Rush (2013 film)

Rush is a 2013 biographical sports film centred on the Hunt–Lauda rivalry between two Formula One drivers, the British James Hunt and the Austrian Niki Lauda during the 1976 Formula 1 motor-racing season. It was written by Peter Morgan, directed by Ron Howard and stars Chris Hemsworth as Hunt and Daniel Brühl as Lauda. The film premiered in London on 2 September 2013 and was shown at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival before its United Kingdom release on 13 September 2013.

Plot
James Hunt and Niki Lauda are exceptional racing car drivers who first develop a fierce rivalry in 1970 at a Formula Three race in London, when both their cars spin before Hunt wins the race. Hunt is a brash and self-confident individual, while Lauda is a cool and calculating technical genius who relies on practice and precision. Lauda takes a large bank loan from Austria’s Raiffeisen Bank (wearing their logo thereafter) to buy his way into the BRM Formula One team, meeting teammate Clay Regazzoni for the first time. Meanwhile, Hesketh Racing, the fledgling racing team Hunt drives for, enters Formula One. Lauda then joins Scuderia Ferrari with Regazzoni and wins his first championship in 1975. Hesketh closes down after failing to secure a sponsor, but Hunt joins the McLaren team. During this time, Hunt marries supermodel Suzy Miller, while Lauda develops a relationship with German socialite Marlene Knaus.

The 1976 season starts with Lauda dominating the first two races while Hunt struggles to catch up. Hunt wins the Spanish Grand Prix, but is disqualified after a post-race inspection rules that his car is fractionally too wide. Struggling to comply with F1 rules, McLaren suffers a series of racing setbacks, and Hunt's situation is further exacerbated when Suzy starts a relationship with actor Richard Burton. Following his divorce, Hunt regains his competitive spirit and, when his disqualification in Spain is overturned, the points put him into championship contention. Lauda marries Marlene in a private ceremony but begins to have concerns about the effects of his newfound happiness, worrying that he has become vulnerable as a racer, as he now has something to lose.

At the German Grand Prix, Lauda urges the F1 committee to cancel the race due to heavy rain on the already notoriously dangerous Nürburgring Nordschleife. At a drivers' meeting on race day, Hunt argues that Lauda is trying to benefit by having one less race in the season, and the drivers vote to race. Most drivers start the race with wet weather tyres, which becomes a costly tactic due to most of the track quickly drying. They all change tyres during the second lap, but on the third lap, a suspension arm in Lauda's Ferrari breaks, sending the car flying into an embankment then bursting into flames. Lauda is airlifted to hospital with third-degree burns to his head and face and internal burns to his lungs. For six weeks, Lauda is treated for his injuries while he watches Hunt dominate the races in his absence. Despite his doctor's orders, he decides to return to drive his Ferrari at the Italian Grand Prix, finishing fourth while Hunt fails to finish.

The 1976 season comes to a climax at the rain-soaked Japanese Grand Prix. Hunt's late rally in Lauda's absence has pulled him within three points of Lauda. At the end of the second lap, after his car has slid several times, Lauda returns to the pits and decides to retire from the race, considering it far too dangerous and opting to stay with Marlene instead. This gives Hunt a chance to win the championship if he can finish third or better. After facing stiff competition under gruelling conditions, tyre problems and a hand injury due to the gear shifter knob breaking, Hunt finishes third, winning the championship by a single point.

Hunt spends the rest of the year revelling with fame, sex and drugs, while Lauda takes an interest in flying private planes. At a private airfield in Bologna, Lauda suggests to Hunt that he focus on the next racing season to defend his title, but Hunt argues that his glamorous lifestyle is the most enjoyable part of being world champion. Lauda later on realises that Hunt no longer feels he needs to prove himself to anyone. Hunt continues to race until his retirement in 1979, and becomes a motorsport broadcast commentator until his death in 1993 at the age of 45. Lauda reflects on how their great rivalry and personality differences spurred each other on to their finest achievements, and states that Hunt was the only other driver he ever envied.

Cast

 Chris Hemsworth as James Hunt
 Daniel Brühl as Niki Lauda
 Olivia Wilde as Suzy Miller
 Alexandra Maria Lara as Marlene Lauda
 Pierfrancesco Favino as Clay Regazzoni
 David Calder as Louis Stanley
 Natalie Dormer as Nurse Gemma
 Stephen Mangan as Alastair Caldwell
 Christian McKay as Lord Hesketh
 Alistair Petrie as Stirling Moss
 Colin Stinton as Teddy Mayer
 Julian Rhind-Tutt as Anthony 'Bubbles' Horsley

Hunt and Lauda appear as themselves, in the 1970s and 1980s, in archive footage at the end of the film, while Lauda is then seen for a few seconds in contemporary (2013) footage.

Production
The film was shot on location in the United Kingdom, Germany and Austria. Blackbushe Airport in Hampshire, the Snetterton (Norfolk), Cadwell Park (Lincolnshire), the former Crystal Palace and Brands Hatch (Kent) motor racing circuits in Britain, and at the Nürburgring in Germany. Both vintage racing cars and replicas were used in the filming.

The financiers include Hürth-based action concept Film- und Stuntproduktion, Egoli Tossell Film, Revolution Films (GB) and Cross Creek Pictures (US). The Film- und Medienstiftung NRW funded the film with €1.35 million, additional funding was provided by MFG Filmförderung Baden-Württemberg and the German Federal Film Fund (DFFF).

Director Ron Howard originally intended for Russell Crowe to make a cameo appearance as Richard Burton for a brief scene where he confronts James Hunt on his affair with Suzy.<ref name="HistoryvsHollywood">{{cite web |url=http://www.historyvshollywood.com/reelfaces/rush.php |title=Rush True Story vs. Movie |publisher=History vs. Hollywood |accessdate=2013-09-26}}</ref>

Historical accuracy
Some things in the film are exaggerated (like the Hunt–Lauda rivalry; in reality they had shared a flat early in their careers and were good friends), others downplayed (like Lauda's wife's shock at his disfigurement), and others invented (like Hunt beating up a reporter or the Nürburgring nickname being "the graveyard"; in fact Jackie Stewart had nicknamed it "the Green Hell"). A further inaccuracy is that when Lauda's car was in flames, only one other racing competitor, Arturo Merzario, succeeded in pulling Lauda out of his car, not four as shown in the movie. Other inaccuracies include the British F3 battle at Crystal Palace, which in reality was between Hunt and Dave Morgan, and Hunt's overtake on Regazzoni for 3rd place in the Japanese Grand Prix when in the actual race he passed Alan Jones. Another error in the Japanese Grand Prix is that Regazzoni and Laffite finished fourth and fifth, while in the actual race it was Jones and Regazzoni who finished fourth and fifth. In the end scene an incident is described where Hunt, while being a tv broadcaster, comes to a meet-up with Lauda on a bicycle with a flat tire. In reality this incident happened while Hunt ran out of money and fell into alcohol-addiction. On this day Lauda gave him money to rebuild his life. Hunt, after Lauda gave him money a second time, later fixed his life and got his job as a television broadcaster. The visual blog Information is Beautiful deduced that, while taking creative licence into account, the film was 82.9% accurate when compared to real-life events, summarizing that there were "a little staging to get Lauda and Hunt in the same locations sometimes, but otherwise [it was] true".

Soundtrack

The film's orchestral score was composed by Hans Zimmer. The soundtrack includes 1970s rock music by Dave Edmunds, Steve Winwood (originally performed and written by the Spencer Davis Group), Mud, Thin Lizzy and David Bowie.

Marketing
BBC Two aired the documentary Hunt vs. Lauda: F1's Greatest Racing Rivals, on 14 July 2013. The documentary provides an extensive look at the rivalry between Hunt and Lauda, featuring interviews with Lauda and former crew members of the McLaren and Ferrari teams.

The Ferrari & the Cinema Society jointly organised a screening of the film at Chelsea Clearview Cinemas in New York on 18 September 2013. Chris Hemsworth attended the screening.

Reception
Box officeRush was a box office success as it earned $26.9 million in domestic box office, $71.3 million in international box office, with a worldwide gross of $98.2 million against a budget of $38 million.

Critical reception
On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 89% based on 223 reviews with an average rating of 7.5/10. The website’s critical consensus reads, "A sleek, slick, well-oiled machine, Rush is a finely crafted sports drama with exhilarating race sequences and strong performances from Chris Hemsworth and Daniel Brühl." Another review aggregator, Metacritic, which assigns a normalised rating to reviews, calculated an average score of 75 out of 100, based on 43 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".

Niki Lauda was pleased with the overall look of the film. He was quoted as saying: "When I saw it the first time I was impressed. There was no Hollywood changes or things changed a little bit Hollywood-like. It is very accurate. And this really surprised me very positively." Though, when first seeing the pre-screening of the unedited footage he considered himself to be portrayed too negatively. This changed on the day of the first screening when Bernie Ecclestone told him how much he liked it.

Home mediaRush was released on DVD and Blu-ray on 28 January 2014. A Sainsbury's exclusive edition with a bonus disc of new special features was released for a limited time. The Australian Blu-ray release is bundled with the 2013 documentary 1''.

Accolades


Flora Harrod Hawes

Flora Harrod Hawes (née Flora New Harrod; after second marriage, Flora Harrod Wilson; 1863 – December 20, 1929) was a 19th-century American postmaster from Indiana. At one time, she was the youngest woman in the United States holding this position.

Early years and education
Flora New Harrod was born in Salem, Indiana, in 1863, where she was educated. She was a daughter of Dr. Sandford Hickman Harrod (1827–1888), a physician of southern Indiana, and Margaret Rosalie (Thompson) Harrod. Her siblings included Jerome Patterson Harrod, Idumea Land Harrod, Sardinia Island Harrod, Lincoln Seward Harrod, Itasca Lake harrod, and Warder N. Harrod. After her mother's death in 1883, the father married Martha R. Bently. Her father's remote ancestors were of Roman origin before coming to the US. His parents were among the early pioneers of Kentucky, and Harrodsburg in that State was named for the family, who, in 1820, moved to Indiana.

Career
Harrod, at an early age, became the wife of Professor Edgar P. Hawes, of Louisville, Kentucky. After a brief married life, her husband died. She turned to teaching to support herself, and became a successful instructor in elocution, an art in which she excelled and had earned honors for when she was a student. In 1886–87, she was teaching at the Collegiate Institute, of Crab Orchard, Kentucky.

She applied to President Benjamin Harrison for the post office in Hot Springs, Arkansas, going in person to urge her own appointment. She received the commission August 16, 1889, took charge of the office September 15, 1889, and was confirmed by the United States Senate December 19, 1889. Hawes received a salary of US$2,600 a year and managed 13 employees, four of whom were women. At that time, she was the youngest woman in the US holding this position, and her office was the second largest in the US controlled by a woman. She later married Erasmus Wilson at New Albany, Indiana. Hawes died December 20, 1929.


Hibiscadelphus bombycinus

Hibiscadelphus bombycinus, the Kawaihae hibiscadelphus, was a species of flowering plant in the family Malvaceae. It was found only in Hawaii. It has not been collected since 1868.  It is presumed extinct since 1920.


George Clifford III

George Clifford III (7 January 1685, Amsterdam – 10 April 1760, Heemstede) was a wealthy Dutch banker and one of the directors of the Dutch East India Company. He is known for his keen interest in plants and gardens. His estate Hartekamp had a rich variety of plants and he engaged the Swedish naturalist Carl von Linné, who stayed at his estate from 1736 to 1738, to write Hortus Cliffortianus (1737), a masterpiece of early botanical literature published in 1738, and for which Georg Dionysius Ehret did the illustrations.  Many specimens from Clifford's garden were also studied by Linnaeus for his Species Plantarum (1753).

His grandfather, Englishman George Clifford I, moved from Stow (where his father was rector) to Amsterdam around 1640, beginning an Anglo-Dutch banking dynasty. Subsequent members of the Clifford Family were prominent leaders in Amsterdam.


Kurds in Lebanon

Kurds in Lebanon refers to people born in or residing in Lebanon who are of Kurdish origin. Estimates on the number of Kurds in Lebanon prior to 1985 were around 60,000. Today, there are tens of thousands of Kurds in Lebanon, mainly in Beirut.

History
Most Kurds in Lebanon have come in recent decades, but the Kurdish community of Lebanon dates back to the 12th century, when Lebanon was ruled by the Kurdish Ayyubid dynasty. The Ottomans also sent loyal Kurdish families to modern-day Syria and Lebanon, where they got administrative roles. These Kurdish groups settled in and ruled many areas of Lebanon for a long period of time.

The first modern wave of Kurdish immigration to Lebanon was in the period of 1925-1950 when thousands of Kurds fled violence and poverty in Turkey. The second wave of Kurds entered in the late 1950s and early 1960s, most of whom fled from political repression in Syria and Turkey. During the early 1990s, the Lebanese government destroyed many squatter quarters in Beirut, where many Kurds lived, leading to the emigration of nearly one quarter of Lebanon's Kurdish population.

During the Lebanese Civil War, Kurds fought for  the Lebanese National Movement.

Current status

As of 2012, around 40% of all Kurds in Lebanon do not have Lebanese citizenship.


Camille Davila

Camille Dávila is an international songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, producer and performer.  She is credited on Pop Levi's album The Return to Form Black Magick Party as a guest vocalist and, according to Allmusic, has three albums to her own name.

Biography
 Born in Los Angeles, California, Camille Dávila spent most of her life in the West Coast and the last 6–7 years relocated in Europe, primarily England, Germany, and Norway. In 2000 she signed to Below Recordings to release her debut album Not for the Disco shortly before moving to Liverpool to study sound technology and continue her relationship with Below Recordings which re-located to Berlin, Germany.  Two European tours followed, along with gobs of scattered European gigs and a second album "World of Gliding Monsters", produced in the UK, Norway and Germany. Camille is one of the few of her kind to take the reins on her projects, producing and arranging most of her tracks herself; in fact on some of her recordings she has even played every instrument.  When choosing to collaborate, she played amongst some of Europe's finest musicians (including Stein Urheim of Steady Steele, Marius Simonsen of Pop Levi and Super Numeri and Pop Levi himself). Camille continued to play through a residency at Ladytron's famous Liverpool club "Korova" while popping up for "special appearance" gigs globally.
Camille's surrounding company has always been of interest to die-hard fans, from playing with ex-Jeff Buckley drummer Eric Eidel, to working for an organization run by Stewart Brand, Brian Eno and others at The Long Now Foundation, to debuting her residency with her opening players the Zutons!
In 2007, after a brief return to California to form a new band and play shows in America, Camille brought her band to London to record the album Hi-C. A music video for song "Wireless World" directed by Jacqueline Passmore (visual artist for bands such as Ladytron and Stereolab) was launched in October 2007 and toured several film festival circuits, including the BBC Norfolk Music Video Festival.  After her third release, Davila was shortlisted by Channel4 for the 4Talent award in music in 2008. The album "Hi-C" was mastered in the Guillemots studio in London and released in 2008 on both CD and all digital retailers.
In August 2009 Camille moved from London to Oslo, Norway to begin work on a top-secret project with Jeron Gundersen of Dibidim and "Bearfarm".  This lead her to working with the famous Norwegian producer HP Gundersen (whose production credits include Sondre Lerche). This resulted in her newest release; "Divided Skies", released in 2013 by the Norwegian artist Heidi Goodbye on her label Goodbye Records. Her newest release has received accolades from the likes of Jeff Lynne (ELO), and Van Dyke Parks.  .
On the making of Divided Skies, according to Goodbye Records:
"HP Gundersen went to visit the band Bearfarm in Norway some time ago, where he heard recordings of Camille Davila and requested to meet her. Camille was living at the time in Oslo and went up to Bergen to say hello! He then helped her to start on this album by setting her up with a studio to record in, with a fabulous rhythm section (Mette Mathiesen and Daniel Birkeland) and a great experience jamming a bit with his project with Heidi Goodbye: The Last Hurrah!! After getting a solid rhythm section down, Camille took her recordings to Jonas Lie Theis and Jeron Gundersen in Oslo and the three of them began adding color and texture over beautiful Norwegian summer nights. Final touches where added after bringing those recordings to the famous Badminton Bay Studios (care of Jonas Raabe)."
After a year spent back in California, Camille has relocated to Norfolk in the United Kingdom and continues to tour and promote her newest release.

Discography

Albums
 Not for the Disco (2000, Below Recordings)
 World of Gliding Monsters (2004, Below Recordings)
 Hi-C (2008, Poly Records)
 Divided Skies (2013, Goodbye Records)

Contributions
  RCA Christmas EP Artist: Various Artists Contributor  (2002, RCA)
  The Return to Form Black Magick Party Artist: Pop Levi Vocals on track 'Flirting' (2007, Counter Records)

External links
 Camille Davila official site
 Allmusic
 Facebook music page
 "One of Many" video by Linda Nguyen and Krystof Andres
 "Wireless World" video by Jacqueline Passmore
 Channel4 Talent Awards
 BBC Norfolk Introducing Music Video Festival 2010
 Live at Old School Studios

Notes


Arthur Vineberg

Arthur Martin Vineberg,  (May 24, 1903 – March 26, 1988) was a Canadian cardiac surgeon, university lecturer and author. He was "famous for his experimental and clinical studies in revascularization of the heart".

Born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, he received a degree in biochemistry and experimental physiology at McGill University. He was a heart surgeon at Montreal's Royal Victoria Hospital and a lecturer in the Faculty of Medicine of McGill University. His archive is held at the Osler Library at McGill University.

He is known for having developed a surgical procedure called the "Vineberg Procedure" which involved implanting the left mammary artery into the left ventricle of the heart. He first did this procedure in 1946 on an experimental basis and at the Royal Victoria Hospital in 1950.

He published two books, How to Live with your Heart; the Family Guide to Heart Health (1975) and Myocardial Revascularization by Arterial/Ventricular Implants (1982). He was working on his third book, The Complete Guide to Heart Health, before his death.

In 1986, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada, Canada's highest civilian honour.


Arbabi-ye Sofla

Arbabi-ye Sofla (, also Romanized as Ārbābī-ye Soflá) is a village in Kavar Rural District, in the Central District of Kavar County, Fars Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 1,265, in 288 families.


Plutki

Plutki  () is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Dywity, within Olsztyn County, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, in northern Poland. It lies approximately  north of Dywity and  north of the regional capital Olsztyn.

Before 1772 the area was part of Kingdom of Poland, 1772-1945 Prussia and Germany (East Prussia).


Jason's Lyric

Jason's Lyric is a 1994 American erotic romantic drama film, written by Bobby Smith, Jr, directed by Doug McHenry, who co-produced the film with George Jackson and Marilla Lane Ross, and starring Allen Payne, Jada Pinkett, Bokeem Woodbine, Treach, Eddie Griffin, Lahmard Tate, Lisa Nicole Carson, and Forest Whitaker. Set in Houston's Third Ward, the film is a story about misunderstood young American adults learning how to deal with love and maturity.

Plot
Jason (Allen Payne) is a responsible young man who has a job in a television repair shop and lives at home with his hard-working mom (Suzzanne Douglas). Joshua (Bokeem Woodbine) is the younger brother, who is just released from prison. Previously traumatized by his father, Joshua is a volatile, disturbed ex-con who is obviously bound for a violent end. Joshua deals drugs for short-term cash and joins a crew plotting a bank robbery.

When Lyric (Jada Pinkett) walks into the shop to buy a television, Jason meets his perfect match. She has dreams of escape, and inspires Jason to do romantic things like borrow a city bus to take her on a date. Their relationship continually grows and blossoms into love.  The height comes when Jason and Lyric take a romantic ride in a rowboat, then make love in the woods.

In a series of flashbacks, Forest Whitaker plays the boys' father, Mad Dog. Throughout the film, Jason has nightmares about a tragedy in his childhood. Either Jason (played as a youth by Sean Hutchinson) or Joshua (played as a youth by Burleigh Moore) killed Mad Dog, while he was drunkenedly attacking their mother. After being comforted by Lyric, he learns to deal with his past. Alonzo tells his gang and Joshua about the bank robbery plan. Lyric, eavesdropping on their conversation, tells Jason about the bank robbery.

Unfortunately, the robbery does not go as planned; Joshua comes in late. Most significantly, he causes bedlam by independently terrorizing and beating the customers of the bank. He does get in the getaway car with his gang when the heist is over.  As punishment, Joshua is flogged by the rest of his gang. Joshua returns home. Jason realizes how badly he's been beaten, so he confronts the leader of the gang, Alonzo (Treach), who is Lyric's brother. As a result of this, the two have a vicious fight in a public restroom.

Jason then meets Lyric at the bayou and tells her that he can't leave with her. His nightmares occur because Jason took a gun from Joshua, but accidentally shot Mad Dog in the chest instead, which is why he feels obligated to his family.

Things get worse when Joshua hears his mother tell Jason to leave town with Lyric because he doesn't owe her or Joshua anything. Joshua believes that Jason is leaving not only because of Lyric, but because Alonzo may take revenge. Joshua plans to kill them all in order to keep his brother from leaving.

Jason hears about Joshua's plan and heads to Alonzo/Lyric's house, but he's too late. He sees that josh has already shot down both of alonzo's crew members and rushes upstairs looking for Lyric. He finds that Joshua has a gun pointed at her neck. He draws a gun as well and is able to convince Joshua not to kill her. However Joshua accidentally shoots Lyric. Jason carries her out of the home to a growing crowd outside the house.  Lyric is injured, but still alive. Joshua is fed up with his life and decides to end it all by killing himself (off screen), in earshot of everyone outside.  The film ends with Jason and Lyric riding a bus, leaving town; however, some versions do not show this part.

Cast
Allen Payne — Jason Alexander
Sean Hutchinson – Jason (age 11)
Jada Pinkett — Lyric
Bokeem Woodbine — Joshua Alexander
Burleigh Moore – Joshua (age 8)
Anthony 'Treach' Criss — Alonzo "A-1"
Eddie Griffin — Rat
Suzzanne Douglas — Gloria
Lisa Nicole Carson — Marti
Lahmard Tate — Ron
Forest Whitaker — Maddog
Wayne Dehart - Street Preacher

Reception
Jason's Lyric received generally positive reviews from movie critics. It currently has a 61% rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 23 reviews with a weighted average of 5.9/10. The site's consensus reads: "Jason's Lyric is a sexually charged film whose violent streak weakens or, depending on your perspective, supports the melodrama."

Roger Ebert gave the movie praise for its cast's performances, director Doug McHenry's "lyrical touches" to the poetic aesthetics of Bobby Smith, Jr.'s script and its willingness to tackle dramatic themes that New Jack City and Sugar Hill also explored, concluding that, "It's not some little plot-bound genre formula. It's invigorating, how much confidence it has, and how much space it allows itself." Deborah Young from Variety praised the performances of Whitaker, Payne and Woodbine, and the visual settings created by McHenry and cinematographer Francis Kenny but felt the film's script "stumbles into a lame love story and ends in a conventional shootout and bloodbath." Peter Rainer of the Los Angeles Times called the film "a terribly earnest melodrama with king-size ambitions", commending the filmmakers for their overall attempt at artistic cinema but found it "overextended and unbelievable both as love story and as urban tragedy." In response to his review, filmmaker Jamaa Fanaka gave high praise to the film's two main leads, its supporting cast, and the direction of McHenry. He also counteracted Rainer's opinion of the sex scenes being there to raise the film's box office, saying that its target demographic want to see romantic stories that feature two black leads in said scenes, and that the film offers them a sort of "cinematic sexual healing." Entertainment Weeklys Lisa Schwarzbaum gave it a C, writing that she found the brotherly storyline between Jason and Joshua more compelling than the main romantic plot, saying that the latter was "so dense with big themes strung together that character development suffers. And the emotional sum is less than the interconnection of its Tragedy 101 parts." In a review for The New York Times, Caryn James criticized the filmmaking for being overly stylized with its poetic aspirations and making the plot twist "unintentionally confusing rather than deliberately holding back information" with its editing. She called Jason's Lyric "a muddled film that takes a standard urban action movie and adds a veneer of overwrought romance."


Bedwell Harbour

Bedwell Harbour is a settlement on South Pender Island in British Columbia, close to the Canada–US border. Bedwell Harbour is an official port of entry for sailors from the United States.

The Bedwell Harbour Water Aerodrome is located in Bedwell Harbour. Northeast of the settlement lies Skull Islet.

GPS location:


Bill Milbrodt

Bill Milbrodt is a composer and creator of the "Car Music Project", a band that plays music on instruments made from car parts. The instruments have names like "exhaustaphone", "tank bass", "doorimba", "tube flute", and "percarsion". The band plays music that is written by Milbrodt and also does improvising in which the written music is played by some members of the band while other members improvise, sometimes several at one time.

Milbrodt won an Emmy Award in New York City for a 1991 musical score he composed electronically for a short avant-garde video called "American Venus". He made his living mainly as a composer of music for commercial purposes, and as a sound designer, and did occasional performances for the Car Music Project. In 2005 he formed an ensemble called "The Car Music Project", with regular members/sidemen, for the purpose of performing on a regular basis.

Milbrodt is a self-taught composer. He studied Film Production at the New York University Film School, and graduated in 1977.  He refers to some of his compositions as "sonic pantomimes".


Shiro, Texas

Shiro is an unincorporated community in Grimes County, Texas, United States located on State Highway 30 and the Burlington-Rock Island Railroad in east central Grimes County.

Education
Public education in the community of Shiro is provided by the Anderson-Shiro Consolidated Independent School District. The district has two campuses, Anderson-Shiro Elementary School (grades PK-4) and Anderson-Shiro Junior/Senior High School (grades 5-12)


Aiken Air Force Station

Aiken Air Force Station is a closed United States Air Force General Surveillance Radar station.  It is located  north-northeast of Aiken, South Carolina.  It was closed in 1975.

During World War II, the site was originally constructed by the United States Army Air Forces as Aiken Army Air Field.

History

Aiken Army Air Field
The facility was originally constructed during World War II by the United States Army Air Forces and named Aiken Army Air Field.  The airfield was constructed with three 5'000 foot bituminous runways in an "A" pattern.   No known auxiliary airfields were constructed.  The airfield and station opened on 24 December 1942  as a satellite airfield of Morris Army Airfield, North Carolina.

On 23 June 1943 the airfield was formally activated and the 66th Tactical Reconnaissance Group arrived.  Two subordinate units, the 97th Tactical Reconnaissance Squadron and 19th Liaison Squadron arrived the previous day.  The 118th Tactical Reconnaissance Squadron replaced the 97th on 29 August 1943.  The Warner Robins Air Service Command (WRASC) established a service group training center at the field in the fall of 1943.  The training was conducted under the auspices of the 387th Air Service Group, Daniel Field, Georgia.

In May 1944 the 359th Army Air Force Base Unit was assigned host unit. It was assigned to Third Air Force, III Tactical Air Command 13 September 1944 as a group training airfield for reconnaissance units.  The airfield became a replacement training airfield for single-engine fighter pilots, training on P-40 Warhawk and P-51 Mustang aircraft, beginning on 19 October 1944. Active flying at the airfield ended on 28 February 1945, and jurisdiction of the base was transferred from Third Air Force to Air Technical Service Command for disposition on 31 March 1945.

It is also known that Aiken AAF held a branch prisoner of war camp holding about 300 POWs who worked in the local forests.  The dates of the POW camp are uncertain.  The airfield was turned over to local government authorities afterward and was converted into Aiken Municipal Airport.

Aiken Air Force Station
In 1955 the United States Air Force exercised a return right to Aiken Municipal Airport and established Aiken Air Force Station as an Air Defense Command (ADC) general surveillance radar station. This site was initially part of Phase II of the Mobile Radar program. Radars in this network were designated “SM.”

Designated as SM-159 Aiken AFS was the first Phase II Mobile Radar system to achieve operational status. During December 1955 the 861st Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron began activating AN/FPS-3, AN/MPS-14, and AN/TPS-10D radars. Initially the station functioned as a Ground-Control Intercept (GCI) and warning station.  As a GCI station, the squadron's role was to guide interceptor aircraft toward unidentified intruders picked up on the unit's radar scopes.

In 1958 an AN/FPS-20 and an AN/MPS-14 were operational. The site subsequently received an AN/FPS-7C search radar and an AN/FPS-26 heightfinder radar. During 1961 Aiken AFS joined the Semi Automatic Ground Environment (SAGE) system, initially feeding data to DC-09 at Gunter AFB, Alabama.  After joining, the squadron was redesignated as the 861st Radar Squadron (SAGE) on 1 November 1961.  The radar squadron provided information 24/7 the SAGE Direction Center where it was analyzed to determine range, direction altitude speed and whether or not aircraft were friendly or hostile.

On 31 July 1963, the site was redesignated as NORAD ID Z-159. In addition, Aiken AFS was incorporated into BUIC I, a manual back-up interceptor control system. BUIC I provided limited command and control capability in the event the SAGE system was disabled.  Over the years, the equipment at the station was upgraded or modified to improve the efficiency and accuracy of the information gathered by the radars.  The 861st was inactivated in June 1975.

The FAA continued to operate the AN/FPS-7C search radar for a few years, while the cantonment area was converted into a minimum-security prison. Dissatisfied with the prison setting, the FAA  relocated to Lincolnton, Georgia, where today they continue to operate an ARSR-3 search radar. The prison was shut down in the mid / late 1990s, and the entire site has since been dismantled.

Air Force units and assignments

Units
Aiken Army Air Field
 66th Tactical Reconnaissance Group
 Moved from Camp Campbell, Ky on 22 June 1943 departed for Lebanon, TN ca. 25 October 1943
 19th Liaison Squadron
 Moved from Camp Campbell, KY on 23 June 1943, departed for India on 26 February 1944
 97th Tactical Reconnaissance Squadron
 Moved from Camp Campbell, KY on 23 Jun 1943, departed for Morris Field, NC on 29 August 1943
 118th Tactical Reconnaissance Squadron
 Moved from Statesboro Army Air Field, GA on 29 August 1943, departed for Key Field, MS on 25 October 1943
 25th Service Group
 Moved from Greenville AAB, SC in September 1943, departed for India on 13 January 1944
 35th Service Squadron
 Moved from Greenville AAB, SC in September 1943, departed for India on 13 January 1944
 349th Service Squadron
 Moved from Greenville AAB, SC in September 1943, departed for India on 13 January 1944
 1332d Guard Squadron
 Activated on 25 June 1943, disbanded ca. 1 April 1944
 127th Liaison Squadron (Commando)/2d Air Commando Group
 Moved from Statesboro Army Air Field, GA on 18 May 1944, moved to Dunnellon Army Air Field, FL on 10 June 1944
 155th Liaison Squadron (Commando)/2d Air Commando Group
 Activated on 10 June 1944, moved to Dunnellon Army Air Field, FL on 12 June 1944
 156th Liaison Squadron (Commando)/2d Air Commando Group
 Moved from Statesboro Army Air Field, GA on 18 May 1944, moved to Dunnellon Army Air Field, FL on 12 June 1944
 162d Liaison Squadron/III Tactical Air Division
 Activated on 15 May 1944, moved to Lafayette Airport, LA on 13 July 1944
 349th Army Air Forces Base Unit
 Organized ca. 1 April 1944, discontinued ca. 28 February 1945
 4184th Army Air Forces Base Unit
 Organized ca. 28 February 1945, discontinued ca. 31 March 1945

Aiken Air Force Station
 Constituted as the 861st Aircraft Warning and Control Squadron
 Activated at Dobbins AFB (M-87), GA on 8 April 1955 (not manned or equipped)
 Assigned to Aiken Air Force Station, SC, 1 December 1955
 Redesignated as 861st Radar Squadron (SAGE) on 1 November 1961
 Inactivated on 30 June 1975

Assignments
 Third Air Force, 24 December 1942
 First Air Force, 1 May 1944
 Air Technical Service Command, 28 February 1945 - 31 March 1945
35th Air Division, 1 December 1955
32d Air Division, 15 November 1958
Montgomery Air Defense Sector, 1 July 1961
 32d Air Division, 1 April 1966
33d Air Division, 14 November 1969
20th Air Division, 19 November 1959 - 30 June 1975


Walk Away (Tony Moran song)

"Walk Away" is the first single from Tony Moran's album The Event and features vocalist Kristine W. "Walk Away" also appears on Kristine W's album The Power of Music. The single went to #1 on the Billboard Hot Dance Club Play chart on October 13, 2007. It was Kristine W's tenth number one on the dance charts and Moran's first of two straight number ones on the same chart from "The Event" compilation. Matúš Valent features in the music video.

Track listing
Official Remixes

 "Walk Away" (Tony Moran/Warren Rigg Evolution Mix) (9:04)
 "Walk Away" (Tony Moran/Warren Rigg Evolution Mixshow Edit) (7:21)
 "Walk Away" (Tony Moran/Warren Rigg Evolution Radio With Intro) (3:52)
 "Walk Away" (Tony Moran/Warren Rigg Evolution Radio Without Intro) (3:52)
 "Walk Away" (Tony Moran/Warren Rigg/Dave Saronson "Walk Till You Sweat" Dub) (8:44)
 "Walk Away" (Tony Moran/Warren Rigg Padppella) (8:45)
 "Walk Away" (Peter Presta Prefect Club Mix) (10:16)
 "Walk Away" (Richie Santana Mix) (8:14)
 "Walk Away" (Friscia & Lamboy Mix) (10:19)


Sur Empire

The Sur Empire was an empire established by a Muslim dynasty of Afghan origin who ruled a large territory in northern part of the Indian subcontinent for nearly 16 years, between 1540 and 1556, with Sasaram, in modern-day Bihar, serving as its capital.

History
The empire was founded by Sher Shah Suri, an ethnic Afghan of the tribal house of Sur, who supplanted the Mughal dynasty as rulers of North India during the reign of the relatively ineffectual second Mughal Humayun. Sher Shah defeated badshah-i-Hind ('Hindustani emperor') Humayun in the Battle of Chausa (26 June 1539) and again in the Battle of Bilgram (17 May 1540).

Sher Shah Suri was known for the destruction of some old cities while conquering parts of India. He is accused by `Abd al-Qadir Bada'uni and other Muslim historians for destroying old cities in order to build new ones on their ruins after his own name. One example included Shergarh. Sher Shah is also said to have destroyed Dinpanah, which Humayun was constructing as the "sixth city of Delhi". The new city built by him, was itself destroyed in 1555 after Humayun re-conquered the territory from the Surs. Tarikh-i-Da'udi states, however, that he destroyed Siri. Abbas Sarwani states that he had the older city of Delhi destroyed. Tarikh-i-Khan Jahan states that Salim Shah Suri had built a wall around Humayun's imperial city.

The Sur dynasty held control of nearly all the Mughal territories, from modern-day eastern Afghanistan in the west to modern-day Bangladesh in the east.

During the almost 17-year rule of the Sur dynasty, until the return of the Mughals to the throne, the region of the South Asia witnessed much economic development and administrative reforms. A systematised relationship was created between the people and the ruler, minimising corruption and the oppression of the public.

Their rule came to an end by a defeat that led to restoration of the Mughal Empire.

List of Sur dynasty rulers


Zipang (manga)

is a Japanese manga written and illustrated by Kaiji Kawaguchi. Just like his previous work, The Silent Service, Zipang talks about the members of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force. It was first serialized in Kodansha's Weekly Morning magazine from 2000 until 2009, and published in 43 volumes. Four volumes have been translated into English by Ralph McCarthy for the Kodansha Bilingual Comics  library. It was adapted into an anime in 2004.

Plot
The newest, most advanced destroyer in the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force, the JDS Mirai, sets sail from Japan on a training exercise with the United States Navy. En route, they encounter a strange meteorological anomaly, causing the Mirai to lose contact with her sister ships. After a short time, the crew detects a fleet approaching, but can barely believe their eyes as a massive battleship passes by them. The crew soon identify it as the Yamato, a ship which was sunk in 1945. As the crew scans with their radar, numerous other ships, including a Nagato-class battleship, are sighted. Two destroyers from the unknown fleet attempt to intercept the Mirai, but she manages to escape.

After examining the situation, the crew realises that the ships they passed are part of the Imperial Japanese Navy and that they have somehow been transported back in time more than 60 years to June 4/5, 1942, the first day of the Battle of Midway. Knowing that an American attack will soon devastate the four aircraft carriers of the Kido Butai, some Mirai crew members believe that they should intervene, to save the carriers and the 3,000 Japanese lives that will be lost. With the Mirai'''s advanced technology and weaponry, which is far superior to anything possessed by the United States (or any other nation) in this era, the crew realize that they could potentially alter the course of the Second World War. However, they agree that their top priority is to return home, and to ensure that they have a home to which to return they decide to do nothing that will change history.

Despite their initial intentions not to alter history, they soon find themselves gradually drawn into the war, though they continue to refuse to choose one side over another.  The struggle of the crew from a modern, peaceful, and wealthy Japan to resist the nationalistic appeal of defending their country, knowing that in this time it is ruled by a brutal, totalitarian and militaristic government is the central theme of Zipang. Their rescue of an Imperial Japanese Navy officer from the past, Lt. Commander Kusaka, who would have perished in the normal timeline, causes unstoppable and devastating changes in the past when he seeks to create a stronger Japan no matter what the cost.

Characters

 Voiced by: Tetsu Inada (Japanese); Mark R. Kaufmann (English)
 The protagonist of the series. Executive Officer (X.O.) and second in command aboard the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force escort vessel JDS Mirai (DDG-182). He takes over the position of captain after Captain Umezu is injured. He always respects human life, and the action of saving Kusaka's life took priority over the implications this would have on the course of history. He felt responsibility for however history may have been changed because of Kusaka, and tried but failed to stop Kusaka's actions. Due to changes in history, Kadomatsu's father as a child was killed in a car accident, turning Kadomatsu into a man who doesn't exist, an anomaly within the alternate past. After obtaining information that Kusaka is going to Manchuria to secure oil supplies, he decides to leave Mirai and embarks on a journey to stop Kusaka. While attempting to protect Puyi, he is shot by Kusaka and seriously injured. From then on, he begins a campaign in which he utilizes military power and whatever information he possesses to save as many lives as possible that would otherwise have been lost during the war. After the New Guinea evacuation operation, he is ousted from the ship following a coup by Kikuchi. Shortly after, Kadomatsu manages to regain control of Mirai with help from Momoi and Kisaragi.

 Voiced  by: Hiroki Tōchi (Japanese); Edward Choy Keng Choong (English)
 An IJN Lt. Commander whose courier plane was shot down during the Battle of Midway and rescued by Kadomatsu. He considers the encounter with the Mirai as an opportunity to change the history for the "better" (from his perspective, at least.) He rejects both the militarism of the Japanese Empire and shame of defeat that he attributes to the postwar Japan. Instead, he seeks to create a new undefeated Japan that he calls Zipang. While he admires the humanism of Kadomatsu, he dismisses it as a luxury unsuited for wartime and is willing to shed a great deal of blood in pursuit of his ideals.

 Voiced by: Takanori Hoshino (Japanese); Paul Pistore (English)
 Gunnery Officer and third in command aboard the JMSDF vessel JDS Mirai (DDG-182). Kikuchi has been best friends with Kadomatsu and Oguri ever since they were in the same batch during their time at the Japan Maritime Academy. He has a strong sense of justice and does not like taking lives. Kikuchi is usually calm in making decisions, rarely breaking out a sweat when he faces extreme situations. During early volumes of the manga, Kikuchi proposed the Mirai crew to avoid changing the past as much as possible. After events of the battle with the U.S. Navy aircraft carrier, USS Wasp, Kikuchi changes his stance on attacking enemy targets, putting the reason that Mirai is put in danger and they are doing it for self-defense. After realizing that changing the past is inevitable and viewing Kusaka's beliefs to create a stronger Japan, Kikuchi stages a mutiny aboard Mirai and takes over as captain, working alongside Kusaka to attack India. However, he is injured during Japanese army withdrawal at Tarawa lagoon island and takes refuge in Palau. At this time, Kadomatsu manages to regain control of Mirai, with Kisaragi making a deal with Kikuchi and allowing him to escape inland with Momoi. Kikuchi is last seen working with Kisaragi, preparing for the final battle to end the world war.

 Voiced by: Yuji Ueda (Japanese); Jamie Meldrum (English)
 Navigation Officer aboard the JDS Mirai (DDG-182). Oguri is best friends with Kadomatsu and Kikuchi during their time in the Maritime Academy. He is joint third in command alongside Kikuchi aboard Mirai. Oguri is the most outspoken of the three of them, but he is also impulsive when making decisions. In contrast, his personality is opposite to Kikuchi. When Kusaka was initially rescued, Oguri proposes that they should release information to him, without thinking of the consequences. He often goes into debate with Kikuchi on whether it's right to attack their own people from the past out of self-defense, or taking innocent lives even though Mirai is being attacked by enemy forces, changing the past as a result. When Kadomatsu goes after Kusaka in Manchuria, Oguri and the rest of the crew set up C4 explosives around Mirai in any case the ship is about to be captured. When Kikuchi stages his mutiny and ousts Kadomatsu as captain, Oguri is ordered by Kadomatsu to stay on board Mirai to keep an eye on Kikuchi's actions, even though he wished to leave with Kadomatsu together.

 Voiced by: Yuusaku Yara (Japanese); Joe Murray (English)
 Captain and first in command of the JDS Mirai (DDG-182). Umezu takes care of his crew and puts the safety of his men as first priority. Over the years, he is given the nickname "Hiruandon" (昼行灯), which means "one who does not stand out", by people who worked with him, as he is a modest person who does not get too much attention around himself. When Mirai was confirmed to be mysteriously brought into the past, Umezu proposes the crew not to get involved with events during the 2nd World War so as not to change history. Umezu is wise in making reasonable decisions whenever Mirai is under attack or whether the crew should join in battle with the old Japanese army. During the operation to rescue Japanese Army Defense Corps in the Aleutian Islands, Umezu is seriously injured when Atlanta-class light cruisers attack Mirai head on. He is later hospitalized in Yokosuka, and relinquishes his position of captain to Kadomatsu for the time being. When Umezu receives news that Kusaka is planning to build the atomic bomb, he travels to Nanjing with Kisaragi to stop him, but fails to do so and dies in his attempt.

 Voiced by: Yoshiko Iseki (Japanese); Chio Su Ping (English)
 Rank of Lieutenant and medic aboard the JDS Mirai (DDG-182). Momoi is the only female crew member on the ship. She is responsible for the first aid and care of the crew on board Mirai. She is much more neutral to viewpoints and does not go into debate over changing events in history, as she holds her top priority over first aid. When Kikuchi mutinied and wrestled control over the ship from Kadomatsu, Momoi is disappointed by the crew splitting up and planned to leave with Kadomatsu just like Oguri wanted to. In the end, Kadomatsu convinced her to stay on to look after the crew's well-being. Later on Kusaka managed to capture Mirai, Momoi took care of Kikuchi when he is injured during the army withdrawal. When Kadomatsu sneaked on board with Kisaragi to retake the ship, Momoi initially refused to help when she learned of the pair's plans. However, when she learned of Kusaka's plans to build the atomic bomb and the recent death of Captain Umezu at his hands, pushed her resolve to help them take back the ship. Later, she and Kikuchi escaped together in Palau and accepted Kisaragi's offer to work together to put an end to the world war.

 Voiced by: Takashi Matsuyama (Japanese)
 Rank of Lieutenant and pilot of the MVSA-32J VTOL aircraft Umidori (Seagull) aboard the JDS Mirai (DDG-182). Satake is at times serious and sometimes fail to abide regulations. When Mirai appeared in the past just days only, Satake and his gunner, Mori, were assigned by Kadomatsu on a reconnaissance mission around Ogasawara. But Satake made the mistake of flying the Umidori only  above the islands, getting the attention of 2 Type 2 Floatplane fighters. During the ensuing battle, Mori was killed, and Satake blames himself for making unsafe decisions. Later when Satake provides support for the Japanese army withdrawal in New Guinea, he unfortunately encountered the U.S. aviation corps. However, Satake stayed behind to defend the area from B-25 bomber planes in order to allow the Japanese army to retreat and perished in the battle.

 Voiced by: Makoto Tomita (Japanese); William A. H. Reid (English)
 Rank of 3rd Ensign and gunner of the MVSA-32J VTOL aircraft Umidori (Seagull) aboard the JDS Mirai (DDG-182). Mori is an enthusiastic and energetic young man at age twenty. He was assigned along with Satake on a reconnaissance mission by Kadomatsu to Ogasawara. Mori displayed doubts when Satake made the decision to fly the Umidori  above the islands, but trusts in the man to keep both the gyrocopter and them safe. When Type 2 Floatplane fighters discovered their presence, he is killed by shots sprayed into the cockpit of the Umidori by the enemy fighters. The first crew member of Mirai to die since their arrival in the past.

Media

Manga
Original comics were released from Kodansha. It consisted of a total of 43 volumes.

French Translation of the manga is complete as of May 2015, edited by Kana.

Korean Translation was done by Seoul Cultural Publishers.

Anime

An anime adaptation of Zipang was produced by Studio Deen and directed by Kazuhiro Furuhashi. The Tokyo Broadcasting System broadcast the anime series in Japan from October 7, 2004 to March 31, 2005. Since a Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force official on active service was involved in the production, some unrealistic scenes were cut from the anime version.

At the 2006 Anime Expo, the company Geneon announced that it has licensed Zipang for distribution in North America.  The first DVD was released in September of that year.

Principal cast

Video Game

A video game version of Zipang for PlayStation 2 was released by Bandai in Japan on May 26, 2005.

Merchandise
 The Japanese company Pit Road has released a 1/700 scale plastic kit of the JDS Mirai that includes a tilt-rotor MVSA-32J Umidori (Seagull), also in 1/700 scale.
 The Japanese company F-Toys has produced a set of five “trade” kits that include the Mirai, the MVSA-32J Umidori, the USS Wasp, the I-21 submarine and a Type 2 float plane.  The set was released on March 21, 2005 and the scales vary.
 Marvelous Entertainment Inc. of Tokyo released the soundtrack CD on March 24, 2005 (catalogue number MJCD-20025).

Reception
Just like his previous work, 'The Silent Service', some foreign readers and viewers were uncomfortable with the storyline. There were many arguments among the South Korean critics that the series were promoting Imperial Japan. However, the crew of Mirai tries to stop Kusaka, who is trying to make Imperial Japan win the war against the United States. As the story flows, the author pinpoints out the some of the incidents that tells us the readers how bad Imperial Japan was during the Pacific War. The manga was well received in Japan, but it was criticized for a completely different reason. It was criticized for its rushed ending.Zipang won the 26th Kodansha Manga Award for general manga in 2002.

The anime has received generally positive critical reviews.


Alwin Corden Larmour

The reverend Alwin Corden "Teddie" Larmour (6 January 1886 – 1 November 1946) was a British churchman, school teacher and philatelist who edited The London Philatelist during the Second World War.

Early life and family
Larmour was born in Calcutta, India, on 6 January 1886 to Charles Frederick Larmour and Harriet Adelaide Larmour. He was educated at the University of Cambridge from where he received a Master of Arts degree. He had family philatelic connections, his father was editor of the Philatelic Journal of India and a member of The Philatelic Society, London, as was his uncle, F.A. Larmour. He married Edith Margaret Kenrick in 1928.

Career
In 1909, Larmour became an assistant master at Wellington College, Crowthorne.

Philately
Larmour was a member of the Royal Philatelic Society London and the editor from February 1940 to June 1946 of The London Philatelist, writing as A.C.L. He managed to keep the journal going during the paper rationing and other difficulties of the Second World War by reducing the number of issues to six in some years from the normal twelve. When the main printing works of William Brendon & Sons was destroyed by German bombing in April 1941, a double issue appeared the following month. Outside philately he was a Freemason and served as a local councillor.

Death
Larmour died on 1 November 1946 at his home Dumromyn in Crowthorne, Berkshire. He left £12,655.


Tracy Wolfson

Tracy Wolfson (born March 17, 1975) is an American sportscaster for CBS Sports.

Early life and career
Wolfson grew up in Congers, New York, and attended Clarkstown High School North, in the New York City suburb of Rockland County. She is a University of Michigan graduate with a degree in communications. Her on-air career began at WZBN in Trenton, New Jersey, as a sports anchor. She also appeared as a reporter for Long Island News Tonight (LI News Tonight), a local Long Island college-run news station. She later worked for MSG Network as an anchor and reporter as well as covering golf, college football and Arena Football for ESPN from 2002–2003.

Career since 2004
Wolfson is the lead field/floor reporter for all live CBS Sports football and basketball broadcasts. She works with the lead on-air talent team in each of the sports she covers.

She has been the CBS college football  sideline reporter since 2004. She is considered to be part of one of the best college football broadcast teams in the country. As a sideline reporter, Wolfson primarily interviews coaches at the end of each half and also gives updates on player injuries. Additionally, she is an anchor on the CBS Sportsdesk as well as a reporter for college basketball, auto racing, skiing, ice skating, gymnastics, tennis, track and field and rodeo. She has covered all the U.S. Opens and the NCAA Men's Basketball Final Four since 2004. Wolfson does postseason sideline reporting for the NBA on TNT and is a contributor to the NFL on CBS by filing reports on the Super Bowl and sideline reporting for preseason games with Greg Gumbel and Dan Dierdorf or Ian Eagle and Phil Simms, such as the Seahawks-Packers preseason game in 2013.

Wolfson's voice is also featured during sideline reports in NCAA College Hoops 2K8 on the Xbox 360 & PlayStation 3 game consoles.

On May 22, 2014 it was announced that Wolfson would be joining Jim Nantz and Phil Simms as an NFL sideline reporter on Thursday night and some Sunday afternoon games starting in the 2014 season.

She was the floor reporter for the NCAA men's basketball championship games in 2016 on TBS and 2017 on CBS.

Accolades
In 2005, she was asked to be a part of Mississippi State University's College Sports Speaker series  and has been a spokeswoman and M.C. for several Foundation for Diabetes Research events since 2005. In 2004 she was named one of the "Best New Faces" of the NCAA tournament in USA Today.

Personal life
She resides in Tenafly, New Jersey with her husband, David Reichel, and their three sons.


Trypeta aesia

Trypeta aesia is a species of tephritid or fruit flies in the genus Trypeta of the family Tephritidae.


Bato, Tochigi

was a town located in Nasu District, Tochigi Prefecture, Japan.

In 2003, the town had an estimated population of 13,195 and a population density of 86.99 per km². The total area was 151.68 km².

On October 1, 2005, Batō, along with the town of Ogawa (also from Nasu District), was merged to create the town of Nakagawa.

Starting in 1990, it was the sister city of Horseheads, New York in the United States Of America. Nakagawa later inherited the role. Bato could be translated as "horsehead".

External links
Nakagawa official website


Ryjice

Ryjice () is a village and municipality (obec) in Ústí nad Labem District in the Ústí nad Labem Region of the Czech Republic.

The municipality covers an area of , and has a population of 207 (as at 28 August 2006).

Ryjice lies approximately  north-east of Ústí nad Labem and  north of Prague.


Mitsuhama

Mitsuhama (三津浜), formerly also known as Mitsugahama, is the main port of Matsuyama, Ehime, Japan.

In October, 1888, the Iyotetsu light railway line connecting Mitsuhama with Matsuyama began operation.

Mitsuhama absorbed the village of Furumitsu in 1925 and Shinhama in 1937. In 1940 Mitsuhama was merged into the city of Matsuyama.


David France Collection

The David France Collection is a collection of football memorabilia, consisting of more than 10,000 items related to the birth and development of Everton Football Club in Liverpool, England.

Overview
Dr David France took over 25 years to assemble the collection from his home in the United States and includes rare programmes, season tickets, match tickets, medals, photographs, player contracts, cash books, handbooks, financial statements and other ephemera dating back to the 1880s, as well as the official club ledgers detailing the minutes of all board meetings between 1886 and 1964.

For health reasons, Dr France decided finally to part with his collection in 2002.  Despite receiving numerous offers from private investors, his dream was to make the collection available to what he called The Everton Family, and sought to transfer his world-class archives to an independent Charitable Trust, at a heavily discounted price.

In September 2007, the Everton Charitable Trust announced that it had secured a grant from the UK Heritage Lottery Fund to obtain the collection, and it was finally transferred from Dr France to the Trust on 31 December 2007.  Following this transfer, it was also announced that Everton F.C. would donate their own collection of memorabilia, and that, collectively, it would be known as The Everton Collection.

Club ledgers

Often referred to as The Everton Scriptures, and sometimes as The DNA of Everton, the official club ledgers chronicle the minutes of the weekly scheduled and emergency meetings of the early Management Committee, and latterly the Board of Directors, and provide details of the decisions of the Directors at over 5,000 meetings recorded in over 10,000 handwritten pages.

The collection boasts an unbroken sequence of 29 volumes from 1886 through to 1964.  Prepared and signed by famous club chairmen, including John Houlding, George Mahon, Will Cuff and Sir John Moores, the ledgers provide the most complete documentation of the development of a professional football club.

Also, because Everton were one of the last professional clubs to appoint a manager, the Directors were responsible for all scouting appraisals, transfer negotiations and team selections during the first six decades, as well as documenting details of players’ wages, bonuses and benefits.  The ledgers provide these details on a number of stars from the club's history, including Nick Ross, Jack Southworth, Bert Freeman, Dixie Dean, Warney Cresswell, Cliff Britton, Joe Mercer, Tommy Lawton and Alex Young.

However, the ledgers do not just deal with the club's players; they also include important decisions on the overall running of the club. Some of the most notable events recorded, from the early history of the club, in the ledgers include:

The founding of the Football League and the subsequent preparations for the inaugural season (Ledger A: 1886–1891)
The winning of the League Championship, as well as the awarding of the first ever League Championship medals (Ledger B: 1891–1892)
The buildup of the rent dispute and the departure from Anfield to Goodison Park, which subsequently led to the formation of Liverpool F.C. (Ledger 1: 1892–1898)
The first FA Cup final to be hosted by a League club, as well as the annual selection of team colours – before Everton settled on royal blue shirts and white shorts in 1902 (Ledger 2: 1898–1903)
The first overseas tour by an English League club (Ledger 3: 1903–1905)
The first FA Cup triumph by a Merseyside club (Ledger 4: 1905–1907)

There are also more recent historical events:

Ground improvements to accommodate over 78,000 spectators at Goodison Park; the installation of state-of-the-art floodlights and under-soil heating and the elimination of the maximum wage for professional footballers. (Ledger 24: 1956–1959)
The first participation of a Merseyside club in European competition, as well as initial preparations for five 1966 World Cup matches at Goodison Park, including one of the semi-finals. (Ledger 25: 1959–1964)

Financial annals
In 1895, the amount of cash taken at the turnstiles at Goodison Park seemed to be much lower than what was expected from the attendance predictions of the club's directors, and the local newspaper reporters.  At the home match against Sunderland that year, the turnstiles were double-checked prior to kick off and were found to have been tampered with, ensuring that Everton had been defrauded of approximately 15% of the gate money actually taken.

Following the implication and arrest of 15 employees (including turnstile operators, equipment mechanics and groundsmen), Everton introduced meticulously detailed gate books as well as new turnstile equipment.

The collection includes two of these gate books, detailing receipts for each individual turnstile for every match played at Goodison Park from 1907 to 1911 and 1916 to 1921.  Each home fixture has a single page dedicated to it and every entry is signed by the turnstile operator and then verified by a club director.

The collection also includes two cash books, from 1892 to 1894 and from 1897 to 1900, providing details of all expenditure following the move to Goodison Park and the initial construction work there.

Programmes

The David France Collection contains over 6,000 programmes covering Everton participation, both home and away, in league games, cup competitions, friendlies and reserve-team fixtures between 1886 and 2002.

It is difficult to calculate the precise number of friendly matches Everton have been involved in during this time, however, experts have estimated that the collection features over 90% of all programmes involving Everton over this period, and is hailed as the most complete compilation of such archival material for any football club.

While the unbroken sequences of programmes is stunning, the actual condition of them is museum quality, with many in excellent condition considering their age.

The collection includes every Everton programme published in the inaugural 1888-9 League season.  Another highlight is the 32 programmes from the pre-League era when Everton played at Anfield.  The collection can also claim to include the earliest known programmes for a number of today's top clubs, including Manchester United (then known as Newton Heath), Celtic, Aston Villa, Derby County, West Bromwich Albion, Bolton Wanderers, Wolverhampton Wanderers and Blackburn Rovers.

It is also thought to contain the earliest home programmes for Southampton, Newcastle United, Walsall, Nottingham Forest, Sheffield United and Sheffield Wednesday, as well as numerous programmes from the early European tours undertaken by the club during the 1930s.

The earliest programme in the collection is from a match Everton played against Astley Bridge on 4 September 1886 at Anfield, with the earliest away programme being when a local team called Stanley entertained Everton on 21 January 1888.

The David France Collection can also claim that it is possibly the biggest collection of Liverpool programmes held privately as Everton and Liverpool produced a joint programme between 1904 and 1935 — nearly a thousand programmes.

Everton tickets

Season tickets

In the early days of the club, members (including the players) had to pay an annual subscription and were provided with a season ticket as a result.  The David France Collection includes a consecutive run of 11 such season tickets, dating from 1881 through to 1892.

The colours of the member's ticket reflect those of the shirts worn for that season, and not only include first-team and reserve fixture lists for the season, but also some of the club officers including presidents, vice-presidents, secretary, treasurer and the first-team captain.

The earliest season ticket in the collection is for the 1881–82 season allowing the member, and his accompanying lady, to attend games at Stanley Park.

There is also a season ticket for the 1883–84 season, which was the only season that Everton played at Priory Road, before the landlord, Mr James Pruitt, insisted that they move.

Other season tickets included in the collection are from the first season at Anfield (1884–85), the inaugural League campaign (1888–89) and the first League Championship winning season (1890–91).

Match tickets

Match tickets were never intended to be saved; however, recently ticket stubs have become one of the more collectible items of memorabilia.

The collection includes hundreds of Everton tickets, not only of Cup Finals and Semifinals, but also less important matches.

When Everton were based at Anfield, they used the local public house, The Sandon, as their base which was owned by the club's president at the time, John Houlding.  When the building went through some renovation work in the mid-1990s, a box of old tickets were found.  It is believed that a number of these are also included within the collection.

The earliest match ticket is from a game played on 1 May 1890, between Everton and Notts County at Anfield in aid of the Hospital Saturday Fund.

Medals

The collection boasts a total of 40 medals awarded to Everton players in various competitions in their history – including a medal awarded for every major trophy won by the club, except the 1986–87 League Championship and the 1995 FA Cup.

The medals for major competitions won by the club include the first ever League Championship medal awarded to a number of players in 1890–91, as well as medals for the League Championship winning seasons of 1914–15, 1927–28, 1930–31, 1938–39, 1962–63 and 1984–85; the 1906, 1933, 1966 and 1984 FA Cup winners medals plus a 1985 European Cup Winners' Cup medal.

Other medals included within the collection are those awarded for the Wartime Northern League Championship (1918–19), Division Two winners (1931–32), FA Cup runners-up medals (1897, 1907 and 1968), Milk Cup runners-up (1984) plus a number of medals from minor competitions such as the Liverpool Senior Cup (1895, 1899, 1930 and 1934), the Lancashire Cup (1904, 1910 and 1940), Norfolk & Norwich Hospital Cup (1907) and the Blackpool Hospital Cup (1926 and 1927).

While almost all of the medals are gold, the collection includes a silver medal commemorating the 1924 victory over Newcastle United F.C. at the Nou Camp Stadium, when Everton won the Barcelona Cup.

While it is not a medal won with Everton, the collection includes Brian Labone's bronze medal which was awarded when England finished third in the 1968 European Championship.

Photographs

Team groups
The corridors of Goodison Park leading to the boardroom boast team photographs dating back to 1929–30.  Copies were presented to members of the playing staff and coaching staff.

The collection compliments these souvenirs with a number of early team photographs.

Firstly, there is the earliest known team photograph taken in 1881, shortly after the club had changed its name from St. Domingo F.C.

The collection contains other rarities, such as one photograph taken of Everton's first League Championship-winning side.  It was taken on the bowling green of the Sandon Hotel (the club's headquarters at the time) and is the only known photograph of the Everton team wearing their infamous ruby shirts with blue trim. The sepia-toned photograph featured the diminutive Fred Geary sandwiched between the 1891 League championship trophy and the Liverpool Cup.

Candid photographs

The collection also includes over 100 photographs of players and staff taken by journalists and photographers during training sessions, social events and road trips.  The candid snaps that weren't used in publications were usually discarded from the newspaper libraries and photographic studios, but do provide a social commentary on the lifestyles and fashions of professional footballers between 1925 and 1975.

One example shows the team boarding a Cambrian Airlines prop-plane for a 48-hour journey to Australia, in their tailored club suits, prior to the club's tour there in May 1964.

Other examples include candid shots of the team on the coach which took them to Speke Airport en route to an FA Cup fifth round tie at Roker Park in 1964, while another shows Ray Wilson, Alex Young, Sandy Brown and Derek Temple sitting in their first-class carriage at Lime Street station prior to their leaving for the 1966 FA Cup Final.

Ephemera

Postcards and postal covers

In 1902, the Post Office finally allowed the message and address to be written on one side of a postcard and, thus, freed the other side of the postcard for the inclusion of a picture.  As a result, postcards increased substantially in popularity and became a cheap medium for the transmission of messages, until the advent of the telephone.

Local photographers often recorded interesting community events and then published them as postcards and the collection includes 20 postcards featuring Everton teams and players from the early 20th century, the majority of which show team photographs prior to important matches.

In the late 20th century, postal covers were introduced as a means of commemorating special events or anniversaries.  The David France Collection includes over 50 postal covers (or first-day covers as they are sometimes known).  Many of these postal covers were autographed by the stars of the matches and issued as a numbered limited edition.

Cigarette cards
Football was one of the more popular subjects for illustrating cigarette cards.  The collection includes all 312 cigarette cards ever known to be produced involving Everton between 1897 and 1939.

The first Everton player to appear on a cigarette card was Harry Reay in a series published by Cohen Weenen in 1897, which was surprising given that he only made 2 first-team appearances for Everton during his career.

One of the most popular subjects of Everton cigarette cards was Bill ‘Dixie’ Dean who appeared on 28 different cards, which is believed to make him the most popular subject of football related cigarette cards ever.

Trade cards

While cigarette cards were discontinued due to post-War rationing of tobacco, other trade cards were produced by tea and confectionery manufacturers, as well as newspapers and magazines.

In the mid-1950s bubble-gum cards were introduced and grew in popularity throughout the 1960s and 1970s.  Nowadays, cards are produced along similar lines to the trading cards of Major League Baseball in America.

The first Everton player to appear on a bubble-gum card was Dave Hickson in 1956, and the most popular players on these cards were Alan Ball, Roy Vernon, Alex Young, Ray Wilson and Gordon West.

Player contracts
Prior to licensed football agents, football clubs had considerable power over the players and provided them with standard 12-month contracts.

The collection includes 20 examples of standard contracts drafted by the Football League and used by Everton between 1890 and 1975.

Letters

The collection includes over 200 letters showing the letterheads of approximately 80 different football clubs addressing all types of business and football issues from the co-ordination of transfers through to the re-arrangement of fixtures.  Along with the ledgers, they provide insight into the day-to-day operations of a football club over the decades.

The earliest letter in the collection dates back to 6 March 1888 in which the secretary of Aston Villa invited Everton to play a match at Birmingham later in the month in a hand-written letter.

While the letters shed some light on the transfers of Tony Kay, Dai Davies, Rod Belfitt and Alex Young, as well as many others, they were also used to comply with FA regulations in which teams had to provide their opponents with a list of all eligible players for FA Cup semi-finals and finals.

There are also letters from less affluent clubs with appeals for financial help.  One of these was a proposal from Macclesfield Town in which they state that they would be willing to act as a nursery club for Everton — though this was turned down by the Everton board at the time.

Autographs
The David France Collection includes hundreds of autographs from all eras of the club's history. One notable item is the Training Book from 1931.  At this time, one of the rules was that players had to sign in for both morning and afternoon training. A red line was drawn across the page at the allotted time for the start of training and any players signing in after this time were usually fined by the club.

However this book not only includes numerous autographs Everton players from that era, but also includes a description of the exercises specified by Harry Cooke, the Everton trainer at the time.  The usual entries for these training sessions show that they alternated between running or walking along with gym work or skipping.  Occasionally players were treated to brine baths and even “ball practice – passing movements”.

An example of the training taken can be seen in an entry from August 1931 which shows the autographs of Ted Sagar, Bill ‘Dixie’ Dean, Warney Cresswell, Cliff Britton and 20 team-mates signing in for morning and afternoon training.  The morning session consisted of a long walk along Queen's Drive, through West Derby village, and then along the East Lancs Road and Walton Hall Avenue to Goodison Park.

Reaction to the collection
Everton Football Club supporters like to sing about their illustrious history, therefore it is not surprising that they have fully embraced The David France Collection. Feedback from memorabilia experts has been just as positive.

Grant McDougall of Christie's said:
It is the most comprehensive collection of memorabilia I’ve had the good fortune to catalogue. The official ledgers, rare programmes, unique season-tickets and magnificent medals are of interest to football enthusiasts of all ages and all persuasions. And there is so much more.

Graham Budd of Sotheby's added:
This collection has no match anywhere in the football world. It’s a unique record of Everton's history – possibly a history unparalleled by any other club. The collection offers a unique record of the evolution of British football and of the city of Liverpool.

And David Stoker of Liverpool Records Office stated:
The ledgers and programmes are of significant historical importance. They tell the week-by-week story of Merseyside over the past 125 years.

Everton Collection Charitable Trust

Dr France claims that he was simply the guardian of Everton's history.  It had always been his desire that the people of Merseyside have access to his treasures.

He insisted that all football fans have physical access to the collection in Liverpool, or online access via a dedicated website.

The collection will be housed within the Liverpool Record Office in Liverpool Central Library and is expected to be used in various displays associated with the city's new museum.

Presently, the collection is undergoing digitization which the Trust expects to take approximately one year to complete.  After this process, the collection is expected to be available for viewing on a dedicated website, and items being on view at a museum within Everton new stadium, as well as various exhibitions throughout the city of Liverpool.

The dedicated website is now available at http://www.evertoncollection.org.uk/.


William C. Webb

William Craw Webb (April 21, 1824 – April 19, 1898) was an American lawyer, politician and judge.  He was a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly and the Kansas House of Representatives, a Kansas District Court Judge, and a Union Army officer in the American Civil War.

Biography
Webb was born in Ridgebury Township, Bradford County, Pennsylvania, on April 21, 1824, son of John L. and Annis (Hammond) Webb.  Later, he was a resident of Wautoma, Wisconsin. He died on April 24, 1898, in Topeka, Kansas.

Political career
Webb was Chief Clerk of the Wisconsin Assembly for the 1857 session, when his brother, Henry, was a member.  In the fall general election that year, he was elected to succeed his brother as a member of the Assembly for the 1858 session.  He was elected again to serve in the 1862, 1863 and 1864 sessions. He served a term as Speaker. Previously, he had been Chief Clerk of the Assembly in 1857. Webb was also District Attorney and Judge of Waushara County, Wisconsin.

In 1870, Webb was a Kansas District Court judge. From 1871 to 1873, he was the first Kansas State Superintendents of Insurance. Webb was a member of the House of Representatives from 1870 to 1871 before being re-elected in 1891. Additionally, he was Attorney and Superior Court Judge of Shawnee County, Kansas.

Webb's affiliation by the time he held office was with the Republican Party.

Military career
Webb was initially assigned to the 37th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry Regiment of the Union Army during the American Civil War. He later became Colonel of the 52nd Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry Regiment.  He was a Companion of the Kansas Commandery of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States.

Family
Webb's son Leland Justin Webb, was a lawyer and politician.  His brothers, Henry and Charles were also active in politics and law in Wisconsin and Kansas.


Riviera Hotel, Weymouth

Riviera Hotel is a 20th-century hotel, located at Bowleaze Cove, Weymouth, Dorset, England. Opened in 1937, the hotel has been Grade II listed since January 1997. In their survey of the building, English Heritage commented that it "epitomises the austere approach of the modernists in the immediate pre-war era, and suggests the designer's acquaintance with contemporary work in Rome and elsewhere".

History
The Riviera Hotel was built in 1936–1937 for a cost of around £40,000. It was designed in a modernist, Spanish-style by L. Stewart Smith and constructed by Truscon Ltd. Overlooking Weymouth Bay, the hotel was sited at Bowleaze Cove, which until that time had seen little development. As car ownership increased during the 20th century, the cove was transformed into a holiday destination. In addition to the hotel, the Waterside Caravan Camp was established nearby in the 1950s, followed by other sites offering similar accommodation in the vicinity.

In 1958, the hotel was taken over by Fred Pontin and remained under his holiday camp chain Pontins until 2000. Later in 2009, the hotel was sold for £3.5 million to Saudi Arabian investors. It then underwent a £4 million refit in 2011 and reopened in 2012. A new refurbishment project commenced in 2017.


Pfaffia

Pfaffia  (syn. Hebantha Mart., Hebanthe Mart.) is a genus of plants in the family Amaranthaceae. This genus is sometimes placed in the family Chenopodiaceae.

Selected species
Pfaffia cinera
Pfaffia denutata
Pfaffia glomerata
Pfaffia gnaphaloides
Pfaffia helichrysoides
Pfaffia jubata
Pfaffia paniculata - Suma Root, Brazilian Ginseng (now classified as Hebanthe eriantha)
Pfaffia sericantha
Pfaffia sericea
Pfaffia townsendii
Pfaffia tuberosa
Pfaffia velutina

Footnotes


Othippia

Othippia is a genus of true weevils in the beetle family Curculionidae. There are more than 20 described species in Othippia.

Species
These 26 species belong to the genus Othippia:

 Othippia affinis Heller, 1894
 Othippia albilateralis Heller, 1925
 Othippia albilateris Heller, 1925
 Othippia arcufer Hustache, 1932
 Othippia continentalis Heller, 1894
 Othippia distigma Pascoe, 1874
 Othippia funebris Pascoe, 1874
 Othippia gibbicollis Hustache, 1932
 Othippia guttula Pascoe, 1885
 Othippia impesca Hell., 1921
 Othippia impexa Heller, 1922
 Othippia jubata Pascoe, 1874
 Othippia luteipes Hustache, 1956
 Othippia micros Hustache, 1932
 Othippia minuscula Hustache, 1932
 Othippia minuta Heller, 1894
 Othippia murina Heller, 1925
 Othippia picticollis Heller, 1929
 Othippia podagrica Pascoe, 1874
 Othippia proletaria Pascoe, 1874
 Othippia pygmaea Hustache, 1932
 Othippia revocata Heller, 1894
 Othippia semisuturalis Hustache, 1956
 Othippia serratula Heller, 1894
 Othippia unicolor Heller, 1894
 Othippia urbana Faust, 1898


LACP

LACP may stand for:

 League of American Communications Professionals, an organization encouraging quality in communications
 Link Aggregation Control Protocol, an Ethernet protocol that allows the bundling of several ports
 Los Angeles County Police
 Lateral Assessment & Certification Program (LACP), a standardized coding protocol used by pipe inspectors when surveying lateral connections


Stephen Fried

Stephen Fried is an American investigative journalist, non-fiction author, essayist and adjunct professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and the University of Pennsylvania. His first book, Thing of Beauty: The Tragedy of Supermodel Gia (Pocket), a biography of model Gia Carangi and her era, was published in 1993. He has since written Bitter Pills: Inside the Hazardous World of Legal Drugs (Bantam 1998), an investigation of medication safety and the pharmaceutical-industrial complex; The New Rabbi (Bantam 2002), which weaves the dramatic search for a new religious leader at one of the nation's most influential houses of worship with a meditation on the author's Jewish upbringing; Husbandry (Bantam 2007), a collection of essays on marriage and men; and Fred Harvey and the Business of Civilizing the Wild West—One Meal at a Time(Bantam 2010), the bestselling biography of restaurant and hotel entrepreneur Fred Harvey. In 2015, he co-authored the New York Times bestseller A  Common Struggle: A Personal Journey Through the Past and Future of Mental Illness and Addiction with Congressman Patrick Kennedy.

Fried is also an award-winning writer, a two-time recipient of the National Magazine Award, and has written for GQ, Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair, Glamour, Parade, Ladies' Home Journal and Philadelphia magazine, where he was also editor-in-chief in 1999 and 2000. He lives in Philadelphia with his wife, author Diane Ayres.

Early life and education
Fried was born and grew up in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.  As a child, he attended Pinemere Camp in the Pocono Mountains.  He enrolled in the University of Pennsylvania in 1975, where he wrote for and co-edited 34th Street, the university's weekly magazine. While in college, he also became part of a small network of future journalists, authors and editors taught and nurtured by Nora Magid, a Canadian-born editor and professor whom Fried has referred to as a "one-woman journalism school." The self-dubbed "Nora-ites" — whose ranks include bestselling author and publisher David Borgenicht, ABC News writer and producer Joel Siegel, GQ contributing editor Lisa DePaulo and Eliot Kaplan, editorial talent director at Hearst magazines — created a mentorship prize in Magid's name in 2003. Fried eulogized Magid eleven years earlier in a piece for Philadelphia magazine, in which he shared experiences from her first-ever Advanced Expository Writing class in 1977. He graduated with a B.A. in International Relations from the University of Pennsylvania in 1979.

Books
Fried published his first book, a biography of high-fashion model and AIDS victim Gia Carangi, in 1993. Titled Thing of Beauty: The Tragedy of Supermodel Gia, the book grew out of a lengthy Philadelphia magazine piece and was reviewed positively in The New York Times and The Boston Globe upon its release. Fried's book was optioned by Paramount but was also used as the basis for the 1998 HBO film Gia, which went on to win an Emmy Award and two Golden Globe Awards, including one for Angelina Jolie in the title role. Fried is also credited with having invented the word "fashionista" for Thing of Beauty, which he used as shorthand for anyone involved in the creation and manufacturing of high fashion. His name appears in the Oxford English Dictionary entry for the word.

In 1998, Fried published his second book, Bitter Pills: Inside the Hazardous World of Legal Drugs. An outgrowth of his award-winning Philadelphia magazine piece "Less Than One Percent," prompted by his wife's serious adverse reaction to one pill of a new antibiotic, the book investigated prescription drug manufacturers, the safety of their products and FDA regulation (or lack thereof). The New York Times Book Review called it "the best popular book on the subject," the American Journalism Review named Bitter Pills one of the fifteen best books in the genre of investigative reporting, and The San Diego Union-Tribune said the book "could save your life." It was also a finalist for the Investigative Reporters and Editors book prize, was named one of the best books of the year by The Philadelphia Inquirer and Men's Health, and was featured on The Oprah Winfrey Show and Dateline.

His third book, 2002's The New Rabbi, combined several years of reporting on the effort to choose a new spiritual leader at Philadelphia's influential Har Zion Temple with Fried's own spiritual search after the death of his father. The book, initially controversial among some clergy, went on to receive very favorable reviews from The New York Times, The Washington Post Book World and The Philadelphia Inquirer, which called it "brave...remarkable...a book about leadership you don't have to be Jewish to appreciate." It was also named one of the ten best spiritual books of the year by Beliefnet, and is used as a seminary textbook and read by congregations preparing to choose new leaders. His following book, Husbandry: Sex, Love & Dirty Laundry—Inside the Minds of Married Men, was a collection of 31 essays about men and relationships, originally written for his Ladies' Home Journal column "Heart of a Husband."

Fried's fifth book, titled Appetite for America: How Visionary Businessman Fred Harvey Built a Railroad Hospitality Empire That Civilized the Wild West, was published in March 2010. The product of five years of cross-country research, the book is the first-ever full-length biography of restaurant and hotel mogul Fred Harvey, his innovative family business, the Harvey Girls, the Santa Fe railway, and the America they helped create. The book draws on newly discovered datebooks and letters of Fred Harvey and his son, Ford (who actually ran the company much longer than his father), which had been in family hands for decades. In support of the book, Fried embarked upon a train tour along the old Santa Fe route from Chicago to Los Angeles, visiting many of the classic mid- and southwestern cities where Harvey establishments thrived from the late 19th century well into the 20th. He was also interviewed by Melissa Block of NPR's All Things Considered, and the book won accolades from The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal upon its release — the second of which complimented Fried's "crisp prose and delightful detail" and praised the book as "sweeping social history populated with memorable characters." The Wall Street Journal also named the book one of its Ten Best of the Year for 2010. It earned the same honor from The Philadelphia Inquirer, was named one of the ten best business books by Amazon.com and won the Athenaeum of Philadelphia Literary Award, a prize given to Philadelphia-area writers since 1949, for non-fiction.

Career in journalism
Fried first became known as a writer for Philadelphia, where he began in 1982, worked full-time until 1989 and remained for another decade as a contract writer and editorial consultant. During that time he was also a contributing writer and music columnist at GQ from 1987 to 1991, a contributing writer at Vanity Fair from 1994 to 1997, a contributing editor at Glamour from 1996 to 1998, and a regular contributor to The Washington Post Magazine, Rolling Stone and others. In 1999, he began a two-year stint as the editor-in-chief of Philadelphia, after which he returned to writing, editorial consulting and teaching. He returned to Glamour as a contributing editor from 2001 to 2008, was a contributing writer and columnist at Ladies' Home Journal from 2003 to 2008, and in 2003 began teaching magazine writing at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. He currently writes for a variety of publications.

Fried's best-known magazine piece is "Cradle to Grave", the April 1998 Philadelphia cover story that led the biggest maternal homicide case in history to be reopened and solved. In it, he investigated the family tragedy of Art and Marie Noe, a Philadelphia-area couple who lost ten infant children from 1949 through 1968 to undetermined causes. Fried explored whether the Noes might have been responsible for those deaths, and his investigation led the Philadelphia homicide unit — which had officially closed the Noe file three decades earlier — to begin reexamining the deaths. One day after his story ran, the police interrogated Mr. and Mrs. Noe and received a confession from Marie that she had suffocated eight of her own children (two died of natural causes), leading to a guilty plea and a controversial sentence — which was to include house arrest and probation, along with her cooperation in an unprecedented analysis of her medical history and actions by top experts in fields that study post-partum violence (an analysis which was never carried out). For his work on the Noe case, Fried became the first journalist to receive the Medal of Honor from the Vidocq Society, an elite international group of criminologists, pathologists and police investigators. The piece was also part of his winning entry for the 1999 National Headliners Award for Outstanding Feature Writing, won a Clarion Award from national Women in Communications, and was a finalist for the National Magazine Award for Reporting.

Among his earlier notable magazine stories are "Over the Edge" (Philadelphia, October 1984), an investigation of a series of teen suicides in a small town in Bucks County, which won a Clarion Award and was a finalist for the Livingston Award, and "Boy Crazy" (Philadelphia, November 1987), about a homosexual pedophile police chief in a community nearby to Philadelphia, which won the national Sigma Delta Chi/Society of Professional Journalists award for Magazine Reporting. His January 1989 Philadelphia story "The Three Mrs. Lymans", about the battle over the estate of singer Frankie Lymon, inspired the Warner Brothers film Why Do Fools Fall in Love.

In 1993 he won his first National Magazine Award in the field of Special Interest as one of the writers on a Philadelphia feature about the simple pleasures of life in and around the city. Fried's contribution, an essay on returning to fishing after many years' absence, was later expanded into a 1995 Philadelphia feature called "Reeling in the Years", which was selected as a notable story of the year in Best American Sports Stories.

The next year, Fried won his second National Magazine Award in the field of Public Interest Reporting for a series of three stories in Philadelphia on the prescription drug Floxin. The first piece in the series, titled "Less than One Percent" (April 1993), chronicled his wife's adverse reaction to a single dose of Floxin and examined the FDA's regulatory process for prescription drugs. Parts two and three called for (and later prompted) tougher FDA rules on antibiotic drugs.

Fried went on to publish three award-winning pieces about mental health care. "War of Remembrance" (Philadelphia, January 1994), was the first in-depth investigative treatment of the "false memory syndrome" and the Freyds family of Philadelphia, who invented and popularized it. It won a Health Journalism Gold Award and is generally credited with leveling the playing field in the contentious debate over false memory syndrome's validity. His Washington Post Magazine cover story "Creative Tension" (April 16, 1995) was the first major national profile of Johns Hopkins psychologist Dr. Kay Redfield Jamison, and the first time she "came out" as having manic-depressive illness – the disease she had devoted her life to researching and treating (laying the groundwork for her bestselling memoir, An Unquiet Mind). "Creative Tension" won a 1995 Easter Seals Equality, Dignity and Independence Award for enhancing the image of people with disabilities, as did Fried's Philadelphia story the same month, "The Incredible Shrinking Institute", about the rise and fall of the nation's first psychiatric institution (and the birthplace of the American Psychiatric Association). In 1999, his final year as a writer at Philadelphia magazine, he received the National Headliner Award for Feature Writing on a Variety of Subjects for his investigation of the Noes as well as "Family Business" (September 1998), the first in-depth story about the family that had built – and was in the process of slowly destroying – the Rite Aid drugstore chain.

While Fried was editor-in-chief at Philadelphia, the magazine was a National Magazine Award finalist for Feature Writing and Profiles in 2000. The same year, it won the Clarion Award for Best Magazine in Philadelphias circulation category as well as the award for Most Improved Magazine, and Philadelphia earned gold medals from the City and Regional Magazine Association for General Excellence and Excellence in Writing. Since returning to magazine and book writing, he won the Epilepsy Foundation's Distinguished Journalism Award for "How Far Would You Go To Save Your Health?" (Glamour, August 2004), which followed for a year the case of a young woman having a temporal lobectomy — an extreme surgical procedure — as a last resort to stop treatment-resistant seizures.

Books
 Thing of Beauty: The Tragedy of Supermodel Gia (1993)
 Bitter Pills: Inside the Hazardous World of Legal Drugs (1998)
 The New Rabbi (2002)
 Husbandry: Sex, Love & Dirty Laundry—Inside the Minds of Married Men (2007)
 Appetite for America: How Visionary Businessman Fred Harvey Built a Railroad Hospitality Empire That Civilized the Wild West (2010)
A Common Struggle: A Personal Journey Through the Past and Future of Mental Illness and Addiction by Patrick Kennedy and Stephen Fried (2015)
Rush: Revolution, Madness, and Benjamin Rush, the Visionary Doctor Who Became a Founding Father (2018)


2018–19 La Salle Explorers men's basketball team

The 2018–19 La Salle Explorers basketball team represented La Salle University during the 2018–19 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The Explorers, led by first-year head coach Ashley Howard, played their home games at Tom Gola Arena in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania as members of the Atlantic 10 Conference. They finished the season 10–21, 8–10 in A-10 play to finish in ninth place. They lost in the second round of the A-10 Tournament to Rhode Island.

Previous season
The Explorers finished the 2017–18 season 13–19, 7–11 in A-10 play to finish in a three-way tie for 10th place. As the No. 12 seed in the A-10 Tournament, they lost in the first round to Massachusetts.

On March 23, 2018, head coach John Giannini and the school mutually agreed to part ways after 14 seasons. Giannini left with a 212–226 record at La Salle. On April 8, the school hired Villanova assistant Ashley Howard as head coach.

Offseason

Departures

Incoming transfers

2018 recruiting class

Roster

Schedule and results

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Swangrampur

Swangrampur is a census town within the jurisdiction of the Magrahat police station in the Magrahat II CD block in the Diamond Harbour subdivision of the South 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal.

Geography

Area overview
Diamond Harbour subdivision is a rural subdivision with patches of urbanization. Only 14.61% of the population lives in the urban areas and an overwhelming 85.39% lives in the rural areas. In the eastern portion of the subdivision (shown in the map alongside) there are 24 census towns. The entire district is situated in the Ganges Delta and the eastern part of the district is a flat plain area with small towns, many in clusters. Location of places in the larger map varies a little. It is an Open Street Map, while we are using coordinates as in Google maps.

Note: The map alongside presents some of the notable locations in the subdivision. All places marked in the map are linked in the larger full screen map.

Location
Swangarmpur is located at

Uttar Kalas, Dihi Kalas, Swangrampur and after a small gap Magrahat and Bilandapur form a cluster of census towns in the south-east corner of the Magrahat II CD block, as per the map of the Magrahat II CD block in the District Census Handbook for the South 24 Parganas. Dhamua, Shyampur and Nainan form another cluster of census towns closeby in the Magrahat II CD block.

Demographics
According to the 2011 Census of India, Swangrampur had a total population of 5,699 of which 2,918 (51%) were males and 2,781 (49%) were females. There were 901 persons in the age range of 0-6 years. The total number of literate people in Swangrampur was 5,699 (67.22% of the population over 6 years).

Infrastructure
According to the District Census Handbook 2011, Swangrampur covered an area of 0.9729 km2. Among the civic amenities, it had 17 km roads with open drains, the protected water supply involved overhead tank. It had 293 domestic electric connections. Among the medical facilities it had 1 maternity and child welfare centre, a dispensary/ health centre 1 km away, a family welfare centre 1 km away, a maternity home 1 km away, a veterinary hospital 1 km away and 5 medicine shops in the town. Among the educational facilities it had were 3 primary schools, the nearest secondary, senior secondary school, general degree college at Magrahat 1.5 km away. An important commodity it produced was embroidery work. It had the branch of a nationalised bank.

Transport
Bahirpuya Halt railway station is the nearest railway station.

Healthcare
Magrahat Rural Hospital, with 30 beds, at Magrahat, is the major government medical facility in the Magrahat II CD block.


Mama Khel

Mama Khel is a town and union council in Lakki Marwat District of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa. It is located at 32°51'1N 70°46'51E and has an altitude of 280 metres (921 feet).