders. The petition received 82,000 signatures and absinthe was banned in Vaud shortly thereafter. A 1908 constitutional referendum led to absinthe being banned in all of Switzerland, and absinthe was banned in most European countries (and the United States) before the outbreak of World War I.

The murders
During lunch on 28 August 1905 Lanfray consumed seven glasses of wine, six glasses of cognac, one coffee laced with brandy, two crème de menthes, and two glasses of absinthe after eating a sandwich.
He returned home drunk with his father, and drank another coffee with brandy. He then got into an argument with his wife, and asked his wife to polish his shoes for him. When she refused, Lanfray retrieved a Vetterli rifle and shot her once in the head, killing her instantly, causing his father to flee. His four-year-old daughter, Rose, heard the noise and ran into the room, where Lanfray shot and killed her and his two-year-old daughter, Blanche. He then shot himself in the jaw and carried Blanche's body to the garden, where he collapsed.

He was discovered minutes later by police after they had been notified by his father.  After being taken to a hospital, Lanfray eventually recovered and was put on trial for murder.

Trial and death
The trial started on 23 February 1906 and ended that same day. It was argued by his attorneys that the two ounces of absinthe he consumed prior to the murders were solely to blame for his actions; Dr. Albert Mahaim, a leading Swiss psychologist, testified that Lanfray suffered from "a classic case of absinthe madness". However, the prosecutor, Alfred Obrist, argued that the two ounces of absinthe he had ingested were minor in relation to the large amounts of other alcoholic beverages he had consumed that day.

Lanfray was eventually found guilty on all three counts of murder and received thirty years' imprisonment. Due to his intoxicated state at the time of the murders, he did not face capital punishment.

Three days after the trial, on 26 February 1906, Lanfray committed suicide by hanging in his prison cell.

Public reaction
The Lanfray case received an astonishing amount of coverage, especially by Europe's temperance movement. It set off a moral panic against absinthe in Switzerland and other countries. A petition to ban absinthe in Switzerland received 82,000 signatures, and on 15 May 1906 the Vaud legislature voted to ban absinthe. Following pressure from cafe owners and absinthe manufacturers, a referendum to reverse this decision was launched, but failed 23,062 to 16,025. On 2 February 1907 the Grand Conseil voted to ban the retail sale of absinthe, including its imitations. Finally, on 5 July 1908, Article 32 to the Swiss Constitution was proposed, which would prohibit manufacturing or possession on absinthe in Switzerland. The article was added following a referendum, in which it won by 241,078 to 139,699 votes, and would be effective 7 October 1910. Eventually, similar incidents led to bans on absinthe in every European country (except the United Kingdom, Sweden and Spain) as well as the United States.


Metal Acoustic Music

Metal Acoustic Music is an album by the Japanese noise musician Merzbow. The name was inspired by Lou Reed's Metal Machine Music album. It was the earliest recorded Merzbow material available until OM Electrique (recorded December 27, 1979) was included in the Merzbox in 2000.

It was first released on cassette in 1981 and reissued in 1989 as a remixed version "processed through the feedback system with digital effects". Side A of the original tape was included in the Merzbox and side B in Lowest Music & Arts 1980–1983.

Track listing
Original version

Reissue version

Personnel
Masami Akita – damaged cassette deck with pre-recorded tapes

Release history


Richard Dawson (British Army officer)

Lieutenant General Richard Dawson (died c. 1800) was a soldier and administrator who served as the second Lieutenant Governor of the Isle of Man.

Career
Dawson served in the Royal Engineers reaching the rank of Major in 1772. From 1775 Dawson acted as Lieutenant Governor and Deputy to the Governor of the Isle of Man. Promoted to Colonel in 1783, he retired to Canterbury in Kent in 1790. He was given the rank of Major-General in 1793 and Lieutenant General in 1798 but died two years later.

His wife died following a house fire in 1804.


Louis F. Hart

Louis Folwell Hart (4 January 18624 December 1929) was the seventh Lieutenant Governor of the state of Washington and was the ninth Governor of Washington State from 13 February 1919 to 12 January 1925.  He is most remembered for reorganizing the state's administrative structure by reducing the number of agencies and the consequent financial economies.

Biography
Hart was born in High Point, Missouri and studied law in Missouri. He married Ella James on 9 February 1881 in Missouri and over the course of years they had five children, three sons and two daughters,

Career
Lured by the frontier, Hart and his wife moved to Snohomish, Washington in the late-1880s, where he practiced law. In 1899 they moved to Tacoma where he continued to practice law and was an insurance agent.

Winning the Republican nomination in 1912, Hart was elected as Washington's seventh Lieutenant Governor and he was reelected in 1916.

During World War I Hart served chairman of the Selective Service Appeals Board for Southwest Washington. Hart became governor when the then governor Ernest Lister retired in 1919 due to failing health.

Hart was elected governor in his own right in 1920. Hart was instrumental in getting new road projects through the state legislature and strongly supported the creation of a state highway patrol.  He oversaw the construction of a new State Capitol complex. Perhaps his greatest accomplishment was reorganizing the state's administrative structure, reducing the number of administrative agencies from 75 to 10.

He did not have a Lieutenant Governor from his election as governor until William J. Coyle appointed to the office in 1921. He is the last governor of the state, to date, that did not have a Lieutenant Governor at any time during his governorship.

Hart did not run for reelection in 1924, but instead retired to Tacoma where he practiced law, and served as the president of the State Good Roads Association.

Death
Hart died on 4 December 1929, in Tacoma, Washington. He is interred at Masonic Memorial Park, Tumwater, Washington.


Pennsylvania Route 981

Pennsylvania Route 981 (PA 981) is a state highway which runs  across Westmoreland County, in southwestern Pennsylvania. The highway begins at Pennsylvania Route 51 in Rostraver Township, Pennsylvania, and runs northward across Westmoreland County, passing through the towns of Mount Pleasant, Latrobe, and New Alexandria before ending at Pennsylvania Route 819 in Salina.

Route description
PA 981 begins at Pennsylvania Route 51 in Rostraver Township. From Rostraver, the route runs eastward to Mount Pleasant, where it meets Pennsylvania Route 31. PA 981 then turns northward, meeting U.S. 30 outside Latrobe, near the Arnold Palmer Regional Airport. The route then continues northward through Latrobe, passing by Saint Vincent College in Latrobe. Continuing northward, PA 981 meets U.S. 119 and U.S. 22 at New Alexandria. The route then ends at Pennsylvania Route 819 near Salina.

History
PA 981 previously ended at Pennsylvania Route 156, but was extended in 1998 to its current terminus at Pennsylvania Route 819.

Future
PennDOT began construction in 2006 to improve the intersection between PA 981 and U.S. 30 near Latrobe.

Major intersections


Thermopsis mollis

Thermopsis mollis is a species of flowering plant in the legume family known by the common names Allegheny Mountain goldenbanner, soft bush pea, and soft-haired thermopsis. It is native to the southeastern United States from southern Virginia to northern Georgia.

This plant is a rhizomatous perennial herb with erect, branching stems growing up to 1.5 meters tall. The inflorescence is a raceme at the top of the stem. The fruit is a legume pod up to 7 centimeters long. The plant reproduces by seed and by sprouting from its woody rhizome.

This plant grows in the Appalachian Mountains and the Piedmont uplands.


Glossary of Japanese words of Portuguese origin

Many Japanese words of Portuguese origin entered the Japanese language when Portuguese Jesuit priests introduced Christian ideas, Western science, technology and new products to the Japanese during the Muromachi period (15th and 16th centuries).

The Portuguese were the first Europeans to reach Japan and the first to establish direct trade between Japan and Europe, in 1543. During the 16th and 17th century, Portuguese Jesuits had undertaken a great work of Catechism, that ended only with religious persecution in the early Edo period (Tokugawa Shogunate). The Portuguese were the first to translate Japanese to a Western language, in the Nippo Jisho (日葡辞書, literally the "Japanese-Portuguese Dictionary") or Vocabulario da Lingoa de Iapam compiled by Portuguese Jesuit João Rodrigues, and published in Nagasaki in 1603, who also wrote a grammar . The dictionary of Japanese-Portuguese explained 32,000 Japanese words translated into Portuguese. Most of these words refer to the products and customs that first came to Japan via the Portuguese traders.

List of loanwords
Many of the first words which were introduced and entered the Japanese language from Portuguese and Dutch are written in kanji or hiragana, rather than katakana, which is the more common way to write loanwords in Japanese in modern times.  Kanji versions of the words are ateji, characters that are "fitted" or "applied" to the words by the Japanese, based on either the pronunciation or the meaning of the word.

The † indicates the word is archaic and no longer in use.

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Japanese Rōmaji
! Japanese script
! Japanese meaning
! Pre-modern Portuguese
! Modern Portuguese
! English
! Notes
|-
| † bateren
| 伴天連 / 破天連
| a missionary priest (mainly from Jesuit)
| padre
| padre
| priest
| used in early Christianity
|-
| battera
| ばってら
| kind of sushi
| bateira
| — (barco)
| boat
| named after its shape
|-
| bīdama
| ビー玉
| marbles (spheric-shaped)
| ----
| berlindes, bola-de-gude, bolinha-de-gude
| ----
| abbrev. of bīdoro (Japanese: 'glass', also from Portuguese: see below) + tama (Japanese: 'ball').
|-
| bīdoro
| ビードロ
| a certain traditional type of glass artifact
| vidro
| vidro
| glass
|
|-
| birōdo
| ビロード / 天鵞絨
| velvet
| veludo
| veludo
| velvet
| berubetto (from English velvet) is also used today.
|-
| bōro
| ボーロ / ぼうろ
| a kind of biscuit (tiny bead-like)
| bolo
| bolo
| cake
| keiki (from English cake) is most used today.
|-
| botan
| ボタン / 釦 / 鈕
| button
| botão
| botão
| button
|
|-
| charumera
| チャルメラ
| small double-reed wind instrument
| charamela
| charamela (caramelo, "caramel", is cognate)
| shawm (cf. the cognate chalumeau)
| formerly played by Japanese noodle vendors
|-
| chokki
| チョッキ
| waistcoat (UK); vest (U.S.); Jacket
| jaque
| colete, jaqueta
| waistcoat (UK); vest (U.S.); Jacket
| Besuto (from English vest) is common today.
|-
| furasuko
| フラスコ
| flask
| frasco
| frasco
| flask
|
|-
| igirisu
| イギリス / 英吉利
| the United Kingdom
| inglez
| inglês
| English (adj); Englishman
|
|-
| † iruman
| イルマン / 入満 / 伊留満 / 由婁漫
| missionary next in line to become a priest
| irmão
| irmão
| brother
| used in early Christianity
|-
| jōro
| じょうろ / 如雨露
| watering can
| jarro
| jarro
| jug, watering can
| "possibly from Portuguese" (Kōjien dictionary)
|-
| juban/jiban
| じゅばん / 襦袢
| undervest for kimonos
| gibão
| –
| undervest
| The French form jupon led to zubon (trousers).
|-
| kabocha
| カボチャ / 南瓜
| kabocha pumpkin
| ----
| Camboja abóbora
| kabocha pumpkin
| Was first introduced to Japan from Cambodia, imported by the Portuguese.  Camboja (Portuguese) → kabocha (Japanese).  The Japanese term kabocha also appears in historical texts in reference to Cambodia.
|-
| kanakin/kanekin
| 金巾 / かなきん / かねきん
| shirting, percale
| canequim
| canequim
| unbleached muslin/calico
| jargon from the textile business
|-
| † kandeya
| カンデヤ
| oil lamp
| candeia, candela
| vela, candeia
| candle
| extinct, as oil lamps went obsolete. Kantera from Dutch kandelaar was also used.
|-
| † kapitan
| 甲比丹 / 甲必丹
| captain (of ships from Europe in The Age of Discovery)
| capitão
| capitão
| captain
| extinct word - the English form kyaputen (captain) is now used
|-
| kappa
| 合羽
| raincoat
| capa
| capa (de chuva)
| raincoat, coat
| reinkōto (from English raincoat) is prevalent nowadays.
|-
| karuta
| かるた / 歌留多
| karuta cards
| cartas (de jogar)
| cartas (de jogar)
| (playing) cards
| a traditional type of playing cards, largely different from the modern worldwide ones
|-
| kasutera, kasutēra, kasuteira
| カステラ
| Kind of sponge cake
| (Pão de) Ló
| (Pão de) Ló
| (Bread of) Ló
| Theories cite Portuguese castelo (castle) or the Kingdom of Castile (Castela in Portuguese).
|-
| † kirishitan
| キリシタン / 切支丹 / 吉利支丹 (Also written in the more negative forms 鬼理死丹 and 切死丹 after Christianity was banned by the Tokugawa Shogunate
| Christian people in 16th and 17th centuries (who were severely persecuted by the Shogunate)
| christão
| cristão
| Christian
| Today's Christian people are Kurisuchan (from English Christian).
|-
| kirisuto
| キリスト / 基督
| Christ
| Christo
| Cristo
| Christ
|
|-
| kompeitō
| 金米糖 / 金平糖 / 金餅糖
| Kind of star-shaped candy
| confeito
| confeito
| confection, candies
| (related to confetti)
|-
| koppu
| コップ
| cup
| copo
| copo
| cup
|
|-
| † kurusu
| クルス
| cross
| cruz
| cruz
| cross
| used in early Christianity, now kurosu (cross) from English
|-
| karameru
| カラメル
| caramel
| caramelo
| caramelo
| caramel
|
|-
| manto
| マント
| cloak
| manto
| manto
| cloak
|
|-
| marumero
| マルメロ
| quince
| marmelo
| marmelo
| quince
|
|-
| meriyasu
| メリヤス / 莫大小
| a kind of knit textile
| medias
| meias
| hosiery, knitting
|
|-
| mīra
| ミイラ / 木乃伊
| mummy
| mirra
| mirra
| myrrh
| Originally, mummies embalmed using myrrh.
|-
| oranda
| オランダ / 和蘭(陀) / 阿蘭陀
| The Netherlands, Holland
| Hollanda
| Holanda, Países Baixos
| The Netherlands, Holland
|
|-
| orugan
| オルガン
| organ
| orgão
| órgão
| organ
|
|-
| pan
| パン
| bread
| pão
| pão
| bread
| Often wrongly connected to the Spanish pan or the French pain, both with the same meaning and the same Latinate origin. The word was introduced into Japan by Portuguese missionaries.
|-
| pin kara kiri made
| ピンからキリまで
| running the whole gamut, jumble of wheat and tares
| (pinta, cruz)
| (pinta, cruz)
| (dot, cross)
| literally 'from pin to kiri'''
|-
| rasha| ラシャ / 羅紗
| a kind of wool woven textile
| raxa
| – (feltro)
| felt
|
|-
| rozario| ロザリオ
| rosary
| rosario
| rosário
| rosary
|
|-
| † sabato| サバト
| Saturday
| sábado
| sábado
| Saturday
|
|-
| saboten| サボテン / 仙人掌
| cactus
| sabão
| sabão
| soap
| The derivation is said to come from the soap-like feature of its juice, although there are controversies. cf. shabon|-
| sarasa| 更紗
| chintz
| saraça
|
| chintz
|
|-
| shabon| シャボン
| (soap)
| sabão
| sabão
| soap
| More likely from older Spanish xabon.  Usually seen in compounds such as shabon-dama ('soap bubbles') in modern Japanese.
|-
| subeta| スベタ
| (an insulting word for women)
| espada
| espada
| sword
| Originally a term from playing cards, in reference to certain cards that earned the player zero points.  This meaning extended to refer to "a boring, shabby, low person", and from there to mean "an unattractive woman".
|-
| tabako| タバコ / 煙草 / たばこ
| tobacco, cigarette
|
|
| tobacco, cigarette
|
|-
| totan| トタン / 塗炭
| galvanized sheet iron (e.g. corrugated roofing material)
| tutanaga
|
| Corrugated galvanised iron
|
|-
| tempura| 天麩羅 / 天婦羅
| deep-fried seafood/vegetables
| tempero, temperar;Tracking Down Tempura by Takashi Morieda  tempora
| tempero, temperar; tempora
| seasoning, to season; times of abstinence from meat
|
|-
| zabon| ざぼん / 朱欒 / 香欒
| pomelo, shaddock
| zamboa
| zamboa
| pomelo, shaddock
|
|-
| zesu or zezusu| ゼス, ゼズス
| Jesus
| Jesu
| Jesus
| Jesus
| The modern term イエス (Iesu) is a reconstruction of the Ancient Greek term.
|}

Arigatō

It is often suggested that the Japanese word arigatō derives from the Portuguese obrigado, both of which mean "Thank you", but evidence clearly indicates a purely Japanese origin. The Japanese phrase arigatō gozaimasu is a polite form of arigatō. This is a form of an adjective, arigatai, for which written records exist dating back to the Man'yōshū compiled circa 759 AD, well before Japanese contact with Portugal.

The full derivation is arigatō, the “u” sound change of  arigataku < arigataku, the attributive form of arigatai, < arigatai < arigatashi < ari + katashi. Ari is a verb meaning "to be" and katashi'' is an adjective meaning "difficult". The original meaning of "arigatashi" was "difficult to be", i.e. that the listener's generosity or behavior is "rare" and thus "special".


Casey Inlet

Casey Inlet () is an ice-filled inlet at the terminus of Casey Glacier, between Miller Point and Cape Walcott, on the east coast of Palmer Land. It was photographed from the air by Sir Hubert Wilkins in 1928, Lincoln Ellsworth in 1935 and the United States Antarctic Service in 1940. It was surveyed by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey in 1947. The inlet takes its name from Casey Glacier.


Poland at the 2019 Summer Universiade

Poland will participate at the 2019 Summer Universiade in Napoli, Italia.


U Carinae

The Bayer designations U Carinae and u Carinae are distinct. Due to technical limitations, both designations link here. For the star

 U Carinae, HD 95109, a Cepheid variable star
 u Carinae, HD 94510, a K-type giant star


2009 Turkish Open darts

2009 Turkish Open is a darts tournament, which took place in Turkey on October 25, 2009.

Results


Claudio Golinelli

Claudio Golinelli (born 1 May 1962 in Piacenza) is a former Italian cyclist.

Palmares

Track

1985
1st  National Keirin Championships
3rd European Sprint Championships
1986
1st  National Sprint Championships
3rd European Sprint Championships
1987
1st  National Keirin Championships
2nd World Keirin Championships
3rd World Sprint Championships
1988
1st  World Keirin Championships
1st  National Keirin Championships
1st  National Sprint Championships
1989
1st  World Keirin Championships
1st  World Sprint Championships
1st  National Sprint Championships
1990
1st  National Keirin Championships
1st  National Sprint Championships
2nd World Sprint Championships
3rd World Keirin Championships
1991
1st  National Keirin Championships
1st  National Sprint Championships
2nd World Keirin Championships

Road

1983
1st Gran Premio della Liberazione
1989
1st Millemetri del Corso di Mestre
1991
2nd Millemetri del Corso di Mestre
1992
1st Millemetri del Corso di Mestre


Xoxocotla, Veracruz

Xoxocotla (; Nahuatl: "place of green pines" or "place of old ocotes") is a municipality in the Mexican state of Veracruz, located  south of the state capital Xalapa.

Geography
The municipality of Xoxocotla is located in the Sierra de Zongolica, which are foothills of the Sierra Madre Oriental in central Veracruz. It lies at an altitude between . It borders the Veracruzian municipalities of Soledad Atzompa to the northwest, Atlahuilco to the northeast, and Tlaquilpa to the east, as well as the municipality of Vicente Guerrero in the state of Puebla to the south. The municipality covers an area of  and comprises 0.05% of the state's area.

The land in Xoxocotla is divided between farmland (50%), forest (44%) and urban areas (6%). Soils in the municipality consist of luvisols (73%) and regosols (21%). The municipality is drained by tributaries of the Blanco River, which itself drains into Alvarado Lagoon at the mouth of the Papaloapan River.

Xoxocotla has a temperate climate with rain in the summer. Average temperatures in the municipality range between , and average annual precipitation ranges between .

History
The municipality of was incorporated on 30 November 1870, forming part of the canton of Zongolica in the state of Veracruz. It became a free municipality on 15 January 1918.

Administration
The municipal government comprises a president, a councillor (Spanish: síndico), and a trustee (regidor). The current president of the municipality is Magdaleno Juárez Pérez.

Demographics
In the 2010 Mexican Census, the municipality of Xoxocotla recorded a population of 5163 inhabitants living in 1137 households. The 2015 Intercensal Survey estimated a population of 5446 inhabitants in Xoxocotla, 92.29% of whom reported being of Indigenous ancestry and 37.33% of whom reported being of African ancestry. In the 2010 Census, 1163 people or 23% of the population in Xoxocotla reported speaking an Indigenous language, 1118 of which spoke Nahuatl.

There are 17 localities in the municipality, of which only the municipal seat, also called Xoxocotla, is classified as urban. It recorded a population of 2362 inhabitants in the 2010 Census.

Economy
Important economic activities in Xoxocotla include pig farming and the growing of corn and beans.


Eastern Division, Fiji

The Eastern Division of Fiji is one of Fiji's four divisions.  It consists of Kadavu Province, Lau Province, Lomaiviti Province and Rotuma.

The capital of the division is Levuka, on the Ovalau island.   Other islands in the division include Kadavu, Gau, Koro, Nairai, Moala, Matuku, Vatu Vara, Naitaba, Mago, Cicia, Tuvuca, Lakeba, Vanua Vatu, Oneata, Vuaqava, Kabara, Moce, and Fulaga.

The division is the largest by area (including the sea), but has the smallest land area.  The division has sea borders with Central, Northern and Western Divisions.

External links
 Divisions of Fiji / Statoids

Eastern