Stella Ella Ola

"Stella Ella Ola" is a clapping game where players stand or sit in a circle placing one hand over her or his neighbour's closer hand and sing the song. On every beat, a person claps their higher hand onto the touching person's palm. The cycle continues until the song ends at which point if the person's hand is slapped, they are considered "out" and must stand or sit in the center of the circle, or leave the circle and watch from the edges.

If the player to be slapped pulls her or his hand away fast enough, the person who attempted to slap the hand is out.

Lyrics
Stella Ella Ola
Clap Clap Clap
Singing es tiga tiga tiga tiga shack shack tiga es tiga  va lo va lo
1, 2, 3, 4, 5

Regional Versions
Saskatchewan, Canada
Stella Ella Ola
Clap clap clap
Singing yes chicco chicco
Chicco chicco clap
I said hello, hello
I want to blow your nose
Fire 1, 2, 3, 4! And where the fifth count would be, the player's hand is (hopefully) slapped.

A variant common in the tri-state area:
Dilly dally duck goes quack, quack, quack
From San Marina, rina, rina, rina
Four up, four up
1, 2 ,3, 4, quack!

Kawartha Lakes, Ontario:
<poem>
Stella Ella ola
clap clap clap
say es chigo chigo
chigo chigo chip chip
Es chino chigo Velo Velo
The toilet over flowed say 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10!

Ontario:
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Stella Ella ola
clap clap clap
say es chigo chigo
chigo chigo chip chip
Es chino chigo Velo Velo
The toilet over flowed say 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10!

Vancouver, British Columbia:
Stella Stella ola clap clap clap
say yes chigga chigga chigga chigga chap,
say yes chigga chigga baloney, baloney, with cheese and macaroni fire 1,2,3,4,5!

Winnipeg:
Stella Ella Ola
clap clap clap
singing ess chiko chik-o
chiko chiko cracker jacker
ess chiko chik-o
baloney, baloney
with cheese and macaroni!
so 1, 2, 3, 4, 5!

Western New York:
Quack a dilly oh my
quack quack quack
Dancing Katrina
Trickle, trickle, track
Velo, velo, velo, velo, ve-lo
1, 2, 3, 4, 5

Eastern New York:
Quack a dilly oh so
quack quack quack
Senorita your mama smells like pizza
Galore Galore
Potatoes on the kitchen floor
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10

Rural Ontario (Canada) variant from the early 1980s could be sung in French or English. The French version usually counted to five, and the younger children's English version was similar. For elder children, in both language versions, the game required four steps: The player who shall begin announces their count of how many players remain; the other players agree aloud to the count; the players recite the verse; once recited, then the players began clapping out the count as quickly as possible. This made it much harder to anticipate the outcome. The basic verse follows in French and English, respectively.
Est tika-tika
Tika-tika tan-tan
Est tika-tika
âllo âllo âllo âllo âllo-ah
Un deux trois quat-re cinq!

Ess tika-tika
Tika-tika tap-tap
Ess tika-tika
Hello hello hello-ello-ello and
1 2 3 4 good-bye!

Israel:
(Versions differ)
Qua qua de la oma (gibberish)
Qua qua qua. (quack, quack, quack)
Desi matriko / Be-simlat triko (gibberish / in a t-shirt)
Aba-sh'ha kofiko (your father is a small monkey)
Ima-sh'ha hipopotam (your mother is a hippo)
Ve ata hamor katan (and you are a small donkey)
Va lo, va ken (and no, and yes)
Tzolea oo-misken (limping and miserable)
Zaken (old man)
1, 2, 3, 4, 5

New York City:
Quackdiddlioso
Quack quack quack
Señorita
Your mother smells like pizza
Felor, felor, felor, felor, felor, felor
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10

Washington State
Quack dilly oh so
Quack, quack, quack
Say Sam, or Rico
Rico, Rico, Rico
Flora, Flora, Flora, Flora, Flora
1, 2, 3, 4

Alaska
Quack diddly oh so
Quack, quack, quack
Sam, or Rico
Rico, Rico, Rico
Flora, Flora, Flora, Flora, Flora
1, 2, 3, 4

"Florida"
Quack diddly oso
quack quack quack;
Señorita, rita rita rita;
Valor, valor, valor-valor-valor! 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10

"Maine"
Quack diddly oso
quack quack quack;
From San Francisco,
do a little disco;
Galore, galore, galore-galore-galore, galore!
1, 2, 3, 4

Unspecified Regional Versions
Version 2:
Stella Ella Ola
Quack, quack, quack
say es chiggo, chiggo, chiggo, chiggo Chek;
say es chiggo, chiggo, vello, vello, vello, vello, vello, so 1, 2, 3, 4, 5!

Version 3:
Stella Ella Ola
clap, clap, clap;
Singing Es tigga, tigga; tigga, tigga Es, Es; Es tigga, tigga flow, flow; flow, flow, flow; 12345!

Version 4:
Stella ella ola, clap clap clap,
say es chico chico, chico chico clap,
say es chico chico, below, below,
the toilet over flows,
say 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10

Version 5:
Stella Ella ola
tap tap tap
singing es tigga tigga
Tigga tigga tap tap
Baloney baloney
Cheese and macaroni
Fire 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10!

Version 6:
Stella Ella Ola snap crackle pop,
singing es tiga tiga tiga tiga snap snap
es tiga tiga balogna balogna
cheese and macaroni firing
one, two, three, four, five!

Version 7:
Stella Stella Ola,
Clap clap clap,
Singing es chigga chigga,
Chigga chigga clap,
Singing es chigga chigga,
Fello Fello
Fello Fello Fello,
Fire 1,2, 3, 4, 5.

Version 8:
Stella Ella ola,
Clap, clap, clap
Singing es chiga chiga,
chiga chiga chat chat
Es chiga chiga,
Love, love, love, love, love, love,
5, 4, 3, 2, 1

Version 9:
Stella Ella ola,
Clap, clap, clap,
Saying es chiko chiko
Chiko chiko chap chap
Es chiko chiko
Blow blow
Blow your nose in Cheerios
Say: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10

Version 10:
Stella Ella Ola,
Chak Chak Chalk
say es chico chico
Chico Chico Chak Chak,
es chico chico,
falo falo,
the toilet over flow!
Say: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10! (Continues until person's hand is slapped.)

Version 11:
Stella, ella, ola,
Slapjack Slapjack,
Es chica chica
Chica chica slapjack,
Go,slow,
Go slow, go slow,
1, 2, 3, 4!

Version 12:
Stella, Ella, Ola,
Clap clap clap
Singing es chika chico,
Chigga chigga clap clap!
Singing es chika chico,
Below, below,
The toilet overflowed.
Singing 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10!

Version 13:
Stella Ella Ola
clap clap clap
singing ess chiko chik-o
chiko chiko slapper jacker
ess chiko chik-o
baloney, baloney
with cheese and macaroni!
singing 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10!

Variations

Two players
 Players slap both hands up and down. In some variations, they continue to alternate until the final count, where the person whose hands are on the bottom is out.
 Players grab each other's right hand just by the fingers and then hold their left hands out to the side. They move their linked right hands from side to side, hitting a left hand on each count. If that child swings her or his hand away on the last count, the other loses.
 Players hold hands and on the last count, they try to pull the other person over a line.

Three players

 In one, three player version, one player will turn around and the other two players will hold hands and alternate positions. At the end, the person who is turned around will say either top or bottom. The hand who is in that position is champ. Last 2 people kiss.
 In another, which can be played with as many people as players wish, but has a minimum of three players, all participants sit in a circle. Their right hand rests on top of the left hand of the player on their right. One person starts, by lifting their right hand, and slapping the right hand of the player on their left. At the end, the person who has the last slap will either slap the hand of the person beside them, or that person will yank their hand away, causing the slapper to hit their own hand. The player that is hit is then out. If no one is hit, the player who was slapping is out.

Appearances in other media
 The lyrics sung in the game make an appearance in track 10 of Børns' album Blue Madonna "Supernatural".
 The game also makes an appearance in season 6 episode 3 of the CBC show Mr. D.


Saving Planet Earth

Saving Planet Earth is a season of nature documentaries with a conservation theme, screened on BBC Television in 2007 to mark the 50th anniversary of its specialist factual department, the BBC Natural History Unit.

The series featured films contributed by a number of celebrities on the plight of various endangered species, and coincided with the launch of the BBC Wildlife Fund, a charitable organisation which distributes money to conservation projects around the world. The television series culminated in a live fundraising telethon on BBC Two, hosted by Alan Titchmarsh, which raised over £1 million for the charity.

The BBC broadcast a second live telethon in 2010. Wild Night In was presented by Kate Humble, Chris Packham and Martin Hughes-Games and featured conservation projects which had benefited from the support of the BBC Wildlife Fund.

Background

The format of Saving Planet Earth was something of a departure for the Unit, using celebrities not normally associated with natural history programmes rather than selecting a familiar face from its pool of specialists.

The season began with a special hour-long programme on BBC One entitled "Sharing Planet Earth", a clarion call for action to conserve nature, presented by David Attenborough. It was followed by nine documentaries broadcast nightly over the course of a fortnight, in which celebrities investigated the plight of endangered species. Each programme was introduced by Alan Titchmarsh and featured a short narration by Attenborough to provide some background information on the featured species.

Along with the BBC One programmes, a five-part series entitled Saving Planet Earth - UK was broadcast in parallel on BBC Two. Presented by Michaela Strachan, it aimed to show audiences the threats facing British wildlife, and how they could help by becoming directly involved in conservation.

A second five-part series on the CBBC Channel followed seven young competition winners on their own personal journeys to destinations including Brazil and Borneo to report on threatened species.

The season culminated with a live fundraising evening to raise money for a newly established conservation charity, the BBC Wildlife Fund.

Important points

1. Saving Planet Earth
"All the animals we’ll see over the course of the series are disappearing because of one species: humans. We know that we are using more than our fair share of the planet and its resources and we must now redress this imbalance. Any effort to do so – no matter how big or small – is valuable, if we wish to ensure a future that is healthy for all life on planet Earth so we have to save earth from various types of Pollution, Waste food, Drained Water etc. The earth is our mother planet in which we born and understand learn to speak, learn to walk and learned everything that we are now able to do. "It is only planet in our solar system on which life exists which incredible biodiversity. People all over the world celebrate this grand event all to protect flora and fauna and clean up the earth on which we live. Our life will be waste if we have no any goal. Without any goal we will feel unlucky, waste life etc. But if we don't Save Planet Earth then, our Earth will be destroyed and we can't live. So, Save Planet Earth.

2. Saving Gorillas
In the first of nine 30-minute films focussing on particular threatened species, pop star Will Young travels to Cameroon to report on the plight of the lowland gorilla. Although more numerous than its mountain-dwelling cousins, its numbers are declining fast due to habitat loss and poaching.

3. Saving Tigers
Tigers have been a protected species for many years, but despite this they are increasingly threatened by extinction due to poaching and increasing conflict with humans. But can the spiritual and deeply felt respect for tigers held by ordinary Indians offer a lifeline for the species? Newsreader Fiona Bruce reports from Bandhavgarh National Park, where acclaimed wildlife cameraman and tiger expert Alphonse Roy has been watching and filming them for 20 years.

4. Saving Crocodiles
DJ Edith Bowman travels 6,000 miles to Cambodia on the trail of the very rare Siamese crocodile, which was hunted to brink of extinction. Now, conservation charities such as The Wildlife Conservation Society and Fauna and Flora International are working in partnership with the Cambodian government and have established a crocodile farm to increase the population size.

5. Saving Albatross
Carol Thatcher flies to the Falkland Islands to find out why the black-browed albatross and its relatives are under threat. Albatross numbers have plummeted in recent years due to long-line fishing practices.

6. Saving Rhinos
Former England cricketer Phil Tufnell reports from Assam in India, one of the last remaining homes of the Indian rhinoceros. Fewer than 2,000 are left in the wild due to poaching for their horns.

7. Saving Wolves
In the southern part of the Ethiopian Highlands, a remote mountain region and the last home of the Ethiopian wolf, Graham Norton discovers that encroachments by the ever-expanding human population is threatening the wolf's survival.

8. Saving Elephants
Adrenaline junkie Jack Osbourne journeys to northern Namibia to investigate the plight of the desert elephant. Although saved from extinction by the banning of the ivory trade, the desert elephants now face a new threat. Local people once roamed the land as migrants, but their recent conversion to farming has brought them into conflict with elephants over precious resources.

9. Saving Turtles
Of the seven remaining species of sea turtle, six are seriously threatened with extinction. Saira Khan travels to Sri Lanka, one of the best places in the world to see turtles, but even here commercial fishing practices and pressure on the turtles' nesting beaches are driving numbers down.

10. Saving Orangutans
TV presenter Nick Knowles reports from Borneo, where orangutan numbers are being decimated due to the deforestation of the island and the growth of palm plantations. He visits a sanctuary where more than 600 orphaned young apes are cared for. Their mothers are usually killed by plantation workers, because the orangutans are attracted to the palms for food and can damage the crops. Their young are taken for the pet trade or are simply left to die, but those lucky enough to be rescued are brought to the sanctuary. Now, it simply can't cope with the number of apes being brought in and desperately needs extra funds. This programme was incorporated into the live fundraising broadcast (see below).

11. Saving Planet Earth - Live
The series culminated in a live fundraising event broadcast from Kew Gardens, hosted by Titchmarsh and featuring interviews with many of the BBC’s natural history presenters, including Attenborough, Strachan, Bill Oddie, Kate Humble, Simon King, Steve Leonard, Jonathan Scott, Chris Packham and Charlotte Uhlenbroek. A registered charity, the BBC Wildlife Fund, was established to direct funds raised by the programmes to conservation charities in the field to help save the featured animals, and other species, from extinction. Saving Planet Earth enabled the Fund to raise £1 million on the night, a total which had almost doubled by the end of 2010.


Strömsund Municipality

Strömsund Municipality () is a municipality in Jämtland County in northern Sweden. Its seat is located in Strömsund.

The nearest larger city is Östersund, the provincial capital of Jämtland, which is located approximately 100 km to the south.

History
Strömsund Municipality was formed in 1974 through the amalgamation of the former municipalities of Fjällsjö, Frostviken, Hammerdal and Ström. The most populous locality in the area, Strömsund, was chosen as administrative centre, and it also gave its name to the new entity.

Geography
With an area of roughly 12,000 km² (4,500 sq mi), it is the sixth largest in Sweden, and one of the most sparsely populated. The town Strömsund has a municipal population of about 3,500 and is located on the slopes of Ströms vattudal, the river that flows through the town. Among locals, the town itself is usually referred to as Ström or Flata (a reference to the flack slope on which the central parts of the town is built).

Localities
There are seven localities (or urban areas) in Strömsund Municipality:

The municipal seat in bold

Industry

Forest industry has traditionally been an important industry, but today tourism also has an important part. Like the rest of Jämtland, nature is what attracts visitors, with its blend of forests, mountains, lakes and rivers.

The two most visited sights are Hembygdsgården in Strömsund (16,000 visitors) and Hällingsåfallet (12,000 visitors).

Another popular site is the cave Korallgrottan.


Bythiospeum cisterciensorum

Bythiospeum cisterciensorum is a species of very small freshwater snails that have an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the family Hydrobiidae.

This species is endemic to Austria.


Marc Molinaro

Marcus J. Molinaro (born October 8, 1975) is an American politician currently serving as County Executive of Dutchess County, New York. A Republican, Molinaro served in the Dutchess County Legislature and the New York State Assembly before being elected County Executive for the first time in 2011. Molinaro is a former mayor of Tivoli, New York; when he became mayor at age 19, he was the youngest mayor in the United States.

Molinaro was the Republican nominee for Governor of New York in 2018, but was defeated by Democratic incumbent Andrew Cuomo.

Early life
Molinaro was born in Yonkers, New York. His family moved to Beacon, New York, in 1980 and to Tivoli, New York, in 1989. Molinaro graduated from Dutchess Community College in 2001.

Political career
Molinaro was first elected to public office at the age of 18 in 1994, when he was elected to the Village of Tivoli's Board of Trustees. In 1995, he became the youngest mayor in the United States when he was elected Mayor of Tivoli. Molinaro was re-elected mayor five times, and also served in the Dutchess County Legislature.

New York State Assembly
In 2006, Molinaro was elected to represent the 103rd District in the New York State Assembly. Molinaro served in the Assembly until 2011. In January 2011, at the recommendation of Assembly Minority Leader Brian Kolb, Governor Andrew Cuomo appointed Molinaro to serve on the Governor's Mandate Relief Redesign Team.

Dutchess County Executive
Molinaro announced his bid to succeed twenty-year Dutchess County Executive William Steinhaus in May 2011. The campaign was endorsed by the county's Republican, Conservative, and Independence parties. On June 3, Beekman supervisor Dan French was nominated as the Assemblyman's Democratic challenger. Molinaro prevailed on November 8, 2011 with 62% of the vote. Molinaro was sworn into office on January 1, 2012. In 2015, Molinaro was re-elected to a second term, defeating Democratic challenger Diane Jablonski by a significant margin.

In 2014, Molinaro was awarded the Pace University Land Use Law Center’s Groundbreaker’s Award. As County Executive, Molinaro spearheaded a 2015 initiative called "Think Differently" for people with disabilities; he also appointed a Deputy Commissioner of Special Needs in 2016. In 2015, Molinaro was elected Second Vice President of the New York State Association of Counties.

2018 gubernatorial election

In March 2018, Molinaro informed Republican leaders that he would run for Governor of New York in the 2018 election. Molinaro announced his candidacy on April 2, 2018 and was endorsed by the New York Conservative Party on April 13. On May 23, 2018, the Republican Party unanimously nominated Molinaro as its candidate for Governor of New York at its state convention, three days after the Reform Party endorsed Molinaro for their gubernatorial ticket. Molinaro's running mate was Julie Killian, a former Rye City Councilwoman and State Senate candidate. While he was described as a moderate during the campaign, Molinaro said in a March 2018 interview that he considered himself a communitarian.

Molinaro lost the 2018 gubernatorial election, garnering 36.8% of the vote.

Personal life
Molinaro and his wife, Corinne Adams, reside in Red Hook, New York. Molinaro had two children with his first wife; he and Corinne have one child and, as of November 2018, were expecting another. Molinaro's daughter, Abigail, is on the autism spectrum.

Electoral history

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| Total
| Andrew Cuomo/Kathy Hochul (incumbent)
| align=right|  3,353,495
| align=right|  57.90
|-

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| Total
| Marcus Molinaro/Julie Killian
| align=right|  2,089,228
| align=right|  36.07
|-


ADA clade

The ADA clade is the earliest-branching monophyletic clade of the flowering plant subfamily Faboideae (or Papilionaceae). Evidence for this clade was sparse until recent molecular phylogenies that included basal faboid genera that previously had been poorly sampled.

Description
This clade is composed of a morphologically eclectic collection of genera. It is one of only three clades (the other two being Swartzieae and the Cladrastis clade) in Faboideae that lack the 50-Kb plastid DNA inversion that is characteristic of the Meso-Papilionoideae. The name of this clade is informal and is not assumed to have any particular taxonomic rank like the names authorized by the ICBN or the ICPN. The clade does not currently have a node-based definition and no morphological synapomorphies have been identified.


Robert Fuchs (rower)

Robert Fuchs (born 12 June 1991) is a Polish competitive rower.

He competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, in the men's eight.


Kathleen Baskin-Ball

Kathleen Baskin-Ball (September 16, 1958 – December 2, 2008) was an ordained elder in the United Methodist Church.  She was ordained as deacon and probationary member of the North Texas Conference in 1983 and as elder and full member of the North Texas Conference in 1988. She received national recognition for her preaching, especially to youth.  She was a keynote speaker at Youth2007, the international youth conference of the UMC. She was also recognized regionally as the first female minister in North Texas to demonstrate high membership and worship attendance growth while serving as senior pastor of a large church.  She had a notable career record of growth in membership, worship attendance, and people joining by profession of faith. Baskin-Ball died on December 2, 2008, after two years' illness with cancer.

Churches served
Suncreek United Methodist Church, Senior Pastor, 2001-2008 (Allen, Texas)
Greenland Hills United Methodist Church, Senior Pastor, 1994-2001 (East Dallas, Texas)
Nueva Esperanza United Methodist Church, Pastor, 1989-1994 (West Dallas, Texas)
First United Methodist Church of Denton, Associate Pastor, 1984-1989 (Denton, Texas)
First United Methodist Church of Wichita Falls, Intern Pastor, 1983-1984 (Wichita Falls, Texas)
Holy Covenant United Methodist Church, Associate Pastor, Director of Youth Ministries, 1980-1983 (Carrollton, Texas)

Education
Baskin-Ball earned a B.A. degree in psychology from North Texas State University in 1981
  and an M.Div. degree from Perkins School of Theology at Southern Methodist University in 1986.

Ordained ministry milestones
In 1981, Baskin-Ball was the first woman in the North Texas Conference of the UMC to enter seminary immediately after completing her undergraduate education. (Between 1965 and 1982, all the women ordained by the North Texas Conference were entering ministry as a second career.)

In 2002, Baskin-Ball had a Profession of Faith/Worship Attendance Index value of 17.73.  (Worship attendance: 440, Profession of Faith: 78) This index denotes how many persons joined by profession of faith for every 100 persons in worship each week.  This is the highest value ever recorded for a female minister serving a large United Methodist church.

In 2003, Baskin-Ball was the first North Texas Conference female minister serving a local church appointment to be elected as a Delegate to General Conference.  (This election was for the 2004 General Conference.)

In 2004, Baskin-Ball was the first female minister in North Texas to serve as the senior pastor of a church with average annual attendance of 500 or more.  This occurred at Suncreek United Methodist Church in Allen.

Through 2007, Baskin-Ball had a total cumulative average annual worship attendance gain of 548 persons for her three appointments as Sr. Pastor  (Nueva Esparanza – 81, Greenland Hills UMC – 168 and Suncreek UMC – 299). This appears to be the highest gain for any female minister in the history of the United Methodist Church and the first to break the 500 person per week gain mark. (Gains in worship attendance are calculated by taking the final or most recent full year that a pastor served a church and subtracting the church's worship attendance for the year prior to their appointment.)

In 2007, Baskin-Ball was the first female minister in the 140-year history of the North Texas Conference of the United Methodist Church to be elected to lead the conference's clergy delegation to the General and Jurisdictional Conferences.

By mid-2008, membership at the three churches Baskin-Ball has served as senior pastor had grown by a total of more than 1500 people during her tenure.  Every church at least approximately doubled in size.  Membership at Suncreek UMC had tripled at the end of her sixth year of service at the church.  She has done this despite being appointed as Senior Pastor to relatively small churches (0, 301, and 469 members). The membership gain of 1134 persons at Suncreek through November 2008 represents the highest gain ever achieved by a female minister at one church in the United Methodist Church. (She was the first female UMC minister to reach the 1000 member growth mark at one church.)

Preaching
Baskin-Ball preached at the Children's Ministries Forum '08, the United Methodist Church's three-day national children's ministries conference.

Baskin-Ball was a keynote speaker at Youth2007, the "Youth Gathering of The United Methodist Church", a four-day international youth conference.

In 2005, Baskin-Ball preached at SpiLiRa, a Spiritual Life Rally for youth that was sponsored by the South Central Jurisdiction of the UMC (8 state region).

Baskin-Ball has preached at several large conference youth events, including events in the Texas and Central Texas Conferences. She was the featured preacher at the 21st Annual Youth Rally in the Peninsula-Delaware Conference in early 2008 that included about 5,000 youth and adults.

Baskin-Ball has preached at a number of gatherings for youth workers including Perkins School of Youth Ministry.

Baskin-Ball was the preacher/speaker for the 2008 Hopkins Lectures at First UMC Denton, TX.   She was a Rejebian Lecturer at Highland Park UMC (Dallas, TX).

In 2007, Baskin-Ball received the Award of Excellence in Word and Worship.  It was presented by Lovers Lane United Methodist Church.

(See links to video of sermons in External Links listing below.)

Honors
Baskin-Ball was elected as Chair of the Ministry and Higher Education Legislation Committee for the 2008 General Conference of the United Methodist Church.

Baskin-Ball was named Best Pastor in Collin County in the 2006 Reader's Choice Awards sponsored by Star Community Newspapers.

Other activities
In mid-1989, Baskin-Ball was appointed to start a new Hispanic church in West Dallas.  The location was a very impoverished neighborhood that the Dallas Morning News called one of the poorest in the nation with "adjusted per capita income" less than "poverty-stricken Mexico." She knew little Spanish so she took an intensive 5-week Spanish course in Cuernavaca, Mexico.  She lived in the community and went door to door to start the church.  A vibrant multi-ethnic congregation was formed with predominately Hispanic and African American members.  Rev. Baskin-Ball preached on Sundays in both English and Spanish.  They grew to a membership of 130 and were constituted as a United Methodist Church in April 1994.
  In 2008, she was awarded the Hattie Rankin Moore Leadership Award by Wesley-Rankin Community Center to recognize work and leadership within the community of West Dallas.

Baskin-Ball is one of the four founders of Perkins School of Youth Ministry (est. 1998), a national training event for youth ministers.

Baskin-Ball worked with the organization Proyecto Abrigo in Juarez, Mexico since its beginning and introduced many churches to the mission. After her death, a small neighborhood in the outskirts of Juarez was christened "La Colonia Kathleen Baskin-Ball" by Proyecto Abrigo. A plaque can be found in the neighborhood with this dedication.


Richard Tee

Richard Tee (November 24, 1943 – July 21, 1993) was an American pianist, studio musician, singer and arranger, who had several hundred studio credits and played on such notable hits as "In Your Eyes", "Slip Slidin' Away", "Just the Two of Us", "I'll Be Sweeter Tomorrow (Than I Was Today)", "Crackerbox Palace", "Tell Her About It", and many others.

Biography
Richard Tee was born in Brooklyn, New York, United States, where he spent most of his life and lived with his mother in a brownstone apartment building.

Tee graduated from The High School of Music & Art in New York City and attended the Manhattan School of Music.  Though better known as a studio and session musician, Tee led a jazz ensemble, the Richard Tee Committee, and was a founding member of the band Stuff. In 1981, he played the piano and Fender Rhodes for Simon and Garfunkel's Concert In Central Park.

Tee played with a diverse range of artists during his career, including Paul Simon, Carly Simon, The Bee Gees, Barbra Streisand, Roberta Flack, Aretha Franklin, Diane Schuur, Donny Hathaway, Peter Allen, George Harrison, Diana Ross, Duane Allman, Quincy Jones, Bill Withers, Art Garfunkel, Nina Simone, Juice Newton, Billy Joel, Etta James, Grover Washington Jr., Eric Clapton, Kenny Loggins, Patti Austin, David Ruffin, Lou Rawls, Ron Carter, Peter Gabriel, George Benson, Joe Cocker, Chuck Mangione, Tim Finn, Peabo Bryson, Mariah Carey, Chaka Khan, Phoebe Snow, Doc Severinsen, Leo Sayer, Herbie Mann and countless others. He also contributed to numerous gold and platinum albums during his long career and  joined Stuff led by bassist Gordon Edwards. Other members of the band included guitarist Cornell Dupree, drummer Chris Parker, and later guitarist Eric Gale and drummer Steve Gadd.

After a 16-year relationship with Eleana Steinberg Tee of Greenwich, Connecticut, the couple was married in Woodstock, New York, by New York State Supreme Court Justice Bruce Wright. The couple moved to the Chelsea Hotel in 1988, and later to Cold Spring, New York.

Tee died on July 21, 1993 in Calvary Hospital (Bronx) aged 49, after suffering from prostate cancer. He was survived by his mother Helen Ten Ryk of Brooklyn, six sons, and two stepdaughters. He is buried in the Artist Cemetery in Woodstock, New York.

Equipment
Tee used a diverse range of keyboards during his recording and touring career, notably the Hammond organ, piano, Hohner clavinet and synthesizers. His trademark sound, however, was his unique method of playing a Fender Rhodes electric piano and feeding the signal through an Electro-Harmonix Small Stone effect pedal phase shifter.

Discography

Solo albums
Strokin''' (Columbia/Tappan Zee 1979)Natural Ingredients (Columbia/Tappan Zee 1980)The Best of Richard Tee (Columbia/Tappan Zee 1981)Contemporary Piano (DCI 1982)The Bottom Line (King Records 1985)	Inside You (Columbia 1989)Real Time (One Voice 1992)The Right Stuff (Blues Interactions 1993)

with Hank CrawfordIt's a Funky Thing to Do (Cotillion, 1971)Help Me Make it Through the Night (Kudu, 1972)We Got a Good Thing Going (Kudu, 1972)Wildflower (Kudu, 1973)Hank Crawford's Back (Kudu, 1976)

with George BensonTell It Like It Is (1969)Give Me the Night (1980)In Your Eyes (1983)Big Boss Band (1990) with the Count Basie OrchestraLove Remembers (1993)

with Grover Washington, Jr.Inner City Blues (1971)All the King's Horses (1972)Soul Box - Vol. 2 (1973)Feels So Good (1975)	Winelight (1980)Skylarkin' (1980)Come Morning (1981)The Best Is Yet to Come (1982)In Concert (1982)Inside Moves (1984)A House Full of Love (1986)

with Cornell DupreeTeasin' (1974)Coast to Coast (1988)Can't Get Through (1991)Child's Play (1992)Uncle Funky (1992)

with StuffStuff (1976)More Stuff (1977)Stuff It (1978)Live Stuff (1978)Live In New York (1980)	East (1981)Best Stuff (1981)Stuff Live In Montreux (2008) DVD/CDRight Stuff (1996) collection

with Steve Gadd / The Gadd GangGadd About (1984)The Gadd Gang (1986)Here & Now (1988)Live at the Bottom Line (1988)Gadd Gang (1991)

with other artistsTune In, Turn On (1967) Benny GolsonSoul Drums (1968) Bernard PurdieSoul Rebel (1968) Bob MarleyI Heard That (1969) Quincy JonesShirley Scott & the Soul Saxes (1969) Shirley ScottLena & Gabor (1969) Lena Horne and Gábor SzabóGood Vibes (1969) Gary BurtonCornucopia (1969) Dizzy GillespieComment (1970) Les McCannLive at Freddie Jett's Pied Piper (1970) Esther PhillipsEverybody's Talkin'  (1970) King CurtisSuite 16 (1970) Yusef Lateef 	Boys from Dayton (1971) Snooky YoungBlacknuss (1971) Rahsaan Roland KirkSalt Song (1971) Stanley TurrentineQuiet Fire (1971) Roberta FlackPush Push (1971) Herbie MannYoung, Gifted and Black (1972) Aretha Franklin 	Chuck Rainey Coalition (1972) Chuck RaineySweet Buns & Barbeque (1972) Houston PersonSoul Is... Pretty Purdie (1972) Bernard PurdieAlone Again (Naturally) (1972) Esther PhillipsThe Final Comedown (1972) Grant GreenSweet Buns & Barbeque (1972) Houston Person The Weapon (1973) David NewmanBlues Farm (1973) Ron CarterYour Baby is a Lady (1973) Jackie DeShannonDon't Mess with Mister T. (1973) Stanley TurrentineAbandoned Luncheonette (1973) Daryl Hall & John OatesIn the Beginning (1974) Hubert LawsAWB (1974) Average White BandJourney (1974) Arif MardinThe Disco Kid (1975) Van McCoyAnything Goes (1975) Ron CarterNegril (1975) Eric GaleThe New York Connection (1975) Tom ScottGone At Last (1975) Paul SimonLost Generation (1975) Elliott MurphyThirty Three & 1/3 (1976) George HarrisonThe Case of the 3 Sided Dream in Audio Color (1976) Rahsaan Roland KirkDinner Music (1976) Carla BleyEnd of a Rainbow (1976) Patti AustinThe Real McCoy (1976) Van McCoyNative New Yorker (1977) OdysseyFirefly Jeremy Steig (1977)
 Roots Quincy Jones (1977)Havana Candy Patti Austin (1977)The Stranger Billy Joel (1977)The Atlantic Family Live in Montreaux (1977)Multiplication Eric Gale (1978)Intimate Strangers Tom Scott (1978)Warmer Communications Average White Band (1978)Scratch My Back David “Fathead” Newman (Prestige, 1979)One Trick Pony Paul Simon (1980)Apple Juice Tom Scott (1981)RIT Lee Ritenour (1981)The Concert in Central Park Simon and Garfunkel (1981)Living Eyes Bee Gees (1981)Heartbreaker Dionne Warwick (1982)Blade Runner (1982) (not on O.S.T.) in "Memories of Green" songFill Up The Night Sadao Watanabe (1983)Hearts and Bones Paul Simon (1983)An Innocent Man Billy Joel (1984)Universal Rhythm Ralph MacDonald (1984)Ferryboat Pino Daniele (1985)
"Underground" David Bowie (1986)So Peter Gabriel (1986)10th Avenue  Patrick Williams New York Band (1986) on "Still Crazy After All These Years" Streamlines Tom Scott (1987)Sound Investment Flip Phillips & Scott Hamilton (1987)Red Hot Rhythm & Blues Diana Ross (1987) At Home Janis Siegel (1987)  	The Camera Never Lies Michael Franks (1987) Close Up Dave Sanborn (1988)	Talkin' 'Bout You Diane Schuur (1988)At Last Lou Rawls (1989)Street Smarts Eddie Gomez (1989)Midnight in San Juan Earl Klugh (1989)Bottom's Up Victor Bailey (1989)Vanishing Mariah Carey (1990)Star Time James Brown (1991)Upfront David Sanborn (1992)Queen of Soul: The Atlantic Recordings Aretha Franklin (1992)Legendary Lou Rawls Lou Rawls (1992)I'll Take Care of You Cissy Houston/Chuck Jackson (1992)Anthology: Down in Birdland Manhattan Transfer (1992)Evolution of Herbie Mann Herbie Mann (1993)Greatest Hits 80-94 Aretha Franklin (1993)Instant Soul: Legendary King Curtis King Curtis (1993)Softly with these Songs: The Best... Roberta Flack (1993)Friends Can Be Lovers Dionne Warwick (1993)Skyline Phil Carmen (1993)I Can Stand a Little Rain Joe Cocker (1975)Stingray Joe Cocker (1976)Luxury You Can Afford'' Joe Cocker (1979)


The Tahiti women's national under-17 football team is the second highest women's youth team of women's football in French Polynesia. The team consists of a selection of players from French Polynesia, not just Tahiti. The team is controlled by the Tahitian Football Federation.

History
Tahiti never participated in the OFC U-17 Women's Championship so far. However, in 2017 they will participate for the first time.

OFC
The OFC Women's Under 17 Qualifying Tournament is a tournament held once every two years to decide the only qualification spot for Oceania Football Confederation (OFC) and representatives at the FIFA U-17 World Cup.

Current technical staff

Current Squad
The following players were called up for the 2017 OFC U-16 Women's Championship

Caps and goals correct after match against New Caledonia on August 12, 2017.


Jefferson Barracks Military Post

The Jefferson Barracks Military Post is located on the Mississippi River at Lemay, Missouri, south of St. Louis. It was an important and active U.S. Army installation from 1826 through 1946. It is the oldest operating U.S. military installation west of the Mississippi River, and it is now used as a base for the Army and Air National Guard. A Veterans Affairs healthcare system campus is located on the southern portion of the base and is also the headquarters for the Veterans Canteen Service.

History

In 1826 General Edmund P. Gaines (Commander of the Western Department of the Army), Brig. General Henry Atkinson (commanding officer of the sixth infantry regiment), explorer William Clark, and Missouri Governor John Miller spent several days searching the banks of the Mississippi River for the perfect location for a new post to replace Fort Bellefontaine. A site near the city of "Vide Poche" or Carondelet, ten miles (16 km) south of St. Louis, was recommended and then approved by Major General Jacob J. Brown, Commanding General of the Army.

On July 10, 1826, two days after the deed to the land was signed, the first military troops—six officers and 245 enlisted men of Companies A, B, H and I of the 1st Infantry Regiment, commanded by Brevet Major Stephen Watts Kearny—arrived at the new post and started building temporary quarters that they named Cantonment Miller in honor of Governor Miller. In 1827 the military post was formally named Jefferson Barracks in honor of Thomas Jefferson who had died the year before. Even William Clark's son, Meriwether Lewis Clark, Sr., would join the ranks of Jefferson Barracks. It was also designated the first "Infantry School of Practice."

The first conflict that the men of Jefferson Barracks were involved with was the Black Hawk War in 1832. Troops were deployed from Jefferson Barracks to push "hostile Indians" back into their village in present-day Iowa. Chief Black Hawk was captured and brought back to Jefferson Barracks.

In 1832, the United States Regiment of Dragoons were formed and stationed at Jefferson Baracks.  The dragoons, trained to fight mounted or dismounted, were the first unit of permanent cavalry in the United States Army and were later called the 1st U.S. Dragoons.

Mexican–American War
Jefferson Barracks became a major military post during the Mexican–American War (1846–1848) when it served as a rest and supply station for most U.S. troops deploying to Mexico. Jefferson Barracks was the recruiting center for outfitting and training most of the regiments organized for the Mexican War in 1846, and upon the return of the triumphant U.S. forces in 1848, many were deployed to Jefferson Barracks due to its strategic location and healthful situation.

In 1853, newly elected President Franklin Pierce, who had served as a brigadier general during the Mexican War, appointed Jefferson Davis as his Secretary of War.

At Jefferson Barracks, in 1855, Davis soon organized the First and Second Regiments of Cavalry, known derisively as "Jeff Davis's Pets," because the commissioned personnel assigned to them were the best in the Army. Albert Sidney Johnston served as colonel and Robert E. Lee as lieutenant colonel of the Second Regiment of Cavalry. A list of the officers of the Second Regiment of Cavalry includes some of the ablest commanders of the U.S. Civil War. The Second Regiment of Cavalry was redesignated as the Fifth Regiment of Cavalry in 1861. The 2d U.S. Dragoons were redesignated as the 2d Regiment of Cavalry in 1861 when the War Department discontinued the use of Dragoons as a unit designation.

Civil War
During the American Civil War (1861–1865), Jefferson Barracks served as a military hospital for both sides and a recruitment depot for the North. In 1862 construction of the Western Sanitary Commission's hospital facilities began at Jefferson Barracks. By the time that the hospital complex was complete, it could hold 3,000 patients. By the end of the first year of the war, over 5,000 sick and wounded had been admitted and, by the end of the war, well over 18,000 soldiers had been treated at Jefferson Barracks Hospital. In 2002, The Missouri Civil War Museum was founded, which is still being restored today. The MCWM is being brought to life in the old 1905 Post Exchange Building.

Spanish–American War
With the declaration of the Spanish–American War in 1898, many regular army and volunteer regiments were, once again, formed and outfitted at Jefferson Barracks. Jefferson Barracks was permanently designated as a recruiting depot in 1906; it had been used intermittently as such through generations.

World War I
On March 1, 1912 Jefferson Barracks became the main base for the first experiments in aviation parachuting. Albert Berry became the first person to successfully parachute from an airplane, which was being flown by Anthony Jannus over the field.

During World War I, Jefferson Barracks served as a training and recruitment station for soldiers heading to Europe.

Jefferson Barracks was included in the Sixth Corps Area from 1920-1940. During the 1930s, the Citizens Military Training Camp or CMTC was held at Jefferson Barracks.  Young men could spend one month a year at the post being trained as a soldier, and after three years they could enter the military. Also during that time the Works Progress Administration (WPA) had camps at Jefferson Barracks.

World War II
During World War II, Jefferson Barracks was a major reception center for U.S. troops being drafted into the military. It also served as an important basic training site for the Army, then later was the first Army Air Corps Training Site. Elements of the Central (later Eastern) Technical Training Command were stationed at the barracks.

During World War II, Jefferson Barracks had a peak area of 1,518 acres (6.14 km²), and had billeting space for 16 officers and 1,500 enlisted persons.

Jefferson Barracks was decommissioned as a military post in 1946 with the end of World War II.

Post-World War II
After Jefferson Barracks was decommissioned, portions of the grounds were sold off for construction of houses.  Some of the barracks were acquired by the St. Louis County Housing Authority as temporary low-cost housing. Those were demolished in the 1960s and replaced by the current Jefferson Townhomes development. Bishop DuBourg High School was located on the Jefferson Barracks property for several years in the early 1950s.  The former Jefferson Barracks School is now used for storage and maintenance; and the former theater is St. Bernadette Catholic Church.

It is now the site of two St. Louis County Parks (Jefferson Barracks County Park and Sylvan Springs County Park), a National Guard Base (Army and Air), the Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery and the Veterans Administration St. Louis Health Care System - Jefferson Barracks Division. Part of the hospital grounds were donated to the Mehlville School District in the 1960s to build Charles S. Beasley Elementary School.

Today, the 135-acre National Guard post at Jefferson Barracks is home to the 70th Troop Command, the Missouri Army National Guard's largest brigade. The post is also headquarters for the Region 7 Homeland Response Force; the Missouri Air National Guard's 157th Air Operations Group and the 10th Psychological Operations Battalion of the U.S. Army Reserve.

During the 1960s and 1970s, portions of Jefferson Barracks County Park were used as a landfill. During the 1980s, an annual balloon race was held in the park. Today, because of its large size, high school cross country races are often held in the park in the fall months, most notably the Hancock Invitational.

Museums

Jefferson Barracks Museums

Jefferson Barracks County Park includes the several museums, museums that house artifacts and history of Jefferson Barracks while it was an active United States Military Post. The Powder Magazine Museum focuses on the history of Jefferson Barracks from its inception in 1826 until its closure in 1946. The Old Ordnance Room, also once a powder magazine, features temporary exhibits with military themes. The Laborer's House Museum shows a typical mid 1800s family residence.

Missouri Civil War Museum

The Missouri Civil War Museum opened in the park in June 2013 after an 11-year historic renovation of the 1905 Post Exchange and Gymnasium Building, which is on the National Register of Historic Places. The museum is the largest Civil War museum in the state of Missouri with over 22,000 square feet and two floors of exhibits. Displays focus on the state's role during the American Civil War and exhibit hundreds of remarkable artifacts from the Civil War. Additional galleries in the museum focus on the history of Jefferson Barracks, veterans organizations, and the Civil War in pop culture. The museum has also renovated the adjacent 1918 Post Exchange Building, which is used for museum educational and public programs.

Jefferson Barracks Telephone Museum

Besides its extensive collection of telephones manufactured from the 1900s through the 2000s, the Jefferson Barracks Telephone Museum also contains a working Central Office Step Switch, military telephones from World War II through the Vietnam War, hundreds of pieces of telephone-related equipment and tools, a telephone pole complete with climbing equipment, hundreds of pieces of telephone-related memorabilia from the 1880s through the 2000s, a large variety of novelty telephones, a special portable switchboard set up when U.S. Presidents Carter, Ford, Nixon and Johnson were visiting St. Louis and a sculpture of Alexander Graham Bell and history of the invention of the telephone.

The self-guided, accessible museum has many hands-on, how-things-work displays.

Army Units Organized at Jefferson Barracks
 U.S. 1st Cavalry Regiment – March 4, 1833 (Originally United States Regiment of Dragoons).
 2d Armored Cavalry Regiment – May 23, 1836 (Originally 2nd Regiment of Dragoons)
 3d Armored Cavalry Regiment – October 12, 1846 (Originally Regiment of Mounted Riflemen)
 U.S. 4th Cavalry Regiment – March 26, 1855 (Originally 1st Cavalry Regiment)
 U.S. 22d Infantry Regiment – December, 1865 (Originally 3rd Battalion, 13th Infantry Regiment)

Air Force Units Organized at Jefferson Barracks
 157th Air Operations Group
 131st Tactical Fighter Group, later 131st Fighter Wing, now 131st Bomb Wing
 239th Combat Communication (CBCS) Squadron
 266 Ground Electronics Engineering Installation Agency (GEEIA) Squadron.
 218th Engineering Installation Squadron
 131st Force Support Squadron
 231st Civil Engineer Flight


James Barnum

James Barnum (1816 – unknown) was a boatswain’s mate in the United States Navy stationed aboard the Union ironclad  during the American Civil War. He received the Medal of Honor for his actions during the First and Second Battle of Fort Fisher in December 1864 and January 1865.

Medal of Honor citation
"The President of the United States of America, in the name of Congress, takes pleasure in presenting the Medal of Honor to Boatswain's Mate James Barnum, United States Navy, for extraordinary heroism in action board the U.S.S. New Ironsides during action in several attacks on Fort Fisher, North Carolina, 24 and 25 December 1864; and on 13, 14, and 15 January 1865. The ship steamed in and took the lead in the ironclad division close in shore and immediately opened its starboard battery in a barrage of well-directed fire to cause several fires and explosions and dismount several guns during the first two days of fighting. Taken under fire as she steamed into position on 13 January, the New Ironsides fought all day and took on ammunition at night despite severe weather conditions. When the enemy came out of his bombproofs to defend the fort against the storming party, the ship's battery disabled nearly every gun on the fort facing the shore before the cease-fire orders were given by the flagship. Boatswain's Mate Barnum was commended for highly meritorious conduct during this period."

General Orders: War Department, General Orders No. 59 (June 22, 1865)

Action Date: December 24–25, 1864 and January 13–15, 1865

Service: Navy

Rank: Boatswain’s Mate

Division: U.S.S. New Ironsides


Silvia Monge Villalobos

Silvia Isabel Monge Villalobos (born 20 November 1967) is a Mexican politician from the National Action Party. From 2009 to 2012 she served as Deputy of the LXI Legislature of the Mexican Congress representing Veracruz.


Emory Rounds

Emory Arthur Rounds III is an American attorney and government ethics official who is the current Director of the United States Office of Government Ethics, nominated by President Donald Trump to serve a five-year term.

Career
Rounds served as an ethics attorney at the United States Department of Commerce and in the Judge Advocate General's Office in the U.S. Navy, where he attained the rank of Commander.
Rounds served as an ethics counsel for six years in the White House Counsel's Office during the administration of George W. Bush, and subsequently served as an associate counsel at the U.S. Office of Government Ethics.

On February 8, 2018, President Donald Trump announced his intent to nominate Rounds to the office of Director of the Office of Government Ethics for a term of five years.  On August 7, 2018, Rounds made the following statement as newly appointed Director of the U.S. Office of Government Ethics:  "I am honored to lead the Office of Government Ethics.  I am also deeply humbled by the weight of this agency’s mission.  The U.S. Office of Government Ethics will continue to ensure that the citizens of our nation can help ensure their leaders are complying with ethics laws and rules. The agency will continue to make ethics documents available and communicate with the public to make sure that the people’s business is conducted with all appropriate transparency."

Personal Life

Rounds is a graduate of King Philip Regional High School, in Wrentham Massachusetts, earned his BA in English from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and his juris doctorate from the University of Akron. He is married with five children, and is a resident of southern Maine - a state he always desired to return to following a tour stationed at Brunswick Naval Air Station during the 1980s. Rounds is a great fan of New England sports franchises, especially the New England Patriots and the Boston Red Sox.


Norazlan Razali

Norazlan bin Razali (born 19 December 1985) is a Malaysian football player who  plays for Malaysia Super League side Melaka United as a goalkeeper.

Club career

Johor, Kuala Lumpur
Norazlan began his career with home town team Johor before moving to Kuala Lumpur in 2010, making 52 appearances and earning a national team call up. He made three appearances against Iraq, Saudi Arabia and Palestine but none of the match listed as FIFA 'A' international match.

Selangor
In 2015, Norazlan returned to Selangor.

Felda United
In the 2019 season, Norazlan was transferred to Felda United under the wings of Mohd Nidzam Jamil.

Statistics

Club

1 Includes Malaysia FA Cup matches.
2 Includes Malaysia Cup matches.
3 Includes AFC Cup matches.

Honours

Club honours
Johor Darul Takzim
 2014 Malaysia Super League
Selangor Fa
2015 Malaysia Cup


Earl-Jean McCrea

Earl-Jean Reavis (née McCrea)  (born 1942) is an American former pop and R&B singer, who was a member of the Cookies vocal group.  Credited as Earl-Jean, she had a solo hit with the original version of "I'm into Something Good", written by Gerry Goffin and Carole King, and later a bigger hit for Herman's Hermits.

Early life
She was born in Brooklyn, New York, but lived with her family in North Carolina from the age of two. They returned to Brooklyn to live in Coney Island when Jeanie was a young teenager, where she attended Lincoln High School. In 1960, she married Grant Reavis, and had a child.. Gerry Goffin and Earl-Jean McCrea (aka Jeanie Reavis) had a daughter together while Goffin and King were still working together, as author Sheila Weller said in her book "Girls Like Us," which chronicles the lives of King, Joni Mitchell and Carly Simon.

Career
Her older sister, Darlene McCrea, and the other original members of the Cookies - a group first formed in 1954 - eventually evolved into Ray Charles' backing group, the Raelettes. In 1961, Earl-Jean was persuaded to join a new version of the Cookies. The group was signed to Goffin and King's Dimension record label in 1962, and scored hits with "Don't Say Nothin' Bad (About My Baby)", and "Chains" (later covered by the Beatles).

She became pregnant while on tour, and Gerry Goffin (married to Carole King at the time) was named as the father; the baby, Dawn Reavis, was born in July 1964.  She left the Cookies, and signed for Colpix, where she recorded the Goffin and King song "I'm into Something Good" (Colpix CP 729), which reached no.38 in the United States on the Billboard Hot 100. Later that year in Britain, a cover version by Herman's Hermits topped the charts. She recorded a follow-up single in 1964, again written by Goffin and King, called 'Randy You're Quite a Guy" (Colpix CP 748) but this failed to chart.

Goffin and King gave Earl-Jean financial support, but she did not have any further hits.  She later worked as a specialist in early childhood, and opened a day care center.


Ciénaga de Zapata

Ciénaga de Zapata is one of 14 municipalities of the Matanzas Province, Cuba, and the municipal seat is located at Playa Larga, at the northern end of the Bahia de Cochinos ("Bay of Pigs"). A large part of the municipality is protected as the Zapata Swamp.

It is the largest municipality of Cuba with 4,162 km2.

Among the villages included in the municipal territory, one of the most famous is  Playa Girón, site of the Bay of Pigs Invasion in 1961. Other villages are Bermejas, Buenaventura, Caleta del Rosario, Caleta Sábalo, El Jiquí, El Maíz, El Rincón, Guamá, Guasasa, Helechal, La Ceiba, La Florestal, La Salina, Maneadero, Palpite, Playa Maceo, Playa Maquina, San Blás, San Lázaro, Santo Tomás and Sopillar.

In 2004, the municipality of Cienaga de Zapata had a population of 8,611. With a total area of , it has a population density of .


Erwin Thaler

Erwin Thaler (born May 21, 1930 in Innsbruck - November 29, 2001) is an Austrian bobsledder who competed in the 1960s. He won two silver medals in the four-man event at the 1964 and 1968 Winter Olympics.

Thaler also won two medals at the FIBT World Championships with gold in the two-man event in 1967 and a bronze in the four-man event in 1963.


Dendrophorbium angelense

Dendrophorbium angelense is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae.
It is found only in Ecuador.
Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist montane forests and subtropical or tropical high-altitude shrubland.
It is threatened by habitat loss.

Sources


Craig Mullaney

Craig Michael Mullaney (born 1978) is a United States Army veteran and author of The Unforgiving Minute: A Soldier's Education (Penguin Press).

He was Senior Vice President of Content, Strategy and Operations at Ustream from 2011-13. He also served as Senior Policy Advisor working for the United States Agency for International Development. He currently works on Strategic Partner Development at Facebook.

Early life, education and family
Raised in a Roman Catholic blue-collar family in Rhode Island, Mullaney was the Bishop Hendricken High School valedictorian and was selected for nomination to the U.S. Military Academy in 1996. While a cadet, Mullaney double-majored in French and History, served as the cadet brigade operations officer in his senior year, and completed over 400 jumps as a nationally ranked member of West Point's sport-parachute team.  He graduated second in the West Point Class of 2000. He was handed his diploma by then-Vice President Al Gore.

Mullaney attended Lincoln College, Oxford (2000–02) as a Rhodes Scholar. He earned a Master of Science degree in Economic and Diplomatic History and a Master of Studies degree in Historical Research.

Family
Mullaney married Tomoko Hosaka, a journalist with The Associated Press. He was previously married to Dr. Meena Seshamani, a medical doctor. They met at Oxford where Seshamani was a PhD Marshall Scholar and he was a Rhodes Scholar.

Mullaney's younger brother, Gary, also attended West Point and served in Iraq as an infantry officer. Like his older brother before him, Gary also completed Ranger School.

Military career
Prior to arriving at Oxford, Mullaney completed Ranger School at Fort Benning, Georgia, a grueling nine-week course designed to test small-unit leadership by simulating combat stress through strenuous tactical exercises. When Mullaney returned to the United States in 2002, he completed additional infantry training and joined the 10th Mountain Division, which had recently returned from Afghanistan.

In 2003, Mullaney served as an infantry officer with the 10th Mountain Division as part of Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan, where he led a rifle platoon along the hostile border with Pakistan.

His platoon operated along the entire spectrum of combat operations—from humanitarian assistance to full-scale combined arms against al-Qaeda and Taliban forces. His platoon was the most decorated in Afghanistan during its tour and was commended in person by General Richard Myers, General John Abizaid, and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. He was recognized with the Bronze Star, Army Commendation Medal for Valor, and the Combat Infantryman Badge.

After his tour in Afghanistan, Mullaney served in the 3rd United States Infantry Regiment (The Old Guard), in Arlington, Virginia. At this elite ceremonial unit, he planned portions of the 2005 Presidential Inauguration, marched in reviews for foreign dignitaries, and managed a team of Pentagon-funded software engineers developing management software for small units in the Army.

In the summer of 2005, Mullaney joined the faculty of the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, as a history instructor and Army Exchange Officer. He designed and taught an undergraduate course on the history of the U.S. Navy and American foreign policy. He left the Army in 2008 upon completion of his tour at the Naval Academy.

Public service
Mullaney was on the national security staff of Barack Obama's presidential campaign, and served as the Chief of Staff of the United States Department of Defense Transition Team under co-chairs Michele Flournoy and Dr. John P. White.

He worked as the Principal Director for Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Central Asia for the Department of Defense from May 2009 to April 2010. In April 2010, he was appointed as a senior advisor on Afghanistan and Pakistan issues to the United States Agency for International Development.

Author
Mullaney wrote The Unforgiving Minute: A Soldier's Education, an autobiographical look at preparing for the responsibility of leading men in combat and the hard-won lessons of that experience.

Reviewer Janet Maslin of The New York Times noted the "searing detail" of the Afghanistan combat description, and concluded that the memoir's "impact" comes from its account of "the inner journey of a man who is at first eager to learn as much as he can from service and scholarship. Later on he learns from his mistakes."


Marguerite Dale

Marguerite Ludovia Dale (22 October 1883 – 13 May 1963) was an Australian playwright and feminist.

The daughter of Charles Ludovia Hume and his wife Celia Annie Maltby, she was born Marguerite Ludovia Hume in Boorowa. Her great-uncle was the explorer, Hamilton Hume. She was educated at home by governesses and then attended Ascham School in Sydney. Following her mother's death in 1904, she ran the family household. In 1907, she married George Samuel Evans Dale(d.1944), a solicitor; the couple lived in Chatswood and had two daughters.

Dale campaigned for the early closing of hotels which was introduced in 1916 and helped lobby for the Women's Legal Status Act of 1918. She was active in the Women's Reform League of New South Wales and became president of the league in 1923. She was active in the Workers' Educational Association, the National Council of Women of Australia and the Australian Federation of Women's Societies for Equal Citizenship. In 1922, she was named an alternate delegate to the League of Nations and addressed the assembly on white slavery. Around 1924, she spent 18 months in a sanatorium in Geneva due to poor health.

In 1935, she became the first Australian woman to take a commercial air flight to London.

She died in Neutral Bay at the age of 79.

Writing
Dale's first play, Secondary Considerations, was chosen by Gregan McMahon for performance by the Sydney Repertory Theatre in 1921.

Dale’s 1934 play, Meet as Lovers, was performed at the Savoy Theatre, Sydney as a fund-raiser for the Blind Institute. Her daughter, Philippa, an amateur actress, filled the leading role portraying an ingenue.

She edited A Year in Australia, a memoir by Swedish writer .

Works
Dale wrote a number of plays which were performed in Sydney:

Secondary Considerations, 1921
The Mainstay, 1922; also performed in London; and in Uppsala in Swedish in 1929
The Will of the Wisp, 1927
Mostly Fools, 1930
Vive le Mari or Nothing Like a Husband, 1930
Paris in the Air, 1930
Meet as Lovers, 1934


Landing Zone Brace

Landing Zone Brace (also known as LZ Brace) is a former U.S. Army landing zone west of Kontum in the Central Highlands of Vietnam.

History
The landing zone was established on the afternoon of 3 March 1969 by Company A of the 3rd Battalion, 8th Infantry during Operation Wayne Grey an operation against the People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) 24th and 66th Regiments in the Plei Trap Valley and was located approximately 44 km west of Kontum.

On establishing their perimeter at the LZ a patrol was sent out which encountered and pursued 2 PAVN soldiers. The patrol was soon engaged by a PAVN force (later estimated as being of Battalion strength) and was reinforced by a platoon and then the entire Company. After an extended firefight the Company formed a night perimeter which was defended by artillery and gunships. On the morning of 4 March a patrol was sent out to locate missing personnel and was again engaged by the PAVN and forced back to the night perimeter which was then attacked by the PAVN. Company B 3/8 Infantry was sent to combat assault to support Company A, but encountered heavy PAVN fire at their intended landing zone and was forced to deploy to another landing zone, meanwhile Company A was forced to retreat to another firebase. Company A lost 21 killed in the engagement at LZ Brace. On 6 March Companies B and C 3/8 Infantry assaulted LZ Brace and with artillery and air support succeeded in capturing the hill.

On 16 March 6th Battalion, 29th Artillery moved to LZ Brace.

Current use
The landing zone has reverted to jungle.


Bahram H. Arjmandi

Bahram H. Arjmandi is an American nutritionist. He is the Margaret A. Sitton Professor at Florida State University (FSU) and is the founder and Director of the Center for Advancing Exercise and Nutrition Research on Aging (CAENRA). He is a researcher in the fields of functional foods and human health. He was among the first to detect the presence of estrogen receptors in the gut linking the importance of estrogen and estrogen receptors in calcium regulation independent of vitamin D.

Arjmandi is a widely published and cited researcher in the fields of nutrition and human health.

His current research emphasis is women's health including cardiovascular health, osteoporosis, and osteoarthritis.

Early life
Arjmandi received his Ph.D. From Kansas State University, where he studied the effect of soluble fiber on sterol synthesis and later completed his postdoctoral work in the area of estrogen and bone physiology at the University of Texas Health Science Center.

Selected Publications

Bone metabolic abnormalities associated with well-controlled type 1 diabetes (IDDM) in young adult women: a disease complication often ignored or neglected. J Am Coll Nutr. 2010 Aug;29 :419-29.
Effects of watermelon supplementation on aortic blood pressure and wave reflection in individuals with prehypertension: A Pilot Study. Am J Hypertens. 2010 Jul 8.
One year soy protein supplementation does not improve lipid profile in postmenopausal women. Menopause 2010 Mar 3.
Combination of fructooligosaccharide and dried plum has the best bone reversal  properties among select functional foods and bioactive compounds. J Food and Medicine. 2010 Feb 4.
Combination of genistin and fructooligosaccharides prevents bone loss in ovarian hormone deficiency. J Med Food. 2010 Feb 4.
Dual energy x-ray absorptiometry (DXA) as a non-invasive tool for the prediction of bone density and body composition of turtles. Herpetological Review, 41, 36-42, 2010.
Vitamin E dose-dependently reduces aortic fatty lesion formation in orchidectomized aged rats. Aging Clin Exp Res. 2009 Dec 18.
Viewpoint: Dried plum, an emerging functional food that may effectively improve bone health. Ageing Res Rev. 8(2):122-7, 2009.
The role of vitamin E in reversing bone loss. Aging Clin Exp Res. 20(6):521-7, 2008.
Addition of Fructooligosaccharides and Dried Plum to Soy-based Diets Reverses Bone Loss in the Ovariectomized Rat. Evid Based Complement Alternat Med. 2008 Jul 30.
The combination of genistin and ipriflavone prevents mammary tumorigenesis and modulates lipid profile. Clin Nutr. 27(4):643-8, 2008.
Dietary l-carnitine supplementation improves bone mineral density by suppressing bone turnover in aged ovariectomized rats. Phytomedicine. 15(8):595-601, 2008.
Blueberry prevents bone loss in ovariectomized rat model of postmenopausal osteoporosis. J Nutr Bioch, 19(10):694-9, 2008.
Flaxseed Reduces LDL- and Total-Cholesterol Concentrations in Native American Postmenopausal Women. J Women's Health Gend, 17:355-366, 2008.
High impact exercise and dietary calcium both benefit the skeleton in growing rats or High impact exercise can overcome a moderate calcium deficiency in the growing rat skeleton. Bone, 42:660-668, 2008.


Puncak 6852

Puncak 6852 is a mountain located in Perak. Its summit is 2088 metres (6850 ft).


Pyrestini

Pyrestini is a tribe of beetles in the subfamily Cerambycinae, containing the following genera most of which are from the Oriental region, many being reddish in colour:

 Cymaterus
 Erythresthes
 Erythrus
 Pachylocerus
 Plutonesthes
 Pyrestes


Dingras

, officially the ,  is a   in the province of , . According to the , it has a population of  people.

The Municipality of Dingras has a total area of 17,962 hectares, ranking 8th in size among the 23 municipalities including Laoag City. It accounts for practically 5.2% of the total land area of Ilocos Norte and corresponding percentage to the municipal area composed of thirty one (31) barangays. Six (6) are on the Poblacion and twenty five (25) in the rural area. Out of the total area 6,305 hectares is devoted to rice and corn production. Other non-productive areas are devoted to livestock production, swine production and other livelihood projects. Most of the population are engaged in farming as the primary source of income.

Barangays

Dingras is politically subdivided into 31 barangays.

 Albano (Poblacion)
 Bacsil
 Bagut
 Baresbes
 Barong
 Bungcag
 Cali
 Capasan
 Dancel (Poblacion)
 Foz
 Guerrero (Poblacion)
 Lanas
 Lumbad
 Madamba (Poblacion)
 Mandaloque
 Medina
 Parado (Bangay)
 Peralta (Poblacion)
 Puruganan (Poblacion)
 Root (Baldias)
 Sagpatan
 Saludares
 San Esteban
 San Marcelino (Padong)
 Ver (Naglayaan)

History

The Legend of DINGRAS

As in other communities, the town of Dingras has an interesting legend as to how its name evolved. The legend, as handed down from generation to generation, was classically romantic, a gallant heir - warrior fighting for a lady's love.

In the early times, there were two prosperous barangays in the present site of the town each one ruled by a powerful chief or datu. They were bitter and mortal enemies. Naslag was the powerful chief of the barangay north of the river while Allawigan was the chief of the south of the river. One day, Allawigan and his warriors went to hunt. Rass, his son, was the bravest among them. During the hunt, Ras followed the deer, which went north across the river. While he was watching the fleeing deer, he saw a beautiful damsel gathering wild flowers on the opposite side of the riverbank. She was Ding, the daughter of Naslag. To help the lady, Ras gathered the most beautiful flowers near him; put them at the head of his arrow and shoot near the lady's feet. Ding looked at the other side of the river and waved her hands. Ras went home happily.

Ras begged his father for permission to win Ding for his wife. But because the fathers of Ding and Ras were bitter enemies, the only way he could win her was in the open battle fiercely fought between the two tribes. Ras led his father's warriors. They fought valiant and came out victorious in the end. Ras asked for Ding as a prize but Naslag refused. This angered him and hurled a challenge to the bravest warrior of Naslag in single combat with Ding as prize. The challenge was accepted. The combat was fought, and again, Ras was victorious. He brought Ding triumphantly to Allawigan, his father. Thereafter, the people named the two barangays Dingras, after Ras, their valiant warrior ruler, and Ding, his beautiful wife.

Demographics

In the , the population of Dingras was  people, with a density of .

Longest Bibingka
On October 9, 2007, Dingras, Ilocos Norte, Philippines eyed a "Guinness World Records" certification after baking a kilometer-long "bibingka" (native cake) made from 1,000 kilos of  cassava and eaten by 1,000 residents.

List of Cultural Properties of Dingras

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Notes

Bibliography

External links
Pasyalan Ilocos Norte
Philippine Standard Geographic Code
Philippine Census Information
Local Governance Performance Management System


Seligeria cardotti

Seligeria cardotti is one of the two species in genus Seligeria, bryophytes of the Seligeriaceae family, in the Southern Hemisphere; an additional 19 species have been described in the Northern Hemisphere.

Appearance
S. cardotii is an erect, light green to blue-green moss. It typically does not grow longer than 3 mm. Its leaves are linear with a narrow midrib between 2–3 rows of translucent cells on either side. The leaves do not sheath at the stem and have an entire to slightly crenellate sobarnis  margin. Capsules are 0.4–0.5–mm long and obovate-hemispheric when moist, becoming obconic when dry. The peristome contains 16 moderately short, reddish, lanceolate teeth approximately 40–μm. Spores are 10–14–μm in diameter and green.

Geographical distribution and habitat
The type specimen of S. cardotii was described in the nineteenth century from a collection from New Zealand's South Island, where it is widespread on moist calcareous soils. It has also been recorded in Australia from a single population in Tasmania.


Glyphocystis

Glyphocistis is a monotypic snout moth genus described by André Blanchard in 1973. Its only species, Glyphocistis viridivallis, described in the same article, is found in the US state of Texas.

The wingspan is 21–24 mm. The forewings are slate gray with dark-gray, white-tipped scales. The hindwings are pale yellowish white.


Erick Morillo

Erick Morillo (born 26 March 1971) is a Colombian-American DJ, music producer and record label owner. Having produced under a number of pseudonyms, including Ministers de la Funk, The Dronez, RAW, Smooth Touch, RBM, Deep Soul, Club Ultimate and Li'l Mo Ying Yang, Morillo is best known for his international work in house music, in particular for the label Strictly Rhythm, and the 1993 hit "I Like to Move It", which he produced under the pseudonym Reel 2 Real, and which was featured in commercials, movies and ringtones. His label Subliminal Records has produced the #1 Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play hit "Fun" by Da Mob, and won the Muzik magazine "Remixer of the Year" award in 1999. Subliminal also brought attention to artists like Eddie Thoneick, Carl Kennedy and DJ DLG. He is a three-time winner of DJ Awards "Best House DJ" in 1998, 2001 and 2003 and a three-time winner of "Best International DJ" in 2002, 2006 and 2009 receiving a total of 15 nominations in all from 1998-2010.

Early life
Erick Morillo was born in 1971 in New York. He spent most of his pre-teen years in Cartagena, Colombia, where he lived with his family, and grew accustomed to salsa and merengue music. He moved back to the United States at age 11, living with his mother, Elisa, and sister, Sheila, in an apartment at 1406 Bergenline Avenue in Union City, New Jersey. Influenced by other genres such as reggae, and hip hop, it was also at age 11 that he began DJing weddings for friends and family. He attended grammar school at Saint Joseph and Michael's School, a private Catholic school, graduating in 1985. He graduated from Emerson High School in Union City in 1989.

Career

"Muevelo" and "I Like to Move It"
Morillo took a studio engineering course let at the New York City's Center for the Media Arts, and began DJing at local clubs, in places like the Love Sexy music lounge on Hudson Street in Hoboken. While working at a club in nearby Weehawken, Morillo met Latin reggae star El General, with whom Morillo became friends. The two collaborated in 1991 on the single, "Muevelo", a mixture of reggae, house music, and a sample of T99's techno single "Anasthasia" that became a surprise hit, and went platinum.

As his remixes became familiar in Latin clubs, Morillo branched out through his friendship with New York house veteran "Little" Louie Vega, whom he met through then-unknown singer Marc Anthony, with whom Vega had worked on the seminal 1992 house anthem, "Ride on the Rhythm". According to Morillo, Vega advised him to "focus on vocals". Morillo's next big song came in 1993, when New York's premier house label at the time, Strictly Rhythm, released his "The New Anthem"/"Funky Buddha" 12. The song did well in the charts and in clubs, garnering attention for Morillo. Later that year, Strictly Rhythm released the Real 2 Real's second single. "I Like to Move It". The song, which has been described by Mixer as "part Euro-cheese, part pop A&R man's wet dream", became a staple international dance hit for both Reel 2 Real and Strictly Rhythm. It made Morillo a millionaire and thrust him into a globe-trotting life that included weekly trips to Europe to tape MTV Europe in between stateside promotions. In response to the song's success, Morillo recorded the full-length album Move It!, which was released in 1994, and spawned several singles that did particularly well in England. This was followed with a 1996 album from which another several singles were released, most notably "Mueve la Cadera" ("Move Your Body").

From Reel 2 Real to Subliminal
Despite being believed to have made over $2 million from Reel 2 Real, Morillo feared that his financial success may have hurt both his creative drive and his street credibility. Wanting to create respectable house music, he produced "Jazz It Up", launching it under the label of the Erick Morillo Project, in order to ensure street credibility. The song did well, and boosted his confidence. He and Louie Vega collaborated as Lil' Mo' Ying Yang and released the 1995 single "Reach". Morillo intended a third album for Reel to Real, but his relationship with the Mad Stuntman soured, which derailed the project. Searching for a way to reinvent himself, Morillo attended The Forum, a self-help seminar in New York City, where he gained insight into finding happiness through things other than wealth and his frantic work schedule. The seminar also enabled him to escape his creative rut by helping him analyze his past and set future goals, one of which was to become a successful global DJ. He abandoned the Reel 2 Real alias in 1996, and concentrated on DJing, becoming a favorite in Ibiza, Europe and Australia.

Finishing his relationship with Strictly Rhythm, Morillo took the advice of Strictly Rhythm owner Mark Finkelstein, whom Morillo calls "a fair person and a business mentor", and decided to distance himself from R2R's pop past by launching the Double Platinum management company in 1997 with fellow DJs and producers José Nunez, Harry Choo Choo Romero, Carlos Sosa (aka DJ Sneak), and Junior Sanchez, and his own imprint, Subliminal Records, which is based in Weehawken. Morillo describes Subliminal's sound as "ghetto music", which is branded with European-designed record sleeves, "but with class". Its first single was 1998's "Fun", which featured Chicago diva Dajae's, and drew positive response via test pressings and buzz across the Atlantic. However, Dajae refused to sign the contract with Subliminal, and vocalist Jocelyn Brown was brought in to re-record the vocals. Brown's collaboration with Subliminal is known as "Da Mob", and their version of "Fun" became a #1 Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play hit. Soon after, however, DJ Sneak left the group for Toronto to start his own management company, and Junior Sanchez united with Roger S. to start one of their own. The remaining trio of Morillo, Romero and Nunez formed the finalized core of Subliminal, and are also known as the remix team The Dronez. With Subliminal, Morillo managed to find the balance between "underground" respectability and financial success. The trio won Muzik magazine's Remixer of the Year award in 1999. Subliminal also brought attention to artists like Eddie Thoneick, Carl Kennedy and DJ DLG.

Club nights
In late 1999, Morillo completed a U.S. tour and his club night, dubbed Subliminal Night, is credited with single-handedly resuscitating New York City's ailing club scene, a feat he accomplished by signing up Danny Tenaglia, Darren Emerson, Bob Sinclar, Derrick Carter, Tiger Tim Stevens, Mark Farina and Tony Humphries in guest spots. Morillo has also hosted various other club nights across the globe, such as his mid-week Subliminal Sessions parties at Champs in New York. When they were evicted from that venue, the Sessions relaunched at Centro-Fly. Commenting on his socializing with promoters, Morillo says:

I party with the promoters I play for. A lot of DJs don't like to do that; they play the party, go back to the hotel and then get ready to go home. Not me. I don't deny it! For me a DJ is someone who brings a vibe. If you don't party, then how do you bring that vibe?

Morillo has hosted various other club nights across the globe, such as the annual Crobar party in Miami (ULTRA), and his legendary Subliminal Sessions parties at Pacha in Ibiza, which was named "Best International Club" of 2002 and "Best Ibiza Party" of 2001 by Muzik magazine. Ibiza is also where Morillo was crowned "Best International DJ" in 2002 and "Best House DJ" in 1999 and 2001 at the Pacha Ibiza awards. He has been known to play up to 30 jobs a month in locations including Greece, Malta, Amsterdam, London, Madrid, Belfast, and Russia. According to Morillo, his most memorable job was on Ibiza's White Isle after the September 11 attacks: "I was playing the closing party of the Space Terrace straight after September 11th. I ended the night with Frank Sinatra's "New York, New York". People were crying and waving American flags, everybody was singing. It's my most emotional memory as a DJ."

In addition to his MTV UK appearances, Morillo hosted MTV Ibiza for two years, presented the UK's Dancestar Awards, and starred in a seven-part Channel 4 series documenting his world travels as a party DJ.

In 2004, he released his first album under his real name, My World, which features collaborations with such artists as Sean "Diddy" Combs, who collaborated with Morillo on three tracks, including the dancefloor hit "Dance I Said". The label has also spawned other labels, such as Sondos, Subliminal Soul, Bambossa and SUBUSA. The label was distributed by Strictly Rhythm until that label ceased operations in 2002. Today, Subliminal is independently distributed, although Strictly Rhythm reopened its doors in 2007.

Morillo drew attention in June 2013 when he failed to appear at a June 6 show in Long Island, and then on June 12 when he had to be escorted off stage 45 minutes into a set, due to "erratic behavior." According to reports, Morillo appeared to be dazed when he began his set, and his condition worsened after he began it. At one point, he vanished from view, leaving a single loop playing over and over. Morillo later stated on his Twitter page, "The time has come to take a break and refocus my attention on my health and well-being."

Awards and accolades

On October 12, 2012, Morillo's former home town of Union City, New Jersey honored him in a ceremony in which the portion of Bergenline Avenue between 14th and 15th Street, where Morillo lived as a youth, was dedicated "Erick Morillo Way". Union City Mayor Brian P. Stack praised Morillo, who donated 100 Nook tablets to a local school, by commenting, "It's important to recognize those in the community who contribute to our hometown," Union City Mayor Brian Stack said. "We can all be proud to call Erick a part of our community."

Discography

Awards

DJ Awards
The DJ Awards organizes the annual electronic music DJ awards event it is the only international ceremony for DJs and also the oldest, the awards are held once a year at Pacha club in Ibiza Spain it is one of the most important accolades an artist can win or be honoured by.

Morillo has won the Best International DJ Award 3 times and the Best House DJ Award 3 times and received a total of 15 nominations.

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| Erick Morillo
| Best House DJ
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| Erick Morillo
| Best House DJ
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| Erick Morillo
| Best International DJ
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| Erick Morillo
| Best House DJ
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| Erick Morillo
| Best House DJ
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| Erick Morillo
| Best House DJ
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| Erick Morillo
| Best International DJ
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| Erick Morillo
| Best International DJ
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| Erick Morillo
| Best House DJ
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| Erick Morillo
| Best House DJ
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| Erick Morillo
| Best International DJ
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| Erick Morillo
| Best International DJ
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| Erick Morillo
| Best House DJ
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| Erick Morillo
| Best House DJ
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International Dance Music Awards

At the annual Winter Music Conference, Morillo won the "Best American DJ award (2005) he has been nominated 10 times overall.

Muzik Awards
Muzik was a UK dance music magazine published by IPC Media from June 1995 to August 2003.

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| Erick Morillo
| Re-mixer of the Year
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MJ Long

Mary Jane Long, Lady Wilson, OBE (July 31, 1939 – September 3, 2018), known as MJ Long, was an American architect, lecturer and author, best known for her work as a principal architect partner on the British Library in London (with her husband Sir Sandy Wilson). She created a series of purpose-built studios for the artists Peter Blake, RB Kitaj, Paul Huxley and Frank Auerbach, later documenting these in a book. In partnership with Rolfe Kentish, she focused on designing museums, libraries and galleries, including the National Maritime Museum Cornwall, the Jewish Museum London in Camden Town and an extension to Pallant House Gallery.

Early and family life
Long was born in Summit, New Jersey. She attended high school in Montreal and later studied at Smith College before enrolling on a four-year architecture course at Yale School of Architecture, studying under Paul Rudolph. It was at Yale that she met Colin St John Wilson, and in 1965 joined his newly-formed architecture practice in London. The couple married in 1972. At Long's death she was survived by her two children and three grandchildren.


Russian submarine Murmansk (K-206)

K-206 Murmansk was a nuclear-powered   of the Soviet Navy, and later the Russian Navy. She was the second of the two Oscar I (the Soviet classification was Project 949 Granit) vessels constructed, the other being K-525. A further 11 submarines of an improved class, Project 949A (Antey) (called Oscar II by NATO), were subsequently constructed.

The vessel was placed in reserve in 1994, and decommissioned in 1996. Scrapping of the boats at Sevmash started in January 2004, funded by the British Government under the Cooperative Threat Reduction program. They had been reduced to a three-compartment unit (of the original ten watertight compartments) by 2006.


Paracorrhenes flavomaculata

Paracorrhenes flavomaculata is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae, and the only species in the genus Paracorrhenes. It was described by Stephan von Breuning in 1978.


Freeway Warrior

Freeway Warrior is a series of 4 gamebooks, created by Joe Dever. The books were published between 1988 and 1989, detailing the complete story of a band of nuclear holocaust survivors as they flee Texas to the relative safety of California.

The reader plays the role of Cal Phoenix, the titular Freeway Warrior, as he scouts a safe route for the rag-tag convoy of survivors on their journey to California.

Timeline
 2011: Seventeen 100-kiloton nuclear warheads are stolen by HAVOC – The Hijack, Assassination and Violent Opposition Consortium.
 New Years Day, 2012: The stolen warheads are smuggled into major cities around the globe.  An ultimatum is issued: Unless a £2 trillion ransom is paid and all HAVOC agents being held prisoner released then the warheads will be detonated one by one.
 January 2, 2012: The world government refuses to cooperate; Paris, France is destroyed.
 January 3, 2012: The World Defense League retaliates by attacking HAVOC's command headquarters and killing the inhabitants.  Unknown to them, a failsafe is activated and the remaining warheads are detonated.  A disastrous chain reaction results, feeding on civil and military nuclear installations all across the northern hemisphere. The world as we know it ends...
 2012–2019: Hundreds of millions of people are killed within days, and many more perish during the years that follow, falling victim to the radioactivity and the severe climatic changes that affect the earth.
 2019–2020: Radiation decays to tolerable levels, climate returns to normal and survivors emerge to reclaim what little remains of the world they once knew.

Prelude
On the eventful day, Cal Phoenix was visiting his Uncle's oil-shale mine near Austin, Texas.  The mine shielded Cal from the explosions, along with his Aunt and Uncle.  Unfortunately they were left trapped underground.  They had sufficient supplies to survive, but it took eight long years to tunnel to the surface.  When they finally broke through, the world had changed forever.

Cal, Uncle Jonas and Aunt Betty-Ann managed to make radio contact with a colony of survivors near the ruins of McKinney. This colony grew over time, becoming Dallas Colony One (DC1), one of the few safe havens in Texas.

DC1 began entering troubled times; the water supply was drying up, leaving them with no alternative but to abandon their safe haven and attempt to relocate.  Rumours had been heard that California survived virtually intact, so the decision was made to head West, towards California.

List of books
 Highway Holocaust (1988)
 Slaughter Mountain Run (1989)
 The Omega Zone (1989)
 California Countdown (1989)

Game Mechanics
While based on the Lone Wolf system (e.g.,  random number tables, combat results tables, etc.) a further level of complexity is added, making for a deeper experience:
Skill sets are introduced (including, driving, stealth, shooting) which are often tested for outcomes. These vary and can be increased from book-to-book if the complete series is played (in a similar fashion to the Kai Disciplines in Lone Wolf). One of the most important details is that the more you carry, the more your stealth reduces.
Ranged combat is as important as close combat and a variety of different weapons, with differing characteristics are available.
In addition to meals, water and ammo are monitored.

Notes
Highway Holocaust and Slaughter Mountain Run were initially released as Freeway Warrior 1 and Mountain Run respectively in the United States since the original titles were deemed too violent.  Later releases used the official titles.
These books were published after the Fighting Fantasy book #13, Freeway Fighter (1985) which also involved driving a modified car in a similarly post-apocalypse world. However, the FF Book was more combat oriented and less character-based, as well as featuring game statistics for the actual motor vehicle.


Steve Sherlock

Steve Sherlock is an English former professional footballer who played as a full back, making over 300 career appearances.

Career
Sherlock played for Manchester City, Luton Town, Stockport County, Cardiff City, and Newport County, before playing non-league football for Stroud.


Sociology in Russia

Sociology in Russia has developed since the beginning of the 20th century, despite an official ban on sociology in the Soviet Union from 1929 to 1956 and the dominance until recently of Marxist sociology. Despite sharp divisions since the breakup of the Soviet Union, the field of sociology in Russia now includes over 300 university departments, approximately 30 academic journals and several professional associations.

History
The first sociological thinkers in the Russian Empire were significantly influenced by utopian thought. The first Department of Sociology in Russia was opened in 1907, at the Psychoneurological Institute, and was headed by Maksim Kovalevsky and E.V. De Roberti. Other Russian sociologists of that period included Nikolay Danilevsky, Nikolay Mikhaylovsky, Mikhail Tugan-Baranovsky and S.N. Yuzhakov.

After the Russian Revolution, sociology at first continued to thrive, with notable works by Pitirim Sorokin, K.M. Takhtarev and Nikolai Bukharin, who was a major representative of the shift towards Marxism. After about a decade of relatively free research, sociology was gradually "politicized, Bolshevisized and eventually, Stalinized". Pitirim Sorokin was expelled from Russia in 1922, and K.M. Takhtarev' lectures at the university were banned in 1924. Sociology was declared to be "bourgeois pseudo-science" in direct opposition to Marxism, and its practice – and the very name – were banned. A 1929 ruling from the Institute of Philosophy of the Communist Academy for Problems of Philosophy and Sociology declared that "sociology is a false science concocted by the French reactionary August Compte [sic?], and the word itself sociology is not to be used in Marxist literature". Subsequently, from 1930s to 1950s, the discipline virtually ceased to exist in the Soviet Union. Even in the era when its practice was allowed, and not replaced by Marxist philosophy, it was always dominated by Marxist thought; hence sociology in the Soviet Union and the entire Eastern Bloc represented, to a significant extent, only one branch of sociology: Marxist sociology.

With the death of Joseph Stalin and the 20th Party Congress in 1956, restrictions on sociological research were somewhat eased; the formation of the Soviet Sociological Association was allowed in 1957; and finally, after the 23rd Party Congress in 1966, sociology in the Soviet Union was again officially recognized as an acceptable branch of science. 1962 saw the establishment of the first Russian English-language journal in the field, Soviet Sociology. In 1968 an Institute for Concrete Social Research (later renamed the Institute of Sociology) was created at the Soviet Academy of Sciences where Yuri Levada, founder of the Levada Center, attracted a small group of followers.

Present day
Even throughout the Soviet period, there was a major split among Russian sociologists on whether to focus on Marxist-Leninist sociology (see also Soviet Marxism) or the more general sociology of science. The Marxist-Leninist approach, often supported by the Party, usually triumphed – until the fall of the Soviet Union. Since then, lacking institutional support, it has begun to lose its dominant status, leading to increasingly visible splits and conflicts within Russian sociology. According to Romanovsky and Toshchenko, sociologists in Russia have since broadened their study, in terms of both topics and geography.

In 2009 D. G. Podvoiskii noted that "in today’s Russian society, the status of sociology is extremely low", noting that neither the general public nor policymakers know much about sociology, nor do they care for sociologists' input. In 2012, Russian sociologist Victor Vakhshtayn published an article in which he argued that Russian sociology is in crisis, and in the process of reinventing itself. Russian sociologists N.V. Romanovsky and Zh.T. Toshchenko countered with a less pessimistic view of sociology in Russia. They note that the largest problem facing Russian sociology is the existence of poorly educated "pseudo-sociologists" who nonetheless grab the attention of media and politicians with their poorly researched claims.

, Russia has over 300 university departments of sociology, with about 110 conferring sociology degrees. Between 1989 and 2003, 20,000 students graduated from departments of sociology in the country. Major sociological conferences in Russia are the All-Russia Sociological Congress and Russian Pathways. The Russian Society of Sociologists was founded in 1999, although according to G. V. Osipov, as of 2009, there were several alternate organizations (such as the Society of Sociologists and Demographers, the Kovalevskii Sociological Society and the Society of Professional Sociologists,), and it is not clear what is the proper successor to the Soviet Sociological Association (disbanded in 1999). Two major centers of sociological research are the Institute of Sociology and the Institute of Sociopolitical Research, both at the Russian Academy of Sciences. The M. Kovalevskii Prize is the most prestigious modern Russian award for sociological research. There are about 30 sociology journals published in Russia, two of which are published in English: Sociological Research and Society and Education. Between 1998 and 2006 more than 1,000 sociological books and monographs, including several dictionaries and encyclopedias of sociology, were published in Russia.

Further reading

Vasily Bushnev, Elena Moskovkina, Natalia Savelieva, Oleg Zhuravlev, “PUBLIC” SOCIOLOGY IN RUSSIA


Pawan Kedia

Pawan Kumar Kedia is an Indian politician and a member of 17th Legislative Assembly of Kushinagar, Uttar Pradesh of India. He represents the Hata constituency of Uttar Pradesh and is a member of the Bhartiya Janata Party.

Early life and education
Kedia was born (12 January 1965) in Hata, Kushinagar to his father Late. Sitaram Kedia. He married with Amita Kedia in 1991. He got M.Com degree from Gorakhpur University in 1990.

Political career
Kedia has been a member of the 17th Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh. Since 2017, he has represented the Hata constituency and is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party. He defeated Samajwadi Party candidate Radheshyam Singh by a margin of 53,076 votes.

Posts held


Jach'a Pukara (Inquisivi)

Jach'a Pukara (Aymara jach'a big, pukara fortress, "big fortress", Hispanicized spelling Jachcha Pucara) is a  mountain in the Andes of Bolivia. It is situated in the La Paz Department, Inquisivi Province, Quime Municipality. Jach'a Pukara lies at the river Chaka Jawira whose waters flow to the La Paz River in the north.


June 15th North–South Joint Declaration

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The June 15th North–South Joint Declaration was adopted between leaders of North and South Korea in June 2000 after various diplomatic meetings between the North and South.  As a result of the talks, numerous separated families and relatives from the North and the South had meetings with their family members in Pyongyang and Seoul.

According to the North–South Joint Declaration, the North-South ministerial talks and North–South military working-level talks were held four times in Pyongyang, Seoul and Jeju Island from July to December 2000.

Text of North–South Joint Declaration

June 15, 2000


Unique Gorani Party

The Unique Gorani Party (, ) is a Gorani political party in Kosovo.

History

Unique Gorani Party is registered in Kosovo Electoral Commission in May 2014.

Representation

Since its founding Unique Gorani Party has won a Gorani Minority reserved seat in the Assembly of the Republic of Kosovo twice in Kosovo Parliamentary Elections of 2017 and 2019. Unique Gorani Party is part of Parliamentary Majority in the Assembly of the Republic of Kosovo and is represented in the Government of Kosovo with one Deputy Minister. At the local government level, taking part in the municipal elections in Municipality of Dragash, Unique Gorani Party has won 2 out of 27 seats of the local Assembly.

Election results

Parliamentary elections


Cordyligaster

Cordyligaster is a genus of bristle flies in the family Tachinidae. There are about eight described species in Cordyligaster.

Species
These eight species belong to the genus Cordyligaster:
 Cordyligaster analis (Macquart, 1851) c g
 Cordyligaster fuscifacies Bigot, 1888 c g
 Cordyligaster minuscula Wulp, 1891 c g
 Cordyligaster nyomula Townsend, 1914 c g
 Cordyligaster petiolata (Wiedemann, 1830) c g
 Cordyligaster septentrionalis Townsend, 1909 i c g b
 Cordyligaster tipuliformis Walker, 1858 c g
 Cordyligaster townsendi Guimaraes, 1971 c g
Data sources: i = ITIS, c = Catalogue of Life, g = GBIF, b = Bugguide.net</small>


Chah-e Golni

Chah-e Golni (, also Romanized as Chāh-e Golnī) is a village in Kohurestan Rural District, in the Central District of Khamir County, Hormozgan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 27, in 6 families.