1998 Davidoff Swiss Indoors – Singles

Greg Rusedski was the defending champion, but lost in the second round to David Prinosil.

Tim Henman won the title, defeating Andre Agassi 6–4, 6–3, 3–6, 6–4 in the final.

Seeds
A champion seed is indicated in bold text while text in italics indicates the round in which that seed was eliminated.

Draw

Finals

Top half

Bottom half


History of Chișinău

Chișinău has a recorded history that goes back to 1436. Since then, it has grown to become a significant political and cultural capital of South East Europe. In 1918 Chișinău became the capital of an independent state, the Moldavian Democratic Republic, and has been the capital of Moldova since 1991.

Foundation of the town

Founded in 1436 as a monastery village, the city was part of the Moldavian Principality. Chișinău was mentioned for the first time in 1436, when Moldavian princes Ilie and Ştefan gave several villages with the common name Cheseni near the Akbash well to one feudal lord Oancea for his good service. That year, Stephen III of Moldavia signed the donation to his uncle Vlaicu, who became the owner of the village Chișinău near the well Albișoara.

The second documentary attestation (this time about the village Chișinău) dates with the chronicles from 1466. Over the next centuries Chişinău's population steadily grows and at the beginning of the 19th century it had 7,000 inhabitants.

Măzărache Church is considered to be the oldest Chișinău, erected by Vasile Măzărache in 1752. It is a monument built according to the typical indigenous medieval Moldavian architecture of the 15-16th centuries; the church was built on the place on a fortress destroyed by the Ottomans in the 17th century. The stone block marking the location of the water spring that gave name to Chișinău is set at the foot of the hill upon which stands Măzărache Church. The name of the spring - "chisla noua" - is believed to be the archaic Romanian for "new spring".

During the Russo-Turkish Wars Chișinău was twice set on fire, in 1739 and 1788.

Built by the boyar Constantin Râşcanu in 1777, Râşcani Church stands top of the hill overlooking the Bâc River. At the time it was built, the Bâc River was navigable and formed a large reservoir in front of the church. There is a graveyard near the church in which some famous Moldavian personalities are buried.

In 1812 Chișinău came under Russian imperial administration. Having got an official status of town in 1818, Chişinău became a centre of the Bessarabian district and since 1873 the centre of the Bessarabian province. If from 1812 till 1818 the Chişinău population had increased from 7 up to 18 thousand people, by the end of the 19th century it had grown up to 110,000. The growth of population was due to the immigrants from Russian Empire. In 1856, Chişinău was the Russian Empire's fifth biggest city, after Saint Petersburg, Moscow, Odessa, and Riga.

The mayor of Chişinău office was established in 1817 as City Duma and its first mayors there were the captain Anghel Nour (1817–1821). Gavril Bănulescu-Bodoni was Metropolitan of Chişinău between 1812 and 1821. The Ştefan cel Mare Central Park was originally laid out in 1818.

Industrial age
By 1834, an imperial townscape with broad and long roads had emerged as a result of a generous development plan, which divided the city roughly into two areas: The old part of the town – with its irregular building structures – and a newer City Center and station. Between 26 May 1830 and 13 October 1836 the architect Avraam Melnikov established the 'Catedrala Naşterea Domnului'. In 1840 the building of the Triumphal arch, planned by the architect Luca Zaushkevich, was completed.

Since 1983 the National History Museum of Moldova has housed in a building erected in 1837. Initially the building was the headquarters of the City Duma, but in 1842 it became the Gymnasium (High School) for Boys No. 1 in Chişinău.

On August 28, 1871 Chişinău was linked by rail with Tiraspol and in 1873 with Corneşti. Chişinău-Ungheni-Iaşi railway was opened on June 1, 1875 in preparation for the Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878). The town played an important part in the war between Russia and Ottoman Empire, as the main staging area of the Russian invasion.

One of the most known mayors of Chişinău was Carol Schmidt, who led the city between 1877-1903. Alexander Bernardazzi was an important architect who built St. Teodora de la Sihla Church (1895) and Chişinău City Hall (1901).

A statue of Pushkin, who used to stroll the Ştefan cel Mare Central Park grounds in the early 1820s, was designed by Alexander Opekushin and erected in 1885, making Chişinău the second city after Moscow to have a Pushkin monument. Originally funded by the Chişinău inhabitants, it is the oldest surviving monument in the city.

Pogrom and pre-revolution

In the late 19th century, especially due to growing anti-Semitic sentiment in the Russian Empire and better economic conditions, many Jews chose to settle in Chişinău. Its population had grown to 92,000 by 1862 and to 125,787 by 1900. By the year 1900, 43% of the population of Chişinău was Jewish – one of the highest numbers in Europe.

A large anti-Semitic riot took place in the town on 6–7 April 1903, which would later be known as the Kishinev pogrom. The rioting continued for three days, resulting in 47–49 Jews dead, 92 severely wounded, and 500 suffering minor injuries. In addition, several hundred houses and many businesses were plundered and destroyed. The pogroms are largely believed to have been incited by anti-Jewish propaganda in the only official newspaper of the time, Bessarabetz (Бессарабецъ). The reactions to this incident included a petition to Tsar Nicholas II of Russia on behalf of the American people by the US President Theodore Roosevelt in July 1905.

On 22 August 1905 another violent event occurred, whereby the police opened fire on an estimated 3,000 demonstrating agricultural workers. Only a few months later, 19–20 October 1905, a further protest occurred, helping to force the hand of Nicholas II in bringing about the October Manifesto. However, these demonstrations suddenly turned into another anti-Jewish pogrom, resulting in 19 deaths.

Basarabia was the first Romanian language newspaper to be published in Bessarabian guberniya of the Russian Empire in 1906-1907. In March 1907, the newspaper published the Romanian patriotic song "Deşteaptă-te, române!" and was closed. Viaţa Basarabiei was a more moderate attempt to continue Basarabia'''s work, but in May 1907, it also ceased its publication. Luminătorul was founded in 1910 and Glasul Basarabiei in 1913. Basarabia Reînnoită and Făclia Ţării were closed at the request of the Russian authorities soon after the apparition.

World War I

Cuvânt moldovenesc was founded in June 1914 by Nicolae Alexandri and with the financial support of Vasile Stroescu. Soon after the February Revolution, Vasile Stroescu managed to persuade all major Bessarabian factions to leave internal fights and at four day meeting (–) the National Moldavian Party was created. In April 1917 the party leadership was elected. It was headed by Vasile Stroescu, having among its members Paul Gore (a renowned conservative), Vladimir Herţa, Pan Halippa (a renowned socialist), Onisifor Ghibu. Among the leaders of the party were general Matei Donici, Ion Pelivan, arhimandrit Gurie Grosu, Nicolae Alexandri, Teofil Ioncu, P. Grosu, Mihail Minciună, Vlad Bogos, F. Corobceanu, Gheorghe Buruiană, Simeon Murafa, Al. Botezat, Alexandru Groapă, Ion Codreanu, Vasile Gafencu.

During the World War I, other publications were: Şcoala Moldovenească, Cuvânt moldovenesc (magazine), România Nouă, Ardealul, Sfatul Țării.

On , Bolshevik troops occupied Chişinău, and the members of both Sfatul Țării and the Council of Directors fled, while some of them were arrested and sentenced to death. On the same day, a secret meeting of Sfatul Țării decided to send another delegation to Iaşi and ask for help from Romania. The Romanian government of Ion I. C. Brătianu decided to intervene, and on , the 9th Romanian Army under Gen. Broşteanu entered Chişinău. The Bolshevik troops retreated to Tighina, and after a battle retreated further beyond the Dniester.

For the first time in his history, Chişinău became the capital of an independent state on , when Sfatul Țării proclaimed the independence of the Moldavian Democratic Republic.

Interwar period
Between 1918 and 1940 the center of the city undertook large renovation work. The Capitoline Wolf was opened in 1926 and in 1928 the Stephen the Great Monument, by the sculptor Alexandru Plămădeală, was opened.

The first society of the Romanian writers in Chişinău was formed in 1920, among the members were Mihail Sadoveanu, Ştefan Ciobanu, Tudor Pamfile, Nicolae Dunăreanu, N.N.Beldiceanu, Apostol D.Culea.

The first scheduled flights to Chişinău started on 24 June 1926, on the route Bucharest – Galaţi – Iaşi – Chişinău. The flights were operated by Compagnie Franco-Roumaine de Navigation Aérienne - CFRNA, later LARES. The airport was near Chişinău, at Bulgarica-Ialoveni. This first flight Chişinău-Bucharest was marked by the launch of a postal stamps.

On 1 January 1919 the Municipal Conservatoire (the Academy of Music) was created in Chişinău, in 1927 - the Faculty of Theology, in 1934 the subsidiary of the Romanian Institute of social sciences, in 1939 - municipal picture gallery. The Agricultural State University of Moldova was founded in 1933 in Chişinău. The Museum of Fine Arts was founded in 1939 by the sculptor Alexandru Plămădeală. Gurie Grosu was the first Metropolitan of Bessarabia.

Viaţa Basarabiei was founded in 1932 by Pan Halippa and Misionarul in 1929. Radio Basarabia was launched on 8 October 1939, as the second radio station of the Romanian Radio Broadcasting Company. Writer and Journalist Bessarabian Society took an institutionalized form in 1940. First Congress of the Society elected as president Pan Halippa as Vice President Nicolae Spătaru, and as secretary general Nicolae Costenco.

In the interwar period mayors of Chişinău were Vladimir Hertza, Teodor Cojocaru, I. Levinski, Vasile Bârcă, Gherman Pântea, Nicolae Bivol, Sebastian Teodorescu, Ion Negrescu, Constantin Ionescu, Dimitrie Bogos, Ion Costin, Alexandru Sibirski, Constantin Dardan, Vladimir Cristi, Anibal Dobjanski. Those years the quantity of the city population was not increasing, and in June 1941 Chişinău had 110,000 people.

World War II
In the chaos of the Second World War Chişinău was almost completely destroyed. This began with the Soviet occupation by the Red Army on 28 June 1940. As the city began to recover from the takeover, a devastating earthquake occurred on 10 November 1940. The epicenter of the quake, which measured 7.3 on the Richter scale, was in eastern Romania and subsequently led to substantial destruction in the city.

After scarcely one year, the assault on the newly created Moldovan SSR by the German and Romanian armies began. Beginning with July 1941 the city suffered from large-scale shooting and heavy bombardments by Nazi air raids. On 16 July 1941 the Romanian flag was hoisted over the dome of the 'Catedrala Naşterea Domnului'. The Red Army resistance in Chişinău fell on 17 July 1941. Michael of Romania and Ion Antonescu visited Chişinău on 18 August 1941.

Following the occupation, the city suffered from the characteristic mass murder of its predominantly Jewish inhabitants. As had been seen elsewhere in Eastern Europe, the Jews were transported on trucks to the outskirts of the city and then summarily shot in partially dug pits. The number of Jews murdered during the initial occupation of the city is estimated at approximately 10,000 people.

As the war drew to a conclusion, the city was once more pulled into heavy fighting as German and Romanian troops retreated. On 24 August 1944 the Soviet warriors entered the city as a result of the Jassy-Kishinev Operation.

In the Soviet Union
After the war, Bessarabia was fully integrated into the Soviet Union. Most of Bessarabia became the Moldavian SSR with Chişinău as its capital; smaller parts of Bessarabia became parts of the Ukrainian SSR. Soon after the Soviet occupation of 1940, the political and social elite was deportated by the Soviet authorities. Formers mayors of Chişinău like Teodor Cojocaru and Pantelimon V. Sinadino died under custody in Soviet prisons. After the Soviet occupation, the Capitoline Wolf and the Monument to Simion Murafa, Alexei Mateevici and Andrei Hodorogea were destroyed in 1940 by the Soviet authorities.Portrete notorii Anti-Soviet organizations such as Democratic Agrarian Party, Freedom Party, Vocea Basarabiei were severely reprimanded.

In the years 1947 to 1949 the architect Alexey Shchusev developed a plan with the aid of a team of architects for the gradual reconstruction of the city. If in 1944 Chişinău only had 25,000 inhabitants, by 1950 it had had 50,000. There were constructed large-scale housing and palaces in the style of Stalinist architecture. This process continued under Nikita Khrushchev, who called for construction under the slogan "good, cheaper and built faster". In 1971 the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union adopted a decision "On the measures for further development of the city of Kishinev", which secured more than one billion rubles in investment from the state budget,. The new architectural style brought about dramatic change and generated the style that dominates today, with large blocks of flats. The terminal of the Chişinău International Airport was built in 1970 and reconstructed in 2000. A 17-story administrative building was erected in the 1980s in Central Chişinău.

The Moldova State University was created in 1946, Academy of Sciences of Moldova in 1949, Chişinău Botanical Garden in 1950, «Moldova-Film» in 1957, Luceafărul Theatre in 1960. The National Palace, Chişinău was opened in 1974, the Organ Hall on 15 September 1978, the new building of the National Opera-House in 1980, the Moldovan State Circus in 1982.

The idea of a sculptural complex in Central Chişinău was launched by Alexandru Plămădeală in the 1930s, but just during the Khrushchev Thaw, the Alley of Classics was unveiled on April 29, 1958. The first television from Chişinău, Moldova 1, was launched on April 30, 1958, at 7:00 pm. Nicolae Lupan was the first chief redactor of TeleRadio-Moldova. Union of Journalists of Moldova was formed in 1957.

Between 1969 and 1971, a clandestine National Patriotic Front was established by several young intellectuals in Chişinău, totaling over 100 members, vowing to fight for the establishment of a Moldavian Democratic Republic, its secession from the Soviet Union and union with Romania. In December 1971, the leaders of the National Patriotic Front, Alexandru Usatiuc-Bulgăr, Gheorghe Ghimpu, Valeriu Graur, and Alexandru Şoltoianu were arrested and later sentenced to long prison terms.

Literatura şi Arta was a publication of the Moldovan Writers' Union founded in 1977; also, Sud-Est (magazine) was founded in 1977.

In 1989-91, the Stephen the Great Monument was the focal point of meetings and clashes between anti Soviet activists and pro-Soviet supporters. In 1990, Romania donated a new copy of Capitoline Wolf; the statue was unveiled in front of the National History Museum of Moldova on December 1, 1990.

At the end of the soviet rule were established new publication as Glasul, Deşteptarea, Ţara, Sfatul Țării, Limba Română. The Popular Front of Moldova was formed in 1989.

After independence

In 1990 the office of mayor was reestablished in the Republic. In 1990 Nicolae Costin became the first elected mayor of Chişinău. Many streets of Chişinău are named after historic persons, places or events. Independence from the Soviet Union was followed by a large-scale renaming of streets and localities from a Communist theme into a national one. The first diplomatic mission in Chişinău, the Romanian Embassy, was opened on January 20, 1992. BASA-press was the first independent news agency in Chişinău.

From 1994, under Serafim Urechean, Chişinău saw the construction and launch of new trolleybus lines, as well as an increase in capacities of existing lines, in order to improve connections between the urban districts.

In 1995, elections for the post of mayor of Chişinău were held on July 10, July 24, November 27, and December 11.

On 7 October 2002 and 8–9 October 2009, in Chişinău were held summits of the Commonwealth of Independent States. Delegation of the European Union to Moldova was opened in 2007.

The Memorial to victims of Stalinist repression and the Monument to Doina and Ion Aldea Teodorovici were opened in the 1990s and the Monument to the Victims of the Soviet Occupation was opened in 2010.

After the independence were established new publication as Gazeta Românească, Jurnal de Chişinău, Moldova Suverană, Timpul de dimineaţă, Moldavskie Vedomosti, Ziarul de Gardă. Formed in 2000, Vocea Basarabiei moved to Chişinău in 2005. In 2010 were established two 24-hour News TV stations, Jurnal TV and Publika TV.

2009 civil unrest

The 2009 civil unrest began on April 7, 2009 after the results of the 2009 Moldovan parliamentary election were announced. Demonstrators protested over fraud claims in elections, which saw the governing Party of Communists of the Republic of Moldova win a majority of seats. Valeriu Boboc, Ion Ţâbuleac, Eugen Ţapu, and Maxim Canişev died during the protests. In the aftermath, a decision was taken to erect a Monument of Liberty; however, , no construction has taken place.

Population
If from 1812 till 1818 the Chişinău population had increased from 7 up to 18 thousand people, by the end of the 19th century it had grown up to 110,000. The growth of population was due to the immigrants from Russian Empire. In the late 19th century, especially due to growing anti-Semitic sentiment in the Russian Empire and better economic conditions, many Jews chose to settle in Chişinău. Its population had grown to 92,000 by 1862 and to 125,787 by 1900. By the year 1900, 43% of the population of Chişinău was Jewish. In the interwar period the quantity of the city population was not increasing, and in June 1941 Chişinău had 110,000 people. The birth of the 500,000 Chişinău inhabitant was celebrated in 1979.

The population of the city is 592,900 (2007) which grows to 911,400 in the entire metropolitan area.

Etymology
According to one version, the name comes from the archaic Romanian word chişla (meaning "spring", "source of water") and nouă ("new"), because it was built around a small spring. Nowadays, the spring is located at the corner of Pushkin and Albişoara streets.

An alternative version, by Ştefan Ciobanu holds it, that the name was formed the same way as the name of Chişineu (alternative spelling: Chişinău) in Western Romania, near the border with Hungary. Its Hungarian name is Kisjenő, from which the Romanian name originates. Kisjenő in turn comes from kis "small" + the "Jenő" tribe, one of the seven Hungarian tribes that entered the Carpathian Basin in 896 and gave the name of 21 settlements.

Chişinău is also known in Russian as Кишинёв (Kishinyov). It is written Kişinöv'' in the Latin Gagauz alphabet. It was also written as "Кишинэу" in the Moldovan Cyrillic alphabet in Soviet times. Historically, the English language name for the city, "Kishinev", was based on the modified Russian one because it entered the English language via Russian at the time Chişinău was part of the Russian Empire (e.g. Kishinev pogrom). Therefore, it remains a common English name in some historical contexts. Otherwise, however, the Romanian-based "Chişinău" has been steadily gaining wider currency, especially in the written language.

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History
 1920: Kushiro Village split from old Kushiro Town (now Kushiro City).
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 1980: Kushiro Village becomes Kushiro Town.


Dománovice

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Greg Keenan

Greg Keenan (born 2 September 1970) is an Australian sports agent and former professional rugby league footballer who played for the South Sydney Rabbitohs and the Illawarra Steelers in the NSWRL in the early 1990s.

Rugby league career
A winger from the town of Griffith, Keenan attended St. Gregory's College in Campbelltown and toured with the Australian Schoolboys team in 1988.

Keenan played first-grade for South Sydney from 1991 to 1993, making a total of 12 premiership appearances. His two tries at first-grade level both came in a win over Parramatta at Sydney Football Stadium in 1992. He finished his career with Illawarra and featured in the first five rounds of the 1994 NSWRL season.

Sports agent
Keenan, who is qualified as a lawyer, is the CEO of sports agency Aspire Management, which he founded in 1996.


Fritz Neumeyer

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Neumeyer held the chair and professorship for Theory of Architecture at the Technische Universität Berlin. Among other academic appointments, Neumeyer taught at Princeton University and Leuven University. Neumeyer is considered the foremost scholar on the modernist architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. Neumeyer's most famous book is titled "The Artless Word. Mies van der Rohe on the Building Art", originally published in German in 1986.


Volga Star

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Her home port is currently Rostov-on-Don. Captain of the Igor Stravinskiy (2011) is Gennady Cherkashin.

Features
The ship has two restaurants, "Vena" and "Sankt-Peterburg", two bars, conference hall, sauna and library.


American Anime Awards

The American Anime Awards were a series of awards designed to recognize excellence in the release of anime and manga in North America.

The first and, as of 2016, only annual American Anime Awards balloting was supervised by Milton Griepp of industry website ICv2. The first gala awards presentation was hosted in New York City on February 24, 2007 at New York Comic Con. The hosts of the evening were eight actresses from the anime production company ADV Films: Christine Auten, Shelley Calene-Black, Jessica Boone, Luci Christian, Alice Fulks, Hilary Haag, Taylor Hannah and Serena Varghese. A streaming version of the one-hour awards ceremony can be seen on IGN.com. The awards were later broadcast on the Anime Network.

Voting information
The ballots contained nominations from industry companies and professionals. To be eligible for an award, anime or manga must be available in the U.S. during the previous year, prior to the awards gala. Whether by DVD (or book or periodical, in the case of manga), national TV, or theatrical release. Anime and manga are defined, as animation or comics, respectively, originally produced in Japan.

Voting was conducted via an online ballot system. The American Anime Awards partnered with respected industry news site ICv2 to host and track the fan voting to ensure accurate voting and to eliminate any mass voting by single individuals. Fans cast their votes at www.americananimeawards.com starting on January 1, 2007 and ending on January 31, 2007.

Award nominees
Winners are denoted in bold

Best Anime Feature
Akira
Final Fantasy VII Advent Children
Fullmetal Alchemist: Conqueror of Shamballa
InuYasha Movie 4: Fire on Mystic Island
Pokémon: Lucario and the Mystery of Mew

Best Comedy Anime
Ah! My Goddess
FLCL
Kodocha
Ranma ½ashu best actor
Tenchi Muyo Ryo-Ohki

Best Long Series
Naruto
InuYasha
Rurouni Kenshin
Fullmetal Alchemist
Samurai Champloo

Best Short Series
Elfen Lied
FLCL
Gravitation TV
Hellsing Ultimate
Ranma ½ OAV

Best Manga
Bleach
Neon Genesis Evangelion
Death Note
Naruto
Fruits Basket

Best Actor
Johnny Yong Bosch (Akira, Bleach, Eureka Seven)
Crispin Freeman (Hellsing Ultimate, Noein, Revolutionary Girl Utena)
Richard Hayworth (Rurouni Kenshin)
Yuri Lowenthal (Naruto)
Vic Mignogna (Fullmetal Alchemist, Macross)

Best Actress
Luci Christian (Princess Tutu)
Susan Dalian (Naruto)
Maile Flanagan (Naruto)Mary Elizabeth McGlynn (Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex 2nd GIG)Michelle Ruff (Bleach, Lupin the Third)

Best Actor in a Comedy
Greg Ayres (Negima, Nerima Daikon Brothers)
Johnny Yong Bosch (Akira)
Liam O'Brien (Comic Party, DNA Squared, Girls Bravo)
Tony Oliver (Lupin III)Dave Wittenberg (Zatch Bell)Best Actress in a Comedy
Laura Bailey (Kodocha)
Luci Christian (Desert Punk, Negima, Nerima Daikon Brothers)Debi Derryberry (Zatch Bell)Hilary Haag (Paniponi Dash)
Michelle Ruff (Lupin the 3rd)

Best Cast
FLCLFullmetal AlchemistGhost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex 2nd GIG
Inuyasha
Naruto

Best DVD Package Design
Bleach Volume 1
Final Fantasy VII Advent ChildrenFullmetal AlchemistHellsing Ultimate Volume 1: Limited Edition
Naruto Uncut Box Set 1

Best Anime Theme Song
"*: Asterisk" by Orange Range, Bleach
"Heart of Sword--Yoake Mae" by T.M. Revolution, Rurouni Kenshin"Rewrite" by Asian Kung-Fu Generation, Fullmetal Alchemist'"Ride on Shooting Star" by The Pillows, FLCL"Rise" by Origa, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex 2nd GigSpecial Award for Outstanding Achievement
 Awarded to Peter Fernandez

Criticism
The nominating and voting process has received criticism from fans for lack of clarity and being too inclusive: for example, while some acting nominees are specifically cited for one or more series, others are cited for none at all, leaving it to the voter to decide if they should consider the series specifically mentioned, or the actor's entire body of work. Also, since evidently any anime that was released in any way in 2006 is eligible for nomination, some actors have been nominated for work done years or even decades ago. Another criticism was the apparent error of including Johnny Yong Bosch as Best Actor in a Comedy despite the fact Akira'' is not a comedy.

Coverage
The news of the awards were announced on major websites on affiliated websites like ICv2, but was also reported and followed like IGN.


Adele Ajosun

Oba Adele or Adele Ajosun (died 1837) reigned twice as Oba of Lagos; first, from c1811 to 1821, and a second time from 1835 to 1837. His father was Oba Ologun Kutere and his siblings were Obas Osinlokun and Akitoye, thus the Ologun Kutere line has remained the dominant line in the Obaship of Lagos.

Ascendancy
Adele ascended the Obaship of Lagos after the approximate 5 year interregnum following the death of his father Ologun Kutere. Some written and oral sources note that Ologun Kutere desired that Adele become Oba because of Adele's faithful service to Ologun Kutere. Historian John. B. Losi wrote about Adele's care of Ologun Kutere's property while the Lander brothers (Richard and John Lander) note Adele's mechanical aptitude.

During Adele's reign the Islamic faith spread in Lagos and his popularity is reported to have decreased among Lagosians because his children introduced the Egun masquerade, which at the time was seen as unbecoming.

Osinlokun's coup and Adele's exile to Badagry
Around 1820 or 1821, and as was the tradition before 1852 when Lagos exercised more independence from the Benin Empire, Adele attempted to accompany Ologun Kutere's remains to Benin for burial, however, Osinlokun and his supporters forcibly prevented Adele from doing so and in the process usurped the Obaship from Adele. Adele was now exiled to Badagry where he assumed headship of the town. In 1825, while in Badagry, Adele attempted to violently retake the Lagos throne with the help of the British Navy but his efforts were futile. He reportedly sank into depression when a gunpowder explosion destroyed his home, property, and followers.

Second term following Idewu Ojulari's ritual suicide
Osinlokun died in 1829 and was succeeded by his son Idewu Ojulari.

After Oba Idewu Ojulari was compelled by Lagosians (around 1834/5) through the Oba of Benin to commit ritual suicide, Idewu's brother prince Kosoko should have been made king but because of Kosoko's impetuous nature resulting in taking a woman betrothed to Eletu Odibo, an ensuing feud prevented Eletu Odibo from installing Kosoko king. As a result, Adele (uncle to Kosoko and Idewu) was invited from Badagry to become Oba.

Marriage to Madam Tinubu
While visiting Abeokuta as an exiled Oba in 1833, Adele was charmed by Madam Tinubu and married her. They moved to Badagry which was traditionally the place of refuge for Lagos monarchs and was where Tinubu exploited Adele's connections to build a formidable business trading in tobacco, salt, and slaves.

Death
Adele died in 1837 and was succeeded as Oba by his son, Oluwole.


Blepephaeus lignosus

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Debonair (magazine)

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History and profile
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Debonair has also featured a number of Indian film actresses on its cover when they were just beginning their careers. This includes Juhi Chawla and Madhuri Dixit, photographed by the famous photographer Gautam Rajadhyaksha.


St Barnabas' Church, Morecambe

St Barnabas' Church is in Regent Road, Morecambe, Lancashire, England.  It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Lancaster and Morecambe, the archdeaconry of Lancaster, and the diocese of Blackburn.

History
The church was partially built between 1898 and 1900 to a design by the Lancaster architects Austin and Paley.  At this time the chancel, five bays of the nave, and the north aisle were constructed at a cost of £4,214 ().  In 1904 a font was installed, and in 1913 the south aisle and an organ chamber were added.  A parish hall was built across the west end in 1961.

Present day
The worship at St Barnabas is in the catholic tradition of th Church of England. The parish priest is Fr Michael Childs, who was instituted and inducted as Vicar of the parish in September 2018.

Architecture

St Barnabas' Church is designed in "free Perpendicular" style, and is described as being "low and solid".  It has aisles that run through to the east end.  Inside, the nave has three-bay arcades carried on alternating round and octagonal piers.  Between the nave and the chancel is a low wall that incorporates the pulpit.  The stained glass dates between the 1970s and 1989, other than glass from the late 19th century that was re-set in 1989.  The three manual organ was made by Wadsworth and Brother.


Needle Peak (British Columbia)

Needle Peak is a prominent  mountain summit located in the Coquihalla Summit Recreation Area, in the North Cascades of southwestern British Columbia, Canada. It is situated immediately southwest of Coquihalla Summit, and  south-southwest of Yak Peak. Due to its close proximity to the Coquihalla Highway, the mountain is a popular hiking destination in summer, and skiing and snowshoeing in winter. Precipitation runoff from the peak drains into tributaries of the Coquihalla River. The mountain's descriptive name was officially adopted on October 6, 1936, by the Geographical Names Board of Canada.

Geology

During the Pleistocene period dating back over two million years ago, glaciation advancing and retreating repeatedly scoured the landscape leaving deposits of rock debris. The "U"-shaped cross section of the river valleys are a result of recent glaciation. Uplift and faulting in combination with glaciation have been the dominant processes which have created the tall peaks and deep valleys of the North Cascades area.

The North Cascades features some of the most rugged topography in the Cascade Range with craggy peaks and ridges, deep glacial valleys, and granite spires. Geological events occurring many years ago created the diverse topography and drastic elevation changes over the Cascade Range leading to various climate differences which lead to vegetation variety defining the ecoregions in this area.

Climate

Based on the Köppen climate classification, Needle Peak is located in the marine west coast climate zone of western North America. Most weather fronts originate in the Pacific Ocean, and travel east toward the Cascade Range where they are forced upward by the range (Orographic lift), causing them to drop their moisture in the form of rain or snowfall. As a result, the Cascade Mountains experience high precipitation, especially during the winter months in the form of snowfall. Temperatures can drop below −20 °C with wind chill factors below −30 °C. The months July through September offer the most favorable weather for climbing Needle Peak.

Climbing Routes

Established climbing routes on Needle Peak:

 West Ridge -  Trail hiking and easy scrambling
 South Face -
 Northeast Ridge -
 Southeast Buttress -


Wally (Wallabies mascot)

Wally is the name of the official mascot of the Australian rugby union team, the Wallabies.

Wally is a wallaby.

The stuffed toy version of the mascot is carried with the Wallabies on overseas tours to Europe. It then becomes the duty of the youngest member of the touring party to protect the mascot from pranks by older players to hide and sabotage it. It is considered an embarrassment to the protector if Wally is not safely guarded.   The protector is forced to hold Wally at all times.  It becomes a source of entertainment for senior players when the team is out socialising.

Events
When Berrick Barnes was forced to protect Wally during the 2007 World Cup in France he had to stitch it up several times and perform a search of every member's hotel room to retrieve it, despite the help of Lote Tuqiri.

During the 2008 tour it became a long-running joke among the players that the mascot could be used by 18-year-old James O'Connor to break the ice with young ladies.

In May 2007 a Welsh rugby fan was ejected from a stadium in Sydney during a match for attempting to dance with the life-size version of Wally.


Nick Ebert

Nick Ebert (born May 11, 1994) is an American professional ice hockey defenseman who is currently playing for the Hartford Wolf Pack in the American Hockey League (AHL) while under contract to the New York Rangers of the National Hockey League (NHL). He was drafted in the seventh round, 211th overall, in the 2012 NHL Entry Draft by the Los Angeles Kings.

Playing career

Junior
Ebert was drafted in the first round, 17th overall, by the Windsor Spitfires in the 2010 OHL Draft. Ebert was named to the OHL First All-Rookie Team at the conclusion of the 2010-2011 season. Originally considered to be a top draft pick, a poor sophomore season led to Ebert dropping to the seventh round of the 2012 NHL Entry Draft where he was picked by the Los Angeles Kings as the last pick in the draft. On December 3, 2013, he was traded to the Guelph Storm along with captain Kerby Rychel in exchange for Brody Milne and eight OHL Draft picks. Ebert was assigned to the Ontario Reign after the conclusion of the 2012–13 OHL season to help them compete in the playoffs.  Ebert was returned to the OHL for the following season where he helped Storm win the J. Ross Robertson Cup as OHL Champions.

Professional
Ebert signed a three-year entry-level contract with the Kings on May 28, 2014. He won the Calder Cup with the Manchester Monarchs the following season. In June 2016, Ebert was traded by the Los Angeles Kings to the Dallas Stars in exchange for Jack Campbell.

In the 2016–17 season, after attending the Dallas Stars training camp, Ebert was assigned for the duration of the year to AHL affiliate, the Texas Stars. In solidifying a top-four role on the blueline with Texas, Ebert produced a career-best 9 goals and 16 assists for 25 points in 68 games.

As an un-signed free agent over the summer, Ebert paused his North American career by agreeing to sign with HC Slovan Bratislava of the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL) on August 7, 2017.

In February 2018, Ebert extended his European career by leaving out of contention Bratislava after 44 games to sign with Swedish club, Örebro HK of the Swedish Hockey League (SHL). In his first full season with Örebro in 2018–19, he led the team in average time-on-ice and with 33 points in 49 games. His 33 points ranked fourth among league defenseman.

In June 2019, Ebert, with hopes of revitalizing his North American professional hockey career, used his NHL out-clause to secure his release from Örbero in signing a one-year, two-way contract with the Ottawa Senators of the NHL.

After participating in the Senators training camp, Ebert was re-assigned to begin the 2019–20 season with AHL affiliate, the Belleville Senators. After just one game in Belleville, on October 7, 2019, Ebert was traded by the Senators, along with a fourth-round pick in the 2021 NHL Entry Draft, to the New York Rangers in exchange for Russian forward Vladislav Namestnikov.

Career statistics

Awards and honors


Vivian Kingma

Vivian Jilling Kingma (born 23 October 1994) is a Dutch cricketer. He played for the Netherlands in the 2014 ICC World Twenty20 tournament. He was initially selected in the Netherlands' squad for the 2015 ICC World Twenty20 Qualifier tournament in July 2015, but was replaced by Roelof van der Merwe. He made his Twenty20 International debut for the Netherlands against Scotland on 5 February 2016.

In December 2017, he took a hat-trick and his first five-wicket haul in List A cricket while playing for the Netherlands against Namibia in the 2015–17 ICC World Cricket League Championship.

In July 2019, he was selected to play for the Rotterdam Rhinos in the inaugural edition of the Euro T20 Slam cricket tournament. However, the following month the tournament was cancelled.


Crafty Hands

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Track listing
"Service with a Smile" (Ron Riddle, Greg Hawkes) – 2:44
"Morning Sun" (Kit Watkins)  – 4:05
"Ibby It Is" (Frank Wyatt) – 7:50
"Steaming Pipes" (Stanley Whitaker) – 5:30
"Wind Up Doll Day Wind" (Watkins, Whitaker, Wyatt) – 7:06
"Open Book" (Wyatt) – 4:53
"I Forgot to Push It" (Watkins) – 3:08
"The Moon, I Sing (Nossuri)" (Watkins) – 6:16

Personnel
Stanley Whitaker - six and twelve string guitars, vocals (5)
Frank Wyatt - pianos, harpsichord, saxes, flute, words
Kit Watkins - pianos, harpsichord, Moog synthesizer, fake strings, clavinet, 33, recorder
Rick Kennell - bass
Ron Riddle - drums, percussion


Lodgement (disambiguation)

Lodgement is a military term meaning an enclave taken by and defended by force.

Lodgement may also refer to:

 Lodgement (finance), a banking or tax term in some countries
 Lodgement, a type of glacial till


Sam Walsh (footballer)

Samuel Peter Walsh (born 2 July 2000) is a professional Australian rules footballer playing for the Carlton Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). He was awarded the 2019 NAB Rising Star Award. He was drafted by Carlton with their first selection which was also the first overall in the 2018 national draft.

Early life
Walsh played his under-18s football with the Geelong Falcons, in the then-named TAC Cup. He impressed massively and was touted as a sure-fire number 1 draft pick. Sam Walsh averaged an astounding 32 disposals a game as their co-captain, which bolstered his draft stock. Labelled as the 'best pure midfielder in the draft', Walsh also played in the NAB Under 18 Championships, where he represented Vic Country as captain. He amassed an average of 29 disposals in the tournament, and also won the Larke Medal as the best player in the competition.

He completed high school at  St Joseph's College, Geelong in 2018.

AFL career
At the 2018 National Draft, Walsh was drafted number 1 by the Carlton Football Club. This was not seen as a surprise to many, who had expected him to be a lock for the first pick. Walsh was given the number 18 and impressed many during pre-season. Sam made his debut in Round 1 of the 2019 AFL season against  at the MCG, where he finished with 24 disposals. He kicked his first goal against  in round 3.

Walsh earned an AFL Rising Star nomination in Round 4, following Carlton's two point loss to , after collecting 28 possessions (13 contested), seven clearances, six tackles and a goal. He also earned a contract extension with the Blues, keeping him at the club until 2022.
Sam was awarded with the 2019 AFL rising star.

Statistics
 Statistics are correct to the end of round 22, 2019.

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Tabal

Tabal (c.f. biblical Tubal) was a Luwian speaking Neo-Hittite kingdom of South Central Anatolia. According to archaeologist Kurt Bittel, the kingdom of Tabal first appeared after the collapse of the Hittite Empire.

The Assyrian king Shalmaneser III records that he received gifts from their 24 kings in 837 BC and the following year. A century later, their king Burutash is mentioned in an inscription of king Tiglath-Pileser III. The kings of Tabal have left a number of inscriptions from the 9th-8th centuries BC in hieroglyphic-Luwian in the Turkish villages of Çalapverdi and Alişar.

Tabal and its people are often identified with the tribe of the Tibareni (Tibarenoi in Greek, Thobeles in Josephus) who lived near the Black Sea. They are mentioned in the works of Hecataeus of Miletus, Herodotus, Xenophon and Strabo.
On this ground, the Georgian historian Ivane Javakhishvili (1950) considered Tabal, Tubal, Jabal and Jubal to be an early Kartvelian tribal designation. Whether there is really any connection between the Tibareni of the Black Sea coast and the Tabal kingdom of Southern Anatolia is uncertain, ancient authors may have already confused the two.

The known rulers of Tabal are:

 Tuwati I (Assyrian Tuatti), c. 837 BC
 Kikki, son of  Tuwati I, c. 837 BC
 Tuwati II, mid 8th century BC
 Wasusarmas (Assyrian Wassurme), son of Tuwati II, c. 740 - 730 BC
 Hulli, 730 - 726 BC
 Ambaris, son of Hulli, c. 721 - 713 BC
Hidi c. 690 BC
 Iškallu c. 679 BC
 Mugallu/Mukalli c. 670, 663, 651 BC
x-ussi, son of Mugallu (ca. 650/640 BC)

Bibliography
 Ivane Javakhishvili. Historical-Ethnological problems of Georgia, the Caucasus and the Near East. Tbilisi, 1950, pp. 130–135 (in Georgian)
 Simon Janashia. Works, vol. III. Tbilisi, 1959, pp. 2–74 (in Georgian)
 Nana Khazaradze. The Ethnopolitical entities of Eastern Asia Minor in the first half of the 1st millennium BC. Tbilisi, 1978, pp. 3–139 (in Georgian, Russian and English)


The Great Pacific War

The Great Pacific War was a 1925 novel by British author Hector Charles Bywater which discussed a hypothetical future war between Japan and the United States. The novel accurately predicted a number of details about the Pacific Campaign of World War II.  Bywater was a naval correspondent for the London Daily Telegraph.

Plot

In The Great Pacific War, the war begins with a Japanese invasion of Manchuria, Formosa and Korea.  Japan then stages a surprise attack which results in the nearly complete destruction of the Panama Canal, by exploding a freighter full of explosives in the Gaillard Cut.

Legacy

In Infamy: Pearl Harbor and Its Aftermath, John Toland states that Isoroku Yamamoto was in the US in 1925 and might have read the New York newspapers' reviews of "The Great Pacific War," which was translated into Japanese and read by senior officers of the Japanese Imperial Navy.

Bywater died in August 1940, just a year before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. His novel inspired the 2016 novel East Wind: War in the Pacific, by Eamon McCarthy Earls, with the aggressor being China, instead of Japan.


It's My Life (Dr. Alban song)

"It's My Life" is a song by the Nigerian-Swedish artist Dr. Alban. It was released in April 1992 as the first single from his second studio album, One Love. The song was a hit in most of the European countries where it was released, peaking at number one in Sweden, Austria, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and Belgium and number two in the UK. In France, the song was marketed twice: first in 1992, then in 1993 because the song was used in a TV advert for Tampax tampons (as it was in the UK and other countries in Europe in 1992), thus giving to the single a second career. According to Infodisc website, about 91,000 copies of the single were sold in France.  The song had enough airplay on US college radio stations to reach the Billboard Modern rock tracks in 1992. "It's My Life" was re-released in 1994 in Australia, following the success of "Sing Hallelujah".

Critical reception
Billboard magazine wrote about the song: "European rapper/toaster has previously been heralded for his sturdy dancehall releases. This time, however, he aims for mainstream approval with a gem of a jam that carefully skirts the line dividing hi-NRG and rave sectors. Anthemic chants are placed within a percolating vat of keyboard and percussion effects that will kick during peak-hour sets."

Track listings
 CD single
 "It's My Life" (radio edit) — 4:00
 "It's My Life" (club edit) — 4:07

 CD maxi
 "It's My Life" (radio edit) — 4:00
 "It's My Life" (extended) — 7:43
 "It's My Life" (extended radio) — 7:03

Personnel
Composers
John Amatiello - Composer
Chuck Anthony - Composer, Vocals (Background)
Dr. Alban - Composer
Jörgen Elofsson - Composer
Peo Haggstrom - Composer
Kristian Lundin - Composer
Sonny Okosun - Composer
Todd Terry - Composer
Errol Thompson - Composer
Jorge Vasconcelo - Composer

Vocals
Dr. Alban (primary artist)
Chuck Anthony (Background vocals)
Atari
Kofi Benitez & The Girls (Background vocals)
Anneli Berg (Background vocals)
Marilyn Bergman  (Background vocals))
Giovanna Bragazza (Background vocals)
Gladys Delpilar (Background vocals)
Toro Paola Choir (Background vocals)
Poe & The Afrikan Conga Association (Background vocals)
Rico (Background vocals)
Bjorn Strom (Background vocals)

Technical
Douglas Carr - Engineer, Producer
Björn Engelmann - Mastering
Anders Hansson	- Arranger
Rene "JM Fax" Hedemyr - Producer
Denniz Pop - Producer
Gundars Rullis - Engineer

Charts and certifications

Weekly charts
It's My Life

Year-end charts

Certifications

Other uses
The song was used in a TV advert for Tampax tampons (as it was in the UK and other countries in Europe in 1992), thus giving to the single a second career.

The song was featured in the 1993 Bollywood film Baazigar and 1994 Bollywood film Suhaag.

It was covered by Grup Vitamin, famous Turkish parody group, as "İsmail" at Yandık Desene album in 1992 and Endoplazmik Retikulum one in 2015.

The song was used the first air and song in Chilean radio Rock & Pop in December 1, 1992

It's My Life (Don't Worry)

In 2014, a remake of the song was released by Moroccan singer Chawki featuring vocals by Dr. Alban. The song with amended lyrics also known as "It's My Life (Don't Worry)" was produced by RedOne and released on RedOne Records. A music video was also shot for the release. The single charted in the French SNEP official Singles Chart.

Chawki also released a bilingual English/French version of the song titled "It's My Life (C'est Ma Vie)"

Charts


Nick Goiran

Nicolas Pierre "Nick" Goiran (born 15 October 1977) is an Australian politician.

Born in Sydney, he was a barrister and solicitor in private practice before entering politics, holding a Bachelor of Commerce and a Bachelor of Law. In 2008, he was elected to the Western Australian Legislative Council as a Liberal Party member, representing South Metropolitan Region. His term commenced on 22 May 2009.

Goiran is a socially conservative parliamentarian who in 2019 orchestrated a marathon filibuster against legislation allowing single men and men in same-sex relationships to access altruistic surrogacy arrangements.


Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt

Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt (5 May 190028 May 1973) was a German conductor and composer.

Early life
Born in Berlin, he studied music in Heidelberg and Münster.  He was also a composition student with Franz Schreker at the Berlin Hochschule für Musik, and received a doctorate in 1923.

Career
He was a repetiteur at the Wuppertal Opera starting in 1923.  He held conducting positions at the opera houses of Rostock (1928-1931) and Darmstadt (1931-1933).  He had the post of first conductor at the Hamburg State Opera from 1935 to 1943.  In 1944, he was named music director at the Berlin State Opera.

In 1945, after the end of World War II, the British military authorities invited Schmidt-Isserstedt (who had avoided joining the Nazi Party) to found an orchestra at the North German Radio in Hamburg. Six months later, he assembled the North German Radio Symphony Orchestra and conducted its first concert in November 1945.  He was subsequently the orchestra's first principal conductor. During his years in this role, he became an advocate of music by composers whose music had been outlawed in Germany during the Third Reich: such as Béla Bartók, Igor Stravinsky and Paul Hindemith. His favorite composer, however, was Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, he made several recordings and gave many notable performances of his works; in particular his recordings of Mozart's operas Idomeneo and La finta giardiniera are greatly admired.

In 1948, and again in 1949, he was guest conductor with the Radio Éireann Symphony Orchestra.

From 1955 to 1964, he was principal conductor also of the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. He conducted memorable performances of The Marriage of Figaro at the Glyndebourne Festival in 1958, and of Tristan und Isolde at The Royal Opera, Covent Garden in 1962.

He made a well-regarded recording of all the Beethoven symphonies with the Wiener Philharmoniker. In Germany, he was a noted champion of the music of Michael Tippett.

Schmidt-Isserstedt's own compositions included songs, the opera Hassan gewinnt (Rostock, 1928), and works for orchestra.  His son was the British record producer Erik Smith.

Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt died in Holm, Pinneberg, West Germany, in 1973.

Recordings
In 1937 he conducted the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra and Georg Kulenkampff in a rendition of Robert Schumann's Violin Concerto in D minor.  The original has been restored and reissued by Heritage Records here.

In 2002 Decca Records issued a box set of Schmidt-Isserstedt's recordings of all Beethoven's symphonies, piano concertos, some overtures and his violin concerto.

In 1988 Membran (reissue of Acanta, 1972) issued Reger's Eine Romantische Suite op. 125 and Vier Tondichtungen nach Arnold Bocklin op. 128.

Sources
Hans Christoph Worbs. The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, edited by Stanley Sadie (1992),   and


The 2016–17 Western Sydney Wanderers W-League season was the club's fifth season in the W-League, the premier competition for women's football in Australia. The team played home games at Marconi Stadium and Popondetta Park in Sydney.

Players

Transfers in

Transfers out

Contract extensions

Managerial staff

Statistics

Squad statistics

Competitions

W-League

League table

Results summary

Results by round

Fixtures


William Henry Brown (aviator)

Lieutenant William Henry Brown was a Canadian World War I flying ace credited with nine aerial victories.

Early life
William Henry Brown was born in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada on 12 March 1894. He joined the 1st Canadian Signal Corps of the Canadian Expeditionary Force to serve in World War I. After two years with Signals, he transferred to the Royal Flying Corps in early 1917.

World War I
By August 1917, Brown was posted to 84 Squadron as a fighter pilot. He scored his first aerial victory with them on 26 November 1917, and would continue to score with them until 3 April 1918. Five days later, he was transferred off combat duty and returned to Home Establishment in England. He won a Military Cross for his valour. As the award citation makes clear, his bravery in dogfights was not the only reason for his medal; ground attacks against enemy troops were also prized.

Brown's Military Cross was gazetted on 22 June 1918:

Post World War I
Although Brown survived the war, his subsequent life is a mystery until his death on 28 February 1969 in Steilacoom, Washington, USA.

List of aerial victories

Endnotes


Kuningas Lear

Kuningas Lear (King Lear) is an opera in two acts by Aulis Sallinen, with a libretto by the composer, based on the play by William Shakespeare and premiered in 2000; it was Sallinen's sixth opera.

Background
Kuningas Lear was commissioned by and first performed by Finnish National Opera on 15 September 2000 at the Finnish National Opera House. Sallinen has spoken of the major thought that went into recreating the dramaturgy of the piece, shortening sections and deleting characters from the cast. His aim was in general to remove as much as possible of the narrative elements and mainly concentrate on the "very strong poetical scenes". He insisted that the work requires "big singing".

Sallinen was particularly inspired by knowing the cast from the start, especially leading Finnish singers Matti Salminen and Jorma Hynninen. One problem was the chorus, as in Shakespeare there are no lines for a chorus. The composer therefore used groups of singers for messengers and knights and an off-stage wordless chorus. Although the work follows closely the story of Shakespeare, the role of Kent does not appear.

The work was well received at its first production in Helsinki.

The opera has been issued on DVD, in a 2002 performance with the original cast and conductor.

Roles

Synopsis

Act 1
Scene 1
The aged King Lear decides to divide his realm between his three daughters Goneril, Regan and Cordelia. He asks each them to say which of them loves him the most so as to give her the best portion. Goneril and Regan claim unbounded love for their father, but Cornelia, the youngest and favourite of her father, says that she cannot express her love, and anyway she will give half of it to her future husband. Lear, furious with the answer, repels Cordelia, and when the King of France arrives to propose marriage to Cordelia, he takes her despite her having been disinherited. Goneril and Regan are disturbed by their father's outburst and his folly in having a large retinue of knights and squires.

Scene 2 – Gloucester's castle
Edmund, bastard son of the Earl of Gloucester, determines to win the inheritance of Gloucester's older son and legal heir Edgar. Edmund tricks the Earl into reading a forged letter in which Edgar is named in a conspiracy to murder the Earl. Gloucester, disbelieving, asks that Edmund learn more. Edmund however warns Edgar that his father is furious and urges Edgar to run away. Edmund next wounds himself, goes to Gloucester and says that Edgar injured him because he refused to kill his father. An order to capture Edgar, who has already fled, is made by Gloucester.

Scene 3 – a forest
Edgar has hidden in a tree-trunk to elude his pursuers; he now disguises himself as a beggar ‘Poor Tom’ to avoid capture.

Scene 4 – Cornwall's castle
Lear and his followers are aware of a coldness to them by Regan and her household. Regan eventually condemns the taunting of Lear's Fool and the noise of Lear's knights and ask the king to cut back his retinue. Lear curses Regan; Goneril supports her sister, and they both finally insist that the King get rid of all his followers. Lear curses them both and rushes out into a storm.

Act 2
Scene 5 – Gloucester's castle
At his castle, Gloucester, still loyal to the King, is bullied. He has received a secret message about the French army's plans of attack. He passes the message to Edmund as he dares not hold on to it. Edmund thus sees his chance to get rid of his father and gives the Duke of Cornwall the letter.

Scene 6 – Forest
King Lear's mind is failing and he wanders with the Fool in a forest. Edgar, still as the beggar Poor Tom joins them as Lear passes judgement over his daughters.

Scene 7 – Albany's castle
A secret affair is being carried on by Goneril and Edmund. She accuses the Duke of Albany, her husband, of lack of resolution against the French. Five knights report the Duke of Cornwall's death, killed by his own servant after he and Regan had destroyed Gloucester's eyes, as they considered him a traitor. Goneril is stricken by the situation with Regan a widow and Edmund with her.

Scene 8 – Forest
Gloucester has been blinded by Cornwall and Regan, and walks along a road where he encounters Edgar, still as Poor Tom. Gloucester cannot recognize his own son, and asks Poor Tom to take him to the edge of Dover cliffs; when there he will need no more help.
Lear appears, and the two men meet for the final time. Lear's knights enter to escort the king to Cordelia.

Scene 9 – a British army camp near Dover
The British and French are poised for battle while Goneril and Regan dispute over Edmund. He, however, is wondering which of them would aid him. Re-reading Goneril's letter he sees a plot to dispose of Albany when after a successful battle. The British are victors in battle.

Scene 10 – British Camp
Lear and Cordelia have been taken prisoner. They are brought in and become reconciled to a happy future in prison. A furious row between Goneril and Regan ends with the latter going off ill.

A knight arrives; he challenges Edmund to a duel taunting him as a traitor. Edmund loses and the knight reveals himself as Edgar. The brothers try to reconcile themselves, but Goneril takes Edmund's side, saying that he was betrayed. Albany then reads the letter that Edmund just passed to him, showing his wife's treachery. Goneril goes. Edgar announces that Gloucester is dead; knights come in to report that Goneril has killed herself after confessing to giving Regan poison.

Edmund then orders men to go quickly to the castle to kill the King and Cordelia. But the King now enters carrying the corpse of Cordelia. He dies by her, a broken man.


Penikisite

Penikisite was discovered by Alan Kulan and Gunar Penikis near Rapid Creek, Yukon Territory. The mineral is a member of the bjarebyite group along with kulanite, ideally BaFe2+2Al2(PO4)3(OH)3, and bjarebyite, ideally BaMn2+2Al2(PO4)3(OH)3. It is among several new minerals that have been discovered in the Rapid Creek and Big Fish areas of Yukon Territory. Kulanite is similar in many ways to penikisite in appearance and properties. The chemical formula for penikisite is Ba(Mg,Fe,Ca)Al2(PO4)2(OH)3. It has a hardness of about 4 and a density of 3.79 g/cm3. Penikisite is triclinic and has a biaxial optical class. It comes in shades of blue and green and, when rubbed on a streak plate, is pale green to white in color. Although penikisite and kulanite both range from blue to green, penikisite zones are easily distinguishable from kulanite zones in kulanite-penikisite crystals because they are lighter than the darker kulanite in color. Penikisite is a phosphate and is different from kulanite in that it is a magnesium-rich phosphate whereas kulanite is an iron-rich phosphate.

Introduction
Penikisite, ideally Ba(Mg,Fe,Ca)Al2(PO4)2(OH)3, is a second occurrence of kulanite. Both kulanite and penikisite are members of the bjarebyite group. Minerals in the bjarebyite group have the general formula XY2Z2(PO4)3(OH)3 where X=Ba, Y=Mg, Fe2+, Mn2+, and Z=Al, Fe3+. Penikisite was found in a Yukon phosphate deposit near Rapid Creek. The mineral, along with kulanite, occurs in an iron-formation. In these iron-formations, Mg-rich zones were discovered and named penikisite in honor of Gunar Penikis who discovered these phosphate occurrences with Alan Kulan.

Composition
The chemical formula of Penikisite is Ba(Mg,Fe,Ca)Al2(PO4)2(OH)3. Mandarino and Sturman analyzed two penikisite samples and eight kulanite samples using an AMX electron miscroprobe (1977). Their study showed weight percent oxides, including H2O, that help determine what the formula is for penikisite and kulanite. Members of the bjarebyite group have the general formula XY2Z2(PO4)3(OH)3 where X=Ba, Y=Mg, Fe2+, Mn2+, and Z=Al, Fe3+. Accompanying penikisite in this group are as follows: bjarebyite, ideally BaMn2+2Al2(PO4)3(OH)3, perloffite, ideally BaMn2+2Fe3+2(PO4)3(OH)3, kulanite, BaFe2+2Al2(PO4)3(OH)3, and johntomaite, ideally BaFe2+2Fe3+2(PO4)3(OH)3. These minerals are identified when Ba in the X position is one of the most abundant elements in their composition along with being phosphates.

Physical properties
Penikisite ranges from blue to green with a vitreous luster and, when rubbed along a streak plate, can be pale green to white. Depending on the thickness of the sample, the mineral can be either transparent or translucent. Both kulanite and penikisite are triclinic and have the space group P1*. Penikisite can also have a space group of P1. The cell dimensions of this mineral were calculated by Mandarino and Sturman (1977) by least-squares refinement of the X-ray powder diffraction data
to be: a 8.999, b 12.069, c 4.921Å. The mineral is non-fluorescent under short- and long-waves. It has a harness of about 4 and a density of 3.79(2) g/cm3. There are two fair to good cleavages on {010} and {100}. Penikisite is biaxial (+) with nα 1.684(2), nβ 1.688(2), nγ 1.705(2). The 2V(γ) calculation is 56° and the 2V measurement is 52.2° . The pleochroism for penikisite is X grass-green, Y blue-green, Z pale pink. The absorption is X~Y>Z.

Geologic occurrence
In recent years, Rapid Creek, in the northeastern corner of Yukon Territory, has become more popular in the mineralogist community. This is because of the large deposit of phosphate minerals that have been discovered in the area. Texturally, the rocks of Rapid Creek are similar to other Phanerozoic phosphate and iron deposits; they are composed of pellets and granules, detrital quarts grains, skeletal fragments, and siderite mud matrix. Discovered in phosphate-ironstones that crop out near Rapid Creek, penikisite and kulanite occurs in fractures in a sideritic iron-formation.


Afro Puffs

"Afro Puffs" is the first single released by the Lady of Rage in 1994 from the Death Row labeled Above the Rim: The Soundtrack. The extended, video, and instrumental version on the single samples "Superman Lover" (Intro) by Johnny "Guitar" Watson. The original song samples "Love That Will Not Die", also by Johnny "Guitar" Watson. The term that the title refers to is a hairstyle in which the hair is tied into ball-shaped masses at the top or sides of the head.
The song is featured in the 2013 video game Grand Theft Auto V's 2014 "enhanced edition" re-release.  The song was performed live at the 1995 Source Awards, as well as at the 2008 BET Hip Hop Awards. In popular media, comedienne Tiffany Haddish performed the song during Lip-Sync Battle on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon.

Track listing
 Radio version
 Extended version (featuring Dr. Dre)
 G-Funk mix
 LP version
 Instrumental

Charts

Notes

External links
Thug Radio
Lil Kim remake Information


Clavatula milleti

Clavatula milleti is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Clavatulidae.

Description
The size of an adult shell varies between 15 mm and 55 mm.

The color of the shell is whitish, or yellowish flesh-color, or brown. It is more or less decussated by longitudinal and revolving engraved lines, sometimes forming granulations especially on the spire The revolving lines are prominent on the body whorl, where the longitudinal ones are usually subobsolete.

Distribution
This species occurs in the Atlantic Ocean along West Africa (Senegal)


Shane Harwood

Shane Michael Harwood (born 1 March 1974) is an Australian cricketer who played for the Victorian Bushrangers. He bowls right-arm fast-medium and has represented Australia in three Twenty20 Internationals.

Harwood began his Pura Cup career as a 28-year-old in 2002–03 and became the third Australian to get a hat-trick on debut. Harwood is also a useful tailender who in the ING Cup once scored a 31-ball 50.

He has represented Australia A and was suggested by teammate Shane Warne as being a contender for the 2006 Australian Test tour of South Africa. Although he did not make the Test squad, he was picked for Australia in a Twenty20 International game against England in early 2007.

On 16 January 2006 Harwood took career-best figures of 6 for 38 in a Pura Cup match against New South Wales.

He was named in the Australian 30-man preliminary squad for the 2007 World Cup, but did not make the final fifteen.

On 12 March 2009, Harwood was selected for the 16-man Australian one-day squad in South Africa. He played both Twenty20 Internationals, taking 2/21 in the second match off his four overs.

He was also selected for Rajasthan Royals team in the Indian Premier League and he made his IPL debut on 2 May 2009 where he took a wicket of the first ball he bowled for the Rajasthan Royals.

Harwood also plays for Barisal Burners in the Bangladesh Premier League.

External links
Cricinfo profile


Genet (surname)

Genet or Genêt is a French surname. Notable people with this surname include the following:

Edmond Genet (1896-1917), American aviator
Edmond-Charles Genêt or Citizen Genêt (1763–1834), French ambassador to the United States
Henry W. Genet (1828–1889), New York politician
Jean Genet (1910–1986), French writer
Joseph Genet (1931–1979), New Zealand wrestler
Jean-Philippe Genet (born 1944), French historian
Ray Genet or Pirate (died 1967), Alaskan mountaineer
Russell Merle Genet (born 1940), American astronomer


Bashaw, Wisconsin

Bashaw is a town in Washburn County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 921 at the 2000 census.

Geography
According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 33.9 square miles (87.8 km²), of which, 33.5 square miles (86.8 km²) of it is land and 0.4 square miles (1.0 km²) of it (1.09%) is water.

Demographics
As of the census of 2000, there were 921 people, 339 households, and 267 families residing in the town.  The population density was 27.5 people per square mile (10.6/km²).  There were 387 housing units at an average density of 11.5 per square mile (4.5/km²).  The racial makeup of the town was 98.15% White, 0.22% African American, 0.11% Native American, 0.43% Asian, and 1.09% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 0.43% of the population.

There were 339 households out of which 34.2% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 73.5% were married couples living together, 3.2% had a female householder with no husband present, and 21.2% were non-families. 17.1% of all households were made up of individuals and 6.8% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.  The average household size was 2.72 and the average family size was 3.10.

In the town, the population was spread out with 27.1% under the age of 18, 6.5% from 18 to 24, 27.4% from 25 to 44, 25.6% from 45 to 64, and 13.4% who were 65 years of age or older.  The median age was 41 years. For every 100 females, there were 105.6 males.  For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 106.5 males.

The median income for a household in the town was $43,500, and the median income for a family was $47,014. Males had a median income of $31,923 versus $21,667 for females. The per capita income for the town was $16,982.  About 7.5% of families and 8.8% of the population were below the poverty line, including 10.2% of those under age 18 and 13.7% of those age 65 or over.


Adobe GoLive

Adobe GoLive was a WYSIWYG HTML editor and web site management application from Adobe Systems. It replaced Adobe PageMill as Adobe's primary HTML editor and was itself discontinued in favour of Dreamweaver. The last version of GoLive that Adobe released was GoLive 9.

History

GoLive originated as the flagship product of a company named GoNet Communication, Inc. then based in Menlo Park, California, and the development company GoNet Communications GmbH in Hamburg, Germany, in 1996. Later GoNet changed its name to GoLive Systems, Inc, and the name of its product to GoLive CyberStudio. Adobe acquired GoLive in 1999 and re-branded the GoLive CyberStudio product to what became Adobe GoLive. Adobe took over the Hamburg office as an Adobe development site to continue to develop the product.

The first versions of Dreamweaver and Cyberstudio were released in a similar timeframe. However, Dreamweaver eventually became the dominant WYSIWYG HTML editor in market share. After the Adobe acquisition of Macromedia (the company that had owned Dreamweaver), GoLive was progressively re-targeted toward Adobe's traditional design market, and the product became better integrated with Adobe's existing suite of design-oriented software products and less focused on the professional web development market.

The Adobe CS2 Premium suite contained GoLive CS2. With the release of Creative Suite 3, Adobe integrated Dreamweaver as a replacement for GoLive and released GoLive 9 as a standalone product.

In April 2008, Adobe announced that sales and development of GoLive would cease in favor of Dreamweaver.

General description and distinctive aspects
GoLive incorporated a largely modeless workflow that relied heavily on drag-and-drop. Most user interaction was done via a contextual inspector rather than the modal workflow found in Dreamweaver. Among its features were a separate editor for tables that supported nesting, and a two-dimensional panel for applying CSS styles to elements. GoLive supported drag-and-drop of native Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator files via what the company called "Smart Objects", which then automatically guided the user through saving those files in web-supported formats. Updates to the original Photoshop or Illustrator assets were automatically tracked by GoLive. It also implemented a tool called "Components" which allowed updates to interface elements throughout a site to be updated globally by changing one single file. As a website management tool, GoLive allowed users to transfer and publish content directly from within the application, and allowed individual files to be excluded from uploading.

Features
One of the new features of GoLive version 5 was Dynamic Link, which was a method of creating dynamic, database-driven web content without the need to know a server-side language and with full WYSIWYG support in the GoLive user interface.

GoLive had a powerful set of extensibility API which could be used to add additional functionality to the product. The GoLive SDK provided interfaces which allowed developers to use a combination of XML, JavaScript and C/C++ to create plugins for the product. The extensibility API allowed developers access to custom drawing and event handling using JavaScript, as well as a full JavaScript debugger and command line interpreter. This allowed intermediate-level developers using interpreted JavaScript to create sophisticated user interfaces.

Language and framework structure
Adobe GoLive is coded in the C++ programming language. It uses a custom C++ framework called SCL (Simple Class Library) which was initially built from scratch by the engineers at GoLive Systems Inc. The SCL framework was also used in the short-lived Adobe Atmosphere 3D software.

Release history

As the final version, GoLive 9 was discontinued in April 2008.


Carlo Jotti

Carlo Iotti or Carlo Jotti (March 29, 1826 – June 21, 1905 ) was an Italian painter, mainly of landscapes.

He was born in Milan, and resided there after completing his artistic training at the Brera Academy. Many of his works were exhibited in Milan, Turin, Venice and internationally in the various Expositions. He painted the snowy Alps, and its forests, lakes, and farmland; among his works are: Monte Rosa; Madonna del Monte; Varese; Pescarenico (Lecco); and Acquedotto. He painted much at Lago Maggiore, including:  Isola Bella sul Lago Maggiore; Isola dei Pescatori; Santa Caterina del Sasso. He also liked to paint the countryside in Lazio, including Tempio di Minerva nella Campagna romana; Campagna a Porta Furba; Veduta degli Acquedotti romani. Other paintings of this artist are: Antica casa e Castello di Scipione a Salsomaggiore; Stazione del Tramvia a Villa Fornaci, Pagan temple and many landscape studies painted on site.


Niu Weiyu

Niu Weiyu (; born 1927 in Tanghe, Henan) is a Chinese photojournalist whose career started in the 1940s with coverage of the Chinese Communist Party's wartime experiences and continued after 1949. She is praised for her photographs of ordinary workers and ethnic groups, and as one of the few women in photography, she specialized in female images.

She is a member of the Chinese Communist Party and the Chinese Photographers Association. Her husband, Gao Fan (1922-2004) was also a wartime and post-1949 photographer.

Career
In 1945, Niu entered Counter-Japanese Military and Political University, and in 1947 became an officer in the Political Department of the Liberated Area. She became a photographer attached to the Eighth Route Army, then turned to news photography for North China Pictorial and other journals.

After 1949, she became head of the Xinhua News Agency department of photography until her retirement in 1982. In 1975, as the Cultural Revolution was coming to an end, she went to Tibet, traveling by jeep from Chengdu.


Vijay Television Awards for Best Promo-Fiction is an award given as part of its annual Vijay Television Awards for TV serials, to recognize a for Best Promo-Fiction

List of winners

2015


Sayonara (Orange Range song)

"Sayonara" is the 16th single from the Japanese band Orange Range. "Sayonara" was used as theme song for the TBD drama Teppan Shōjo Akane!!. The single also had two other songs used in various Japanese ads. People believe this single says farewell to the old band with Kazuhito "Katchan", and hello to the band's future. The video shows depressing scenes of a woman who lost someone dear, and how he watches over her, while at the end, is happy that she'll always love and never forget him and says "Sayonara" to her and vanishes. The man might have been her husband or boyfriend. He smiles at the end of the video when she is walking with a new husband or boyfriend, and continues to watch over her. Part of Kizuna is dedicated to Kat-chan.

Track list
 "Sayonara"
 "Yarisugi Manbō" (Yarisugi マンボウ)
 "Lonely Fighter" (ロンリーファイター)

Charts

Oricon chart (Japan)


Grouse Creek (Humboldt County, California)

Grouse Creek in Humboldt County, California is a tributary on the west bank of the South Fork of the Trinity River. Its basin lies approximately 20–25 miles east of Eureka, California.


Hugues Delorme

Hugues Delorme (10 April 1868 - 20 May 1942) was a French poet, comedian, playwright and journalist.

Life

Hugues Delorme was born on 10 April 1868 at Avize in the department of Marne with the name of Georges Thiebost.
He first lived in Rouen where he worked as a journalist for several years before moving to Paris.
From 1896 he frequented the cabarets of Montmartre and became a poet, humorist, playwright and actor.
He was well known at Le Chat Noir cabaret.
He joined Gardénia, a theatrical and artistic circle founded by Paul Fabre.

Hugues Delorme was very tall and slender, and was nicknamed La Voltige.
He participated with Paul Delmet, Gaston Montoya, Jacques Ferny and Marcel Legay in creating popular or sentimental songs that were mainly sung in the cabarets of Montmartre.
Delorme was an editor of the journal Le Courrier français.
He wrote two books about cartoonists, one about Georges Goursat (Sem) and the other about Carlègle (pseudonym of Charles Émile Egli).
These two books were published in Paris in 1939.

Delorme also wrote numerous plays, one-act pieces, reviews and some comedies and novels.
He works were performed at neighborhood theaters and at café-concerts such as Le Coup de minuit.
During his lifetime, he was best known for his classical poetry in octosyllables.
His poetry was widely published in various periodicals, but hardly any of it was published in collections.

Delorme died in 20 May 1942 and lies in the 89th division of the Père Lachaise Cemetery. His tomb is decorated with the inscription:

Works
 1889  Pierrot Amoureux
 1891  Pierrot financier
 1894  La Mort d’Orphée
 1900  La Marchande de pommes
 1903  Mille regrets! cowritten with Francis Gally
 1907  L'Homme rouge et la femme verte, cowritten with Armand Nunès
 1907 Le Maître à aimer, cowritten with  Pierre Veber
 1907 Zénaïde ou les caprices du destin
 1912 Revue de l'Olympia, interpreted by Yvonne Printemps
 1913 Et patati et patata, cowritten with  Georges Nanteuil, interpreted by Yvonne Printemps
 1914 La Fille de Figaro, cowritten with  Maurice Hennequin, music Xavier Leroux, with Jane Marnac
 1921 Chanson d'amour (Song of Love), adapted with Léon Abric from Das Dreimäderlhaus (7 May 1921)
 1926 Divin Mensonge, operetta in 3 acts and 6 tableaux by Josef Szulc, cowritten with  Alex Madis and Pierre Veber
 1926 Le Temps d'aimer operetta in 3 acts by Henri Duvernois and Pierre Wolff, couplets by Hugues Delorme, music Reynaldo Hahn, Théâtre de la Michodière, 7 November 1926


Sam Mayo

Sam Mayo (1881-1938) was an English music hall entertainer, pianist and songwriter.

Life

Born Samuel Cowan in London on 31 July 1881, Mayo first worked in his father's second-hand shop while also collecting bets and singing in pubs and clubs with his brothers Ted and Maurice Cowan.

Mayo married Zillah Flash (performing name: Stella Stanley) in Brighton on 13 August 1904. His early involvement in gambling stayed with him: heavy gambling caused him to be three times declared bankrupt. Mayo died in London on 31 March 1938. The cause is not known.

Career
Mayo developed a unique comic style as a music hall singer. Dressed in long overcoat or dressing gown, he sang deadpan at the piano with quirky, lugubrious humour. He became billed as "The Immobile One". Mayo mostly wrote his own songs, and provided other entertainers, such as Ernie Mayne, with material. He held the record for appearing at the greatest number of music halls in a single evening: nine performances at nine London venues on the evening of 21 January 1905.

Trivia
The noted writer Katherine Mansfield quoted Mayo's lyrics in a letter dated 1 November 1920.

External links

Text collection of Sam Mayo's lyrics
Sam Mayo: British Pathé, 1930
Sam Mayo: British Pathé, 1931
Sam Mayo: British Pathé, 1932
Sam Mayo: Things are Worse in Russia
Sam Mayo: I'll Prove That I'm Right
Sam Mayo: The Toreador
Sam Mayo: Bread and Marmalade
Sam Mayo: The Trumpeter


Cameron Norrie

Cameron Norrie (; born 23 August 1995) is a British tennis player.

In 2018, Norrie won his debut Davis Cup match in Spain against world No. 23 Roberto Bautista-Agut, despite only turning professional eight months previously, and last playing on clay in 2013. Norrie, ranked No. 114, came from two sets down, in what former Davis Cup captain John Lloyd said was "one of the most impressive debuts of all time".

He has three Challenger singles titles, and three Futures singles titles.

Early and personal life
Norrie was born in South Africa to a Scottish father, David, and a Welsh mother, Helen, who were both microbiologists. Three years later, following a burglary, the family moved to New Zealand, where Norrie played tennis, squash, rugby, football, and cricket, finally concentrating on tennis at fifteen.

Junior career
Norrie represented New Zealand as a junior, becoming No. 10 in the world, but received only a few thousand dollars from Tennis NZ, so his parents had to finance his overseas travel. At fifteen, he toured Europe for five months.

Norrie switched his allegiance at 16 to Great Britain, the nationality of both his parents, partly due to available funding, spending three years in London by himself. He lived and trained at the National Tennis Centre, later residing with a host family for two years while he continued his training. In 2013, he competed in all the Junior Grand Slams; the Australian Open for New Zealand, then for Great Britain at the French Open, Wimbledon and US Open, but only won one match, in Australia.

Norrie had difficulty on the European tennis circuit, so he considered training at American universities.

University career

2014–17
Norrie studied sociology on a scholarship at Texas Christian University (TCU) and joined the Horned Frogs university team, where he became the top-ranked male college tennis player in the US, being the first time that TCU had such an honour. In addition, Norrie was All-American three times.

In the 2016–17 season, Norrie was the only player to win every Big 12 match he participated in, with a 10-0 record in singles and doubles. In spite of being seeded No 1, Norrie missed the end of season NCAA Championships and put a hold on his studies, so that he could turn professional.

Senior career

2013–15
In January 2013, Norrie played his first senior tournament at the ATP Auckland Open, winning the first qualifying round.

Norrie played three clay-court events in 2013; the Great Britain Futures F9 second round and F11 quarterfinals, followed by the Boy's French Open first round. He didn't play another match on clay until the 2018 Davis Cup against Spain.

Turning 18, Norrie was ranked No. 1348, but a semifinal showing at the Canada Futures F6 improved his ranking to No. 973, rising to No. 637 by June 2014. Whilst studying at university, he played only sporadically on the tour, falling to No. 1114 in October 2015. On 11 October 2015, Norrie won the USA Futures F29 at Mansfield, Texas, and became ranked 706.

2016
Back-to-back titles at the USA Futures F21 and USA Futures F23 pushed him to No. 422 in July. A month later, at the all-British final of the Aptos Challenger, Norrie was beaten by Dan Evans and rose to No. 298.

2017
Norrie played three events in January, reaching the semifinal of the Maui Challenger to become world No 238.

For the Davis Cup World Group match against France, Norrie joined the British team as a hitting partner.

After completing three years of his four-year university course, Norrie turned professional in June, competing at the Surbiton and Nottingham Challengers, but still had a training base at TCU in Fort Worth.

Norrie made his ATP main-draw debut at the Aegon Championships, after receiving a wild card into the singles main draw, where he was defeated by Sam Querrey in the first round. Norrie earned his first ATP main-draw victory by beating Horacio Zeballos at Eastbourne, which was his first win over a top-50 player.

Awarded a wild card for Wimbledon, Norrie was beaten by Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, the 12th seed, in the opening round.

In July, Norrie won his first Challenger title at Binghamton, which had previously been won by Kyle Edmund in 2015, and Andy Murray in 2005.

He qualified for the main draw of the US Open, where he progressed to the second round.

The Cary Challenger final, followed by successive Challenger titles in Tiburon and Stockton, pushed Norrie to world No. 111 in October.

In December, his Argentine coach Facundo Lugones arranged a four-week training camp in Buenos Aires, where Norrie hit with Juan Martin Del Potro and Diego Schwartzman.

2018 - Top 100 debut and first ATP Doubles title
Norrie was seeded sixth in the qualifying draw for the Australian Open, but failed to advance into the main draw, losing to world No. 221 John-Patrick Smith. The following week, seeded fifth, he lost in the first round of the Newport Beach challenger event, losing to Michael Mmoh.

In February, Norrie was selected for the Davis Cup team for the first time for Great Britain's World Group first round match against Spain. He recorded the biggest win of his career in his first match, coming from two sets down to defeat world No. 23 Roberto Bautista-Agut in five sets.

Norrie made his ATP main-draw debut at Delray Beach as a lucky loser. He lost in the first round to Hyeon Chung.

He qualified for Acapulco, losing to world No. 6 Dominic Thiem in the first round in three tight sets.

He qualified for his ATP World Tour Masters 1000 main-draw debut at the Indian Wells Masters in March 2018, but lost in the first round to Taro Daniel.

He qualified for his second successive ATP World Tour Masters 1000 at the 2018 Miami Open, but lost to Nicolás Jarry in the first round.

His next main draw event was the Estoril Open. He lost in the second round to Roberto Carballés Baena. He teamed up with fellow Brit Kyle Edmund in doubles and won his maiden ATP Title, beating Wesley Koolhof and Artem Sitak. The pair did not drop a set the whole tournament.

Norrie failed to qualify for the Italian Open, losing in the first round of the qualification draw to Federico Delbonis. At Lyon, he beat his first top 10 opponent, John Isner, and reached his first ATP Semifinal.

At the 2018 French Open Norrie was a direct entrant into a grand slam for the first time. He played Peter Gojowczyk in the opening round, and won after Gojowczyk retired through injury.
In the second round he faced Frenchman Lucas Pouille on the Phillipe Chatrier court. Norrie eventually lost to the French number one in 5 sets, after darkness interrupted play at the end of the 4th set.

Cameron lost in the first round of the Nottingham challenger, Queens Club and Wimbledon. However, he did reach the quarter finals at Eastbourne, despite self-admittedly not being a big fan of the grass surface. After the early exit in 2018 Wimbledon, he succeeded to reach his second ATP Semifinal in 2018 BB&T Atlanta Open after beating Malek Jaziri, no.6 seed Jérémy Chardy and no.2 seed Nick Kyrgios. He then lost to Ryan Harrison in three sets, despite winning the first set. A week later he continued his good form on hard courts, by reaching the quarterfinal of 2018 Los Cabos Open.

ATP career finals

Singles: 1 (1 runner-up)

Doubles: 1 (1 title)

ATP Challenger Tour and ITF Futures finals

Singles: 9 (6–3)

Doubles: 2 (1–1)

Performance timelines

Singles
Current through the 2020 Mexican Open.

Doubles
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Top 10 wins

Record against top 10 players
Norrie's match record against players who have been ranked in the top 10. Only ATP Tour main draw and Davis Cup matches are considered.

  Roberto Bautista Agut 1–0
  John Isner 1–1
  Kevin Anderson 0–1
  Pablo Carreño Busta 0–1
  Fabio Fognini 0–1
  Andy Murray 0–1
  Kei Nishikori 0–1
  Lucas Pouille 0–1
  Gilles Simon 0–1
  Dominic Thiem 0–1
  Janko Tipsarević 0–1
  Jo-Wilfried Tsonga 0–1
  Stan Wawrinka 0–1
  Gaël Monfils 0–2
  Alexander Zverev 0–2* ''


Nicky Lee (singer)

Nicky Lee (born November 26, 1980) is a Korean American singer and actor.

Born and raised in Los Angeles, California, Lee gained his initial fame as part of the Taiwanese hip hop group, Machi. Following the group's success, Lee released his first full-length Mandarin solo album, Shadow, in 2005.

In 2007, Lee was named Best Mandarin Male Singer at the 18th Golden Melody Awards.

He is also known for his work with music group Aziatix.

Personal life
He married Japanese television personality Akane Sōma in 2014.

Discography

Studio albums

Singles

Filmography

Television series

Film

Awards and nominations


KAKM

KAKM, virtual channel 7 (VHF digital channel 8), is a Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) member television station licensed to Anchorage, Alaska, United States. Owned by Alaska Public Media, it is sister to National Public Radio (NPR) member station KSKA (91.1 FM). The two outlets share studios at the Elmo Sackett Broadcast Center on the campus of Alaska Pacific University; KAKM's transmitter is located near Knik, Alaska.

KAKM was the only PBS station in Alaska that was not part of AlaskaOne during its existence. The call letters were chosen to represent the three major geographic areas served by the station: Anchorage, Kenai, and Matanuska.

KAKM operates a full-time satellite station, KTOO-TV (virtual channel 3, VHF digital channel 10), licensed to the capital city of Juneau. This station is owned by Capital Community Broadcasting as a sister to non-commercial FM radio stations KTOO (FM), KNLL, and KRNN, but is operated by Alaska Public Media. KTOO's transmitter is located in downtown Juneau. KTOO was formerly part of AlaskaOne, until its dissolution in 2012.

History
KAKM first started regular transmissions on May 7, 1975. Previously, PBS programming had been offered to Anchorage stations on per-program basis. (For example, Sesame Street was carried on KTVA [channel 11], Mister Rogers' Neighborhood on KIMO [channel 13, now KYUR], and The Electric Company on KENI-TV [channel 2, now KTUU-TV]).

KAKM became the flagship station of Alaska Public Television, the successor to AlaskaOne, replacing KUAC-TV in Fairbanks, on July 1, 2012. As a result, KTOO-TV became a full-time satellite of KAKM. The other AlaskaOne station, low-power television station KYUK-LD (channel 15) in Bethel, also rebroadcasts KAKM, but it broadcasts the Alaska Rural Communications Service on its second digital subchannel in place of Create.

Station presentation

Digital television
The stations' digital signals are multiplexed:

KAKM digital channels

KTOO-TV digital channels

360 North provides statewide coverage of Alaska public affairs, documentaries, historical programs, and Native topics. Originating at KTOO-TV, 360 North replaced Gavel to Gavel Alaska, which televised the Alaska Legislature.

Analog-to-digital conversion
Both stations shut down their analog signals on June 12, 2009, the official date on which full-power television stations in the United States transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate:
 KAKM shut down its analog signal, over VHF channel 7; the station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition VHF channel 8. Through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers display the station's virtual channel as its former VHF analog channel 7.
 KTOO shut down its analog signal, over VHF channel 3; the station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition VHF channel 10. Through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers display the station's virtual channel as its former VHF analog channel 3.

Translators
KAKM and KTOO extend their over-the-air coverage through a network of translator stations.


Calyptranthes thomasiana

Calyptranthes thomasiana (Thomas' lidflower) is a rare species of plant in the family Myrtaceae. It is found on three islands in the Caribbean. There are fewer than 250 individuals total divided amongst the islands of Vieques in Puerto Rico, St. John in the United States Virgin Islands, and Virgin Gorda in the British Virgin Islands. It has been extirpated from the wild on  Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, where it was first described in 1855, and now only grows there in cultivation.

The plant is a member of the islands' montane flora. It occurs on one mountain peak on each of the three islands: Monte Pirata on Vieques, Bordeaux Mountain on St. John, and Gorda Peak on Virgin Gorda. Its natural habitat is dry to moist forests.

This is an evergreen shrub or small tree which can reach 10 meters in height. The oppositely arranged leaves have oval blades 2 to 4 centimeters long which are shiny green and glandular. The flowers have four spoon-shaped petals.
The plant is perhaps naturally rare, but habitat loss has contributed to its decline. The Vieques population is located on land formerly owned by the United States Navy and now part of Vieques National Wildlife Refuge. It occurs at the highest elevation on the island, 300 meters, amongst orchids and bromeliads. There are only 10 to 12 individuals known from this area, and although the threat of damage from Navy activity is gone today, the plant is still vulnerable to extirpation from any one severe event, such as a hurricane. Hurricane Hugo caused forest damage in 1989, for example.

On St. John it also occupies the highest mountain peak at an elevation around 380 meters. There are about 100 individuals in this area, which is within the bounds of Virgin Islands National Park. They do face threats from activity on nearby roads, and from feral pigs, donkeys, and goats. Deforestation was cited as a main reason for the plant's being added to the endangered species list of the United States.


Project Monterey

Project Monterey was an attempt to build a single Unix operating system that ran across a variety of 32-bit and 64-bit platforms, as well as supporting multi-processing.  Announced in October 1998, several Unix vendors were involved; IBM provided POWER and PowerPC support from AIX, Santa Cruz Operation (SCO) provided IA-32 support, and Sequent added multi-processing (MP) support from their DYNIX/ptx system. Intel Corporation provided expertise and ISV development funding for porting to the new IA-64 platform, which had not yet been released at that time.  The focus of the project was to create an enterprise-class UNIX for the IA-64, which at the time was expected to eventually dominate the UNIX server market.

By March 2001, however, "the explosion in popularity of Linux  ... prompted IBM to quietly ditch" this;
 all involved attempted to find a niche in the rapidly developing Linux market and focused their efforts elsewhere. Sequent was acquired by IBM in 1999. In 2000, SCO's UNIX business was purchased by Caldera Systems, a Linux distributor, who later renamed themselves to SCO Group. In the same year, IBM eventually declared Monterey dead. Intel, IBM, Caldera Systems, and others had also been running a parallel effort to port Linux to IA-64, Project Trillian, which delivered workable code in February 2000. In late 2000, IBM announced a major effort to support Linux.

In May 2001, the project announced the availability of a beta test version AIX-5L for the IA-64, basically meeting its original primary goal. However, Intel had missed its delivery date for the Itanium (the initial IA-64 hardware) by two years, and the Monterey software had no market.

With the exception of the IA-64 port and Dynix MP improvements, much of the Monterey effort was an attempt to standardize existing versions of Unix into a single compatible system.  Such efforts had been undertaken in the past (e.g., 3DA) and had generally failed, as the companies involved were too reliant on vendor lock-in to really support a standard that would allow their customers to leave for other products.  With Monterey,  three of the vendors already had a niche they expected to continue to serve in the future: POWER and IA-64 for IBM, IA-32 and IA-64 for SCO.

The breakdown of Project Monterey was one of the factors leading to a lawsuit in 2003, where SCO Group sued IBM over their contributions to Linux.

IBM sold only 32 licenses of Monterey in 2001, and fewer in 2002.


K. Ahmed Khan

K. Ahmed Khan is an Indian scientist and businessman who made success in using plastic for road construction.  He is a proprietor of KK Plastic Waste Management. Mixing plastic with asphalt, Mr. Khan forms a compound called polymerized bitumen. Mr. Khan believes that it is impractical to think of a world without plastic, and according to him recycling plastic is a better option than banning it.


Almont League

The Almont League is a high school athletic conference in Los Angeles County, California, USA, which includes six high schools, three from the Alhambra Unified School District and three from the Montebello Unified School District affiliated with the CIF Southern Section. Its name is a portmanteau of the words "Alhambra" and "Montebello". The league was created at the start of the 1992-93 school year and it is affiliated with the Foothill Area.

Schools
The schools in the league are:
Alhambra High School
Bell Gardens High School
Mark Keppel High School (Alhambra, California)
Montebello High School
San Gabriel High School
Schurr High School (Montebello, California)


Thirtysomething (disambiguation)

Thirtysomething is an American television series.

Thirtysomething or 30-something may also refer to:

 Thirty Something (Taiwanese TV series), a Taiwanese television series
 Thirtysomething (age), a term of approximation denoting one who is, or who is believed to be, in one's thirties