Josephine Flood

Josephine Mary Flood,  (born 25 July 1936) is an English-born Australian archaeologist, mountaineer, and author.

Early life and education

Josephine Flood was born Josephine Scarr in Yorkshire, England. She took a BA in Classics at Girton College, Cambridge, in 1959, later receiving an MA (1968) and a PhD (1973) from the Australian National University. Her PhD thesis was published as: The Moth Hunters: Aboriginal prehistory of the Australian Alps in 1980.

In 1963, Flood moved to Australia. She married Australian diplomat Philip Flood the following year, subsequently having three children.

Professional career

In 1963 at ANU Flood was appointed as a lecturer in Classical Archaeology but in 1964 she transferred into the field of Australian archaeology and commenced a master's degree. In 1978 Flood was appointed Senior Conservation Officer with the Australian Heritage Commission in Canberra, becoming assistant director from 1979 to 1991, where in 1984 she headed the Aboriginal Environment Section. Over 2000 Aboriginal archaeological sites were added to the Register of the National Estate during her time at the AHC. She also contributed to the World Heritage Listing of Kakadu National Park, the Tasmanian South West Wilderness Area and the Willandra Lakes Region of NSW.

Flood indicates that she discovered Cloggs Cave near Buchan, Victoria while driving to another site in eastern Victoria. Her subsequent excavations revealed extensive evidence of Aboriginal stone and bone tools, with the basal layer now dated to the more than 30,000 years.

Flood has followed a theoretical approach involving the use of recent ethnographic information to reinterpret the evidence of prehistoric archaeological material on the basis that "there have only been minor changes in the "stone-age, foraging, semi-nomadic way of life" of Aboriginal people throughout history".

In 1989, Flood was able to use the discovery of a cremated female skeleton to explain what life might have been like at Lake Mungo. Flood used this information to deduce the role of women in this Aboriginal society.

Awards and prizes

In 1991, Flood was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities (FAHA). Flood received the Centenary Medal in 2001 For service to Australian society and the humanities in prehistory and archaeology. Her most recent book, The Original Australians was a finalist in the Prime Minister's Prize for Australian History in 2007.

Flood Bird was made a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) in the 2019 Queen's Birthday Honours in recognition of her "significant service to archaeology, and to the study of Indigenous culture".

Other interests and retirement

Flood is also a mountaineer. She was possibly the only female member of the roof climbing group at Cambridge University, who practised and honed their rock and mountain climbing skills by scaling the university's stone buildings. In 1961, she led the Women’s Kulu Expedition and the following year she joined the Women’s Jagdula Expedition to Lha Shamma in Nepal. On these two expeditions she climbed six previously unclimbed peaks of over 20,000 feet and wrote a book telling the story of the ascents and overland drive to India entitled 'Four Miles High.'

She retired early to devote time to research, writing and travel. Between 1981 and 1992 she led seven expeditions (funded by Earthwatch) to excavate sites and record rock art in Cape York and the Victoria River region of the Northern Territory. In retirement she has also provided support and field data for archaeological projects in the Australian Alps, rock art in the Northern Territory at sites of the ‘Land of the Lightning Brothers’, and dating of the extinction of Australian megafauna. In 2015 Flood was elected a Member of the Emeritus Faculty of ANU.

Publications

 Four Miles High (1966)(published under her maiden name, Josephine Scarr)
 Moth Hunters of the Australian Capital Territory (1966, 2nd edition 2010)
 The Moth Hunters: Aboriginal Prehistory of the Australian Alps (1980)
 Archaeology of the Dreamtime: The Story of Prehistoric Australia and its People (1983, 7th edition 2010)
 Riches of Ancient Australia: A Journey into Prehistory University of Queensland Press Paperbacks (1990, 3rd edition 1999)
 Rock Art of the Dreamtime: Images of Ancient Australia (1997)
 The Original Australians: story of the Aboriginal People (2006)
 The Original Australians: story of the Aboriginal People - 2nd Edition (2019)


Northwestern climbing salamander

The northwestern climbing salamander (Bolitoglossa sima), also known as the northwestern mushroomtongue salamander, is a species of salamander in the family Plethodontidae. It is endemic to Ecuador and found in the northwestern lowlands of the country at elevations below  asl. It has been recorded in dense wet forest and in a grassy field, cleared for cattle grazing, although it is not known whether it could adapt to human-altered habitats. Agriculture and logging are threats to its habitat. It has been found in the Cotacachi Cayapas Ecological Reserve.


WCAE

WCAE was a public television station on channel 50 at St. John, Indiana, owned by the Lake Central School Corporation. It was the first television station to serve Northwest Indiana and the Calumet Region. The station began experiencing financial and personnel turmoil in the late 1970s; when the early 1980s recession hit the region hard, public support fell, and the school board closed the station in 1983. The license was reactivated in 1987, after more than four years of silence, as WYIN on channel 56.

History

Early years
The St. John School Township filed for a construction permit for a new noncommercial educational TV station licensed to St. John on April 23, 1965. Originally seeking channel 66, allocated to nearby Gary, the application was amended that summer to reflect an overhauled table of UHF allocations which set aside channel 50 in place of 66. The Federal Communications Commission approved the application on April 15, 1966. The WCAE call letters, standing for "Calumet Area Education", were the school's third choice, after attempts to secure WLCI and WLCE, representing Lake County, were unsuccessful. Lake Central applied for the station after learning it would be cheaper than installing a closed-circuit system and could be paid for with matching federal grants. Construction proceeded through much of 1967, including the commissioning of a  tower at the school. Lake Central became the first secondary school in the United States to operate a television station when WCAE began broadcasting on September 26, making it the first educational TV station in Indiana.

Early WCAE programming consisted of telecourses for adult audiences and students. Channel 50 immediately demonstrated its interest in serving the northwest Indiana area—which received stations from Chicago—with a newscast and Friday night sports programming, as well as coverage of the Indiana state high school basketball tournament and Indiana University athletics, a news program focusing on events from area high schools, and other informational programming. In a prank, three teenagers, all students at Lake Central, climbed the tower one day in March and flew a white flag—believed to be a bed sheet—from atop the mast.

Signs were on the horizon of facility and programming improvements, particularly as Indiana began to develop an educational television network and the school worked with Indiana University and Purdue University to be connected to potential educational programming to be produced by the schools. The Gary National Bank donated $15,000 in equipment—a translator on channel 72—to be installed atop its building in downtown Gary and provide a better signal there. Further translators were planned for Whiting and East Chicago, but none were built.

Channel 50 also slated its first-ever telecast of a Lake Central basketball game in January 1969, and the station also began its annual televised auction, which in later years would become one of WCAE's largest fundraising events. August brought a microwave installation to link the station with the new Indiana Educational Television Network, originating from Indianapolis; that fall, a television vocational class was added to the Lake Central High School curriculum, and the station joined National Educational Television. However, WCAE could only air programming on a 28-day delay to protect WTTW in Chicago until September 1970, right before NET was supplanted by PBS, when the station was promoted to "Class I" affiliation with the network because viewers in some of WCAE's service area could not receive WTTW. WCAE, which shut down over school breaks, was able to broadcast through the summer for the first time in 1971 thanks to increased funding. Channel 50 was also one of two PBS stations that received post office approval to change its address to 123 Sesame Street. The station reinstated a local newscast in 1973.

New transmitter
The promise of technical improvements for WCAE grew in 1970 when channel 50 was donated five acres of land owned by the American Oil Company in Hammond for a new transmitter site, with plans to convert WCAE to broadcast network shows in color and expand the station's coverage. The station applied again to the Department of Health, Education and Welfare for $231,000 in grant funds. However, it would be several years before the facility was constructed, with one delay occurring because WCAE did not apply to local authorities for the necessary permits, halting work for months. On October 21, 1974, WCAE activated the new tower and color transmitter, including a power increase to 2,372 kilowatts from 14.

The new color transmitter, however, did not come with color cameras and studio equipment, so all of WCAE's local programming remained in black and white. In 1977, the station began to replace some of its equipment in the control room and overhauled its layout.

Turmoil and full-color conversion
1978 would prove to be a pivotal year in the history of WCAE, and ultimately, of public broadcasting in northwest Indiana. In February, station manager John Nelson announced that WCAE would cut all local programming, including its evening newscast and sports programs, because the station's production equipment was in need of replacement and repair and the transmitter was behind on maintenance due to lack of funds; Nelson sought to convert WCAE to full-color operation and immediately began a capital development campaign. It was later stated that Nelson did not want to produce more black-and-white shows. The station's financial problems, detailed in a report by Nelson, spurred probes by the Department of Health, Education and Welfare and by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, concerned about the state of the WCAE physical plant, which prompted the station to be off the air at times.

At the same time, a critical development took place: a schism between the Lake Central school board and the station advisory board; the latter began to advocate for the transfer of the WCAE license to a nonprofit community group, but compromise was forestalled when the school board fired WCAE's development director. Station board members felt that the operating structure of WCAE did not lend itself to a viable public television station for northwest Indiana; the school board president proposed replacing the entire advisory board and shutting down channel 50 for 30 to 60 days as an alternative. With a new, more school-board friendly advisory board installed, several former members of the advisory committee formed their own group—Northwest Indiana Public Broadcasting—and applied for vacant channel 56. They soon amended their application to specify channel 62 at Hammond after GWWX-TV, Inc., applied for channel 56 as well, proposing northwest Indiana's first commercial station and part-time subscription television operation.

WCAE remained a pass-through for network programming for more than a year while more than $200,000 in new color equipment was ordered; the only local production in early 1979, a series of high school basketball tournaments, was done with leased equipment. A new color film chain was inaugurated in June, while money was also spent to add climate and air control at the transmitter site, where air pollution had posed problems for the equipment. Local programming returned that July, with five-minute "Northwest Indiana Newsbriefs", However, structural problems continued to be an issue for WCAE. Inland Steel and other donors shied away from supporting the station because it was off the air frequently; a month-long outage in the winter of 1978–79 occurred due to a failure in a heat exchanger, while a short in several feed lines caused another 17-day shutdown in June. However, support eventually increased, and additional local shows that had been cut in 1978 returned to the schedule in late 1979.

1980 saw another high-profile dispute when all but one of the station's full-time staffers sent a memo to general manager Lou Iaconetti asking for the dismissal of station manager John Jage, 12 days before he resigned.

Closure
1982 marked the beginning of the end for WCAE. In May, the station cut its broadcast day due to financial hardships, crimped by reduced federal contributions and a drop in donations, exacerbated by high unemployment in the Calumet Region. Manager Iaconetti warned that participation in the annual auction had dipped significantly after Lake Central school board member Michael Klausman criticized the station, publicly pleading for it to be transferred from the school corporation. In September, the school board voted 4–1 to allow WCAE to operate in a deficit, with the station not having enough money to make payroll. The Lake Central school board, however, had other financial concerns that were more pressing to its primary functions. In December, a new contract was signed with teachers, assuming that the money in the 1983 budget set aside for WCAE would not be spent for the station. Additionally, the cutbacks in broadcasting hours did not save much money, and cutting further would have endangered the station's eligibility for federal grants.

On February 21, 1983, the Lake Central school board unanimously approved a plan from superintendent Thomas Roman to shutter WCAE by April 1, agreeing that their subsidy for channel 50 could be better used toward teachers and supplies. Only general manager Iaconetti remained employed by the school system. Station personnel noted that despite being based in northwest Indiana, channel 50 had gotten better support from its viewers in Illinois. A program about the state legislature, Indiana Lawmakers, was the final regular telecast over WCAE, though a handful of college credit courses were still broadcast over the station until they concluded in early May.

WCAE's failure came at a time when financial problems caused pains for many PBS member stations. A 1982 report had considered almost 30 of the nearly 300 PBS member stations as in danger of shutting down, but WCAE was the only one that actually folded by mid-1983.

Fate of the WCAE license and channel swap
Three groups demonstrated interest in acquiring the WCAE license from the Lake Central School Corporation. One was Northwest Indiana Public Broadcasting, the group formed by ex-WCAE advisory board members, which planned to move the facility from St. John to a more accessible site near a highway. A second bidder was religious in nature: the Church of the Cardinal Virtues, a nondenominational Christian church in Gary. As the school board canceled its management contract with Iaconetti, the school board selected NIPB's offer over the church and a theater troupe from Park Forest, Illinois and approved the transfer of the license to the community group. The FCC approved the license transfer in December 1983. In 1984, Amoco offered to purchase the former WCAE tower, which it used for its own communication needs, from Lake Central.

NIPB faced a steep financial hurdle in obtaining funding to construct its new facility in Merrillville. However, a white knight emerged. Fred Eychaner, owner of Chicago's WPWR-TV on channel 60, acquired the construction permit for Gary's channel 56, bearing the call letters WDAI, from Great Lakes Broadcasting—the former GWWX-TV. Channel 56 could not be used to transmit from the Sears Tower, but channel 50 could. (A previous attempt to build Gary's channel 56 on the John Hancock Center under the aegis of Greater Media Television as WGMI was dismissed in 1968 as short-spaced to allocations for channels 49 and 55 in southeast Wisconsin.) He then proposed to Northwest Indiana Public Broadcasting that the two parties seek to switch the commercial and noncommercial allocations, so that the unbuilt WDAI construction permit could be relocated to channel 50 from the Sears Tower, while NIPB would operate on channel 56—neither needing nor desiring to operate from the Sears Tower. NIPB received money in the deal and also was happy to shed itself of any association with the prior channel 50 operation of WCAE. The switching of noncommercial and commercial allocations required action at the FCC. In November 1984, Eychaner's Metrowest Corporation, the owner of WPWR, alongside Great Lakes, holder of the WDAI construction permit, and Northwest Indiana Public Broadcasting petitioned the commission to allow such swaps. As part of the deal, NIPB received $684,000 from Metrowest. The FCC approved such swaps among channels in the same band, as was the case with the two UHF stations, in March 1986, and in August, the commission issued final orders switching the commercial and noncommercial allocations for Gary. This allowed Metrowest to proceed with its plan of moving the WPWR-TV intellectual unit from channel 60 to channel 50 while selling the channel 60 license. WPWR-TV made the move to channel 50 on January 17, 1987.

Using the WCAE license on channel 56, Northwest Indiana Public Broadcasting launched its new station as WYIN on November 15, 1987. Iaconnetti later returned to the Lake Central school system, teaching physical education in several elementary schools; he died in 1998 after a battle with cancer.

Notes


Ardıçlı

Ardıçlı is a Turkic place name that may refer to the following places:

Azerbaijan
 Ardıclı, a village in Lachin Rayon

Turkey
 Ardıçlı, Gercüş, a village in the district of Gercüş, Batman Province
 Ardıçlı, Murgul, a village in the district of Murgul, Artvin Province
 Ardıçlı, Tarsus, a village in the district of Tarsus, Mersin Province
 Ardıçlıtaş, a village in the district of Bozyazı, Mersin Province


Good–Turing frequency estimation

Good–Turing frequency estimation is a statistical technique for estimating the probability of encountering an object of a hitherto unseen species, given a set of past observations of objects from different species. In drawing balls from an urn, the 'objects' would be balls and the 'species' would be the distinct colors of the balls (finite but unknown in number).  After drawing  red balls,  black balls and  green balls, we would ask what is the probability of drawing a red ball, a black ball, a green ball or one of a previously unseen color.

Historical background
Good–Turing frequency estimation was developed by Alan Turing and his assistant I. J. Good as part of their methods used at Bletchley Park for cracking German ciphers for the Enigma machine during World War II.  Turing at first modelled the frequencies as a multinomial distribution, but found it inaccurate. Good developed smoothing algorithms to improve the estimator's accuracy.

The discovery was recognized as significant when published by Good in 1953, but the calculations were difficult so it was not used as widely as it might have been. The method even gained some literary fame due to the Robert Harris novel Enigma.

In the 1990s, Geoffrey Sampson worked with William A. Gale of AT&T, to create and implement a simplified and easier-to-use variant of the Good–Turing method described below. Various heuristic justifications
and a simple combinatorial derivation have been provided .

The method
Notation

 Assuming that X distinct species have been observed, numbered x = 1, ..., X.
 Then the frequency vector, , has elements  that give the number of individuals that have been observed for species x.
 The frequency of frequencies vector, , shows how many times the frequency r occurs in the vector R; i.e. among the elements .

For example,  is the number of species for which only one individual was observed. Note that the total number of objects observed, N, can be found from

The first step in the calculation is to estimate the probability that a future observed individual (or the next observed individual) is a member of a thus far unseen species. This estimate is:

The next step is to estimate the probability that the next observed individual is from a species which has been seen r times.  For a single species this estimate is:

To estimate the probability that the next observed individual is from any species from this group (i.e., the group of species seen r times) one can use the following formula:

Here, the notation  means the smoothed or adjusted value of the frequency shown in parenthesis (see also empirical Bayes method). An overview of how to perform this smoothing follows.

We would like to make a plot of  versus  but this is problematic because for large r many  will be zero.  Instead a revised quantity, , is plotted versus , where Zr is defined as

and where q, r and t are consecutive subscripts having  non-zero.  When r is 1, take q to be 0.  When r is the last non-zero frequency, take t to be 2r − q.

The assumption of Good–Turing estimation is that the number of occurrence for each species follows a binomial distribution.

A simple linear regression is then fitted to the log–log plot.  For small values of r it is reasonable to set
(that is, no smoothing is performed), while for large values of r, values of  are read off the
regression line.  An automatic procedure (not described here) can be used to specify at what point the switch from no smoothing to linear smoothing should take place.
Code for the method is available in the public domain.

Derivation

Many different derivations of the above formula for  have been given.

One of the simplest ways to motivate the formula is by assuming the next item will behave similarly to the previous item.  The overall idea of the estimator is that currently we are seeing never-seen items at a certain frequency, seen-once items at a certain frequency, seen-twice items at a certain frequency, and so on.  Our goal is to estimate just how likely each of these categories is, for the next item we will see.  Put another way, we want to know the current rate at which seen-twice items are becoming seen-thrice items, and so on.  Since we don't assume anything about the underlying probability distribution, it does sound a bit mysterious at first.  But it is extremely easy to calculate these probabilities empirically for the previous item we saw, even assuming we don't remember exactly which item that was:  Take all the items we have seen so far (including multiplicities) — the last item we saw was a random one of these, all equally likely.  Specifically, the chance that we saw an item for the (r+1)'th time is simply the chance that it was one of the items that we have now seen r+1 times, namely .  In other words, our chance of seeing an item that had been seen r times before was .  So now we simply assume that this chance will be about the same for the next item we see.  This immediately gives us the formula above for , by setting .  And for , to get the probability that a particular one of the  items is going to be the next one seen, we need to divide this probability (of seeing some item that has been seen r times) among the  possibilities for which particular item that could be.  This gives us the formula .  Of course, your actual data will probably be a bit noisy, so you will want to smooth the values first to get a better estimate of how quickly the category counts are growing, and this gives the formula as shown above.  This approach is in the same spirit as deriving the standard Bernoulli estimator by simply asking what the two probabilities were for the previous coin flip (after scrambling the trials seen so far), given only the current result counts, while assuming nothing about the underlying distribution.


Someșeni

Someşeni (Hungarian: Szamosfalva) is a district of Cluj-Napoca city, Cluj County, Romania. Cluj-Napoca's airport is located here.

Gallery

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Yeghiazaryan

Yeghiazaryan (), also transliterated as Yegiazaryan and Egiazaryan, is an Armenian surname. Notable people with the surname include:

Ashot Yeghiazaryan (born 1943), politician
Ashot Egiazaryan (born 1965), politician and businessman
Grigor Yeghiazaryan (1908–1988), composer
Boris Yeghiazaryan (born 1956), Armenian artist. :uk:Єгіазарян Борис
Hayk Yeghiazaryan (born 1972), weightlifter
Vachik Yeghiazaryan (born 1991), wrestler


Forrest F. Dryden

Forrest Fairchild Dryden (December 26, 1864 – July 20, 1932) was the president of Prudential Insurance Company of America (now Prudential Financial) from 1912 until 1922.  Prudential was founded by his father, John F. Dryden, who was also a United States Senator, representing New Jersey.

Early life
Dryden was born in Bedford, Ohio on December 26, 1864.  He was the son of John Fairfield Dryden (1839–1911) and Cynthia Jennings (née Fairchild) Dryden (1842–1916).  His father, John F. Dryden was the founder and the president of Prudential Insurance Company.  His sister, Susan married Anthony R. Kuser. Their son, John Dryden Kuser, Dryden's nephew, was a state senator and Brooke Astor's first husband.

Dryden attended Newark Academy and later Phillips Academy at Andover.

Career

He started working for Prudential Insurance Company in 1888.  He became superintendent of the Prudential office in Elizabeth New Jersey in 1889.  He joined the board of directors and assumed the duties as assistant secretary in 1890.  Later that year he was selected to be secretary of the company.  During his father's service as U.S. Senator for New Jersey, Forrest Dryden acted as president of Prudential.  Dryden was promoted to third vice president in 1903, second vice president in 1906 and vice president in 1911.

Upon his father's death in 1912, he succeeded him to become president of Prudential.  He continued on as president of Prudential until his resignation in 1922 due to ill health, reportedly arising from his "examination before the Lockwood Committee at the hands of Samuel Untermyer."  He was succeeded by Prudential's general solicitor and the then acting president, Edward Dickinson Duffield, who had been with the firm since 1906.

Affiliations
Dryden was a member of the New Jersey National Guard Essex Troop.  During his time there, he was the chief commissary on the Major General Staff.  He held the rank of lieutenant colonel.  He was member of the New Jersey State Rifle Association.  He was a member of the Newark Board of Trade.  He was also a director of many organizations, including the Public Service Corporation of New Jersey, the Union National Bank of Newark, the South Jersey Gas, Electric and Traction Company and the United State Casualty Company of New York.

Personal life
In 1890, Dryden married Grace Marion Carleton (1865–1936), daughter of Isaac N. Carleton, at her family home in Bradford, Massachusetts.  Together, they were the parents of three children, including:

 John Fairfield Dryden II (1893–1947)
 Dorothy Dryden (b. 1899), who married Newcombe Chandler Baker in 1919.
 Elizabeth Dryden (1905–1963)

He died at his home in Bernardsville, New Jersey, on July 20, 1932, due to heart disease.

Additional information

The Dryden family estate, known as Stronghold, was located in Bernardsville on Bernardsville Mountain. It became the home of Miss Gill's School, now known as Gill St. Bernard's School in 1940.


The Now Explosion

The Now Explosion was an early experiment in music video produced in Atlanta, Georgia in 1970, more than a decade before MTV was launched. The program was televised in Atlanta on WATL-TV and, later, WTCG-TV (later WTBS-TV, now WPCH-TV).

History
In 1968 and 1969, veteran broadcaster Bob Whitney experimented with a new concept in television programming, in which the hit Top 40 songs of the day were coupled with the latest in the era's videotaping and filming techniques. The resulting pilot enlisted the studio facilities of several stations: WFAA-TV in Dallas, Texas, WHBQ-TV Memphis, Tennessee, WKBS-TV Philadelphia and KMBC-TV in Kansas City. Location scenes were filmed at station studios or at locations within a short distance from these facilities.

Whitney's aim was to create a cost-effective television program that would emulate the success of Top 40 radio, all the way down to the use of an unseen disk jockey. The concept was born about ten years before the arrival of MTV.

In 1970, The Now Explosion began its first regular broadcasts on Atlanta's WATL-TV, where it aired 28 hours each weekend. By this time, the show was produced at WATL's studios.

Programs were bicycled to stations on 2 inch videotape and played back for extended periods from one to six hours. WPIX-TV in New York played five hours of The Now Explosion surrounding telecasts of New York Yankees baseball games in 1970. Stations in Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., San Francisco, Sacramento and Boston had also picked up The Now Explosion.

After 13 weeks at WATL, Ted Turner contracted to carry the program for a television station he had recently acquired, WTCG-TV. WATL closed down shortly afterward. While it was unclear whether or not the show contributed to WATL's viewership, it has been said by some that many of their viewers only watched WATL for The Now Explosion. The move had also shifted production of The Now Explosion to Fort Lauderdale, Florida, where Whitney established a new home production base. Program segments were produced at Miami Teleproductions in Miami and 2 inch video editing was undertaken at Videotape Associates in Ft. Lauderdale (now VTA of Atlanta).

After 26 weeks in syndication in early 1971, Whitney cancelled The Now Explosion, when the high costs of production and distribution outpaced the commercial revenue.

Turner would once again enter the music video television business with the debut of Night Tracks in 1983 which lasted nine years and Cable Music Channel (albeit for only a month) in 1984.

Special effects
The special effects used in The Now Explosion were crude but state of the art for the early 1970s era. Video was shot with heavy, non portable studio cameras on large rolling tripods. The music videos were recorded on two inch magnetic tape. The video editing required the use of three massive and costly "quad" tape recorders allowing only simple transitions such as cuts and dissolves.

Most performers were young amateurs recruited from the Atlanta audience. Many appeared with home-grown costumes - often after midnight when station facilities became available - and were recorded dancing extemporaneously as rock rhythms were piped into an almost bare and darkened studio. The lighting often placed performers "in limbo" so that only the illuminated dancers were seen against darkened studio walls. Extensive special effects were added in post production as images were combined and distorted to form what production people often called "eye candy."

Common special effects included aiming the camera into a monitor that said camera is connected to - a technique called "video feedback." The original video and the newly captured pictures from the monitor were combined with a video switcher to create an "infinity" effect as same video repeated itself in a seemingly endless visual loop. Changes in position or angle of the cameras  were used to create trails of light which seemed to spill off dancers in a manner interpreted by many as "psychedelic." Producers felt the distorted video of moving bodies, often seeming to float in space, and moving "in tune" to pop songs, created enhanced enjoyment for viewers.

Other images and effects came from an Atlanta 1960's style light show venture called the "Electric Collage." The Electric Collage production company was popular at major rock concerts and rock festivals. Collage operators were able to produce complex lighting effects with projectors that were not possible using the video technology of the day. The Now Explosion had collage technicians create light effect images on a studio screen while videographers captured the effects with multiple studio cameras. Often these lightshow enhancements were combined with studio dance videos in later production before final programs were assembled on tape for broadcast and distribution.

Archive recovery

In 2000, The Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Archives at University of Georgia in Athens located and recovered significant amounts of this video which had been stored for 3 decades in south Florida. These segments were remastered to contemporary technical standards by the university archives where the video is stored and is available for public viewing and academic study.

Sources
 Atlanta Journal-Constitution: "Years before MTV, an Atlanta TV show created its own music videos. It was psychedelic. It was far out. It was the. . .'Now Explosion'", August 3, 2000, page F1
 Atlanta Journal-Constitution: "Totally Cool Update: Far-out archives unearthed amid 'Now' reunion", March 30, 2001, page E1

External links

 30 Minute Excerpt Collection Video
 UGA Walter J. Brown Media Archives
 Some Performer Credits
 Electric Collage light show


Thomas Burdick

Thomas Burdick (November 17, 1795 (or 1797) – November 6, 1877) was a leader in the early Latter Day Saint movement, a Mormon pioneer, and a politician in Los Angeles County, California.

Burdick was born in Canajoharie, New York. He married Anna Higley in 1828. In 1834, the Burdicks heard the preaching of missionary Sidney Rigdon and joined the Church of the Latter Day Saints led by Joseph Smith. The Burdicks moved to Kirtland, Ohio to join the main gathering of Latter Day Saints and Burdick was made an elder in the church. In 1836, he was given the responsibility of managing the membership records of the church. On November 7, 1837, Burdick became a high priest and a member of the presiding high council at Kirtland. In 1838, Burdick was one of the twelve high priests selected by Bishop Newel K. Whitney to constitute the first sitting of the Common Council of the Church, which heard charges levied by Sylvester Smith against Joseph Smith. Burdick also taught school and was a justice of the peace in Kirtland.

In 1838–39, after the majority of Latter Day Saints left Kirtland, Burdick remained. He was appointed the church bishop in Kirtland on May 22, 1841. After the death of Joseph Smith in 1844, Burdick followed the leadership of Brigham Young and made plans to follow Young west. Burdick remained in Kanesville, Iowa until 1853, when he led a Mormon pioneer company of over 100 wagons to Salt Lake City, Utah Territory.

After arriving in Salt Lake City, most of the company, including Burdick, determined to carry on to the Mormon settlement of San Bernardino, California. In the winter of 1853–54, Burdick and his family settled at San Gabriel Township, California.

In 1855, Burdick was elected as a member of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors; he served two consecutive one-year terms.

Burdick died in Los Angeles of apoplexy. He and his wife were the parents of seven children. Their son Cyrus Burdick was the co-founder of Pomona, California.

Burdick's sister was Rebecca Burdick Winters, a Mormon pioneer known for her grave site along the Mormon Trail.


John Bathersby

John Alexius Bathersby (born 26 July 1936, Stanthorpe, Queensland, Australia) is a retired Australian bishop of the Roman Catholic Church. He was the sixth archbishop of the Archdiocese of Brisbane, serving from 1991 until his retirement in 2011. Bathersby is conferred with the title Emeritus Archbishop of Brisbane.

Early years
The son of John Thomas and Grace Maud (née Conquest) Bathersby, John Alexius had an older sister, Carmel, a younger brother, Michael, and two younger sisters, Suzanne and Anne. He received his primary schooling at St Joseph's, Stanthorpe (1941–50) and his secondary schooling as a boarder at Nudgee College in Brisbane (1951–54). From school he entered the Pius XII Provincial Seminary, Banyo, where he began his training for the priesthood and, on completion of those studies (1955–61), he was ordained a priest in his home parish of Stanthorpe by Bishop William Brennan on 30 June 1961.

His first seven years as a priest were spent as an assistant and administrator at Goondiwindi before being sent to Rome in 1969 for further studies where he completed a licentiate in theology at the Pontifical Gregorian University and a diploma in spirituality at the Pontifical Theological Faculty Teresianum. In 1972 he was appointed to the staff of Pius XII Seminary in Brisbane where he served as spiritual director for seven years before returning to Rome for a doctorate in theology and spirituality in 1979. He returned to the seminary before being appointed Bishop of Cairns in 1986.

Bishop of Cairns and Archbishop of Brisbane
On 20 March 1986, Bathersby was consecrated Bishop of Cairns by Archbishop Francis Rush, whom he would succeed as Archdiocese of Brisbane on 3 December 1991, and installed as the sixth Bishop (and fifth Archbishop) of Brisbane on 30 January 1992.

Bathersby was a member of the International Catholic-Methodist Dialogue from 1989 to 1995 and a member of the executive of the Confederation of Bishops' Conferences of Oceania from 1991 to May 1994. He is co-chairman of the Australian Catholic–Uniting Church Dialogue. From July 1997 he served as President of the National Council of Churches in Australia until July 2000. In January 2001, Pope John Paul II appointed Bathersby as co-chair of the International Anglican-Roman Catholic Working Group (IARCCUM). He chairs the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference Commission for Mission and Faith Formation, and is a member of the Bishops' Permanent Committee.

In 2008, St. Mary's Catholic Church, South Brisbane was the subject of controversy following complaints that long-serving parish priest Peter Kennedy was not observing standard Roman Catholic teachings and practices. However Kennedy's services were extremely popular attracting a very large congregation, many of whom felt otherwise alienated from the Catholic Church. Despite numerous attempts by Bathersby to persuade Kennedy to return to a more standard liturgy, Kennedy refused. Bathersby eventually removed Kennedy as the parish priest. Many of Kennedy's parishioners left the church with him to continue holding services as St Mary's Community in Exile at the Trades and Labour Council building on Peel Street (200m away from St Mary's Catholic Church).

Upon turning 75 years old, in July 2011, Bathersby sought the pontiff's consent to retire. Bishop of Lismore Geoffrey Hylton Jarrett was appointed administrator for the Brisbane archdiocese in November 2011 and, in April 2012, Mark Coleridge was appointed as the seventh archbishop.

In popular culture
In 2011, a feature documentary has been made about Kennedy and the exiled community and their conflict with the Catholic Church, entitled The Trouble with St Mary's.

In 2016, the play St Mary's in Exile was written by David Burton about the events that led to Bathersby's decision to remove Father Peter Kennedy as parish priest from St Mary's Catholic Church, South Brisbane in 2009. It was performed in August-September 2016 as part of the Brisbane Festival at the Queensland Theatre Company's Bille Brown Theatre, approximately 250m from both St Mary's and St Mary's in Exile. Actor Josh McWilliam played the role of Bathersby.


Thorsten Bolzek

Thorsten Bolzek (born 7 July 1968) is a retired German football forward.

Career

Statistics


Jim Hughes (footballer, born 1965)

James Francis Hughes (born 7 May 1965) is a Scottish former footballer who played for Dumbarton, Airdrie, Ayr United and Stranraer.


Stem cell laws

Stem cell laws are the law rules, and policy governance concerning the sources, research, and uses in treatment of stem cells in humans. These laws have been the source of much controversy and vary significantly by country. In the European Union, stem cell research using the human embryo is permitted in Sweden, Spain, Finland, Belgium, Greece, Britain, Denmark and the Netherlands; however, it is illegal in Canada, Germany, Austria, Ireland, Italy, and Portugal. The issue has similarly divided the United States, with several states enforcing a complete ban and others giving support. Elsewhere, Japan, India, Iran, Israel, South Korea, China, and Australia are supportive. However, New Zealand, most of Africa (except South Africa), and most of South America (except Brazil) are restrictive.

Science background

The information presented here covers the legal implications of embryonic stem cells (ES), rather than induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs). The laws surrounding the two differ because while both have similar capacities in differentiation, their modes of derivation are not. While embryonic stem cells are taken from embryoblasts, induced pluripotent stem cells are undifferentiated from somatic adult cells.

Stem cells are cells found in most, if not all, multi-cellular organisms. A common example of a stem cell is the hematopoietic stem cell (HSC) which are multipotent stem cells that give rise to cells of the blood lineage. In contrast to multipotent stem cells, embryonic stem cells are pluripotent and are thought to be able to give rise to all cells of the body. Embryonic stem cells were isolated in mice in 1981, and in humans in 1998.

Stem cell treatments are a type of cell therapy that introduce new cells into adult bodies for possible treatment of cancer, somatic cell nuclear transfer, diabetes, and other medical conditions. Cloning also might be done with stem cells.  Stem cells have been used to repair tissue damaged by disease.

Because Embryonic Stem (ES) cells are cultured from the embryoblast 4–5 days after fertilization, harvesting them is most often done from donated embryos from in vitro fertilization (IVF) clinics. In January 2007, researchers at Wake Forest University reported that "stem cells drawn from amniotic fluid donated by pregnant women hold much of the same promise as embryonic stem cells."

Europe
The European Union has yet to issue consistent regulations with respect to stem cell research in member states. Whereas Germany, Austria, Italy, Finland, Ireland, Portugal and the Netherlands prohibit or severely restrict the use of embryonic stem cells, Greece, Sweden, Spain and the United Kingdom have created the legal basis to support this research.  Belgium bans reproductive cloning but allows therapeutic cloning of embryos. France prohibits reproductive cloning and embryo creation for research purposes, but enacted laws (with a sunset provision expiring in 2009) to allow scientists to conduct stem cell research on imported a large amount of embryos from in vitro fertilization treatments.  Germany has restrictive policies for stem cell research, but a 2008 law authorizes "the use of imported stem cell lines produced before May 1, 2007." Italy has a 2004 law that forbids all sperm or egg donations and the freezing of embryos, but allows, in effect, using existing stem cell lines that have been imported.  Sweden forbids reproductive cloning, but allows therapeutic cloning and authorized a stem cell bank.

According to modern stem cell researchers, Spain is one of the leaders in stem cell research and currently has one of the most progressive legislations worldwide with respect to hESC research. The new Spanish law allows existing frozen embryos - of which there are estimated to be tens of thousands in Spain - to be kept for patient's future use, donated for another infertile couple, or used in research. In 2003, Spain's laws state that embryos left over from IVF and donated by the couple that created them can be used in research, including ES cell research, if they have been frozen for more than five years.

In 2001, the British Parliament amended the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990 (since amended by the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008) to permit the destruction of embryos for hESC harvests but only if the research satisfies one of the following requirements:

 Increases knowledge about the development of embryos,
 Increases knowledge about serious disease, or
 Enables any such knowledge to be applied in developing treatments for serious disease.

The United Kingdom is one of the leaders in stem cell research, in the opinion of Lord Sainsbury, Science and Innovation Minister for the UK. A new £10 million stem cell research centre has been announced at the University of Cambridge.

Africa
The primary legislation in South Africa that deals with embryo research is the Human Tissue Act, which is set to be replaced by Chapter 8 of the National Health Act. The NHA Chapter 8 has been enacted by parliament, but not yet signed into force by the president. The process of finalising these regulations is still underway. The NHA Chapter 8 allows the Minister of Health to give permission for research on embryos not older than 14 days. The legislation on embryo research is complemented by the South African Medical Research Council's Ethics Guidelines. These Guidelines advise against the creation of embryos for the sole purpose of research. In the case of Christian Lawyers Association of South Africa & others v Minister of Health & others the court ruled that the Bill of Rights is not applicable to the unborn. It has therefore been argued based on constitutional grounds (the right to human dignity, and the right to freedom of scientific research) that the above limitations on embryo research are overly inhibitive of the autonomy of scientists, and hence unconstitutional.

Asia

China prohibits human reproductive cloning but allows the creation of human embryos for research and therapeutic purposes.  India banned in 2004 reproductive cloning, permitted therapeutic cloning.  In 2004, Japan’s Council for Science and Technology Policy voted to allow scientists to conduct stem cell research for therapeutic purposes, though formal guidelines have yet to be released.  In December 2012, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzō Abe announced an investment into regenerative medicine of ¥110 billion (US$1 billion) over the next decade. The South Korean government promotes therapeutic cloning, but forbids cloning. The Philippines prohibits human embryonic and aborted human fetal stem cells and their derivatives for human treatment
and research. In 1999, Israel passed legislation banning reproductive, but not therapeutic, cloning. Saudi Arabia religious officials issued a decree that sanctions the use of embryos for therapeutic and research purposes.  According to the Royan Institute for Reproductive Biomedicine, Iran has some of the most liberal laws on stem cell research and cloning. Laws and regulations in Jordan allow stem-cell research. A center for stem cell research has acquired a license to begin operating in April 2017 at the University of Jordan.

Americas

Brazil

Brazil has passed legislation to permit stem cell research using excess in vitro fertilized embryos that have been frozen for at least three years.

United States

Federal law places restrictions on funding and use of hES cells through amendments to the budget bill. In 2001, George W. Bush implemented a policy limiting the number of stem cell lines that could be used for research. There were some state laws concerning stem cells that were passed in the mid-2000s. New Jersey's 2004 S1909/A2840 specifically permitted human cloning for the purpose of developing and harvesting human stem cells, and Missouri's 2006 Amendment Two legalized certain forms of embryonic stem cell research in the state. On the other hand, Arkansas, Indiana, Louisiana, Michigan, North Dakota and South Dakota passed laws to prohibit the creation or destruction of human embryos for medical research.

During Bush's second term, in July 2006, he used his first Presidential veto on the Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act. The Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act was the name of two similar bills, and both were vetoed by President George W. Bush and were not enacted into law.  New Jersey congressman Chris Smith wrote a Stem Cell Therapeutic and Research Act of 2005, which made some narrow exceptions, and was signed into law by President Bush.

In November 2004, California voters approved Proposition 71, creating a US$3 billion state taxpayer-funded institute for stem cell research, the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine. It hopes to provide $300 million a year.

Barack Obama removed the restriction of federal funding signed by Bush in 2001, which only allowed funding on the 21 cell lines already created. However, the Dickey Amendment to the budget, The Omnibus Appropriations Act of 2009, still bans federal funding of creating new cell lines. In other words, the federal government will now fund research which uses the hundreds of more lines created by public and private funds.

Canada
In March 2002, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research announced the first ever guidelines for human pluripotent stem cell research in Canada. The federal granting agencies, CIHR, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council, and Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada teamed up and agreed that no research with human IPSCs would be funded without review and approval from the Stem Cell Oversight Committee (SCOC).

In March 2004, Canadian parliament enacted the Assisted Human Reproduction Act (AHRA), modeled on the United Kingdom’s Human Fertilization and Embryology Act of 1990. Highlights of the act include prohibitions against the creation of embryos for research purposes and the criminalization of commercial transactions in human reproductive tissues.

In 2005, Canada enacted a law permitting research on discarded embryos from in vitro fertilization procedures. However, it prohibits the creation of human embryos for research.

On June 30, 2010, The Updated Guidelines for Human Pluripotent Stem Cell Research outline that:
 The embryos used must originally have been created for reproductive purposes
 The persons for whom the embryos were created must provide free and informed consent for the unrestricted research use of any embryos created, which are no longer required for reproductive purposes
 The ova, sperm, nor embryo must not have been obtained through commercial transactions

Canada's National Embryonic Stem Cell Registry:
 contains all human embryonic stem cell lines generated using CIHR funds or funds from any of the research councils
 is a prerequisite for obtaining CIHR funding for human embryonic stem cell research
 will minimize the need to generate large numbers of cell lines, and decrease the need for donation of large numbers of embryos

Oceania
Australia is partially supportive (exempting reproductive cloning yet allowing research on embryonic stem cells that are derived from the process of IVF). New Zealand, however, restricts stem cell research.


2020 Daytona 500

The 2020 Daytona 500, the 62nd running of the event, was a NASCAR Cup Series race held on February 16-17, 2020. It was contested over 209 laps -- extended from 200 laps due to an overtime finish, on the  asphalt superspeedway. It was the first race of the 2020 NASCAR Cup Series season.

The race was started by President of the United States Donald Trump, who served as Grand Marshal, and the opening lap was paced by the official Presidential state car. WWE superstar Sheamus drove the pace car for the opening laps, and Dale Earnhardt Jr., two-time winner of the Daytona 500, waved the green flag to officially start the race.

The race was scheduled for February 16, but persistent rain showers caused the race to be suspended on lap 20 and postponed until  4 p.m. the following day, the second time the race has had to be postponed due to rain. The first time was in 2012.

Most of the race was cleanly run until lap 185, when The Big One struck, triggering a massive crash involving at least 20 cars on the backstretch. The race was red-flagged as a result. Denny Hamlin won the race by 0.014 seconds over Ryan Blaney on the second restart in overtime. Chris Buescher, David Ragan, and Kevin Harvick rounded out the top five. On the final lap, Ryan Newman was involved in a serious crash and was immediately rushed to a local hospital. Two hours after the crash, it was announced he was seriously injured in the crash, but the injuries were not believed to be life-threatening. Newman was released from the hospital on Wednesday, February 19. In the days that followed, many news outlets credit Newman's miraculous survival of his crash to the safety features implemented by NASCAR following the death of Dale Earnhardt at the end of the 2001 Daytona 500.

Report
Daytona International Speedway is a race track in Daytona Beach, Florida that is one of six superspeedways, the others being Auto Club Speedway, Pocono Raceway, Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Michigan International Speedway, and Talladega Superspeedway.

Background

Daytona International Speedway is one of three superspeedways to hold NASCAR races, the other two being Indianapolis Motor Speedway and Talladega Superspeedway. The standard track at Daytona International Speedway is a four-turn superspeedway that is  long. The track's turns are banked at 31 degrees, while the front stretch, the location of the finish line, is banked at 18 degrees.

Entry list
 (W) denotes past 500 winner.
 (R) denotes rookie driver.
 (i) denotes driver who are ineligible for series driver points.

Practice

First practice (February 8)
Ty Dillon was the fastest in the first practice session with a time of 44.206 seconds and a speed of .

Second practice (February 8)
Bubba Wallace was the fastest in the second practice session with a time of 45.878 seconds and a speed of .

Qualifying
Ricky Stenhouse Jr. scored the pole for the race with a time of 46.253 and a speed of .

Qualifying results

Bluegreen Vacations Duel

The Bluegreen Vacations Duels are a pair of NASCAR Cup Series races held in conjunction with the Daytona 500 annually in February at Daytona International Speedway. They consist of two races 60 laps and 150 miles (240 km) in length, which serve as heat races that set the lineup for the Daytona 500. Both races sets the lineup for positions 3–32. The first race sets the lineup for cars that qualified in odd–numbered positions on pole qualifying day. The second race sets the lineup for cars that qualified in even–numbered positions. Positions 33–36 are filled by the four drivers that posted the fastest lap in pole qualifying that didn't lock in a position in the Duel's. Positions 37–40 are set by the four cars highest in the 2019 owner's points that didn't lock in a position in the Duels and weren't among the cars that posted the four fastest timed laps in pole qualifying.

For championship purposes, each Duel is a full Championship Stage, except there is no playoff point awarded. The top ten drivers receive championship points.

Duel 1

Duel 1 results

Duel 2

Duel 2 results

Starting lineup

Practice (post–Duels)

Third practice (February 14)
William Byron was the fastest in the third practice session with a time of 43.991 seconds and a speed of .

Final practice (February 15)
Joey Logano was the fastest in the final practice session with a time of 44.884 seconds and a speed of .

Race

Post-race
In the immediate post-race, Hamlin and his crew, unaware of the severity of Newman's crash, began celebrating his win, and was subsequently booed heavily by the crowd upon exiting his car, both on the infield grass and again in victory lane. Joe Gibbs issued an apology for the team's celebration, with Hamlin saying he was first aware of the accident's severity when NASCAR canceled the recent tradition of interviewing the winner on the front-stretch prior to the car being driven to victory lane.

Stage Results
Stage One
Laps: 65

Stage Two
Laps: 65

Final Stage Results

Stage Three
Laps: 70

Race statistics
 Lead changes: 23 among 13 different drivers
 Cautions/Laps: 9 for 39
 Red flags: 3 (1 for weather, 2 for accidents)
 Time of race: 3 hours, 42 minutes and 10 seconds
 Margin of Victory: 0.014 seconds
 Average speed:

Media

Television

Since 2001—with the exception of 2002, 2004 and 2006—the Daytona 500 has been carried by Fox in the United States. The booth crew consists of longtime NASCAR lap-by-lap announcer Mike Joy and three–time Daytona 500 champion Jeff Gordon. Pit road is manned by Jamie Little, Regan Smith, Vince Welch, and Matt Yocum. 1992 and 1998 Daytona 500 winning crew chief Larry McReynolds and 2010 Daytona 500 winning driver Jamie McMurray provided insight from the Fox Sports studio in Charlotte.

Radio
The race was broadcast on radio by the Motor Racing Network—who has covered the Daytona 500 since 1970—and simulcast on Sirius XM NASCAR Radio. The booth crew consists of Alex Hayden, Jeff Striegle, and 1989 Cup Series champion Rusty Wallace. Longtime turn announcer Dave Moody is the lead turn announcer, calling the race from atop the Sunoco tower outside the exit of turn 2 when the field races through turns 1 and 2. Mike Bagley works the backstretch for the race from a spotter's stand on the inside of the track & Kyle Rickey calls the race when the field races through turns 3 and 4 from the Sunoco tower outside the exit of turn 4. On pit road, MRN is manned by lead pit reporter and NASCAR Hall of Fame Executive Director Winston Kelley. He will be joined on pit road by Steve Post, Kim Coon, and Dillon Welch.

Standings after the race

Drivers' Championship standings

Manufacturers' Championship standings

Note: Only the first 16 positions are included for the driver standings.


Teron Beal

Teron Beal is an American singer-songwriter born in Tyler, Texas. He has also written songs for Michael Jackson, Jennifer Lopez, P!nk, Kelly Rowland, Mýa, Chrisette Michele, Robyn, Jaheim and others.

Songwriting credits
Michael Jackson – "Heaven Can Wait" (Sony, 2001)
Bonnie Raitt – "Time of Our Lives" (Capitol)
Jennifer Lopez – "Breaking Down (Wait)" (Columbia)
Mýa – "Look So Good" (Interscope)
Mýa – "After the Rain" (Interscope)
Mýa featuring Jay-Z – "Best of Me" (Interscope)
Mýa – "Fear of Flying" (Interscope)
Kelly Rowland – "Past 12" (Columbia, 2003)
Pink – "Mama Said" (Arista)
Brandy – "Blue" (Atlantic)
Deborah Cox – "Givin' It Up" (J Records)
Naughty by Nature featuring 3LW – "Feels Good" (TVT)
Boney James featuring Jaheim – "Ride" (Warner Bros.)
Jaheim featuring Nas – "Just in Case" (Warner Bros.)
Jamie Cullum – "My Yard" (Universal)
Koffee Brown – "After Party" (Arista)
Another Level – "Girlfriend" (RCA International)
Profyle – "One Night" (Motown)
Toya featuring Murphy Lee – "I Do (Part 2)" (Arista)
Olivia – "Look Around" (J Records)
Jimmy Cozier – "Playing Games" (J Records)
Changing Faces – "Cry for Me" (Atlantic)
Shanice – "Doin' My Thang" (LaFace)
Rockell – "If You Don't See" (Universal)
Immature – "Constantly" (MCA)
Jhené – "No Love" (Columbia, 2003)
Robyn – "Moonlight" (Jive)
Ideal – "She Should Be Mine" (Virgin)
Allure – "Cool with Me" (MCA)
Raine – "N-O L-O-V-E" (Arista)
Chrisette Michele – "All I Ever Think About" (Def Jam, 2009)


Tomislav Franjković

Tomislav Franjković (May 19, 1931 – October 11, 2010) was a Croat water polo player who competed for Yugoslavia in the 1956 Summer Olympics.

He was part of the Yugoslav team which won the silver medal in the 1956 tournament. He played six matches.

External links
Tomislav Franjković's profile at Sports Reference.com
Tomislav Franjković's obituary


Neotibicen pruinosus

Neotibicen pruinosus, the scissor grinder, is a species of cicada in the family Cicadidae.

Subspecies
These two subspecies belong to the species Neotibicen pruinosus:
 Neotibicen pruinosus fulvus (Beamer, 1924) c g
 Neotibicen pruinosus pruinosus g
Data sources: i = ITIS, c = Catalogue of Life, g = GBIF, b = Bugguide.net


Vavincourt

Vavincourt  is a commune in the Meuse department in Grand Est in north-eastern France.


Kentucky Blue Streak

Kentucky Blue Streak is a 1935 American film directed by Bernard B. Ray.

The film is also known as The Blue Streak in the United Kingdom.

Plot summary

Cast
Edward J. Nugent as Martin Marion
Frank Coghlan Jr. as Johnny Bradley
Patricia Scott as Mary Bradley
Cornelius Keefe as District Attorney Barton Pierce
Margaret Mann as Mrs. Martha Bradley
Roy D'Arcy as Harry Johnson
Ben Holmes as Bellhop O'Donnell
Roy Watson as Colonel Seymour
Harry Harvey as Barker / Voice of Radio Announcer
Roger Williams as Deputy
Joseph W. Girard as Warden Carlson
Walter Downing as Editor
Ben Carter as Waiter / Colored Octette leader

Soundtrack

External links


Robert H. Saunders

REDIRECT Robert Hood Saunders


Simone Barone

Simone Barone  (; born 30 April 1978) is an Italian football manager and former player, who played as a midfielder. He currently works as a manager for Serie A club U.S. Sassuolo Calcio's youth team. He played for several Italian clubs throughout his career, before coming to prominence with Palermo. At international level, he was part of the Italian side that won the 2006 FIFA World Cup, and represented the national side on 16 occasions between 2004 and 2006, scoring once.

Club career
Barone started his career making his first team debut on 4 May 1997 for Parma, against Atalanta. He then played for Padova of Serie C1 in 1998, Alzano Virescit of Serie B in 1999.

In summer 2000, he joined Chievo in a co-ownership deal, where he played for 2 seasons. He was loaned back to Parma in 2002–03 season, then bought back permanently in 2003, with Amauri moved to Chievo.

On 16 July 2004, he transferred to Palermo for €5M. He signed a 4-year contract. He was the regular of the team, and the team qualified for 2006–07 UEFA Cup (after the Calciopoli trials).

On 5 August 2006, Simone moved to Serie A newcomer Torino after the club signed Mark Bresciano and Fábio Simplício from Parma. He played 3 seasons for the Serie A struggler and left the club after relegated in 2009.

On 6 August 2009, he was signed by Serie A side Cagliari. He was mainly used as a substitute, however, only playing 5 times as a starter, as a right midfielder on each occasion.

International career
Barone debuted for the Italy national football team on 18 February 2004, in a 2–2 friendly tie against Czech Republic in Palermo. Stefano Bettarini and Sergio Volpi also received their first call-up and made their debut under manager Giovanni Trapattoni during the match. He was part of Italy's 2006 FIFA World Cup squad, under Marcello Lippi, appearing two times as a substitute as Italy went on to win the tournament. In Italy's final group match of the competition, a 2–0 win against the Czech Republic on 22 June, Barone helped to win back possession in midfield before laying the ball off to Simone Perrotta, who subsequently set up Filippo Inzaghi with a one on one opportunity with a throughball after the striker had managed to beat the offiside trap; Inzaghi went on to score after rounding Czech goalkeeper Petr Čech, while Barone also followed Inzaghi's run to provide him with an additional attacking option across goal. He later also appeared in Italy's 3–0 win over Ukraine in the quarter-finals of the tournament. In total, Barone made 16 appearances for Italy between 2004 and 2006, scoring his only international goal on 9 February 2005, in a 2–0 friendly home win over Russia, in Cagliari, at the stadio Sant'Elia.

Style of play
A versatile, consistent, energetic, and hard-working player, Barone was primarily deployed as a central or right sided midfielder, although he was capable of playing in any midfield position, and was also deployed as a defensive midfielder, due to his stamina, tactical intelligence, positional sense, and decision-making, as well as his ability to break down opposition plays and subsequently start attacking moves with his passing.

Managerial career
In late June 2016, Barone was appointed assistant manager for Indian Super League club Delhi Dynamos, under his former international teammate Gianluca Zambrotta.

In the 2017–18 season he was appointed manager for the Juventus F.C. academy.

He took over the U.S. Sassuolo Calcio Primavera team for the 2018–19 season.

Career statistics

International

International goal

Honours

International
Italy
 FIFA World Cup: 2006

Orders
 CONI: Golden Collar of Sports Merit: Collare d'Oro al Merito Sportivo: (2006)

 4th Class / Officer: Ufficiale Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana: (2006)


Jerusalem (painting)

Jerusalem () is an 1867 painting by the French artist Jean-Léon Gérôme. It is also known as Golgotha, Consumatum Est and The Crucifixion (La Crucifixion). The foreground depicts the ground of Golgotha with the shadows of three crucified men: Jesus and the two thieves. Further back in the picture is a crowd of people moving away from the scene. In the background is the city of Jerusalem under a cloudy sky.

It was characteristic of Gérôme to depict not a violent event itself, but the aftermath of such violence; see The Death of Caesar, The Execution of Marshal Ney, and The Duel After the Masquerade.

The painting marked Gérôme's return to history painting after a period of exploring orientalism. Like much Christian art of the era, the depiction was influenced by Ernest Renan's Life of Jesus.

The painting was presented at the 1868 Salon. Since 1990 it is located at the Musée d'Orsay in Paris.


Dora Wiley

Dora Wiley (1852 or 1853 - 2 November 1924) was an American soprano who performed in operas and concerts in the United States, England, and Australia during the last three decades of the 19th century. Nicknamed "The Sweet Singer of Maine", her chief successes were in operettas and comic operas. She enjoyed popularity on the New York stage during the 1880s.

Life and career
Born in Bucksport, Maine, Wiley spent her early singing career working as a church and choral singer in Chelsea, Massachusetts and touring with a Boston-based vocal quartet. She first drew significant notice in 1874 when she performed as a soloist with the Boston Philharmonic Club. She then toured actively as a performer with the Berger Family Bell Ringers. In 1878-1879 she sang leading roles with the Boston Ideal Opera Company. In 1880 she performed the title role in Edward E. Rice's Evangeline in Boston. She first appeared on the New York stage in 1881 as the title heroine in the Haverly opera company's production of Gilbert and Sullivan's Patience at the Metropolitan Casino. She returned to the New York stage the following year in several successful operettas produced by the J. W. Norcross Opera Company; including Bettina in Edmond Audran's The Mascot and Violetta in Johann Strauss II's The Merry War.

In 1884 Wiley was the "leading attraction" at the Theatre Royal in Manchester, England in the opera Babes in the Woods. She also toured the English provinces with the company as the title heroine in Luscombe Searelle's comic opera Estrella. Later that year was back in the US and touring out of New York, as the leader of the "Dora Wiley Opera Company".  Her husband, the equally gifted comic actor Richard Golden, from Bangor, Maine, was initially part of her company, but later engaged Wiley to sing in his own successful play, "Old Jed Prouty" in 1889.  The year before (1888), Wiley sang "Home Sweet Home" at New York's Metropolitan Opera House before President Grover Cleveland and spent a year in Australia, first with the Amy Sherwin Opera Company in Melbourne and then as prima dona in the opera "Maritana" at the Gaity Theatre in Sydney.

Wiley divorced Golden in 1892 and then remarried her younger business manager, Charles Tennis.  The two initially went to live in Bangor, Maine, but Wiley was back on stage in New York in 1893, and toured until 1895, when she appeared in the western "On the Trail". She died in Scarsdale, New York in 1924 at the age of 71.


Fred Kavli

Fred Kavli (August 20, 1927 – November 21, 2013) was a Norwegian-American businessman and philanthropist. He was born on a small farm in Eresfjord, Norway. He founded the Kavlico Corporation, located in Moorpark, California. Under his leadership, the company became one of the world's largest suppliers of sensors for aeronautic, automotive, and industrial applications supplying General Electric and the Ford Motor Company.

In 2000 he established The Kavli Foundation to "advance science for the benefit of humanity and to promote public understanding and support for scientists and their work". The Foundation's mission is implemented through an international program of research institutes, professorships, and symposia in the scientific fields of astrophysics, nanoscience, neuroscience, and theoretical physics. The foundation awards the Kavli Prize in astrophysics, nanoscience, and neuroscience.

He was featured in the media primarily for his philanthropic efforts.

Kavli's life
Born in 1927, Kavli grew up on the family farm in the Norwegian village of Eresfjord (pop. 450).

At 14, together with his brother Aslak, he began his first enterprise creating wood pellet fuel for cars. This was during the Second World War and the Nazi occupation of Norway.

Inspired by his father's 13 years in San Francisco the young Kavli wanted to move to the US. Three days after he received his engineering degree from the Norwegian Institute of Technology (NTH) in Trondheim he left for America on the .

Having no job or sponsor waiting for him, his visa application was initially rejected, and  so in 1955 he immigrated to Montreal, Quebec, Canada instead. The following year his visa was approved and he moved to the United States. He found work as an engineer for a Los Angeles business that developed feedback flight controls for Atlas missiles. He would rise to the position of Chief Engineer here.

Looking to start his own business he advertised in the Los Angeles Times newspaper soliciting financial backers with the simple but effective text "Engineer seeking financial backing to start own business".

Two years later he had founded the Kavlico Corporation, located in Moorpark, California. Under his leadership, the company became one of the world's largest suppliers of sensors for aeronautic, automotive, and industrial applications supplying amongst others General Electric and the Ford Motor Company.

In 2000, he sold Kavlico for $345 million to C-Mac Industries Inc. Kavlico is today owned by the French company Schneider Electric. Much of Kavli's wealth is a result of his real estate investments in Southern California. As a philanthropist, Kavli subsequently established The Kavli Foundation and dedicated much of his wealth to funding research institutions and programs worldwide.

On June 19, 2006, he was appointed Grand Officer, Commander with Star, of the Royal Norwegian Order of Merit by King Harald V of Norway  in recognition of his work on behalf of Norway and humanity. In 2008, he was also awarded an honorary doctorate, Doctor Honoris Causa, by the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, in recognition of his work to the benefit and advancement of science and research.

Kavli was a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He was also a former member of the U.S. President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, and former member of the University of California President's Board on Science and Innovation.

In 2009, Mr. Kavli received an honorary Doctor of Science degree from Northwestern University. In 2011, he received the Bower Award for Business Leadership from the Franklin Institute, one of the oldest science education centers in the United States, and the Carnegie Medal of Philanthropy, which is given biennially to one or more individuals who, like Andrew Carnegie, have dedicated their private wealth to public good, and who have sustained impressive careers as philanthropists. Also, in 2011, Mr. Kavli was conferred the degree of doctor philosopliae honoris causa by the University of Oslo.

A Trustee of the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) Foundation, in addition to supporting scientific research and education, his philanthropic activities include the Fred Kavli Theatre for Performing Arts at the Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza, California, as well as other projects. He was divorced and had two grown children.

On November 21, 2013, Kavli died at his Santa Barbara, California home after surgery for cholangiocarcinoma, a rare form of cancer.

Kavli Prizes

Through The Kavli Foundation, Kavli established scientific prizes in the fields of Astrophysics, Nanoscience, and Neuroscience. The Kavli Prizes are presented in cooperation with the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters and the Norwegian Ministry of Education and Research, and have been awarded biennially at a ceremony in Oslo since 2008. Each prize consists of a scroll, gold medal, and $1,000,000 cash.

Kavli chose to focus on these three areas of interest – "from the biggest, to the smallest, to the most complex" – because he thinks these fields are the most exciting scientific fields for the 21st century with potentially great benefits. Kavli has also noted his intent that the Prizes distinguish themselves from the Nobel prizes in science. Consequently, one key distinction between the prizes: Kavli Prize laureates are selected by committees composed of distinguished international scientists. These committee members are recommended by the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the French Academy of Sciences, the Max Planck Society, the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and The Royal Society, with committee chairs chosen by the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.

The first Kavli Prize winners were announced on May 28, 2008, simultaneously in Oslo and at the opening of the World Science Festival in New York City. The first Kavli Prize for astrophysics was awarded to Maarten Schmidt and Donald Lynden-Bell. Louis E. Brus and Sumio Iijima shared the nanoscience prize, while Pasko Rakic, Thomas Jessell and Sten Grillner were awarded the neuroscience prize. The four US winners of the Kavli Prize were honored by President George W. Bush and Science Advisor, Dr. John Marburger, at an Oval Office reception in the White House on November 12, 2008. (See Kavli Prize for laureates in subsequent years.)

The Kavli Foundation

The Kavli Foundation, based in Oxnard, California, is dedicated to the goals of advancing science for the benefit of humanity and to promote public understanding and support for scientists and their work.  It was established in 2000 by Mr. Kavli and is actively involved in establishing major research institutes at leading universities and institutions in the United States, Europe and Asia.

The Kavli Foundation has made grants to establish Kavli Institutes on the campuses of the University of California Santa Barbara, University of California Berkeley, Stanford University, the California Institute of Technology, the University of Chicago, Columbia University, Yale University, New York University, Cornell University, the University of California, San Diego, Delft University of Technology in The Netherlands, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Peking University, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Harvard University, University of Cambridge and the Norwegian University of Science and Technology.  These institutions are the beneficiaries of the Kavli Foundation to date, and the list is bound to grow in the future.

In addition to the Kavli Institutes, six Kavli professorships have been established: two at the University of California Santa Barbara, one at the University of California Los Angeles, one at the University of California Irvine, one at Columbia University, and one at the California Institute of Technology.

Kavli Institutes

The Kavli Foundation has established research institutes at leading universities worldwide. Consistent with its business-like approach, Kavli requires each partner University to match the average $7.5 million donation.  The institutes are not required to focus on any specific subject but are free to do any basic research they see fit.

Seven researchers associated with the Kavli institutes have been awarded Nobel prizes: David Gross, Frank Wilczek,  Richard Axel, Eric Kandel, Edvard Moser, May-Britt Moser and Rainer Weiss.

As of March 2008, there are 15 institutes in the United States, 2 in China, 1 in the Netherlands, 1 in Norway and 1 in the United Kingdom. According to the Foundation eventually there might be as many 20 centres. The Institute for Physics and Mathematics of the Universe in Tokyo has also received an endowment to set up a Kavli institute from April 1, 2012

The sixteen Kavli Institutes are:

Astrophysics
 Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology at Stanford University
 Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics at the University of Chicago
 Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
 Kavli Institute for Cosmology at the University of Cambridge
 Kavli Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics at Peking University in China

Nanoscience
 Kavli Nanoscience Institute at Caltech
 Kavli Institute at Cornell for Nanoscale Science
 Kavli Institute of Nanoscience at Delft University of Technology in The Netherlands
 Kavli Institute for Bionano Science and Technology at Harvard University

Neuroscience
 Kavli Institute for Brain Science at Columbia University
 Kavli Institute for Brain and Mind at the University of California, San Diego
 Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology
 Kavli Institute for Neuroscience at Yale University

Theoretical physics
 Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara
 Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics China at the Chinese Academy of Sciences
 Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (Kavli IPMU) at University of Tokyo

Honours
Royal Norwegian Order of Merit - Grand Officer.
Norwegian Academy of Technological Sciences – fellow.
Norwegian University of Science and Technology – honorary doctor.

Quotes
The curiosity of the human being is what has brought us where we are today, and I have complete confidence that it will take us where we need to be in the future.


2017 Stockholm Ladies Cup

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| Host city = Stockholm, Sweden
| Arena = Danderyd Curling Arena
| Dates = September 28–31
| Winner =  Alina Pätz
| Curling club = Baden Regio-Privera CC, Baden, Switzerland
| Skip = Alina Pätz
| Third = Nadine Lehmann
| Second = Marisa Winkelhausen
| Lead = Nicole Schwägli
| Finalist =  Kim Eun-jung
}}
The 2017 Stockholm Ladies Curling Cup''' was held from September 28 to 31 at the Danderyd Curling Arena in Stockholm, Sweden as part of the 2017–18 World Curling Tour. The event was held in a round robin format.

Teams
The teams are listed as follows:

Round Robin Standings

Playoffs


Tony Macaulay

Tony Macaulay (born Anthony Gordon Instone, 21 April 1944, England) is an English author, composer for musical theatre, and songwriter. He has won the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors Award twice as 'Songwriter of the Year' (1970 and 1977). He is a nine time Ivor Novello Awards winning songwriter. In 2007, he became the only British person to win the Edwin Forrest Award for outstanding contribution to the American theatre.

Macaulay's best-known songs include "Baby Now That I've Found You" and "Build Me Up Buttercup" with The Foundations, "(Last Night) I Didn't Get to Sleep at All," as well as "Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes)" and "Don't Give Up on Us".

Career
Macaulay was born in Fulham, London, England.

In the early 1960s he worked as a song plugger for Essex Publishing, then moved to Pye Records as a record producer.  It was here that he had his first major success with The Foundations, when they recorded, "Baby Now That I've Found You", a song he had co-written with John Macleod, and it topped the UK Singles Chart in November 1967.

Further hits came with songs such as Marmalade's "Baby Make It Soon" and "Falling Apart at the Seams"; The 5th Dimension's "(Last Night) I Didn't Get to Sleep at All", David Soul's "Don't Give Up on Us", plus Donna Summer's 1977 single "Can't We Just Sit Down (And Talk It Over)", each of which he wrote on his own. Many others came in collaboration with other songwriters, amongst them were Long John Baldry's "Let the Heartaches Begin", Paper Dolls' "Something Here in My Heart (Keeps A Tellin' Me No)" and Pickettywitch's "That Same Old Feeling", all co-written with John Macleod.  Another success for The Foundations was "Build Me Up Buttercup", written by Macaulay and Mike D'Abo. Scott Walker's "Lights of Cincinnati", The Hollies' "Sorry Suzanne", The New Seekers' "You Won't Find Another Fool Like Me" were penned with Geoff Stephens; whilst Edison Lighthouse's "Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes)", was written with Sylvan Whittingham and Barry Mason.  In addition, he co-wrote Johnny Johnson and the Bandwagon's "Blame It On The Pony Express" and Andy Williams' "Home Lovin' Man", with Roger Cook and Roger Greenaway.

Much of his attention in the early 1970s was diverted by a protracted legal dispute with his publishers. He won his case on appeal in 1974, in a landmark decision which encouraged other artists to challenge the terms of their contracts.  By this time he had begun to turn his back on writing pop songs and started to write for musical theatre. His first collaborations for the stage were with the playwright Ken Hill on Is Your Doctor Really Necessary? in 1973, and on Gentlemen Prefer Anything the following year.

He composed the scores to the films The Beast in the Cellar (1970) and Percy's Progress (1974), and was the music co-ordinator for the film Never Too Young to Rock (1975). He also wrote the music for Windy City, a musical in two acts based on The Front Page by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur, with book and lyrics by Dick Vosburgh, which was premiered on stage in 1982.

Later Macaulay turned to writing thrillers.


Total Eclipse

A total eclipse is an eclipse where the eclipsed body is completely obscured. Total eclipse may also  refer to:

People
 Total Eclipse, a DJ from The X-Ecutioners

Arts, entertainment, and media

Music

Groups
 Total Eclipse (American band), a power metal band from San Francisco
 Total Eclipse (band), a Goa trance music group

Albums
 Total Eclipse (Billy Cobham album), 1974
 Total Eclipse (Black Moon album), 2003
 Total Eclipse (Bobby Hutcherson album), 1969

Songs
 "Total Eclipse", a song by Alan Parsons Project from the album, I Robot
 "Total Eclipse", an aria from George Frideric Handel's oratorio Samson
 "Total Eclipse", a song by Iron Maiden from the album, The Number of the Beast
 "Total Eclipse", a song written by Kristian Hoffman and recorded by Klaus Nomi
 "Total Eclipse" / "Die schwarze Witwe", a double A-side single by Rosenstolz featuring Marc Almond and Nina Hagen
 "Total Eclipse of the Heart", song recorded 1983 by Bonnie Tyler

Games
 Total Eclipse (1988 video game), a first-person adventure game
 Total Eclipse (1994 video game), a space shooter
 Total Eclipse (role-playing game), 2011

Literature
 Muv-Luv Alternative: Total Eclipse, a Japanese novel series, spin-off of the Muv-Luv franchise
 Total Eclipse, a novel by John Brunner

Other arts, entertainment, and media
 Total Eclipse (comics), a comic book published by Eclipse Comics
 Total Eclipse (film), a film about Arthur Rimbaud, starring Leonardo DiCaprio
 "Total Eclipse" (Robin Hood), 2009 BBC television series episode
 Total Eclipse (web series), 2018 web series produced by Brat

Other uses
 Total Eclipse, the manufacturer designation for an upgraded Eclipse 500 aircraft; cf. Eclipse Aerospace


Cranial Impalement

Cranial Impalement is the debut studio album by American brutal death metal band Disgorge. It was released by Extremities Records in 1999 and re-released on August 12, 2008 by Unique Leader Records.

Recording
The album's first four tracks were recorded in 1996 while its last four tracks were recorded in 1995 (and originally appeared on the band's 1995 demo tape).

Track listing
 "Deranged Epidemic" — 3:07
 "Atonement" — 3:17
 "Cognitive Lust of Mutilation" — 2:41
 "Period of Agony" — 3:15
 "Cranial Impalement" — 3:02
 "Penetrate the Unfledged" — 2:57
 "Malodorous Oblation" — 2:42
 "Carnally Decimated" — 2:49
 "Outro" — 0:15


Clarence L. Dow

Charles Ladd Thomas (1895 – August 1955) was an American football and basketball coach and professor.  He served as the head football coach at Nebraska Wesleyan University from 1925 to 1926, compiling a record of 12–4–2.  Dow was also the head basketball coach at Nebraska Wesleyan from 1924 to 1930, tallying a mark of 40–55.

A native of Cattaraugus, New York, Dow taught at Clarion State Teachers College—now known as Clarion University of Pennsylvania—before becoming chair of the department of geology and geography at Ohio University.  While coaching at Nebraska Wesleyan, he earned a PhD at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln.  He died in August 1955 of a heart attack while returning from Japan aboard a Japanese ship.

Head coaching record

College football


Lebyazhye, Yegoryevsky District, Altai Krai

Lebyazhye () is a rural locality (a selo) and the administrative center of Lebyazhinsky Selsoviet, Yegoryevsky District, Altai Krai, Russia. The population was 1,291 as of 2013. There are 8 streets.


Manuel Giúdice

Manuel Giúdice (15 July 1918 – 27 June 1983) was an Argentine football player and manager. He is mainly known for his successful managing spell at the helm of the Argentine powerhouse Club Atlético Independiente in the mid-1960s.

Career
Born in Córdoba, Giúdice first started playing at several clubs in his home town. In 1939 he transferred to the Buenos Aires-based Club Atlético Huracán and joined a team that featured Emilio Baldonedo, Herminio Masantonio, and Carlos Marinelli and that finished third in the 1939 Argentine top level season. The same team won the Copa Adrián C. Escobar in 1942 and 1943 and the George VI British Competition Cup in 1944.

In 1945 Giúdice joined River Plate, with players such as Aristóbulo Deambrosi, Alfredo Di Stéfano, José Manuel Moreno, and Ángel Labruna. River Plate won the Argentine championship in 1945.

In 1947 he left River Plate to join Club Atlético Platense, but following a 1948 players' strike, which forced many of the great figures of Argentine football to emigrate to other countries, Giúdice moved on to Colombia and signed for Deportivo Cali in 1949. He ended his playing career in 1951.

He then turned to coaching and successfully managed Independiente, leading them national league titles in 1963 and 1970. In 1968, he led Vélez Sarsfield to the Argentine championship; it was the club's first national title. His greatest success was winning the 1964 and 1965 Copa Libertadores cups, also finishing as runners-up in the 1964 and 1964 Intercontinental Cups, losing both times to Inter Milan, at the time coached by fellow Argentine Helenio Herrera.

In his later years he coached Nueva Chicago and Atlético Tucumán in the Argentine second level.

Honours

As a player
River Plate
 Argentine Primera División: 1945

As a manager
Independiente
 Argentine Primera División: 1963
 Copa Libertadores: 1964, 1965

Vélez Sarsfield
 Argentine Primera División: 1968


Svetlana Nageykina

Svetlana Vyacheslavovna Nageykina (; born February 2, 1965 in Tambov) is a former Soviet/Russian cross-country skier who competed during the 1980s, training at Spartak. She won a gold medal in the 4x5 km relay at the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary for the Soviet Union.

Cross-country skiing results
All results are sourced from the International Ski Federation (FIS).

Olympic Games
 1 medal – (1 gold)

World Championships

a.  Cancelled due to extremely cold weather.

World Cup

Season standings

Individual podiums
1 victory
18 podiums

Team podiums

 13 victories
 25 podiums

Note:   Until the 1994 Olympics, Olympic races were included in the World Cup scoring system.


Iva Serdar

Iva Serdar (born August 26, 1982) is a Croatian female professional basketball player. She is 6ft 5in tall.

External links
Profile at eurobasket.com


The Listening Ear

The Listening Ear Crisis Intervention Center of East Lansing, Michigan is the oldest all volunteer crisis center operating in the United States. The Listening Ear Crisis Intervention Center has been open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year since July 15, 1969 and has served more than 300,000 phone and walk-in clients. The center provides free and confidential service for telephone and walk-in clients in crisis. The center also provides free sexual assault counseling, advocacy and community education to survivors of sexual assault and their significant others.

History
The Listening Ear opened its doors at 547 East Grand River on July 15, 1969. The first training session was designed by Dr. Dozier Thornton, a psychology professor from Michigan State University. The program ran for 40 hours (this quickly grew into the 65+ hour training of today).

The founders decided that they would stay open if they received at least 100 calls each month for the first three months.  They received more than 1500. The annual operating budget was about $6000.

In July 1976, The Rape Counseling program, was established, providing free, short-term counseling to sexual assault survivors as well as advocacy and community education.

On April 13, 1990, The Listening Ear was named the 113th of 1000 Points of Light for its "Outstanding efforts in behalf of [the] community" by President George H. W. Bush.

In 2003, the organization's office manager embezzled more than $13,000, an amount greater than 15% of the annual operating budget.

In June 2016, it was discovered that three volunteers at the organization were registered sex offenders taking calls on the hotline. The story was covered locally in the media, which incited some community backlash within the Greater Lansing area, and removal from the Capital Area Sexual Assault Response Team. On June 5, 2016, The Listening Ear removed the three sex offenders from their staff, and implemented a background check policy that precludes sex offenders from volunteering with the agency. It also inspired one state senator to quickly propose legislation to prevent rapists from volunteering or working at agencies that serve sexual assault survivors and children. This legislation was opposed by the ACLU and by the end of the year was deemed unlikely to pass.


Norbert Klassen

Norbert Klassen (born May 30, 1941 in Duisburg, Germany, died December 1, 2011 in Bern, Switzerland), was an actor, stage director, influential performance artist, educator and organizer of performance art festivals. He has lived and worked in Bern, and contributed significantly to making the city important for the contemporary performance art scene.

Life and work
Klassen trained acting at the Westphalian School of Acting in Bochum. His first engagement in the years 1963/64 was as a theatre actor at the Theater Aachen. He had since been active as an actor and stage director, among others at Studio am Montag, Bern; Bern Theatre; Komödie Düsseldorf; Kammerspiele Düsseldorf.
He maintained links to the theatre world throughout his career, but his work received more acceptance within the performance art circuit, and Klassen identified himself primarily as a performance artist. He was inspired by Fluxus and Living Theatre. In his first performance, My Red Brother, Klassen sat at a table holding a cigarette and watching the smoke rise, an action that he repeated in his performances through the years.

Klassen had a black star tattooed on this bald head. The tattoo was result of a performance in homage to John Cage and Marcel Duchamp. This performance consisted in the action of the artist having his head tattooed inside a train station in 2008.

Klassen's work had been influenced by a multitude of co-operations with international artists from the backgrounds of acting, music, visual art and intermedia. He participated in numerous events by the international performance art network around the world.

Together with Gerhard Johann Lischka, Peter J. Betts, Rudolf Bober and others, Klassen founded the independent theatre collective Studio am Montag for experimental theatre in Bern in 1970, and run it in the position of director from 1971-87. The collective presented its productions in Switzerland, Germany and Austria. Their activities were funded by the City of Bern.

In 1979/80, Klassen lived for one year in New York City.

Between 1980 and 1997, Klassen held a teaching position at the Schauspielschule am Konservatorium für Musik und Theater Bern, and from 1987 to 1995 he taught at the F+F School for Art and Media Design Zurich.

In 1987, Studio am Montag transformed into STOP Performance Theater (STOP.P.T.). On this occasion, Klassen announced the „death of theatre“, and postulated performance art as the only adequate artistic succession.

In 1992, Klassen received the Sisyphus-Prize awarded by the City of Bern. He returned the prize in 1995 as a protest against the drastic reduction of city subventions for the STOP Performance Theater (STOP.P.T.).

Since 1998, Klassen had been organising the BONE Festival für Aktionskunst at the Schlachthaus Theatre in Bern.

After Klassen's death in December 2011, the performance collective Black Market International (BMI) had been bequeathed with Klassen's urn.

Selection of the significant performance productions since 1981

 Menschen 2 (1981). Conceived as a project in 108 parts, coproduced by Galerie Lydia Megert, Bern, in collaboration with numerous artists.
 Der Schatten des Feuers (1987)
 Achse Kassel-Bern / 2 x Provinz in collaboration with Jürgen O. Olbrich (1987). For fifteen years, Klassen, an obsessive collector of all sorts, and Olbrich had been working on this long-term project, producing magazines and editions discussing among others the issues collections, archives, artists’ estates, preservation and categorisation. The result of their periodic encounters in Klassen's studio in Bern was an artists’ magazine called No News / 2 x Provinz, reflecting their life and work situation at the time.
 Das Brakteaten Stück (1987). 24-hour performance presented as part of the performance program of Documenta 8, Kassel. In collaboration with Jürgen Fritz, Boris Nieslony, Zygmunt Pietrowski and Jacques van Poppel.
 Aus einem vergessenen Projekt (1987)
 Winterreise (1988/1992). Performance of twelve hours based the poem by Franz Schubert.
 Performance Art Netzwerk (1989–90). Performance of thirteen months, held at Galerie Lydia Megert, Bern.
 Hamletmaschine by Heiner Müller (1997). Presented by STOP Performance Theater at Kleintheater Kramgasse 6 in Bern.
 Kaufrausch/Intoxication by shopping. Stadtgalerie Bern (2004); Kunsthaus Grenchen (2005). In the collaborative performance as part of their long-term project Achse Kassel-Bern / 2 x Provinz, Norbert Klassen and Jürgen O. Olbrich sold elements of Klassen's collection at discount prices over three days each. A last performance had been planned for 2012, inviting visitors into the studio of Klassen in Bern, to choose and pay the price they want for any object of his vast collection. On May 30 and 31, 2012, Olbrich presented the performance on Klassen's birthday in his memory at his studio. Klassen's whole estate had been dedicated as performance material, and the public could acquire collected material, originals, editions and more.
 Vivat Fluxus. Performance presented among others at 7a*11d International Festival of Performance Art in Toronto, Canada (2008) and at Performer Stammtisch in Berlin (2009). The work includes classic Fluxus instructions from the 60s, read out and executed by the artist.
 The Art of Making Art. Performance presented among others at the Kasseler Kunstvereinsheim, Kassel (2007), PROGR_Zentrum für Kulturproduktion, Bern and 7a*11d International Festival of Performance Art in Toronto, Canada (2008). In this work about the art market and value of art, the artist writes the word ART on his skin by cutting.

Black Market International
In 1985, Klassen was one of the founders of the international performance collective Black Market International (BMI), in which he worked together with Boris Nieslony, Lee Wen, and others, until his death in 2011. The collective bases its work among others on the principle that “all is possible”, and continues participating in numerous performance art festivals worldwide.

Bibliography
 Gerhard Johann Lischka, Norbert Klassen, PerformanceArtNetzwerk. Bern/Wabern: Benteli, 1992. .

 Fritz Franz Vogel, “I am a network. Die Berner Performance-Szene: Vom Studio am Montag zur global vernetzten Wahlverwandtschaft” in Stefan Koslowski, Andreas Kotte, Andreas, Reto Sorg, Berner Almanach Theater, Volume 3. Bern: Stämpfli, 2000.
 Kasseler Kunstvereinsheim: Juni bis September 2007, Kasseler Kunstvereinsheim: Kassel. .
 Sibylle Omlin, Performativ! Performance-Künste in der Schweiz. Ein Reader. Zurich: Pro Helvetia, 2004.
 perforum.ch, Pius Freiburghaus, Human Performance. Essays zur Schweizer Performance Kunst der 90er Jahre. Bern/Wabern: Benteli, 2004.
 Jürgen O. Olbrich, Save /Give - Der Kunst das Leben zurückerobern - Life is Art enough, Exhibition catalgogue Kasseler Kunstverein. With contributions by Claus Böhmler, Wolfgang Hainke, Bernhard Heidsieck, Udo Idelberger, Wilhelm Koch, Emmett Williams, Jürgen O. Olbrich, Norbert Klassen, Allan Kaprow. 1995. .
 Marcel Bleuler, Gabriel Flückiger, Renée Magaña (Hrsg.), Norbert Klassen - "Warum applaudiert ihr nicht?”, Berne: Stämpfli Verlag, 2015. .